The Land of Fire and Ice, this is a wonder of the Yarra world, one of the most wanted places for travelers for nearly 700 years. Located at the junction of the Permafrost Ice Plain and the Mage Nation Bute, the Land of Ice and Fire is a narrow corridor less than five hundred meters wide. Here, on one side is the hard ice that does not melt for thousands of years, and on the other side is the hot place where you only need to wear a single coat even in winter, the distance between the two sides is less than 500 meters, in this 500-meter area, you can see the icicles that are still frozen in the high temperature of more than 30 degrees, and you can also see the dense plants that grow in the hot place, but the lush branches and leaves stretch to the cold ice field, and the tourists with strong bodies can even enjoy the scorching sun on their heads, with sunglasses lying on the cold ice to sunbathe, cold and heat collide in the human body, giving people a very strange enjoyment, most people can not get used to it at the beginning, but once they get used to this pleasure, you will be completely conquered by it, and you will always want to try again.

I don't know how many tens of thousands of years have existed in the land of ice and fire, but since the Quaternary period, it has only become a tourist attraction in the last seven hundred years. Because this place is in the territory of the ancient and mysterious country of mages, Bute, seven hundred years ago, Bout was still in a self-enclosed environment, few ordinary people dared to enter Bute, in the consciousness of ordinary people, Bout is a strange and dangerous land of legends.

Since the end of the Third Age, after the disappearance of the necromancer school that is good at necromancy and mind, there are about three mainstream mages in the Yala world at this stage, one is from the elven forest, good at illusion and change spells, and the representative building is a tree tower born of spells, which is a plant-based mage tower with vitality, the mages of this school are called forest mages, and the second is from the area included in the current Neville territory, and it is also the location of the original mage guild, this part of the mages are mainly good at prophecy and protection spells, and are especially good at potion making and circle inscriptions, this part of the area is located in the plains, and the territory is vast。 Therefore, these mages like to build a complex of mages in a tiled way in a large area, and because their aesthetics like the construction of domes, the buildings belonging to the mage towers will be built into domes. That's why people call them dome mages. The last school is the mages from the ancient mage nation of Bute, who specialize in plastic energy and spell spells, represented by floating islands that rely on the energy of the leylines to float in the sky and towering spired mage towers built on floating islands, these mages are called tower mages. And because they mainly study plastic energy and spell spells, most of them have become irritable because of this, and because of the specialization of mages, they prefer to use simple and crude spells to solve battles, so they are called battle mages.

Due to the special geographical environment of the Mage Country, there are many leyline energy nodes, so there are as many as dozens of floating islands floating over the Bute Plateau, each floating island is not only a magic tower, but a fortress of battle, and the master of each floating island. At least one of the golden level or even the ** masters on it, these mages are called mage lords, and they control the land of 1.1 million square kilometers of the mage country, and the highest authority of the mage country is called the mage council, which is composed of all mage lords and decides the direction of the entire mage country by consultation and voting.

At the beginning of the Quaternary Age, the mages of the three systems were closed off and rarely communicated, after all, the wounds of the War of the Gods had not yet passed, and hatred was still gnawing at the hearts of everyone who participated in the war. However, due to various reasons, it was impossible for a large-scale war to break out again, so everyone simply chose not to interact with each other, as if the other party did not exist. Until the Quaternary 1686. The last forest mage who participated in the war of the gods has also come to the end of his life, and there are no more people among the forest mages who have participated in the war of gods, even if the second generation of forest mages is still affected by hatred because of the education of their elders, but the new third generation mages have almost forgotten about the tragic war. So, Anthony, this name is remembered by later generations of mages. This milestone elf in the history of mages was the first to step out of the enclosure and extend a hand of friendship to the mages of the other two factions. Thanks to his efforts, the three mages came together again, communicating with each other and merging with each other, and they were originally polymaths, they quickly absorbed the knowledge of other factions, grew rapidly, and soon learned the advantages of others on the basis of maintaining their own characteristics, and had a surprising development.

For example, the mages of the other two schools have communicated and recognized that the structure of the mage tower is more suitable for the use of mages and is more conducive to the conduct of battle, so a large number of dome mages and forest mages combined the technology of the tower mages to build their own mage towers, and the tower mages also recognized the creativity of the dome mage complex with complete offensive and defensive balance functions, and added a lot of auxiliary buildings on their respective floating islands. There are many similar situations, in short, the mages have entered a state of benign development in learning from each other, and by the time the first mage exchange meeting was held in 2548, although there were still obvious differences between the three schools, they had already undergone considerable changes, and they had become quite familiar with each other.

However, this is only among the mages, in the eyes of other professionals and ordinary people, the country of mages is still a mysterious world, which is inseparable from the origin of the tower mages. At the end of the Third Age, there was a group of mages who stood among the strong, they diluted their faith due to their fanatical desire to explore knowledge, these mages ignored the camp, ignored good and evil, and only fought for the exploration of new knowledge, they were disgusted with the wars that affected their research, so they agreed to leave their own countries and camps, forcibly occupied a territory on the current Bute Plateau, ignored the scuffle outside, closed the door and re-devoted themselves to research, in order to maintain their mastery of this plateau, the mages ruled the civilians with power and mystery, in the eyes of the commoners, these mages were as mysterious and powerful as gods。 Therefore, the tower mages are more arrogant among the mages, they are used to looking down on the living beings in a condescending posture, and every new tower mage who has grown up from the bottom has received such an education, they naturally think that becoming a mage can look down on ordinary ordinary people and other professionals, arrogance has become an instinct engraved in their souls, and maintaining their own mystery has become a natural choice. It is precisely because of their habits that in the eyes of outsiders, Bout is full of mystery and unknown, so that ordinary people do not dare to enter at will, and the professionals are better, but most people also try to minimize the number of times they enter Bute.

Until more than 700 years ago, with the development of the world, the cooperation between various ethnic groups and countries became more and more frequent, even in an ancient and closed country like Bute, it had to follow the trend to open its doors to the outside world, so that people from the outside world gradually understood Bute, and more and more travelers and business travelers worked hard to climb the plateau, and the business travelers and mage lords within the mage country began to communicate, that is, from this time, the tourists in the land of ice and fire gradually increased. However, the number of tourists has increased, but it is only relative to before, after all, this belongs to the Yala world's highest terrain of the Bute Plateau, and is the easternmost region of the mainland, can come or are willing to come to the end or a minority, only fifty or sixty thousand people come here every year, the average day is only about ten people, of course, it will not be really so average, in the peak season, may receive fifty or sixty people a day, and such as the midsummer off-season, a few days without a tourist is also a very normal phenomenon.

Today's land of ice and fire is still the same as always, the temperature of the Bout Plateau in spring is not too hot, only less than 30 degrees, this is already a very normal temperature for the Bute Plateau, so the number of tourists is also normal, as the closest Barrow town to the land of ice and fire, no, it should be renamed Barrow City now, in the small city of Barrow, received more than 20 guests who came to travel. But since the weather is not very good today, and the special rainstorm of spring can come at any time, so the tourists can only spend time in the lounge of the hotel, by the way, look out from the window facing the hotel gate and the city gate, and see if there are any other unlucky guys who are forced to change their itinerary by the approaching rainstorm, and as soon as they enter the city, they can only come to the hotel first, and complain with them about the damn weather.

Just as a few men were bored to bet on whether the next group of people staying in the inn would be odd or even, a group of strangely dressed people appeared in their field of vision. It was a small group of men and five women, each dressed in very thick clothes, and holding a few coats and jackets, which would have been hot and sweaty in the temperature of Barrow. These people must have been very uncomfortable, but the rest of the clothes on their bodies were inconvenient to put on and take off in public, so they had to hurriedly find a hotel where they could stay, so that they could change out of this unfashionable clothes.

"This group of people is so funny. A few bored men smiled and said, "Are they going to go to the ice field to play in this costume?" No one must have told them that if they go to the land of ice and fire, don't look at the ice there that does not melt, but they still have to wear as little as possible, otherwise they will suffer, hahahaha." ”

"It's better not to laugh at them in person. After all, the waiter of the inn had seen too many people, and he knew very well the meaning of such a costume, so he persuaded in a low voice: "I am afraid that these people are high-level adventurers who have just returned from the ice field, and they can return safely at the end of the ice field adventure, so I don't think I need to explain what it means." ”

In an instant, the laughter in the lounge stopped abruptly, and there was no more sound. (To be continued.) )

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