In this short period of time, just that weird and inexplicable crack had already caused extremely serious losses to the mages of the Legal Committee and Council.
The cost of training a qualified stream-level mage is often much higher than that of training a professional soldier. Those valley-level and lake-level mages and scholars who are the backbone and can stand alone are even more important to major universities.
An important resource in the organization.
In the past, under normal circumstances, if a valley-level or lake-level mage died due to an accident while performing a mission, the branch of the Legal Committee responsible for the matter would be under tremendous pressure, and would even be faced with sword-wielding
Investigation of the Hermits.
Now, more than fifty elite mages have disappeared, died or completely lost their ability to move due to various reasons. This situation is enough to make even the most casual people in the Legal Committee feel completely nervous.
You must know that even the ongoing astonishing war that has swept through half of Vann will not cause such exaggerated mage casualties. On today's battlefield, except for those unlucky ones who are extremely unlucky and use their skulls to catch cannonballs.
Or in individual cases that suffered "beheading treatment" from the enemy, the vast majority of mages who were injured and captured on the battlefield would still receive preferential treatment, and the Legal Committee and Council would also organize regular arrangements for the exchange of mages as prisoners of war.
The scholars in the laboratory felt chills in their hearts as they looked at the figures suspended in the alchemical liquid. Although they maintained the basic human shape, their body surface, part of their flesh and blood, and their internal organs had been replaced by magic crystals.
After a round of urgent statistics, they came to a terrifying conclusion.
That is, the kind of power that is enough to cause physical changes and twist living flesh and blood into magic crystals seems to be more targeted at those who already have sufficient magic power in their bodies. In other words, they are more likely to affect mages.
After repeated confirmations, the scholars confirmed that in the camp set up next to the big crack, all those who showed severe symptoms were spell casters, and they were all mage members above the stream level, and the mage apprentices were responsible for recording, carrying supplies and other chores.
The effects are relatively mild, and most people just fall into a coma for a period of time, or experience symptoms such as fever, trance, and visual hallucinations.
The soldiers also stationed in the camp were basically not affected.
When the magical movement occurred, only a very small number of them said that they fell into a brief state of absence, but within ten seconds, they had returned to normal, and they were even able to work normally and handle all abnormal situations.
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This is a discovery that is enough to scare most mages.
The magic power that they regarded as a gift from the goddess Mel in the past seems to have become some kind of terrible disease. Facing that unknown and powerful threat, magic and magic power not only failed to produce any help, but actually caused their bodies to suffer from it.
Distortions and lesions are symptoms that have never appeared in the history of Van En, and no one knows how to deal with them.
After preliminary observations, scholars have basically confirmed that this change directly affects the spiritual and magical levels. In other words, it is the power from the underground that unknowingly works in some way that is difficult for the Fanen mages to understand.
It completely disrupted the mental state of the victims, distorted their cognition, and began to rapidly transform and affect their bodies based on the magic power in their bodies.
Based on this situation, the Salem City Emergency Committee has issued instructions - whether it is the Plateau Council or the Law Committee, all mages at the stream level and above who are stranded near the rugged hilly areas must now respond as quickly as possible.
Evacuate quickly, and all ongoing magic affairs will be terminated immediately. Those that cannot be terminated will be handed over to the mage apprentices for final maintenance and processing. All matters related to the crack will be taken over by the army.
Although this series of measures are all to protect the safety of the mages themselves, for the mages who have played an important role in all affairs in the past, this is the first time that they have been forced to leave their tasks and work.
Stay away from the realm that should belong to you.
For them, this has become a silent intimidation and deterrence.
In the laboratory where the emergency committee is located, more and more information is being successfully analyzed from those humanoid crystals. These narrators still retain a certain degree of consciousness, but their bodies are no longer related to flesh and blood.
Through those twisted lines and symbols, he told the scholars of the emergency committee about the strange scenes he had seen underground.
Scholars with profound knowledge and mental toughness have been tortured to the point of madness.
They kept asking their "colleagues" who had turned into magic crystals everything about the cracks in the ground, but they were always able to give extremely bizarre and creepy answers.
A soldier of the Ymir Legion believed that what was under the cracks was not soil and rocks at all, but another deep and endless underground world, because he saw extremely bright and dazzling galaxies underground.
An officer with half of his body completely crystallized told the scholar that the team was attacked horribly on their way back. They could not see the attackers, and they only knew that there were invisible sharp blades and claws tearing apart their protection and cutting the flesh of their companions.
And drag the dead into the abyss.
Several humanoid crystals who were once mages used the patterns to repeatedly emphasize to people that they saw a huge, constantly flashing "eye" deep in the crack. They said that this "eye" was constantly watching the crack.
Everything inside is also peering into the world outside the cracks.
They say that that is the true source of magic and magic, that is the true source of all crystallized mineral veins in Van En, that is the "heart" that connects countless blood vessels.
They say that is the "reality" buried under Van En.
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The Kingdom of St. Steele is far away from the rugged hills. Even with the help of steam trains and magic rails, it would take them nearly half a month to reach the rugged hills.
Now, both the Legal Committee and the Council have cut off intelligence sharing with the Kingdom of St. Steele.
At noon, eleven hours after the magical mutation officially broke out, the magic railway lines supported by the Walter royal family, the Ernst family and many royal workshops began to stop opening to the Kingdom of St. Steele, and some of them were transferred to the St. Steele Kingdom in advance.
Votel's army in the northern part of the plateau has established new defense lines and strongholds in important towns on the kingdom's border to guard against its past northern allies.
After many meetings, mediation and intense discussions, the powerful fleet of the Hain Kingdom has completely stopped moving. At the same time, several important new main warships have also begun to withdraw from the front line - the Hain Kingdom believes that its coast needs more
Much defense power.
The change in the situation is so strange. Now, except for those plain towns and areas that have been controlled by the alliance of plateau countries, everything seems to have returned to the way it was before the war broke out, and people seem to be even more serious than that time.
Use some restraint.
As the consul of Walter's embassy in St. Steele, Muller has always maintained a very good relationship with the St. Steele officials and the royal family. With his skill and shrewd handling principles, he has obtained the entire Saint Steele embassy.
He was welcomed by the top leaders of Ernest society. Many times, St. Steele would even invite the ambassador from a neighboring country to attend when he held important celebrations and events.
The northern royal family once even praised Ambassador Muller and considered him a "friend of the snowfield".
In fact, Ambassador Muller is not only a consul, but also an important spy and secret agent trained by the Ernst family and set up in the Kingdom of St. Steele. In fact, the embassy of the Kingdom of Votel in the north has always been
It is an important base for the Votel people to obtain intelligence and secrets in the north.
In his early activities, Muller had already developed a tenacious spirit and a strong ability to withstand pressure, but now, he is sitting on pins and needles.
"These northerners have gone crazy, their royal family has gone crazy, their army has gone crazy, the believers of the God of Life have gone crazy, and the miners are going crazy too!"
Muller was pacing back and forth in his office. A document he had just compiled and reported had been severely distorted by him. There were many signs that the Kingdom of St. Steele was facing some extreme and drastic changes, and that
An invitation letter suddenly delivered to his residence in the morning made Muller's mental pressure reach its peak.
"You are sincerely invited to participate in the 'Fire of Life' ceremony at noon on the eve of the end of winter."
The invitation was issued by the royal family of St. Steele. In the corner of the invitation, there were also the emblems of the royal family and the cedar scholar towers.
The so-called "Fire of Life" ceremony refers to the fact that at the end of winter, the St. Steele royal family and the God of Life sect will select the most devout believers and go to the royal palace square to perform the eternal life ceremony.
The continuation ceremony of fire - a cluster of fire of life said to have been burning in eternity, will bid farewell to the cold winter of St. Steele under the witness of people.
If it were in the past, Muller would certainly be happy to attend this ceremony, and even his wife had met at the "Fire of Life" ceremony ten years ago.
But now, there are more and more signs that this huge northern kingdom with a long history has been completely controlled by the Black Sun Society. Coupled with these twists and turns in recent days, it is really hard for Mueller to believe it.
The specific intentions of the Royal Family of St. Steele in hosting this event.
The clock on the wall made a slight sound. Muller looked up and then stuffed the paper filled with intelligence information into the circular metal tube next to his desk. As his fingers touched the wall of the tube,
With the red magic crystal on the tube, a simple flame magic was immediately formed inside the tube, burning the document into ashes.
Then he picked up the invitation and his eyes stayed on the emblem of the "Cedar Scholar Tower Group" for two seconds.
Yetevich, the deep sea-level mage of the Cedar Scholar Tower Group, has always been the leader of the belief in the God of Life among the people, but Muller remembered that when the "Fire of Life" ceremony was held in the past, Master Yetevich always used
His own snowy owl mark, instead of using the emblem that symbolizes the entire mage tower group. After all, the Cedar Scholar Tower Group is a gathering place for believers of the goddess Mel, and they will never openly participate in the activities of believers other than the goddess Mel.
Thinking of the news he had heard that Master Yetvich was accused and attacked by angry people last night, Ambassador Mueller frowned, and then he immediately walked to the side of the office and skillfully opened a door that could barely fit in.
The secret mezzanine that people crawl into.
Afterwards, Muller immediately came to a giant eagle sculpture in the mezzanine - this is a special secret instrument that has been carefully processed by Finn, the butler of the Walter royal family. The magical message conveyed by it can be sent directly to the Walter royal family.
Or notify Zeke Ernst, the three-clawed falcon himself.
Muller thought for a moment, and then quickly wrote down his suspicions about the Cedar Scholars Tower Group and Master Yetvich. Then he displayed all the other newly collected information, and mentioned that he was about to participate in the "Life
"Fire Ceremony", Muller tremblingly added a blood-red giant eagle emblem under the words.
The use of this emblem means that secret agents and spies are heading towards a dead end. Its existence itself is equivalent to a condensed suicide note.
The information was quickly transmitted by the secret instrument, but after a moment, the magic secret instrument began to tremble slightly, and then a "reply letter" appeared in front of Mueller's eyes, which contained only a few words of thanks to Mueller, and
A seemingly short address.
"May the giant eagle soar forever."
Muller wished softly, then he copied down the address, turned around, picked up the metal hammer placed on the mezzanine wall, and smashed it hard against the bottom of the giant eagle sculpture, destroying its foundation as a secret ritual.
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After doing these things, the ambassador turned around and returned to his office. He found the old butler who had been following him for ten years, handed him the note, and ordered him to take his wife and daughter there immediately.
Here, he packed up his clothes, walked out of the embassy, and got on the steam vehicle heading to the royal palace.
The streets of St. Steele still bear traces of last night's riots. Royal guards and mages are patrolling everywhere. From time to time, Muller can see civilians being stopped for questioning, or being pushed out of shops and residences.
, Needless to say, these people will be sent to prison soon.
At this time, Muller noticed that these northern mages who were following the royal guards seemed to have changed their clothes again - they should have been wearing council robes, but now, they were wearing a coat with a
Long black windbreakers. These heavy black windbreakers are simple in style and do not have many patterns. However, in the center of the back of the windbreaker, there is an unusually regular white ring.