75. Freedom
It had been three days since Thort had spoken out on behalf of the Free Mage at his seminar, and even after leaving the academy that day, he had not even returned to the Magic Association before entering this inconspicuous little house, although it had long since left Belmar, the house that Messer had personally renovated could still easily escape the detection of most people. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½
In the past three days, the wave of condemnation of him has been overshadowed by waves, and the conflict between the academy mage and the free mage has soared to dozens of times the usual, and the mage association, the kingdom rulers, and various professional giants have even issued a joint statement, hoping that everyone can calm down and talk about it, and hundreds of forces will not escape the fate of the reshuffle, but Thoth, who is at the center of the storm, has disappeared from everyone's field of vision.
Rubbing the brand-new ring on the index finger of his left hand, Toth looked at the dense network of relationships in front of him, which was the entanglement of interests of various forces that he extracted, integrated, and analyzed little by little from the major events in Yerevan recorded by the Mage Association and the [Library], involving many elements such as marriages, fiefdoms, alliances, feuds, wars, etc., putting aside those things that were put on the bright side, the clues that were stripped from these contradictory records of events were his real gains.
"Is it so confusing. Connecting the two ends of the last black thread representing the secret cooperation to Belmar and Fair, Thort sighed, the work has been going on since he decided to leave the teacher's magic tower and step into human society, and it is only now that it is nearly complete, a full hundred and forty-eight one-meter-square pieces of paper are full of writing, not counting those organizations hidden in the dark, the eight leaves, the Crimson Society, the Hades, since he learned the truth of the gods, Thoth does not think that these organizations are just the forces that circulate in the story.
A slight vibration of his fingertips drew Toth's gaze to his left hand, the back of which was wrapped in new pink flesh, as if Fell's experience was just yesterday, and Toth put away this valuable information, and he had to deal with much more than he had originally thought.
"Toth, get ready, we should leave in a few days. After receiving the message from the ring, Toth habitually knocked on his head, among the people who are qualified to use the legendary mage communication ring, the only one who will call him by his name is Anna, since it is a mission with Anna, then it should be the Christmas town mentioned in the afternoon tea with Anthony, I didn't expect it to drag on for more than a month and still didn't run, but the things of Keynes have been so long, does Anna still need to explain?
"Christmas Town, the birthplace of the Sage? Toth replied casually as he bandaged his left hand, sounding in a good mood, as if recent events had not affected him in the slightest.
"You, aren't you worried?" Anna hesitated for a while, but still asked, the turmoil of the past few days even made her have some palpitations, and even within the Mage Association, which has always advocated freedom and equality, there are discordant voices beginning to circulate, she doesn't understand why Thort has the confidence, a large number of academy mages, control more than ninety percent of the grassroots power, and Toth, who is destined to be sent to the outside side, will inevitably deal with them in the future.
"Let them make trouble, it's nothing more than a status, a legendary mage, and what kind of position do you have. Toth grinned indifferently, suddenly realizing that Anna couldn't see, and smiled self-deprecatingly: "See you later." β
Staring at the ring that had lost its movement, Anna crooked her mouth bitterly, she naturally understood what Toth meant, even if she didn't understand, there was also a half-elf teacher, Anthony and them. The legendary mage is the legendary mage of the human race, this is his position, but there is still a bias under this, after all, even the magic association is maintained by a large number of academy mages, otherwise how to deal with the entire affairs of Yerevan with only twelve legendary mages.
But this group that is basically in the highest position, in just three days, the situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse, this is all caused by Toth alone, she doesn't think this is Thoth's momentary mood, after all, as Keynes said, the replacement of legendary mages is not an exchange of interests, but Thoth's strength and talent, as well as the correct position in the general direction, so that those mages can only secretly make small moves even if they have a grudge against Toth, who breaks the rules, such as without their acquiescence, how dare those always timid parliamentarians do that kind of thing in the Council of the Three Powersγ
Now Thoth has given them such an excuse, so that their accumulated jealousy and dissatisfaction finally burst out, after all, Thoth has no power behind him, the foundation is unstable, and most importantly, he is not like Anthony and them, Thoth is too young, a leader who will not bring them the slightest benefit, and may control the human race for hundreds of years, is something they don't want to accept anyway.
It's impossible for Toth, who is as smart as Toth, not to see this, but he doesn't want to tie himself to them, after all, if he wants to, he doesn't even need to do anything, as long as he hangs a false position as a teacher in the Academy of Magic, all opposition will disappear in an instant.
She just couldn't figure out why Toth didn't do that.
"What are you doing here?" Toth pushed open the door and saw Stana squatting in the corner to greet him, raising his eyebrows, looking at the newly written calculations at his feet, which seemed to have been waiting for a long time, "Why don't you go in?"
"I've got to be able to get in, too. Stana pointed to the girl on the roof, smoothed out the formula under her feet, stretched and said, "Well, this kind of treatment is not pleasant, what do you say you are doing with this effort?" β
"......" Toth stared at Stana, whether it was the next leader of the Wizarding Guild management, or the identity of one of the famous Raiders on the magic web, he didn't believe that this guy didn't know his purpose.
Sure enough, the next moment this guy said with great contempt: "If the power is too big, disperse it, and create a new class if the class is unstable, the court mage is like this, Phil is like this, and now you are like this, the mage high-level really likes to do this kind of thing." β
Toth didn't speak, it was a tacit acquiescence, in fact, Stana was right, with the increasing status of mages, their contradictions with other professions deepened day by day, maybe Toth's support for free mages at the preaching meeting was a whim, but then Anthony and they realized that this was an opportunity later, Toth could easily get the support of free mages, and they could also complete the reduction of the rights of court mages.
It can be said that this condemnation has been a plan from the top from the beginning, as for the court mages, free mages, and even speculators, I'm sorry, for the sake of mankind, I can only let you suffer a little grievance.
"We only don't care about life on the surface, you're just bad to the bone. β
"That's politics. Toth shrugged, sacrificing the minority for the sake of the majority, a lesson that humanity had learned from 30,000 years of blood and sweat, and even he was one of the sacrifices.