Feng Chou sighed softly and pushed this thought to the back of his mind for the time being. Then, he thought about whether he could ask Glise to help him get a new identity.
In the past, he didn't dare to trust this woman. Now, on the one hand, he had completely merged with Leo's memories, and the feeling he had for this woman was completely different. Coupled with what had just happened, he felt even more intimate with her.
However, Feng Chou didn't dare to be careless. After all, he didn't have the right to make mistakes.
Thinking of this, Feng Chou turned around and gently stroked Glise's beautiful face to wake her up.
Glise lazily opened her eyes and reached out to hug Feng Chou's neck. She gently stroked his handsome face with an infatuated expression. "Leo, why do I feel like you're even more handsome than before..."
Feng Chou reached out and grabbed his hand, a smile appearing on his face.
Glise looked at his smile and her eyes lit up. "Yes, your smile and your eyes. You're more confident than before..."
She gently stroked his long eyelashes and said, "In your eyes, there's a strength that has never been there before... and... fierceness!"
"Oh!
Poor Leo, is this what those terrifying Drow gave you? "
Feng Chou gently stroked her neck. "I've grown up, haven't I?
A man without a father will always grow up quickly... "
"My poor Leo..."
Feng Chou's palm gently stroked Glise's soft lips and stopped her from speaking. He took out a brooch from his pocket and gently pinned it to her messy bra. "This is for you."
This brooch was made by Qiankun Pagoda using the classic design plans in the database. It was very beautiful and made Glise's eyes light up. She reached out to stroke the brooch and sighed. "It's so beautiful. I like it very much."
Feng Chou smiled, got up, walked to the desk, picked up a small statue, and walked back.
The sculpture depicted a mage apprentice struggling to move forward with an umbrella in the wind and rain. The umbrella in the apprentice's hand was overturned by the strong wind, and the mouth of the bowl was facing the sky. Looking at the face of the apprentice, it was Feng Chou.
He placed the sculpture beside Gloria's pillow and said, "Gloria, I can't always be by your side, so let this sculpture accompany you. I carved it myself."
Gloria picked up the statue and kissed it gently. "Leo, you're becoming more and more charming. What would I do without you?"
Feng Chou lowered his head and kissed Gloria's mesmerized eyes.
Feng Chou held Gloria's arm and walked her all the way to the gate of the Mage Academy. He watched her get on the carriage with the help of the knights before he turned around and left.
Gloria happily hugged Feng Chou's sculpture, stroking the brooch on her chest from time to time with a happy smile on her face. In the past, Leo always asked for more and gave less. These two things were the best gifts she had ever received from Leo.
However, what Gloria didn't know was that there was a tiny listening device hidden in the brooch. It could collect all the information she saw and heard. That Feng Chou's sculpture was not only an information collecting device, but also an information transmitting station.
As long as the information collected by the brooch was within a hundred meters of the sculpture, it could be transmitted through the sculpture to the transmitting station on the eagle in the sky. Then, through the transmitting station, it would be transmitted to Qiankun Pagoda outside the Ogre Encampment. After being processed by Qiankun Pagoda, it would be reported to Feng Chou.
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On the third day, Gloria came to the Mage Academy again. She brought four freedman documents according to Feng Chou's request.
These four documents were issued by Gloria according to Feng Chou's request. After returning to the dominion, she rushed back to issue the documents to a few citizens who had attained the qualifications to become freedmen.
Gloria's Clifford Dominion was rather prosperous. It had a total population of seven to eight hundred people. She was also a kind dominion lord who did her best to educate the militia. She even arranged for her household knights to train the militia. That was why there were many who reached the fourth stratum every year in her dominion. For commoners, becoming a fourth-stratum warrior wasn't too difficult as long as they worked hard enough.
For a dominion with only ten thousand mu of farmland, fifteen squires was already the limit the dominion could afford. After all, each squire would receive an annual salary of three hundred crowns. Fifteen squires would take up about five percent of the dominion's expenses. Coupled with the cost of hiring commoner knights, it was already a considerable sum.
If there were no accidents, a squire could serve until they were forty-five or even fifty years old. They would only retire when their bodily functions had deteriorated.
That was why Clifford Dominion didn't even have a single new squire every year. It wasn't enough for them to absorb all the new fourth-stratum warriors.
As usual, these extra fourth-stratum warriors would be issued with freedman documents and allowed to find a way out for themselves. This was to prevent them from putting pressure on the stability of the dominion.
According to the custom of Clifford Dominion, freedman documents would be issued to new fourth-stratum warriors every summer at the end of the seventh month.
This year, Gloria issued the freedman documents two months earlier than usual. This was the dominion lord's right, so no one dared to say anything about it.
After issuing the freedmen's documents, Gloria used the excuse that there were flaws in the documents to collect all the documents of the freedmen who were still in the territory.
Since Gloria's dominion was relatively prosperous and her dominion was relatively benevolent, many youngsters who received their freedman documents would rather stay in the dominion and wait for their elders to retire than go to the city to make a living. After all, not everyone was willing to live a life of bloodshed.
The four people Gloria handed to Feng Chou were the ones who wouldn't be in a hurry to leave the dominion. In order to make them feel at ease, Gloria specially arranged for them to do easy and lucrative jobs. She also hired an experienced and reputable old mercenary to teach these youngsters who had reached the fourth-stratum and hadn't left the dominion yet.
After a few days of monitoring, Feng Chou was certain that Gloria was completely trustworthy.
Seeing that Gloria still walked a little unnaturally today, although Feng Chou was extremely gentle, he didn't make excessive demands.
When he sent Gloria off, Feng Chou told her that he had a lot of experiments to do in the coming days and that he would be in the lab most of the time, so she didn't have to come looking for him.
Perhaps Gloria had guessed something from Feng Chou's request for freedman documents. She smiled mysteriously at Feng Chou and nodded in agreement.