An Lais, who had been waiting for a long time, said casually: "Your Highness has eaten?" ”

"Hmm!" Shen Xinghe stopped and replied to him very satisfied.

An Les exhaled lightly, his gaze swept over the hourglass placed at the head of Shen Xinghe's bed: "Then can we start class?" ”

"......" Shen Xinghe couldn't remember how many times he had made him want to blink since he woke up, he was stunned for a moment before asking, "What time is it now?" ”

"It's already two forty-five." Anlais replied nonchalantly.

I don't know why, the more he used this kind of indifferent tone, the more it made Shen Xinghe feel creepy, no wonder people say that the more gentle a person is, the more terrible it is, especially An, who is really not angry and arrogant.

Shen Xinghe whispered apologetically, "I'm sorry, I overslept." ”

Anles looked at his current appearance but laughed, raised his head and raised his eyebrows: "Your Highness doesn't need to be so nervous, I didn't mean to blame you." First of all, could you please tell me, how much do you remember about the lesson I taught you yesterday? ”

Shen Xinghe thought for a while: "I remember everything." ”

He was right, he only had to listen carefully to the content of yesterday's four-hour lesson, and now he can think about it all and come to mind.

Anles frowned slightly, and continued quietly: "Then have you read the book I told you to read after class?" ”

"Yes." Shen Xinghe nodded.

"How long have you been watching? How many have you watched? How much do you remember? ”

"I watched it for an hour, watched a quarter of it, and memorized it all."

Anlais's eyebrows rose again: "Did you only watch it once?" ”

"Yes."

Anlais couldn't help but fall into deep thought, he had been thinking and asking questions at the same time, and now he suddenly had a feeling in his mind that perhaps he finally understood one of the "unexpected surprises" that Lord Lulith spoke of—that this Highness had a knack for forgetting......

Of course, it depends on how long he can do it and how well he learns, but Anles believes that even if he never has to revise, he will not forget what he remembers.

After the day's cultural class, Shen Xinghe put on his lap the two iron rings that Paul Roth had returned to him after the morning magic class, and he was wearing something weighing twenty pounds, which was indeed a heavy burden for him now.

The next day's course was the same as what he was told at the beginning, two hours of Zama in the morning, plus two hours of magic practice, and Shen Xinghe gradually got used to it except for the first few days when he would take a nap before lunch because he was too tired.

Almost a week later, Paulrot also said to Anlais with great emotion that His Highness is really making rapid progress today.

"I know that he is very gifted, and of course his talent for reading will not be applied to the cultivation of force and magic. Now, of course, he still wears those two iron rings every day, and he has never been lazy and untied them privately, according to He Ningzhou, his iron rings have increased to thirty-five catties. In addition, in addition to the time we gave him every day, he never stopped practicing when he was resting. I don't think even we had as hard work as he had at the beginning. ”

Anlais nodded, thinking to himself, if this development continues, the performance of that highness in ten years is really expected.

Unconsciously, Shen Xinghe has been living in this world for nearly a month, and although the daily classes are very hard, he will have a day off on weekends, and the time after the evening etiquette class is also vacated.

This day was another day off, and in the afternoon, He Ningzhou came to Shen Xinghe's room.

After knocking on the door twice as usual and entering directly, He Ningzhou saw the figure in the center of the room at a glance.

He was Zama, and he seemed so concentrated that he didn't even notice he was coming in. He Ningzhou remained silent and walked gently in front of the man.

Sure enough, his eyes didn't open at this time, which was certainly not the action Zama requested, and it also showed that he was also practicing magic while Zama.

This is a very energy-consuming action, which consumes twice as much energy as doing two things separately, and of course the time will be halved at the same time, and the effect will be doubled. Normally, not many people choose to do both, and most people don't think it's necessary, they just need to have a set time every day to practice.

And the person in front of him, although I don't know if he is doing this to save time, it makes people sigh that people who used to be tired just by practicing separately can now do both, which shows how much effort he usually makes. yes, it's been a long time since he's gone to bed before lunch.

He Ningzhou originally had something to say to this person, and he didn't bother when he looked like him now, but just returned to him and looked at him silently.

By the time Shen Xinghe finished this practice, it was already ten minutes later, he straightened up, wiped the sweat off his head, and breathed a sigh of relief. It's good now, and at first Zama had him sit on the ground after just two hours of work.

Turning around, Shen Xinghe wanted to get some water to drink, but suddenly found that there was a person standing in front of him at some point, which frightened him to take a step back, and his eyes immediately widened!

"You, when did you come?" Shen Xinghe almost wanted to touch his chest, in fact, this situation has appeared many times, when he came out of a nap or a horse or a bath, he would find that there was suddenly an extra person in the room, and the person in front of him was the one who appeared the most, but Rao was so, Shen Xinghe still couldn't adapt to this situation.

The man smiled slightly, "Nozomi asked me to come to you, I have something to discuss with you." I really didn't expect you to be diligent until after lunch. I was going to wait for you for ten minutes before I left, but I think I'm lucky. Alright, let's go to the main hall, the other three should be in a hurry. ”

After he finished speaking, he turned around and took the lead, and Shen Xinghe followed behind with a promise. In the month of this palace, Shen Xinghe had only been to the main hall once, and An specially took him to visit it, and now he didn't know if anything would be important enough to discuss there.

The main hall is located at the front of all the palace rooms, it is the place where the lord of the Phantom Night City is used to deal with political affairs and receive visitors, and it is also the largest hall in the palace.

Similar to the court of the ancient emperor, there is also a high bookcase in the main hall, sitting north and facing south, of course, the position is relatively biased, because it has to show a status lower than that of the king. Below that is the place where the ministers discuss their affairs.

When Shen Xinghe and He Ningzhou arrived at the main hall together, Xiduo and the other three were standing behind the bookcase, seemingly discussing something.

Seeing the two of them, Anlais smiled lightly as if relieved: "It's finally here." ”

"Because His Highness is cultivating, I can only wait for him to finish before talking to him." He Ningzhou had already walked to the back of the book case with Shen Xinghe, and An Les asked Shen Xinghe to sit down on the chair behind the case.

Shen Xinghe sat down, but he didn't feel how noble and majestic, but the four people surrounded him, and there was a lot of oppression.

As soon as he sat down, Xiduo on the right side opened his mouth, "This time, I invite Your Highness to come over because there will be a five-year event in Phantom Night City in a week, and I hope Your Highness will participate, and each event will attract people from other countries and cities to come, so it can promote exchanges between us and other cities in other countries." ”

As soon as his voice fell, Shen Xinghe immediately became interested, this was the first time he had heard of the customs and habits of this city, he raised his head and looked at Xiduo, "What is the content of the event?" ”

"It's called 'Gathering of Heroes,'" replied Anlais this time, "to put it simply, it is an exchange of goods, including food, handicrafts, calligraphy and paintings, etc., and many merchants from other cities have specially brought their hometown specialties to Phantom Night City at this time, so you can see a lot of things that you can't usually see." ”

"Yes." Shen Xinghe lowered his head, thinking that it would be good to take this opportunity to see the unique goods of this world, there were many things that he had never heard of or seen before.

"Then is Your Highness going to participate?" Anlais asked with a smile.

"Okay." Shen Xinghe just smiled on his face, but his heart was full of expectations.

"If that's the case, there's going to be someone who is going to be there. Xi and I are in charge of guarding the palace and patrolling the city respectively, so only Bao and He Ningzhou have free time," he said, glancing towards the two men, "Who does Your Highness want to accompany you?" ”

"......" Shen Xinghe really didn't expect him to ask such a question, and he didn't know how to answer for a while, in fact, both of them were very good, but he didn't know if An asked if there was any other meaning. Raising his head to look at the two of them, Paulrot didn't look at him, but just looked at Anlais, still with a bitter face; As for He Ningzhou, the man kept looking at him, the two looked at each other, the person's gaze was very flat, his eyebrows were slightly frowned, but there was a feeling of green smoke in his blue eyes, which made it impossible to test the depth. Shen Xinghe, who was shallow and inquisitive and seemed to have thousands of words, couldn't help but feel hot on his face, and his heartbeat immediately accelerated, and he hurriedly looked away.

Strange, why does it feel like this?

Coughing lightly, Shen Xinghe said in a low voice: "It's all right." ”

"Really?" Anles asked the two men again, "Then which of you wants to accompany His Highness more?" ”

"Ann," Paul Roth grumbled, "is there some conspiracy in asking this?" It doesn't matter if I go or not, if He Ningzhou doesn't want to go, I'll go. ”

As he said this, Anles smiled again, and turned his gaze to Heningzhou.

"Then I'll go." The man didn't look at him, and his voice didn't have much emotion, but it seemed like he was suppressing something.

"Okay, then I'll trouble you. Bao can be in charge of patrolling the city with Nozomi, and His Highness can go back and rest. Anlais said.

Shen Xinghe agreed and stood up and walked out of the main hall through the side door, still thinking on the way back to the room, in fact, he was not sure if he wanted that person to accompany him. Anyway, when he first came to this world, he was the person who felt the most special to himself, not disgusted, but not very comfortable, and later, although this feeling slowly subsided, he still felt that getting along with that person was a little different from others. Also, there has always been a faint feeling in my heart that he is looking forward to his own growth, and at the same time he has given himself a lot of strength.

So, it's not natural to be alone at an unexpected time other than class.

After Shen Xinghe left, Anles also left, without giving others a chance to ask, although Paulroth wanted to catch up, but was stopped by He Ningzhou, who strode behind Anlais, Paulroth only had a stall and went back with Xido.

"Ann." It wasn't until he left the main hall and walked down the corridor that He Ningzhou opened his mouth to stop Anlais, who stopped and looked back at him.

"What the hell are you thinking?" He Ningzhou asked, his eyebrows furrowed slightly.

"What do you mean?" Anlais raised an eyebrow, then smiled as if he didn't want to go around in circles with him anymore: "Just ask whatever you want." ”

The latter was no longer hidden, "I and Bao have no problem with whoever wants to accompany His Highness, you can assign one at will, why do you have to ask him and our opinions?" ”

Anlais thought to himself, at this time, he should really reply to him: "Isn't it right that I respect your personal opinion?" However, there was no end to it, so he also said directly: "I just want to see which of you he likes more, and which of you will like him more." Now it seems that my thinking is a little wrong, because there is an obvious answer from the beginning. ”

After he finished speaking, the folds in He Ningzhou's eyebrows became deeper and deeper, and his voice became deeper and lower, "What do you mean?" ”

Anles didn't answer him directly, just smiled, turned around and waved, and looked back at him meaningfully, "It's not a hurry now, you'll know sooner or later." ”

The back of his departure was very free, but He Ningzhou stood in place for a long time without moving.

"This guy ......," he whispered with a cold face.

In the martial arts class the next day, Shen Xinghe planned to start Zama as usual, but He Ningzhou stopped his movements and said: "You can pause today, I know that your current arm strength has reached 90 catties, and it will only take more than a month to reach the 200 catties I said, so today I decided to teach you some basic movements of martial arts, such as straight arms and swinging arms of the upper limbs, as well as horizontal kicks, straight kicks, oblique kicks and so on." You must know that all the movements of martial arts are derived from these few basic movements. In addition, you can think about the weapons you will use in the future from now on, and of course, you can also master all the eighteen martial arts if you want. ”

"I know," Shen Xinghe nodded, "I like swords, as long as I practice swordsmanship well, theoretically speaking, the use of other weapons should be inseparable." ”

"Okay." He Ningzhou nodded, "Now your legs form a horse step action, put your left hand into a fist at your waist, and swing your right hand out with the same straight arm in the same movement, try to use the maximum force and speed, I'll see how far you can go." ”

Shen Xinghe posed as he said, and at the same time waved his right hand forward with all his might-

There was a blur in front of him, and at the same time, his hand was shrouded in a warmth, and when Shen Xinghe came back to his senses, he found that the person who was originally standing five or six meters in front of him actually came over and held his hand at the moment of his punch, so fast that he didn't even see his movements clearly.

Shen Xinghe suddenly realized that the gap between himself and him was really not ordinarily far.

He Ningzhou smiled and let go of his hand: "Under the condition of wearing a ninety-pound iron ring, it is still possible to have this speed." Now you can do the punch 100 times with each arm, and then you will do the uppercut. Alright, let's get started. ”

Shen Xinghe nodded, concentrating on the action he requested.

Today's martial arts class is like this, the straight fist action is over the hook, He Ningzhou said, the most important thing is to keep the arm and shoulder at the same height, the upper arm and the forearm at a 90-degree angle, no matter which direction the punch is swung on the basis of these two points. This is the only way to maximize the power of the hook, he said, and at the same time, to minimize effort.

The movements of the upper limbs are all carried out on the basis of horse steps, and the practice time is an hour, and Shen Xinghe feels that this is a good thing to do.

As for kicking, He Ningzhou said that in order to achieve the three points of "fast, ruthless, and accurate", the first kung fu must be crucial, no matter how high your legs can kick and how gorgeous and beautiful your movements are, as long as the lower plate is not stable, it is just a fist embroidered legs, and there is no lethality at all in actual combat.

In the magic class after the martial arts, Paul Roth did not let Shen Xinghe continue to practice magic, but gave him something like a dossier, telling him that this was the magic cultivation method of "Shadow of Light".

The Shadow of Light is a very rudimentary magic, which is practiced on the basis of the initial awakening of the light element in the body, which is a kind of auxiliary magic, and several high-level magic of the light system that Shen Xinghe wants to master are all practiced on the basis of the Shadow of Light.

To practice magic, you must follow the mantra in the book, and urge the magic power in your body to pass through several meridians, so as to increase your own magic cultivation.

Shen Xinghe practiced according to the method in the book, and it was an hour after he had fully mastered this magic.

"His Highness's learning ability is very good," said Paulrot on the side, "Everyone learns magic at a different speed, and this is of course related to his foundation, although His Highness's speed is not the fastest one I have ever seen, but it is far ahead, which shows the effort that His Highness usually puts in." ”

His words made Shen Xinghe very happy, but he didn't show too much excitement, just said, "Thank you." ”

"By the way," Shen Xinghe raised his head and looked at Paulrot and said, "I have something I want to ask you." ”

"What's the matter?"

"What's going to be fun on the day of the event?" Shen Xinghe asked curiously.

"That's too much." Paulrot said, "Speaking of food, the Syracuse City, where our Hill family is located, is rich in a kind of fruit, called Muxiang Fruit, which ripens every five years, and there are only ten fruits on each tree, and there are only dozens of trees in the country. There is also the famous cloud brocade silk, which has a rainbow-like effect when illuminated by the sun. These are generally only tributes, and it is difficult for ordinary people to see them. ”

"Yes." Shen Xinghe's expectations could hardly be concealed.

"The event is less than a week away, so let Anciel take you to have some fun." Paulrot said with a smile.

"What, aren't you ready?" Six days later, in the evening, Athosna came to Shen Xinghe's room, and when he saw that he was still wandering in front of the wardrobe in his pajamas, he couldn't help but smile and asked.

Shen Xinghe looked back at him and pursed his lips in embarrassment, "I'm thinking about what to wear, it's hard to wear formal clothes." ”

Then, Shen Xinghe saw the person's dress.

Different from the usual black orc uniform, this person is only wearing a white samurai uniform today, with a sword at his waist, and the already heroic service on him looks even more handsome and heroic. Shen Xinghe looked at this person's rare white outfit with interest, compared with black, it was even more stylish, if black seemed strong and mysterious, then white had a feeling of warmth like jade.

The man smiled when he heard him, "It's true that you shouldn't wear formal clothes, just find a casual dress." As he spoke, his smile deepened, and he took a few steps forward in front of Shen Xinghe, "Do you want me to choose one for you?" ”

Why does he always talk like he's teasing himself? Shen Xinghe didn't look over, reached into the wardrobe and took out one casually, "That's not necessary, since it's casual clothes, you don't have to be so particular." After speaking, he looked at the clothes in his hand, it was actually a similar one with the same color and style as the person, Shen Xinghe couldn't help but be a little speechless, why did he pick this one? As if you wanted to cooperate with him?

"Yes, white, pretty good." The man looked at the clothes playfully, and then looked at Shen Xinghe, there was always some ill-will in his smile, "Okay, hurry up and change it, there will be a lot of people later." ”

Shen Xinghe looked at him dissatisfied, "You go out first, and I'll look for you after I'm done." ”

The man covered his lips and coughed lightly, "What are you afraid of?" Seeing that the wrinkles between his eyebrows were getting deeper and deeper, he compromised his hands, turned around and walked out the door, "Give you two minutes, if you don't come out again, I'll go by myself." He walked out, and the door was closed from the outside.

Go by yourself, go by yourself, who's going to be with you...... Shen Xinghe squinted his eyes and looked at the direction of the gate, then looked at the clothes in his hands, and exhaled helplessly.

Soon after getting dressed, Shen Xinghe looked at his image in the mirror, and his heart swelled up with emotion that he didn't know how many times, why was the same color and similar style of clothes so obviously different from that person and his own body?

Walking out of the room, He Ningzhou, who was waiting at the door, did not make any comments on his appearance, but just took the lead on the road and said: "Let's go on horseback, go to the city to see them first, and hand over the horse to them for safekeeping." I don't think the city should be very busy now, and in another hour or two, it will be crowded. ”