December 31, the last day of the year, night. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the midst of the snow, a huge stone platform was erected in the square of the main city of Moldavia, which was huge and blue-gray, with a depression in the middle, and many strange patterns on it, like an altar. More than a dozen knights in bright armor patrolled around it, flags with black backgrounds and gold rimmed on both sides, and several torches burned around the perimeter of the square.

This afternoon, the knights, at the behest of their lord, and in keeping with the perennial tradition, quickly erected the great stone platform at night, and lit an inextinguishable torch around it, illuminating the whole square with great light.

Around the site, many citizens wearing thick cotton clothes stood in a circle around the huge stone platform, they gathered together, talked and laughed loudly with each other about some interesting things in recent days, and more blessed each other and complained about the harvest and labor of the year.

It's almost a new year.

This year's Moldavia is very different from previous years, not the old lord dies, the young new lord takes office, and it is not a greater black current than in previous years - the biggest difference is the strong strength of the new lord.

And it's more powerful than anyone imagined.

In the middle of October, the old lord died for some reason, and a group of strange knights who did not know who surrounded a fat man captured the main city and entered the lord's palace, they declared a curfew and martial law, and sent many wandering samurai to patrol the streets, this group of people did not allow the dragon chariot caravan to trade freely in the market, and the attitude was extremely fierce.

How could the Northlanders, who have always been safe, simple, and kind, endure such a thing? Just as many people had prepared their knives and shovels in their homes, ready to give the strangers some awesome looks, the new lord who had grown up with many old inhabitants returned.

To be honest, no one knows how this new lord managed to deal with those dozens of silver knights, because the speed was too fast, and there was a loud noise from the city gate until the lord's palace collapsed, and the interval between it would not exceed 3 hours.

The new lord named Joshua strongly announced that he would succeed to the throne of the earl, that is, the new lord of this land, naturally, no one would object, who would dislike his leader too strong? For the simple Northlanders, having enough strength is the most important thing, after all, as long as it is not the kind of fool before, whoever rules is the same, so why not let the strongest come?

"I heard that if it weren't for Lord Joshua, the Black Forest Fortress would have been breached by the Black Tide."

In the crowd, a middle-aged man dressed like a hunter touched his greasy beard and talked to a fisherman beside him, he looked a little emotional: "My son and his family live in Ore Town not far from the fortress, if the fortress is lost and the demonic beasts pour into the territory, I really don't know what to do." ”

"If you don't have an adult, you can only wait for death."

The fisherman shook his head, he didn't seem to say much, he glanced at the stone platform, and said in a low voice, "I don't know what this year is......"

"I think it should be a bear beast or a big ice snake, the Kuroshio has just broken out recently, and those monsters that don't hibernate are basically dead, and it is estimated that there are only a few hibernating bears and snakes in the forest that can survive."

Sensing that the people next to him were not in good spirits, the hunter shrugged his shoulders and said to himself, "I don't know how lucky enough people will get it." ”

Not only these two people, everyone was discussing excitedly, but suddenly, the sound in the square naturally lowered and disappeared until there was silence.

Feeling an inexplicable sense of depression, the hunter frowned, he felt that a coercion was coming from afar, raised his head, and the hunter found that in the distant night sky, there was a red point of light across the snow, bringing out a long red band of light, and the sense of coercion from this point of light was larger and stronger than the strongest demonic beast he had ever encountered, making people so depressed that they couldn't speak, but there was no sense of threat inexplicably.

"What ......"

Before he could finish his subconscious question, the hunter saw that the point of light in the distance suddenly accelerated, and came to the edge of the city like a teleportation, and then it was above the square - a gust of fishy wind blew, and the strong smell of blood poured into the nostrils of everyone present, and a huge black shadow slowly landed with the light of red fighting energy, and this scene suddenly brought back a large number of citizens who were shocked by the coercion just now.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

At this time, the sonic boom slowly came from afar.

Lifting the fighting spirit that surged around his body and repelled the gravitational force, the black-haired warrior was suspended in mid-air, holding the silver-haired girl in his right hand, carrying the huge headless dragon body of the flying dragon on his back, and holding the dragon's head in his left hand, which was still glaring angrily, and the warrior slowly landed under the stunned gaze of everyone in the square.

Seeing this scene, the people below were silent for a while, and then quickly erupted into huge exclamations and cries:

"Oh my God, the ...... on your lord's back and hands What is it?! ”

"Dragons? It's actually a dragon? ”

"Is this year's year-end festival actually using a dragon as a sacrifice?!"

"No, it's just a wyvern, it's not a purebred dragon, but that's enough!" A well-informed old adventurer quickly identified the original owner of the huge head in the hands of the mid-air warrior, and his expression was shocked: "It's the Ice Tooth Dragon!" God, last year was just a carapace hedgehog, and although they were all silver, the difference was too great...... Will we be able to eat dragon meat this year? ”

As Joshua slowly descended, he casually threw the huge dragon body he was carrying on his back into the middle of the depression of the platform, and the frozen flesh and stone collided with a dull sound, and he stepped on the blue-gray rock, and the warrior looked down - a dense crowd filled the square, and almost half of the entire city came here.

The corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and Joshua smiled.

There are many customs and festivals on the continent of strife, not to mention things like the emperor's birthday and the founding day, the new birthday of spring, the midsummer night star festival and the autumn harvest day carnival are all very well-known festivals, all humans, even elven dwarves will hold the same celebration on the same day.

And the New Year, naturally.

As a thousand-year-old custom, as a lord, Joshua needs to hunt a high-level magical beast during the New Year's celebration and share food with his knights and lords, so as to show that the human heart to conquer nature will never be extinguished, and his own strength to protect the lords.

Golden Demonic Beasts are hard to come by, especially after the Black Tide, even Joshua can't find the remnants of Golden Demonic Beasts, but a silver high-level flying dragon is enough to prove his strength.

In the noisy sound of the square, Joshua didn't say a word, he stood on the stone platform, raised the dragon head in his hand and showed it to everyone, the flying dragon's dead eyes seemed to frighten everyone, but then there were even greater cheers and praises - even such a terrible monster died at the hands of their lord, although it was a little frightening, but there was an unexpected sense of peace of mind that could make people farm with peace of mind.

Unlike the news that came from afar to repel the Kuroshio Tide and rush to the aid of Moldova, ordinary people who had not seen Joshua fight with their own eyes could not understand the strength of the warriors at all, so they still had some doubts in their hearts, but now, in front of this hideous dragon head and body, no matter what doubts they had, they had completely disappeared.

"It's worthy of being a strong man who can defeat the Kuroshio Tide twice in a row......"

An adventurer with a large shield stood among the citizens, he looked at his calloused hands, and sighed in a somewhat vague voice: "Moldavia, Moldova, the two black tides in the north this year can almost be said to have been repelled by him, and now he can easily capture and kill a silver high-level flying dragon, when will I reach this realm......

Ignoring the heated discussion of the crowd, the warrior placed the dragon's head, which was larger than his body, on the stone platform. To be honest, Joshua was very satisfied with the expression of the wyvern, and after the celebration, he was going to dispose of it and put it in the hall of the lord's palace as a decoration in the future.

After waiting for a while, when the discussion had subsided, Joshua took a step forward, he stood on the edge of the top of the stone platform, and naturally said loudly to everyone in front of him: "My lords, the new year is coming to an end, and in the middle of this year, many things have happened, some good and some bad, but the good thing is that everything has a happy ending, and everything needs to be said needless to say, your peaceful life proves all this. ”

The warrior smiled and faced all the people who looked up to him in front of him, and said loudly: "In previous years, the year-end sacrifice was not enough for everyone, but this year, I went to the Frost Sand Desert to hunt an ice tooth dragon, so that this time, I will definitely let everyone get my prey, and I won't say more-"

After finishing speaking, he raised his finger, the red fighting qi condensed, and Joshua swung a few times at the middle-aged ice tooth dragon body of Shitai out of thin air, and suddenly violently fluctuated and shook the atmosphere, and the invisible qi blade instantly cut the tough dragon body into several pieces.

"My lords, the end-of-year sacrifice has begun!"

Cheers resounded through the square.

Amid the sounds of "Long live" and "Praise to the lord" resounded through the city, Joshua slowly walked down the stone platform, not paying attention to the lords who were praising his name and receiving the dragon meat merrily under the auspices of the other knights, but walked towards the central tower next to the city wall.

Hotaru followed the warriors all the way down the streets.

Walking into the tower and stepping up the spiral staircase, it didn't take long for the two of them to reach the very top of the tower, where the warriors sat cross-legged on the edge of the city wall, looking out at the mountains and plains in the snow.

His gaze was calm, and he didn't seem to be excited at all by the reverence of the lords for him, Joshua simply stared at the dark sky and earth at night, not knowing what he was thinking, and the silver-haired girl sat quietly beside him, accompanying her master in a daze.

Time flies.

Starfall 831, December 31, night, 11:59.

"That's true."

A leisurely sigh of emotion sounded: "It feels great to be praised too." ”

Even such bitter cold places are his domain, where his people live, and as lords, warriors are expected to protect them and then receive praise, which is called aristocratic duty.

Starfall 832, January 1, 0:00.

"Bell-bell-bell-"

The grand bell of the church rang and was heard throughout the main city.

And the new year is coming.

- At the same time, in the eastern part of the Great Ajax Mountains, Moldovan territory.

Brandon ...... Are you going to leave the day after tomorrow? ”

In the main city of Moldova, in the lord's mansion, the purple-haired countess hugged her lover and said with some reluctance: "The children still want to play with you for a while." ”

"I want to too, but Dani, my responsibility prevents me from doing this, it is my duty to report and deal with the time gate and the super black tide caused by the black eclipse dragon" The blonde swordsman looked helpless, he touched the female mage's back, and sighed: "Even if it is for the safety of your territory, this kind of disaster will not occur again, I will rush back to the imperial capital as soon as possible - now to spend the New Year with you, it has been a long delay, you know, although the time and space gate has been broken, it may be reconnected at any time." ”

“…… You're right, I can't ignore my own desires, or the safety of my entire territory. ”

With the same sigh, Verdani let go of the hand that was holding Brandon's waist, she took a step back, and then recited a secret word, and the female mage took out a small box from the void and told the blonde swordsman in front of her: "On the way back, don't forget to bring this, this is a thank you gift to the Earl...... And don't forget to give him those processed Golden Warcraft materials, he left in too much hurry and didn't take anything with him. ”

"Joshua really did us a great favor this time...... Seriously, I don't feel like it's enough to give you something in return, and I can't leave you alone to prepare a return gift. ”

Taking the small box in Verdany's hand, Brandon recalled the long-lost words that the warrior had uttered in front of the Plane Gate, and he muttered to himself, "Even if it is for the further recognition of the Two Blades of Order, I should give a big gift...... Okay, when I return to the imperial capital, I'll start preparing right away. ”

"I think he should want to fight you more than a gift."

Hearing this, the countess covered her mouth and chuckled, and she looked at the blonde swordsman gently, her eyes full of smiles: "But, my swordsman, do you have the confidence to defeat him?" ”

"Although Joshua is indeed very strong, it is obviously a few levels stronger than me...... But if it's just faith, then there is. ”

Clenching his fists, Brandon turned his head sideways and looked out the window at the clouds, his eyes full of confidence: "Anyway, between fighters and fighters, you can only know if you have fought." ”

- Far away, the city of three mountains, the imperial capital of the empire.

The light of the twin moons shone on the whole city, and the white marble walls reflected the elegant moonlight, which looked extremely sacred.

Nostradamus stood on a stargazing tower in the center of the imperial capital, and he looked up at the sky with a strange expression.

"This weather is good, but the fluctuation of mana is not very suitable for teleportation......"

The white-haired old mage muttered, and then shook his head: "Forget it, anyway, the affairs of the imperial capital have been dealt with, I have time, and I won't go anywhere if I think about it." ”

If there's a teleportation error, do it again.

Thinking of the so-called emergency method in his heart, the white-haired old man immediately took out a scroll, Nostradamus recited a few secret words, and then activated it with his spirit, and in an instant the scroll turned into a flame and attached to his hand, only to see that the chief archmage of the empire stretched out his right hand that was burning with flames, and slashed in the void, and immediately brought out an obvious scratch in the space.

The flames burned brightly, then turned into a cyan blue light, the scratches slowly widened and deepened, and a dark blue door quietly opened and appeared in front of the white-haired mage's eyes.

Behind this gate, there is a vast plain filled with snow and ice, and you can't see it at first glance.

"It seems that the destination is not wrong, it is indeed the Northland."

Nodding his head and determining his goal, Nostradamus straightened his mage robe and strode towards the space-time gate.

(To be continued.) )