"The group seems to have said something interesting."

Mr. Evelyn still had a smile on his face.

"The young queen of the Rhine kingdom has been cursed, and they hope to find an antidote in the magic tower."

"Cursed?"

"Not bad."

Richard's gaze turned back from him.

"Tell me about it."

This was addressed to the representatives of the nobility of the earth. While the two wizard leaders were communicating, everyone else had to be quiet, and they didn't even dare to take a breath.

"Yes...... Yes. ”

The fat man wiped the sweat from his forehead and stammered.

"It happened a month ago, when our noble and beloved queen was returning from a visit to her family in her hometown, but she suddenly fell ill on the way, and it was useless to find many people from all over the country to see it, and the court doctors were helpless about it. The queen's body became weaker and weaker, but her condition did not improve. It was later identified by Monsieur Faulkner, a priest in the church of Our Lady of Chartres, as a result of some vicious curse. But this curse has never been recorded in history, which is why the palace sends people everywhere to visit famous wizards......"

"Don't the people of the Holy See have a solution?"

"According to the Bishop of St. Michel, Mr. Charles, even if he has the ability to forcibly exorcise the curse through holy water, holy aids, and rituals, the queen is just an ordinary person, and her weak body cannot withstand the purifying effect too strongly, and the best way is to break the curse in a gentler way by analyzing the nature of the curse. The knowledgeable archbishop was not in the city at the time, and had to seek out wizards who were more proficient in spells. ”

"It doesn't look like the results are promising."

Richard said lightly.

"Yes."

The fat man's tone was heavy and his expression was serious, but he looked presentable, as if he was really worried about the future of the sick bed.

"We finally asked the people of the Flamel family, but they also couldn't think of a way to solve the ......"

When the nobleman uttered the words "Flamel family", there was a commotion among the wizards around him, and even the stern-looking young man who followed Mr. Evelyn had a look of surprise on his face.

"That's it, my friend, don't you think it's interesting?"

Mr. Evelyn snapped his fingers and smiled.

"It's just a little-known curse, but even the people of the 'Crown Family' can't do anything about it, and the identity of the person who came to the curse is not simple. Which dark wizard is this spell? In this era, he dared to attack a queen and queen, which is really a great courage. ”

Richard didn't speak for a moment, he was mentally searching Raspuchin's knowledge base. "Crown Family" ...... "Flammel"...... He quickly got an answer.

As mentioned before, there have been many wizards in history who, in order to pass on their knowledge and at the same time do not want betrayers among their students, simply choose to take their relatives or lovers as students, and deepen the connection through a two-tier relationship - this led to the emergence of wizard families. They generally have an ancient arcane tradition, often with a long history, and are the main forces that constitute the "aristocracy" and the "bloodline" of the wizarding world.

In fact, in the main continent of Maya, that is, in the wizarding world except for the "Three Towers of the Stars", the wizarding family is the mainstream of the wizarding world. These wizarding families, with their terrifying strength and profound heritage, often maintain close relations with the nations on earth, and the remaining wizards either become their vassals or can only survive in the shadow of the wizarding family's towering ancient trees.

Whether it is a free wizard who chooses to go alone, a group of wizards who have gathered into schools and associations, or even those who are supported by the kings, they are all in a disadvantaged position compared to the wizarding families who continue their power through blood.

This is why the "Three Towers of the Stars" has become a sacred place in the hearts of wizards on the mainland, even if the internal competition is fierce and the hierarchy is fierce, it is still a symbol of freedom in the eyes of some wizards. The Wizard's Tower is a world that flies in the sky, unbound by blood, and is the yearning of all wizards.

Among the large number of wizarding families scattered in every corner of the continent, the ten families with the most noble status and power have always been called the "Crown Family". They have their own realms of domination, and the rest of the families with names and surnames are all distantly related to the crown family, or even vassals.

The crown family is like a huge root system entrenched in the depths of the entire wizarding world, on the one hand, it supports countless people on the road of exploring magic, and on the other hand, it absorbs the flesh and blood spirit of countless people as "nutrition"; The foliage that grew on it was so dense and luxuriant that it almost obscured the entire continent, and only the sky was beyond their reach.

One of them is Flamel, whose founder is "Nicholas Flamel", a legendary wizard known to the world in the field of alchemy hundreds of years ago, and it is said that he has even surpassed the realm of "legend" and refined the "Philosopher's Stone", the highest achievement in alchemy.

However, Richard has no interest in things on the mainland for the time being. Anyway, no matter how great the influence of "Flammel" is, it won't be able to touch him for a while and a half - the magic tower is originally no less powerful than the crown family. What he really cared about was the word "curse," even though it was a word that bordered on common sense.

"So, what are you going to do?"

Richard's gaze fell on the leading man, and he asked lightly.

"Even if we want to get the cure, we have to see what the curse looks like. Why, did you send that woman to the tower? ”

"This ......"

It took a while for the fat nobleman to react, and the "woman" that the wizard leader was talking about was the most noble woman in the Rhine Kingdom, Maria Antonia Josephine, but in the other party's mouth, it seemed to mention an ordinary village woman. If it were someone else, the fat nobleman would have to shake his majesty and shout at the other party's faux pas, but now he didn't even dare to take a breath of air, he just hoped that he was deaf and could pretend that he couldn't hear anything.

"I, I...... No, the queen she, she's still in the palace......"

The search for an antidote was just a superficial excuse, and it was even more unlikely that they would send the queen to the magic tower that was no different from the tiger's den in Longtan. What's more, the relationship between the royal capital and them is tense, if someone really eats the bear's heart and leopard gall, and dares to make such a request in front of the king, he will definitely be sent to the guillotine angrily.

"None? Then you've caught the curse...... The Dark Wizard? Where is he? ”

"This ......"

This is of course just as impossible. If they could really catch the real culprit behind the scenes, they wouldn't have to go to the trouble of asking the Holy See and the wizarding family for help.

The fat man was crying and mourning, looking like he was about to faint. The murderous reputation of the leaders of the magic tower has long been accompanied by all kinds of terrifying rumors, and in the hearts of the people on the mainland, he has become a great demon king who kills people and does not spit out bones, he is not very bold, and he doesn't know if he will go against the other party's will twice in a row, and this wizard leader who looks very cold will be dissatisfied and kill himself directly.

"Haha, don't embarrass them too much."

Mr. Evelyn didn't care much, he was the kind of person who seemed to be affable and unassuming, at least on the surface, and even if he was still a talkative attitude towards ordinary people, it was no wonder that the fat nobleman showed a relaxed and grateful expression for a while.

"But it's true, if only I could send the queen up."

The blonde youth stroked his chin with a pensive expression.

"Why don't you take a trip to Fengquan Palace and 'invite' her to the tower? …… Ha ha! Look at your face, Mr. Harder, I'm joking. ”

"Mr. Harder" was the fat nobleman, and his face became even more ugly than before. It seems that he has realized that this seemingly kind man doesn't really take them to heart.

……

The nobles from the Rhine Kingdom finally realized that they could not achieve their goal, and left in disgrace soon after. In fact, most of the wizards in the tower would have thought so, including Miss Scotty before, who had said the same thing. The inhabitants of the Tower have a natural sense of indifference and alienation towards the people on the ground, like a group of people who are looking down on the ants.

Mr. Evelyn seemed to lose his pleasure and dragged him out of the banquet with him. He came to test it on his own initiative, and the dismissal did not get the information he wanted.

"Cursed...... What does this correspond to in a bygone era? ”

- And at this time, Richard's mind was full of this question.

*

In the wizarding world, the various spells in the world are divided into nine realms according to the nature of the power and knowledge they possess.

The most common are the five "mainstream fields", which are "nature", "spells", "life", "alchemy" and "psychic"; In addition to the alchemy realm, the other four realms have their corresponding legendary wizards on top of the magic tower. Nine out of ten wizards in the world will choose one or two of the above fields as their direction of study and mastery.

Outside of the mainstream realm, there are two "rare realms", namely "mind" and "prophecy". Wizards who have access to rare realms are extremely scarce, and in order to avoid attracting the covetousness of others, they tend to keep their abilities secret, and rarely appear in front of the world.

The remaining two realms are "Curse" and "Plague", they are called "Evil Realm", and those who are engaged in the study of evil fields have always been expelled and hunted by all kingdoms and the Orthodox Church, and even feared and rejected by wizards, and this group of people is the "Dark Wizards".