Throne Steps

Although Noah does not have a high sense of presence in the four-person group, he is the only one who can talk to Mills better.Li Chen didn't expect much from him at first, but he was obviously surprised to see Mills actually talk to Nie Wen a few days later.

"What exactly did you tell him?" Li Chen grabbed Noah and asked, "Why do I feel that Mills is a little crazy?"

Noah just laughed: "His personality has changed for a day or two, and he will be dazzled by a little praise."

Li Chen wondered: "Nie Wen praised him? How is that possible?"

"No need." Noah rarely revealed his complacency, "Imagine with him the scene where his juniors admire him, and it's enough for him to want to move."

Mills was so innocent, Li Chen couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

"He's just not smart enough." Noah actually didn't mention much about Nie Wen, but just chatted casually about the so-called "partisans", "factions" and "little brothers".Of course, he himself doesn't understand it thoroughly enough, but it's still very simple to make up a story to coax a child by combining fiction and reality.What's more, as long as he blows out a little bit, wipes out a little spark, Mills will use his self-righteous cleverness to turn it into a raging flame.

After all, a person who is "talented", "not educated" and "unreconciled" is really the best candidate for "cultivating power" at the moment.It's just that Mills made a decision on the basis of a small amount of information, but he didn't expect that as a "partisan", undivided attention is the most important condition.

At the beginning, Li Chen thought that "what kind of pot should match what kind of lid", half of it was because one of them yearned for Ai Deren, and the other got the favor of Lailier, and they were both careless and lacking in connections with the Highness's lineage.

"Well, at least one thing is right." Li Chen commented, "Watering in the rainy season is not as good as dew in the dry season."

Just two days after Mills and Nie Wen hooked up, Li Chen was taken by Saenz to talk alone.

"I gave you the right to have fun." Saenz sat across the desk, fumbled for the edge of the cup and said, "But don't overdo it."

Li Chen checked Saenz's pinyin homework, but didn't speak.

Saenz smiled, but without any kindness: "Party privacy, faction formation, huh?"

Li Chen stopped what he was doing, crossed his fingers on his lap and leaned back: "This is your idea, I can't comment."

Hearing his eccentricity, Saenz restrained his smile a bit: "The competition hasn't really started yet, and premature internal division is not a good thing."

"From the moment you were born, you have been one of the players of this game, and this game will never stop, and it will never end and start." Li Chen said calmly, "As for the internal structure, His Highness and the second Your Highness will see clearly earlier than you—of course, they are older than you, and they may not be very clever in this regard."

Saenz himself is only a year behind Liliel, not to mention Saenlich's eldest son has graduated from Pesa for several years.The age gap is certainly understandable, but the gap in strength is absolutely intolerable.

"Aideren Meloyer." Li Chen gathered the magic power to write the name on his fingertips, because it is a symbol without magical meaning, and the light path disappeared quickly, "They want to use this name that was born in common people but has nobles The identity guy balances the bilateral relationship. The ideal is very plump, but the reality is very skinny.”

Ai Deren's ability is limited, and I'm afraid there are more times when he is self-defeating.

"Stop your separatist activities!" Saenz interrupted Li Chen, "Before things get worse, before I decide to punish you."

"They... No, we are just children, Your Highness." Li Chen did not immediately agree, "It's just a child's game, not to mention that none of us have background and influence."

Saenz stared at him, apparently checking to see if that was another way of saying "deny."

"The team of civilians and nobles is a problem that can never be avoided. And now Wiggins and Belen..." Li Chen pointed out the two future leaders he had deliberated, and slowly smiled, "Their Strength, I can see clearly. How about you, Your Highness?"

Wiggins is nominally an aristocrat, but compared with this group of politically centralized princelings, he is nothing, and can only be regarded as a commoner.

Saenz was silent for a while, then replied: "I understand one thing."

"Ok?"

"You want to seek personal gain for the populace right now?"

The earlier the condensation, the earlier the operation.The gathering of the nobles is actually unwritten, spontaneous, almost innate instinct, which is too slow compared to the commoners.If the common people cannot compete with the nobles, there will be a bleak note of "not gathering the hearts of the people" on Saenz's report card.

But what Li Chen said was: "I'm just a lackey who is loyal to you."

loyalty?No one will believe it.But Li Chen took the initiative to hand over the weight to Saenz, which is one of "sincerity"; and occasionally "rejecting" properly at critical moments can show his beliefs and win the "different view" of his boss by the way.

The two masters and servants had their own thoughts, and the conversation was in vain.The results were mixed, at least Lichen got further acquiescence from Saenz.

If you want to get the most authorization in the future, you must start to loosen the shackles now.Saenz is hard to impress, and waiting for a reward is definitely not enough.

In order to insist on the daily "Chinese teaching", Saenz set up individual tutoring time for everyone to cover up Lichen's particularity.Li Chen did what he was supposed to do, and did not report further on the progress of the Nie Wen incident.Saenz delegated power to him, but it doesn't mean he doesn't care about it. He doesn't believe that Saenz has loosened his control over the incident.In short, face it calmly and answer all questions.

"Come check my pinyin."

Li Chen picked up Saenz's exercise book and began to check it.To be honest, it is quite interesting to watch such an all-powerful Highness Sarnlich learn pinyin.However, according to this progress, it is estimated that Saenz will be able to conduct basic conversations in a short time.

Saenz took a sip of tea: "By the way, how do you say 'watering in the rainy season is not as good as dew in the dry season' in Chinese?"

Li Chen thought that this seemed to be his own evaluation of the incident during the previous conversation, and secretly sighed at Saenz's memory.

"'Icing on the cake is not as good as sending charcoal in the snow'." He finished the pinyin practice at a glance, and replied, "Just adding patterns on the colored cloth, it is better to send charcoal in the cold snow."

Saenz thought for a while: "I don't think there is any logical connection."

"These are two words. 'Icing on the cake' and 'Send charcoal in the snow'." Li Chen popped two fingers, "One metaphor makes it better when it is good, and the other metaphor just helps when it is urgently needed. They all have their own The story does not come from the same allusion as 'watering in the rainy season is not as good as dew in the dry season'."

Saenz's study is sometimes very casual, asking what comes to mind.At first, Li Chen thought he was still trying to find out the truth, and he would rack his brains to explain as if he was facing an enemy; later, he realized that Saenz was really casual, so the answers became so random that he couldn't remember. just give up.

As for Li Chen himself, who is from the alchemy department, Saenz opened his eyes and closed his eyes to his magic learning, and was not strict.The two got together to practice Chinese and discuss the situation, and what they talked about most was Retia's various human geography.Li Chen is in short supply of information that is really unfamiliar but needs to be mastered, and he doesn't care about face, and often asks unimaginable questions.

"So, the Dragon Clan is extinct?"

Sarn paused, and replied: "Not necessarily, it's just that I haven't seen it for a long time."

This is a long time, longer than the "Human Agreement".The last record about the appearance of the dragon clan was nearly a thousand years ago, and the dragon knight is even more legendary.

"But didn't the epic say 'the last cry'? The ban on the Dragon Islands is gone." Li Chen rubbed his chin.If it weren't for the relics of life on the Dragon Islands, he would have guessed that this was another fantasy proposition of the Raetia people.

"Except for the 'Dragon Rider' mentioned in the epic, there are not many records of seeing dragons at other times." Saenz flipped the pages of the book, "The continent is so big, and there are so many islands on the sea level. There's always going to be places humans haven't gone before."

Li Chen nodded.Indeed, shouldn't the Dragon Clan be allowed to move to another house and stay by themselves?His gaze fell back to the explanatory booklet, and his fingers were pressing the content of the dragon's traits.

It is said that the dragon clan is invulnerable to swords and guns, and its strength is outstanding. When breathing, it is a haze of flames, and its wings are nearly a hundred miles away when breathing.However, such an unbreakable dragon family was also tamed by humans in the distant past, thus giving birth to the No.1—and the only one—Dragon Knight.

"There is one thing..." Saenz suddenly changed the subject, "You will stay for a while."

stay?Li Chen blinked, and then thought that what he was receiving next was Mills' private tutoring time.If there is any good show to watch, the answer is almost ready to come out.

He didn't point it out either, but just smiled and said, "He's willing to give up his own private tutoring time." Noah didn't mention this to himself, probably because Mills made this decision alone.And this time was chosen, probably to intercede with Saenz in private.He made a lot of calculations, thinking that no one would notice, so he didn't know what expression he would have when he saw Li Chen still sitting inside.

"Don't just use your brains on others." Saenz ignored Li Chen's complaints, and just said, "Since they came, I don't seem to have seen you practice magic anymore?"

"Ah, I'm not good at it." Li Chen didn't care much.He has some ideas about magic, but he is still working on it.What is more gratifying is his physical strength. Before the guards made ten laps, he could only do three and a half laps; now that the guards had ten laps, he could do six laps.

Saenz had a half-smile: "If you don't want to be a good alchemist, you have to learn to be a warrior."

Li Chen shrugged.The laboratory materials in Saenz's mansion are ordinary, and almost all the materials that can be made are commonly used in pharmacies, so the practice is of little significance.And he didn't feel pain at first, and now he is relatively dull. Those with "rough skin and thick flesh" are really suitable to be a soldier.It's just that he grows slowly, and seeing the other three kids jumping up and down, he can't be in a hurry.

Small man, good stamina, fast dark magic... Li Chen silently analyzed that this is the rhythm of an assassin!

But he was still red-green blind in the dim light, which I forgot.