The properties bestowed by Lord Barguf are very good, and they are basically located in the Wind Zone, which is mainly residential, including the temple, where even the former comrades-in-arms are located, and strong mountain winds often blow from all directions.

However, despite this, the scenery is excellent, and people can freely choose a location here to enjoy the nature and vastness of the entire snowy collar.

It is said that the rumored dragonborn also has real estate in this area, but since this is a real-world city, it is much larger than the impression of the lost, so there is probably no such thing as a neighbor.

Xia Ran visited Xue Man City with great interest, because because he took off his mask, people couldn't recognize him as the "powerful mage" before, which saved him a lot of trouble.

The residents of Snowman City are hospitable and friendly, and even the vendors in the market are enthusiastic about taking the initiative to lower their prices. Many people seem to be full of passion and hope for tomorrow, from the guards to the street vendors, and even the children walking the streets are talking about today's dragon slaying incident.

It seems that this incident is really a shot in the arm, giving them the most precious hope and sweeping away all the gloom since the war.

Xia Ran didn't have a good opinion of this, he didn't know much about the situation, except for the impression of the plot of the work itself, there was only some information from hearsay...... But even so, he knew that the current Snow City was not going to be easy.

It's all well and good to want to be neutral, but if you want to be so easy to do in practice, you can be caught in the middle of it and feel even more pressured to walk on thin ice.

Unless the war can end in a short period of time, the empire is reunited, and the whole returns to its previous state, it is estimated that it will be difficult for Snow Man City to sustain itself.

Even the Stormcloak won't win, because once it gets to that point, the Stormcloak will definitely put the entire Skyrim Province under their control, and will no longer allow Snowman's independent existence......

However, the war could not end in a short period of time, and no one could guarantee that the empire would win, and everything would be back on track.

Maybe these ordinary people, the soldiers of Xueman City who follow orders, don't have such a long-term vision, but Xia Ran doesn't believe that Lord Barguf hasn't thought about this matter, and after substituting himself in it, he doesn't think there is any way to break the situation.

Unless Barguf is as powerful as the legendary Nord hero who slew the dragon and established the Dragon Palace...... What individual force cannot change anything, only force can do nothing, this kind of saying is simply a joke.

The person who said such a thing is simply too weak to imagine how far a truly powerful person can go.

Or maybe he is not only too weak, but also has no consciousness at all, but feels that he is already very strong, and he can't imagine that there are people in the world who can be stronger than himself, so since his own strength can't do it, it must be a problem that his personal strength can never solve.

It's just that no matter how you look at it, Xia Ran doesn't think that Barguv will be able to break through at a critical moment, his strength will progress rapidly, he will achieve great achievements, and then he will be invincible in the world...... This is unrealistic.

However, if you don't do anything, sitting back and waiting for death should not be this lord's style. So he was curious, where did Lord Balguf put his chips, and what kind of gamble could make him put all his chips?

Intentionally or unintentionally, he took some guards' words, and by the way, he went to the Mare Banner Inn to listen to the news of the lost, and he determined one thing-

That is the court mage Farenga Secret Fire, it is true that he has not appeared much for a long time, probably a few days after the war in Snow City, he gradually has a feeling of disappearing, until now.

Some say he was badly injured during the war and has not been able to heal until now......

Some people say that he was cursed because of the demon artifact in the Longxiao Palace, and he was unable to fight against the power of the demon god, and he was getting weaker and weaker......

It is also said that he betrayed the lord and had been secretly executed when he was settling accounts after the autumn, and a person who no longer knew where he died would naturally not show up......

Anyway, there are different opinions, everyone has their own opinions, but there is no evidence that can be verified. Even the innkeeper had said in casual conversation that Lord Barguf had revealed the idea of re-recruiting court mages more than a month ago.

It's just that I haven't found the right person -

Because the Nords are all barbarians, their brains are full of muscles, and Wintercastle is the main gathering place of mages in the sky, the number of mages in other places is not only scarce, but also often has some special reasons, plans and other things, so they will stay in a certain place for a long time.

Compared with the aborigines, there are not necessarily more priests among the lost, and the low-level ones are not in the eyes of the Lord of Barguf, and the high-level ones are not satisfied with serving as court mages or anything, but have a more ambitious pursuit.

Therefore, it was only until now that Xia Ran triggered the condition and temporarily took the position of court mage.

After all, he knew his actual level, and he didn't have such a grand and unrealistic pursuit, but in the eyes of others, his spells were already very profound, especially the fire magic that specialized in the destruction system, which reached a rather astonishing level.

Maybe the magic attainments in other aspects will be slightly worse, but the qualifications as a court mage are at least there......

The two sides hit it off and were happy.

However, Xia Ran felt that he might have really triggered some hidden side quests and secret missions, and if he didn't do well, maybe the disappeared Fa Renjia was the source of Lord Barguf's confidence, and the latter made a bet on the former.

Perhaps the wise court mage had found something and felt that there was hope for a change in the dilemma of Snowman, so he threw himself into the research and began researching, but because the stakes were high, the news had to be blocked.

And Lord Barguv also felt that he could take a gamble, so he chose to support this matter?

Of course, there is no evidence to prove that this is the case, Xia Ran is just a subjective conjecture based on his own doubts and some untrue and untrue information collected.

Perhaps there will be more clues to support his speculation, or to deny his assumptions, but it is still impossible to make a conclusion anyway.

After buying some food in the hotel, Xia Ran went straight back to his property.

It was a two-storey building, probably cleaned up, so it looked very empty, there were no books on several shelves, and there was no special decoration around, and there was a room upstairs with an alchemy table in it.

The alchemy table is a special auxiliary device, just like the enchantment table, which can only be used for alchemy or enchantment if you find this kind of facility in the game...... But in this real world, there are no such limitations.

They are only able to handle and preserve materials better, improve the quality of the finished product and the success rate of manufacturing, and the magnitude is relatively small.

If the user is highly skilled, then it can be easily successful with or without such things; And if there is a problem with the original personality, don't expect these things to be of much use.

Xia Ran felt that the role of this alchemy platform was to help him familiarize himself with the methods and steps of use, after all, as a court mage, he always needed to master alchemy and enchantment.

In the workshop of Fa Renjia in Longxiao Palace, there is an alchemy platform and an enchantment table, and it seems that he still wants to be a high-level, and there is no shortage of materials at all...... He may not need to be very proficient in this aspect, but he must master the basic formula.

If he couldn't even refine a basic recovery potion, or didn't know the basic operation of charging an enchanted weapon, then he, a court mage who was indiscriminately charged, would probably have to be exposed that day, and then pack up and leave......

After carefully inspecting it, Xia Ran was still behind the stairs, in addition to a utility room, there was also a trapdoor set up on the floor, which led to the basement below.

He went down to take a look, but he didn't think about the whimsical idea that "there was some treasure down there, which was ignored when it was cleaned up before, and now it happened to be dug up by himself".

It's dark down there, but it's also relatively dry, and there's nothing left. It's just that there is an old wooden door that is closed very firmly, and he thought that he really encountered some adventure-

After all, strictly speaking, this property once belonged to one of the two traditional forces in Xueman City, and those two families hid some secrets, which seemed to be a reasonable setting, right?

As a result, after tossing for a long time, he couldn't open it, so he used his mental power to probe......

Then he found that the back of the door was solid at all, and there was no space, it seemed that the original owner was ready to expand the space, but he only had time to build a door, and the follow-up plan did not have time to unfold at all, which made him rejoice in vain.

Think about it, how could you have such good luck!

He sighed, stood in the gloomy basement and looked around, feeling that the building was barely okay overall, at least as a temporary shelter......

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At the same time.

Outside the house, the two guards knocked on the door for a long time, but there was no response, they could only look at each other with a wry smile: "Do you want to go back and report to the lord?" Looks like the mage isn't in his room? ”

"Let's go back first, it's not too important...... the other guard sighed, "Then again, everyone said that this mage entered the house, why wasn't he there?" ”

"After all, it's a magician, who knows what will happen...... By the way, could it be in the basement, you didn't hear us, should we wait? ”

"Don't be stupid, how can there be a basement in a house in this area......" The guard stared at his companion with a foolish look, "The underground space is occupied by the Hall of the Dead in the temple, where else can I dig it?" ”

The two of them talked like this as they walked away.