The cold light sprinkled on the many flowers blooming in the small garden, giving them a hazy beauty.
Lucien and Rhine walked side by side on the garden path. After a brief silence, he asked directly, "Mr. Rhine, can you tell me where the headquarters of the Magic Council is?"
"Where do you think it will be?" Rhine, who had been smiling slightly, asked Lucien back.
Lucien thought for a while and replied: "I think it's in the depths of the Dark Mountains or on the other side of the mountains, because the church's westward march ended early."
Rhine heyed: "If you go to the dark mountains, you can only find those gloomy and crazy ancient magicians. Although they are powerful, many of them are high-level, and there are even archmages and legendary magicians, but they are a little bit different from them. You will become their experimental product, and then you will either get uncontrollable powerful power, or your whole body will collapse and die. Moreover, the creatures in the Dark Mountains are not comparable to the beasts and low-level magical creatures in the Black Forest of Melzer , with your strength to rush in, you won't survive for more than ten days."
Sure enough, there are remnants of ancient magicians in the dark mountains.
Lucien affirmed one of his guesses: "Mr. Rhine, is the headquarters of the Continental Magic Council located in a certain country? Do they believe in northern sects, or do they believe in other gods?"
"Wrong answer, in a country that believes in Southern Truth." Rhine seemed to think of something funny, shaking his head again and again, "You should have heard of its name, the Kingdom of Holm. The specific location is the Kingdom of Holm The floating city 'Allinge' near the capital Rentat."
"Alinge, the meaning of 'sky' in the ancient Sylvanas language." Lucien first interpreted the word habitually, and then looked at Rhine in surprise: "Kingdom of Holm? Rentat? Natasha What country does the mother come from?"
And this country still believes in the God of Truth! How did Grand Duke Violet visit this country
"Hasn't Grand Duke Violet's love story become a story recited throughout the continent? I have sung and told several different ones." Rhine thought it was very interesting and smiled, "But there is not a single poem, not one The story can tell exactly what kind of evil is standing in their way."
Lucien asked suspiciously: "Is it the Continental Magic Council? Why is there such a strange situation?"
Rhine smiled at the corner of his mouth and looked at Lucien: "If you have studied the knowledge of governance, you will understand that this is a political issue in the situation on the mainland. Everything comes down to balance, the balance that nobles need."
"Balance?" Lucien asked pretending to be puzzled, but he was thinking in his heart, "Actually, I have a lot of textbooks on international politics. Do you need to take a look?"
Knowing that the headquarters of the Magic Council was not in any scary and sinister place, Lucien relaxed a lot.
Rhine was half as tall as Lucien, and slowly walked forward: "Two hundred years after the Dawn War, the strength and authority of the church reached its peak. Whether it is a poor man or an emperor, they must prostrate themselves when facing the Pope. Kiss the shoe toe of the spokesperson of the gods. During that time, the church was able to abolish earls, marquises, and dukes at will, and even the emperor of the Holy Hiertz Empire. Therefore, no one dared to offend the majesty of the church."
"So the split of the church into North and South at the Supreme Religious Council was supported by nobles?" Lucien realized why those cardinals were followed by almost all the nobles in the north.
Rhine turned his head and glanced at Lucien: "Very keen. Lucien, you are right. When some cardinals planned to overthrow the Pope due to some unknown reason, the nobles of their country would not hesitate Joined this conspiracy. But these nobles deliberately leaked part of the news in advance, so that the Pope was prepared and was not overthrown, so it developed into a split between the North and the South. After all, for the nobles in the north, if these cardinals overthrow the Pope , to control the church, their situation will not fundamentally change from before.”
"And when the north and the south are divided, and the strength of the two sides is not much different, the power of the nobles has become the most important weight on the balance, and they will never be taken away by life and death." Lucien followed Rhine's words.
Rhine smiled and shook his head: "Wrong, the strength of the Northern Church is very different from that of the Southern Church, but how can the elves, dwarves, and countries that believe in other gods in the northwest of the Dark Mountains, the magical creatures and the remaining magicians in the Dark Mountains stand by? Watching the church in the north get crushed. It was only after they joined the game that a situation where the south was attacking strongly and the north was struggling to hold on."
"But it's different from the current situation? It seems to be a balance of power now, and the northern fortress has fallen before." Lucien thought about it seriously, "So at that time the church split again? The Kingdom of Holm supported the Magic Council?"
Rhine was a little surprised: "I can think of this, Lucien, you are really good at learning and thinking. Yes, after seeing that the status and status of the northern nobles have been greatly improved, the southern nobles have also had an idea about their own situation. They chose to negotiate with the church, while a small part embarked on the road of secretly supporting magical forces, using their strength to fight against the church forces in their own kingdom, while they themselves balanced in the middle to fight for the right to speak."
"This small group is the nobles of the four kingdoms across the Storm Strait, but they made a mistake, that is, they did not expect that an archmage named Douglas would actually make changes to the ancient magic system at this time, instead of simply imitating magic. Creatures are on the road to study the laws of nature. Under the leadership of Douglas, the strength of the Magic Council has grown exponentially, and powerful magicians and legendary magicians have emerged continuously. Several major hidden magicians were integrated more than a hundred years ago. After the magic organization, the Continental Magic Council has expanded into the second largest force in the entire world."
"This is a change that Holm and other nobles from the four kingdoms did not expect when they started supporting them."
Lucien heard the familiar name: "Mr. Douglas? I know him." Lucien didn't ask if Glass was still alive, because a powerful magician like him must have countless ways to prolong his life. Millennium is not a problem at all. For example, the "Lich Transformation Ceremony" recorded in Lucien's "Book of Astrology and Elements" can be performed after becoming a high-level magician. Once successful, the life span will be extended to at least 1,500 years. Year.
"Mr. Douglas is one of the top ten powerhouses in the world, the first great arcanist, the chairman of the Continental Magic Council, and the founder of the "Arcane" journal." Even Rhine, a man who is extremely mysterious, When mentioning Douglas, there is also a touch of awe, "So now it is a situation where several forces are balanced and the nobles benefit from it. Hehe, in the Kingdom of Holm, the magician is already a semi-public identity. Although the church has a considerable strength They were concentrated there, but they were suppressed miserably, if not for the help of the nobles, they would have been uprooted by the Magic Council long ago."
Lucien roughly understood the current situation: "That's why the church allows nobles like Grand Duke Violet to visit the Kingdom of Holm. It seems that they hope to completely pull the noble forces of the Kingdom of Holm over. Hehe , Grand Duke Violet 'finished' well."
"The Grand Duke himself never thought of this. The nobles in the western part of the mainland, the southern countries, and the Holy Hiertz Empire are known as the most extreme and conservative pro-church faction. You can imagine the sensation caused by the marriage at that time. Although most of Hall The nobles of the Kingdom of Mu understand the situation on the mainland, but they will definitely choose to be loyal to their lords. This is not because they have noble character, but because if the nobles cannot follow the most basic rules of loyalty to the lord and unite, they will have long been ruled by the Magic Council. How can it be possible for them to make a dangerous balance when the two huge forces, the Church and the Church, are split up and swallowed up." Rhine smiled sarcastically.
Then he made a gesture of pressing down: "Okay, with your strength, you don't need to know the complicated things. What you need to consider now is how to get to the Kingdom of Holm. Storm Strait has been blocked by the church, and only with permission Only nobles and merchants can go there, and the inspection is extremely strict. Of course, you can also cross the area where the North and South Churches confront each other, and then cross the Shahran Empire to the Northland, and from the Northland to the north of the Holm Kingdom, the only problem is , the area where the churches confront each other is more strictly blocked than the Storm Strait, and even nobles and big businessmen cannot pass through."
"The Magic Council should have its own path, right?" Lucien thought of the gentleman from the headquarters of the Magic Council.
Lucien didn't dare to rely on Natasha for this kind of thing, even though her grandfather was the king of the Kingdom of Holm. Because it was the power of the Magic Council that obstructed her parents back then, and she was a devout believer in Truth, telling her about her identity as a magic apprentice, coupled with the previous deception, was likely to be killed directly.
Rhine nodded: "There is a contact person from the Magic Council in the Pearl of the Sea 'Sturk', but I don't know who it is, you need to find it yourself, and even so, it is very dangerous to sneak through the blockade, so I I said that you can only go there after you become an official magician and have a good self-protection ability. Of course, if you can become an intermediate magician and learn the flying technique, you don’t have to worry about it. The sea is so wide, the church can block ships but not It could completely block the skies."
"Become an official magician..." Lucien didn't know if the church continued to observe him, but he would definitely not use his "professor" status to contact people in the magic circle. Therefore, to become an official magician as soon as possible, the best way is to go to the ruins and get in first by understanding the time difference of the "Grand Cross" magic lock, but is that a trap of the church
Rhine put his hands behind his back: "You can become a high-level magic apprentice in two days at most, and with your talent, as long as you have the ordinary silver moon potion, you have a great chance of becoming a full-fledged magician. So, you can judge by yourself." It’s dangerous, at most I can tell you that the church has had a hard time assigning people.”
"Really?" Lucien looked at Rhine with a little surprise, he seemed to know something. If what he said is true, then he should really take a certain risk to go to the ruins and try, "By the way, Mr. Rhine, I don't know your identity?"
Rhine said with a chuckle: "I'm just an observer, someone who likes to observe interesting things. Of course, I don't rule out the possibility that I will end in person, as long as the thing is interesting enough."
After answering Lucien vaguely, Rhine gave him a meaningful look, then quickened his pace and directly merged into the darkness.
Lucien stood on the spot and watched Rhine's back disappear, his heart was at peace. After knowing the news of the headquarters of the Magic Council, he immediately felt a lot more relaxed, as if the boulder that had been pressing on his heart for a long time had been removed.
In this indescribable ease, Lucien suddenly felt his soul swell a little, and began to hit that boundary.