A thousand years ago, the Magic Empire South.

Wei is a low-level mage in the province of Gayat in the Magic Empire. His round belly and dripping round head are clearly like two strung balls, and he is not fat. There were only a few sparse blonde hairs on his bare head.

Although he is only in his thirties, no matter how he looks at this figure, he looks like a middle-aged person, but there is no way, Wei is such a big fat man, and he will gain weight by drinking some cold water.

Fortunately, being fat, thin, tall and short does not have much effect on magic, and although he does not look very good, Wei's magic level is second to none among young mages in the Gayat Province. The annual Young Magician Conference held in the Imperial Capital was attended by Wei Qiang on behalf of the Gayat Province.

Of course, there was still some time before that conference, and Wei had something else to do now.

The department in which Wei worked was the Magic Empire's Gayat Provincial Institute of Magic, one of the Magic Empire's forty-seven research institutes across the country. The Empire has studied magic quite deeply, and different regions, different climates, and different substances will have a considerable impact on the elements of magic. These magic institutes are located all over the country.

The Gayat Institute of Magic, where Wei is located, is in the south of the empire, and not far south is the Long Sea. The magical elements here are very local, violent and abundant, and this magical research institute has been around for hundreds of years, with more than forty magicians working here.

Wei went to a mine by the sea to do research today, and the villagers here reported that a black liquid was found flowing out of the sea cliff near the mine. This liquid is quite flammable, and if the villagers are not careful, a spark can ignite a large area.

According to reports from the villagers, the institute's senior magicians suspected that the black liquid produced there was "fire oil". The empire had just issued a document that found this black liquid in several parts of the country, which could be used as fuel. The Empire asks the magical research institutes to take note.

As a result, Wei became the unlucky guy and was sent to the scene to inspect the production of fire oil. Along the way, Wei was flipping through the documents from the Imperial Capital of the Magic Empire. This black, shiny, viscous, oily, oily liquid is described in detail above. According to the excavation records in many places, it was originally from the pit, and some miners first discovered the liquid, and several people unfortunately overturned oil lamps and torches, causing a pit fire.

Hence the name "fire oil" for this black liquid. The magicians of the Magic Empire, after sampling, found that this black liquid contained rich magical elements, almost condensed from magical elements, as long as there was a small spark, it would ignite a roaring fire.

"Something, weird. There are many other places to be found? The only thing that can be found in many places is the ore, and there are liquid ores, which is interesting, interesting. He grunted as he glided through the air. Wei's wind magic skills are quite good, otherwise he wouldn't have made a name for himself in the Magic Research Institute in Gayat Province.

An imperial official was already waiting for Wei at the destination, and behind him were several villagers, seeing Wei descending from the sky, the official hurriedly stepped forward, "Is it Master Wei?"

Wei squinted and glanced at the other party, a noble official in short clothes, wearing a straw hat, and said slowly, "Are you the mayor of the town?"

The imperial official's heart was shocked, "Oh no, there is a bloodline faction (Note 1)." He had to bow down and patiently explain, "Yes, Lord Magician, a few village names behind me found a black liquid in the mine not far away, which is very flammable, we don't know what it is, so we don't dare to move it, so we have to seal the mine and wait for the Empire to send someone to check it." ”

Wei nodded, "I know, this thing is the Imperial Magic Research Institute, and I don't know what it is, but I know that it has been found in many places." Let's go, let's go and have a look. ”

Wei followed the villagers to the sea cliff on the coast, this low sea cliff was a small iron mine before, and about eight or nine hundred grams of iron ore were dug down along the sea cliff, and the original iron ore was not too much. Unexpectedly, after the excavators dug through a certain layer of rock wall, a black liquid flowed out, which scared the miners at that time.

Some of the brave miners scooped some with spoons, but later found them to be very flammable, so they hurriedly reported them to the mayor, who in turn reported them to the Empire.

Wei was at the entrance of the cave, looking at the dark mine, waved his hand and recited a spell, and a flame immediately appeared in the palm of his hand, startling several people around. Just wanted to stop it, Wei himself felt that something was wrong, shook his head, waved his hand to extinguish the flames, turned around and asked, "Do you have a magic lamp?"

Mayor Mare hastily fetches a magic lamp from the town hall (Note 2), the dark blue light is not strong, but it is enough to illuminate the mines. Wei bent down and walked into the cave first.

The leak occurred in the depths of the cave, and everyone walked along the dark tunnel to the end. Here, the ground has been occupied by a leaked black liquid, forming a black "mud pool".

Wei crouched down and handed the magic lamp to the Imperial official behind him, while reaching out and slowly reaching into the "mud pool". The black liquid shimmered eerily in the blue light. It was very sticky in his hand, it seemed to be very thick, and Wei withdrew his hand and sniffed it under his nose, and it was still a little fishy.

Standing up, he motioned for everyone behind him to step back, only to see him silently recite a few words, and a small drop of black liquid floated up in the air, slowly rising to the height of one person. "Burn!" Wei snapped his fingers, and several sparks flew towards the liquid droplets, and with a "boom", the entire black liquid exploded directly and exploded in the air.

"What a rich element of magic!" Wei couldn't help but admire!

The group followed Wei out of the cave, and in order to study the liquid, Wei collected several large jars, and he didn't know how he was going to bring them back. Wei thought to himself, "Leave one bottle for the Gaiat Research Institute and send four bottles to the Imperial Capital..."

When he went back, he took these things with him, and Wei had to hire a carriage, but unfortunately he was not a space magician, and his little magic space couldn't bring so many things, and it was still far from the imperial capital. But forget it, you can just record this discovery in the car: this is a small town by the long sea, most of the townspeople make a living from fishing, and it is about 1,500 miles away from the imperial capital in a straight line, and about 200 miles away from the nearest stone forest area.

The Empire has limited management of the land, and even the mayor has only been in office for a few years. I heard that the empire had given the region south of the province of Gaiat "Patong", a strange name.

Samples of the oil found in various places began to gather in the capital of the Magic Empire, and even the archon was intrigued, and the chief magic researcher personally demonstrated the properties of the oil.

Unfortunately, it didn't take long for the study of fire oil to break out in the Magic Empire, and the civil strife intensified, eventually becoming a war that swept the continent. Countless civilians rose up, and the rebel coalition finally broke through the imperial capital, and the fire stored in the imperial capital research institute was unfortunately ignited in the war, and the raging fire spread throughout the city, burning the capital of the magnificent Magic Empire, and turning it to ashes along with the glory of the empire.

However, a small number of the rebellious magicians were aware of the existence of the oil. When San Jose was founded, these magicians told the San Jose Council and the royal family the secret of the oil oil, and the *** made of oil became the secret weapon of the San Jose army.

However, the production of thermal oil is so scarce that there are currently no more than ten available mining sites on the southern coast, and only 500 thermal oil *** can be produced every year, all of which are stored in a large underground base south of Kyoto Castle. These secret weapons, which are closely guarded, are the greatest reliance of the San Jose Guard, and they are rarely used until the critical moment.

Local garrisons and border guards, for example, have no right to use them at all. The existence of fire oil is not a secret on the mainland, but due to the strict control of the San Jose Empire, Desik or the Shang Alliance have no access to such a secret weapon.

And Wei, the young magician of the Magic Empire a thousand years ago, never had the opportunity to go to the imperial capital to participate in the Young Magician Conference. The connection between the province of Gaiat and the imperial capital was soon severed by the rebel coalition.

Some aspiring and courageous magicians flew back to the imperial capital to defend the Magic Empire, while some people who knew the times stayed in Gayat and remained neutral. It wasn't until a few years later, when the war ended, that the land was brought under the administration of the San Jose Empire and became part of the South Sea County.

Wei is a strange person, he did a very special thing after witnessing the power of the oil mine, he actually hid the information of the oil mine he found, and then silently wrote it down in his notes.

Time flies, time flies, the corpse of the Magic Empire is cold, and the fire oil has become the secret weapon of the San Jose Empire's military control, and the news that the fire oil is produced in this area named Patong is secretly hidden by the mage named Wei. Following Way's death, his magical notes were kept as relics by his descendants in the family's castle.

Those relics, no one will turn over them for many years, and year after year has passed. And the civilians on the beach at the beginning would not tell the secret of this place to outsiders, and after they died, no one knew the secret again.

Until one day many years later, one of Wei's descendants joined the Dark Rising Order, and he stumbled upon this note from his ancestor, which actually mapped the terrain of the mine. Rise of Darkness has dedicated this secret to the Desik royal family.

Therefore, in addition to opening up the landing site, the Desik Landing Army in the Patong area had another task, the search for fire oil.

This is the secret that Settie and the others discover on the coast.

Note 1: In the history of the Magic Empire, the "Gifted Faction" and the "Bloodline" faction are the two major factions in the wizard system. The "gifted" believe that magic is natural, while the "bloodline" believes that only magicians can produce magic.

For this reason, the extremely different attitudes of the two sides towards civilians were one of the factors in the eventual rebellion of the Magic Empire.

Note 2: During the Magic Empire era, the light of magic shone in every corner of the Magic Empire. Even in the most remote towns of the Empire, you can find the most basic magic paraphernalia, such as magic lamps.