Chapter 1: The New Year
The New Year is coming, snowflakes are falling in many places on the Faren Continent, and the travelers and merchants in the wild are gone, at this time everyone will return to their hometown, and no matter how bad they will choose to find a warm tavern in the city, the New Year is of great significance to the humans on the Faren Continent, and almost everyone will choose to enjoy this day, so as to have a good start, so that the rest of the year will be smooth.
Acoste: They walked on the deserted path, accompanied only by white mischievous snowflakes like elves and a fierce cold wind. The earth became covered in silver, and it looked particularly empty under the gray sunlight covered by the white clouds.
This time the team is much larger than when they came, in addition to a few of them, Acoste also went to the Temple of Justice to pick up Yuenuo and a few children led by Louis, as an absolutely neutral person, Acoste is still very promising.
Perhaps because of the resemblance of an arrow, Acoste felt that their way back was very fast, and within a few days they had passed through the Cloud Mountains, which had surprised them, and soon they passed by the village of the halfling, and Acoste remembered that there was a man named Porgan who lived there. Baggins' halflings had promised them to take him on an adventure if they made it back from Amm alive, but by the time Acoster revisited the village, Baggins had already left the place.
Listening to the other halflings in the pit at the bottom of the bag, Baggins was taken away by a wizard named Gandalf, as if he was going to go on an adventure in a place called Middle-earth in the west of the continent of Faeron to fight against a demon king named Sauron, Acoste also smiled when he heard this, he has always had a good impression of that halfling, and hoped that he could return to his hometown safely after the adventure.
The group did not stay long in the halfling village, they passed through the wild jungle overnight, and when the sun went down, they rushed to the top of the trade road, and they happened to come across a caravan of half-orcs, and Yacoste immediately went to negotiate, and bought three open-top carriages for 100 gold coins.
The Chinese New Year is a festival for human beings, and other races will be busy selling their specialties in this festival as long as they are wise, so as to make a lot of money.
Don't be too surprised to see orcs, dwarves, or even orcs or evil table elves in Amm, people don't care much about racial differences in this pure commercial kingdom, as long as you're a shrewd merchant, even if you look like a Mind Flayer.
Louis looked at the carriages with inquiring eyes, and it was not until the half-elf nodded that he immediately took his siblings into the carriage to rest, they were only a group of children with an average age of no more than 13 years old, and it had taken a lot of their physical strength to cross the dense forests and mountains, and with the approval of the noble lord, they had no time to thank them and huddled together to sleep. This is also thanks to the fact that Acoste is an unusual nobleman, otherwise other nobles who want to save face will definitely let you get out of the way immediately when they see their subordinates being so impolite.
Of course, these nobles would not have thought to sympathize with their subordinates, even children.
Li Qing and Yue Nuo each found a carriage and climbed up, they drove their horses slowly to the front, Yacoste and Ling got into the last carriage together, and now the two are tired of being together almost every chance they have, as sweet as a newlywed, and fortunately, there are only Li Qing in the team who doesn't care about anything or Kogen who only cares about drinking and fighting, otherwise the thin skin of the two of them really can't do these things.
"Look, the stars in the sky are so beautiful." The three carriages didn't know how long they had been walking, the sky had changed from sunset to late night, the bright stars covered the sky like black cloth, and the bright moonlight was scattered on everyone's heads, suddenly giving people the feeling of walking in a fairyland on earth.
"yes, it's beautiful." Acoste also raised his head and watched, although the world called the earth in the memory of his previous life also has night, but this most ordinary and beautiful scene of nature is not easy to see, the alchemy project in that world is very developed, people can manipulate the elemental power of electricity without magic to create a thing called a light bulb and popularize it, the stars in the night sky disappear because of the colorful lights, Acoste doesn't know whether this kind of thing is good or not.
However, seeing the stars above his head, Acoste suddenly thought of this day a year later, that is, the first day of D1358, on this night, the stars and the moon will all disappear, and the black sky will cover the earth, although after a few days, the continent of Faeron will usher in the first sunshine, but war and turmoil will also fall on the continent. Those were the days that would later be known as the Dark Canopy.
"It's a whole year." Yacoste couldn't help but sigh in his heart, he discovered this secret half a year ago, the original motive was to improve his strength, so that they could have the ability to protect themselves in the turbulent years, for which he took his sister to "show up" and "leave home" out of the adventure, now think about how fast time flies, in a blink of an eye, from 1356 to 1357.
In a short period of time, he has changed from a level 1 warrior to a level 9 warrior/level 5 sword master, and his strength and equipment have changed dramatically, but Yacoste feels that his improvement speed is still too slow, for no other reason, because the opponents he may face in the future are those old monsters that have accumulated thousands of years of amusement.
It will take him two years to complete the path that others can take hundreds of years to complete, even with the help of the mysterious system, the half-elf himself is still not very optimistic about this.
"What's wrong with you, what's on your mind?" Dongfang Dancing Girl was lying in Acoste's arms, and Mingrui Ling noticed the change in Acoste's face, and couldn't help but pull the corner of the other party's clothes and asked in a whisper.
"Of course not, I'm just facing these miracles of nature, and I feel so small that I feel small." Yacoste's face is not red and his heart is not beating and he is lying, his trick has been trained by Lavis, the closer he is, the more he lies, his own fraud, bluffing, and acting skills all rely on Ling and Lavis to mention proficiency.
"Hmph." Ling said that she was not as easy to deceive as Lavis, but saw that Acoste denied it. Dongfang Dancing Girl didn't ask any further, and continued to tilt her head and puff out her cheeks to look at the sky, wondering if she could pick two stars and come down to play.
"Let's take one step at a time......" Yacoste saw Ling's girlish side, and couldn't help but raise a smile on the corner of his mouth, he has partners, relatives, brothers, comrades-in-arms, and now he has a "lover", even if it is not to save the world, or for the people he cherishes around him, he still has to continue to work hard......