Seeing that the Chinese had won another undisputed victory, the king smacked his lips in boredom. Although they won, the mage named Luo Ling seemed to be injured and had to be helped off the ice.
"Your Majesty, since the challenger has already lost two games, there is no need to compete again, right?" Marquis Francisco asked as he came to the balcony.
"Hmm..." The king glanced at Savah, who was supposed to be the third to play.
"Your Majesty. I request to be allowed to finish the last match. It is a warrior's honor to fight in a questioning challenge..." Savah said.
"What's the point of this?" Xiao Chen asked loudly, "The only thing a challenge requires is a result. Now that the result is out, the challenge is naturally over. We refuse to engage in any more duels. If you insist on going against us, that will be the beginning of a war."
Sawah asked, “Don’t you think this is an honor?”
"Is your honor just a piece of skin attached to your interests? Don't think I don't know what you are going to do. We have already respected the traditions here. If someone still wants to make things difficult for me, it means they are disrespecting us. This behavior itself has no honor at all."
"Only cowards are afraid of an opportunity to show their strength!" Savah didn't expect the wizard to be so aggressive, and his voice softened unconsciously.
"Show your strength?" Xiao Chen sneered and said to Ye Zi, "Show him what strength is."
The tattoo on Ye Zi's hand suddenly disappeared, but this time it did not turn into the spear, but into the appearance of Javier's God of War bracelet. There was a gun-shaped metal decoration near the gem on the bracelet, which was very similar to the body of the Shadow Gun. This was the new form of the Shadow Gun. In the bracelet state, it still retained all the bonuses such as strength and speed, and also had the function of increasing magic power, which was equivalent to a top-grade wizard's wand, because its previous owner, the Valkyrie, was a powerful person who had reached the extreme of both magic and magic cultivation.
With the bonus of the bracelet, Ye Zi cast a giant strength spell on himself. This magic can multiply a person's strength in a short period of time.
Ye Zi picked up a stone from the ground and cast a gas explosion on it, which was an enchanted magic to increase the power of projectiles. Then she gathered her fighting spirit and jumped high, then threw the stone fiercely into the lake. The fighting spirit, the bracelet and the magic blessing made her burst out with more than a hundred times more power than her original physical strength.
The stone wrapped in fighting spirit rushed into the floating ice with a loud bang, and the ice was shattered. The broken ice and pond water were thrown more than 30 meters into the air, and then turned into hail and rain, falling inside and outside the pond. Even the pavilion built by Luo Ling was blown away in half by this blow.
The guests who were nearby screamed and kept backing away to avoid the water drops falling from the sky.
Ye Zi stuck out her tongue, "Sorry, I didn't control the strength well."
Xiao Chen smiled encouragingly at her, then asked Savah with a stern face: "This is the power you want. We have already demonstrated it."
Savah's face turned red and white. Although he was a high-level warrior, he definitely couldn't use a small stone to blast away half of the pond's water. He looked at Ye Zi, fear arose in his heart.
There are very few people in this world who truly practice both fighting spirit and magic. Most of them are warriors like magic knights who use magic to assist their martial arts. Artifacts like the God of War bracelet are unique. Therefore, except for Mei and Xiao Chen and a few others, almost no one understood what Ye Zi's series of actions just now contained.
Savah didn't know that Ye Zi achieved this effect entirely by relying on the right combination of magic and power-enhancing props. His attacks in real combat would never reach this level.
He backed off.
"I... give up the challenge." After he said this, he lowered his head and left the scene.
Wang Guo snorted coldly and cursed in a low voice: "Coward."
"Your Majesty, now that the challenge is over, you should continue to complete the enthronement." The queen reminded.
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The territory enthronement ceremony naturally returned to the meeting hall.
The whole process was a bit like a signing ceremony on Earth. The names of the king, Count Carlos, and the representative of the Tower of China, Xiao Chen, were signed on the land deed, and then the representatives of the Temple of Nature and the Kingdom Magic Association signed and certified it. Then the deed was made in triplicate and kept by the royal family, the Arias family, and the Tower of China respectively. From then on, the large tracts of land in the Black Mountain region truly belonged to the school in the eyes of the locals.
The king then gave Xiao Chen a top-grade ice staff with snow sandalwood wrapped in mithril and ice dragon skin wrapped around the nodes, and a protective robe with low-level magic absorption function. Xiao Chen and Li Jia took the staff and robe respectively and expressed their gratitude. This represented the establishment of a cooperative relationship between the Tower of China and the royal family. They needed to provide services to the kingdom at certain times as a reward for land and tax collection rights.
"Sir Xiao Chen, welcome to your China Tower as the 25th magic tower to establish friendship with the kingdom. I hope that the China Tower and the royal family can become long-term partners." The king said to Xiao Chen with a smile, as if the previous trip he had made had never happened.
"Your Majesty, there is an old saying in our hometown. If the king treats others as cherished as his hands and feet, others will naturally treat the king as they treat their own hearts." Xiao Chen said lightly.
"What you want to say is: If the king regards his subjects as his own brothers, then the subjects should regard the king as their own heart and soul, right?" Ye Zi asked in a low voice.
"No, what he meant was that if the ruler treats his subjects like dirt, then the subjects will treat the ruler like an enemy." Luo Ling said, her complexion had recovered a little, "But this sentence is not suitable for us."
"Why?" Ye Zi asked.
Luo Ling smiled but said nothing.
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At night, in Xiao Chen's study in the office.
Xiao Chen and Luo Ling sat opposite each other with their glasses of wine in their hands. Xiao Chen drank wine while Luo Ling drank water.
"Why did you tell Ye Zi that Mencius' words were not suitable for us? She even asked me." Xiao Chen asked after taking a sip of wine.
"Because we will not be anyone's subjects. After all, we are irreconcilable with the king or the nobles," said Luo Ling.
Xiao Chen held his chin up and looked at Luo Ling, whose expression was serious under the light. "Are you going to say: No matter how you view me, I will view you as an enemy?"
"Enemies? No, we have no personal grudges, so we can't be considered enemies." Luo Ling turned the wine glass in her hand, "Maybe grass and insignificant grass is more appropriate. Because one day we will sweep them into the garbage dump of history."
"Isn't it too early to say this now?"
"Is it early? I feel like the moment of collision will come soon."
"I really don't like the feeling of going to war."
Luo Ling sighed and said, "I don't like it either. But this is always the ultimate way for us humans to solve big problems. It's the same in any world."
"Well, no matter what, from today on, we have stepped onto the stage of this world. Let's toast to this first." Xiao Chen raised his glass.
Luo Ling touched the glass in her hand to his. She smiled and said, "No, we have always been on this stage. Since we came here, we are like a torrent that has broken through the dam. No force can stop it from surging forward."
(End of Volume 3)