Somewhere in the dense forest of the Royal Academy of Magic, there is a turquoise lake, which is wide and about a kilometer wide, and this vast lake has a poetic name---- Yinmeng Lake.

The water of the lake is clear and translucent, and the turquoise surface of the lake is like a fine jade, reflecting the sunlight, and the dappled shadows of the trees swaying on the shore.

There was a clearing in front of Yinmeng Lake with a radius of hundreds of meters, and at this moment, hundreds of mage students had gathered, and the students looked at Julils in the center of the clearing, and talked quietly.

"Hey, do you think this guy is crazy?" Many people looked at Julils with suspicion and even a lot of sympathy.

Julils was calm, as if unaware of the upcoming battle.

"What's going on?" Constantine asked a mage beside him, frowning, "Why did Julius challenge this guy?"

"I heard that the dragon lancer insulted his country in front of his sister, and the magicians of the Duchy of Falan are stupid donkeys, and anyone would be angry. The mage sighed and said, "That Miss Juno was furious and clamored for a duel with Rommel, but was stopped by his brother on the way, and this is how it turned out. ”

Constantine shook his head and walked over to Julius. "How sure are you?"

Seeing that it was Constantine who asked the question, Julius was slightly surprised, thought for a while, and said very sincerely: "To be honest, it is unlikely that I will win. ”

"In that case, why are you fighting him in a duel?"

"My sister is lying in the hospital right now, what would you do if you were her brother?" asked Julils rhetorically.

"Do you want to lie in the hospital?"

"There are things that have to be done, and at least I can prove to him that the people of Farran are not weak. The young mage smiled, his expression as calm as ever, as calm as Constantine had seen him when he first met him outside the school gates.

In the past six months, Constantine has a deep understanding of Juliles, and they get along very well with each other. Constantine had a good impression of this young man with excellent bearing and knowledge, so he persuaded him.

Feeling the resoluteness of Julis's calm face, Constantine was too embarrassed to say anything, patted the young man on the shoulder, and walked into the woods.

There was a sudden exclamation from the crowd, and Rommel had come out of the woods, and when he saw Juliles, a sneering smile hung on the handsome face of the young man with the dragon lance.

"I hope you're a little better than your sister, or the mage of Flange won't even be as good as a donkey. Rommel said coldly.

Many of the mages who were watching the battle booed, and Rommel's reputation in the imperial capital had never been very good, and although the entire city of Olympia had now recognized the young man's prowess, his insolent style was not very popular.

However, the magicians in the field all knew that Juliels' brave challenge would only add another stroke to Rommel's already brilliant record, in the past six months, Rommel has successively challenged dozens of high-level mages of the Holy Empire, and even some strong men who have been famous for many years, but in dozens of duels, the dragon lance youth has no defeat, and the worst one is just a draw.

In the face of his brilliant and domineering magic attacks, no mage could last more than ten minutes.

It is said that even a crown archmage in the Magic Guild, who has been famous for many years, made a comment that shocked the entire imperial capital's magical community after watching Rommel's duel in person: "Among the magicians below the crown, he can no longer find an opponent." ”

This sentence is tantamount to acknowledging Rommel's status as a strong man.

The Holy Empire is an ancient and traditional country, although the people living in this country do not have the martial spirit that has been popular since ancient times, but the reverence for the strong is eternal, so after that, the voice of questioning Rommel is much quieter, in the eyes of many people, Rommel is no longer just a magician with a halo of genius, but a rising star in the younger generation.

The genius and the strong are already two different classes.

On the other hand, Julis, although he is also a recognized genius within the Royal Academy of Magic, he is not even a high-level mage now, how can he defeat Rommel?

"We are not as strong as your dragon lance, and we respect the strong equally, but at the same time, we do not despise the weak. Julils said without humility or arrogance.

The ridicule at the corner of Rommel's mouth became even stronger, and he said: "It is because of this idea that a country like Fran has been just a grass on the wall from ancient times to the present, and it will fall down when the wind blows." ”

Only those who are familiar with the history of the mainland can read something else from the-for-tat rhetoric of the two young men.

Historically, the position of the Duchy of France among the continental states is indeed quite awkward, as the largest principality sandwiched between the two empires of the Holy Empire and the Dragonlance Dynasty, for hundreds of years, in addition to the military pressure from the two empires, the Duchy of Fran has to beware of the eyes of other small countries.

In order to survive in the troubled times, the Duchy of France had to maneuver between the two empires, relying on compromises, to put it mildly, called the wind to rudder, to maintain its independence, in case of annexation, which is what Rommel satirized as "grass on the wall". ”

In this way, the image of the whole country is like a docile and honest man with no temper in the eyes of the mainland countries, and everyone looks down on him, and anyone can bully him, even if it is the minister of some small principalities whose national strength is not as good as that of Franco, every time there is a major diplomatic conference, he can also show off his might in front of the envoys of the Duchy of Fran.

As the number one military power on the continent and the former overlord of Icadia, the Dragon Lance Dynasty has not even looked down on the Holy Empire since ancient times, and naturally there will be no flange in its eyes.

Ten years ago, the Dragonlance Dynasty lit a beacon fire with an unprecedented toughness, declared war on the Holy Empire a few months after the Heavenly Gate incident, and took advantage of the civil strife in the Holy Empire to swallow the Duchy of Azeroya in the north with a thunderous force, and the army approached the northern border of the Holy Empire.

At this time, there was also civil strife in the city of Olympia, and the entire empire was plunged into unprecedented turmoil, and a series of events were seen by the Dragonlance Dynasty as a godsend to regain the position of the largest power on the continent.

However, what made everyone stumble was that the Duchy of Fran, which had always been strictly neutral, announced that it was on the side of the Holy Empire at this time, and took advantage of the fact that the dragon lance army was deep into the north of the Holy Empire to send troops, cutting off the back road of the dragon lance army.

After the Pope eliminated the rebels in the imperial capital, the Holy Empire's archmage Joey also rushed to the battlefield after hearing the news, and after an earth-shattering magic duel, he repelled the archmage of the Dragon Lance Dynasty, "Frozen Empress" Agnes, setting the tone for the Holy Empire's counterattack.

The knights of the empire joined the battlefield one after another and threw themselves into the battle in full swing, especially the Golden Iris Knights, one of the strongest knights in the empire, which bloomed with particularly dazzling brilliance in this curtain call, which can be regarded as a perfect end to their continental conquest career.

In the face of the strong counterattack of this ancient country with thousands of years of heritage, even with a luxurious lineup of one archmage and four dragon knights, the army of the Dragon Lance Dynasty still lost the battle and had to retreat to the mainland in embarrassment, and the dream of returning to the peak of the continent was shattered.

After that, the Dragon Lance Dynasty naturally hated the Duchy of Fran, the country that stabbed them in the back.

Rommel, who was the golden generation of dragon lances, had completely inherited this hatred, and at this moment he looked at Julils without the slightest warmth in his gaze, which was as cold as snow.

Julils was calm, he could read the disgust in Rommel's eyes, in fact, not only Rommel, but most of the Dragonlance people, hatred of his country was stronger than hostility to the Holy Empire.

This hatred can only be dissolved through blood and fire.

"I know that you were once a high-ranking officer of the dragon lance, and I know that you hate my country, but this hatred should not be borne by a young innocent girl, even if she is the biological daughter of Grand Duke Fran. Julils looked Rommel in the eye and said in a deep voice.

"You have a point, if I have the chance, I should have cut off the head of that old thief of Lyles, and then I would have admired your sister's expression. Rommel smiled coldly, his smile colder than snow, "As for you, a wild seed, you don't even have the qualifications to be hated by me." ”

Juliles's face turned a little pale, but there was a rare anger in his eyes, not because Rommel laughed at him, but because he called his father, Grand Duke Lyles so contemptuously.

He turned that anger into action, and three bright red fireballs swirled around his left hand.

There was a faint commotion in the crowd, and Julis had summoned the Fireball Technique so quickly, and the quality of all three fireballs was quite high, which showed his talent in elemental magic.

The heat emitted by the three fireballs faintly distorted the air, and the surging magical aura rolled endlessly, causing the fireballs to continue to rise, reflecting the space of several meters around Julils in a fiery red.

Rumble!

The three fireballs hit almost simultaneously, hitting Rommel in no particular order, and a pillar of fire rose into the sky on the shore of the lake, and the power was quite good.

The mages exclaimed and stared at each other, could Rommel's myth of invincibility be easily overturned?

Of course not.

There was a grim chuckle in the firelight, "That's it, Julils, that's all you can do?"

With a bang, the pillar of fire was torn apart by a powerful magic, bent and twisted to the side, and Rommel stepped out of the forked flames as casually as if he had raised his hand to open a door.

A violent air stream erupted from under Rommel's feet, turning into a gust of wind, and the previous demonic flames were extinguished like candles in the wind, and the wind swept by, and countless fiery red maple leaves were rolled up and sprinkled in all directions, some blowing high into the air, and some falling on the turquoise Inmeng Lake.

The students who were watching the battle around were almost unable to open their eyes by the gust of wind, and some of them were trembling with their tree trunks in their arms.

Countless pairs of eyes were staring at the two young men in the field, and countless late autumn red leaves had been piled up in the open space in front of the two, adding a bit of solemnity and grandeur to this duel.

A certain bard in the mainland once wrote a very famous poem: Life should be like the splendor of summer flowers, and death should be like the quiet beauty of autumn leaves.

In this slaughtering autumn forest and dreamy lakeside, who will be the first to fall?

On the top floor of the Magic Tower in the back mountain, Joey and Diana stood side by side, looking at the shore of Yinmeng Lake in late autumn, the magic tower was more than a kilometer away from Yinmeng Lake, and ordinary people's eyes couldn't see what was happening on the lake, but whether it was Joey or Diana, they were obviously not ordinary people.

"That kid is Lyles's adopted son, his talent and character are very good, much better than Lyles's own daughter, it's a pity this time. Joey shook his head, it was clear that the archmagister wasn't optimistic about Julils.

The Royal Academy did not prohibit the students from dueling in private, but it was clearly stipulated that all the consequences of the duel would be borne by the initiator, so that Julils was in a very bad situation, and even if Rommel wanted to cripple him, no one would say anything.

"The duel provoked by Julils was unwise, but in any case, his courage is worthy of admiration. Diana whispered, "Perhaps, this is the most spectacular duel ever in the Royal Academy!"

Joey shook his head disapprovingly, and said, "So, Diana, you are still too young, for my old man, this is a small scene, when your teacher Innocent fought the woman in white by the lake, more than half of the magicians in the entire Olympia came to watch, that scene is truly spectacular." ”

"How old was the teacher at the time?"

"It's about the same size as the two dueling little ones are fighting right now!" Joey sighed.

"Really, why did the teacher never tell me about it?" asked Diana, confused.

"Do you think that old god stick will be embarrassed to tell you about such a stupid thing?"

Diana: "........."

Joey at the top of the magic tower still has a sense of leisure, but the duel by the lake is becoming more and more dangerous.

Julils staggered back, and in front of him, a magically fictitious mirror image disappeared into thin air, the fourth mirror image he had eliminated, the first three of which had been shattered under Rommel's domineering onslaught.

Stormhammer

Although he had the upper hand, Rommel was still unforgiving, and before the other party could make a move, a new magic had been completed, and the wind attribute magic of [Storm Hammer] followed, and the high-speed rotating air flow rushed straight towards Julis.

Julis raised his arm, and the magic power surged rapidly, condensing an arcane shield, blocking the powerful air flow that came quickly, and the collision of the two spells caused a violent shock, and the tangible ripples spread along the edge of the shield, bounce and tear countless red leaves into a drizzle.

Julils' arm was slightly numb, and the corners of his mouth were bloody, and in order to block the blow, he paid a double price for magic and body.