Chapter 356 - Hero“s Home (1/2)

Thanks to Ashrosfin’s reminder, Roland’s team didn’t enter Bianca City but circ.u.mvented it via another road.

The first prince spent most of his time in the city, especially at this critical moment, in order to win more allies and make fewer enemies.

Although the first prince had made a bold statement, and the soldiers of Bianca City had been searching for the queen, it was impossible for them to inspect everybody who pa.s.sed Bianca City. Besides, Roland never really entered it, so the soldiers had no idea that the queen dropped by.

Then, Roland pa.s.sed another two cities and communicated with the chairmen of the Magic Towers. He was quite lucky that both of them were open to communication.

Roland talked to each of them for a couple of days and learned a lot.

The magic apprentices learned a lot too.

Due to this communication and overall traveling time, it took the team almost a month to reach Reed Village.

It was already evening at this moment. The carriages were riding on a narrow, muddy road, and the trees were wreathed by the sunset.

Andonara was rather uneasy in the carriage, probably because she was getting closer and closer to her home.

Roland was still studying the elven spells. He had been considering how to reduce the transformational losses.

Now, he had two options. The first was to reduce the energy cost by changing the effects of the nodes on the elven spells, and the second was to change the structure of his mental power.

But neither of the options was easy.

In fact, there was a third option, which was to create an alchemical device that could store elemental magic power and change its frequency.

Regretfully, Roland did not know alchemy, and he was only a beginner in enchantment.

So, he had to give up the third approach and focus his attention on the first two options, which were more likely to be successful.

When one was completely focused, it was hard for them to sense the pa.s.sage of time.

It had been six hours since Roland devoted himself to magic at noon, but he maintained the same posture and expression. If he hadn’t kept himself from tumbling around inside this shaking carriage, an observer would’ve thought that he was a vivid sculpture or puppet.

The carriages came to a stop before a village.

This village was surrounded by a wooden fence that was laden with mosses. A muddy trail stretched out to the center of the village.

There was a wooden gate on the fence. Seeing the carriages, several kids in dusty, patched clothes opened the gate together.

After the carriages entered the village, Andonara spoke to the driver. “Go straight and take a right turn on the first crossroad. Then stop at the tallest and most beautiful building.”

“Got it,” the driver replied.

About ten minutes later, the carriages stopped before a white three-story building.

Before the building was a fence that had been overtaken by green vines. The yellow and white blossoms on the vines made the fence look like a beautiful wall of plants.

Hearing the carriages, a rather handsome middle-aged appeared on the second floor. Very soon, a ten-year-old boy showed up on the balcony too. They looked at the carriages with great interest.

Andonara sat down next to Roland and shook his arm gently, before she said, “We’re at Reed Village.”

Woken up, Roland was stunned for a moment, before he got out with Andonara.

Andonara saw the middle-aged man and the boy on the balcony the moment she jumped from the carriage. She smiled and waved at them.

The middle-aged man was surprised to see her. He disappeared with the boy from the balcony.

Very soon, they walked out of the building and opened the door on the fence. The middle-aged came close and looked at Andonara and then at Roland weirdly.

He didn’t say anything.

But the boy spoke to Andonara excitedly. “Cousin, you’re finally back! How long will you stay here?”

The boy was rather cute. Andonara petted him and smiled. “At least four to five days.”

Then, Andonara raised her head and looked at the middle-aged man who was standing like a pineapple tree. “Uncle, I’m back.”

“I can see that.” The middle-aged man looked at Roland and asked, “Anna, why don’t you introduce your friend to me?”

Andonara had always been addressed as Anna by her family.

The more the middle-aged man observed Roland, the more shocked he was.

He was a complex cla.s.s and could cast spells, so he had a good sense of mental power.

Andonara, on the other hand, was a purely physical cla.s.s as a Great Swordsman. She could barely sense mental waves.

So, the middle-aged man could detect the astonis.h.i.+ngly magnificent magic power in Roland.

“This is the man I’ve chosen, Roland.” Andonara shyly introduced them to each other. “Roland, this is my uncle, Cage Reed.”