After handing over the appearance of the two-headed dragon beast in the Droni Mountains to his father, Baron Maury, Carlos devoted himself to the study of alchemy.

After going through the accumulation of all basic alchemy, Carlos's basic medicine, basic crafts, and alchemy stones have reached the level of a beginner alchemist.

The array diagram depicted in "Preliminary Geometry of Alchemy" gradually became less obscure, and Carlos knew how to divide the pattern of the circle into countless small patterns to understand, and realized a trace of the true meaning of alchemy.

In the process of observing Du Buyi's alchemy of high-level items, he released each alchemy circle from time to time.

Carlos always tries to find every geometric pattern in the alchemy circle pattern, distinguish those large and small strange characters, and finally feel the breath circulating in the circle.

An indescribable feeling slowly grew in Carlos's heart, that was the perception of space, and the old man Du Buyi's explanation was.

"This is the law, you start to feel the law of space, this is a good start, continue to do a lot of good things for you to learn the alchemy circle. ”

The alchemy circle is different from the magic circle in that it uses elemental totem symbols to represent magic drawings.

The former is a good conductor that relies on magical power to draw into a magic array. And inject a small amount of magic power when drawing, so that it runs in a specific trajectory in the magic array, and echoes with the free magic power of the outside world during the operation, attracting the free magic power of the outside world, so as to enhance the magic power of the caster to a certain extent.

The magic circle is the auxiliary means of the magician, while the alchemical circle is the soul of the alchemist.

The circle is divided into three subjects, symbolizing the primordial matter, the illusory matter, and the space.

Most high-level alchemy requires an alchemy circle to form an alchemist.

Because the alchemy circle often contains the perception of the law of space, without the law of space, alchemy cannot be complete.

Because no one can conjure illusory matter out of thin air, but space can, in the endless space, sacrifice some matter through the magic circle, and you will get some of the material you want to replace.

Of course, it's just theoretical, the items you want to alchemy will be exchanged back for the same price, in fact, it depends on whether alchemy is feasible, whether the alchemy circle is matched, and whether your spatial perception is enough, etc.

"It sounds complicated. Carlos glared at Du Buyi.

The old man shuddered and finished the circle in front of him that was round and the horns of the mountain, the first alchemy circle Carlos was going to learn next.

Du Buyi said: "Everything sounds complicated at first, you need to explore and practice it yourself. ”

Carlos felt that it made sense, so he trained hard along this line, and time passed quickly in his studies.

The short spring on the Northwest Frontier passed quickly.

In the year 203 of the Imperial Light Calendar, in July, the town of Yanjing welcomed a fully armed Knights of Light Guard.

This was the first time Carlos began to seriously remember the day of the Imperial Light Calendar, because this was the 203rd year since the establishment of the Imperial Light Empire, which ushered in the worst defeat in foreign wars.

The battle of Western Cyprus against the Black Iron Tribe was soon declared to be over before it really began, and the brave factions on the front line hastily started the battle, resulting in the encirclement of the Black Iron Dwarves, and the entire administrative region of West Cyprus was declared to have fallen.

The snowflake banner fluttering in the wind was escorted forward by the Knights of Light, and the mighty cavalry team drove into the town of Yanjing and headed towards Baron Stevenson's mansion.

In the evening, a dinner party was being held at Stevenson's house to welcome the envoys of the Central Province.

Augusta, the Steam Guardian, was also invited.

During dinner, Clay, an old friend of Baron Maury's Imperial Diet, watched the luthier pluck the strings and play a song "The North".

"When the sun sets, we can still see the snow country in the north......"

Clay was dressed in a crimson robe, and beside him sat a white-robed priest of the Holy Light.

Baron Maury sat quietly on the throne, Baron Maury covered his wine glass with his hand and knocked on the table and asked.

"Is it already that serious?"

"When I came, the supporting Beiyu Legion still went to cut off the Loya Avenue. Clay said, lowering his voice, "Don't worry, the war won't spread to the Eastern Borough anytime soon, Duke Murray, the king is ready to restore your dukedom and send several large legions to defend it, you still have time to prepare." ”

Loya Avenue is the only thoroughfare between East and West Cyprus.

The only avenue carved out in the middle of the towering mountains of Cyprus was once again a strategic point on the front lines of the Imperial Light Empire a hundred years later.

If the Western Cyprus Empire loses its desire to the north and west, if it loses the barrier of East Cyprus, the northwest barrier of the Imperial Light Empire will be opened.

"Just those few mercenary legions? Moritoro, who was expected to be re-promoted to duke, drank a few glasses and said drunkly, "And the black stone fortress on Loya Avenue has been abandoned for a long time, if it is not rebuilt, it will not be able to resist the counterattack of the black iron dwarves, and the 20,000 troops gathered in the north are not enough for others to fight in two months, what do you expect me to rely on these thousands of poorly equipped mercenary troops?"

"The Northwest Legion fell into a trap in West Cyprus, so this defeat came too quickly, and these mercenary groups are already the last strength in the North. The priest of light, next to Administrator Clay, said suddenly.

At this time, Maury accidentally stepped on the priest's foot and hurriedly said, "Oh, I'm sorry...... I didn't mean to, so may I ask you, the Holy See of Light has sent a few Knights of Light Guards to see the power of the Black Iron Dwarf's black powder?"

"If you need it, my guards and I will help you garrison the Blackstone Fortress and rebuild it!" said the Light Priest angrily, pulling back the foot that had been trampled on by Maury.

Maury pondered for a moment.

"One more thing, if I agree, I will choose to take on the task of defending the administrative region of East Cyprus in the name of the pioneers. ”

"What?"

"I'm going to apply to the king for the sovereignty of the Sword Master's Bay, and give me the Sword Master's Bay, lately I've been dreaming of the days when I went to sea with the ship, this is a bad premonition, if I can't get the Sword Master's Bay, I can't do anything all day long. Duke Murray said.

Clay was stunned.

The Swordsmith's Bay is separated from the territory of the Eastern Cyprus Administrative Region by the Siling Strait and is a fief of the Duke of Lion.

Clay looked at Maury suspiciously, "You have an old grudge against Duke Shiying?"

Maury Stevenson tilted his head sideways to look at Augusta, the silent Guardian of the Steam, and from this angle he could see the tower-like man, his eyes occasionally flashing.

The ports of Sword Smith Bay can directly reach the ports of the Central Province and the Eastern Kingdoms, and if Eastern Cyprus becomes the front line, those preparing for war will need to have a stable supply route.

Moreover, it used to be Augusta's hometown, Duke Maury intends to keep Augusta by his side, the steam guardians have their own system, Augusta is the only steam guard that Maury is familiar with, using his identity, maybe he can attract more steam guards to East Cyprus, if he can form a legion, then the combat power of the garrison front line will directly jump to a notch.