Countess Elijah had not slept well all night. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, she still got up early the next morning, and unexpectedly found that she was in very good spirits, and looked in the mirror and felt that the whole person was in good spirits.

"Ma'am. The personal maid stood outside the door and waited, her expression a little strange, and said, "Master Stephen told you to wait for him in the knight's hall when you wake up." ”

Countess Illya was stunned for a moment when she heard this, then nodded, "I know." You go down first. ”

The maid bowed slightly.

However, in his heart, he couldn't help but mutter, who is the owner of this mansion, and the mysterious wizard mentioned the countess in a completely commanding tone. Countess Elia didn't care about the maid's thoughts, she knew her place well and understood how important Stephen's support was to her. She still remembered an incident that happened in the South more than ten years ago, a dead earl left behind a pair of orphans and widows, and then the mother and son were targeted by some gray organizations, the young son died 'accidentally' in a riding accident, and then the illegitimate son who suddenly appeared became the 'rightful' heir after opening various joints.

It wasn't until five years later that the matter broke out because of the uneven distribution of the spoils, otherwise I don't know how long it would have been hidden.

Now Stephen is the big tree that gives her shade from the sun, if it weren't for a mysterious wizard standing behind her, let alone the nobles in Windblown City, even some cousins of the Norrington family would try their best to kill their mother and daughter to seize the inheritance.

If it weren't for Stephen, their mother and daughter would have been devoured by a pack of hungry wolves along with their belts and bones.

Some time ago, a nephew jumped up and down to join other nobles in an attempt to gain support, promising the future benefits of the Norrington family, believing that a woman was unworthy of holding the territory, and wanted to gain the support of some powerful nobles to steal the power of the Countess Elia. In the end, this guy was buried in the back garden of the manor by order of the Countess Illya herself. I am afraid that he did not expect to die that the last thing to betray him was the nobles he was trying to gain support, and the shrewd old foxes of the Council of Nobles in the face of such jumping clowns were sold to Countess Elijah.

Of course, the reason they did this had nothing to do with Countess Elija herself, only because they had heard that a tall tower had been built in the mines of the North.

The reality is so cruel.

Since personally ordering the burial of the nephew who was originally quite optimistic about being promoted to be the mayor of the town, Countess Illya has warned herself more than once in her heart that she should be more ruthless. The naïve nephew thought that he could give up more benefits in exchange for Stephen's support, and even whimsically thought that he could use this to convince other nobles. But Countess Elijah knew that Stephen didn't care about worldly power, otherwise he could easily take everything in Windy City, but this incident also made her secretly vigilant, and she realized more and more how important Stephen's support was.

Knight's Hall.

"It's coming. Stephen looked at Countess Elija outside the door.

The clever lady, who had already changed into a shapewear blouse and black leather pants, smiled and threw a long sword over and said, "Next." ”

"Ah!" said Countess Illya, with some hastiness.

After all, this was Kaifeng's sword, and she was a little worried that she would scratch her hand, but surprisingly she caught it very easily.

"It looks like the dragon's blood baptism has taken effect. Stephen looked the lady in front of him up and down with satisfaction, as if he was looking at a work that pleased him.

Dragon's blood baptism is a very powerful blessing ritual.

It can strengthen a person's physique, immunity, reflexes, etc., generally speaking, the weaker the person after carrying the dragon's blood baptism, the more obvious the effect, on the contrary, a legendary warrior is only slightly useful even if he has been baptized by the dragon's blood. Because the physical fitness of the legendary warrior itself is already very close to that of an adult dragon, unless it is baptized with dragon blood with an ancient dragon, it will not have much effect.

"Have you ever learned how to use a sword?" said Stephen with a smile.

Countess Elijah shook her head.

"Then you'll have to spend some time practicing later. He clapped his hands, and the heavily armored Knight of Lola walked over.

The chief female knight from the highlands saluted slightly, "Madame." ”

"Next, she will teach you swordsmanship, I need to see how your body changes. "Stephen originally planned to go on his own, but his third-rate swordsmanship level is not good to teach, he learned the white crow swordsmanship, the swordsmanship that was popular during the Arcane Empire, and the murderous aura is very heavy, but he only learned a posture to teach it for fear of misleading people's children.

Stephen used to have a lot of followers, including warrior monks, demon hunters, berserkers, and even sword masters, and he also encountered situations where he used light spells and had to draw his sword to slash and slash on the early insect battlefields.

Generally speaking.

A wizard who can't melee like Gandalf is not a good wizard.

Of course, there aren't many who can fight like Gandalf.

Stephen stood aside and watched Countess Illya follow the knight of Lola for a simple practice, it seemed that the talent of the dragon warlock had initially awakened, and the physical fitness of Countess Illya had improved significantly, and it could be seen from the shocked expression of the knight of Lola how surprised she was by this change.

"Alright. OK. Stephen clapped his hands at Countess Elijah, who was panting with excitement on her face.

The test results were satisfactory.

Countess Elija's ascension is obvious, which confirms Stephen's original academic argument that the ritual of the Dragon's Blood Baptism itself has an additional bonus for the Dragon's Vein Warlock.

"Take a break. Stephen proved another academic argument and was in a good mood at the moment, and smiled: "I'll find the person I want later." ”

"Okay. Countess Illya gasped and took the towel from the maid and wiped her sweat.

The morning passed quickly.

Near noon, a carriage brought two men over.

One is a middle-aged man with a sterile face, he is one of the best tailors in Windwind City, who has served many nobles, and his expression is full of professional confidence. The other is a woman in her thirties, slightly fat, but with dexterous fingers, her expression is unnatural, and she looks around from time to time.

"Bring them here. Stephen put down the manuscript and said.

Soon.

The two of them were brought into the room, and Stephen first handed a drawing full of intricate craftsmanship to the middle-aged woman, and said slowly: "According to the style above, I will provide the materials, can you weave it?"

The middle-aged woman's expression was a little apprehensive, but after taking the drawings and looking at them carefully for a long time, she whispered, "Yes, yes." However, according to the above requirements, the weaving speed will be very slow, very slow. ”

"Good. Stephen snapped his fingers and said, "It's okay to be slow. What I have is time. ”

"For such a rune cloth, I will give you a reward of one gold coin for every foot you weave!"

A foot of cloth for a gold coin?

The middle-aged woman's eyes suddenly lit up and said, "No problem." Don't worry, I can weave it exactly according to the drawings. ”

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