Chapter 14: The Restless Heart

Chapter 14 The Restless Heart
Char’s change was so big, how could Maya not notice it, but she was smart enough not to ask, nor did she have the intention to pry, as a senior head maid she knew very well that you can only know if the master lets you know, and not letting you know, even if you know, you still have to not know.

Otherwise, even if the maid of honor known for its loyalty and how, after her hand to deal with the maid of honor is not one or two, when the master feels that only you die in order to rest assured, then you can only go to death.

Eighty percent of the service maids are dead from unnatural deaths, and the rest are either sworn to spend their lives in the service church, or become cripples who can’t hear, can’t speak, and can’t write, and this is already the master’s mercy.

The reason for all of this was that they were loyal enough, so the master would let them handle some extremely secretive things, but little and often, when too many of one’s secrets were known, it was inevitable that one’s heart would be disturbed, so they could only let them die.

Maya is more fortunate than other serving maids in that she has an unusual relationship with the loyal countess, in addition to the master-servant relationship, they are still lovers, so she can grasp more secrets and rights, even to the extent that even the son of the countess who has just succeeded to the throne does not dare to lay hands on her easily, otherwise how would she have survived to the present.

In fact, just as Owen guessed, rich life experience, and their own encounters, so that Maya has long ceased to be a pure service maid.

Of course, she still adhered to the bottom line of a servant girl, not to harm her master in any way, but on this basis to make her own life a little better and happier, what’s wrong with that?
Owen didn’t know about Maya’s thoughts, he was busy studying the system.

After breaking through the limit, the upper limit of the progress value reached twenty points and initially involved the transcendent realm, giving him more options.

However, after researching a bit, Owen realized what a chicken rib the twenty-point progress value cap was, but all the better transcendent targets exceeded the cap, or the cost-effectiveness was too low, causing him to fall into a choice dilemma, so he could only set his sights on the immediate future first.

With the breakthrough of the upper limit, the speed of progress value recovery increased a lot.

After Owen’s observation, the recovery speed of progress value from zero to three was the fastest, to five it slowed down significantly, after ten the recovery speed became slower and slower, wanting to recover to twenty points, the time consumed was equivalent to three or four times the time from zero to ten.

So the most efficient way was to exchange for soldiers with three to five points of progress value, which would give the conditions to form cavalry.

Although the swordsmen were good with the foot archers, it was the cavalry that had an external deterrent effect.

The only cavalry worth three progress points are the scout cavalry and light cavalry, the former favors reconnaissance, the latter’s combat power is too weak, it can only bully long-range soldiers and light infantry without formation, the casualty rate is too high in head-on battles, it’s not economical, it’s better to exchange for the more cost-effective breastplate cavalry.

Although the chest armor cavalry with a value of 5 progress value is a bit slower to exchange, the chest armor cavalry equipped with spears and shields has the ability to impact the enemy frontally, unlike the light cavalry which is so fragile, and the defense against bows and arrows has been strengthened, so the deterrent effect of using it in the frontal battlefield will not be low.

As long as there is a small team of breastplate cavalry to fill the scene, those who want to mess with Owen will carefully consider the consequences, after all, even the knights are difficult to fight against a small team of breastplate cavalry charging up.

For the sake of secrecy, this exchange Owen did not choose to be in the castle, he took the soldiers to the Magic Horn Forest to hunt, this is the tradition of the nobles, just in case the beasts that lacked food before the winter ran out from the forest, even if you don’t know how to hunt, you have to do it to look at the soldiers to do it, after all, it’s a tradition.

But Owen did all this is to hide from Maya, to put it bluntly is that he can’t play the other side, the heart has no bottom, so a little secret would like to hide, with the marriage automatically learn to hide the private money of the lords, purely male animal survival instincts. To Maya’s distrust, Owen did not make too much to hide, because his level simply can not hide the other side, it is better to directly put on an attitude that you have not yet gained my trust.

This was normal, he was the master, he was a noble, naturally skeptical of everything, and wouldn’t easily trust anyone, so even Maya didn’t feel there was anything wrong.

In fact, Owen’s inner thoughts were much more complicated, as a traveler, the strong sense of loneliness he relied on Maya, from the physical to the emotional, but the same way he would not completely trust each other.

The reason is also very simple, experience.

Overly rich life experience creates a complex heart, this is the reason why Owen is willing to trust Char but never let his guard down on Maya.

If it is the previous world, the price of trust at most sad broken, but in this world, the price of trust tends to be more direct, because killing is too simple, and who knows in order to dig out his secret, he will suffer what kind of torture, but also in order to control what he will use, too much unknown.

The unknown and the fear made it hard for Owen to trust someone, and even Char was only halfway there.

As for gaining his trust completely, Owen thought it was unlikely, even if he had to die for him, this was a world with magic, anything could happen, and death wasn’t irreversible, so he couldn’t be too careful.

So although both sides have some deep communication beyond the boundaries and enjoy it, very fascinated, but Owen is not a brat who is easy to be overwhelmed by love, for the sake of the so-called love or see the color easily throw everything he has, the polishing of life makes it easier for him to calm down, will not be easy to be impulsive because the price of impulsiveness he often can not afford to pay.

Based on a variety of concerns, Owen instinctively want to stay a few hands, the magic corner of the forest is only the first step, can not use the best, if it is used, it is not in vain he spent some effort.

As for why he chose the Magic Horn Forest, one is closer to the castle, and the second is because it is very dangerous here, and usually no one will come close.

Not to mention the poisonous magic horn trees and the cunning and ferocious magic horn kobolds, just the beasts that live here are enough to take away most people’s lives, so except for desperate robbers, very few people are willing to step into this place, so this will be sufficiently secretive.

However, although the periphery of the Devil’s Horn Forest was still relatively safe, it was only relative, so Owen had to exchange some extra soldiers, some powerful soldiers, in addition to exchanging some farmers out, otherwise he was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to see any living people the next time he came.

According to reason Owen shouldn’t waste his precious labor here when he hasn’t rebuilt the city wall yet, but who let him not act completely according to reason, moreover, he is a stupid novice, a lot of times racking his brains to write out a plan that has never been put to use at all, which makes his utilization efficiency of the golden finger pathetically low, otherwise, he wouldn’t obviously not very trusting of Maya, but handing over a large amount of work to the other party just as well as not Improve in order to increase efficiency and avoid waste.

Moreover, the arrangement in the Magic Horn Forest, rather than leaving a backhanded move, it was more like a way for Owen to appease his inner agitation, so he invested no small amount of energy into it.

(End of chapter)