Update time: 2013-09-07
In the secret training ground of Holy Dawn Academy.
Ayrin quietly faced a wooden stake that was a bit taller than him, and only two people could enclose it.
On this wooden stake, there are tight ropes wrapped around it, as if wrapped in a thick layer of armor.
Ayrin looked at this huge wooden pile with the eyes of an enemy.
"Shua!"
Suddenly, his body pierced through the air, and his left hand was pressed against the giant wooden stake. The entire left hand was covered with an astonishing number of magic particles, as if a bright purple-red sun was rising in his hand.
A mass of white ice about the size of the giant stake suddenly appeared between his left hand and the giant stake. The moment it collided with the giant stake, the thick ropes wrapped around the giant stake burst, A piece of it splashed out.
The entire giant wooden pile was pulled out from the ground, and it was about to fly backwards.
But at this moment, Ayrin's body also made a terrifying sound like hundreds of thousands of ropes splitting at the same time.
This sound was entirely caused by the huge vibration of the air outside him!
At this moment, all the muscles in his body and the power in every tiny molecule of his whole body felt like a terrifying explosion, as if his whole body was about to explode.
His right fist, with the power of a torrent of explosion, ruthlessly hit the huge white ice in front of him.
"Crack, crack..."
The giant white ice is like a living object. The power explodes again, and the whole block is deformed. Strips of ice edges are splashed forward. The white ice that was close to a square shape forms a long and narrow shape that sputters forward. , exactly like a huge ice and snow crown lying flat!
"Crack!"
The huge wooden pile that had been lifted off the ground was shattered by the force of the explosion again at this moment. Countless pieces of wood were frozen by balls of white ice and snow, and splashed out backwards, scattered everywhere in a radius of tens of meters behind.
Ayrin looked dull.
After standing still for a few seconds, he jumped up all of a sudden, and he jumped six or seven meters in one jump.
"Amazing!"
"Successful! I finally succeeded, and successfully exerted the double blow effect of physical strength and magic power!"
"Ah! Ah!..."
…
Kate walked out from the shade of a tree not far behind Ayrin, and seeing Ayrin who was jumping and screaming excitedly, he couldn't help shaking his head, feeling that Ayrin was getting more and more terrifying.
"How about it, Mrs. Kate, did you see that I succeeded, I can already use the 'Ice Crown'!"
"I see."
Seeing Aylin who jumped in front of her, Kate took a long breath and said: "You are ten days faster than I expected. If this is the case, you should rest for two days, and then start doing strength training with all your strength. "
"Two days off?"
Ayrin looked at Kate with some incomprehension: "But there are still ten days until the match against Aegis Academy, and my mental strength has not yet reached the level where I can condense magic particles...Shouldn't I continue to train hard?"
"Trust my judgment, I will arrange the most appropriate rest or exercise for you according to your physical and mental condition." Kate explained gently and patiently: "You rest for two days first, and then train according to my requirements , the effect will be better than if you practice hard for ten days in a row. Your body and mental strength are already in a state of excessive high pressure. If you strengthen your training, it will do more harm to your body than good. After proper relaxation, when your body and mind relax , and then give a strong stimulus, so that progress will be faster. Tension, relaxation, tension... cultivation must follow this rhythm, and you must figure out the most suitable rhythm for yourself. Also, I will control you to condense the technique Yuanli time. Do you remember what I told you at the beginning?"
"Believe in you, you will lead me to win one victory after another!" Ayrin laughed, "Understood, Teacher Kate, I will do what you say."
"Go ahead and relax."
…
"Ms. Kate! Mrs. Kate!"
Not long after Kate watched Aylin leave, she had just walked out of the secret training ground when she saw the furious Aylin running back towards the secret training ground.
"What's wrong?" He couldn't help being a little dazed.
"Is Chris's home in St. Lauren City?" Aylin looked at him and asked, "I just went to the Thinker's Stone Forest, but she wasn't there, and then I heard that she practiced there. A classmate said, Chrissy has gone home. Teacher, you are in charge of registration, you must know where her home is in Saint Laurent, right?"
"Are you going to find her?" Kate was startled.
"That's right." Ayrin scratched his head in embarrassment, "I don't know what to do when I'm resting. I thought about going to see her practice, but I didn't expect that she wasn't there either."
Kate hesitated for a moment, but still said: "If I remember correctly, her home should be in the Welling district, which is near the foot of the mountain in the south of Saint Laurent, where there are many small thrift and antique shops. You If you want to find her, you can first find a shop that specializes in repairing leather boots, and her home is near that shop, so you should be able to find her if you ask."
It took a full half a day before Ayrin found the shoe repair shop that Kate mentioned.
This is a small store with black or brown shoe polish all over the walls and shelves, and a few dirty kids with bare buttocks playing some unknown game at the door, without even a signboard .
The Welling district is a slum area in the entire city of Saint Laurent.
Like most of the cities in the Aiqi Kingdom, the higher you go, the more rich people and big families gather. On the contrary, the lower the foot of the mountain, the more low-level craftsmen, failed businessmen, frustrated artists and artists gather.
To give the simplest example, the sewage pipes in the city are arranged from top to bottom, and a large amount of sewage flows to the foot of the mountain every day. When people in some areas may go out, they will face a smelly road. sewage river.
However, Ayrin didn't have many intuitive concepts about the rich family area and the slum area. After all, the Corolin township he was in before was far poorer and more barren than the slum area of St. Lauren City, so even in In Welling District, he also felt that there were many interesting small shops, and life seemed quite convenient.
"Uncle, do you know where Chris's house is?"
"It's the one on the far side, the one closest to the bridge."
"Thank you uncle!"
Listening to the advice of the owner of this shoe repair shop, Ayrin quickly figured out which one Chrissy's home was.
There is a dry ditch that seems to be used for pouring rainwater and divides the whole Welling area into two. It is not the rainy season. This two-meter-wide ditch is full of weeds as tall as a person, only some are relatively large. The oval stone is exposed. There is an old stone bridge that can accommodate a carriage across the middle of this ditch.
Not far from the old stone bridge, there is a stone path leading to a row of stone bungalows about two or three meters higher than the old stone bridge.
There are fields in front of and behind those stone houses, some are neatly arranged, and some are planted with things, but there is no wall around them.
Now the door of Chris's house on the far side is open, but there is no one on the flat stone field in front.
Ayrin ran to the end of the street excitedly, and ran up the stone steps in three steps and two steps. On the flat stone field, he saw that Chris's home was very simple, with only some simple furniture, and The back door facing the front door was also open, and he immediately saw a petite figure washing a man with gray hair.
"Chris."
He could tell at a glance that the person who was serious about washing the hair of the gray-haired man was Chris.
"Ayrin? Why are you here?" Chrissy, who immediately recognized Ayrin's voice, turned her head in surprise.
At the same time, the man who came to hold the side of the basin with both hands suddenly raised his head and turned around. As a result, all the water from his hair flowed onto his body, and most of his upper body clothes were soaked immediately.
"Ayrin...hehe...Chris...champion..."
"National Champion..."
While turning his head to look at Aylin, the man also laughed foolishly, and kept repeating a few vague words at the same time.
Ayrin froze.
He saw that the man's face was a bit old, and the corners of his eyes were full of wrinkles, but his face was very similar to Chris's, his eyes were a little fixed, although he seemed to be smiling at him, but he was speaking vaguely , but it seems that it is only for himself and Chris.
"Look at you, let you lower your head obediently, but you raised it again disobediently."
Chris took a dry towel reproachfully, rubbed his hair, wiped the water stains on his body, then stuck out her tongue at Aylin, asking Aylin to wait for her for a while.
But the gray-haired man who looked somewhat similar to her was always happily giggling and muttering and repeating some simple words.
"Chris...champion...national champion..."
Amidst these ambiguous voices, Ayrin's nose turned sore involuntarily, looking at Chris who was taking care of him as if she was taking care of a child.
"Be good first...my friend from the academy is here, let me talk to him first."
After drying the man's hair and peeling some fruits, Chris beckoned to Ayrin, and let Ayrin follow her to a clearing on the hillside not far away.
"Is he your father?" Ayrin, who was sitting beside Chris while eating the two pieces of fruit that Chris stuffed into the water, asked a little heavily.
"Yes." Chris also ate a piece of fruit, looking at the small stone bridge downhill in front of her.
"Then he...?" Ayrin turned his head and glanced at the man in the open space behind the house not far below. He wanted to ask, but hesitated.
"You should have noticed it too." Chrissy stuffed the fruit in her mouth into her mouth at once, and then rubbed her childish hands together, as if it would be wiped clean, "It's normal for him to come... Seven years ago, A caravan in St. Lauren City was attacked by a team of rogue magicians near the Red Pine Valley. Both my parents were protecting the team of magicians in that caravan. My mother died in battle, and my father was also seriously injured. He woke up after being in a coma for a long time... Then he became like this, and there is no problem in his daily life, but my mother has always washed his hair for him, so if I don't wash his hair for him, he just refuses to wash his hair. "
Ayrin suddenly felt that the sweet fruit in his mouth became dry, and he looked at Chrissy's side face.
Although Chris's words were very simple and flat, and her expression didn't change, he could see that Chris was strong, and she was able to bear and get used to it all. But his mood couldn't be as calm as Chris's.
"Did the thief magician team catch it later?"
"Caught it."
"Then your father...why do you keep talking about the champion, the champion of the national competition?" Ailin looked at Chrissy's face, he couldn't imagine what happened to her at that time, he couldn't help but stammered and asked Said: "This... this... is you... the reason why you keep saying that you want to win the national championship?"
"Yes." Chrissy looked up at the sky and said forcefully, "Because my father and mother used to be members of two academy teams. Although they were not that strong, their academy teams were just ordinary academy teams. team, but they got to know each other while watching the championship game... That should be the deepest picture in my father's mind. He may want to see my mother again in the final game... Or maybe he and I My mother also really wanted to win the championship back then, maybe he thought I was better than him and my mother... Now he doesn’t remember anything, he only knows me, but he seems to want to see me win the championship, so I Must try."
Is it because that field and this match are of special significance to him, and are the deepest memories in his mind
Maybe there is the most beautiful picture in his life
Or was that final trophy the hottest thing on his mind
Or was it where he thought he could reunite with his lost wife
Or maybe it doesn't make any sense at all, just some fragments of consciousness, or he himself doesn't know why he wants to see Chris become the champion of the national competition.
But this is Chrissy's dream.
This is the real reason why Chris practiced harder than anyone else, and she was a crazy girl in the eyes of others.
Ayrin looked at the man who was quietly eating fruit, and at Chrissy's pretty side face, he felt that his dream had more meaning.