Recently, Darcy. Christie has completely disappeared from Surdak's life, and it is difficult to see her even in the Sword Pavilion.

The red-haired woman with a stubborn and proud personality was like the foam of the sea, and the next second she disappeared into the wind.

The trainee knights in the knight academy are still as diligent as ever, even in winter, the ground has been frozen hard, and the riding training ground is still full of trainee knights waiting to practice charging, although falling off the horse is likely to be not only a blue nose and swollen face, but more likely to have broken bones and tendons, but this group of young people still rode on the horse without hesitation, holding a knight's spear in the training ground to launch a fierce charge against the wooden man.

Karl sat in the wooden stands on the edge of the training ground, the north wind was blowing so fiercely that it blew on his face like a knife, but he didn't feel much, he first raised his head to look at the gray sky, and his eyes fell on Surdak, who was slowly walking with his horse.

Surdak left Guborema under the stands and sat alone in the stands, where there were no spectators, and sat side by side with Karl.

"Done?" As he spoke, Surdak untied the Craftsman's Sword from his waist, placed it flat on his knees, and took out a whetstone to carefully polish the blade of the Craftsman's Sword.

He could see that Karl had some emotional problems, and seemed to have been hit hard by the incident at Fornak Manor, and he had never recovered.

Carl nodded with a silent expression, and said with a sad face: "I personally went through each family, personally handed over those pensions to their families, and promised that in the future, the children in the family could get a letter of recommendation from the guard battalion and go to school at the Junior War College in Highland City, but what is the use of these?" People are already dead, what is the point of us doing these things to those who have died? ”

He hadn't said that Captain Sauron had been urging him to reorganize the out-of-city support group, but he had been dragging him along.

"Maybe they want their families to be happier, too!" Surdak's throat was a little dry when he said this.

Karl leaned on the stand seat, his eyes fell on the field of those trainee knights who were constantly charging, his smile was full of bitterness, he said: "When I was the captain of the squad before, I was only in charge of five or six knights in my hands, and I knew their temper, preferences, and personal strength. The scenery in my eyes must be very good, so I admired that position very much, and rushed to climb up, but now I sat in this position, but found that it was not like that at all, instead of seeing the most beautiful scenery in my heart, I shouldered a heavier responsibility. ”

"Carl, aren't you tired of being the squadron leader of the Outside the City Support Regiment?" Surdak asked, somewhat surprised.

He didn't expect that this incident would hit Carl so hard.

Carl shook his head, squeezed out a smile and said, "Of course not, I've been thinking about how to improve myself recently, I want to go to the Advanced Knight Academy for a period of time in the spring to improve some of my personal abilities." ”

"You're going to prepare for the Constructed Knight?" Surdak asked him.

After being promoted to Squadron Leader of the Guard Battalion, Carl had a chance to go to the Senior Academy to improve himself, he looked straight ahead and said, "This is probably something that every squadron leader needs to consider!" After becoming a squadron leader, my salary has increased a lot, counting some of my own savings, plus I can get some support at home, it shouldn't be too difficult to scrape together a sum of money to buy a magic pattern structure, and there are channels for custom magic pattern construction here in the guard camp. ”

Surdak now enjoys the benefits of the captain of the guard battalion, with a salary of almost thirty silver coins per week, and counting the various subsidies for the mission, he will have to get almost thirty-five silver coins.

If it is at the squadron leader level, the weekly salary should be about fifty silver coins, which means that Carl's annual salary is almost thirty gold coins, and a complete set of magic pattern construction needs at least one hundred and fifty magic crystals, if Carl wants to pay out of his own pocket, not counting the principal that Carl can repay the debt within thirty years without eating or drinking, if the family can share half of it for Carl, it will also be a big burden for Carl.

Surdak didn't know if Carl had any private property of his own, and thought that he had recently obtained two windfalls in succession. The two magicians, Hickok and Marion, had all their purses in their pockets, and there were fifty magic crystals alone, so he said to Karl, "That...... If you don't have enough magic crystals and need help, don't forget to let me know! ”

Carl didn't expect Surdak to say this, looked at Surdak in surprise, and asked a little incredulously: "It seems that you really made a small fortune?" ”

Surdak smiled slightly, and said noncommittally, "Every mage is a moving treasure trove!" That Marion was no exception. ”

Karl showed gratitude, looked at Surdak and said: "It must be much more difficult for you to save some money than me, after all, there is no family support behind you, as long as the life in the back is a little tighter, you should be able to make it up." ”

Carl hesitated for a moment before saying, "I mean ...... In fact, if you really have that kind of conditions, you should also think about planning a set of magic pattern construction, the gap between the construction knight and the knight is definitely much larger than you imagined, only the construction knight can compete head-on with the Nakma warriors, Nibru spider warriors, and demon warriors on the battlefield. In the Grimm Empire, only the Constructed Knights under the command of the lords will be considered true knights. ”

Construct Knight? Surdak thought that he had been working on the Demon Pattern Breeding Costume for the past few days, but he didn't have a clue, so he said vaguely: "Actually, I've been making some similar preparations recently, but many things are still just written on magic parchment!" ”

When Carl heard Surdak say that he was preparing for the Demon Pattern Formation, he immediately said very approvingly: "You can think so, with your current strength level, if you can have a set of power-type primary Demon Pattern Formation, you will definitely become an existence second only to Captain Sauron in the future!" ”

"If you could listen to me, you could open a lumber yard there if you chose the territory near Fornak Manor or the Korean Pine Forest, and then you would have started a timber business, although the competition in the Hylansa timber market was a bit fierce, but good timber was still not sold." Speaking of these, Karl changed his decadent state, put one hand on Surdak's shoulder, and said emotionally: "Dark, do you want to go out for a drink?" ”