Chapter 1: Covel's Troubles
"It's a good day," said a cadet mage with blond hair and a handsome appearance who was in charge of the guard, bored, to his companions, "after the shift change, we may be able to go out for a walk, as far as I know, there have been some nice girls from Zak's side lately, and we can have some fun." ”
- Don't be surprised that a mage would say such a thing, although most mages put almost all of their 'essence' power into the cultivation of magic and the exploration and study of the unknown, some still maintain the *** that others have, especially those young apprentices and apprentice mages, due to their long-term boring practice, their *** is even stronger than ordinary people. The high-ranking mages were well aware of this situation, but they did not forcibly prohibit the apprentices from doing so, and in their opinion, proper venting would help these young people concentrate their 'essence' on their magical cultivation.
"If I were you wouldn't have gone out at this time," said the apprentice's fellow mage, a red-haired young man about his age, "the master has been planning to put the mage tower in order lately, and at such a time, the slightest misconduct may affect our future prospects. ”
"I don't understand," the apprentice mage acquiesced to his companion's suggestion, and continued, "Why would the master do this? he has supreme authority in this mage tower, and no one dares to disobey his will, but such a move ......"
The grumbling he was about to utter was interrupted by the fierce eyes of his companion, and then, he heard a sound of footsteps from far and near, which he immediately stopped to say, and performed his duties with great seriousness - as the first guard of this top-secret laboratory second only to the residence of the master of the mage tower, he knew very well that except for the guards on shift, only those who held the position of deacons were qualified to come here, and now was obviously not the time for a shift change.
Covel's figure appeared in the sight of the two young mages a few seconds later, showing great respect to the *** master who was considered the first deacon, the two guards, and they bowed their heads to each other, giving each other the same courtesy that mages have when they meet a person of honor.
Ten years of time and 'yin' did not leave any traces of old age on Coville's body, as a *** master who may break through the tenth order at any time, his lifespan is more than ten times that of ordinary people, if he wants, the power of magic can make him still maintain his youthful appearance when he dies of old age.
The "gloomy" and "gloomy" *** master seemed to be completely unaware of the existence of the two guards, he walked past the latter's side absentmindedly, walked up the steps, stretched out his hand, and lightly touched the stone 'door', and the large 'door' weighing thousands of kilograms immediately opened silently to both sides, and the next moment, Colville disappeared behind the re-closed stone 'door' under the fanatical gaze of the two young men.
The First Deacon of the Mage's Tower was in the same gloomy mood as his face, and to be exact, he had never been in a better mood since Rhaegar announced that he was going to reshuffle the Storm God again.
This *** master is well aware of Rhaeggar's purpose in doing this: after nearly fifty years of rule, the latter has completely mastered the entire mage tower, and the newly grown mages treat him like a god, but like most organizations that are gradually moving towards their peak, after decades of rapid development, the god of the storm also faces the same problem, faction.
What height can a mage tower under the leadership of a forbidden mage develop? The *** master tower of the former ancestor of magic has fully illustrated this problem, and in this regard, Rhaegar has undoubtedly done much better than his own soul fragments, in fifty years, the number of mages of the storm god has reached an astonishing fifteen hundred, including nearly sixty *** masters, plus' At least tens of thousands of people belong to this large mage organization, including the two newly built mage towers, the three mage towers in a regular triangle, and the allies allied with them, firmly control almost all the countries in the two civilizations.
This unprecedented power was accompanied by all kinds of open and secret battles, and despite their great power and profound knowledge, the mages could not shake off their thirst for power. Although no one wants to get the seat that belongs to Rhaeggar, every *** master who enters the deacon committee is trying to make himself more influential, and the faction that has been gradually 'revealed' as early as ten years ago has been almost completely open, and this internal division makes the master of the mage tower do not need to worry about being threatened by a strong subordinate at the same time, it also makes the god of the storm gradually fall into constant internal friction, and the mages who used to pursue the mysteries of magic are developing in the direction of politicians.
This was the main reason for Rhaeggar's determination to reorganize the Tower, and he could not tolerate the fact that the god of the storm that he had brought to glory would eventually become a place of bureaucracy and political intrigues, and in a matter of months, the owner of the tower had announced several major appointments and dismissals, and was ready to reinstate the system of deacons that had been in place for thousands of years. According to his plan, the committee would be split into several parts, each with different responsibilities, with no subordinate relationship with each other, and all reporting directly to him.
Under the new system, each committee would have an archdeacon and a number of deacons, whose functions would be similar to those of the ministers of various countries, but neither the chief deacon nor the deacon would be held for life, and if the owner of the tower felt that they were not up to the task, they would be demoted or transferred to a special council of other deacons to deliberate on important issues and make recommendations to the owner of the tower – effectively being hollowed out. This reorganization will undoubtedly help to further strengthen Rhaeggar's control over the Mage Tower, and at the same time improve the efficiency of the Storm God and reduce the prevarication and entanglement between them, but at the same time, it will inevitably harm the interests of some of them: a considerable number of the members of the council who were appointed in the early stage are the leaders of their respective factions, and such appointments will obviously cause them to lose most of their power, and thus lose their influence over the faction.
"I hope there won't be any 'mess'. Coville, who was originally going to do some experiments, sat down in his own laboratory chair and thought silently, "A lot of mages are talking in private, hoping that they won't do anything stupid. Thinking of the rumors he had heard in the recent past, and the conversation between the two young guards just now, Covel couldn't help but feel deeply worried.
As a result of Rhaeggar's behind-the-scenes purge decades ago, Coville, who was originally regarded as the leader of the opposition but ended up on Rhaeggar's side, became the least trusted person in the Stormstorm higher-ups, with the exception of his student Suter, who had few allies in the Deacon's Council, and this lonely situation forced him to tie himself to the chariot of the owner of the Mage Tower.