The plateau valley is located at the northern end of the main mountain range of Mount Targon.
Due to the influence of the geographical environment, the climate here is more suitable for the growth of crops, so it is one of the best places for many Rakkor people to live…
If you exclude the threat of hordes of barbarians.
Iura’s farm is far away from the Rakkor gathering place, at least leaving the dense wheat fields, passing through the valley that almost reaches the skyline, and then walking a long distance.
Even if Iura was strong in her youth, she would have to get up before the sun rose to go to the Lakor market from here, and then come back in the evening.
Iura’s farmhouse is not too big. It was once the residence of Paras and the place where the two of them got married.
Because Pantheon possessed Atreus’s body, the priests of the Solar Cult recognized Pylas’s merits and handed over his family property to Iura.
Since then, she has never left the plateau valley or traveled far.
The firewood crackled in the fireplace.
Atreus helped Iura lay out the wooden cups that looked old, and sat down to watch her get a bottle of aged honey from the darkness of the warehouse.
“This is mead that I made a long time ago using honey, malt, sage, sunflower and some herbs. It’s a few years old.”
Iura uncorked the bottle without any distress, poured half a glass for Li Lin and Atreus respectively, and hesitated for a moment when she looked at Zoe.
“I don’t want to drink Sun Tea. I’m tired of drinking it. I also want to drink Honey Tea!” Zoe shouted, “I thought about it more than a thousand years ago.”
Hearing her tell her age, Iura almost lost her grip on the bottle, and Atreus also looked shocked.
You know, it has been more than thirty years since Pan Sen took away his body, but Zoe actually said that she wanted to drink mead more than a thousand years ago…
“Are you sure you want to drink?” Li Lin glared at her helplessly, “Have you forgotten the last time you cried and shouted for a drink in Pi City? I gave you a sip. How did you react?”
Zoe recalled the scene when she was tortured by the bitter alcohol that choked her throat. Zoe, who originally wanted to taste the honey club, smiled slightly awkwardly.
Looking away from the mead bottle as much as possible, she said hesitantly: “Well, then I’d better drink sun tea…”
Iura poured herself half a glass of wine with a smile, put the cork tightly on the bottle, walked to the fireplace and put on thick gloves, took down the red teapot on the shelf, poured a cup for Zoe, and then Place the teapot in the center of the table.
“Then you’re in luck. I spent all day making hojicha today, and it tastes really good.”
Zoe couldn’t wait to pick up the tea cup and pour it into her mouth. It was not too hot at all.
Savoring the long-lost taste, she licked her lips and immediately stretched her little hand to the teapot in the center of the table, whose surface temperature had not yet cooled down.
“Be careful!” Iura warned in alarm, but Zoe didn’t take it seriously.
She grabbed the handle of the teapot and poured herself another cup. Her soft, white hands when she put down the teapot were clean, and they didn’t look like they were burnt at all.
“She has the power of the Twilight Stars.” Atreus reminded.
“Do you even need to say this? Of course I can see it!”
Iura glanced at the man next to her with a rather unhappy tone. She immediately raised the wooden cup and drank the mead in it.
She stood up with her hands on the table and said to Li Lin: “I’m going to see if the toast and vegetable stew are ready.”
Then, Iura left the house lamely and walked along the corridor to the kitchen on the other side.
Atreus stared at the background of her departure until she disappeared around the corner of the corridor, and then shook his head helplessly, “Iura… her temper is still the same, but it is much better than when she was young.”
“People will change, not to mention that it has been decades.” Li Lin smiled slightly and looked at the man opposite him, “So, you had a pleasant conversation today?”
Atreus was silent for a while, “Iura was shocked by my return. She hugged me with tears and told me to come in and rest. We talked a lot until I saw Pylas’s sword, and then asked what it was. How did you come back from the top of Mount Targon…
“You saw what happened after that. She asked me to chop down all the firewood in the yard, and then she got into the kitchen and said she wanted to prepare dinner tonight.”
Li Lin couldn’t help but sigh in silence.
It seems that Atreus is also a straight man who doesn’t know what to say on any occasion.
Zoe still held the sunflower tea and tasted it slowly, and in her hand was the delicious pastry she just touched from the teleportation circle. She didn’t need to pay for it herself, Zhinao would help pay for it.
The air in the room fell into a brief silence.
After a while, Iura shouted that dinner was ready and called Atreus to help prepare it. Li Lin got up with him.
“Are you ready for training?” Li Lin asked in the corridor to the kitchen.
“Do you want to start tonight?” Pan Sen raised his eyebrows and rubbed his calloused palms, “But I promised Iura that I would stop the bandits who have gathered in the northeast…”
“You don’t even have the power of the star spirit, how can you resist the barbarians with one against a hundred?” Li Lin asked.
Atreus took a breath and paused for a moment, “I still have some undissipated star power left in me. I think I should be able to handle it.”
“You don’t have to worry about the bandit problem, I will help you solve it.” Li Lin shook his head, “Time is tight, we will start training after dinner.”
The night was long and there were many dreams. Li Lin was worried that the longer it went on, Atreus might no longer be able to awaken the war constellations in the sky, so he wanted to start early.
“Just tonight?” Atreus asked in surprise.
With his current physical condition, there was no problem without rest. He was just surprised that Li Lin was so anxious.
The house made of wooden boards and stones was not very soundproof, and the two of them did not actively lower their voices. Iura in the kitchen could easily hear their discussion.
When the two of them walked into the kitchen, Iura wiped her hands on her apron and looked up at Atreus, “What about tonight? What are you going to train for?”
Atreus glanced at Li Lin beside him and explained: “Li Lin said he wanted to help me rekindle the power of the war stars…”
“Huh?!” Iura said with a long nasal voice, and her face full of traces of time was full of doubts, “Didn’t you tell me that the war protoss is completely dead?”
She quickly walked to the window again and looked through the window at the night sky full of stars. “Even the war constellations are extinguished. How can you have the power of the stars?”
This sentence was not only asked to Atreus, but also to Li Lin.
“By… fighting?”
Atreus turned his eyes to Li Lin for help, but he kept a mysterious smile, “We’ll find out after dinner.”
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The vegetable stew and white bread were put on the table, and they didn’t taste very good.
With the harvest from the farm and the pensions provided by the Burning Sun Sect to the heroes’ families, Iura’s living conditions are quite acceptable.
It’s just that spices are a luxury product that is more precious than gold to the people of Mount Targon. The ability to use salt for seasoning surpasses the Rakkor people in many other areas.
After drinking and eating, Atreus put on his equipment again, and followed Li Lin and Zoe with Iura.
With the twilight star spirit here, it was just a matter of summoning the portal with a thought to where he wanted to go, but it saved Li Lin the effort of teleporting the Tyrant warriors.
Several people came to the foot of the mountain away from the farmhouse and fields through Zoe’s portal, and arrived at a dilapidated and empty field.
This was once the place where Paras and Iura trained, and Atreus often came here to “get beaten” with them. It had been some time since they had joined Lahorac.
Looking at the dilapidated training mannequin covered with moss in the corner of the training ground, Iura felt longing for what she saw, and tears welled up in her eyes.
Atreus opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but fortunately Li Lin reacted faster and grabbed his arm in time, interrupting his train of thought.
Otherwise, with his stupid words, he might add salt to Iura’s already scarred wounds that would never completely heal.
“Let’s start training.”
Li Lin raised his chin and motioned for the man to stand in the corner of the training ground.
Atreus put on his war helmet and stood at the designated position. The spear in his left hand rotated in a circle, and the muscles all over his body squirmed, showing his strength as a warrior.
But when he saw Li Lin actually walked to the “spectating seat” next to him and sat down, he was startled.
“Huh? Didn’t you fight me?”
Li Lin smiled at Atreus, “When did I say I wanted to fight you?”
“Then who should I follow…”
Before Atreus finished speaking, he saw a blue-white energy as tall as a person tearing apart the space and whipping up a gusting wind.
In the shocked eyes of him and Iura, ten robots that were similar to humans and almost identical came out of it.
“Is this a machine?” Iura said subconsciously, “It’s called Hex, right?”
As for Beatrice, her farmhouse had entertained many passing travelers, so she had naturally heard of Piltover’s deeds.
“Yes or no, my mechanical engineers once used Hex technology, but now they are completely divorced from magic.”
Li Lin didn’t explain much, since neither Iura nor Atreus could understand it, and Zoe was even less interested in their origins.
Now she just wants to see the mechanical engineer beat up Atreus to repay her grievances for being yelled at by Pantheon…
“These are my mechanical engineers. They are not good at fighting. You fight them first.”
Before Atreus could say anything, Li Lin ordered the mechanical engineer: “As long as you can’t beat him to death, beat him to death.”
