God of the Storm.

Inside this flame, a huge crystal shaped like a diamond was tightly wrapped inside, and under the high temperature smelting that could melt everything, this crystal quickly turned into a viscous liquid, but it still stubbornly condensed into a ball, refusing to stretch its body as softly as other liquids, as if it was fighting against the divine fire with its last strength. However, this struggle was apparently futile, and as time passed, the liquid sphere was reduced to nothingness by the black flames, and eventually, after a few seconds, the original crystal disappeared forever from this universe, leaving no trace behind.

A bit of golden 'color' light appeared where the crystal had been, and the terrifying judgment divine fire around it seemed to have no effect on it, and with one of Rhaegar's thoughts, this light was like iron filings attracted by a magnet, and the black 'colored' flames around it quickly plunged into his body.

Rhaegar exhaled contentedly. If given enough time, the crystal would grow into a powerful being, but for now, it was only an instinctive consciousness, not much different from ordinary stones, and it was because of this that he was able to successfully destroy its body and absorb its soul, one of his lost soul fragments - only a small piece, of course. Rhaegar slowly stood up from his seat and sent a message through the special device of the Mage Tower, and the next moment, his figure disappeared from the place and immediately appeared in the council hall.

"You've done a good job," Rhaegar said to the mages who had arrived at the message, "that crystal will be useful for my magic experiments, and as a reward, you will receive a boost in power - from now on, you will be allowed to enter the secret realm for two months." ”

This was undoubtedly a huge surprise for those mages who were only of the sixth or seventh order, and they could not hide the joy in their hearts, and expressed their gratitude and respect to their masters with the highest courtesy. College

As he watched the rewarded mages retreat in joy, Corville was filled with awe of Rhaegar - not only because of the strength of the youngest forbidden mage in the history of the god of storms, but also because of his terrifying political skill: since he used himself to gather those opponents together and wipe them out more than thirty years ago, it took only a few years for the owner of the mage tower to succeed in turning the god of storms into a single voice. Here, everyone, including the *** teachers of the deacon committee, all regard Rhaeggar's order as the supreme will, no one can disobey his order, and the young mages worship him as a god, and are even ready to give their lives for him at any time, and all of this is mostly because of the existence of that secret realm.

No one knows how Rhaegar created this magical place, which is part of the Mage's Tower, but no one has ever been able to find it, and only those who have permission from Rhaegar can enter it, and once they leave, they will forget all the paths and methods of entry. For mages of any level, the secret realm is a place they dream of when practicing magic: there, even the most gifted magic cultivators can clearly feel the existence and activity of the original energy, and for those ordinary mages, this is enough for them to comprehend more high-level spells, you know, the real constraint on the development of mages is often not the 'spirit' divine power, that is, the magic power, because the vast majority of people can improve themselves through meditation The ability to attract and control the Primal Instinct determines how far the caster can go on this path. Masters can also gain here, they can have a clearer access to the rules they have initially set foot in, which will allow them to achieve twice the result with half the effort in their level increase. The academy mages may not care about worldly things, but the power and knowledge are irresistible to everyone, strong strength, huge power, and the secret realm, no one can stick to their own views under the power formed by the combination of these three, including Coville - two months of cultivation in the secret realm allowed him to break through the 'gate' threshold of the peak of the ninth-order mage in one fell swoop and become a tenth-order mage.

"What about the rest of the people we've sent?" Rhaegar asked at this point, "and if the journey goes well, the farthest of them should be back in less than three days." ”

"The first group will arrive tonight," Coville said respectfully, "and the latest group will return by this time the day after tomorrow, and all of them will have the items you have specified." ”

Rhaegar was pleased with the result. After absorbing the soul fragment that took the city as his body, he already had enough ability to sense all the other soul fragments located in the mortal world, although it was only a general direction, and with countless explorers searching for it, Rhaegar could easily find the exact location of those fragments. For these fragments that have either just evolved into lifeforms, or have not yet obtained life fragments, the only obstacle for Rhaegar to obtain them is their distribution in this space, but in the eyes of the master of the mage tower with a large number of mages as his subordinates, this is not a problem: over the years, the number of mages owned by the god of storm has reached thousands, including nearly thirty*** Division, as well as several small mage towers to ally with, is a massive force that controls all kingdoms and cities throughout civilization, and can mobilize thousands of men at any time if he wishes. Under his orders, hundreds of mages of all ranks and their 'attendants' samurai set out on a path to find soul shards for their masters—of course, out of secrecy, they only knew that they were bringing back some items for magical experiments for the master of the mage tower.

"Very well," Rhaegar nodded slightly, "If they do bring back what I need, I promise, they'll get the reward they deserve," he looked at Colville meaningfully, "including becoming a deacon." ”

In order not to be suspicious of others, and not to make the god of the storm too empty, Rhaegar did not send the mages to the area where all the soul fragments were located at once in a single 'sex', but only sent a few different groups of people to different locations at certain intervals. Among the people sent this time was Suter, one of Coville's two disciples, this mage who entered the 'door' a little later than Els was one of Rhaeggar's most ardent admirers, and he was already a seventh-order peak mage, and he was only half a step away from becoming a *** master.

Coville bowed his head slightly, expressing his feelings to Rhaegar as he was 'excited'. With the expansion of the Mage Tower and the increase in strength, the deacon committee of nearly thirty people also began to divide into several small groups, the five *** masters who were Rhaegar disciples, plus the Krens sisters, became the most powerful group among them, and Coville himself, due to Rhaeggar's purge of the Storm God more than thirty years ago, has been regarded by everyone as the most unreliable informant, if it weren't for Rhaegar intentionally or unintentionally putting him in the first place among all deacons, he would have been squeezed to the very edge of the committee. In this case, the addition of a disciple who had been cultivated by one hand undoubtedly gave him a powerful arm.

The Master knew very well that Rhaegar was not only doing this in return for his loyalty to himself or Suter, even though both he and his disciples had already been loyal to him. The Master of the Mage Tower did this for a more important purpose: balance.

Although he has absolute authority in the Mage Tower, although the ultimate goal of the battle is only to gain more trust from him, like all the superiors, Rhaegar still does not want any one person or force to be too powerful, and the reason why he promotes and values Covel so much is simple- After being seen as an informer, his only hope of being able to gain a foothold in this mage Terry was to cling to Rhaeggar, and as for betrayal, anyone knows that no one can survive betraying a forbidden mage.

"Dear Krens," Rhaegar ignored Covel's mental activity, his gaze falling on the human-demon 'hybrid' on the other side. In a sense, she is the most orthodox inheritor of the Mage Tower, with the bloodline of the Carson family, and because of this, the geists have been relatively tolerant of it for the past thirty years, "I want to know, why did we clash with that silver dragon?"

For nearly forty years, the God of the Storm has covered the entire area of civilization and extended his hand to the area where the former *** division tower is located, and it is the Krens sisters who are in charge of this project. But not long ago, the Mage Tower, which had successfully established itself in St. Endos, was attacked by a dragon, and several mages who had been hired by the Emperor as court mages and were working on the construction of another mage tower were all killed by the terrible dragon flames, and the mage tower that was nearly completed was reduced to ashes.

"This should be a misunderstanding," he said, slowly, thinking about how to phrase it, "Someone stole the silver dragon's egg and put it in the mage tower we're about to build." ”

For dragons, three things are enough to make them lose their minds: steal their treasures, harm their bodies, and take their eggs. Any dragon, no matter how friendly it is to humans, will instantly become the most terrible machine of destruction if someone dares to beat its own egg