For the people of the city of El Eyre, autumn is the harvest season.At the coming-of-age ceremony, people offer the fullest ears of wheat and the sweetest golden cider to the goddess of harvest, praying for the goddess to send down divine grace and bless the people living in this land.The goddess of harvest is the goddess of agriculture and reproduction in the eyes of the Grimm people, and the northerners of the Grimm Empire are happy to hold weddings in the autumn, which means abundant food.Autumn is the busiest season in the city of El, and the large golden apple groves in the mountains require a lot of labor, and the farmers will pick these golden apples, and every Elle people will make golden cider, and the sour golden cider will be cellared for more than three years before the taste becomes extremely mellow.A fiery morning sun broke through the clouds on the horizon, letting the sun shine over the mountains, the lush golden apple trees hung with a lot of fruit, it hadn't rained for a week, the leaves of the stick grass on the high hill had turned yellow, a few yellow sheep were tied to the hillside, and not far away two children were squatting on a small mound, holding sticks and stabbing the ants' nests intently.I hurried into town in a carriage, it was the big day of Tracy's bar mig, and if I was late, I wouldn't be sure she would go crazy.I remember the last time she was in a bad mood, she helped me tidy up the experimental bench in the attic bedroom and knocked over the demon sealing box containing the Gathering Fire Scroll, and almost burned my entire room.Fanny and Ryan were very supportive of me studying Mingxue, they thought that being a Mingshi was better than being a magician, at least Mingshi would not have to go to the battlefield in the future, and if he joined the army for military service, he only needed to make magic scrolls in the arsenal in the rear, or repair the magic pattern and construct something, at least it was safe.One of the things they were most proud of was not that I became a great apprentice in magic or that I had my own shop in the city and that business was booming.At a barbecue party on the street, Harvey, the chef who lives at the easternmost end of the street, roasted a whole sheep with a fire-gathering scroll I had drawn, and the sauce I had personally concocted, yes, I may not have learned much about magical herbs, but I did know a lot about which plants made the seasoning.At that party, after tasting the sauce I had concocted, Chef Harvey said to me sincerely, "Jiga, if you weren't a noble magician, I'm still an apprentice in magic, and you might be a great chef." ”In fact, I really want to say to him: In my last life, I was a kitchen cook, who could mix cold dishes and carve radish flowers.However, Fanny, who was helping the cook, clearly disagreed with Chef Harvey's statement, and proudly put her arm around my shoulders and said to the neighbors, "Our Giga would be a great warrior if he wasn't an apprentice in magic." ”"Yes, a swordsman like Sister Tracy!"
A little boy in the neighborhood who knew him well but had forgotten his name chimed in, saying that Tracy seemed to have a high prestige among them, and that I had expected Anne to be the most prestigious among the children, but apparently the children did not buy much of Anne's account, as if she had faded out of the circle for so long that the children had forgotten who she really was."
Of course, who made your family Ryan a very good swordsmanship instructor!"
The one who spoke was a charming person who still heard that she had a little inexplicable and inexplicable complicated relationship with Fanny and Ryant, and now she was the proprietress of a liquor store, and the golden cider made by her man tasted very soft, just like his character, and he would not care if his wife boasted about other men like this, even if that man was still the lover of his wife's girlhood.Leant, who was standing under the plane tree not far away with a wine glass and drinking with the men, shook his head with a smile, hugged the owner of the wine shop and said: "Jijia doesn't learn Western rappiers from me, the madness in his bones is more like a berserker, and I'm glad that he has become a magic apprentice now." ”Sitting in the carriage and recalling this warm scene, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up, I think Tracy must be a little impatient to wait now!
But what can be done, Ma just a few days ago, took the first order of our blacksmith shop, it is the owner of the magic caravan business customized ten pieces of magic rune metal plates, for the first order, Ma and I attach great importance to it, but in the stage of casting metal plates, there are some situations one after another, so that the blacksmith master made the magic rune plate last night, and then I need to rush out the magic rune plate overnight, I have stayed up all night, and now I have to rush back to the city to participate in Tracy's coming-of-age ceremony, It's a very busy life.A week earlier, Ma had rented a very cheap house in the slums on the edge of the moat outside the city, and the reason why the houses here were cheap was also because in three or two months, winter was coming, and when the time came, everything beyond the moat of the city of El, which would be the first target of the barbarians on the ice and tundra, and perhaps some of the daring barbarians would take up these houses as temporary dwellings.Therefore, these poor and homeless people in the civilian area need to save enough money in these last two months and take refuge in the city of El for this long winter.The houses on the moat of the city of El, after the autumn, will become worthless, many houses will be left unused, few people dare to live in the civilian areas during the winter, those barbarians have left too many killings in this land in the past few decades, these hatreds cannot be dissolved, and blood must be repaid.Like the battle in the early spring of this year, the doomed side had to pay with their lives, and the young barbarians of the Celtic tribes all died on the banks of the Horse River.Of course, I also consider that there are other reasons why it is close to the coal yard and moat.There are two auxiliary resources that must be used to open a blacksmith shop, the first is coke that can melt the metal, and the second is the water source required for quenching.So Ma and I opened a very small blacksmith shop here, and hired a master blacksmith, who was said to be a vagabond who had traveled through the dwarven kingdom, and whose skill was not as good as he had boasted, but I consulted with Ma and hired him, and promised to rent him a house in the city if he did a good job.There are also some unspeakable secrets, in such a harvest season, no laborer in the city of El can worry about finding a job, not to mention that we still employ craftsmen with blacksmith skills.I don't have a lot of requirements for this blacksmith, I don't need him to make horseshoes and forge nails, as long as he knows how to smelt and cast, he just needs to pour molten steel into a specific sand mold, cast a steel plate with connecting lugs, and then use a file to polish the burrs on it, throw it into a pool of magic copper that melts into liquid, take a bath, and coat the surface of the steel plate with a thin layer of copper skin, and that's enough.These magical red copper ores were transported back from the Xinliu Valley, the cost was very low, and the iron ingots were bought back in other blacksmith shops, and there was already a fixed market situation, it was said that the process was simple, the raw materials were sufficient, and nothing should happen, but many problems appeared.A lot of small problems are like gourds soaked in water, holding down this end and surfacing the other.According to the practice of the Yerkes scholars, his technique of making magic runes was different from the traditional craftsmanship, and it was an improvement on the traditional magic rune plates, but because the craftsmanship level of our blacksmith shop was not comparable to that of the blacksmith workshop of the college, problems arose one after another.Traditional magic rune plates are made from thin steel plates forged by blacksmiths with hammers, which have been hammered countless times to give them a certain strength and toughness.However, our metal plate is cast from the casting mold, so that the feet and lugs can be cast directly on the steel plate, which can simplify the work intensity of the blacksmiths, but the shortcomings are also very obvious, the cast steel plate is easy to brittle, and the strength is very poor.Finally, a forging table powered by a large waterwheel was built in the workshop to solve this problem, but it was found that the process of copper plating of the steel plate was not perfect, and the magic red copper plating could not be completely covered on the steel plate.After staying up all night, I drew sixteen rune metal plates in a row, and finally succeeded in ten pieces.The difficulty of drawing magic runes on a metal plate is very different from the difficulty of the magic pattern circle on the magic scroll, and the former requires a bit more knowledge.Thankfully, all of these problems were solved, and I was able to get out of Tracy's bar mitzvah.A batch of low-level magic herbs was transported over there in Xinliu Valley, and Ma counted the quantities of these magic herbs according to the order needs of the magic academy laboratory, and sent them to the magic academy, but I didn't expect that the value of the magic scrolls exchanged for the first cooperation was just the same as the value of those low-level magic herbs, and our grocery store finally had a very stable supply of magic scrolls in addition to me, which is also a matter worth celebrating.I stretched out my hands and rubbed my stiff face fiercely, pushed away the caravan and looked out the window, there were still dewdrops on the wild grass on the side of the road, at this time, I am afraid that the gates of the city of El have not yet opened, from the point of view of time, it is still in time, the morning fog has not yet dissipated, between the mountains, dancing with the faint morning breeze, it is like a burning flame in the reflection of the morning sun.The exquisite red light leather armor customized for Tracy is placed in the box next to me, this is a light leather armor dress with a top and bottom body, the whole dress is sewn with a complete double-headed flame snake lizard leather, the leather maker is really the most famous leather master in El City, the leather armor he made is not only exquisite and beautiful, but also very comprehensive in terms of protective ability, basically the most important parts of the body will be protected, the whole leather armor is sewn with magic runes, The leather armor was trimmed with a black lace.The scales of the flame snake lizard on the leather armor were re-reinforced on the leather, and each flame snake lizard scale contained a ball of magic flame, and the faint coercion of the second-level demonic beast double-headed flame snake lizard emanated from the leather armor, and I still remember that last night, the leather maker made one last effort with great regret.Trying to convince me to keep the leather armor and not to spoil such a good leather armor, I put the lid on the gift box to my satisfaction, hoping that Tracy would like it.I looked at Sister Guoguo sitting in the caravan stupidly, sometimes I would talk to herself stupidly, but she always looked dazed, only when the water element was condensed in my palm, her eyes would become smart, and she would come over and swallow those water elements.Yes, Sister Guoguo's water elemental spirit is constantly growing, and I found that after absorbing the water magic element, her body will continue to become solid, but she still only relies on instinctive consciousness to act.Two days ago, Mentor Heidi made a special trip to find me, the main purpose was to visit Sister Guoguo, originally she wanted to call Sister Guoguo back to her side, but many methods were tried, but it was unsuccessful.Before leaving, Mentor Heidi told me that she was going to the Ivory Tower Magic Library in Sloit City to find some information to see if there was any way to repair the broken soul, and if Sister Guoguo never woke up, this water elemental spirit was just a shell that imprisoned Sister Guoguo's soul.It's a pity that the letter sent to Jonbach still doesn't have any news, he must have followed Viru all over the world to find the evil mage Mondtroia, but unfortunately he probably didn't know until now that this powerful evil mage has died at my hands.If there is no answer in the ivory tower library in Sloit, I think a trip to the imperial capital should be put on the agenda as soon as possible.In the second semester of the first year of the Academy of Magic, the Ming class was opened, and he began to immerse himself in the world of magic, living a life of two points and one line between the magic school and home every day.What seemed to others as boring talismans and magic patterns had become a part of my daily routine, and I was finally promoted to the rank 7 magic apprentice before the first snow of the winter arrived.In the eyes of others, it seemed like it was time for me to learn the first type of magic, so that those who knew me well knew that I knew at least three water-based magic skills.The winters were cold and long, and the people here had to not only defend themselves against the bitter cold, but also from the barbarians from the far north, who roamed the mountains and slaughtered from across the frozen Galloping Horse River, and they ran faster than the galloping horses.Women do not have to work hard all winter, it is the best season to reproduce, in the cold winter when the snow is falling, the newly married men and women hide in the warm house, working day and night to reproduce, this is the winter in the province of Sloit, which arrives as scheduled with the barbarians of the ice and tundra.In the mountains covered in silver, barbarians can be seen everywhere.