When all the guests were gone, everything fell silent.

The lights inside and outside Maccaden Manor had been extinguished, and the servants, under the command of the butler, had covered the lanterns with a waterproof cover coated with slime glue, which cost a lot of money and consumed a lot of energy. The next time these lanterns see the light of day is the Autumn Harvest Festival at the autumnal equinox.

It's not that the Maccaden family can't afford to use those lights, they don't have to pay that much money to light the lanterns 30 days a month, 12 months a year, because the family's motto is "diligence and thrift".

More than 300 years ago, the humans in the east of the continent and the demons in the west fought a gorgeous and tragic war.

In the early stages of the war, the human army was led by brave men once again summoned from a place called Japan in another world. The human alliance not only wiped out a large number of demon troops, but a team of brave men even infiltrated the Demon Emperor City and killed the Demon Emperor Ivan the Terrible in the palace.

However, just as the human coalition thought that the war was about to be won, and everyone was ready to go home for the New Year with the spoils, destruction struck.

The eldest princess of the demon clan, Ekaterina, who has been traveling as an adventurer in the east of the continent, sneaked back to the Demon Emperor City to ascend the throne after receiving the news of her father's death.

At the same time, a bombshell exploded on human territory. Known as the "Great Library of Movement" and "The Walking Fountain of Wisdom", the great sage Philip, who is both a Harvest Temple Saint and a Forging Temple Saint, defected and followed his teammate Ekaterina of the Adventurer Team to defect to the Demon Clan.

And the leader of their adventurer team, Victoria, who was the elven princess at the time, rode her dragon to chase the two of them all the way, until the other party was received by a team of demon armies before returning in vain.

Empress Catherine, who succeeded to the throne, gathered her rout in a short time and assembled a powerful cavalry force. Then, with the tactic of "come by a few routes, I will only go all the way", he concentrated his forces and eliminated the human army that had already divided his troops in the demon territory with a local strength advantage.

The human army, which turned from a great victory to a great defeat in an instant, had to temporarily withdraw from the territory of the demons in order to make a comeback.

The demons also took this opportunity to lick their wounds and prepare for the next big battle.

The short-lived peace lasted only ten years.

Ten years later, the war resumed, and the armies of the two sides took Lin Hai, who was now in the center of the continent to cut off the territory of demons and humans, as the stage.

After three years of war, the two sides gathered their last forces to start a final decisive battle in the middle of the forest sea.

The battle lasted five days and five nights, and the land was muddy with blood.

Just when Catherine thought that she was about to win the final victory, the great sage Philip, who had been lurking by her side, jumped back and killed the exhausted Catherine with all her might.

With this blow, the divine power of the God of Harvest and the God of Forging broke through the sky, and the golden color of the harvest wheat and the red like the flame of the hearth were intertwined and blended with each other, and the pillar of light was clearly visible dozens of kilometers away.

Afterwards, only the elven queen Victoria returned from the battlefield, and it was she who brought back to the human world the deeds of the great sage Philip who had hidden behind enemy lines for more than ten years and assassinated the demon queen at the last moment.

Two years later, a group of elven janissaries arrived at the edge of the Maple Grove with a teenage boy and supported him in establishing a county there.

"This painting written by the elven queen herself, 'low-key life, thrifty housekeeping' is our ancestor, the great sage Philip left us a family motto. The Earl of Maccaden, who was in the study, pointed to a quaint piece of parchment hanging from the study after telling the story to Charles.

The parchment was framed in a wooden frame that emitted a great deal of magical energy, and it was still well preserved for more than three hundred years. The handwriting on it does not show the beauty of the woman's handwriting, but reveals the edge of a knife and axe.

"Perhaps when the elven queen was writing, she thought of her deceased comrades, and her heart was full of hatred for her enemies. Charles thought as he looked at the handwriting on the parchment.

"And who was the mother of the first Earl of Macgardenen?" said Charles, who found a key figure missing from his father's story.

"It is said to be a female adventurer. "I heard that one day our great sage ancestor drank too much, and you will understand when you grow up." ”

She died defending her homeland in the war, and the Elven Queen found her and the Great Sage's orphans after the war. ”

After listening to the story, Charles couldn't help but ponder, he had read a lot of versions of the opening story in many books, from hot-blooded chicken soup to inappropriate for children.

Now that his father told him that the main characters of the story were his ancestors, he thought back to the kind of stories he had seen before, and after going to the chaffles, he found that there was something wrong with this story of Infernal Affairs.

At this time, the Earl of Maccaden said to Charles in an educational tone: "Charles, I know that you have been very smart since you were a child, and your grandfather told me before he died that you would become a great scholar. ”

Charles nodded, after all, this is the welfare of the reincarnated traverser.

The Earl of Maccaden continued: "In the tradition of the nobility, I will seek for you a wise governess who will be in charge of your initiation, and who will be your butler in the future, just like our butler Ah Fu. Then when you are 12 years old, you will be sent to the Knowledge City to choose an excellent college for further study. ”

At this time, Charles noticed that there was something in his father's words, so he tentatively asked, "Then the situation has changed now?"

The Earl of McCaden did not answer, but said, "Guess." ”

Charles knew his father's temper, and whenever he said that, it meant a test of one's wisdom.

Charles had often seen his father test his subordinates so much, and if the other party's answer would satisfy the earl, what awaited that subordinate was a promotion and a raise. Almost all of the managers in the maple sugar workshop at home and the caravan outside have been tested in this way.

Now it was Charles' turn to be tested for the first time, and he pondered his father's questions as he learned the posture that his grandfather used to think about problems — the three fingers in the middle of his right hand tapped on the table in turn.

"Just now my father told a historical story, so is it related to this history? As Charles thought about it, his gaze swept over the bookshelves in the study, and then landed on one of the books—"The Legend of the Brave in Another World".

"That's it!" Charles's eyes lit up, and the book thick enough to kill a slime flew at him, smashing him in the face.

"Your mage's hand needs more practice. The father smiled at his son.

Charles rubbed his nose and flipped to the table of contents.

In this calamitous world, the war between humans and demons has been going on for two or three thousand years.

More than a thousand years ago, after the gods bestowed divine power on mortals, the scales of victory began to tilt in favor of humans.

Under the guidance of the gods, humans began to use the power of the gods to summon a group of brave men from a place called Japan in another world to lead humans in battle.

Counting from the year when the first pious person received the blessing of divine power as the first year of the divine calendar, it is now 1919 in the divine calendar, and the brave men of the other world, who are summoned every three hundred years, have summoned several times like cutting leeks.

What makes Charles feel gratified is that in addition to resisting the demons, these five brave men from Japan have also brought a lot of fine traditions from the original world.

For example, the sewers of conscience in the city, clean toilet paper, and hot spring culture, etc.

When Charles, who came here at the beginning of the year, knew that he was coming to a world with a European medieval background, he remembered the medieval hygiene and the Black Death, and almost made him suffocate himself while breastfeeding.

The catalogue marked the time that these brave men had traveled over, and Charles pinched his fingers and counted it......

"The Sixth Warrior is also coming. Charles looked up and said to his father, "The flames of war are about to be rekindled." ”

The Earl of Maccaden nodded in satisfaction, and then suddenly asked, "Are you also a brave man who has crossed over?"

Charles looked at his father with the eyes of the slime, this moment finally came, after all, it is written in the book that there are four types of brave people who have crossed over: reincarnation, summoning, death and sudden appearance, but I don't know what the relationship between the brave and the word "fennel" of fennel beans is.

And the important characteristic of the reincarnated {redact} fennel bean{/redacted} brave is that he is precocious like Charles.

So Charles shook his head and said, "No." ”

Just kidding, the family is rich and landed, and they are also nobles, how good it is to be a rich man who pays the money in the back, why do you want to fight hard with those Japanese?

His great-grandfather, who was handsome and rich when he was a layman, turned back to be a little princess of a small kingdom on the verge of bankruptcy as his wife.

His grandfather, when he was studying in the Knowledge City, relied on his handsomeness, knowledge and wealth to abduct the dean's precious granddaughter back, leaving behind a brother who cursed him for eating slimes and didn't have a spoon.

His father, the one in front of him, was handsome, coaxed girls and rich when he was a merchant, and he abducted the little daughter of a certain duke who intended to rebel and was going to marry with other families. And I heard that he also has a lover outside who is so beautiful that he can make his mother jealous.

In the tradition of the Maccaden family, where one generation of merchants and one generation of scholars alternates, Charles is ready to go to the Knowledge City to be a student girl.

When the brave go to fight to the death?

Naturally, the Earl of McCaden would not let his son go so easily, because he was not the only one who doubted Charles as much as he did.

"Really?" said the Earl of McCaden, the coercion of a magician is not something a child can resist.

Charles didn't resist the pressure from his father, but he couldn't.

He trembled and raised his trembling hands and said, "I can swear to the god of light that I am not a brave man from Japan. ”

In this God-like world, one of the most common uses of God is to use it as a lie detector, even for godless families like the Maccaden.

A holy white light flashed over Charles, and then he didn't do anything.

Of course, if he said "I'm not a brave man from another world", he would have been burned by the flame of light for lying.

The Earl of Maccaden breathed a sigh of relief, and then the whole person changed back to his usual fatherly appearance.

Charles, who passed this hurdle, also breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't want to suffer a second time in such a family education.

The Earl of McCaden went on to say: "Because war is coming, many people's minds are beginning to come alive. ”

"Hey, hey, hey......" said the Earl of McCaden, "that big bear is so clever that he has put an idea on our heads." ”

"And the prince who proposed to your sister Mira two months ago also hit us with the idea. But he doesn't have to worry about it, and I'll ask Miss Elizabeth to help us negotiate with his father. ”

This time Charles understood, everything was a routine, no wonder the Marquis of Herman Rick wanted to stuff Cynthia to himself.

Troubles are coming, the Maccaden family has money, the Herman family has an army, and the title of the Marquis of Herman Lik may become a duke known as the "King's Reserve". Since it is a reserve, it is not impossible to climb up a little more.

And the Marquis Hermanlik is not alone in this ambition.

"So last month, when Mira turned twelve, I sent her to the Seminary of Light, which was the path she had chosen. "Next, I intend to send you to the City of Knowledge in a few days." Your grandfather left you a letter of recommendation before he died, and when the time comes, you can take the letter and go to his old classmates for help. ”

Charles nodded, it seems that his bubble girl journey can start in advance.

Then the Earl of McCaden solemnly took out a box from a drawer, and when he opened it, Charles saw a ring inside.

"Take it and put it on, I know you've wanted it for a long time. The Earl of Maccaden placed the box containing the ring in front of Charles.

This ring, which has no gemstone setting and only a simple pattern, is naturally not a ring symbolizing the title of an earl, but a spatial ring filled with various books.

The Maccaden family relied on the knowledge contained in the ring.

Regardless of the era, knowledge is the most valuable asset.

Now that Charles knew what his father meant, he didn't hesitate to pick up the ring he had seen on his grandfather's hand and put it on the index finger of his left hand.

The ring, as if it were alive, automatically shrunk to a size that fit the size of Charles's finger when it was fitted on his finger.

Charles had to sigh, sure enough, the elf produced must be a high-quality product.

It was late at night, and the Earl of Maccaden stood up and looked out the window at the moonlit garden.

"It's a pity that Miss Elizabeth still didn't make it to your birthday, it seems that the heavy rain a few days ago hindered their trip. The Earl of Maccaden sighed.

At this point, the Earl of Maccaden told Charles to wash and sleep.

Since it is washing and sleeping, it is natural to wash before going to bed.

Thanks to the blessings of the brave men of the other world, this world now does not have the bad habit of treating bathing as a flood of beasts. Moreover, they also brought with them the hot spring culture of Japan.

It's just that the hot springs in the Maccaden family estate are too far away from the manor, and although the scenery is good, it's too much trouble to go there.

However, this is not a hassle.

As long as there is no slippery slope of thinking, there are always more solutions than problems.

If Charles's parents want to soak in the hot springs at home, they can get two small fireballs of "biu" in the bath like a small swimming pool, and if they have two or three more "biu", they can take a sauna.

Of course, this is the strength of a middle-aged magician. And Charles, a little kid who can only do one or two small magic and is not even an apprentice, it is good that the small fireball from the "biu" can heat the water in the big wooden barrel.

So the self-reliant Charles was now soaking in the steaming hot water that he had heated in the big wooden barrel, and when he was flushed, he immediately climbed out of the hot water bucket and turned into another large wooden barrel with fresh water from the cool well that had just been fought.

On this midsummer night, a simple version of the sauna after a tiring day can dispel the fatigue of the day.

As the little master of the landlord class of the evil feudal society, when he took a bath, there was naturally a maid waiting in the bathroom.

At this moment, a maid in a long black dress and a white apron stood in the bathroom and watched the young master jump up and down between the two barrels.

In her own words, her job now is to make sure that the young master does not drown in the barrel while playing in the water.

After tossing and turning for a while, Charles finally sat down quietly against the wall of the bucket in the cold water bucket and rested his head on the rim of the bucket.

The maid knew that the young master had tossed enough, so she carried a small bucket of water and a small bottle filled with shampoo to help the young master wash his hair.

The whole bathroom was silent at this point, except for the sound of the maid's fingers rubbing against Charles's hair and scalp, and the sound of water flushing.

After rinsing his hair, Charles said to the maid, "Aunt Pomegranate, when you come home, go to the kitchen, and I'll have them leave you some snacks to take home." ”

Pomegranate had just put the small wooden bucket and shampoo away, and said a little embarrassed in excitement: "Thank you, young master, for letting me take some snacks back." ”

Pomegranate was a freeman under the Earldom of Maccaden, and the countrymen were so discerning that they often named their children after the common flowers and plants. It is said that her father was haggling with a pomegranate vendor when she was born, hence the name.

Twelve years ago, when Charles's sister Mira was born, their mother began looking for a reliable maid to help raise the child.

After layers of screening, Pomegranate, who had already raised all four children born to him in his Chinese New Year's Eve, became the exclusive child-rearing servant of the Maccaden family.

Just kidding, the experience value of having never had a child is zero, and the maid has a ghost use?

Therefore, for eight years, Pomegranate, a hard-working and simple maid, has been by the side of Charles and Mira, two siblings.

After returning to his room from the bathroom, Charles lay on the bed and looked out the window at the silver moon, thinking about what his father had said in his study tonight.

Troubled times are coming, this chaotic world.

Charles waved his hand, and a screen of light appeared in front of him that only he could see, making his eggs ache.

On the A4-sized light screen is his personal information, just like the countless games, frozen eels and web novels he has watched in his previous life, this thing shows his name, age, level, experience points, physical strength, constitution, strength, magic, agility, spirit, skills, and protection, etc.

Charles almost collapsed when he opened this thing under his grandfather's instructions, he could accept that he lived in a world of gods, swords, magic and slimes, but he couldn't accept this thing.

At one point, he wondered if he had been burned into a vegetative state by the fire, and then his family had him participate in some strange experiments in order to save money on medical bills. After all, the conditions of his family in his previous life were not good, there was a building at home, but the red line of demolition was two meters away from it, and he himself was just an ordinary construction dog, even if someone gave him a few lottery tickets before he died, but who can guarantee that he will win the lottery?

It wasn't until he noticed some small details around him that he accepted that it was a real world.

After all, he hadn't heard of any virtual reality game that would arrange a menstrual period for a female NPC or character.

After seeing that his physical strength and physique had increased by 1 point each due to the physical exercise a while ago, Charles complained as always: "This is really a world that will definitely hit the streets if written into a novel." ”

In addition to these messy settings, what makes Charles uncomfortable is that the gods of this world are likely to have drunk the water of the Ganges River in his native India.

Because the political structure of this continent exudes a hint of the caste system.

The relationship between the five different classes of monks, nobles, kings of various kingdoms, and relatives within three generations of the royal family, nobles, freemen, and slaves is much like the four castes of India.

Most importantly, Charles saw in history the suppression of technology, both in the history of science and in the technology of magic.

Not to mention anything else, there is a big problem with the paper. Inexpensive paper that could be used for writing appeared two or three times with the Brave. But every time the war is over, the brave man returns or dies of old age, and in less than twenty years, the workshops and techniques that make paper will be completely wiped out.

If the elves hadn't lived long enough, humans might not have known that such a thing had happened.

The only paper on the continent is parchment and all kinds of toilet paper that are soft and cannot be used for writing.

And the only ones who can do this are the gods in the sky.

In such a world, Charles lived a very depressed life.

Especially in the face of war, it is clear that his family's previous practice of weakening conventional forces while maintaining their independence while maintaining their interests with the periphery will no longer work.

This approach is like having two powerful but unresponsive "Big Ivans" at home, and the regular forces are so weak that they are a mess.

Usually everyone is afraid of "Big Ivan", so they will not act rashly. But when the "Big Ivans" are contained, the Maccaden family will become a fat sheep that will be killed and eaten for ten years.

Fortunately, the Maccaden family has a specialty - money. When the wind is not right, hire a group of reliable adventurers, plus the guards of the caravan at home, at least you can deter Xiaoxiao.

As for the face fruit left by the ancestors, just kidding, if you don't have the strength, that thing is similar to a maple leaf wiping your ass in troubled times.

Just when Charles was thinking about how to improve his strength in the next time, his eyes suddenly went black after a loud "boom", and finally he didn't know anything.