Chapter Seventy-Three: Kanas
Kanas is a small island to the east of the continent of Hill, belonging to the equally small kingdom of Kolar, which is also not very powerful. The entire island of Kanas is only a little larger than a city, with two small villages on it. One is called Coquimbo who makes a living by the sea, while the other is called Kanafon, who is engaged in agriculture in the interior of the continent and has some small handicrafts.
This island, called Kanas, except for the occasional arrival of the kingdom's tax collectors, collects taxes for a year. Hardly anyone from the outside world would come here, after all, Kanas was too small to have any outstanding specialties and not even a single special talent.
Many of the residents who have lived on Kanas for generations feel that their qualifications are poor. Otherwise, why hasn't there been any famous name or good warrior since there were people on Kanas? Not to mention mages, there is no one who can even become a mage's apprentice.
Perhaps even the monsters have been affected by this village, and the strongest in Kanas except for some goblins is only the Minotaur. Even the Minotaurs are mostly in the mountains and forests, and do not appear near the village. Because the number of the Kanas Minotaur is so scarce that it can be counted even on one hand.
Compared to other villages on the continent that are plagued by monsters every day, life in Kanas is too comfortable. Such an environment made the young people of the village dream every day that one day a great disaster would belay the village, and they got their first weapon as a warrior from the only blacksmith uncle in the village, and embarked on the dream of a brave journey.
As time passed, the fantasy teenager became a middle-aged uncle, and then an old man on crutches, but the fantasy never became a reality. And life has long made them abandon their unrealistic illusions and rush to all kinds of work and communication. The fantasy teenagers became the people in the village, those they originally looked down on.
The life of such a paradise in Canafon was supposed to be peaceful, but the birth of a baby alarmed the peaceful village. A baby born with a divine seal on his forehead was born in a place where he could not have been born. The news that a chosen warrior was born in the giftless Canas shocked not only Kanas but also Corral.
Kolar, who did not have any protection from the gods, had never had the birth of a Chosen Warrior, and it was impossible for a Chosen Warrior to be born. So the baby and his birth mother were taken to the royal capital, which may be a sign that the god was about to send down a blessing.
But soon, the Chosen Baby was sent back to Kanas, and the imprint on the baby's forehead did not belong to the coat of arms of any of the gods on the continent today. And after the baby is examined, there is nothing unusual, and it is even more delicate than a normal baby. This led Corral, after a series of confirmations, to conclude that the baby was just a strange birthmark on his forehead that resembled a divine seal.
Fifteen years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the original baby has grown. The sensation of the year has also calmed down in the past ten years, and the Chosen Warrior is just an unusually grand farce, except for the other people in the village who occasionally see the original "Chosen Warrior" and talk about the big people who came to the island back then, nothing is left.
"Bastard boy, stop me, you can steal my grapes, why do you even pluck the leaves for me!" On the streets of Canafon, a middle-aged man in peasant clothes chased after a group of fleeing teenagers and shouted: "Us! Even if you run away now, I will go to your house to find you!"
"Uncle Abbott, I'm settling accounts with those guys in a minute. Seeing that the boys had run away, a blonde boy standing next to the only well in the village said to the middle-aged man, "Let's go pick grapes now, otherwise the leaves will be damaged and the quality of the grapes will deteriorate." It's better to pick it off now, because those guys can't run away from their homes anyway. ”
"That's right. The middle-aged man stopped beside the boy and gasped a few times and said, "These bastard boys can really run, and they have been running from the plantation to the village. Speaking of which, Charlotte, since you are here, why don't you help me go to the plantation and pick some grapes, except for those vines that have been damaged, you can also pick some of the others.
I'm a little too busy to do it alone, and you know that Leila went to Coquimbo and won't be back until tomorrow. If you can help me, I can give me fifty copper coins plus some grapes in return. ”
"But...... I'm going to practice outside the village. Charlotte pointed to the old dagger at her waist, and said to Albert with some embarrassment: "I have made an appointment with Charles, and I will wait for him here." ”
"What is the use of practicing swords in Kanas? Albert smiled and patted Charlotte on the shoulder and said, "There are only a few goblins near Canafon, and it is enough to leave these things to the guards to deal with, Charlotte, you don't plan to be a soldier." No matter how good the swordsmanship practice, what is the use. ”
"You can't say that Uncle Abbott. A red-haired boy carrying a long sword walked out of a corner and said unconvinced: "Relying on the guards who only know how to drink every day, if something bad happens to the village, they can't do anything. It's better to practice martial arts by yourself, and wait until the day of the disaster to have the power to protect yourself. ”
"Huh...... Disaster?" Abbott seemed to remember something from the past, and his smile brightened with nostalgia, "Forget it, don't talk about those things." Do what you want to do while you're young, and if you change your mind, come to me on the plantation, goodbye. Abbott shook his head and left with a smile, leaving only the two teenagers at the well.
"What plantation thing?" Charles asked, looking at Charlotte with his brown eyes, and asked with some confusion, "Did his grapes be stolen by those guys again?"
"yes. Charlotte nodded and said, "And this time he broke a few vines, Uncle Albert chased all the way from the plantation here, and this time he was angry enough." ”
"Let's go, no matter these things, those boys are probably going to be beaten up again tonight. Charles put his sword on his back and said to Charlotte, "We will challenge us to swing the sword three hundred times in this training! We have done it two hundred and fifty times a few days ago! I don't know what we'll bring with us this time. ”
Delia is the girl in the village who knows Charles and Charlotte well, and as the hunter's daughter, she brings some food for Charles and Charlotte almost every day. Delia's barbecue skills are among the best in the whole of Canas, and every year at the celebration Delia's father becomes a master of the barbecue, roasting game for the whole village, and Delia has obviously inherited this.
Each time bring a roast, or a cooked meal. It all made Charles want to eat all his hands, and the end of training was the happiest time for Charles, but at the same time, it was also the most painful time. Because every time Delia gave the best part to the long and handsome Charlotte.
Half a day passed like this, and the two people with the weight tied to them dropped their hands, and they had already wielded their weapons more than four hundred times. They collapsed on the riverbank not far from the village, large drops of sweat sliding down their necks and glistening in the evening sun.
"Why are you lying down?" At this time, a girl dressed as a hunter with short flaxen hair walked out of the forest on the bank of the river, looked at the two people who fell on the grass next to the river beach, and said with a smile: "Since Charles, you are tired and lying down, so you don't have the strength to eat the barbecue in my hand, right?"
"Is it a rabbit today?" Hearing Delia's words, Charles reluctantly sat up, sniffed hard in the air a few times, looked at the paper bag in Delia's hand and drooled and said: "How can I not have the strength to eat it! As long as it is something made by Delia, I can eat it immediately! I will never get tired of eating such delicious food for a lifetime!"
"The beauty of thinking. Delia threw a paper bag in her hand to Charles, walked to Charlotte's side, took out a handkerchief full of body fragrance and wiped Charlotte's sweat and said: "Even if I do it, I will do it for Charlotte for the rest of my life." ”
Looking at Delia, who was almost attached to Charlotte, Charles angrily opened the paper package, took out the barbecue and began to eat it vigorously, and kept whispering: "Isn't it just good-looking, the skin is as white as a woman, and the face is so weak." I really don't know what's good, the women in the village like him. ”
"Charles, I hear that!" Delia squinted at Charles and said, "If you're speaking ill of Charlotte, you won't have your share of the barbecue next time!"
"Forget it. Charlotte shook her head and said with a smile: "Delia, you can spare him this time, after all, what he said is also the truth, my face is indeed too feminine." Maybe if I get some scars in the future, it will look different, I wish I could be like Charles. ”
"What's so good about him the way he looks. Delia took off the sweaty headband on Charles's forehead, took out another one from her bosom and tied it to him and said, "Charlotte is the best-looking, I like you the most!"
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