The river of time flowed as usual.
After spending some time with Zou Juan, Alan gradually figured out some of her characteristics.
First of all, whether it was day or night, only when the candle was lit could Zou Juan appear.
However, there was no specific pattern to the other party's appearance. It seemed that it was purely based on the other party's mood.
Zou Juan herself gave Alan the feeling that she was as temperamental as a child.
She insisted that her main body was only a prop of the goddess. The reason why she had self-consciousness was because of the problem with the prop. It was precisely because of this that she was obsessed with using others to destroy herself.
In addition, Zou Juan had some kind of prophetic ability, able to predict the direction of some things.
For example, whether the weather would be clear tomorrow, whether the servants at home would break their legs on the stairs, or whether the distant Morton Empire would send troops to the border.
Although she herself (or Ben Zhu?) It was said that this was a manifestation of 'computing power', Alan didn't think that the addition and subtraction of numbers could be done to this extent.
Even so, Alan didn't want to use the other party's ability to gain any benefits.
For him, his current life was already happy and happy enough, and he didn't need to obtain anything else.
During his time with Zou Juan, he also began to have a hazy good impression of the mysterious and pure other party. As time passed, this good impression gradually deepened.
Men in this world were already adults at the age of sixteen. After taking over his father's foundation through the coming-of-age ceremony, Alan did not become more mature.
He skillfully dealt with his parents, who urged him to get married as soon as possible, and felt that he would be satisfied as long as he could spend his life with Zou Juan.
As for Birbom's bloodline … Wasn't there still a younger brother who could inherit it?
When his younger brother's children reached adulthood, he would pass on the title of nobility to his nephew. Then, he would take Zou Juan to learn from Sage Roy and travel all over the continent to experience all kinds of local customs.
When he was old, if Zou Juan still insisted on self-destruction, he would bring her to the highest peak in the world, Amos, and bury her in the legendary apple forest. Then, he would silently wait for the countdown of his life.
However, Allen was still full of confidence in himself. He felt that as long as he subtly influenced and got along with her, Zou Juan would definitely be able to obtain the same feelings as humans and accompany him to the end of his life.
He told Zou Juan about his plans, and even took out the biography of the sage from when they first met. He flipped through it page by page, and told the girl about the places he wanted to go with her in the future.
The young girl who usually expressed her opinions clearly and criticized the other party for being too idealistic looked at the excited young man. For the first time, she didn't say anything that would spoil the mood. She only smiled and quietly listened to the other party's dance as he described the future.
How wonderful would their future be?
— It was supposed to be like this.
However, his life was filled with all kinds of accidents. In the second year after Allen took over the territory, war broke out between his kingdom and the Morton Empire.
Fortunately, Allen's Baron Territory was quite far from the border. Even if there was a war, as long as it wasn't the kind of war that would destroy the country, it had nothing to do with him. From the looks of it, this war seemed to be just an ordinary border friction.
However, his younger brother hid it from his family and secretly joined the kingdom's army with a group of his usual companions. Moreover, because of the surname Birbom, he obtained the position of a small captain.
Unlike Allen, as the second son, he would not receive anything other than some property even after he reached adulthood.
Perhaps it was because he felt that the difference in treatment was unfair that he chose to wear his ancestor's armor, hoping to obtain more glory, merits, and titles on the battlefield than his elder brother.
Then, the cold reality gave the youth a heavy blow.
Not long after the war broke out, Allen received a letter from the battlefield —
— and his younger brother's relics.
In an ambush by the empire, his younger brother didn't even have time to surrender before he was shot in the eye by a stray arrow from the imperial army, killing him with a single arrow.
Before he could grieve, even more bad news came one after another.
The kingdom had suffered a crushing defeat in the battle with the empire, and the empire's army had already marched straight in. This time, they didn't just want to plunder some resources, but wanted to destroy the kingdom once and for all.
The enemy's spearhead was already pointed at Baron Birbom, who was blocking their way.
Faced with such a dangerous situation, the young Allen finally couldn't withstand the tremendous pressure and begged for Zou Juan's help.
After hesitating for a long time, Zou Juan nodded.
After that, Birbom's army seemed to have the help of a god. Every time they attacked, they would predict the enemy's moves and play with the enemy army, which was several times their size, in the palm of their hands. Even if they fell into a perilous situation that seemed to be beyond redemption, there would suddenly be a rainstorm, allowing them to easily escape and viciously bite the imperial army.
In less than a year, the kingdom, which was already on the decline, was actually able to counterattack because of the activity of Birbom's army, forcing the Imperial Army out of the territory that they had yet to occupy.
But the myth of Birbom did not end there.
When the threat of the Imperial Army was no longer there, the upper echelons of the kingdom invited Allen Birbom to the capital to be awarded.
But this was actually a trap. Because Allen's reputation was too high, he had already threatened the rule of the upper echelons of the kingdom, so they decided to use this method to get rid of him. Although it would definitely be a blow to the kingdom's reputation, it was better than letting the threat continue to grow safely.
However, on the day of the award ceremony, Allen Birbom, who should have been shot to death by the archers, easily escaped the encirclement. Not only did he expose the ugly faces of the upper echelons to the public, he also brought his army to flatten the capital.
Allen, who was respectfully called the God of War by the people, naturally put on the crown and became the new ruler of the kingdom.
After that, in order to speed up the development of the kingdom, he married the princess of a neighboring country of equal status and took the initiative to launch a war against the empire the next year.
Invasion, conquest, annexation, invasion, conquest, annexation.
The flames of war burned throughout the entire continent. Countless people fell under the sharp blades, countless peaceful homes were destroyed, and countless books were burned in the flames of war.
By the time Allen came back to his senses, he had already become the person standing at the top of the continent as a conqueror.
However, the translucent figure that he wanted to accompany for the rest of his life had also disappeared at some point and never appeared again.
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