In the eyes of the residents of the thousand-year-old capital, there are two places in this magnificent capital that are forbidden places that are difficult for ordinary people to touch.
One of them is naturally the center of the royal power of the Stoke Empire, the residence and administrative place of the imperial king Kilron - the palace of the Stoke Empire.
The majesty and glory of the royal family cannot be offended by anyone. Therefore, normally speaking, ordinary people are not qualified to enter that huge palace.
In addition to the royal palace of the Stoke Empire, there is also a place that is heavily guarded and irrelevant personnel are not allowed to enter or exit at will. Moreover, compared with the Imperial Palace, this place gives people more of a mysterious and unknown feeling. Because here is the cradle of the official mage power of the Stoke Empire, and can even be regarded as the largest magic institution in the human world - the Stoke Empire Magic Academy.
It is basically impossible to verify the founding date of the Stoke Empire Magic Academy. There are rumors that this ancient institution existed at the beginning of the founding of the Stoke Empire. There are also rumors that the predecessor of the Stoke Empire Magic Academy was the largest mages guild on the Chino continent thousands of years ago.
They said that this force provided a large amount of magical power as military assistance to Banat Stoker I, the founder of the Stoker Empire. After gaining the support of the largest mage force in the continent, Banat Stoker led his southern family to sweep across the entire Chino continent and established a super empire covering almost four-fifths of the entire continent. It was also from that time that the Chino Continent bid farewell to social forms such as families and city-states, and officially entered the empire era. From that day on, the flag of the Violet Empire stood in every corner of the Chino continent.
After the establishment of the empire, Banat Stock naturally understood what kind of threat such a terrifying force with enough power to subvert the empire posed to his newly established empire. Therefore, he absorbed this huge magic guild through various means such as marriage, infiltration, bribery, and appeasement. After more than a hundred years of hard work by him and his descendants, four generations of kings, this huge magic guild finally disappeared from the memory of the residents of the empire. Instead, there was this new magical institution called the Imperial Academy of Magic.
But although the magic guild gradually disappeared, the frightening performance of those mages on the battlefield during the Stoke Empire's founding war has been passed down from generation to generation. Moreover, because mages and magic guilds were indeed benevolent to the empire, all the kings of the Stoke Empire at that time had a certain degree of courtesy and respect for mages. It is precisely because of the original influence that southerners have an almost pathological awe for mages.
And this awe has not changed even now. On the contrary, with the imperial prince Kilron Stoker, who also has the status of a high-level mage, officially ascending to the throne, the status of mage has become more respected in recent decades.
Now, Stoke Empire Magic Academy has become the "palace" of mages. Anyone who can come and go freely here, whether they are men, women, old people, or children, will be respected by others.
Late this night, two huge carriages were greeted at the back door of the Stoke Empire Academy of Magic. They were two carriages, each drawn by three tall horses. The cargo box at the rear of the carriage is more than two meters wide, four to five meters long, and nearly two meters high. It is impossible for such a huge cargo carriage to drive on the crowded streets. Only in the dead of night can the empty and deserted roads accommodate the driving of two such giants.
Different from the campus-style school-running model of the Hawke Empire, the Imperial Magic Academy of the Stoke Empire is a training institution with a full military atmosphere. Strictly speaking, the management method of Stoke Imperial Magic Academy is even stricter than that of some imperial military schools. Therefore, the person standing at the door of Stoke Empire Magic Academy at this time is not a security guard who looks capable but useless like the Hawke Empire Second Magic Academy.
Instead, they were two heavily armed guards with a strong smell of blood all over their bodies. They were all warriors who fought bloody battles on the front lines of the Stoke Empire. After experiencing countless tests of blood and fire, life and death, they could stand guard at the Magic Academy of the Stoke Empire. Moreover, in order to be able to suppress the possible troubles among the mage apprentices in the academy, these people have a strength close to that of mid-level warriors.
To put it simply, these Stok Empire guards standing guard are ruthless characters who have killed people and seen blood. Under normal circumstances, even the arrogant magic apprentices within the academy would not dare to provoke them too much.
But now, they looked respectful to the two coachmen, and even... a little scared and uneasy.
"This is the pass." Perhaps because of the winter, the driver was wearing a burlap hood, and his entire face was almost entirely buried in the cold moonlight and the shadow formed by the hood. And his voice was hoarse and harsh, sounding like the sound made by two rusty reddish-brown iron bars rubbing together.
The guard who was the subject of conversation couldn't help but feel numb every time he heard this sound, because he felt that the thing he was talking to was a dead thing.
But the guards knew that these coachmen were not dead creatures, they were agents, agents of the Stoke Empire Intelligence Agency. And judging from the words and deeds of these coachmen on weekdays, they are likely to be senior agents of the Imperial Intelligence Agency.
Although there was some fear in his heart, the guard still carefully looked at the pass handed over by the coachman - there was no way, this was strictly required by the college. After confirming that it was correct, the guard nodded and handed the pass back: "No problem, please come in."
The driver didn't say much. He drove the horses and drove the huge carriage into the Imperial Academy of Magic.
The guard on guard looked at the cargo box and couldn't help but have doubts in his mind: These coachmen would come almost every few days, and each time they would drive such a large carriage to transport some goods. As for the cargo... the cargo has been sealed three layers inside and three outside with thick oilcloth. What is it? So mysterious
But the guards didn't ask any more questions, because they knew that since these things could attract the attention and protection of the Imperial Intelligence Agency, they were definitely not something that little guys like them could know or even inquire about.
The two coachmen turned left and right on the small road inside the academy with ease. It was already the curfew time set by the magic academy, and it was unlikely that they would encounter any students except for the occasional guard who patrolled the night.
They drove the carriage in silence to a deserted forest inside the college. Although the forest path was narrow and uneven, the two agents drove the carriage smoothly and smoothly along the way. In the end, they even left the path and wandered through the woods with almost no reference points.
Soon after, a forest cabin that was not particularly large appeared in their sight.
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A space portal gradually appeared from the corner of the house, and then an old man walked out of it.
"Mr. Rogge, how is the progress?" the old man asked. He wore a robe that could blind other mages. Because there are thousands of gems inlaid on this robe, and each one has its own unique magical power.
Thousand Treasures Robe, this is an artifact robe made of a thousand magic gems. If calculated only from the material value, its value is probably dozens of times higher than Annelotte's Ice Sea Blue Star. Because any gem in this robe is worth the value of the ancestral home of a middle-class noble.
This is a supreme object made of countless wealth, and it should belong to the oldest and most noble human family in the world. Therefore, the old man wearing Qianzhen's robe at this time is the longest reigning king in the history of the Stoke Empire, and he is also the only mage king with legendary magical power. He is Kilron Stock.
At this time, Kilroan was not having sex with his concubines in his palace. Instead, he came to visit another mage wearing a neat robe. And this mage is probably the only remaining legendary mage in the human world, Rogge, the teacher of the red flame sorcerer Saron.