。 The highest mountain range in Negan, Santenafis Mountain, is quite high. The top of the mountain is small all year round. Winter is one of the coldest areas in all of Negan, and so is the city of Damocles, located at the foot of the Sandafez Mountains.

Since the first snowfall, there have been several heavy snowfalls, and not long after the start of winter, the city of Damocles has become a snow city, and the streets are knee-deep with snow.

This kind of weather is undoubtedly extremely uncomfortable, but that is only for ordinary people, as the supreme ruler of the alliance and Negan, Chen Jian did not feel too much of the power of the cold in Damochrisburg, he often haunted several places, his room, his study, and the castle hall during the morning meeting every day, before he entered, there would always be someone to light the fireplace for him early and take all kinds of warm measures.

Even his uninterrupted morning exercises, someone specially cleared out the venue for him, and lit a few large piles of burning fires in the field, but after a few times, Chen Jian, who was sympathetic to his subordinates, simply moved the location of the morning exercise to the wide castle hall, so as not to follow him to the city of Damocles every day to take care of his daily life, the old butler Fowlesh and a large group of people were busy with this and that before dawn, so it was not hard.

This winter is a lonely winter for Jian Chen, after Temple returned from the pirates, he and Tren and others continued to study various magical issues that are crucial to today's alliance in MiG City, Morrill went to Negan's underground to preside over the local disarmament and pacification work, and Chen Jian had to sit in Damocles City, this city has a special meaning for Negan, it was the royal capital of the Negan Kingdom, Morriel also used this place as her base camp back then, and now the alliance is initially set Negan, He was the ruler. Even if you don't want to, you have to stay here for a while, which is a political necessity.

This kind of day is very sad for Chen Jian, there is no computer in this world, and there are few entertainment items, and his identity is also destined to be like everyone else, he can go wherever he wants, needless to say, a place like a tavern can only be seen once in a while, and if you want to go out to see the snow scene and relax, it will make the people excited, and with the change of his status, Pete and others are more and more in awe of him, although the intimacy is still the same, but they don't dare to be as casual as before, In addition, now that everyone is busy with official business, it is not easy for Chen Jian to find someone to talk to, drink, and chat, and Chen Jian is not a ridiculous guy who can find a random woman to accompany him, so after busy business during the day, after dinner, he is alone and idle.

In the beginning, he spent the extra time on building up his personal strength. Meditation, shooting practice, martial arts practice, reading magic books, take turns to come, but people are not machines, and these things are boring, so after a long time, Chen Jian can't stand it.

In this regard, the old housekeeper's opinion is that his master is too unsociable, as a president. However, it is very rare to carry out all kinds of activities that should be carried out among the nobles of the alliance, and if they are held from time to time, what kind of drinking parties, balls, hunting, and competitive meetings, their own masters will not be stuffy like this.

"Boring!" Regarding the old housekeeper's suggestion, Jian Chen completely disdained it. Because in his opinion, these things are too strong in official nature, and it is not his style to treat social entertainment as entertainment.

Drinking, dancing, hunting, and making games with friends is called enjoying life, but what's the point of doing it with a large group of subordinates who are both respectful and fearful of you?

Engage in it occasionally, and contact the feelings between superiors and subordinates, that is.

So Jian Chen had no choice but to continue to stuff.

In the end, Jian Chen simply found someone to help him make a beautiful chess game, and pulled his beautiful guard captain in the study every night to kill a few games as a pastime.

The reason why chess was chosen over Chinese chess. It is because Chen Jian believes that chess is more suitable for the situation of the Erathia continent and is more acceptable to the people of this world, because chess embodies the feudal system of the West on the earth. And this feudal lily is very similar to the existing system on the continent of Erathia.

And the reason why he chose to let Ace Reina play chess with him was because Chen Jian found that Esreina had been very depressed since she came back.

Chen Jian Although he didn't have any special thoughts about Esrena, but as the captain of Chen Jian's guard, Esreina personally guarded Chen Jian every day, and the two could almost be said to get along day and night.

In addition, Chen Jian himself has a good impression of Acerena, and Acerena's inexplicable affection for him, so Chen Jian cares about Acerena.

Seeing that although Esrena is still conscientious, she has lost her previous liveliness and cheerfulness. A face that was always smiling also became extremely gloomy, and his eyes were full of sadness, and Jian Chen was unspeakably uncomfortable.

It's no wonder that Esrena is roaring like this. This incident hit her too hard, a little obituary

Because of her impulsiveness, not only put Chen Yu in danger, but also made her only relative, the grandfather who single-handedly brought her up, die inexplicably and tragically, and even made the angel clan fall into the hands of Elzak, and the situation was worrying.

All this made her mature rapidly. It also made her feel deep self-blame. Jian Chen wanted to try to solve her, but he didn't know where to start.

So he hopes to use something like chess, which requires concentration, entertainment and confrontation, to distract Essrena a little, so that she doesn't get caught up in the past and blame herself.

To Chen Jian's delight, the effect of this method is not bad.

At first, Ethreina was not interested in what she saw as a form of entertainment similar to the magic cards popular on the continent of Erathia. However, she quickly realized the extraordinary nature of this game from the chess game.

Conducted on that black and white chessboard, it is not a simple game at all, but a virtual war with a strong strategic flavor that cannot see the smoke of gunpowder and does not need to shed blood, and the two sides are engaged in ideological collision and confrontation of wills, without enough overall situation and skills, it is not easy to win.

After being defeated by Chen Jian for a few days in a row, Acerena's competitiveness was successfully aroused, and she began to study the tricks, I have to say that after the great change in her heart, Esrena's careful thinking ability, which has been rarely used because of her personality, began to play out, so after a period of time, she was able to be inseparable from Chen Jian's killing.

Seeing her focus when she was thinking, the bright smile she unintentionally showed when she won, and the depression on her face on weekdays was a little less, Chen Jian was secretly happy, and she was more energetic when she played chess.

It is worth mentioning that Chen Jian and Esrena played chess in the study every night, but it attracted the attention of the old butler, after knowing about the chess and personally participating in it, the old butler once again shocked Chen Jian as a celestial person, thinking that this kind of game is very aristocratic, and then began to vigorously promote it among the alliance nobles, and finally caused this leisure method to become popular among the alliance nobles, becoming one of the necessary entertainment items for the nobles.

As time passed, Jian discovered that Esrena actually had great potential, starting with chess and her previous advice on the affairs of the Angel Clan. It all shows that in addition to martial arts, she also has considerable talent in other aspects, and it is too wasteful for such a talent to be used as a guard captain.

So Jian Chen began to deliberately train Acerena, just like he did to Pete and Orison and others, and every morning when dealing with various affairs, he would let Acereina follow and learn.

He believed that in time, Esrena would not only be his qualified guard captain, but also a competent confidential secretary, which would greatly reduce the pressure on his work.

Slowly, he also handed over some tasks directly to Acerena, such as some information collection and analysis work.

These tasks include the investigation and analysis of the high-ranking generals of the Elven Kingdom who may have hidden connections with Farouk from the information submitted by Robert.

In Jian Chen's eyes, this mysterious figure is likely to be the key figure in determining the direction of the war between Farouk's independent forces and the elven kingdom, and his existence may even affect the changes in the situation on the entire continent, because if he really exists, then the reason why he refuses to show up can only be that he or Farouk has a huge plan.

But what could this conspiracy be? Does this character really exist? Jian Chen wasn't sure.

However, Esreina didn't care about any of this, she had a blind trust in Jian Chen, and in her opinion, Jian Chen thought that such a character existed. Then this person exists, and all she has to do is to find out the most likely identity of this person from the information submitted by Robert from the high-ranking generals of the various elven kingdoms.

Then in the afternoon of that day, she submitted a name to Jian Chen.

"Your Excellency, I think that among the high-level generals of the Elven Kingdom, the one most likely to have something to do with the Farouk forces should be the half-elf Gru."

Acerena's tone was quite affirmative, showing that she had a strong confidence in her own judgment.

"Judging from the intelligence, during the Doomsday War, Gru led an elite jungle guardian army, which has been active in the territory of the Ov Kingdom, and his combat achievements are brilliant, and he has all the prerequisites for obtaining the Doomsday Blade! What's more, his half-elf identity! Although the Elven King trusts him, he is not popular with the Elves in the Elven Kingdom! So I think Farookhna and the League have a similar idea of racial equality. It should be very attractive to him".