With the year's end approaching, even the Northern Wasteland near the Great Desert could feel winter's chill.
Dean lifted the tent flap and entered, extinguishing the Magic Crystal that had burned through the night. Only then did Chen Cheng, who had been sitting here reading documents all night, realize that dawn had come.
"Is it already light? I didn't expect to spend the whole night reading."
Chen Cheng set down the document in his hand and stretched.
Dean, who had put away the Magic Crystal, spoke at that moment:
"Your Majesty, you should wash up and have breakfast first. I happen to be returning to the Kingdom of Moss with the merchant caravan today. Your Majesty and the others can travel with us and take a look.
You can also see which place along the way would be best to expose this route."
At Dean's reminder, Chen Cheng remembered that he had sent Dean and A Da's four brothers to the Kingdom of Moss.
Things had been too urgent yesterday, and there was much he had forgotten to ask.
Thinking that he would soon return to the Kingdom of Moss, Chen Cheng felt the urgency of a wanderer returning home.
Thinking of Wisdom Shield, Fini, Melinda, and Isabel, Chen Cheng truly could not wait any longer.
"Is that so? Then I'd better hurry."
With that, Chen Cheng rose and walked outside.
After washing up and eating breakfast with the soldiers in the camp, Chen Cheng found Noah and the others playing with cannons at the firing range.
This was their first time seeing such a peculiar weapon as artillery.
It did not even need magic power to operate, yet it could fire so far and unleash terrifying might capable of splitting mountains and shattering rocks.
Liphia in particular, the newly