Because of Ashrosfen's reminder, when Roland and others passed through the city of Bianca, they did not enter the city, but bypassed the city from the side road.
The eldest prince spends most of his time in the royal city, especially at this critical moment. He must win over allies and divide enemies in the political center.
Although the eldest prince did make arrogant remarks before, and Bianca City was indeed somewhat concerned about the queen's whereabouts, Bianca City also had a relatively large floating population. It was impossible for them to check everyone, and most importantly, Roland The others went around outside the city, which made it even more impossible for the soldiers in Bianca City to know that the queen had passed by here.
After that, the convoy passed through two more cities. Roland communicated with the presidents of the magic towers in both cities. He was lucky. The presidents of these two magic towers were people who were willing to communicate and make progress.
Roland communicated with them for four or five days each and gained a lot.
The same goes for magic apprentices.
Communication takes time, and travel also takes time. The team traveled for almost a month before Roland and others arrived at Reed Village.
It was already evening, and several carriages were driving on the narrow dirt road. The trees on both sides were bathed in the orange-red sunset.
Andonara was sitting in the carriage, looking a little uneasy.
The so-called timidity of being close to home is roughly like this.
Roland is still taking time to study elf magic, and he is thinking about how to reduce the conversion consumption of elf magic.
There are two directions now. One is to change the node effect of elf magic and reduce energy consumption.
The other is to change your mental structure.
None of it is simple.
In fact, there is a third method, which is to make an alchemy prop or magic equipment that can store elemental magic and change the frequency of magic.
It's a pity that Roland doesn't know alchemy, and he has only scratched the surface of magic.
Therefore, the third method can only be given up and focus on the first two methods.
And both approaches are highly likely to be implemented.
When a person is very focused, it is difficult for him to feel the change of time.
Roland started immersing himself in studying magic at noon, and it has been six hours now.
But he still had the same posture and the same expression, almost unchanged for several hours. If his body hadn't been swaying with the carriage, keeping his center of gravity, outsiders would have thought it was a quite lifelike wax figure. , or an undead puppet.
The convoy came to a village and stopped.
The village is surrounded by moss-covered wooden fences, and an earth-yellow dirt road leads to the center of the village.
The wooden fence also had a gate made of wooden fence. When they saw the convoy, several children with their bodies covered in loess, their clothes patched, and their noses runny, piled up the wooden fence together.
When the carriage entered the village, Andonara took the initiative to sit forward and said to the carriage: "Go straight for a while, take the first fork to the right, and then stop in front of the tallest and most beautiful small building in the village."
"Understood." The coachman responded.
About ten minutes later, the convoy stopped in front of a white stone three-story building.
There is a wooden fence surrounding the small building. The fence is covered with green vines and flowers, yellow and white, making the wooden fence look like a beautiful plant wall.
Hearing the sound of the carriage, a rather handsome middle-aged man appeared on the second floor. After a while, a boy about ten years old also appeared on the balcony. The two of them watched the motorcade downstairs with great interest. .
Andonara sat next to Roland, gently shook the latter's arm, and said, "We have arrived at Reed Village."
Roland was shaken awake by him and was stunned for a while before following Andonara out of the car.
Andonara jumped off the carriage and looked up to see the middle-aged man and little boy on the balcony. She smiled and waved upward.
The middle-aged man was a little surprised to see her, and quickly pulled the little boy and disappeared from the balcony.
After a while, the two walked out of the small building and opened the wooden gate. The middle-aged man came over, looked at Andonara, and then looked at Roland with a strange expression.
He didn't speak.
But the ten-year-old boy ran over, stood in front of Andonara, and said excitedly: "Cousin, you are finally back. How many days will you stay?"
The little boy was also very handsome. Andonara stroked his little head and said with a smile, "Let's stay at least four or five days."
Then Andonara raised her eyes, looked at the handsome middle-aged man with his hands behind his back, standing like a green pine tree, and said, "Uncle, I'm back."
"I saw it." The middle-aged man looked at Roland and said, "Anna, why don't you introduce this friend?"
Andonara's nickname among her relatives is Anna.
The middle-aged man had been looking at Roland. The more he looked at him, the more frightened he became.
He is a composite professional, similar to a magic swordsman, who can cast spells, so he has good perception of mental fluctuations.
Andonara is a great swordsman and a pure physical professional, so it is difficult to feel the fluctuations in mental power.
Therefore, the middle-aged man can feel the amazing and huge magical power in Roland.
"This is the man I chose, Roland." Andonara's expression was a little shy. She introduced the two of them: "Roland, this is my uncle, Cage Reed."
"Hello, Mr. Reed."
Roland bent down slightly. Since he was Andonara's elder, he still had to have the necessary etiquette.
"Hello, Mr. Roland." Cage looked at Roland for a while again, with a very strange expression. He seemed to have a lot to ask and say, but in the end he smiled and said: "Nice to meet you too."
At this time, the little boy next to him jumped up and shouted quite dissatisfied: "You haven't introduced me yet!"
Andonara patted the little boy's head twice and said, "This is my cousin Kaido Reed."
Roland smiled at the little boy: "Hello, little Reed."
"Are you dressed like a magician?" Kaido walked up to Roland, looked up at the latter with admiration, and asked in an innocent tone unique to children: "Brother Roland, can you teach me magic?"
"Yes, as long as you want to learn." Roland replied.
Cage shook his head and said: "Sir, you don't have to pay attention to Kaido. He can't learn magic. It's better to say that our whole family can't learn elemental magic casually."
"Why?" Roland was a little puzzled. He could feel that both Cage and Kaido, who was only about ten years old, contained strong magic power in their bodies. Such magic power could at least easily cast Level 2 magic.
"This seems to be caused by our blood." Cage said with a smile.
"Brave blood?" Roland asked subconsciously.
At this time, Cage frowned slightly and glanced at Andonara as if reproachfully.
Roland naturally noticed the other party's little expression, and he said: "It wasn't Andonara who told me, there was someone else."
Cage asked: "Who is it?"
"Antis."
Cage was silent for a while. He naturally knew who Antis was.
He is also a nobleman. Although his status is not high, he occasionally goes to stay in the royal city and has met Antis as a child several times.
Antis is a relative of the royal family with a very high status. He and Andonara grew up together as childhood sweethearts. He originally thought that these two equally beautiful people would become a couple, but he did not expect that Andonara would even be interested in Andonara. Tice was not interested at all.
At this time, Vivian and other six magic apprentices also got out of the car. After Cage knew at a glance that these were nobles, he smiled and said hello: "I welcome you to visit me, please come in."
After saying that, he stepped aside from the wooden gate and made a gesture to invite him in.
Then a middle-aged housekeeper came out of the small building and guided everyone into the room.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw a huge mural on the wall of the main hall.
A brave man wearing white armor, holding a blue flame sword and a white shield with a fire phoenix pattern, stepped on a huge red devil with horns on the ground and was about to stab it to death with a sword.
All guests’ eyes are drawn to this mural.
Cage smiled proudly when he saw this.
Andonara looked relaxed as if she had returned home. She looked around and asked, "My father hasn't been back here recently?"
"He took the caravan to Urganda." Ji Qi asked everyone to sit down and said, "It happened more than three months ago."
"You guys sit down first, I'll prepare dinner for you." After saying that, Andona went upstairs and soon changed into regular clothes and came down. At the same time, there were two maids behind her. After changing clothes, she seemed to There was more of a wife's virtuous flavor: "Roland, what do you want to eat?"
"casual!"
The word 'casually' was the most difficult to use. Andonara rolled her eyes at Roland and led the two maids to the kitchen.
Roland introduced the identities of Vivian and others to Cage.
Hearing that they were traveling magic apprentices, Cage sat in the main seat and showed a trace of nostalgia: "When I was young, I also worked as a mercenary for several years. The life during that period is still reflected in my dreams from time to time. appear in."
"It turns out that your Excellency also worked as a mercenary." Vivian said with some surprise: "Andonara also worked as a mercenary. It turns out that she learned from you."
Cage felt quite complacent and touched his stubble: "I taught her all her swordsmanship, although now her strength has almost surpassed mine."
When Roland first saw Cage, he vaguely guessed that Andonara's swordsmanship should have been taught by the latter.
After all, Andonara said that her father was a minor nobleman and a businessman. He traveled around as an adult. Before each business trip, he would put the young Andonara to stay temporarily at his eldest brother's house, which is where he lived. Here in Decun.
So Reed Village is Andonara's second home.
Cage chatted enthusiastically with everyone for a while. After the housekeeper came down, the master asked the housekeeper to take the six magic spell disciples to several rooms that had been cleaned to rest temporarily. He also raised his fingers at Roland.
Roland followed him to the balcony of the living room on the third floor.
Looking at the low thatched cottages in the village in the distance, Cage asked slowly: "What is going on between you and Anna? How could she, a queen, get together with you?"