Chapter 11: Fairy Cards
Ciel and Fina get their first taste of Joshua's relentless style of action.
"Hey...... You've only been back from the Atlas for a few hours, haven't you? After so long and hard fighting. ”
The group once again passed through the teleportation array and came to the marble teleportation hall at the foot of the Nissière Snow Mountain, which had only been built for less than a month, and Hill asked the Shenji siblings on the side with an incredulous expression: "It has not been thirty seconds since I returned to Moldavia from the fairy country, and you are going to meet the two legendary powerhouses now...... Don't have any breaks? ”
"Well, aren't we resting all the time?"
But he was greeted by the resentful voices of the two brothers: "It's better to say, when will the master give us something serious to do?" ”
Ciel: "??? ”
For the people who followed Joshua, few people could keep up with such a fast-paced lifestyle of warriors, if they were ordinary people, even if they were as decisive as Israel and as extraordinary as Iger, if they wanted to meet the two legendary mages Barnier and William, they would definitely prepare for dozens of minutes to two hours or so, prepare appropriate clothes and decorations, and inform each other as a sign of respect. But Joshua was not, he would set off as soon as possible, without any announcement, which caught everyone off guard.
Naturally, there are also two legendary mages.
At the foot of the Nissière Snow Mountain, the flag of the Winter Castle Academy, located halfway up the mountain, was rolling in the north wind, and among the heavy snow clouds, a blue dragon could be seen flying among the clouds with a dozen white young dragons, and the threatening body loomed in the wind and snow, and on the ground, a group of knights in heavy armor were running desperately in the ice and snow following the flight trajectory of their future mounts.
"I've grown up a lot, and it seems that my potential is not bad in the future."
Joshua also glanced at it, and then praised the knights: "It's very hard, and it deserves to be the elite I personally selected." ”
[If you want to ride on the back of the dragon, you must keep up with the dragon's footsteps], this ancient training of dragon knights may have been understood too directly and rudely by a certain warrior, but since you can keep up with the speed of the dragon with two legs, then the strength must also be able to keep up.
Ciel and Fina felt the dragon's coercion at the first moment, but before they could make a comment on the new dragon knights of the Northlands, they were attracted by the loud noise on the other side.
"Boom-boom-boom-"
A dull explosion like a blast sounded beneath the ground, and the intimate Rin immediately followed up with an explanation: "It's a project called 'Metro Track' in collaboration between the Lord's Mansion of Moldavia and the Dwarves of the Northlands, and the explosion should be the sound of the expansion tunnel...... This project is in charge of Miss 3, but unfortunately she is in charge of monitoring the security of the main city, so she can't come here to explain it to you personally. ”
"Oooh...... Metro? ”
Compared to Fina, who didn't intend to understand in depth and was satisfied with knowing a name, Hill thought more, and he immediately understood the true meaning of the so-called subway from the two key words of tunnel and underground, which should be some kind of transportation channel for high-speed transmission underground, but Joshua didn't leave him time to think about it, and the warrior had already set foot on the road leading to the halfway up the mountain at this time.
Because the strength of the lord of Moldavia gradually climbed until the legend, more and more outside investment began to pour into this northern county, and the Academy of Wintercastle, as an academy jointly controlled by the two legendary powerhouses of Joshua and Nostradamus, was naturally the top priority for those investors to pour their funds. In just a few months, the otherwise modest Winter Castle Academy has completed its third internal expansion and exterior renovation, providing hundreds of new students from the Northlands, the central regions of the Northern Empire, and the Western Mountains, and this number will multiply several times in the next few years.
Because of the two legendary powerhouses, this nascent academy has surpassed dozens of long-established colleges in the Eastern Plains in a short period of time, both in terms of faculty and student origin, but no one thinks that this is unfair, but takes it for granted.
After all, Joshua has accepted several registered disciples in this academy! God knows if Nostradamus will also take a few batches, just for this, it will be worth the price.
Unlike Hill and others, who were attracted by the exquisite sculptures, neat staircases and beautiful scenery along the way, Joshua himself did not care about these complicated capital issues, and his attitude towards the more solemn appearance of the academy and the more and more clean and tidy Nissier Snow Mountain Mountain Road was only the word 'good', and soon, the warrior climbed halfway up the mountain and came to the gate of the academy, ready to sense the fluctuations of power, and go to find Barnier and William.
The entire Nissière Snow Mountain and the forest and lake below the mountain, belong to the Winter Castle Academy, located halfway up the mountain and the space inside the Nissière Snow Mountain, which is a combination of teaching buildings, libraries, dormitories and laboratories, etc., the real gate of the college is located at the edge of the forest at the foot of the snow-capped mountain, and the gate located halfway up the mountain should actually be just the gate of the teaching building.
But right in front of the gate of this teaching building, Joshua unexpectedly heard a lot of noise.
"Oh my God...... It's so beautiful! ”
"What is this, is this also magic?"
"Magic can do that, too?"
The cacophony of voices could be heard clearly even through the gate, and not only Joshua, but also Hotaru and Rin blinked strangely, not to mention that they had come with them, originally planning to meet the legendary mage duo of Ciel and Fina.
The puzzled guess was just a waste of time, and Joshua shook his head, opened the door directly, and walked in.
The door opened, and unlike the outside world, a slightly damp warm wind greeted them, but what everyone saw was not the thirty-meter-high welcome hall of Wintercastle Academy, but a crowd of hundreds of students, and even many teachers were mixed in, all of them surrounded the center, curious onlookers, and some students who couldn't see the inside because of their height even flexibly used the magic they had learned to use the detection circle to observe the situation inside.
Confused, Joshua didn't know what was going on, naturally he didn't need to use detection magic, his vision could simply penetrate the clothes, skin, flesh, and bones of human beings, and directly cross the physical wall composed of a sea of people, and directly see the situation inside, and then, he discovered a shocking fact: surrounded by hundreds of students, it was the two legendary mages he was looking for, Barnier and William!
What the hell are these two people doing? Aren't those students afraid of these two legendary mages? Although they are indeed strong in the name of being close to the people, they ......
Before Joshua could finish the thoughts in his mind, he looked up slightly, and immediately found an acquaintance wrapped in the crowd - not an acquaintance, but an acquaintance, with a feminine and delicate face, long dark blonde hair like his father, with a helpless expression and purple pupils. Adrian, the sixth prince of the empire, a rare guest was chatting with his younger brother, Alva, the seventh prince, and Joshua could also see an invisible goblin sitting on Adrian's shoulder, looking at the two legendary powerhouses in the center of the crowd with interest.
"Is it the incarnation of the Wind Fairy Queen, 'Changfeng'?"
Joshua was a little puzzled, this time he came to Wintercastle Academy only because of the two of Barnier, he didn't expect to encounter so many accidents. And at this moment, the students at the edge of the crowd noticed that the cold wind was surging, the door was wide open, and naturally, they all found Joshua who was present.
"Dean-sama!"
"Lord Earl!"
"Your Lord!"
Students from different countries, different regions, and different races let out different exclamations, and these young students and some teachers felt creepy for a moment, a tremor from the center of the bone marrow, and the depths of the soul spread throughout the body, and soon, almost everyone present found the silent Joshua under contagious fear, and in an instant, the human wall in front of Joshua gave way to a road to the center of the crowd like the Red Sea that was parted by Moses.
“……”
Quite conscious.
Before he could speak, the crowd automatically did everything, and Joshua didn't bother to say anything, he just nodded slightly, motioned for everyone to continue their previous activities, and then walked towards the front on his own.
Then he saw two legendary powerhouses sitting on either side of a small table, Barnier and William, the duo chasing the trail of the ancient dragon, frowning and holding a card in their hands, lost in thought.
"Huh?"
Even Joshua couldn't help but sigh softly, and he quickened his pace to the pensive two, looking at the rectangular cards and tables they were holding in their hands.
The cards are made of good materials, using the unique 'immortal wood' of the Far South jungle as the raw material, which makes the card itself have the function of self-restoration, and the faint magic glow and rune traces on the back of the card mean that it is not just a simple card, which can be proved by that peculiar shape of the special table.
"I'm using 'mind stealing' and copy two cards from your library to add to my hand!"
Just as Joshua was observing, the legendary bard, [Mind Master] William activated the first card since the arrival of the warrior, and with the young and handsome legendary mage put down a card in his hand from his hand, with the glow of magic, on the card table composed entirely of steel and glow, a 3D picture of a person holding his head in pain suddenly appeared on William's side, and the two cards automatically flew out from the direction of Barnier, who looked like usual, and merged into William's hand.
William glanced at the two extra cards, then snorted, and at this point, two of his ten light blue crystals on the side of the table were still lit, but he ended the round anyway: "It's over!" ”
On the other side, the card of [Rune Master] Barnier did not have so many effects, and in the face of the cold face of his best friend William, the legendary mage with a slightly older face just showed a bright smile: "It's my turn?" So I'll make the next [Lava Maraver], and then the next two [Fire Elementals...... All the others are slapped in the face! ”
[Lava Marauder, 3 for 22, Dash, +1 Attack for each elemental card used] [Fire Elemental, 1 for 12]
And with the three cards were put into the table, the table suddenly appeared three small demons of the phantom, and before that, there were already four monsters standing, with Barnier's order, they all happily attacked the area located in the William area, and with the "-2''-1''-4'" magic symbol emerged, located in the center of both sides of the table, representing William's heart-shaped number suddenly dropped to 16, and the number in the direction of Barney was still a big '30'.
Isn't this a leprechaun card?
Looking at this familiar card battle, Joshua suddenly recalled memories that seemed to be buried deep in his memory.
Fairy card, also known as the poem of light and shadow, a small game built in the continent of conflict in the previous life, developed by goblins, issued by dwarves, and a phenomenal card game that swept the continent, because of the strange and interesting gameplay, a variety of combinations have been loved by all races. Joshua once played for a while, but he didn't understand it in depth, after all, he was in charge of opening up new bosses, and he didn't have extra time to delve into card games.
But this did not prevent him from learning about fairy cards, in Joshua's eyes, Barnier and William were using the 'Fairy Card Initial Table' that was placed in the Northern Imperial Museum, and it was the first magical machine developed specifically for entertainment for fairy cards. This kind of table is expensive, but the subsequent dwarves transformed it very cheaply, and even every tavern can buy so many of them, which are used to supply players with fairy cards, according to Joshua's memory, this thing should have been made in 837 and then spread to the whole continent in 839, until 853 in Starfall, before the start of the world-class war, fairy cards are the most widely spread entertainment in the Microf continent.
It's only 836 years now, have all the finished products been made? His arrival seems to have affected all aspects.
While Joshua was still remembering, the battle at the table reached a climax.
"I'm going to use [Mind Control] to control control one of your followers!"
At this time, there was nothing at all, only 5 health remained, like William in the wind, used a powerful spell card, after he put the card down, but he did not specify the target follower he wanted to control, but stared into Barnier's eyes, the legendary bard's eyes flashed with a misty purple light, and the powerful spiritual power spread around William, and in an instant it seemed to penetrate Barnier's brain - by the surprise attack, Barnier was suddenly shocked, and then his right hand trembled towards the lower right corner of the table, The key movement represents [Exit].
"That's not right! William, you bastard, you're despicable! It's the mental control of the cards, not your own mental control over me! ”
But Barnier is also a legendary mage after all, and it is one thing to be secretly plotted by his friends for a while, so he reacted immediately, and then angrily slapped the table and yelled: "You are operating in violation of the law!" ”
"You're breaking the rules too! I've long felt that you damn bastard is tampering with the cards with your rune skills and printing your own cards! I said how come you never get stuck, how can you print in real time like yourself! ”
"Huh-! And isn't it normal for rune masters to use runes to control cards? I'm doing it legally! ”
"Then I use my mind to control you, and it is also a legal operation!"
"Didn't you succeed without control......
"Okay, what the hell is going on?"
Seeing the two legendary mages arguing in front of a group of people without any majesty, Joshua had to step forward and stop the conflict between the two - just now he also discovered that Barnier used his superb rune skills in the previous battle to directly tamper with the cards of the goblin cards he drew at the nanometer level...... Cheating on.
"The whole class is disbanded - it's time for classes, why don't you stay outside the classroom? If I'm still watching you from the outside within three minutes, I'll lose 50 of my total points for the school year! ”
To be honest, Joshua wanted to laugh, but at this time, if he really laughed, the scene would not be really serious—so he simply gave the order to all the students and teachers who were watching the excitement and relished to their places, and at the same time, he also ordered: "Adrian, Alva, and Miss Changfeng, don't go, stay and make things clear." ”