"You just used the magic scroll?" Lucia noticed that Donner didn't chant a spell when he took down the guard, but there was a clear fluctuation in casting water magic.

"No, it's the Ice Spear. Donner sat across from Lucia with his back to the trunk.

"Can you cast the Ice Spear?!, but you've only been enrolled for less than a month, when did you start learning magic?" Lucia was shocked.

"It started half a year ago. "Since informing Wesley about his cultivation, Donner has decided to gradually disclose this reality on a small scale, anyway, sooner or later everyone will know.

"Half a year, you'll be promoted to an apprentice in magic, how is this possible?" Lucia felt a little ridiculous about the amount of time it took her to advance.

"I'm more talented. "Donner can only attribute his extraordinary promotion speed to talent, and he can't tell the other party that he has discovered the mystery of the element. After more than half a year of daily practice, he can now draw the symbols of the five primitives casually, and the originals of the primitives that he used to put close to him have long been destroyed.

"No! You didn't chant the incantation! Hmph, you're lying to me. ”

"I don't usually lie when there's no particular reason. ”

Donner said as he casually unleashed a small fireball. A tiny ball of blue glow wrapped between his fingers, slowly floating with the rotation of his palm, and gradually brightening in Lucia's horrified gaze until it dissipated.

"You really can do without spells?!"

"The talent is better. Donner looked up and said lightly, looking at the stars through the mottled leaves above his head, and the starlight shone on his face.

"Bastard!How can you have such a talent!No, you said that you used an ice spear before, are you a dual?!"

With a flick of his right hand, a turquoise leaf flew up, and then with the same swing, a condensed wind blade swirled out, catching up with the previous flying leaf in a moment, splitting the latter into two, and falling left and right, and the wind blade dissipated.

"I'm a full-fledged student. With that, Donner glanced at Lucia, who was already stunned, with a mischievous pleasure. He had just escaped, and he was in a surprisingly good mood to make such a childish move inadvertently.

"So, that's how you untie the ropes, right? I was just going to ask, how did you do it? Those guys must have thought that if we gag our mouths, they wouldn't be able to pronounce the incantation, and they didn't expect you to be so perverted. Also, the thieves in the Whispering Forest, you actually killed them all after you lured them away, didn't you? No wonder there were no more thieves since. Lucia said hatefully, and she was furious at the thought of having worried about the other in vain that night—he had been laughing at himself all along.

"I wasn't that skilled at the time. Donner didn't expect that he would be scolded for saving the other party, and secretly called a genius really not good, and after answering vaguely, he deliberately changed the topic: "I just remembered when I saw our carriage, and these people are probably coming specifically for you." ”

"Why do you say that?" Lucia no longer dwelled on the previous topic, because the question was probably more important.

"Do you remember? The man said, 'I know you're from the Academy of Magic,' and he said you several times in a row, but he didn't mention you, and I thought it was strange how he was so sure that there was only one person in the car, and he usually said you if he wasn't sure. Moreover, that road did not lead only to the Academy of Magic, since he knew that the people from the Academy of Magic were sitting in the car, it meant that he had received information in advance, or had already observed the carriage. And this carriage is usually only you alone, right?" (Author's note: Hulse doesn't speak English, so you and you can tell the difference)

Lucia nodded slightly, her expression solemn.

"Well, it's much easier to think that things have nothing to do with me. Donner said as he stretched and stretched his muscles, looking really relaxed.

"Hey, do you talk like that? I took back the day's words, and now I'm starting to hate you again. ”

"Whatever, I don't remember what you said during the day. I said that it would be better for us to be less alone in the future, because both times we were in danger, and each time it was more scary. ”

"Who is going to be alone with you!?" Lucia got up and stomped her feet, and walked towards the horse in a huff, and after a while, walked back again, "I'm not out of danger yet, I'm responsible for your safety, wait until I get back to the academy, see who is going to be alone, huh!"

"You're right, you're not out of danger yet, let's go, you can't stay here for too long. ”

The two mounted their horses again and continued in the direction of due north, this time without any further effort.

It wasn't until dawn that the two finally saw a big road, and they rode along the road for about ten minutes to the northeast to reach the first town.

After asking, I learned that the two of them were already in the small town of Almeri in the north of the province.

Lucia inquired about the local sheriff's mansion and searched all the way, but Donner could only follow her.

"Whose family is dead, dare to knock on your grandfather's door so early?" The door was opened by a vulgar middle-aged man, who had just put on his pants, and the sheriff's characteristic gray military uniform had only one sleeve.

"Shut your foul mouth, we've got robbers. ”

"Robbers, do you dare to say that there are robbers on my wild bull's territory? I think it's you, a little girl, who eloped with a good friend and was ...... by her family."

"Smack", the guy who called himself a brute bull was slapped hard, and was about to fight back, when he saw the golden token that Lucia had taken out, he suddenly shuddered, and the hand that was halfway up did not hesitate to slap the other side of his face.

Without waiting for the other party to speak, Lucia then asked, "Is there a legion stationed near here?"

The sheriff who had just spoken out was still disheveled, but his body was already standing straight, and his tone had become square: "Report to Your Excellency, there is a Crimson Knights stationed seventy miles to the southeast!"

"Okay, Crimson Knights, tell me where I can sleep in town, and then bring me the Crimson Knights, and say I've met robbers!"

"Yes!"

The bull took the two to the door of the only inn in the town, and was about to go in and give a few instructions, but was kicked by Lucia: "What are you doing here?

Donner laughed secretly, this brute bull's nonsense just now seems to have really offended Lucia miserably.

"That'...... What do I call you?" it seems that the token presented by Lucia is a status symbol for a certain type of person, no wonder the sheriff only addresses her Your Excellency.

"Just tell Commander Kaz everything you see and hear...... Don't mention me to anyone until you see Captain Kaz!"

The sheriff immediately galloped to his mansion, presumably looking for his horse.

Unfortunately, the inn in the town, which never seemed to be prosperous, had only one room left. Lucia regretted driving the bull away a little, otherwise the other party would have found a way to arrange two rooms, and now she would not have played a majestic role to the smiling innkeeper. After a little hesitation, the girl gritted her teeth and asked to get out of the only room, and Donner followed with a grin.

"You're going to be alone this time. Lucia said coldly.

"I'm tired all night, do you want me to sleep on the street?"

"Huh! you sleep on the floor!"

Donner made a nonchalant expression, took a pillow, and fell asleep on the floor. Lucia also collapsed on the bed at once. Horseback riding for a long time is really a tiring sport.

"Hey, feeling stressed?"

"Look at this posture, your business is really not small. ”

"Boring!" the same joke, this time Lucia didn't laugh.

The Crimson Knights, Captain Kaz, has the title of Duke, but he prefers to be called Captain Kaz because there are more than a dozen dukes in the Empire, and even if the Royal Knights are counted, there are only eight knights in the Empire. When Captain Kaz led hundreds of fully armed official knights to ride into this remote town, the entire town came out to watch, and it was the first time in the history of the town that so many knights had been welcomed.

"My lord, that honorable lady was about to stay at this inn before she sent me to you...... Oh, you see, this is the only inn in town......" Sheriff Manniu's face was a little embarrassed, judging by the posture of Captain Kaz, the girl seemed to be more noble than he had imagined, and such a shabby inn seemed to be unworthy of her status.

Captain Kaz instructed the bull to call the innkeeper out, so that the other party could clear all the other people in the inn without disturbing the guest who checked in in the morning, and ordered four henchmen to assist the other party, so as not to run into unnecessary trouble.

Then, with the exception of Captain Kaz, who stood alone at the door of the room, all the other knights, and almost all the inhabitants of the town, waited quietly in the open space outside the inn door until dusk, however, most of them did not know what they were waiting for.

Lucia was woken up by Donner's push, and the first thing she said when she woke up was, "Hey, why is it getting dark again, have we slept all day?

"I guess it's already here, and there are a lot of people standing downstairs. ”

"Shhhh Is my dress wrinkled?Isn't my face bad, my hair messy?" There were no mirrors in the room, and Lucia had to get her groomed appearance with the help of Donner.

In fact, all the voices in the room fell on the ears of Captain Kaz at the door. As a fourth-level knight, his senses are far more sensitive than ordinary people. But it wasn't until Lucia pushed the door open and walked out that he stooped down and spoke.

"Your Royal Highness, you are awake. ”

(In order to thank you for your great rewards such as enlightenment and true green mang, I will add a new chapter tonight)