Chapter 211: Scholar Mage
Of course, if the warrior is a little higher, he will not be able to achieve the fame of Akmund. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Akmund is rich in madmen, and it is easier to appear madman-type geniuses, which is the most awe-inspiring.
Outsiders' evaluation of Akmund has always been difficult to rank in the top, even if Gordon created a miracle in Faust, it is only eye-catching, and he is unwilling to rank them with the top giants in his heart, because of their poverty.
I'm afraid that the nobles and magnates who fight around the border all day long are richer than the lords of Akmund of the same level.
A similar view is obviously biased, but that is only because Akmund's bloodline is grossly underestimated, does not mean that the view itself is wrong.
Often, at Norland, wealth does matter.
It's no joke that a bunch of well-armed rookies all have a chance to defeat a bunch of raged veterans.
Poor lords are easily ignored.
Without wealth, you will not only lose face in Norland, but also lose your heart.
Among the wealthy families on floating islands, financial strength is also an important criterion for judging the strength of a family.
More money means more magical equipment, more sacrifices, and more sacrifices mean higher status...
Of course, the above people who began to compare with financial resources are all lords of the same level, or not much different.
No matter how rich the small lord is, he is not qualified to compete with the big lord.
Akmund, a family that is famous in the entire Norland, even if the unruliness in the blood makes the nobles of this family almost cohesive, and few of them have business acumen, but even the wealthiest ordinary wealthy families dare not declare war on them lightly.
The largest lord in the Soraya steppe, within a thousand miles of the neighborhood, is probably the Marquis of Gusgrot.
This marquis is not a wealthy family on floating islands, his maternal surname Mensa, but some origins, is the daughter of the real floating island wealthy Mensa family, and the cousin of the current Duke of Mensa, so there is a lot of support from the Mensa family.
This marquis himself is also a business wizard, although he has no talent in warfare, and he is not good at leading troops in battle, but he can rely on business to turn a frontier land into a golden paradise, and he can be regarded as capable.
Ling Qi came here for the Grote family, but not for the Marquis of Grote himself, let alone for his eye-catching wealth, but for the second son of the Marquis's Mansion, who called himself "Bob" Scholar Mage.
In the letter, "Bob" introduced himself, claiming to be the son of the Marquis. Since he has not yet obtained a fief, he currently only holds the title of knight.
However, the other son of the marquis, named Suya, is very talented as a warrior, and he has a better set of leading the army to fight, and he opened up territory for the family at a young age, and he laid a barony in the border land in his life.
At the end of last winter, Su Ya was even named Viscount of Black Thorns.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Suya is the next Marquis of Grotte, and some people openly call him the Little Marquis.
These messages were not mentioned in "Bob's" letter, but were other intelligence materials obtained by Ling Qi. It wasn't any covert information, and there wasn't even any "Bob" information in it.
It can be seen that either there is no such person as "Bob" at all, or he is unknown to everyone, as the son of a marquis, but he is not valued at all.
But it was such a person, who was probably inconspicuous, but with only one letter, Ling Qi traveled thousands of miles to the Soraya grassland.
The meaning is deep enough!
Ling Qi would come, so he didn't mind the many cover-ups of "Bob" in the letter, just because he mentioned two things in the letter!
First, this "Sir Bob" has "identified himself", he turned out to be one of the most mysterious organizations in Norland, one of the mages of Fort Solomon!
Second, this Mr. Sir directly pointed out the identity of Ling Qi's "outsider"!
And then there's the request for a meeting!
These two points, especially the second one, were enough for Ling Qi to go to the meeting alone.
As for whether this would be some kind of trap, Ling Qi was not worried at all.
In front of the mastermind behind the scenes, he is as small as an ant. And most of the local powerhouses, including those so-called legendary powerhouses, are no different from ants in front of him!
Design against him?
Unless it is the mastermind behind the scenes, he is not afraid of any Solomon mage, dark blue mage, and association mage pouring out!
As for the possibility of the mastermind behind the scenes, although it is not impossible, it can basically be ignored.
The mastermind behind the scenes would not use such a clumsy strategy to deal with him.
As for the miscalculation, he set himself on fire, and as a result, he got away.
That Ling Qi could only take one step at a time.
In this world, there are risks in doing everything.
Ling Qi will try his best to avoid risks in advance, but he will not give up the shortcut to climbing the mountain because of a little worry.
The road against the sky is difficult, if there is a little risk to retreat, then he will not come to the Soraya grassland before, let alone say anything against the sky in the future.
He wants to go against the sky and change his life, which is gambling with everything!
When Ling Qi saw "Bob", he would never have imagined that such a young man with ordinary clothes and ordinary appearance and ordinary temperament would be the scholar and mage of the legendary Solomon Castle!
However, this image is very much in line with the "low-key" insinuated by the intelligence.
Ling Qi silently walked out of the shadows and appeared directly beside "Bob", who was immersed in writing.
The young man realized it later, but he only turned his head to look at him slightly, and some surprise flashed in his eyes, and he immediately regained his composure.
"Respectful... Otherworldly powerhouse, please wait a moment, I still have a letter to complete, which is routinely reported to the headquarters, and it will be written soon. ”
"You know, sometimes it's so troublesome to be stationed abroad, and every word and deed must be recorded. ”
"Bob" stopped his pen and complained as if familiar.
Ling Qi wasn't sure how he had determined his identity, it was pure guesswork or some other means.
But it must be admitted that as an ordinary person, this person is indeed not small.
Ling Qi nodded slightly, agreeing.
He glanced at the stationery laid out on the table, and saw that it was just a few trivia, no wonder Bob didn't hide it.
He didn't look at it much, but casually stepped aside and sat down on an ordinary wooden bench.
Bob smiled at Ling Qi and buried his head as he continued to work.
Although he begged Ling Qi to wait, he was obviously distracted to take care of this guest at this time.
"Great... Fate is a rebel, and allow the humble Bob to pay you the highest respect. ”
"You probably think... I have been pretentious and untrue in my previous letters. For example, the name Bob, you might think it's not my real name. ”
"But in fact, when I wrote that letter, I was very sincere, at least more than I am now reporting to Headquarters on a regular basis. ”
"Whatever I have the ability to disclose to you in advance, I have already revealed to you in the letter. ”
"As for other more important information, I am not sure that such a letter of sufficient 'weight' will reach you safely unless I tell it in person. ”
"Trust me, Fort Solomon is more mysterious than you think. ”
"In addition, Bob, a word with an insult in Norland, and probably a little cultured commoner, will not be reserved for his own children. ”
"But, unfortunately, I have been using this name for at least the last twenty-eight years. ”
Bob said as he brushed and wrote with a quill pen.
His words Ling Qi had just seen, and by Noland's standards, it was pretty good.
"Of course, great as you are, obviously don't care about those details. ”
"It's like you don't care about my seemingly noble but humble birth. ”
"My father is the lord of the Soraya steppe, and a well-deserved leader in the noble circles of the northern part of the Holy League. My mother... but only a slave of a different race..."
Bob said this, seeing that Ling Qi was completely unresponsive, he couldn't help but pause.
It was only when he was almost left with stains on the paper that he began to write coherently again, and the whole report still seemed to be completed in one go.
"Well, probably they and I are ants in your eyes..."
"But I am not saying this to you to tell my own pathetic life story and win sympathy. I just want to tell you that I really need the identity of Solomon Scholar and Mage. ”
"But I care more about what this identity can actually give me than the idea it represents!"
With that, Bob stopped his pen and elegantly folded the letter into the shape of a five-pointed star. Later, he performed a zero-level trick in front of Ling Qi, and named it the Fire Light Technique in the "Magic Guide". This method was not enough to hurt anyone, but in a matter of moments, the letter burned to ashes.
"Your way of delivering your message is quite special. ”
Seeing this, Ling Qi finally spoke, but what he said had nothing to do with Bob's background.
He could see that this man had just burned the letter, not because he was playing tricks, but because it was not like his words with a purpose.
The methods of the Solomon Fort Scholar were more interesting than he had imagined.
Bob rubbed his hands together and let the ashes disperse in the wind.
He looked at the armored soldiers coming and going downstairs outside the window behind the desk, suddenly sighed, turned around and said lightly:
"The mages of Fort Solomon, with the most formidable prestige in Norland, possess a much deeper body of dimensional knowledge than any other scholarly organization, and have even set foot in realms that gods and gods have not even set foot in a long, long time ago. ”
"What you see is only the most insignificant part of it. ”
Bob spoke upliftingly, but in a deep voice.
"It's a pity that Master Solomon, who has such knowledge and even extraordinary powers, has to learn the first lesson not how to use these powers, but how to hide himself!"
Bob squinted, not knowing what he was thinking.
"I was the best apprentice in Fort Solomon and the youngest university scholar. ”
"Of my generation, only Raymond from Joseph's family became a university scholar before the age of thirty..."