In the heart of the Garden Square in the city of Highlandza stands a Baroque bell tower.

The bell tower rests on a solid granite foundation and is made entirely of bluestone, making it the tallest building in this area of the Garden Square. The four sides of the bell tower are carved with elaborate giant reliefs, each of which narrates a glorious history of the city of Highlandza. It is said that there was a dragon's nest on a rocky cliff at the southern end of the Pagros Mountains, where a red dragon entrenched and often attacked humans in the southern part of the Pagros Mountains.

In order to defend against this red dragon, the people here built pedestal castles everywhere, and invested heavily in installing some giant bed crossbows on the arrow towers of these castles, but even this could not stop the red dragon's infestation.

Duke Newman summoned the Bednar swordsmen and organized three dragon hunting operations, and finally in the last dragon hunting operation, Duke Newman killed the red dragon with the Quelcella long sword in his hand, officially because of that great battle, the southern foothills of Paglos Mountain were completely scorched, and the place where the red dragon had fought has now become a barren land, and the dragon's nest has been burning for hundreds of years, and the radius of a hundred miles is covered with a thick layer of volcanic ash, which is called by the people of Hailanza - Pusy Mountain.

Standing on the observation deck of the bell tower, holding on to the railing and looking out at the pale blue mountains outside the city, the cold south wind blew away Hathaway's long golden and soft hair, she reached out to pull it up, and tied a handkerchief into a refreshing ponytail, her turquoise eyes followed the direction of Surdak's finger, trying to cross the five ridges to see the pass Surdak mentioned.

According to Surdak, as soon as you climb over the pass, you can see the village of Wohl on the edge of the barrens.

She stood side by side with Beatrice, who looked at Surdak with adoration on his face, undisguised his fiery gaze.

In the midst of the small talk, Beatrice had already figured out Surdak's family situation, he not only had a wife in the family, but also a son, thinking of this, Hathaway's mood became a little depressed, wondering if her trip to Hylanza was too impulsive.

Seeing Beatrice's happy face, Hathaway was at a loss, she couldn't see the future clearly, and she couldn't be as frank and casual as Beatrice, she always had to take into account the feelings of her family, she didn't know how to convince her father and get his support.

Then the three of them went to the Temple of Liberty in the city of Highlandza, but this golden temple is now completely dilapidated, and many of the gilded reliefs on the surrounding walls are badly damaged, and the temple now has only one old man who fights the watch, Surdak showed the knight badge of the guard battalion, and took out ten silver coins to convince the old man to open the door.

The courtyard of the temple was paved with bluestone slabs, but the cracks of these bluestone slabs were now overgrown with weeds, and in the middle of the courtyard was a thick layer of bird droppings on the chalice-shaped water spray stone carving, and at the top of the petal-shaped sculpture, there was a bird's nest.

When I walked into the Great Hall, I found that the Statue of Liberty had collapsed, and the hand that represented freedom had fallen into a pile of rubble.

"The temple in Bena is in better shape than here, and there are at least a few priests." Hathaway said as she stopped in front of the idol.

All the valuable things in the temple have been emptied, even the benches in the auditorium are only a few broken legs, and there was originally a silver basin containing holy water in front of the high platform, but now there is only a black hole left on the platform, and the silver basin has long been gone.

"I didn't expect the temple here to be dilapidated like this......" Beatrice said, standing beside Hathaway.

The completely abandoned Lady Liberty Temple naturally had nothing to visit, and the three of them walked around casually and walked out of it.

Before leaving, the old man who was guarding the door smiled lewdly at Surdak, revealing a look of 'understanding you'.

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, Surdak had accompanied Hathaway and Beatrice to walk around the city for most of the day, and the three of them found a random restaurant on this street in the Magic Tower and had a dinner.

The magic caravan stopped in front of Hathaway and Beatrice's temporary residence, and Surdak declined the invitation to sit in and bid farewell to the two women.

"Will you write to me?" Beatrice stood in the doorway, a little reluctantly asked Surdak.

Surdak nodded.

"Will you come to see me when you come to Pena City?" Beatrice asked again.

Surdak nodded again and said, "Yes." ”

Beatrice smiled, but with a sparkle in her eyes, she inhaled hard to prevent the tears from flowing so easily.

Surdak mounted the Gubolai horse and waved at the two women.

Then the sound of horses' hooves sounded rapidly, and Surdak's figure quickly disappeared into the long street.

……

After the bath, Beatrice lay on the soft bed in a thin nightdress, with a parchment diary in front of her, holding a quill in her hand, and said to Hathaway, "Hathaway, how do you think we can convince the people in the family to agree to me marrying a knight?" ”

Faced with Beatrice's question, Hathaway said speechlessly:

"How do I know?"

She's taking care of her hedgehog crystal lion skin armor.

Tight leather armor needs to be coated with some grease in the spring, if you don't take care of it for too long, the leather will harden, and once the leather of this tight leather armor hardens, the movement will be affected during battle, so as a swordsman, you must first learn to maintain your leather armor.

Beatrice lay on the bed, supported her chin with one hand, and asked with a puzzled expression:

"Hey, Hathaway, if I succeed one day, can we still be best friends?"

Hathaway was slightly stunned, she didn't seem to have ever thought about this problem, now that she thinks about it, joining Beatrice is really willing to let go of everything she has, as if there is really such a possibility, she suppressed the irritability that rose in her heart, turned around and held Beatrice's round face, put her white forehead against her forehead, and said to her: "Of course, we will always be the best friends." ”

Beatrice breathed a sigh of relief, her eyes became much brighter, she jumped up like a female leopard and hugged Hathaway, the two rolled on the big bed, Beatrice stared at Hathaway's blue eyes, and said very seriously: "Well, no matter one day in the future, you or I, either of them can get their wishes, and they are not allowed to be angry with each other." ”

"I'm not ready to marry him!" Hathaway avoided Beatrice's gaze and said against her will.

A small hand that had been cold reached through her neckline and pressed against her full breasts, Hathaway struggled for a moment, and asked Beatrice:

"Hey, Beatrice, what are you doing?"

Beatrice smiled and said, "Let me touch your heart, do you dare to repeat that sentence just now!" ”

"Don't make a fuss......"

Hathaway pushed Beatrice's hand away and whispered with a red face.

……

Leaving the alley, Surdak scratched at his hair and pushed some unrealistic ideas out of his head.

Having lived in the city of Hylanza for nearly half a year, he has gained a deeper understanding of this society, such as the invisible but insurmountable wall between the nobles and the commoners, and although he is a knight of the first rank, he is only a commoner with a little 'privilege'.

As he passed through the Magical Guild, Surda grabbed the reins of his horse, thinking that he was about to leave Highlandsa and that he should visit the Scholar Ferdinand before leaving, he turned over and jumped off his horse, leading him to the Magic Tower.

Hand over the horse to the guard at the door, and reporting the name of the Fernand scholar, Surdak entered the Magical Guild without incident.

Surdak had the impression that Scholar Ferdinand rarely left the Magic Tower, and he would find it every time he came to look for him.

This time, Surdak visited Scholar Ferdinand, and he was indeed staying in the mage tower, and it seemed that he had just completed a magic experiment, and was exchanging some ideas with several magic apprentices during the experiment, and the young magic apprentices around him quickly recorded the words of Scholar Ferdinand, showing a look of admiration.

Scholar Ferdinand saw Surdak push the door open and walked in, waved his hand to the magic apprentices gathered around him, signaling the exchange of ideas to pause, and then walked up to Surdak and beckoned him to sit down on the sofa in the lounge area.

A female magic apprentice brought two cups of tea with a glowing green light, which made Surdak wonder if after drinking this cup of tea would become like a firefly, and a section of his stomach would also glow green, and he smiled at the female magic apprentice and did not dare to try it.

Scholar Ferdinand didn't hesitate, took a sip before asking Surdak, "How did you have time to come to me?" ”

Surdak told Scholar Ferdinand that he had participated in the plane war of the Maca plane some time ago, and Scholar Ferdinand suddenly said: "No wonder I haven't seen you for a while, that guy Lance seems to have participated in this plane war......"

"We've seen him a few times in the city of Vojmara, and he's in the Wizards' Scout." Surdak said.

As if thinking of something, Scholar Ferdinand sat up straight and looked at Surdak, and asked curiously, "By the way, did you use the enhancement scroll I gave you last time, how do you feel, has your physique been strengthened a little?" ”

Surdak touched his nose and said, "Uh...... It so happened that my horse's legs were broken, and all four of its legs had been broken on the battlefield in the Warsaw plane, and I was worried that it would be difficult to recover from the break again this time, so I gave it a ......."

All the sounds in the lab seemed to have vanished, and Scholar Ferdinand and his magic apprentices glared at Surdak with a look of disbelief.

Scholar Ferdinand pointed at Surdak and said bitterly, "You actually gave a precious magic enhancement scroll to your warhorse to use?" ”

"It turns out to be very useful...... Surdak replied honestly.

Scholar Ferdinand's complaint came to an abrupt halt, and he couldn't wait to ask, "Tell me about the situation." ”

Surdak said to Scholar Ferdinand, "The horse is downstairs, do you want to see it for yourself, I think its legs have been altered to a certain extent!" ”

Before Surdak could finish speaking, Scholar Ferdinand stood up and said, "Then what are we waiting for here, take me to see it." ”

Scholar Ferdinand took a few magic apprentices and carefully examined the ancient Bolai horse for a long time before returning to the mage tower satisfied.

According to the words of the Ferdinand scholars, this magic enhancement scroll was very successful, and the only uncontrollable thing was that there was excess magic power in the scroll, which stimulated some kind of benign mutation in the place where the war horse's leg was broken, which fully proved that the design scheme of the magic enhancement scroll was completely feasible......

Hearing what Scholar Ferdinand said, Surdak also secretly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, thinking that it was good that the scroll was not used on himself.

The scars on the body are already terrifying, and if there are countless blood vessels bulging somewhere in the body, it will be the worst.

Surdak then went on to discuss with the Scholar Ferdinand some general knowledge about the Demonic Colony.

Scholar Ferdinand told Surdak that the reason why the Imperial Magician's research on the Demon Pattern Suit has been stagnant is mainly because of the lack of awareness of the Life Pattern, which not only has strict requirements for the carrying capacity of the warrior, but also whether the attributes of the Life Pattern match the warrior's own attributes is also a crucial item, and if the fusion effect of the Magic Pattern Suit and the recipient during the implantation process is very poor, it also means that the Pattern Formation has failed.

Once the implantation fails, it will not only affect the health of the recipient, but also endanger the life if it is not done well.

In addition, the Life Demon Pattern is an unattainable thing for many magicians.

There are even fewer books on the subject of the Life Pattern, and only a small percentage of magicians are interested in the study of this subject.

At present, the books of the Magic Guild only have some test data on the black magic pattern, but this dark element will erode the body of the recipient, once the implantation process fails, the recipient may become a madman, or leave an irreparable injury on the body, so the magic union prohibits the black pattern magic skin as a magic pattern breeding suit, and the black pattern magic skin seized from the battlefield can only be used for academic research.

Surdak had also wanted to tell Ferdinand that he had successfully implanted a demonic colony costume into an archer.

Hearing Scholar Ferdinand say this, he hesitated a little, and after thinking about it again, he still felt that he would not talk about this matter for the time being, and as for how to obtain the Life Demon Pattern, Surdak felt that it was not as difficult as Scholar Ferdinand said.

Before leaving, Surdak said that he had completed his studies at the Knight Academy in the city of Highlandza, and that he was about to become the magistrate of the Badlands outside the Paglos Pass, and that he would go to the Badlands......

Scholar Ferdinand didn't say much about this, except that if he didn't want to stay in the guard barracks, he could join the Magic Guild......

By the time Surdak left the Magic Guild, it was already full of stars.