After a two-day trek, before evening, Nolen and his party arrived at Peak City smoothly.

"Back to our hometown of Linfeng City!"

The convoy drove into the city gate and stopped at the gate of the city lord's mansion, Nolen stepped out of the carriage and stretched hard, "I miss Lin Feng too much, oh, isn't this our city lord?" ”

After receiving the news of the return of the envoy group, Evelyn specially brought the officials of the City Lord's Mansion to greet her at the door.

"Thank you for your hard work."

Evelyn smiled and nodded to everyone, "I've prepared a feast for you, and I've been busy outside for so long before I came back, so let's have a good rest today." ”

More than half a month has passed since the envoy visited Flammel, and from a work point of view, it is indeed a relatively long business trip.

"No, I've tasted enough of the feast or something."

Noren shook his head and said, "Take me to the treasure trove of the City Lord's Mansion, I plan to find Yuna a handy weapon, or a decent alchemy raw material." ”

"Yes." With such a legitimate and reasonable request, Evelyn naturally had no reason to refuse.

"Tell me about what happened to Flamel later, you've made a lot of noise there......"

Nolen's visit to Flamel on behalf of Impeller City this time was intended to promote cooperation between the two parties.

Even if she became a legendary alchemist there by the way, it was also in her expectation.

But what she didn't expect was that the emissary of Shattered Star City actually tried to assassinate Noren and his party in Flamel.

Fortunately, Nolan and the others finally succeeded in killing the envoy of Shattered Star City, but this assassination incident still pushed Linfeng City to the forefront.

In addition, although Linfeng City is located in a remote area, it is still at the junction of the two major camps.

If the Second Prince's camp intends to attack first, I'm afraid that revenge on Linfeng City will become their preferred target.

This is no joke, as the lord of the city, she must ask the person concerned about the current situation and be fully prepared.

Nolan nodded, and he first arranged for Flamel's technicians to contact the staff of the military department's alchemy factory, and then asked Luo Zhen to transport the alchemy equipment back to the mansion.

After taking care of these trivial matters, he called Yuna and followed Evelyn to the treasury of the City Lord's Mansion.

"Shattered Star City is a staunch second prince force, and because of their different positions, hostility between them is unavoidable."

On the way, Nolan gave a general account of Erich's plot against him, shook his head, and said, "What's worse, Shattered Star City is not far from us.

"Maybe between us and them, we can't escape a battle after all."

The geographical location between Peak, Shattered Star and Flamel is like a triangle, roughly the same distance from each other, and they are all neighbors.

If a civil war really breaks out, then in this war zone in the western part of the empire, Peak City may bear the brunt of the war with Shattered Star City, and there is basically no possibility of staying out of it.

"It seems that Shattered Star City has been plotting against us for a long time."

Evelyn seemed to remember something, and her face was a little ugly, "Fortunately, when the steppe people invaded, we didn't call for their rescue in the end, otherwise the result would be unimaginable." ”

At that time, the eldest prince and the second prince had not completely broken up, and the former city lord Ivan did not know that Shattered Star City had already secretly defected to the second prince's camp.

But now it seems that the grassland people and Shattered Star City are both from the Second Prince's camp, if they really lure the wolf into the house at the beginning, who will the reinforcements of Shattered Star City support in the end, the answer is very obvious.

With a single thought, Linfeng City almost came to an end.

"But it's not without good news."

Noren was relieved, "Although the overall strength of Peak City is not comparable to Shattered Star City for the time being, we have formed an alliance with Flamel.

"In the event of a war, Bach will not sit idly by, even if it is only based on interests.

"Moreover, I have already been involved with Fred, the chief alchemist of the imperial court in the imperial capital.

"If the situation is urgent, I will promise Fred that Peak City will produce a large number of weapons for the Imperial army.

"Once Linfeng City becomes the Empire's arsenal, Your Majesty will not let us be easily captured by the rebels, and will definitely send heavy troops to support.

“…… However, in the final analysis, these are just strategies, and strengthening one's own strength is the best way not to be bullied.

"So, although a war has just ended, now is not the time to recuperate.

"I need Linfeng City to be put on alert again, and I will try to improve the strength of the military headquarters as much as possible during this time, so as to deal with the upcoming war."

"You're right." Evelyn nodded, her expression also serious, "The City Lord's Mansion will fully cooperate with you." ”

Cultivating a new Transcendent Force is not something that can be done overnight, and the remote Peak City has no means to attract other Transcendents to join it.

Thinking about it, if the army wants to improve its strength in a short period of time, I am afraid it can only count on magical alchemy.

After all...... During the First War, Nolan had already used his amazing alchemy to perform a miracle, hadn't he?

During the conversation, the three of them came to the treasure house of the City Lord's Mansion, and Evelyn ordered someone to open the door of the treasure house, and said:

"If you want anything, just take it."

The so-called treasure house of the castle lord's mansion has a different meaning from ordinary warehouses and warehouses.

The latter symbolizes the reserve resources of a city, which can be said to be the "public property" of the empire, which can be used by many officials to use public power.

The treasury of the City Lord's Mansion actually refers to the private collections of the ruling family, and only the leader of the family has the power to decide the use of these collections.

These private collections tend to be more precious and rare, such as when he installed a vermilion-level magic crystal on Valkyrie's equipment during the decisive battle of the steppe people.

At the time, it was the only high-quality magic crystal in Peak, and it came from the private collection of the Baihat family.

In anticipation, Nolan was the first to enter the treasure house, and among the dazzling treasures, he quickly finished walking around.

Then, his brow furrowed slowly.

If you are a self who has never seen the world before, you may still feel that everything in this treasure trove is good.

But since he had seen a lot of magical alchemy techniques and precious alchemy potions in Flammel, he suddenly discovered-

It seems that this is nothing more than that.

After all, the Baihat family would keep a piece of vermilion-level magic crystal in the treasury, but in Flamel, it wasn't that rare.

Take equipment-related collections as an example, he has a gorgeously shaped gilded knight sword in front of him, but in terms of strength alone, it is not much sharper than the knight's standard knight sword of the Knights.

But the pattern on its sword body is really beautiful, and the workmanship of the scabbard is also extremely exquisite, so it is undeniable that it also has some collectible value.

High Emotional Intelligence: The practical value of this sword coexists with its artistic value.

Low EQ: Something that doesn't work.

"What's wrong?" Evelyn noticed his hesitation, "Didn't pick one?" ”

Nolan paused, although he wanted to take care of her face, but finally confessed: "Indeed, their workmanship does not meet my expectations. ”

Only then did he have a more intuitive understanding of the so-called "heritage" gap between different forces.

In the treasure house of the dignified City Lord's Mansion, not only are there divine weapons that have not entered his eyes, but even rare alchemy raw materials are rare.

It's hard for a good woman to cook without rice!

No matter how magical alchemy is, it's impossible to conjure a weapon for you out of thin air, right?

Even if the existing alchemy metal formula is improved, according to the principle of equivalent exchange, the stronger the composite metal needs to be supported by rarer raw materials.

There is no such thing as true alchemy that transforms decay into magic.

Nolan's blunt words made the sky talk to death, and an awkward atmosphere began to fill the air.

Yuna stood aside, looking nervously at Evelyn, who had fallen silent for a while, hesitating whether she should say anything to save the scene.

I think this sword is pretty good! I don't need such a powerful weapon with my current strength.

She was about to say this, when Evelyn said, "That...... Come with me, I'll show you this. ”

As she walked outside, Nolan's eyes lit up and she followed.

Evelyn made her way to the Baihat House, and with the many servants in the mansion bowing, she walked through the hall and pushed open the door to one room.

The room was spacious, like a family ancestral hall, with long corridors lined with portraits of direct members of the Baihat family.

At the end of the corridor hangs a conspicuous banner with two golden ears of wheat and a horse with its front hooves raised and soaring, the family crest of the Baihat family.

Under this banner stood a high platform, on which hung a long strip of things, which looked like a sword.

Evelyn climbed the stairs to the platform, picked up the sword, and turned to hand it to Nolan.

"I wonder if this sword can enter the eyes of the General Staff?"

There was a hint of unyielding in her tone, and Nolan took the sword and looked at it carefully.

The scabbard is a traditional workmanship of metal-clad wood, and although it is decorated with a detailed picture of a horse galloping, it is not as conspicuous and pompous as the gilded scabbard in the treasure house, and the overall appearance is a relatively low-key dark red.

With a slight effort, he pulled the blade out of its scabbard.

With the sound of "Zheng", a faint golden light flashed in front of his eyes.

Whether it is an ordinary iron sword or a knight's steel, their blades are generally silvery-white, but this sword is different, it is born with a clear golden color!

"It's—Sun Essence!" Nolan's expression was surprised, and he recognized the sword's forging material.

It is not a composite alchemy metal invented by some alchemist, but a type of natural treasure.

The so-called natural treasure, it does not need to be complicated processing procedures, as long as it is simply used, it can exert an incomparably powerful extraordinary power.

Weapons forged from Solar Adamant Gold not only have a special golden appearance, but they are also indestructible and stronger than the highest quality knight steel.

As a result, it has long been one of the best choices for knights to use as a raw material for weapons.

It's just that the Solitary Sun Adamantium is too rare and destined to be unpopular among the vast number of knights.

Therefore, later generations of alchemists invented various composite alchemy metals, in an attempt to obtain the raw materials of weapons with the highest possible strength at a relatively cheap cost.

"You're very knowledgeable." Seeing that Nolan was finally moved, Evelyn's expression softened slightly, and she said proudly.

"The Baihat family is a family of knights, and my ancestors used this sword to make great achievements for the empire, and finally won the appreciation of the previous kings, so they became the rulers of Linfeng City.

"After a long period of peace in the Roland Empire, the sword was finally sheathed and placed here as a family heirloom along with the portraits of the ancestors."

"Okay." Nolan put the sword back into its sheath and handed it back to Evelyn, "This is indeed a rare and good sword. ”

"Then what are you going to do for me?"

Evelyn snorted, "Why don't you take it for Yuna?" ”

"Are you really going to give it to us?" Nolan was shocked, "Isn't this a family heirloom?" ”

Since it was not placed in the treasure house, but on the high platform of the ancestral hall, this was enough to prove the symbolic meaning of this Sun Knight Sword.

It is not a weapon that can be used by others at will.

Originally, he thought that this was just Evelyn's show off in order to prove that her family still had real treasures.

But judging by her expression, it seemed like she was really planning to give this sword to Yuna?

"My father is seriously ill, my brother is in retreat, and I am a mage major and a city lord, so I don't have a chance to use it to kill the enemy."

Evelyn bit her lip and said, "In that case, it's better to entrust it to someone you trust than to put it on the shelf." ”

"It's good that you think so." Nolan nodded, and then handed the sword to Yuna, "Let's see if it fits." ”

Yuna hesitated, feeling something heavy in Evelyn's eyes as she looked at her, which made her feel stressed.

"My knightly cultivation is not yet home, lest I disgrace the reputation of this sword."

She whispered, "I think that both Mr. Ryan and the other seniors of the Order are more qualified to use this weapon than I am." ”

Hearing this, Evelyn looked at Yuna and said seriously, "Uncle Ryan's matching sword is not inferior to it, so you can rest assured."

"And apart from my uncle, in Linfeng City, I only believe that you have the ability to keep this sword for me.

"It's not so much that you want this sword, but that I want it to fight with you.

"Because you are the white raven of Peak City, you are the hero who once saved Peak City, and there is no one more suitable to be its new master than you!

"So...... Yuna, take it.

"I hope it can play its due value on the battlefield and open up a better future for you and Linfeng City."

Yuna and Evelyn looked at each other, and for a moment, she understood what the heavy things in her eyes were.

It is trust and responsibility.

“…… Good. ”

She looked at the sword Nolan handed over, took a deep breath, as if she was mentally prepared, and took it.

"I swear." Her tone was serious and firm.

"I will never dishonor it."

(End of chapter)