Just as Xiuge privately commented on the Legal Committee.
This extremely large organization, which has controlled the entire Van En magic affairs, power and resources for thousands of years, has an extremely complex member composition.
A scholar who pursues magical scholarship and is willing to devote his life to it.
A careerist who regards the principle of neutrality as nothing and secretly joins political disputes.
Law Council loyalists and mage supremacists who regard Merlin Lehe as their second homeland and are willing to work hard for the benefit of the mage community.
Naturally, there are also ordinary members who work just for themselves or their families, as well as a considerable number of idealists who work hard to integrate magic with social production and development.
For this behemoth that exists widely throughout the world and has universal influence, it is really difficult for people to define its individual members through a single label or concept.
Just from Xiuge's own experience, he can find many representative cases.
His "teacher" Vereen Ernst is one of them, and Bolva, who has already joined the Black Sun Society, is another.
The sword-wielding hermit who had previously pursued Shuge in Salem City was also a representative of a certain faction.
And the mage Valery who is willing to take risks and use his personal power to help the survivors in Salem City cannot be ignored either...
Before the peace celebration, due to the continuous mobilization of the Legal Committee, the number of mages who entered Salem City and came under the jurisdiction of the Salem City Legal Committee branch was 225. These two hundred people were mainly composed of Yudrop level and above.
It is composed of special personnel such as mages and sword-wielding hermits.
If you include the ordinary apprentices and clerks who can only serve as assistants, as well as the professional soldiers who are authorized to use the secret rituals and weapons specially provided by the Legal Committee, the total number is close to nine hundred.
A team of this size cannot be underestimated even in today's outside world.
There are more than two hundred mages who have received professional training from Merlin, plus those powerful sword-wielding hermits. With sufficient resources and supplies, this team is enough to cause a bloody storm within a small principality, and even subvert its political power.
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However, the situation in Salem City is a bit too special and extreme. The long-term lack of resources, the chaotic situation, and the long-term confrontation and struggle with the descendants of the Dark Abyss have consumed too much of the members of the Legal Committee.
Energy and manpower.
In Bolwana's severely biased and sarcastic narrative, Shuge finally had a rough understanding of the efforts made by the members of the Salem City Legal Committee branch during this period of time.
For Xiuge, this is a slightly sad process.
"Those idiots who believe in false gods think they can fight against the families of the gods... Ha, they have made many attempts."
When Bolva talked about the Salem City Legal Committee branch, a ferocious smile broke out on his ugly face: "They initially gathered a lot of people, including soldiers from the city and some ordinary people.
People, they want to organize a team and use numbers and magic to deal with the Children of the Abyss."
He shrugged: "The result is nothing to say. They failed and many people died... So they changed their strategy and wanted to block the entrances where the sons of the abyss preyed. This idea is not bad, but naturally we
We can’t let them get what they want.”
Shuge raised his eyes and asked, "So they did block many passages initially?"
"Yes, they spent a lot of time on this...especially the square of the former clock tower. In order to seal it with magic rituals, they even lost two stream-level mages and a sword wielder."
Bolva laughed strangely: "This kind of effort did have some effect, but later, more cracks appeared, and that kind of blockade was naturally just a waste of effort."
"What else did they do?"
"Ah... I remember there was a mage inside. She successfully captured some children of the abyss and did some research. Then she proposed internally that the people in the city should be concentrated as much as possible to prevent them from being hunted and devoured.
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Bolva sneered: "From their point of view, this is of course a good way to delay time, but the Legal Committee simply cannot support so many people, so as soon as this proposal was put forward, they started quarreling among themselves.
So we simply worked hard, found an opportunity, and used magic to seriously injure the mage, so the differences among these people became even more serious."
Xiuge sighed in his heart, and then he asked: "I heard from others that a mage issued a silver warning in the city not long ago?"
"Oh yeah, just some idiots."
Bolva shook his head: "At this time, they are still thinking about filling the cracks and hunting the sons of the abyss, so I asked the Brotherhood to set a trap for them... In short, those guys basically died in
When they arrived at the city gate, they sent out a silver warning signal, presumably to make a final call for help, but it was of no use."
"So, can you roughly judge how many of them are left now?"
Bolva carefully recalled it, and then said: "Since I left, there have been very few people left in the Legal Committee branch, many of them died, and some wanted to escape so they decided to act alone.
Others have taken refuge in Iris Street... There are probably less than forty left now."
After answering this question, Bolva became visibly excited: "Leader, there are less than forty mages, many of them are only at the raindrop level. There should be only one or two sword-wielding hermits left. There may be some trouble in the stream."
, but their magic power and resources have long been exhausted, if you have any ideas..."
"Calm down, Belva."
Shuge shook his head, then he raised his finger, and the mage's hand immediately took out a transparent glass jar next to him, and then Shuge stuffed the dark abyss embryo that he didn't know how to deal with for the time being.
Go in and seal it with a magical ritual.
After doing this, he said to Bolva, who was a little confused: "If the number of people in the Legal Committee branch is only forty or less, then if you want to deal with them, you will have to use
Instead of those trash guys outside...Are you planning to use those low-quality alchemy bombs and crystal blunderbuss to break the legal committee's protective ritual?"
"...What do you mean?"
"I am enough on my own, they can't handle me."
Xiuge looked sideways: "Of course, if you are willing to be my guide and help me by the way, that would be great too."
Hearing these words, Bolva's eyes started to turn red again, and he became excited like a vulture smelling the smell of corpses: "Of course I am willing... I have long wanted to deal with these false beliefs personally.
God’s gift! Thank you for giving me such an important opportunity!”
"Then get ready, we'll set off now."
"But leader, it's going to be dark soon."
Hearing this, Xiuge sneered: "Why, do you think that the dark night will hinder me?"
"Then everything is up to you."
Bolva, who had received "respect" and "recognition" from his "leader", had no doubts about the confidence shown by Shuge. He nodded heavily, regarding what was about to unfold that night, targeting the members of the Legal Committee.
The hunting operation is full of expectations.
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Bolva's reactions and actions were basically within Xiuge's expectations.
After establishing a strong enough foundation of trust, Xiuge no longer needs to be as careful as he was at first. Now he only needs to maintain the image and identity he created before, and he is already fully capable of controlling the entire Three-Color Brotherhood, as well as those who
A fanatical member of the Black Sun Society.
And all the materials collected by the entire Three-Color Brotherhood after the revolution in Salem City can now be disposed of at Shuge's discretion.
As a spellcaster and the actual controller of the Brotherhood, Xiuge easily walked into the large warehouse where the Brotherhood stored alchemy and magic resources.
And the moment he walked in here, Xiuge knew that he probably didn't need to get any more magic alchemy materials from Iris Street, because there were already enough here - obviously Bolvar was entering the Brotherhood.
After the meeting, I used my prestige and ability to gather a lot of things that I might need.
Here, Shuge even saw a very familiar steam incense burner - the same one that was previously placed in Boss Gerald's alchemy shop.
After shopping around twice, Xiuge successfully picked out two materials according to the list in his memory.
And these two pieces of materials were clearly the "good things" that Shuge had obtained in Bolden before using his authority, namely the "body fluid of the foul dragon" and the "eyeballs of the traveling spider".
In Bolden, the trading of these two items has been completely banned. It was only after Xiuge began to systematically study stream-level magic that he realized that these two materials can not only be used to make alchemy bombs, but are also suitable for
Some special crystallized cannonballs, especially the former, are stinking body fluids collected from the foul dragons in remote overseas islands. They are extremely poisonous to any kind of creature.
Before Xiuge entered the military camp, he heard from Wei Lin that the Plateau Mage Council had begun cooperation with major alchemists and weapon workshops. They believed that in future wars, some of the same potent chemicals might be needed.
Alchemy bombs are large artillery shells whose properties and killing effects are consistent.
As for the eyeball of the traveling spider, Shuge has also been coveting it for a long time. Especially after personally hunting down a descendant of the Dark Abyss who swallowed this kind of spider, Shuge is even more looking forward to the help it may provide to him.
The two items that Xiuge took away did not arouse anyone's doubts. If he had just taken some ordinary magic crystals, Bolva would probably be confused.
At the moment, only this kind of material, whose name sounds extremely dangerous, is more in line with Xiuge's identity.
Night falls again.
Within the Brotherhood, the members of the Black Sun Society who heard about the two men's next action plans from Bolva and Shuge became extremely excited. They were even eager to try, hoping that their leader could carry out such an important task.
Bring it with you.
Xiuge was naturally too lazy to pay attention to this request. After a short preparation, he and Bolva walked out of the safe room and came to the dangerous streets outside.
After all, Bolva was cautious.
Although he already trusted Xiuge and believed in his abilities, he was also extremely wary of those descendants of the Dark Abyss who were running rampant in Salem City at night. Although psychologically, he felt that these descendants of the Dark Abyss were being
Devouring is a sacred ritual of dedicating one's soul and power to the Dark Abyss and the ancient gods, but since the association still needs its own power, death should not happen!
Xiuge walked on the street extremely calmly.
He did not summon the running rat, but just like an ordinary traveler, he walked forward along the street under the protection of the magical mist of the dark abyss.
After walking for a long time, Bolva finally couldn't help but said: "Leader, should we use travel magic or summon some rideable summons? Although our station is not far from our destination,
But walking through it like this will consume some energy after all.”
Bolva was telling the truth. The concentration of Dark Abyss magic power in his body was not as exaggerated as Xiuge. Therefore, it naturally attracted the attention of some Dark Abyss descendants. Along the way, Bolva had been sneak attacked several times.
, and fortunately, his control over magic is extremely good, so he can escape danger every time.
And during this whole process, Xiuge didn't help him at all.
Facing Bolvar's proposal, Xiuge seemed to be deaf. He walked slowly and asked: "By the way, Bolvar, how long have you been a member of the association and the Dark Abyss History Society?
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"I've been a member of the association for twelve years!"
Although he didn't quite understand why Xiuge asked these questions at this time, Bolva still respectfully gave his answer: "I joined the Dark Abyss Historical Society six years ago."
"oh……"
Xiuge nodded with satisfaction, then he smiled and said: "Then you should know the 'lecturer', right?"
"Lecturer? Ah... yes, I know him. He is a profound scholar. When I first entered the Historical Society, he was the one who welcomed me."
While answering, Bolva turned his gaze to a shadow beside the street, where a large group of Dark Abyss descendants were squeezing out from the gaps in the building.
According to common sense, it would be best for the two of them to speed up and leave quickly, but Xiuge still walked forward unhurriedly, and he even continued the topic just now.
"Yes, the 'lecturer' is indeed a very talkative person. Unfortunately, he suffered an accident not long ago, and I will not have the chance to talk to him again in the future."
Hearing this, a look of surprise flashed across Bolva's face, and he quickly asked: "What happened?"
"The 'lecturer' is dead. He came into close contact with the power from the dark abyss, and as a result, his body was completely gone."
Shuge slowly said the ending of "Lecturer" with emotion. At this time, the dim moonlight shone on Shuge's face, so Bolva, who was walking next to him and was preparing to set up a protective ceremony, realized that he was
There was no trace of sadness on the leader's face for the death of the "lecturer".