My Magic Age

This dwarf in a difficult situation was called Bernd Hod. He sat on a bench and took a big sip of wine. The irritability in his eyes slowly faded. His will was depressed. His strong body had been worn away by wine and time, leaving only an empty frame. The tendons on his body slowly faded, and a pile of fat appeared on his big belly. He took another sip of wine, and his mood became stable.

He sat on the bench like a dark rock. I could find traces of the battlefield in his eyes. Every warrior who had experienced the baptism of blood and fire had a spirit in his eyes, that is, fearlessness.

I never thought I would meet a dwarf veteran. His injuries ended his military career. He began to tell me his story.

Since the day he was born, Bernd Hod was stronger than other dwarf sons, so he was sent to the War Academy to learn the art of fighting. He was a warrior under the throne of King Stan, one of the seven kings of the dwarf kingdom, and had made great military achievements. The young Bernd Hod was extremely powerful. After learning the fighting skills of the Berserker, he became a very famous warrior in the army. Like other dwarves, he liked to drink, brag, and fight with others after drinking.

That winter, the Stan Dynasty of the dwarf kingdom experienced heavy snow that had not been seen in decades. The gray dwarves hiding in the New Siachis Mountains were completely swallowed up by the beast tide in the snow-capped mountains. Some of the gray dwarves fled to the Star Lake Grassland, but they only lived quietly on the Star Lake Grassland for three months before they were forced to the Pai Plateau by the annual migration of the unicorns there.

When I heard Bernd Hod tell the story of the dwarf dynasty, I knew that those gray dwarf bandits originally lived in the New Siachis Mountains.

Another part of the gray dwarves fled westward into the territories of the seven kings of the dwarf kingdom. These gray dwarves lost their winter supplies, so they could only rely on plundering other dwarves' food to resist this harsh winter.

The Kingdom of Stan was also invaded by the gray dwarf bandits. It was under such circumstances that Bernd Hod and his legion crossed the entire territory of the Kingdom of Stan in the severe winter, chasing the gray dwarves who had lost their homes and turned into bandits.

After several years of war, pursuit, migration, encirclement, and trapped beasts, the last power of the gray dwarves was also eroded bit by bit.

The king of the gray dwarves summoned the last 100,000 gray dwarf warriors to capture the Goldworth mine of the Pirmala Dwarf King in one fell swoop, and built solid fortifications there. The seven dwarf kings held a military meeting in the Kingdom of Stan to discuss how to conquer the gray dwarves of Goldworth.

So the coalition forces of the seven nations, with hundreds of thousands of dwarf warriors, surrounded the Goldworth Mine in a rainy summer. The entire war lasted from summer to winter. Bernd Hod finally got his chance and went to the front line of the battlefield with his companions. They were responsible for capturing the southwest area B of the Goldworth Mine, where they fought hard for three days and three nights.

The gray dwarves' mountain fortifications made the dwarf warriors of the coalition forces of the seven nations suffer a lot. Throughout the winter, the coalition forces made no progress except for driving the gray dwarves into the mountain of the mine.

The dwarf kings decided to end the war as soon as possible. Several years of war were about to completely drag down the economy of the dwarf kingdom, so someone proposed to hire those mercenaries and adventure groups in the human kingdom with fine iron ingots and the dwarf kingdom's sophisticated weapons and armor.

With the arrival of the spring of the second year, human mercenaries and adventure groups began to pour into the dwarf kingdom in large numbers.

Bernd. Horowitz, the author of "The Journey of the West", said: "I have always been a very good person, and I have always been very good at making things happen. I have always been very good at making things happen. I have always been very good at making things happen. I have always been very good at making things happen. I have always been very good at making things happen. I have always been very good at making things happen. I have always been very good at making things happen.

Jim The adventure group was assigned to Bernd Hod's war zone. Jim also liked to drink, and soon the two became drinking buddies, and gradually became good friends who could talk about anything. Bernd Hod heard from Jim that there were extremely delicious golden apple wine and wine in the Green Empire, and the taste of beer was different from that in the Dwarf Kingdom, not so bitter.

Slowly, Bernd Hod had the idea of ​​going to the Green Empire to take a look. Jim was very hospitable and promised to take Bernd Hod to see the prosperity of the imperial capital after the war.

It was in the autumn of that year that the war entered the final stage. Bernd Hod was responsible for capturing the arsenal deep in the mining area with a battalion of dwarf warriors. Unexpectedly, the intelligence mentioned that there were only more than 20 people guarding the arsenal. It happened that day that nearly 100 gray dwarves were changing equipment in the warehouse... The battle was about to break out, and Bernd Hod's entire assault battalion was almost wiped out.

Bernd Hod's last memory was that a gray dwarf general used a mountain axe to split his breastplate directly. He felt that it was not only blood that flowed out of his chest and abdomen, but also his heart seemed to be exposed, and the things in his stomach seemed to have lost their restraints and flowed out all at once.

When Bernd Hod woke up, he found himself lying in a cave. A guy who looked like a black coal ball grinned at him: Brother, congratulations, I snatched you back from the scythe of the god of death...

It was the happy Jim who risked his life to drag Bernd Hod into the coal mine from the pile of dead bodies.

This place is full of gas and death traps, and it is a place that the gray dwarves do not want to set foot on. Jim is a ranger who is good at surviving in dangerous places. In this coal mine, they eat coal balls, moss, moles, mushrooms and many unknown things. The two have even agreed to explore the entire continent together. Jim also told Bernd Hod to let him see his young and beautiful wife. When he makes enough money this time, he will buy her a nice house in the imperial capital.

The two people suffered in the coal mine for three months before they finally heard the horn of the dwarf army's general attack.

When Jim walked out of the coal mine with Bernd on his back, the dazzling sunlight almost blinded them.

An arrow from the Dwarf Kingdom United Legion, in the sunlight, was like a cold ice cone, flying from a distance and piercing directly into Jim's skull between his eyebrows. He did not die on the adventure journey, did not die under the giant kiss of the monster, did not die under the butcher knife and gun of the gray dwarves, but died from his own accidental injury. Unfortunately, none of the friends who came with Jim in the adventure group survived the battle.

Three months later, the dwarf Bernd. Hod recovered from his injuries and went to the imperial capital of the Green Empire with Jim's ashes and Jim's pension.

Bernd never thought that the Green Imperial Capital was dozens of times larger than the Stan Royal City, even though they were both royal cities. It was hard to find a civilian woman in the vast sea of ​​people. After a lot of hardships, he finally found Jim's wife Eve. At this time, Bernd had spent all his gold coins. He had nothing on him except Jim's ashes and the exquisite armor.

Bernd returned Jim's belongings to Eve, and returned to the dwarf country without any money. Fortunately, he ran to the slums of the imperial capital and became a foreign beggar. Because he had a hidden injury, he could not join the adventure group, so he lived in poverty.

Finally one day, after Bernd fell ill in the pouring rain, a woman holding an umbrella walked out of the rain and dragged him home like a dead dog.

That woman was Eve, and Bernd then stayed at Eve's house.

Before that, Eve had been living a very poor life, but she was very happy because she had a goal to live for. She could endure any hardship and wait for her husband to come home. The hooligans in the market did not dare to bully her too much because she had a husband who was a ranger. Jim was also a very outstanding young man on this street, and everyone knew that he was good at fighting.

But when the news of Jim's death came, Eve's life fell into a quagmire. The neighbors began to point fingers at her, saying that her man died in a foreign land, but left her a huge inheritance. The hooligans on the street began to covet her beauty and began to set their sights on this young widow.

Eve didn't believe that her husband Jim was dead. In order to prove that all this was fake news, she secretly followed Bernd every day until one day Bernd was so poor that he almost died of illness on the street. Eve couldn't help but rescued her husband's foreign friend back home.

In this way, a young widow and a dwarf began a poor life in the imperial capital.

I can't imagine what kind of relationship they have, or whether the dwarf Bernd barely survived with Eve's help. Bernd, who almost became a useless man, was rejected by the people of the imperial capital. He was an alcoholic, had a bad temper, looked burly, but had no strength. He often quarreled with others and was beaten black and blue by those people in the imperial capital, and then lost a job with a meager income.

Later, Eve got a job as a waitress in a tavern, and the situation improved a little bit, but the tavern owner Zhuoka was coveting Eve's beauty. One night, he sneaked into Eve's room under the influence of alcohol. Since then, Eve has become Zhuoka's lover, and also a waitress and cook in his store.

The price that Zhuoka paid for this was to let Bernd drink some free beer every day. Those beer were mixed with wine lees. Even if Bernd didn't drink it, it would be poured into the stinky ditch outside. Even with this kind of unpalatable beer, Bernd would get drunk almost every day. He was completely crushed by life.

The tavern owner Zhuoka often scolded him: the dwarf hiding in Eve's crotch!

This story is very long, so Bernd told it for a long time. He drank up the bottle of high-quality golden apple wine. His eyes became brighter and brighter, and he was not drunk at all. There was no sadness in his eyes. He just looked up at the starless and moonless night sky, and silently ate all the fried potatoes and fried fish in his arms.

The dwarf Bernd told me that this was the best wine he had ever drunk in his life.

He stood up from the bench, opened his eyes and said to me: "Thank you for your patience to listen to my story. I feel much better after telling it. Maybe I know the way to go in the future. I should go my own way. Maybe I should go out and see the outside world. I shouldn't be like a leech that can only suck blood, clinging to Eve. She should have a better life."

"You should have a better life too!" I said to him.

I thought he was depressed and would do something negative, but I didn't expect that after drinking a bottle of golden apple wine, he cheered up.

I heard the dwarf Bernd say to me: "Yes, although I am no longer a warrior, I at least still have the strength of an ordinary person. I should go to the Imperial Capital Airport to find a job as an anti-bomb! I will go and get Yi Take Fu out and leave here with her. If she doesn’t want to leave the imperial capital, then it’s just a matter of saying goodbye to her.”

He waved his fist and said, "That's it, let Mr. Zhuoqak go to hell!"

Bernd wiped the fried potato residue from his beard with his hand, and walked towards the tavern deep in this alley with long strides.

I followed Bernd and walked towards the tavern, thinking to myself: I don’t know how Scholar Yerkes is doing now. When I passed the entrance of the park, the stall owner selling fried potatoes nodded and smiled at me kindly. , obviously in her view, I am her customer, so she has to smile when she faces me.

Suddenly Bernd stopped by the bush wall. He was not tall, only about 130 centimeters tall, so standing by the tree wall was not easy to be noticed. He was staring attentively into the shadow of the alley. The pair of figures were silent for a while After a while, there were no negative emotions such as anxiety, anger, helplessness, loss, sadness, etc. in his eyes. Instead, his face was calm. I walked quietly behind Bernd, and he twisted his body slightly and put his fingers on his face. On the lips, let me whisper.

I stood quietly behind a sycamore tree and looked over curiously. In the shadow of the wall, Yerkes and Eve were hugging each other tightly. Yerkes was hugging him in an extremely affectionate way. Kissing Eve, Eve leaned against the red brick wall and wrapped her hands around Yerkes' neck. Her slender figure was not shorter than Yerkes. She thought Yerkes felt that she was more delicate and looked up. posture and secretly kicked off the high-heeled leather shoes on her feet.

Under the dim light of the street lights, her face glowed.

Bernd's eyes were very clear, as if he was watching someone close to him suddenly become happy. He was afraid that he would appear rashly and break everything here.

He seemed a little excited, stroking the beard on his chin, and whispered to me: "From the perspective of you Green people, she is very beautiful, right? But I think her heart is the most beautiful. The positivity, optimism, and perseverance in life make me feel that there are still some things in this world that are very beautiful and worthy of nostalgia. Originally, I swore to Jim that I would take good care of her, but it was just the opposite. She has been taking care of me."

Then he looked at me gratefully and said, "Like you, she will not look down on me just because I am a dwarf. She has a heart of gold."

He hesitated for a moment, struggling in his heart, and finally said, "I think maybe I should leave quietly like this. Look at the happy smile on her face, I really hope I can stay on her face forever. Mr. Magician, are these the loves that the bards sing about in their poems?"

Bernd turned around and sat down silently against the low shrub wall. His eyes became very bright, and he looked at me as if he was searching for the truth.

I touched my head in embarrassment and said, "Maybe those are the ones!"

In fact, I can’t figure out what Scholar Yerkes is thinking about, and what he loves about a sexy beauty like Eve.