This winter was a little too busy, and Lawrence, who had rested and worked in the castle, took care of a lot of things, and then before he knew it, he made it through the first night.

The first day came one day earlier than usual, and from this day on, the people in the territory could see the sun again.

"Hopefully this year will be a good year as well."

Lawrence has the same expectations for the new year as he has in previous years.

The family sat around the dining table for a meal, and Lawrence looked at Delen.

Delen's belly has become bigger, and Lawrence thought that he was born this winter, so he didn't go outside and waited for the child to be born at home.

Now the war is over outside, and the child has not yet been born.

"Mother, how long does it take for a normal witch to get pregnant before giving birth to a child?"

"Witches have a longer gestation cycle than ordinary women have to give birth to children, and different witches have different babies at different times, so I only took spring to autumn to give birth to Delen. ”

Lawrence felt a little magical, "Is it true that the longer the child is conceived, the stronger the child becomes?" ”

"Not really." Keharan smiled next to him: "It is generally related to the witch's physique, if it is a witch like me who controls the growth of plants, it will be fine for a few months." ”

"If it's those powerful and mysterious bloodlines, it's possible to be pregnant for a few years."

Keharan looked at Delen's stomach again, and Delen, who had become accustomed to the gaze of the others, was quietly eating the leg of mutton at this time, completely indifferent to the gaze and discussion of the rest.

Keharan said: "Delenn has the ability to control dirt and rocks, her attributes are relatively slow, and the speed of absorbing power to give birth to offspring has also been affected, but looking at this volume and the movement in her stomach, it should be a matter of one or two months." ”

Lawrence nodded, everyone often touched Delen's belly, and although the little life in it was very quiet many times, it would sometimes kick and stretch its arms in the stomach mischievously.

Sophia looked at Kehalan, "Kehalan, is your child still there?" ”

"It's still there, I can feel that she's still alive, but I don't know where it is." Keharan pondered carefully, but he couldn't sense the other party's location.

Lawrence was very kind and said, "If she comes in the future, I will welcome her into our house." ”

Whether it's the girl's dad or brother, Lawrence has no problem.

Khallan smiled, "The witches of the South didn't come to us even if they were persecuted by the Church, and I think they might have found a better option." ”

"That's a shame." Lawrence doesn't regret it at all, just lip service.

Witches are indeed powerful and have uses, but ordinary women are not useless, especially when technology develops to a certain extent, it is no longer dependent on the strength of a single witch.

Sariel's weather forecasts can only predict the general weather of one or two cities, not the whole country.

Especially now that the territory is larger and the ability to resist disasters has been improved, the role of individual weather forecasting has weakened a lot.

After the food is not worried, the breeding work does not need to be so fast, relying on the strength and wisdom of ordinary people can replace the ability to ripen and mature.

The advent of gunpowder and cement has also replaced the abilities of fire and earth, such as beekeeping and reconnaissance, which are also becoming less and less effective.

Unless sorcery can be systematically systematized and more convenient and useful magical technology can be developed, it will sooner or later be replaced by artillery and technology.

And then there are enough witches around him at present, Lawrence is very gentlemanly to the beekeeper, not taking the initiative at all, and is unwilling to invite her to come to the house to try the mattress and enjoy life in the bath together.

"Sariel, it's up to you after Delen, have you figured out what to name your child?"

Sarryl was listening to everyone, and looked at Lawrence in surprise when she saw that Lawrence had talked about herself.

"Lawrence, did you name Lawrence Jr.? Is it really called Lawrence Jr.? ”

Sariel didn't even know what Delen's child was called, and since it hadn't been born yet, everyone had no idea of a name.

The infant survival rate of this era was very low, and the cold climate of the north also caused some children to die in the first year.

Therefore, everyone is accustomed to waiting for the child to grow up before naming it, instead of not being born yet, and not seeing whether the child is alive or not, and directly naming it.

Lawrence knows that many of the habits of modern society are luxuries.

"I figured out that Delenn's child would be called Hans Christian Andersen, and then my second child would be called Green."

Sariel wondered, "What do these two names mean?" ”

Lawrence himself didn't know what it meant, "I thought about it, and I decided, in the future, it's okay to call these two names, the name is just a name, and it's okay to know that it's called this name." ”

Sophia couldn't wait to ask, "Master, what is the name of the third child?" ”

Catherine smiled confidently, "Green must be my child's name, I believe my body is almost there, I have a feeling, it's this year!" ”

Lawrence finds himself ignoring the dark horse, and although Catherine joins several years later than Saril, she is a bit older than Sarile and is a pure-blood witch.

Sariel frowned and said with some embarrassment, "I don't really want children. ”

"It's okay, we have a lot of little kids now." Lawrence is very understanding and very accommodating to all kinds of ideas, "We are all doing well now, and we don't need to care so much about future generations. ”

The rest nodded.

Wizards don't actually value their offspring......

Reproduction is only a work that is needed by the senses, and it is mainly due to the needs of the body.

In fact, judging from the current attitude of many witches and wizards, wizards are a group of people who have overcome the instinct of giving.

It is impossible to expect this group of wizards who seek immortality to give half their lives for the sake of their offspring.

Neither male nor female witches have the consciousness to raise offspring.

Deren is a population to the Cloga tribe, just like a family or a sect recruiting disciples, not to cultivate disciples, but to let the disciples support the operation of the sect, so that a group of bigwigs do not have to do chores.

The wizarding family did not give birth to offspring in order to raise offspring, and Catherine and Kassandra's father used them as a tool to make money from marriage.

It's just that I was lucky enough to meet Lawrence, so I didn't feel like a gift.

Unless it's that form of tribal and family organization, these people won't babysit their children for decades.

Especially a child like Sariel, who was born and was left to a man to raise, has had no maternal love since he was a child.

In the cold wizarding world, family affection is something only found by low-level animals, and wizards who yearn for eternity and transcendence will not be bound by this kind of thing.

Fortunately, there are fewer and fewer wizards outside now, and as the bloodline is diluted from generation to generation, the wizards in the future will only get weaker and weaker and return to the mortal array.

After the outside was lit up, Lawrence began ordering snow-covered roads to be cleared and more streetlights set up in the next few days.

The renovation of the castle has also continued, and the interior of the Ring building at the rear has been renovated, relying on Delen's witchcraft to create cellars and ice cellars, as well as wine cellars and underground escape passages.

The exterior atrium began to be restored, and thanks to witchcraft and a lot of manpower, it was possible to live in a much larger and luxurious castle this winter.

A few days later, Emma returned to Oak City with a few excited children and captives.

More than a dozen female captives are all beautiful women selected from the Durella nobles this time, and beauty is only one of the requirements, and more importantly, ability and cultivation value.

Lawrence inspects the condition of the female captives.

There were no witches inside, either they were taken away in advance by the people of the church, or the number of witches and wizards outside dropped a lot.

The battle with the Church of Dawn is not over, and when spring or autumn comes, the group will certainly not rest.

Although Lawrence planned to stay at home, he was prepared to call Brielier to deliver the message.

"Send our emissaries to the kingdoms, and if you find that the people of the Church of Dawn are trying to start a war, come back and inform us!"

"It is forbidden to spread the technology of gunpowder and cannonballs, and it is our church's magic to the outside world!"

"No more selling weapons, farm tools, and other iron tools to unfriendly countries, and prevent those weapons from falling into the hands of the Dawn Church."

"This time the Durella Kingdom has lost a lot of people, support them with a thousand tons of wheat and a thousand barrels of vodka, so that they can restore peace as soon as possible, and as compensation, I need the territory of En'er Village of the Durella Kingdom."

Lawrence wrote to King Durella, asking for a piece of land to be used as a garrison base to keep the commercial routes of Durella Bay safe from pirates, and to keep the kingdoms of Grand and Deco from going too far with the Church of Dawn.

The Kingdom of Durella was worried about how to maintain the rule of the royal family, and when it saw that the Kingdom of Stars was willing to garrison troops to ensure the safety of the coast, it naturally happily agreed.

The Western countries themselves are encroaching on their territories little by little, and at the same time, they are not strong in the mode of king lords, and sometimes the nobles below can sell their own countries, so the kings can naturally sell their territories.

Most of the Durella people don't know where En'er is, but the merchants along the coast are more than willing to accept the garrison of the Star Nation, so that they can do business safely and have more sales channels.

The Land of Stars soon had an enclave, an enclave in temperate seas.

There is no eternal night, and there is no freezing in winter.

The main purpose is to confront the Dawn Church, whose base camp is in the richest kingdom of Gran.

In recent years, both the Hokuriku Kingdom and the Hasenri Kingdom have been vigorously developing the breeding industry, providing large quantities of wool to the Land of Stars.

The wool of the Kingdom of Glan still occupies the main share, but everyone knows that it will not be long before the Kingdom of Haisenli will occupy the main share with its high-quality pasture terrain and closer geographical advantages.

The old industry, represented by the wool ranchers, and the coal industry, represented by the aristocracy, established stable trade routes with the north.

Unless the Church of Dawn convinces the wool merchants and coal lords of the existence of the God of Dawn, they will certainly oppose the war.

Lawrence, who has a fist in one hand and a gold coin in the other, makes everyone choose, and his greatest advantage is not witchcraft, but experience.

However, this world does have superpowers that control the mind...... No matter how reluctant the merchants and lords below may be, the Kingdom of Gran has already declared war on this side after the priests of Durella fled back. (End of chapter)