Knights and Magic Wand
Chapter 366 - 366 177 Recruiting an Officer

366: Chapter 177: Recruiting an Officer 366: Chapter 177: Recruiting an Officer Back in Selva, Leon and Olivia, who had run out to greet him at the door, hugged each other tightly, feeling each other’s longing.

Although they had not been apart for long, Leon still felt somewhat intoxicated by the happiness of having someone always waiting for him at home.

However, as they parted from the embrace, Leon noticed a slight weariness on Olivia’s face.

Back at the mansion, before he could get an answer to his concerned greeting, he was hurriedly pulled by the joyous Olivia to the backyard.

Leon looked at her with a hint of pride showing through and was puzzled, “What is it?

Why the rush?”

“Of course, it’s the results of my days of effort.

You have to watch closely~”

Standing in the yard, Olivia smiled as she drew her long sword, holding it in front of her with both hands.

She steadied her spirit slightly, her gaze serious and her expression solemn.

Suddenly…

the golden tips of the girl’s hair fluttered without wind.

Leon felt the circulation of Magic Elements within him strangely beginning to delay.

But his attention was quickly drawn to her eyes.

Those green eyes.

Suddenly, they were tinged with a pure gold color from the inside out.

Staring at the girl whose green eyes had turned to gold, Leon couldn’t help but widen his eyes.

“Olivia!

You did it?!”

“Mmm~ Hm~♪”

The girl’s serious face briefly smiled at the sound of Leon’s approving voice.

But the next second, the gold in her eyes quickly melted away like snow.

Feeling the strenuously gathered power fall back into chaos, Olivia reluctantly put down her sword.

“It’s not very stable yet, I can only maintain it for a while, but I’ve figured out the trick,” she said, her fist clenched with encouragement.

“With more practice, I’ll be able to stay by your side next time.”

“How did you manage this?” Leon asked curiously as he led her to sit down beside him.

He now had a slight understanding of Magic, and knew very well how difficult it was for Olivia, with her body’s high density of active Magic Elements, to master her Magic Power.

Could this girl be…

not only a martial arts prodigy but also a Magic genius, if not for the hereditary Forbidden Magic Field bloodline holding her back?

“After you left, I missed you so much, but the more I thought about you, the more upset I became because I couldn’t join you.”

Olivia affectionately held Leon’s hand, recalling her frustration from a few days ago and explained, “So the next day…

I really wanted to try your rapid Magic feeling training method…

but since I couldn’t be affected by the Magic Card and voluntarily use up Magic Elements, I had to think of a clumsy method.”

“A clumsy method?”

“Yes, using that wasn’t efficient, but by persevering every day, my physical strength is not limitless.”

Olivia turned to look at the corner of the yard.

She remembered how she had run back and forth between two places daily without minding her appearance, under the astonished looks of passerby, which made her cheeks flush slightly.

Leon followed the girl’s gaze.

He saw, lying by the yard wall, a massive log about six or seven meters long, too thick for one person to embrace.

He had noticed the log when he first came in, but he had thought it was something Elena had workers bring in to build with…

“I took an axe, went into the woods, and cut down a sufficiently heavy tree and brought it back, then…

I carried it running back and forth between Selva and Longka from dawn till dusk until I was completely exhausted, then, when I was very tired, I tried to feel the power that seemed lighter due to exhaustion,” Olivia said earnestly.

“That was roughly the method, but it didn’t work until two days ago, when I was extremely tired.

I rested at home for a day practicing routine swordsmanship, and my head remembered the handsome way you cast spells with your long sword…

I couldn’t help but fantasize for a moment about if I could swing my sword like that…” Slightly embarrassed, she shook Leon’s hand, recalling playfully making sound effects “Hey-ha” in front of her lover, feeling somewhat shy.

Leon did not find it funny; instead, he found her childlike behavior during her solitary sword practice unexpectedly adorable.

After all, if it were his previous life, although the girl had long passed the “middle school” phase, she had just entered the “high school” phase and was still at an age for playful antics.

“…At that moment, I suddenly felt like I could channel some previously uncontrollable ‘flows’ into the sword in my hand and instinctively did so.

Afterwards, my eyes felt warm, and when I looked in the mirror, I realized they had turned the same gold as Kovis’s.” The girl, with her spirits lifted, looked up.

…This little lady, truly incredible.

Leon marveled…

without the help of Netti Cards, without Kovis’s assistance, relying solely on a spark of correct training direction and instinctive exploration, she had so quickly grasped the knack for controlling Magic Power in just a few days, resisting the negative interference from her lineage…

Yes, worthy of being my wife.

Leon proudly ruffled the girl’s hair.

He got up and went over to the wall, curious, he bent down, trying to gauge the weight of the massive timber.

When he lifted with both hands, it was indeed very heavy.

Gritting his teeth and furrowing his brow, Leon adjusted his breathing, exerted force with his arms, and with a thud, he hoisted it onto his shoulder, his knees bending under the strain.

…Good grief…

Had Olivia unknowingly grown so strong?

It seemed he could lift it too…

But like Olivia, to carry it running from Selva to Longka and back?

Well, he admitted that even activating the Boiling Heart might be hard to achieve.