Harvey never imagined that the second time he would see Talos would come so quickly, and that he was on his way to Clover's Arena with a fellow member of the Council of the Nine Rings in Freeport of the East.

The human mage remembers very well that the last time they met, Talos was just a second-order bloodline knight, protected by a Naga witch, and he could easily shove the other party into the arms of the god of death with a random high-level spell.

Now not only has he been successfully promoted to the third order - without the need to perceive or use magic items, the birth of the second pair of arms is proof that during this time, Harvey has not lacked the basic knowledge of the main material plane - he is also followed by four four-armed Naga, two bloodline knights, and two mages.

Yes, Harvey reacted, Talos's mother, Sandra, the Black Sea Lord, was a legendary mage, a member of the Sky Dome of the Council of the Nine Rings, and the root cause of his had to put up with Talos's arrogance in the first place - he certainly wouldn't admit that it was the "half-human, half-snake" assessment that caused Naga's hostility in the first place.

Harvey was once regarded as the emperor of magic in his hometown by force, the supreme of magic, and it was because of that personal experience that he knew better what kind of shock a legend could bring, so he did not dare to act rashly.

"So-" Harvey saw the four-armed Naga looking at him with interest, and elongated his tone, "You've successfully joined the Council of the Nine Rings, congratulations." ”

If Talos hadn't raised his chin and deliberately elongated his voice, Harvey might have tried to convince himself that it was a hypocritical politeness, but only God knows that he had used the same way of speaking very often in the past, especially when he was about to humiliate his enemies.

After the change of role, Harvey's anger was successfully ignited, and sometimes even he wondered if this Naga named Talos was born with the ability to taunt, otherwise why every time he met the other party, he used to disguise his good temperament and tolerance as if it never existed.

Harvey has never been a good-natured person, it is his excellent acting skills that give him the quality of gentleness, humility and courtesy are disguises, sincerity is an illusion, perseverance and patience flow in every drop of his blood, as long as he can serve the ambition buried in his heart, he can change from a fierce lion to a docile cat, quietly waiting for the opportunity to come.

In the process of growing from a country boy to a magic emperor, disguise has become Harvey's instinct, and now all he has to do is repeat what he did as a magic apprentice, the difference is that the magic school has become the Council of the Nine Rings, the difficulty has skyrocketed to the hell level, and the same is still the obnoxious, nobility children who have no one in their eyes, such as Talos, who has a legendary mage as his mother.

At the critical moment, it was the reality and the disparity in strength that forced Harvey to calm down, with the strength of his fourth-order archmage, there was really no need to be afraid of Talos and his party, but he had to consider the influence of the Black Sea Lord.

To put it bluntly, it would be no more difficult for the Black Sea Lord to pinch him to death than it would be for an ant to be pinched to death.

So, the human mage pulled away a slightly melancholy smile, happy to meet a friend who had been reunited after a long absence, and sad for the other's taunt: "Long time no see, Talos, I should thank you no matter what." ”

The rich acting experience helped Harvey quickly get into the groove, trying to create the illusion that he had a friendship with Talos, and it didn't matter if he could borrow the power of the Black Sea Lord, the important thing was that the arrogant Talos would not notice his careful thinking and refute.

He knows people like Talos too well, because his outstanding family background and solid enough backing always consider himself superior, with self-esteem far beyond ordinary people, and he has a very good face.

Sure enough, looking at Talos's expression, Harvey knew that he had successfully choked Naga, and he suddenly felt a burst of pleasure, but he extended an invitation more enthusiastically: "We are about to go to the Clover Arena, if——"

However, before he could finish speaking, another cold voice came from a distance: "Tár, what are you doing? ”

Looking in the direction from which the voice came, Harvey saw a huge magical flying carpet floating in the air, led by a six-armed Naga far above Talos.

Black Sea Lord!

It's not that the human mage hasn't seen other legendary mages, in fact, on the third day he came to the Nine Rings Council, he had met the Nine Rings Archmage of the two major spell factions of Space and Prophecy.

But I don't know why, the moment he was swept by the eyes of the Black Sea Lord, Harvey felt an unprecedented sense of danger, his body was inexplicably stiff, and he even wondered if even the blood had stopped flowing just now!

"Coming soon!"

Harvey heard Talos answer, and without looking at him, he took the other four four-armed Naga up into the air on a magic flying carpet and headed for the teleportation hall of the Eastern Freeport.

The human mage clenched his fist tightly, but let go before his companions could realize it, reassuring himself that Talos was only a trivial stumbling block in his path to a legendary mage, and that one day Naga would pay the price of despising him.

"Man, do you know Talos of House Nepton? I haven't heard you mention it before. ”

I'll try to talk about it in the future, Harvey sorted out his emotions and hid the gloom in his eyes: "Yes, he has most of the credit for successfully entering the Nine Rings Council, but it's a pity that Talos doesn't seem to like me very much." ”

"Then you have to take advantage of the opportunity, this is a very good connection, and the friendship is also very good in the Nine Rings Council. The companion patted Harvey on the shoulder, "As far as I know, the Black Sea is about to hold a big dinner to celebrate the promotion of the Black Sea Lord Sandra to the Legend. ”

"Moreover, this six-armed Naga is about to usher in another extremely crucial title outside of the patriarch of the Neptune family and the lord of the Black Sea, you know what I mean, right?" the companion continued mysteriously, "A relatively independent principality that belongs to the Naga Kingdom, the Council values this opportunity very much. ”

Harvey looked at his companion suspiciously: "You even know this?"

The companion shook his head, he knew that Harvey had been staying in an inaccessible place before he was promoted to the fourth rank, and he didn't know much about many common sense: "It's almost an open secret, although the Council of the Nine Rings is an international organization, there are many legendary mages from the Golden Empire of Sarafus, the Rhine Kingdom, the Faro Kingdom, and the Pahlavi Kingdom, but the racial composition is too homogeneous. ”

During the Supreme Council of the Ancient Arcane Empire, human mages occupied one-third of the seats, and the remaining seats were distributed among the different races such as High Elf Mages, Mermaid Mages, and Naga Mages, covering almost all nine races except dragons and Titans.

But now, there are only two legendary mages of Naga in the Sky Dome, the Black Sea Lord and the Wave Lord, and as for the High Elves and Mermaids, they have long been extinct from the Sky Dome.

Harvey had a vague impression of this, among the nine races of the main material plane, dragons and titans, although they were famous, had withdrawn from the stage of history as early as the last era.

In addition to the six major races of human beings, orcs basically have nothing to do with magic, elves, dark elves, dwarves, naga and mermaids have all undergone a change of faith, since then the goddess of the moon, the goddess of night, the god of forging, the goddess of the sea, the goddess of storms and other gods in the Titan god system after the twelve main gods and the dragon god of good and evil dragon gods replaced the primordial gods to occupy the mainstream of faith.

Mages and followers of primordial gods have suffered greatly in this revolution that has lasted for centuries.

For example, the elves, the high elves who believed in the goddess of the moon moved into the southwest subcontinent after ending the war with humans, and the elves who refused to give up their belief in primordial gods became the main force of the modern traditional forest druids, and the Tirishan Council, a mage organization that once occupied an important position in history, died out;

For example, the dwarves, four of the six clans converted, and only the Bronze Whiskers and the Fire Hammer adhered to the path of the rune priests;

For example, the Dark Elves, who believe in the Dark Dragon, the Dark Elf Witch led by the Shadow Witch retreats to the Shadow Dungeon, the Nightmare Labyrinth, and the Crazy Mountains;

Mermaids, for example, are almost impossible to find traces of ocean druids in the Western Ocean - of the five main druid schools of forest, desert, swamp, ocean, and sky, the ocean druid is the only one that does not have a sage druid.

In this way, it is only natural to win over the Black Sea lord who is in charge of a principality.