Morning, April 17, 833.
This day is a dark day for the mages who belong to the Empire.
Because their great emperors are very unhappy.
Very, very unpleasant.
Taking the three magic fortresses around Sanshan holy city as the center, the time and space fluctuations caused by teleportation magic are constantly coming. Just when ordinary people have a breakfast, there are hundreds of teleportation. A moment later, there are many tired and robed casters on the imperial street in the morning.
They came from all over the world in a hurry, belonging to the mages of the Empire, including members of the Dragon disaster detection regiment far away in the South China Sea, explorers who went deep into the black forest, researchers who lived in the laboratory, and even the military mages stationed in the southern fortress group.
After all, the imperial Royal mage association includes all the mages in the whole empire. It can be regarded as the top five caster organization in the whole mcrov continent. In terms of personnel size, it even surpasses the Qiyao Council in the eastern plain, second only to the guantian tower. Only a few members gather together, and the number of its high-level casters exceeds 200, And these mages, without exception, all walked in a hurry and gathered towards the palace of Morley.
Last night, the black fog riot in the second underground laboratory destroyed most of the truth Avenue, displaced thousands of civilians, and corroded many precious magic experiment reports. The direct economic loss exceeded 800000 imperial gold coins, and the indirect loss was incalculable, Most of the responsibilities belong to Hasu, the golden mage in charge of the second laboratory, his disciples and partners, but there is no doubt that other mages present are also jointly and severally liable.
Although the emperor's anger was mainly inclined to them, the following reform of the mage association was closely related to all mages.
The Royal mage association is an old organization with a history of more than 500 years. There are many factions and powerful forces all over the country. Even if Israel wants to take this opportunity to straighten it out, it can't be completed in an instant. You know, most of the mages who study in the imperial capital are relatively easy to control, Most of the noble mages have their own mage tower and territory, even colleges. Most of these mages simply accept the topics and tasks given by the association, and then they can freely carry out their own research. In terms of freedom, they are much higher than their colleagues in the imperial capital.
However, no matter how free they were, these mages took the research funds and special subsidies from the association, which was also a large amount of money for the Empire. For example, for the research on the power core of the floating airship, for this project alone, the Empire threw nearly 4 million gold coins to the research laboratories all over the country, which was not to say that it was distressing for the money, Israel mainly noticed that the recent association mages had begun to feel a little careless about the tasks assigned by the Empire. The most obvious example was the experimental error incident caused by hasul, and he decided to change that.
The specific contents of the reform are still under discussion in the hall of the holy emblem, but many of the association mages who are studying or studying abroad have quickly sent representatives to attend the meeting. They are either worried or excited. It doesn't matter what kind of natural, but most of them only care about one thing, that is, whether their research funds will be cut.
But these have nothing to do with Joshua, who is ready to leave the capital.
After the late supper last night, the soldier and Nostradamus met the emperor again.
The meeting was very simple. Israel, who paid close attention to the whole event, praised Joshua. However, due to the time constraint, he did not say any more nonsense, but prepared to give the soldiers the reward they deserved.
"I heard that you have a dragon, too."
In Shenghui hall, before the throne, when the majestic emperor talked about his dragon, he relaxed a lot with a trace of anger. His eyes seemed to look into the distance, and he nodded with a smile: "although they are vicious, as long as they are close to you, they are lovely guys."
"Yes."
Joshua nodded approvingly, which was true, but black's intimate way to him was to lick with his tongue. This bad habit can't be allowed: "it's too big to carry at any time."
Hearing a pity in the soldier's voice, Lin standing on one side immediately became alert. Later, Ying also responded. The girl with silver hair frowned and whispered to her brother, "the master has never cleaned black scales, has he?"
"I haven't prepared food for it. When you think about it, we do all the work."
"He seldom even takes a walk in the dark... If he really takes it everywhere..."
Alert atmosphere spread, two people together alert to look at Joshua."Yes? Yes, you are a sea dragon. I remember it's the blood of the black dragon. It's really a troublesome thing that you can't fly. "
The emperor nodded thoughtfully and said to himself, "my dragon has been following me all the time. It has the blood of the burning prison dragon. Its temperature is very high and it's hard to walk around with it. But it's a star boundary dragon after all. There's always a solution."
"Cologne should be the same."
After thinking for a while, Israel seems to have decided something. He reaches out his hand and breaks a small passage of time and space, and then gropes for something in it. While groping, the emperor shakes his head and says, "time is too hasty to thank you well. But Radcliffe, I think you should like this."
With that, Israel pulled out a pendant with a strange shape, and Joshua took it.
The pendant is about the size of a human fist, with a V-shaped shape and a silver body. According to the handle, the soldier thinks it is made of secret silver, with light blue magic patterns on it, which obviously contains powerful power.
"It's easy to use even a giant dragon... It's just a small thank you from me. The Empire will never treat meritorious officials badly. This time you solved the black fog incident of the Royal mage Association, they naturally have to express a little thanks, just as interest."
As Israel spoke, he and Nostradamus looked at each other. They both nodded at the same time, as if they had reached an agreement. Then his majesty continued to say in a serious tone: "because the Royal mage Association of the Empire has temporarily lost its skills to deal with plague related experiments, I decided to, A research team headed by Tamara Moore, the leader of the third research group, was sent to Moldavia to conduct plague research
Joshua was not surprised at this, for Nostradamus had said it before, and now it was only by his Majesty's mouth that the matter was settled.
At this time, the old mage looked very happy. He touched his beard and nodded his head with a smile. He sent the whole third research group to Moldavia to study the plague. Naturally, it was one of them. But could the evil god plague be carried out in the main city without any professional mage laboratory? Naturally, this is not possible, and it happens that there is a completely qualified magic laboratory in the snow mountain of Nier, near lindongbao college.
Of course, it has nothing to do with the lack of MAGE professional teachers in lindongbao college recently. It's definitely not because of this that Nostradamus deliberately won the opportunity to let his old friends get rid of the imperial capital full of hidden tides for a while. After all, it's normal for mages to do anything after studying. They are adventurers, mercenaries and even killers, How normal it is to be a teacher.
This is almost the end of the matter. After dealing with these matters for the time being, Israel said that he was a little tired. During the day, he had to have a meeting with the mage representatives from all over the country and needed a rest for the time being. However, Nostradamus said that he would stay to attend the meeting and could not go to the north for the time being, but he had informed Moore, Joshua just needs to find each other.
The next step is to say goodbye.
The matter of the imperial capital has come to an end for a while. At this time, the soldiers are preparing to return to Moldavia through the portal set by Nostradamus in the mage Association.
Behind him, there are 15 high mages in grey hooded robes. They are talking in a low voice and discussing their mission.
However, no matter who they were, they all showed great respect for Joshua. Even for Ying and Lin, everyone was very polite.
After all, they are all mages and intelligent people. The strength and means of the soldiers are obviously beyond their corresponding scope. Instead of showing the arrogance of the mages, it's better to be gentle and show their good intentions. Of course, this may be the reason why Joshua's charm is as low as the abyss, When everyone saw his face, they even forgot what they wanted to say. How could they be arrogant.
Even Moore didn't talk much. The friend of Nostradamus stood behind the soldier in silence, as if he was still remembering the dream he saw at night.
On the other side, the silver haired girl is holding the V-shaped easy shaped pendant. She is curious to fiddle with it, but no matter how she plays with the silver pendant, the magic contained in it is not revealed.
"Master, what is this thing for?"
After trying for a long time, but without any result, Ying can't help feeling a little frustrated. She handed the pendant to Lin and asked the black haired boy to try it, while she went to ask Joshua.
The soldier was waiting for the portal to open. When he heard the girl's question, he couldn't help feeling a little difficult to answer.
"I've used this thing before. It's used to go through narrow stone crevices and passages when taking risks. Generally speaking, it's to change a person's size under the condition of ensuring the proportion."Joshua used similar things in his previous life. They are usually used to pass through some special copies. For example, for the mission of the goblin Kingdom, you must use the shape changing pendant to make it smaller before you can pick it up. What those lovely little guys hate most is their different shapes.
But the pendant Israel gave him was obviously different from the one used by the soldiers before. The magic on it was more powerful. Indeed, as the emperor said, even with the magic of the dragon, the pendant had an effect.
"But what's the use?"
At the thought of Israel's delicate expression, Joshua could not help frowning. If it was just to make the black smaller and easier to ride, it should not be so careful to give him such a pendant. Is there any other special function? After all, the diamond family has a contract with goblins in legend, and it's not surprising if there are any differences between them.
Slightly shaking his head, the soldier temporarily ended the association.
The space-time gate in the center of the hall is opened, and the dark blue light shines on the side hall of the whole mage Association. A transmission channel connecting directly to the north is slowly expanded to the size of a carriage.
"Everybody, get ready to go."
Shaking his head, he scattered the thoughts in his mind. As the leader, Joshua crossed the portal first after a greeting.
And what came into his ears were bursts of shrieks