News from the north proves that the Floating City of Light of Truth has been attacked by star beasts.
Although the enemies there were eliminated with the help of a clone of the Arcane Emperor, the dispersed invaders still brought all kinds of unimaginable disasters and losses to the Arcane Empire.
Remote villages, towns and cities fell one after another, and human settlements were massacred and burned. There was not much time left for the Morian plane.
Naturally, the upper echelons of the Arcane Empire knew everything about the disasters facing the Morian plane, but when the news reached the middle levels, the relevant content was much simpler and cruder. When the news was conveyed to ordinary arcanists, the information
It's so blurry that it's hard to tell whether it's true or false.
As for the ordinary people at the bottom of the plane, they are all abandoned objects. Naturally, it is impossible to know what kind of disaster is about to befall them.
The large-scale selection of arcane apprentices happened suddenly.
It's not yet time for the selection of arcane apprentices, but the floating cities located in various places have already issued mandatory orders to select outstanding arcane apprentices to the floating cities for selection in the regions under their jurisdiction.
A large number of outstanding and talented children were selected and sent to the floating city one after another. This city, which was facing great dangers of war, was revitalized with the injection of a large amount of vital blood.
The empire is retreating... Such news is no longer a secret, but has become a matter of heated discussion among all arcanists and apprentices.
Most of the arcane masters were naturally included in the retreat list, but the list of arcane apprentices was relatively small.
Ruijing Garden Floating City is the arcane center of Ruian Province in the Kentos Continent. The number of arcane apprentices living, studying and researching here is as high as 30,000. Plus the newly selected little ones, the number is approaching.
50,000.
According to authoritative information circulated internally, the maximum number of apprentices that the Arcane Empire can transfer is 4,000.
After all, the entire Arcane Empire has seven continents, more than twenty provinces, and seventy-six floating cities. Even if each floating city only selects 4,000 people, that is still a huge number of nearly 300,000.
What's more, in addition to future new blood such as arcane apprentices, each floating city also needs to transfer a large number of arcane masters, arcane equipment, various precision instruments and equipment, plus a huge amount of resources and materials, as well as various
living supplies.
To be honest, even the quota of 4,000 arcane apprentices was squeezed out by the upper management of the Arcane Empire after gritting their teeth and abandoning a group of arcane masters with no development potential.
It's just that those at the bottom will never understand the good intentions of the upper class. They are still only obsessed with simple numerical comparisons.
50,000 vs 4,000…
What a huge difference between the two numbers!
If the units behind them were gold coins, the huge disparity would be enough to make people secretly amazed. But if the units behind them were human lives, their embedded value would be even greater and difficult to estimate in detail.
These days, people in the Ruijing Garden Floating City are in panic. All arcane masters are busy with resource transfer and material dispatch. Most arcane institutions and facilities are facing shutdown and abolition. Those arcane masters who are at a loss what to do.
As apprentices of martial arts, they either go around to inquire about the evacuation list, or they know that they have no hope of getting into the list of 4,000 people, so they can only pack their luggage sadly and prepare to return to their hometown and hometown.
Although it is difficult for them to understand the current war situation and the dynamics at the top, the difficulty of the situation at hand is obvious to all.
There have been six or seven horrific incidents in the Arcane Empire where foreign invaders openly attacked floating cities. Although most of the attacks were repelled and the invaders were eliminated, there were still two floating cities that became the subject of war.
The sacrifice fell from the sky amidst the wails of the crowd.
The floating city fell... Such a thing has almost never happened in the nearly ten thousand years of Arcane Empire's development history, so the blow to the confidence of the Arcane people was particularly severe.
The floating city is no longer a hanging garden that never falls, nor is it an absolutely safe arcane fortress in the hearts of arcane people. Numerous reports from various places also show that most of the invading monsters are in large cities and floating cities.
The empty city is the final attack target.
Therefore, when the arcane empire is declining, not only will it not feel safe to stay in the floating city, but it will actually make people more worried.
Many arcane families who were not qualified to catch the retreat fleet had to find other ways to build some shelters in the most desolate and secluded places on each continent to prepare for the coming arcane dusk.
Therefore, those arcane apprentices who were not selected into the list of 4,000 people are also eager to rush back to the family as soon as possible, striving to occupy some better positions for themselves and their relatives in those safe fortresses. In order to strengthen the family's momentum and gain
With a greater right to survive, they are also trying their best to win over some helpless high-level apprentices.
As a beauty with the title of senior apprentice in both alchemy and puppet refining, Lucia naturally received the largest number of olive branches. Unfortunately, Lucia was unmoved and simply rejected everyone, still following the rules.
In the past, I shuttled between the Arcane Research Laboratory, the Library and the Arcane Academy every day.
On this day, Lucia was still walking hurriedly on the familiar moon-white path with a thick stack of arcane books, surrounded by apprentices who were in a hurry. There was no smile on everyone's face, and the soft beach
There are no young figures relaxing next to the beautiful fountains. The entire floating city seems to be trapped in a low pressure, depressing and painful.
Lucia lowered her head and walked silently.
It wasn't until she saw a familiar corner of a cloth robe and a pair of exquisite arcane leather boots that she stopped in surprise and raised her head.
What appeared in front of him was the heroic, handsome young apprentice Solon.
But his brows were frowned, his face was haggard, and he looked like he was suffering from something in his mind.
"Sauron, you...haven't left yet?" Lucia covered her mouth in surprise.
Looking at Lucia's pretty and bright eyes, Sauron opened his dry mouth several times and finally spoke.
"My grandpa has decided to evacuate today..."
"Congratulations! I will bless you..." Lucia showed a sincere smile on her face.
Sauron's painful gaze carefully examined Lucia's face, but he could not find any trace of falsehood or pretense in her smile.
"Grandpa has already urged me to leave... I just came here to ask you one last question. Are you... really not willing to go with me?"
Lucia slowly put away her smile and shook her head solemnly again.
"Lucia...I...I take back what I said before. I will never use this quota to force you to do anything. You...you are free...come with me. I will not force you to do anything again."
Do anything you don't want to do, just ask you to come with me... okay?" Sauron said sternly, the expression on his face was painful and distorted. It was obvious that he had made a great deal of effort in making this decision.
determination.
Lucia was stunned at first, and then a beautiful smile slowly bloomed on her face.
She took a step forward, held Sauron's face in her hands, and willingly gave her her first kiss.
However, just when Sauron was wild with surprise and wanted to hold her in his arms, Lucia suddenly took a step back and broke away from his arms.
"Soren, leave!" Lucia's little face was still bright red from the kiss just now, full of stunning brilliance: "This kiss is our farewell gift. We may never see each other again.
So... I hope you can leave without any worries and continue to work hard for the future of the empire and the inheritance of arcane civilization!"
"No...Lucia, I...I can't leave you here!" Falling from the peak of joy into the deep valley, Sauron obviously couldn't accept the reality in front of him, and his voice was almost hoarse when he spoke.
"I will not leave!" The shyness on Lucia's face faded, but because of the strange look in her eyes, it was cast with another layer of divine brilliance: "My life belongs to the arcane! Even the next moment
Even if I am about to face death, I will not stop my steps. This... is the oath I made when I was elected as an arcane apprentice, and it is also the belief I pursue throughout my life. Therefore, even without this disaster, we are destined not to be together.
!I hope you can understand what I mean..."
Sauron looked painful and sad.
After a long time, he finally made way to the Arcane Academy.
Lucia stared at him deeply and hurriedly embarked on her journey again.
Looking at that pretty and resolute figure, feeling his heart that was like a knife cutting, Sauron finally shed tears.
At some point, an old-looking arcanist figure appeared next to Sauron. He also silently looked at the direction where Lucia disappeared, his eyes full of unconcealable loneliness and pain.
"She is a good girl... It's a pity that she doesn't belong to you!" The old man said bleakly: "If I was as carefree as her, maybe I would make the same choice as her. It's a pity...
…”
After lowering his head and pondering to adjust his mentality, the old man raised his head again.
"Let's go, Sauron! There is no hope here... The task of rebuilding a new Arcane Empire in another world is not easy. Your future is not here, but in the distance. The glory of Arcane, the glory of your family, we
We are all old, and we can only rely on you to inherit and carry forward these things. So, cheer up, grit your teeth, and live strong for the sake of the Arcane Empire and the Jonas family!"
Sauron's body trembled slightly.
After a long time, he finally wiped away his tears, turned to face his grandfather, nodded and said: "I understand... let's go, grandpa..."
Then, in a burst of white light, the two people suddenly disappeared. (To be continued)