As soon as these words came out, Zhao Xu's heart shook on the spot.

Even the "Vault of Ernest", which looted the endless wealth of the entire continent in Arthur's ancient era, and laid the groundwork for the eventual collapse of the powerful magical empire that all of Arthur's forces were dormant and did not dare to come forward, was just a trick to cover up people's ears?

Not to mention, behind the real library of "Vault", there is also a "fake library" on the face of Antinoamine.

The treasure stored inside is less than a tenth of the real treasure, the "lost legacy" of the former Itel dynasty.

Zhao Xu once followed Antinoya, called her sister, passed the test of the "activation cellar" that guarded the inheritance, and was allowed to enter it.

At that time, Zhao Xu's "Star Cloak" was obtained inside.

And he still remembered that in that treasure room, his eyes were almost unable to open because of the shelf full of artifacts.

Now Antinoya actually told him so bluntly that even Zhenku was a disguise.

The real value lies in this seemingly powerful, but in fact, there are many internal mountains, and the giants each have a certain basic plate, and they are barely gathered together under the jurisdiction of the president.

This is also the reason why the Mage Guild has mastered almost ninety percent of Arthur's mage casters, but it has not really crushed everything to re-establish the Magic Empire.

Among the major national forces, who doesn't have a relative of a legendary mage, countless forces spend a lot of money every year to let themselves go to Mystra to study, just for this kind of continuation.

Otherwise, there would not be any independent organizations in the association, such as "Final Scroll", "Arcane Alliance", "Spell Guard", and "Rosicrucius", which are not under the jurisdiction of each other and are quite independent.

"Mentor, is there any crucial secret in the Mage Guild?" Zhao Xu asked.

Faced with this question, Antinoya shook her head slightly, but instead diverted the topic and said, "Midsummer, what level do you think the common Arthur's common mage power is?" ”

Although Zhao Xu didn't know why Antinoya spoke like this, he still followed his own knowledge system and said, "For example, above the Fifth Ring, it is rare to take the lead, and for some remote and small countries, a Seven-Ring Mage is enough to influence the hereditary alternation of power. ”

Zhao Xu said very bluntly, in fact, above Arthur, forces like the Eastern Earth Empire, the Northern Alliance, and the Principality of Xiluo, which have more than a dozen or even dozens of large cities, are only a few, and more are small principalities that occupy a region and are divided into autonomous regions.

In many cases, there are only a few temple churches of one or two middle and high-ranking gods in a small country, and the beliefs of the entire small country tend to be the same god.

It's not like Oulu, the capital of the Northern Alliance, where there are no less than ten gods in the city.

Legendary mages are more like unborn powerhouses.

Usually do magic experiments in his own mage tower or half-plane, occasionally take in apprentices, or simply experience life, and live in seclusion in some small villages.

Legend has it that in a certain village 100 kilometers away from Mystra, there are two legendary mages and three nine-ring mages living in seclusion, and if any of the thieves who don't have long eyes break in without permission, they are likely to encounter a painful experience that they don't want to remember for the rest of their lives.

Even dying smoothly is already a great luck.

Generally speaking, many local forces hide powerful spellcasters whose age has exceeded the lifespan limit, and they will only be seen faintly when it comes to serious dynastic changes.

"Mentor, according to your original words, you intend to lend me the secret legacy of the Itel dynasty to help me establish Yanan?" Zhao Xu returned to the center.

"It's nature." Antinoya nodded, "But it's conditional. ”

As she spoke, Antinoya gently pressed Zhao Xu's shoulder, as if she had been awarded a medal and a half.

"I need you to establish a magic academy in Yanan and start recruiting apprentices."

"And you don't have to worry about the teachers, I will arrange for the hidden forces of the association to help. The crux of the matter is—"

"Origin?" Zhao Xu reacted immediately.

"That's right." Antinoa stood on the hillock, greeted by the noise of the valley wind, which rattled her cloak.

"This time, we need seeds."

"It's about a vital plan for us, and we need to retrain a new batch of mages who are incredibly clean and pure from start to finish. The earth's travelers are the ones we have fallen into, and only they are satisfied that they have not been infected from beginning to end, and they do not have to worry about being infiltrated into the sand by other forces. ”

Before the crossing, there were only a few beings like Antinoya and May who could pass through that material energy channel.

Speaking of this, Antinoya's eyes seemed to be looking at Zhao Xu under the same sky as if through the long river of time.

"Are you so cautious that you don't even feel comfortable teaching in Mystra? Even if you are a teacher, you already represent the Mage Guild? Zhao Xu asked in a cautious tone.

"That's right." Antinoa nodded, "When you visited a student who had taken a break from school at home at the civilian academy in Mystra, didn't you find that this student who had been trained as a mage in the Floating City had become a semi-purgatory creature, or had he become a target before entering the Floating City. ”

"Floating City, it's too big to block the prying eyes and gaze of others."

"Divine power, after all, is a purer power above spells, and it can achieve many unimaginable miracles."

"I'm the only one, in this sea of billions of people, picking the seeds of mage apprentices?" Zhao Xu asked.

He had realized that there must be a huge plan behind this, and that a group of mages with pure and clean backgrounds were needed as a backup.

It's like what makes up a legendary spell.

Generally, the power of legendary spells is linked to the difficulty of casting, and if you don't want to die, you can set up an unsolvable "legendary spell", but this requires a large number of "spell identification" levels to cast.

If the recognition level is not enough, it is necessary to manually reduce the difficulty of casting, either by adding the legendary unattainable "cold fire" material, or by taking the cost of recoil itself or increasing the cast time.

There was once a legendary mage who researched a world-destroying legendary spell, but in that thousand years of spell casting, no legendary mage has been able to challenge it successfully, and he has insisted on casting a spell for a whole thousand years.

In the end, the most useful thing for legendary mages, and the most able to stabilize the spell structure and improve the success rate, is to let the casters of the nine rings and below contribute spell slots to assist in spell casting

And the more people there are, the more stable the whole state becomes, and even the magic of the legendary ring is formed.

Therefore, Zhao Xu guessed that what Antinoya needed was such a "spell" and even a "ritual" involving a large number of mages.

"Then mentor, shouldn't you have done it sooner?"

At this time, Zhao Xu had already seen that the earth traversers below who had just gathered because of their appearance had caused a commotion inside, and many people turned their heads to look in another direction.

On another hill far away, a regiment of cavalry rushed up billowing clouds of smoke and dust.

Looking at the god-patterned banner raised by the cavalry regiment, it was obvious that the knights under the god of justice and punishment Cooper had sent out to provide disaster relief, and they had traveled thousands of miles to bring food through the teleportation circle.

and faith.

For Arthur's main gods, they have reached the point of immortality, and they will not fall unless there is a catastrophe of the Ragnarok level.

However, the other gods below the main god determine their own divine power due to the breadth of believers.

For example, if Antinoya looks at a weak god who is not pleasing to the eye, he can completely frame the range of the opponent's believers, and if he uses a legendary spell to destroy all the believers of the opponent in one fell swoop, he can make this weak god in the outer interface shatter, and the divine body will fall and wander the astral boundary.

Therefore, this catastrophe on earth was also a "feast of faith" for Arthur's gods.

As for who can harvest more faith, it is up to each according to his ability.

This is also the reason why the gods spared no effort to devote a lot of strength to the wild and dead.

"I'm a little different."

Antinoya was clearly confident, "I need elite mages, not mixed believers. ”

"Even if you can only find me one one a day, as long as he can firmly believe in magic without betraying him, or not being seduced by the powers of the higher, that will be enough."

"So mentor, you entrusted me with this task? And I'm alone? Zhao Xu asked.

"That's certainly not the case." Antinoa smiled, "There are also trusted candidates on the lookout, but you're definitely the most important one. ”

"Because you can do it seamlessly, constantly teleporting across the continent. I also need your ability to have unlimited endurance. ”

"Moreover, the key to this mission is secrecy and not to attract anyone's attention. So some mages are only entrusted with a period of time, or even a small part of the transit environment, such as just picking up individuals, and they don't know what the ultimate goal is from beginning to end. ”

"And at this moment, there is also a group of mages sent by Mystra in the Wild Dead Land, and they are also selecting suitable magic apprentices for the Floating City. They will attract all eyes on the bright side. ”

"Only you know everything, and you're going to be part of it for the rest of the week."

At this time, Zhao Xu watched the priest of the God of Justice below get closer to the holy warrior, and realized that his Antinoya also had to leave at this time.

He couldn't help but ask, "Mentor, you have put so much effort into laying down this layer of isolation, which makes me even more curious, what kind of plan these seed mages are for. ”

"Listen, don't regret it." Suddenly, Antinoa smiled merrily.

"How is that possible?" Zhao Xu is very confident.

"I once told you that the seventh month of God's absence was a prophecy given in May, but none of us guessed that the kingdom of the gods was nothing but a problem."

"Midsummer, this time the gods intervened in the Wild Dead Land, and the strength of the contact with the earth travelers may be beyond your imagination."

"The Holy One is not far from descending to earth."