Starfall 835, November 7.

Half a year passed in a flash.

Six months, one hundred and eighty days, although it sounds like a long time, but for the civilians and transcendents who lived more and more comfortably in the era of the Great Demon Tide, half a year of peace without any war was a precious and warm moment in their lives, but in this short moment, there were many things worth remembering.

First of all, at the end of May, Alvar Delmond, the Seventh Prince of the Empire, was accepted as a registered disciple of the Empire's new legend, Joshua van Radcliffe, Lord of the Northlands. For the commoners, this is just an after-dinner conversation, but for many nobles and the noblewomen in the Morlay Palace, it is great news, this news means that the identity value of the Seven Princes has been greatly improved, and there is a stable guarantee, even if Alva cannot become the future Emperor His Majesty, the identity of a legendary strong disciple is also worth their investment.

And in addition, the seemingly defeated competitor Dimore was not taken lightly, because the Earl of the Northland had mentioned in a private meeting with the Kaos that the second prince of the empire was full of potential in his own right, and he did not accept it because of a disagreement in philosophy. To be so formally praised by a legendary powerhouse, coupled with his previous performance in the army, undoubtedly proves the possibility of Dimore.

Secondly, in mid-June of the same year, the Far South Kingdom regained the city of Ruhr.

Two years ago, on March 12, 833, the last coastal city of the Far South Kingdom fell to the port of Ruhr, besieged by more than 100,000 dragons. Now, more than two years later, the army of the Far South Kingdom, which has finally recovered from the pain caused by the dragon plague, has completely swept away the remaining sea beasts and flying dragons in the ruins of many coastal ports, and recovered the ruins of these cities.

Although these cities have been completely destroyed, and the remaining ruins are uninhabitable, they are also the homes of many Far South refugees in the final analysis, and the good news of the restoration of the whole territory has also greatly helped the frustrated Far South royal family to calm the increasingly turbulent domestic situation - its prestige has been greatly reduced, and it is almost impossible to command the royal families of the various fortress armies to take advantage of this good news to issue their biggest and probably final decree in the last two years: the Frontier Autonomy Decree.

This decree is full of nonsense and complicated etiquette honorifics, in the simplest and most popular words, 'let it go'. The Far South royal family was no longer able to rule the southern and coastal borders that had been ravaged by the dragons, so anyone who could rebuild the cities and villages in the area and gather more than five hundred lords to maintain order, whether he was an adventurer, mercenary, freedman, former nobleman, criminal, or foreigner, would automatically become a nobleman of the Far South Kingdom, a decree recognized by the gods, and the Church of the Seven recognized its sanctity along with the royal family.

As soon as the Frontier Autonomy Order came out, almost all the people in the world with certain ambitions and abilities were like sharks that smelled blood, and they were excited to swim from all over the world, and everyone smelled the weakness of the Far South Kingdom, and the possibility of realizing their ambitionsAccording to the estimation of the group of mages in the Eastern Plains who specialize in this area, at most a year, the southern realm will recover a certain amount of vitality and return to the orderly world, but on the contrary, it is impossible for the Far South royal family to control these regions again.

In July, compared to their human neighbors in the plains, the elves rooted in the southern mountains-southwest swamp area were much quieter, although the wild dragon two years ago also caused great damage to the elven cities and villages around the Silent Forest, but the originally scattered elves did not suffer too much loss because of this, and the inland dense forest area was not an advantageous area for alpine and hilly creatures like flying dragons, so they quickly restored order after the war.

However, even the elves, who have always seemed to have no sense of existence, also issued a small news at this time: after a grand and mysterious ceremony, the elven court announced in the center of the eternal lake that they have regained the blessing of the ancient gods, the elven creator, and the [father of nature], and a mysterious plant seedling called the 'World Tree' by them has been planted in the center of the nine life mother trees of the elf clan, becoming a new sacred place for the elves.

For this reason, countless elven tribes wandering around the world have sent messengers, and even poured out of their nests to make a pilgrimage to the Far South, and the heat from the lowest level of the bloodline has encouraged these beings who take tranquility and elegance as the criterion to make this 'impulsive' choice without hesitation.

In August and September, two months of calm, the entire continent entered the period of late summer and early autumn to prepare for the harvest, during this period, the only thing worth mentioning is that the underground races of the West Mountain have finally ended the civil war, and there have been messengers coming to the surface world one after another to communicate, these races with exquisite forging skills and ancient spells inherited from the last era cautiously come into contact with their strange surface world.

And in October, news from the East China Sea occupied the main pages of all newspapers on the Microf continent. Because of the changes in the deep sea tides, the five major fish-man tribes living around the abyss of the East China Sea had to move to the eastern coast of the continent where the ocean currents were relatively gentle, and they inevitably had friction and conflict with the coastal cities of the eastern plains. As a result of this meeting, the fish-man tribe withdrew from the fish-developed gem harbor-Neptune City area, and the legendary mage Barbarossa will exert his legendary power to raise the continental shelf with the fish-man priest, artificially creating five islands for the fish-people to inhabit.

It is rumored that some fish people and humans are dissatisfied with this result, but for some reason, the top management of both sides tacitly suppressed all the restless voices at the bottom, as if something big was brewing in calm, like a current in the deep sea, which cannot be seen from the surface of the sea, but it does exist.

"So?"

In Northland Moldavia, in the reception hall of the Lord's Palace, Joshua, who had been resting in his hometown for half a year, lifted his head from the newspaper, crossed his legs leisurely, and lazily asked the person sitting opposite: "What is it that makes Godard (the Fishman Priestess), Barbarossa and Faina (the Sage of the Sea) willing to sit down and negotiate instead of a tsunami that will sweep the entire East China Sea?" ”

"Okay, my friend, don't be so blunt." The middle-aged man sitting on the other side of the parlor, Nostradamus who could vaguely see his previous appearance in his eyebrows, did not look up at all, he was holding a heavy purple background gold pattern magic guide book, and was struggling to write something, the legendary mage replied in a perfunctory manner: "You know best why they stopped. ”

"Actually, I'm really curious."

Shrugging his shoulders, Joshua put the newspaper in his hand in Hotaru's hand, and the silver-haired girl also respectfully served a cup of tea at the same time, and drank a sip of hydroxide compounds that no longer meant to him, the warrior did not continue to ask, because he knew that he had indeed nothing to say before, and the reason why Barbarossa stopped was obvious, it was for the distortion point of time and space in the near future, that is, the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrifice Ground.

The history of the world has been greatly shifted because of his existence, in the original history, the Eastern Plains at this time had just expelled the last remnants of the Dragon Calamity, and the devastated Microf was very vigilant in the face of the sudden appearance of the underground races: the dark elves and the gray dwarves, and in the face of the weak and menacing fishmen who saw the ground race, they were even more straightforward and hostile, and the three legendary powerhouses in the east were wary of each other at the same time, and tested each other in the Far East Sea to a limited extent, This caused a tsunami that destroyed several cities and medium-sized Fish-Man tribes, and the Fish-Man faction was hostile to the Human Camp until the Demon Invasion.

And now, because of the existence of Joshua, the mad dragon disease has been vaccinated from the beginning, the great plague of the cult has also been suppressed, and the entire Mycrove Continent has not been hurt by the conspiracy of the five-colored dragon clan, the abyss and the evil god church, and in the case of considerable strength, the underground race and the fish-man tribe will naturally not put on too drastic attitudes, and it is not surprising that the original enemy has become a cold and cautious neighbor now.

Not to mention Nostradamus, a legendary powerhouse that didn't exist at all, because this archmage who specializes in time and space was active, and the Northern Empire discovered the existence of space-time distortion points earlier, which naturally made all the legendary powerhouses look sideways and temporarily stop being vigilant against each other.

"Are you ready to leave after the end of the year?"

Recalling the message that Nostradammaste had come to the Northland to inform him, Joshua pondered for a while, he knew that this was the right choice, this time at the end of the year was the busiest time for all forces, the countries of the continent needed to prepare for the cold winter, and the fish people also had to dive into the warm deep sea, only by getting through the initial busyness, the legendary powerhouses who presided over a country would have extra time to explore the ruins of the void.

To be honest, Joshua really couldn't wait, he had a good time in peace for almost half a year, not long ago he even took a group of people from the Lord's Mansion to the Eastern Plains for a spin, and experienced a pleasant little adventure, but this kind of small fight could not satisfy him at all, and the warriors who had rested long enough were looking forward to the next battle.

Wow.

A regular and clear knock came from the door of the reception hall, and neither Joshua nor Nostradamus were surprised, the warrior motioned for Hotaru to open the door, and the more and more conscientious maid lady also gracefully stepped forward to open the door, and a blonde and blue-eyed teenager was a little nervous with a pile of papers in his hand, and bowed slightly to the three people in the hall: "Teacher, Master Nostradamus......"

"Come here, Alva, don't be so restrained."

With a wave of his hand, Joshua let the weak-legged young man who had been suppressed by the two legendary powerhouses close to him, and then he took the wad of papers from the other's arms and flipped through them carefully. With Joshua's current speed of information processing, the only reason he couldn't read these drafts in a hundredth of a second was because the paper was too weak to withstand flipping through too quickly. After a few seconds, the warrior who had finished reading Alva's task nodded with satisfaction, and he handed the draft back to Alva: "The homework is good, the preparation of politics, history, mathematics, philosophy, the origin of extraordinary powers, and the actual combat project is qualified, but the monster you plan to hunt next is the Ice Sea Shark Lizard?" It's a high-level demonic beast in the inner layer of the Daze Sea, and it's a little too difficult for you. ”

"No, teacher." Although he was a little nervous at first, it was obvious that Alva had become a little accustomed to this kind of coercion after half a year of training, and the blonde boy took a deep breath to stabilize his emotions, and then began to explain in detail why he chose that prey: "The 'life sublimation' and ' that you taught me The Dou Qi Steel Armor's breathing method allows me to temporarily stimulate the high heat power in my veins, and condense the flame cloak that ignores the surrounding low temperature environment to move freely, and the partners of Team 1 have already prepared bait to lure the shark lizard ashore, and the five of us cooperate to kill an ice sea shark lizard without any problem. ”

"It's still too rough, but there's a heart."

Joshua nodded undeniably, he didn't scold the young man too harshly, but waved his hand to show that he had agreed: "Okay, go and prepare, I look forward to your success, but you have to remember, even if you fail, it's not a big deal, let me remind you first: shark lizards are basically 4~5 in one activity, and your so-called heads-up situation is basically impossible to exist." ”

……

"Aren't you afraid to spawn failure? Northland proverb: Without spring bees, there are no summer flowers, let alone autumn fruits. ”

Watching Alva walk out of the hall with some loss and distress, he could hear the whispers between him and Team One outside the hallway: the Ivan Amira siblings, Karin and Neil. Nostradamus raised his head, his brows furrowed slightly, and he seemed a little uneasy: "The level of power you have taught these little guys is too high, and it is completely a part of the 'legendary divine power' that extends from yourself, which is very dangerous. ”

The old mage was right. After a long period of planned basic teaching and actual combat drills, they have roughly mastered the various special powers that Qiao Shuya taught them at the beginning, which makes these young girls who have not yet reached adulthood have the ability to work together to encircle and suppress a high-level demonic beast that is at the peak of silver, and even at the beginning of the golden stage. And the source of their strength is the 'exercises' that Qiao Shuya analyzed of his own strength, which comes from the power of the legendary powerhouse, although it is strong, but the difficulty of mastering it is also incredible, for them who are not yet at the gold level, if they are not careful, it will lead to self-destruction.

"Then he must be a seedling, so I can pull it out." In response to the master's doubts, Joshua replied to a proverb that only he understood, he touched the head of the well-behaved Hotaru beside him, shook his head and said, "If it were ordinary people, I wouldn't use such drastic methods, it would only harm them." But obviously, the little guy who can pass the mist trial of the gods is definitely not an ordinary person, and Nostradamus and Alva are not pure human blood, right? ”

"You see that? Yes, after all this time, you must have found out a long time ago. ”

Blinking, the middle-aged mage laughed, and he continued to lower his head, transcribing unknown words in his magic book, and whispered, "The ancestors of the Delmond family once intermarried with the diamond dragon and the golden dragon of the gem dragon and the metal dragon, and they even have some goblin blood in their bodies - the devil knows how those guys made a move on a thumb-sized humanoid. Israel is because of the sublimation of advanced legendary life forms, so it is impossible to see that in fact, every descendant of the imperial royal family is not pure human blood. ”

To be honest, for so many years, there were basically no pure-blooded humans in the entire Mycrof Continent, except for those psionic warlock families in the Xishan Kingdom. Nostradamus didn't say this, he just followed again: "A secret that is not a secret, the current queen has a quarter or more of the golden dragon blood, she and Israel are still distant relatives, and the union of the two is to ensure the purity of the dragon blood in the Delmond family - don't say I told you this news." ”

Quickly said this kind of thing, but Nostradamus didn't have a nervous expression, after all, this kind of thing should be guessed by Joshua, and it is indeed not an important secret at the top.

"No wonder ......" nodded thoughtfully, Joshua recalled the situation when he first met the princes and princesses: "I didn't see the eldest prince, and the aura and talent on Dimore's body are indeed a little strange...... The Three Princesses and the Six Princes have a bit of a goblin flavor, is Alva the Golden Dragon? It's a hardcore taste. ”

How good can you get yourself? Hearing the warrior's rather emotional evaluation, Nostradamus raised his head with a disgusted expression, he first looked at Hotaru on the side, and then looked out the window: there, the black dragon girl was playing a ball throwing game with the artificial intelligence lady floating in the air, as a ball of light that could be touched by the physical and magical projection at the same time, the small light was the ball that was thrown, and the legendary mage could also sense the black-haired boy who was resting in the study on the second floor and the rune crystal that was running.

In your lord's mansion, there are no humans except for the maids.

Because he didn't want to fight with Joshua in the Void, Nostradamus wisely didn't say these words, he just closed the magic book in his hand, sighed and said, "I'm almost ready, and I'm going back to the Void Stargazing Center." ”

"Have a nice trip, then." Standing up at the same time as the mage, Joshua accompanied Nostradamus to the top floor of the Lord's Palace, he watched as the other party stepped into the space-time gate, then turned around and stood on a high place to look around the entire main city of Moldavia.

"I really don't want to spoil the peace."

Sighing softly, Joshua looked at his territory, the snow covered the main city in winter, and the four satellite cities around it that had begun to take shape turned white, and the snow on the streets was carried to the outskirts of the city by the recently developed special snow shoveling magic guide machine, and piled up into a small snow-capped mountain, which has been transformed into an ice playground by the students and tutors of Wintercastle Academy, and many parents who have time come here to play with their children, It even attracts visitors from other parts of the empire and even from the rest of the empire.

Anyone can enjoy this serenity, but not yourself.

Because only when you know your future self can you have the possibility to continue to maintain this serenity.

For some reason, Joshua suddenly remembered the person who was as white as this vast earth, the sage, the figure of the sage in his childhood, echoed in his mind, and the warrior's heart somehow gave birth to some emotion: This is probably what the sage thought back then, right?

Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe it's fate, or maybe it's a resonance.

With the fluctuation at the space-time gate again, Joshua, who originally thought it was Nostradamus who had gone and returned, turned his head, and what he saw was not a middle-aged legendary mage who had returned to his prime, but a blonde swordsman and a purple-haired female mage with an anxious and confused look on his arms with two unconscious petite girls in his arms.

"Joshua!"

The moment Brandon stepped out of the space-time gate, he shouted the name of the warrior loudly, and he quickly found that Joshua was right in front of him, after all, the Extreme Swordsman was a strong man who had experienced many battlefields, he quickly calmed down, suppressed his urgency, and said in a low voice: "My sage relic, the Order Twin Blades, has a problem!" ”