"My lord, why do you ask this? Are you looking to form an archer unit? The half-elf couldn't help but wonder if the lord had been asking about the bow and arrow.

Instead of answering the half-elf's question, Jian Chen asked him a sharp question: "Pete, if one day in the future, the elven army starts a war in Hammondale, will the elven blood in your body make you unable to let go of the bowstring in your hand?" ”

The half-elf was stunned for a moment, and said hesitantly: "Lord Lord, what do you mean......"

Jian Chen interrupted the half-elf with a smile: "I just said if!" If there was such a day, what would you do? ”

The half-elf was silent for a long time before replying, "My lord, my home is Hammondale. ”

Jian Chen nodded, and said, "If it is possible, I also hope that day will never come, but I promise you, if there is really such a day, you will not have to go to the battlefield." ”

After speaking, Jian Chen ignored the half-elf who was completely stunned by his words, turned his head to the female magician and asked, "Master Temple, from the perspective of a magician, what do you think of an enemy like archers?" ”

The sorceress glanced at him and said coldly, "Lord Lord, I said that I am not in charge of fighting!" You won't forget it so quickly, will you? ”

"Of course I haven't forgotten, my esteemed magic advisor, this is just one of my doubts about magic, I just want to see if I can find a way to deal with the enemy from the magic side, and I don't mean to let you go to war! Don't get me wrong, this is just an ordinary consultation about magic. ”

The female magician stared at Jian Chen for a long time, as if to confirm the authenticity of Jian Chen's words, and finally said slowly: "For archers, the common practice of magicians is to make them unable to make a move or interfere with their move. ”

"How?" Jian Chen's eyes lit up, so that the other party couldn't make a move, preemptively, this is a good idea!

"Generally speaking, fire mages like me will use magic such as 'blindness' to damage the eyes of archers, which is a common practice among fire mages, and air mages use a spell called 'atmospheric shield' to interfere with the air flow and make the opponent's arrows inaccurate, as for what other mages will do, please forgive me for not being able to do anything, because I have only practiced fire and air magic, and I have not studied the magic of other disciplines."

The female magician's words made the lord surprised, feeling that this magician bodyguard of himself was still a dual-line magician! It seems that his safety is another guarantee.

At this time, scattered conscripts had begun to return to the training ground, and these guys, who had never run such a long distance, sat down on the ground as soon as they stopped, gasping like old and slow patients, completely ignoring the fact that their lord was sitting not far away and watching him.

When the 200 people were selected, Chen Jian announced the content of the second test: the strength test.

When the lord was training soldiers some time ago, he asked old Saida to make a barbell, and now all the recruits have to do is lift this barbell and walk around the training ground.

There was no way for everyone to take this test together, and it took a whole day, and Chen Jian finally achieved the full strength of his guard as he wished.

During lunch and dinner with the female magician, Chen Jian asked a few questions about magic learning at the right time, I don't know if Chen Jian was very talented or some other reason, these questions surprised the female magician.

By the way, Jian Chen also figured out Master Temple's Qi magic level - expert level.

In the next few days, in addition to guiding the daily training of the recruits, Chen Jian was busy dealing with the equipment of the guards, and after a Q&A with Pete and the personal magic consultant, the lord who had a case in mind drew some drawings and found the town's blacksmith Old Saida and the owner of the armor shop to order a batch of equipment again.

That's when Hammondale finally got its first snow.

Overnight, as far as the eye could see, there was a white world.

The snow, which heralded the official arrival of winter, was so heavy that it crushed several houses in Harmondale that had fallen into disrepair, but fortunately no one was injured.

The heavy snow also blocked Hammondal's path to the outside world, much to the Lord's joy and worry.

Glad that there was so much snow that even the road was closed, and even if there was a war, it would not hit Hammondal.

The fear is that this road will not be able to enter the army appointed by Her Majesty, and the renovation of the castle will have to be suspended, and it will be bad if the elves come in the spring next year.

Another thing that pleased the lord was that due to the heavy snow closure of the road, the construction of the magic laboratory had to come to an end - it was impossible to go out to buy materials, and without materials it would be impossible to start work.

This made the lord who deliberately delayed the construction period very happy, and this was a good excuse to slack off work in the open.

And with the contact in the past few days, the sorceress seems to have acquiesced to the busyness of the lord, and will appear in the castle on time every morning, and only leave after having dinner with the lord.

The female magician did fulfill her duties as a personal magic advisor and provided great help to Jian Chen in learning magic, but it was a bit of a pity that no matter how the lord meditated, he couldn't sense the so-called magic avoidance, and for this situation, the female magician thought that it was because the lord did not have the qualifications to learn magic.

In this world, not everyone can learn magic, and the biggest reason is that people with low qualifications are completely unable to sense the existence of magic and build bridges of communication, so they cannot learn magic.

The lord was not discouraged by this, he thought that even the most unlikely crossing had happened, so what else in this world was impossible? Maybe it's because I didn't find a way.

So the lord continued to meditate for a period of time every night before going to bed.

In this cold winter, the recruits of the Lord's Guard had to brave the biting cold wind to conduct all kinds of training, and under the leadership of the first batch of Guard soldiers, the recruits had a good experience of what is called a devilish training method.

Robert the Great Trickster and Polly the Thief were also thrown into the guard by Lord Lord, where they trained with the recruits.

Robert also has a secret mission, which is to help the lord secretly check if there are any special people in the guard.

This is to keep the lord's guard pure, to eliminate unrest, and who knows if Erathia or the elves or some other force took the opportunity to arrange for spies to come in.

Anyway, there is no big mistake in being careful, and some people don't have to expire.

Robert, who has always prided himself on being quite confident in observing faces and touching people's hearts, patted his chest and packed the ticket when he listened to the lord's arrangement, saying that he would resolutely complete the task and never disappoint the lord's expectations.

This guy is now determined to hug the lord's thick legs, if not for anything else, just for the lord's prodigal son.

Since following the lord, the liar obviously felt that the eyes of the people around him had changed, and there was no longer the previous disdain, no longer the previous hostility, which made Robert feel quite good, and he was grateful to the lord.

You must know that setting an example does not have to be yourself, you are just one step ahead.

And as soon as the lord came up, he arranged such an important task, which shows the meaning of cultivation, so although he is tired and half dead every day, and his fat body is about to disappear with the naked eye, Robert is also willing to eat.

Unlike Robert, the Lord the Thief Polly gave him the task of helping the soldiers train, and the Lord had a whim a few days ago and suddenly wanted to establish a special force, so Polly's ability to hide himself was valued by the Lord Lord.

This ability of thieves can only be used to steal property, but also for detection, espionage, and assassination.

As a result, Polly was also thrown into the Lord's Guard, and the Lord asked him to select the right people among the soldiers to form a small special squad, which would be formed in a series of targeted training on its own.

Compared to the busyness of the guards, the big-eared captives were not easy either. After finally completing the construction of the moat, the lord gave them a new task.

The stone walls of Hammondale were thickened and heightened, and the original watchtower was to be converted into four arrow towers.

It is foreseeable that when this project is completed, Hammondale will have a real city wall and its external defense capability will be greatly improved.

Due to the enormity of the project, it is no longer possible to complete it independently by just sixty-eight big-eared monsters, so Chen Jian also ordered to recruit a group of leaders to help, and it happened that the leaders who had nothing to do and no income responded positively in this winter, so that everyone was still very happy to see things that could make money and improve the safety of the town.

However, just when everyone thought that they could spend this cold winter so busy and peacefully, something unexpected happened.

Hammondale Castle, which has an ancient history, has been plagued by rumors of haunting in recent times, which has caused panic in the castle.

A servant said that he often heard people walking in the corridor outside the room in the middle of the night, but when he went out to look, he didn't see half a figure, but only found a strange puddle of water.

Some soldiers said they heard someone sighing in the attic, but there was no one living in the attic, and the door lock was intact.

Others say that strange footprints have been found in the cellar and that the grain in the cellar has been turned over.

Some people even said that when they got up in the middle of the night to pee, they found that a pair of red eyes flashed and disappeared.

Even the old butler said that he heard a strange banging sound in the middle of the night, as if someone was banging on the wall with something.

Eventually, it was reported that their home had been burglarized, but that there was no loss of belongings, only a few pieces of cotton clothing, and only a strange piece of cloth that had been burned by fire.

Rumors are rife all over the castle, and many believe that it is the undead who were killed by Terrence Rockwin.

More than 100 years ago, Terrence Rockwin, the supreme ruler of Deya at the time, a powerful necromancer, led his army to invade Hammondale and successfully occupied it for a year, during which time the population of Hammondale was almost wiped out, and only a few people hid in the nearby mountains to avoid death.

Hammondale Castle was used as a base camp by this necromancer at that time, where many innocent people were brutally killed, and then made into undead creatures to become loyal subordinates of the necromancer.

In order to find out the truth of the matter, the lord who was also suspicious specially organized a vigil, but what is puzzling is that since the vigil, the castle has been quiet, no one has noticed anything wrong, and all strange phenomena have disappeared as if they had never appeared.

For several days, the castle was quiet, and no one noticed anything unusual, so the lord ordered the vigil to be canceled.

However, on the second night after the vigil was canceled, a strange figure reappeared in the dark corners of the castle.

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