July 7, 363 Continental Gregorian Calendar, Farensi, Caiunescu. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Miss Macmillan summoned all those who were still at the estate to the blacksmith's shop that morning, for she had at last finished the proudest work of her life, which she believed to be as good as her grandfather's. When Hayes carried the wooden plate containing her artwork to the crowd, the excitement in Estella's eyes was completely undisguised, even though she had two thick dark circles under her eyes.

"Alright, Estella, let's see what good things you've done." Fiona urged.

"Don't rush her so much, Fiona." Fiore said.

"Alright, let me introduce you to the same." Estella said. So, she turned around and lifted a third of the cloth that covered the wooden plate.

The first thing that came into everyone's eye was a pair of bracers.

"They've taken more time than I expected, but they're definitely living up to Lord Luce's orders." Estella picked one of them and showed it to the crowd. "I used a small part of Meteor Iron to reinforce them, and it took me a lot of time to match the appropriate pattern on the amethyst edge, but fortunately, Lan Feng left me a lot of ornaments commonly used on the objects of his motherland's nobility, which are indeed very beautiful, according to him, this ornament is called Kui pattern." Estella's crests are carved out on the bracers and then filled with gold, and this oriental ornament is square and symmetrical, and the symmetrical form just rightly sets off the luxury of the amethyst in the center.

"Well, there's a design here that I'm proud of." Estella said, opening one of the bracers and placing it on the forearm of Mechidis' left hand. "Look, as long as you mediate this buckle, even a child can wear it, and in the same way, even a strong man can wear it, but I have made them too beautiful to seem to be suitable for men." She said with some chagrin.

"It's okay, you've done a great job, can you give me the other one too?" Sogrend said.

"Okay, you've got it, the snap switch is here." Estella handed the other one to Saulgrande as well.

"Thank you." Sogre took the bracer guard, then crouched down and placed the second bracer on Mechidis' right arm.

"Lord Ruce......" Nataya snorted softly.

"Well, Mehitis, this is my gift to you, and my voucher for you, go back with these bracers, and I hope they will bring you and your mother good luck." Saugland said, stroking the little girl's head. "In that way, you fastidious senators should have nothing to say. Mehydis, can you promise me to be a worthy king and protect your mother and people? ”

The little princess of Arlan was completely attracted by the beautiful bracers, so she did not hear Thorgrande's words very clearly, and of course even if she did, she could not fully understand the deep meaning of her "father's" words to her at this age. She only vaguely understood that the bracers were the noblest gift that Sogrerd had bestowed upon her, a proof that she was his beloved daughter. The little girl nodded ignorantly, and then happily hugged Sogrande.

Later, this pair of bracers was rightfully called the "bracers of the god of war", which became the most important evidence to prove the legitimacy of the identity of the queen of Arlan, and was also one of the three sacred relics of the military temple in later generations.

Then, Estella lifted a third of the cloth, revealing a weapon that no one had ever seen, perhaps a weapon that had never appeared on this continent. Needless to say, this is another novelty brought by an Oriental.

"It looks more like the tip of a spear." Michel Lance said.

"Lan Feng told me that this thing is called the Green Dragon Halberd." "He drew me a lot of weapons, but I don't know why, I just fell in love with this." It's as if someone has been whispering in my ear, make it, make it. So when I came back to my senses, this thing was there. ”

Fiore gently held the swordsmith in her arms, "You're too tired, you should go get some sleep." ”

"Wait a minute, there's one more thing I haven't shown you."

"This thing can be stabbed and slashed, so it might be quite complicated to use." Yusuf picked it up and gestured.

"Defending against attacks is just as complicated." Little Frank took it and looked at it carefully for a while, and then handed it to Eclair, "What do you think?" ”

"Not suitable for use on dragon backs." Eclair glanced at her and replied coldly.

"I think this is a green dragon halberd, let's put it away first, since it is a weapon from the East, naturally only Mr. Lan Feng knows how to use it. When he comes back here, we can ask him for advice. Sogrend finally came to a conclusion. When little Frank heard this, he returned his belongings, and Fiore took them. Unbeknownst to everyone at the time, this oriental-style weapon was later called the "Holy Lance".

"In the end, there was not enough material left to make a primary weapon, but there would be a surplus just for the dagger, so I made it into this - a left-handed dagger that I think would be a good pair with the thin sword that my grandfather made for His Majesty Sigrani, and I made them the same style and pattern of gauntlets." Estella introduced.

Seeing the last weapon, Sailor, who had been silent, unconsciously took a step forward.

"Surely it is the right thing for you, Cyodora." Thorgrande said suddenly. Celedora was struck by the words, and she turned her head to look at her own father, and did not speak.

"Sister Theodora, pick it up and try it." Reinhardt said this, attracting the other party's attention again.

"Okay, don't be pretentious, hurry up and feel it, if it's suitable, I'll use it for you, I'm sleepy." In the end, it was Estella who shoved her left dagger into Theodora.

As Theodora grasped the hilt of its sword, it was evident that the weapon seemed to become a part of her body at once, not that she had mastered how to use it, but rather a sense of harmony and comfort.

"Estella, thank you." Celedora laughed, she knew that this weapon could call her heart, in addition to the word "fate" that Lan Feng often repeated, and more importantly, this friend of hers carefully studied her habits for the sake of tailoring it for her. "Well, you're still the one who cares about me the most." Seodora pounced on her and hugged the swordsmith.

"Let it go, I'm so tired and sore, I can't stand your tossing like this, and you still have a murder weapon, I don't want to stab you to death." Although Estella called this, she did not mean to push Princess Marstar away.

"Alright, alright, one last thing, I'll go on a date with Pillow after I'm done."

"Is that done? Miss Macmillan. Reinhardt was pleasantly surprised.

"Well, it's done, in a sense, it can also be said to be lucky, of course, first of all, thanks to Her Highness Celeste, she happened to bring very ideal materials." Estella motioned for Fiore to bring another box, and Son Hayes quickly found it and held it in front of everyone.

"Miss Luce has entrusted me with this matter, because the amethyst originally inlaid on the hilt of the 'Tooth Moon' sword was removed and used on the pair of bracers at the request of Lord Luce, and the original hilt lacked decoration. Miss Leuss wanted me to re-set the hilt with the right stone, and just when I had a headache as to which one to use, His Highness Celeste showed me a strange piece of obsidian. It is said that it was a lucky stone given to her by an old woman who sells crystals at the spring festival all year round, and she has been hesitating to use it to make something to give away, but Fiona recognized the stone at a glance as Lan Feng's so-called jade, and it is actually quite rare black jade. After hearing about Miss Leus's idea, Her Royal Highness Celeste generously contributed the jade. Actually, it didn't take a lot of time to cut the jade and inlay it, but I don't know why, I suddenly got the urge to make some relief carvings on it, so I didn't sleep for two whole nights, but fortunately, it was finally completed. Estella yawned as she said this.

"What are you carving on it?" Thorgrande picked up the Tooth Moon and carefully examined the ink jade on the hilt of the sword that had taken the place of the original amethyst, and on each side there was a unicorn monster he had never seen before—majestic and solemn.

"Ah, ah, speaking of which, I still have to blame that guy Lan Feng, he gave me so many strange and beautiful patterns, I really can't help but want to make them all. According to Lan Feng, this unicorn is known as the hedgehog, and in his homeland it is a mythical beast that can distinguish between good and evil, and is also a symbol of the judge. ”

"It's really good for decorating Daddy's weapons." Reinhardt listened.

"Thank you for your job, Miss Macmillan. Thank you too, His Highness Rhine and Celeste, for this gift that I loved. Thorgrande said with a smile.

"Now that everything has been shown, it's time for me to go to bed, nothing special, don't bother me." Estella yawned and walked to the back of the blacksmith's shop, where she had set up a makeshift bed, and had been resting in the workshop all these days, and now she had no strength to walk back to the manor.

Sogrend then began to take a closer look at the new decorations on the Tooth Moon.

"Soge, it's really good that this black jade can weigh your heart." Celeste stepped forward and said.

"Yes, very beautiful gemstones, and I suddenly understood why the Orientals were so fond of such special gemstones. Thank you very much for your generosity, Your Highness Celeste. Thorgrande said, pulling the moon back into his waist.

"As long as I can help you, let me do anything."

Hearing this, Thorgrande sighed slightly and felt something out of his collar. "I'm still quite related to Navi, let's just say this crystal, it's one of the few things that China left behind. It was I bought it from an old woman's stall on the day of the Spring Festival, and it was supposed to be my first gift to Chenna. ”

Celeste took a closer look at the crystal, which was a perfect twelve-sided pyramid, but almost half of it was filled with blood red. "A color-changing crystal?"

"No, it was just a solid crystal at first, but when I found it on Chenna, it became the way it is now, and it can't be cleaned anymore, I think maybe it was Chenna's blood that stained it red."

"Daddy." Reinhardt gently took Sogrend's arm.

"Okay, let's not talk about these things." Thorgrande tucked the crystal back into his clothes, "Theodora, if you want to incorporate this new weapon into your martial arts, then you will need to practice hard, especially if you are preparing to go back to the sword fighting tournament. ”

"We can start now." Seodora compared the newer left-handed dagger in front of her eyes.

"We have two weeks for you to learn new moves, and we don't have a lot of money." Sogrend said.

"Two weeks is enough." Cyodora replied firmly.

July 23, 363 Gregorian Calendar, Mastar, Shurasa.

Paul Maldini returned to the capital of the Reich after a five-year absence, having graduated from the Reich Military Academy and returned to his hometown of Udinese, where he had been away for three years, with a letter of appointment from Her Majesty the Empress as Captain of the Sixth Legion.

Paul had no special affection for Shurasa, even though he had lived there for three years. He kept a low profile in the military academy, and many of his classmates did not know that he was the son of a Western military commander until he received a letter of appointment from the empress. Before that, he was respected by his classmates for his integrity in the academy.

Before leaving Udinese, Paul wanted to say goodbye to his father. However, this request was rejected by his two brothers on the grounds that his father's illness was not suitable for a meeting. So Paul had no choice but to pack up and march for Shurazak with a small number of his attendants. He was not without doubts about his brother's claims, but because of the respect for his father and brother that came with his usual sense of morality, Paul did not attempt to question what the two brothers did.

As with the sword tournament many years ago, the official roads of Shurasa are full of young men with weapons, either on foot or on horseback. They travel in groups of three or five, sometimes secretly competing with each other. However, the law of Mastar strictly prohibits armed private combat, even duels between noble youths, which are illegal, so such activities are often carried out in secret. As a result, the young people put more enthusiasm into the lively discussions. They often talk about the final "sword master" of the Mastar Sword Tournament, Saugland Leus, and the young people dreamed of becoming a hero in the Colosseum like the Pharian, and to be admired and cheered on.

Paul often sat quietly in the diner as an observer, and his two attendants, the knights Cannavaro and Nesta, sometimes spoke softly to him about such matters, knowing well the swordsmanship of their lords, and thus scorning the rabble with their unrealistic fantasies. Paul was not at fault, and he would stop his followers from complaining when they showed signs of complaining, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.

After verifying Paul's identity, the Praetorian Guard guard at the gate of the city immediately arranged for someone to guide him to the hotel to stay. The family did not purchase any property in Shurasa, and they used to visit the royal capital and stay in royal guesthouses reserved for foreign ministers and local lords. After Paul and his party were settled, he asked the Praetorian Guard non-commissioned officer who was leading them which blacksmith shop in the royal capital was the best for the royal family.

"I want to give my sword one last maintenance and repair before the fight." Paul gave his reasons.

"As far as the lower officials know, the Macmillan family's shop is of a high standard, and Captain Reims often goes there to maintain weapons and armor." The non-commissioned officer of the Praetorian Guard replied.

"Are you talking about Mistress Michelle Lance?"

"Yes, Your Excellency."

"Thank you very much for your suggestion, but where is the address?"

The non-commissioned officer of the Praetorian Guard gave the address truthfully, and after thanking him, Paul took the two knights to the blacksmith shop of Macmillan's house.

About half an hour later, the three of them saw the sign that read "Macmillan Family Operated." As soon as Paul entered, he saw a slender figure standing at the counter, and behind the counter stood a tall woman with reddish-brown curly hair—who seemed to be the owner.

"Okay, the things will be calibrated and maintained for you, and sooner or later I will toss you to death. As soon as your feet hit the ground, I dragged you back to the workshop to work day and night, speaking of which, my family does not have the honorary sign of 'serving the royal family', so why should you be driven. The reddish-brown curly-haired woman said cross-legged.

"Good Ester (Estella's nickname), I know you're the best for me, thank you." The blonde woman hugged and kissed her on the cheek across the counter. Then he smiled and picked up an object wrapped in black cloth and turned around to leave.

Cannavaro couldn't help whistling, which immediately drew the glares of the other two, and he scratched his head in embarrassment, leaned over to his two companions, and whispered, "What a beautiful woman, what do you say?" ”

"Be careful, sir." Paul replied.

"Don't let people think of us as hillbillies." Nesta reproached.

Then they immediately saluted the girl who passed by them, and the other nodded casually in return, and Paul took the opportunity to quickly see the girl's face. When she was far away, Paul said to the two attendants, who were still saluting the girl's back, "Don't look at it, you have a chance to see her at the ball tomorrow night." ”

"Huh? Really? She is a noble lady, are all the girls in the royal capital so arrogant? Cannavaro said.

"A lady with golden eyes is naturally qualified to be so proud." Paul said lightly.

"You mean, that one is actually ......" Nesta took a deep breath.

"I said, three gentlemen at the door, if you are okay, don't block the door of my house, if there is no business, I will close the door for half a day." Estella shouted.

"Ah, I'm so sorry, we're here to maintain weapons, and the price is negotiable." Paul hurriedly stepped forward and said.

"Bring all the things, when are you going to get them?"

"Tomorrow afternoon, we're going to a sword fighting tournament."

"Well, take this bronze medal, use it as a certificate, and come to pick it up tomorrow at dinner time." Estella threw a bronze plaque to the other party, with a number written on it, which appeared to be a sort number.

"Then please."