Dressed in civilian clothes and armed with a black iron knife, I walked outside the door.

"Sir. Standing outside the door were Rock and a few other people, and Rock's alert gaze covered me the moment I opened the door.

"Well, I'll go to the garden. I walked past him: "Go and call a few guards, you can get better." ”

As soon as I moved my body out in the garden, the ten best guards stood behind me, and all of them crawled out of the pile of dead men, and according to my experience, I could fight at most two at the same time.

An elven magician has also arrived.

"Elves hidden in the night, I call you with a pious heart, spread the wings that you can cover a qiē around me, stop the spillage of light, and isolate the transmission of sound......" Without waiting for the magician around me to cast a spell, I had already used this magic that I would never have been able to use before, the medium-level magic in the elven handwriting, the sensory enchantment.

A rippling film formed around me and gradually expanded until it covered the circular ground with me as the center and a radius of thirty arms...... It worked, I actually succeeded.

The elf beside her smiled, and put down the staff she had held to her chest.

"Hoki-sama, you can finally use medium-level magic. "She genuinely congratulated me, we had known each other since we were studying magic in the Elven Forest, she was responsible for teaching me wind magic, and she knew my magic abilities very well.

"It's a pity that this is my own garden, it's a pity to destroy it. I smiled and said, "Otherwise, I can put a few big spells." ”

"Would you like to test it?" the elf approached me, "Actually, you don't need to release large magic, I have other ways to test your current magic skills." ”

I'm a little confused: "What a way." ”

"Games. The elf stood arm's length away from me and stretched out his right hand: "Elf's game." ”

"We don't have to sing. Her fingers parted slightly. Whisper to me, "Fight for it with your own magic alone." ”

"Fighting for what?"

"This is it. The elf's fingers glowed faintly blue. It didn't take long. There were already a lot of water droplets on top of our heads that had accumulated to form a fist-sized mass: "If you can't fight for control of this water polo, you'll get wet." ”

"This ...... How to do it. I hurriedly stretched out my hand: "Will it hurt someone?"

"Ordinary water, absolutely not hurting people. The elf's fingers continued to emit blue light: "This is not released or summoned by a spell, this is just the free water element in this space, as long as your magic is strong enough, you can take it away from me." All you need to do is attract it with your own magic. ”

"Good!" I reminisced about my old magic lessons, building up my magic in my hands first. Gradually, my fingers began to glow blue.

"Compress the magic in your hands to make it cohesive, the tighter the better. The elf guided me, and there was no light in her hands: "There are blue bands of light in your hands, which proves that your magic is outward, and loose magic is unattractive......"

I concentrated, the blue light in my hand gradually disappeared, and the water balloon above my head gradually moved towards my hand.

"You're in quick control. The elf smiled, "Attention, now we're fighting." ”

Her palm flipped over and her palm was facing the balloon of water that had fallen towards me...... The direction of the balloon's drift changes instantly. Floated to her hand!

"When the water polo is about to touch the palm of my hand, it can be completely controlled by me. "It's weird. She could still speak easily at this time: "At that time, you will have to go back to your room to change your clothes." ”

"No...... One...... "I easily squeezed three words out of my teeth and sent magic into my hands again...... It's too difficult, you have to compress it while gathering mana.

"Not only do you need to have good magical skills, but the strength of your own magic is the most important thing. She teased me, "And the fun of this game is that if we don't control it well, the water polo will get bigger and bigger." ”

"I don't believe it. "I calmed down, palms outward, and attracted the water balloon with the magic of gathering compression.

As I continued to infuse my magic, the water balloon gradually changed direction and floated towards my hand.

"See...... This is the strength of Young Master Ben. "I couldn't help but be a little happy to see the water polo getting closer.

"Your Excellency, you've worked hard. The elf looked at me and said, "But that's not enough to defeat me. ”

Her palms bulged out slightly, and the damn water balloon abandoned me again, and she took it away......

"Don't run!" I exclaimed in my heart, almost all the magic in my hand: "Come back to me—"

"I'm almost done with my magic! She pursed her lips and smiled, "The last resort for adults is to do their best to compress the magic......"

Anyway, I'm also her boss, why didn't she give me any face, I didn't see that I was already sweating on my forehead! No, it really didn't work...... The water polo is almost in the palm of her hand!

"Your Excellency, you're going to lose......"

"I won't lose!" I cheered myself up in my heart: "Don't look at you as an elf, Young Master Ben will definitely not lose!"

When the mana in my body was about to be exhausted, a trace of energy similar to mana came out of my body, although only a little, but it was slowly increasing - the feeling of this energy was so familiar, I thought about it and realized that this was the energy I swallowed as I drifted through the universe in a soul state!

However, can you add this energy to the magic power, will there be an explosion or something...... No matter what, the two energies have coexisted in my body for so long, and I haven't seen anything...... Let's see how good I am!

I carefully injected a trace of this unknown name into the palm of my hand, and it was a little painful......

"Smack!" came a very faint sound from the palm of my hand, and the water balloon floated towards my hand twice as fast as before.

A confused look flashed in the elf's eyes, and the blue glow in his hand flourished, then vanished, and the water balloon came to rest just inches closer to my palm...... As her brow furrowed, the water balloon began to recede.

Don't do that! I injected energy again. Stabilize the movement of the water polo...... It's not that I don't want to inject more. Yes you can't...... Because my hands hurt so much!

The pale blue water balloon stops drifting between the two. Begins to rotate slightly.

"Bang, bang, bang!" came from the palm of his hand again.

"My lord......" In such a situation, the elf did not speak very easily: "Even if we fight and fight, we should give up......"

I nodded violently, like a needle in my palm.

"Shoot the mana upwards in your hand......" the elf instructed me, "Be consistent...... Count to three!"

We twisted our palms at the same time so that they were facing the air above us, and as she struggled to count to three, we unleashed all the magic in our hands......

I looked up and saw only two blue beams of light piercing the empty night sky. One of the pure blue bands of light soon expanded and dissipated, and the beam I released flew up until it disappeared from my field of vision.

The water balloon that lost control fell to his feet, and with a "whoosh" sound, the water splashed everywhere.

"It's weird. I stroked the palm of my hand, and I couldn't figure it out in my heart: "It hurt so much just now, don't talk about the scar now, there is not even a red dot ......"

"My lord, I'm sorry. The elf looked tired: "I didn't expect it to turn out like this." ”

"It doesn't matter. I smiled faintly and looked at my water-soaked placket: "It's just a game." It's just that the barrier is about to be released again. ”

"I'll release the barrier!" said the elf, "My lord, don't you still want to practice with others?"

"Okay!" I casually asked, "How's my progress?"

"Your Excellency, ......" the elf thought for a moment, "although the magic power of the adult is strange, there is no doubt about it." You're already a qualified magician. ”

"Thank you for your guidance. "I'm excited, for years, my magic has been spinning at the level of a trainee magician. Although I said I didn't care, when I saw others using mid-to-high-level magic, my heart was sour...... Once there is a breakthrough, how can I be unhappy!

It wasn't until the elf released the sensory barrier and walked away that I noticed that the ten guards and rocks, all looking at me with admiration on their faces.

"What's wrong with you?"

"Sir, you're amazing. One of the winged officers said, "Although you and the elf have a draw, sir, everyone can see that the elven magician is tired, but the chief is very energetic!"

"Oh, is that so?" I touched my chin, "Then you guys should go on next!

"Good!" an officer stood in line, "Sir, I'll come first." ”

It's an orc, much taller than I am, and his arms are longer than mine, not to mention his strength—what about an orc!

But his movements became so slow.

He didn't even pull away, and the elbow of my tentative attack had already hit him in the lower abdomen, and the orc snorted and fell backwards, and I panicked and reached out to pull his backward body back - so fast that I couldn't believe it!

"Are you alright?" I asked.

He propped himself up, took a deep breath, and slowly exhaled before giving me a thumbs up and replying, "It's okay." ”

"A few more, then!" I was eager to try.

The rock beckoned, and several guards surrounded him.

I tried my current speed and strength, coordinated and rushed forward, and a few people came down, and several people were knocked to the ground by me. Even the rocks were no exception, and I broke through his defenses with a single punch, sending him several steps backwards...... It seems to me that they are all moving very slowly. Of course it's impossible, it's me, it's me who is getting faster.

"Alright, sir, you've improved a lot in speed and strength. The rock said, "If you use a weapon, we won't be able to catch a single sword." ”

"Then give it a try......"

"No, sir. The rock shouted to stop: "The ladies have ordered that we are not allowed to use weapons when training with the commander, and His Majesty agrees!"

"Rely on ......" Although he is still unsatisfied, I know that this guy is very stubborn, and he will never disobey Fichette's order, so he can only wave his hand helplessly: "Go back to your room and sleep!"

However, I'm happy with what I got tonight.

When I returned to the room, Mo Lan and Han Lan were still waiting for me with their eyes open, and they saw that I was sweating profusely. Get busy and wait for me to take a bath. I remembered that it scared them not long ago. You have to make up for it......

And so the night. So I didn't sleep much that night.

To confirm my "sincerity," I took the merchant early in the morning to visit the dock that Deere used for smuggling.

When they saw the goods in the warehouse with the sign of "contraband" and the ships that were "impounded" on the dock, they all ran to tell each other in high spirits.

Deere's smuggling activities have always been a big rock on their hearts, and it can be said that they have been living under the huge shadow of Diere...... Now, my dear Dill is no longer in Wamp, and they also think that smuggling has been thoroughly cracked down by me. Natural. The donations and supplies they promised filled my warehouse as fast as they could.

As for the "little businessman", he sent me a letter of guarantee written in blood early the morning of the second day of the ball, and he showed me the wound on his finger in order to prove that it was written in his own blood. First, I don't want to lose his donation, and second, I have other plans......

He was pushed to the front and confronted me, and after the accident, not only did no one help him exonerate, but no one was willing to sign his guarantee, and with the careful eye of "small business", he must have hated these people in his heart.

I need such a person, I need him to stay in the shopping mall of Wanpu, and the "small business" will not miss any opportunity to take revenge on others - besides. This also seems to be magnanimous to the Governor, doesn't it?

So I patted him on the head and said comforting words to forgive him.

In the following day. I was with Lucy except for official business, and we went shopping and sightseeing, and we were so intimate that everyone in the city of Wanpu thought she was my concubine.

On the night after I arrived at the Wanpu, I had my usual dance party at the castle lord's mansion. But I only showed up before the ball, and then I got into a carriage through the back door, and the rest was left to Colter.

The carriage drove smoothly, and in a short time it was out of the city gates. I didn't hurry to change into my full gear and take a nap, and by the time I woke up, the carriage was parked in a field dozens of miles away from the city.

"Sir, here we are. The rock came up and opened the door for me: "I want to change horses." ”

Jumping out of the carriage, a regiment of guards I had brought with me was already waiting on both sides of the road in marching columns, and in the dark night, the soldiers were in full armor and were calming their mounts.

"You're in good spirits!" I gestured to my steed as I walked to my steed.

When we went to war, it would be nice to have the support of merchants! After wrapping the cloth on the horses' hooves, the march of more than 2,000 people did not make much noise.

The soldiers of the Guards were not rookies, and we had logisticians disguised as caravans to supply us along the way, so I could lead them forward without stopping, like a monsoon wind blowing through the wilderness, all the way to the fiefdom of Khalik's fools......

Halik's fiefdom is Du Feng Province, which is only half the size of the Dark Moon Province, and is mainly based on farming. There are not many cities, and the provincial capital is a medium-sized city with a history of hundreds of years - Maple Leaf City.

Du Feng Province is also a province where the nobles of the Sibian Empire are concentrated, known as the alias of "noble swaddling", and the land of this province is full of ancestral properties and country villas of various aristocratic families.

It is not unreasonable to choose Khalik as my first target, first, as long as I gain an advantage in Du Feng Province, I can attack the two enemy forces attacking Darkmoon Province from the flank. Second, with so many aristocratic families, you can always catch a few chicks and go back to the errand, right?

According to previous information, Du Feng Province only has 20,000 or 30,000 defenders, of which 15,000 are the defenders of Maple Leaf City, because there are more nobles in Maple Leaf City and they are delicate, so the number of people in this army is untouchable, and the gods and demons have never been drawn by the empire during the war. In addition, there are less than 15,000 troops stationed in various parts of the province, and these scattered troops will be the first to be struck by us.

The marching speed of the troops under my command has been deduced many times by the General Staff, because most of the infantry regiments are still in the training ground, some of the training has not ended, and some of the personnel are not uniform, so the first batch of troops I brought is not very many, and there are only about 20,000 people in the eight guard regiments, so the timing of the attack and the mutual cooperation of each regiment are very important. The ten Guards Regiment in the First Legion are the elite units of my Dark Province Army, and I have brought out eight of them this time, if something goes wrong...... I'm thinking about something, and it will definitely not be a problem.

Two days later, the Guards Regiment I led had rushed to the vicinity of the desert entrance, and the other seven Guards Regiment had already made contact with my unit, and they arrived first, so the field command, reconnaissance, and so on were all perfected.

The troops dispersed into the fortifications built by the sandman soldiers to rest, and I went directly to the staff headquarters, waiting for the latest information to come back. Soon after, Marfa rushed back.

He rushed into the staff and shouted loudly as he shook off the sand and dust on his body: "I'm back." ”

"See. I motioned to the guards beside me to pour water for him: "My chief liaison officer, seeing that you are about to become a civil servant, pay attention to your appearance, okay?"

Marfa almost choked to death with a mouthful of water, coughing and asking me, "Ah, Wenchen, am I not an officer?"

"That's what Your Majesty means, but I haven't agreed yet. I smiled: "If you want to continue to be an officer, you should pray that your intelligence system will not fail." ”

"Absolutely not. Marfa put down the glass of water and walked up to me, patted her chest and said, "Don't worry." ”

"No more nonsense. "I pushed the map to him.

Marfa pressed the map with one hand and picked up the pen from the side: "I was about to explain that the situation has changed a little. ”

As soon as I beckoned, the heads of staff immediately gathered around the table.

"The two enemy armies attacking the Dark Moon Province are moving slowly, and according to the original plan, we have enough time to catch their tails, and besides, the defenders of Du Feng Province have not changed much. Marfa pointed to the map and marked the latest number of defenders at the relevant location with a pen: "But the trouble is that most of the nobles who were originally hiding from the war in the countryside have already packed up their things and run to Maple Leaf City, and the plan you expected to kidnap the girl is a little unworkable, sir." ”

I touched my chin: "It's a nuisance. Maple Leaf City said that it is not small, and a strong attack will suffer a lot of losses. ”

"And the trouble is that we don't have time to delay in Du Feng Province right now. A staff officer said, "Our plan is to open the passage as quickly as possible and directly threaten the enemy who is attacking the province of Darkmoon. ”

"yes...... It was precisely because of the urgency of time that the Guards Regiment was dispatched. My fingers slid over the original route of the march: "But once the matter of choosing a concubine is successful, the impact on the enemy will be huge, and their camp will become suspicious, and even split and collapse. Doing both at the same time is much better than if we were on the battlefield alone. ”

We are faced with a dilemma. (To be continued......)