"But there will always be people who are addicted to the power of magic. In the end, he did not hesitate to make a deal with the demon, and this behavior would soon turn into using his soul to sign a contract with the demon and become the agent of a certain demon on the continent. In order to maintain the power he had gained, the agent had to look for sacrifices everywhere as stipulated in the contract. Most of the demon's sacrifices are related to the soul, so this agent slowly degenerates and becomes a powerful black magician. ”

"It is this thirst for power that has led to the emergence of dark mages for many years, and the mages of this faction have tried all kinds of ways to solve it, and they have even trained a kind of magic warrior to assassinate fallen mages as a mage killer!

Victor sighed and said: "For some reason, an instructor in charge of training assassins suddenly defected with several assassins, of course, this is just the beginning of a disaster. Over the next decade, this group of assassins killed more than five hundred high-ranking magicians, changing the balance of power across the continent. ”

"Several empires that were originally balanced in strength have changed their strength because of the assassination of their magicians one after another, and the empire with the least loss of magicians has become the most powerful country, so people's ambitions have no longer been suppressed, and war has broken out. ”

"It was a tragedy, a tragedy in the history of mankind. This war has been going on for a hundred years, and I don't know how many civilians have lost their homes, loved ones, and even lives. And behind this huge price, it is just a few careerists who get a little psychological satisfaction when they look at the map of their own country, in fact, they will not go to the extra places for the rest of their lives, and their children and grandchildren will not go for the rest of their lives. ”

"The source of this catastrophe is precisely because the magician's pursuit of power is reckless of all consequences. People of insight began to think, could it be that after learning magic, human beings must embark on this path of no return? Could it be that the gods only taught magic to the elves in the past? Perhaps, the greed of mankind made the gods helpless?"

"At the weakest time of humanity, the legions of the undead appeared. Humanity has finally tasted the consequences of cannibalism, and the empire that first provoked the war was the first to be overwhelmed by the undead legions. The elite King's Guard of the Kingdom of Dianis has been retributed, overwhelmed by skeleton warriors hundreds of times more numerous than their people, after they have crushed many armies and slaughtered civilians in a hundred years of catastrophe. ”

"The emergence of Merlen marks a turning point, not only the continuation of human history, but also the solution of the problem that has plagued magicians for many years, that is, to change the magician's dominance of everything, the high position, and let magic enter the common people! Magic can not only be slaughtered, it can also improve our lives, magic is everywhere, it will make our lives better! Under the teaching of Shi Meilun, a large number of civilian magicians appeared on the continent, and they did not study magic for the sake of power, but to think about how to make magic more useful for us humans. ”

"Someone made a huge stone golem that they used to build Fernando City, and someone made a ship that could sail the seas without manpower, which led to the rapid development of the maritime trade, Seabreeze City, which was a small fishing village 200 years ago, now pays 10 million a year in taxes to the Empire!"

"There are also people who have gathered a large number of mages and used the magic array to create a fortress that can float in the air, but due to the cost of this fortress to maintain flight, it usually falls to the ground. Its location is a secret, and no more than 10 people in the entire empire know. ”

"In short, the period of Fernando I's reign was a golden age in human history, in the military, human beings won one victory after another, and got a huge living space; diplomatically, humans, dwarves, and elves concluded an unbreakable covenant and became the masters of the continent; in terms of magic, solved the shortcomings of magicians' blind pursuit of power, it can be said that ** master Melen created this golden age. ”

However, after all, it is the desire of every human heart to gain more power than others, because the nature of human nature is selfish. Therefore, the school advocated by Shi Meilun and the previous school of pursuing power coexisted in this way, and slowly there were disputes. ”

In order to encourage more people to learn magic, he carefully designed a set of test rules, his original intention was to motivate everyone to work hard, but after so many years of implementation, it has become a disadvantage that restricts the growth of magicians. Hundreds of years, the golden age back then and the present are completely different periods, but the promotion of magicians is still according to the standards of 200 years ago, can there be no problems?"

Hearing Victor talk about the key part, Ryan couldn't help but ask, "Is there any difference in the promotion criteria now compared to before?"

With a wry smile on his face, Victor said, "It's no different. ”

"No difference?" Ryan repeated Victor's words, puzzled.

"The promotion criteria of 200 years ago are still being enforced today," Victor explains. However, over the years, the overall strength of human magic has been different. I've checked the records of the Magic Guild, in the year when Fernando City was built, the Imperial Capital Magic Guild had a total of three hundred and seventy-nine people promoted through high-level magicians, and now there are less than three hundred high-level magicians in existence, can this be compared to before?"

"This ......" Ryan was speechless, and he and Faras looked at each other, feeling surprised.

Victor said: "There was a catastrophe back then, and the promotion of the mage grew in endless battles, and if you don't work hard to improve your strength, you may not survive the next battle." And now? How many magicians really put their minds on studying magic? At that time, the magician subsidy was set up to help those civilian magicians to buy materials for the study of magic, as far as the magic array carving that I am good at, making a fireball scroll every day, the Mithril powder consumed that month would be at least more than 20,000 gold coins, without this subsidy, I would have gone bankrupt a long time ago, and I can't hang all kinds of magic scrolls on the street to sell, right?"

Hearing Victor's words, the corners of everyone's lips couldn't help but smile, and the image of a magician in a tattered magic robe hawking on the crowded street came to mind.

Victor shook his head and said with a sigh: "In the past 200 years, the promotion standard has not changed, but the large allowance has been raised, and now an ordinary magician, as long as he has been promoted by a junior magician, is 100 gold coins per month, which is equivalent to the living expenses of 50 civilians outside the imperial capital for a month, as long as you don't spend it indiscriminately, you can live easily in the imperial capital, where is there any enterprising?"