The trip of the Houdini and Rasiman missions was not actually an "official visit" in terms of procedure.

Because of the sake of the royal family, Houdini did not tell people that it was "a friendly visit by the Rasiman Kingdom to the city of Elson, the territory of Evata", but asked Merinsela to write a letter in advance, in the name of "a friend visit". This way is very slick, that is, it takes care of Charles II's self-esteem, and it achieves its own purpose ... But Houdini probably didn't expect that the city lord of Elson City was really busy, and most of the information was handed over to Camilla to deal with, but the letter that Merin Sera visited was in the name of a private person, and it was written "Roddy personally opened", and Camilla would definitely not open it as a public property.

So until now, no one in Roddy or in the whole of Elson City knew that the mission was approaching. So when Houdini's convoy strayed into the "magical experiment zone" from the southwest, neither side was aware of their situation...

After the first magical guard post was removed, Melinthra, who was sitting in the carriage behind, also got up and looked, but after thinking about it, she sat back anyway - after all, the team was still more than thirty kilometers away from Elson City, and there was a dense forest in between, and even the shadow of the city wall could not be seen, so there was nothing to worry about from any point of view, perhaps as Houdini judged... This kind of guard is only used to scare the beasts.

With this in mind, the team continued to move forward. Unexpectedly, after gradually entering the forest area, the sharp whistle of "magic alarm" began to sound more and more frequently around the convoy.

It didn't take Houdini's own hands to deal with this kind of thing, and the other magicians in the party would naturally do it for them - at first they would use their own means to quickly cut off the sound of the magic sentry, and then they would destroy the magic slabs standing by the road without even waiting for it to be triggered...

Houdini's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, because through the facts he saw in front of him, he had confirmed that the level of the mages who made these magic circles in Elson City was really low - that's right, it can only be described as "low", and the mages with such a bad level of magic circle portrayal would not be accepted by the lowest magic academy in the Rasiman Kingdom!

"If Elson is at this level, it's really disappointing..."

At this time, Houdini was obviously a little lost in his heart, he came with a mentality of learning and admiration, but at present, it seems that even the magicians raised by the royal family here are not comparable. The occasional shrill whistle seemed to mock some vague expectation within him - levitation technology has always been the most difficult problem for Rasiman magic to overcome, and if he left this problem to himself, then all the humiliation he had suffered would be swept away, and those who had suffered so much would be trampled under his feet...

But now it seems that I still think too much.

Houdini, who was a little distraught, sighed, and then noticed that the carriage had suddenly stopped.

"Lord Houdini, there's a village ahead of you. ”

Someone came to report it, and the news did not surprise Houdini, after all, it was normal for there to be villages outside the city, so he waved his hand and said, "Just go through and don't alarm them." ”

"But... My lord, something doesn't seem right here. ”

"What do you mean?"

Houdini was still immersed in disappointment, and his words were not very polite: "When the words are finished, how can something be wrong with the village?

"No, no, my lord, we found out... I realized that this was no ordinary village—"

The mage bowed his head in explanation as he handed a wooden sign from outside the carriage. Houdini's eyes lit up, and he reached out to take it, and found a hastily written line on it: "Elson City Magic Test Area".

Underneath is a large row of red letters: "Do not come near!".

It was clearly the work of a hurry, and there was white stubble on the plaque that had just been cut, and the ink on it was very clear, even a little damp, and Houdini sniffed closely, and he could still smell the peculiar stench of cheap ink.

Many doubts popped up in his mind, and he immediately realized that things didn't seem to be as simple as he thought. Putting down the wooden sign, he got up and stepped out of the carriage, and after a few seconds of looking ahead, he noticed the anomaly here: the village in front of him was too quiet, and it was not even half popular!

Melinthera also got out of the carriage, looked at the quiet village in front of her, and said, "There is something wrong with this village, these buildings have just been built, and there are no signs of use. ”

Her eyesight was excellent, so she just glanced at it a few times before she raised her hand and pointed to the entrance of the village a few hundred meters away, "There's also a cone-shaped circle there, and if I'm not mistaken, it's arranged in a way that records impact... I don't think there's a village that would put this at the entrance of the village, right?"

In addition to the ordinary guards, there were five mages among the dozen or so people who accompanied them, and they looked at each other, obviously feeling that this was very wrong. So they collectively looked at Houdini, hoping to get the result - the latter did not talk nonsense, immediately recited the incantation, waved his hand and threw three golden shells, but after the successful release of the spell "Seek good fortune and avoid evil", Houdini's face immediately darkened.

Because these three shells were all shattered on the spot!

In prophecy spells, this sign indicates that the caster is currently in danger.

"Damn..."Houdini didn't question the result of the spell, and his decisiveness as a magister was on full display: "Everyone go back!

"Hum—"

As they spoke, everyone heard a faint vibration in the distance, and when they looked up, they found that a dense blue rune suddenly appeared from the floating tower floating in the air in the distance...

"This is..."

Houdini's eyes froze, trying to judge the shape and transformation of the runes, but he was too far away to make out the shapes. At this time, he didn't have time to cast the "Eagle Eye Technique", so he had to continue to let his men start to evacuate - but Merinthera, who was standing on the side, looked up and suddenly stretched out her finger: "There's something there!"

Needless to say, everyone saw a faint arc in the sky, as if something suddenly bounced off the floating tower, and then fell across a distance of tens of kilometers.

"Bang!"

The trail of light was faster than lightning as it approached, falling directly on the convoy a kilometer away, and the dull sound of impact could be heard far away, followed by a rising puff of black smoke.

Houdini and Merinthra were not fools, and neither were the mages, and when they remembered the signs that read "Magic Test Zone", and then saw the scene in front of them, they quickly realized why the area they were staying in warned "Do not approach"...

Before they had time to think about it, the sound of a second impact had already been heard - this time, everyone could see a large cloud of mud and sand suddenly rising from the clearing, only three hundred meters away from the carriage, and then began to spray black smoke upwards.

"That's it?"

Houdini looked at the falling dirt, and his tense mood relaxed slightly—the range of this attack was long enough, but it would be a bit disappointing if the so-called "magic experiment" was just that.

Not to mention himself, even the few young mages who were traveling with him were able to deal with it easily.

Could it be that the black mist is poisonous?

Thinking of this possibility, Houdini still uneasily released a large-scale "air cleaning enchantment", but his urgent mood just now was obviously relaxed a lot.

"What the hell is this guy going to do..."

Merinthra didn't know Roddy like anyone else, and she knew that this guy always seemed to be able to pull up some miracles that were incomprehensible to ordinary people. So she always thought in her heart that it wasn't a good idea to stay here. Just as she was thinking about how to respond, the third impact sounded in the middle of the village in front of her, and as black smoke rose up, she vaguely saw a figure standing on the floating tower in the distance.

"Lord of the City, calibration is complete!"

"Oh, then reload and fire. ”

Roddy didn't think that someone would break into the test area at this time, and she was not in the mood to observe if there was anyone near the village, and when the "calibration bomb" confirmed the location, he directly recited the activation spell.

In an instant, the sixteen magic circle nodes in Elson City below suddenly lit up, and pillars of light lit up with them, accurately projecting directly below the floating tower.

Energy converges, transforms, condenses, releases.

"Bang!"

The "cannonballs" that ejected were brighter than the previous ones, and created a gorgeous white ripple in the air - what magicians call "elemental retention", which usually only occurs when extremely powerful energy bodies streak through space.

"Meta... Elemental Trapping?!"

Houdini, who was making the convoy turn and leave, saw this scene, and his mind suddenly went blank. Because in this magister's impression, "elemental retention" has never appeared only in forbidden spell-level spells, but now... This thing seems to be flying towards itself?

He suddenly realized that Rasiman seemed to have enjoyed peace for too long, and he would even underestimate the signs of the "Seek Good Fortune and Avoid Evil" spell because of his lax spirit!

"This bastard!"

Mai Linsela on the side scolded secretly, but she was already mentally prepared and reacted immediately - she did not cast a protective enchantment, but three consecutive "ground trapping techniques" to sink the soil under the convoy by more than one meter!

"Yes! Trap Technique! Quick!"

Houdini wasn't a combat mage, so his first instinct was to cast a protective enchantment, but when he saw Merinthra's move, he realized that this was the right way to deal with it, so he shouted and immediately cast an "Enhanced Earth Trap" - and just as the other mages were casting additional casts, there was already a loud bang in the sky in front of the team!

"Whoa!"

The flying "No. 53" shell exploded violently less than 100 meters above the ground, and countless fragments bombarded the village below at an even faster speed...

Shells with a diameter of twenty centimeters directly expanded the killing area to a radius of about 100 meters by splitting fragments. And this inconspicuous fragment actually condensed the energy of at least thirty standardized magic crystals in Elson City, so when they released their energy in the form of a chain of explosions, the village suffered a devastating blow.

The sound of the explosions was continuous, and the entire ground seemed to shake violently with the explosion, and the shock wave, fragments of wood in the village, dirt, stones, and trees that had been blown off the perimeter swept over the convoy with the heat, burying them almost in the blink of an eye...

When ten minutes later, a group of mages crawled out of the dirt like mud monkeys, there were no other thoughts left in their minds.

"It's good to live, ahem, it's good to be alive..."

One of the mages coughed with tears in his eyes, because when he crawled out of the depression caused by the "subsidence technique", he found that the village that was still there before him had turned into a charred flat ground!