The cool light shines on the many flowers blooming in the small garden, giving them a hazy beauty.
Lucien and Rhine walked side by side on the garden path. After a brief silence, he asked directly: "Mr. Rhine, can you tell me where the headquarters of the Magic Council is?"
"Where do you think it will be?" Rhine, who had been wearing a faint smile, asked Lucien.
Lucien thought for a while and replied: "I think it is deep in the Dark Mountains or on the other side of the mountains, because the church's westward march ended early."
Rhine chuckled: "If you go to the Dark Mountains, you can only find those gloomy and crazy ancient magicians. Although they are powerful, many of them are high-level, and there are even archmages and legendary magicians, but they are a little bit different from them.
According to their wishes, you will become their experiment, and then you will either gain uncontrollable powerful power, or your whole body will collapse and die. Moreover, the creatures in the Dark Mountains are not the beasts in the Melzer Black Forest, and low-level magical creatures can compare with them.
, with your strength, you will not survive for more than ten days if you rush deep into it."
Sure enough, there are remnants of ancient magicians in the Dark Mountains.
Lucien confirmed one of his guesses: "Mr. Rhine, is the headquarters of the Continental Magic Council in a certain country? Does it believe in the Northern Sect, or does it believe in other gods?
"Wrong answer, in a country that believes in the Southern Truth Religion." Rhine shook his head as if he remembered something funny, "You should have heard of its name, the Kingdom of Holm. The specific location is the Kingdom of Hall.
The floating city 'Aringe' near the capital Rentat."
"Alin'e means 'sky' in the ancient Sylvanus language." Lucien first interpreted the word habitually, and then looked at Rhine in surprise: "Kingdom of Holm? Lentat? Natasha
What country is your mother from?"
And this country actually still believes in the God of Truth! Why did Grand Duke Violet visit this country back then?
"Hasn't the love of Archduke Violet become a story told throughout the continent? I have sung and told several different ones." Rhine thought it was very interesting and laughed, "But there is not a single poem, not a single one.
The story can clearly tell what evil force is blocking them."
Lucien asked doubtfully: "Is it the Continental Magic Council? Why is there such a strange situation?"
With a smile on his lips, Rhine looked at Lucien: "If you have learned about governance, you will understand that this is a political issue of the situation on the continent. Everything comes down to balance, the balance that the nobility needs."
"Balance?" Lucien asked pretending to be confused, but he was thinking in his heart, "Actually, I have a lot of teaching materials on international politics. Do you need to take a look?"
Knowing that the headquarters of the Magic Council was not in some scary and dangerous place, Lucien relaxed a lot.
Rhine surpassed Lucien by half his body and walked forward slowly: "When the Dawn War entered two hundred years later, the strength and authority of the church reached its peak. Whether it was the poor or the emperor, they had to crawl when facing the pope.
Kiss the toe of the shoe of the spokesman of the gods. During that time, the church was able to depose counts, marquises and dukes at will, and even the emperor of the Holy Herz Empire. Therefore, no one dared to offend the majesty of the church."
"So the split of the church into northern and southern factions at the Supreme Religious Council was supported by the nobles?" Lucien realized why those cardinals were followed by almost all the nobles in the north.
Rhine turned his head and glanced at Lucien: "Very perceptive. Lucien, you are right. When some cardinals plot to overthrow the pope for reasons unknown to everyone, the nobles of their country do so without any hesitation.
Joined this conspiracy. But these nobles deliberately leaked part of the news in advance to prepare the Pope and prevent him from being overthrown, so it developed into a situation of division between the north and the south. After all, for the nobles in the north, if these cardinals overthrew the Pope
, control the church, their situation will not fundamentally change from before."
"When the north and the south are divided, and there is not much difference in strength between the two sides, the strength of the nobles has become the most important weight in the balance, and will no longer be taken away by life and death." Lucien followed Rhine's words and said.
Rhine smiled and shook his head: "Yes, the strength of the Northern Church is very different from that of the Southern Church. But in the elven countries northwest of the Dark Mountains, the dwarf countries, countries that believe in other gods, and the magical creatures in the Dark Mountains, how can the remaining magicians turn a blind eye?
Watching the church in the north be defeated. They joined the game and formed a situation where the south was aggressively attacking and the north was barely holding on."
"But this is different from the current situation? There seems to be a balance of power now, and the northern fortresses have fallen before." Lucien thought seriously, "So the church split again at that time? The Kingdom of Holm supported the Magic Council?"
Rhine was slightly surprised: "You can think of this, Lucien, you are really good at learning and thinking. Yes, after seeing that the status and status of the northern nobles have been greatly improved, the southern nobles also have ideas about their own situation. Most of them
They chose to negotiate with the church, while a small number of people embarked on the path of secretly supporting the magic forces, using their strength to fight against the church forces in their own kingdoms, while balancing themselves in the middle to gain the right to speak."
"This small group is the nobles of the four kingdoms across the Storm Strait, but they made a mistake, that is, they did not expect that a great mage named Douglas would actually make changes to the ancient magic system at this time, from simply imitating magic to
Creatures have embarked on the path of studying the laws of the operation of all things in nature. Under the leadership of Douglas, the strength of the Magic Council has grown exponentially, and powerful magicians and legendary magicians have appeared one after another. Several hidden secrets have been integrated more than a hundred years ago.
After the establishment of the Magic Organization, the Continental Magic Council has expanded into the second largest force in the entire world."
"This is a change that Holm and other nobles from the four kingdoms didn't expect at all when they started supporting them."
Lucien heard the familiar name: "Mr. Douglas? I know him." Lucien did not ask Douglas if he was still alive, because a magician as powerful as him must have countless ways to extend his life.
Thousands of years are not a problem at all. For example, the "Lich Transformation Ceremony" recorded in Lucien's "Book of Astrology and Elements" can be performed after becoming a high-level magician. Once successful, the life span will be extended to at least 1,500 years.
Year.
"Mr. Douglas is one of the top ten powerful men in the world, the first great arcanist, the speaker of the Continental Magic Council, and the founder of the journal "Arcana"." Even Rhine, a man who is extremely mysterious,
There was also a touch of awe when Douglass was mentioned, "So now it is a situation where several forces are balanced and the nobles benefit from it. Haha, in the Kingdom of Holm, the identity of magicians is already semi-public. Although the church is quite powerful,
They were concentrated there, but they were suppressed miserably. If it weren't for the help of the nobles, they would have been uprooted by the Magic Council long ago."
Lucien roughly understood the current situation: "That's why the church allows nobles of the level of Grand Duke Violet to visit the Kingdom of Holm. It seems that it hopes to completely pull over the noble power of the Kingdom of Holm. Haha.
, Grand Duke Violet 'finished' it well."
"The Grand Duke himself never thought that this would happen. The nobles of the western continent, the southern countries and the Holy Herz Empire are known as the most extreme and conservative pro-church faction. You can imagine the sensation caused by the marriage at that time. Although most Hall
The nobles of the Kingdom of Mu all understand the situation on the mainland, but they will definitely choose to be loyal to their lords. This is not because they have noble character, but because if the nobles could not unite by following the most basic rules of loyalty to their lords, they would have been defeated by the Magic Council long ago.
If the two huge forces of the Church and the Church are separated and swallowed up, how can they be allowed to make a dangerous balance?" Rhine said with a slightly sarcastic smile.
Then he made a downward gesture: "Okay, with your strength, you don't need to know complicated things. What you need to consider now is how to get to the Kingdom of Holm. The Storm Strait has been blocked by the church, and only with permission
Only nobles and merchants can go there, and the inspection is extremely strict. Of course, you can also cross the confrontation zone between the north and south churches, then cross the Shahran Empire to the Northland, and then go around to the north of the Kingdom of Holm. The only problem is
, the area where the church faces off is more strictly sealed than the Storm Strait, and even nobles and big businessmen cannot pass through."
"The Magic Council should have its own path, right?" Lucien thought of the gentleman from the Magic Council headquarters.
Lucien didn't dare to rely on Natasha for this kind of thing, even though her grandfather was the king of the Kingdom of Holm. Because the one who blocked her parents back then was the power of the Magic Council, and she was a devout believer in the Cult of Truth. Tell her that
Due to his identity as a magic apprentice and his previous deception, he is likely to be killed directly.
Rhine nodded: "There is a liaison officer from the Magic Council in the Pearl of the Sea 'Sturk', but I don't know who it is. You need to find it yourself, and even so, it is very dangerous to sneak through the blockade, so I
I just said that you can only go there after you become an official magician and have good self-protection ability. Of course, if you can become an intermediate magician and learn the flying technique, you don't have to worry about this. The sea is so wide that the church can block the ships but not
It could completely block the sky."
"Become an official magician..." Lucien didn't know if the church would continue to observe him, but he would definitely not use his identity as a "professor" to contact people in the magic circle. Therefore, the best way to become an official magician as soon as possible
It turns out that he went to the ruins and got in first by understanding the time difference of the "Grand Cross" magic mystery lock on his own, but could that be a trap by the church?
Rhine clasped his hands behind his back: "You can become a high-level magic apprentice in at most two days, and with your talent, as long as you have ordinary Silver Moon potions, you have a great chance of becoming an official magician. So, you make your own decision.
It’s dangerous, the most I can tell you is that it’s hard for the church to staff up recently.”
"Really?" Lucien looked at Rhine in slight surprise. He seemed to know something. If what he said was true, then he should indeed take a certain risk to go to the ruins. "By the way, Mr. Rhine, no
Do you know who you are?"
Rhine chuckled and said: "I am just an observer, someone who likes to observe interesting things. Of course, I do not rule out the possibility of ending up personally, as long as the thing is interesting enough."
After answering Lucien vaguely, Rhine gave him a meaningful look, then quickened his pace and merged directly into the darkness.
Lucien stood there and watched Rhine's back disappear, feeling calm in his heart. After learning the news about the Magic Council headquarters, he suddenly felt much more relaxed, as if the boulder that had been weighing on his heart for a long time had been removed.
In this indescribable relief, Lucien suddenly felt that his soul expanded a little and began to hit the limit. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to register as a Piaotian Literature member to recommend this work. Your support,