The Gilman sisters run an art gallery.

Close relatives, cannibalism, eccentricities, belief in evil gods...... These qualities, which are unacceptable to any normal person, are the natural soil for cultivating art in the artist's view.

Elves weave necklaces that have been given to dwarves for centuries? Tacky.

A heart stacked with a hundred heads of different races? What art this is!

And the Gilman family did have some artistic attainment, so the gallery was quite famous – and then when Rhona proposed to move to Starmoon Bay, it was rejected.

It was too early for the people of Starmoon Bay to accept this level of art.

And the artist will not come to Xingyue Bay, where birds don't poop, to visit the art gallery where dogs don't care.

"We are brother and sister."

Rhona Gilman corrects Annan's misconception that her brother possesses only some of the characteristics of a woman.

Annan recalled the "girl" who was paralyzed in the carriage: "He is not in good health? ”

"...... of hypochondriasis"

"Isn't there a cure for priest magic?"

"This is the price of blasphemy against the goddess of life......" Rhona whispered in disappointment, without the frenzy of the first sight, nor the rationality of not so long ago.

With three days left until January 1, 999 in the Yves Saint Laurent calendar, Annan hurried to do what needed to be done.

First of all, the Guards.

The Elemental Legion plan made the training of guards dispensable, and Annan reduced combat training such as horseback riding and sword wielding, and extended physical training such as standing posture and carrying.

Crean, the lucky one chosen from among the new condominions, muttered under his breath. He could understand that they were being asked to carry materials and collect ore. What is the use of standing up straight and in line?

Crean, who was standing in the queue, saw their lord coming accompanied by "Stinkface".

It definitely works! Crean thought almost fanatically, puffing out his chest.

Sweep past the reserve guards as if waiting to be reviewed. After two months of training, they began to emerge as soldiers—at least these were young men taller than Annan, and they looked much better than the guards of Breeze City.

Annan didn't go into a tirade, and directly inspired the magic ring to summon a large earth element.

"Beat it." Annan said.

The reservists hesitated as they looked at the large earth elemental that needed to be tilted.

"It won't fight back, it will only fend off your attacks."

The captain of the guard ordered: "Raise your weapons and attack!" ”

The reserve guards turned into a neat torrent and drowned the earth elemental. At first they did well, but as they broke into the viscous realm of the earth elemental, it was like running in the water and swinging their swords, like a snail besieging a beetle.

Elite professionals and civilians have a chasm that is difficult to erase. Annan was firm in his thoughts.

When the summoning time ended, the large earth elemental vanished, and the exhausted reserve guards collapsed in the cold wind, leaving only a few Crean still standing.

The battle shattered the confidence of the reserve guards - a hundred people were helpless against an earth elemental.

"Don't be discouraged, this battle is not to discourage you, but to motivate you." Annan said to the reserve guards who raised their heads: "In the future, it will become a teammate of the guards and patrol with the guards." ”

"Starmoon Bay currently has 1,500 lords, and 100 guards is too much. So only fifty of them could be real guards. ”

At present, Annan has permanently summoned five water elementals and seven earth elementals - counting the one just summoned.

Fifty guards formed a squad of five in exactly one element of four soldiers.

Then Annan remembered that he had forgotten to go to the Mage Tower to learn the Four Elemental Languages and be proficient in the lingua franca, so he had to wait for the apocalypse to be predicted.

Before returning to the big house, Annan, who passed by the Gilman siblings' quarters, saw that Rhona's brother was suffering from hypochondriasis, twisting and deforming like an octopus, and moaning in pain.

Only human flesh could alleviate his suffering, but then their brother and sister would not be able to escape the fate of the Gilman family.

Annan asked the knight to disperse the gathered people, summoned Wood, pointed to the dazed vampire, and said, "A vampire can endure the temptation of human blood, and so can you." ”

But Rhona's brother never stopped wailing, and Francois realized something and whispered to Annan: "A hungry man loses his mind over a piece of bread." ”

"You mean I'm the loaf of bread?"

Francois didn't speak, and Annan guessed he thought so. Tentatively retreating, the wailing was indeed fading—

Annan asked Francois to stay behind to take care of the Gilman siblings, and retreated back into the big house.

"Abby, I want a cup of coffee."

The spiders in the glass jar still show no signs of hibernation.

Annan flipped through the briefings sent by Ingrid in the early morning, which were all trivial things. If the milkmaid secretly drank raw milk and had diarrhea, Ingrid had to order all the milk to boil before drinking; One of the new consultes who came yesterday had hidden a bottle of wine, and as a result, he was drunk and collapsed in the snowdrift, and was found by the patrolling reserve guards. Although his life was saved, his toes were gone.

Near noon, the captain of the guard suddenly came to say that a consurate was missing.

But not the most suspicious Gilman siblings.

The knights soon found the missing lord in the wilderness - he made his way through the knee-deep snow. The knights followed from a distance, found the person who answered him about ten miles from Xingyue Bay, and then collected the net and brought it back.

These guys are just minions, and they confide the truth before they are seriously interrogated: they are from Glacier Harbor, and they have their companions disguise themselves as outcasts in Breeze City to infiltrate the team of Starmoon Bay, ask for information, and then bring the news back to Glacier Harbor.

There is practically no problem with crude plans, and many territories do not pay attention to insignificant subjects.

"Let them do hard labor until Gema comes to redeem them."

Annan didn't take the episode to heart. The limestone is still being mined, the Elemental Legion is still keeping it a secret, and all they can say even if they go back is "Starmoon Bay has built a lot of beautiful houses and dug up a lot of trees".

Next, Annan discussed with Ingrid and Francois in the big house all day.

The next day, the people who got up early in the morning found that a tavern had actually opened in Xingyue Bay.

However, the fifteen hundred lords together could not scrape together a few copper coins, and no one paid any attention to the taverns that had little to do with them, and as a result, at the end of the day's work, each of them received a salary ranging from a few copper coins to a dozen copper coins, which the lord of Annam said was the salary left over after the food and lodging were removed.

The tavern was full that night, and a glass of rye wine was only five copper coins.

In the bustling tavern, the people watched "The Fall of the Mage Tower" and laughed at the unlucky guy who poured a private wine into the snow and froze one leg, one eye, and one finger - the rumors always became more and more bizarre as they spread.

A new day, a new change. The people who woke up from the cool morning found that there was an announcement in the camp: the new town was officially opened, and the house price was favorable.

(End of chapter)