In the eyes of the inhabitants of the thousand-year-old capital, there are two places in this magnificent capital that are difficult for ordinary people to reach.

One of them, naturally, is the center of the Stoke Empire's royal power, the residence and administrative place of the Imperial King Kilrohn - the royal palace of the Stoke Empire.

No one should be offended by the majesty and glory of the royal family. Therefore, normally speaking, ordinary people are not qualified to enter that huge palace at all.

In addition to the royal palace of the Stoke Empire, there is also a place where security is heavily guarded, and unrelated people are not allowed to enter and exit at will. Moreover, compared to the Imperial Palace, this place also gives people a sense of mystery and unknown. Because this is the cradle of the Stoke Empire's official mage power, and it can even be regarded as the largest magical institution in the human world - the Stoke Imperial Academy of Magic.

The founding date of the Stoke Imperial Academy of Magic is largely unknown, and it is rumored that this ancient institution existed at the dawn of the Stoke Empire. It is also rumored that the predecessor of the Stoke Imperial Academy of Magic was the largest mage guild on the continent of Chino thousands of years ago.

They say that this force provided a large amount of magical power to Barnat Stoker I, the founding father of the Stoke Empire, as a force aid. With the support of the continent's largest mage force, Banat Stoke led his southern family to sweep across the entire Chino continent and establish a super empire covering almost four-fifths of the entire continent. It was also from that time that the continent of Chino bid farewell to the social forms of families and city-states, and officially entered the era of empires. Since that day, the flag of the Violet Empire has stood in all corners of the Chino Continent.

And after the establishment of the empire, Barnat Stoke naturally understood how much of a threat to his newly established empire was from such a terrible force with enough power to subvert the power of the empire. So he absorbed this huge magic guild through various means such as marriage, infiltration, bribery, and pacification. After more than 100 years of hard work by him and his descendants, four generations of kings, this vast magical guild finally disappeared from the memory of the inhabitants of the empire. In its place, there is this new magical institution called the Imperial Academy of Magic.

However, although the magic guild gradually disappeared, the terrifying performance of those mages on the battlefield during the founding war of the Stoke Empire has been passed down from generation to generation. Moreover, because mages and magic guilds are indeed gracious to the Empire, the successive 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 the southerners have an almost pathological reverence for the mage.

And that reverence hasn't changed even now. On the contrary, with the official accession to the throne of the Imperial Prince Kirron Stoker, who also has the status of a high-ranking mage, the status of mages in recent decades has become more revered.

By now, the Stoke Imperial Academy of Magic has become a "royal palace" for mages, and anyone who can come and go freely here, whether it is a man, a woman, an old man, or a child, will be revered by others.

And late this night, two huge carriages were being ushered in at the back door of the Stoke Imperial Academy of Magic. It was two wagons, each drawn by three tall horses. The cargo box at the back of the carriage was more than two meters wide and four or five meters long, and it was nearly two meters high. It is impossible for such a huge wagon to travel on a crowded street, and only in the dead of night can the empty and uninhabited road accept the movement of such two giants.

Unlike the Hawke Empire's campus-style school-running model, the Stoke Empire's Imperial Academy of Magic is a militarized training institution. Strictly speaking, the Stoke Imperial Academy of Magic is managed in an even stricter way than some Imperial Military Academies. Therefore, standing at the door of the Stoke Imperial Academy of Magic at this time was not a security guard who looked capable but was useless like the Second School of Magic of the Hawk Empire.

Rather, it was two heavily armed guards with a heavy smell of blood all over their bodies. They were all warriors who fought bloodily on the front lines of the Stoke Empire, and they had to endure countless trials of blood and fire, life and death before they could stand guard at the Stoke Empire's Academy of Magic. Moreover, in order to be able to suppress the possible troubles of mage apprentices in the academy, these people all have the strength close to that of mid-level warriors.

To put it simply, these Stoke Imperial Guards standing guard are ruthless characters who have killed people and seen blood. Under normal circumstances, even the high-spirited magic apprentices within the academy would not dare to provoke them too much.

But now, they looked at the two coachmen with respect, even ...... There was also some trepidation and uneasiness.

"This is the pass. "Probably because of winter, the driver of the carriage wore a burlap hood, and his whole face was almost entirely buried in the shadow of the cold moonlight and hood. His voice was hoarse and harsh, sounding like the sound of two rusty reddish-brown iron rods rubbing together.

And the guard, who was the subject of the conversation, couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle every time he heard this sound, because he felt as if the thing he was talking to was a dead thing.

But the guards knew that the coachmen were not dead, they were agents, agents of the Stoke Imperial Intelligence Service. And based on the words and deeds of these coachmen on weekdays, it is estimated that they are most likely high-ranking agents of the Imperial Intelligence Service.

Although there was some fear in his heart, the guard still looked carefully at the pass handed over by the coachman - no way, this was a strict requirement of the academy. After confirming that it was correct, the guard nodded and handed the pass back: "No problem, please come in." ”

The coachman didn't say much, he drove the horses and drove the huge carriage into the Imperial Academy of Magic.

The guards standing guard looked at the crates and couldn't help but wonder in their hearts: these coachmen came almost every few days, and each time they drove such a large wagon to transport some goods. As for the goods...... The goods have been sealed with a thick tarpaulin inside and three on the outside. What the hell is it? It's so mysterious?

However, the guards didn't ask much, because they knew that since these things could attract the attention and protection of the Imperial Intelligence Agency, then it was definitely not something that a little minion like them could know or even inquire about.

The two coachmen turned left and right on the path inside the academy, and it was already the curfew time set by the academy, and it was impossible to meet any students except for the occasional night guard.

They silently drove the carriage to an inaccessible wooded area inside the Academy, and although the path was narrow and uneven, the two agents drove the carriage steadily along the way. Eventually, they even broke off the trail and weaved between the woods, where there were almost no references.

Soon after, a forest hut of not particularly large size came into view.

......

A spatial portal gradually emerged from the corner of the house, and out of it came an elderly man.

"How's it going, Mr. Rogge?" the old man asked. He wore a robe, a robe that was big enough to blind the eyes of the other mages. Because there are thousands of gems set on this robe, and each one has its own unique magical powers.

Thousand Treasures Robe, which is an artifact robe made of a thousand magic gems. If calculated only from the value of the material, its value is only dozens of times higher than that of Anne Lot's Ice Sea Blue Star. Because any jewel of this robe is worth the value of a middle-class aristocratic ancestral home.

It is a supreme thing made of countless accumulations of wealth, and it should belong to the oldest and most noble human family in this world. Therefore, the old man wearing the robe of Qianzhen at this time was the longest-reigning king in the history of the Stoke Empire, and the only mage king with legendary magical strength. He's Kilron Stoker.

At this time, Kilrohn was not in his own palace with those concubines. Instead, he dressed in a neat robe and came to visit another mage. And this mage is the only legendary mage who may survive in the human world, the teacher of the Red Flame Demon Sorcerer Saron, Rogge.