() Xia Han went back and took a long nap. It was almost dusk when he got up.
He put the words of the king and queen behind his mind and found Wujing in a separate courtyard. This man was sitting on the main seat drinking tea, and a knight reported the battle situation to him.
"Linyuan and Xing'an towns have fallen, Lichuan, Sanhui, and Wuli are under attack..."
The Gale Wind Grassland is vast. In addition to Gale Wind City, there are dozens of large and small towns and countless villages. However, in just one day, several towns fell into the hands of the Orcs one after another.
Xia Han listened to the battle quietly, feeling calm in his heart. He began to hesitate about the mission of the Twilight King. These things had nothing to do with him.
He came to Wujing for another matter, but unfortunately, Wujing didn't seem to want to let him go.
"Do you think this battle can be won?"
After the Lord of Jade City asked the knight to retreat, he asked Xia Han.
His question had to be answered. Xia Han shook his head: "Maybe with foreign aid."
In fact, this answer is purely redundant. The Jade Empire will never have foreign aid. The kingdom of Suzaku Continent can ignore it, and the covenant signed by the elves and humans is for the entire human race - they will only be in the majority of humans.
The kingdoms come to an agreement to help humanity.
As for the possibility of foreign aid, the only one left is the Jingxue Clan in the Qilin Continent.
However, Xia Han knew a year ago that the Jingxue Tribe would not be able to come. Those living inside the mountains were fighting another group of underground monsters. They also participated in the previous king's crusade against the First Mage nine years ago, and their vitality was gone.
Restoration can't produce troops at all.
In this battle with the orcs, the Jade Empire will be alone.
"Destined to fail...?" Wujing took a sip of tea, his eyes showing no emotion, and Xia Han couldn't tell whether he believed it or not.
"Then let's change the topic." Wujing put down the tea cup and put the sword on the table: "Do you think you are qualified to get this sword?"
At first glance, this is an extremely ordinary sword. The sword body is hidden in a gray scabbard. Except for the impressive thorns carved on the hilt, there is no other highlight.
However, Xia Han knew that this was a peerless sword. Of course...he came for this sword, but not for the sword itself. There was an address engraved on its blade, and Xia Han came for that address.
Come.
"I want to take this sword."
Xia Han said to Wujing that he would take away the sword beside him before he could leave this land——
"You finally said this to me, but...I told you that I will only give the sword to you when you have the ability to kill me." Wujing held the sword again and took it.
He took it back: "It's true that you killed the guardian beyond my expectation, but..."
He smiled and clapped his hands.
A familiar knight walked in from the door, Xia Han looked at him, it was Xiao Sheng.
"how..."
Xia Han's expression was a little shaken.
"Why aren't you right?" Wu Jing asked Xiao Sheng to stand aside, then picked up the tea cup: "I admit that you poisoned him and the guardian silently, which shocked me. The thief profession has been soaked in poison for many years.
But I didn’t expect that it would also fall into your hands.”
"When did you, who have been living in poison all this time, master such superb skills?"
Wu Jing drank tea, but stared at Xia Han sharply, but the latter obviously had no intention of answering him.
"But fortunately, I also have a powerful pharmacist by my side who cracked the poison for me." Wujing looked back and glanced at Xiao Sheng: "I also saved his life by the way."
Xia Han gritted his teeth.
The toxins of Xiao Sheng and the Guardian were both activated by him when they left the Emerald City. When the Guardian fell, Xia Han killed him with his dagger, but he didn't expect that Xiao Sheng was so lucky and was quickly picked up by Wu Jing.
go back.
In fact, Wu Jing also had poison on his body, but it was not activated... After returning, Wu Jing never got close to him.
"I didn't expect it to be cracked...forget it."
Xia Han exhaled and then smiled: "But since you know me as the master of medicine, it is impossible for me to know only one kind of poison... and now I can poison you to kill you."
"no, you can not!"
Wujing categorically denied it, his eyes dimmed like an old fox: "I never said you were a master of pharmacy...although I almost thought you were."
"But the morning you came to Wind City, I deliberately threw a potion away from you - which proved that you are not a real potion master."
Xia Han smiled and said, "What do you mean?"
"Magic is very magical..." Wujing said with sarcasm on his face: "I asked the mages to monitor your thinking activities all the time, and you have been wandering and doubting... It is impossible for a real potion master to be able to distinguish between true and false.
out."
"This also proves that you are a fake potion master, but you were lucky enough to master an unknown poison." Wujing pointed to Xia Han's heart: "Your heart will not lie to others."
Xia Han was speechless.
"You win, I will come again next time." He could only accept this failure and turned around and left.
Wujing looked at his back.
"I'm very surprised." He said suddenly, which made Xia Han stop.
"You gave me a surprise by killing the guardian, so good, I'll give you a hint..." Wu Jing asked Xiao Sheng to hand Xia Han a note: "You go look for it. If you can't find it, you have to come back and get it."
This sword."
Xia Han opened the note, and there were only two words on it: coast, singing. This kind of reminder was almost the same as nothing. Maybe Wu Jing just wanted to see Xia Han's frustrated face when he couldn't find it and had no choice but to come back.
But this is also an opportunity.
After dinner, Xia Han rode a horse and left Gale Wind City, and Wujing also returned to Jade City with a group of people.
He looked at the horse disappearing in the night and said in an indifferent tone: "This toy has no power to resist... Or am I expecting too much from him?"
No one answered.
But when the team entered the junction of the mountains, the oldest person beside Wujing spoke.
"Lord City Lord." The white-haired old housekeeper said on the bumpy horseback: "He is just a child, a child under nine years old..."
"So what if you are under nine years old."
There is no difference in age in the eyes of Wu Jing.
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"Uu, uh--"
The cold wind hit her face, and Xia Han had to tighten the reins and slow down.
Summer had just passed, but the night wind inadvertently brought a chill. He couldn't help but regret not wearing more clothes when he left Gale City.
The horse galloped forward dexterously. Riding skills were one of Xia Han's achievements in the past two years. But his first time riding a horse was earlier when he met Wujing for the first time. At that time, he lay tightly on the horse.
My back and legs hurt for several days after I returned to Jade City.
【This is growth.】
Xia Han comforted himself in his heart, learning new things and gaining new strength - this was proof that he was not standing still.
"Fireball."
Several bright red fireballs appeared around him and flew forward after the horse, like several meteors guarding Xia Han - his magic control also increased astonishingly.
However, even though fireballs were flying around him, Xia Han still didn't feel much warmth.
The endless sea of grass undulated, and the light of the twin moons was clear and penetrating, but it could not conceal the slight coldness in his heart.
[If Wu Jian were here...]
Xia Han thought like this, and then suddenly realized that he was longing for a destination, a warm destination called home.
But for Xia Han now, this kind of thinking is just proof of cowardice. If he wants to become a strong man, maybe... he is no longer a toy...
