At this time, the sky outside had completely darkened. The last quarter moon in the night sky was very bright and clean, with only a few stars.
The pale silver moonlight shines on the village. It is very quiet here with lonely voices. Everyone in the village has gone to bed early. There are only the occasional crowing of chickens and the barking of dogs, and the faint mountain breeze blowing from a distance.
The whole world is extremely cold.
The two elders stood in silence on the balcony for several minutes. In the end, Roland was the quicker to get out of the painful atmosphere. He shook his head slightly and asked: "Andonara's swordsmanship was taught by you, your Excellency, so you are also a great swordsman? But as far as I know, great swordsmen have no such thing as magic power."
Cage smiled, rubbed his fingers, and then a blue flame appeared on his fingers.
Roland subconsciously leaned back slightly. He could feel the terrible destructive energy from the flames. If it were based on the same amount of magic power, it would be a little stronger than his two thousand-degree fireball technique.
If this flame can grow to a radius of more than one meter, it will be a terrifying magic at the level of a small nuclear bomb.
But Roland knew that Cage couldn't do it.
Because at this time, the magic power in Cage's body, that is, the blue bar, is declining at a very fast speed. He can maintain this small flame for two or three minutes at most. Even if it breaks out all at once, it will not be too powerful. Just blow up a balcony.
The opponent's biggest shortcoming is that he doesn't have enough magic power.
The fireball formed by Roland in five seconds could easily level this small building.
Showing off the flame in his hand, Cage blew it out again and said proudly: "Although we cannot use magic in the true sense, we can mobilize magic power to form a unique flame. This kind of flame It can cause huge damage to evil creatures. With just a little flame, it can easily burn a lemure to ashes."
"Specialized in restraining evil? The power of a brave man?"
Cage nodded: "Probably."
"should?"
Facing Roland's doubts, Cage said helplessly: "Although we know that we are descendants of the brave Kate, the problem is that Grandpa Zeng did not leave any notes to tell us how to use our own power, and it is not important. His words were passed down, but after he gave birth to my grandfather, he disappeared. Only his legend, this house, and a noble title were left behind."
"That sounds pretty irresponsible."
"Yeah, grandpa said he couldn't remember what his father, the legendary warrior, looked like, or whether he had the same face as the mural hanging in the living room at the front entrance. My grandpa disappeared from home when I was seven years old. At first, I thought he just disappeared." Cage continued in a self-murmured tone: "But later I discovered that this is the fate of our family. When I was eight years old, my father said that he felt When the evil breath was about to come, I picked up the long sword and left home, never to come back. My mother raised me, but when I was eighteen years old, due to long-term overwork and missing my father too much, , suffering from illness, which cannot be cured by magic, and his life span has come to an end."
When Roland heard this, he suddenly asked: "Until now, I haven't seen your wife appear. Could it be..."
Cage nodded: "When I gave birth to little Kaido, he left within three months."
"Why?"
"My body is weak." Cage's face was full of regret: "I started to become a mercenary when I was eighteen, killing evil everywhere. When I was almost thirty, I realized that I was getting old and I had to leave something for myself. I have a descendant. But I don’t want my family’s tragedy to happen again, and I don’t want my descendants to follow the same path as our ancestors. From that time on, I decided to just be an ordinary little nobleman and stop fighting and killing, so I married I married an ordinary woman, hoping to dilute the family bloodline, and then I made a mistake."
Cage looked inside the room and looked downstairs. After he didn't see his son Kaido, he lowered his voice and said, "I didn't expect that the birth of a child in our family would absorb a lot of the mother's vitality. My parents and grandparents all married wives who were professionals and had strong vitality, so there is no problem, but my wife is just an ordinary person! I was the one who harmed her."
Speaking of this, Cage's eyes turned red.
He had been holding these words in his heart for a long time and always wanted to talk to someone.
Roland gave him a good feeling, and he was Andonara's chosen man, and he could be considered half of his family. If you tell such a person, he has no problem.
Roland sighed. He discovered that the Reed family had indeed been quite unfortunate.
Starting from the brave Kate, either the father or the mother is dead, and the same is true for Andonara's sideline.
It is truly a miracle that such a family can have descendants alive to this day.
Could it be that he was cursed
It's very possible. In the world of magic, nothing is impossible.
Cage on the side felt much more relaxed. With the guilt towards his wife, he gave up the Reed family's mission of 'driving out evil', stopped going out, and devoted himself to raising and raising his son here.
For a man who used to be a prostitute, staying at home for a short period of time is called rest, staying at home for a year is called boring, and staying at home for a few years is called depression. Coupled with the departure of his wife, he became extremely depressed. unhappy.
However, Andonara's return, especially Roland's willingness to listen to his chat, made Cage feel more relaxed.
Roland didn't speak, he didn't know what to say. The other person didn't seem to need any comfort, and Roland wasn't used to comforting a big man.
If it was a beautiful woman, like Andonara, maybe he would comfort her for a while.
The two grown men were silent for a few minutes. After Cage calmed down, he asked: "Did you come here for something?"
Roland turned his head in surprise.
Cage's mature and handsome face had a hint of ridicule: "Don't look at me like that. After all, I've been working outside for almost twelve years. I've seen everyone I should have seen, and I shouldn't have." I’ve seen everything I’ve seen before. Besides, I watched Anna grow up, and I can see clearly what’s on her mind. She obviously came here with you this time.”
This is a man with considerable experience. In front of him, Roland's palace is still not enough.
After standing quietly for a while, Roland said: "I have information that Andonara is here and can find a way for her to become stronger."
"She is already very strong." Cage said strangely: "A master-level swordsman, although he is mainly agility-based, his physical fitness is already very strong."
"I know, but she can get stronger."
Cage's handsome face wrinkled. He hesitated for a while, as if it was difficult to speak, and finally said: "That's not what I meant, and it's not that I look down on you. It's just that you are an elite now, and you are still a little far away from the master, but you can do it. You made out with Anna. But if Anna continues to be strong, you won’t be able to poke her."
Roland didn't understand it at first, but he was not stupid after all. After thinking about it for a few seconds, he almost squirted.
He wanted to say that it was impossible not to poke him, and that he would have to use the 'Extreme Strengthening Technique' to come out, but then he discovered that this might fall into the opponent's thinking trap.
At the moment, he stared at Cage with a speechless look: "Is there any elder like you? Arranging your own niece like this."
"This is a very serious question." Cage said seriously: "Anna was the queen before, so I didn't say anything. But now that she is with you, she must have children. A woman's life is incomplete without children. of."
Roland waved his hand helplessly: "I don't want to discuss this kind of issue with you."
"Then let's change the question." Cage's face was filled with a bit of smug joking: "Is that friend of yours familiar with our family of warriors?"
"It should be said that it is quite familiar."
"Yeah! Can you tell me his name?"
"can not say."
"Don't dare to say or can't say?" Cage asked.
Roland said seriously: "I can't say."
"That's strange." Cage crossed his arms with a puzzled look on his face: "Andonara didn't inherit much of the warrior bloodline, which can be seen from the fact that she can't use blue flame magic. She just simply He’s just very talented as a warrior.”
Roland listened quietly.
"But your friend said with certainty that there is a way to make Anna stronger?" Cage frowned and thought for a while, then said: "Is there something I didn't notice or didn't understand? I can't figure it out. …”
Roland was about to speak when Andonara's voice came from downstairs: "Uncle, Roland, come down, dinner is ready."
When the two of them went down to the living room in the main hall on the first floor, they found that everyone was already in place.
Just two of them.
Cage sat on the main seat, while Roland sat next to Andonara.
Because there was only this one vacant seat, and it was specially reserved for him by everyone.
There are good-looking dishes on the table. Cage was not the kind of person who talked a lot. He welcomed everyone with a few words and then invited the guests to eat as much as they wanted.
The dinner tasted quite good.
After dinner, everyone chatted in the living room for a while, and then went to rest in twos and threes. After all, they had traveled a long distance and were very tired.
Roland was held by Andonara's hand and brought to a room on the third floor.
"This is where I lived when I was a child. Every time my father went out on business, he would send me here."
Andonara spun around in the room, her skirt spinning like a white flower.
At the same time, there was a look of nostalgia on her face.
Roland looked around. At first glance, this room seemed to have little furniture and was very simple. But if you look carefully, you will find that the furniture is actually made of precious wood.
And it's very clean, without a trace of odor, which means it's often cleaned.
Andona pulled Roland to sit on the edge of the bed. She rested her head on Roland's shoulder and said with some disappointment, "I originally wanted to introduce you to my father, but he was still running outside."
Before Roland could speak, there was a knock on the door.
Andonara pulled over and opened the door and saw Cage standing outside.
"Uncle?"
"I'm sorry to disturb you two for a while." Cage walked in. He put a somewhat white manuscript in front of Roland: "I just took the test and thought about it for a long time. After thinking about it, if I have to say If there’s anything strange about our family, it’s this codex.”
"Didn't you say before that Kate the Brave didn't leave any records or ancestral teachings?"
"No, but there is something strange about this manuscript."
Roland took it and opened it, his expression was also 'Huh? 'in this way.