my age of magic

Chapter 437
I stood on the water surface of the fountain with a calm expression, and the students from the Steinth College running at the back were only twenty steps away from me, which happened to be the best distance for the 'charge' skill. Dodging, the two knights rushing out of the castle will have a great chance to stop the two students of Steins College.

Now that you have promised Tracy, you must try your best to do it well.

Smooth magic threads interweave into a net in front of me, the thin magic threads seem to be invisible under the night, and the magic cloud pattern formed by the magic threads looks so chaotic.The entire magic circle was constructed very quickly. The moment the two knights stepped across the domain to the edge of the pool, I had already thrown this spiderweb-shaped circle at my feet, and I refused to stop for a moment. Quickly turned around and ran behind.

I kept running, and every time I paused slightly and briefly, an ice shield would appear around my body, and three ice shields would appear around my body.

The two knights didn't stop by the pool, they turned into two white lights and rushed towards me.

"charge"

The most practical skill for the soldiers in the early days. When we were in Gludin Town, Kurz and I had to suffer a lot in order to learn to hide this skill.

Now, I feel that the hardship I suffered at that time was not in vain.

At the moment when the two knights turned into white light and locked on to me, my body moved forward instead of retreating, like a carp in the river, my whole body jumped into the air on the water surface of the pool, and my body folded in half in the air.Just at this moment, those two white lights brushed against my body and rushed towards me, and I narrowly avoided their 'Charge' skill.

The two knights could not change the trajectory of the 'Charge'. Under their horrified eyes, two white lights collided with each other, splashing a huge water splash, and the two knights fell directly into the pool. They were wearing half-length armor. After falling into the water, the iron armor in the same shape hung on a huge ice edge. This ice edge was originally like a huge spider web, floating under the surface of the pool.

If it is not a close observation, it is difficult to find this hexagram-shaped magic array.

The two knights fell into the water, and their heavy armor directly led them to sink to the bottom of the water. They bumped into the giant ice edge floating below the water surface, and their bodies were instantly covered with a light blue flame, a strange The cold poured into the bodies of these two knights, and the water on the surface of their bodies condensed into frost, making them look like diamond men in the elemental world.

They were extremely embarrassed in the pool at this time. They were floating and hugging the cobweb-like giant ice prism branches intertwined under the water surface. The armor on their bodies was covered with a thick layer of frost, and the blue ice flames It is attached to the ice edge, constantly eroding their armor. As long as they don't let go of the giant ice edge, the frost on their bodies will continue to condense, but they can't let go. Once they let go of the giant ice edge, their bodies will be heavy. The armor will let them sink directly to the bottom of the pool.

Therefore, the two knights could only endure the extreme cold in embarrassment, holding the icicle tightly and refusing to let go.

This fountain with a radius of less than two acres is not endless. The knights in the castle have captured the fleeing students in the corridors on both sides of the fountain one by one, but the students of Steins Academy who went directly out of the fountain have already rushed out. Outside the gate, the knights just chased to the gate and stopped.

They turned their heads and looked at me. I had just escaped from the pursuit of those two knights, and I was about to jump quietly to the shore and sneak into the bushes.

The knights didn't say a word. After he found me, he chased me directly without any hesitation. It was obvious that they hated me.

I stood by the row of bushes by the pool, waved to the knights, and then dived into the low bushes, as agile as a monkey.

When the knights chased after them, they saw a big gap in the bush wall being stepped on, and the broken branches and leaves fell all over the ground. The knight said only one word: "Chasing."

I don't think they have any targets at all, because at this time I opened the 'Shadow Cloak', and I was squatting on the edge of the bushes less than half a meter beside him, watching the knights stomp their feet and disperse. In the garden in front of this castle, follow my trail everywhere.Several knights carried two heavy knight spears, and everyone worked together to rescue the knight who was trapped on the water and was almost frozen into an iceman to the shore.

There are four knights in the city guarding the gate of the manor. I was worried that my cloud of shadow and mist would be discovered by them, so I dared not slip away from the gate, so I had to hide in the shadow at the root of the wall and walk around the corridor to the backyard.

Taking advantage of the chaos in the castle, I hid in the shadows and moved slowly towards the back garden of the castle.

Just as they were about to reach the chestnut tree growing outside the wall, an old man suddenly appeared under the tree. He was the guard of the castle—the lame old soldier.

I know him. Every autumn when I come here to pick chestnuts, I can see him standing leisurely outside the gate of the castle, hunched over, quietly watching me pick up chestnuts on the ground. Salute to him, after all these chestnuts belong to Field Castle, it is not too much for me to salute them with their chestnuts.

At this time, I was hiding in the black mist. Originally, the mist could be mixed with the night in the dark, not to mention that even if I was still lurking in the shadows, it would be difficult for even a first-level fighter to find me.But now he is clearly staring at me, and there is still a faint smile on his face, his wrinkled face is covered with large and small age spots, his eyes are fixed on my hiding place, unexpectedly He nodded kindly to me.

I don't know how he found me, I was so scared that I almost turned around as if to run away.

"Don't be afraid, child, I mean no harm!" This is the first sentence he said to me, and he pointed to the side door beside him, and then said to me: "Stop climbing trees, you are reckless!" , will break the branches of this chestnut tree, let's get out from there!"

Following his fingers, I discovered that there is a small door less than 20 meters away from here, which is very concealed.

Until I opened the side door and got out, I didn't understand why the crippled veteran helped me.

Suspicion filled his heart, so he asked the crippled veteran, "Why do you help me?"

"I'm not helping you, I just want you not to step on my chestnut tree!" The veteran said to me with a half-true smile before turning to leave.

I stood at the door of the side door, looking at him stubbornly, wanting him to give me a satisfactory answer.

The smile on the lame veteran's face became very depressed. He leaned his body against the chestnut tree with difficulty, then walked down the tree trunk, and sat on a raised tree root. He took two puffs of the half cigar and put it back in his pocket.

Tobacco leaves can also be grown here in El City.

In El City, many unmarried and pretty girls will be engaged in this fairly well-paid industry, that is, cigarettes.They will spray the cured tobacco leaves with water, stick the tobacco leaves on their thighs, roll them up slowly from one end, little by little, into a cigarette as thick as a thumb, and then roll the tobacco leaves Use a very fine vanilla leaf to tie the cigarettes to prevent the cigarettes from loosening, and then put these cigarettes in a well-adjusted large pot and boil them repeatedly until the soup of the potion is completely soaked into the cigarettes and dried in the sun. After that, it became the most characteristic cigar of El City.

The lame veteran exhaled deeply, looked at the crescent moon like a hook, and paused for a while before saying, "What difference does it make if you don't say it?"

The lame veteran seemed to miss the past, closed his cloudy eyes and said, "When Viscount Field was in power, he always advocated that true nobles must abide by the most basic chivalry." The lame veteran smiled a little Bitter, and then he said to himself: "But what's the use of this, those nobles who have always wanted to privately recruit civilian fighters, in order to expand their territory, they began to recruit fighters wantonly. But this is a small border town, and people die every year. The men who were attacked by the barbarians almost accounted for half of the total number of men in El City, so few fighters are willing to join some nobles and become their followers."

The lame veteran continued: "The nobles at that time have always been role models for the common people. They shoulder the important responsibility of maintaining the stability of the entire society, and they must treat the common people with the minimum respect. The nobles at that time would lead As the civilians resist foreign aggression, everyone trusts each other and unites as one..."

The crippled veteran recounts the rift between nobles and commoners, which seems to have built up over time.

I don't know when it started, the most basic trust between nobles and commoners has become indifferent.

The new recruitment method of the nobles, with deceit and the binding force of the contract, has added a tall wall between the nobles and the common people...

The lame veteran let me go, in fact, he wanted someone to break this deteriorating situation, but unfortunately I was not the candidate in his mind.

...beautiful dividing line...

I went to meet them at Tracy's hideout.

Seeing my safe return, Tracy emerged from the bushes.

She walked up excitedly, gave me a hard punch on the shoulder, and then said to me: "Good job, Ji Jia, I just saw Vernon and the others leave the academy safely, Thank you, Giga!"

"I hope those knight masters don't invite them to the guard camp for tea tomorrow morning!" I said with a sigh. Dawang, how could he let it go so easily.

"Thank God, you've come back safely. Just now Tracy saw that you didn't come out with everyone, so she was in a hurry!" Rowling on the side exaggeratedly said to me.

I said to Tracy and Rowling, "Let's go too!"

I don't want to stay here any longer, even for a minute. Although this place is far away from Field Manor, I still feel a little panicked.

At this time, I felt a faint tremor in the street, it was the sound of countless horseshoes beating on the bluestone slabs, just like the faint roar of the sea tide at night.

I quickly half squatted on the ground, put half of my face on the ground and listened carefully. It was the sound of cavalry horses stamping on the ground.It was the knights of the guard battalion who were dispatched. I didn't expect that the knights who usually procrastinated and sloppy would dispatch tonight at an unprecedented 'fast' speed.Probably because someone reported that some students on campus besieged Field Manor or something like that!

The three of us squatted behind the tree wall on the street, slowing down our breathing as much as possible, so as not to be spotted by the galloping knights.

The group of cavalry passed by us in mighty form...

...beautiful dividing line...

It was late when we got home, and Tracy and I seldom went out together, so Fanny insisted on not going to bed until we got back together.Holding a plate of cold onion rings and two pieces of fried fish, and holding two wine glasses and a bottle of golden cider in the other hand, she crept up to the second floor behind Tracy. I had already taken a shower at that time, and I was only wearing a cool nightgown. It was empty inside, and there was no electric light in the room. I could vaguely see the pair of tall and straight silhouettes.

Putting the plate on the balcony on the second floor, I looked towards the north of the East District on a chair, but unfortunately I couldn't see anything.

After the night's events, neither of us could sleep, so Tracy suggested a little cider, which would help sleep.I searched all over the kitchen to find such a little food.

A cloud like blue smoke floats above our heads...

Pouring a glass of wine directly into her mouth, Tracy drank very boldly, and she did not drink less in the tavern. After drinking this glass, her cheeks turned red.

She opened her sleepy eyes and said softly to me: "Jijia, I want to join the army, go to the North Wind Army!"

I opened my mouth wide, not understanding why she would have such an idea, and afraid of waking Fanny and Lyont downstairs, I could only lower my voice and say, "Tracey, you are crazy, women are not obliged to serve in the military , don't you know that Fanny and Lyont will definitely object to this matter?"

She moved her body, let herself lie on the chair, became more comfortable, and said to me: "That's why I will tell you secretly, I want you to help me!"

I snapped angrily in a low voice, "Tracey, tell me, what are you trying to do?"

I can imagine how upset Fanny would be if she heard about it.

"I want to see the outside world..." She said with a guilty conscience.

I gave her a better suggestion: "Then join an adventure group after graduation! Adventure groups can travel all over the world, but they are definitely safer than the military. If you want to go, I will try to convince Finn Ni and Lant, I will also introduce you to two famous adventure groups."

If you join the army, forget it.The North Wind Legion was facing the barbarians on the ice and snow tundra. Facing these barbarians, the death rate in the army was still very high, especially in encounters with small groups of troops in the wild, few of them escaped unscathed.

But at this time, she seemed very silent, speechless for a while.

"..."

However, in Tracy's eyes, I actually saw loneliness, longing and bitterness. She frowned and looked at the distant night sky in a daze.

I suddenly realized, so I asked, "Are you going to find Alan Te?"

She hesitated for a moment, but she still mustered up the courage to nod to me, and looked at me bravely and said: "...En!"

Tracy is one of those women who rarely confides in her heart, but maybe she had a little too much to drink tonight, maybe after a night of events she got a little sentimental and said to me again, "I I suddenly realized that I had missed someone who shouldn't be missed, and I wanted to find him by myself, or at least tell him in person!"

As long as I think of the frustrated expression on Ellen's face when he left, I really want to see what Tracy will look like when he appears in front of him.

But for Tracy's relationship, I still give the greatest support, because Ellen and I are also friends, I think he is not bad, so I said to her: "Then you can go to see him, or It is not necessary to join the North Wind Legion. I think this guy will wake up with a smile when he dreams!"

"You support me?" Tracy asked in surprise.

I was a little surprised and said, "Why not?"

Tracy's eyes became brighter, and I wonder how much she's had to drink tonight, so she won't be able to sleep!

She hesitated, and asked me hesitantly: "Then what should I tell Fanny?"

I said to her, "Just say what you think, Fanny is a very open-minded person..."

She drank the cider in the wine glass in one gulp again, a faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, as if she was recalling the happy time in the past...

(End of this chapter)