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Chapter 31 Departure, Fengpuling
“I assure you, Mr. Lawson, that I will treat Miss Lani with respect and kindness.”
The male protagonist kept Lawson's instructions in mind.
Next, along the way.
After Lawson ended the topic, he began to discuss with Arthur the materials needed to forge his knight's armor.
He then briefly described the development plan after the forging workshop was built with two villages as its base.
As the saying goes, you don't know someone until you fight them.
After this battle, Arthur and Lawson had a heart-to-heart talk and became quite familiar with each other.
With the added assurance of Leon's status as a comrade-in-arms, Arthur felt perfectly comfortable entrusting him with personnel matters for the Forging Guild.
When discussing the daily operation and management of the forging workshop...
Both of them thought of the same person—Lani.
By this time, they had reached the entrance of Rinfeng Village.
Coincidentally.
A beautiful young woman in a long dress appeared in their field of vision.
Lani stood with her hands on her hips, her back straight, revealing a stunningly rounded curve in her chest.
Lani's cheeks, with the baby fat unique to young girls, were puffed up in dissatisfaction, adding a touch of playful charm to her.
Her eyes were fixed on the two people walking towards her, then she scolded them in a clear, sweet voice:
"Grandpa Lawson, where did you take the little lion? I've been looking for you all over the village for ages and couldn't find you."
"Hehe! My dear granddaughter, I just took the lord out to observe the geographical environment near Linfeng Village, and we were discussing how to build a forging workshop."
Faced with his granddaughter's questioning, Lawson abandoned his senior demeanor in front of Arthur and responded with humility.
"Hmm? Then why does the little lion look so weak and need Grandpa's help to walk?"
But Lani didn't stop there. She approached the two of them, pointing a finger at Arthur as she continued to question them:
"Did Grandpa just fight with the little lion and then deliberately hurt him?"
"No, no, we...we just encountered a third-tier magical beast..."
"Sigh! Grandpa Lawson always talks nonsense."
Seeing Lawson's guilty look, Lani didn't believe his story and sighed, interrupting him.
Then, she pouted, leaned close to Arthur, and blinked her bright eyes.
Lani, abandoning her fierce demeanor towards Lawson, spoke to Arthur in a gentler tone:
"Little lion, you tell me, did my grandfather bully you because he was strong?"
Seeing his granddaughter treat him differently and side with outsiders, Lawson's good impression of Arthur, which he had just formed, was instantly shattered.
Now, he regretted not using the runic power of the mithril warhammer during Arthur's trial, and not giving this brat who had kidnapped his granddaughter a good beating.
No! It should shed two layers of skin.
"I......"
At this moment, looking at Arthur, he was extremely flustered.
Lani's intimate gesture brought a familiar, fragrant scent to his nose.
This made him recall the farce that had happened in his room that night.
Arthur was immediately thrown into a panic.
But Arthur also felt an almost tangible killing intent emanating from the hand supporting him.
He turned his head to look at Mr. Lawson, whose face showed an undisguised malice towards him.
So Arthur swallowed hard, quickly put on a sincere expression, and responded:
“Miss Lani, Mr. Lawson and I did encounter a dangerous Tier 3 magical beast, the Icefang Boar, when we reached that open valley not far away.”
In the encounter with the Tier 3 Icefang Boar, I was almost severely injured, but Mr. Lawson used his thunderous methods to help me escape danger.
In the end, although the Tier 3 Icefang Boar was also severely injured, it still managed to escape.
If you don't believe me, we can go back the way we came and find the traces it left behind.
Ultimately, Arthur's excellent improvisation and vivid description dispelled Lani's doubts about Lawson's statement.
Lani first pursed her pink lips, then tilted her head slightly towards Arthur, revealing a playful and bright smile:
"Alright, I'll trust the little lion this once."
Upon hearing this, Arthur breathed a sigh of relief, while glancing at Mr. Lawson beside him.
Lawson was also pleased with Arthur's explanation, which helped him correct his granddaughter's negative impression of him.
So he suppressed his malice towards Arthur, and a satisfied smile curved his lips.
Seeing this, Arthur couldn't help but mutter to himself:
This grandfather and grandson really know how to cause trouble.
......
The next day, early in the morning.
Snow no longer falls in Rinfeng Village, which is near the northern wilderness.
The rising sun pierced through the morning mist, casting its light on the snow-covered mountains and plains.
Arthur, riding his black-haired horse Nightshade, appeared at the entrance of Rinwind Village.
On the back of the black-haired horse night shadow were two packages, one of which contained the corpse of a third-tier one-eyed wolf that Lawson had processed.
That's right!
He was fully prepared to embark on his journey to Windpud Territory, which borders Blackrock Territory.
Entrusted with the task of refining elemental essences and commissioned by Mr. Lawson, Arthur must travel to Windpull Territory to find a mysterious alchemist.
Last night, after returning to Rinfeng Village.
Lawson dismembered the carcass of the snow-white, over two-meter-long giant wolf, removing most of its flesh and leaving only its thick bones.
Lawson told Arthur that the elemental essence formed from the magic power of a third-tier magical beast after its death is mainly found in its spine and skull.
Therefore, Lawson roughly processed the spine and skull of the third-tier one-eyed wolf, and bound them together with coarse linen to make two packages of equal weight.
This was done to help Arthur maintain his balance while riding Nightshade, the horse with dark mane.
Back to the present.
Lawson and Lani saw Arthur off.
Lani knew about the bad temper of Arthur's black-maned horse. Several times when she encountered Arthur and the horse in the stable, she tried to touch it, but it refused each time.
So, after keeping a wary distance from it, Lani dared to call out to Arthur:
"Little Lion, how many days are you going to Windpull Territory?"
Arthur didn't rush to answer Lani; he carefully noticed Lani's subtle fear of Mo Binma Yeying.
"...I hope you can treat her well and be kind to her..."
At this moment, Arthur recalled the request he had made to Lawson yesterday.
So he decided to start by eliminating Lani's fear.
He pulled on the reins, giving the command to the black-haired horse Nightshade to move closer to Lani.
After receiving its master's command, the black-haired horse Night Shadow first let out a lazy purr, then slowly moved its four hooves toward Lani.
"Little lion, it's not that it doesn't like it..."
Seeing this, Lani took a half step back in confusion.
A look of fear crept onto the girl's pretty face.
Because Lani still vividly remembered the scene when she tried to touch the Black-haired Horse Nightshade and was violently flung away by it.
But what happened next was something she hadn't expected.
After Mo Binma Yeying moved closer to Lani, he surprisingly did not display his usual irritable temper. Instead, he lowered his head, stuck out his tongue, and gently licked Lani's hand.
This made Lani incredibly happy, and her fear gradually disappeared.
She mustered her courage and did what she had always wanted to do—stroking the sideburns of the black-haired horse, Night Shadow.
This time, Mo Binma Yeying did not refuse Lani's caresses. Instead, she let out another lazy purr, indicating relaxation and satisfaction.
"Little lion, what magic did you cast on the horse to make it stop rejecting me?"
The girl blinked her light gray eyes, looked up at the handsome blond youth on horseback, and her pretty face showed an expression of excitement that she could not hide.
"I just told it recently that it was thanks to Miss Lani's great help that I had the time to groom its mane."
Arthur gave Lani a knowing smile, then returned to the original question:
"Miss Lani, don't worry about me, I should be back in three days."
Having said that, Arthur pulled on the reins again and turned the horse around.
"The little lion must come back as soon as he finishes his business, and he must not miss the completion of the forging workshop."
As Lani watched Arthur ride away on his black-haired horse, she cupped her hands around her mouth as if making a trumpet shape, and gave him her final words of advice.
She had heard from her grandfather Lawson that Arthur was going to Windpure to find someone to handle some matters, and that there was no danger on the trip.
"Definitely! I'll leave the matters of Linfeng Village and Hanwu Village to Miss Lani and Mr. Lawson for now. Thank you."
With Arthur's agreement, his black-haired horse, Nightshade, sped up and arrived at the main road where the snow had melted.
Soon, the morning mist enveloped the figures of Arthur and the dark-haired horse in the night.
And so, the man and the horse gradually disappeared from Lani and Lawson's sight.
Chapter 32 Qingfeng Village Doesn't Welcome Knights
Half a day later, just before the long night in the North.
As the last rays of dusk faded, Arthur rode his black-haired horse, Nightshade, and finally entered the territory of Windpud.
When they reached a road sign, Arthur pulled on the reins and stopped.
Then, he looked closely at the sign on the road.
——Qingfeng Village.
Lawson had told Arthur that once they reached Breeze Village, they wouldn't be far from the alchemist's dwelling.
So Arthur began to look around.
He discovered that Fengpuling was located in a plain area with a wide field of vision.
He followed the road sign for "Qingfeng Village" and saw rows of solid wood houses rising from the ground, clustered together.
That should be Qingfeng Village.
In addition, the climate in Fengpu Territory is not as extreme as that in Black Rock Territory.
Although it is September, the dead of winter, there is no sign of snow here yet.
Only a gentle breeze blew from the direction of the Cold Ridge Mountains, stirring the few thin clouds in the clear sky.
As night approached and his horse showed signs of fatigue from its long journey, Arthur decided to enter Qingfeng Village and find an inn to stay the night.
Tomorrow, he will continue his journey to find the mysterious alchemist who has settled near Qingfeng Village.
So, what happens next?
Arthur gently tugged on the reins, slowing down the speed of his black-haired horse, Nightshade, and began to move towards the cluster of houses and buildings in his field of vision.
Soon, they entered Qingfeng Village.
Arthur rode on the back of Nightshade, the black-haired horse, along the paved road.