my age of magic

Chapter 496
After nightfall, the cold wind came in through the gaps in the wooden windows, making the temperature in the attic drop to freezing point. I rubbed my hands and stretched out to roast next to the brazier. The scroll of Gathering Fire in the brazier was burning fiercely. I looked at the scroll. The ink on the magic pattern circle is still not blurred, and it is estimated that this pot of fire will burn at least until tomorrow morning.Put on a thick cotton coat, pick up the scissors on the table, cut the wick in the kerosene lamp, and then pick up the water glass, only to find that the water in the glass has become cold.

The writing desk looked a little messy. A whole stack of high-grade magic parchment was randomly piled up on the corner of the desk, and a few failed scrolls were stuffed into the wastebasket under the writing desk.

He took the heavy water glass, put the magic engraving pen on the pen holder, put the expensive Xueluo ink aside, carefully checked whether the bottle cap was tightened, then put on a coat, turned around and walked out of the attic, in the living room The fruit logs in the fireplace have not been completely burnt out, and the dark red charcoal fire is constantly changing from bright to dark, just like a flame beast lying in the fireplace and breathing slowly. To get some water, go to the fireplace, pick up the cauldron, and fill your drinking glass with water.

Sitting on the sofa in front of the fireplace, looking at the red fire, the silent night seems to be able to magnify a person's thoughts infinitely. Holding a water glass and sinking my body deeply into the sofa, I feel like An ostrich poking its head into the sand.

The soft panting sound from the bedroom next door gradually weakened. Before I realized what was going on, the sound subsided for a moment. The door of the bedroom creaked and was pushed open. Nancy gently Stepping out, her figure disappeared into the dark corridor.

It seems that the woman who can give Leant a second life is really extraordinary. I am starting to worry about Fanny. She may want to defend her position as the hostess of this family, but Tracy and I will be firm. Stand by her side.

Nancy went to the kitchen. The kitchen and the living room happened to be in two directions. When she opened the bedroom door, she didn't see me, but when she returned from the kitchen, she would definitely see me on the sofa.

I gently stood up from the sofa with a glass of water in my hand, and before she returned, I hurriedly fled to the attic, lest we would be a little embarrassed if we met downstairs at this time.

Tracy was wearing cotton pajamas, sitting on the stairs with sleepy eyes, her hair was a little messy, she tightened the cotton pajamas tightly, and when she saw me walking up the stairs, she stretched out her hand to me and said to me: " It’s too cold, quickly give me a magic scroll, maybe it’ll be better if you build a brazier in the room.”

I stepped on the wooden steps of the stairs, passed her slender body, and said to her in the softest voice: "Then come with me!"

This winter, Tracy has become very lazy. In the past, she could be seen helping Fanny in the kitchen, but now she probably hasn't washed the dishes for a long time!

In previous years, when the weather was too cold, everyone would take out some burning charcoal from the fireplace, put it in a brazier and bring it to their room, so that the room would not be so cold, but this year has completely changed. The charcoal fire in the fireplace seems to be neglected, and Tracy is used to using the fire-focusing scroll. As for the master bedroom of Fanny and Leant, there is also a stove that was trafficked from the Pai Plateau orc tribe. The kerosene can be burned all winter and can't be burned out.

I dare not imagine what kind of reaction Fanny would have when she knew that the oil with a faint fragrance of whale blubber inside was the corpse oil of swamp zombies.

There is an extra wooden bed in Tracy's room. Cindy and Tracy live in the same room. I took out the Focus Fire Scroll and handed it to Tracy who was shivering from the cold. After thinking about it, He simply handed her another one, and said softly to her: "If one still feels cold, then order another one!"

Tracy gave me a blank look, lowered her voice and said, "If you let Fanny know that I burn your magic scrolls to keep warm at night, she will definitely scold me badly. Tomorrow, I will go to the business store to buy an oil stove. This winter It's much colder than in previous years, but it's not so cold in previous years."

I turned and went back to my room, only to hear Tracy say to me from behind with some concern: "Don't be too busy, staying up late is not good for your health!"

"Oh, I got it!" I said impatiently, waving my hand at Tracy.

This winter, this winter is more lively than usual. I'm not sure what Fanny is thinking. If she hates Nancy and Cindy, maybe I should ask Marvin to help me find a house to house the mother and daughter. Outside, it is more conducive to the harmony of the family!
And I have been anxious, quietly waiting for a stormy quarrel at home, but it never happened.

I am very curious about how Leant maintains the relationship between the three of them, but the mistress of the family is still Fanny, and the new Nancy who joined us has slowly integrated into my life...

...beautiful dividing line...

This winter is colder than any other year. The simple tents on the street can no longer withstand the invasion of the cold wave. Early morning is the busiest time for the night watchmen. They not only need to turn off the street lights, but also knock on every tent. If there is no answer inside, the tent will be opened to see if anyone is frozen to death inside. If someone is frozen to death, they will call their companions to carry the body out and throw it on the carriage with the body behind.

Almost every day, a carload of corpses would be transported to the cemetery behind the Central Mountain. At the beginning, some civilians could not survive the days of waiting for death. They would get out of their tents and look for new homes.

In the past, only those nobles' mansions would open their doors. As long as they signed their names on the magic contract and sold their freedom for a lifetime, they could get their lives back.But that kind of prostitution, even without a slave collar, is no different from a slave.Although these aristocratic and wealthy families are expanding their family's strength according to traditional methods, this kind of bad behavior has also put them in the embarrassing situation of frying and cooking.

Although his own strength has increased slightly, he has sacrificed a lot of reputation, which is not worth the candle.

Different from previous years, the civilians who own their own houses in El City this year are not closing their courtyard doors, for fear that those poor refugees will share the only food in their homes. Now they will open the gate of their own courtyard and silently accept the refugees in the city. Maybe they will only provide a temporary residence, but they have nothing else to ask for, no magic contract or any constraints.

Therefore, a large number of refugees choose to live in the homes of those civilians every day. In the days to come, they will spend this severe winter together.

As a result, although the number of refugees in the city this year is much higher than in previous years, the number of refugees who are actually willing to enter the noble mansion to sign a contract of sale has nearly doubled compared to previous years.

In the city of El, the conflict between the common people and the nobles did not ease in any way because of the arrival of the barbarians, on the contrary, it tended to intensify.

The atmosphere in the city is becoming more and more tense every day. Some falcon squads sneaked out of the city at night with magic traps. They brought back a large number of barbarians. In such a tense situation, hunting the barbarians is undoubtedly a booster In the city of El, the people in the city instantly ignited new hope.The nobles who bought the scrolls of 'Frost Nova' were rewarded. They took the barbarian's left ear and walked into the logistics department in exchange for what they wanted.

However, success means failure. When falcons hunt, if they are not careful, they will become prey in the eyes of barbarians. These storm bear barbarians are naturally warlike, and they prefer to hunt those with strong fighting power. Falcons.Some powerful barbarian warriors roamed the outskirts. They aimed specifically at the falcons in El. Barbarians with great strength often don't even have a chance to escape.

The corpses of some falcons were hung high on wooden poles outside the city. In such cold weather, their corpses were frozen hard. When the wind blows, the corpses hanging under the rope will Shaking with the wind, if there is still no news about a team for about half a month, some people related to Falcon in the city will sneak up to the top of the city and give a few silver coins to the guarding soldiers, and then they will have For the right to linger on the walls for a moment, they would seek out those with good eyesight to search for their kin on those tall wooden poles.

Whether found or not found, they will come with a touch of sadness, and some will leave with infinite sadness.

Anything of value on those corpses will be ripped off. They are completely naked, and sometimes they don’t even leave a pair of underwear. These barbarians who came to Storm Bear want everything, and they hoard a lot of supplies Wake up, and don't know how they will choose to take these materials away when they leave in the future.

Little Evan in the Knights of the Guard Battalion hadn't been on vacation for a whole month. There were always small waves of barbarians who kept testing the guards on the city wall and never let them idle for a moment.

Seeing that there are more and more siege equipment outside the city day by day, the atmosphere of danger hangs over the entire city of El. From the beginning, people blindly believed in the city's defense capabilities, and recently began to have some concerns. There are siege chariots several stories high, just outside the moat of the city.Under the deterrence of the barbarian's whip, those human slaves finally made these rough siege equipment. As long as these chariots are pushed down the city, the barbarians will rush to the city wall from the plank road formed by the siege chariot .

I found that the most famous magic instructors in the Magic Academy have stopped teaching recently, and their figures will always appear on the city wall from time to time. Some teams composed of instructors from the Warrior Academy are always protecting these magic instructors. Around, Flender, the magic instructor of the fire class, Heidi, the magic instructor of the water class, and Ethan, the magic mentor of the wind class, also joined the daily task of patrolling the city wall.

Morayal warned me: To stay away from the city wall, it is best to stay at home in the East End except for going to school.Every day there will be barbarian warrior level strong, forcibly rushing to the city wall to attack and kill the guarding soldiers, don't think that I have become a falcon, and despise those barbarians.

But I think I should do something for El City, just like drawing magic scrolls day and night, I think maybe I can do more.

It has been nearly two months since the city was besieged by the barbarians of the Storm Bear tribe, but the most basic living supplies and food in the city are still circulating in various commercial firms. It seems that no one is worried that these supplies will run out. I don’t know where the large amount of supplies that I usually consume come from, so I asked Bobby, but Bobby looked at me for a long time with surprise, and finally he said to me: Ji Jia, you don’t know the city? Do the great nobles in the game have their own private planes?Even if El City is besieged for a year or ten years, we don't need to worry about these supplies!
In such a tense atmosphere, I took Morayal behind my back and took a day to visit Senior Benjamin who was guarding the city wall.

When he saw Senior Benjamin, he was sitting on the thunderstone behind the city wall eating, and he ate the standard broth with wheat cakes with great relish. He even had black stubble around his mouth, and his face was still a little green. But the look in his eyes is no longer like the arrogance that just graduated from Zhanzheng College. Now his eyes have become a bit of murderous look. These murderous looks need to be sharpened from the battlefield.

He and the other guards all wore the same style of knight armor. The black iron helmet was placed on the arrow stack next to him. His knight shield turned out to be a basket for the soldiers to hold wheatbread. The most convenient place to grasp, now he has successfully made himself a real knight of the Knights.

Relying on my identity as a magic apprentice, I successfully climbed the city wall. Now the guards have become stricter, and it is forbidden for idlers to climb the city wall.

Followed by Luka, its tall body is very conspicuous on the city wall.

"Hi, Jijia, why are you here?" Senior Benjamin seemed very happy to see me.

"I'll come and see you!" I smiled, and took out a bundle of magic scrolls from my pocket and handed them to him.

"I'm not a magic apprentice, and I don't know how to recite spells. What's the use of these magic scrolls?" Senior Benjamin looked at the bundle of frost scrolls that were only the size of a palm, and asked me suspiciously.

Then I took out a small bird trap from my backpack, skillfully tied the scroll and the animal trap together to make a 'frost trap', and explained to him lightly: "This scroll does not need Spells, this kind of low-level magic scrolls, only need those savages to step on them, and a cloud of ice mist will burst out."

"Is this a magic trap?" Benjamin curiously took the bundle of magic scrolls and said.

I said to him, "This is the most common warning magic trap."

Then he explained the specific usage to senior Benjamin. After hearing this, he happily punched me on the shoulder and said to me: "Then I will accept it. Hey, thank you very much!"

I rubbed my nose with my fingers, smiled and said nothing.

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(End of this chapter)