Elemental Tower.

Lucien stood in the center of the temple's hall, flanked by twelve priests in red robes to his left and right, and Pope Paul IV with his back to the statue of Ikali in front of him.

The Pope is surrounded by a layer of radiance, gilding his silhouette with a dazzling gold, exuding a majesty that makes people feel the urge to bow down.

But for Lucien at this time, all this was a bit ridiculous.

Three days had passed since Seraf's trip, but the experience of that day was still etched in his mind. The shock that came from the depths of the heart was far stronger than the Pope in front of him.

Even...... It's more real......

That feeling...... It's as if the dragon that is obviously false and comes from illusion is real, but the majesty of the goddess in front of him is fake......

Lucien was taken aback by this thought, and he quickly reminded himself that there should be no blasphemous thoughts, and then raised his head and looked ahead.

The Pope's eyes were royal blue, the same as those of His Excellency Michua during his trip to the White Rock Mines, which he had heard was a blessing from the gods.

"What do you see, my child?" Paul IV asked.

"A dragon, just like the real thing – although it's fake. Your Majesty, I feel that it is possible to cooperate with him, which will help the believers of God to better eradicate heresy. There's a place to learn from battle, to reduce innocent bloodshed and sacrifice, and to Seraf—"

"Isn't listening to the teachings of the goddess enough to make a believer strong?"

Lucien bowed slightly: "I don't have such thoughts, Your Majesty. The Goddess has given us noble blood with magical power, great strength, and wisdom and courage. But these are too powerful for foolish believers to be born with a mastery of them, like a toddler who must be practiced to grow and learn to run. But heresies are cunning and cruel, and the blood of believers cannot be wasted. ”

The Pope was pleased with his words.

"You have a point, my child, and I'll think about it." With that, he closed his eyes.

Seeing this, Lucien knelt down towards the statue and pressed his forehead against the cold floor for 5 seconds before getting up and leaving.

Before leaving, he swept over the red-clothed priests around him, his brow furrowed slightly.

Since there is no vacancy in the seats of the twelve priests in front of him, it means that the chief priest of Miller, who has not been seen for a long time, has been replaced......

What the hell happened to him? Where did it go? Why was it replaced?

No one told him, not even anyone in the know......

Without taking two steps with doubts, he met an acquaintance.

"Miss Lina." Lucien bowed slightly.

When his father asked him to choose his fiancée, his first choice was the one in front of him, but he was told by shaking his head that he shouldn't think too much about Master Glazer's daughter, and then chose Emma.

And the reason why Lina is the first choice is not because of love at first sight, but because of a man's desire to conquer.

Lucien wants to do everything to the best of his ability, and so does his spouse. As far as the eye can see, there are only two women in the entire plain of the horses, one is Miss Rose Suria of the Morning Star, and the other is Lina Imbas. And the former was also greatly discounted in his heart because of the two things of escaping marriage and mysteriously disappearing, and became synonymous with vulgarity, so naturally Lina was left.

So to this day, when I saw this, Lu Xi'an was still a little puzzled, why she couldn't be chosen.

"Lord Lucien."

Lina said, with a trace of sadness between her eyebrows.

"I've heard about you, Miss Lina." "But what I want to say is that as a nobleman, it's good to have a spirit of rebellion, but you must pay attention to your demeanor and etiquette. You shouldn't have confronted the royal family that night and made other people see the jokes, especially if the Pope was present, and they would be mistaken for the pressure on the royal family from the Tower. ”

Lina opened her mouth, but found that she had nothing to argue with the aristocratic patient in front of her.

"Your Excellency is right, I still have something to do, let's talk about it another day."

She stumbled slightly and walked straight to the prayer room.

Seeing her walk away, Lucien couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.

He suddenly felt that Emma was much cuter than the other party, and he really made the right decision in the first place.

……

……

Mage Society.

The headquarters of the Mage Association is still in Morning Star City, of course, it is only the geographical "location", even people who are not mages know that Fa Blue City is now the holy land of mages, and the Mage Association naturally wants to focus on that side.

In the year 588, the Society's headquarters moved out of the Crucey neighborhood to the Herrud neighborhood, inheriting the Tower of Time left behind by Glazer's teacher, Reslyn Marzheo, the Lord of Time. With this tower as the center, the surrounding towers have sprung up like mushrooms.

Out of respect for Reslin, these towers are only half as tall as the Tower of Time.

Of course, none of those low towers are mage towers, but office space, after all, the magic interference between mage towers alone makes them impossible for mages to meditate.

The structure of the Time Tower is very similar to that of the Starlight Library in Naradak, the central part from the twentieth floor upwards is completely hollowed out, and the space is magically expanded into a cavity with a radius of nearly 100 meters, like a hollow cylinder, and the mages live in the cavity on the inner wall of the cylinder, usually moving back and forth by flying spells.

All the books have wings and fly back and forth in the hollow, without interfering with each other.

This is a model that simulates a dragon's nest.

The dragon's nest located at an altitude of 10,000 meters in Hogarth is a wind tunnel design, because each dragon is a powerful source of magic and soul that will interfere with each other, so their interior layout is the most scientific.

Just as dragons communicate in the wind tunnels with their highly transmissible roars, the mages who live in this tower also use sound-transmitting circles to conduct meetings.

"I heard that Lucien has already been sent to Seraf by the Tower, what do you think?" Someone asked.

"Look at it with your eyes, but I've heard that Lucien was invited to vent his anger by two crappy nobles, but this kid was shocked by what was inside, and rolled back to the tower with a lot of pee, maybe hiding in the Pope's arms and crying."

"Fakas! Be serious! ”

"As you wish, you will grow up."

The voice known as Farkas disappeared.

Someone else continued: "My friend in the Silver Candle Society said that Seraf had an unpleasant quarrel with Kane's Horn at the beginning of its establishment. Putting aside William's personality, we must always recognize his vision, right? ”

"Which William?"

"Do you think Headmaster William is despicable?"

"Ahem, it's William Shockley, that's true...... It's time to take it seriously. ”

"You've said so much, and no one has introduced us old people who are not trendy at all about what new things Seraf is?" An old voice joined the discussion, and the number of people gradually increased.

"Mage Ferrey, that's a magical thing, you can understand it as a phantom creature that solidifies the illusion of the scene and a high-precision plastic energy system, the latter is as accurate as the transformation magic of the druid."

"It's much more than that," someone interjected, "what makes me most curious is that there are near-death protection and psychic spell warning arrays in the illusion, and I don't know anyone who can make such an ingenious circle except for a few notorious soul butchers...... The guild wasn't without Galan's imps, and they couldn't even find a single superfluous pattern in that Seraf - except for the huge Sych circuit on the floor that anyone who wasn't a fool could see. ”

The others chimed in, and before they knew it, the diving mages were floating.

"That kid said he was left by Sir Mondrian, do you have any research on him?"

"Ha, are you lying to Lin Jing? That seventy-year-old knight is as wise as Professor Dawn, and he can't invent such a thing, right? Don't forget, that kid is an Oriental, and if any of you know the spells of the Orientals, think of the two who founded Morrowind Academy in the first place. ”

"According to you, he was sent by the Lord of Light?"

"Who knows, it's all just speculation."

Seeing that the topic was tilted in an irretrievable direction, the elder had to sigh.

"I thought you didn't know anything about Seraf, but in fact none of you know anything less than I do."

"Of course, the benefits of the Magic Infusion Zone for meditation are obvious, and the imps in the Guild are eager to build a similar low-cost building in the Tower of Time."

"That kid's demagogic methods are also quite clever, Jialan's group of lazy people have been pushed to donate magic power one by one, I heard that there are some mysterious rewards, why are the brains of the teachers under William's hands not so good? I mean that William. ”

"You say, could this have something to do with the refining of magical power? I've heard that Professor Ian left the Silver Candle a few months ago, and his whereabouts have been unknown since...... If that's the case, then Seraf is a great place to train new people. We really should think about it. ”

As the crowd was discussing, the voice named Farkas poured another basin of cold water down.

"What to consider? Do you want young people to become better and then cross the sea of truth and become believers in God? Rather than that, I'd rather they become mediocre. ”

As soon as the words came out, everyone was silent.

Even the president doesn't know what to say.

After a long time, a slightly younger voice said, "Perhaps...... Is this an opportunity? On the question that has puzzled us for a long time...... After all, no one had personally asked Master Glazer, and that was just a rumor...... Didn't Principal William approve of that kid's approach? Not only did he not stop him, but he also helped him......"

"Heh, William, he thinks every time is an opportunity, but what about the result?" Farkas sneered, "And you said it was a rumor, do you know what Mr. Reslin said about that traitor?" At the top of the Time Tower, you can see the future and the past, but every time I go to see nothingness and confusion, where are the so-called 'opportunities' and 'answers'? Where are you looking for a way out? Can anyone answer me? ”

There was no sound in the hollow, only the sound of books flapping their wings as they flew by, and it seemed to be very empty.

The magic that symbolized the mage's presence disappeared one by one, and finally ended with a long sigh.

"Then forget it. If your apprentices want to reactivate their student status and return to school, don't stop them as much as possible, and we can be considered to have contributed to the refining of mana. ”