The Immortal City, a city with a permanent population of 500,000, is already a first-class prosperous city in this world. The curfew regime that is usually practiced in the kingdom of ordinary people does not exist in this city.

Because the city is probably the best in the world. In addition to the existence of various city defense guards, there are also a large number of low-level mages who will also take on security patrol duties.

Although mages are one level higher than ordinary people in this world, the competition in the mage world is also very cruel.

One of the most common ways to train mages in this world is to pass the mage's test when the Immortal City conducts the qualification test every year, and then enter the Immortal City's specially opened mage school to study and become a trainee apprentice.

When you have completed all the learning tasks and can pass the graduation test, you will officially become a mage apprentice. Every year, the Immortal City graduates hundreds of mage apprentices, and being a mage apprentice doesn't mean you're a serious mage. All of the previous experiences are just a precondition for becoming a mage's apprentice.

Because learning magic is a matter that requires a lot of knowledge, you are not even qualified to become a mage apprentice without three to five years of basic training.

And becoming a mage apprentice does not mean that everything is fine, because the competition begins when you graduate from the mage school in the Immortal City. And from here, you can judge the future of this mage apprentice.

Why is an apprentice called an apprentice?

The Council of the Immortal City stipulates that every mid-tier (Rank 4 and above) mage must bring at least one mage apprentice every three years for preaching and training, and at least one full-fledged mage of the first order every five years.

This is a semi-forced task, and it is for the sake of the mage's lineage. Of course, mages who have completed such training tasks can also receive remuneration from the Mage Association, whether it is money or magic items, which can be regarded as a rich reward.

Therefore, under this system, almost all the good seedlings are selected by those powerful and powerful mages, and there are not many disciples who can be selected by the ordinary mage class who have spent thirty or fifty years of hard work to reach the fourth-order mage.

Of course, such mages themselves are poor (in the mage world), so they can't give their disciples too much help and training, plus they themselves have spent a long time cultivating to the level of a mid-level mage, so it can be seen that they themselves do not have any great talent and teaching level.

Therefore, in order to complete the task assigned by the Mage Association and take the bounty, they will let the disciples smash a certain first-order spell and practice one in five years.

Because the Mage Association stipulates that as long as you master a first-order spell, then you are considered a first-order mage.

In fact, after graduating from the mage school, the mage apprentices have basically mastered ten to twenty basic magic. Whether it's Ignition, Illumination, or Retardation, these are all basic magic.

And the biggest difference between the formal magic of the first order and these basic magic is the power. One of the basic magic missiles is at most to knock a person into the air, and if the opponent wears thick armor, it may not be able to kill them in one hit. It's as powerful as a normal rifle.

However, a missile technique of a first-order mage could easily directly destroy a small bungalow of 100 square meters in a three-bedroom and two-hall battlefield, and the power was as powerful as a cannon.

If you don't have talent, the only way to become a full-fledged mage in five years is to smash a single spell. And all learning and training are preconditioned on learning this spell.

So it's almost certain that a mage apprentice will be able to achieve much in the future. So it's not just the mage who transfers the apprentice, the apprentice also chooses the mage.

Every year, those who are good at the level of mages receive visits from non-math disciples, hoping that the mages will accept them as a beginner. And those mages whose level is very average or even somewhat ruined by apprentices, even if he chooses an apprentice, the apprentice will not necessarily follow him.

In this way of cultivating mages, there are actually many factions within the seemingly powerful Immortal City. For ordinary people, mages are all masters, and they are all masters.

However, when the mages greeted each other, they would ask: "Under which mage did you study when you became a first-order mage when you were an apprentice mage?"

If the mage who follows is of low rank, then it is generally inevitable to despise the eyes. If the mage who follows is of high rank and famous, then it will naturally be welcomed. If the same mage brings out different batches of apprentices, it will inevitably be close to the senior brother and the younger brother.

And in this relationship between master and apprentice, coupled with the unique parliamentary system of the Immortal City, the mages need to rely on the support of their protégés if they want to speak in the Immortal City and have power.

And now the relationship factions in the Immortal City are complicated, which leads to the fact that although Qin Kuairen and Feng Meier's teacher Carter is one of the five speakers and one of the legendary mages, he is also facing a dilemma.

Speaker's meeting inside the Immortal Spire.

"This plague is almost devastating, and we can't let it spread. If it continues to spread, we will not be able to hold it here sooner or later. One of the five speakers, the legendary mage with the Storm Manipulator, spoke. This is an old man as strong and majestic as an old lion.

"I've been to the Icefield Country, and it's almost destroyed. Except for the royal city, which is barely considered a city, the rest of the city is almost completely destroyed. Cannibalism is about to become the norm. I also found a human market there. ”

Luo Li's words caught the attention of Ariel, the Ice Lady sitting on his left, a lady in her eighties who still looked elegant, and would have thought she was only in her forties if you only looked at her appearance. At nearly eighty years old, she is also the youngest of the legendary mages.

Ariel asked curiously, "Are they still trading slaves?" but yes, being a slave is at least better than being a refugee, and selling yourself is also a choice for many people. She understood the human market as a slave market.

But Luo Lie shook his head: "It's not a human market that hires people to trade slaves, the so-called human market in the Icefield Country is a market for selling human flesh. I saw with my own eyes that they had human organs and limbs on their boards. I also saw a mother sell herself to a merchant in the human market in exchange for food. She wanted the vendor to give her a good time, but the vendor thought that her skin was smooth and tender, and it would not be fresh to kill her. It is necessary for the customer to choose what parts, and what parts he is cutting for the customer, so that the customer can buy the freshest meat. So that he can sell for a high price. ”

Although the Ice Lady Ariel is already eighty years old, she is still stunned when she hears such a story: "How can there be such an absurd thing in this world?!"

"When people are hungry, there will be all kinds of absurd things. Luo Li shook his head.

"Then have you ruined this unconscionable human market, those traffickers should kill a thousand knives! Let them also taste what it feels like to have a piece of meat cut off their bodies!" Ariel wrinkled his eyebrows angrily.

Luo Lie sighed: "Destroy it? How to destroy it? I will destroy this human city today, and there will be other human markets tomorrow." How many people are there in the Icefield Country? Who can count them?

"Ridiculous! You're conniving at crime!" An angry shout burst out from the mouth of the old man opposite Luo Lie: "Luo Lie, you are the accomplice of these executioners!

The old man's saliva sprayed directly on Luo Lie's face, and Luo Lie's face jumped: "Carter, don't think that you can point fingers at me if you are old." If you have the ability, you can put this plague to me! You tell me what can be done to solve this plague! Don't just talk about it. You've been hiding in the tower every day and talking about researching the antidote to the plague, and you've been researching it for years?!"

It was Qin Kuairen and Feng Meier's teacher Carter, the famous Lord of Light, who sprayed a saliva on his face.

"I've been traveling all over the world every day, and I've seen these scenes with my own eyes, and I was in charge of them at first. But I found out that I couldn't manage it at all. Do you think I feel good about all this?!" Rollie roared like an old lion.

And sitting on the right hand side, an old man in a black robe, with silver-white hair and beard, the Lord of Evil Spirits, Barton, pressed his hand: "You two stop it, you two are more than two hundred years old, don't quarrel." If you want me to say that the most urgent thing is to solve the problem of the plague. ”

Carter and the other three looked at him: "Patton, do you have a way?"

Barton and Karl, the elemental messenger sitting next to him, glanced at each other. Barton said slowly, "I have a solution, maybe I can solve this plague, but the price to pay may be high. ”

Luo Lie pouted: "The price we have paid now is high enough, are we afraid of any other price? If you have a way, just say it, don't sell it!"

Patton said word by word: "Burn all the grain fields of the mortal realm!"

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