CHAPTER XVII

Starfall 834, December 7, Northland Moldavian Territory, the main city.

A month has passed since the end of the trial in the Ural Plain, and as the Cathedral of St. Laurent rings the bell of the winter month, the whole city is covered in snow and endless white, the farmers and hunters who have toiled for a year stay in their warm homes to rest, the workers who expanded the city have stopped the progress of construction while the blizzard is raging, and most of the adventurers have a rare break, and they have turned to the taverns to boast about what they have seen for the year.

Due to the Moldavian Lord's first formal exploration, information about the Mist of Doom began to circulate throughout the empire and even the entire continent, and the forces that were originally cautious about blocking these unknown areas began to try to use it, of course, they did not have the courage of warriors, and brought hundreds of elite collectives to participate in the trial, these forces only sent elites one by one to explore the rules of the Divine Doom Mist Trial, many of which achieved certain results, but most of the explorations ended in failure, Many big people were angry about this, and at the same time they sighed with envy that their side was not like the Northland, and they really didn't dare to take too many risks.

Of course, none of this has anything to do with Moldavia, and now the entire main city is filled with such a relaxed and hopeful atmosphere, and there are more smiles on the faces of its residents than in the past few years, if not a decade combined.

The patriarch of the Radcliffe family, who rules this land, and the Earl of the Northlands, have advanced legends, and this kind of thing has an impact on a city and a territory beyond many people's imagination, in addition to more and more adventurers coming here, there are also practical benefits.

First of all, there is the tilt of imperial policy - in order to congratulate the lord on his legendary achievement, a decree was issued from the Palazzo Morlais on the day the warrior returned to his realm. Almost all the chambers of commerce established in Moldavia were surprised to realize that they no longer had to pay the cumbersome customs duties on the trade routes, and that many of the precious strategic goods and luxury goods that had been blocked were also open to trade. This was commercial, and for construction, the Imperial Crown generously allowed Moldavia to expand freely in the direction of the Great Ajax Mountains 'until the extent of its territory was worthy of the status of a legendary powerhouse'.

There are many benefits, not to mention them for the time being, in addition to the official from the empire, there are also many other noble families to show goodwill. In addition to sending congratulatory gifts, many nobles with school-age women in the family are trying their best to inquire about what type of 'that one' likes, you know, that person is only in his early twenties has already achieved a legend, and the future will be at least one or two hundred years of prosperity, if they can successfully marry, it means that their family will get a world's largest and most solid backer in the next one or two hundred years.

You know, other legendary powerhouses either have a long family background, or they are uncertain, dedicated to the pursuit of truth or holy light, even if the conditions are suitable, let alone dozens or hundreds of years old, not to mention whether the other party accepts it, if you really marry your daughter, the appearance of flattery is too ugly - and the one in Moldavia is now just the right age, I heard that he is still single so far, and he doesn't even have a lover, this level of high-quality stocks can be said to be the only one in the world, if the investment is successful, It can really be said that it is a million profits.

Of course, it's not just that, there are some aristocratic families who don't have daughters, but they have sons! After receiving the news that the legendary warrior had recently wanted to take in a few students, these nobles were even more excited than those who had daughters - in the cold aristocratic family relationships, except for a few families that still had tenderness, daughters were in most cases marriage tools, and only sons would be harshly groomed, which meant that their children were more likely to become warrior students than others.

You know, for a world with extraordinary power, the 'inheritance of power' is far more important than the 'human relationship' countless times more important, many nobles will deliberately let their children go to the hands of some strong people as attendants, after all, for the vast majority of big people, family love has to give way for interests, only the power in their own hands is real, the world's largest interests.

If their children really become students of warriors and receive a legendary-level inheritance, then even if they are limited by the oath and cannot be passed on, it is a possibility to reach the top, and for this possibility, many people can do whatever it takes.

In all the discussions about the fighter, his name does not appear.

Yes, now in the entire Mycrof continent, all newspapers, books, and news no longer use the real name of the warrior, but use various pronouns and names, in fact, except for St. Iger, who is the pope of the Church of the Seven Gods and is admired by tens of thousands of people, the names of most of the legendary powerhouses almost do not appear on paper and verbally, even if Israel is the emperor, most of the time the name is 'Emperor of the Empire', or' The Celestial Dragoon', it is said to be a form of respect, and it is also said that the legendary powerhouses have reached an extraordinary point where they will perceive it by just saying their name.

But now, there is another major event that has gradually replaced the craze brought by the new legendary powerhouse, and has become the most unpopular topic after people's tea and dinner.

About half a year ago. In the western mountain range of the continent, an elite adventure team hired by the Grand Duke of Romans was exploring the mountain area, and accidentally discovered a deep abyss hidden in the mountain gorge, which led to the depths of the earth, along the way there are underground rivers flowing and many luminous fungus lighting, along the river all the way down to explore, the team was shocked to find a huge, hidden under the mountain range of the vast cavity, this underground cavity is almost a principality, or even larger in size, countless stalagmite-like stone pillars support it, And just around the river, the adventurer team also found traces left by intelligent life, which was a well-made pure gold long knife, the extremely tough blade was obviously damaged, there was still blood residue on the hilt, and there were countless large pits tens of meters wide on the ground around it, which was the result of gold-level, or even extreme-level magic bombardment.

There is no doubt that in this huge underground cavity, there are intelligent life, and they have a powerful enough technology to refine pure gold and at least gold-level combat power, and there are also some other fungi growing around those glowing fungi in the underground world, after trying to eat it, the adventurer team immediately realized that this is a very suitable food source for large-scale cultivation in the underground world, and some special fungi have similar effects to magic plants, after detailed research by alchemists, Maybe it can replace some expensive pharmaceutical materials.

There is no doubt that this seemingly barren underground world with only mushrooms is actually a treasure land full of gold.

After returning to the Principality of Romans after reporting the news, the young and powerful Grand Duke of Roman immediately realized that this was an unprecedented opportunity, because the adventurer team was too strong, he did not kill in order to conceal the news but chose to cooperate, this is undoubtedly a wise decision, the adventurer team that received a rich reward did their best to lead the Grand Duke's army to block the mountain area at the first time, and mastered the entrance to the abyss.

The news has been concealed for half a year, until now, due to the arrival of winter, the supply delivery of the army is difficult, and the Principality of Roman cannot hide its movements, in the tentative harassment of other countries around it, the young Archduke can only withdraw his army, and spread the news of this entrance to the abyss to the world, and at this time, the Principality of Romans has used the army to harvest the magic fungus like a mountain, and has begun to try to grow those fast-growing edible mushrooms in some suitable environments.

"The underworld."

In the main city of Moldavia, in the study of the lord's mansion, Joshua looked at the latest issue of the "Mage Weekly" in his hand, the spellcaster is always enthusiastic about exploring new things, not to mention those magical magic mushrooms, and the warrior finally found the part he was interested in after skimming through at least fifty pages of papers on those strange mushrooms: "No trace of underground civilization has been found? That's right, the Night Elf Kingdom should be in civil strife at this time, and the Rock Dwarf has just become independent from the Night Elves, and they are all fighting to the death in the central area of the Great Hollow, and they have not moved towards the edge at all recently, and it is normal for the Romance to not find out...... Hmm, it should still be the Grand Duke now? ”

And beside him, Rin, who was dealing with official documents, was accustomed to all kinds of novel news that Joshua said casually, although the black-haired boy didn't know that every word the warrior said casually would cause an uproar in the outside world, but he understood that Joshua would never talk to himself for no reason.

Therefore, he stopped his pen for a moment, turned his head and asked, "The master likes this kind of news?" Do you want them to subscribe to more similar newspapers? Winter is coming, and those adventurers are idle, and if we send out a mission, there will be many people who will be willing to be hired. ”

"There's no need." Joshua shook his head: "It's just that there are new maps and new races, and it doesn't have much to do with us." ”

When the demon tide comes, more and more new races will appear on the continental stage, in addition to the night elves and rock dwarves who have shown traces in the western mountains, the eastern plains and coast, because of the increase in magic concentration and greatly increased fertility, the fish-man clan has also begun to change its usual low-key, with frequent harassment actions, affected by them, there has been no news for hundreds of years, and the Kraken clan, which has almost become a legend, will also send messengers in the near future to cooperate with the Qiyao Council.

Invaded by the dragon, the Far South region that is in ruins does not have the spare power to explore the unknown area like other regions for the time being, they are just trying their best to restore the important cities that have become ruins under the cooperation of the Church of the Seven Gods and the Business Alliance, because many nobles and local families died in the battle against the dragon, so the reborn Far South Kingdom began to divide the land that has no one to those who have made meritorious contributions in the war, so groups of newborn nobles began to work hard for their own territory, Among them, an undercurrent is surging, and a conspiracy against the royal family of the Far South is slowly taking shape.

As for the empire, it is said that the goblin clan who once assisted the founding emperor of the Northern Empire in establishing the country, and there are also some scattered clansmen who have stepped out of the 'goblin country' on the outside of the world and began to look for things they are interested in.

"Master!"

Outside the study, there was a crisp voice from Hotaru, Joshua had long known about the girl's arrival, but he still turned his head to look at the door now, and after the silver-haired girl opened the door, she immediately reported: "Those students from Wintercastle Academy are here, when do you plan to meet them?" ”

"Right now."

Casually putting aside the mage weekly in his hand, Joshua first closed his eyes, trying his best to restrain the momentum that naturally overflowed from his body, he used the method taught by the natural teacher, subtly suppressed most of his overflowing coercion, and then he opened his eyes and said to Hotaru: "Tell them to come in and see me one by one - let them feel free, this time it's just an inspection, and it's not really accepting disciples." ”

"Yes!" The girl replied cheerfully, and then walked briskly to the gate of the lord's mansion to inform the guards.

In the study, Rin also stopped what he was doing, and left the room for Joshua and the students he was going to inspect, and the warrior watched the boy leave, and then looked up at the ceiling carved with simple patterns.

In his mind, he once again recalled the scene from a month ago.

The chaotic void, a long path of light composed of countless worlds leads to the multiverse in the distance, and the spectacular and suffocating galaxy flickering, that is the world that the sages have stepped on and passed through.

Extremely powerful, beyond the gods, defeated the abyss and the chaos of evil, after leaving behind to restore his homeland, he resolutely embarked on a lonely journey, why did he do this? What is his goal? What kind of truth did he know that made up his mind?

All the truth is shrouded in a fog, and all the clues point to the erased history of the past.

"The Lost Three Hundred Years." The warrior whispered to himself, "It's really rare, it actually aroused my curiosity." ”

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