From the day he had dinner with Edith, Harold had passed two weeks in peace.

During this time, Lilina was still very busy, and she was nowhere to be seen during the day. In the evening, this snack seller did not come to Harold's house to eat. Harold always thinks she is noisy, but when she quiets down, she feels a little lonely.

And Edith hasn't been coming over to talk to him much lately, as if she felt that it was a great shame for her to get drunk twice in front of Harold.

For two weeks, Harold had nothing important to do, except to go to the tavern every weekend to continue telling his giant story.

So, after two weeks of peace, the college began to carry out the final comprehensive assessment, which was divided into two categories: practical application of magic and written test, with a total of six small courses, and Harold narrowly passed the test.

Harold Vasa himself enjoyed the peaceful life in the academy city, but he also sniffed out some elements of his daily life that made him feel uneasy.

For example, there are obviously a lot more outsiders in the market who look at the street scene of College City. The number of patrols of the Knights of Punishment had increased significantly, and Harold estimated that the number of patrols he saw each day had increased the number of Knights of Punishment in Academy City by at least three men.

And, most crucially, there were a few outsiders in St. Pfeiland's Academy, all dressed in student uniforms, but Harold looked at some of their subtle habitual movements as people trained by military discipline, and these fixed faces were wandering around the campus every day. Harold immediately understood that they were the plainclothes officers of the Order, and that the Discipline Committee of St. Phelan College, which had been seen every day, was nowhere to be seen.

All of the above made Harold feel a faint sense of unease permeated his heart, no matter how fierce the civil war of the Imperial people was, how could it make the College City, which was still in a safe area, rumor? But no matter how suspicious he was, in the absence of key information, he didn't know what the reason was.

Such days were maintained until the end of the comprehensive monitoring, Harold walked around the campus, and when he deliberately walked slowly towards the school gate, he still found that the plainclothes of the suspected Punishment Knights who had secretly recorded his face were still patrolling the campus.

He immediately realized: "What's going on? Why are they sneaking around the academy? It doesn't look like they're looking at a fixed person, they're watching the whole school. ”

His fist hidden in the sleeve of his coat clenched: "It seems that the new weapon should be obtained from the old orc as soon as possible, and by the way, ask him for a little more information." ”

Harold walked out of the school gate at a pace and was confronted by Edith, who was standing at the entrance of the school yard pretending to look around.

"Hey, you guys are out? We're about to go out for a stroll, what a coincidence! ”

"Well, coincidence." Harold just walked over with a blank face.

Edith noticed a subtle sense of dissonance in Harold's emotions, and she stopped talking, just following him.

The two of them just walked silently and dullly.

The winter sunset stretched the shadows of the two of them to the elder.

"Two sisters!" A slightly immature voice interjected out of place.

"Clams?!" Harold turned his head, and a child of about ten years old was standing by and watching them.

"Uh.... Today's last newspaper. It seems that there is big news, and today's newspaper is sold out in half an hour. The kid held up a newspaper in his hand. The last one, do you want the two sisters. ”

Harold quickly glanced at the headline in the newspaper, and his face was cold: "Little ghost! Take it home and show it to your father. On the other hand, I'm a man. ”

"Huh?! Then this young lady is also a man? The newsboy's eyes turned to Edith.

Harold was secretly amused, he made a straight face: "This is a woman, what's wrong?" Little ghost, do you want to tease her? ”

Edith glanced at Harold, she took two copper coins from her pocket, handed them to the child, and said, "Don't pay attention to this nonsense fellow, my sister wants one." ”

The newsboy handed the newspaper to Edith, laughed, and hopped away.

"Well, the newspaper has obviously been read, and there are still traces. I guess the kid was taking out the newspaper his dad had just read in exchange for some pocket money. Harold leaned over and looked at the newspaper headlines.

"The news of the civil war in the Northern Salga Empire, the veteran of the Salga Empire's command of the Central Army, Jeff Carion, is extremely fast, and the reconnaissance cavalry in the vanguard has begun to reconnoiter the Valin Fortress, the southwest gate of the empire. Freddie Bart, the Grand Prince of the Empire, has made his way north to Valin Fortress in an attempt to boost morale and hold off the Empire's Central Army. ”

"Tsk, it's coming so fast. It's only been almost three weeks, and the two sides are already starting to play big. ”

Edith looked up and asked, "You say, will this war end soon?" ”

Harold shook his head, and he said, "It seems that Freddie Bart is also a bit of a guts, and he has been suppressing several large bands of thieves in the southwest of the empire, and he has experience in warfare. Relying on the terrain and the defenders' readiness, he was able to delay for several months. ”

"Can it be delayed for a few months? You mean he can't win? ”

"If you can't win, you can delay it for a while at most." Harold shook his head slightly, and suddenly he saw a simple topographical map of several provinces in the southwest of the Salga Empire in the newspaper.

Harold immediately said, "Wait a minute, let me see." ”

Edith held the newspaper in both hands and stretched her arms to Harold so that Harold could read the improvised topographical map printed on the newspaper.

"What's wrong? Something is wrong. ”

Harold looked at it carefully, and he said, "Well, hehe, why did I say that Jeff Carion's Central Army came so quickly!" It seems that the great prince of the empire will soon be finished, and there is still a large group of people to bury him. ”

Edith asked curiously, "What's going on?" ”

Harold sneered: "For an army of tens of thousands to march from the imperial capital to the Valin fortress in the southwest of the empire, it will take at least a month to march with a large number of baggage. And Jeff Carian only took three weeks, what did he want? This Valin fortress is close to rivers and mountains, and it is difficult for large armies to spread. However, if the turbulent "Emerald River" in the west of the Wallin Fortress is cut off in a short period of time, a huge and solid ice surface is made with the swarm ice magic of the magicians, which is enough for the artillery position to attack the walls of the Wallin Fortress. This wishful thinking is good! ”

Edith saw the sneer on the corner of Harold's mouth, and she wondered, "Won't this civil war be over soon?" The tension in the academy town will also dissipate. ”

Harold pointed to the river called "Emerald" in the simple map in the newspaper and said coldly: "This river is fast and fast, it is a 'disaster river'." And on the west bank of the river there is a large basin terrain, and that basin is about the same size as the church territory. If the river had been cut off hastily, the floods would have raged in the southwestern part of the Sarga Empire. That old guy named Jeff Carian is paving the way for a swift victory in the Civil War with countless lives. ”

Edith was slightly stunned, while Harold thought more: "The wars and floods in the southwestern provinces of the Salga Empire will create thousands of refugees, and they will definitely flee to the stable and well-fed food and funds of the church. ”

This may seem to explain the tense atmosphere in the city, but is that really the truth?

Harold wrinkled his nose, he always felt that things were not so simple.