"The sword that burns the magic flame may have increased its destructive power, but it will still not be too easy to break the simplest light shield. And if you use the magic power you consume, you can easily break the light shield with a few random spells..."

Speaking of this, Bettina suddenly stopped, and she saw that Xu Mu was looking at the sword, groping lightly, and her expression seemed to be a little depressed.

"Ahem..."Bettina didn't know why, and the words of persuasion in her mouth suddenly couldn't speak.

Indeed, Xu Mu is a person who loves weapons and swordsmanship, which can be seen from his duel with Fürth, although his words are persuading him to turn back and let go of his delusions, they are also hurting his yearning heart.

Bettina doesn't know how to deal with the situation, because she's never met a man who must need her comfort... Because most men will deliberately show a strong state in front of her, even if they really fail, they will be able to save face.

Xu Mu, who has always been calm in front of her, actually showed a lonely expression, which made her feel flustered.

"If... If you really like swordsmanship... Why don't you find a way to get a magic crystal equipment?"

"Crystal equipment?"

Bettina wondered, "Haven't you heard of the magic crystal equipment?"

Xu Mu had naturally heard that before he duel with Fürth before, a mentor deliberately gave him a magic crystal long sword, wanting him to easily win Fürth with the magic crystal equipment.

"To know is to know... However, I haven't used magic crystal equipment yet, and I've heard that it's quite expensive. ”

Bettina burst out laughing: "You are also a nobleman, although the price of magic crystal equipment is not cheap, but it is not difficult for you to have one, right?"

"You don't understand. Xu Mu shook his head helplessly, "I haven't been given a knighthood and a fief yet, so I don't have fief income... As for the income of the position, I have only been in office for a month, and the salary of the knight captain is not very much, and it is estimated that this month's salary will also be sent to the home in the capital. And I didn't bring any money out this time...", he sighed.

Bettina covered her mouth and smiled, her eyes narrowed, she had never seen a nobleman as poor as Xu Mu.

Xu Mu heard the laughter, turned his head to see Betina's appearance, and shook his head angrily and pouted.

After Bettina finished laughing, she groped around her waist, and after a while, she found a dagger with a beautifully decorated sheath and handed it to Xu Mu.

Seeing this, Xu Mu hesitated for a while, then reached out and took it.

The hands of the two touched lightly, and Bettina suddenly jumped inwardly, and her hands trembled.

She has never had physical contact with a man other than her elders...

Seeing that Bettina was different, Xu Mu looked at her strangely with a dagger in his hand and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing!" Bettina blushed and shook her head, "Your hands are just cold to me..."

Xu Mu seemed to wake up and nodded: "That's embarrassing." ”

Bettina was relieved to see that Xu Mu didn't find anything, she saw that although the clothes Xu Mu was wearing were not very thin, they were not thick, and she couldn't help but care: "Anyway, you wear so little, isn't it cold?"

"It's cold? A little colder can also improve mental concentration... Once upon a time, no matter how cold the days were, it was nothing. Xu Mu couldn't help but feel a little emotional when he thought of his days in the Kailie Kingdom.

He held the dagger and pulled it out of the sheath, only to see that the dagger emitted a trace of crystal red light, it was a dagger quenched by fire-based magic crystals.

"You... Did you have a bad time before?" Bettina asked cautiously.

Xu Mu gently stroked the dagger with his hand, as if admiring the beauty: "Good... It couldn't be better. In the Kingdom of Kaire, to say that I was a commoner was to exalt me, and at that time I was a pariah who did not even have identity credentials. ”

Bettina was stunned, she had thought that Xu Mu's life would be a little worse before, but she didn't think that Xu Mu was not even a civilian... However, when she saw Xu Mu's calm face, she didn't seem to be taboo at all about her former identity, or didn't pay attention to it?

The branches of the fire made a sound, Bettina looked at Xu Mu quietly, the firelight was projected on Xu Mu's resolute face, and her eyes were firm and resolute, which made Bettina's heart touch again, and she quickly looked away.

"At that time, I thought that with my own ability, I would be able to eat with my own mouth... I didn't expect that because I was a pariah, no one would dare to appoint me to do things. Xu Mu held the dagger, a little stunned: "At first, I firmly believed that I had a way, a way to exchange food with my own hands... However, after two days of starvation, there was still no way out, but I didn't want to steal, I felt that this was against the principle of being a human being in my heart. Then when I was thirsty, I would drink muddy water and river water, and when I was hungry, I would go in search of food that others had discarded..."

In fact, it is to pick up garbage and eat... It's just that Xu Mu couldn't say these words after all.

Bettina's heart softened, and her voice was gentle, like a wind chime: "You... Are you alright?"

Xu Mu didn't care about a smile: "What can happen." Don't look at me so easily, but fortunately I was still strong, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to snatch the food that was discarded from the beggars and the homeless. Although I didn't live well, I didn't do anything bad... It's just that the bottom line of being a human being has been lowered a little. ”

"You don't seem to care about your past... If other nobles had a past like yours, they wouldn't tell anyone about it, because it would make people think..."

"Think I'm from a low background and don't fit in?"

Bettina didn't speak, and seemed to acquiesce.

"The past is the past, and I'm not proud or ashamed of what happened, but I'm just emotional... After all, survival is the right that I am born with, and if I am ashamed to even survive, then life is just a walking corpse. Xu Mu shook his head, "Once I spent the winter, I didn't even dare to have a piece of extravagant clothes, and when I almost froze to death, my residual sense of survival drove me to go out of town to find those wild corpses, and then untie their clothes and put them on myself." But now, I look like I have everything..."

"So you're not afraid of the cold?"

Xu Mu was silent, and then said, "I'm afraid of the cold, or I'm cold now." It's just that I don't want to make myself too comfortable and warm... Because I'm afraid to forget what I did in the first place. I'm not afraid to tell you that when I couldn't survive, I ended up stealing... When I wasn't trying to steal, I always thought it was shameful to steal, after all, it was infringing on other people's property, and other people's property should be respected... However, when I was faced with the choice of life and death, I realized that it was the most shameful thing for me to have this idea. ”

"The first time I was caught stealing, they beat me to death... I'm a thief, I failed to steal, I deserve to be beaten... But when my consciousness was almost blurred, my body instinctively asked for help from the people around me... But no one paid any attention to me, and everyone's eyes were so terrifying... When people are wrong in their pursuit of survival, then I think the world is also wrong. Fortunately, everyone's indifferent eyes stimulated me and allowed me to survive the beating... And then after... I became a well-known thief in town. ”

"The world is different from what I thought, it's not what it's written in books, it's not what people I once knew taught me... The world is cruel, but it's also really ugly. ”

I don't know what drove Bettina, watching Xu Mu speak like this, his tone was very flat, without any complaints and blame, behind the words there was only strength and unyielding, although he seemed to have done many wrong things, but Bettina was very touched in her heart.

It seems that he doesn't mind that Xu Mu once had an unbearable past and an unbearable identity.

Under the light of the fire, Bettina gently stretched out a hand and gently held Xu Mu's cold big hand.