Robin Norway yawned and sat bored in front of the gates of Lake City. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The boy was half-leaning on a wooden chair, his arm propped up on the table and his chin propped up, looking intently at the calm, waveless expanse of Lake Rudy not far away.

Today is another boring day...... Nori grunted boredly.

Sixteen-year-old Norvi is already an adult in Bellabet and needs to come out to work to support his family.

Born into a wealthy family, Norway has not suffered much since he was a child, unlike other children from poor families who need to work at a young age to earn money, and have also received a certain degree of education and know how to read and write.

In this place, as long as you know how to write basic writing, you can find a good job at will, and Norway was introduced by his parents to enter the management system of Lake City and become a small clerical officer.

Novi was responsible for keeping a record of the daily entry and exit of the merchants in and out of the city, and reminding the merchants of the entry tax to be paid.

This is an easy job, and what Norvi has to do every day is to sit in front of the city gate, under the shady scaffolding, and use the pen to make a record of the paperwork, which is not hard at all.

He was in charge of the entrance and exit of the city gate to the north, and sometimes there were more merchants who came, so his record work would be busier, but this was already in the past.

In recent months, the number of merchants who have come here has decreased dramatically, and in this month, not even a single caravan has passed.

Naturally, Norway knew what was going on, after all, the rumors had spread throughout Bellabet, and even if he didn't want to know, he would hear other people's whispers on the road.

In the south, a large force has suddenly emerged, with a large army, and is now fighting in the north and south, invading the city-states, causing panic in various places, and many commercial activities have been halted as a result.

It is said that they also have a strategic-level magister, who has used strategic-level magic, and its momentum is extremely huge, and people on the entire continent can also see it, and it is precisely because of this kind of deterrent power that other city-states can only be in a passive state, and dare not take the initiative to attack.

Norway regretted that he had gone to bed early that night, and had not seen the shocking sight of the pillar of light that had been spoken of by others.

Although he listened to other people's gossip about that force every day, Norway never felt nervous, and he was not worried that this force would do something to them.

Hucheng is some distance away from the range of that force, and the two sides are separated by more than twenty cities, if the southern forces really want to make a move, Hucheng in the back can also take the lead in preparing to resist their invasion.

Moreover, Lake City is a member of the Central Alliance of Bellabet, and once they are threatened, other alliances will also send troops to assist, and they can definitely resist the other party's attack.

Norway had also heard from the other clerks that the southern forces had sent their main army to the west, and that there was no extra force to attack elsewhere, although they had another army, but it was just formed, and it was still being trained, so it was not a threat.

Their strategic-level magister needs to defend their main city, and with the pressure of the Spell Council and the Wizard Alliance, he will not act at will without fear of being attacked by strategic-level magic.

Since the seniors who are familiar with the inside story have said so, Nuo Wei is also relieved, not to mention that he is just an ordinary person, and it is useless to worry about this kind of thing.

Norway felt the warm sunlight from the sky and began to fall drowsy.

He stared hard at the dozens of soldiers standing guard near the gates, as well as his magister boss, reminding himself that he must not fall asleep.

He was negligent and negligent at work, but he was punished, and he didn't want his small salary to be deducted.

To drive away the drowsiness, Norway no longer propped himself up on the table, and he shook his head violently to concentrate himself.

But after a while, drowsiness hit his head again, and his eyelids kept drooping.

Norway had to stand up and no longer sit in the chair, he walked from side to side, moving his muscles and bones, so that he could cheer up.

He came to the edge of the city gate and looked out at the lake in front of him.

Rudy Lake, a small freshwater lake, is also the origin of the name of this lake city.

For some reason, most of the names of the cities of Bellabet are casually named, usually after the characteristics of the city's proximity, and because of its proximity to the lake, it is called Lake City.

Because of this naming convention, some cities will repeat their names, and Lake City is no exception.

On the northern shore of Lake Rudy, there is also a city-state, which is also called Lake City, and the people in the vicinity call the city in the north Lake City in order to distinguish the two cities, and the city in the south is called South Lake City.

Norway couldn't help but laugh when he thought of this, sometimes he didn't understand why his ancestors were so casual, it shouldn't be difficult to choose a good name.

Just when Norvi was thinking about what he had and what he didn't have, and his head gradually came to his senses, something happened suddenly.

Dangdang!

Deafening alarm bells rang throughout the city.

"Wow!"

Norway was taken aback, and he quickly turned around to find that a dazzling magic array had rapidly unfolded above the city, and the outer walls of the city walls were also flickering with bursts of light.

"What's wrong?"

Although Norway was panicked and didn't know why, he had already developed a habit of living here since he was a child, and his body reflexively began to act, and he hurriedly ran into the city gate.

Norvi didn't care what he had to do, and ran through the chaotic streets as hard as he could.

The inhabitants of the city ran in a panic when they heard this warning sound, and of course they knew what it meant.

When the warning sounded in the city, the only thing ordinary people could do was to run for their lives as quickly as possible, hide in a safe place, and then pray to the Magister to successfully resolve the crisis and protect their safety.

Residents were nervously running around, chaos was growing in the streets, and collisions inevitably occurred, with those trying to escape yelling at those who stood in their way, some pushing away those who were moving more slowly, and some even beating each other, at which point the noise of people overshadowed the warning bells.

Since he was a child, Norway has only encountered this kind of voice once, and he has only seen Lake City unfold a protective magic array once.

He still vividly remembered the last time, almost nine years ago, when the city was almost captured by some powerful monster, and the Magus had to fight hard to drive the monster away.

At that time, Lake City suffered heavy casualties, and Norvi's friend's family was unfortunately affected, so he remembered it very deeply.

Norway ran in the direction of his home, fearing for the safety of his parents and brothers.

The Novi family has built a safe room underground, in case of an accident in the city, to ensure the safety of his family's life, Novi guesses that relatives should hide there.

In fact, Norway knew that the safest place in the city must be the castle where the city lord lived, and as a clerical officer, he was barely qualified to hide in the castle, but he wanted to meet his family more, so he gave up the theoretically safer place.

“...... Huh?"

As he ran, Novi suddenly noticed that the environment around him was getting darker and darker, and the sunlight seemed to suddenly disappear.

He couldn't help but look up at the sky.

The sky, which had been cloudless, became dark.

Dark clouds enveloped the entire city.

“............ Huh?"

Norway couldn't believe his eyes, he thought he might be hallucinating.

Because of the impact in front of him, his body lost the strength to run.

"It's over...... It's all over......"

Novi fell to his knees feebly, his face filled with despair.

There was a sound in the sky like rain falling.

Bang bang bang!

It was the dense sound of raindrops, an eerie sound that gave goosebumps to people.

Then, in the depths of the dark clouds, a faint deep purple glow emerged.

A dark purple glow shone in the sky.

The protective magic array in the sky of Lake City shattered.

Then disaster fell from heaven.