My Magic Age

The night had fallen, and a streak of white appeared on the horizon. Only a few big stars could be vaguely seen in the dark blue sky.

At dawn, I stretched my body and stood up from the chair, pulling open the curtains on the attic glass window. The silent night was about to end. I put down the magic pen in my hand. The snow-fall ink in the ink bottle had dried up. After working hard all night, the scrolls of "Frost Nova" were placed on the desk. I would put them into a beautiful square box one by one, and give them to Marvin when I went to school in the morning.

Now these "Frost Nova" magic scrolls have been sold for three magic crystals each in the city of El, which is already a very high price, but those noble children are still rushing to buy them, just to accumulate some merits this winter.

There was a slight sound downstairs. It must be Nancy starting to prepare breakfast. Although her skills are a bit simple, she can only make crispy rolls with cheese and oatmeal porridge, but the taste is really good. It is difficult for me to have more harsh requirements for this dignified, generous and virtuous beautiful woman. Even though she joined our lives as a third party, it seems that she did not bring us any trouble.

Fanny and Ryan are still very harmonious. Ryan likes to read the newspaper before meals, and Fanny will keep nagging me and Tracy during breakfast. Now that Cindy is here, Tracy and I have shared some of the fire. Fanny has recently encouraged Cindy not to stay at home all the time, but to go out more often, at least go shopping with Tracy when she is on vacation.

Nancy almost shared all of Fanny's housework. Only after she came to our house, I found that everything in the house has become well-organized.

When I chatted with Tracy, I learned from her that according to Ryan, on that inexplicable night, Tracy just mixed some datura juice into Ryan's wine, which made Ryan glow with his second spring in a slightly drunk state. On the other hand, Fanny successfully persuaded Nancy that in such a chaotic world, joining this relatively warm family would at least provide some security for her future life, after all, they had nowhere to go.

I was very curious about why Fanny did this, and I once secretly asked Tracy, but she just looked at me and said to me: "Why don't you ask Fanny?"

I was speechless for a moment. How could I have the nerve to ask Fanny about this kind of thing! Should I just say to her directly: "Hey, Fanny, why did you take the initiative to find a concubine for your husband and a concubine for me and Tracy?"

I only dared to think about this. If I said so, Fanny might throw me into the snow pile in the backyard and live with the minotaur Luka for a few days.

But now it seems that Ryant, Fanny and Nancy have handled their relationship very well. They have a clear division of labor at home. At dinner, everyone sat at the dining table, and I could still enjoy the extremely warm scene. It's just that Cindy's personality seems a bit introverted. I always feel that she looks at me and Tracy with a guilty look.

Although Tracy has emphasized many times that those adult matters have nothing to do with us, Cindy still stubbornly believes that her mother's behavior in this matter makes her feel ashamed. I think Cindy is a little too emotional.

I turned off the kerosene lamp on the desk and turned to see the map of my fiefdom on the wall. The red line encloses the land with a stone mountain and a lake. Under the circle, it says that it belongs to the second-class baron Ji Jia, and a seal of the El City Council is stamped on my name.

This map was issued by the El City Logistics Department. It was not until the issuance of this scroll that Fanny and Ryant knew that I had quietly been promoted to the first-level title. In the Green Empire, it is not an easy thing to be promoted to the title.

However, when Fanny saw this map, her first reaction was not that I had obtained a new title or that I had a larger fiefdom, but she stared at my eyes and asked me: "Ji Jia! You must tell us the truth! Tell us what dangerous things you have done. Those people in the Council Hall cannot promote people to titles for no reason. Although our family is not aristocratic, we know very well how difficult it is to be promoted to a noble title among nobles..."

Faced with Fanny's worried inquiries...

I don't remember how I comforted Fanny at that time. I felt that my explanation was a little weak, but they still tried to accept the answer I gave. My achievements were obtained because of those magic scrolls.

At this time, I felt the mood of Ryant and Fanny. They did not get more joy from my promotion, but were worried about the dangers of my achievements.

Outside the city of El, thousands of barbarians from the Storm Bear Tribe surrounded the city. The residents in our city would do what they could to resist those brutal barbarians.

So, no matter how late I stayed up drawing the scroll, Fanny endured it and didn't remind me to go to bed early.

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Just when I was about to meditate before dawn to restore my exhausted magic power, I suddenly felt like there were fireworks outside the window in the direction of the north wall, flashing three or two times in the distance. I inexplicably had an uneasy premonition in my heart. At this time, a loud explosion between heaven and earth came over.

My face turned pale all of a sudden. Just as dawn was approaching, the barbarians finally launched the first round of attack.

I was worried that the warriors of the Knights of the Guard Battalion on the city wall were still asleep and had not woken up yet...

It seemed as if the whole city was shaking violently. I put on a thick magic robe without hesitation, stretched out my hand to push open the attic glass window, and my body, like a nimble cat, got out of the attic window, stood on the tiles on the ridge, and looked far away in the direction of the northern city wall.

Standing outside the house, I could already hear the shouting and killing sounds like the sea tide. My hands and feet were a little cold at this moment. It turned out that the battle to defend the city had really begun.

For a while, countless people walked out of their houses and looked into the distance.

The Minotaur Luka excitedly carried a two-handed axe and stood in the empty field in the backyard. He excitedly hit his chest with his fists, raising his fighting spirit. Even the Minotaur Luka was disturbed by the shouting and killing sounds in the distance, and a ball of war was ignited in his heart. He raised his thick neck and asked me loudly standing on the roof: "Ji Jia, are we going to join the battle?"

"Come with me to the magic academy later!" I thought about it and said to the minotaur Luka.

If the military of El City needs magicians to help defend the city, they will definitely ask for help directly from the academy. Instead of running to the north wall like headless flies, we might as well wait for the academy to organize in an orderly manner. As an auxiliary water magic apprentice, what I need to do most now is to maintain the most abundant magic power and wait for the call of the dean.

"Well!" Luka's muscles are shaking constantly because of the excitement of his body.

Ryant came out of the house wearing a fur coat, stood at the gate of the yard, and looked toward the north silently. He lowered his head silently, and gently touched the rapier on his waist with his hand. He was speechless for a long time. The old hero also had shortness of breath. Although he was in his prime and his physical condition had not declined at all, he was full of hesitation when he touched the hilt of the sword. At this moment, his heart was hesitant. Although he had infinite fighting spirit in his heart, the fetters behind him tightly entangled him in this warm house.

Those gentle eyes were like steel cables, imprisoning this steel-like man.

At this moment, I suddenly understood why Fanny let another woman share the man who originally belonged to her. It turned out that the warrior who could not be locked up by handcuffs and anklets could be locked up by the gentle woman's heart, the beautiful woman in the gentle gauze tent who needed his strong arms to continue to live.

Fanny is not such a woman. She is not gentle at all. The most important thing is that even without Ryan, she can still live well. She has the ability to support herself. At this time, Fanny, wearing a single coat, stood in front of the attic window behind me, hugging her shoulders with both hands, with a bitter smile, quietly looking at Ryan at the gate of the yard, with full love in her eyes.

The beautiful Nancy stood outside the house shivering, not knowing whether it was because of the cold weather that made her face pale, or because of the sea-like shouting and killing of the barbarians outside the city that frightened her pale face, but she did not make any sound. She stood barefoot on the snow but could not feel the coldness of the ground at all. The hair that was not tied up in time was blown by the wind, covering her face and the blurred almond eyes.

It has to be said that this war was extremely cruel to Nancy. After losing her family, this woman who lived a comfortable life in the small town of Mars went through untold hardships and fled to the city of El with her daughter. When she entered the city, she found that the hope in her heart was not so beautiful in the face of reality. Countless refugees gathered in the city of El. In addition to the threat of hunger, there was also the cold brought by the cold wave, which could freeze the homeless wanderers into ice sculptures overnight.

She suddenly found in despair that without enough gold coins, she could not survive in the city of El. When the only wish left in her heart was to survive, she was finally taken in by Ryant and Fanny because of her daughter Cindy.

In this cruel winter where "young girls are not as valuable as a bag of wheat flour", she seemed to have accepted her fate, and suddenly found that the gentleman-like man Ryant was another station where she could stop and rest in her life. She cherished him very much. On the one hand, she tried her best to please Ryant with her gentle body. Isn't such a gentleman with traditional ideas what she dreamed of in her girlhood? On the other hand, she tried her best not to let Fanny feel any threat from her. She had no intention of replacing the mistress Fanny. She just wanted to find a harbor in her life.

So Fanny's consolation that day was undoubtedly like a drop of honey for a traveler in the desert. When she was still at a loss about her life, even if Fanny had some other thoughts in her heart, Nancy could not refuse Fanny's proposal.

Just when Nancy felt that she was about to be frozen by the cold wind, a strong and powerful arm hugged her tightly. She looked up in panic and suddenly found Ryan looking down at her with a gentle smile and said to her: "It's so cold, why are you running around wearing so little!"

"..." Nancy suddenly thought of her thin pajamas, which seemed to be naked. Her face suddenly became like a cooked shrimp, and she quickly said in a mosquito-like voice: "I'm sorry!"

"What is there to apologize for? Let's go back!" Ryan embraced Nancy, who was like a little bird, and walked back to the house.

"But, over there... is it really okay?" Nancy looked at the north wall where the shouts and screams came from, and said to Ryant worriedly.

"Haha, if the knights of the Guard Battalion Knights are defeated by the barbarian warriors in the first morning, then we might as well take the airship to Sloyt City as soon as possible! Don't worry, the real foundation of El City is much more profound than it appears!" Ryant is a famous swordsmanship instructor at Stans College after all, and his understanding of El City is deeper than that of ordinary people.

My confidence in El City only comes from the large magic crossbows hidden in the arrow tower and the magic deterrence of Dean Godfrey. I don't believe that the great witches in the barbarian tribes dare to show up on the battlefield.

That's right, if there is no help from the great witches, what can these barbarians use to break through the defense of El City?

I wanted to look back at Fanny in the attic window to see what her expression was like at the moment, but unfortunately she was no longer there. Only Tracy squinted her eyes, hid behind the curtains, and looked out with messy hair. Behind her, Cindy was wearing a thin nightgown and holding a thick coat. She ran over and put it on Tracy, but she was sneezing from the cold...

"Jia, what happened?" Tracy asked me curiously.

"There was a fight in the north city, and the noise was a bit loud. I'm afraid those barbarians outside the city will do something serious this time!" I stepped on the snow on the roof, held the eaves of the attic, and slid in from the ridge of the roof lightly, and then said to Tracy: "No breakfast, I'll go to the academy to see, maybe that's the time when they need water magicians the most!"

"Tsk, what kind of water magician are you! In our city of El, there is only one water magician, and that is Master Heidi!" Tracy sneered and said disdainfully.

Cindy stood behind, watching Tracy and I bickering with envy.

I didn't care about what Tracy said, I quickly sorted out the magic scrolls on the desk, put the things I needed into the magic waist bag, and rushed out of the house.

Suddenly, I rushed back like a whirlwind, and when Tracy was stunned, I gave her a hug. Just when Tracy wanted to hit me, I hurriedly pushed her away, and then gave Cindy, who was at a loss, a big hug, raised my fist to them, and said confidently: "Wait for the good news of my victory!"

"Tsk, it's as if a magic apprentice like you also has to go to the battlefield!" Tracy's sarcastic words lingered in my ears, and I had already rushed down to the wooden attic.

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