Caterina and I rode back to the compound in the third block in the magic caravan, and it was already completely dark.The stone pillars on both sides of the circular arch in front of the villa from the entrance are equipped with magic wall lamps, and the white wall lamps emit a magical halo, and the wheels make a gurgling sound when they run over the stone path.The butler and four maids waited to greet me at the bottom of the steps, and I stepped out of the magic caravan, nodding to them, stepping on the soft carpet and stepping into the brightly lit hall.Sitting on a brown sofa sewn in unicorn buffalo leather with a frosted folded touch, a maid served me and Caterina two cups of steaming black tea, and two more paintings on the walls of the living room.One painting depicts a hilly field and an endless golden apple orchard, with a faint blur of the city of El beneath the blue sky in the distance, and the nearest apple tree covered with fresh golden apples, each one mouth-watering.The other painting depicts a calm fishing lake and the rushing Galloping Horse River, which often only appear in dreams, and suddenly appear in front of my eyes, making me feel as if I was back in the days when I lived in the city of El Ring.This should be the masterpiece of a certain painter in the imperial capital, who was bought by Ying Li to decorate the living room.I didn't see Ella, so I asked the housekeeper next to me, "Why didn't you see little Ella?"
”The butler led several maids to follow me, and when he heard me ask little Ella, he said to me respectfully, "Ella is practicing archery in the garden of the backyard, and she has sent a maid to inform her of my return, would you like to invite her to the living room?"
”I waved my hand, then stood up and said to the butler, "No, I'm going for a walk in the back garden." ”I got up and walked out of the living room on the first floor, walked to the door, turned to the housekeeper and said, "Oh, by the way, I've had dinner outside, help me fill the bathtub with water, I need to soak in hot water, have a good rest, and get up early tomorrow." ”The butler said, "Okay, I'll do it right away, do you have any other instructions?"
”I thought about it for a moment and said to the butler, "That's all for now." ”When the butler heard me say this, he bowed me slightly, and then turned to leave.Instead of going to the back garden with me, Caterina went upstairs to rest, and I bypassed the pool in the back yard and went straight to the garden walls surrounded by white roses.The garden is well tended by the indigenous maiden, and the lilac trees in it have clusters of small purple flowers.I didn't see Ella at the range by the bush wall, so I walked along the bush wall into the garden, and through the round arch made of the tree wall, I heard a conversation in the corner of the yard, and I followed the sound to the corner of the garden, and happened to see little Ella and two native maidens at the stable, trying to convince the groom to let her ride in the yard.Of course, the groom didn't want to take out the Gubolai horses in the stables so late, and also prepared tools such as saddles, and if he ran a few laps in the garden, he would be scolded by the housekeeper if he didn't get it right, and finally he had to give the horse a sweat and bath, so he didn't want to sleep without half the night, so he had to put on a smiling face, hoping that little Ella would change his mind."
Ella, do you want to come with me to Hierro?"
I asked with a smile as I stood outside the bush wall and smiled at little Ella, who was standing in front of the stable.When little Ella heard my voice, she hurriedly ran out of the stable, her white shirt with a yellow sheepskin waistcoat on the outside, a pair of brown breeches underneath, a small leather whip hanging from her waist, and a pair of riding boots under her feet, and she looked ready to ride.After seeing me, little Ella's eyes suddenly brightened, and she tilted her head to me and asked, "Jijia, you came back so early, I thought you would be busy until the early hours of the morning."
Are you really going to take me to Hierro?
”I nodded and said to her, "Tomorrow is the weekend, if you want to come, you can follow me to feel the army life in the Black Forest." ”"Great!"
Ella waved her arm excitedly, then complained to me, "It's been a long time since I've seen Karantso, and I think she may have forgotten that she still has a daughter like me in the imperial capital." ”I gently scratched the tip of her nose and said to her, "If Karantso knew that you dared to say that, I am afraid that you would feel better." ”She winked at me, like a well-behaved kitten, and said to me, "Jijia, you won't tell her, will you!"
”A year has made little Ella grow a lot taller and changed a lot, she is almost as tall as my chest, and this year of study at the Warrior Academy has made her know that the outside world is very big, and there are still many places worth her adventure.At this time, I suddenly noticed that the Roman sword hanging from her waist no longer seemed to be an ornament, and she had slowly transformed from a little beast girl full of wild smell into a female warrior who knew how to think often."
Prepare well, we'll leave tomorrow."
I patted her on the cheek and said to her, "It's only been two days, but I hope you can get something out of the Hiero plane." ”Ella nodded very seriously, turned to Puyaka and Connie behind her, and said, "Puyaka, Connie, aren't you going to Hierro tomorrow morning, let's go and prepare together, I should bring that bow." ”With that, Ella took Puyaka and Connie and ran back to the villa as fast as possible to make some necessary preparations for tomorrow's trip to Hierro.Back in the bedroom, the maid who was in charge of cleaning the living room changed a new set of sheets, and gently closed the curtains in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass windows, and she replaced the two candlesticks, and then held two bronze magic lamps at the head of the bed.I don't like the faint smell of spice left in the air after the candle burns, and it is said that the best candles are made with a sperm whale oil, and the smell that comes out after burning has a little aphrodisiac effect.In contrast, I prefer to have two magic lamps at the head of my bed and just enjoy the pure warm light.Caterina changed into a white silk dressing gown, her feet curled up on the soft bed, she held a biography of the rangers, her long red hair spread out on the soft pillows, and her milky white skin was mixed with the white sheets, and her posture was languid.It seemed that she hadn't relaxed like this for a long time, and when she returned to her home in the imperial capital, she seemed willing to relax her tense nerves.She saw me walk in, pointed to the bathroom on the side, and said to me, "I've got a bath for you" and when she smiled at me, it seemed that something else was hidden, and I didn't look for the right answer in her eyes, so she looked at the Ranger again.Walking into the bathroom next door, there was a large pool of water in the corner of the bathroom, which was filled with water at this time, and there seemed to be some unknown flower petals scattered in the pool, and a maid stood next to the hanger, and when she saw me walk in, she blushed slightly and took the initiative to help me untie the magic robe.I was taken aback by her actions, and then I remembered that there was a full-time maid in the bathroom, but this aristocratic life made me a little unaccustomed for the time being, and I held the maid's hand, thinking about how to break her up, so as not to make her feel nervous and lost."
Can I come by myself?"
I said to the maid in front of me."
Of course, my master."
She stared at me in surprise with wide eyes.I reached out to make a gesture to help myself with my slightly messy language, in fact, I still can't call her name.I said to the maid, "As a water magician, I have the ability to manipulate water, so I just want to take a bath here quietly, I hope no one disturbs, can you see what I mean?"
”The maid bowed slightly, and said to me, "Yes, master, I will always keep watch outside the door." ”When the maid said this, she seemed to exhale softly, and there was a kind of relief between her words.She silently stepped back and helped me close the bathroom door.In the Hierro plane, there is abundant rain in summer, so it often rains on the march, and the knights of the North Wind Legion feel that since they are always drenched in the rain, there is no need to waste time bathing, and the natives of Hiero also have no habit of bathing, and their so-called bathing is to stand on the top of the canopy and let the rain wash their bodies.I rarely bathed in the Hierro plane, and even for a while I felt like I was getting rancid, and I was always damp with sweat, as if mushrooms could grow anytime and anywhere.The Earth Fury Demon Pattern had a faint smell of blood on it, and it was casually thrown on the ground.At this time, I regretted that I had invited the maid out, and perhaps I should have asked her to help me clean this set of magic pattern structures, but when I thought of the fragile magic patterns on the leather armor, it seemed that it was safer to deal with them myself, otherwise once a certain magic pattern line was broken, it would also cause me a lot of trouble.Walking into the bath, let the body completely sink into the pool, the magic nodes in the body that rotated around the magic pool actually lit up one after another, and the magic vortex around the body began to speed up, although I couldn't breathe in the pool, but there was no sense of suffocation.It was a wonderful feeling, as if I was a fish living in the water, and I felt that the oxygen in the water was constantly entering the body through the skin.I didn't expect that after a turn, I actually had the ability to breathe underwater, in fact, this is just a simple second-level water magic, at the beginning I was because I had the skill of walking on water, and I felt that learning to breathe underwater was a waste of time, so I took the initiative to give up this water magic skill.I have looked up a lot of information about water magicians in the library of the Academy of Magic, and I have not figured out why those magic nodes appear in my body, and I found that my magician friends around me, such as Noah, Senior Vernon, and Senior Dylan, none of them have nodes with additional magic power in their bodies like me.And the nodes contain some mana, which is the biggest secret to my ability to use the Ice Wall Array.Every time I use the second-level ice explosion technique to detonate the ice wall, it will instantly empty the mana in my magic pool, and the reason why ordinary water mages dare not do this is because they will suffer magic backlash at the moment when the magic pool is emptied.But for me, even if the magic power in the magic pool is emptied instantly, the mana in my body will not be exhausted, and the mana in each node of my body will immediately feed back to the magic pool, which is the reason why I can use the ice explosion technique to detonate the ice wall unscrupulously.According to my understanding, it was because I had eaten the Burnout Fruit before, and the fire poison of the Burnout Fruit spread all over my body and had been burning my body, if it wasn't for Old Kuru who saved me, maybe my body would have been burned to ashes by the fire poison of the Burnout Fruit.If fire poison is understood as a special case of fire-based magic elements, then it is easier to understand, my body has long been adapted to the existence of magic elements, so after awakening the magic pool, I have a certain magic affinity, and my body is naturally like a magnet to absorb the surrounding magic elements, and because I learned some general magic skills from old Kuru, I have a talent for magic perception, so my body is like a sponge, constantly absorbing magic elements.Slowly, these nodes containing magic elements in my body are also constantly increasing the ability to store magic elements, and countless magic elements enter my body through the skin.I've been busy with the war on the Hiero plane since I was promoted to a mid-level mage, so I haven't taken a good look at myself, and if it weren't for the Shaun scholar reminding me, I wouldn't even realize that I need to meditate and re-understand my body and mental world.I just sat in the bathtub, slowly adjusted myself, and then let myself meditate in a state of underwater breathing.I was born with the bloodline talent of Ice Flame, and Old Kuru gave me an additional talent for the self-healing bloodline of the orc wolf clan.And magic perception belongs to my magic talent, it is said that after becoming a mid-level magician, it is possible for the body to gain additional magic talent in the process of promotion.I used the mana in the magic pool in my meditation to slowly examine my whole body and I don't know how long it took when I woke up from meditation.Immediately realizing that I was still fully immersed in the bathtub, I stood up from the bathtub and walked out of the center of the bathroom, facing the huge wall mirror on the wall of the bathroom, and I couldn't help but look at myself with a wry smile.In the process of advancing to the first turn, I actually awakened a new magical talent, but this chicken magic talent didn't help me that much.Since this magical talent looks like a tidal wave in the golden sea, I named this magical talent the magic tide.That's right, the magical talent I awakened is actually the most unneeded magic tide.As the spiritual power extended under my feet, a golden sea gradually appeared on the floor in the bathroom, and I seemed to be standing in the middle of the sea, and waves of ocean tides began to spread from my feet to all sides, and the phantom of the tide became bigger and bigger, and countless huge waves rolled around me, whistling, and raging.The phantom of countless waves enveloped countless magical elements, surging in all directions like a sea tide.Just around my body, those abundant magic elements instantly filled my slightly empty magic pool, and this is the magic tide.