The arc of life was like an unruly spirit snake writhing its body and plunging headlong.

"Not good!"

Burns suddenly felt that the lightning that had just been generated had lost his air, and when he was startling in his heart, the lightning in the sky had gone out of control and struck him in the head. Because Burns did not have a water shield to protect himself in advance when casting the spell, he was struck by lightning, and he only felt that his eyes were dark, and he actually fainted.

"Be careful!"

The power of the lightning did not run out, and a chain of lightning leaped in the direction of the others. But just as everyone was about to dodge, Alan stepped forward in time, and at the same time chanted a magic spell in his mouth, and with a wave of his hand, the lightning changed direction and quickly disappeared into thin air.

"What happened?"

Everyone hurriedly gathered around, only to see that Burns's shiny hair was smoking, and the skin on his face had become charred by the lightning strike just now.

"When Burns cast the chain lightning, due to his lack of strength, he couldn't fully control the huge magical energy, which caused the magic element to backlash, but it doesn't matter, he was just unconscious and couldn't die. ”

Herbert was the first to step forward to take a look, and saw that Burns was still angry, and then immediately made a judgment, although he knew that Alan was making trouble behind all this, but he still put the blame on Burns himself, he originally wanted to heal Burns with water magic, but when he saw Alan also coming over, he hurriedly gave Alan a look.

"Get out of the way, let me treat him, or he'll die." ”

Alan immediately understood what Herbert meant, and he walked up to Burns, pressed his hand on his head, and began to chant a magic incantation, and a blue light enveloped Burns's head.

"He's fine, take him down to recuperate. ”

After Allen's spell was finished, Hollander commanded, and immediately a few guards came up and carried Burns down.

"Burns is actually a good junior, but he is still too young, a little impulsive, and he needs to be honed before he can become a big man, Allen, you should also pay attention to guide him in the future. ”

Looking at Burns, who was sent away, Herbert touched his beard and commented.

"It's normal to be reckless, young man. ”

Alan nodded.

The others listened to the conversation between the two, and they all looked at each other, knowing that Alan was only in his twenties this year, and the young man in his mouth was already in his thirties.

"Is there anyone else who is not convinced that Eren has become a great magician?"

Hollandst's expression was triumphant, Allen's performance just now on the one hand showed that his vision of choosing Allen was correct, and on the other hand, it also told everyone that he had another powerful partner by his side, and with the addition of this partner, it would no longer be a dream to dominate the continent and reproduce the glory of the Godsa.

"If you are not convinced, don't be embarrassed to mention it, just take this opportunity to challenge the chief mage. Everyone didn't react, and it seemed that they weren't convinced. ”

Hollanster looked around, but no one responded, so he asked deliberately.

"No, no. The lord's selection of talents has always been like a torch, and the strength of Master Kante is obvious to all, and becoming an archmage is also expected. ”

Nelson, the leader of the Tiger Mercenary Regiment, stood up at the right time to show his attitude, and the others also expressed their support for Allen's position, so the appointment of the chief archmage who had a little episode was successfully completed.

The morning meeting was over, and Hollander left the heads of the major mercenary groups and the mayors of the towns to continue the meeting, and the others left on their own.

"My lord, I am going to establish a magic school in the ancient city of Okugu to train more magicians for the city-state. ”

After lunch, Alan took advantage of the recess to go to Holancest's study, where he was ready to do his first meaningful job as the chief archmage, and at the same time his teacher Famar Ax's long-held dream, the spread of magic. But I didn't expect Horanster to simply refuse.

"No, no, no..."

Hollander's head shook quickly, but when he saw the look of disappointment on Allen's face, he poured a glass of mule and handed it to Allen, and then explained:

"Of course I support training magicians, but there is no rush to build a magic school in advance, we have time. Now there's something more important for you to do. ”

"What's the matter?"

Allen's attention was diverted.

"About the expansion of the army. ”

Hollander paused for a moment, and only after taking a sip of wine did he say what he had already decided:

"At this stage, we need to form a new mercenary group to achieve the purpose of expanding the army in order to deal with the sudden situation on the mainland at any time. ”

Obviously, Hollanster and Alan had the same idea, and neither thought that it was a good choice to put Allen, the chief mage, by his side, so in the end he decided to give Alan a very specific thing to be responsible for, and it was obviously a good choice to form and lead a large mercenary group.

"Forming a mercenary group?"

This time it was Allen's turn to be surprised, it is said that the ancient city of Okugu lacks everything, except for the mercenary group.

"Yes, a large mercenary group. Although there are many mercenaries in the ancient city of Oku, there are not many large mercenary groups in formation, and those small mercenary groups have limited role in wartime, so I need to further strengthen my strength. ”

As soon as Holland explained this, Alan understood why he did not agree to the establishment of a magic school, because the training speed of magicians was too slow, far less than the formation of mercenary groups.

"But I'm not familiar with how to form a mercenary group. ”

Alan was a little embarrassed, teaching everyone how to use mages was his forte, but he had no experience in recruiting, training, and commanding mercenary groups.

"Don't worry, the other mercenary groups will help you, we'll discuss this in the afternoon's meeting. ”

Hollanster patted Allen on the shoulder, signaling Alan to relax, he had already thought about Allen. Alan was about to ask some more details, but the butler came in to remind him that it was time for the afternoon meeting.

The afternoon meeting entered the topic of army expansion, and Hollanster announced in front of everyone present that he was ready to form the fifth mercenary group after the four major mercenary groups of Tiger, Wolf Warrior, Spirit Snake, and Flying Eagle to further expand his strength. The leader of the Fifth Mercenary Regiment was Alan Kanter, and it was the first time that Alan had really intervened in the affairs of the city-state since becoming the chief archmage.

The formation of a new mercenary group, especially a large mercenary group, is not a simple matter, personnel, materials, money, time, rules and regulations, all are indispensable, so the rest of the meeting will be transferred to the specific formation of the new large mercenary group.

There are three main points in its core content:

First, in order to form a new mercenary group, a large number of recruits must be recruited immediately, so the scope and conditions of this year's mercenary recruitment are more relaxed than in previous years, which requires the mayors and magistrates of each town to immediately count the school-age teenagers in the jurisdiction, and the new mercenary group will give priority to selecting soldiers.

Second, extend the service time of mercenaries who meet the retirement conditions in the active mercenaries, this article is matched with the first article, normally speaking, newly recruited mercenaries are generally used to supplement casualties or retired mercenaries, but now since the scale of the mercenary group is to be expanded, mercenaries who have met the retirement conditions or reached the retirement age before will have to delay their retirement.

Third, in addition to having a sufficient source of recruits, the preparation of a new mercenary group also requires experienced veterans as a foundation, which requires the transfer of some veterans from the existing mercenary group.