The aroma of mead filled the air, and the laughter of toasting and drinking was endless. Milai, who was wearing a black strapless dress, walked through the crowd with a smile, and greeted everyone who came to greet them.
In line with the character of "Ms. Corinna", she has the gentleness and good education.
His longing gaze always follows Mi Lai, sometimes resting on her half-exposed calves, and sometimes sweeping across her breasts unscrupulously. When Mi Lai casts his gaze back, these glamorous people are seen.
But he put on a gentle and harmless look, as if the hunger and thirst he inadvertently revealed was just the aftertaste of alcohol.
After the port city-state of Wupu City was occupied by Tanya's Green Shade Territory, it has always been managed by the original lord. It was not until recently that Tanya sent a consul from the Green Shade Territory to take over some of the powers, and she herself
Finally left the Green Shadow Base Camp and went to Wupu City in person to host today's banquet.
Having said that, after thirty years of drinking, except for a few people who were deeply puzzled by Tanya's invitation, everyone else was already tipsy, and she only showed up at the beginning of the banquet to signal that everyone could have a good time.
No trace left.
"Is it just to show your presence and win some people's hearts, without any substantive purpose?"
Milai took a sip of the mead, using the excuse that he was too drunk to fend off several nobles who usually chased him, and planned to leave this boring banquet.
"Hello, Ms. Corinna, Your Majesty Tanya invites you."
A waiter leaned over and whispered as Mi Lai picked up a piece of honeydew.
The invitation alone made Mi Lai wary, but his face remained as usual.
She smiled and followed the waiter through the hall and atrium. By the pool in the backyard, Tanya was sitting at a square table filled with fruits and refreshments, looking at a scroll, while Chihong was holding the end of the scroll, slowly
Expand it.
Many unfamiliar faces whose names Mi Lai could not recognize were responsible for Tanya's protection. Just the presence or absence of stimulating magic power was enough to prove that they were all high-level.
"Is this the stray cat or dog that Lady Lulu said she picked up?" Mi Lai thought.
While thinking, Milai bent down, introduced himself with impeccable etiquette, and offered his blessing to Tanya.
With a smile on her face, Tanya asked someone to change the fruits on the table, and a melon fruit plate was placed on the table.
"I heard from the waiter that my sudden summons made you have to give up the honeydew melon you just took a bite of. It doesn't matter, there is some here too, please use it."
With that said, Tanya took action herself and brought the fruit plate closer.
If you don’t know Tanya as a person, the affinity shown by her conversation, behavior and etiquette will be irresistible.
"Your Majesty Tanya, compared to honeydew, I am more eager to know the purpose of your separate invitation tonight in the form of a banquet. I think... I should not be the only one who has the honor to talk to you up close."
Tanya waved her hand and asked Chi Hong to put away the scroll. After hearing Mi Lai's words, the corners of her mouth raised and she took a sip of tea before speaking slowly.
"It's not true, but before the formal conversation, I have a question that I hope to get answered by Ms. Corinna."
The teacup was gently placed on the coaster, making a crisp sound.
"Ms. Corinna is a high-level magician, right?"
The magic power of the several guards on guard behind Mi Lai surged, as if there were thousands of soldiers heading towards him.
Mi Lai was calm and calm, her expression unchanged, she casually picked up a piece of honeydew melon and put it into her mouth, saying calmly: "That's true."
No matter how well you hide it, there will always be traces in front of experienced high-level magicians. Instead of lying to let Tanya deepen the misunderstanding, it is better to take advantage of the situation and reveal it.
"Such a young high-level magician is rare." Tanya crossed her fingers, held her chin, and looked Mi Lai up and down.
"Isn't it rare? There are quite a few high-level magicians around Her Majesty Tanya who come from mediocre backgrounds and can even be called to climb up from poverty. Compared with them, they have a privileged family background and sail around with their parents.
I am so mediocre in my studies.”
The guards in the distance all knelt down on one knee, looking at Tanya with fanatical eyes.
A smile once again appeared on Tanya's serious face. She clapped her hands and said with a smile: "Ms. Corinna seems to be a little self-effacing. I have also provided them with favorable conditions. This path cannot be achieved only by resources."
It’s piled up, you and I both know it.”
After a moment of silence, Tanya said: "The reason why Ms. Corinna no longer sails is that her parents and sisters were killed in a shipwreck, right... I'm sorry for this question, but when it comes to the topic we will discuss next, I
It has to be like this.”
Mi Lai's acting skills exploded, and the pain that was brewing disappeared in an instant on her face. She relieved in a nonchalant tone: "It's been a long time, it doesn't matter, now I'm just an ordinary person who wants to enjoy it."
"I don't know, do you intend to return to your old business, or are you taking a risk?"
Coming, Milai quickly realized that this was Tanya's purpose.
A scroll appeared in front of Milai. It was a plan that recorded the trade route being planned by the Green Shade Territory. In addition to the short-term trade route from the Molten Mountains to Port Demorris that had been opened but the number of people was obviously insufficient, it was a plan.
Road, and there are many long-distance trade routes running through the continent of Mera.
With Green Shade as the core, the trade routes radiated from east to west, north to south, extended into the sea, crossed the vast sea, and covered the surrounding continents.
Miley was shocked. She realized that Tanya could show this plan to her so easily, which meant that she did not think it was a secret, but an ambition that could be made public.
What exactly does Tanya want to do?
If she builds her Green Shade Territory into a chamber of commerce conglomerate system similar to that of Colai Continent, won't her authority as your Majesty be infinitely diluted, and eventually be eaten up by profit-seeking businessmen?
"His Majesty's plan is shocking."
"Is this shocking?" Tanya smiled, "Just strengthening Mela's existing business system shocked everyone, which also surprised me."
"I can still understand standard trade, but in His Majesty's blueprint, there are several routes that point to unknown sea areas beyond the known sea routes..."
Tanya took a sip of tea to clear her throat: "I am sponsoring adventurous sea knights to challenge the boundless sea and cut through the wind and waves in search of a new continent."
"New World?" Milai became increasingly confused.
"Have you ever heard that there is an ancient empire and strange demons in the unknown direction of the vast and distant sea of tranquility?"
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"Exotic demon, what is that?"
After hearing Mi Lai's regular report, Lu Yu was filled with questions: "Is it a special kind of monster? It doesn't sound like a good thing."
Sera, who was knocked out of the room by Lulu, touched her chin and fell into deep thought.
Lulu explained to Lu Yu: "The so-called strange demon is not a kind of monster, but a very special magician. The magical power of the strange magician can suppress ordinary magic power. You can understand it as a human-shaped self-propelled demon-breaking material."
The account of Mera's first strange demon comes from Solon in the middle of the glorious age, when some merchants rescued a group of dying magicians who were shipwrecked at sea."
These magicians claimed to have encountered unprecedented huge waves during the voyage. Even though they tried their best to use magic to avoid the ship being smashed, they had fallen into a huge whirlpool. Compared with the whirlpool, their huge ship was as small as
A small boat.
He wanted to float and escape, but found that the magic power in the entire sea area was scarce and he could not fly away from the whirlpool area. Realizing that his struggle was futile, the magician gave up completely and was sucked into the seabed by the whirlpool in despair.
When they woke up, less than one-tenth of them survived, but they found that the magic around them was full again, and they had the strength to ask for help from passing ships.
Serra said: "Their language was completely different from the surrounding languages Mela knew. No one knew what they were saying. For a long time after they were sent to Solon for treatment, communication was extremely difficult."
"Also among this group of people, there are two strange magicians. The magic they release can suppress the normal magic and interfere to a certain extent, but they cannot convert the ' strange magic' into the form of magic to attack."
Lulu recalled: "The Solon royal family at that time had established initial trust and after being able to communicate, they asked about the power of the strange magician, but were rejected by the strange magician. It was still a glorious era, and the Solon royal family was also a benevolent person.
The monarchy therefore did not do anything extraordinary and even allowed them to leave on their own after recovering from their injuries."
The records about the strange demons ended abruptly, and no one knew the whereabouts of the two strange magicians. However, most speculations are that they set out to sea again and tried to return home after receiving the help of the Solon royal family.
In the relevant classics, we can still see people's discussions about strange demons during that period, including many members of the Mage Tower. They were interested in the "power of interference".
If you want to interfere with magic power on a large scale, the simplest and crudest way is to turn yourself into a huge container like Huogu, sucking up the entire area and creating a temporary magic vacuum.
A more convenient way is to use the magic-breaking materials to build a magic-breaking array and invite you to enter the urn, just like the crisis encountered by the evil beast Earl Lu Yu.
But their discussions were buried in the long river of history along with the disappearance of the strange magicians. Although there are many adventurous people who challenge the dangerous and unknown route and indeed explore many new islands and continents, but
None of them fit the description of a strange magician.
After hearing this, Lu Yu actually already knew why he couldn't find it. He glanced at Lulu and found that she was also secretly glancing at him.
"A giant teleportation circle, and it's natural." The two said in unison.
Such a magic circle is the miraculous workmanship of nature, a masterpiece formed by chance.
Some trigger conditions are extremely clear, and only enough magic power is needed to complete a teleportation in the Silent Mountains, while others are extremely cumbersome.
In Vanessa's travel diary, it was recorded that there was a giant teleportation circle in the lair of a group of low-minded slimes. The slime king born here vaguely knew that this was a strange "depression" that could attract magic power, so he occupied it.
here.
Out of curiosity, the Slime King simply and rudely poured magic power into the magic circle, but what came back to them was an elemental storm. The tribesmen suffered heavy casualties. Even he himself survived by actively splitting and escaping.
Vanessa only saw the sinkhole filled with water at the scene. When she dived into the water, she could vaguely see the remaining veins of the natural magic circle. The rest had been reduced to ashes.
Vanessa speculated that the natural teleportation circle here requires other conditions to be triggered, and the slime king with a low IQ kept pouring elemental essence into it, which eventually led to a great elemental storm. This family was not affected by the collapse of the magic circle.
The leaked power to tear into pieces has been an explosion of luck.
That massive vortex that could imprison magic power accidentally started operating the natural teleportation circle. The two strange magicians were not at the other end of the channel where the merchants rescued them, but the coordinates of the teleportation circle randomly arrived there.
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Lulu paced around the room in confusion: "Something's wrong... I always feel like something is wrong."
"I can understand that she wants to open up trade routes. Whether it's Mera's or the surrounding continents, these are all profitable. She always does things like this. She only acts when the gains outweigh the losses. Funding adventurers is a pure act of giving.
, her current reputation is enough to attract talents, there is no need to do anything extra."
"Besides, is the strange demon something worth worrying about for her now? Even if Zenil has defeated Dwek's army one after another and has shown victory, she can be distracted, but the search process will most likely take five years.
Ten years, or even decades, with the current turbulent magic tide, her own future is full of uncertainty, will someone like her worry about this?"
"This is not in line with her character and style of doing things. I can understand Tanya's arrangement of trade routes, but I can't understand her at all. She found out the 'different demons' from hundreds of years ago, and then spread the word that I am going to
Look for it."
"If she desires this power, she should let her loyal cronies act instead of looking for businessmen who can't keep secrets. What's the benefit to her of making this matter known to everyone?"
Lu Yu and Sera believed 100% in Lulu's judgment. The two people who were deep in thought suddenly raised their heads, looked at each other, and murmured.
"She doesn't really want to find that ancient country..."
Lulu also reacted. She raised her head and looked at the two people looking at each other. She suppressed her inner awkwardness and participated in the conversation.
"Her purpose is actually to use this incident to remind some people..."
"Then who is the person she wants to remind?" Lulu was stunned, "It couldn't be the strange demon... But are there any strange demons in Mera Continent?"
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Among the towering mountains, a group of people in purple robes gathered in a cave.
News from the banquet in Wupu City blew into their ears like the wind.
"It seems...that our actions have been noticed by someone with intentions?"
"Who is that?"
"Your Majesty, the princess of a separate country, seems to be warning us not to pollute her territory anymore."