my age of magic

Chapter 644

The dwarf in a difficult situation is named Bernd Holder. He sat on the bench and took a big sip of wine. The irritable emotions in his eyes were slowly fading away. His will was depressed, and his strong body had been worn down by wine and years. There was only empty air left, the tendons on his body slowly receded, and there was a pile of fat on his belly. After taking another sip of wine, his mood became stable.

He sits on the bench like a black rock, I can find traces of the battlefield in his eyes, every soldier who has experienced the baptism of blood and fire has a spirit in his eyes, that is fearlessness .

I hadn't expected to meet a dwarven veteran whose wounds ended his military career, and he began to tell me his story.

From the day he was born, Bernd Hodder was stronger than the other sons of the dwarves, so he was sent to the War Academy to learn the art of combat. He was a warrior under the throne of Stan, the seven kings of the dwarf kingdom, and he also made great achievements in battle. , the young Bernd Hodder is extremely powerful. After learning the combat skills of a berserker, he is a very famous warrior in the army. Like other dwarves, he likes to drink heavily, likes to brag, and likes to fight with people after drinking.

In the winter of that year, the Stan dynasty in the dwarf country experienced heavy snow that had not been seen in decades. The gray dwarves hiding in the New Siakis Mountains were completely swallowed by the beast tide in the snowy mountains, and some gray dwarves fled to the Xinghu grassland. But after only three months of living quietly on the Xinghu Grassland, he was forced to go to the Pai Plateau by the annual one-horned buffalo migration there.

Hearing Bernd Hodder tell the past of the dwarven dynasty, I knew which gray dwarf bandits originally lived in the New Siakis Mountain Range.

The other part of the gray dwarves fled westward into the territory of the seven kings of the dwarf kingdom. These gray dwarves lost their supplies for the winter, so they could only rely on plundering the food of other dwarves to resist this harsh winter.

As a result, the Kingdom of Stan was attacked by gray dwarves and bandits. Under such circumstances, Bernd Holder followed the legion through the entire territory of the Kingdom of Stan in the severe winter, chasing and killing the group of people who lost their homes. Duerwarves who have become bandits.

In the ensuing years of wars, chasing, migrating, encircling and suppressing, and fighting with trapped beasts, the last power of the gray dwarves was gradually eroded away.

The king of the gray dwarves gathered the last [-] gray dwarf warriors to capture the Godworth mine of the Pirmara dwarf king in one fell swoop, and built a solid fortification there. The seven dwarf kings held a military meeting in Stan, Agreed on how to conquer the duergar of Godworth.

So in a rainy summer, the Allied Forces of the Seven Nations led hundreds of thousands of dwarf warriors to surround the Goldworth Mine. The whole war also lasted from summer to winter. Bernd Holder finally got his chance. Together with their companions, they went to the forefront of the battlefield. They were responsible for capturing the area B in the southwest of the Goldworth Mine, where they fought hard for three days and three nights.

The mountain fortifications of the gray dwarves made the dwarf warriors of the Allied Forces of the Seven Nations suffer a lot. For the whole winter, the coalition forces made no progress except to drive the gray dwarves into the mountain of the mine.

The dwarf kings decided to end this war as soon as possible. Several years of war had already brought down the economy of the dwarf kingdom, so someone proposed to invite the mercenaries and adventure groups in the human kingdom to use refined iron ingots and fine iron ingots from the dwarf kingdom. Weapons and armor, hire those mercenaries.

With the coming of the spring of the second year, human mercenaries and adventure groups began to pour into the dwarf kingdom in large numbers.

It was at this time that Bernd Hodder met the young human ranger Jim. Jim followed the adventure group to the dwarf country to pan for gold. Full-cover fine iron armor, these are definitely a huge wealth in the Grimm Empire.

Jim's adventure group was assigned to Bernd Hodder's war zone. Jim also liked to drink. Soon the two became drinking buddies, and gradually became good friends who talked about everything. Bernd Hodder listened to Jim He said that the Grimm Empire has extremely delicious golden cider and wine, and the taste of ale is also different from that of the dwarven kingdom, not so bitter.

Slowly, Bernd Hodder had the idea of ​​going out to the Grimm Empire to take a look.Jim was very hospitable and promised to take Bernd Holder to see the prosperity of the imperial capital after the war.

It was the autumn of that year when the war entered its final stage. Bernd Holder followed a battalion of dwarf warriors in charge of capturing the arsenal deep in the mining area. Unexpectedly, the information mentioned that the arsenal was guarded by only a dozen people. It happened that there was a Nearly a hundred gray dwarves were changing equipment in the warehouse... The battle was about to start, and Bernd Holder's entire assault battalion was almost wiped out.

The last memory of Bernd Holder is that a gray dwarf general split his breastplate with a mountain axe. He felt that not only blood flowed from his chest and abdomen, but also that heart seemed to be exposed. When I came out, the things in my stomach seemed to have lost their restraint, and they dripped out all at once.

When Bernd Hodder woke up, he found himself lying in a cave. A guy whose body was like black briquettes grinned at him, "Brother, congratulations, I got you out of the scythe of death , snatched you back...

It was Jolly Jim who dragged Bernd Hodder from the dead into the coal shaft.

It is full of gas and death traps everywhere, and it is a place that gray dwarves don't want to set foot in. Jim is a ranger who is good at surviving in dangerous places. In this coal well, they eat coal balls, moss, gophers, mushrooms and many other unknowns. The two of them have even agreed to explore the entire continent together. Jim also told Bernd Holder that he would let him meet his young and beautiful wife. Buy her a nice house.

The two of them toiled in the coal well for three months before they finally heard the sound of the horn of the dwarf army's general attack.

When Jim came out of the coal shaft with Bernd on his back, the glare of the sun almost blinded the two of them.

An arrow from the United Legion of the Dwarf Kingdom looked like a cold icicle in the sun. It flew from a distance and pierced directly into the skull between Jim's eyebrows. He didn't die during the adventurous journey. Under the huge kiss of the monster, he didn't die under the butcher's knife and gun of the gray dwarf, but died from the accidental injury of his own people.Unfortunately, the adventure group friends who came with Jim, in this battle, no one survived.

Three months later, the dwarf Bernd Holder recovered from his injuries and brought Jim's ashes and Jim's pension to the imperial capital of the Green Empire.

Bernd never thought that it was also a royal city, but the imperial capital of Green was dozens of times larger than the royal city of Stan. In the vast crowd, it was difficult to find a commoner woman. After all the hardships, finally After finding Jim's wife Eve, Bernd had spent all the gold coins on his body, and had nothing on him except Jim's ashes and the exquisite armor.

Bernd returned Jim's items to Eve, and returned to the dwarf kingdom without any entanglements on his body. Fortunately, he ran to the slums of the imperial capital and became a beggar of a foreign race.Because of his dark wounds, he was unable to join the adventure group, so his life has been poor.

Finally one day, after Bernd fell ill in the pouring rain, a woman holding an umbrella came out from the rain curtain and dragged him home like a dead dog.

That woman was Eve, and Bernd sent the sample at Eve's house.

Before that, Eve had been living a very poor life, but she was very happy because she had a purpose in life, she could endure any hardships, and then wait for her husband to come home, and those gangsters in the market would not Dare to bully her too much, because she has a husband who is a ranger. Jim is also considered a very outstanding young man on this street. Everyone knows that he is good at skills.

But when the news of Jim's death came, Eve's life fell into a quagmire. The neighbors began to point at her, saying that her man died in a foreign country, but left her a huge inheritance. The gangsters in the city began to covet her beauty and began to play with this young widow.

Eve doesn't believe that her husband Jim is dead. In order to prove that all this is false news, she secretly followed Bernd every day. Until one day Bernd was so down that he almost died of illness on the street, Eve couldn't help it. Husband's ex-racial friend rescued her back home.

In this way, a young widow and a dwarf began a life of poverty in the imperial capital.

I can't imagine what kind of relationship they are like, or the dwarf Bernd barely survived with Eve's help, and almost became a useless Bernd, who was rejected by the people of the imperial capital. He drank alcohol and had a bad temper , looks burly, but has no strength, often quarrels with others, and is beaten black and blue by those imperial people, and then loses a job with a meager income.

Later, Eve got a job as a waitress in a tavern, and the situation improved a little bit, but the tavern owner, Zhuokek, coveted Eve's beauty, and touched Eve's in one night while drinking. From then on, Eve became Zhuokek's lover, as well as his waitress and cook in his shop.

And the price Zhuoka Ke paid for this was to let Bernd drink some free ale every day. Those ales were mixed with distiller's grains. Even if Bernd didn't drink it, it would be poured into the stinky ditch outside Here, even with this bad ale, Bernd would get drunk almost every day, and he was completely overwhelmed by life.

The tavern owner Zhuo Keke often scolded him: "The dwarf hiding in Eve's crotch!"
This story is very long, so Bernd told it for a long time. He drank the bottle of high-quality golden cider, his eyes became brighter and brighter, and he was not drunk at all. There was no sadness in his eyes, he just looked up. Looking at the starless and moonless night sky, he silently ate all the fried potatoes and fried fish in his arms.

Bernd the dwarf told me it was the best drink he had ever had in his life.

He stood up from the bench, opened his eyes and said to me: "Thank you for listening to my story patiently. It feels better to tell it. Maybe I know the way to go in the future, and I should go my own way." Lu, maybe I should go and see the outside world, instead of clinging to Eve like a blood-sucking leech, she should have a better life."

"You deserve a better life too!" I said to him.

I thought he was depressed and would do some negative things, but after drinking a bottle of golden cider, he cheered up instead.

I heard the dwarf Bernd say to me: "Yes, although I am no longer a warrior, but at least I still have the strength of an ordinary person. I should go to the airport of the imperial capital to find a job as an anti-pack! I will go to Iraq Pick up Fu and leave here with her, if she doesn't want to leave the imperial capital, then it's a farewell to her."

He waved his fist and said, "Just do it, and let Master Chokak go to hell!"

Bernd brushed the residue of fried potatoes from his beard with his hands, and took big steps like walking towards the tavern in the depths of this alley.

I followed Bernd and walked towards the tavern, thinking to myself: I don’t know how the Yerkes scholar is doing now. When I passed the park gate, the stall owner who sold fried potatoes still nodded and smiled at me kindly. , obviously from her point of view, I am her customer, so she has to smile when I face me.

Suddenly, Bernd stopped by the bush wall. He was not tall, only about 130 centimeters, so standing by the tree wall was not easy to be spotted. He was staring intently at the pair in the shadow of the alley. The figure was silent for a long while. There were no negative emotions such as anxiety, anger, helplessness, loss, sadness, etc. in his eyes. Instead, he had a calm face. I walked quietly behind Bernd, and he twisted his body slightly. , put your finger to your lips, and let me keep my voice down.

I stood quietly behind a sycamore tree and looked over curiously. Under the shadow of the wall, Yerkes and Eve embraced each other tightly. Yerkes was embracing in an extremely affectionate way. Kissing Eve, Eve leaned against the red brick wall with her hands around Yerkes' neck. Her slender figure was no shorter than Yerkes', and she thought Yerkes felt that she was a little more delicate. pose and sneakily kick off the high-heeled shoes on the feet.

Under the dim light of the street lights, her face glowed with a halo.

Bernd's eyes were very clear, as if watching his close relatives suddenly gain happiness, he was afraid that he would appear rashly and break everything here.

He seemed a little excited, stroked his beard on his chin, and whispered to me: "From the perspective of you Green people, she is beautiful, right? But I think her heart is the most beautiful. The kind of positivity, optimism, and persistence in life make me feel that there are still some things in this world that are very beautiful and worth cherishing. Originally, I made an oath to Jim to take good care of her, but the fact is just the opposite. She's been taking care of me."

Then he glanced at me gratefully, and said, "He's the same as you. He doesn't look down on me just because I'm a dwarf. She has a heart of gold."

He hesitated for a moment, his heart seemed extremely struggling, and he said after a long time: "I think maybe I should go away quietly like this, look at the happy smile on her face, I really hope that it can stay on her face forever. Mr. Magician, do you think that is the love that the bards sang in their poems?"

Bernd turned around and sat down silently against the low bush wall. His eyes became very bright, and he looked at me as if he was looking for the truth.

I touched my head in embarrassment, and said, "Maybe those are it!"

In fact, I can't figure out what the Yerkes scholar is thinking in his heart, and what he loves about a sexy woman like Eve.

(End of this chapter)