The next day, just after dawn, Adam was still working in the stable, feeding, cleaning the fur, cleaning, and doing the same thing. However, after the work was completed, he did not leave directly as usual, but opened the door that was supposed to be closed and stood quietly aside.

Since he could simply control the power, he found another use for mental power, this special energy has a powerful perception ability, far stronger than the naked eye, there are no dead corners and no blind spots in the range, just like now he has not looked back and found that someone has arrived.

Ophelia was still radiant, and she passed Adam without any misdemeanor, as if she were facing an ordinary servant on a manor.

She had come to retrieve her mount, a unicorn-blooded horse she had named Dark Cloud.

For Ophelia, who has the rank of a great knight, this kind of hybrid war horse can no longer provide any additional combat power, and the war horse will collapse directly under the full explosion of the big knight's blood, and the pure monster mount is not something that can be tamed by the power of the knight, so the war horse has returned to its original function in the hands of the big knight and is only used as a means of transportation.

Ophelia didn't say a word, and as the cloud left the stable, he swept Adam lightly with his tail, and Adam didn't say a word, closing the stable and walking in the direction of the cafeteria.

Ophelia rode out of the manor on the clouds and galloped towards Northland Maple City, where she was going to fulfill her promise.

She knew that her father, Earl Johnson, had never been a good person, he adhered to the bottom line that a nobleman and a knight should have, but he would not be pedantic and completely follow the spirit of chivalry, if Ophelia did not ask, Count Johnson might force Adam to sign a contract, ordering Adam to give up his status as a free man and become his subordinate, if Adam lost the opportunity to become a mage because of this, it would cause Ophelia's promise to be broken, which is a spiritual unclean for a knight.

As for whether Adam can cope with the coercion and temptation of Marshall and Dennis, Ophelia doesn't care, in her heart, Earl Johnson is a force majeure factor, this man who is as strong as a monster can't fight even with her current strength, and her two brothers are ordinary beasts at best, if Adam can't even deal with this level of threat, then being an honest knight is the best choice, no matter who he plays for.

Cold Maple City is the center of the Northlands, a large city, the city lord's mansion where the count lives is located in the very center, Ophelia and the dark clouds drive straight in, and no one is in the slightest obstacle along the way.

"Ophelia, is there anything wrong with you?" Earl Johnson sat on the huge chair above, a majestic man, even now wearing steel armor, with a greatsword and a knight's spear within reach, as if nothing could threaten him.

Ophelia laughed at herself, this is her father, this way of talking like a stranger.

"About Adam, my groom. I hope to take him with me to meet the Master from the Moldor Academy. Ophelia was straightforward in her request.

Earl Johnson didn't have any expression, he was very surprised after learning yesterday that Adam was suspected of causing energy to run wild in his first cultivation, but he was only surprised, and there was no joy.

Although Adam worked on his estate, he was a freeman, and the family's guardian knight could not be trusted if he had not cultivated loyalty since childhood, and the wandering knight could only be used as a mercenary. But apparently it's too late to brainwash Adam.

As for forcing a freeman to sign a master-servant contract to become a slave or a retainer, there is no doubt that it will cause a strong backlash from the people in the territory, and the gains outweigh the losses.

But what if Adam was left in another way......

"Ophelia, you know, if you leave through the qualifications, the family will suffer. Earl Johnson said slowly.

Ophelia sneered in her heart, she had already guessed what her father was going to say, 'Sure enough, I'm just a valuable commodity. ’

Earl Johnson continued: "The loss of a great knight has already caused a lot of loss to the family, and now you want to take away another genius who is bound to become a great knight, I can't accept it. I think you should think about the family, I heard that the boy named Adam was your childhood playmate, you should have a way to convince him to work for the family, right?"

Ophelia said coldly: "No, Mr. Earl, Adam is a free man and not your slave, he has the right to choose, and I have no way or right to influence him. As for me, sir, my name is Ophelia Johnson, and my surname does not change because I am a mage or not. ”

Then she sneered unabashedly, and then said, "Sir, you should be well aware of the talents of your two sons, so the mage Ophelia Johnson is the real umbrella of the Johnson family. ”

After you die. Ophelia didn't say this last word, but said it to herself in her heart.

Earl Johnson stared up at his little daughter, his muscles bulging with anger, the steel armor squeaking, Ophelia staring at him without showing any weakness, the father had completely disappointed her.

After staring at each other for a long time, Earl Johnson didn't say anything more, waved his hand to signal Ophelia to leave, he knew that his daughter's words were right, he also knew that after his death, the family without the Great Knight was just a piece of fat, and the talents of the two sons were not enough to support the family to continue to rule the Northlands, which was why he acquiesced to Ophelia's pursuit of the mage's path, and the family needed deterrence.

"Daughter, why are you a daughter. Earl Johnson sat alone in the wide hall and sighed.

Ophelia calmly walked out of the city lord's mansion, and the war horse Wuyun stood proudly outside, very spiritually aware of the master's low mood, neighing softly and rubbing his master's face with his big head.

Ophelia patted it on its horse: "Let's go." ”

The atmosphere in the manor cafeteria was eerie.

Adam was still sitting alone, with mountains of food piled up in front of him, and he ate meticulously one bite at a time, and the energy contained in every bit of food was not wasted, perfectly absorbed under Adam's complete control of the body, strengthening his physique.

Beside Adam were servants lying on the ground, their noses and faces swollen, their mouths constantly snorting, and the intense pain made them unable to even get up and leave. The bearded man Qiao sat by the door with his head down, blood spilling all over his face, and if it weren't for the heaving chest to prove that he was still alive, he would have looked like a dead man.

The ointment really helped Adam a lot, and he strengthened his physique to the level of a normal person overnight, but Adam knew that there would not be a second ointment for him to use in the short term, so these ordinary foods were an important source of energy.

So the opposite of what happened before, Adam, who was often robbed of food, took the initiative this time, and after knocking down all the servants cleanly, he enjoyed their food with peace of mind, and these servants were vulnerable and defenseless.

Every muscle in Adam's body was shaking at tiny frequencies to achieve the purpose of the exercise, but "not enough. The energy obtained from low-grade foods cannot be used to support the cultivation of the breathing method. ”

After Adam finished eating the last piece of black bread, he sat down on his chair and began to practice the breathing method, the momentum was still huge, and the energy of Number Three rushed to his body, and a faint red light rose.

The others were terrified, they had never seen such a level of energy reaction in the cultivation of any knight in the manor, and they finally knew the gap between themselves and Adam.

After just five minutes of Adam's full breathing, his body had already produced an overload reaction, and the energy obtained from the food was exhausted, Adam stood up in silence, his cold and emotionless gaze swept over the crowd on the ground, the servants endured the pain and retreated, they even thought that Adam would choose to eat them, until Adam left the cafeteria They were relieved, and cursed in a low voice: "Damn, this bastard, monster." ”

In fact, Adam is not without the idea of eating them, in Adam's heart he is not the same kind as them at all, there is no 'cannibalism' mentality, the reason why he did not do this is only because he does not have the ability to challenge universal values and bear the consequences.

Adam picked up his basket and sickle and walked out of the manor, and today he had brought an extra pair of flints.

In this relatively closed environment, the transmission of a message is very fast, and now everyone knows that the fool who used to have no sense of existence and at most as a joke has turned into a genius, and those who don't believe it will be suspicious in the conclusive confirmation of the knights' squires on the training ground yesterday.

Adam received the attention all the way, and when he heard that Miss Ophelia had been troubled by the two young masters, the men who had been making trouble for him had put away their minions, and the soldiers who had seen him had trotted over by the fire to open the side door for him, without even a word of nonsense.

It happened that she met Ophelia who was returning, and when she saw Adam's outfit, she instantly understood the bad tastes of the lower-class servants, and also knew what Adam was going out to do, and after a moment of hesitation, she didn't give any explanation, and said coldly: "From today on, you don't need to feed the horses for me." ”

Adam looked up at Ophelia without speaking, and walked in the direction of the field in silence, Ophelia didn't wait for Adam to answer, and the two staggered by.

The manor grew smaller and smaller behind Adam, and instead of following his familiar path, he headed deeper into the wilderness, where snowflakes falling from the sky heralded the end of late autumn in the Northlands and the long cold winter that followed.

And Adam needs to hunt down as many beasts as possible before the snow completely covers the land.