"Ivan! Amira! Stop playing with your dragons, there's something big! ”

Starfall 834, November 3rd, Nissière Snow Mountain, Wintercastle College.

The frost butterflies fluttered in the bleak north wind, and the weather was getting drier and colder day by day, but in the pine forest around the academy, a pair of white-golden-haired siblings were squatting on the ground, smiling and feeding a young dragon in front of them.

Next to the elder brother was a large bucket full of sea fish, and the younger sister was holding several light blue spars containing the magic fluctuations of the ice and water two systems in her hands, and in front of the two, a young dragon with a tail about two meters long was gulping the fish and shrimp put by the elder brother, stopping to chew from time to time, looking at the younger sister with hopeful eyes, waiting for her to throw out a spare.

There are many particulars about feeding young dragons, first of all, the most important thing is the nutritional matching, in addition to the most basic meat, you also need to supplement some minerals containing magic from time to time to cultivate the casting talent of young dragons, although magic crystals are expensive, but there is no doubt that it is the best choice, and such a little money for the Makarov brothers and sisters who have recently completed a lot of tasks and can be said to be wealthy, this payment can be described as a drizzle.

Hearing the voice of his friend not far away, Ivan and Amira stood up at the same time, turned to look, and in their eyes, the red-haired girl Karin was trotting all the way with the dwarf Nick, waving a brand new notice in her hand, it seemed that this was the so-called big thing.

"What's the big deal, Karin......" Amira reluctantly touched the young dragon who was rubbing her calf on her side, and then threw all the crystals in her hand to the other party, she said with some dissatisfaction in the cheering whine of the young dragon: "I'm deepening my relationship with the white frost, if you have something to say, don't waste time." ”

White frost is the name of this young dragon, because through the test of the academy tutor, it was found that this young dragon's talent is more inclined to create stagnant low temperatures than manipulating the water element, because it is now white and fat and looks very much like a winged seal, so it is very popular with girls.

"I think it just likes the magic crystals in your hand, not you." Without hesitation, the red-haired girl didn't talk too much nonsense, she directly handed the notice in her hand to Ivan as the captain, and then said to the two with a mysterious smile: "You brothers and sisters, who are almost isolated from the world, will never guess what news is circulating in the academy now!" ”

Hearing this, neither Amira nor Ivan reacted, because they really haven't paid much attention to the outside world in the past ten days, after all, walking dragons...... It can take a lot of time to build a bond with a young dragon, and sometimes it takes hours of slow adaptation just to get the baby dragon used to their breath and physical contact, and often repeatedly.

"In mid-November, Dean Radcliffe will personally lead the team to the top ten elite student teams to the Ural Plain to participate in a trial."

Without waiting for the red-haired girl to speak, Ivan quickly swept through all the contents on the notice, he frowned and thought about the meaning of this information, and then muttered to himself a little strangely: "Lord Lord personally leads the team, what kind of trial task requires a legendary powerhouse to suppress the formation?" And isn't the Ural Plain the place where we cleared out demonic beasts half a year ago? There's something else to try in that place......"

As he spoke, the young man's mind suddenly flashed a scene from the past—silver stars crossed the arc in the sky, and finally silently fell to the earth, forming a fog that shrouded a range of thousands of meters.

Is that a trial?

"I don't know, anyway, as the team ranked first in points, we will definitely participate in this trial, so I specially came over to plan with you, and we must not let those 'outsiders' behind us steal our limelight!"

Karin has always spoken so capably and directly, the knight's daughter's eyes burned with a flame called fighting spirit, and she gritted her teeth and said: "Now there are rumors in the academy that if it weren't for our time advantage, we would definitely not be the opponent of that group of outsiders in terms of strength alone, and it would definitely be impossible to become the team with the first points!" ”

Hearing this, the other three also frowned.

The outsiders in the red-haired girl's mouth are the more than thirty young people brought back by the lord from nowhere more than half a year ago, and these people have all joined the 'Warrior Department' of Wintercastle Academy, and are scattered into scattered departments such as knights, warriors, and rangers.

This is nothing, at most, Joshua recruited another batch of students, but what is surprising is that these outsiders, who are not the local people of Moldavia, are unusually strong, except for a few geniuses, most of the locals have been robbed of the limelight by them, and now the second-ranked team in the academy is a team composed of those outsiders, and their points are behind the team of Ivan and others, and they may catch up at any time, or if it weren't for Ivan, they would have done the task three months earlier than these people, The points may be surpassed by them.

"If it weren't for the fact that we had to take care of the young dragons recently, how could they have caught up with us!"

Ivan and Amira are usually quite calm, but after all, they are still young people, and when they heard this kind of rumor of questioning their own strength, they were naturally full of anger, and Ivan, as the captain, immediately made a decision: "You are right, this time we really need to plan well, and we must knock off the limelight of those outsiders!" ”

"Tsk, the most important thing is obviously not this, Karin, you will talk nonsense, listen to me!"

At this time, it was the dwarf Nick, who had been silent since the beginning, and he saw that everyone was in high spirits, so he clasped his hands to his chest and grinned: "I heard, I just heard that the lord held a trial this time to plan to accept a few students!" ”

"Unlike this kind of collective-cultivated students in the academy, Lord Lord is planning to accept real disciples this time!" He said loudly with the voice of a subwoofer, and even the needles of the pine wood next to him shook because of it.

"You big mouth!"

This news did instantly calm the two brothers and sisters of Ivan Amira, seeing the stunned expressions of the two, Karin on the side glared at the dwarf fiercely, this was originally the information she intended to use for the finale, but it was casually said by Nick.

"But, something is wrong!" Although Amira was shocked by this news, she did not lose the ability to think, the slender girl felt that her feet were a little numb, so she simply sat on the back of the young white dragon who was feasting, she frowned and began to think hard: "Lord Lord is indeed very powerful, no, Lord can already be said to be the most powerful group of people in this world, and it must be the luckiest thing to be able to become his disciple, but ......"

"But Lord Dean, we are warriors, we are all mages, even if we become disciples of adults, we can't do anything." Ivan took over his sister's words, he held the tree with one hand, and his face was unexpectedly serious: "And this is not ordinary news - since no one has come out to refute the rumors yet, it means that there is a chance that it is true!" ”

"Well, what do you know?" Karin waved her hand impatiently: "Anyway, no matter what, we have to compete with that group of outsiders, they are all warriors, and it is really very likely that they will become the disciples of the lord, even if we try our best, we can't let them win!" What's more—"

Speaking of this, the red-haired girl stretched out her voice, and she said with Guan Zi: "There are also very powerful magicians around the lord, although you may not have noticed, but Miss No. 3, who has been following the lord's side, is likely to be an extremely will-level rune mage!" I heard that the guardian circle that enveloped the entire main city of Moldavia was written by her. If we take the first place, even if the lord doesn't accept us as disciples, it won't be difficult for Miss No. 3 to teach us, right? ”

"yes, and to be honest, we're just black iron mages."

At this time, Nick also nodded in help, the dwarf with a strong body who didn't look like a spellcaster at all whispered: "If you can become a disciple of a legendary warrior, then it doesn't matter if you are a mage or not, my goal is just to change my destiny and become stronger, that's all." ”

Everything that rests is in silence.

Change your fate and want to become stronger...... What is the best way to change one's destiny and become stronger than being a disciple of a legendary warrior?

The breath called fighting spirit spread in the silence of the four.

And at this time, the lord's house.

Joshua was on the phone with Nostradamus through the teleportation circle.

At this time, due to the greatly increased density of the magic power, there will occasionally be some unstable noises, but because of this, the magic circle that could only transmit sounds before only needs to be carefully repaired, and even the picture can be broadcast in real time, and there is no distortion in the slightest.

The advent of the Great Demon Tide has made an all-round leap in magic technology, and many technical difficulties that cannot be broken through have been easily solved in a high-concentration magic environment, and even in the Eastern Plains, there has been news of live magic images broadcasting news.

"You actually robbed my students! Joshua, how can any warrior go to the Mage Academy to accept disciples?! ”

The warrior looked at the white-haired old mage with anger on his face in the communication circle, and showed a smile, he was calm, and first took a sip of firefly black tea, and then said slowly: "Master Nostradamus, the Academy of Wintercastle is no longer a simple mage academy, but a professional academy, not to mention that this matter is not important, I didn't say that after becoming my disciple, I won't let them study in the academy, you can continue to teach if you want." ”

"You!"

Unlike Joshua, who was full of indifference, the old mage on the other side of the communication circle was obviously anxious: "If you publicize it like this, the hearts of the entire Wintercastle Academy will be unstable, who can study spells and explore the truth with peace of mind - Radcliffe, are you bored and start accepting students after you have become a legend because no one accompanies you to learn from you?!" When he said this, Nostradamus laughed angrily, he didn't believe that the warrior's idea was so superficial, and there must be an unknown plan behind it.

But the idea of a warrior is so simple, recalling his previous life, when he was still the master of the martial arts hall, Joshua nodded, he was indeed bored so he planned to take one or two disciples to pass the time, Nostradamus was so smart, it was not strange to be able to see it.

However, this was not the time for small talk on this matter, so he interrupted the old mage's complaints: "The situation of the Empire has been a bit difficult lately. ”

It was so crisp and irrefutable that Nostradamus frowned and remained silent for a while when he heard it, and it wasn't long before he spoke slowly and said in a serious tone, "Why do you say that? ”

"Obvious things."

Joshua didn't have the habit of selling Guanzi, he said bluntly: "The changes brought about by the Great Demon Tide are not only in the progress of magic technology, my territory is around the Black Forest, so I know very well its stimulating effect on monsters and monsters - although the empire is not like the Far South is full of jungles, but large hills and uninhabited dense forests also occupy a large part of the territory, under such a strong magic force, even ordinary forests will be converted to the Black Forest." ”

"Now that the army in the empire is shrinking, the caravans are decreasing, and factories are being built in various places to make transport airships, and they plan to use air transportation as the main force, which is obviously intended to temporarily abandon the increasingly dangerous suburbs, and prepare to use the city as a base for preliminary purification and eradication, and then gradually re-open the land trade routes, but this makes the control of the central empire over the local nobles greatly reduced, plus now there are countless adventurers and professionals across the country who have reached the limit before, but have not broken through, are all under the urging of the demon tide to break through their own realm, These sudden forces are also a source of unrest. ”

This is indeed true, the old mage nodded silently.

The Demon Tide brings all-round sublimation to the Microf Continent, but this sublimation also brings turmoil, and the rapidly expanding Black Forest and the endless emergence of restless powerhouses are part of it. You know, there is a saying in the empire: 'Rather be against the nobles than against the adventurers', because the power of the nobles is on the bright side, if it is not a great enmity of life and death, most of the time they will abide by the rules, and if they are cautious, they will not be unable to deal with it, and the adventurers are originally separated from life and death, wandering on the edge of the lawless zone, they themselves are not good people, and they often suffer the killer in a fit of anger, and then flee to a distant place by themselves.

Even the nobles don't really want to deliberately make enemies of adventurers, because the devil knows whether these people or their relatives and friends will suddenly break through to gold or even extreme power in the future because of exploring ruins or some other kind of luck. There are many aristocratic families who have fallen because they have acted too unscrupulously, offended some young adventurers, and as a result, they were suppressed and destroyed after a few decades when they became stronger.

Now, the Great Demon Tide has broken through many people who can't break through, which can be said to be an opportunity to benefit all beings, but these new powerhouses have changed the power structure of the entire empire, and also made many nobles who have greatly increased their strength have some careful thoughts in their hearts, coupled with the weakening of the imperial family's dominance over the local area, it is very likely that after the situation stabilizes in a few years, there will be a large number of large and small earth emperors in the empire, so that Israel's suppression over the years has come to naught.

"It's just an external force, and now Israel is definitely bothered by problems within the royal family."

Joshua pointed out another point, but after all, this was an internal matter of the royal family, so he didn't say much: "The return of the second prince Di Moore has undoubtedly made the eldest prince and their family nervous, even in the Northland, I can feel the turmoil within the imperial capital, the reason why you plan to break through next spring is probably to calm down those people in the empire who should not have thoughts." ”

After the analysis, the warrior was about to listen to the old mage's reply, so that he could cooperate with the other party next year, so that those local nobles who were about to move would settle down a little - although he was also a local nobleman himself, but the legendary powerhouse had privileges, not to mention that His Majesty the Emperor and the old mage had always taken good care of him, so he naturally wanted to repay the favor.

But after a long time, Nostradamus kept a shocked expression and did not reply.

Not only that, Joshua also noticed that the Shenji siblings standing beside him were also full of surprise, Hotaru's mouth was open, the silver-haired girl's small mouth was now enough to stuff an egg, and Rin swallowed her saliva, her eyes full of ghosts.

Even No. 3, who was floating on the ceiling above everyone, fell off because he stopped controlling the magic, and the magic projection distorted for a moment when it touched the floor, and then returned to the original form of the winged girl - this means that the artificial intelligence lost control of its projection in a short period of time, and her expression was also subtle and very human.

"Truth comes first...... How could you think so much! ”

After half a ring, Nostradamus muttered in disbelief, "I must be ...... old man."

And the Shenji sisters and brothers also began to whisper: "The master actually thinks so much, is it too boring these days......"

"yes, it feels like a completely different person, it's incredible!"

No. 3 also rose into the air again, she looked at the warrior from a distance, and said faintly: "Joshua, you have changed ......"

Scold.

Do you really think I'm a hands-on person? It's not something incomprehensible.

Seeing the response of his friends and weapons, the warrior took a deep breath, shook his head, and said in a deep voice, "Okay, enough jokes?" I don't usually think about this because I don't need to, not because I won't—get down to business! ”

"No, Joshua, I already know what you mean."

On the other end of the communication circle, the old mage who laughed a little bit at Joshua touched his beard, and he showed a wise smile again: "That's it, Joshua, thank you for your kindness." ”

Speaking of this, Nostradamus's eyes were confused for a moment, he seemed to recall some memories from a long time ago, he sighed slightly, and then sighed in an extremely serious tone: "You really haven't changed anything because of your achievement as a legend. ”

"Nostradamus."

Hearing the old mage's words, Joshua also laughed, and he shook his head lightly: "The world will change, and people's hearts will change." ”

"But I won't."