Ruit City is located in the southern part of the Tarapakant region, and as we enter May, everything begins to grow wildly as a spring rain falls.

The ginkgo trees on both sides of the street spit out tender green branches and leaves, and they all say that to see if a city has a long history, in addition to the precious cultural relics in the museum and the mottled old buildings in the city, it is necessary to see the trees in the city.

The streets of Ruyt City are covered with towering ginkgo trees, which have almost completely shaded the streets, and the magic caravan drives under the shade of the large trees, looking to the other end of the long street, as if entering a tree hole made of trees.

There weren't many horse-drawn carriages on the streets, and pedestrians rushed along the streets.

Only some women and the elderly with children in their arms will find a place where the sun can shine at their door and bask in the sun.

The city had only been battled a year earlier, but it was clear that the worst wounds had been in the slums of the lower city, while the streets of the aristocratic quarters living high were still smooth and clean, with magic caravans driving on the stone-paved streets, with the crisp tapping sound of horses' hooves stomping on them.

Clusters of apricot-yellow spring flowers bloomed in the wind next to the castle, and Hathaway pushed open the window, leaning her beautiful face against the window, closing her eyes and smelling the fragrance of flowers outside the window.

When entering the castle gate, the four guards standing at the gate of the castle saluted the magic caravan, they were wearing standard light armor, chain mail helmets on their heads, and spears, and they looked quite energetic.

After the gate slowly opened, the magic caravan slowly drove into the vestibule with a circular flower bed, stopping in front of the castle steps where the two statues were erected.

More than twenty maids stood on either side of the steps in long dresses of linen in uniform colors, and a male butler and a middle-aged housekeeper with a somewhat old-fashioned face stood in front of them, and when the carriage stopped, the coachman jumped down from the driver's seat, opened the door quickly, and put the ladder on the rear shelf on the outer edge of the carriage door.

Hathaway nodded to Surdak, who stepped out of the magic caravan first.

Hathaway and Beatrice followed, then stood on either side of Surdak, and almost all the maids-in-waiting, led by the two butlers, said at the same time: "Lord Count Surdak, welcome home!" ”

Surdak was slightly stunned, he was still a little unaccustomed to the title of Lord Earl.

Seeing that Surdak didn't speak, Hathaway asked, "Has anything major happened in the castle lately?" ”

"All the best, Lady Hathaway!" The housekeeper's voice was a little hoarse, but her pronunciation was extremely standard.

Surdak walked down the red carpet into the hall on the first floor of the castle.

Thea ran out of the corridor on the side of the hall with her long wet hair, and her long skirt was still stained with water, as if she had put on a long dress after swimming in the pool, and she didn't even have time to dry her body, and the long skirt was wrapped around her body in many places.

"Dark, you're back!" Thea pounced on Surdak and gave Surdak a big hug.

"Yes! It seems that you are doing well in Ruit, and this time has obviously weighed a lot......"

Surdak pushed away Thea, who was a little wet, and asked with a smile, "But when are you going to go home?" ”

"Hey, how can you just come back...... Just ask such embarrassing questions to your guests, and besides, aren't they all members of your combat squad? Although I don't have the qualifications to enter the Great Battlefield this time, maybe I will be able to enter the Great Battlefield with you next time, hey, what about them? ”

Thea raised her hand to pull up her long, matcha-colored hair that was as wet as seaweed, and glanced behind Surdak, where there was only the two-headed ogre Gulitam except for the familiar Hathaway and Beatrice.

"Andrew and Samira are both staying in Dodan Town, Andrew needs to help me garrison the bridgehead camp, and Samira is responsible for managing the military camp in Dodan Town."

Surdak said.

On the ornate gold-rimmed sofa in the living room, two maids immediately knelt at Surdak's feet, took off his long leather boots for him, replaced them with soft cotton slippers, and helped him take off his demonic pattern and put it into a magic box at Surdak's signal.

Only then did the two maids enter a bathroom with a bath to take a bath, change into aristocratic clothes, and then sit back in a small hall on the second floor, listening to the middle-aged housekeeper's report, basically the nobles of Ruit City have visited recently, or some nobles have sent some invitations, and the butlers have replied accordingly, and so on.

Thea was almost asleep listening to the presentation.

Surdak was finally able to get out, and he went to another side room, only to see that the housekeeper was reporting to Hathaway about the daily expenses of the castle, which was even more cumbersome than his own, and Hathaway and Beatrice seemed to have adapted to this kind of life, and after saying everything, they would calculate and discuss it.

Seeing Surdak sitting next to him a little impatiently, Hathaway said to him: "We'll be fine soon, if you get bored, let's have afternoon tea together in the back garden......"

In the back garden, if Thea doesn't go out, she will always soak in the garden pool, and she has only recently been outdoors, after all, the winter in Ruit City is a bit cold, and the outdoor pool will drain the water in the winter, and it will not be filled with water until the end of March.

Surdak sat down on a wicker chair by the pool in the back garden, took out the Constructed Knight notes that Commander Felix had given him, and looked at them carefully.

Earlier in this notebook, it explains how a constructed knight can reach his full potential in combat.

In Commander Felix's view, a knight's own strength does not fully represent his combat effectiveness, because there are many uncertainties on the battlefield, and if the knight is adaptable and experienced in combat, even if his own strength is slightly weaker, he can exert his strength and win the battle.

If a knight has never been on the battlefield, lacks adaptability, and is always accustomed to sticking to the way he fights in training, even if he completely crushes his opponents with the strength he masters, he may not be able to defeat those enemies who are inferior to him on the battlefield.

And to stimulate one's own potential in battle is the path that Commander Felix has been pursuing.

To this end, he discovered the core runes in some magic matrices such as 'Acceleration Technique' and 'Speed Excitation', formed a new magic matrix, and fused the power of some knights to form an advanced skill that only knights could master, which he named 'White Heat'.

Surdak held the experience note in one hand and Esenhard's broadsword in the other, and continuously injected the condensed runes into the broadsword in his left hand, and when he swung the sword, two afterimages suddenly appeared, and the sharp sword qi even left three deep sword marks on the stone platform by the pool.

In the pool, Thea was startled by the sound of the pool, and she swam cautiously over, only to find that Surdak was also looking at the broadsword in his hand in a daze, and squatted by the pool to carefully examine the sword marks on the slate.

Thea was lying on the stone platform by the pool with her arms on her face, her face was hanging with a crystal column of water, and she stared at the deep sword marks with her big blue eyes, and asked Surdak, "What is this?" ”

Surdak said casually: "The knight's skill, Master Felix calls it 'white hot', it may be a sword skill, I mean this is more suitable for chopping heavy swords. ”

Thea smiled and said quickly, "Ha, I thought you would only be able to fight ...... shield"

Surdak touched his nose a little embarrassed and said, "I just don't usually have much contact with the martial arts of high-level knights. ”

"Is this a knight's seal?" Thea asked with interest.

"Probably not." Surdak said with some uncertainty.

Commander Felix's notes were placed on the small table next to the wicker chair, and Surdak put down the broadsword in his hand and lay down on the wicker chair.

Breathing the air full of the fragrance of plants, the afternoon sun sprinkled on him, he didn't expect the leisure life of the nobles to be so comfortable, and it is no wonder that the young nobles are unwilling to struggle, living in this environment all the year round, how can they have the courage to hold the long sword in their hands again.

A light breeze blew, and the notes were blown back a few pages by the wind, and the notes in the back were impressively written 'Aura of Fever'......

……

Such a huge castle needs meticulous maintenance every day, there are two gardeners in the castle who are pruning the greenery in the back garden, and three craftsmen have to repair or clean some loose stones in the castle every day, and occasionally clean the exquisite stone carvings in the castle, the most dangerous place is the back garden where half of the site is suspended on the cliff, and the load-bearing foundation stones that support the back garden are on the cliff.

The cliff tops allow birds to nest, but not termite nests or pangolins.

The annual spring overhaul is the hardest day for these craftsmen.

However, the situation has changed a little bit this year, because there is a two-headed ogre squatting there on the top of the cliff, and the three craftsmen in the castle only need to tie one end of the safety rope to his waist and climb down the rock wall, and when they need to come up, they only need to shout to the top: "Ogre, please pull the third rope up and ......"

The two-headed ogre crouching on it will pull up the craftsman hanging from the cliff face as fast as possible.

Of course, this service also comes at a price, that is, all the pangolins caught on the cliff wall are dedicated to the ogre.

Gulit recently learned a dish from Surdak called 'braised meat', and he has tried a lot of medium meats, pork, beef, chicken and fish, basically as long as it is meat, it is very suitable, especially the meat with a strong fishy taste, but the meat is very delicious is the most suitable for braised meat.

When he heard that the castle's craftsmen could get pangolins, the ogre wanted to try them on a whim, but he didn't expect them to be very delicious.

Surdak found it a little inconvenient to find the house too big, that is, it was a bit far to walk from the bedroom to the dining room, and he had to go through two corridors and three corridors to get to the huge dining room.

Moreover, the table in the dining room was fifteen meters long, and there were only four people in the dining room, Hathaway, Beatrice, and Thea every time they ate, and even with a group of maids standing nearby, the dining room still seemed a little empty.

Surdak felt that the castle looked glamorous on the outside, but in fact it was far less comfortable to live in than a small cottage, and his back garden hung on the top of a cliff, the size of a football field, but he didn't need to play football......

Surdak picked up the knife and asked Hathaway as he cut through the beef, "You've been eating dinner here these days?" ”

Beatrice, who had a round face, hurriedly said: "No, most of the time let them bring dinner into the room, sitting here empty, and being stared at by a row of servants, it is not comfortable at all." ”

Surdak looked at the butler standing at one end of the table, and then proposed to the three ladies, "Why don't we bring back our favorite dishes and eat them?" ”

Beatrice immediately agreed: "Yes! I want that grilled fish, and boiled kale, fruit salad......"

Surdak found that he slept in the bedroom, which was actually an ensuite, in addition to a separate washroom and dressing room, there was also a living room outside, Beatrice asked the servants to put these meals on the coffee table in the middle of the sofa, and the table was full, and the four of them sat around the coffee table, and the atmosphere became much warmer after sending off the maids who were guarding the side.

"If the weather warms up a little more, we can put the food on the small table outside on the patio and it will feel better." Beatrice took a bottle of golden cider from the ice bucket and poured a little for Surdak and Hathaway, and then a little for her own glass.

Thea doesn't like to drink and can only sit and eat fish.

"How's your cosmetics business doing?" Surdak asked casually.

Hathaway smiled and said, "It's not bad, Thea's proposal to use pearl grinding powder, as well as the magic scroll mask drawn are very popular, but they can only be made a little bit every month, and there are many people who want to buy them......"

Speaking of this topic, Thea, who was sitting opposite Surdak, threw away the fish bone in her hand, wiped her lips again, and sat up straight before saying to Surdak:

"By the way, I've scraped together some money, Dark, when are you going to take me to the slave market? I'm ready to rescue my people. ”

"And then you're going to take them back to the Seventh Sea?" Surdak asked.

Thea's blue eyes turned around, and a faint smile appeared on her face and said: "I don't have this plan, I want to place them in Lake Norma, and I don't help them regain their freedom for free, they must earn back the money I paid, and then I will use this money to save more people." ”

Surdak couldn't help but complain: "They usually live in the sea, do you think they will be used to sending them to a freshwater lake?" ”

"It should be fine! I don't feel anything unaccustomed to it......" Thea said, frowning, and asked back, "Dark, why do I think that what you asked me seems to have another meaning?" ”

"You're thinking too much...... Eat well! ”

Surdak quickly lowered his head and began to deal with the well-roasted beef on his plate.

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