On the third day after reaching an agreement with Nicholas Egg, the "magical device from the ruins of Ancient Gondor, which stores an ancient soul and forged friendship with Cecil's ancestors" finally began to appear in front of the people of the New Cecil Realm.

From now on, the egg cannot be called "it", but must be called "he".

His appearance naturally attracted some attention - even the most numb serfs and slave laborers could not help but be curious about this metal ball, and when they saw a metal ball with a diameter of one and a half meters, floating in the air, and a clear tile, everyone could not help but stop and watch, and then discuss it with the people around them.

At first, many people were frightened, because the appearance of Nicholas Egg was really unbelievable, and it was too bright in the sun, like a magic ball that was about to explode at any time, and those civilians with shallow knowledge and superstition could not help but scream and run away when they saw this thing, but Gawain specially sent some soldiers to preach and introduce the origin of this "magic device", and emphasized that the egg was actually a respectable ancient scholar, It's just that he had to be trapped inside the metal ball due to a magical accident, and apart from this strange appearance, he is no different from the people in the camp.

After preaching like this many times, people could barely accept such a metal ball - of course, a little fear and nervousness could not be avoided, but they did find that this round creature was harmless, and could make a sound to communicate with people, coupled with Gawain's promise, everyone forced their composure.

And Nicholas Egg himself...... The ball is very happy with where it is.

From the first day he was exiled to this strange world, he was in a difficult and embarrassing situation, first facing the strangeness of the environment, then the unscrupulous locals, being caught in the laboratory as a research sample, and almost being cut into metal shavings by the Magus Gondor a thousand years ago, and finally being suppressed by a seal by those Magus for a thousand years, and when he opened his eyes, it was a new world after the collapse of civilization and technology - he thought that he was going to be finished in this continuous bad luck, But I didn't expect to meet such an alternative as Gawain.

Able to communicate, able to understand what he said, and open-minded enough to accept his various arguments, neither as ignorant as the modern natives, nor as ignorant as the ancient people who only knew about the study of anatomy.

Now that I think about it, I secretly tried to escape a few days ago but was bumped into by someone...... It's a good thing, otherwise I would continue to pretend that the stone ball wouldn't know how long it would take for it to come out for a walk like today.

But Nicholas Egg was walking around the camp very well, but someone ran to Gawain to complain, and Hetty stood in front of Gawain with a worried face: "That ball has been floating around in the camp, you really don't care?" ”

Gawain was looking down to study the data: it was the approximate registration of the hundred technicians from the royal capital who had just arrived here two days ago, and when he heard Hetty's words, he looked up and smiled: "Is that ball making trouble?" ”

"It's not a troublemaker," Hetty shook her head, "but he's so curious that he basically floats over to see someone at work for a long time, and his appearance is so striking that the workers will inevitably be affected." ”

"Sooner or later, you'll get used to it, it's just a metal ball floating around, not a dragon," Gawain smiled, "Of course, I'll go back and remind him to try not to interfere with other people's work." By the way, by the way, what do you think of Nicholas Egg? ”

Hetty's face turned strange: "Are you really sure to give him this strange name?" ”

Gawain stretched out his hands helplessly: "No way, he will admit this." ”

Hetty sighed: "If you think about it...... Actually, I've always wanted to study how he floats, the energy response he exudes is amazing, not like the magic power I am familiar with, and he can float in mid-air forever, if this is a talent spell......"

"Stop, stop," Gawain quickly interrupted Hetty's divergent thinking, "If you want to study, then let's be a little more restrained, that guy was captured and studied by the Magus of the Gondor Empire for a long time a thousand years ago, and now the psychological shadow is particularly serious, you will make the trust he has built up in us disappear with great difficulty." ”

"Of course, I'm just thinking about it now," Hetty smiled apologetically, "I'm more concerned than this about what you mentioned that there are still samples hidden in the ruins in the mountains that could not be removed a thousand years ago. I heard you asked Philip Knight to organize a team of explorations? Are you going to look for those dangerous things in the ruins now? ”

"Of course not," Gawain shook his head, "you said it all, it's a dangerous thing, not something we can get our hands on now." I asked Philip Knight to organize the team mainly to explore the shallow depths of the ruins, and to see the forks in the ruins that we hadn't been able to explore when we entered the ruins. You know, it's a big, strong fortress...... Don't you think it's a waste to put it in the mountains and not use it? ”

Hetty's eyes widened slightly: "You want to ......"

"Make use of it a little, at least the rooms between the entrance hall and the shallow cloister. After all, this is a dark mountain range, and danger will always arise, so if there is an emergency, everyone can at least take refuge in that fortress - right? ”

With that, he lowered his head and refocused his attention on the list of the hundred.

"There are fifteen formal craftsmen, including stonemasons, carpenters, blacksmiths, leathermen, etc., and ten craftsmen who are good at building houses, and there are only two official spellcasters, one of them is a second-level arcanist, and the other is a fourth-level runemaster," Gawain couldn't help but laugh as he watched, "Jenny Perrault, a fourth-level runemaster, the highest-ranking professional in the team. This can be regarded as the generosity of the king, and there is even a mid-level spellcaster......"

Hetty listened to Gawain's words, but couldn't help frowning, because she was actually dissatisfied with the "middle-level spellcaster": the fourth-level rune master was the highest in the middle of the hundred-person team, according to the division of "three levels and one order", she already belonged to the middle level, and a middle-level spellcaster was indeed considered a high-end talent, after all, in addition to Gawain, the most powerful one in the current territory was the third-level profession, but the rune master could not actually be counted like this - although they were also called "mages", they were actually "workers" in the mages, What they have mastered is the technique of carving runes and circles on various magical artifacts and magic circles, and compared to regular mages, their greatest specialty is that their hands are relatively stable......

How does the Runemaster advance? It's that everyone gets together to draw runes and magic circles, and you can draw as many as you want within the specified time, and as for the ability to cast spells......

Runemasters only have the most basic magic skills, which are enough to sense magic and recognize different elements, and usually their mage level is around level 2, and the lowest even a first-level mage who has just graduated from an apprenticeship can become a full-fledged runemaster.

In the eyes of ordinary people who can't master magic, rune masters who can draw magic circles are also mysterious and powerful "mages", but in the eyes of real mages, rune masters are "inferior" products that are one level lower than them, or even several levels lower, and their status is only a little higher than that of "rune craftsmen" who are completely unable to cast spells. Runemasters are usually only able to act as vassals to the official mages, working with the rune artisans to help them make magic artifacts or draw magic circles, and because they don't have the same magic skills themselves, they can't even use the magic circles and items they make - their weak magic power and poor magic control skills are completely insufficient to control those complex magic circles.

Therefore, it is a profession of making wedding dresses for others.

Hetty doesn't have the condescending mentality of most mages, and she doesn't discriminate against runemasters who are regarded as "magic servants" by mainstream mages, but she can tell at a glance that the runemaster called "Jenny Perrault" is actually stuffed into the royal capital to make up the numbers - nominally a mid-level spellcaster, with such a person in the team, Francis II is equivalent to doing his best, and even spreading it can be a good talk.

This was what made Hetty the most dissatisfied, and the total number of spellcasters in this team was only two people, and the rest were all mage apprentices or craftsman apprentices, which made her think that the team sent by the royal capital was seriously insincere.

Hetty is not a person who is very good at hiding her expressions, especially in front of Gawain, so the latter can see her dissatisfaction at a glance: "What? Think a fourth-level rune master is insulting our intelligence? ”

"The king is not sincere," Hetty said bluntly, "a runemaster, Rebecca, may be better than her if she practices her skills well, and this is completely a matter of putting it in to make up the numbers." ”

"This is not what Francis II meant," Gawain waved his hand, "that king must take into account my attitude, so his support for Cecil's pioneering land will not be too much, but he must bear the pressure of the other nobles in the royal capital, and those nobles do not necessarily want the Cecil family to rise quickly, in fact, most of them are probably wishing that our former ruling family in the south can die quietly in the Dark Mountains." In this case, do you think they will allow a capable and valuable team of technicians to come here? ”

Hetty's face became very ugly: "Those narrow-minded and greedy royal nobles...... Cecil's family had no idea of competing with them for any benefit, but they went to such great lengths to wreak havoc. ”

Gawain shook his head: "This is exactly the code of conduct of nobles, you can't accept it, it only shows that you are not actually a qualified nobleman - according to their standards." Of course, I'm not qualified either. ”

"Then what do you ...... about this list?"

"Laughing, of course, why not?" Gawain laughed, "No matter how you say it, it's a hundred technical talents, even if they are randomly put together to make up the numbers, it's better than nothing, these blacksmiths and carpenters can't even use hammers and saws, right?" And I'm also going to meet this runemaster named Jenny Perrault, and there's a quote in her profile that interests me. ”

"Which one?"

"Jenny Perrault, Mage Rank - Apprentice."