The Troublesome Hero Among the Heroes

Deep in the night sky, there is a round moon.

Under the round moon, there are ten thousand mountains covered in red, a maple wood forest covering them like a blanket.

This vast maple forest spanning hundreds of kilometers from east to west in the west of Northlands is located right between the farming area in the south and the nomadic area in the north. Here, the lush maple forest as well as the life within it wild beast and ferocious devil beast have become the dividing line between two different civilizations-Agriculture Civilization and Nomadic Civilization.

Those paths passing through the maple forest have become the link connecting the two civilizations. Every year, countless merchants, adventurers and scholars pass through these roads to and from the two civilization areas.

On the western side of the central region of the maple forest, there is a connection to the nearby the southern exit, a manor is brightly lit at this moment, the cheerful sound of music drilled through the windows of the house Coming out, crossing the wall made up of big trees, you can vaguely hear it even in the village of the freedmen two hundred meters away.

The square in the village is very lively, filled with all kinds of luxurious meat sprinkled with spices and small children around the table with tall wine barrels, and they are full of people who are not eligible to enter the lord’s manor. Of adult and child.

Children’s happy laughter and cheerful voices are more from boiled pork strips sprinkled with a little pepper in their hands. Adults know who has given it all.

(๑^o^๑)۶[]: "Happy birthday to our Charles Young Master!"

People who have already drunk their faces raised their circular tree engraved wine glasses , Use the maple syrup in the glass to celebrate the eighth birthday of the little lord.

In this age when catching a cold and catching a cold may have to bet your life, stepping into the eight-year-old threshold means that illness can no longer kill a child as simply as killing a slime — —No matter is the child of royalty, a noble, a freeman, or even a slave —take away from that poor parent.

The congratulatory voices that broke out in the village were no less than the sound of music in the manor. The sound breakthrough was blocked by the high tree wall and hit the house.

At the moment, the sound is already an arrow at the end of its flight. Except for a few powerful people in the banquet hall, no one else has heard from the sound of music. Little interference.

And people who heard the blessings of the freedmen again did not care about this. This place's owner Megadon Family treats the people kindly is a tradition since ancient times. If someday the people are right Lord Hengmei was cold, and that was news.

At this moment, the host and guests all smiled and looked at the pair of virgins dancing the first dance in the center of the dance floor.

On the main seat outside the dance floor, sit a middle-aged man who is tall and well-proportioned and a middle-aged man who is as strong as a bear.

The tall and well-proportioned middle-aged man is wearing a set of silk dresses that are as bright as a maple leaf and outlines a simple but not simple pattern with golden silk threads tonight-family pattern in this world The color of Zhang is commonly used as the color of formal dresses-at the same time, he has a pair of gold glasses on the bridge of his nose, and the whole person looks gentle and has a scholarly flavor. He is exactly this place's owner-Count Megadon.

As most of the territory is the count of maple forest, the coat of arms of the Megadon Family is a red maple leaf that outlines the Phnom Penh.

The one who can sit with Count Megadon at this time is his neighbor Marquis Hermanrick.

The Marquis is trusted by the king, and specializes in managing the noble in the frontier area. Equivalent to the commander of the border military area of ​​a kingdom, it is the kingdom's first line of defense against external aggression.

Although human nations have ceased war with the green skinned beastmen in the north for more than three hundred years, occasionally some beastman bandits flee to the humankind's territory to rob homes, or some devil beasts in the maple forest will step out of the maple forest. , And they all eventually became a foil to the mighty feat of Marquis Hermanrick.

Marquis Hermanrick's bear-like sturdy body protects the land of the northern frontier of the kingdom. He is the object of wandering bards keen to sing within a hundred miles.

At last year's Marquis Hermanrick's 40th birthday party, today's birthday party protagonist-Charles Megadon-made a song dedicated to him celebrating his achievements as a birthday gift.

Eyes wide like the full moon

Emitting wisdom like sparks of lightning

Eyes wide like a black bear

Listen to everything suspicious Sound

I sharpened the double-edged battle axe and patrol everywhere

You brought us peace of life

Aha~Aha~Hermanrick

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Aha~Aha~Hermanrick

The people of the northern border salute you

Salute you

Salute you

Now this song has become the opening song for wandering bards in Marquis Hermanrick's domain.

Marquis Hermanrick immediately rejoiced. He asked Charles: "Charlie, would you like to be my son-in-law?"

Charles glanced at Cynthia Hermanrick next to him. Then he tilted his head and asked in a childish voice: "What is'son-in-law'? Can you eat it? How to eat it? Is it delicious?"

From then on, Hermanrick Family began to get married at two families. Secretly made a dent in the matter.

Mrs. Hermanrick continuously praised Charles on Noblewoman’s Sand Dragon for being clever and smart. It would be nice if she had a son like this.

The surrounding Viscount and Baron’s ladies understood Mrs. Hermanrick's meaning after a few times. They followed Mrs. Hermanrick, Charles Young Master, and Miss Cynthia. They were so talented and beautiful that the Demon ghosts felt that they were not a good match. .

So, at Charles' eighth birthday party, Mrs. Hermanrick, who occupies more than half of the two-seat sofa, asked Madame Megadon on the side to test the marriage between the two.

"The child is still young." Madame Megadon covered her face with a feather fan made from the tail feathers of the unique birds from the Southern Spirit Spirit Tree. , When the time comes, let’s see what the children mean."

If you say that the age of eight means that the Gates of Hell passed through childhood and enters the teenage years, then the age of fourteen is the end of childhood and comes to equivalent to Half an adult’s youth.

At this time, the youngsters finished their basic education and began to carefully plan their future path.

Seeing that Madame Megadon was just delaying time, Mrs. Hermanrick relaxed, at least she didn't object.

Then she became jealous of the feather fan in Madame Megadon's hand. Elf products must be high-quality goods, especially in this Northlands far away from the Southern Spirit Spirit Tree.

Being married to the Megadon Family is not a temporary intention of the Hermanrick Family, but a deliberate decision.

Megadon Family is an extremely special family in Northlands. They are independent lords who are not attached to any kingdom.

Generally speaking, such independent lords mostly appear during the collapse of the kingdom and every time the kingdom collapses at the end of the Demon God war.

It's that those independent lords either look for thigh allegiance after seeing the form clearly, or they can't see the situation and are swallowed by others, or they become big bosses themselves.

Lords who can remain independent are generally located in the barren mountains and unruly rivers, areas that are not cost-effective to conquer.

Lords like the Megadon Family who sit on large tracts of land and are still independent for more than 300 years, this continent is really rare.

After all, standing behind them is someone who cannot afford to offend.

The big guys who know the mystery know that all of this was acquired by the founder of the family with wisdom, blood, and life in that extraordinary battle more than three hundred years ago.

As a barrier to the north, it is necessary for Marquis Hermanrick to befriend such a family.

The most effective means of friendship between nobles is marriage.

When the dance music ended, two little fellows who brow beaded with sweat on the dance floor left the dance floor, Mrs. Hermanrick asked the maid to give each of them a refreshing snack, and then let them together Cool off in the back garden outside.

Not long ago, the entire northern region had been raining for four or five days in a row. It was not clear until noon today, when the garden was cool.

Of course, please ignore the mosquitoes flying in the garden. Before Young Master entered the garden, they had been killed by the magic thrown by the maid.

For Mrs. Hermanrick's act of cooking on behalf of the chef, Madame Megadon on the side just laughed and said nothing, and then began to show off to Mrs. Hermanrick the jewelry and cosmetics from the Spirit Tree Sea inadvertently.

The dance party in the banquet hall officially began, and gentlemen began to invite beautiful ladies and young ladies to dance together.

However, the gentlemen tonight were suddenly and quietly told that when they and their dance partners are deeply affectionate, they are forbidden to go to the back garden to further explore the true meaning of life, otherwise the tools of crime will be confiscated.

The secret order from Mrs. Marquis Hermanrick made the gentlemen on the dance floor complexion changed. Your family has a big fist and you have the final say, and then began to recall the topography of the welcome garden in front of the manor.

The back garden outside the back door of the house is where Master holds private events. At this moment, the silver white moonlight in the garden is all over the ground, and the breeze is accompanied by Insect Cry.

There are no other people here besides Charles Megadon, the protagonist of today's birthday party, and his dancing partner Cynthia Hermanrick, who are sitting side by side on a stone bench.

It is not easy to finish an opening dance on this midsummer night. Charles and Cynthia are already brow beaded with sweat after leaving the dance floor, and their faces are flushed.

"Um~ delicious!" Cynthia said while taking the spoon out of her mouth, "It's still your maple syrup slime freeze, which is delicious. Those flowers and fruity slimes in the palace are delicious. freeze is not so delicious."

"When spring and father went to royal capital, the second Her Highness the Princess asked me to eat rose-flavored slime freeze. I didn’t look good because I didn’t think it was delicious. She thought I had never eaten it, so I will eat brace oneself."

"Then bring a few slime back when you go back." Charles put a spoonful of cold slime freeze into his mouth. The faint sweetness of maple syrup immediately occupied his taste buds. The taste of slime freeze is better than the jelly eaten in the previous life. It is smooth and has a little elasticity. A bite of ice-cold slime freeze swallows his stomach, which was brought by the opening dance just now. The heat suddenly lost a few points.

At this time, Cynthia stretched out the spoon and dug a spoon from Charles' cup and ate it.

"You still like to eat it with a mild taste." Cynthia said while eating, "Slime must be taken home. Whoever makes the whole continent is only your family who can use pure maple syrup to be extravagant to feed it. Ah slime."

Among the slime foods of various flavors, the flavor is not added later, but is formed when slime feed enters its body during daily feeding of slime.

It's like lamb. The sheep in the north eat grass differently from the sheep in the south, so the smell of sheep in the south is heavier than the sheep in the north. This is because different grasses contain different substances, which makes the flavor components in mutton slightly different.

As one of the two largest sugar production families on the continent, the maple syrup produced by the Megadon Family in Northlands is well-known in the continent. Only the white granulated sugar produced by the southern sugarcane can compete.

Who makes the native maple syrup contained in the maple tree in this world have other things besides sugar, and only the Megadon Family has mastered the core technology of purification and production of other high value-added products.

Charles didn't answer Cynthia's words, but was eating his slime freeze faster there. He didn't plan to dig a spoon from Cynthia's cup, because Cynthia's taste is too strong, and he doesn't like it to death.

At this time, Cynthia suddenly said: "My father wants me to marry you, do you know?"

Charles shrugged, continue to eat and say: "Of course I know. I’m afraid the nobles around this thing know about it."

"What can I do?" Cynthia put the empty cup aside and said grimly, "I don't like you at all."

"Me too." Charles nodded in response.

After that, the two children are sighed by appointment.

The two were childhood sweethearts who grew up together since childhood, and the relationship is also very good, so the parents of both sides have misjudged them.

The relationship between the two of them is simply "I treat you as a brother, but my parents want me to fuck you".

Cynthia has something that others don’t know, but Charles can tell that she is severe father-con.

As Cynthia who grew up listening to stories such as father riding alone and killing bandits, axe and demon wolf, she has unlimited admiration and yearning for father.

She told Charles last year that her goal is to become a brave warrior like father, and then marry a warrior as mighty as father.

At that time, Charles was looking at a novel titled "The Brief Tale of the Elven Princess, the Evil Dragon, and the Great Sage" in the library left by grandfather. There are more than three hundred in the novel. The elven princess —— currently Elf Queen —— Victoria, who was traveling on the continent a year ago, was taken away by an evil dragon. Then Great Sage, whose reputation is still widely acclaimed by the people and officials, went to dragon's cave, defeated the dragon and took the dragon as his subordinates, and then gained the heart of the elven princess while rescuing the elven princess. Charles once asked an authoritative person to verify the authenticity of this book, and the other party's answer was "hehe".

At that time, Charles said to Cynthia: "You can beat a dragon to obediently listen to you, and then let that dragon help you guard your future husband."

While the martial power of the husband in mind is in line with father, the figure of Cynthia in mind husband is also in line with father.

Marquis Hermanrick's most popular nickname is "Bear of the North", and the biggest reason is his figure.

And Charles and his father are both tall and well-proportioned, which in Cynthia's eyes is as thin as an arrow shaft.

Cynthia dislikes Charles because of her body. Isn't it true that Charles?

Cynthia is only two months younger than Charles, and her birthday will be in the fall. At this time, she has developed much better than girls of the same age.

Today's Cynthia is wearing a silver white Gothic loli dress, and this dress is made of fabric with excellent elasticity. This prevents Charles from worrying that Cynthia's fat belly and arms will burst his clothes while dancing.

The figure of her daughter is in line with her parents, and the bear-like bodies of her big brother and elder sister have already revealed what Cynthia will look like in the future.

This is far from the beauty standard of Charles in mind.

"I have a plan." Cynthia said to Charles, "but I need your cooperation."

At this time, Charles became alert. After all, Cynthia is about to be eight years old. Although the plan says that the overwhelming majority are all pranksters, this is not a reason for Charles to relax, because she can still make big news.

"Don't you think about playing fleeing marriage?" Charles glanced at Cynthia.

Cynthia reads a book with Charles in Charles grandfather's library after she is literate. As a result, she regards the content of many novels as truth.

Last spring, she just learned how to throw a small Fireball, she encouraged Charles and Charles' elder sister Mira to follow the maple syrup collection team into the mountains, saying that she wanted to protect her with her own power like her father Freedmen.

As a result, there was an accident when I entered the mountain, and it was a major event that almost got my lunch.

So now Charles has to watch out for her to come up with a bad idea according to the routine in that novel.

"Aren't you going to the City of Knowledge to study when you were twelve years old." Cynthia said, "When the time comes, I will go with you, and my family will definitely agree. When I get to City of Knowledge, no With the restraint of the family, I can find my in-minded husband there."

Charles helplessly speak, he has to admire the family education of the Hermanrick Family, and the children educated by the military family are like that. Smart?

"Does anyone want to go to the City of Knowledge?" An old man's voice sounded behind them. Although this voice is a bit old and slow, it has a magic power that makes the listener feel very comfortable. .

"Nun!"×2

Charles and Cynthia immediately jumped up from the stone bench, and then stood there respectfully.

An Old Lady dressed in white Dalmatica decorated with golden silk thread stood in front of the two children. Her face was covered with wrinkles, and her long hair was exuding a touch of white light. A branch was twisted into a bun behind his head.

At this time, she looked at Cynthia, who had just finished talking about her plan to deceive her family, with her kind eyes, making Cynthia feel very sorry.

There is a custom in Northlands. The midwife who talks about safe delivery and the mother will be your half mother before you become an adult. If the parents are not there, the midwife can discipline the child she delivered, and she can also draw with a stick. When the child becomes an adult, he is obligated to support her after the midwife loses the ability to work. The original intention of this custom is to encourage midwives to work hard to improve their own standards, in order to improve the survival rate of newborns.

And now standing in front of the two of them, this one who retired from the post of Radiant Shrine Saintess at the age of 30 came to Northlands to practice medicine and preaching for more than 60 years. During this period, there were countless living people and he was called " Holy Angel Nun of Miracle that Walked the Earth happened to be the midwife of Charles and Cynthia.

So planning to deceive the family and was arrested. The current Cynthia has a cold sweat on his forehead.

"If you want to go to City of Knowledge, then you have to pay attention to your studies." After speaking, Holy Angel Nun sat down on the stone bench.

She first took Cynthia to sit down next to her, turned her head and said to Charles: "Charles, your father is looking for you, I will talk to Cynthia for a while."

Ignoring Cynthia's cry for help, Charles slipped back into the banquet hall. At this moment, he was thankful that he had not answered the conversation, otherwise he would have been trained together.

Holy Angel Nun several decades as a day in the Northlands, healed countless patients regardless of high or low, faith and race. Its reputation is so high that even the beastman on the northern grassland will give her face. Therefore, eight years ago, the pope of Radiant Shrine visited Northlands in person and held the canonization ceremony in the Hongye Church where she was. It is said that during this period, the god of light had the Oracle descended.

So not to mention Charles and Cynthia, the two children, even if they are the fathers of the two, one has money and the other has punches, they are as well-behaved as their grandsons in front of Holy Angel Nun.

In the banquet hall, Count Megadon, who was sitting on the sofa by himself, saw his son come in. When he came, he pulled him to sit down beside him and whispered: "Come, Charles , I take this opportunity to teach you how to get useful information at the banquet."

"Look at the two people talking near the gate first."

"That's Alberbach Baron and Alberhart Baron." Charles recognized the two. "Their ancestors belonged to the same family, so they all have a wild boar on their coat of arms." Count Megadon satisfied nodded, remember Information about the families around the territory is a compulsory course for every noble. Obviously, the eight-year-old son has done a good job in this regard.

Then he said: "Pay attention to the expressions and movements of the two of them."

I don’t know that the conversation between the two who have become teaching props does not seem to be very pleasant, and finally They soon broke up and separated.

"Recently, they have disputes over the ownership of a piece of woodland due to historical issues." Count Megadon said to Charles, "Tonight is their last chance to negotiate. It seems that they have not negotiated. , So the two of them should go to war soon."

Charles is nodded on the side. It is normal for nobles to fight for the ground, but he hasn’t seen the battle between nobles in this world. Kind of.

After that, Count Megadon asked Charles to pay attention to three people who were talking happily.

Two of the three, Baron, fought last year over a fish pond the size of a football field with a lot of fish, and now it looks like they are being moderated by the mediation of a viscount .

When the clock in the banquet hall rang nine times, today's birthday party ended.

Starting from the representatives of the free people, the guests say goodbye to the host here in descending order of status.

At the entrance of the manor, each guest's entourage can get a basket, which is filled with maple syrup feeding the big slime.

The servants are cleaning up in the banquet hall. Charles is at the small restaurant with his parents at the moment, and they begin to exchange what they have seen and heard at the banquet tonight.

"Charles, you have something to eat first." Madame Megadon put a piece of raisin cheesecake in front of Charles.

The products in this place are not rich. In addition to slime, Charles usually has a hard time eating snacks made with eggs, raisins and cheese.

It was just a while ago that Charles' elder sister Mira went to a distant place to study, which made him unhappy for a while. In order to make his son happy, Count Megadon spent a lot of money to prepare various foods and snacks, trying to make his son feel better.

While Charles was eating the cake, Madame Megadon informed her husband that Mrs. Hermanrick was trying to get the children to marry.

"Charles, what do you think?"

Count Megadon does not treat child as something that can only execute its own commands like some other nobles, but will give full consideration to child's proposal Views.

"If you are interested in Cynthia, then we will consider agreeing to this matter." Count Megadon said.

"She doesn't like my type, and I don't like her type." Charles replied.

Count Megadon relaxed, if there is something interesting between two children, then they are not good to be evil.

And Madame Megadon smiled at Charles' head and asked: "Son, what kind of wife do you want to find in the future?"

"Like a mother!" Charles at the moment Smile like a flower.

The mother continued to smile and stroke her son's head with satisfaction.

At this time, his father stood up and said to Charles: "You have finished the cake and come to the study to find me."