"come in."
With the sound of pushing the door, the study door opened, and the groom who appeared behind the door was Beppu's groom.
This ordinary-looking stuttering man with short chestnut hair first greeted Joshua respectfully, and then began to describe the reason for his coming here with a face full of self-blame. The guy stammered and gestured with his hands. It took several minutes to explain the matter - in short, for some reason, Joshua's dragon-blooded horse [Black] suddenly refused to eat the feed in the stable and angrily drove everyone out of the stable.
"Sir, the situation is roughly like this."
Listening to the stuttering groom, who was covered in mud and had horse hoof marks on his body, was simply torture. This could be seen from the expressions of Joshua and Ying: "Now, in Heijiu, back and forth among the horses, stables, , I just don’t want to eat, my lord..."
"It's okay, I understand."
He immediately raised his hand to stop the groom from continuing to speak. Joshua stood up with a serious expression on his face: "You go change your clothes first. I'll go check on the situation now... Yingying, do you want to continue to rest for a while, or go out with me?"
After hesitating for a while, although she wanted to go with the warrior to see what was going on with Black, Yingying felt that her head was still in chaos. It seemed that a lot of information was flowing through her mind without leaving any traces.
"Forget it, you stay here first."
Seeing that his Shenji seemed to be really unwell, Joshua ordered: "If you want to sleep, go back to the room and lie down for a while."
He added: "This is an order."
"… Um."
Seeing that the silver-haired girl agreed, Joshua nodded with satisfaction, and then he stepped out of the study and walked towards the stables outside the room.
The stable is not far from Beppu. After a while, the soldiers arrived in front of this building made of northern gray pine. It was now evening, the sun was setting, the snow had not disappeared, and the ice and snow crunched under their feet. There was a crunching sound, and before he could enter, Joshua heard a long and violent hiss and the sound of something being smashed.
"It does seem like he's angry."
Whispering to himself, he stepped into the stable. Joshua glanced around and saw the wood fragments on the ground, and the tall black dragon-blooded horse was pacing back and forth in the small space, and its eyes were filled with tears. It was congested and red, and it hissed from time to time, then flicked its head and swept its tail, messing up the things around it.
But the strange thing is that even though he was so violent and angry, when the war horse saw Joshua, the increasingly violent temperament on his body gradually faded away. Even when the warrior reached out to touch its head, the head hit him directly. The fierce horse that broke the fence and the stable door actually meekly stuck out its tongue and licked his hand.
"Quite well-behaved."
Hei Hei traced the hair on his neck with some confusion. Joshua looked around with some confusion. If he hadn't clearly known that the sawdust and fence remains were the good deeds of the guy in front of him, no one would have believed in this docile one. A horse would actually do something like this.
"Why were you angry before?"
He asked to himself, and then tried to use fighting energy to detect the inside of Hei's body. The warrior did not find anything wrong. Although its vitality was extremely strong, this was not an abnormality, but the effect of dragon blood - When Joshua rode Hei all the way back to the Northland from the Orc Canyon of the Northwest Plains, he traveled for seventeen days and nights without rest. Hei didn't show any obvious signs of fatigue. The fiery dragon's blood provided him with a steady stream of power.
This is still average. Some creatures with a relatively thick concentration of dragon blood can even achieve the same ability as dolphins, with their brains half asleep and half awake. Creatures of that level will not sleep in the true sense of the word in this life.
The fighting spirit had no effect, and Joshua used the system to check the situation of his horse again - an unusually detailed data report flashed across the screen, but there was no abnormal data. However, according to the system display, the soldier was surprised to find that it seemed that it was due to multiple Accompanying the warriors in battle, after experiencing several battles, Hei's level has improved several levels, and now it can be regarded as a powerful intermediate silver mount!
"You actually meet the conditions for bloodline purification. I didn't expect you to be very talented."
Touching the body of his horse, the warrior was very satisfied with the strong and muscular body: "Very good, the stronger you are, the stronger I will be. As long as you can withstand my strength, then I will be on horseback." The combat power can also increase rapidly, and you need to work harder. When you reach the silver level, I will give you a surprise."
"Xilulu!"
Hei seemed to understand people's words and responded excitedly.
This is not just nonsense. Joshua knows several ways to purify blood. As long as he finds some powerful auxiliary materials, he can purify the dragon blood in the black body or the blood for other reasons, and even break through to the golden realm.
Putting aside everything else, a gold-level mount is truly one of the most luxurious things in the world.
At this time, the groom had already changed his clothes and had driven away. When he entered the stable and saw Black Meek neighing like a kitten under Joshua's hands, the man's eyes widened immediately with a look of disbelief on his face.
Damn it, in the thirty-two years of his life as a horse watcher, when the horse hit his chest with a hoof and knocked him away, his expression was completely different! Judging from his experience in taking care of dragon blood horses for so many years - this time is definitely the most dangerous! If he hadn't also had black iron level strength and wore lined steel armor, several ribs would have been broken!
Even so, the lining of the steel armor has been completely dented. If it were not thick enough, the groom felt that he must be lying on the ground now, unable to move.
"Oh, you're here."
Patting Hei's head, Joshua turned his head and said to the groom: "It seems that he was having a bad temper before, or he had a little too much energy due to his improvement in strength... In short, you first go to see if there is any discomfort in your body. If you are injured, Just go and get a medical treatment fee first.”
"It's not big. People just have a little pain. After all, they have been training horses for so many years."
The groom stammered in reply.
"Then let's prepare the feed first."
Shrugging his shoulders, the soldier glanced at the manger that had been kicked over to the ground, and added: "Prepare more meat. I can see that it doesn't eat much grass now."
After confirming that there was nothing abnormal, Joshua returned to the study and continued to process other documents.
But the warrior didn't discover one thing... His passive skill [Purifying Light] had actually been activated once before entering the stable, and it had driven away something.
Hei stopped in the stable, eating the carefully prepared animal meat feed. Occasionally, a trace of red-gold light flashed in his eyes, releasing a burst of pressure, but then the trace of red-gold light immediately disappeared without a trace.
The voice that had been talking about some strange things in its ears had disappeared, and the restless blood power in its body had also calmed down under Joshua's comfort. It could finally calm down and eat something.
Well, the sides of my head seem to be a little itchy, and I feel like something is about to grow out...
… Time passed, and a few days passed in the blink of an eye.
There was nothing worth paying attention to in the main city in winter. After finishing the accumulated government affairs, Joshua found a rare moment of leisure.
Starfall On the morning of December 31, 1831, the day before the New Year, another heavy snow fell in the sky.
Walking out of the church, standing among the falling snowflakes, Joshua seemed to be in a good mood.
Probably because of the system or the improved self-healing ability brought about by the Steel Armor Breathing Method, the injury on his left arm healed faster than the old priest imagined. It did not need to rest for a month or two, but only took about two or three weeks. It will be completely healed, and the skeleton of the skeleton has all grown out. What is waiting now is for the fighting spirit to gradually strengthen these new bones and restore them to the strength that a golden warrior should have.
Although it was snowing on the street, there were many people running busy.
The Northland is really too cold. Judging from the current weather, the body temperature is at least 30 to 40 degrees below zero when blown by the wind. This kind of temperature makes it impossible to hold large-scale celebrations in the New Year. However, even so, everyone can Banquets will be held at home to spend the New Year with family and friends. Even single people will gather together to celebrate the last night of the year.
The felled pine wood is continuously transported in from the city gate and distributed to each family. As a model of evergreen leaves, the Northland holly pine means "long-lasting peace and happiness". Use it to celebrate the New Year. Decorating banquets has been a custom for people in the North for many years.
"Speaking of which, it's time to prepare."
Unknowingly, he was about to usher in his first New Year after time travel. Joshua couldn't help but reveal a smile on his face: "If the memory is correct, then as a lord, there is one more thing I need to do during the New Year. .”
Looking around this city that belonged to him, his eyes seemed to be able to penetrate the rock walls and see every blazing fire of life. The soldier nodded with satisfaction and then walked towards Beppu in the west of the city.
He was going to call Yingying about this matter.
—And the new year is coming.
I slept until half past nine... I stayed up too late recently...
(End of chapter)