Chapter 142: Wandering Away from Time
"Are you...... The maid miss?" Catherine looked at the maid who came over unexpectedly, no matter what point of view, this maid was just an ordinary person and not a professional, but now this ordinary maid walked generously towards the people of the adventure group, without the usual sense of restraint when ordinary people faced strange legendary-level professionals.
"Hello everyone, several masters, and Master Pannis. The maid walked up to a few people, with a professional smile on her face, slightly lifted the hem of her skirt and curtsied, and said, "I am the maid who follows Master Fira, you can just call me maid." ”
"Well, we remember you. Catherine asked suspiciously, "May I ask Miss Maid what is the matter with you?" and what do you mean by what you just said?
"Master Pannis, I'm not surprised to see you coming out of the magic tower. The maid only nodded at Catherine's question, and instead of answering directly, she turned to Pannis and said, "Since you are standing here, it means that Master Phila has also returned to the embrace of the river of time, right, Master Pannis." ”
"This maid lady who needs me to escort her out of the magic tower is not as simple as what she came out of. Pannis looked the maid up and down for a long time with a strange expression, but no matter how long he looked at it, he could only come to one conclusion, this maid was definitely not a professional, just a weak ordinary person. As for the maid who was an ordinary person but did not look like an ordinary person at all, Pannis said thoughtfully: "Yes, Philata...... Already gone, I watched him age rapidly and then die. ”
"Sure enough, the master has returned to the depths of the river of time" The maid did not express sadness, but looked into Pannis's eyes very seriously and asked, "What about the master's corpse?
"I'm sorry, I can't. Pannis shook his head and said, "The rules of time are crazy against him, and he has experienced aging and death in a matter of minutes. It withered and decayed rapidly within a minute of death, as if it had been a thousand years, and finally turned into a cloud of ashes, and there was no trace of him again, so it was impossible for me to bring his body out again. ”
"And so it was. The maid seemed to anticipate the current situation, and said calmly, "Anyway, thank you, Master Pennis, for being willing to tell me about this at last." ”
"Thank me?" Pannis raised an eyebrow and asked softly, "Phila died at my hands." Don't you think it's a weird way to thank me?"
"I don't think so. The maid replied with a rhetorical question, as if she were a natural person, "Don't you think that if the master himself had spoken to you now, he would have thanked you?" ”
"Oh, I do feel it. Pannis and Catherine exchanged glances with each other, and both read the surprise and confusion in each other's gazes, and Pannis chuckled and turned her gaze back and said, "It seems that Miss Maid knows more about Fira than we thought, how about it." Don't you want to introduce yourself in depth?"
"Well, in fact, I am indeed the head maid of Master Fira. After the maid finished speaking, she found that the few people in front of her were still staring at her silently, and she pondered for a moment before continuing: "Okay, it's also the master's library key. Occasionally, I make guest appearances as a policy advisor to Felek, but I do have a role to play as a maid on big things. ”
"Library keys?, policy advisor?" Catherine repeated in a low voice, "Can you explain these two identities?"
"Absolutely. The maid lady said without concealment: "My reading speed and memory are far beyond normal people, so the master has taken me with him since I was a child." Although I did not have the talent to become a professional, with the permission of the master, I was able to read almost the entire collection of the master. Although I can't memorize all the details of the book, I can roughly remember the general content of each book, so that if the master has anything to consult, he no longer needs to rummage through the sea-like scrolls, but only needs to tell me what I want to find, and I can quickly select a few of the hundreds of thousands of books that contain this part of the content, so the master and his students have always regarded me as the key to the library. As for the policy adviser, as the name suggests, the more books I read, the more I will be richer, the knowledge of theoretical government affairs will become richer, Lord Felek is a very qualified mage, but if you want to be a qualified archon, you need someone like me to put forward suggestions on some difficult issues. ”
"Well, I think I know where you are. Catherine nodded and said slowly, "I really couldn't see that you actually occupy such a high position in the Camigara Collar before. ”
"That's because I'm just the master's maid. Miss Maid is very persistent about her identity, and repeats again: "The other identities are only part-time, and only the maid is the main job, so it will be difficult for you to see." ”
"So, in your capacity as a policy advisor, can you answer my question?" Catherine asked, "How can we avoid the turmoil in the Kamigara Territory after Master Fira's death?"
"Why is there turmoil?" the maid asked rhetorically, "After the master and Archon Felek left, there was naturally a successor who had arranged to take over the management of the territory, and all of them would be handed over smoothly under the master's previous arrangement, how could there be the turmoil you imagined?"
"It turns out that Master Fira has already arranged it. Catherine frowned, and the doubts about Fira's purpose became more and more serious, but she didn't show it, but continued to ask: "But what about the territory? The territory of the mage lord is not hereditary, and the territory will be split up after the death of Master Fira, so it won't cause turmoil?"
"Miss Knight, oh no, Master Knight, you underestimate the Master's influence in the Mage Country, or rather, you don't understand the characteristics of the Mage Country, for the Mage Country, the relationship between the teacher and the student is often closer than the father-son relationship in the blood. Miss Maid shook her head and said: "The master has lived in the country of mages for more than a hundred years, and among the ninety-seven members of the mage council, more than one-third of the people still maintain a close master-apprentice relationship with him, more than half of the mages have a direct master-apprentice relationship, and even more than two-thirds are indirectly connected by the master-apprentice relationship. No one dared to dismantle the Kamigara collar at will, against his last wishes. Therefore, turmoil is not possible unless it is you who want to create it. But do you really know how many of these Mages of Master Fira's family are involved in the Master's plan, how many of them are in the know-and cooperate, and how many of them are completely unaware? Hehe, I'm afraid not many people know about this kind of thing except for the three masters who have passed away. Even if you want to investigate and create turmoil, can you really succeed?"
"What if Warrenson is the one who wants to do this?" Catherine asked, "if he wants to, he can force down the dissenting voices in the council." ”
"The lords are mages, master knights, and all of them are mages with floating islands and magic towers. That Miss Mage should understand, a legendary mage who has become one with her own magic tower, confronts a demigod from afar in her own territory, although she will definitely fail in the end. But it is not without a hard work, and such a result will only be a harvest of large scorched earth, which has no meaning. Miss Maid suddenly laughed, winked mysteriously at Catherine and asked, "And." Are you really so sure that in more than a hundred years, Master Phila has only taught one student like Master Victor? You may want to think so, but Warrenson may not dare to believe it. ”
"Wait. Pannis suddenly interrupted Miss Maid, and said in a deep voice, "What did you just say, even if Phila is really dead?"
"Literally. The master has returned to the depths of the river of time according to his plan, and has since wandered outside of time, but is that really dead?" The maid smiled like a little fox stealing chickens, took out a letter and a small package from her satchel and handed them to Pannis: "Actually, I don't know very well. By the way, the Master has a letter and a package for me to pass on to you after you leave the Magic Tower. The master explained to me that the package contained the potions and recipes that he had promised you as a second compensation, and that the letter contained the last words he wanted to say to you, and that you might understand after reading the letter. ”
"Letter?" The strange feeling in Pennis's heart grew stronger and stronger, and he took the letter and quickly opened it. The notes on the letter are indeed Fira's, there are not many words on the letter, but every word is written very clearly, looking at Fira's neat and beautiful words that reveal the edges and corners, it seems that I saw the middle-aged mage in a black robe, with a proud sneer on his pale face, as if he heard the cold voice that always had a bit of mockery for the ignorant:" Time can be positive or reversible, the end point is the www.biquge.info of the Fun Pavilion, only looking back from the end, can you see the back scene, master the rules of the front and back, I try all kinds of ways to extend my time, but can never peek into the secret of the other side. I thought of this a few years ago, but I didn't have the courage to make up my mind to exhaust my time until I tried all the other ways, but your tracking made me decide in advance, so I must say to you, thank you, my only friend, don't grieve for me, maybe in the near future, across the river of time, we will meet again, but by then, I am afraid that both you and I will already meet in other capacities, in another wonderful space。 ”
"Is that ......," Catherine said incredulously, "Master Fira, he has really managed to break through the last line?"
"This letter was written by him in advance, and it was only his own thoughts, that he succeeded but we did not see the scene of the transfer or birth of the priesthood, and that there is no evidence that he failed" Looking at Fira's letter, Pannis was completely stunned, until Catherine's question was asked for a long time, and then replied like a dream: "So, the actual result, who knows? Miss maid, do you know?"
"I don't need to know, I just need to complete the task assigned by the master and wait slowly. With a professional smile, Miss Maid bowed to everyone and walked towards the Magic Tower. Almost at the same time as her, in the surrounding workshops and residences, there were also some mages of various strengths walking towards the magic tower together. In front of the gate of the magic tower, the maid turned her head and waved goodbye to everyone: "The master has wandered away from time, so, your question, hehe, who knows?" (To be continued.) )
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