At the hottest time of summer, even a fresh breeze blows in your face is warm.

It is only during the brief period between dawn and night that a trace of coolness can be felt in the mountain castle.

At this time, the people were still asleep, and the streets could only see some night watchmen extinguishing the street lights, and then carrying the city's household garbage out of the city with horse-drawn wagons, and the homeless people on the park benches and beside the bush walls on the street were chased away by the sheriffs, and these city facilities no longer belonged to them during the day.

The night watchman finished his last bit of work, ending the day's hard work before the first rays of the sun shone on the city.

Early in the morning, the streets of the city become clean and tidy.

The first people to get up are always the street vendors who serve breakfast.

They quickly took over the streets of the city, silently preparing delicious food in the morning light.

In the city of Highlandza, scones and cereal are always the main theme on the morning table, but there are also people who are willing to try some vegetable soup, cutlets, fish and chips.

In the summer, there is a variety of fresh jams spread on the crispy scones, which are the most popular breakfast in the city of Highlandza.

This summer, a new food has crept into the city of Highlandza.

In the beginning, it was passed down among the coachmen in the carriage shop, and it was a new type of flour that was very white and fine.

The coachmen called it starch, which they boiled in an iron pan into a paste and cooled it to make a kind of cold cake, which was originally fried in a pan until browned and eaten.

The inventive people of Hylanza have redefined this food by cutting it directly into thin slices and drizzling it with sweet and sour jam, which is a popular way in the city.

It's just that the new flour that is white and delicate is not easy to buy, and it can only be bought on the free market occasionally.

Surdak got up from the bed, dressed only in a pair of linen shorts, and walked naked to the terrace next to the attic, and raised his hands to stretch out against the rising sun, he was covered with terrible burn scars, these scars almost covered his body, and the fire in the fragments of memory seemed to take away his most important thing.

Surdak rubbed his head, looked down at his belly with an extra layer of fat, turned around and took out the blood-red crescent moon and the brand-new round shield from the wall, and stood on the terrace in a defensive stance, and began to repeat the basic movements of sitting and parrying and slashing.

This level of practice does not improve strength and fitness, but it does strengthen the body's memory.

During this time in Wall Village, he neglected morning exercises, and his body had begun to gain excess fat, but Surdak found that these scars did not seem terrible in the eyes of others, and many veterans who came down from the battlefield were scars, but only some burns on his body.

Occasionally, when Natasha hugged him from behind, she put her face behind his back and asked him about the battle, to which Surdak always replied lightly: "Forgotten!" ”

Natasha thought that Surdak didn't want to remember that nightmarish experience anymore, but she didn't know that Surdak really had forgotten.

Sweating profusely, feeling that every group of muscles in his body was completely activated, and the fat all over his body began to burn, Surdak stopped.

He held his hands on the terrace and looked out of the city.

The city of Hylanza is a hill town, and all the buildings are built on the hillside, with a terraced shape low in the south and high in the north, so you can get a very good view from the rooftop, and from this inn in the Garden Square you can see the oak trees all over the mountain.

The city of Highlandsa is the most beautiful in this season, and it is usually cloudy and rainy, so it is difficult to have such good weather.

The innkeeper, Mrs. Cohen, wore a thin nightgown and carried a plate of green wild fruits onto the terrace, the fabric of which could not cover her breasts. The front pair of proud headlights, her eyes are a little picky. The amusement fell on Surdak, who generously took the fruit bowl, turned to Cohen, the innkeeper in the inner courtyard, who was planting alfalfa grass next to the stable, and raised the fruit bowl in his hand.

Mrs. Cohen gave Surdak a blank look, raised her white pointed chin and turned to leave the attic terrace.

The face always makes a variety of picks. The funny proprietress Surdak felt that it was probably because his attitude was not resolute enough.

On the terrace on the top floor, Surdak began to consider whether to change to a hotel next time he came to Highlandsa City, but the most familiar place in Highlandsa City, except for the Knight Academy and the guard barracks, was the only one in this hotel.

He's the kind of guy who is very nostalgic, and really doesn't want to change this hotel where he stays so comfortably unless he has to.

When Surdak entered the sea of spiritual consciousness, mobilized the divine aura in his body, and was ready to light up more nodes in his waist and abdomen, he encountered obstacles.

If you compare his body to the universe, below the second abs is the bottom half of the universe, where all the nodes are not lit.

The countless lit nodes in the upper half of his body are shining brightly in the sea of spiritual consciousness, but this incomparably bright sea of stars seems to be only half of it now, and his lower body can't light up any star no matter what, and the two spaces seem to have a clear dividing line.

In that space, it seemed that everything had turned upside down, and in that half of the void sea of spiritual consciousness, Surdak's divine consciousness could also roam freely, but all the places were dark and chaotic, and his divine consciousness wandered for a long time before he found a dark star in a secluded corner, which was a dark purple node, if it wasn't for the nearness, the star seemed to be completely integrated into the darkness.

Just as he was approaching the dark star, countless feelings of fear, hatred and destruction that had grown from his heart were quickly absorbed by the dark star, and countless scenes of killing on the battlefield instantly passed through Surdak's mind, like a terrifying slideshow.

The sea of spiritual consciousness is constantly reverberating: Tasamet! Tassamet! Tassamet ......

When the outside of the dark star turned dark purple, the closest star to the dark star glowed with a lilac glow in the endless darkness.

Surdak looked stunned, he didn't understand what was going on with his spiritual consciousness at all, the cultivation aura methods he learned in the junior knight academy were completely unsuitable for him, and Surdak felt as if his cultivation had entered a certain bottleneck.

He woke up from meditation and was slightly relieved to find that there was no change in his body.

After taking a cool shower and having a light breakfast, Surdak rode out of the hotel and headed for the town hall of Highlandza.

……

This time he came to the city of Highlandsa, and neither Andrew nor Samira accompanied him.

The main reason is that Surdak is worried that the village of Vol will be attacked again more than half a month ago, after all, until now, the rebel knights who have sneaked into the territory of Hylanza City have not been cleared, and for this matter, the Hylanza guard battalion has sent ten squadrons of knights one after another.

But the rebels were accustomed to life in the mountains, and at the same time they were more alert and adept at stealth than the knights of the guard battalion.

Once encountered in the mountains, the number of guards battalion increased, and those rebel knights took the guard battalion knights around the mountains.

When the number of guards in the battalion was small, they did not dare to get too close to those rebels.

In order to ensure the safety of the village of Wall, Surdak left Andrew and Samira, Gulitham, and Aphrodite in the village and rushed to the city of Highlandsa alone.

The city hall of Hylanza is not far from the guard barracks.

The pace of life here is relatively slow, and many people are reluctant to wake up early.

When Surdak came to the door of the city hall, he saw many staff members in the city hall hurrying from all directions, some of them even carrying bulging breakfast bags in their hands, and when a group of people greeted each other, they were still inviting to wait for the meeting to have morning tea if they were not too busy with work.

Seeing Surdak waiting outside early, the guard at the door tactfully told him that he could go to the café opposite to sit for a while, and the normal office hours here were basically after noon, because those people had to eat breakfast during the morning working hours.

Surdak shook his head, indicating that he had made an appointment with someone, and that he wanted to wait at the door for a while.

When the guard saw that Surdak insisted on doing so, he ignored him.

An ornate silver-encrusted carriage drove out of Christie's castle and arrived at the town hall not long after.

Anyone who saw the carriage, whether nobles or commoners, took the initiative to give way to the ornate carriage.

The carriage stopped at the entrance of the town hall, and the coachman jumped down from the driver's seat and opened the door on his own initiative, and a young assistant stepped out of the carriage. The figure of the Marquis Christie.

He stepped out of the carriage in a delicate aristocratic dress and paused beside the carriage before ascending the steps towards the gate of the town hall.

When passing through the main entrance of the town hall, the assistant next to him quietly stepped forward, approached the Marquis Bernard and whispered, "My lord, that is Baron Surdak......

Bernard. Marquis Christie was slightly stunned, raised his head and looked at the gate of the town hall, only to see a knight in costume standing quietly at the door, Bernard felt that he was a little familiar, and for a moment he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

Surdak was able to enter Bernard. Marquis Christie's sight was entirely due to the strong recommendation of Marquis Luthor and a group of lords, so that His Majesty Charles made an exception to confer the title of Baron Surdak as a nobleman.

Commoners were promoted to nobility, and generally only magicians were able to enjoy such rights. Warriors who awaken their magical senses are rare, but not uncommon, and magic swordsmen and magic archers often appear in elite warbands.

Due to their keen sense of magic, they have an innate advantage when it comes to fighting, and in general, they are much stronger than ordinary warriors.

But these alone do not allow them to earn the title of nobility.

Surdak was wearing a set of 'Earth Shield' magic pattern uniform, standing straight at the door of the town hall, just looking at his pair of eyes as blue as a lake, Marquis Bernard suddenly felt good, he strode over, stood still in front of Surdak, with a kind smile on his face, and asked him gently: "You are Surdak?" ”

Surdak of course knew the Marquis Bernard, and the first time he met the Marquis Bernard, it was in Darcy. Christie's invitation to the ball.

He stood up, gave a knightly salute to the Marquis Bernard, looked straight ahead, and said word by word: "Yes, Marquis Bernard." ”

Marquis Bernard led Surdak into his office on the third floor of the town hall, where a female secretary carried prepared refreshments and placed them on the tea table in the lounge area.

As soon as Surdak walked into the office, the Marquis Bernard asked him to walk to the side of the sand table, and continued: "Your outstanding performance in the war on the maca plane has been transmitted to His Majesty Charles in the form of a written report, and the joint recommendation of the Marquis of Luthor has made you a nobleman, and His Majesty Charles canonized you as a third-class baron, presumably you already knew this news in advance!" The main reason for calling you to the city of Highlandsa this time is to study the matter of the barony. ”

The assistant handed a thin stick to the Marquis Bernard.

Marquis Bernard pointed to a mountain range on the southern outskirts of Highlandsa Mountain City, and said to Surdak: "I heard that you don't want a territory in a small plane, so with my authority, I can only let you choose a territory on the outskirts of Highlandsa City, this manor used to be the private territory of Count Hoyle, because Count Hoyle died in the accident last summer, and now most of his estate is inherited by his daughter, this farm is the land divided by Hoyle Manor, are you interested in taking over?" ”

"I don't know what your concerns are, but I promise that there will be no trouble taking over this part of the land......"

Bernard. Marquis Christie added.

"Grenfell Manor and Fornack Manor are not bad, I heard Johnny say that you want to choose the barony in the barren land, you want to expand the original knight's territory again, in my opinion this move is not rational, that barren land is in the middle of nowhere, and the land is barren, if you want to run there, you need to invest huge manpower and material resources, far less comfortable than the existing manor on the outskirts of Highlandsa City."

The Marquis Bernard pointed to the two manor areas on the sand table with his stick and suggested to Surdak.

Surdak picked up a small red flag from a wooden box next to the sand table, turned to the northwest corner of the sand table, leaned out and planted the small flag on the pus-covered mountain deep in the barren land, and said to the Marquis Bernard with a smile: "Lord Marquis, if I can, I would like to ask for a territory here!" ”

“……”

Bernard. Christie looked at Surdak suspiciously, unable to understand why he had chosen this way.

Surdak explained to Bernard: "Lord Marquis, I have found a sulphur mine in this area, and in order to secure the ownership of this sulphur mine, I would like to choose the barony here......"

"Well, as long as you think about it." When the Marquis Bernard saw that Surdak insisted on doing so, he nodded in agreement.