my armed maid

Chapter 4 03: Tinder

"Nolen, aren't you...going to recruit alchemy apprentices?"

In the Rasti gold smelting workshop, Aysha glanced at the girl with a broken leg who was moved into the house by Nolen, and covered her mouth in shock.

Living in the upper city all her life, Ai Xia had never seen a girl so seriously injured.

It was as if a doll accidentally broke its slender legs, but the girl in front of her was not a doll, but a living person. The bandage on her lower body had already been stained with blood, and the deep dark red color made her a little dizzy. dizzy.

"She is a knight. It would be a pity to leave her alone. I am trying to see if I can save her."

Nolen said in a deep voice, "Aisha, can you come over and help me?"

His serious expression made Ai Xia mistakenly think that the girl in front of her was still on the verge of death. She could not say any words of rejection. She nodded repeatedly and said: "I, I, I can do it, you must let me help!"

It was much easier to have help. The two of them first helped the girl take off her blood-stained clothes and armor, cleaned her body, then helped her re-bandage her wounds, and fed her a recovery potion.

After finishing all this work, it was noon. Although the girl's face was still pale, she looked much better.

Aisha volunteered to take on the task of bringing lunch, leaving Nolen and the girl alone in the empty room.

"This room is for you to use temporarily."

Nolen found a chair and sat next to the bed. "Have you calmed down? Tell me about your situation."

After experiencing ups and downs, the girl lying on the hospital bed has stabilized her mood a lot. Although she doesn't know whether Nolen can really help her reattach her legs, he is the only one she can rely on now.

"My name is Yuna Aska..." After sorting out her thoughts, the girl slowly explained her life experience.

Although Yuna Askar was born in Ganlin Village in the countryside of Linfeng City, she showed her talent as a knight when she was a child and was sent to live in Linfeng City very early.

After she reached the age to enter school, she went to Linfeng Knight Academy to further her studies. She officially obtained the Knight Badge at the age of 11. Her excellent training talent was also top-notch in the entire Knight Academy.

This year, at the age of 16, she has become a fifth-level knight and a prospective graduate of the Knight Academy.

During her schooling, her outstanding performance earned her recognition from the Bayhart family of Linfeng City's lord's palace. As soon as she graduates, she can be immediately incorporated into the city lord's palace's personal guard, and her future is bright.

But something unexpected happened, and news came from outside the city two days ago that the grassland people outside the Great Wall began to harass the border of Linfeng City, and many people were robbed and slaughtered.

Worried about the safety of her relatives in her hometown, Yuna prepared to go out of the city to take her family members from Ganlin Village to the city, but she never thought that this long trip would disrupt all her life plans.

A unit of prairie people raided Ganlin Village, and Yuna single-handedly made a final stand against the invaders.

However, the leader of this unit was extremely powerful. Even though her fifth-level strength was at the top of the Knight Academy, she was still suppressed and unable to fight back.

It was during this battle that her legs were cut off, and she managed to escape on the back of a horse. As for her family members and other villagers in Ganlin Village, none of them escaped.

Recalling yesterday's hellish scene, the faces of her family, the corpses of the villagers, and the burning fire were still vivid in her mind. Yuna was speechless for a moment and clenched her fingers until they turned white.

"What is the strength of the leader of that army?" Nolen asked after listening to the girl's story silently.

Yuna whispered: "His strength is above mine. Even the instructors in the academy who are also fifth-level knights have never put such great pressure on me. I am afraid that his strength has already reached the sixth level."

The levels of extraordinary beings are divided into levels one to nine, with level six being a threshold. As long as you break through to level six, you can be called a high-level extraordinary person, and your strength will be qualitatively improved.

Nolen touched his chin: "Since his strength is much higher than that of Qin, and the opponent is a horse race who is good at chasing and fighting, have you ever thought about a question -

"Why can you still survive when there is such a disparity in strength?"

This seems to be an ordinary question, but it is like a sharp sword piercing the girl's heart, tearing off her last dignity and making her face the most unspeakable truth about herself.

Yuna lowered her head and was silent for a long time before slowly speaking: "Because they didn't plan to kill me." They left a living person alive. They cut off the living person's legs and taught the living person that he would never be able to work as a humiliation. The Roland Empire asked me to bring a message to Linfeng City.

"They said: Tell the Imperials that the Lebus are coming to take back their homeland."

Yes, she is the only survivor in Ganlin Village. She is still alive not because she has the ability to escape, but because the grassland people deliberately used her to provoke Linfeng City and humiliate the Roland Empire.

As a knight who values ​​honor and integrity, there is nothing more shameful than this.

However, those grassland people are clearly invaders, but they say they are recovering their hometown?

Nolen frowned and thought, and quickly retrieved a piece of history from the Roland Empire in his mind.

77 years ago, the continent of Eden was still in the Warring States Period, when heroes competed for power. Until the "Sage" Roland came out and led his army to conquer the continent of Eden with the momentum of Qin sweeping Liuhe, integrating all human forces and land into The territory of the Roland Empire.

So far, the whole world is the territory of the Roland Empire. The grassland people were also defeated by Roland I at that time. They were driven away from their hometown. Seeing the Roland people's city built on their grassland, that city was called Linfeng City.

Taking into account the strength and prestige of Roland I, they just endured and lurked silently until Roland I died of illness a year ago, and the gap and hatred that had been suppressed and buried were rekindled.

Now within the empire, the eldest prince and the second prince are fighting endlessly for the throne, and there is no spare force to send troops to suppress the rebellion.

The grassland people seized this opportunity to raise the flag of rebellion and wanted to regain the land they had lost decades ago.

This is really...

Nolen shook his head, fighting at this level was not something he should consider now, and instead said: "In any case, they looted and killed our compatriots, this is an undoubted fact.

"You are the only fire in Ganlin Village. You must live well. They will soon realize how wrong they were in letting you live."

"Well, I have figured it out." Yuna whispered, "I will not die, I want to live. When the day comes to avenge them, I will personally cut off the heads of the prairie people and use their blood as a memorial. my family."

Nolen saw a subtle fire ignite in the girl's blue eyes, and he knew he had succeeded.

It doesn't matter whether this fire is an instinct for survival or a desire for revenge. He will cultivate this fire with his own hands into a natural disaster that can swallow everything and help him clear all obstacles along the way.

"Bang bang bang-"

A violent knock on the door of the alchemy workshop interrupted the conversation between the two, and Nolen frowned and walked out.

"Our store is closed today...it seems like the two adults are not here to do business."

Opening the main door of the workshop, Nolen saw a carriage parked on the street. The carriage was accompanied by several servant guards. Then two black-robed alchemists stepped out of the carriage.

Both of them wear a badge symbolizing "Alchemist" on their left chests. The badge depicts a black ouroboros wrapped in runes symbolizing the four elements of alchemy: earth, water, fire, and wind.

Nolen knew one of them, a director of the Alchemy Society, I remember his name was Wilson.

Two days ago, the alchemist Rusty was killed by a mysterious mage in his alchemy workshop. This incident alerted the city guards, the Mage Tower, and the Alchemy Society at the same time.

The Wilson in front of him was the representative director sent by the Alchemy Society to take charge of this matter.

At first, as the only survivor of the Rasti gold workshop, Nolen became the biggest suspect in the murder case, but he was cleared of his suspicion that night for a simple reason:
The person in charge of the Mage Tower conducted a survey of the scene and believed that the alchemist Rusty died from the "exploding fireball" spell, and Nolen was not a mage, not even a transcendent, so naturally it was impossible for him to do it.

"Mr. Wilson, do you have anything else to do here?" Nolen showed an unexpected expression.

Wilson always had a serious face. He said: "It is about the division of Rusty's inheritance. This alchemy workshop was originally established by Rusty with the funding of the Alchemy Society."

"Now that Rusty is dead, the Society is preparing to reclaim this workshop. I am here to tell you, please pack your bags and leave here before noon tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)