"Hey-ha!"

A young boy of eight or nine years old, holding a wooden sword aloft, exhaled and struck down.

Bang!

The boy on the opposite side, who was about his age, swung his sword to block, and the two swords struck each other with a dull sound.

The two boys were sweating profusely in the scorching sun, drops of water sliding down their cheeks to their necks, but even so, they clenched their teeth and focused on their swordsmanship.

On the next steps, a blond, brown-eyed man bowed slightly, expressing satisfaction with the practice of the two boys, he was young and handsome, and his temperament was mature and steady, and it was difficult to judge his exact age.

However, at this time, his eyes were a little trance-like, as if he was looking into the distance through the child in front of him.

"John, what are you thinking?" Behind him came a slender and tall beauty, with a gentle temperament, blonde hair and blue eyes, different from Holm's usual style.

John's eyes returned to clarity, he turned his head with a smile, and said to his wife Kailin: "Seeing the children practicing swordsmanship so attentively, I thought of when I was a child, at that time, Lucien and I also practiced in this way, in the open area of the Alto slum, but he was not as strong as me, and he had no food to cooperate, and I knocked out the wooden sword every time......"

Kailin stood behind him, holding his waist with both hands, and said with a gentle smile: "Who would have thought that the two children in the slums of Alto at the beginning, one became the Imperial Earl, the Heavenly Knight, and the deputy head of the 'Sword of Truth' Knights, and the other was even more terrifying, a god-like, a grand arcanist, and a prince of the Empire. Great musician ......"

"yes, life is like a drama. John patted his wife around his arm, and said with emotion, "I originally just wanted to become an official knight, change the lives of my family, protect them, and protect the principality. ”

Kaylin was tall and could rest her chin on John's shoulder. After hearing his words. I couldn't help but smile a little.

John looked ahead, his expression became dazed again, and he said with a smile: "Lucien never thought that he would be where he is today, and his greatest wish at that time was to be able to become a civilian with a regular income. Fate is magical. Even astrologers are unpredictable. I remember Lucien and I used to stand outside the Psalm Hall, fantasizing about one day being able to listen to a concert inside. Hehe, I've forgotten what the chant hall looks like......"

"Miss Alto?" asked Kaylin keenly.

John smiled calmly: "Yes, I miss the chant hall, I miss the old house, I miss the Black Forest where I trained as knights, I miss the bards and street performers that can be seen everywhere on the street, hehe, old people always miss their hometown, miss their childhood." ”

"Old? You mean I'm old too? I'm only a few years old from you. Kailin deliberately sneered, "Do you regret not choosing the territory near Aalto, but continuing to stay in Rentat?"

When he became an earl, John had the opportunity to choose a hereditary domain, and at that time, Natasha was already the Grand Duke of Vaorit, so that he could entitle him to the territory near Alto, but John chose to stay on the side of the Storm Channel.

John did not reply, clapped his hands, motioned for the children to stop, and, after a few words of instruction, pulled Kailin upstairs to the villa.

"It's time for me to go on a routine patrol. John said in a non-hurried tone.

Kailin nodded, "I've got your knight's suit and armor ready. ”

As he passed through the hall, John pulled Kailin and pointed inside: "Listen, beautiful music, mother is holding a salon again." ”

"Yes. "Kaylene didn't quite understand what John meant, and what was so strange about her mother who often invited noble ladies to the salon?

John pointed to the upstairs study, "Father must have gone to the Musicians' Guild." ”

"Yes. Kaylin still didn't understand.

John smiled: "Rentat has a magic phonograph, a magic air conditioner, a home TV, a magic refrigerator, an alchemy car, and many life-changing alchemy items. My mother is used to this kind of life, enjoys this life, and has her own hobbies, and it is torture for them to return to Aalto, and besides, now that there is a direct airship, even without a teleportation array, they can arrive in Aalto for a vacation in a few days, so I never regret my choice. ”

At the end, he added: "For me, the place with you is home, and I naturally choose where you like, just now I just miss my childhood, the old days, rather than Aalto." ”

Kaylin blushed slightly, didn't speak, and pulled John back to the master bedroom on the second floor to help him change his clothes.

Bang!

As John stood in front of the full-length mirror to straighten his clothes, a dull explosion was heard from the other end of the hallway.

Neither John nor Kailin reacted unusually, as if it was something as mundane as opening and closing a door.

"Aven's experiment has gone awry again...... John listened intently, heard the footsteps of people walking in the laboratory, and then, feeling Aven's breath of life, and then, he sighed a little helplessly, "I became a second-ring mage with the help of potions, but he always refused to study the arcane by heart." ”

Evan has a detached personality and is less fond of boring arcane and magical research, instead pursuing a variety of spells, colorful and popular alchemy items, and in Lucian's words, he is more like an inventor than an arcaneist.

Kailin comforted him, "Evan is very smart, but he is interested in popularizing alchemy items, and when he understands that he can't effectively transform himself without a deep foundation in arcane and magic, he will work hard." ”

Kailin herself is a second-level arcanist and a four-ring magician.

"Hmm. John nodded, and slipped on the last part of the armor.

............

Over the Stroop Forest, John had his knights scatter out on patrol in flying machines, while he himself walked through the air, observing the situation in the forest intently and carefully.

Due to the fact that many elves have integrated into human society, the current protection of the abyssal rifts is shared by the Elven Court, the Druid Elders, and the Magical Council, while the Empire's major knights are responsible for dealing with demonic creatures or demons that have slipped through the net in the surrounding forests.

The treatment of this abyss crack has actually been full of controversy, the elves want to seal it completely, and the nobles and commoners of the surrounding counties are the same, after all, no matter how closely guarded, there are fish that slip through the net, not only the polluted area of the forest is slowly expanding, but also some demonic creatures or escaped demons have entered the countryside, small town or city, although each time it has been solved in time and has not caused much impact, but there are still people who are disabled and die because of this.

However, most mages and knights want to keep this gap and keep the "Nameless Town", because it limits the strength of invading demons, and there is no need to worry about the existence of horrors such as demon kings or dukes, and it is a more ideal tempering place where you can harvest many high-level materials, which is many times stronger than going directly into the abyss to adventure

As far as John knew, the Supreme Council had made a decision to form a research group, with the goal of separating the two realms while retaining a buffer zone on the first level of the abyss, which would allow for adventure and exercise.

Yes!

There was a snort of pain from John's communication earbuds, and his expression immediately became solemn, and the eagle flew downward.

In the forest, several knights fended off the attack of a beautiful woman back to back, she had small and cute demon horns on her forehead, and part of her body was covered with a layer of pale black scale armor, and her body was concave and convex, charming and charming, like a powerful succubus.

Several knights were wounded, and just now they were caught off guard, and some of them were seriously injured and dying, and they urgently needed to be rescued.

The succubus succubus wielded a barbed whip and attacked at such speed that all kinds of natural spells were filled with a mist of pink and black.

Suddenly, a long sword entwined with a faint black light slashed from the sky, causing the mist to dissipate and the effects of the succubus' blessings disappearing.

John has no elementalization, no actinization, and his whole person is ordinary, like an ordinary knight, but where the long sword goes, all his extraordinary abilities are reduced to ordinary!

"Eliminate the bloodline!" the succubus was shocked, flapped its wings behind its back, and turned to flee.

But her speed had weakened considerably, and John caught up with her and slashed to the ground.

"No, don't kill me, I can recognize you as the master, sign a contract, and serve you well!" the succubus deliberately twisted the seductive body in exchange for a chance to live.

"You didn't think about not killing people when you attacked my team. John's gaze remained unchanged, and the long sword fell, directly slashing the succubus.

The succubus's stunned expression froze on his face, and the knights who were attacked in the back were also full of regret.

Thundered!

The earth shook so violently that the knights could barely stand.

"What's going on?" John looked in the direction from which the tremors had come from, only to see a blood-colored plain hazy in the sky, the space in front of it distorted and intertwined, forming an exaggerated and hideous gap, and behind it there were layers of different abyssal scenes.

In front of the protruding abyssal gap, a young man in a long black double-breasted gown floated there, wearing a black bow tie and a monolithic eye on his right eye, handsome and gentle, surrounded by pitch black and twisted like an abyss.

"Lucien?" John blurted out after seeing the familiar figure.

At this time, Lucien's hands stretched forward, and the whole person became blurred, as if he was in another world, unable to touch, unable to approach, and behind him was the boundless starry sky, vast and dazzling.

Bang!

The black fog near the gap was deep, and he didn't know what had happened to the road, John only saw the surrounding space collapse, and the blood-colored plain and the abyss behind him slowly broke out of the gap!

At the same time, a huge storm swept across the Scarlet Plains, enveloping it completely, and the thick silver-white electric snake was like a forest, separating it from the second layer of the connected abyss!

Directly pushed the "abyss" away?

John looked at Lucien, who seemed to be a god in the sky, and was speechless for a long time, and a faint sadness suddenly welled up in his heart. (To be continued......)