The snow has been falling all night.

The firewood in the stove was still burning, warming the whole room.

After drinking and eating, Arimiya no longer felt the tense feeling she used to be. She leaned on the sofa to digest food, her eyes closed slightly, as if she had fallen into a deep sleep.

Fina took a book and wanted to read it again before going to bed, but her blood was concentrated in her stomach, making it difficult for her to think. After reading a few pages, she felt drowsy. In the end, she had to give up and continue reading and start playing with Mrs. Freya.

Claire continued to hold up his cup of hot chocolate, and the warmth penetrated into her palm through the cup, making her whole body warm.

Reiner sat next to Claire, and the plate had been packed long ago and handed over to the alchemy creatures that were not on holiday even in the New Year.

He held the journal "Truth" at the end of the year. This issue is a special issue. It was just released a few days ago. It was not the latest paper, but the summary of this year's magic progress and the top ten papers of the year selected by the Higher Parliament.

Surprisingly, out of the ten papers, five were written by Reiner.

The first article is a paper on electrolyzing water. This paper directly shattered the four basic element theories that mages have always believed in in the past and completely subverted the past basis of alchemy. At the same time, the law of conservation of mass and the law of conservation of elements proposed by Reiner have become a new foundation for alchemy. Since then, the door to elements has been completely opened to the mages.

The second article is a paper on the law of elemental periodicity. This paper reorders the messy elemental world, and Reiner touches on one of the most essential laws that may be the world. As a result, the mages passed the barriers of the macro world and officially began to explore the micro world.

The third paper is the genetic theory of pea hybridization. If the first two papers are the crystallization of the continuous exploration of the world by the masters, then this paper is the mages' exploration of the origin of human beings. It explains to people why this vast world is so colorful and interprets the meaning of the continuous inheritance of life.

The fourth paper is a nuclear model paper. This paper, together with the previous experiment of Cialis particle ray impacting gold foil, revealed the mystery of the atomic structure for the mages. At the same time, the trajectory of electrons inside the atom is determined by borrowing the Stein formula, which marks that mages can not only understand the mysteries inside the atoms qualitatively without being able to directly observe, but also directly determine the specific orbit of the electrons through mathematical calculations.

The fifth article, which is also at the last position of the top ten papers of the year, is Reiner's paper explaining the principle of photoelectric effect. In this paper, through rigorous calculations, bold assumptions, and logical reasoning, it successfully explains the essence of the photoelectric effect, and ends the decades-long debate on the fluctuation and particle nature of light. The wizards explore the essence of the world and take another step.

There are also five other papers such as the Newington-Holland Equation Paper, as well as the Cyrius formula and imaginary numbers, which are listed, but no one of the mages like Reiner, who owns five articles!

At the end of this journal, the comments written by the legendary wizard Hermann Pragues himself also used the title "Yen Grey Miracle Year" to commemorate the legendary year brought by Reiner.

"ha--"

Arimiya stretched her waist and showed her magnificent figure. She picked up the novel she brought, stood up, as if she was ready to go back to her room.

"I'll go back to bed first, and I'll have to do some cleaning work at the beginning of the year tomorrow."

"Ah, wait, I'm back too."

Fina also stopped stroking Mrs. Freya's hand and hurriedly stood up. Their room was accessible from the lounge through a short corridor, which was very convenient.

"Meow."

Mrs. Freya felt that the hand that had been touching her was missing. She opened her eyes that were originally in a state of enjoyment and narrowed her eyes, glanced at Lena, and quickly followed Fina away.

In the huge lounge, only Reiner and Claire were left.

"Are you not sleeping yet, Claire?"

Reiner put down the journal in his hand and looked at Claire beside him.

"Yeah, not sleepy yet."

Claire curled up in the rocking chair, feeling the warmth of the stove, and said leisurely, and then, as if he had remembered something, he joked.

"Hehe, you said before. After spending ten minutes in front of the stove, I felt like I had spent an hour, and sitting next to me for an hour, it seemed like I had only had ten minutes passed. So, now we were sitting in front of the stove, is it a normal time to feel it?"

“That’s true.”

Reiner smiled and sighed that Claire would really remember some trivial things.

"By the way, I have something to show you."

Claire said, she stood up and naturally took Reiner's hand. The two of them each wore thick coats and walked out of the lounge.

After winding, Claire took Reiner to the top of the Stargazing Tower.

The snow had stopped at some point. Even the stars were silent in the world.

Looking up, the night sky covered by dark clouds formed a sharp contrast with the snow-white world. The two left a string of footprints on the top floor and walked side by side.

"I."

Instead of looking at Reiner, Claire looked at the quiet night sky, and she said, as if telling a long story to the children.

"Not like Arimiya, who can do everything perfectly, nor is he as talented in magic as Fina, nor is he as good at alchemy, and can draw, and even Dana can save others when she encounters danger. I am not as powerful as they do."

Reiner wanted to say something, but when he saw Claire's expression, he chose to remain silent. He knew that he didn't need to comfort him.

"Sometimes I think that if I could be a little more powerful, would Reiner pay more attention to me? Just like those high-level mages, only by standing on the same level as Reiner, can I be qualified to stay by your side."

Claire took two steps forward, turned his head slightly, looked at Reiner, and smiled slightly.

"But later I realized that liking someone is not about what the other person can bring to you, but about what the other person can bring to you."

She was in a vast white world and looked like a dream.

"So, Reiner, all I can bring to you is probably only a starry sky."

As her words, the dark clouds in the sky gradually dissipated, and among the colorful stars, the bright night sky shone on the earth.

There seemed to be a little starlight in Claire's hand, making her outline hazy.

No, that was not an illusion, but in Claire's hands, there were indeed stars shining.

As a high-level mage, Reiner saw what this was at first sight.

One-ring spell, star orbit, is a simple projection magic that can create images of constellations, usually a convenient spell used by mages of celestial systems when performing astrology.

So that's it.

Lener immediately realized it.

This star orbit technique is the spell engraved into the heart lake by Claire. It was the spell that she finally succeeded and was promoted to one step after failing three times in the exam.

In Claire's palm, the tiny but still shining stars illuminated the two.

This is the light that Claire has made with all his strength.

Some people give a lot, but it is just the tip of all their icebergs. Some people give a little, but it is already a gift from them.

"Even if I am like this, I want to stand by your side."

Claire said, his expression as serious as ever.

"Even if I do, I like you."

Reiner was stunned for a moment, then smiled.

He did not answer.

Instead, he took two steps forward, gently took Claire into his arms, lowered his head, and kissed Claire relentlessly.

The moment the lips touched each other, a universe seemed to be born in it, and countless thoughts met. In the end, both of them calmed down and quietly enjoyed the warmth brought by each other.

In this moment, a moment seems like a lasting lasting, and forever like a moment.

After a long time, Claire lowered her head shyly.

"This is the first time..."

Before she could finish her words, she heard a bell coming from afar. It was the bell that declared the arrival of midnight and the bell that declared the end of the year and the beginning of the new year.

The moon of Dragon Sleeping ends, and the moon of God Hidden arrives.

Legend has it that in the distant past, the mages used magic to break the shackles of gods' beliefs and ignited the spark of civilization for the ignorant world. As a result, the gods withered and disappeared. Therefore, the first month of the New Year is called the Moon of the God Hidden.

"Ah...Happy New Year."

The bell made Claire think of something. She raised her head, looked at Reiner and said, then added explanation.

"This is a custom. You must say Happy New Year to everyone you meet during the New Year, so that it will bring good luck for the year."

Reiner seemed helpless about Claire, a somewhat uneven topic, but responded.

"Happy New Year."

The night seems to be very long.
Chapter completed!