"What about killing 'Golden Wisdom'?! What the hell are you talking about?!"
"You are just a bunch of magicians who deceive the ignorant people, but you still dare to advocate yourselves in front of us?"
"Come on, come on, since you think your miracle is so powerful, do you want to try my 'soul trapping technique'?"
Several high mages felt strongly offended when they heard Bishop Comosius's humble words. Each of them could not suppress their anger. They picked up the scrolls and shook their staffs, intending to teach the rude red-robed priest a lesson and let him understand the arcane arts.
The power!
The legendary mage who was dubbed the "Golden Wisdom" almost laid the basic framework of contemporary arcane magic. Even the eight major factions of magic that are popular today were created by the "Golden Wisdom" Mikosi, who studied many ancient spellcasting systems.
Summarized with extraordinary wisdom and insight.
The title "Golden Wisdom" is not only the mages' esteem for Mikosin's legendary arcane attainments, but also recognition of his great achievements in establishing the arcane system.
However, now the Eye of Mystery is not very happy to mention that "Golden Wisdom" Mikosi is the founder of their entire mage organization. First of all, there are legendary figures of his generation, and there are still a few surviving people. They have no regard for the Eye of Mystery, the entire
The contribution made by the arcane system is also quite profound.
Secondly, when the Eye of Mystery was founded, it had a conflict with the Holy Lord Church, so much so that the "Golden Wisdom" Mikosi himself was killed by the earthly saint of the church. This incident was a heavy blow to the Eye of Mystery at that time.
, and therefore had to choose to deepen the relationship with the empire. For a considerable period of time, the Eye of Mystery became the official academy organization of the empire to train mages, develop arcana, and produce magic items.
Nowadays, the mages of the Eye of Mystery also have complex emotions towards the "golden wisdom". On the one hand, as the founder of the arcane path, the mages certainly have respect for the "golden wisdom" Mikosi; but on the other hand,
For the mages who have strong self-awareness and despise the sacred faith, the failure of the "golden wisdom" at the hands of the saints of the church can be described as an indelible shame.
The Eye of Mystery suffered a blow that year and chose to join the Londinium Empire, obtaining a large amount of manpower and material resources as the basis for arcane development and talent cultivation. The empire in turn used the Eye of Mystery to restrict the sacred masters throughout human civilization.
church.
This cooperation was mutually beneficial at first, but it also forced the Eye of Mystery to be deeply integrated into the system of the Great Londinium Empire. However, this may not necessarily be the case for the Eye of Mystery, whose power and interests are extremely large and complex today.
That's a good thing.
Especially in the past ten years, the legendary mage Doragon has brought a large number of dragon-veined creatures to create a dragon kingdom, and established a mutual protection alliance in the New World under the leadership of the Tower of Pentagram. Although this series of events is regarded by the Greater Londinium Empire as being of a bad nature.
Rebellion and division have made many high-ranking mages of the Eye of Mystery feel envious and jealous, but due to their position, it is difficult to explain them in detail.
If the "Golden Wisdom" Mikosi defeated the earthly saints of the church, then the Eye of Mystery does not have to rely too much on the empire, causing the interests of the high mages to be deeply tied to the empire. On the surface, these high mages look glamorous and are highly regarded.
They respect them, but they also understand that they are only serving the expansion of the empire's interests. Only by becoming a legendary mage can they transcend the constraints of worldly interests and power.
Mastering arcane magic that is beyond the reach of mortals, mages are stronger and smarter than most ordinary people. Even if the Londinium Empire has always given preferential treatment and attention to mages? But this does not mean that mages are willing to obey those Senate politicians.
, the orders given by the lords and nobles - although most of the time? These orders are more like commissions.
Most mages, especially mages with the Eye of Mystery, have a strong self-esteem that cannot be suppressed. They believe that arcana is the only way to pursue the truth? Let mages who master arcana serve others? They even "sell" themselves like businessmen.
The ability itself is a sign of inferiority. Shouldn't a mage have an "employer"? A mage is the master of his own destiny!
The trend of the Eye of Mystery has been publicly criticized by the "Queen of Missiles" as excessive worship of the arcane, which has lost the purity of the pursuit of truth and is mixed with the arrogance of the nouveau riche. It has become a blind and arrogant belief.
Does the Eye of Mystery have complicated feelings for the "Golden Wisdom" Mikosi? But these high mages still cannot tolerate the words of Bishop Comosius, even though that is a fact that several of them are well aware of.
How could the legendary mage be defeated by the magic stick? That is "Golden Wisdom" Mikosi, the founder of the contemporary arcane system! You bunch of bullshit magic sticks who only know how to give the gods a thumbs-up, don't get too carried away!
"Enough!" Master Verrui waved his staff, and the wonderful magic fluctuations made everyone's anger subside? The scene returned to calm.
"Don't lose your temper at this time." Master Fandorui maintained a gentle and gentle expression, and turned to Bishop Comosius and asked: "Your Majesty, are you sure that the Spear of Mission is useful?"
Bishop Comosius smiled peacefully and said: "The legendary 'Golden Wisdom' not only transformed himself into a lich, but also became proficient in alchemy. Not only did he strengthen his lich body to a level far superior to fine gold, he even made the magic that acted on him
The spell was completely ineffective. But he was still defeated because of the spear of mission, any magical protection and resistance would be exposed to fatal flaws under the power of our Lord."
"You can't stop talking, right?" A high mage wanted to tear Bishop Comosius's mouth off.
Master Verrui asked with an unchanging expression: "Then what? I invited the Bishop here not to listen to you preach about the miracles of the saints, but to discuss cooperation. Let's assume for the moment that the Spear of Mission ignores all kinds of damage reduction.
The destructive power, then can you bring this artifact?"
"This is what I want to say. The spear of mission is not in the hands of the Mission School now." Bishop Comosius said: "After the saints of the Mission School defeated the 'Golden Wisdom', they were inspired by the Lord and were the first to do so in the Scribes School.
Rushed to the battlefield, recovered the Spear of Preaching, and placed it in the Golden Cathedral to this day... Haha, it's all gold."
Master Verrui asked: "Master Bishop, do you want us to help you seize the Spear of Mission?"
"good."
"Are you kidding me? Do you fucking think of us as thugs who are just here to come?" A senior mage yelled at the scene: "Do you still need our help to solve this trivial matter between you magicians? If you don't have the ability, just hurry up.
Get lost! When will it be the turn of the magic stick to bargain with us?"
The kind-hearted Master Verrui took a deep breath and said: "The Eye of Mystery does not currently have the intention to be completely hostile to the Holy Lord Church. What's more, the Holy Lord Church has obtained legal missionary status within the Mutual Protection Alliance. The main thing is
It is led by the Scribing Academy. If it becomes hostile to the Scribing Academy, it will undoubtedly make the Eye of Mystery face a more complicated situation in the New World."
"My Lords, mages, don't you understand the current situation?" Bishop Comosius looked at the rainforest and the frogman settlement in the distance, raised his hand and pointed far away and said, "Do you understand what this war means?"
"It means more production of magic items and a steady stream of wealth." Master Verrui said: "For this battle, the Mutual Protection Alliance should use some powerful means to interfere with our prophecy spells in advance, so that we
We can’t even find out the information that there is a magical spring in the frogman settlement.”
The corners of Bishop Comosius's lips curled up slightly, showing a trace of mockery, and he heard him say: "It's much more than that. This battle will determine the limit of the expansion of human civilization."
Several senior mages were about to refute, but Master Verrui tried to dissuade him and asked: "Does the bishop have any reason for this?"
"It is undeniable that arcana is the pinnacle of human civilization today, and the pace of human expansion is mainly driven by arcana." Bishop Comosius asked: "I just have a question. I don't know if arcana can achieve today's achievements.
What is the most important? The intelligence of a high mage? The endless creativity? Or the teaching methods of various mage organizations and academy associations?"
Master Verrui narrowed his eyes and replied: "It is a spell-casting material. This is also one of the most important creations of 'Golden Wisdom'. Before the formation of the contemporary arcane system, various spell-casting systems, including the miracles of your church, were cast
Some spells, especially when making magic items, will consume your own life force and soul essence.
This kind of thing is okay once in a while, but if it is consumed frequently, it will shorten the lifespan unknowingly and seriously delay the improvement of spellcasting ability. This is the reason that restricted the rapid expansion of various spellcasting systems in the past.
Some ancient wizards who have come into contact with the Arcane Star Map know that there is great potential in it. A few of them even have arcane levels that are no less than those of today's high mages, but they are still very cautious about casting spells because
Advanced spells consume almost the most basic vitality.
The lack of sufficient magic items also severely restricted the power of ancient spellcasters, causing them to be unable to project their power to others. It often happened that lord knights, instigated by noble priests, called on civilian farmers to attack the wizard's residence.
When their spells or mana are exhausted, they become nothing more than mere mortals.
'Golden Wisdom' Mikosi found a way to not only allow future generations of mages to access the arcane star map more effectively, but also to transfer the vitality and soul essence consumed in making magic items into the consumption of corresponding catalyst raw materials. From then on
From the beginning, as long as the mage masters a certain spell and has enough raw materials, he can continue to make magic items without having to worry about extra consumption."
"You are worthy of being the most popular instructor of the Eye of Mystery." Bishop Comosius said: "The high dependence of mages on spell casting materials will also curb your development and expansion. Arcane materials are not what ordinary people need.
Gold, silver, copper, iron, food and fabrics, but all kinds of special raw materials and minerals rich in magical energy.
As far as I know, the gemstone veins that overlap with the magic springs and the pulse of the earth in the empire are almost exhausted, right? Even if you modify the details of the spell many times and try to substitute the types of raw materials, there is a limit to such improvements.
Perhaps, you mages can search for places far away from human society, purchase high-purity gems from the spider people in the dark area, obtain long-lasting pearl shells from the murlocs in the sea, gather the lizard people and orcs in the desert and gobi, and go deeper and deeper day and night.
Digging for mineral deposits... Haha, Doragon chose the last option, right? But how many people can be like him, born with dragon bloodline, become a legendary mage, and have a silver dragon by his side? "
Although the senior mages understood what they heard, they still retorted for the sake of the mages' face: "Do you think we only have this ability? We can open the portal of the elemental plane. There are endless resources there, and we mages can do whatever we want.
Splurge!”
"How much does it cost to open a 'Gate to Another World'? Who will do the collection and basic processing of resources? If we build a long-term stable elemental rift, how many people and how many resources will be needed to maintain it? How many effective resources can be provided in the end?"
Bishop Comosius asked questions like a barrage of arrows, forcing many mages across from him to look gloomy as they continued:
"I was also a mage, and I know the secrets very well. Any magical raw materials require a large number of ordinary people to mine and collect them. Although the 'ordinary people' here do not necessarily have to be human beings, but just purchasing them from alien monsters, who can
Can a stable supply of raw materials be ensured? As for the enslavement and control of alien monsters, if it is not a special origin like Doragon, how sure are you? Are alien monsters really that docile and obedient? How much time does it take to rule and control them?
superior?
The environment in which ordinary humans can survive is first limited by food supply. If the magic raw material production area is too far away from the food production area, it will invisibly increase the cost of the raw materials, and also relatively increase the cost of magic items!
Look, there is indeed a large area further south of this rainforest lake, but how high is the cost of reclamation? How long will it take to fight the frogmen? I don’t think it’s that your Mysterious Eye’s prophecy spell is blocked, but that it’s not there from the beginning.
Pay attention, because you also think that developing this rainforest is too time-consuming and laborious!"
Bishop Comosius spoke in a slightly reprimanding tone, but those high-ranking mages who were shouting and killing had no intention of refuting. Only Master Verray said: "Your Majesty, the Bishop is indeed quite far-sighted.
But according to what you said, even if we defeat the Mutual Protection Alliance in the future and take the entire New World into our hands, the future of Arcana is still in jeopardy."
"There is still a long way to go in defeating the Mutual Protection Alliance. But if the Mutual Protection Alliance is allowed to grow, the crisis of the Eye of Mystery and the Empire is imminent!" Bishop Comosius said: "Masters, please think about it.
, the Mutual Protection Alliance occupies a large area of fertile land in the New World, as well as a large amount of mineral resources, and there is no shortage of legendary strong men to sit there. The Tower of Pentagram and Evergreen City continue to cultivate talents, how many years can the Eye of Mystery continue to prosper? "
Having said this, Bishop Comosius paused and changed the topic: "Indeed, if it is a legendary mage, there may not be too many concerns. The legendary mage may have his own demiplane and a large number of constructs.
When you work with the golem for yourself, you no longer have to rely too much on real magic raw materials."
Master Verrui sighed: "We understand that the situation is not optimistic, but it may not be so easy to seize the spear of preaching from the great church of the Scribing Academy. Even if I can persuade one or two legendary mages to participate, but this kind of
Things with extremely high risks may even make the Eye of Mystery completely hostile to the Church... I hope your Lord Bishop will understand that not all members of the Imperial Senate may be our friends. Now this emperor has made huge concessions to the Church, otherwise Lord Bishop
Are the newly established dioceses available for serving?"
"Just like Doragon broke away from the Eye of Mystery and established the dragon kingdom on his own, it will be inevitable for the three houses of the church to separate. It is impossible for the empire to treat the three houses equally." Bishop Comosius said impassionedly: "And missionary work
The Academy will be His Majesty the Emperor’s most loyal followers, and the Spear of Preaching will also be His Majesty the Emperor’s vanguard to defeat the enemy!”
"Holy stick!" Several high-ranking mages, including Verrui, cursed in unison.
"That's true, but it must be feasible to seize the Spear of Mission." Master Verrui's doubts cannot be eliminated.
Bishop Comosius smiled and said: "Then I can tell you the good news, Master. Soon, the head of the scholastic academy will come to the New World in person to spread the gospel to the believers in the colonies. And the missionary spear will be the accompanying sacred object. This is a time