Ansher walked around the street, and felt that it was almost time for lunch and went to the Lord's Palace.

"What? he's out, let me eat first?" Anschel listened to the secretary's words, and a question mark appeared on his head.

Medanzo's secretary smiled. He's the only one who has seen the world, a mage who can wear a robe of flowing snow, and there aren't many in the entire province of Ardan—no, there shouldn't be one.

There are more than 60 provinces in the Atlantean Empire, and according to the rules of the empire, there must be at least one archmage in the tower temple of each province, but the archmage is not allowed to leave the provincial capital unless it is an emergency, because that may lead to the tower enchantment of the province being raided. And because the Aldan Province was indeed poor when Medanzo first took over, the tower of the Aldan Province is still the lowest level configuration today. Because the minimum allocation of wages is paid by the tower itself, and more allocations need to be hired at the expense of the bank. But it doesn't matter, although it is bordered by the territory of orcs and dark elves to the east, in fact, the overall shape of Ardan is narrow and long, like a needle, and the large provinces on both sides share more pressure.

In fact, Aldan's location was the remnants of the land that was picked by the big families on both sides, so Medanzo's family has always had a low status among the traditional aristocracy.

"Did he tell you what to do?" Ansher knew that Medanzo was a man of noble culture, and if he didn't show up, something important should happen.

"Your Excellency has received a message from the province of Sacco Vic on the left, saying that a powerful murderer is fleeing here, and that the lord has taken the teleportation station to the province to set up defenses. The secretary said respectfully.

"What kind of strength is it?"

"According to the intelligence, it should be a sorcerer with a concentration of magic between the archmage and the magister. ”

"Sorcerer, corrupting power...... He can't solve it alone, can that archmage here come to your aid?"

"Lord Wilk remains in the tower. ”

"I don't even know this guy. Ansher sneered. He had a bad relationship with Medanzo, so naturally he couldn't sit idly by, so he said to the secretary: "Where is he, take me there." ”

"Are you sure? The informant says that this sorcerer is dangerous. "Warlocks have always been formidable opponents because of their corrupting powers, and for the most part, no one wants to be involved with them.

"Less nonsense, lead the way. ”

The soldiers in bright armor were in groups of three or five, spreading out a long cordon, they were all the lord's personal guards, and each of them had the strength of the circuit equivalent to that of a high-level mage.

"It should be almost there. Cheer up!" Medanzo commanded, standing on a mound of dirt, holding the document of the summons.

There were birds in the forest not far away, and perhaps there was a fight, but no one moved rashly and moved closer to that side.

The shadows in the forest snorted, as if to annoy that the soldiers had not gathered in the direction of the explosion. There was no way, he found that it was too late for the guards at the end of the forest to change their trajectory, and the blocking behind him made it impossible for him to calmly escape laterally.

In a flash of light, he decided to march to both ends of the line. Comparatively speaking, the defenses there are the weakest, and as long as they can successfully break through, they will have the opportunity to continue to flee.

Obscure words wafted out of the sorcerer's mouth, and flames with corrupting power enveloped his body, and he pulled out a bottle of potion from his cloak, uncorked it, poured it behind him and lit it with flames.

A small explosion slowed the pursuers, and the man in the lead took a sip, tired of the seemingly endless potions.

The bushes made a rustling sound, and everyone was like a great enemy, but the black shadow rushed out of the forest from the other end, and the attention of the original guards was attracted by the sound from there, and suddenly the sorcerer succeeded, and his body wrapped in black fire set one of the guards on fire, and then continued to sweep away into the distance after only a short pause.

Just as he had just walked less than ten meters, several powerful wind blades struck him with a sharp sound of breaking through the air. Seeing the sorcerer raise his arm, and without him chanting a spell, a black wall of fire bloomed from the man's palm, the wind blade was invisible, but the magic contained in it burned together when it touched the wall of fire.

"Hey, fire-type sorcerers are really annoying. Medanzo lowered his levitation to block the path of the sorcerer, behind whom the soldier infected by the fire of corruption was screaming, and when his magic was burned out, the fire of corruption would burn his life, and if it was not effectively treated, the soldier would rot quickly and disgustingly.

"Medanzo, I was thinking of looking for you, but I didn't expect you to send it to me yourself. The sneer's shrieked laughter seemed to be abnormal in his throat due to his years of cultivating corrupt power.

Medanzo's face was gloomy: "You know me?"

The sorcerer removed his hood, and on his neck was the long strip-like scars left by the whipping, which crisscrossed each other.

Medanzo looked at the man's face and thought of the drastic reforms he had made sixteen years ago when he first took over the province of Aldan, one of which was the governance of law and order. And this sorcerer was the leader of the most famous bandit gang in Ardan at that time. His companions were all executed by Medanzo, but he escaped from prison and disappeared.

"Heh, sixteen years no see, a little progress. Medanzo sneered, and the magic circuits on his body began to surge, and his gorgeous battle robe became dazzling under the stirring of magic power.

The sorcerer gritted his teeth, he didn't expect that Medanzo's talent was so high, and the concentration of mana was already close to the level of a mage. Thinking about the time when the two of them first faced each other, Medanzo had not really become a high-level magician. But no matter what you think, you have to take revenge with revenge, and revenge with resentment. The slightest surprise did not prevent the two from wanting to kill each other.

The sorcerer condensed the "Black Flame Javelin" and threw it at Medanzo, who gripped the sword at his waist and urged the magic to bloom with a soft glow. He superimposes the purifying magic engraved in his sword on his "Breath of the Wind" to avoid being corrupted by the sorcerer's black flames.

The wind roared and destroyed the sorcerer's black flame javelin, but the fierce wind swept up the dust and fallen leaves, obscuring the sorcerer's vision, and the sorcerer could only summon the black flame under the pressure of the wind to counteract the surrounding magical riot. Medanzo drew the sword at his waist and held it with his backhand. The sword was raised above his head, and a surge of magic was infused into it, transforming into purifying magic. If the sword stabs the sorcerer's body, it can dissolve the filthy magic circuits in his body, and the sorcerer will be blamed for the loss of control of the corrupting power.

The sword shines brightly, like the thunder released by the gods who sanction the world in the oil painting. Medanzo tore the Wind's Breath open a small passage, and then used his magic power to push the sword at the sorcerer, and then was forced to land to the ground due to the rapid consumption of mana and his breath was unstable.

But it backfired.

The sorcerer sensed the moment the Tempest Breath appeared, and his long-standing instinct to lick blood from the tip of the knife made him aware of the danger, and instead of using the hole to send a magic spell to destroy Medanzo, he rolled to the left, and almost at the same time, the sword pierced through his defensive magic, leaving a terrifying blood mark on his ribs.

The sorcerer roared in rage, no longer caring about the consumption of mana, and used the "Riot Fire Serpent" to blast Medanzo's Breath of the Wind.

The moment the Breath of the Wind exploded, the soldiers swarmed in, intending to pierce the sorcerer's body with their enchanted spears and swords. The pursuers finally arrived at this time, and when they saw the guards on the ground who were set on fire, they sent a few people to start treatment.

"Embattled. Although he didn't succeed in a single blow, Medanzo still adhered to his elegance, constantly releasing countless wind blades to compress the sorcerer's action space, and he looked like he was sure of victory, "When I first met you, you already had the level of a high-level magician. At that time, if I wanted to win against you, I had to rely on outwitting. Circumstances change with the passage of time...... Even if you hide in a rat's nest and practice evil arts, the scum is still the dregs. ”

Having formed a siege, the sorcerer used the "withering fire" to repel the circle of soldiers who had gathered around him, and roared with his vocal cords, which seemed to be full of holes. Then he took another bottle of potion from his cloak and drank it in one gulp.

"Where did he get so many potions for his big cloak?" The leader of the pursuit was disturbed by these potions thrown out from time to time along the way, he thought it was another trick, but what he didn't expect was that the sorcerer drank the potion, "What is he doing?" said the leader of the pursuit team.

"Oh no, he's forcibly liching and igniting his own magic circuit! Get out!" Medanzo could see clearly as he faced the sorcerer, the skin on the sorcerer's face was rapidly losing its luster like a withered flower, and an uncontrolled evil aura was gradually flowing from his eyes.

The sorcerer ignites his own magic circuit, the so-called ignition circuit, in fact, is to use all the magic power to destroy his own magic node in reverse, so that the magic power originally stored in the human body will gradually get out of control, and when the central node is destroyed, a huge self-explosion will occur. Under normal circumstances, this process is irreversible and cannot be relieved by external force.

The sorcerer laughed wildly, and he endured the pain and began to run towards Medanzo.

"I can't blow everyone up, but I can kill you!" his sharp, resentful voice sounded terrifying.

Medanzo didn't expect this person to be so strong in spirit and so determined, and in the double pain of forcibly liching and igniting nodes, he could still run with his legs open. Helpless, Medanzo summoned his mana and cast the Breath of the Wind again to hold the sorcerer back, then chanted a spell to condense the rest of his mana into a purifying shield. But the sorcerer had fallen into madness, and he didn't dodge his defenses at all, but only propelled himself through the windbelt with the few magic powers he could still drive.

The glory of the nobility binds Medanzo, who will never turn his back to the enemy on the battlefield, so for now he can only retreat as quickly as possible. But what made Medanzo very aggrieved was that he didn't dare to use the Breath of the Wind to directly kill the madman in front of him, because the moment the madman died, the magic circuit would explode instantly.

The leader of the pursuit team, along with the other two magicians, was pulling the sorcerer as hard as he could in a safe position, but the magic was gradually rioting, and the long-distance pulling had little effect.

Step by step, the sorcerer got closer and closer to Medanzo.

"Let's go to hell together. ”

When the words fell, the world seemed to be quiet for a moment.

Then the light from the explosion of magic in the sorcerer's body was so dazzling that it was impossible to look at it directly.

The loud sound of the explosion seemed to be mixed with a dragon's roar, and everyone who was shocked began to ring in their ears. For a while, the smoke flew away, and it was impossible to see how many pieces Medanzo had been blown into.

The captain's brain buzzed, and he felt that he was afraid that he would not be able to do his job anymore, so he assisted in the capture of the fugitives and ended up catching up with the lord of the family. Moreover, he is the only one in Medanzo's family, he is not yet married and has no children.

"I may not be able to get out for the rest of my life...... the captain wailed in his heart.

The people of the lord's guard rushed to the place where the explosion occurred like crazy, and although their presence was low from start to finish, they really couldn't help these demon warriors who couldn't purify magic.

However, before everyone could get closer, the wind surged in the place where the explosion had occurred.

"A high-level large-scale control magic like Tempest's Breath, although the lethality is okay, but the mana consumption is so large, you are still dealing with one enemy, why use it twice?"

"You can actually use dragon magic, or rely on your own chant scales. Medanzo was surprised.

"Just kidding, this dragon-language 'Aurora Barrier' will use up nearly half of my mana at a time. ”

The two of them were almost at the center of the explosion, and the crater left by the explosion was more than a meter, and even nearly two meters deep, but the strange thing was that the crater was a semicircle, and the impact of the explosion stopped abruptly in front of the two of them.

"You didn't eat and saved your life, you said you did it. Before I came, I just thought you couldn't handle him alone, but I didn't expect you to almost let the family replace him, why did I have such a bad thing when I came. Ansher began to think about his old friend.

Medanzo didn't care about the image, lying on the ground and recovering his magic powers, he said, "At most, I have a life-saving necklace and a healing ring." ”

"So? Hmmm? meaning I'm nosy, just leave you alone, let you show me...... Hmm, good thing, 'suffocating' necklace...... Protect you with this, and it is the cause of your serious injuries. Although it can also be regarded as one of the best in the regular magic of the wind type. ”

Suffocation, as the name suggests, is the extraction of nearby air to form an air barrier around the caster. It can be regarded as a kind of magic that is both offensive and defensive. But the problem is that if this magic is not released by human control, but is stored in a magic weapon, then it will not leave air for anyone around to breathe, nor will it maintain the air pressure around the person to be protected, so that the air pressure in the human body will be unbalanced, which will cause harm to the person in it.

The smoke cleared, and the leader of the pursuit team looked at the intact Lord Medanzo, feeling that his world was full of sunshine again. Then his eyes were unconsciously attracted by Ansher in the robe of flowing snow, he felt that this was the magister of the tower, an angel sent by heaven to save him.

"Lord Medanzo, I am very sorry for this action, and it is indeed a serious dereliction of duty to put your Excellency in danger. I'm willing to do everything in my power to compensate for the fright that the adults have suffered this time. The captain of the pursuit team trotted over and knelt down on one knee in front of Medanzo.

Medanzo stood up, still maintaining some aristocratic dignity in front of others, but when he heard that the captain was going to stuff money into him to protect his future, his heart blossomed, but on the surface he pretended to be calm and said: "In that case, let Gu think about it...... Then let's use a string of magic source stone bracelets as a thank you for completing the task this time. ”

When the captain heard this, his heart ached secretly, and after weighing it, he gritted his teeth and agreed.

"Lone will return to the provincial capital in five days, and will communicate with your lord about this operation. This is a tact, but in fact Medanzo is reminding the captain that his "little heart" should be sent to his desk a few days ago.

The captain smiled and said, "Then I hope that the adults will say a few good words." ”

After the two teams separated, Ansher cleared his throat and teased: "This is not as comfortable as being a nobleman, you don't claim to be alone, I almost forget that you are also a hereditary earl canonized by the empire and a lord of a province." As he spoke, he hooked Medanzo's neck.

Medanzo pushed him away with a smile and said, "Don't talk weird, the territory is poor, and there is an opportunity to subsidize the family, why don't you do it." Besides, my lord personally came to help them arrest people, so they should also say it. ”

"It's not because you can't even find the third archmage in your province, so you can only play in person. ”

"Isn't this still you?"

"Come on, you're so poor you can't afford to pay my salary. But if you give me the Source Stone, I can consider staying and working for a few months. As he spoke, Ansher raised his wrist, and there were far fewer magic stones on the bracelet than six years ago.

"You are the disciple of the tower master!The magister of the Imperial Capital Tower! You actually want to blackmail me! Do you want to be ashamed!" Medanzo pretended to be angry and talked to Ansher, feeling as if he had returned to the days when he was still studying in the tower more than ten years ago, when Anschel, a genius who was three years younger than him, often stabbed himself and others because he didn't know anything about life, so Medanzo has been taking him and helping him.

It was a long-lost sense of relaxation, which had been with him for many years, and after that, there should be more years of absence, and thinking of this, he glanced at Ansher, who was no longer the little attendant he had to take care of.

At night, the two came to a small restaurant in a small town, and Medanzo asked the guards to rush back first, spending the provincial subsidy all the way.

Mei Danzo ordered the best drinks in this restaurant, but the quality was still not good, and a few side dishes were very local and could not be eaten in the imperial capital.

"Why did you leave the Tower all of a sudden? Ansher took a sip of cloudy wine, and the two chatted as they ate.

Medanzo smiled and laughed at himself: "Aren't the nobles who don't study in the empire forced to go to the tower for three years to study as adults, and when the time comes, they have to go back there from somewhere." ”

Ansher cut the famous Aldan pork chop in front of him, and the fame of this pork chop was still based on the promotion and operation of Medanzo over the years, and now it has become the most representative of the taste of Aldan.

He took a bite of the tender and juicy pork chop and retorted, "That's for the average gentleman, you're a serious wind attribute wizard who graduated from Wendy Academy for four years. ”

Medanzo smiled helplessly, and had no choice but to confide in the truth: "My parents died suddenly, and His Majesty ordered me to come back and take over my father's title. ”

Ansher looked up at Medanzo with a very sorry look on his face, and pretended to be calm and took a sip of wine and said, "I'm sorry." ”

"It's no secret, it's no secret that you're not a person who cares about current affairs. "Medanzo hides needles in the mian, and Ansher secretly pokes and pokes each other.

Ansher snorted: "It would be great if there were more nobles like you in the empire, and if you work hard, you can manage the province like this." The most important thing is that you are still so young, and I think in a few years, you may be called into the palace as an important minister. ”

Medanzo was noncommittal, and he knew that he was sad.

Then there was a sudden silence, and the atmosphere became a little awkward.

Medanzo was the first to break the deadlock and asked, "When did you start studying dragon magic?"

"At the age of twenty-three, the year I became a high-level magician and the old man took me as an apprentice, I began to learn dragon language, but my progress was very slow. You know, normally our bodies can't directly sing the scales of dragon language, and generally have to use magic to simulate resonance and then stimulate magic to form a secondary resonance, but this consumption is too high and the success rate is not high, so I practice dragon magic for many years to simulate the scale, and then I have to drink some potions to assist and change my structure. It's painful anyway, so it's not recommended that you try it yourself. ”

"I still have time to learn magic, and I don't have any free time to revitalize my family. Today is the only day off I have given myself in the past ten years, and tomorrow I have to rush back to the provincial capital to deal with political affairs, and there are many consortia and cooperation with other provinces, all of which I have to beg. For the sake of my family business, I can't offend anyone. Medanzo smiled bitterly.

Ansher pursed his lips, feeling a little sorry for him.

"Why go everywhere and beg for help......

Medanzo took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "Don't feel sorry for me, this is also my own choice, if I only live for myself, I can live without asking for help." ”

Ansher raised his glass, repeated the three words, and instructed: "I wish we one day, even if we have what we want, we will not be able to ask for it!"

That night, two young people, who were not too young by human standards, were drunk for the only time in their lives.