"Charlemagne?"

Hearing the movement behind him, the third seat of the Palace Mage Association looked back, and then asked the visitor in some surprise, "Are you back?"

"Hmmm......"

The [Mind Sage], who had just returned to Norman from Cloudsdale, nodded, not hiding the look of exhaustion in his eyes.

After glancing at his colleague for a few moments, Elba looked back at the 'Prototype of the Magic Energy Furnace' standing quietly in the center of the room, and asked, "How's it going?"

“...... It's bad!" Charlemagne was silent for a long time, and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, "This time, I got a couple of pieces of information from Cloudsdale - bad information for us!"

Hearing this, Elba frowned slightly, "How bad is it?"

"Awful!"

Charlemagne paced up to Elba, hooked his foot over a chair, and sat down in dismay.

Sitting in his chair, he tilted his head and was silent as he looked at the tall metal furnace in front of him, at the runes engraved on the surface.

In the midst of the silence, Charlemagne suddenly asked, "I remember you've been to Cloudsdale too, right?"

Elba glanced at him puzzled, and replied, "I've been there once, probably after I first became extraordinary...... How?

"The current ...... in Cloudsdale" recalled what he had seen and heard in Cloudsdale, Charlemagne paused, and then sighed again, "It's 'deformed'!"

Then, he intermittently told the legendary mage beside him what he saw and what he guessed.

Listening to Charlemagne's description, Elba's brow couldn't help but furrow deeper and deeper.

If the Cloudsdale he described was the real Cloudsdale, then that desirable mage sanctuary had indeed fallen!

Beyond the City, which was once admired by all the mages, had turned into this state, which really made Elba a little unbelievable.

"And when I asked to visit other areas, they didn't let me go, but chose to prevaricate with some reasons, so I stayed there for more than ten days, and I was never able to leave the 'Central Tower'. Charlemagne explained his situation in Cloudsdale and frowned slightly, "This means that there are indeed some things in Cloudsdale that I can't see, and maybe they have been blatantly put somewhere by those mages!"

"And before leaving, I tested them and asked them why they didn't try to go to the Duchy of Sorrow to learn the crafting techniques of the magic furnace from the head maid, but they replied, 'Because the head maid revealed too much technology related to the Arcane Empire'...... Elba, do you know what that means?"

Elba bowed slightly, and said seriously: "This seems to mean that the magic energy furnace in Cloud City, which has been in operation for nearly a thousand years or even thousands of years, has not yet reached its limit, and it is even a long way from the 'limit'!"

"But ......," Charlemagne sneered and shook his head, and asked rhetorically, "is this possible?"

"Impossible!" Elba took a deep breath, "Even if they have been maintaining the Magic Energy Furnace for thousands of years, as long as Cloud Everdale doesn't stay somewhere, they can't completely maintain the Magic Energy Furnace. Even if it's an 'artifact', there will be some problems after being placed for thousands of years, not to mention that the magic furnace has been running!"

From this, Charlemagne came to a conclusion, looking at the magic energy furnace standing in front of him, he sneered: "Cloud City has long had the technology to make magic energy furnaces, but why did they choose 'deception'?"

Elba thought for a moment, "For ...... Deceive the gods?"

Cloudsdale has long been a sacred place for mages, and after the war with the Arcane Empire, that floating city is synonymous with the top magic technology in the world of Assatom, if they just don't want to explain it to the outside world and make the mages on the continent flock to it, then they don't need to hide it from Charlemagne, from the gods.

But if they're trying to deceive the gods, whether it's to keep them from restricting the development of their magic skills, or for some other reason, they're doing something stupid!

If they were trying not to let the gods restrict their development, but after the head maid of the Duchy of Sorrow revealed that she not only possessed magic furnace technology, but had also been developing other magic techniques, they shouldn't have continued to hide!

Since he was able to answer Charlemagne's question, it meant that the mages of Cloudsdale had a certain level of understanding of what was happening in the Principality of Sorrowful Winds.

So why do they continue to hide it?

From this, one conclusion can be deduced - the mages of Cloudsdale are not only deceiving the gods, but also deceiving the world, they are 'hiding'!

“...... I am reminded of the 'All-Seeing Eye' and the 'Order of the Dragon'. ”

While Elba was thinking, Charlemagne suddenly spoke again, and said quietly, "Aren't those two organizations possessing quite advanced magical skills, and Cloudsdale fits the bill......

The location is unknown! The personnel are unknown! The technical level is unknown!

The Dragon-Hunting Order and the Omniscient Eye are two organizations that are a fog even to their legends, and the only thing that is certain is that they both have a high level of magical skills and are keen to unearth the ruins of the Arcane Empire.

No one knows how those two organizations have produced so many powerful professionals, perhaps they have gained something from the ruins of the Arcane Empire......

However, will the Arcane Empire be able to mass-produce such a large number of transcendentals?

Furthermore, where did these two organizations get so much money?

It would take a lot of resources to cultivate such a large number of transcendentals, and it would be impossible for these two organizations to do so if they had not 'covered' them on the surface.

Listening to Charlemagne, Cloudsdale does have this suspicion - at least the structure of Cloudsdale bears some resemblance to the 'All-Seeing Eye'.

"I've thought about it, the atmosphere in Cloudsdale can easily train ordinary people to become mages, and their methods are not much different from what Serena Maid and Chief Servant do now, except that they are more cruel!" Charlemagne's eyes flickered, and he whispered his guess, "Aren't those two organizations full of transcendent mages?"

"But......" Elba noticed a suspicion, "if Cloudsdale is the 'All-Knowing Eye' or the 'Dragon Hunting Order', then how did they cultivate other transcendents?

"What's more, if you want to cultivate other transcendents...... Cultivating an ordinary mage is enough to cost money, and Cloudsdale is hard enough just to support such a large number of mages, do they still have the resources to train transcendents of other professions?"

Elba's rhetorical question was not unreasonable, and Charlemagne, after a little thought, seemed to be true.

After thinking about it, Charlemagne asked rhetorically, "Then why are they hiding? Are we going to continue to let this organization that may be an 'enemy' exist?"

Hearing this, Elba frowned and shook his head, "This...... I don't know, and the same is true for whether or not to continue to let it go. How many troops can our airships carry? If we can confront it head-on, the Empire naturally does not need to be afraid of Cloudsdale, but if there is really a war, Cloudsdale will obviously not give us a chance to fight head-on. So we can only put this issue on hold for the time being!"

"Shelving ......"

Frowning and chewing on the word, Charlemagne sighed: "For the time being, we can only do this, after all, we still have a lot to do......"

Elba nodded slightly, "Go get ready, the 'plan' will start at the end of this summer." ”

Charlemagne's pupils shrank, "Late summer?"

"...... right"

Elba turned and walked out, leaving only a voice echoing through the room, "End of summer!"