Chapter 96 Wedding

Time flies and we enter the Moon of Flowing Fire (July) in a blink of an eye.

This is the day when the sun walks on the earth.

In the Cangjin Empire, this is also the day when the annual Fire Festival is held.

In the Principality of Stars, although there are still two months until the harvest celebration, the people have gradually become somewhat cheerful.

The Jinyan Province is no exception, and it was even enveloped in a cheerful and lively atmosphere earlier than other provinces.

Just because the Marquis of Jinyan Province is about to get married!

As soon as this gratifying news came out from the Lord's Mansion, it quickly spread throughout the entire Jinyan Province like a hurricane.

Sunan, who was immersed in study and cultivation, became one of the last people to know about it.

"That is to say, the eldest brother's wedding is scheduled to be on the day of the harvest celebration."

In the meeting hall, Sunan, who had just learned the news, looked surprised.

"That's right." Keyi said with a smile on his face, "Having fun with the people, what do you think?"

".fine."

It sounds awkward to hear the word "living with the people" from a nobleman.

"Who is the bride?"

"The youngest daughter of the Marquis of the White Tower."

Marriage?

It seems that Key is gradually expanding his interpersonal network.

"I will attend on time on the wedding day." Su Nan said.

After saying this, he was about to leave, but was stopped by Keyi with a smile.

"Don't worry, I have something else I want to talk to you about."

Sunan had no choice but to sit down again: "What's the matter?"

"You are twenty years old this year. Is it time to consider starting a family?"

Su Nan was stunned for a while, and then shook his head with a dumb smile.

For a wizard apprentice who aspires to become a wizard, marriage is such a distant thing.

"I have no plans for the moment."

"Don't think about it anymore? Many nobles come to me and want to marry their daughters and nieces to you, and there are many beauties among them."

"No need." Sunan refused without hesitation.

Compared with wizard apprentices, the life span of ordinary people is too short.

Even a legendary knight's lifespan is at most half that of a third-level wizard apprentice.

If he were to marry an ordinary person as his wife, he would probably end up watching her die before his eyes.

It's not a good thing either for him or for the woman who becomes his wife.

Besides, he has no intention of starting a family now.

Cultivation, study and farming development take up almost all of his energy, and there is no extra thought for other aspects.

"By the way, I have chosen the location of the new magic plant garden, and I will leave the construction to you."

Sunan waved her hands and walked out of the hall without looking back.

Watching him leave, Key shook his head helplessly.

"It seems that the responsibility for the expansion of the family can only be borne by me."

The construction of a single magic plant garden is much simpler than that of a base.

By the Moon of Scrolls (August), the basic construction of the Magic Plant Garden has been completed.

Sunan named it No. 2 Magic Plant Garden.

As for the one in the base, it is naturally called the No. 1 Magic Plant Garden.

In addition to Dragon Blood Fruit and Silver Moon Flower in the No. 2 Magic Plant Garden, Sunan has also designated a third of the area for planting datura grass, golden thorn grass, Ningshen flower and other magic plants.

These are commonly used materials for making low-level potions.

Standing at the entrance of the Magic Plant Garden, looking at the fields of flowers blooming and smelling the sweet fragrance of flowers in the air, Su Nan had a satisfied smile on his face.

When the Silver Moon Flower here matures, he can synthesize a third-level mid-grade transcendent potion.

At that time, the efficiency of meditation can be further improved.

As for the third-level high-grade transcendent potion, there are restrictions that the mental power must reach 34 points and the physical constitution must reach 25 points before it can be taken.

He probably wouldn't be able to take it before he constructed the eleventh star ring.

There are also dragon blood fruits, which can also be used to strengthen physical fitness and reach the level of a junior knight as soon as possible.

"Sunan!"

At this time, a warm female voice came from the sea of ​​flowers, and more than a dozen stunning little beauties, only one foot tall, flew out from the flowers with colorful wings.

These little people are only about thirty centimeters tall. They wear exquisite long skirts of various colors, with bows on their chests and colorful wings on their backs. They are slender and graceful. They wear long boots on their small white legs, making them look very beautiful.

"I want to drink rose water."

"I want honey. Yesterday's honey was so delicious."

"Hurry up."

Seven or eight little people were flying up and down around Sunan, and their charming laughter could not be heard.

The leader also wore a flower crown on his head.

The beauty of her appearance stands out even among all the beautiful little people.

These little people are alien creatures that Su Nan recently summoned.

It's a fairy-like creature called a flower fairy.

Like flower elves, they have little combat power, but they are very good at taking care of magic plants - in fact, most fairy creatures are very good at taking care of magic plants.

Some fairy creatures who have mastered spell-like abilities similar to plant auras are the magic plant managers that many wizards (apprentices) dream of.

It is worth mentioning that flower fairies do not like to tease people like flower spirits.

On the contrary, they are very close to people who look at each other.

The one wearing the crown is the Flower Fairy Queen, named Tia.

In fact, Sunan summoned Tiya at the beginning. After tasting the flower dew and honey synthesized by Sunan, the flower fairy queen immediately agreed to Sunan's recruitment and managed the magic plant garden for him.

And later he took the initiative to summon more flower fairies.

As a reward for guarding the magic plant garden, Sunan only needs to provide them with enough flower dew and honey every month. He can be regarded as a cheap and useful helper.

"Tiya, how is today?"

Sunan took out the flower dew and honey and gave them to the flower fairies, then stretched out his palm for Tiya to fall into his palm.

"Everything is good." Tiya smiled sweetly, "It's just that the mandrake grass is a bit noisy, always screaming, I just need to teach them a lesson."

"Oh, oh, two apprentices came this morning, and I played hide-and-seek with them. Hehe, they couldn't find me all the time."

Nature has given the flower fairies magical self-protection abilities. As long as they hide in the sea of ​​flowers, even formal wizards will not find them easily.

Tiya naggingly told Sunan what happened today, and from time to time she made a series of clear and crisp laughter like silver bells.

Sunan listened patiently and interjected from time to time.

If nothing unexpected happens, the managers of the magic plant garden to be opened in the future will mainly be the flower fairies.

The Flower Fairy Queen has the ability to summon her tribesmen. In the future, whenever there is a need, she can ask Tiya to summon new tribesmen.

From now on, Sunan no longer needs to worry about the shortage of manpower in the Magic Plantation.

However, most things can be handed over to the Flower Fairy, and some work still needs to be done by apprentices.

The third round of qualification tests held by Jinyan Province ended as early as last month.

Compared with the first and second rounds, the third round is larger.

Therefore, as many as eighteen boys and girls finally passed the qualification test.

Now there are as many as thirty-three students in the entire base.

Nearly half of them have already started the Star Ring Meditation Method.

Like Sheman, Corey and Atil, they have already built the second star ring and successfully mastered three to four zero-ring spells.

In addition, Sheman and Atil have successfully made zero-level potions.

In terms of data, the [Potion Making] skills of both of them have reached level 1.

Corey has already mastered the [Puppet Refining] skill.

Thanks to this, Sunan no longer has to waste energy on making low-level potions and refining black rock leopards.

Both tasks were handed over to three students.

Xieman and the other two now basically only accept tasks of making potions and refining puppets.

Tasks such as taking care of magic plants, cleaning laboratories and maintaining golems are left to other newcomers.

"When more people learn to make potions, we can expand the scale of potion sales."

The profitable business still needs to be done, and the scale must be gradually expanded.

After all, as Sunan's strength increases, there are more and more places where money needs to be spent.

Apart from other things, just researching substitutes for magic pattern core materials during this period has cost more than 3,000 gold coins.

Fortunately, the money was not wasted, and three substitutes were successfully synthesized in the end.

Now only 21 rare metals are needed to make up the materials for refining the magic pattern core.

The forest was particularly quiet in the middle of the night.

A group of men in leather armor walked through the forest under the dim starlight.

The sound of insects vibrating their wings came to my ears, like a nocturne intertwined.

The group walked in silence, the rustling footsteps passed through one bush after another, and the cold air and dead silence in the middle of the night made people nervous.

After walking for a while, someone finally couldn't help but whispered to the person leading the way: "Fredrey, how far is it?"

"Almost." Fredrey said without turning his head.

"You said so half an hour ago, how far do we have to go?" The person who spoke was anxious, "You are not lying to us, are you?"

Fredrey looked back at him and said coldly: "If you don't believe me, you can turn around and leave now."

"You"

"Okay, stop arguing!" An older man interrupted the two, "Be careful that the noise is too loud and attracts wild beasts. There are often black wolves here at night."

The man has a high prestige among these people. As soon as he opened his mouth, the person who complained just now immediately shut up.

Fredere glanced at the big man and whispered, "I have seen the mark left before. If we go another seven or eight hundred meters, we will reach the cave I found."

Everyone was immediately refreshed after hearing this and hurriedly quickened their pace.

Not long after, the view suddenly became clear, and a clearing appeared in the field of vision, with a steep mountain wall at the end.

At the bottom of the mountain wall was a dark cave entrance.

In the dark night, the cave entrance was like a bloody mouth waiting for uninvited guests to break in, which looked a bit creepy.

However, everyone was not afraid at all. Instead, they looked at the cave entrance with extremely hot eyes and excitement on their faces.

"Fredere, did you find those silver ingots in this cave?" The big man asked in a deep voice.

Fredere nodded heavily: "Yes, I saw with my own eyes that there is a silver vein deep in the cave."

Everyone looked more and more excited.

A silver vein, even if it is only a super small shallow silver vein, the silver ingots dug out are enough to make them rich overnight.

If the reserves are larger, they may not have to worry about food and drink for the rest of their lives.

"Let's go in!"

The big man suppressed his excitement and led everyone into the cave.

Some people in front and behind the team lit torches consciously, and the bright fire illuminated the scene in the cave.

The big man observed the cave wall and frowned in confusion.

This cave is full of traces of artificial excavation, and the traces are quite new. Combined with the silver veins inside, it should be a mine cave that has been dug not long ago.

But if that is the case, why is there no one here?

And he asked in the city, no one has ever mined in this forest.

The big man was inexplicably uneasy and began to consider whether to retreat and come back after exploring clearly.

At this moment, a low cry suddenly came from his ear.

"It's a silver vein!"

The big man subconsciously looked up and saw a dull silver-gray color on the cave wall.

His heart suddenly beat rapidly.

The desire for silver ingots instantly overwhelmed the uneasiness deep in his heart.

Without hesitation, the big man immediately took off the iron pickaxe at his waist and said excitedly:

"Mining!"

Everyone had been waiting for this sentence for a long time, and they couldn't wait to get started after hearing it.

"Haha, I'm rich!"

"After this, I can rest for several years!"

"This cave seems to be quite deep. There may be other mineral veins if we go further in."

"That's right. Let's go check it out later."

A group of people were discussing excitedly.

Just then, some strange noises suddenly came from the depths of the cave.

Although he was in excitement, his rich adventure experience over the years made the big man notice something was wrong at the first time.

"Quiet!"

"There seems to be something in the cave. Everyone, be alert!"

Everyone immediately put down their pickaxes, drew their weapons, and stared at the darkness deep in the cave with vigilance.

"Squeak!"

In their horrified eyes, a group of rats as big as cats rushed out of the darkness.

"What is this?"

"Rats?"

"How can there be such big rats? Damn, these monsters are so fast. I was bitten!"

The eyes of these rats that suddenly appeared were slightly red, like crazy beasts, attacking everyone with sharp fangs and sharp claws.

What's more terrifying is that they move very quickly and there are many of them.

In the cave with limited space, it is difficult for everyone to dodge and they are soon injured.

"Calm down, defend back to back!"

The big man swung his sword and split a giant rat in half, shouting loudly.

The next second, a dull whistle suddenly sounded from behind.

Before the big man could turn around, he was knocked to the ground by the huge figure rushing from behind.

"Captain!" Someone screamed.

With the flickering firelight, everyone quickly saw that it was a fat and sturdy monster that knocked the big man down.

It had a toad-like head, dark red skin, no eyes, and extremely sturdy limbs.

"Gurgle gurgle!"

The toad monster opened its bloody mouth, bit off the big man's head fiercely, chewed it a few times and swallowed it into its stomach, and then jumped towards the others.

"Ah!!"

The death of the big man made the team completely panic.

Everyone lost their will to fight and rushed to the cave entrance.

Unfortunately, he didn't run far before he was pounced on by the toad monsters and rats that chased him from behind.

Fredley, who rushed the fastest, arrived at the cave entrance first.

Seeing that he was about to escape, he couldn't help but show an ecstatic expression on his face.

But the next moment, a sticky tongue suddenly shot out from behind, wrapped around his waist, and pulled him back with force.

"Ah!!"

The short scream stopped abruptly, followed by a numbing chewing sound.

"Crunch, crunch!"

Not long after, the sound disappeared, and the dark cave returned to the silence of death.