In the early morning, on the desolate steppe in the central part of the province of Santan, Princess Lucia walked alone and on a horse. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The autumn morning mist covers the horizon like a veil floating on the grassland. A warm yellow morning sun rises from the rolling hills to the east, staining the morning mist with a faint warm yellow.

But Lucia didn't feel a trace of warmth.

Ever since she left Misty Town, she had been in a daze to the south, and she couldn't even remember when she had left the official path.

A small short-horned deer was drinking from a distant waterhole, probably hearing the sound of horses' hooves, and turned its head to look at Lucia alertly for a moment, and then walked away with brisk steps.

"Why are you alone...... Lucia shook her head and sighed, her eyes looking at the fawn until it suddenly let out a scream and disappeared from view.

In a hurry, she rode her horse towards the place where the fawn had disappeared.

It was supposed to be a trap dug by a hunter, not too deep, but enough to trap the immature fawn.

Lucia jumped off the horse and whispered, "Why are you so careless......"

The fawn stopped whining and looked at her curiously.

Lucia carefully jumped off the trap and gently stroked the supple deer fur while checking the fawn's legs and feet, "It doesn't hurt, does it...... Well, you weren't hurt, you're in luck......"

Not long after, the fawn crawled out of the trap with the help of Lucia and ran away in a panic.

Lucia climbed up the wall of the trap, and although she was a third-level mage of the wind and water systems, none of the magic she mastered could help her get out of this trap.

Although the pit was not very deep, the early morning dew soaked the soil, and Lucia had nowhere to exert it, and after several efforts, her white dress was covered with mud, but she still did not climb up.

She was a little deflated, her nose was a little sour, and the fawn still had someone to help, but she landed here, but no one cared.

But at this moment, a familiar voice sounded overhead.

"I've been looking for you all night, so you're hiding here......"

Above the trap, Donner was looking at her with a grin.

Lucia was both happy and a little flustered. Happy because Donner looked for her all night, panicked because the other party saw him so embarrassed. However, when she saw Donner stretching out his hand to her, she turned her head and said, "Don't you want to see me......"

"Then you're not going to give up on yourself, and you're going to be a hunter's prey, right?" said Donner with a laugh.

"That's my own business......" Lucia suddenly felt aggrieved, tears rolling in her eyes, and she had to endure it very hard to keep it from falling.

"Have you forgotten? This is my land now, and this trap is my property, so the prey it catches belongs to me, doesn't it?" asked Donner with a smile.

"You ......" Lucia looked up at Donner, afraid that she had misunderstood what the other person meant.

"I mean, now you're mine. Donner said with a smirk.

Lucia struggled to resist the urge to ask what it meant, and turned her back to Donner and sneered, "That's not what the laws of the empire say......"

Donner could hear a hint of sweetness in her words that couldn't be concealed, and said with a smile: "With me, the laws of the empire don't work......"

As soon as he said this, he felt that something was wrong, and the subtext of this sentence didn't mean that he didn't take the laws of the empire into account at all.

However, Lucia was still immersed in the sudden happiness, and did not think of another meaning of the words.

"But...... I don't want to see you now. She laughs.

Donner, touched by what he had just said inadvertently, thought about how he could explain to Lucia what he was going to do, and fell silent for a moment—if you want to accept Lucia, you have to be sincere, he thought.

But Lucia's silence was misunderstood, and the princess turned her head to peek at him, and explained a little awkwardly, "I mean...... I'm so embarrassed right now, I don't want to show you ......"

Donald laughed and said, "I haven't seen you look embarrassed?"

Lucia smiled, Donner was right.

"When I was kidnapped by the rebels, you were by my side, when I was controlled by Eli, you were by my side, and now I fell into this trap, or you are by my side......" Lucia suddenly raised her voice: "Now it seems that the facts are very clear, it is you who hurt me." ”

Donalha laughed, and Lucia chuckled with her back to her mouth.

"Since you've seen through it, you're welcome......" Donner jumped out of the pit, and despite Lucia's resistance, he picked her up with both hands—a veritable princess—and flew into the air.

Lucia finally stopped resisting uselessly, and buried her head deep in Donner's chest, feeling the familiar but unfamiliar breath. Her long skirt swayed lightly in the wind, and the lower leg exposed under the corner of the skirt was as white as jade, and well-proportioned as a lotus root.

The beauty was in his arms, and the indescribable warmth and softness passed through the thin clothes, and Donner's heart was also a little swaying, but he still suppressed the instinctive impulse in his heart, put Lucia on the back of the horse, turned over and rode his own horse, and said with a smile: "Come back with me?"

Lucia's cheeks flushed, and she hummed softly.

In a short time, the two horses galloped wildly and headed north.

Looking at the familiar figure on horseback not far away, Lucia suddenly remembered that starry night many years ago, when they were also galloping north one after the other.

......

In the small wooden building of Misttown, Lucia had already showered and changed into clean clothes, and was listening to Donner's narration with bated breath.

Her emotions had been following Donner's ups and downs, and she almost cried when she heard what happened to the mage of Middle-earth after he went to the magic continent.

For more than two hours, Donner told him what he had seen and heard in the Magic Continent and the entire pattern of the world—not including Jingwei, of course, nor his true relationship with the Holy See of Light.

"No wonder you would abandon the province of Tris and run north," Lucia frowned tightly, "It's only a little safer here, right?"

"Well," Donner nodded, "as long as you keep the entrance to Fog City in check, there's an invisible city - at least for Middle-earth. ”

"Then how can we deal with the Magic Continent? They look too powerful......" Lucia asked.

"The Magical Potion Academy in Misty Town is working on a sixth-level magic potion recipe, and the Engineering Academy in Fog City will mass-produce magic arrays...... I have other plans for that...... However, your father may not be willing to see these changes. Donner said calmly. (To be continued.) )