Since that duel, Santa Fes College has had a new graduation ceremony.

As a student representative, Zhou Lie delivered a speech in the auditorium.

He was elected as the representative entirely due to the thirty-two noble students, since that duel, the thirty-two boys were convinced by Zhou Lie, especially after seeing the scene of the final battle, no one did not admire, and was in awe of the boy who smashed the fireball with a wooden stick.

"In this snowy season, we also ushered in graduation, these three years of student time. It has brought us countless memories, bitter and sweet, laughing and tearing。。。。。 ”

Zhou Lie's steady and stable voice echoed in the auditorium, and the speech written by Ania was read by Zhou Lie in front of the stage, and the end of this speech represented that their current class of students would bid farewell to the college and go their separate ways.

Each student who graduates from the academy receives a letter of recommendation written by the dean and is awarded a badge to signify that the student has graduated from Santa Fes College and has a good academic record, which will knock on the door for these young people to enter politics.

After the graduation ceremony, the students left the auditorium, and the best friends in the college square gathered in twos and threes to talk about the present and the future, and the slightly fragile girls hugged each other with tears in their eyes when they learned that they were to be separated from their beloved.

"It's finally the day. Zhou Lie sighed, this used to be a day he was looking forward to, but now he was a little reluctant in his heart.

"People like to stay as they are, and even those who have the courage to make changes have a deep fear of change. Freem's voice came from his head.

"I don't see you're still a philosopher. ”

"If this kind of fact that is easily overlooked is philosophy, it is a philosophy. With that, Frem disappeared again.

Stay the same, Zhou Lie shrugged, he is indeed used to life here, so there is nothing wrong with saying this.

"Well, a very good speech, worthy of my lifelong rival. ”

Hearing this voice, Zhou Lie felt a headache.

"I don't remember any such strange existence as a lifelong enemy. ”

"Hmph, even if you don't want to admit this, you can't change the status quo, you can't do magic, but you can bounce back all my attacks, this is already my opponent, and when I learn more advanced magic, I will definitely defeat you, you remember, hahaha. ”

With an inexplicable laugh, Tang Si left this sentence and left surrounded by a crowd of people, leaving Zhou Lie there with a helpless face.

Suddenly, a pair of soft little hands covered his eyes, and a rough voice came from behind him, "Guess who I am." ”

Zhou Lie's right hand touched the hands covering him, and said with a smile, "Stella, you, your hands are so soft." ”

When he turned around, he found Stella flushed and smothered against her chest.

Gently grabbing Stella's waving hands, the two looked at each other for a while, and both laughed in unison.

"When are you leaving?" Stella asked softly, strolling along the lake.

"In about a week, I'll be going overland to Babylon, so I can still have some free time on the way, you. ”

"Wilson will be leaving in three days, and I will follow them to Tionlis in three days. ”

"In such a hurry?"

"Well, it's been half a year, and his apprentices have come to urge me in the past few days, and the family has been helping me pack my luggage. ”

"Three days is so short, it seems that nothing can be done. Zhou Lie said with a little regret.

"We can't do much in these three days, but we still have five years to go. ”

"Well, we still have a future. ”

Walking to the lakeside pavilion, Zhou Lie put his arm around Stella's waist, Stella snuggled up to Zhou Lie, and the two quietly looked at the lake frozen by ice and snow, and were silent for a long time.

In the end, Zhou Lie still made up his mind, took out a jade pendant from his arms, and handed it to Stella.

"This is the jade pendant I brought up since I was a child, and now I give it to you, just look at it when you think of me. Zhou Lie said.

"Is this what Dongfang says about seeing things and thinking about people?" Stella took the delicate dragon-shaped jade pendant, put it in her hand and played with it for a while, then put it away preciously, and then took off a ruby ring on the middle finger of her left hand and put it on the middle finger of Zhou Lie's left hand.

"You can't take it off, and even if you do, you have to take it with the middle finger of your left hand when you take it on later, you know?" Stella instructed word by word.

"Is there any special significance in wearing the middle finger of your left hand?" Zhou Lie looked at the ring, thinking about its meaning.

"The meaning is that you are already famous, and other demons and monsters can't beat your mind. ”

"Well, that's a good point. ”

"What, you want to have another affair?"

"Don't dare, don't dare. ”

The two were about to be separated, and they suppressed their reluctance and uneasiness in their words, so they snuggled up to each other, chatted for a long time in the lakeside pavilion, Zhou Lie taught Stella the method of panyu, and Stella told Zhou Lie the meaning of wearing the ring on each finger.

There is a saying that each is for the next reunion, but when is the next time, and is there really a next time? When people start thinking about this kind of unanswered question, they panic and fear, and then cherish the present.

"The last three days were given to me. ”

"Hmm. ”

On the day Stella left, Zhou Lie didn't accompany her out of the city, and only asked Ania to carry a message.

"Well, you have spent these three days together, and at the last moment, you are not by her side to see her off. ”

On the wall of Auslin, Zhou Lie stood at the battlement, looking at the mighty army, his eyes were always fixed on the girl wearing the purple cloak in the team, and Ania stood behind him, with dissatisfaction and doubt in her tone.

"I don't want to see her cry, I don't want to cry in front of her, and the next thing I'm going to is a mountain of swords and fire, and I can't lose my heart at the beginning. ”

Zhou Lie faced the blowing north wind and stared at it for a long time before leaving the city.

After four days, Zhou Lie and his servants packed their things, left the house where they had lived in Oslin for a long time, said goodbye to Aniah, and prepared to leave for Babylon.

When Zhou Lie first came here, he came directly to this port city by water, and this time, he planned to go to Babylon by land, and the imperial officials who came to greet him had no objection to this, after all, the other party had sent back the prince of the East, and he still had to give enough respect.

Just crossing the Western Continent, you have to face many dangers, first of all, there are endless thieves, the war has only ended, there are not a few thieves in the mountains and wilderness, and then there are those demonic beasts that inhabit the forest, these two threats cannot be easily ignored.

"So what are you going to do with these threats? It looks like you don't have much of a guard. Zhou Lie looked at the capable man in front of him and said lightly, he believed that the other party had already taken countermeasures.

"Welcoming His Highness back to Babylon is a secret operation, so there will be no military escort, so we will set out with a caravan that has hired adventurers, so we don't have to worry about these issues. Randy said with a warm smile on his face.

Zhou Lie looked at this hypocritical smiling face, snorted from his nose, and said, "I really don't know what you mean by smirking all day long, living so tired, and finally not being able to enjoy this life." ”

As early as a month ago, the man who called himself Randy, as the confidant of Prime Minister Bopolini, appeared in front of Zhou Lie, and this shrewd and capable man quickly arranged Zhou Lie's schedule to go to Babylon.

"There are only two kinds of people in this world who can enjoy life, and there are people in high positions like Your Highness, and there are always people around you who are waiting before and after the saddle, even if they are not in their own country, there are people like me to worry about. ”

"What about the other one?"

"There is also a kind of nature that is at the bottom of the people, they have no dreams, no future, only the dream of life and death today, and they are enjoying life every day. It's just that I don't want to be this kind of person, so I can only struggle up in the cracks, the so-called reaching out and not hitting the smiling person, surviving in the cracks, this is also basic. ”

Hearing a few familiar sentences, Zhou Lie was a little surprised: "It seems that you are still very familiar with our oriental culture." ”

"My mother came from the East, and she came to Babylon with a caravan and settled there. ”

At this moment, Zhou Lie began to look at the man in front of him, and found that the other party's face did have a little Oriental characteristics, such as those eyes, the pupils were black, which was a feature that Westerners could not see.

Zhou Lie nodded, but he didn't want to talk about it, no matter what the other party's bloodline was, he was still a Marston after all.

"How's the route? ”

"By land, except for the passage through Heiyun Mountain, the rest of the road is a plain avenue, and there are villages and towns along the way, so there won't be many problems. ”

"Sounds like you're familiar with the overland route from Auslyn to Babylon, didn't you come by boat?"

"During the war, I came with the army once, and I remember that time. ”

"Obviously as the prime minister's cronie?" Zhou Lie's tone was playful.

"It's because of cronies that there are a lot of things to deal with. ”

Seeing that the other party refused to elaborate, Zhou Lie did not pursue it, and when it was noon, Zhou Lie and Randy, followed by two servants, boarded the carriage and set off for Babylon.

There were many merchants from the East in the caravan, who unloaded those precious silk goods at the docks, and traveled lightly, ready to buy Western treasures, especially those new mechanical items, and in recent years the capital of Zaixia Kingdom has been quite popular with famous nobles.

Zhou Lie got into the carriage of those merchants and chatted with them to pass the time, these businessmen also liked to chat with people, not to mention meeting a compatriot who had lived in the West for a long time, so they naturally had a good conversation.

The journey north to Babylon was a long one, and everyone could be said to have walked cautiously along the way, but they still ran into trouble.

"A herd of demonic beasts appeared in the distance, confirmed to be a pack of wolves, surrounded the vehicle on the perimeter, and all adventurers were ready to fight. ”