After retiring, I became Loli’s magic mentor

"Cinderella?"

Ryan was stunned for a moment.

"Because Cinderella in the story planted a branch in front of her mother's grave, and the branch grew into a big tree, attracting birds, so Daisy also brought a branch with her on her way back."

Delly said with a smile: "But Daisy couldn't find her mother's grave, so she simply planted the branches in the yard."

"Uh……"

Ryan looked at the bare branch and twitched the corner of his mouth.

This must be impossible to survive, right?

"I was thinking about buying a sapling when I have time and secretly replacing this branch."

"It won't be of much use to replace it. Winter will come soon, and the saplings will not be able to survive by then, and Daisy will only be more sad."

Ryan shook his head: "Let's just let this branch grow here. As time goes by, Daisy will naturally realize that it will not grow into a big tree at all."

"That's it..."

Delly lowered her eyes slightly. In fact, she still wanted Daisy to see the branches she planted turn into big trees, so that Daisy could always maintain her pure and beautiful heart.

Seeing Delly's reaction, Ryan thought for a moment and threw a healing spell at the branch.

The green ball of light was quickly absorbed by the branches, but other than that, there was no other movement from the branches.

"That's all I can do. Whether you can survive or not depends on you."

Ryan sighed. The branches had become like this. Even with the healing technique, the probability of taking root and sprouting was less than one tenth.

Delly looked happy and bowed slightly to Ryan: "Thank you, Mr. Ryan."

"There's no need to say thank you for following me. By the way, Delly, I have to go out for something later and I'll probably be back soon. I'll leave dinner to you. Remember to bring me one."

Ryan waved his hand, then got on the horse and spoke to Delly.

Delly nodded: "No problem, I will work hard, Mr. Lane, have a safe journey."

After explaining the matter, Ryan turned around on his horse and ran towards the Otis family's mansion.

The residences of the Ash family and the Otis family in Art City were quite far apart, and it took Ryan a galloping horseback ride for almost half an hour.

This time is enough for Ryan to go back and forth from the mansion to Alcott College.

From a distance, Ryan saw the luxurious mansion of the Otis family and the two attendants who were already waiting at the door.

Noticing Ryan's black hair and eyes, an attendant immediately stepped forward and said respectfully:

"Is this Mr. Lane? Your Excellency has been waiting for you for a long time. Please come with me."

Ryan nodded, got off his horse, and another attendant immediately stepped forward to take the horse away.

Shouma didn't feel threatened by the attendant, so he didn't struggle and followed the attendant obediently.

Ryan followed the attendant who greeted him into the mansion.

Although he hates Ryan, he is still the leader of the Corruption Knights, so Timo still has to give him the most basic courtesy.

After entering the mansion, Ryan looked around the mansion and saw neither Timo nor Yvette.

"Mr. Lane, your Excellency is waiting at the sword testing ground. Do you need me to prepare anything for you?"

At this time, the attendant spoke.

Ryan shook his head: "Take me directly to the sword trial field."

Hearing this, the attendant was startled at first, but he didn't ask anything and took Ryan directly to the backyard of the mansion.

Walking into the backyard of the Otis family's mansion, his vision suddenly opened up. Only then did Ryan realize that the Otis family had transformed the entire backyard of the mansion into an open-air sword testing ground.

Should we really say that we are worthy of being a knight family? The entire sword testing ground has all kinds of training facilities, which are even more luxurious than the mansion.

At this time, Timo, who was wearing silver-white armor all over his body, with only his head exposed, was holding a knight's sword, standing like a sculpture on the sword trial field.

Yvette stood aside, obviously arranged to watch the battle. When she saw Ryan, she nodded towards Ryan.

Stepping on the hard and thick floor tiles of the sword testing ground, Ryan walked step by step to the opposite side of Timo.

Dimo slowly raised his eyes and said in a cold voice:

"If you want to fight against me, you don't even wear a set of armor. You're still wearing a butler's uniform that has limited mobility?"

Hearing this, Ryan smiled lightly and raised his hand to straighten the collar of the butler's uniform: "This dress is much more convenient to wear than armor."

"Humph!"

Dimo still snorted coldly and raised the sword in his hand: "Draw the sword!"

Seeing this, Ryan also took off the long sword wrapped in the scabbard from his waist, and took a stance facing Dimo.

Looking at Ryan's black scabbard, Dimo ​​frowned and said angrily:

"You don't even draw your sword, are you looking down on me?!"

"Not really. Believe me, if you knew what was wrapped in the scabbard, you wouldn't want me to draw the sword."

Ryan responded calmly.

Timo raised his eyebrows suddenly: "You..."

However, the next moment, Ryan was seen charging forward with a long sword in his hand!

Ryan was still in a hurry to return to the mansion, but he didn't have time to exchange trash talk with Timo.

In the blink of an eye, Ryan rushed in front of Dimo, swung his sword and slashed at Dimo!

Although Ryan's long sword was still wrapped in a scabbard, Dimo ​​did not dare to underestimate him at all and quickly raised his sword to resist.

However, just when the two swords were about to hand over, Ryan's sword was suddenly covered with a layer of raging fire!

Yvette's eyes suddenly lit up as she watched the battle. This was the sword skill of a magic swordsman!

"clang--"

"boom!!"

The long sword with flames struck Dimo's sword, and the flames exploded suddenly, forming a huge fire between the two people, and a raging heat wave spread out with the two people as the center!

Feeling the heat wave coming towards her, Yvette became even more excited!

Is this the power that the Demon Swordsman unleashes in actual combat?

Timo's burly body flew out in the smoke of the explosion, his feet leaving two long black traces on the ground, and he finally managed to stand still.

After standing firm, Dimo ​​gasped for air and lowered his head. He saw that the armor on his body had become a little red and hot, and the knight's sword in his hand even had slight cracks.

Shouldn't the first round normally be testing each other? What does it mean when you come up and enlarge your moves? !

At this time, a wind element formed by magic blew up, blowing away all the smoke and dust on the sword testing ground. Ryan, holding the long sword, slowly walked out of it, safe and sound!

When he saw Ryan's appearance, Timo was completely stunned.

What kind of monster is this?

Even if there is really a gap between him and Ryan, shouldn't there be such a big gap?

--I lost.

Although they only fought for one round, Timo already understood that he had lost.

Perhaps he had underestimated the man who had become the leader of the Knights of the Eclipse at such a young age.