Chapter 54: The First Snow
Life on the cliff - this can be described as the summer cold that followed the months.
He seemed to have turned into the most diligent little mage in the Sky Temple, spending most of his energy on his work, and the rest of his time studying frantically. However, even so, he is only hovering on the bottom line of becoming a pig.
Fortunately, he was not lonely during this journey, and the elven princess Fiona often appeared with him, running around various places in the temple in search of work. Xia Han also wondered why this elf princess was so patient, but she only said one sentence that left him speechless.
"What's the point of this experience if it hasn't even taken ten years?"
Xia Han finally understood that he and Fiona had different concepts of time. He thought that a few months were a long time, but Fiona didn't see it. The elven princess was booked for ten years at the beginning, and she created a new identity in order to use it to enjoy the process of integrating into the temple from childhood to adulthood.
Terrible woman, even more terrible concept of time.
Time turns, and two seasons quietly slip through the summer cold, ushering in the first winter of the Sky Temple.
The northern city received its first snow early, and on the morning of an ordinary night, Xia Han stood in front of the window, and the field of vision was already snow-white. Light snowflakes fall from the sky, the streets and houses are covered with a thin layer of snow, and the Sky Temple seems to be transformed into a white fairytale city.
"Come and have breakfast, little one."
Bai Xue set bread and milk on the dining table, and after Xia Han sat down, she said, "I have something to do today, you and Her Royal Highness the princess should work hard!" ”
Since this period of time, she has been selling goods on the black market except for stalking, and the black market is actually not in the Sky Temple. No one knows the physical address of the Black Market, but the Temple has a teleportation array to the Black Market—the only free teleportation array.
Some mages are more skilled in business than merchants, and the black market is where they sell magical items and potions. There are many teleportation arrays leading to the black market in other parts of the world, which can be accessed by any well-connected professional.
It was a mecca for gold diggers, and Bai Xue was a veteran gold digger, and it seemed that he now had several small vaults.
After breakfast, the two left home together and went separate at the entrance of the Truth College.
"Remember the little one." Bai Xue specially instructed Xia Han when she was leaving: "Don't let that man get close to Her Royal Highness the Princess!" "She's talking about Autumn Night, Autumn Night and Spring Love are Xia Han's usual friends in the Temple, but Bai Xue doesn't like them being around Xia Han and Fiona.
"I know." Xia Han smiled and didn't care too much.
He has a lot of things to do today, and in the morning he is a toy store helper. However, when he walked into the store, the boss only gave Xia Han a simple task.
"You can put these trees outside and go back." He pointed to the small trees in the shape of Christmas trees in the store.
Xia Han carried a small tree out, just in time to meet the elf princess entering the door. "That's all for today's work?" Fiona glanced at the tree strangely, and then suddenly said, "This is today's sale." ”
She easily saw through the effect of the small tree, but Xia Han was not so powerful. He set up the tree in the doorway and tried to enter some mana.
"Jingle Jingle Bell" The pleasant jingle rings as the small tree slowly rises into the air and begins to spin, and the surrounding snowflakes swirl and fall, leaving a beautiful smiling face on the ground.
"It's so funny." Xia Han was a little excited, no wonder there was so little work - these small trees can sell well.
"It's just a little technical stuff that only a young female mage would like." Fiona also walked out with the little tree in her arms, she cast a spell on the little tree, and it was easy to lift it up: "It's nice to put them in the doorway, this tree glows at night." ”
"Oooh!" Xia Han was even more excited, but it was just a hobby for new things, and he wouldn't spend money to buy them. Things in the toy store are just toys, fun and beautiful but have little use value.
However, there are many male mages who buy toys to pursue female mages - such as Autumn Night.
"Do you still have a job today?" After finishing her job at the toy store, Fiona asks Natsuhan. All her work is with Xia Han, but Xia Han has taken on more other jobs than her. Because of her official duties, Fiona didn't have as much time as Xia Han.
"You don't have it, right, I still have one" Xia Han looked at Fiona and proposed to separate: "You go back and rest." "Actually, he doesn't have a job, but he still has to go to a few fixed points on the ground today to explore the teleportation array.
During this time, he investigated many towns, but still did not find the right teleportation array. Both series of plots were not completed, Fiona claimed to be going to 'experience life for ten years', and the other plot was delayed. This is also the reason why Xia Han works desperately, and his faith collection work has been hovering at a low altitude.
"It's rare that I'll go with you when I have time today!" Fiona declined the suggestion to rest.
"No, you don't." Xia Han was afraid that Fiona would see through his affairs, so he couldn't help but want to excuse himself, but he immediately found that the elf princess frowned. "Okay!" Before she doubted, Xia Han agreed.
He lied about his purpose as 'someone asked him to find something', and then traveled with Fiona to a town on the surface through a teleportation array. It's a high-altitude town, and Xia Han enjoys extreme cold as soon as he comes out of the teleportation array.
"Feiyan!"
Fiona snapped her fingers, and a small fire dragon flew around the two of them, and then warmed up. The fire dragon had obviously disappeared, but the warmth had always been retained, and this kind of spell made Xia Han admire it very much - when would he be able to cast spells so freely?
"It's a long way, so let's go buy something to eat first."
Xia Han took Fiona to buy a few loaves of bread in the town and climbed up the snowy mountains. Although the elf princess is walking in the appearance of a girl, she is obviously more agile than Xia Han, living like a light Suzuka.
"Why don't you cast a spell and send us over the mountain?"
"What are you talking about, isn't that your job?"
Fiona had said that she wanted to help Xia Han, but now she regretted it, and she seemed to like the feeling of hiking up the mountain.
[A pampered princess. Xia Han looked at Fiona's face full of interest, and couldn't help sighing, people who didn't understand the hard work of climbing the mountain would be so energetic, and he was completely tired of climbing the mountain in order to find the teleportation array.
The snow-covered mountains are snowy and the wind is cold, and if it weren't for Fiona's magic, Xia Han would have frozen today.
"I didn't expect it to snow all of a sudden." He complained that the first snow had come without warning, and that "why is there so much more snow here than in the temple?" ”
Obviously, the location of the Sky Sanctuary is higher, but the snow there can only be said to be 'light snow' at most. It's like the heavy snow falling from the Cangji Mountains, and even the forest is white.
"The snow was already huge."
Fiona stood in the snow and turned back, the snow buried her calves, but she didn't care: "There is an enchantment on the periphery of the Sky Temple, and heavy snow will turn into light snow, and there was not even snow in the winter before it fell. ”
"Not before, but now? Could it be that the barrier has become weaker? ”
"No, it's just that the barrier has changed." Fiona shook her head as she continued to move forward, but did not stop talking: "Now the enchantment can actively adjust the size of snowflakes, and the temperature will not be too low. ”
"Why is it so troublesome?" Xia Han, who was barely keeping up with her, gasped, and then frowned: "Maintaining the enchantment itself requires a lot of energy, and adjusting the snowflakes is more troublesome than stopping them, who does such a troublesome job?" ”
"Me."
"Huh?" Xia Han looked up in surprise, and the elf princess who looked like Limo smiled shallowly: "The magic empire is like spring all year round, so" She looked up at the snowflakes, and for the first time showed her child-like eyes flashing longingly: "I have never seen snow before I came here." ”
"Xia Han, I like the winter scene that the motherland doesn't have, you should be able to experience this feeling, right?"
She turned her gaze to Xia Han, which glooshed a little—winter was not a season to be remembered for him either.
It was winter when the sword left, and it was winter when the Emerald Empire fell
"Maybe" Thinking of those unhappy memories, Xia Han's voice couldn't help but bring a little coldness.
Fiona stopped, she looked back at Xia Han suspiciously, and then walked over slowly.
"You kid is so strange" She touched Xia Han's head with her hand, and the girl's appearance made this kind of action make Xia Han feel weird: "Every elf is very happy when they see snow for the first time, why didn't you show it today?" ”
The elf princess was puzzled, but Xia Han wouldn't tell her the answer. He is not from the Magic Empire, how can he understand the preciousness of snow?
"Actually, I'm very happy."
Xia Han smiled in a blink of an eye: "I've always been happy. ”
Fiona couldn't help sighing, and suddenly asked, "Xia Han, you're almost ten years old, right?" ”
"Well, how?"
"How so?" Fiona withdrew her hand, took two steps back, and smiled with a complicated expression: "I always feel that you don't look like a child. The elven princess turned and walked on, stepping on the snow.
"And," she paused again, "I suddenly want to turn you into an honest and good mage." ”
“”
Xia Han was silent, he just wanted to be a 'powerful mage', what kind of honesty did he care? Mages with similar moral nobility and self-sacrifice should also get out.
In mid-October of the year 999, when the first heavy snow fell on the Cangji Mountains, two people with diametrically opposed natures, the future rulers of two races, began to collide with sparks on the stage of fate. Of the seven mortal races that will lead the world at this time, four future queens have already met Xia Han
However, except for Fiona, everyone else is a child, and no one can imagine how brilliant their future will be.