"here we go again."
He stretched out his right hand and pressed his chest. The azure orb pendant was emitting heat like fire on his chest. Joshua said to himself strangely: "I often have this reaction recently, but why?"
In fact, the strange movements of the burning steel fragments and the Azure Orb were not once or twice. Ever since he returned from the bottom of the lake in the Nissii Snow Mountain, there would be this sudden change in heat every few days.
The scorching heat seemed to suddenly light a fire in the chest. It would not burn anything, but it could sense the powerful force of order pulsing within it.
Although it is strange, there are no clues or omens about this matter. Even if we look at the empire and the entire Mycroft continent, there is nothing major worth mentioning. Joshua can't find the cause of the orb's mutation, so he can only follow it. It goes away.
You know, he has a lot to do recently.
Whether it is a delegation from the Wilson family that is planning to come to visit, or the Paladin who does not know when he will come, these need to be prepared in advance. You cannot lose face as a local lord and compete with Nostradamus. The Winter Castle Academy that Si cooperates with also needs attention, not to mention the huge paw print lake below the academy. He and the old mage have been exploring frequently recently, and they have found some clues, but there is no breakthrough. No.
Training the knights and studying the Book of Ebon cannot stop, and Hei is still in the process of advancement - this guy is advancing too slowly, and even after Joshua concocted the bloodline awakening potion, he refuses to die. Drink, it seemed that he didn't like it at all, so the soldier simply left it to Ying to take care of, and let it sleep slowly. Anyway, there was no need to ride a horse to fight recently.
To be honest, as the lord of a land, Joshua still has a lot of official duties to do in addition to daily exercise. Even with Rin's help, he can't be idle.
Since there are no clues about the unusual movement of the Azure Orb, and it is not serious, we can only suppress it for the time being, and deal with it slowly one by one when we have time.
At this time, a family of four from Orion opposite was ready to leave. The father, the man, brought a lot of leather with him and a huge package at hand, which must have been filled with beast materials. He should have come to the city to do business and take the children with him to see the world.
Joshua then focused his attention for a moment and observed, and then he discovered that the opponent's strength was actually close to the silver level, and it seemed that he was about to break through.
"Without any inheritance, I just relied on hunting when I was less than thirty years old. Now I have a strength close to the silver level. This is quite potential."
After a moment of surprise, the warrior shook his head regretfully and said, "It's a pity. If this kind of talent is cultivated from an early age, maybe he can reach the peak of silver now and try to break through gold in the future. He is a very good knight seedling."
Those who can break through the gold, even if it is only possible, are considered talents, and those who can definitely break through the gold and challenge the ultimate intention are geniuses.
"Thank you Lord Lord!"
Before leaving, two boys and girls who seemed to be brothers and sisters ran over at the signal of their parents, thanked Joshua happily, and then trotted back to their parents.
They looked very happy. They were able to touch and see such a precious thing today, and they could show it off to their friends in the future.
Joshua was in a good mood and replied: "It's nothing. Go back quickly. Your parents are waiting impatiently."
He smiled.
Today's test of the magic armor was perfect, and all functions worked as they should. As long as he waits for further improvements and modifications, and designs a few more battle-related rune circuits, his battle armor will be released soon.
Of course, all this requires the assistance of No. 3. Otherwise, the design drawings of the next set of armor will probably not appear until several months later. This kind of progress is not acceptable to Joshua.
On the side, Ying and Lin were talking softly.
"Brother, brother, tell me, does the master like younger people?"
The silver-haired girl said seriously, with a rare solemn look in her green eyes: "Why is it different from before? No mistress has appeared for so long. You know, when Mr. Fan was just awakened, the previous generation of women The master has already appeared."
"Master, he doesn't usually smile so happily!" Miss Shenji emphasized.
"Sister, you don't understand the master at all."
Ignoring his sister's obviously unreliable imagination, the black-haired boy said calmly: "Obviously, the master is so happy because he is getting new armor. He will definitely feel more comfortable knowing that he will fight in the future. Laughing."
"... In this case, isn't it what humans call fetishes..."
"That's too far off—wait sister! Where do you know these terrible words?"
"Okay, you two, stop chatting over there."
Behind him, Joshua's voice suddenly appeared: "I, Master Moria and No. 3 are ready to continue to further improve the magic armor and strive to find a replacement for the magic core, this high-purity magic crystal. It’s too expensive... You go back to the Lord’s Mansion first and prepare lunch and other things.”
Being caught talking behind their backs, the two gods were immediately startled, but after hearing their master's instructions, they immediately replied: "Yes!"
The hunter's family of four also headed towards the trading area near the city center.
In Mycroft Continent, most hunters hunt in the autumn when the prey is fattest. They use the meat of the prey to survive the winter, and then tan the leather and send it to the big cities for sale in the spring. This hunter naturally No exception.
As Joshua could see, his current strength could already be regarded as Silver level. As long as he cultivated his body that was exhausted due to too much hard work in the past, he would definitely be able to advance to Silver level before next winter.
In the future, a silver-level hunter will not only hunt simple beasts such as armored deer and large wild boars, but can also try to hunt some low-level monsters. In this case, his two children will have money to get more. With good training, he might be even stronger than his father.
—Maybe he can send his son to the lord as a knight's retinue.
Thinking of the future, the Orion couldn't help but smile with hope.
After selling leather, he took his wife and children back to a small town near the forest in northern Moldavia.
Unlike the Black Forest, an ordinary forest cannot gather so much magic power, and naturally cannot breed many magical beasts. In this forest, the most common ones are various deer and wild boars, and occasionally a few winter wolves can be seen. , if you don’t talk about the big monsters that may exist but have never been seen by anyone, then the Big Wild Boar King is the most powerful monster in this forest.
There are many small towns like this throughout the empire that rely on hunting and picking herbs and potions from the forest, especially in areas close to the mountains. Since there is no suitable place for farming, they can only fight wild beasts to obtain food rations.
After sending his wife and children home to settle down, the already prepared hunter packed up all his tools and prepared to head to the mountains for his first hunt since spring this year.
"This should be my last hunt before I become Silver... I must capture a big prey and celebrate it."
He thought this, and then walked into the dense woods of the Northland.
(End of chapter)