"That's pretty much how it happened. ”

Ronald said with a dry mouth, and he served himself a bowl of mushroom soup.

"I see, I was awakened by that succubus......" After listening to the story made up by Ronald, the mage sighed there: "I see, I felt a little strange at the time. ”

Bruno interjected curiously, "What are you wondering about, Kerry?"

The mage didn't speak, but a book appeared in his hand and began to flip through it. Seeing the mage's expression, the doctor, who was familiar with the mage's surname, waited for him to speak again.

It wasn't long before the mage pointed his wizened finger to one of the pages and began to read softly to the two of them.

"In the 223rd year of the Falcon Empire, a red dragon named Moriel appeared in the Ekris Mountains, which was later subdued by the mercenary Ronan, who was also awarded the title of 'Warrior'. And the territory of about 500 miles east of the Ekris Mountains, with the acquiescence of the Empire, became the hunting ground of Moriel. ”

"Ronan?" Ronald was stunned: "Is it Ronan-Falken?

The mage closed the book and bowed slightly: "That's right, it's Ronan Falken, who relied on that red dragon in the Fifth Blood Moon War to become a king from a golden-medal mercenary. ”

When he heard about the Battle of the Blood Moon, the corners of Ronald's eyes inevitably twitched. He still remembered the introduction to the Battle of the Blood Moon that he had read in a boring book in the Duke's Palace. And thousands of years ago, when he chose to sleep, there was no blood moon in the sky at that time.

Did the division of Cloudsdale cause the invasion of demons in the first place......

He sighed silently in his heart.

"What's the matter, Luo?" Bruno looked at him with concern, "Don't worry, the red dragon, it's just a red dragon." But he wanted to comfort a few words, but he didn't know the strength of this red dragon at all, so that he didn't know how to take the words all of a sudden. With a turn of his mind, Bruno quickly turned his head and asked the most vocal mage: "I said Kerry, how powerful is that red dragon?"

A wry smile crossed the corner of the mage's mouth: "Who knows, I don't have the strength to challenge the majesty of the dragon." ”

Bruno stabbed him: "Aren't you immortal?"

"I'm not immortal in the true sense of the word, and there are still many ways to crack that spell, Lord Bruno. The mage's tone was rare and serious: "Also, my body is very weak now, and I need to cultivate for a month before I can return to my previous level. ”

Ronald couldn't help but smile wryly.

I don't know how many years it will take until I regain my strength in my heyday...... Or, go to that place? No, Adela must be waiting for me in that place, and at worst, he has set up a circle there...... The cunning woman......

The mage's words interrupted Ronald's thoughts.

"Luo, do you remember the night demon you killed last time?"

Ronald looked up suspiciously: "What's wrong?"

"Doesn't he also have a Chaos Ouroboros mark on his body? It is estimated that this time the succubus got the news of the failure of his companion and came to the Ekris Mountains again to awaken the red dragon Moriel. The mage narrowed his eyes as he tried to understand the conspiracy of the Orbitoros, "Why do you think they woke up the Red Dragon?"

"Take control of the Red Dragon and start a war. Ronald didn't think about it, so he continued: "Hasn't it been like this for thousands of years? Power, wealth, **, even God can't avoid it." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw two pairs of large eyes staring at him, like the intently gaze of a mouse in a cage. Dissatisfied with the gaze of the two of them, Ronald straightened his face: "What did I say wrong?"

was asked by Ronald like this, and the two of them suddenly retracted their curious gazes in embarrassment.

The atmosphere was a little dull, and finally the doctor smiled dryly and said, "We just wondered, why did you kid suddenly become like this......"

"What has become?" Ronald was going to get to the bottom of it.

The doctor scratched his head and smiled dryly, "Hey, hey." He wanted to say the strange feeling, but he couldn't say it all at once.

The mage interjected, "Didn't you care much about these things before, why are you talking about the Tao now?"

Bruno slapped his head: "Aha, that's right, that's what it means!" The next moment, his eyes flashed with a sly light: "Could it be that in order to be able to climb with the pearl of Falken, I deliberately studied this aspect of ......?"

Ronald gave the two of them a roll of the eyes angrily: "What is this?" Seeing the gossip in Bruno's eyes, Ronald knew that his explanation was also in vain, but he still said, "I'm not interested in these things now, Blue." Remember not to make fun of me with this next time, please. ”

"Oh?" Bruno raised his eyebrows, a rare and strange expression of inquiry. He stood up and looked the black-haired young man up and down very carefully: "You kid can't really have a problem with his brain amnesia, right? If you don't enjoy love at this age, do you really have to practice swordsmanship until you die?"

"Aren't you also the bachelor that no one wants?" Ronald immediately-for-tat: "I'm afraid that when I was my age, I had a problem with my brain, so I got into this situation." ”

"Oh oh, you boy!" retorted Bruno, choked up.

He pointed at Ronald, stunned that he didn't come up with a rebuttal, and embarrassed that he had to sit down angrily, trying to pull the mage to help, but found that the guy Kerry was pretending to be stunned.

Seeing Ronald with a bright smile on his face, Bruno was extremely unhappy, and immediately shouted loudly: "Hey, do you think I'll have no one to ask for it?"

The words were spoken, but the doctor found that Ronald was still smirking smugly. In desperation, the doctor had to stand up angrily and walk to the laboratory: "You kid...... Forget it, I'll go to the lab and see how the equipment is assembled. ”

Ronald drank the mushroom soup with a sullen head, and waited until the doctor was far away before he put down the spoon: "Let's get down to business, isn't the Empire about to go to war?

The mage stood up: "You should tell Princess Victoria, her ancestor was once a contractor of the Red Dragon Moriel, which is more convincing than my opinion. ”

Ronald looked at the mage seriously: "I said, how about we get out of here?"

Finding that Ronald's behavior today was too abnormal, the mage couldn't help but look puzzled, and his tone became extremely serious: "What's wrong with you?

Ronald shrugged his shoulders and calmly met the mage's gaze: "Isn't that guy trying to find a place to concentrate on his research......? It's better to make a decision to leave here and find a suitable place again. ”

After patiently listening to Ronald's analysis, the mage couldn't help but smile wryly: "Do you think he doesn't want to?" The mage moved the plate away from the table, took out a map of the Falcon Empire, and spread it out: "Look. ”

Ronald looked curiously in the direction of the mage's finger.

On this half-meter-square map, the Falcon Empire occupies more than 50% of its territory, and the territory of several surrounding countries is less than the size of a palm. The same goes for Turing and Falken, the two of them occupy the lower right corner of the map, separated by a forest on the edge of the Acles Mountains, where only a few narrow roads are passable through each other. And further down Falken is the boundless sea.

"This ...... It's not a world map, is it?" Ronald studied it carefully, and felt a little different from his memories from thousands of years ago.

The mage looked at Ronald with strange eyes: "Naturally it's not a world map, do you think a world map is easy to get?" He nodded at the space ring in Ronald's hand: "I'm afraid that the ring on your hand can't be exchanged for one, even if it's a two-star space ring worth 100,000 gold coins, it's difficult to get it." ”

Ronald didn't care about that, he was immersed in his own memories. But those memories were a little vague, and he could only remember approximately, a small part of which overlapped with the Falcon Empire's territory, but more of it was a much larger territory.

Thinking about it, he frowned.

The mage didn't notice that Ronald was lost in thought, he pointed to several countries around Falken, and continued on the topic just now: "Ryan, the two countries of Deleko are in the same bad situation as Falken, and the countries of Turing are under the Church, where else can we go? Do we want to go to the territory of the orcs? The language barrier is not a big problem, and many things that Blue uses for research cannot be obtained there." ”

Ronald came back to his senses in a trance, and then said his thoughts: "How about we go to sea and find a small island where no one lives?"

Tuk-tuk.

The mage's knuckles slammed on the wooden table.

Ronald saw a small tribe of orcs at the very edge of the map, with a few finger-sized islands nearby. At this time, the mage's words also reached his ears.

"If you can't get the equipment and materials for your research, what will Blue do with his research? And there are no sea boats over there, so you can only get small fishing boats, and it would be too dangerous to insist on sailing to the island. ”

Ronald pointed to his ring: "It's not enough to put it in here." ”

The mage sighed softly: "This is a one-star space ring, with only ten cubic meters of storage space. ”

"Isn't that enough?" Ronald asked, raising an eyebrow, "I don't think there's much in that lab." ”

"That's enough, but you're willing to spend more than half a year traversing forests and mountains, going to a country for months to buy medicinal herbs, and then spending half a year returning, just to do a few experiments?" explained patiently, "Time aside, the road is not so peaceful. ”

Ronald was stunned, he shrugged: "Well, it's that I'm thinking too simply. He changed his words: "So, what do you think of this Eastern Crusade Order of the Falcon Empire?"

"At present, I can only hope that the nobles of the empire are idle and panicked, just to come out and loot and make some merits and leave. Having said that, the Master sighed unexpectedly: "I remember when I was still in São Paulo, this happened to me. The nobles of Yanjing organized a desert raiding team and sent tens of thousands of troops to the Shatter Desert to crusade against the nomads there, but they only stayed there for more than three months, fought a few small battles and ran back. ”

Ronald spread his hands: "That's all it can be." Holding the back of his head, he walked to the bedroom: "Forget it, I'll go sleep for a while." ”

Finding that Ronald didn't seem to have the same motivation to train hard as he used to, the mage didn't ask much, believing that it was due to the frustration that Ronald felt when he saw the powerful strength of the succubus and the red dragon. And this kind of problem cannot be solved by relying on the words of outsiders, but by relying on Ronald's own firm mind to get through.

Looking at the young man's back, he could only choose to pray for him in his heart, hoping that Ronald would not give up the path of martial arts because of this.

Hey, I hope I don't waste that talent.

Christine put away the map and went back to her room to recuperate.

After Ronald entered the room, his lazy expression suddenly dissipated, and his gaze became extremely deep.

As a result, do you still have to rely on strength......

He looked down at his hands, a little hesitant in his heart.