Starfall 833, April 17, morning. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This day is a dark day for the mages who belong to the Empire.

Because of their incomparably great Emperor Majesty, they were in a very unhappy mood.

Very, very unpleasant.

Centered on the three magic fortresses around the Three Mountains Holy City, the space-time fluctuations set off by the teleportation spell were transmitted in a steady stream, and hundreds of teleportations occurred just when ordinary people had a breakfast, and after a while, there were many more tired and robed spellcasters on the streets of the empire in the morning.

They came from all over the country in a hurry, and the mages who belonged to the empire, including the dragon plague detection team members who were far away in the South China Sea, the explorers who went deep into the Black Forest, the researchers who were nested in the laboratory, and even the military mages stationed in the southern fortress group, many of them returned.

After all, the Imperial Royal Mage Association includes all the mages in the entire empire, and it can be regarded as the top five spellcaster organizations in the entire Microf Continent, in terms of the size of the personnel alone, it even surpasses the Qiyao Council in the Eastern Plains, second only to the Tower of Heaven, just a part of the members gathered, and the number of its high-level spellcasters exceeded two hundred, and these mages were all without exception, all of them hurried and gathered towards the Morlai Palace.

The black fog commotion that appeared in the second underground laboratory last night destroyed most of the Avenue of Truth, displaced thousands of civilians, corrupted and disappeared many precious spell experiment reports, and the direct economic loss exceeded 800,000 imperial gold coins, and the indirect loss was incalculable, and most of the responsibility belonged to the gold-level mage Hasselblad and his disciples and partners in charge of the second laboratory, but there was no doubt that the other mages present were also jointly and severally responsible.

Although the emperor's anger was mainly tilted on these people, the next reform of the mage association was closely related to all mages.

The Royal Mage Association is a veteran organization with a history of more than five hundred years, in which there are many factions, and there are strong forces in various places, even if Israel wants to take advantage of this opportunity to rectify it, it is impossible to complete it in an instant, you know, most of the mages who stay in the imperial capital to conduct research are relatively easy to control, most of the noble mages have their own mage towers and territories, and even academies, most of these mages simply accept the topics and tasks given by the association, After completion, they are free to conduct their own research, and when it comes to freedom, they are much higher than their colleagues in the imperial capital.

But no matter how free they are, these mages are holding the research funds and special subsidies given by the association, which is also a large amount of money for the empire, for example, there is a research on the power core of the floating airship, just this project, the empire has thrown nearly four million gold coins to the research laboratories around the country, not that he feels sorry for this money, Israel mainly noticed that the recent association mages have begun to have a sense of carelessness about the tasks assigned by the empire, The most obvious example of this is the Hasselblad experiment error, and he decided to change that.

The specific content of the reform is still being discussed in the Holy Emblem Hall, but many of the mages of the association who are studying or inspecting outside have quickly sent representatives to the meeting, they are either worried or interested, and it doesn't matter what kind of nature there is, but most of them only care about one thing, that is, whether their research funds will be cut.

But none of this has anything to do with Joshua, who is already preparing to leave the imperial capital.

After the late dinner the previous night, the warrior met the Emperor again with Nostradamus.

The meeting was very succinct, and Israel, who had been following the incident all the time, praised Joshua, but due to the time constraints of the moment, he did not say much other nonsense, and was ready to give the warrior the reward he deserved.

"I heard that you have a dragon too."

In the Great Hall of Divine Radiance, before the throne, when His Majesty the majestic Emperor talked about his dragon, his face with a hint of anger relaxed a lot, his eyes seemed to look into the distance, and he smiled and nodded: "Although they are a little vicious, as long as they are close to you, they are very cute guys." ”

"yes."

Joshua nodded in agreement, this is true, but Hei's way of getting close to him is to lick it with his tongue, this bad habit can't be indulged: "It's just that the body is too big to carry it at all times." ”

Hearing a hint of pity in the warrior's voice, Rin, who was standing on the side, immediately became alert, and later, Hotaru also reacted, and the silver-haired girl frowned, and whispered to her brother, "The master has never cleaned the scales for black, right?" ”

"I haven't prepared food for it, and if you think about it, we did all the work."

"He rarely even walks with the dark...... If you really go everywhere with ......"

The atmosphere of vigilance spread, and the two of them looked at Joshua vigilantly.

"Really? Yes, yours is a sea dragon, remember that it is the bloodline of refining the black dragon, and it is indeed a troublesome thing to not be able to fly. ”

Not caring about the whispers of the young man and girl on the side, His Majesty the Emperor nodded thoughtfully, and he whispered to himself: "My dragon has always followed me, it has the blood of the Flame Hell Dragon, and its body temperature is very high, and it is difficult to take it around, but after all, it is an astral dragon, and there is always a solution." ”

"Gu Long should be about the same."

After thinking for a while, Israel seemed to have decided something, he stretched out his hand, and broke a small space-time channel, and then groped for something in it, and while groping, His Majesty the Emperor shook his head and said: "Time is too rushed, I can't thank you properly, but Radcliffe, I think you should like this." ”

With that, Israel pulled out a strangely shaped pendant, and Joshua took it.

This pendant is about the size of a human fist, the shape is V-shaped, and the whole body is silver, according to the feel, the warrior believes that it is made of Mithril, and there are light blue magic light patterns flowing on it, which obviously contains great power.

"Shapeless Fall, even dragons can use it...... This is just a small thank you I gave personally, the empire will definitely not treat meritorious people badly, this time you solved the black fog incident of the Royal Mage Association, they naturally have to express a little gratitude, it should be interest. ”

As Israel spoke, he and Nostradamus glanced at each other, and the two nodded at the same time, as if they had reached a consensus, and then, His Majesty the Emperor continued to say in a serious tone: "Since the Imperial Royal Mage Association has temporarily lost its skills and is unable to deal with plague-related experiments, I have decided to send a research team led by Tamara Moore, the leader of the third research group, to the Moldavian Territory to carry out a plague investigation in the local area. ”

Joshua was not surprised by this, for Nostradamus had said it before, and now it was only through the mouth of His Majesty the Emperor that the matter was settled.

At this time, the old mage looked very happy, he touched his beard and nodded with a smile, and sent the entire third research team to Moldavia, studying the plague is naturally one of them, but can such a thing as the evil god plague be carried out in the main city without any professional mage laboratories? Naturally, this is not possible, and it just so happens that there is a spell laboratory that meets the requirements in the snowy mountains of Nissière, near the Winter Castle Academy.

Of course, this has nothing to do with the recent lack of mage teachers in Wintercastle Academy, and Nostradamus definitely didn't deliberately win the opportunity to let his old friend temporarily get out of the imperial capital full of dark tides, after all, it is normal for mages to do everything after research, being an adventurer, a mercenary, and even a killer, how normal it is to be a teacher.

The matter is almost over, after Israel has dealt with these things for the time being, he said that he is a little tired, and he has to have a meeting with the mage representatives from all over the country during the day, and he needs to take a break for the time being, and Nostradamus said that he will stay for the meeting and cannot go to the Northland for the time being, but he has already informed Moore that Joshua only needs to go to the other party.

Next, it's time to say goodbye.

The matter of the imperial capital has come to an end for the time being, and the warriors at this time are preparing to return to Moldavia through the portal set up by Nostradamus in the Mage Guild.

Behind him, there were fifteen high mages in gray hooded robes, talking to each other in low voices, discussing their mission.

However, no matter who it was, they all showed great respect for Joshua, and even to Hotaru and Rin, everyone was very polite.

After all, they are all mages, they are all very smart people, and the strength and means of the warriors obviously exceed the scope of what they can correspond to, so instead of showing the arrogance of the mage, it is better to be a little gentler and show their kindness, of course, this may also be the reason for Joshua's low-to-abyss charm, everyone even forgot what to say when they saw his face, how could they be arrogant.

Even Moore didn't say much, and the friend of Nostradamus stood silently behind the warrior, as if he were still remembering the dreams he had seen at night.

On the side, the silver-haired girl was holding a V-shaped shape-changing pendant, fiddling with some curiosity, fiddling with it, but no matter how she played with the silver pendant, the magic contained in it did not leak out at all.

"Master, what is this thing for?"

After trying for a long time, but not getting a result, Hotaru couldn't help but be a little discouraged, she handed the pendant to Rin, and asked the black-haired boy to try it, while she went to Joshua's side to ask.

The warrior was waiting for the portal to open, and he heard the girl's question, which he couldn't help but feel a little difficult to answer.

"The Shapeless Fall, which I have used before, is used to pass through narrow stone crevices and passages when adventuring, and in general, it is to change the size of a person while ensuring proportions."

Joshua also used similar things in his previous life, which is generally used to clear some special dungeons, such as the quest of the Fairy Realm, which must be used to make the shapeless fall smaller before it can be received, and the most annoying thing for those cute little guys is the disparity in size.

, but the pendant that Israel gave him was obviously different from what the warriors had used before, and the magic surging on it was even more surging, and indeed as His Majesty the Emperor said, even with the magic power of the dragon, this pendant had an effect.

"But what's the use?"

Thinking of Israel's subtle expression, Joshua couldn't help frowning, if it was just to make the black smaller and easier to ride and take to various places, there shouldn't be any need to give him such a pendant so carefully, could it be that there is any special function in addition to this? After all, the Dalemond family has a legendary pact with goblins, so it wouldn't be surprising if it was anything different.

Shaking his head slightly, the warrior put an end to the association for the time being.

The space-time door in the center of the hall opened, illuminating the entire mage's guild side hall with a faint blue glow, and a teleportation path to the northern lands slowly expanded to the size of a carriage that could pass through.

"Guys, get ready to go."

Shaking his head and dissipating the distractions in his mind, Joshua, as the leader, took the lead in crossing the portal after greeting him.

But what came into his ears was a series of piercing screams.