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Chapter 406: Changes in the Situation

A gloomy and cold sky enveloped the earth. Even if it gathered the essence of contemporary arcana, the brilliance exuded by Rainbow City at this moment was far less than before. The gloomy and depressing atmosphere was like a gel stuck in the spacious streets, with only a few mages walking quickly.

Passing by, there is no longer the bustling scene of the Magic City before.

What happened in Loyev City has spread in Rainbow City. In fact, it is impossible not to spread it. Because the hundreds of mage towers in the city maintain contact with their mage masters. Once the mage master dies, the mage tower will

Nature will be dim and dull.

Rainbow City is the center of the Eye of Mystery. All high-ranking mages in the organization have built or inherited mage towers in the city. These mage towers share the magic springs emanating from the ground of Rainbow City. The souls of mages are in sync with the mage towers.

It can give full play to various spells and metamagic abilities, making it easy to research magic and make magic items.

Many high mages will also pre-set the destination of triggered teleportation spells in their own mage tower to ensure absolute safety.

However, a few days ago, the light of nearly thirty mage towers suddenly disappeared in Rainbow City, which symbolized the death of nearly thirty high-level mage.

The sudden bad news was like an earthquake sweeping through Rainbow City, completely shattering the pillars of many people's hearts. Since the Battle of Ghost Bay, more than ten mages have never been killed at the same time.

The entire Eye of Mystery had nearly two hundred high mages at its peak, making it the most powerful spellcasting organization in human civilization and even in the known world.

However, this peak situation did not last long, and it could even be said to be a beautiful illusion before its decline. When Doragon left to establish the dragon kingdom, a considerable number of high mages followed him away. Similarly, after the betrayal of Prince Auger

Empire, when the Kingdom of Ansel was established, many high mages of the Mysterious Eye also participated in it.

But now dozens of high-level mages died all at once, and hundreds of mid-level mages were buried with them. This blow to the Eye of Mystery was more serious than a massive hemorrhage. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it was like cutting the flesh and removing the bones.

You must know that a high mage is not a weed growing in the ground. If you cut it, it can grow freely. Any high mage must spend a lot of resources to accumulate. The same amount of gold as oneself is far from cultivating a high-level mage.

Mage. This does not include the education and training system that the Mysterious Eye has spent hundreds of years perfecting.

In addition, those who reach the level and ability of a high mage will basically not take too many risks. Most of them have strong self-interest and cannot blindly loyal and follow authority. Either there is an imminent threat or there are huge benefits, otherwise they are considered legends.

Now that the mages are here, these high-level mages also have various ways to shirk responsibility.

Therefore, something like the Battle of Ghost Bay, where hundreds of high-level mages were mobilized to join forces to target the Emerald Ring, is destined to be difficult to repeat. Rather, it is precisely because of the destruction of the Emerald Ring that fear arose within the mage community.

Psychology - If we can destroy the Green Ring today, will it come to annex us tomorrow?

What's worse is that this kind of thing actually happens.

Originally, in the Magic Council, the Mage Association and Magic Academy with legal seats were far more than just the Eye of Mystery, the Tower of Pentagram and the Ether Society. There were also many small-scale organizations. They often only had two or three high-ranking mages, and among a hundred or so

Lesser mages and alchemists.

However, after the Battle of Ghost Bay, many small-scale mage associations and magic academies were immediately annexed by the Eye of Mystery due to the death of high-ranking mages, and became hard laborers working for the Eye of Mystery and donating spell slots.

Although the Eye of Arcana completely and firmly controlled the Magic Council, the situation quickly took a turn for the worse. First, the Pentagram Tower stepped up its operation and construction of the new continent, and secondly, Doragon left, and the battle within the Eye of Arcana became increasingly fierce.

Although Nazarui firmly holds the supreme power of the Eye of Mystery, the power of the Eye of Mystery itself is not as powerful as before. Everyone can see this. It is just that a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. The Eye of Mystery

Can support this kind of internal friction.

But when faced with external pressure, the Eye of Mystery may not be able to withstand it, but the enemy is created by itself.

In the past, whether it was the Pentagram Tower or the Emerald Ring, they were in a weak position when facing the Eye of Mystery. But now, the Mutual Protection Alliance has not only gradually developed to be able to compete with the Eye of Mystery, it can even compete in some directions.

Having the upper hand in the contest naturally caused uneasiness within the Eye of Mystery.

"Rainbow City Lord" Nazarui, as a legendary mage, no one denies his strength and magical attainments, but his leadership authority in the Eye of Mystery has been questioned due to successive setbacks.

"What? Didn't Buñeto return to Rainbow City?"

Shadovan stood at the edge of the fountain with his hands behind his back and a calm expression, looking at the water masses that were shaped into various shapes due to the power of magic. Sometimes he looked like a graceful girl, sometimes he looked like a galloping horse.

Behind the old mage stood several members of the council. They were all wearing luxurious mage robes and expensive gemstone rings. Their strong and dazzling magical aura was enough to dazzle ordinary mages. These are also important in the Eye of Mystery.

A high-ranking person became cautious when facing Shadovan, half-bowed and replied:

"There is news that Bunieto and Nazarui failed to reach a consensus on the matter of Offa's nuclear power, and the exchange between the two was somewhat unpleasant. Bunieto is currently in the southern coastal city-state of the empire to raise manpower and supplies."

"Nazarui is really getting better and better, and he has to push everyone to the opposite side." Shadowan sighed helplessly.

The members of the rear council quickly said: "Teacher, the defeat of Loyev City was obviously caused by Nazarui's arrogance and impulsiveness. Now that a group of his most loyal elites have been buried in the sea, he is no longer qualified to continue to lead the Mystery.

Eye, only a great mage like you, teacher, is worthy of becoming the true leader of the Eye of Mystery."

Shadovan smiled softly: "Me? Let me forget it. Isn't it because you pursued Nazaruis because he could bring you benefits? The one who contacted the centaurs and jackals and provided weapons was

How many of you? It seems that you have occupied several open-pit mines. When you saw that Nazareth was losing momentum, you abandoned him like this?"

Such straightforward words made several council members dodge their eyes, but Shadovan said calmly: "I am not interested in leading the mysterious eye. I had an argument with Mikosi about these matters back then, and the mage pursued

It should be to understand the world through reason and thus touch the eternal truth. Arcana is the ability gained in this process, not the foundation.

Abandoning the fundamentals and pursuing minutiae, or even regarding minutiae as a basis for foundation and existence, is like a blind man waving a guide stick. If the stick is long enough, you may be able to roughly distinguish whether there are obstacles or potholes on the road, but if the stick is too short,

, that means you die without knowing how to die. For us mages, arcana is this guide stick, after all, it cannot replace the eyes."

The council members looked at each other blankly, but they didn't talk nonsense. They knew that their teacher used to like to talk about these specious and strange theories full of metaphors. Maybe it was because he read too many books that even speaking was so obscure and difficult.

Understand.

"I didn't fight against Mikosi back then, so I let him do it, and you know the result." Shadovan continued: "As for Nazaruis, his arcane achievements are very high, but

All he can think about is endless embezzlement and possession, as it seems that this is the only way to maintain his status and ability.

Once he loses control of the outside world, the castle of power that he built up in the past will quickly collapse like a sand dune. And if he wants to maintain his authority, he must rely on winning one victory after another and constantly establishing enemies to cleanse and control the internal situation.

Integration. It’s a never-ending path that will either take the whole world into its bag or drag you all to your doom.”

"Teacher." A member of the council immediately said: "In this case, only you can save the Eye of Mystery now."

"Save? I can save myself, can you give up the huge benefits accumulated in the past?" Shadowan said helplessly: "But Nazareth is still powerful enough to push the world into what it is now, and now none of you can avoid it.

Because the Eye of Mystery has no way out."

"How come there is no way out? We are just no longer pursuing external interest expansion and only retaining the existing foundation. Can't we even do this?" asked a member of the council.

Shadovan turned around and asked: "Don't ask me about this, ask your own people. Can you see if they are willing to let go? Or try it yourself. If you stop expanding, how many people will immediately choose to abandon the mystery?"

Eyes? People, after tasting delicious food, they will not eat black bread.

Everyone hopes to get more and better. Everyone is pursuing the emotional feedback brought by the increase in material gains. No one is willing to stop and no one will let go. It is like a wild horse running wildly, and all the blood must be lost.

It’s only when you’re exhausted and exhausted that you know the pain. Unfortunately, if you catch your breath, you’ll run wildly again.”

Several council members became a little impatient and asked again: "Then please ask the teacher to guide us, what should we do with the Eye of Mystery in the future?"

"Oh, you guys... I will try to talk to the Missile Queen." Shadovan sighed: "It's just a pity that people may not be happy to see my old face."

The faces of the council members were also ugly. In the past, the Tower of Pentagram was simply a group of unskilled laymen in their eyes. Even if there were legendary mages like the "Missile Queen", compared to the "Withering Death Moon" of the Eye of Mystery,

"Arcana Catalog" and "Rainbow City Lord" are not on the same level at all!

Why did the situation turn around in just a few decades, and Shadovan came to visit him instead?



In the cold and desolate half-plane of the astral realm, Nazarui and Hesseken sat across from each other across a long table. In front of Nazarus, there were meals and drinks cooked by invisible servants. And the legendary lich Hesseken

In front of Ken, there was a wooden box, the inside of which was padded with velvet, and an ancient fossil was placed there.

On the surface of the fossil is an undeveloped animal embryo, flexed and hugged, as if the time and space belonging to it are fixed at this moment and will never move forward.

"Not to your liking?" Hesseken didn't look at the embryonic fossil in front of him. The phosphorus fire in his eyes slowly swayed and asked: "This is your favorite fried ribs when you were young, paired with pomegranate wine... As you get older, you like it.

Nostalgic."

Nazareth asked without even touching the knife and fork: "Can lichs also grow old?"

"The lich will also decay, the soul will also deteriorate, and even the consciousness will eventually become irreversibly distorted." Hesseken's tone was calm, like an old man talking about yesterday's weather: "At this moment, I am just struggling between life and death.

struggle."

"So I brought you the fossil of the 'Primary Dead'. You and your teacher learned the essence of necromancy from it. Maybe this thing can take you a step further." Nazarui said.

"The world woke up due to His intervention, but He became the first dead person in this world." Hesseken asked: "He is also an immortal existence, why don't you use Him to make arcane energy cores?"

"He is indeed immortal, and is even a turning point for the world from chaos to stability. However, he represents eternal depletion and decay, and it is impossible to make it into an arcane energy core." Nazarui replied.

After a moment of silence, Hesseken asked: "What do you want me to do when you take out this thing? Just tell me."

"I want you to kill someone."

"who?"

"'Duke of the Heart' Oranso."

Hearing this name, Heseken's eyes twitched slightly: "Did you make something wrong? I am not a killer. What's more, I have no grudge against him."

"He killed Valerie." Nazarui reminded him.

"That's because he was useless." Hesseken retorted: "And he ran errands for you and died at the hands of the enemy. Should I still hold you accountable?"

"Are you going to break the agreement with my teacher?" Nazarui asked.

Hesseken calmly said: "Kid, saying this proves that you are at the end of your rope and are already asking for rewards in the name of your predecessors."

"You don't agree?" Nazarui asked.

"Don't worry yet." Heseken asked: "It's just that I don't understand, why Olanso? ​​As far as I know, your defeat in Loev City was so miserable, it should be Mephisetis's plan.

If you want to kill me, you should kill her."

"Olanso is Mephisetis' biggest support now. The appearance of this person has completely changed the situation of the Pentagram Tower. Without him, the mutual protection alliance would not have been established." Nazarui said: "

Olanso is like a core pillar. As long as he dies, the multi-party forces currently maintained by the Mutual Protection Alliance will definitely be unbalanced and divided!"

"It makes a little sense." Hesseken said: "But the one at sea now is probably just a clone, and there is no point in killing him."

"Mephisetis used Loev City to lure me into a trap, then I will use the same method to deal with Oranso." Nazarui sneered: "I will arrange everything, and then I will follow you

Let’s take action together.”

Hesseken stared at the fossils on the table, thought for a long time and then said: "Okay, but you only have one chance, so take advantage of it."


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