The wedding dinner was held in the estate's dining room, where Arendt invited five of the city's most famous chefs to prepare their best five dishes, and waiters lined up to serve plates of exquisite dishes.The wooden lids of barrels of golden cider were smashed open, and the overflowing aroma of wine and fragrant barbecue was the main theme of tonight's banquet, and it is worth mentioning that the last dessert served was a hot drink, which was very much in line with the taste of the people of the north.As the music plays, Arendt and Tracy dance the first song of the ball, followed by Viscount Frank and Madame Ethel, as well as Ryan and Fanny, and the whole dance floor is filled with people.Winter life in El City is extremely monotonous, people crave something happy, and wedding dinners and balls are undoubtedly the most heartfelt activities for the people of El City, where everyone gathers to talk, drink and dance as if time assassins have quietly stolen time.I sat drinking and chatting with Bobby, Ma, Noah, and Benjamin, probably seeing us in magical robes, and some of the young girls of the Arendt family hesitated for a long time, and frequently cast enthusiastic glances at us, which seemed to suggest that we could invite them to dance.Senior Benjamin raised his glass and said to us, "Speaking of which, this is really a year worth going down into, as all the barbarians who crossed the Galloping Horse into the province of Sloit were driven back to the ice tundra by the Legion of the North Wind, causing the eagles to end their hunting activities early, and I propose that we all have a toast to this." ”The golden cider prepared at the banquet was more than five years old, and although it did not have the unique sour taste of the golden cider made by Zimmermann Manor, it was also a good wine of excellent quality, and we all toasted together with the proposal of Senior Benjamin.Northerners are very heroic in drinking, a glass of wine is rarely drunk in two separate drinks, and everyone at the banquet will have a wine glass in front of them.Noah was also infected by the warm atmosphere here, and he was a little drunk just now, and the wine was rising, and he said to Benjamin with emotion: "Ha!
I followed Jijia's eagle team to hunt barbarians outside, and although it was exciting, the weather here was really cold!
Every day, I have to sleep in a tent in a cold and snowy environment, and every morning when I wake up, I will get out of my sleeping bag with a layer of hoarfrost hanging on my mouth, and I feel like a piece of frozen meat!
”Senior Benjamin said with surprise on his face: "Why, His Excellency Noah Magician also went to the suburbs to experience the life of eagles?"
”Noah smiled and said, "Yes, when I was in the imperial capital, I often heard Jijia tell me about his hunting of barbarians in the north, and finally waited for this opportunity, so I wanted to come and try it." ”After drinking a glass of wine, the two people who were not familiar with each other had a topic of chat.Senior Benjamin asked Noah, "By the way, has His Excellency Noah the Magician seen Jijia's ice magic trap?"
Giga is a very famous eagle in El City, and his invention of the Frozen Magic Trap is very famous in the circle of El City Eagles, and winter is the best-selling season for magic scrolls in El City. ”In order to be able to sell more Frost Scrolls and Frost Nova Scrolls, Ma and I have spent a lot of time promoting Ice Magic Traps in the past few years.It is precisely for this reason that many junior mages receive invitations from the veteran Eagle team, just so that there is someone in the team who can release the ice magic scroll.And these ice magic traps also played a role in the process of catching barbarians, just using ice magic scrolls for a catch, no matter how to reduce the expenses, it is a huge expense for the Eagle Squad, and only people like Benjamin who don't care much about money are more interested in ice magic traps.Everyone looked at Ma, who shrugged his shoulders and said speechlessly: "After Jijia went to the imperial capital, the magic grocery store did not mainly promote ice-based magic scrolls, the main reason is that the number of magic scrolls that Jijia sends back from the imperial capital every time is much less than before, and other sources of goods are not very stable. ”As if thinking of something, Ma patted his forehead and asked me, "By the way, Jijia, have you taken the Mingshi qualification exam?"
”I replied, "Yes." ”Ma hurriedly asked me, "What was the result?"
Did it pass?
”I smiled and said, "Of course, how could this kind of junior master exam stump me. ”Ma knew that I had a solid foundation in the production of magic scrolls, and I also knew the shortcomings I encountered in the inscription design, so I just asked casually, but I didn't expect that I had actually become a junior inscription master, and the wine glass he was holding in his hand shook violently, and the golden cider was sprinkled on the placket of his chest.Senior Benjamin grabbed my arm and said to me, "Ah!
So you're already a junior master?
”There are only three Mingshi in El City, and these three Mingshi usually repair the damaged magic pattern construction, and they are already very busy, basically only receiving one or two orders for the magic pattern construction a month, and the specific delivery date depends on the mood, and now, hearing that I actually passed the qualification examination for the junior Mingshi, I am naturally extremely excited."
yes!"
I said to Benjamin, "I've been learning from the Yerkes Scholars lately about making Magic Pattern Builds. ”Although Senior Benjamin was eager to ask me to help him draw a set of magic pattern constructs, he swallowed the words back into his stomach, just raised his glass and said, "Let's toast to the new junior master Jijia!"
”We all toasted together and said, "Cheers!"
”After drinking this glass of wine, I quietly pulled Senior Benjamin's arm and whispered to him: "Three days later, there will be a magic airship flying from El City to the imperial capital, before that, if you want me to help you draw the magic pattern structure, come to my house with magic leather armor to find me." ”Benjamin's eyes lit up when he heard me say this, and he asked me, "The two-headed flame snake lizard skin armor magic pattern costume that Tracy wore today was drawn by you yourself?"
”I nodded.He rubbed his hands together excitedly, struggled a little, and then made up his mind to say to me, "Okay, I'm going to be like Tracy's!"
”I nodded again.In fact, I don't say some things, Senior Benjamin also knows, I took the initiative to help him draw the magic pattern construction not for the magic crystal, but mainly to ask him to help me take care of Leant and Fanny who live in El City.And Senior Benjamin also readily agreed, and also gave me this promise clearly.Looking at Tracy, who was toasting with Arendt in the crowd with a wine glass, I exhaled softly and thought: With the help of Senior Benjamin, Arendt's career in the Knights of the Guard Camp will probably be smooth sailing!
After the wedding ball, we didn't rush home, but rode in Senior Benjamin's magic caravan to the Three Cats Tavern, and we continued to drink around a wooden table in the corner.A beautiful young and beautiful waitress in the tavern brought us a large glass of golden cider, and a dozen empty glasses, all piled on the wooden table.At this time, there were still a lot of people in the tavern, and the whole tavern seemed to be noisy.Benjamin added some golden cider to his glass and said to us, "I'll tell you a legendary story!"
”Actually, at this time, I would prefer to drink a little barley wine with white foam, and preferably a plate of dried fish at this time.So he beckoned the waitress over and ordered two glasses of ale, and the waitress looked at me with some surprise, as if I had made a very wrong decision to drink barley in the tavern.I didn't bother with her, and listened directly to Benjamin's senior say: "The day before yesterday, the consul of Lanham City and the head of the Knights of the Guard Battalion came to El City, and they actually came to inquire about an eagle squad, which is said to have kept a barbarian brigade out of the pass of Lake Belan, completely blocked the barbarians from sneaking into the mountain road of Lanham City, and actually blocked the attack of 2,000 barbarians on their own, not only held on to the pass all night, but also successfully forced those barbarians back. ”Bobby shyly swallowed a glass of golden cider with a round belly, and said in surprise: "My God, which Eagle Squad dares to stop the barbarians head-on?"
”Senior Benjamin showed a wry smile and said, "Those people from Lanham City don't know either, otherwise they wouldn't have rushed to El City to find that Eagle Squad." ”I wondered how those people had found this place, so I asked Benjamin, "How can they be sure that this Eagle Squad is from El City?"
”Senior Benjamin stretched out his hand to push away the messy wine glasses on the table, and then dipped his fingertips in the golden cider on the table with a few strokes to draw a galloping river, and on the south bank of the galloping river, he drew a continuous mountain range, which is regarded as the Antian Mountains, and then marked the city of El in the south of the mountain, drew a valley road of the fault mountain in the south of the city of Eyre, and drew the approximate location of the city of Nato, and then he drew the left and right arm mountains, Lake Beran and Lanham.Unexpectedly, Benjamin's memory is very good, and it only took two or three minutes to sketch a map of the western part of Sloit.He drew a large circle with his hand on the cities of Nato and El and said to us: "Only the cities of Nato and El need to go through the Lake Beran Pass to enter the city of Ranum. ”Senior Benjamin paused for a moment, and then continued: "Actually, the people in Lanham City are not sure, they just think that Nato City and El City are the most likely, but at that time, the barbarian brigade bloodied ten small towns on the outskirts of Nato City, and the eagles of Nato City either returned to the city to assist in the defense, or chased the barbarians who drove the townspeople back to the ice and snow tundra overnight, and no Eagle Squad was so strong. ”Noah only understood at this time, and just now Senior Benjamin kept talking about the Belan Lake Pass, so he asked Benjamin: "Is it really the Belan Lake Pass?"
”Senior Benjamin was very sure of it, "That's right, that's what they said." ”Noah's mouth opened, and he couldn't help but ask, "Then did they say that there were two young magicians who braved the cold wind overnight to deliver messages to Lanham City?"
”"I'll go!"
At this time, Senior Benjamin had already realized that that team was very likely to be my Eagle Squad, so he hurriedly asked Noah: "Which Eagle Squad, which blocked nearly 3,000 barbarians from attacking the pass of Belan Lake, should it be you?"
”Noah said with a bitter face and a look of regret: "It's not me, I'm the one who sent the letter."
It's Giga and his orc henchmen who fight the barbarians at the pass of Lake Belan!
”Senior Benjamin got up from his chair very excitedly and said, "I'm going to send a message to the visitors in Lanham City, telling them that the Eagle Squad guarding the pass of Lake Beran has been found. ”I grabbed Senior Benjamin and said to him, "I think it's better to forget it!"
I don't want to be too famous, you don't know, the more famous the Eagle Squad has been in recent years, the easier it is to be killed by the barbarians, and I don't want to be particularly missed by the barbarians on the ice and snow tundra. ”Scholar Benjamin took three deep breaths, still not calming down from his excitement, and he stared at me and asked, "Giga, how did you do that?"
”I tried to say a less important reason: "Well, I bought some bed crossbows at a private auction in the imperial capital" Benjamin squinted his eyes and thought for a moment, then said to me: "With all due respect, even if you fill the pass of Lake Belan with bed crossbows, you may not be able to stop those barbarians. ”It seems that Senior Benjamin has been exposed to this kind of magic equipment in his usual training, and he is no stranger to the function of the bed crossbow, and he does not believe that I can use the bed crossbow to repel the barbarians.So I pulled out a heavy magic bolt arrow from my waist bag and slammed it on the table.I asked him to take a closer look at the magic giant crossbow arrows and asked Benjamin, "What if all I use on my bed crossbow is this kind of giant crossbow with magic runes?"
”"Are the tips of these giant crossbow arrows really yours?"
Senior Benjamin grew his mouth, looked at the tiny magic pattern circle on the tip of the crossbow arrow, touched the undamaged magic crystal on it with his hand, and said to me: "Those visitors to Lanham City took two of these giant crossbow arrows with magic rune patterns the day before yesterday. ”My gaze also fell on it, and I sighed: "This kind of giant crossbow arrow with magic talismans is not cheap, it was already very careful when cleaning the battlefield, but unfortunately many of them are not found when they get into the rock wall. ”Senior Benjamin asked me, "You used magic crossbow arrows in that battle?"
”I nodded, and then said, "In addition to the magic crossbow arrows, we also used two barrels of corpse fire oil to light the giant wooden bridge built by the barbarians at the head of the city. ”Senior Benjamin looked at me with an extremely complicated expression