Spring arrived and the snow melted.
Although last year's winter was a snow-free winter for the imperial city, the cold gradually disappeared and the revival of all living things could still arouse people's admiration towards spring.
Spring is the best season.
Lin Ke laid on his blanket and watched the green buds unearthed not far away sway weakly in the wind, but firmly adding a touch of new green to the land. His mood immediately became better, after today, he could be considered to be 15 years old in this world, and it had also been almost a year since he came to this world.
Without realizing it, he had lost the memories of the reinforced concrete city in his mind, adding a few more bits and pieces of this strange continent, the tiredness of Earth's solitary figure entwining itself with the sea of benefits every day, and the color and warmth of this beautiful world.
That's good.
By his side were his friends and friends whom he could trust with his life, and in the distance was his home and hometown where he carried his heart and soul. He was purely trying to create a new world for those who loved him and those he loved, no matter how difficult it was, he would still be happy, right?
Closing his eyes, he felt the sun on his skin. It was cool, warm, and very comfortable.
In the dream, Rincewind returned to the Wind City.
Not the Earth.
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After his birthday, Link began his college life.
After this, the awkwardness between him and Hubert was gone.
After giving the big black horse the blood bead that Nicole gifted it, it fell into a long slumber. However, the enormous explosive earth-type energy rolling in its body made Link feel endless fear.
Days passed.
It was only then did they begin to truly notice that this newly established Elegant Wind Chamber of Commerce, which had silently spread all over the imperial city without making any noise, had already created a miracle in the industry in a short span of half a year, becoming an influential power in the empire's business world in one fell swoop. It had attracted countless eyes, and with lightning speed, Lance and Link's reputation spread throughout the aristocratic circle, turning the entire aristocratic circle into new nobles.
He saw a renewed vigor in Heller, as if it were a dead tree in the spring, and the guard he had poured his blood into gradually began to take on a new appearance. After Lin Ke had thrown down the gold coins to purchase the equipment, he gradually moved towards a truly useful army with a serious military capacity. Although their current task was only to carry out a few escorts in batches, no one doubted that they would be able to pull them out when they needed them.
With the help of a large amount of basic medicine, the leader Leo had already successfully advanced to the sixth stage of Xiong Li, working hard in the direction of Xiong Li High Knights. The other eleven of them had also mostly broken through to the middle stage of Xiong Li, and even the four iron guards who were originally over the age of eighteen but had not been able to successfully activate their energy had been strengthened in various aspects, including a large amount of drugs. Although they were still unable to break through to become professionals, their fighting strength was not much weaker than those who were still at the first stage of Xiong Li.
In the entire Wind City, looking at this position, it could already be considered quite low. To jump from an ordinary position to such a position in just one or two months, no one would believe it without Lin Ke's influence, even if he really didn't say anything.
Ever since the Elegant Wind Chamber of Commerce had risen to prominence in the imperial city, Lin Ke had very rarely attended social gatherings such as banquets and dances between the nobles. Other than the occasional elders who couldn't get rid of his reputation, he had asked Hubert to go and either let Lance go by himself or stay in the academy for the majority of the time.
It was only on this day that Xue'er finally broke through the bottleneck and reached the level of a Demonic Bear Stage Five. As everyone was playing around in the living room, they received a special guest.
He was led in from outside the villa by Xiaohua. In the living room, he saw a group of young boys and girls celebrating with wine vats in their hands, rather than feeling nervous, he openly came over, "This old man came earlier than I did, and I actually bumped into you little guys to celebrate. What's going on, is there a happy occasion?"
"It's a coincidence that Teacher Newman came. Is this wine jar of yours your most prized collection?" To be honest, I've really been waiting for you for a long time, and I thought you'd be reluctant to share it with me! " Lin Ke started chatting with the old man as if he was an old friend whom he hadn't seen for years …
It's not that I can't bear to part with these old wines, it's just that I, Old Newman, was born to work hard and was sent back to the academy after suffering a series of crimes. But speaking of it, your strength has flown up to the sky, and I haven't seen you do anything big that would shake the entire Empire. Not only have you not done anything big in the past few months, you're even someone at the peak of Stage Six, heh heh, you don't have an opponent for the entire first grade, right? "No, that's not right, that little girl, hiss, another bear strength of the sixth stage?"
The old man's turbid eyes widened as he looked at Xue'er, then he turned to look at Xue'er, who was at the fifth level of Xiong Li. "What an amazing young man, you are the worst," he said, nodding his head ruthlessly with a look of contempt on his face, "I remember you are a second year student. You might as well look at a few juniors, you are a good girl, there's a place for you among the top third grade students, what about you?" Why can't I remember a figure like you in the academy? Hm? "Beastmen?!
The living room in the mansion suddenly became quiet.
"Hahaha, not only is Teacher Newman's vision outstanding, his memory is also astonishing. His age is getting stronger and stronger, let's toast to Teacher Newman!" Lin Ke laughed.
"Hey, I, Old Newman, really likes this. Come on, cheers!" Newman poured himself a glass of wine and gulped it down, "Good wine, oh good wine. If I can drink this kind of wine every day, it would be a good life."
"But it's a bit of a waste for people like us who don't know anything about alcohol," Linke said in embarrassment. At least, he didn't sense what was so good about it.
"Isn't it?" The old man glanced at Neil. "Your friend?"
"That's right, that's right. We're friends of life and death, now you can be my guard," Linke said, trying to please the old man by pouring more wine for him.
Don't worry, I've lived for so long, and I've been to the Beastman Empire too, so I've seen a lot of beastmen. Besides, our warlord empire isn't the Light Empire, so you should be considered capable to have beastmen guards by your side, "Newman shook his head as if he was drunk." Do you know why old Newman was sent to do some hard work this time? "