Chapter Fifty-Seven: The World Is Peaceful and Predictable (Part I)
Magic iron ore is also available, but the reserves are so scarce that only one vein has been found in history, in a valley in the Alps in present-day southern Germany. This valley has always been a place of rest for merchants because of its leeward and sunny direction, but no one has ever known that it hides great treasures. Until one day a caravan from afar chose to rest here again, and a group of silk merchants from Venice of the East were wandering in the valley when they found a strange ore, so they stopped and set up a temporary camp here to explore the veins, and to their surprise, they found not only veins full of this strange ore, but also rich reserves of silver and copper.
The leader of this group of Venetian merchants, named Hans 61 Fugue, immediately moved to the neighborhood with his family and friends after discovering many mineral deposits, and built a new city around the settlement, called Augsburg. The Fugger family and its partners also made their fortunes from silver and copper mines, until they became the largest financial group in Europe in the sixteenth century, providing huge amounts of money across borders to the Holy Roman Emperor, to Henry VIII and his children in the Tudor dynasty of England, to Philip II of Spain, to the kings of Portugal and France, to support the activities of the royal families, to support the kings and the foreign conquests of the Holy Roman Emperor, and finally to the actual manipulation of the countries of Western Europe through various operations. Become a prestigious underground emperor.
However, in this series of family history, there is no mention of the strange vein that led them to move to Augsburg in the first place. It wasn't until the early twentieth century that the secret was revealed, and it was only then known that the illustrious Fugue family also had a well-known identity in the world of magic: the Gelb Halstch Retreat!
That's right, the Gelb Halstch Order, the most mysterious force of magic in Europe.
So far, the European countries have not figured out where this Gelb Halstch monastery came from and by whom. They are secretive, have strict rules, and rarely come into contact with other magic forces, and it was also because of an accident that they entered the field of vision of various magic forces in Europe.
At the height of the witch hunt in Europe, a group of paladins hunted two famous witches and tracked them all the way to the outskirts of Augsburg, where they encountered a group of teenagers hunting in the woods. Originally, the knights were setting up an ambush according to the intelligence to prepare to ambush the two very powerful witches, and they didn't want to pay attention to the group of gentlemen who seemed to be the ancestors of the second nobleman, who had thought that a few teenagers would meet a herd of deer in the forest, so they gambled and calculated, one of the young men was not good at archery, and shot in the air repeatedly, and was ridiculed by his companions, and he was so angry for a while, so he said What is the big deal about shooting like this, I only need to wave lightly, and I can let the fleeing deer herd automatically come over and wait for me to slaughter at will.
The other teenagers didn't believe it, and laughed at the boy for talking big. The young man took out a piece of yellow paper and put it between his fingers, and after a moment of recitation, he shook it gently, and the yellow paper turned into ashes, and he saw that the frightened deer had indeed gathered back from all directions, and obediently gathered around the young man, not running away or avoiding it. All the young men were amazed and admired when they saw it, but the paladins who were in ambush were very angry when they saw it. At this time, the witch hunting storm swept through Europe, although the main hunting witches, but the wizards with the handle will not let go, even with the wizards' guild of thousands of years of inheritance, at this time has to temporarily force the Holy See to hide underground. As long as the wizards' guild, the power is intertwined, and the relationship between the royal families and nobles in Europe is inexplicable, once it is hidden underground, then the Holy See does not want to find out lightly, not to mention that the Holy See just wants to use the witch hunt to further consolidate its voice in Europe, and it is not really a matter of killing the major magic forces in Europe in one fell swoop, and he does not have the strength, so he turns a blind eye to the real big forces, as long as it does not affect the witch hunt movement, they will go, The main ones killed are those wild witches who have no roots, no foundation, no backers and no background, such as gypsy women who divinate and the like.
Since they have so many scruples, the paladins who are the main force of the pursuit, especially the captains of the paladins of each team, are all clear about the distribution of magic forces in various parts of Europe, in case they accidentally stab the hornet's nest. However, there is no power in the area around Augsburg, because it belongs to the border area between the traditional sphere of influence of the Wizards' Guild and the Salvation Army, and in order to avoid unnecessary conflicts, both sides deliberately closed and vacated this place. On the other hand, the Fuge family in Augsburg is the financier behind the royal families of Western Europe, and the actual influence in the secular world is greater than that of the Holy See, and the major magic forces are not as good as they are now, using the combination of magic and modern technology to make a lot of money, and even the Holy See is so poor that they want to sell indulgences to live, and they are all poor and slammed the door, and when they see the rich man, they are a little shorter, and the head of the Fuge family named Jack Bo II hates mages at that time, and the whole European continent knows about it, Therefore, the forces of all parties basically do not go to the vicinity of Augsburg.
After the rise of the witch hunt, many witches fled to Augsburg, hoping to get a respite in that place where there were no other magical forces, and the Holy See was not good at slapping the Fuge family in the face, and the paladins sent to hunt down were secretly infiltrated.
This time, the paladin who chased and killed the witch was an expert in carrying out this kind of secret mission, and he was clear about the characteristics of each method, and he could see at a glance that the spell cast by this young man did not belong to any big power school, and it was strange and strange, and it was obvious that he was born in a wild way, so he quietly marked it, and only waited to kill the two witches before making a plan.
This paladin is a master of the Holy See, and the mark is silent, the young man is unaware, just showing his means in a group of noble teenagers, all the noble teenagers are hot to see, and they want to learn, but the young man said that this ancestral ability of the family should not be shown in front of everyone, and the partners should keep it secret, otherwise the uncle of the family will know, he will have to eat the top row, and everyone will have to suffer hardship. The young man's uncle thought that he was a very famous person, and when he heard the young man mention it, the other noble young men were all nervous for a while, and they all said that they would never spread it. The young man also said that these deer herds were called by me, and it was too cruel to kill them, so I should stop now and let these deer go. Even if his spell robbed the momentum, everyone agreed to it. The boy left only one fawn by his side, and the others were released from the spell, laughing that Princess Margaret was on her birthday, and she was just giving the fawn as a gift.
The paladin was listening, and he was also secretly frightened, seeing that this group of teenagers were all from extraordinary backgrounds, and they were still afraid of the power of the young man's uncle, he panicked just by mentioning it, and couldn't help but wonder secretly, could it be that some wild witch had mixed into the aristocratic circle of Augsburg? I began to study it carefully. I didn't notice Princess Margaret mentioned by the spell casting boy for a while, you must know that the name Margaret is really a bit continental, and the princesses of several royal families were called by this name at that time, and some small royal families were not in the eyes of this paladin.