Throne Steps

The wise housekeeper knows that as long as the swan flies back to this yard, it won't leave until it stays for a while, ranging from a few days to more... There is no upper limit.Sure enough, the butler reported that the guest room was ready while ordering people to eat, and Little Swan didn't object at all.

As night fell, the housekeeper led the way, and the two black youths followed the pure white color, talking to each other half a step behind, flipping a small gadget in their hands from time to time.They walked through the corridor to the dining room. Whether it was a coincidence or the butler's instruction, they didn't meet a fourth person along the way.The young man who had just been recruited into the secret guard lay in the dark, and asked the captain in a breathy voice why His Royal Highness Saenz would personally bring a guard to dinner, but was severely knocked on the head by his captain.

Where are the guards? They were the black swans who forcibly made the dark guards retreat twice in order to climb the wall of His Highness's courtyard for fun!

In fact, Li Chen is not talking about any serious business at this moment, but casually chatting with Saenz.It is true that he still has work to report, but it is all on the way to dinner. As a standard "caring little padded jacket", he will not use serious work to be aggressive.Besides, in this place with good audio-visual access, although it seems that there is no one else, who knows if there is anyone who should not be able to hear in the dark.Li Chen is not lacking in understanding, how could he miss the bottom here?

The butler was not with them at meal time.Li Chen sat on the left hand side of Saenz, and served the leader with vegetables while eating something he liked.Saenz has cultivated himself for many years, so he doesn't eat too much for dinner; Li Chen has just finished his mission from Samuel, and he is exhausted with only half his life left, so he naturally has a bigger appetite.However, Li Chen didn't dare to ask the leader to wait for him after eating, so he could only serve Saenz leisurely, asking the leader to extend the dinner time.

Seeing that he was speeding up his eating while adding some of this and that to himself, but he still wanted to maintain an orderly look on his face, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Eat yours, don't bother."

Li Chen responded and reduced Bu Cai's movements.In order to be good to the leader, he wore the ceremonial uniform of the guards to meet people, but he was tall and straight, and his muscles and bones, which were already tired in Samir, were even more tired.He couldn't make big movements while eating, and the plastic effect of the uniform forced him to eat with an elegant demeanor.In order to get through the meal, he distracted himself by answering Saenz's words casually, and sometimes telling a joke.

Saenz actually noticed this too, seeing the child's slightly anxious and helpless expression, he felt amused in his heart.He didn't ask Li Chen to wear a uniform to meet him, and making clothes for him every year was just to define the identity of "Li Chen".This time, the child knew that he had done something that would make him angry, so he wore this to please others, but instead he cheated himself.For this kind of person who thinks about things with eighteen bends, shooting himself in the foot is really the most fun thing.

However, the reason why Li Chen can make Saenz get used to his frequent appearance of moths is because of the attribute of brazenness.When he realized that his boss "built happiness on top of other people's pain", he just shrugged and smiled: "Well, it seems that I will make a fool of myself in the future, so that you can be more happy."

Saenz would not take up this topic.He saw Li Chen talking to himself with his messy hair, and asked, "You don't want to cut your hair? Haven't you always had short hair?"

Li Chen raised his hand and smoothed his hair: "I came to see you just after I came back. I only had time to tidy up a little, and I haven't cut it yet."

Saenz wanted to say how long it would take to cut his hair, but when he thought about how often this guy was injured, he would have to wait until he died, so he had to walk around in front of him before going to the doctor, and fell silent again.Affected by the Siren's Song, he will always be more impetuous in summer, and this happens to be the time when Li Chen often comes to his side to sing theatrical tunes.Saenz has been "reversely nurtured" by Li Chen for so many years, and he consciously thinks that it doesn't matter if he doesn't control himself very much in front of Li Chen occasionally, and sometimes he follows Li Chen's words and sends out evil fire.After he finished losing his temper and accepted Li Chen's "apology" for showing weakness, he realized that he had lost his temper for such a biased and funny thing before.But the good thing is that Saenz vented on these insignificant things, and he can endure it for a while.

Saenz also knew that this was actually Li Chen's trick.One is to talk about irrelevant things to let myself vent, so that I don’t have to panic about the business anymore; the other is to deliberately talk about things to slow down my rhythm and reduce the irritable feeling brought about by the pressure of fast-paced work.This kind of method seems to be more suitable only for Li Chen to use it.Saenz used this "objective reason" to convince himself, and acquiesced in Li Chen's actions.However, according to the housekeeper, Li Chen, a child with deep eyes and unscrupulous means to achieve his goals, will repeatedly act like a monster in front of Saenz, which is entirely Saenz's habit.

The housekeeper's idea is not unreasonable.After all, Saenz often gets angry according to his heart, and more often when he is irritated.

After dinner, Li Chen wanted to continue to communicate with the leader, but was kicked by Saenz to wash up for treatment and have a good rest.

On the second day, Li Chen got up early to do morning exercises with Saenz's escort team.But even in the past few years, his physical skills still can't keep up with the intensity of the guards' morning exercises.In addition, he has just recovered from his injury, so it is better to say that he is walking at the end of the crane than following the exercise.After following for a few laps like this, the captain of the escort team carried people back to the courtyard just like how he couldn't keep up with the morning jogging team back then.

The butler received Li Chen from the captain early in the morning, remembered his Highness's order, and then sent him to the training ground dedicated to Saenz.Saenz originally thought that the child would stay up late for a few days due to fatigue and injury, but he didn't expect him to get up on the first day, so he guided the child by "hand in hand"—in fact, "beating"—the child was given a meal.

"Your Highness, the sword has no eyes!" Li Chen was still in a slump, but was fully awake under Saenz's sword attack.What he held was not the rapier in his cane, but a refined dagger of about the same length.Saenz held a three-foot green blade with a hidden cold light, and the speed, accuracy, and accuracy of his sword were comparable to those of top fighters who really used swords.If Lichen's swordsmanship is remarkable among alchemists or even magicians, it can only be regarded as mediocre compared to fighters, and it is even more impossible to compete with Saenlich, the strongest fighting force in Retia. on a par.Facing Saenz's sharp attack, Li Chen dared to fight it head-on at first, but he had only walked less than [-] rounds under Saenz's hands, and he decisively avoided it by moving coquettishly.

"Don't just hide!" Saenz stopped him, "Try to find a gap to attack!"

That's easy to say!Li Chen had no choice but to raise his sword to block while slandering. The heavy force of Saenz's sword caused him to take advantage of the situation and let go of most of his strength, and took another step lightly to the side.At this time, it wasn't that he didn't dare to attack because he was afraid of the leader's face, but that he really couldn't do what he wanted.Saenz's swordsmanship is superb, and he is lucky not to be poked. Who will have air traffic control and when will he attack?

However, his swordsmanship is far behind, and Li Chen is good at cheating.When Saenz's sword struck again, Li Chen made a gesture to retreat, but threw a crystal from his hand skillfully.Saenz noticed at a glance that the crystal was coming towards the edge of the sword, so he twisted the fixed sword posture, and flicked his wrist to hit the square crystal back.Hearing only a "clang", Fang Jing who hit the side of the sword was not shot back, but shattered in an instant.Saenz took two steps back, but it was too late, a layer of ice visible to the naked eye quickly condensed on the sword, and the cold air climbed up Saenz's wrist along the hilt, instantly freezing his hand and the sword together !

The unexpected situation didn't make Saenz stunned, before Li Chen could throw out the second square crystal, the pure white left palm pushed Li Chen, and a strong wind threw Li Chen two feet away.

Li Chen did self-protection, although he fell heavily to the ground, he was fine.He simply lay on the ground and couldn't get up. He couldn't help it, he was too tired to fight against Saenz.Saenz is also a strange guy, even if he is skilled enough to beat people heartily, he can go around his mansion three times, but he is willing to beat up Li Chen for fun.No matter how resentful Li Chen is, he can't save the leader's face, "giving up his life to accompany the gentleman" again and again.

Saenz did not pursue him either.Noticing the pure white color of the ice layer that was loosening quickly, the magic power circulated in a circle with a thought, and the ice layer melted quickly.The hands and sword quickly returned to their original state, but the appearance of water droplets was still a little funny.Saenz shook his hand indifferently, and asked, "You made a new thing?"

"Ah." Li Chen sat up, "But for the sake of fragility, it's not easy to keep. The effect is just to bluff people, and I don't plan to do more."

The freezing effect is one of the functions of the square crystal that Li Chen researched at the earliest time, and now he is still in the process of pursuing more fragile, faster freezing, and lower temperature.If it weren't for the storage space, Li Chen wouldn't bother with such explosives.If you put it in your pocket like other crystals, you might freeze yourself anytime.

But Saenz seemed a little interested: "What is the principle?"

Li Chen thought for a while: "A kind of solid, when it directly turns into a gas, absorbs a lot of heat from the surroundings, and then it becomes refrigerated."

Saenz asked: "Directly from a solid to a gas? What?"

dry ice.Li Chen wiped his face: "It's not clear, it's not easy to keep anyway, I didn't study it deeply."

Saenz looked at the child: "Do you still have it on your body? Give it all to me."

"Why, you want to make ice to eat?" Li Chen guessed casually, but he stood up honestly and walked in front of Saenz, holding both hands, and immediately gathered ten small square crystals in his palms, "Look at this It’s fast, it’s actually just a superficial effect, and it’s also suitable for making cold drinks.” My leader is irritable in Xia Tian, ​​and eating some cold drinks may be able to reduce the fire.

Saenz grabbed his hands and took them away one by one, then asked, "Is the space full?"

Li Chen nodded honestly.

"Take out the important things, and give me the ring." Saenz looked at Li Chen's neckline, where Li Chen hung the ring on a thread, "Ask someone to help you tidy it up and move it to a bigger one." in space."

"Eh?" Li Chen was stunned for a moment, "Are you going to change the ring for me?"

"Yeah." Saenz took back the scabbard and put the sword back, with a flat expression, "A few days ago they refined a bigger one, which is enough for you."

Li Chen himself is an alchemist and knows how difficult it is to make a space ring.This thing not only consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, the key depends on luck, whether there is space, and how much space there is, even the refiner himself can't count.For a mercenary group as big as Yanying, the whole group didn't have a space ring, which shows how precious it is.Of course, Yan Ying may not be unable to afford it, but he just feels that this is not a good way to spend money.But no matter what, Saenz's tone now sounds like "a bigger radish has grown in the field and replaced your small one", which is an absolute local style.

Li Chen thought for a while and asked, "Can I not return the small one to you?"

"Do you want to use it together?" Saenz paused, "But with your mental strength, I'm afraid you can't accurately distinguish the two spaces. In case you are in an emergency..."

Li Chen pretended to be coy and said: "I, I take it as a token of love from His Highness..."

As soon as Saenz's face turned black, he instantly felt irritable and wanted to kill the child: "Do you want to practice drawing sword three hundred times a day?"

Because Li Chen's short sword is stored in the short staff, and the short staff has a spiral mouth, it is difficult to pull it out.Back then Saenz thought that Li Chen's counterattack was slow, so he asked him to practice the sword drawing three hundred times a day for a month.Although Li Chen is an adult with a lot of self-control, he was still exhausted by the terrible basic training. In the last few days of training, he would suffer from periarthritis of the shoulder.

Now that Saenz said this again, Li Chen immediately became honest: "I made a mistake, Your Highness, and I will give it to you in the afternoon."

Saenz knew that he was pretending to be good on purpose, but the appearance he had trained was really miserable, and he couldn't continue to lose his temper, so he could only turn around and leave: "Go back and pack up and have breakfast."

Li Chen followed behind him: "Yes."

After walking for a while, Saenz said again: "If you want to stay, you can stay, but you are not allowed to share it until you have insufficient mental strength."

Li Chen smiled and said: "Thank you, Your Highness, I will follow your instruction."