"Kerry, do you still have magic crystals there, ice-based. ”

The mage, who was sipping fragrant tea, put down the saucer and probed his consciousness into the spatial ring, and soon he took out a dozen or so finger-sized azure magic crystals. "That's all, and that's what you got when you hunted snow bears. ”

Ronald was not polite, and after putting it away in his ring, he threw it to the mage a copy of the hand.

He nodded his head: "What is recorded here is the structure of several magic circles that I know. As for the principle, I don't know very well, I hope it will help you improve your strength. ”

The mage's eyes lit up as he flipped through the codex. "Okay, I see. He didn't bother sipping the tea, and immediately entered a state of full attention, and began to read it carefully.

"I see, the last time you used the Ghost Goldfinch was for ......"

The mage finally solved the doubt, and he couldn't help but frown with joy. But when he looked up, he saw that Ronald was long gone.

Kerry shook his head and couldn't help but laugh.

He diligently took the manuscript back to his room, and began to study the circles recorded in the manuscript.

And Ronald was out of the house at the moment, and was riding his horse to the castle.

After arriving at the castle and informing the guards, he entered Victoria's study under the respectful eyes of the knights.

"What, what's the matter?" Victoria looked up with a smile, and soon she realized what Ronald was here for: "Are you here to get those weapons?"

Ronald nodded: "Yes, it's been a few days, I think I still have to go to the Red Dragon Cave." ”

Victoria took out a box of gold: "Here's the seven thousand gold coins you need." As for weapons, I guess you'll have to go with me to the armory. ”

Ronald put away the gold coins and followed behind Victoria.

The two of them walked out of the castle quickly, and then rode in the direction of the armory. In the envious and admiring eyes of a group of passers-by, the two of them came to the ordnance department.

It's just that when she dismounted, Victoria's face turned red.

Just now she vaguely heard that "our pearl of Falken and this mysterious hero are really a natural pair, one is beautiful and the other is handsome."

Fortunately, the court etiquette since she was a child allowed her to control her mood fluctuations in time. Rao was like this, she still quietly glanced at Ronald beside her.

"Here we are, Your Highness. ”

Hearing that faint tone, "Oh?" Victoria quickly withdrew her gaze, took Ronald, and walked quickly to the Ordnance Administration.

In the whispers of several soldiers, the two finally came to the inside of the warehouse. And the deliberately suppressed words still penetrated Victoria's ears through a cold breeze, making the tips of her ears a little hot.

He understood that it was not the heat that came from resisting the cold, but the ......

Victoria took a soft breath of air, blowing the rumbling thoughts out of her lungs. She pointed to the pile of weapon boxes on the left, "Well, this is the tomahawk you need." Fortunately, there are still a lot of stocks, and I asked the blacksmiths to make dozens of them on a temporary basis. ”

Ronald stepped forward and found that the weapon cases took up a large amount of space.

I don't know if I can pretend to be able to fit it......

He first took ten large wooden boxes in, and when he found that there was not much room left, he opened the rest of the wooden boxes and prepared to put them in bulk.

Victoria was stunned at first when she saw his move, but soon understood. "Not enough storage left?" Seeing Ronald nod, Victoria volunteered to help unpack the wooden box.

While busy, she took advantage of this rare time for the two to be alone and ask the questions she had always wanted to ask.

"By the way, Ronald, why did you refuse the Earl's certificate granted to you by His Majesty?"

Ronald, who was busy, stood up, scratched his head, and looked at Victoria beside him with a smile: "That, it's not of much use to me." Seeing the confusion in the princess's eyes, he stopped dismantling the wooden box and continued: "Give me a piece of territory, and I don't know how to take care of it, or leave it to someone more capable." ”

The princess retorted: "It's not that complicated, the things underneath, naturally someone will help you deal with them, and you can still do what you want." ”

"That's because ......" Ronald thought about it, feeling that the fact that he had said it was not good to seal his territory just to win himself over.

The princess's sincere gratitude was enough for him, and as for His Majesty Granddon, whom he had never met, Ronald did not want to accept this kindness born of wooing.

So he changed his perspective and said: "If you think about it, if a manager wants to make achievements, he must devote himself to managing internal affairs. For example, the planning of the economy and agricultural trade in the territory, the digging of ditches and rivers, the trade diplomacy with the surrounding lords, and the training and management of the army......" Ronald shook his head: "It's too much brain. ”

Seeing Ronald's serious appearance, Victoria finally couldn't help but burst out laughing. "Then, you can leave it to the competent people under your command to manage. It's not that you have to do everything yourself. ”

"If you want to be a lord, then try to do the best you can, otherwise it is better not to do it. Ronald didn't get angry, but continued to explain seriously: "Even if you manage the people under you, you need to pay attention to the tricks of tricks, right? It's not worth it for me to spend time on this." ”

At this point, he couldn't help but think of Lucifer's sentence, "Mortals compete for territory, the strong chase power, and gods rob faith."

Now, even if I fully regain my strength, I'm still only at the level of a legend......

As far as warrior classes are concerned, the Iron Chopping level can be called the strong level, the Wind Chopping level is the brave level, and above it is the legend level, or even the legendary level. The same is true for the legal profession, the ** master is the strong level, the magician is the brave level, and then the title is the same.

The princess's nightingale-like teasing drew him back from his thoughts.

"I didn't expect you to know a lot, and you don't look like an idiot who can only practice swords. ”

As soon as the words came out, Victoria suddenly realized that this sentence was a little frivolous, a little intimate, and should not come from the mouth of a princess with good court etiquette. Her face once again flew with a faint flush.

Fortunately, Ronald didn't care about that, he just shrugged: "Who knows, if you want to control everything, you will be busy coming and going, maybe in the end it will be a void, and you will end up at a half-baked level." It is better to devote all your energy to specialization, and you may be able to achieve the highest achievement in this field. ”

As he spoke, Ronald picked up the last few tomahawks and put them into the already full space ring.

"Alright, I'll go to the Red Dragon's Lair first. ”

Victoria, who came back to her senses, hurriedly waved her hand: "Then you go first, I still have some things to do." She pointed at herself as if self-deprecatingly: "You're right, like me, I don't have a high level of force, and I can't manage my territory well. ”

"No, you're doing a great job. Ronald smiled kindly, and cheered up the princess, who was a little hesitant: "I heard Blair, Your Highness, you are only in your early eighteen, right? At this age, it is a very proud thing to be able to read and manage a castle." ”

Originally, I was very happy to hear Ronald's praise, but his old and honest tone like a lesson made the princess straighten her chest a little unconvinced, and retorted loudly: "Hey, you don't seem to be that old!"

Ronald then remembered that he was only a young man in his early twenties. He couldn't help scratching the back of his head and laughed embarrassedly: "Yes, I'll pay attention." ”

He followed the example of Bruno's fellow, leaned over and bowed almost ninety degrees, and made amends: "I beg your pardon, Your Highness Victoria-Falken, the shining pearl of our country. ”

"You guy......" The princess couldn't help but be amused, and counted him down with a smile: "It's the same as those noble boys, it's not serious." ”

Seeing that the princess seemed to be in a much better mood, Ronald waved his hand: "Then, goodbye, Your Royal Highness the Princess." ”

"Goodbye, Knight Ronald. ”

After saying goodbye to the princess, Ronald turned on his horse and galloped in the direction of Red Dragon Mountain.

When he arrived at the lair where the red dragon was, he found that Moriel's territory had been somewhat expanding—a kobold village had been established near the periphery of the cave, and he could faintly see dozens of kobolds patrolling there.

Ronald frowned, tethered his horse to the trunk of a tree and switched to walking.

After walking a few steps, he saw the little ones, who were less than a meter tall, with brown skin and black skin, and heads like dogs, but with a single horn, screaming, aiming at themselves and throwing stones and javelins frantically.

Ronald's eyes were cold, and a cold killing intent burst out in an instant.

The kobolds were collectively stunned for a moment, and they looked at each other hesitantly. But soon they continued to shout, and ran towards Ronald with all sorts of rudimentary wooden weapons.

Rumble!

When approaching Ronald ten meters, Ronald finally couldn't help it and burst out of the Ice Demon Ring.

A cold blue ring emanated from his body, slicing the bloodthirsty dogheads with bloodthirsty eyes into separate bodies and flying limbs!

And this fluctuation of magic power was finally detected by the recuperating red dragon, and Moriel exuded a faint dragon might.

When the kobold in the distance sensed his master's order, he respectfully gave the black-haired young man a way with a frightened and frightened look.

When Ronald entered the cave, he found that it wasn't just as simple as having more kobolds on the periphery.

There are a lot more caves on the outskirts, and they must have been dug by the blind men.

In addition, there are many kinds of mushrooms planted in damp places near the water source, and the colorful caps are obviously used to make poison.

What's even worse is that he saw that in the depths of the cave, he had already opened up a maze of minotaurs five or six hundred meters deep. A team of minotaurs walked around dutifully with their upper bodies, bloodthirsty eyes puffed out, and wooden stakes.

There were also a number of dense red dots, glued to the top of the cave with tentacles as thin as vines, and along the way, the evil eyes were staring at themselves with those dense eyeballs, as if they were ready to attack at any moment.

Ronald couldn't help but sigh.

The evil eye is watching, and the minotaur is patrolling, and the defense work of the intersection leading to the inner part of the volcano is done without revealing it. When this area expands, it will also be a dangerous rival.

However, it is more important to unite against the Falcon Empire's next offensive tactics at this time. With this thought in mind, at the entrance to the crimson lair, Ronald stopped.

"I'm here to pay my debts, Moriel. ”

The red dragon opened his eyes and lazily responded.

Bang la blah.

In its line of sight, Ronald took out the wooden boxes from the spatial ring, and poured the gold coins and weapons on the ground, which were quickly piled up into a small dirt bag.

"That's seven thousand gold coins, and a hundred and twenty battle axes. ”

The red dragon closed his eyes impatiently and motioned for Ronald to leave. "Okay, you still owe me one last task, hurry up and get out, I'm waiting for your good news. ”

Ronald was a little surprised to find that the red dragon was so cold, and his gaze was on the reverse scale of Moriel's neck, and he found that there were still some slight dents.

Immediately he understood the reason, and in order to avoid angering the red dragon, Ronald did not stay long. Under the watchful eye of those evil eyes, he turned and walked briskly out of the cave. (To be continued.) )