Iron Powder and Spellcaster

In the blink of an eye, it's late December, the comfortable and cool autumn has passed, and now I don't feel warm even if I put on two layers of clothes.

Located at low latitudes, Plato freezes only during the coldest days of the year, but you can occasionally see condensation of hoarfrost on the ground in the morning.

Outside Shuangqiao City, in the corner of the army camp, Bell was sitting in front of a fire in a daze.

The wood was burned with crackling sounds, and the wind blew away the outer flames from time to time, but the flames still tenaciously emitted light and heat.

On a wet and cold winter day, this small flame is the only thing that can keep people warm.

Next to the campfire was a military tent, and Balian walked out of the tent holding an iron pot.

Seeing the blacksmith coming, Bell used a stick to stir up the fire more. Balian put the pot on the fire and returned to the tent.

Beside the tent, Angelou was humming a tuneless tune and happily brushing a reddish-brown horse.

"Second Lieutenant, you don't usually ride Ryzhi. Why are you so diligent?" Bell picked up a stone and threw it at the horseherd: "You have some free time! You came to help the blacksmith and me get food!"

Angelou turned a deaf ear and continued to work around the horse. Along with the "rustling" sound of the brush, Red Mane snored happily.

The horse herder only has eyes for horses now and pays no attention to people at all.

Instead, another person by the fire crawled out of the blanket.

"Is it ready?" Pierre, who was half asleep, stretched his waist and asked tiredly: "I thought I heard there is something to eat?"

"There is food, but it will be in an hour." Bell said, holding a fire stick: "If you two are willing to help, we can eat earlier."

"That's okay." Pierre got into the blanket and said, "Call me in an hour."

"Slacker."

"Ask the stable boy to help you. I was on night watch last night."

"Then can you go back to the tent and sleep? Don't get in the way."

"It's colder inside the tent than outside. There's sun and fire outside." Pierre's consciousness gradually blurred: "I'm not you, I can hug the lion to keep warm."

Bell was speechless.

…

The little hunter may be able to hide it from others, but he cannot hide it from his comrades who share an iron pot and a tent.

News spread quickly in the military camp, and the militiamen of the Wolf Town Centurion now knew that the second lieutenant had a pet.

However, most people thought it was a rare hound. Only Pierre knew that it was a lion.

Balian, Pierre, Angelou and Bell were all in the ten-man team at Ouashka, which included Dusak except the blacksmith.

Because he often had to take the lion cub to uninhabited places in the wild, the little hunter's secret was quickly discovered by several other people in the ten-man team.

Although everyone else was shocked when they first learned about this, in the end, they all chose to hide it for Bell.

Firstly, it is because of the friendship of "brothers in the same tent", and secondly, the little lion is now about the same size as a large dog, and is still in the cute rather than scary stage.

Because they shared the same secret, their relationship became even closer.

Of course, there is another potential reason: the lion cubs were kept in the officers' tents. The background of this incident was obviously Centurion Montagne, and no one wanted to make things uncomfortable with their immediate superiors.

In fact, Winters also had his own considerations in organizing several people into a "group".

[Note: Because the ten-man team shared a tent, it was also called a "gang" or a "tent\