The night was thick, and the howling cold wind entered the dark tent through the gap in the tent, and Shirinya, who was sitting on the bed in thin clothes, felt her body tremble because of the cold wind. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The cold, dry north wind blew across her face, keeping her sleepy mind awake enough, but the fatigue of the day's constant travel could not make Shirinya sleepy, and the dizziness she felt in her sleep was still so real in reality.

"Why haven't you slept yet?" Delphi rubbed his sleepy eyes, wondering why the other party had sat on the bed in the middle of the night and didn't lie down to sleep.

"Is it because of a nightmare?" Delphi tried to speculate on the other party's reason, but the lonely and silent figure did not answer the other person's question directly.

There was a brief silence between the two, and Delphi didn't know what had caused the other to fall into such an anomaly. Shilinya had never been in such a state before, sitting alone, not answering, not looking at the person asking the question, as if there was no one else in the world.

The darkness of the tent was finally dispelled by a soft light, and the ball of light that slowly floated into the air continued to emit its own light to dispel the boundless darkness in the tent. The darkness gradually pushed to the corner of the tent, and where the light did not reach, the whistling north wind still entered from here and spread throughout the tent.

With the help of the light of the ball of light, Dalefield noticed Shilinya, who was now sitting on the bed, her eyes wandering, and her smooth face was covered with fine beads of sweat. In the cold night, people who can't sleep sweat profusely, no matter how you look at it, it's an abnormal thing.

The smooth, soft silk hand towel gently wiped the sweat from the other party's face, perhaps because of the alternative touch on the skin, Shirinya, who was wandering outside, finally had a basic reaction to the people around her-revealing fear and doubt, and looked at the person next to her who wiped her sweat.

"What's the reason why you can't sleep?" Delphi gently hugged the other party into his arms, and his calloused hand from basic martial arts training slowly stroked the other party's long hair that had become slightly knotted due to the lack of washing for a long time, but the delicate and soft nature of it still made the owner of the hand can't help but caress it for a few more moments.

"Dizziness, blurred vision. Shilinya's weak voice responded to the other party's question, and Daelfield, who was about to open his mouth to comfort the other party, could not find his own entry point to comfort the other party.

Dizziness, fuzziness, is it sick?

The skin was unexpectedly cold due to the cold north wind, but Dalefield, who had years of experience in marching, did not think that the other party was sick. So what is the reason for the other party's current state?

"I dreamed and saw things with very severe ghosting, and I felt dizziness in my dreams. Every time I entered a dream, I couldn't hold on for long, and I woke up from my dream, and when I opened my eyes, I saw the tent that was now pitch black. ”

If it weren't for the fact that Delphi felt the remaining body temperature of the girl in his arms and the normal pulsation, he would definitely believe that the other party was already an old man who had reached the end of his life.

"It's fine. Close to the other party's petite ears, Delphi comforted the other party softly, revisiting the illness that he had never heard of, maybe it was because he participated in the war for the first time and left a bloody shadow on the other party, right?

"We'll be in Anjitan tomorrow, let's get some rest. Gently put the other person back on the bed and cover the other person with a fluffy quilt to prevent the other person from getting cold.

Obviously exhausted but reluctant to close her eyes in a strong spirit, Shilinya's breathing gradually calmed down, and the sleep problem that plagued the other party was perfectly solved by Dalefield's hypnosis. But as a spellcaster, Dalefield knew that this approach was only a palliative treatment, and if he wanted to solve the other party's problems, he still needed to consult the experts after returning to Anjitan.

The curtain of the door, which had been resisting the attack of the cold wind, was blown open for some reason, and the fierce cold wind continued to pour into the interior of the bright tent.

Dalefield got up from Shirinya, who was already asleep, to the curtain that had been wide open, and reached out to grab the curtain that was constantly dancing in the air with the cold wind.

"Anyone standing here?" said Delfil as he looked at a pair of low-heeled footprints in front of the tent's door, the smaller footprints made Delfil judge that its owner should be a woman.

Who would stand here in the cold on a night like this? And there was only this special pair of footprints outside the door—only one pair of footprints, and no other footprints to guide Delphi to where he finally arrived.

"Is it an assassin, a thief, or a mage who can use space magic?" Dalefield immediately fixed the curtain and placed a guard barrier in every corner of the tent, not forgetting to send a short-distance magical message to Kane in the tent not far away.

On the final night, Dalefield prayed that no more nasty surprises would happen.

The dazzling sunlight poured out of the sky and turned the snow into mud, but the water in the soil continued to evaporate faintly under the sun.

There are plenty of wild snow fruits among the bushes on the roadside, and these tenacious little things have grown very cute after the baptism of the cold winter. The huge fruits, with their red appearance, hang one by one in the bushes on the roadside, dressing up the dead branches and leaves that have no life at all into a scenery full of vitality and vitality.

But the soldiers, the children and adults who came out of the city to pick them, plucked these beautiful ornaments from the branches and leaves, and put them in their mouths or in the baskets around them.

Shilinya looked at the children and their parents who seemed to be frightened and curious to stand aside to make way for the army, as if she saw her former self when she was a child, and at that time she often accompanied her mother to the field after heavy snowfall to pick these plants that would only be harvested in winter - the snow fruits in her own plantation were in short supply.

Shilinya believes that this plant is like the earth's plum, although their colors are not the same, but the same habits always make people think about it.

"We're home. Dalefield said excitedly to Shilinya, not only her, but the soldiers in the team were all excited when they saw the city wall that appeared in front of them, maybe some of the soldiers' families were in the city, maybe the soldiers whose families were in the city had turned into cold corpses, but these would not affect the excitement of the soldiers returning from the battle.

The tall walls looked dilapidated, and the soldiers were directing a large number of workers to transport generations of materials to the walls using cranes or shoulders, and a large number of stonemasons were mending the scars on the wooden construction frames.

The remains of the stone throwers could still be seen in one or two places on the open plains, and there were still traces of fire in some places on the withered meadows.

The water inside the moat is almost dry, and the drawbridge above the moat seems to be crumbling, and the planks that make up the drawbridge bear a lot of patched scars. As the main land route connecting the city to the outside world, the suspension bridge must have been the main object of official restoration after the siege.

But the patched drawbridge is not crowded with pedestrians, perhaps because of a lack of trust in quality, or perhaps because it has not been fully repaired, and now people cannot pass too many pedestrians, and people prefer to walk the siege towers that have been pushed up the moat.

But in contrast to these, the city surrounded by walls had a large fortress rising from the ground, the stone walls glowing faintly in the sunlight, and numerous small spired round towers surrounded the large pointed round tower in the center, and each towering round tower had a banner embroidered with red petals and purple cores of lilies.

It was the first time Shilinya had seen such a big city, and she had always lived in a remote area, and she was not shocked by the scars in front of her that had just suffered from war, but the scars on it set off its grandeur, because in her memories of her previous life, the great city of modern civilization was more magnificent than it. But as her own home in the future, Shilinya is still full of yearning for it.

There were a lot of damaged buildings in the city, and Shirinya's eyes swept through them, and she could easily tell what kind of damage had been done to these houses. The stone attacks of the catapults smashed a large hole in the house, the bolts of the ballista pierced the house, and the mages were much more gentle - the distance from outside the city to the inside of the city made these spells less powerful.

When the army entered the city, there was no scene of Shilinya's fantasy of the citizens welcoming them, not even a little face-saving project. Perhaps because of the post-war reconstruction work, the citizens on the streets were in a hurry, and only the soldiers passed through the road would be courteous and pay their respects in their own way.

The march in the city caused the number of people in the team to shrink, because on the way, the soldiers were successively pulled away by relatives or friends, and Alain did not do anything to stop such a phenomenon of leaving the team without permission, it seemed to be intentional.

The grand castle was built on the sea, and a small moat similar to the moat outside the city walls stripped the castle from the land, forming a small island, which was completely covered by the tall castle.

The guards of the castle saluted the army.

"Actually, you have a sister, you know?" asked Alain to Shirinya.

Weakness of heart, this is Shilinya's first feeling of the other party's words. Shilinya didn't know how to answer the other party's question, because she didn't know anything about such news, whether it was Dalefield or Kane and Turis, they were all tight-lipped about it. I don't know if I'm going to be angry, and although I don't have too much rejection of this matter, why don't I make it clear when we meet for the first time?

The troops stopped outside the castle without any movement. The soldiers behind him and the soldiers from inside the castle were all looking at the Duke and his daughter at the front of the line, hoping that the other two would break the deadlock quickly.

"I don't know. Answered truthfully, Shilinya did not express any feelings on this matter, but just hoped that the other party could give her a satisfactory answer, but Shilinya herself had constantly deduced the other party's possible answers in her mind, which was nothing more than a few lines.

"Your Excellency!" an urgent call passed through the castle's massive hanging door, attracting the attention of everyone present.

Alain was about to explain to the other party why this was, but when he heard such a panicked call, he swallowed the words that came to his mouth.

"My lord!" Lord Leander wants you to go to him immediately, something has happened to the young lady!" The guards in plate armor gasped and ran to the front of the group.