There are many things in this world that Luo Xiaotian can't understand.

For example, why is it that a proficient player in Xiangqi and Go backgammon can't beat Nina, who is also a novice.

After listening to Alice's heart-piercing story, I don't know why, but now it has become Alice teaching Luo Xiaotian and Nina to play chess.

After another fight, Luo Xiaotian finally knew why he kept losing. This game is full of judgment of attacks, when cavalry attacks infantry, when infantry attacks mage, when mage attacks, not only to determine whether it will hit the opponent, but also to calculate the number of judgments based on distance.

Luo Xiaotian had never found that his luck was so bad, from the beginning of the battle with Nina to the present, not a single attack had taken effect, and even Ellie and Jasmine, who came to watch, couldn't bear to look at it anymore and ran to the garden.

Ah, what a hassle this game!

“... Rollo, have you done anything disrespectful to the gods lately, or have you fallen for some curse?"

Disrespectful to the gods? Well, probably...... If it's not the gods of this world, it should be fine, right?

"By the way, Rollo, Her Royal Highness Princess Angelina came here to look for you once, but I heard that you haven't been here since you went to the Academy of Magic, has she ever been to the Academy to look for you?"

It was Anna who spoke, and Alice next to her pouted, thinking that Princess Angelina must have been flying sparks when she came before.

"No, maybe it's because of Sophia's business, but I don't have time to worry about them for the time being... Ah, it's almost time for me to go back, Alice, do you have anything to give me?"

“... No. ”

Well, it seems that there is no intention of replying to Chrissy, Luo Xiaotian went to see Jasmine and Jerry again, and got into the carriage to return to the Imperial Academy of Magic.

......

"Black? I remember not taking this path last time, right?"

"Mr. Ronald, the road ahead is blocked by the town hall, so now we can only take this slightly farther road. ”

Luo Xiaotian remembered that he was still walking that road when he came over in the morning, and there was nothing abnormal along the way.

"What's going on?"

"I don't know, usually after the main road is blocked, the city hall will send someone to inform the nobles in the city of the reason for the incident and the time of the blockade, but this time the soldiers who came to report only told us that the road will be blocked for at least one day, as for the reason, they don't know. ”

"Well..."

It was a chaotic-looking street, with dirty children whizzing past the carriage and hearing the sound of their bare feet splashing on the stagnant water. Mixed with these sounds is the melodious sound of the bard.

"Stop Blake!"

Blackcra, who sat behind the horse, lifted the reins and stopped the carriage, which could not travel too fast in the narrow streets.

"What's wrong, Mr. Ronald?"

"Seeing something that I care about, I'll go down for a while, and you just wait here. ”

Getting off the carriage, some pungent smells were stronger than what Luo Xiaotian felt in the carriage, these smells came from the dirty water accumulated in those potholes, Luo Xiaotian remembered that it had not rained in the past few days, so it was conceivable where all this dirty water came from.

Dodging those suspiciously colored stinky ditches, Luo Xiaotian walked towards the noisy group of children in the distance, and then was hit by a small figure who didn't know when he rushed out.

"Ahh Sorry sir, I didn't mean to... Can you let me go..."

The boy who was grabbed by Luo Xiaotian's arm looked innocent, but Luo Xiaotian would not let him leave, this kind of habitual trick was of little use in front of the magician, at least in the face of the one hundred and eight small skills of spiritual power.

Taking out his money bag from the dirty little boy's pocket, Luo Xiaotian thought for a moment, and then took out a gold coin from the money bag, which only contained a few gold coins and silver coins, so that it could be taken out at any time to deal with some emergencies.

"Go and help me get the balls from the children's feet, and the coin will be yours." Don't try to run away, see? My coachman over there is a knight. ”

“... Yes sir..."

Letting go of his hand, the little boy looked at Luo Xiaotian and hesitated for a moment, and then walked towards the children who were playing a football game.

I don't know what he said to the leading child, but I saw the leading child pick up the ball on the ground and hand it to him, and then leave with the others somewhere else.

"To your sir, in addition... The gold you said..."

"Oh, here you go. ”

Luo Xiaotian threw the gold coin in his hand to the little boy, and then threw the ball into the conch space.

"Sir... Can I go?"

Holding the gold coin that was a little dull in the shadow of the street tightly in his hand, the little boy glanced at the carriage not far away, and asked Luo Xiaotian a little nervously.

"Absolutely... Wait! What's your name?"

“... My name is Joshua, Joshua Alfred, sir. ”

With a wave of his hand to let the little boy named Joshua leave, Luo Xiaotian returned to the carriage. In the end, it was just a whim to ask the name, after all, whether it is in novels or movies, strong people like to do this.

The carriage continued to move forward, and Luo Xiaotian took out the round ball he had seen before, the original silver surface was now dirty, and there was a layer of black stuff that he didn't know what it was.

Luo Xiaotian found a cloth to wipe the surface of the ball a little, and finally had to give up, so he couldn't wipe it off at all.

Hit the ball with your finger.

"Becky, are you still alive?"

“......”

"Dead, then I'll throw it away!"

"Wait! I'm alive, I'm alive! Rollo! Woo woo, it's you, Rollo, I'm finally seeing you again!"

This black ball is Xiaobei's puppet core, if it weren't for the strong enough magic fluctuations coming out of it, and he had to go back to the Imperial Academy of Magic from this road today, Luo Xiaotian would not have been able to connect this black ball with Xiaobei's puppet core.

"What the hell happened? I didn't see you when I teleported back before, why are you in this place now?"

“... Yes, because of that teleportation, I fell out of the teleport, right down the street, and hit a guy. Hmph! If I hadn't just fallen out of the spatial turbulence, I wouldn't have been able to defeat a mere human with no strength. ”

Let's not talk about how to get out of the teleport... In other words, Xiaobei hit a person and was caught.

"And then it was torn down?"

"How do you know?! I can't imagine that a human with no strength would have dismantled my structure so quickly, or I would have beaten him all over the ground when I recovered from the shock of the spatial turbulence!

“......”

Do you want to tell Becky that its construction has already been given to others.