Ryan was sitting in a corner of the meeting hall, dazed in boredom. Beside him, the two sisters Natasha and Nataya were constantly working hard to have a spiritual connection in order to start the official meeting in the shortest possible time. Learning combination spell casting skills, in the center of the meeting hall, Adams led more than a dozen people around a large table to be busy. They opened the reports sent by their subordinates and read them carefully. If it was just a small matter, they would just read it directly. Annotations are made on it and then submitted to Adams for review and filing. If the matter is too big, it will be placed on a special tray on the table so that it can be handed over to Ryan for review.
I have to say that this method of handling is really inefficient, but it is the most appropriate method at present. Ryan did not focus entirely on the management of the entire territory, and the entire Cassano was just taken over not long ago. After a purge, not enough trustworthy and qualified officials were selected in a short period of time, so we could only gather all the power and adopt a government system similar to the cabinet.
"Tap tap tap tap." There was a crisp sound of footsteps outside the room. Soon, the door of the meeting hall was gently pushed open. Two burly guards walked in with a little boy. The boy was timid. He shrunk and followed the guard in. He lowered his head timidly, but his eyes were still looking around curiously, taking in the completely unfamiliar environment in front of him. When he saw Ryan sitting in the corner, his eyes suddenly lit up. Apparently he recognized Ryan as the person who gave him the emblem,
"You... hello." The boy said hello in a low voice. Ryan, who was more than ten meters away from him, couldn't hear clearly what he was saying. He just saw the boy's mouth moving, and Ryan slightly With a smile, he greeted the boy and motioned for him to come over. After the boy came to him, Ryan asked in a friendly voice: "Do you still recognize me?"
"Yeah." The boy nodded vigorously.
Ryan smiled indifferently and said, "Do you know who I am."
"I know." The boy said this in a much louder voice: "I heard a lot about you along the way. You seem to be very powerful, and they are all afraid of you."
"Haha." Ryan laughed softly. When he saw the boy in front of him, he remembered the scene when he followed Ghalib. He couldn't help but want to say a few more words to him: "Then are you afraid of me?"
"Not afraid."
"Oh why."
"Because you are my idol." The boy's answer was quite unexpected by Ryan. Of course, Ryan knew very well that on this continent, some people liked him, some were afraid of him, and some wanted him to die, but he was still the number one Hearing this answer for the first time, Ryan flicked the emblem towards the boy with a flick of his thumb.
"Tell me, do you know what magic is." While the boy clumsily grabbed the emblem from mid-air, he also heard Ryan's question in his ears. The boy tilted his head and thought about it, then shook his head and said: "I don't know." When the boy said this, he suddenly added with great happiness: "You teach me, and I will know."
"Okay, okay, okay." Ryan nodded repeatedly. The emblem he left in a moment of thought finally allowed the boy to find him. Just this point made Ryan think of accepting a disciple, not to mention this boy and Ryan. The scene when he was young was quite similar, which made Ryan feel a little emotional.
"Are you willing to teach me?" The boy tilted his head and looked at Ryan.
"Of course, as long as you are willing to endure hardship." Ryan replied with a smile. At this point, he asked again: "Tell me your name. I don't know your name yet."
"Me, mom calls me Richie, but they all call me coward."
"Coward Richie, haha, that's a really good name."
"Well, when I learn magic, I will no longer be a coward. I will protect my mother and my sister. I will not let others bully them anymore." The boy imitated an adult and stood up in front of Ryan. chest, but he didn't know that he showed his childishness even more,
Ryan nodded. He understood Richie's mentality very well, and did not continue to talk about this topic. Instead, he asked about Richie's family. It turned out that Richie's father died early, and Richie and his sister were all on their own. My mother worked as a cook for others, and then took on a lot of chores such as starching and washing clothes. She was busy every day and could barely make ends meet. This time, many chambers of commerce in Free Paradise were preparing to open trading stations in Cassano, and many people were unwilling to leave their hometowns. Here, Richie's mother came here with a pair of her children for the sake of the relatively good commission, but by chance, Richie's mother came to this place.
Although Ryan understood Richie's situation, he did not intend to help him too much. Hard experiences in childhood often benefit a person for life. At this point, Ryan did not intend to artificially interfere with Richie's life. He did not even teach Lee personally. What's the matter, just ask someone to take him to Barbara, and let Richie learn slowly with the more than a thousand magic apprentices. After all, for many things, excessive concern will have the opposite effect. Ryan will not Will do that kind of thing,
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The waves rushed onto the soft beach, splashing white waves. Just when the waves turned into fragments and splashed, a big foot stepped down heavily, trampling the waves and the beach under the soles of his feet. Bailey shook. He shook his head, pulled out his right foot from the sand, and stepped it out again. Behind Bailey, a series of winding footprints were left.
Bailey's appearance is very funny. He looks like a child of several years old learning to walk. The new body he is trying to control now has a large part of its materials from the corpse of Maia who was killed by the Holy Light. , I don’t know whether it is the natural repulsion between light and darkness, or Maia’s soul is still lingering, Bailey always feels that his body is resisting his will, this feeling has not completely disappeared until now, making Bailey feel very Awkward,
"Huh." A gust of sea breeze blew by, and Susan appeared in front of Bailey. After receiving the help of Bailey's secret method, the dead succubus was able to walk freely in the sun. Her Her strength is stronger than when she was just transformed. Now she can directly deprive the target's soul from his body with just a slight moan. This is different from Bailey's "Finger of Death" magic. The effect is very similar, but Bailey can only attack one person at a time, while Susan's Banshee Howl has no limit on the number of people at all.
Bailey looked at Susan in front of him and said nothing. He continued to work hard to control his body. Behind him, two monsters made of corpses followed from a distance. Those were Bailey's recent movements. A masterpiece, in fact, when the Nicholas Lich under the pseudonym Safanas came here in person to preside over the undead transformation ceremony, Bailey basically became a dispensable figure, although he was still nominally the highest person in charge here,
Bailey would naturally have no complaints about the current situation. This was not just because Nicholas saved Bailey when he was about to fall into death, accepted him as his student, and taught Bailey a lot of undead magic. It was because Bailey himself was convinced by the strength of those who succeeded him,
With Bailey's current strength, it takes about a week to assemble a monster. The work efficiency of the men in black who stayed under the cloaks all day long brought by Nicholas was at least 30 times more efficient than Bailey. This number was enough to put Bailey to shame. , in addition, although there is no clear answer, Bailey still vaguely guessed from some details what kind of existence those guys under the black cloak are. Regarding the terrible dark creature that exists in the legend, the lich , the only thing Bailey can do is to look up,
Susan didn't speak either. She just stayed with Bailey silently until he walked across the entire beach and came to a deep cave. She heard the faint sounds coming from the depths of the cave. Howling, Susan suddenly spoke: "Bai Lei, do you think... we can succeed."
Bailey turned his head, glanced at Susan, and tried to squeeze out a smile from his stiff face. Unfortunately, most of his facial muscles had been replaced. The stitching marks on it were obvious, and there were many places. The damage revealed the white bones, and the smile looked even more intimidating.
"The important thing is not the successful result, but the process." Bailey said slowly: "Don't worry about this matter, let's get back to work quickly. Those druids sent a few days ago are all very good. Materials, you might as well absorb a few more, it will be very helpful to increase your strength."
Susan didn't speak anymore. She followed Bailey slowly into the depths of the cave. There, four floating lichs in black cloaks were running a magic circle at full strength. Powerful evil forces poured into the magic circle crazily. The body of the old man in the center is transforming his body and soul bit by bit.
If Allen was here, he would naturally be able to identify the old man performing the dark ritual as the Silver Leaf Master of the Druid tribe. However, at this time, the appearance of this Druid elder had changed drastically, and his hair had completely changed into The color was dark gray, and the deep black eye sockets were completely empty, with only two glimmers of light. The whole body also faintly exuded a dark aura, which made people shudder.
"Okay, the magic ritual was completed very smoothly." Nicholas who was standing aside waited until the entire dark ritual was completed, then slowly walked down from his throne, and a voice full of coercion immediately spread throughout the depths of the cave: "Baby Lei, go get some materials and let us take a look at the final result."