Section A Chapter 18: The Snowman (Lucina)

After running in the snow and fog for an unknown amount of time, Lucina couldn't tell the way.

Turning her horse's head, she looked at the neighborhood behind her: the street was very visibility, and the snow was so thick that the fog obscured the scenery a hundred meters away.

"Cyberdat ......" Lucina suddenly woke up when she ran past the weapon shop she had frequented with Lucina, and stopped suddenly: she actually ran to Xicheng District. This is the farther and farther away from the city center.

"Hmm, what's wrong?" said Cyberdatl, holding the reins.

"We're here for the West End......," Lucina was frustrated: why didn't there be a sign on the street?

She could already imagine the sigh of Cyberdart on her back: she had been running for an hour, but she was getting further and further away from her destination.

Although she had never been there, it stands to reason that the center of the city should be easy to find, and she couldn't understand why she couldn't walk on a snowy day...... Lucina looked to the right at the door of the weapons shop: "Now, Cyberdart...... Can you knock on the door and ask for directions?"

"Okay, wait for me here. The elf rolled off his horse. After beating the snow off his body, he walked to the door of the weapons shop.

Speaking of which, I haven't been in yet...... Lucina thought for a moment: why didn't she go in if she didn't have any luggage on her?

"Oh, are you coming along?" said Cyberdart, turning to look at Lucina. "Meet Morse, that uncle gave Lusa a pair of Snow Eagle gloves - it's actually the kind of women's small gloves, I don't know why he bought such a small number of goods, how can he sell them?" Lucina couldn't help but be a little curious when she thought of Lusa's gloves.

"Who knows? Those gloves are expensive. Cyberdat shook the snow off his head and knocked on the door.

No response. After knocking on the door a few more times, he went straight to twist the handle.

It's locked. It seems that it is closed today, and Morse may be drunk and sleeping.

"Let's go ask the others? It can't be that there is no one in the house. Lucina suggested, "It's not a lot of snow today, but it's windy. People should all be at home - you see, we only met a few passers-by along the way. ”

"Forget it, you don't have to. Sebodat thought for a moment: "I'll take a look at it with an owl." ”

"Oh yes, you spied on us with an owl last time. ”

"That's not a voyeuristic ......" Cyberdat sighed, engrossed in casting spells. His right hand clenched slightly, and the emerald green light gradually overflowed from his palm, and when the emerald green light reached its peak, he opened his hands: the light had already turned into an emerald green spirit owl. After a few moments, it slowly flew into the sky.

"With this kind of wind speed, I'm afraid I won't be able to fly fast......" The elf closed his eyes: "And the snow fog is very thick...... I don't know what the high-altitude vision is. ”

"Oh......" Lucina stared intently at the flying owl: she couldn't help but think of the first time she met Seboldt.

She and Asha were waiting for Jeos to come back from picking fruit, when a green owl flew in front of her and Asha. Since the owl was in a spirit state, Lucina was very curious to touch it. But as soon as Lucina got up, the owl broke into a pale green halo and was replaced by a male elf. (The ratio of elves to men in the Forest of Moon Shadow is 1:15, which is already much higher than Aya's 1:450)

Lucina remembered her first instinct - she held Sebodat and asked him to turn back into an owl, and it wasn't until Sebodat released the owl again that she turned to hug it: she had been interested in the owl since she learned that it was a demon - especially since the owl named Nalor was the product of elemental magic rather than pure contract spells.

Spells can only rely on everyone's manipulation of the mana network and elemental affinity. Some mages don't learn any decent spells until they graduate from the academy, because the academy can only teach students how to train their manipulation abilities and increase their mana strength, and only a few spells have a quantified casting process when they are cast - those ancient spells that require chanting spells either require a massive ritual, are eliminated, or are lost.

No one wants to be stupid enough to chant a spell before casting a spell or to announce out loud what spell they're casting - that would not only help the spell in the slightest, but would also feel stupid.

But she'd seen crazy creatures like this—shouting flames, only to release a frozen beam of light from the staff. Relying on this, the enemy was taken by surprise.

But such guys are in the minority after all...... Lucina thought to herself: if there really is a mage who pretends to chant those meaningless incantations before casting them, then the most likely outcome is to be hacked to death by the man with the sword as soon as he opens his mouth - who will give you time to cast the spell?

There are, of course, exceptions - when spells that really require chanting are cast, the mage must expend additional mana and concentration to maintain the shield around him. Although this is often not a defense against melee attacks, it can at least break bows and arrows and stun bullets.

Contrary to the human race, which is overwhelmingly numerical and mages are extremely scarce, almost every elf has a sparse or dense network of mana in their body. Manus once joked that the elves who could not spell and the mages of the humans were as rare as Aya's males.

Lucina looked at Cyberdart, who had closed her eyes to intercept her gaze, and looked up again: the owl was long gone.

So boring...... Lucina was bored, so she sat down in front of the weapons shop.

Speaking of which...... She had just noticed a problem: like 'tipping over malt', Morse had no sign in front of the store. It doesn't even have a name.

Maybe it's because the number of residents here is so small...... Lucina sighed: I've heard that Neverwinter is so sparsely populated that every house is terribly large - but it's too small, isn't it? Lucina, rubbing a snowball, swung her legs and thought: It must be because it's too cold outside that people don't want to come out, right?

SHE REMEMBERED THE DAY WHEN LUSA WAS SHOPPING AND SHE WAS LYING HERE AND HER WINGS PULLED BY THE TWO BEAR CHILDREN - THE CHILD, WHO LOOKED LESS THAN TEN YEARS OLD, WAS MUCH TALLER THAN HER OWN 145 CM: THE MAJESTIC CHILDREN OF ICE IN THE PERMAFROST WERE INDEED WORTHY OF THEIR REPUTATION.

AYA, WHO HAS NEVER GIVEN BIRTH TO A CHILD, IS ABOUT 147CM, WHICH IS THE TALLEST...... LUCINA REMEMBERED YASHA, WHO HAD GROWN FROM 142CM TO 146CM: AFTER GIVING BIRTH, AYA'S MOTHER WOULD GROW FOR ANOTHER FIVE YEARS. But the growth rate of the Ayas is very slow, and the growth period of these five years and twenty years is equivalent to about fifteen years of human girls. Not to mention the vast majority of Aya who have never given birth.

Aya's mother, who had given birth, would fall into a deep sleep on the night of her child's fifteenth birthday, and there was a price to pay for passing on Aya's immortality and immortality. However, the pact between the male owner and the pet prevents Aya from becoming pregnant, and almost everyone is reluctant to let her pet Aiya have a baby.

But Asha's ability to get pregnant is a special case, and the contract between Geos and her was once very precarious. - Because she once had phantom wings. But she didn't fall into a pure white dream because of this. However, since giving birth to Lusa, Asha's body has been weakened and it is difficult for her to leave her residence.

Lucina did a lot of things for Lusha instead of Asha - breastfeeding, accompanying her to play outside, etc. Aya, unlike many Ebone, is not weaned until she is five years old.

Thinking of Lusa when she was a child, Lucina couldn't help but laugh: when each Aiya grew up, she was almost exactly the same as her mother, even to the point where her white hair was blown by the wind. However, inheriting the paternal lineage is not very obvious in appearance, but more in ability.

Such as...... Jeos spun out of control at the Full Moon Night Club and turned into a werewolf. But Lutha won't—she can even become a wolf of shadows that his father can't turn into in his life.

However, no matter what is combined with Ebone, the birth is a female Aya - unless with Berntan there is a half chance that it will be a male Berontan.

Lucina, who has a very fast thinking, suddenly wants to build a snowman again. So she started gathering the snowdrifts again, and decided that this time she had to build the snowman.

Trotting down the side of the street, Lucina rolls a small snowball out after a turnaround. She happily picked up the snowball and placed it in a suitable place next to Morse's door. She decided to use this snowball as her head.

In the same way, she was ready to roll a large snowball several times the size of her head as her body. Thinking of this, she was a little distressed: what to do with the eyes of the snowman or something?

Thinking of the bag on Cyberdart, Lucina trotted to Cyberdart, who was covered in snow due to standing still, and untied the bag around her waist.

"Wow......" Lucina was very excited as she looked at the contents of the bag.

A quarter of an hour later.

"I've found my way, Lucina......" Cyberdat shook off the heavy snow on his body, "Let's go—hey, isn't that?"

"Snowman!" Lucina hugged the human-tall snowman with her arms outstretched.

"I don't mean it......" Cyberdat looked at a marlo and two ice grapes set on the snowman.

There are also two short swords that are inserted on either side of the snowman to act as arms.