"I thought you'd let the Epic Mage settle this."

News of Starmoon Bay's success in fending off the snow tide was delivered to Breezy through a portal, and Olmedo praised.

"It doesn't take Mr. Evaro's hand to do that. I was just standing on the walls, and the Frost Giant Wizard gave up his southward march under my intimidation. ”

"What if I want to hear the truth?"

"The truth is that I listened to your advice." Annam looks around the busy city walls to prevent the glacier from melting in a few months from clogging the river, where workers are clearing trees. "We saved our homes ourselves, and that's more important than anything else."

The snow tide had stopped, and this pure white cold was approaching the city wall, making Xingyue Bay wait, but it stopped more than two hundred miles away from Breeze City.

The Frost Giant Wizard wasn't stupid enough to get his hands on Breeze City with the aftermath of the Snow Mountain.

However, Olmedo warned Annan that the expansion of the Frost Giants at the foot of the Snow Mountains was inevitable, and that the Frost Giants might not be able to see the weakness of Starmoon Bay and attack again.

They're already doing that. Right now, the coldest blizzard after winter is brewing over the northern forest seas.

At this time, a group of uninvited guests from Glacier Harbor appeared outside Xingyue Bay.

"We bring an inquiry from Lord Gema." The knight, who didn't know that Xingyue Bay was defending against the snow tide, said, "As long as you agree, Lord Gema will immediately lead the soldiers to support." ”

Annan uttered an unprecedentedly cold tone: "Leave my Xingyue Bay, or stay forever." ”

The knights rode back uneasily.

"You're becoming more and more like a true king of the North now." Ingrid came out from behind her with a note in her hand, "Except for this, do it yourself." ”

"Because of the lack of manpower."

Although Annan would feel sufficient to improve the happiness and happiness of the people, he also wanted to see the world everywhere, such as going to the south......

In short, the crisis was resolved, and Annan had plenty of time to play the lord game with Gemma.

The magic ring was just full of mana, and Annan summoned a large fire elemental, and casually asked it to drive away the knights and make them run faster - in fact, Annan wanted to capture them for hard labor at that time, and those horses were also good northern horses.

It would be some time before the blizzard in the north swept through Xingyue Bay, and after the workers cleaned up the river, Annan rewarded him as promised a few days earlier.

In order to make the 3,000 workers who supported Xingyue Bay realize the reward, Annan led them down the neat streets to the townhouse and asked Francois to hand over the twenty keys to the twenty hardest working workers.

Then Annan revealed his true purpose in doing so – to get the 3,000 workers back in their entirety, which would be an insult.

"The workers who are willing to stay will also be my people. Like the rest of the people, they were fed every day, lived in new and warm rooms, had endless work to do, and were protected by the perfect law. ”

Ingrid, who counts finances, stopped talking.

It's just that the living expenses of the people are close to 300 gold per month...... If these workers are really left, unless they don't care about the lives of the people like other territories, the finances of Xingyue Bay will not be able to support them for a few months.

Fortunately, less than a hundred workers were willing, and ten of them were rewarded workers. Including their families, there are almost two or three hundred people.

Then pay today's salary as agreed, and then use the portal to send them back to Breeze City.

Annan never shirked when it came to paying salaries. In order for the territory to start circulating and trading, the first thing to do is to make the people have money - although there is currently no place in Starmoon Bay to spend money except for taverns.

All the outsiders have returned, and the new consuls and their families have been brought back. Starmoon Bay began to celebrate: the specific way is to watch "The Fall of the Mage Tower" while eating.

As a result, it was forced to end by the howling cold wind and snowflakes in the middle of the night.

……

The Frost Giant Wizard is still testing Starmoon Bay, as evidenced by the three-day blizzard.

But Starmoon Bay is not an ordinary territory, and it is theoretically possible to drill out the entire population of Breeze City overnight. There was no shortage of supplies here, and the people just had to hide in their houses and not see the sun for several days.

Rumors began to circulate among the lords who had nothing to do, that the lord's right-hand man had cried after the snow tide crisis.

An enraged Francois learns of this and orders an investigation, but nothing happens. The only source is unknown: it is said that the shadow of the lord looms behind this incident......

Whew-

The cold wind poured into the open door, and the fireplace and campfire swayed.

Francois closed the door, shaking off the snow that had fallen on his hair and shoulders.

Annan was chatting with Copperbeard: "Is elemental life strange in the material world?" ”

"It's not surprising that the dwelling dwarves move with the earth elemental."

"They live together? Is the earth element male and female? ”

"Stop your dangerous thoughts! Warlock! ”

"Annan...... I have something to tell you. Francois glanced at the bronze whiskers and Ingrid in the big house, both of whom were his own people: "Have you heard the recent rumors?" ”

"What rumors?"

"The lord's right-hand man wept after the snow tide crisis...... "Francois stared at Annan, "do you have a clue?" ”

"Are you crying?" Annan looked at Ingrid in surprise and showed relief: "I'm glad you can fit into Starmoon Bay. ”

Pretending to be stupid doesn't work for Francois, because he always does: "You know it's not Ingrid. ”

"It's not going to be your ......"

Annan picked the wrong opponent. The shameless baron even disdained to use "snowflakes drifting into his eyes" as an excuse: "Yes, I was the one who cried." And only you, my dear lord, saw this. ”

"Where's my fire raven? I don't think I have spoken to my sisters today. Annan asked Ingrid.

There was a sound of copper whiskers watching the excitement next to her, and she regretted that there was no glass of beer at this time.

There was another whistling sound outside the window, and Annan said, "Do you know the story of the three little pigs?" ”

This is not a question sentence, Annan took the initiative to tell the story of the three little pigs: "The three little pigs built three houses, the lazy little pig built a straw house, the normal little pig built a wooden house, and the hard-working little pig built a stone house...... The big bad wolf blew down the straw house and knocked down the wooden house, but there was nothing to do with the stone house......"

As if to verify Annan's story, the snowstorm outside the window gradually weakened, and the sloping snowflakes recovered to ease.

Francois didn't ask anymore because he already knew the answer.

"Those frost giants gave up?" Brass said and opened the door.

The fireplace shook faintly, and the sky was still gloomy, but it was no longer as dark as evening.

Annan stood in front of the door in the snow, and when he looked up, he saw a shadow passing under the clouds of falling snowflakes.

An owl?

(End of chapter)