After the incident at Grenfield Manor, the nobles in the city of Highlanza began a round of purges of the Dark Arts Retreat, and the nobles with eye patterns tattooed on a certain part of their bodies were subjected to very strict scrutiny, and many young members of noble families were involved, which made the daily work of the guard camp very busy.

At the same time, it is not known how many young aristocrats were confined to their homes, or simply left the city of Highlandsa to study outside.

But what...... Whether those young nobles left their hometowns to chase their dreams or to avoid the huge waves that had stirred up in the aristocratic circle of Highlandsa City, the truth was unknown.

Two magicians were killed and two magicians were injured in this incident, and two magicians were injured, which can be regarded as paying a heavy price, of course, no one will die in vain, these two magicians died in the line of duty, bringing a greater voice to the Magic Union in Highlandsa City, and the influence of traditional aristocratic forces in this incident was further reduced, and most people in the know believe that it is the stubbornness, arrogance and conservatism of these traditional aristocratic families that have become a benign soil for the spread and survival of the Black Magic Hermitage.

For a while, the civilians in the city of Hylanza also complained about the nobles, those with black eye ornaments, whether they were peripheral members of the Dark Magic Retreat or not, this time would not be too good, and the House of Representatives asked the guard battalion to restore good law and order in the city as soon as possible, and the knights of this guard battalion were biting people everywhere like mad dogs. They rode black horses and wore black armor, so they were nicknamed 'black dogs' by the townspeople.

Apparently it wasn't a nickname, but it was soon accepted by the city as a nickname for the knight of the guard battalion.

As a result, the Hylanza Opera House was closed for a month for a large-scale rectification, and some of the opera dancers who had some friendship with Sameya were investigated by the Magic Union Law Enforcement Corps, or simply surveillance, although this group of people were not imprisoned, but they had to go to the guard camp every week to report their itinerary for the week, including where they went every day, who they met, what they did, and if they didn't want to arouse the suspicion of the guards camp knights, it was best to confine themselves to their homes.

During this time, a heavy snowfall fell in the city of Highlandza, completely turning the city silver.

Surdak's life is also back on track, he still has to go to class every day with books for cultural classes, Assistant Coach Paplo has changed some courses for him, so that he can finally participate in some physical training classes, but the probationary knights in the Knight Academy who don't know Surdak still call him 'Clerk Knight'? The most ineffective knight.

I don't know how many people who 'can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour'.

In short, Surdak was not killed in the Grenfell Manor incident? Get rid of his indecent title. Many people in the Knight Academy think that Surdak will return safely? It's because the black mage kidnapped Darcy. Instructor Christie, after all, she is the daughter of the Archon Christie of the City of Highlandsa.

The city of Highlanza after winter? People put on thick winter clothes, and people walking the streets are no longer lazy steps? Stepping on 'creaky' snow? Everyone seems cautious, for fear of slipping and falling, this cold season breaks hands and feet, and wants to get out of bed and wait until the beginning of spring next year? Although the city is more abundant than the countryside? But that was for the working commoners and the wealthy aristocrats, and for the vagabonds, the paupers, and the down-and-out aristocrats in the city, every cold winter was not so friendly.

The cold wind blew on his face, and Surdak wiped a handful of frost and snow from his mouth? I regret a little that this weather still runs out to blow cold winds, I knew it was so cold outside? It's time to lie on your dorm bed and read those interesting Grimm Empire history books.

He was recently reading "The Secret History of the Royal Court of Angelboy", and the aesthetic and emotional entanglements of those royals in it opened his eyes? It turns out that the queens of the Grimm Empire are not only humans, but also include the silver moon elves in the World Tree City, Cana in the Endless Sea, and even earlier, the Winged Princess of Sky City and the mother dragon in the Dragon Country.

Of course, college life is quite interesting? The two neighbors in the next dorm, Lina and Nedla, started their sophomore journey the day before yesterday? It is said that he will go to the red pine forest in the east of the city of Highlanza to clean up the forest gray wolves over there. In recent years? Red pine forests have become a potential safety hazard, with wolves attacking villages every year.

Surdak doesn't know if they can successfully peel off those gray wolf skins, but it doesn't matter if they can peel them off or not, anyway, those wolf skins are not very valuable, a little bit of value is the wolf teeth and wolf ears, bring the wolf ears back to the logistics quartermaster of Hylanza City, you can exchange it for a little bit of not a rich reward, as for those wolf teeth, only the shops that sell hunting bows are purchased, and the merchants use it to make some wolf tooth bone arrows, compared to the standard steel arrows in the army, the hunters in Hylanza City recognize the wolf tooth arrows more.

These days, Surdak is mixed in the classroom of the Knight Academy every day, looking at the trainee knight classmates who are ten years younger than him sitting around him, Surdak can't help but hold his forehead with his hand in pain, although he is nominally a member of the Hylanza City Guard Battalion, but he also needs to take classes in the Knight Academy honestly, otherwise he will not get a graduation certificate, this knight certificate is the key to whether he can become a full knight.

Surdak sat on the railing on the side of the road at the entrance of the Knight Academy, he rummaged through the magic fanny pack on his body, and he found a magic fanny pack from the black magician, which contained many valuable things, including thirteen magic crystals and five gold coins, a magic robe, an antique black magic book and a thick magic notebook, in addition to some strange magic materials, some magic herbs that were very sought-after in the market, a dozen different kinds of magic scrolls, and magic potions of unknown use.

Surdak didn't plan to sell them in the magic shop until he figured out what they were used for and how much they were worth, and he wasn't short of money now.

Recently, Surdak has added two new friends, Darcy. Christie and Lance, who sat on the railing at the entrance of the academy, had made an appointment with Lance to meet here.

Although Darcy. Christie doesn't admit the friendship between the two, but since the last time they were kidnapped by the Dark Mage, the two have crossed paths, and Surdak occasionally runs to the sword hall to meet Darcy, who is proficient in swordsmanship. Christie sparred, but Darcy. Christie's swordsmanship, like Hathaway, is mostly a fancy routine, which may seem dazzling, but it is not a practical sword skill honed on the battlefield, this kind of sword skill can only win applause in the arena, nothing more.

Of course Darcy. Christie strongly disagrees with this, she feels that her physical weakness, lack of strength and speed have caused many flaws in her sword skills, as long as she has a set of primary magic pattern construction is enough to make up for these shortcomings, then she can become a real intermediate swordsman and kill all sides on the battlefield.

Surdak wasn't ready to tell her the truth, he felt that there was nothing wrong with a person having a little dream and a little pursuit, anyway, Darcy. Christie is not destined to go to war, and there is no need to look directly at the cruelty there.

Sometimes the two of them also had lunch together in the academy's cafeteria or something, and the students of the knight academy were very interested in Surdak's ability to get close to Darcy. Instructor Christie was naturally envious, and some people even prayed that the next time a certain dark mage came to the Knight Academy, he would kidnap Darcy. When Christie was an instructor, it was best to take him away with his feet.

As for the young magician Lance, the members of the Magic Guild Law Enforcement Team are recuperating for a while, and they have not taken any outings, Lance has been conducting some simple magic experiments in the laboratory of the Magic Guild these days, and occasionally sneaks out to chat with Surdak or something, the Magic Guild is not far from the Knight Academy, and Lance feels that Surdak is worthy of developing into a peripheral member of the Magic Guild.

Every mage nobleman needs to have a knight servant, so that they can protect them in close proximity when fighting, mages have some powerful magic skills, can hit opponents from a distance, but their bodies are weaker than ordinary people, once the battlefield is close to the enemy, they will face great danger, so many mage nobles will have their own knight servants.

In the case of Grenfell Manor, the law enforcement team of the Magic Guild also joined forces with the Knights of the Hylantha Guard Battalion to act together.

It's just that I didn't expect that the other magician would sacrifice his life in the end, forcibly open the gate of hell, and summon a shadow terror, although this shadow terror was suppressed by the power of the world laws of the Roland continent, but it still showed great strength. According to the analysis of the magician Gerald of the Magic Guild Enforcement Corps, it was a pure fluke that two of the four magicians in the cave survived at that time.

Dressed in a black-and-white striped robe of consecration, Lance the magician jumped out of a magic caravan and slipped on his feet, almost sinking headlong into the snow wall on the side of the road, wearing a pair of somewhat exaggerated pointy shoes at his feet, holding a magic book in his hand, and a scarf of gray woolen thread, his whole body looked very bloated.

He stepped on the snow, two white vapors came out of his nose, cautiously walked to Surdak's side and stopped, showed a mouthful of white teeth towards Surdak, and said, "On such a cold day, do you want to have a drink?" ”

The impression that the people of Hylanza gave Surdak, whether it was a knight or a magician, whether it was a young man or an old man, his favorite phrase to say when they met was 'do you want to have a drink together...... which made Surdak a little speechless, Surdak didn't plan to get drunk in the morning.

Seeing that Surdak did not respond, the magician Lance rubbed his still frozen hands vigorously and said, "...... Well, you're not saying there's something that I need to identify, or I'm going to sit down in my lab? As you may not know, some identifications require some specialized magic crystals. ”

Seeing that Surdak did not respond positively, the magician Lance smiled: "Of course, I asked you out this time, because the Magic Guild received authoritative information from Bena City, the Shadow Dread can not only send out a soul scream to make people fall into nightmares and can't extricate themselves, but also dominate nightmares to make people feel fear and despair, and finally take advantage of the collapse of the spiritual world to break through the mental defense line in the nightmare, so as to control and occupy the person's body and become his puppet,"

"Of course, it can also make people fall into nightmares, and then use some means to kill each other silently." Magician Lance gestured as he said, "The former can increase one's strength, and the latter is simpler and more effective. ”

He dragged Surdak into his magic caravan, which was very warm, and he leaned back in the brown soft leather sofa, gave Surdak a glass of light green clear liquid, poured himself a glass, and then took a sip.

Lance said to Surdak: "Do you know what kind of despair I was facing? A red dragon crouched in front of me, if you hadn't woken me up, probably the dragon in the nightmare would have swallowed me in one bite, and if that was the case, I might have become a magical puppet of this shadow terror, in fact, it was not a real dragon at all, it was just a fear that I would never dare to face, but I was really on the verge of collapse. ”

Then Lance said: "My friend Merlin dreamed that he was entangled in a dream about a Medusa, and that I was just about to look at him when I woke him up. ”

Lance asked curiously, "I'm a little curious, what kind of fear did you go through to wake up from a nightmare?" ”

Lance asked such a question, so that Surdak immediately understood, this should be a routine investigation of the Magic Guild Law Enforcement Team, otherwise Lance would never have the recklessness to ask such a question, probably as Lance said, the Magic Guild Law Enforcement Corps executives can't understand why they can wake up from the nightmare, so they let Lance come forward to do some investigation.

Surdak took the glass of green snot liquid and sniffed it under his nose, and there was a faint smell of apples in the glass.

Even though he knew it wouldn't be too bad, Surdak didn't have the courage to take a sip.

He placed the glass on the table, rubbed his fingers on his head, and muttered for a moment before saying, "What do you say...... There is a big lake in front of my house, in winter the lake will form a thick layer of ice, in the coldest time in winter, the lake ice will be carved out of a hole, will catch the fish in the lake, I was very afraid of falling into this ice hole when I was a child, once I fell into the cold lake, not only the whole body will be frozen, after sinking it is likely to not find the exit of the ice hole, even if I can swim, I can only stick under the ice, this is the fear in my heart. ”

Lance didn't expect the fear in Surdak's heart to be this, what was so terrible......

Surdak smiled shyly and said, "I remember cutting through the ice with the Craftsman's Sword, even if I overcame this fear. ”

Lance suddenly had a strange thought in his heart: 'It seems that being ignorant when I was a child is not without benefit. ’

Of course, Surdak would not say that he dreamed of his homework in middle school, but said vaguely: "As for the nightmares that followed, some of them are not hidden fears in my heart at all, and some of them may be some of my memories......"

In fact, he was not married in his previous life, and he didn't even have a girlfriend, but he talked about life with his friends while drinking: It's not terrible to be a pick-up man, I'm afraid that if he even raised a son, if it wasn't his own, how terrifying it would be, and how desperate it would be......

So even in his dreams, Surdak could clearly tell that these things were not real, and he smiled and said to Lance, "Of course, I have experienced some false things, but not dragons or ancient giants. Maybe the Shadow Dreadmonger didn't understand the so-called hidden fears in his heart, and maybe he couldn't be considered fear at all in front of a silk......

As for death after old age, aren't you reborn?

What's so scary about that!

Surdak told Lansten, "In the end, when I was confronted with life and death, I didn't care about that form of death at all. ”

"......" Lance was also a little speechless when he heard Surdak's words, and said as he could understand: "Yes, you can perceive the divine attribute element, and if you have the power of holy light, even if you die in the future, you will naturally enter the kingdom of God......"

So Lance found that Surdak had such potential, so he tried to persuade him again: "By the way, my previous proposal should you think about it again, becoming a peripheral member of the Magic Guild Law Enforcement Team will not enjoy many benefits." ”

Surdak rubbed his forehead helplessly and said, "Please, I just joined the guard battalion last month. ”

"I know, I just want you to think about it again, after all, our law enforcement regiment has a much better reputation than the guard battalion." Reims......