"My lord, what are these new recruits for? For their work, we're spending an extra 300 gold coins a month! ”

"Don't worry, they'll earn those three hundred gold coins back."

"But we haven't earned a single gold coin yet!"

Fiona was a little helpless: "Even if there are still a lot of gold coins in the vault, they can't afford to spend like this." ”

"Fiona," said Don in a serious tone, "in order to make Ellington's economy active, the first thing is to have gold coins available to the inhabitants, and I am employing these people to deliver gold coins to the inhabitants. ”

"But how are we going to earn it back then?"

"Wait, it's going to be soon, wait until I get the plan ready...... What's going on at the blacksmith's shop? ”

"The mine has begun to send iron ore to Ellington, now it is only a small amount of inventory, and a large amount of iron ore should be delivered in two days, Brian and Edgar are working overtime to build a waterwheel, Edgar has recruited several apprentices, and when the apprentices are proficient, it will be more efficient, and it is estimated that it will take a week for the waterwheel to be fully laid."

"What about the guards?"

"The Guard has begun to receive new training......"

Speaking of the guards, Fiona's face was very strange: "Lord Lord, what kind of training method did you use?" I heard Elsa say that the guards were like crazy for the past two days, and after the training, they came home and ate a meal, and they fell asleep in bed, and no one went to the tavern to drink. Wouldn't that be too strict? ”

"Hehe......"

Don laughed: "If they still have the energy to go to the tavern to drink under this kind of training, it only means that the training load I gave is not heavy enough...... You can rest assured, although it is stricter, but at least it will not let them die on the battlefield. ”

"That's true, and I haven't heard any complaints from them, but after knowing that this is the training method you came up with, they are very motivated to train."

"That's good...... But I feel like the key is the reward for training. ”

"Reward?"

"I promise extra rewards for the top three trainees every month, and penalties for the last three."

"No wonder ......"

"By the way, did you reply to the letter you sent?"

If Fiona's people can't come, Don will have to figure out how to solve the caravan's problems on his own.

"I've received a reply."

Fiona's face turned happy at the mention of this: "They are happy to come to you after learning about my current situation, and now they should be on their way, and they will be here in a few days." ”

"Very good, then you can shift the focus of your work in the past two days, start the preparations for the Chamber of Commerce, and report to me after you sort out the specific things."

"I see—where are you going?"

"I'll go find Illya."

After Don finished speaking, he patted his ass and flashed people.

"Elijah! It's Elijah again! ”

Fiona frowned, why did Don keep looking for that little girl these two days? Although that little girl is indeed very cute and very attractive, as a lord, he goes to find an orphaned little girl all day long, and if other people know about this, I am afraid that Donne's reputation will stink!

Don didn't care about that, in his heart, Elija was much more important than those so-called fame.

"Elia."

"Big brother of the lord!"

Illya was happy to see Don and rushed over and hung on him at a trot.

Tang En hugged Illya and said with a smile, "How are you feeling today?" ”

"It's good, the method that my big brother taught me is really useful, I can feel those cute little balls of light like obedient little babies, think about them and they will all gather in the palm of my hand."

After Illya finished with a smile, she stretched out her dirty little hand, and a small colorful ball of light instantly condensed in her hand.

Donn's eyes flashed, and he was secretly shocked by Illya's magical affinity.

In the past two days, he had only taught Elija a simple method of mana control, but he didn't expect her to be able to do it to such an extent, how terrifying her talent was......

"I see, let them disperse, and don't let anyone else know about you learning magic with me just yet."

"Okay."

Illya dissipated her magic with a look of regret: "I still want the little ball of light to dance for my mother." ”

"Don't do it."

Don shook his head, the residents of Ellington had seen Elia's talent and regarded her as a monster, and now she couldn't master her talent well, what if she scared people again?

It can be seen that Illya likes Clara and Elsa very much now, if Clara can't stand the fright and abandons Illya again, then the little girl is probably sad to death, and no matter how strong and optimistic her heart is, it will be blackened.

"Let's try it today, just gather the little blue balls of light and let them condense in your hands."

Although the fire element is more lively and is the easiest element to get started, but because the fire element is too lively, a child like Illya can lose control and hurt himself if he is not careful, so Don decided to start training Illya with the milder water element.

"Is that so?"

Illya spread out her hand curiously, and a blue light in her palm shimmered.

“…… No, that's right......"

The muscles on Don's face twitched, with such a genius student, I really don't know if it's lucky or unlucky.

"Next, we start to learn how to release them, you have to use your own consciousness, control the magic to wrap around the water elemental, provide them with channels and energy, and then see the little flower in front of you? Aim at it and shoot it out......"

As soon as Don's words fell, Illya's hand shot an unusually sharp and ferocious water arrow, piercing the flower and opening a deep hole in the ground.

"it!?"

Don was dumbfounded, his original intention was to let Illya condense the water element to absorb the moisture in the air, form a stream of water to water the flowers, and also let the little girl feel the convenience and joy of magic, but ...... What the hell is this!?

Or maybe it's called water archery?

There's no such spell at all!

Even if he uses it, the water arrow doesn't have much lethality, at most it has the ability to shoot back and wet the enemy.

But at that moment just now, Don even felt that the air was torn, which showed how powerful the speed and pressure of that water arrow were, it was already comparable to the high-pressure water jet on the earth!

This Nima ......

"Big Brother ......"

Illya was startled and looked at Don weakly, "Did I do something wrong?" ”

"No, Illya, you're doing a good job."

Tang En smiled dryly and touched Iliya's head: "It's just that this kind of spell must not be used in front of others, it will hurt people." ”

"Ah...... Big brother, are there any spells that won't hurt people? ”

Illya looked forward to it: "I want to use spells to help people, I don't want to hurt others." ”

"This ...... Okay, then let's learn the art of making water, let me tell you, water, is very important to people, people can live for seven days without eating, but if they don't drink water for three days, they will die, so watermaking is very important, and it is also the reason why magicians are called masters...... Well, you can forget that. ”

Under Tang En's teaching, Elijah easily mastered the zero-order spell Water Formation.

Donn burst into tears.

Illya doesn't seem to have the talent for awakening yet, right?

But...... She actually mastered the art of watermaking and became an apprentice of magic?

Is this a slap in the face?

He's the traverser! Where is the protagonist's aura!? Why are Elsa and Illya so perverted!? How embarrassing is it for him!

Watching Illya play happily with a clear stream of water out of thin air, Tang En felt a deep sense of frustration, with such a genius disciple, where would he show the strength of a full-level mage......

"Ilia, stop playing, I didn't expect you to learn the art of water creation so quickly......"

Illya looked confused: "Huh? Is this hard? ”

“…… It's not that hard! ”

Don broke the jar and fell: "It's just a surprise, Illya, your talent is very good, so the big brother is very happy." ”

So Elijah was very happy.

"But I feel that it's better to start with the basics, so today I'll teach you a few more zero-order spells, look at it, this is a shimmer technique, which can illuminate the darkness around you."

"This is a cleansing technique, which can clean up dirt and dust, blood and so on......"

"This is a detection technique, a very important basic spell, which can detect the surrounding environment and enemies, and find traps ......"

"And this one, the Arcane Arrow, is the only spell of the Tier 0 spell that has lethality......"

As Don explained, he demonstrated the zero-order spells for Iliya, and the zero-order spells were generally not lethal, most of them were auxiliary spells, but these auxiliary spells alone had already made the magic apprentice an extremely popular character in the adventure.

Needless to say, the importance of detection and shimmering is needless to say, and the cleaning technique is also very convenient, it is a necessary spell to kill people and rob homes, and the lethality of arcane arrows is not as lethal as that of bows and arrows, so there is no need to have much hope.

But the key is water-making, as Tang En said, water-making is the foundation of why the master is the master.

Water is the source of life......

The only pity is that Plandar is different from the game World of Warcraft, the mage can't rub bread, and here, bread is a magic that can only be mastered by priests and knights of various temples.

Tang En's face was full of emotion there, but Illya next to him was already jerkily casting arcane arrows to shoot the summoned water balloon......

At this moment, Don's face changed slightly, and he suddenly felt a wave of magic power appear in the Lord's Mansion - it was the teleportation scroll that was activated!

Could it be that Baron Duvière really dared to kill Ellington's messenger!?

"Illya, I'll go back first, you should go home quickly, remember not to let everyone know that you are learning spells from me!"

"I see...... Hey? Big brother? ”

Illya turned her head after speaking, but found that Don En had disappeared, so she couldn't help but pout, scattered the spell and went home.

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