The young man's words seemed to be very abrupt, and the customers in the quiet shop. No one understood.

Aunt Sofia listened, but she only seemed to smile, her smile was slightly strange, and she looked at the young man: "Ah, did your father send you to ask me about my master?" If he's going to ask for a sin, let himself come to me. ”

At this time, I heard Aunt Sofia's words clearly. One-eyed, who was sitting in the middle of the shop, threw away the horse qin in his hand, and walked over with an unhappy look, glaring at the young man with the only eye, looking for trouble. When he walked in front of him, he first lowered his head and spat the leaf foam on the ground, his face was full of meat, he rolled up his sleeves, and shouted: "What are you doing? Do you know what kind of place this is?

As he spoke, he rolled up his sleeves as if he was about to step forward and make a move.

One-eyed only moved half a step forward, but Aunt Sofia, who was standing behind the bar, had already floated in front of him. She gently raised her hand and pressed her husband's shoulder. Stopped the one-eyed movement.

One-eye looked at his wife, Aunt Sofia's face was gentle, she looked at One-eye, and said softly: "Honey, don't meddle in this matter, I'll solve it, okay?"

The tone was gentle and submissive, but One-Eye frowned slightly when he heard it, looked at the young man, and asked his wife in a low voice: "Again, those friends of yours from the past?"

Aunt Sofia pursed her lips and smiled, and said in a low voice: "I'm sorry, my dear, I'll cook you your favorite mutton soup tomorrow, okay? ”

As she spoke, she gently pulled her husband by, and One-Eye hesitated for a moment, then finally sighed and walked sullenly towards a small door behind the bar.

Sofia stood at the bar, looking at the customers in the shop. These guests are all curiously looking here.

Aunt Sofia sighed, then raised her smile again, clapped her hands, and said with a smile: "Okay, everyone, tonight's happy hour is here for the time being! ”

A dirty drunkard who had slipped along the root of the wall to the door looked back and smiled: "I owe one more day, and I will pay you back tomorrow when I take the money" Alas, Aunt Sofia, you don't know, the mother-in-law in my family is too dead."

When everyone heard this, they all laughed, and then everyone put down their wine glasses, some directly put a few coins on the table, some walked up to Sofia and handed the coins to her, and some looked at the young man carefully before leaving, and then cast a "if you want to help, just give an order" look to Sofia, and then slowly left.

After the room was gone, the shop, which had been bustling with activity before, was deserted, leaving only the table in the corner, where poor Adeline sat a little helplessly. She hung her head low, but she didn't know what to do when she saw everyone gone.

She wanted to go out with the crowd to leave, but if she wanted to leave, she would definitely pass by the guy, who was afraid that she would recognize her. But sitting here, after the people are gone, this huge store is still sitting alone, which is even more eye-catching.

Finally, the eyes of the young man at the door fell on Adeline, and the young man saw Adeline clearly, as if he was stunned at first. Then the corners of his mouth twitched, revealing a strange smile, and the originally slender eyes narrowed into a line, flashing with an inexplicable light.

Aunt Sofia had already turned around and walked to Adeline's side, gently pulled her up, and laughed softly: "Okay dear, if you are full, go upstairs and rest, your bedroom is the innermost one on the second floor." The room, the doorknob is a little rusty, you push it hard and it will open, , rest early, my child. Just go. ”

When it comes to the last word "go". Aunt Sofia's tone seemed to have a subtle hint of complexity. Adeline hurriedly stood up, grabbed her hat and hung her head low, and ran up the stairs of the shop.

In the lobby, only Aunt Sofia and this young man were finally left.

"Alright, now you can explain your intentions. Aunt Sofia stretched. He muttered in a low voice, "Alas, the people of the Hannigan family are all troubles, and I should have understood this a long time ago." ”

The young man was still standing there, looking at Aunt Sofia with a calm expression: "Can't you guess what I mean?"

Sofia frowned and looked at the young man: "You" can't be that trial mission of your Hannigan family, right? Ha! How old are you?"

The young man pursed his lips, and when he smiled like this, the smile on his face made Sofia's expression seem to have a strange look. Immediately, Aunt Sofia listened to the young man and smiled: "I am exactly thirty-one years old this year. ”

He only answered Aunt Sofia's question about age, but did not directly answer the first question: "Now it's a tacit acquiescence."

"Thirty-one years old?" Aunt Sofia seemed to be stunned: "Hell" is really a perverted family. ”

She looked at the young man, "Your father seems to be less than four years younger than you are now when he was on the trial mission, right? Well, you have such an achievement at the age of thirty-one, and you can also rank in the top twenty in the history of your Hannigan family."

"It's the fourteenth. The young man's tone was calm: "Thirty-one years old for trials. At this age, I can only rank 14th, but for me, such a ranking does not mean much: "My father tried it at the age of twenty-seven, and at that age he was only the sixth in the history of the family. But my father's final achievements and strength are the strongest in the history of the family, so such a ranking doesn't seem to have much significance. ”

Sofia looked at this. Guy, pouting: "Sure enough" is as arrogant as your old man. Hmph, the way you laughed just now is just like what you looked like when you were young. ”

"If you don't have a little arrogance, how can you challenge the strong. The young man's expression was grim. He said in a deep voice: "Constantly challenging the strong is originally the ancient tradition of my Hannigan family, and it is precisely by relying on this inheritance that our family will become stronger and stronger." ”

"The stubborn ones are the same as your old man. Aunt Sofia spread out her hands: "Okay, you're here for the trial mission" It's ridiculous, I'm just curious why you came to me. It's hard to do..."

The young man smiled: "Every generation of men in our Hannigan family, after reaching adulthood, has to go through a trial mission, and only if the trial mission is successful, can they be qualified to compete for the right to inherit the throne. You know this very well. As for the content of the trial,". Aunt Nesofia, who was trying to occupy the Dao, counted her faces and stared at the young eyes: "Why don't you challenge one." A master at the level of a strong man!"

Challenge a master at the level of a strong man!!

Although Sofia's tone was a little disdainful, but in fact, when it was said, such content. It's shocking enough!!

The content of the trial is to challenge a master at the level of a strong man!!

The Hannigan family, "Emperor Odin's royal family!!For thousands of years, such a cruel and almost perverted, arrogant, almost arrogant iron law has been set!

Any prince who participates in the struggle for the right to inherit the throne must first pass the trial and challenge a master who is killed by the strong!! Such a perverted high standard ensures that the god emperor of the Odin Empire, the emperor of each generation, is among the top powerhouses in the mainland!

"I'm just wondering, why didn't you look for others, but you picked me?" Aunt Sofia's expression was already a little unhappy, and she pointed to her nose: "Could it be that in the eyes of you and your Lao Tzu, you are among the strongest in the world today." Am I the weakest one?!"

Only, yes. ”

This almost confessional almost merciless remark suddenly made Aunt Sofia's expression even more strange, and she glared at the young man: "Are you sure?!"

"Sure. ”

"You,,you damn old man thinks so too?!" Aunt Sofia's eyes began to grow angry.

"Unfortunately, yes. The young man's expression was still calm and calm: "My father once said it himself, "In the battle thirty years ago, the ten strong men joined forces to suppress my father and forced my father to reach that with you." Covenant, in the past, there were many masters on the continent and many talents. But after all, the years have passed, and after thirty years, some strong people have withered away, and new strong people may not be able to really take the position. In addition, there are some elderly people. There is no breakthrough in strength. ”

"Hmph, the last sentence is about me. Aunt Sofia snorted curiously.

"Father has a saying, among the masters of today. The first one who could catch his eyes, there was no doubt that it was naturally the "Saint Laurent Garros" father who lived in the ancient city of Babylon on the east side of the continent and said that the talent and strength of that Saint Laurent Garros were the only ones he had ever seen in his life. It can be described as a lifelong opponent. Besides. Among the other masters on the continent, Lord Merlin of Landis has a sparse personality, but the more he has such a temperament, he can get some breakthroughs. I haven't fought again for thirty years, but my father believes that with Lord Merlin's diligent and enterprising nature towards magic, his strength has improved by leaps and bounds after all, and I'm afraid that today, thirty years later, he has already broken through the realm of the strong and entered the Yuan realm. There are also the three great mages of the Byzantine Empire, "I heard that Zelan's ** division died of illness more than ten years ago, it can be said that there is one less strong man on the mainland, and the remaining two ** masters, because of age restrictions, were already nearly seventy years old at the time, and thirty years later." I'm afraid that he is even more old, even if he is getting more and more advanced in the realm of Nightmare, but in terms of strength, it is already good if he can not drop too much. There is also the gentleman who lives in the south of the Chaos Realm, who calls himself the Sword Master, but his father was disdainful of his swordsmanship back then, saying that the human nature is too extreme, such a temperament, when he is young, his strength naturally improves very quickly, but he is too impetuous, he is afraid that his strength will reach the top after the age of fifty, and it will be difficult to make a breakthrough, if he can't calm down and cultivate, he will not be able to become his father's real opponent in this life. In addition, many masters in the world today. My fathers also have their own evaluations... Finally, I will talk about you

"Speaking of me something. Aunt Sofia grimaced.

The young man smiled and said, "Do you really want to hear it?"

"Nonsense!" Aunt Sofia was displeased, and said coldly, "Since you have said so much, why don't I continue to listen to it?" I'd like to know what you perverted old man thinks of me!"

The young man seemed to sigh before he continued, "When my father mentioned you, he felt sorry for you. ”

"Sorry, sorry?" "Yes, sorry. The young man said, "When my father mentioned you, he once said. In terms of intelligence and talent, you can rank among the top three of the strongest people of the human race today! second only to my father himself and the Lord Saint Laurent Garros. In particular, your wisdom and wisdom are even higher than that of the Merlin-sama, even in your father's evaluation. If it's as gifted and intelligent as yours. Originally, the strength should also be among the top three of today's Terran masters. It's just a pity,"

"What a pity. Aunt Sofia's face suddenly calmed down.

"It's a pity," well, that's what my father said: it's a pity. But people who are too smart like to do things too much, and always like to use some tricks to achieve things that ordinary people can't do. But you must know that in the world, not everything can be tricked, such as cultivation, perseverance and perseverance are the most important. If you just want to take advantage of it, you will not be firm enough in your mind, and if you don't have a persevering heart, no matter how smart you are, you won't be able to achieve anything really big. For example, if you "used to be in the top five of the top ten powerhouses, but now" for 30 years. The other masters are continuing to cultivate, but you are the only one who lives in this wildfire town, spending the day leisurely, living a comfortable and comfortable life, and it seems that you have lost your enterprising spirit and pursuit. Thirty years have been wasted, and if your strength can still retain its former level, it will not be easy. As for progress, there is no need to talk about it! My father said that he had never heard of anyone who closed his eyes and slept every day and lived a leisurely life. Drinking and basking in the sun, you can also become a peerless master. ”

When Aunt Sofia heard this, her expression was not angry, but calmed down more and more.

She lowered her head and pondered for a moment. Suddenly, he let out a long sigh, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was a little bitter: "Not bad, not bad." That old man of yours is right. "Hmph, although the words are a little ugly, they are all true. In the past 30 years, my life has been too comfortable. I myself have even forgotten when the last time I practiced. Well, "After thirty years, your father said that I am now the weakest among the strong people in the mainland, and it is not a curse, it is the truth." ”

The young man was stunned for a moment, he didn't seem to expect Aunt Sofia to admit it so happily and. I was a little annoyed and angry just now. In the blink of an eye, this anger also disappeared, as if his words, the other party was quickly relieved.

"It's a pity, although your father is right, I still have to say that he is still so arrogant" is still so ignorant and stubborn. Such a pervert!"

The young man frowned: "Your Excellency, please don't insult my father with words

"Insult?hahahahaha!" Aunt Sofia laughed a few times: "Even if Thor stands in front of me, I will say this! Hmph, you are a perverted and arrogant guy" Hmph. He commented on the masters of today's mainland, and what he said seemed to be good, but in his mind, there was only cultivation, non-stop cultivation, how to make himself stronger, continue to grow, non-stop, endlessly on the road to becoming stronger, "Life is only less than a hundred years, even if you are strong, you only have a few decades longer than ordinary people". Individuals, come to this world for a long time. If you are like your father, you will keep cultivating from the beginning, keep getting stronger, every day, every night, every moment, like holding a whip and keep whipping yourself, spurring yourself, constantly urging yourself to do penance, and you will not relax for a moment, and at the same time, you will keep thinking about how the other masters of the mainland occupy are like this. Your father has been like this since he was sensible, and he has been like this for decades, even if it will be another ten or twenty years. In another 100 years, as long as your father lives in this world for a day, he will live like this! The only thing he did when he came to this world was to cultivate! He practiced for decades and cultivated for a hundred years, but what happened in the end? When he died, he kicked his legs, and not everything turned into nothingness? No matter how powerful you are, what about it? To say an excessive word, if a person lives like this, is he still called a human being?

Speaking of this, Sofia's tone gradually became sharper: "Yes, I don't remember when I last did penance, I have lived too comfortably over the years" But what right does your father have to make fun of me? I don't remember the time of the last penance? I want to ask, when was the last time your father really laughed? When was the last time your father drank heartily? When was the last time your father sang and rejoiced? Every moment of every day, he has only one brain, strong. Even though I am not as strong as him, I live happily and happily every day, I have a husband who loves me and loves me, and I have a group of friends who drink together every day without worry, and I can laugh every night. Don't think about things that bother you. Every day when I lie in bed, I will fall asleep as soon as my head touches the pillow, and the next morning, when I wake up. There will be a smile on the corner of the mouth" such a day. Did your father experience what it was like?

Sofia said at the end and sighed deliberately: "Life like him is called really boring." I'll say a word: Suppose the day I die. I'm sure I have many friends who will genuinely shed tears for me, my husband who will be genuinely saddened by my loss, and my friends who will remember our happy days together. But "What about your father? He is the God Emperor of Odin, the strongest human race on the mainland. Hmph, but I can guarantee that on the day he dies, no one in this world will really shed a tear for him! Even you, his sons, have long been cold and inhumane by the perverted rules of the Hannigan family!"

Aunt Sofia said this. The young man immediately fell into deep thought, he lowered his head and thought for a while, when he raised his head, he let out a long breath, looked at Aunt Sofia, and smiled sincerely: "Admire! Father said that your intelligence is rare in the world, I still don't believe it, now I look at it, your wisdom really makes me admire, Garin is convinced." ”

"Garin?" Aunt Sofia heard this, "Your name is Garin?"

The young man smiled bitterly: "Otherwise, you think I'm like..."

Aunt Sofia sighed and said lightly: "I heard that among Thor's sons, one of his youngest sons named Ke Ke Kelan is the most talented, and as for the eldest prince Garin, I have always heard that there is nothing too brilliant. Even if it is the battle for the throne, it is faintly threatened by Ke Kelan, if it were not for the support of some old people of the tribe, it would have been overturned by Ke Kelan, it turns out that you are the eldest prince Garin, looking at it today, you are not simple, I am afraid that you are even more powerful than that Ke Kelan. Thinking about those rumors, they are all other inside stories. ”

After a pause, Sofia squinted at Garin: "At a young age, you know that Taoguang is obscure. Deliberately showing weakness, it seems that the Hannigan family is the Hannigan family, and every generation of young people will produce a few geniuses and the like. ”

"Thank you for the compliment. Garin bent down and saluted: "Your wisdom is what I admire." I just deliberately said what my father said about you, I really wanted to disturb your mind. But you just restrained your mind at will, and were not moved by my words, but the words you said in turn almost shook my own heart, and the wise Sophie is really extraordinary. ”

Sofia's face was blank: "I don't use the name Sophie anymore! Now my name is Sophia, you kid, don't call the wrong one again." ”

Garin smiled and stood there, looking at Aunt Sofia: "I've come all the way, and you already know my purpose, so can we start?" ”

"Do you have to do it?" Sofia smiled, but lazily looked at the messy shop hall in the house: "You see, I am such a big shop, because of your arrival, the guests have been driven away by me, and now a mess always has to be cleaned up" Hey, you have to do it, and you have to let me put away the wine money on the table, right?"

As she spoke, Aunt Sofia rolled up her sleeves. Pull a rag from the table and walk to the side. Table by table wiped up. From time to time, he also put the wine money thrown on the table by the guests into the pocket of his apron.

She made a mess in front of Garin so aggressively, which made the Grand Prince of Odin stunned.

Aunt Sofia finished wiping down a table. Looking back at Garin: "If you want to start with me earlier, you might as well come up and help me, the two of you will work together, and the speed will be faster." ”

As she spoke, she actually threw a rag and threw it over, Garin subconsciously reached out to take it, but stayed there instead.

"Hmph, you have grown so big, haven't you ever taken a rag? Alas, I recognize your hand holding the rag, this is the posture of your Hannigan family's thunder roar swordsmanship, hmph, poor child. Stop. can still maintain a calm momentum in front of Sofia, and he looks at ease, but this time, he finally showed a little helplessness.

"Of course not. Aunt Sofia turned her head: "I'm not like you perverts of the Hannigan family, every day is either cultivation or training, I still have business to do, and a big family to do, I still have to sell vegetables and cook, make wine and settle accounts" Hmph, you want to find me for a trial, you can, then follow me, wait for two days." I'm done with my work, so I'll naturally work with you. ”

"It's over, it's been two days," Garin's face finally changed.

"I'm so impatient. Aunt Sofia sneered: "When you came in the door, the momentum, the demeanor, and even the tone of speech were like your Lao Tzu, but the traces of imitation were too heavy, but there was some false meaning." And. Looks like your patience is much worse than your old man!"

After a pause, she laughed in a low voice: "If you want to challenge me, you want to beat me, now your strength is probably not enough" Even if you have spied on the door of the realm of the strong now, where can you compare to an old guy like us who has been immersed in it for decades? Yibian came to me to test. Actually, it's not because I'm the weakest one in the current rush, but I also have a heart, because it's just me. Only then can you truly comprehend the essence of the trial. ”

As she spoke, she never put down the rag in her hand, and while doing things, she walked and said lightly: "Since you can come to challenge me." Then I believe that your strength must be good, but I am afraid that you already have the confidence to argue with me. However, the essence of the trial lies not simply in the strength of the hands! but in the comprehension of the realm! Even if your strength surpasses mine, if the realm is not enough, your achievements in this life in the future will be very limited. Hmph, that old guy from Thor, he really has a heart, and he actually wants to use my family again,"

"You, you said Garin was stunned.

Aunt Sofia's eyes seemed to be in a trance. He said in a low voice: "Do you know how much time your father spent on the trial back then? Hmph, a total of twenty-six months! The trial is not for you to practice your martial arts strongly, and then find a strong person, and just beat the other party down!

Your father fought the object of his trials a hundred and nine times, lost one hundred and eight times, and finally won the last time. This was the end of the trial, but the mysteries of the realm he had learned were far more than winning or losing in a competition! What really made him learn was not the last time he won, but the one hundred and eight times he had lost before!"

Garin was a little surprised: "Father, how do you know about the trial back then?"

"How do I know?" Aunt Sofia seemed to smile, but this smile was bitter, and it seemed to contain a lot of deeper things in it.

"How do I know," Hmph, ridiculous question" Aunt Sofia turned to look at Garin: "Because when your father was trying, I had been witnessing the whole process, and I was much younger than you are now" The object of your father's trial challenge was my father's famous "Thundercloud Great Samurai" in the Odin Empire in the past. How could I not know that your father lived in my house for twenty-six months of his trials?

Garin listened and was already completely there!

Poor Adeline went upstairs tremblingly. The cannon reached the door in the corner, and when I pushed the door in, it was a clean room. It's just that where does she dare to live here at the moment?

The young man downstairs who came in tonight. She knew him! She remembered that when she was a child, she had known this young man when she had lived in the Odin Empire! Moreover, there was a terrifying memory!

She entered the room. The room trembled. Immediately scrambled for a way out, and soon pushed the window open, and below was the street outside.

The building was not high, and Adeline jumped down the windowsill on the second floor, twisting her ankle a little when she landed, but she didn't dare to open her mouth for fear of alarming the person inside. Just limped and jumped.

She felt bitter in her heart, "I lost my horse to the guy in the shop, and it is already in the backyard of the shop, and if I want to go in and lead the horse, I am afraid that there is also a danger of alarming that guy."

In desperation, she could only grit her teeth, give up the horse, and grasp her baggage. Staggering steps, he ran quickly towards the entrance of the town.

There is no curfew in Wildfire Town, and the gates of the town are not closed even at night.

Adeline walked out of the city gate smoothly, and then her heart relaxed a little.

Without horses, she had no choice but to walk all the way north, hoping only to meet a passing caravan on the way, and then buy another horse to travel around.

This way to the north, into the range of the wildfire field, she tried to hurry as fast as possible, walked for half the night, and did not meet any pedestrians, fortunately she was not the first time to come here, along the way thinking about the last time she walked with Char, and she was not too afraid.

After walking all night in the dark, when it was almost dawn, Adeline was finally too tired to stand it, and stopped outside a sparse forest, where the food of the previous night had already been digested and her mouth was very thirsty. But I didn't see any water source.

Leaning against a tree to catch her breath, Adeline couldn't help but think to herself: I won't meet that guy again, will I?

Just thinking of this, she suddenly heard a sound that made her whole body feel like falling into an ice cellar!

"My poor sister, why did you come here? Hmph, although I know that you are going to escape, but you ran all night to get out of such a little way, you are really incompetent!"

Adeline turned her head and saw Garin standing there just over ten paces away, looking at her with a cold smile on her face.

"You...... you

Garin approached Adeline step by step, he frowned: "I was surprised to see you" It's just that I still have important things, I already wanted to let you go last night, but I didn't expect that you were still such a waste! I can meet here. ”

Garin walked up to Adeline and reached out and pinched Adeline's chin. Adeline seems to be going to resist, but where is Garin's opponent?

"Waste is waste. Garin stared closely into Adeline's eyes, his gaze grim. There was even a hint of hatred: "It's only less than five miles away from Wildfire Town" Did you walk out of such a little road in one night?" Five, five miles?!

How can it be?!

Adeline almost screamed!

I've been running away desperately, and I haven't stopped much all night, how can I just get out of five?!

But then Garin took a look at Adeline's expression. Immediately understood, and couldn't help laughing: "I understand! You must have fled in a panic at night, and there was no reference in the dark." You've been running all night. You think you're walking in a straight line, but you're actually accidentally going around in circles! Hahaha! Waste is waste! You have Byzantine blood on your body, and you are really as incompetent as the Byzantines. ”

"You" Are you here to chase me?" Adeline sighed: "You" you just refused to let me go? After all these years, I "haven't done anything to be sorry for you, why do you have to do it to me"

"Hmph, I don't have the heart to chase you. Garin's face suddenly became a little strange: "I already wanted to let you go last night, and this morning, I just came out, came out, and I didn't expect to meet you here." ”

In the hands of this great prince of Odin, he is carrying an axe!

"You, are you here to chop wood? Adeline looked at the axe in the other man's hand, and it was clear that it was either a battle axe used by the Odin warriors, or an ordinary axe for chopping wood.

"Hmph! Garin frowned: "This is one of the contents of my trial

After speaking, he looked at Adeline coldly: "It's you, do you want to go to Odin?"