Knights of the Light

March is the day when the sun can be seen in the sky of the ice sheet, and this country where half of the time is in the dark will always seize the time to start the subsequent survival.

Fish when the sun shines, store food when the sun shines, and travel far when the sun shines.

Today is a very sunny and breezy day. There are several cracks in the ice layer on the coast of Whispering. Most people in the fishing village go fishing along the cracks in the ice. Only a few people stay in the small room made of ice and snow.

A silver-haired young man took the dried catches from the wooden pole and packed them in bundles.

Putting away the last batch of dried squid, the silver-haired and red-clothed young man called in a group of radish heads.

"This is your food for the past six months. Each of you will have one share. After collecting it, go to Grandma Page. Do you understand when I come back?"

The three identical little radish heads shook their heads at the same time and said loudly, "No!"

"This is not a discussion, this is an order." The young man's facial features are profound, he is a kind of sharp and handsome, and his golden eyes stare at the children. The kind of deterrence that comes from the soul can make the timid people surrender directly. revolt.

"We're going to work too!"

"We're going to make money too!"

"We want to raise Dad too!"

The three little radish heads spoke in unison and did not back down.

"You are still young." The silver-haired young man frowned slightly. In fact, he didn't want to leave the children behind, but the Spiral City is too far after all. It will take a long time for the children who have lived in the ice field to adapt there, and they will easily get sick. .

"We can also plow the land, Uncle Andy said, even a child can easily pull that kind of plow there." A child picked up a piece of ice and scraped it into ice rice with his beautiful snow-white hands Point, "It was easy for us to earn rations in the past."

"Yes, we want to eat candy, maltose!" After eating the candy in the south, the biggest dream of the children in the ice field is to go to the south and eat candy every month.

"And Eve, she said that she delivered letters in the south and earned more money than her father who built roads." The last child gave an example to prove that the reason why they were young was not valid.

"Eve is of the blood of the Dread Demon King with wings, but you didn't bring them." The young man still didn't want them to go.

"But ordinary humans can go there, we are not as good as ordinary humans." A child showed sharp claws and scratched a sharp voice on the ice wall, "Our strength is three times that of ordinary people, find A very easy job."

"Yes, we have inquired. There is nothing we can't do, such as building roads, sending letters, plowing land, building cities, and collecting. If you pass the entrance examination, you can still get a fixed salary."

"The four of us earn money together, and we will soon be able to save enough money for fertilizer."

"Then you can apply for a piece of land and cultivate it yourself."

"Then you can get fast-growing crops in a month, and you can buy clothes and sugar with the money you sell."

"And a wooden windmill."

"Ragdoll!"

"The legendary music box!"

"And a big house that can be ventilated!"

"The legendary two-story wooden house, the three of us can sleep in a big bed."

"You can also grow beautiful flowers in the yard, live ones, not the specimen ones!"

"There are fruits, soft ones, not the kind harder than ice!"

"You can see green leaves every day, not the yellow ones that are dry and hard to eat!"

"And their legendary magic theater! It sounds the same as the truth."

The three children became more and more excited as they talked, and finally completely ignored the silver-haired youth.

"I said you..."

"Father, if you are alone, how long will you have to work before you can buy them for us?" The leading child turned his head sharply and asked with piercing eyes.

"..." The young man was speechless, pressed his forehead helplessly, and said, "But I can't take care of you. And I heard that child labor has been banned in Spiral City, and children under the age of 14 are not allowed to work."

"If you don't tell me, who knows if we are 14 years old?"

"That's right, we just grow slowly. It's normal that the growth speed of demon blood is different from that of ordinary people!"

"Don't you love us anymore?"

"No!" The young man was dizzy from the quarrel, and argued, "Now people don't listen to your age, but children whose height is less than my waist can't go to work..."

Before he finished speaking, the three children in front of them grew claws on their feet, easily reaching the height he said.

"What you just said is not the most important reason," the young man said seriously, "Now that human beings know our power, they especially like to catch you half-demonized children and sell them to slaves in places further south. The incident of the child’s disappearance has happened, it’s dangerous for you to go…”

"We're already at the third level. Ordinary humans who are above the third level can go to the army as captains."

"And we're running fast..."

"So the most important reason is that Dad doesn't want us anymore... oh..."

"Father doesn't want us anymore... woo—"

"Ugh-"

The three children hugged each other and cried loudly at the same time.

The youth wanted to cry when they cried.

Suddenly, the animal skin curtain at the door was lifted, and a rough voice came in first: "What are you crying for, children, there is good news."

"What good news?" The young man raised his head and asked.

"Spiral City has decided to open a school in our reclamation site. You only need to pay a small fee to go in and study. We don't have to worry about the children being taken care of," a man with a bald head and a beard walked in excitedly, "The village The people here decided to take all the children there, and this time, we will go together."

The three children were extremely happy, and looked at their father expectantly.

The young man also breathed a sigh of relief, but he suddenly thought of something else, looked up at the strong man, and said hesitantly, "We're all gone, what's your Majesty's side?"

"Your Majesty has always supported us to leave. Have you forgotten that he asked us to lead the team to explore the way first when we went to the Spiral Tower?" The strong man's expression was also a little gloomy, "He is the greatest prophet, no What makes it difficult for him to dismiss us members of the guards is to help the people of the country to settle down there.”

"I know all this, but if we take all the children away, will he think that we don't want to come back?"

"We are all gone, so His Majesty can leave. Our country is the shackles that bind him. This time he has a chance to get rid of it. We should be happy for him."

"You're right." The young man was a little disappointed, "Has the registration in our team been done?"

"I have already gone to the main city to file for the record. They welcome us to set up our own construction team. Now our people should have obtained the construction contract for the road between the new town and the main city." Speaking of this, the bearded man was very excited.

"There are earth magicians on the human side, who are very strong opponents. Have our people found the mage?"

"No, let's talk about it later, children, let's pack up and go together!"

"Okay! Thank you uncle!"

"We love you the most!"

The three children jumped up and hugged their uncle and kissed him fiercely.

"..." The young man covered his forehead helplessly. Does the school really care about these children?I always feel that they are going to heaven.

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"More than 20 people have crossed the border—" Alan was about to roar, "Are they really going to move the whole country from the north?"

"It's understandable." Percy served lemonade to my darling, and comforted me. "After all, you run a school. Once the children are taken care of, they won't have any worries."

"I just don't want child labor anymore," Alan said after taking a big gulp, "I don't want to see children who only reach my thighs carrying stones, and I don't want to see children go to my ironworks to open furnaces—— God knows that my heart will stop when I see them doing such a dangerous thing, and there are so many people, where can I find a teacher? Is it too late to cancel this decree now?"

"Now that the news has spread, they are all on their way. If it is not spread, they will definitely not want to turn back." Percy analyzed calmly.

"Then what should we do now?" Alan was going crazy.

"This... we can only ask for help from the Holy City." Percy kissed his lover to calm down his irritability, "The number of teachers in our side is almost exceeding the standard, and it shouldn't be difficult to transfer them. Father will do this kind of thing. It is supported, but we have to pay another sum of money, and our funds are still good."

Not only is it a good thing, he invented the sewing machine in Alan (his mother has a manual sewing machine, she often repairs and oils it by herself, and I remember the general structure) and the cotton gin (thanks to my father who is a mechanical engineer, but unfortunately only the simple ones can be restored. After the cotton gin forgot the structure of the textile machine), their textile and garment industry here is simply a rapid development!The people in the south are looking for teeth all over the place.

Their cloth and clothes are certainly not as good as those exquisite jacquards and printing and dyeing in the south.

Problem is, they're cheap!

And as long as this price advantage is maintained, more talented people in the textile industry will come, and they will naturally bring higher technology. As for how to mechanize on a large scale, we will talk about it at that time.

"Has father praised us recently?" Alan rubbed his arms in his arms.

"Of course, he said you did a good job."

"Of course." Alan thought for a while, "Using healing potions as raw materials to prepare growth potions can solve the food crisis, but this kind of behavior consumes the fertility of the soil very much, and chemical fertilizers have to be put on the agenda."

"Your alchemy is definitely fine."

"Honey, industrial production and laboratory are two different things... But there are difficulties to overcome. To be honest, there is reinforcement magic. My research on high-pressure synthesis method should go much smoother. After all, it was also the test center of chemistry class back then."

"Say I write a few books on basic physics and chemistry to educate students." Alan squeezed his paws suddenly, thinking that in the future his students would have to learn various magic formulas in addition to mathematics, physics and chemistry, plus time for meditation practice... The day will be very happy.

"You have the final say." Percy had already started to figure out how to charge the make-up exam fee.