Chapter 274: Eric's Resentment
This night Leon had a sweet dream, which seemed to be in a room, with Caterina to his left and Erin to his right, two soft, fragrant bodies clinging to him, causing the young lord to fall into a certain kind of mental ape for a moment.
But in the end, the dream changed, I don't know when it started, the knight girl was holding a long sword, and the female mage was holding a fireball in one hand, and the two of them slowly approached him with a smile on their faces. At this time, Li Ang couldn't even move, and this surprise was really extraordinary.
The two girls got closer and closer, and their smiles became more and more weird, and the young man was scared into a sweat, and then he suddenly exerted his strength and sat up.
Only then did he realize that there was no Caterina in the house, no Erin, and that a qiē was just a dream.
Li Ang wiped a cold sweat and felt extremely strange in his heart, "...... Is it the rhythm of shameful play? Sister! I don't like this at all!"
Whether it was or not, the "forgetful" young lord completely ignored the symbolism of the plot in the dream, and turned his head to look out the window at the already white sky, at this time the flowing colors had begun to fade, gradually disappearing under the newborn sun, and it was estimated that it was almost five o'clock in the morning.
If it was put before, Li Ang would definitely happily throw himself back on the bed and continue to sleep, but now he doesn't know if it's his physique or other reasons, in short, he can't sleep, and he is full of energy and energy.
Soon he pushed open the door and walked out of the house, and then easily dispersed the traveler's hut - since the exclusive lodging had been occupied by the old gentleman who didn't know what to do, Leon, as the lord, was too embarrassed to disturb others in the middle of the night, so he simply ran to an open space and summoned the traveler's hut.
"My lord, are you up so early?" Several helpers who were busy saw Li Ang coming out and immediately greeted him.
Leon thought that he had gotten up quite early today, and he was a little curious that someone was earlier than him, so he couldn't help but walk over and watch them put some beans, wheat bran, and some grass in a large pot, and then stir vigorously.
"What is this?"
"Oh, my lord, we are preparing feed for the horses," said a middle-aged helper with a smile, "the grain was not ripe a few days ago, and they could only be allowed to graze, but now it is okay, give the horses a better meal, and they can grow stronger." ”
"And the livestock," said another, "the housekeeper bought a lot of them, and almost filled the farm!"
The men were excited and satisfied when they spoke to the young lord, and it seemed that Leon's return had brought back the smile that had disappeared for a while.
"Jeff's movements are fast," Leon said satisfied with the butler's execution.
He then walked slowly along the manor avenue towards the ruins of the castle, where the remaining charred wooden shelves had been almost cleared of the blackened wooden shelves in the location of the former fire-destroyed warehouse, and several carriages were parked in the center, with a lot of wood neatly stacked next to them, which should have been temporarily placed here by the elves who had just returned from the forest.
Supposedly, one or more lumberyards should be built in the forest to really improve the efficiency of collecting wood, but in order to appease the newcomers, Leon was not prepared to do so, or not at the moment.
But it took too long to get from the forest to the manor, and the young man's eyes began to look far away at the not wide green river that passed through the manor.
The width of the river is less than ten meters, and the water flows out of the middle and lower part of the forest, and at Campbell draws a zigzag semi-circular arc that finally extends to the Great Wasteland, and with a few small boats, the transportation time can be reduced by more than half at least the capacity of the river.
"Craftsmen are hard to find...... Leon grinned, "wouldn't it be the same if you threw wood into the river upstream and intercepted it here?"
He had the impression that this was the case in many places, so the young man felt that it was okay to give it a try, and he could give it to Jeff when he had time to confirm with the elves.
Li Ang stood in place for a while, and instead of continuing forward, he bypassed the big houses on both sides, anyway, he just wanted to take advantage of the fact that no one wanted to take a good turn around the manor, and consider the plan to expand the manor in the future.
But suddenly his steps stopped, his eyes glanced in a certain direction suspiciously, and then changed his original direction and went straight to the river, and when he passed by the last row of big houses, and there was no obstacle in front of him, he immediately found two girls by the river.
It's Melissa, and one of the heroines in "Sweet Dreams", Katerina.
The Assassin Maiden was carrying two daggers in her arms, and Caterina's suit had been lent to Clement by Leon, so she faced Melissa's attack with her original weapon, but most of the time she only blocked, and only occasionally launched a counterattack.
Leon could already see that they were practicing in real combat, and Melissa's figure was as swift as lightning, and if her eyesight was almost blind, she could barely see her movements, and could only see the solid cold tracks left by the two rapidly slashing daggers in the retina.
Caterina was very different from the Assassin Maiden, each of her swords was calm and powerful, and she never made superfluous movements. Blocking, picking, sweeping, and splitting down, the front is defended impenetrable, and the sword is extremely fierce when attacking.
From the hot breath exhaled by the two people and the shiny reflection on their foreheads, it could be inferred that they had at least maintained this intensity for dozens of minutes, and the young lord stood in the distance and watched quietly for a while, and finally did not disturb them, turned around and left quietly.
As he walked as he pondered, he suddenly felt that something had been missing on weekdays, so he made a detour to the vicinity of the girls' quarters, and looked at the faint light that came from the hidden windows of the big house, and at the same time sensed the figure of the mage girl writing and drawing on the desk by the window.
The young lord's heart couldn't help but sigh - just by looking at the diligence of these girls, you can know that the progress of their strength does not come out of thin air, even if they are talented and have potential, but hard work is also indispensable. And he was sure that the elves should be the same, but he usually got up too late...... No, it's that there are so many things that I don't notice at all.
Leon sighed, he suddenly wanted to work so hard, but it didn't make much sense to follow suit now, because this kind of exercise was no longer suitable for him, not to mention that he really had a lot of tedious and important things to do.
Then Leon walked to the temporary office space in the open space in front of the castle ruins with emotion, and the boxes in the middle were put together into a square table, on which a sketch was spread out, which looked like a bird's-eye view of the manor, and some shapes were scribbled on it, presumably Jeff's idea for the next construction of the manor.
The butler was busy with breakfast, and although his former status as a "gourmet" had changed, he still retained this hobby, but only to his companions around him, and the old gentleman who had an extra meal in the manor.
Eric was sitting next to him in a wooden box, carefully wiping his sword with a dry white cloth. This weapon was obtained from the boss Gale after the "butcher" bandit gang was wiped out.,Although it's a sophisticated-level weapon.,But because it's for magic swordsmen, it can only be said to be so-so for others.。
"Lord Lord?" Eric couldn't help but light up when he saw the young man walking in, "Why did you get up so early today?"
"It seems that I am usually a little lazy ......" The young lord had just discovered the "diligence" of these companions, so he was very unhappy in his heart, and glanced at the middle-aged man who was not interested.
Eric was a little confused by this look, but who was the former bandit leader? was stunned for a moment and immediately said with a smile: "Lord Lord usually has too many affairs, working day and night, and he must rest enough every day to have energy, so he doesn't need to compare with those of us who have nothing to do." ”
I have to say that this sentence made the young man feel quite reasonable, so he felt much more comfortable, and by the way, he glanced at the other party's mental state, and felt that Eric seemed to be really slowly recovering some of his strength after the tutor specially mixed the potion.
"The potion seems to be working?" asked Leon.
"Not bad!" As soon as Eric mentioned this, he immediately became more energetic, "I am already at the peak of the first order now, and I guess I will be able to return to the second order in a while!
Although others can't see it, they only think that the former gangster and Jeff get along well, running around a few nearby villages and towns on weekdays, and in addition to that, they are hanging out in the manor, looking leisurely, but in fact, Eric is really aggrieved during this time.
His intelligence network has not yet taken shape, firstly because outsiders will attract more attention and must go through a period of precipitation to play a role, and secondly, because there are too few people under him.
When he came back with Leon, Eric didn't know how old Campbell was, but he thought it would be very powerful to have several villages and towns and a manor at Leon's age, but he didn't expect that the young man's territory was almost half of the chaos land, which made him a little confused for a while.
Although Eric has a lot of small problems, he will do what he promises, which can be seen from the fact that even if he borrowed money after being framed, he had to take care of the families of his brothers.
So he was very anxious, and even wanted to go to the royal capital in person to open up the situation, but he was held down by force, because Li Ang felt that it would be dangerous to rush forward with his strength.
Watching the former head of the regiment and the current Lord Campbell running around with his companions, although he knew that Leon had decided to make him the director of the free trade zone in the future, Eric still had a feeling that he was useless to the team - the former gangster leader did not want to rely on Kaka's relationship to stay in the team without doing anything, he wanted to rely on his ability to gain the recognition of his peers and gain Leon's attention.
However, it will take a long time for the promised intelligence network to play a role, and the construction of the free trade zone is still far away, and now he can only fight for Jeff, so he is very aggrieved. However, this kind of affection is not aimed at others, but complains that his own strength cannot be taken alone at all.
Fortunately, his old friend Kaka's potion was finally successfully blended, and Eric felt the progress of his strength little by little in a large number of restorative exercises these days, and his heart finally began to settle down.
"As long as I can return to the second order, at least the lord will no longer worry about my safety, and I will not let my companions fall too far behind. ”
It's just that the poor gangster leader doesn't know the strength of those girls at this time...... It seems that they are all close to the third order.