From the day the stone villa was built, Donner has always felt like a cave for refuge. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

This idea is not unfounded, the villa is sunk in a rock wall, and even though it is intricately designed and lavishly furnished, it is essentially a cave at heart.

Now, a roaring charcoal fire is burning at its spacious opening, baking the air warm.

Donner wasn't afraid of the cold, and the fire was lit for Una.

One evening after the winter, Layla suddenly asked Donner, "Young master, do you think Sister Una will be cold?"

Layla asks this because the magic fluctuations on Girl Mattim's body have disappeared since she lost her memory. In fact, both Donner and Layla knew very well that Una hadn't really become a normal person, as evidenced by her ability to draw magical elements without delay.

It's just that seeing that Una is always wearing a thin red dress, Donner is still faintly worried.

So, from that day on, the charcoal fire in the stone villa has always been burned, and it has not been extinguished for a moment.

Last fall, Una and Layla had moved with Donner to the D.C. Defense Base outside of Misty Town, but not long after they stayed, Una clamored to return to the clouds.

In desperation, Donner had no choice but to let her and Layla live back in the Stone Villa, which was only a stone's throw away from Misty Town, and even if they went back and forth every day, it wouldn't take much time.

Since Una lost her memory, Donner has not been as cold to her as before, and will spend more time with her when he has time.

In fact, if Una really forgot about him completely, Donner would naturally be happy to see her start over, but she did not simply have amnesia, but became mildly autistic, rarely took the initiative to speak, and always thought about her "young master".

By now, Donner and Layla had given up explaining to her that the "young master" she had in mind was right in front of her. They had tried countless times over the past three years, to no avail, and Una had always stubbornly recognized Donna as the person to whom the "young master" had entrusted her before he left - for some reason, Una immediately accepted the word from Lucia's mouth.

However, Una did not live a miserable life, except for the occasional frowning and asking, "Why hasn't the young master come back", she always has a relaxed smile on her face.

Layla sometimes even jokes that Sister Una has become more beautiful since she forgot who the young master is.

She wasn't wrong, even Donner sensed it.

Perhaps because of the heart, Una is gradually exuding an extremely innocent charm, and there is a kind of natural beauty in her gestures.

Not only that, but her already snow-white and flawless skin seemed to have become warmer, as condensed as a baby's skin.

For the latter change, Downer thinks it should be caused by the fact that life has become extremely regular. He had long heard that for women, going to bed early and getting up early without staying up late would make their skin better, and this law must not be unique to the earth.

In fact, because of the promotion of Flowing Cloud Mage, the years have also not left any traces on Lucia and Layla's faces. Lucia would be thirty-first the following spring, but she still looked like she was in her early twenties. Layla, who has just turned twenty-seven, maintains the appearance of a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl.

Come to think of it, with the lifespan of nearly a thousand years converted into a hundred years of life, the two of them are still in their infancy. This is the benefit of being promoted to a high-level mage early.

You must know that in the Magic Continent, except for an alien like Cross with a demon core, no one can be promoted to Liuyun within the age of 100. Correspondingly, the degree of aging in their appearance will also vary depending on the speed of promotion.

Take Lisa as an example, when Donner met her, she was at least more than three hundred years old, but because of her outstanding magical talent, she was promoted early, so she was still a charming young woman at this age - the old witch in the Whispering Forest was just the counterexample, she and Lisa were siblings, but because the magic level had stayed at level four since she escaped from the Magic Continent, she became this terrifying appearance after more than three hundred years.

It is foreseeable that Lucia and Layla's appearance will not change much in at least a hundred years, but Donner himself is not easy to say.

In the past two years, he has clearly felt that he is aging much faster than Lucia, and for this reason, Lucia often advises him not to overwork, only Donner himself knows, this has nothing to do with whether he works hard or not.

Teal is a gift and a curse at the same time, and it's only fair that Donner has enjoyed the great convenience it has to offer, and that he will also lose something important because of it.

It's just that Donner doesn't know yet, because of how much his lifespan will be shortened by cultivating Azure Dou Qi to the second level - he is not worried about this for the time being.

"Young Master, it's the New Year in half a month, won't you go to Cohenas with us on Chinese New Year's Eve this year?" Layla's voice suddenly interrupted Donner's train of thought.

Since Una's amnesia, apart from occasionally giving Layla the task of making magic circles, Donner no longer interferes with her and Una's freedom. It has become a habit for the two of them to go to Coenas every New Year to spend the New Year with Lucia, Richard, Lolita and others.

But at the end of the past few years, Donner has always had no time to go with them because of such and such things, which is why Layla has this question.

This time, though, Donner's answer made Layla a little overjoyed.

"I've made an appointment with some old guys I haven't seen in years to get together at the end of the year in Coennas, and in a few days, I'll go with you, and by the way, your fat brother will go with you. He laughs.

"Sister Una, did you hear me, the young master is going to Coennas with us for the New Year!" Layla shouted happily.

Una sat not far from the charcoal fire, the firelight reflected her red dress like a delicate rose, she put down the magic circle key in her hand, and suddenly looked up and said, "The young master is back?"

"Hmm...... It was Master Vane who accompanied us, not Master John. Layla, accustomed to her reactions, explained with a smile.

"Oh," Una also smiled slightly, and said to herself, "It would be nice if the young master was here." With that, she lowered her head and focused on the half-made magic circle key in her hand.

"Young Master Vane has eaten some of Master John's vinegar. Donner laughed and stuck out his tongue at Layla.

Layla grinned and said softly, "I think Sister Una will remember sooner or later that Young Master John is Young Master Wayne's." ”

As she spoke, she put down the Monthly of Truth in her hand, leaned in front of Donner, and said, "Young Master, what are you drawing? Is this a map?"

"It's the Aly industrial area in the province of Auviere, where construction began two years ago around the Aili iron mine, but until now I can't figure out what fuel to use to make iron. Donner smiled and scratched his head.

"Fuel?, Mr. Merkel brings a lot of firewood to Foggy City every winter, so that they can save some of it, and can't the saved ones be used to make iron?" Layla's frowning and thinking hard always made Donner feel a little funny, and he thought that it might be better if Layla was fitted with a pair of round black-rimmed glasses.

However, he couldn't help but smile and explained to Layla: "Iron smelting requires too much fuel, and if you burn firewood, it won't be long before all the forests in the empire will be destroyed." ”

"That's right...... Wouldn't that work with a circle of flames?" asked Layla again.

"Magic crystals are too precious, and it's too wasteful to use them to make iron. Donner shook his head again, he had already considered this method, but the magic crystal is an important strategic resource, and it will be depleted in the near future, and the use of magic crystals in large quantities to make iron and steel is obviously not a long-term solution.

Layla pursed her lips, her brows furrowed even tighter, and after a while she tilted her head and whispered, "Or, use fire magic?"

"How is this possible...... Donner said halfway, his smile gradually condensed, and then he frowned slightly, and said, "To use magic to make steel, you need many, many magicians, but once the element spreads, the consequences are difficult to say." ”

"But haven't you already given the elements to Sam?" Layla wondered.

"This is different, there are only more than 100 people in the Santan Mage Regiment, and after strict screening, and the implementation of closed militarized management," Donner unconsciously used a word that Layla did not understand, "Such an extreme method cannot be used in the Avery Industrial Zone." ”

"Young Master......" Layla thought for a while and said, "In the Magic Continent, everyone knows what the primitives are like, isn't it nothing, why are you so worried?"

Donner patted Layla's head and said with a smile: "Silly boy, there are beast tides in the Magic Continent every hundred years, but there are no natural disasters in Middle-earth, if the lifespan of ordinary people reaches two or three hundred years, there will be more and more people, and something will happen one day." ”

"Young master, I'm not a child anymore," Layla pouted with an aggrieved look, and she didn't seem to mind "stupid" in the word "silly child", but rather didn't want to be seen as a child by Donner.

But her grievances did not last long, and she said with a serious face: "But do you think that if there are countless magicians, they can train a lot of iron, and build a lot of machines, and then use those machines to plant wheat everywhere that can be grown, so that there will be enough food for everyone?"

Donner was slightly stunned, subconsciously reached out to stroke Layla's short blonde hair, and said with a smile: "It makes sense, it seems that Layla is really not a child anymore." ”

"Young master, I'm twenty-seven years old! In Bishui Farm, even the ugliest girl will marry when she reaches the age of twenty!" Layla said this, and a blush suddenly appeared on her face.

Donald laughed and said, "It seems that our little Layla wants to get married, and now it's over, I haven't prepared a dowry for you, what should I do?"

"I don't want to get married. Layla looked indifferent, but the flush that gradually spread to the base of her ears and neck revealed her inner activity. (To be continued.) )