"Human beings are so strange. They are always so busy for some inexplicable reasons."
In the main city of Moldavia, in the Lord's Mansion, in Joshua's study, the silver-haired girl was complaining to her brother: "Rin, why do you think so?"
The black-haired boy, who was so busy dealing with various official duties and even rarely appeared in public, raised his head tiredly and looked at his leisurely sister. He looked like he wanted to say bad words, but he had good qualities and upbringing. In the end, he just muttered: "Even if you are not a human, you will still be very busy... To be honest, Firefly, you should be very busy too, what about the two sisters? Don't you have to take care of them?"
"I had so much fun at noon that I fell asleep now." Standing up from the chair, Yingying walked slowly to the window with her hands behind her back. She looked out the window strangely: "Why hasn't the master come back yet? He should just be with me We just went for a walk together, it’s already evening..."
At this time, it was evening. Except for the area around the tavern, the entire main city was quiet. Smoke rose from every house, leaving only the twinkling light of pyroxene lamps on both sides of the street.
"I guess you ran a little far, right?"
While reviewing the official document, Rin muttered casually: "Hei has been holding back a lot lately. In half a day, she ran with all her strength and she might be able to reach the sea near the sea... Sister, don't just watch from the side, help me too. Let’s deal with it together.”
"No!" The silver-haired girl refused very resolutely. She turned around and crossed her hands, making an "X" sign: "This is your job, I won't help you!"
"Then don't disturb me!"
Angry at Hotaru's complete lack of sympathy, Rin roared angrily, grabbed a document and threw it at the girl. The hard-shell envelope was like a wooden board, spinning towards Hotaru's head.
"Too slow!"
But the silver-haired girl snorted and smiled. She stretched out her right hand neatly and pinched the envelope with her two slender snow-white fingers. Yingying waved the envelope in her hand with some satisfaction: "I've been working on it recently. Learn from the master's actions! Look, am I going to say 'poor and weak' at this time?"
"... As long as you are happy." Rin was angry and tired. He was completely speechless at this time. He shook his head helplessly, then turned around and continued to handle official duties: "Really, I'm about to die, don't disturb me. , I want to go see Miss No. 3 for fun, she should be on a night out now and wouldn’t mind walking with you.”
"Miss No. 3 likes to float around in the air. Walking with her feels like walking down the street with a kite. It's very weird!" She complained with a curled lip, and Ying glanced at the words on the envelope. Then he said softly: "It's a letter written by Master Moria to the master. Rin, haven't you read it before?"
"Is it Master Moria's?" Lin indeed didn't notice it before. He just grabbed it casually, but when he saw the girl's interested look, he shrugged and said, "Then I'll leave this letter to you. I'll give it to you later." The master must remember to repeat the content when he comes back.”
Since Joshua often goes out to practice breathing techniques and train knights in the knights, he rarely handles official duties. Most of them are left to Rin, Hotaru and No. 3. Out of trust in these three people, Joshua even left his personal letters to them, just to read them back in time when he came back.
"Okay." Now that she had the letter in her hand, Ying couldn't continue to joke and refuse. She sat on a chair nearby, quickly opened the hard-shell envelope that was commonly used by dwarves and was mixed with iron slag, and then read content therein.
—To the ruler of Moldavia, Joshua van Radcliffe
The living metal on No. 1 is a real treasure. By analyzing it, I already know how to activate the metal. This technology is priceless to the people of the underground (the official name of the dwarves). The Northland Rune Dwarf Collective Thank you for your generosity and selflessness.
The process of metal activation is very complicated. After all, this is the initial version. When you have time, you can come to the dwarf gathering place to watch the process. I also want to know how your power works. This may be able to optimize many steps.
With your current strength, you have no need for the weapons and armors we forged. However, your men will definitely need them. Whether it is used to forge weapons or armor, living metal has a very powerful self-healing ability. At present, I We are trying to use it to make a pair of magic armor. No. 1 seems to be very interested in this. It has been observing our forging process near the big iron furnace recently. I suspect that it is analyzing the structure of the magic armor.
In addition, I still have some doubts about your last proposal - you want us to use living metal to create an autonomous construct humanoid? This is not impossible, but the size you require is a bit harsh. The size of general constructs is more than two meters. This is to be able to place the energy core and thinking circuit, and the humanoid construct you require is at most 1.5 meters. You also have to be slender... IMHO, this really makes no sense, and you specifically asked not to create a thinking circuit. Do you just want a living metal statue
All in all, this is the general situation. The rune factory has been completed, and several of my nephews have gone to take charge of the work. As long as the materials are sufficient, we can probably produce fifty basic magic armors before next summer, which should be enough. The needs of your Order.
…
The old dwarf Moria used the format commonly used by dwarves, which meant that these words were very detailed. In order to see the content clearly, Yingying had to concentrate on reading each word. She looked so carefully that she didn't notice when the study door was opened.
"You work very hard."
A familiar voice came from behind. Miss Shenji was shocked and shook the letter in her hand. However, a gentle force caught the letter from the air and put it back in Yingying's hand.
"Okay, there's no need to work so hard. Go and take a rest."
Holding a translucent ice crystal bouquet in his hand, Joshua walked into the study with Hei. He first touched Rin's head, which was about to shut down because of dealing with government affairs for days, and then turned to look at Yingying, a little surprised. He said: "I didn't expect that Yingying would actually take the initiative to help Rin with work. You do look like a sister."
No. Lying on the table, the black-haired boy who felt like he was about to die roared in his heart: She didn't take the initiative to help me work! She looks nothing like her sister! But since he was really too lazy to expose Hotaru's true face, Rin closed his eyes and cooled down his thinking circuit.
At this time, Joshua walked up to Ying and stretched out his hand: "This is a flower for you."
Firefly: "Eh?!"
Not only was the silver-haired girl stunned for a moment, Rin, who had closed his eyes to rest, also suddenly opened his eyes and looked back at his master. The atmosphere suddenly became solemn.
But the black dragon girl standing beside her patted her chest and broke the atmosphere with a happy look on her face: "I just said that the colors are so similar, Yingying must like it. Master, you see, she is so happy that she can't even speak!"
Lowering her eyes and looking at the flowers in front of her, Yingying's eyelashes trembled. Rather than being so happy that she couldn't speak, she felt like she was dreaming - Joshua actually gave her flowers. This was completely true. Unreasonable things! The word "flower" and the name "Joshua" are obviously not related to each other in ten thousand years! If the soldier gave her a can of maintenance knife oil, she wouldn't be so surprised.
Out of this trance, the silver-haired girl took the ice-drilled thorn flower from the warrior's hand and murmured in a low voice: "This... I may not be able to keep it alive. I raised the cactus to death last time. "
"It's okay." Joshua said calmly: "I have asked someone to take care of it. As long as you don't put it next to the stove, it will spontaneously absorb the free elements in the air and grow. The cactus last time It’s because you watered too much and took care of the plants…”
Not long after the topic inexplicably changed to how to grow flowers, Joshua seemed to remember something serious.
"Before, when Hei and I went for a walk in the Arctic Icefield, we captured a group of cultists." The warrior always spoke simply and directly. He took the letter from Moria from Yingying's hand and said while reading it: "No. 3 Now they are taking people to the church for handover, but I already know their purpose, which is to prepare for a large-scale attack in Moldova."
Hearing this, Lin, who had been slumped on the table, straightened up and said seriously: "In this case, Master, we must inform Mr. Brandon and Count Verdani as soon as possible."
However, Yingying's reaction was more in line with her own desires. The silver-haired girl who was holding the flowers and looking around lit up her eyes and said with a much more excited expression than before: "Master, are we going to take action again!"
She looked full of energy, completely different from when she was unwilling to help Rin handle official duties.
"No." Joshua's reply disappointed the girl: "I'm going alone this time, and I won't take you with me."
Glancing sideways at Hei, who was still full of energy, the soldier added, "I don't know how to carry Hei either."
"I'm not going either?!" The black dragon girl was greatly shocked.
"certainly."
After appeasing everyone who was very disappointed, Joshua explained the reason: "After all, in my current state, I am grounded... Although Israel's condition is to stay in the North, not just Moldavia. , and in fact, there was no mandatory restriction at all, but since I agreed, I would not deliberately violate it. His most fundamental intention was to prevent me from making any big news, and naturally I would not do so. "
"Then we just watch those cultists wreaking havoc in Moldova?" Lin thought for a while and wondered: "Forty percent of our recent cargo circulation relies on Count Verdani's large fleet for transportation. If order in Moldova is destroyed, we will also suffer great losses."
"Of course not, how could I sit back and watch the cultists attack civilians wantonly?" Joshua said matter-of-factly, his tone calm: "But in the final analysis, the name Joshua had better not be too public during the recent period, otherwise Israel can’t live with it either. I won’t take you there precisely because you are so famous now and it’s easy to expose my identity.”
By that time, even if all the cultists have escaped, how can we arrest them? This is what the soldier is thinking, but it is impossible to say it directly.
"And whenever I need you, you will be by my side right away, right?"
indeed so. Since Hotaru and Rin advanced in the Holy Mountain, they have gained the ability to act on their own. In weapon form, they can respond to the warrior's call and fly to his hand spontaneously. The distance of the call depends on Joshua's strength. The strength of Jiyi level means that as long as it is in the North, no matter where it is, if Joshua's thoughts move, Firefly and Rin can respond.
In this way, it doesn't matter whether you have weapons or not. As long as you are prepared before the battle, nothing will make any difference.
Thinking of this, Yingying, who was a little disappointed, felt much better. She sat on the chair, tilted her head slightly, and asked curiously: "So, Master, are you going to hide your identity this time?"
"That's right, but we still need to tell Brandon and the others in advance." Joshua nodded, and he turned to look at Rin: "Thank you for your hard work, Rin, help draft a magic message."
"No problem." Although the boy was indeed very tired, it was okay to write a text message. Rin took out the paper and magic ink specially designed for magic text messages, and waited for the warrior to dictate the content.
"Just say it."
As he spoke, the corners of Joshua's mouth curled up slightly, and he said in a subtle tone.
"A Jiyi warrior who wishes to remain anonymous will be visiting."
(End of chapter)