A quarter of an hour later, Lin An secretly took Mrs. Huang Dress back to the hotel's VIP suite.

After a long time, the sweet fragrance of black tea finally soothed her stimulated nerves, making her feel that the spasmodic tremors throughout her body slowly stopped.

Lin put her alone, seeing that the time was almost up, and when she came in from outside, Mrs. Huang Dress hurriedly stood up and saluted.

Her mage ceremony was quite skilled, but the long silk skirt made her movements a little nondescript, Lin An ignored it, sat down on the single-seater sofa with a white openwork sofa towel, and then motioned for her to sit down.

Sacred North is the rear of the Holy Empire, the back garden of the Holy See, it is rare to meet a mage who lives in seclusion in the territory ruled by the Holy See, Lin An inquired about some local conditions.

"There are hidden mages in your local area who meet from time to time?" To Lin An's surprise, mages operating within the Holy Empire and its vassal realms were not as rare as she imagined.

"Yes, the port of Domindun is the largest port on the southern coast of Sacred North, and it is relatively easy to mix in and hide because of the large population movement," said the Yellow Lady - now that Lin An knew that her maiden name was Sophia. Robinho's face paused slightly, as if he thought of himself, "The mage who came here has lived in seclusion for a long time, and it is inevitable that he will leave a descendant of his disciples to inherit his inheritance. ”

"But you don't seem to think so." Lin An said with a smile.

Sophia's face changed slightly, and after a while, she nodded and admitted:

"Yes, I don't want my children to live in constant fear, although Alan is gifted, he has blood relatives and family, and if he learns magic, he will have to abandon these in the future to win an unknown future - as a person who has come before, I know how hard it can be. How slim. ”

A heart that loves his son.

Lin An declined to comment.

Everyone has their own choices, the road to magic has always been bumpy, given the Holy Empire's harsh environment for mages, and Sophia's strength as a mid-level apprentice, it is not surprising that she would think so—just looking at her willingness to conceal her identity and marry into a wealthy merchant family already says a lot.

"According to what you say, it seems that there are many gifted children in the Holy Empire, and they will even be chosen as apprentices by mages who live in seclusion in the local area," saw Sophia's expression gloomy. Lin An changed the subject. "So do you know who they are or how to contact them?"

"The exact identity is not known. Even those who have gathered many times will not reveal their true identities to others, that is our last protection, and it is not unheard of before that a mage has been caught by the Holy See. Confess to other people's examples......"

Sophia was terrified, her current situation was about the same, if not worse, than those mages who were forced to be exposed," ...... Of course, you know, we little shrimps don't matter to the Holy See, and their capture of us is not yet pervasive, at least compared to the more organized secret mage organizations. We're not a big deal. ”

The latter words are more like self-comfort.

Lin An smiled, "There is a bigger secret organization?" ”

"Yes, as far as I know, in that party I frequent. Three or four people had already joined those organizations, and occasionally revealed a little bit of information from within the organization, and we even escaped several major raids through these messages. ”

Sophia didn't quite understand the reason for Lin An's questioning, out of the instinct of secrecy, she was quite uneasy, holding the black teacup in her hand and turning frequently.

"What is the purpose of their this?" Those mages will not dedicate themselves to the great ideals of the mage's restoration.

"I don't know much about it, except that they secretly have some friction with the Holy See, and the most obvious point is that they seem to help some young and talented mages smuggle out, and I guess they should have more power and organization behind them."

Seeing that Lin An didn't inquire more deeply about the inside of the party, Sophia breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the local mage's gathering is loose, it also has contractual constraints, and what she is talking about so far has not exceeded the scope of contractual constraints, after all, the gathering needs to replenish new blood, and when they start to contact people, they always need to reveal a little bit of internal information.

And Lin An already has a rough idea.

The Holy See regards mages as heretics and hunts them down throughout the country, and Merlin and Perret certainly will not sit idly by and watch the power of these natural hatreds of the Holy See disappear, whether it is for the purpose of planting spies or increasing the strength of their own country.

The support of the secret spy organizations of the two countries for the hidden mage power in the Holy Empire must have lasted for a long time, otherwise with the weakness of the local mage power, how could it have continued in the territory until now, and it has not been completely cut down and eradicated;

In the same way, the Holy See kept these people for nothing more than to follow the vine.

It is indeed not easy for the weak mage forces in the Holy Empire to become cannon fodder at every turn in the gap between the struggles of the Three Kingdoms, no wonder Sophia is desperately incognito, without the slightest bit of the arrogance and resistance that Lin An has seen in the mages of the other two countries.

This is really not the right soil for mages to live.

took a sip of tea and was about to continue to ask more things, Lin An frowned, and suddenly received a warning from Titi in his spirit.

"What's wrong, Master Lin?" Sophia was like a frightened bird, very alert, and subconsciously looked out of the floor-to-ceiling window of the reception room, which was quiet and quiet, no different from before.

Raising his hand and pressing, signaling her to be restless, Lin An drew a quick knot gesture with the fingers of his right hand on his chest:

"Eagle Eyes."

"Ear sharpening."

Two magical flashes appeared in her eyes and ears.

"Same, synchronous casting!"

Sophia was dumbfounded, she recognized from the spell fluctuations that these were two spells that were not lower than level two, and the simultaneous spell casting was a legendary-level spell casting skill for her, if it weren't for the fact that she would attend parties from time to time to receive news from outside, she wouldn't have recognized it at all.

And now it was used lightly by this female mage, who was much younger than her.

Thinking of the hardships of studying magic, the despair of having to give up because of talent, the fear of hiding his identity for many years, and the desperate situation of losing his son and family after his identity was exposed-

If I could have such great power, maybe this qiē would not have happened!

Sophia's heart couldn't help but flash with deep unwillingness and irrepressible jealousy.

In the corridor one floor away from their suite, among the dense vines of a pot of white spider plants, Lin Anxia's two invisible magical perceptors here fluctuated covertly, and her vision and hearing connected to Lin An's ears and eyes, allowing her to see and hear the movements of this path to the upper floor.

Lin An's field of vision. A hunched commoner mingled among several clerics.

It took her a moment to recognize a familiarity in the bruised face, which seemed to be the waitress of the Juneflower Hotel, and her strong memory still had a hint of it.

“…… The gods, the priests, the wicked mage, her husband, and her daughter, were all in the three-story rosemary suite...... I've asked my colleague to confirm, she, they just asked for tea! ”

"Very good, your timely report has made a great contribution, you will be rewarded as you deserve, step back. God's servants fight evil. You don't need to be involved. ”

"Yes, yes. My lord! The waiter retreated with joy.

Hearing the situation, he had already noticed her identity as a mage, and actually reported it to the church and brought someone to find it directly.

Lin Anxin was puzzled. In his heart, he said to Titi: "Leave the attendant and the leading clergyman. ”】

Then she lifted the spell effect, but found that Sophia in front of her had already stood up, her expression was extremely depressed, and many complicated emotions were mixed together, "Master Lin, yes, is someone coming?" ”

"Well, a couple of clergymen, don't worry."

Lin An sat on the sofa and picked up the teacup again. Her peace seemed to reassure Sophia, who hesitated for a moment and slowly sat down again.

In the spirit, there was news from Athena and Titi, and the clergy who had come to arrest them had been resolved, and Lin An got up. Sophia immediately jumped up from her position in shock.

"It's settled, you sit here, I'll go out and deal with those clergy."

"Okay, okay."

Sophia's face was a mixture of fear and surprise, distorting her otherwise beautiful countenance.

Living room.

The waiter who was caught by Titi witnessed the three priests not emitting a single magic spell and instantly turned into six parts, and he felt like he was experiencing a nightmare, the scene of the three priests' internal organs and large intestines being thrown in the spilled blood was so unreal!

As soon as Lin An saw him, she knew that this person was already on the verge of madness, so she performed a soothing technique, and without asking, she quickly got the answer she wanted from the waiter.

“…… You've been following us from a distance, so you saw something in the alley? Lin An was stunned.

The crowd in the market was mixed, the scene was in turmoil, the waiter was extremely weak, and she could not threaten her in the slightest, and her perception could not recognize and detect such a malicious gaze in the dark, which was normal, and the waiter hid far away when he followed, and the malicious expulsion technique naturally could not affect him.

After getting some of the information he wanted from the priest left by Titi, Lin An returned to the small reception room and stood at the door, "Those priests have cleared the hotel in advance, so let's go now." ”

Sophia had already stood up, her face turned pale with nervousness, and when she walked to the living room, Titi and William were gone, leaving only a dried corpse on the ground, and an unconscious white-clothed priest, with a slightly undulating chest, more out of breath and less in and out.

This priest is still useful, Lin An raised his hand and cast a levitation technique, floating the priest in the air.

Sophia seemed to be frightened by the horror of the dried corpse, and her whole body trembled like an electric shock, and her whole body trembled like a sieve.

"Madame, are you alright?"

Athena had already obediently pulled out the suitcase, and when she saw this, she hurriedly put it down and ran to support Sophia.

Sophia looked down at the angelic innocent face, and her topaz eyes couldn't hide her concern.

“…… I'm fine. She muttered.

Then, a short, sharp letter opener rested on Athena's neck.

(To be continued)

ps：

The recent book reviews are a bit scarce, and the reactions of the pros are flat, is the plot too slow and boring? RU