Although Aine was mostly immersed in arcane learning after the flowering years, he still knew a little about what was going on in his family.

The main thing that had the biggest impact on Ain was that the three manors in the north of Winterfell had seen crops wither and trees die one after another.

This is logically impossible. Because there was a very grand battle in the northern history of Winterfell. When Rysel arose, he fought Drew's Bone Frame once near Winterfell. With the help of the power of the Church of the Gods, Riesel, although he suffered heavy losses in this battle, also drove Drew's skeleton out of the current defense line of the Northwest Fortress.

True flesh and blood made this land unusually fertile, and Ain also knew that his Lannister family could get three hereditary estates in this area, also because his titular father left a completely indelible mark on history in the June War. Such a huge contribution has not passed a generation, and even the new noble members of the current noble council remember this achievement.

Moreover, the fiefs of those councillors were located in what they saw as the land of the eastern part of the Rysel, which was truly rich and stable. As long as there is no foreign aristocratic strength to obtain fiefdoms in this area, no matter how strong the wind and waves are in other places, it has nothing to do with them, and they are even happy to see the local nobles confront each other, and then lose their own strength.

During the time when he got the manor and began to be deserted, Greon had to travel back and forth between the manor and Winterfell almost every day. It's a pity that even Greon, an old spellcaster with the arcane attainments of the Seven Rings, didn't see any clues in this incident.

As for Ain, he hadn't been to the three barren manors in that time. Because since Grean has no way to see any clues, even if he has the knowledge and memories in the game of his previous life, he may not even feel the slightest abnormality before he has the strength to stably connect the first layer of the magic net.

This is not a gap in experience, but more in the perception of the world.

Ain's exploration has a strong sense of luck in it. Because Greon is different from Al Ain, he has two schools of forbidden - the school of prophecy and the school of necromancy. And both schools of thought have causes that can lead to the desolation of the land. If Greon was a generalist mage like Ain now, Ain wouldn't have bothered to spend the time exploring those manors again.

It's not that the forbidden school can't feel the effects and residual fluctuations of those schools' arcane arts, but that this ability to feel is weakened. What's more, for spellcasters who have not studied the Forbidden School, what they lack is more valuable experience and knowledge.

Now the only carriage left in the Lannister family is very rudimentary, and the only horse pulling the cart is a little scrawny. Aine sighed, but finally didn't let Marrington put the carriage on the old horse.

Ignoring Marrington's strange gaze, Ain gently cut a few manes from the old horse's tail, and then made a few quick gestures as a few short syllables flowed out of his mouth.

The arcane that Ain casts is the summoning mount attached to the lapis lazuli, and the casting material is the fur and skin of animals or monsters.

Because he was going to find the reason for the desolation of the manor this time, Ain also borrowed several sets of alchemical instruments from for analysis. These instruments are basically not bumpy, otherwise it will have a great impact on the precision of the instrument and the accuracy of the measurement results. The most important thing is that if the inside of the instrument is misaligned due to a bump or the wear and tear of the magic array, Ain has no way to repair him now. Unlike the real-life alchemy in the previous game, alchemy cannot be learned by investing a few skill points, otherwise a stable gem enchantment can make Al Ain earn very considerable benefits.

In addition to not needing to rest and eat, this ** horse summoned by summoning mounts also has the advantage of better stability. Not to mention that this kind of arcane summoned horse has the level of the best BMW, at least it is about the same as the horse used by the great nobles to ride.

In a flash, a mysterious teleportation circle flashed, and a white steed had already appeared in front of Malinton and Ain.

"Pero is on the ......" Malinton is the first time to see Ain use these non-lethal arcane arts, when he watched Ain conduct daily arcane training, he always felt that the magic released by the mages was used to kill people.

Aine didn't say anything about Malrington's surprise, but took it upon himself to put the carriage on the white horse.

"Master, this carriage is not actually like this." When Marrington came back to his senses, he subconsciously said something that made Aine blush.

Looking at Ain's somewhat embarrassed expression, Marrington was stunned again.

"Master, that's not what I meant......"

Aine waved his hand and said with a dry laugh, "It doesn't matter, this horse is handled in the same way as a normal horse." I've already told it how to pull the cart, Malrington you just have to sit in the driver's seat and adjust the direction of the carriage. I'll go to Heyman's magic house first. ”

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Once the wagon had been loaded with alchemy, it slowly drove down the street towards the north gate of Winterfell.

Due to the defeat of Rysel in the Battle of the Flowers, there are many new nobles in Far Winter who have fled from outside the Northwest Fortress. Although they have lost their fiefdoms, they still hold high or low noble titles, more or less hereditary estates. Therefore, with different coats of arms, the carriages traveling back and forth in Winterfell naturally became a rather spectacular sight on the streets of Winterfell - even if all this was sparse and ordinary in Therland, the royal capital of Rysel, this was the great city closest to the Northwest Fortress, Winterfell.

"Lannister's coat of arms?" An inconspicuous passer-by paid a little attention to the emblem on the carriage that Ain was riding, and couldn't help but be stunned, "The young man of the Lannister family is not able to make ends meet because he is practicing arcane arts, how can he still have such a good horse pulling his carriage." ”

Thinking of this, the passerby couldn't help but speed up his pace.

……

"Sir, it seems that this horse has brought us a lot of attention." It wasn't until the carriage was out of town and the number of people became less crowded that Marrington told Ayn about his discovery.

Aine didn't answer, first of all, he blessed Malrington with a magic trick to keep the temperature around him constant.

Winterfell not only means that the city is located in the north, but also that the inhabitants of the city will be tormented by the cold winter - in fact, it is basically true, but the constant temperature of the magic circle only covers all parts of the city except the slums. In the slums, there is only one secondary, barely enough to ensure that the poor will not die in the cold winter.

And the cold winter outside the city did make Aine feel uncomfortable, so he had already blessed himself with a magic trick to maintain the temperature. Originally, he was going to give Malinton the blessing of the change, but Marrington thought that he could withstand the baptism of winter by wearing a little more, and he was not willing to waste Ain's precious daily spell slots, even if the magic trick was just a zero-ring trick.

However, Aine heard the unique tremor after being baptized by the cold winter from Mallingerton's voice just now, so he couldn't help but bless Malrington with magic tricks.

In fact, any unauthorised application of any arcane effect to someone else requires a waiver, and if the unfortunate one succeeds in the waiver, then even the buff of the arcane effect can only be neutralized - because humans are not natural spellcasters, and the human body cannot accurately judge the positive and negative effects of an arcane effect. In other words, if a magic trick is also unleashed on an elf without permission, then there is no need for an arbitrary exemption, provided that the effect of the trick is beneficial. But that elf probably won't give you a good look, let alone say thank you.

"Master......" Malrington's face obviously changed slightly, he understood that the few poor spell slots every day were the only strength of his own master now, and now he wasted another one for himself.

"Needless to say, the arcane I released was all prepared beforehand, and if you don't use it, you can't turn it into another arcane, so it's not a waste. Let's get down to business. Aine spoke directly to himself, blocking Malrington's complaints.

"Master, those who observed our carriage just now were some small nobles with a little strength, and I still know several people. They all seem to have a greater or lesser glimpse of our hereditary estates, especially the three deserted estates that we are going to see today. ”

Ain nodded in understanding. He is the most understandable about the snooping of the deserted manor, because even if the hereditary manor changes hands, it still cannot change its generational reckless attributes, unless the nobles who hold the hereditary manor are convicted by the noble council and take it back. So even barren land is land, and it is land that can be passed down from generation to generation. Although it is not possible to build a city in this land like a fief and collect taxes and raise troops, it can still make a profit - if one day the desolation leaves as suddenly as it came.

However, although Aine now owes a not small debt, it is not to the extent of smashing pots and selling iron, and he still doesn't need to do this kind of thing of killing chickens and eggs, selling land to pay back.

"Marrington, when you get back today, you should be a little more careful to see if there are suddenly more loafers around our house." "There's also a stable, a little more covering, so that people think there's a good horse in it, and if anyone wanders around the house, prepare a double feed when feeding the horses." ”