When Herizal was brought back to the Beta City Unified Area, he thought that he had been found out about running away before, and he was sweating white. When he arrived in the communication room, he saw the beautiful Cardinal Aurora's face and asked him to explain it to Tutor Rowanna, only to realize that he didn't care about it at all.

Aurora left, and Herizal faced Rowanna alone, curled up and smiled: "Mentor, I forgot to tell you if I was too busy with work, I ...... Not ready to go. ”

"Herizal, you were crying and begging me a few days ago, and now you're not leaving?"

Rowanna had a fight with Aurora just now, and was in a very bad mood: "Let's just say it, how did Li Qi threaten you? Don't be afraid, I'll call the shots for you! They two little bastards played tricks on me for your little thing, so don't blame me for tearing up their faces with them! They could have been here without me sitting in that fortress!?"

"Mentor ......"

Herizal was still thinking about how to push the responsibility up, but when he heard Rowanna's words, a layer of sweat suddenly appeared on his forehead, he couldn't afford to let his mentor turn his face with Fei!

Thinking that the other party was just a former mentor, as long as he stood firm in his current position, he would naturally defend it, Herizal straightened his waist slightly: "It's my own decision, no one threats." The words I told you before were that my brain was too nonsense, and I was not good, and I confessed to how you punished me. ”

Rovanna still knew her apprentice very well, and she could see from her expression and posture that Herizal was not lying, and she suddenly sneered: "I'm no longer your mentor, how can I punish you? You changed your mind so quickly, it's not a threat, it's a temptation? Say, what kind of treatment are you? How many gold bushels are you giving a month? Oh, how many are you counting with contribution points? plus an independent magic tower? Let you be in charge of the magic cannon project?"

Herizal shook his head slowly: "Mentor, it can be regarded as a temptation, I can't refuse at all, and I can't say the specific situation." ”

Just now, a message popped up from his sidekick from Aurora, warning him not to divulge the Mobile Fortress project, which he himself agreed. If there is a rumor, who knows what will change, and whether he can still be the number two person.

"Herizal!"

Rowanna was furious: "Even if it is a magic cannon project, can it be compared to earning a million a year, joining the Mage Federation as a councilor, and having countless workshops?"

Herizal secretly despised that the prospect that Rovanna was talking about was indeed tempting, but compared to presiding over the construction of a mobile fortress, it was boring. And if you think about it seriously, the public ownership system that the Fei Gong practices allows you to focus entirely on your work, and this simple life feels much easier than the world wrapped in things like Kim Buel and parliamentarians.

He lowered his head and didn't speak, since he said it, the dead pig was not afraid of boiling water. Anyway, as long as he insists on his proper position, the things that follow will naturally be carried around. Although it was the beginning of the matter, he heard it just now, and the mentor really wanted to pull him over.

Rowanna wasn't bored enough to get angry with him: "Okay, it's not interesting to tell you, ask Aurora to come and tell me!"

As if pardoned, Herizal bowed his head and pouted and turned away.

I went out to find Aurora, but I almost bumped into another person. The corner of his eye slipped to see who it was, and his waist instantly straightened like a spring: "Chief Cardinal!"

"Have you been scolded? don't worry, I'm in my pocket," Li Qi smiled gently, making the corners of Herizal's eyes sour, and even giving birth to the urge to throw himself into Li Qi's arms and cry twice.

I just broke off with my mentor, but the pressure was actually very high, and my heart was very uncomfortable.

After comforting Herizal, Richie waved his hand at Aurora and motioned for him to come in alone.

With the closing of the First Congress, the hearts of the team gathered, and the corresponding boundaries with the outside became much clearer, and the relationship with partners naturally suffered a violent impact.

Zold's kind of partner who only talks about interests is okay, Xiaolongnu...... Now that the dragon clan has entered directly, and her father has conveyed goodwill to Theresia on behalf of the silver dragon, then the relationship with the little dragon girl will inevitably be affected, and she must be prepared to take a step back and distance themselves from each other.

Rowanna, a partner who has both interests and feelings, has to be handled carefully. Richie still sees her as a united front unite, but this requires her own willingness to continue the relationship.

Seeing Li Qi, Rowanna said with a cold face: "Duke Prell, you are really a nobleman, it is more difficult to see you than to see Her Majesty the Empress." ”

"Sister, don't make fun of me, I really can't be separated", Li Qi said in a familiar tone: "We are friends of life and death, even if we don't get through for a year or ten years, what's the matter that doesn't come as soon as you say it?"

"Friends of Life and Death......

Rowanna's eyes flashed, and her attitude softened a little: "For the sake of a Herizal, he will not hesitate to use small means, which is a friend of life and death." ”

Li Qi put on a low posture: "It's my fault, I didn't make it clear to you in advance." There was some chaos on our side before, and you should have heard that people's hearts are a little messy. When I came back, I made some adjustments, and some of the engineering tasks were left to Herizal. ”

Rowanna sneered: "If you want to engage in the god system, you want to dedicate your territory and the wealth of your people to the goddess, how can people's hearts not be in turmoil? Poor Aurora, who was abducted by you and put on a thief ship, not only emptied her own territory, but also denied her aunt, and just now she quarreled with me, and her voice was so high......

"We don't have any god property system here, it's public ownership", Li Qi still wanted to work hard, Luo Wenna waved her hand with a posture of seeing through everything and said: "It's just another way, the same, the same." ”

She sighed leisurely: "Originally, I thought that you were doing a good job there, and the future was not bad, but now that you are doing this, I am very worried." Aurora is also like a different person, full of great truths, and I was stunned for a while. What are you going to do again, and how can I help you?"

"Aurora and I really want you to join us, Aurora once invited you to our conference, but you refused", Li Qi also said in a sighing tone, "It seems that you are very satisfied with your current career." ”

"Don't coax me with alarmist words, I know very well what your mouth is up to," said Rowanna, "I am indeed very satisfied with what I am doing, and I am grateful for the help you have given me before." But we've supported each other to get to where we are today, and I'm not going to settle the old accounts with you. ”

Although her tone was light, she was obviously confessing: "The world I want is to earn gold bushels by my own skills, fair trade, you and I will, this is the most just law in the world." Whoever respects such a law, I am friends with him, and I am a partner who can cooperate. Whoever wants to rob me of my wealth and cut off my future, I will fight to the end, it's as simple as that. It's just that I don't have enough strength, and I think it's like when I was kicked out of the Storm Islands, starting all over again, without regrets or complaints. ”

She smiled at Li Qi, "At first, I thought you were a saint and devoted yourself to practicing the great love of Lady Crimson. Now it seems that you are indeed a saint who wants to spread that great love throughout Finn. But before you were just giving for yourself, now you are asking others to do the same, which is not right. ”

"Rowanna", Li Qi was no longer tactful and ambiguous, and said directly: "I respect your choice, we are still friends and partners." ”

These words made Rowanna, who had prepared countless ammunition, stunned, and the smile on her face gradually faded.

She said in a panic: "Well, actually, I don't mean that, if you have a more correct attitude, can't we still be the same as before?"

"No, Rowanna, we are not the same as before", Richie held his head high, his face filled with the holy aura of a saint, "Thousands of people, including Aurora, have rallied around me, and together we have embarked on a clear path. I can no longer put my likes and dislikes and personal relationships above the collective, as I used to. ”

"This path and the path you stick to may not conflict now, but there will definitely be contradictions in the future, oh, in fact, there are already contradictions. If we are still bound by past relationships, it will only cause us to create a bigger rift. So, let's just get along as friends and partners. ”

That's what I wanted to say!

Rowanna cried in her heart, gritted her teeth and said, "Do you mean that from now on, we will have to settle accounts clearly? I really don't regret it? You don't even have a legend now, and if something happens, if you want to ask for my price, it will make you very painful." ”

Li Qi smiled and said, "If I really want to invite you, how can I make you suffer?"

A slight annoyance flowed in Rowanna's heart, of course, she thought more about this way so that she could not get Li Qi's technical guidance. Although the visual magic industry is now very large, and the sense of oppression of being chased by peers is not so strong when it first started, Li Qi's casual idea can always inspire him.

"It's too emotional for us to say these things to the projection," she said, trying to redeem herself, "or you have time...... No, I'll take the time to come over and let's have a good talk?"

"I'm going out soon," Li Qi shrugged, "Your Majesty doesn't dare to delay the task assigned by Her Majesty." ”

Hearing the obvious detachment in her tone, she was reserved so that Rowanna didn't insist anymore, she raised her chin and said, "Okay, in the future, you don't need to look for me in business, let the people below you directly find the people below me." ”

Li Qi nodded, and said again: "Don't worry about Aurora, after all, you are her aunt, after a while, she figured it out, and I asked her to send some souvenirs to make amends for you." ”

The devil wants your souvenirs!

Rowanna said hatefully: "Then you shouldn't change your name? According to Aurora's relationship, I am also your aunt!"

"Now you're going to be an aunt?"

Li Qi sighed: "But I'm already happily with Xiang'er." ”

"Where is the ...... of another Xiang'er?"

"Just kidding, don't care about ......"

Richie was about to cut off the communication, but Rowanna remembered something and asked, "What treatment did you give Herizal? Let him stay with you so desperately? At first, he took the initiative to find me and wanted to run away." ”

"It's nothing, just a chance for a magician, or even a magician, to give up a seat in the Golden Bussel, the Magic Tower, or even the High Council. ”

"At first, I thought about inviting you, but since you don't agree with our path, there's no way to do it. ”

At the end of the communication, Rowanna was stunned for a moment, and suddenly patted the Book of Trade Winds and said, "You will regret it! I should have said this to him, but how did it become that he said it to me? Why!?"

Taling faithfully said, "Because you do regret it." ”

Rowanna retorted, "I will soon be a member of the Supreme Council, the branch president of the Magic Patent Committee, a royal legend, and a supervisor of the Joint Communications Committee, how can I regret it!?"

Taling was still chattering: "You were just buttoning your clothes, you were going to pretend to accidentally expose your chest to make the atmosphere ambiguous, and then you can move on to the previous topic." You're thinking that if you had had had an indescribable relationship with Aurora in the first place, maybe things wouldn't have ......"

"Shut up, why was I so stupid to use your delicate wind spirit as a tower spirit in the first place!"

Rowanna waved her hand to expel Taling back to the spirit plane, took a deep breath, and the flush on her face gradually dissipated: "Perhaps, but if I want to agree with his path, it is impossible. Everyone's fate can only be in their own hands, how can they be handed over to others!?"

In the communication room, Aurora threw herself into Richie's arms, and she could hear clearly outside the door just now, that Richie had a showdown with her aunt......

"There's no way to get your aunt involved, so we'll have to get out of the way, otherwise things like Hrizal will continue to happen, and we'll have too much trouble dealing with them. ”

Li Qi patted Aurora on the back and comforted her: "Let her calm down first, don't see her as an enemy." ”

Aurora nodded sullenly and continued to sniffle.

Li Qi smiled: "It can also be regarded as wanting to catch and indulge, maybe she can't help it and takes the initiative to send it to the door?"

Aurora looked up: "Do you want to catch your aunt as a girl?"

Li Qi hurriedly shouted that he was wronged, and Aurora was in a bad mood and played a little temper and held on, forcing Li Qi to escape with the threat of pink flowers.

"Can you use the mission as an excuse to escape Theresia?"

Aurora was worried about another matter: "Tomorrow is her coronation, and if you don't even congratulate her through the Book of Trade Winds, show your loyalty, she will hate you." ”

"Theresia is very distinct," said Richie, "no matter how flattering I am personally, even if I go to the Shield Fort to attend the ceremony in person, it will not change her determination of our path." ”

"On the contrary, it is on our side, as I told your aunt just now, our team has been united, and I am no longer the Duke of Prell. My words and deeds to the outside world represent our collective efforts. Therefore, I want to congratulate her, even if it is just to send a congratulatory letter, it means that the Fei Gong bows down to her. ”

"The Fergonal is committed to the liberation of all mortals in Finn, whose happiness does not depend on kings and gods, and certainly not on empresses. Bowing down to her is contradictory to our path. ’

"Of course, we can interpret it as a practical need, and we can interpret it as a political strategy. But in the future, this will inevitably become a stain on our cause and a loophole for our enemies to exploit. I'd rather take some risks than leave such a hidden danger for the future. ”

Aurora was stunned: "But you are her vassal after all? ”

"So, isn't this the perfect time to break free of this bondage?"

"She'll understand, she'll make a decision," Richie said. ”

Aurora gasped: "Aren't you afraid that she will openly turn against you, and even list us as rebels as a sacrifice for the new empire?"

"Didn't I accept her mission? at least we're her allies. ”

Li Qi smiled and said: "We are not the enemies she has to deal with now, and we are nested in the Divine Fall Plateau, and the Kist Kingdom in the north is also a sphere of influence that has long been assigned to us, and it will not endanger her empire." The nobles who had once supported her most firmly were her current enemies, and she would be able to distinguish them. ”

"yes...... She's going to do it", Aurora figured it out, and now was a good time for Feld to draw a line with Theresia.

She said with emotion: "I always feel that the two of you have too much tacit understanding, and the tacit understanding has to become enemies step by step." ”

Richie coughed a little weakly, and he and Theresia did have a tacit understanding on the matter of "although we did a good job, we will part ways eventually".