With An Jie's help, Lena Leslie, who briefly treated her injuries and put on a clean long dress, entered the temporary lord's tent with Xia Houyan with a weary look on her face, and began to tell her story with sobs.

:

Lina, now nineteen years old, is a third-level intermediate fire mage certified by the Magic Association;

And in June last year, she graduated gloriously from the City Mage Academy ahead of schedule with her advancement speed far exceeding that of her peers.

Like most magicians of this era, Lina did not choose to become an unguaranteed free mage. Instead, after graduation, she went to the employment market of the Magic Association in order to find a nobleman as her long-term patron.

——Lina, who had no social experience, was hired by the Rock Creek City mage group who was eager to recruit people, and has since become a member of the official mage team of the Grand Duchy of Houston.

After that, things went very smoothly - young Lena Leslie read romance novels and drank southern wine every day in the well-paid mages of Rock Creek City. After hanging around for half a year, she finally received the job she wanted in her career.

The first task:

Together with several other members of the mage group, under the leadership of the chief mage Ander Spencer, they rushed to the Soul-Splitting Land to assist the elite knights of the "Pride of the South" Knights to uproot an unknown noble territory!

The naive Lena Leslie never expected that what she thought would be an easy assignment like a vacation would eventually turn into a complete nightmare:

Assigned to follow Deputy Knight Commander Garcia, she was first injured in the leg by an explosion caused by a "Molotov rocket" and was forced to stay next to the ballista. She watched in horror as her seriously injured colleagues died one by one.

Then he was taken as a prisoner by the Shuangmangling militiamen who were cleaning up the battlefield and kidnapped back to Phoenix Terrace.

Lena Leslie, who had been pampered since childhood and had never even seen human blood a few times, almost suffered a mental breakdown after experiencing this human tragedy. The cruelty of war was completely beyond the imagination of this mage lady.

No wonder she had no intention of resisting and poured all the information she knew into the Lord.

To be honest, Lina, who had just been hired by Rock Creek City for a few months and was not a core executive of the Grand Duchy of Houston, was actually just a paid worker, and it was even less likely that she knew any valuable information about Rock Creek City;

But as the interrogation progressed, Xia Houyan discovered to his embarrassment that the female mage Lena Leslie was actually an acquaintance of his in every sense of the word...

When Lina was at the Citadel Mage Academy, her tutor was Mr. Hugh Hosseini, a distinguished professor at the Rand Institute for the History of Magic - although in terms of departmental classification, Lina was a rising star.

She is a mage, but her real major has always been the study of the history of magic.

Coincidentally, Professor Hosseini was one of the teachers with whom the lord had the best connections when he was studying in the city. The reason why he was able to steal a large bag of drugs was indispensable to Professor Hosseini Akari.

Great help in secret.

Although all the magicians in the world are from the school city, and most of the empire's magicians are basically alumni of the magician academy, due to Professor Hosseini's relationship and the fact that both parties are relatively close in age, Lena Leslie can actually be regarded as a lord.

Your classmate, brothers and sisters...

What's even more outrageous is that the Lord is shocked to learn that he has always been Lina's secret crush!

——When Eliot Igor was studying in the school city, with his noble status and handsome appearance as the eldest son of a duke, he often flirted with women and owed romantic debts, and he was also the dream lover of countless girls in the school city——and Lina Lai

Sly is no exception. This young girl with a heart full of youth even sent love letters to Eliot more than once.

However, Elliot, who had many female companions around him at the time, basically didn't notice the red-haired junior sister. Xia Houyan also racked his brains and found Lina's figure in a corner of his memory.

In sharp contrast to the Lord's lack of care, during the interrogation, Lina suddenly recognized that the Lord of Frost Maple Ridge in front of her was actually her secret lover in the school city. The depression and panic on her face were simply wiped away.

The empty space was replaced by the subtle attitude of shyness and expectation unique to young girls. The rapid change made even the Xiahou officials who had lived two lifetimes marvel.

"I didn't expect you, Senior Elliot, to be the lord of Frost Maple Ridge. This is really..." Lina wrung her hands and bit her red lips, looking resentful as if the other person was some kind of scumbag who always gave up.

Xia Houyan opened his mouth but was speechless.

The enemy prisoner being interrogated suddenly turned into his junior sister who had a crush on him. This huge gap made him a little unable to react.

Xia Houyan was very lucky. Fortunately, Lina was not tortured to extract a confession just now. Otherwise, he would not know how to face Professor Hosseini, who has a deep friendship with him...

But at the same time, he had a headache: both emotionally and rationally, it seemed difficult for him to deal with this mage girl who was both a junior member of the sect and a hostile force in Rock Creek City...

As a result, Lena Leslie seemed to see what he was thinking, her cheeks were slightly red, and her voice was as thin as a gnat:

"Study, senior, I...I won't go back to Rock Creek City...I want to stay with you...Anyway, I'm working for others anyway..."

The lord looked at Lina in astonishment and found that the girl's ears quickly turned into a lovely peach color.

The ancients said that a drunkard does not care about drinking. Looking at Lina's intention of staying in Shuangmaple Ridge, it seems that it is not just as simple as finding a place to work...

"Ahem... let's talk first..." Xia Houyan straightened his expression and said seriously, "Of course we at Shuangmaple Ridge welcome talents like Lina to join, but we can't afford Houston's high salary for the time being...

…”

Lina rolled her eyes at him shyly:

"Senior, I am your prisoner. Even if I work for you for free, it is in line with the empire's tradition... And... I, I don't value money that much..."

"Oh?" Xia Houyan raised his eyebrows, "Do you want anything else as reward? Magic scrolls? Weapons and equipment? Gemstones and crystals?"

Lina blushed and hesitated for a moment, then suddenly stood up and whispered into the lord's ear:

"Senior, there seems to be a bed in this tent..."

…

Xiahou, a high-ranking official, does not claim to be a gentleman.

Therefore, he could only say that Lena Leslie, a mage junior, had a pretty good figure.

When the two of them sneaked out of the tent after the "interrogation", they both looked a little unnatural.

"Ahem, so, Lena Leslie..." A certain scum in the lord world cleared his throat and pretended to be authentic, "From today on, you will be hired as a member of our Frost Maple Ridge mage group!"

"My legs hurt so much..." Lina lowered her head deeply and gently rubbed the injured area on her legs with her hands.

Xiahou Yanquan pretended not to hear.

Seeing that the lord didn't express anything, Lina snorted slightly dissatisfied, and then smiled happily:

"Senior, senior, how many people do we have in our Frost Maple Ridge mage group?"

——This mage girl, who was originally a worker in Rock Creek City and had no loyalty to her customers, obviously had no psychological burden for her chic surrender to the enemy. On the contrary, she had a proud look like "I've made a lot of money now."

"Two... ah no, including you, it's three." Xia Houyan almost forgot to include Master Laurie's apprentice Wilson.

The smile on Lina's face stopped.

"Just...just three people?" she said with a smile.

"We are a small territory and there is no way we can compete with those big nobles." Xia Houyan shrugged, "Um... you should take good care of your injuries. We have a big thing to do in our territory in the next few days."

"What a big deal, so mysterious..." Lina nudged her senior with her elbow.

"Do you believe me when I say I'm slaying a dragon?"
Chapter completed!