"The spoils of war, the merits, the wealth, and the great number of domains, titles, and new nobility that will inevitably emerge after the end of the war are chiefly from the military." 」”

“…… Although each war has caused the military to swell, this time the scale of the war is unprecedented, and the possibility of the military profiting is unprecedented, especially when the war is unexpectedly smooth, and the expected possible setbacks of the war have not yet appeared, which is beyond everyone's expectations-"

"After each battle, we see that the huge profits are only a drop in the bucket, and the real huge profits are buried under this vast ice field, and the millions of troops that continue to drive into the ice fields in the rear are also controlled by the military...... If the war continues like this, not only those aristocratic politicians who stand on the opposite side of the military, but also our wise and powerful and high-ranking Emperor Alabham will not be able to sit still. ”

"Therefore, it is not that those aristocratic politicians and royal families in our rear are too composed, and they are ugly, but the reality forces them to do it when the war is still in full swing, and the military will not be willing to hand over their rights and interests for the sake of vested interests in their hands, or whether the army can order and prohibit the war so that the war can continue to go on......"

Lin An shook his head and said, "This is a silent power war that will inevitably happen, if you want to blame it, blame the demon clan for being too useless, and the war is too smooth." ”

"So, the MI and those war merchants are just pawns of the military and the government?"

Sidney slowly said, "But what does this have to do with us, I only care about what we get." 「」”

"Every war is a process of change and a redistribution of resources - we mages don't care about change and political struggle. But resources are very much needed. ”

Lin An said calmly: "Instead of spending our efforts to find the so-called opportunities in the future, it is better to lay a good foundation for ourselves at the beginning before most people are aware of it, then even if we do nothing in the future and sit back and enjoy the results, it may not be too difficult to build one or two mage towers by ourselves-"

She squinted at Sidney. "We can't always expect our teachers and elders to pave all the ways for us."

Mage's Tower?

Sidney thought about it for a moment, and felt that this goal was indeed tempting - although he already had the Book of the Dead, no one would think that there were too many mage towers, would they?

"So what we're aiming for now is—"

Sidney asked earnestly. "I mean, where did the first brick of my mage tower come from?"

"What do you think, one or two high-quality bonanzas?"

"Nice goal."

Sidney nodded. 「」

He thought of the recently harvested mineral deposits, and only felt that the sky full of magical ores was flying in front of him, and then he changed his attitude of not inquiring and not caring about Lin An's coming in, and actively asked:

"How do you get them?"

"If only even a war merchant could have his own mineral deposits on the ice field. So why can't we? ”

Lin An glanced at him and replied as a matter of course.

"Oh, I see."

Sidney nodded, and added, "But the MI has noticed the merchants." The military upper echelons will not sit idly by. ”

"No matter how big the appetite of the military is, it cannot eat a cake the size of the entire ice field, and our Emperor Alabham and his nobles will never allow it—merchants are the sharp knives of aristocratic politicians, and the military intelligence department is the shield of the military, and we need to exploit the shield when they eat dogs-"

"As for the issue of taking sides, whether it is the military or the government, what does it have to do with us?"

Lin An said, "Of course. In the present situation, we need to help the merchants for the time being, and make the shield a little bigger - I have found some answers to this question here. 「」”

She held up the crystal ball in her hand.

"He's a good fellow and brought me the first masonry of the Tower of the Dead,"

Sidney looked at Komert on the skeletal cross. Tablet's voice could be heard with a hint of relief, "I'll be nice to him when he becomes my Ghost Knight." ”

"Now that the first stage of refining is over, put him away!"

Lin An's staff waved in the air, and a string of dots of light converged into several numbers, arranging the time that appeared, "Oh, it's almost time, we're going to the auction location." ”

Sidney nodded, opening the Book of the Dead in his hand.

After the long spell, the Bone Cross and Komert clicked and shrunk to the size of a palm, and were enveloped by a beam of black light from the Book of the Dead, and suddenly threw themselves into the open blank pages.

On the page is printed a man hanging from a cross:

His feet were scorched by the blue flames, and he moved slightly as if he were alive, and the negative energy condensed on the pages exuded an evil and cold aura.

"Let's go." 」”

Lin An glanced at the closed Book of the Dead, his eyes were slightly envious, and he said out loud.

……

The western exit of the ice valley is five miles away.

Sidney stood alone under a flat protruding rock of ice, the ice wind blowing his empty cloak, he didn't seem to feel the slightest cold, his eyes under his hood looking in the direction of the ice valley.

Soon, a black dot appeared in his field of vision, from far and near.

Lin An jumped off the floating saucer, her appearance slowly changed from Komert's appearance back to Lin's, her long black hair was blown like seaweed, and her appearance was far more mature than her real appearance at this time, it was a beautiful style that hit the senses at a moment's notice, like a black-haired banshee in the snow.

"With a small face on the black market, Komert's whereabouts shouldn't have attracted the attention of those people too quickly, and it's quite smooth." Lin An said.

"You can't do things with Komert's identity for more than a month, and his identity experience is too complicated for you to be completely unsuspicious." Sidney looked at her and said, used to the distorted countenance of her mask as it changed.

"I know that this time is almost enough, and even if it doesn't work, we can only give up this identity, after all, if the MI knows that Komert has fallen into our hands, it will be a trouble,"

Lin An nodded. "It's not good for us to get attention right now."

She looked sideways at the ice rocks behind Sidney again, "What about the snow wolf?" ”

"I didn't see them on the black market, so I think they've already gone back."

Because Lin An was going to show up as Komert, the two acted separately when they came out. Apparently Sidney had already been taken back by Helm when Sidney went to look for it.

"Forget it, use the float. It just doesn't leave marks easily. ”

Lin An took out the shield-shaped black market identity credential, "I don't know what the hell the auction party did this time, but it was set in that place, fortunately, it's not far from here." ”

Punching his own arcane sigil into the shield-shaped credential, a layer of glow flashed on the surface of the voucher, and a beam of light shot out of the round hole in the center of the shield. The void at three heights forms a translucent map, with a modest path and a conspicuous red dot in the center.

Sidney also made his own arcane sigil, and the same map appeared on the pass, but the red dot was slightly offset. It doesn't coincide.

"Finally there is a pattern," no matter how they fiddled with this voucher before, what appeared was a white foggy map, Lin An looked at the red dot on it, "It seems that the entrances of the two of us are still different?" ”

"Hmm."

"I don't know what tricks those guys are playing," Lin An whispered, "but Komert also has memories of this auction in his head, and it seems that it will be very interesting." ”

Sidney was already sitting on his float at this time, and was surprised when he heard this: "The people from the MI department will do it." ”

"No, it won't. It seems that they feel internally that the time has not yet come,"

Lin An also sat on the floating saucer and replied, "It's not too strange that the black market auction will be mixed in by people from the military intelligence department, if you don't even know about the black market auction." They're useless. ”

The float technique is a very common way to walk on the ice field, and after about two quarters of an hour, Lin An and the others have seen a huge iceberg foothills at the location of the red dot on the map.

"It looks like our entrance is in the foothills of this iceberg, but the location is ......"

Lin An was pointing in the direction of the iceberg, and a large black and white bird flew over the sky, swirled above their heads, let out a sharp chirp, and then flew in the direction of Lin An's finger.

"It's a swallow-tailed bald gull." Sidney's tone was affirmative.

"Have you ever seen a swallow-tailed white-headed gull bigger than a male snow sculpture?"

Lin An watched the white-headed gulls go away, the black and white colors were very conspicuous, and gradually turned into a black spot, landing on an ice tongue protruding from the iceberg, which vaguely seemed to have become a little bigger, and stood on the ice tongue for a while, looking back at them.

"Animal Transfiguration, a mage." Sidney's mental strength is not weak, and he also senses the other party's gaze when he looks back, condescending and provocative.

"He and I have the same entrance, and the auctioneer's hand is not big enough to arrange an entrance for everyone, otherwise I wonder if they have hollowed out the mountain."

Lin An's tone was slightly mocking, as a regular guest of the black market auction, she didn't like the auctioneer's practice of changing the location and time casually, I believe this is also the psychology of most participants.

"The auctioneer guarantees absolute safety." Sidney said in a narrative tone.

"And I expanded the number of participants invited without consent, so there are guys who don't understand the rules like just now,"

Lin An said lightly, his calm tone could not hear the dissatisfaction, "I hope their venue is enough to satisfy us old fellows to be impeccable, otherwise they will know the consequences." ”

While speaking, Lin An and the two came to the halfway point of the iceberg and parted ways on a fork in the road, and the mage who had transformed into a swallow-tailed bald gull had already entered the entrance at this time.

Lin An walked alone, because he was carrying a voucher on his body, the subtle spell fluctuations he sensed along the way were not stimulated, and the fluctuations of some traps were extremely small, and even seemed to involve the profound level of superimposed magic arrays and even three-dimensional magic arrays, which made Lin An very surprised.

"It seems that the auctioneer does have some confidence this time."

Lin An felt that this auction was different from the previous ones, and while he was surprised in his heart, he thought of some information he had learned from Komert's memory, and secretly raised his guard in his heart.

(To be continued) (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )