Almost six years later.

"Muen, is it your birthday in a week?" a little girl who was swinging with Muen suddenly asked him. After receiving Mu En's affirmative answer, she smiled sweetly and asked, "Then what gift do you want?"

Mu En thought about it, and felt as if she didn't have anything in particular, so she said to the little girl, "I want you to kiss me." The little girl booed him, jumped off the swing and grimaced at him, dropped a word and ran away.

Mu En smirked.

In the Lord's Mansion in the province of Aldan, early in the morning.

Medanzo had just walked into the office, and Aldan had gradually become wealthy over the years, which was inseparable from his hard work. He sat down at the grand table, picked up the executive machine he had sent late last night, and began to think about what to do. After a while, the secretary walked in and said to him respectfully, "Good morning, my lord, you have asked me to remind you today that there is something important in seven days' time. ”

Medanzo was thinking about it, so he casually responded without raising his head: "What's the matter?"

"You didn't say that. The secretary responded.

"Okay, I know...... Didn't you say?" Medanzo looked at the calendar on his left, nodded, put the documents aside for the time being, and asked, "Is there any document from the Imperial Capital Tower?"

"My lord, there has been no important matter since 8 o'clock this morning. ”

"Have you checked the clerical desk?"

Hearing this, the secretary paused for a moment, and immediately bowed and said, "Is there such an important matter recently? ”

"No," Medanzo said, standing up, "I'll go myself." ”

At this time, one of the guards came to the door of the office, knelt down on one knee and said, "My lord, a mage from the tower has come to summon him. Imperial guests come to visit and want to see you by name. ”

"Okay, I'll go. With that, Medanzo motioned for the secretary to return to his work, and he rode in a carriage to the Temple of Aldan's Tower.

Before I arrived at the temple, I saw a person standing at the door of the main hall of the tower, and the silver light of the robe on his body was like snow, which was very luxurious.

Still a little away from the temple door, Medanzo did not ask the coachman to stop, but opened the door himself. Strangely, his body did not fall in the air, but was lifted by the strong wind, and it seemed to fly slowly and quickly to the steps of the main hall. He looked at Anschel's clothes and sighed, "You and my classmates have only been working for sixteen years now, and you are already a magister. ”

Practicing magic requires talent, so magicians are expensive among all races, and although they are not superior in Atlantis, they are still relatively popular when they travel abroad. As the highest school for all magicians and a gathering place for top magicians, every initiative of the Tower has a huge impact on magicians. Best known for its strict wizard rating system, although Atlantis are all half-blood elves, everyone has more or less magical talents, but because of this, the threshold for obtaining the rank title of magician within the empire has become extremely high, and it is rumored that it can even be compared with the standards of the elven kingdom.

The Tower divides the mages into ten levels, which are level one: the mage. Level 2: Senior Magician. Level 3: Magician. Level 4: High Magister. Level 5: Archmage. Level 6: Magister. Level 7: High Magi. Level 8: Archmagister. Level 9: Tower Magister, also known as Magus Grandmaster. Level 10: Holy Magister.

There are many different factions of magic, each of which has a different way of practice, so Atlantis has established many different high schools of magicians in different parts of the empire, and young magicians must first pass the study and examination of the elementary and intermediate colleges before entering. If you want to enter the Tower, you need to study at the best senior college in the department, and reach the level of a magician before graduation, and pass the assessment and interview of the Tower before you can enter the Tower Study.

The so-called senior magician, in fact, is the level of the magic study of the department he has studied into a profound level, similar to the "master" of ordinary senior colleges, of course, the magician is more inclined to practical science, emphasizing actual combat ability. The Grand Magus needs to have a single circuit that can be rated as perfect.

The Magister, on the other hand, must have a new understanding and contribution to the magic of the Department on the basis of mastering one system, and pass the judgment of the Tower to be able to be selected, and the two levels above the Magister must learn two and three systems respectively, and meet the standards of the Magister in the achievements of a single line, before they can be evaluated.

The Tower Magus is awarded to those magic masters who have served the Tower all year round and have mastered multiple types of magic, and these people can participate in the decisive meetings of the Tower and have a transcendent status. The standard of the Holy Magister is not very clear, after all, there are only two in the entire empire now, and both of them are silent, and the outside world can only guess.

"Nineteen years, actually, from the time you entered the Tower at the age of twenty. Ansher waited for his equal, and walked down the stairs with a smile.

Medanzo closed his eyes and felt it for a while, and exclaimed, "It's not a simple mage, it's not far from a high-level mage...... Time flies, I didn't expect that I was almost forty years old, and I didn't expect that the gap between us was so big. ”

Angel stood side by side with him and smiled: "Actually, there are still a lot of differences between me and the high-level mage, but thanks to you, I can progress so fast, the wind circuit you taught me at the beginning was very subtle, and I made rapid progress, but I don't think it's so simple to become a high-level mage, I just became a mage a year ago." ”

"It must be Lord Tavasis who is strict with you, this is a good thing, you are his only disciple, and you have such a high talent, you are expected to become the next tower master. ”

"Seven days later, I'm not the only one, and there's no hope for the next tower master...... Although I didn't want to be it, but well, the title of the Holy Demon Master, if the fortune continues, maybe I can also fight for the old man's class. ”

Medanzo also smiled: "I haven't seen you for many years, you are a lot more modest." ”

"I have been taught by the old man for so many years, and I have a deep understanding of the gap and the difficulty of cultivation. But then again, you haven't let go of your cultivation all these years, and with your current concentration of magic, you can become a Magister as long as you create a few new spells or come up with a breakthrough idea. ”

"Then if we meet on the battlefield, I, a bullshit magister, must not be killed by your three moves. Medanzo laughed to himself.

"Why are you so unconfident in yourself, mana concentration is not the only indicator of victory or defeat, I was in the top ten of the grade with low mana concentration at the beginning. ”

"So I can't beat it...... By the way, when do you think you'll become a high-level magister?" Medanzo asked suddenly.

Ansher thought carefully for a moment and said, "If you're lucky, you'll probably be around sixty or seventy years old." ”

"You're only thirty-six this year, and you already have two magic circuits coexisting. ”

"The second is not sophisticated enough – far from enough. Progress is difficult, and the sixty-year-old high-level magister is also very young, and there are not many in the entire empire that are younger than this. This kind of thing can't be rushed. Moreover, we half-blood elves can live for three or four hundred years without magic to enhance their physique, so there is no hurry. You see, the old man is more than 200 years old this year, and his body is very strong, and one can beat me ten. ”

Magicians can use the resonance of spells to stimulate the non-attribute magic that originally flowed in the body to divide them, but this method is actually very mana-consuming, and carving a magic circuit with a specific attribute in the body can help magicians use a certain attribute of magic more freely, which will be very useful in battle, and a certain magic circuit engraved in the body itself also represents the magician's understanding of the magic of the system. In addition, the way of magic circuit circulation of different attributes is completely different, if you want to carve a second one on your body, it will lead to some very complex problems to solve, such as attributes conflicting with each other, destroying the balance of the original magic circuit, and so on. If you want to engrave a third one, it becomes more difficult to engrave it.

The prerequisite for becoming a magister is to carve a series of precise, smooth, and superior magic circuits in the body, and only in this way can you be considered proficient in a certain system of magic. Magic circuits are also the reason why magicians can use magic without chanting, and the advanced magic circuits themselves will also bring higher magic reserves.

Each mage's magic circuit is different, because even if it is a master and an apprentice, the master will not tell the disciple everything about his magic circuit. In addition to a more secret reason, it is also very dangerous for others to know about the circuit node, which is why in the world of magicians, few disciples dare to disobey the master, because most of the disciples' magic circuits are built under the guidance of the master.

However, God loves the world, if the magic circuit is carved wrong in the process of cultivation, only the assistance of some magic potions can still be repeated, but the pain of the engraved circuit is not willing to be endured repeatedly.

"Let's not talk about that, I'm here to pick people up, do they still live in the same place?" Ansher interrupted the conversation, he felt that it was better to get down to business first.

"You arrived seven days early, so why are you in a hurry? They now live in my direct town, very close. And—just like that, can't you come in a carriage, you have to take a teleportation array, it's very expensive." "As a wise lord who works hard to lead everyone to make a fortune together, Medanzo is very fond of money, although it doesn't cost him money to teleport people over.

"I'm angry when I say that. Originally, I was doing herbal medicine research in the west of the empire, but that day the old man came over and kicked me without saying a word, saying that he couldn't catch up with me in the carriage, and told me to hurry back to the imperial capital, and then he also changed my two prescriptions by the way! This guy! He made two changes, and my tower bonus was less than half!" Anschel became more and more angry, "Why do you say that the empire is a one-way channel for teleportation arrays? It can only be transmitted from the imperial capital to various counties, and I want to change that document transmission station to be able to carry people, because only that one is two-way." ”

Medanzo patted him on the shoulder and comforted, "This is also a lesson from the Eternal Dynasty, if it weren't for their huge two-way transmission array, the rebels wouldn't have captured the royal capital so quickly." ”

Ansher shook his head and sighed: "So now the largest transmission array can transmit fifty people, thirty smaller ones, and ten smaller ones, and if you want to transmit five cows, you have to use a medium-sized magic circle." ”

Medanzo's eyebrows were furrowed, and after thinking for a moment about the cost of using the magic circle to pass the ox, he said to Anschel: "If you dare to do this in our province, you will be caught and hung up by my guards." ”

Ansher laughed and said, "Don't worry, I did it once, and that time I was bombarded down by the old man from more than forty floors of the tower. ”

Medanzo sneered and said, "With the temper of the tower master, he can knock you down from the fortieth floor, and you definitely did it more than once." ”

"I swear to God, I've only done this once, and that was almost ten years ago, and if I hadn't learned some wind magic from you, I might have fallen to my death! Where do they live?" Ansher really didn't lie, he did only use the magic circle to pass the cow once, but that time he passed more than twenty of them, and he went to the southern province of Dorrent, and still stole the large teleportation platform, consuming a huge amount of expensive energy magic stones. After passing through, the magicians of the tower who were on duty in the province of Duolunt were stupid, and hurriedly summoned the tower of the imperial capital to ask the reason. On top of that, the tower's magicians took a long time to clean up the circle because cow dung had contaminated the circle. To sum up all the superimposed, plus other unreliable things he had done before, he was bombarded by Tavasis from the fortieth layer of a "Flame Bursting Technique". Whoever says this kind of thing, it's all one word "should".

Anschel insisted on going to see Munn's current situation first, so Melvin sent someone to see him off, and he returned to the office to continue dealing with the headache of administrative matters, and before leaving, he told Anschel that he would have a welcome luncheon for him at noon, and Anschel gladly agreed.

The Tower is the binding and educational institution for all magicians, but it is not an authority in the system of power, in which the Tower mages are required to obey the orders of the local administrator in which they are located, provided that the administrator remains loyal to the royal family. The Tower's headquarters has sworn eternal allegiance to the royal family since its inception, just like any other knightly order or guild.

Although everyone has a talent for magic, there are very few people who can delve into magic, and most of them have the highest level of magic in their lifetime at the stage of magicians. However, in fact, mages are no different from other professions, and in terms of scarcity and strategy, "dragon hunters" are much more valuable than mere mages, but the biggest advantage of mages may be that they are not easy to lose.

Of course, the high-level mages who came out of the tower did have the strongest individual combat power, but the problem was that there were not many high-level mages in the tower. Therefore, the millennium has evolved, and the current tower is more of a research organization, and there are no privileges, which also effectively reduces the social status of mages, ensures the fairness of society to a certain extent, and prevents the simplification of social structure.

Truly outside the power structure is the mysterious Poseidon Order, their Pope - the Sage Diaxun is another Holy Magister of the Empire, few people have seen his face, legend has it that he is a cold and handsome young man, and the Lord of the Tower is like two opposite ends, and there are even rumors that the two are actually one person, but the same body under different souls, the real situation, may only be known to them.

The carriage came to a slow stop.

Standing in front of Muen's house, the house is not big, because it is close to the center of the city. According to Medanzo's royal coachman, their family has lived a lot richer in six years, and their salary has risen from the original forty silver coins per month to five gold coins per month, and there is a bonus at the end of the year, and they are now considered decent people.

Ansher straightened his clothes and knocked softly on the door. After a while, a woman came out to open the door for him, and when she saw the clothes Ansher was wearing, she knew the identity of the person who had come. Although they don't know the embellishment next to the Tower Badge symbolizing the rank of the mage, everyone knows the towering Tower of Eternity. With this badge, it means that he is a magician recognized by the Tower. Ansher wore a celebrity-like snow robe, a special robe that only magicians serving in the tower were eligible to wear.

"Are you...... The lady who came to pick up Muen?" The woman hadn't seen any big people, and she felt a little nervous.

"Don't worry ma'am, I'm indeed the one who came to pick up Muen to study in the Tower, but not today, I just want to take a look at his current situation first. By the way, I haven't introduced myself yet, my name is Ansher, you can just call me by my name. ”

"You are Lord Ansher, my husband has mentioned you to me, and we have always remembered your kindness to Lord Tavasis, and I really thank you very much at that time. Although many years have passed, the woman still solemnly bowed to him deeply.

Ansher seemed a little embarrassed, reached out to help her up, and smiled, "Don't call me an adult, I'm just a student." By the way, what about Munn, can you let me see how he's doing?"

"Ah, Muen is out playing, out of town. ”

"Outside the city, you can rest assured that he ran so far. Where is he outside the city?" Ansher had a little headache, although this is the security of the lord city, but there is always something out of the wild that can happen.

"Not far south of the city, there's a swing he made with his father, and he should be there. ”

Ansher nodded, said goodbye to the woman, and got into the car.

"I know what you're going to say, Seongnam, be fast, don't you?" quipped. It's hard to carry a tower mage who doesn't have a shelf, so I need to talk a few words to give myself a long face.

"Hopefully my luck won't be too bad, and if something happens to me, my mentor might be angry. Anschel closed the door, and a circle of magic ripples gradually spread.

"Is that kid very talented? and will attract the attention of the tower?" the coachman wondered, but there was no reply from the carriage, and he shut up in amusement.

Passing through the city gate, the lord's car naturally did not stop in the slightest, and Ansher also sensed the position of the swing, but unusually, there were other magic fluctuations there, although not very violent.

Even so, Ansher still frowned, he was very confident in his magic circle science, it was impossible for only six years to fail, but the five-layer magic circle he originally designed could be maintained for ten years without being lifted by external forces. Coupled with the energy driven by Muen's own magical traction array, and also taking into account the growth factors of the body, the strength of the seal will increase with the growth of the body and the increase of traction, and there will definitely be no leakage in the slightest.

The layman's explanation is: I seal myself.

So someone must be doing something wrong now. He stepped out of the car door, and the magic circuits in his body were already up and running, just in case.

Before he got closer, he could already hear Mu En's shout: "Who did it! Stop it!"

"What a prank...... It's naïve. Ansher was a little helpless, and stopped the flow of the magic circuit, intending to get rid of this low-level wind magic casually. But at this time, the branch hanging from the swing was overwhelmed and suddenly broke.

Not far in front of Muen is a small river, and with the current situation, Muen will be stuck into the river at a speed of three meters per second.

Ansher was taken aback, stretched out his right hand, and the magic in his body suddenly exploded. The surging magic even blew up the turf around Ansher, and it was only then that Muen was wrapped in magic. Then, with a wave of his left hand, he unleashed a weakened flame blast from below the ground, blasting the three mischievous instigators two meters high.

"Half-sized children don't learn well, and it's so dangerous to play such a low-end prank. The mischief researcher Ansher cursed in his heart, and then slowly pulled Muen over from the river. Glancing at the three dirt-faced teenagers, the oldest was no more than eleven or twelve years old, the magic circuit was so simple that Ansher could even release the magic in their bodies, although that would cost a little more.

Magicians are surrounded by magical self-defense abilities similar to "space locks", so that enemy magic cannot be released directly around them or even in their bodies. When two magicians face each other, the free magic in the air will be suppressed by the magic pressure and cannot be manipulated by the magician freely, and at this time, the fighting magician can only rely on his own magic reserves.

But there are exceptions to everything, and when one party has an overwhelming advantage in mana concentration or control over mana, it is possible to ignore this mana lock. It's like a prank of a few teenagers just now, and it can only be done to people like Mu En, who can't feel the magic at all. If the swing was replaced by Ansher, they would not be able to make a prank with the strength of milk.

Mu En naturally saw the three people who were sent to the sky by the Flame Explosion Technique, and pouted, "It's them again." ”

He was pulled to the ground in front of Ansher, and naturally knowing that it was this man in beautiful clothes who saved him, he stood up and patted the dirt on his body, and said to Ansher, "Thank you, brother." Ansher smiled dumbly, touched his head, and praised him for being polite.

Elves are very long-lived, so even if the sub-elves in Atlantis don't practice magic at all, they won't look old until they are 100 years old. Ansher, on the other hand, still looks like a young man, although his actual age is a little older than Munn's father. However, according to the custom of the sub-elves, most men grow beards after becoming fathers to make themselves look a little more mature.

Mu En turned his head to look at his swing, the end of the branch was gone, he looked at the three people lying on the ground, his small eyebrows furrowed, and asked Anschel, "Can I hit them?"

Ansher looked down at him and said with a very gentle smile, "Of course, if you have the confidence to defeat three with one. I'm not going to help you again, after all, I've already taught them a lesson. ”

Mu En sighed and said, "This is not the first time they have done it, these three people always bully me for not knowing magic, I hate them." ”

Ansher touched his head again and said, "Go home, your mother is worried about you." ”

Mu En looked at the three young men who had already risen up, then at Ansher, and asked, "You are the magician of the tower, right?

"Of course. ”

Ansher walked home with Muen and bought him a pancake on the way.

Of course, Mu En didn't know that Anschel was squeezing his eyebrows behind him in order to let the coachman go back first.

Walking home, Mu En shouted at the door outside.

The woman walked out and taught Mu En to pay attention to politeness, which would affect others. Unexpectedly, the moment Mu En saw his mother, he instantly cried out aggrievedly, threw himself into his mother's arms, and let the uneaten pancake in his hand fall to the ground. The woman was a little confused, and quickly patted the child's back, and could hear Mu En muttering that the three children had broken the swing he had made with his father.

Ansher looked at the scene, his expression gentle and his lips arced unconsciously. He greeted the woman and left.

Walking down the street, Ansher wiped his somewhat moist eyes, probably thinking of the past.