Ryan sat in a corner of the council chamber, a little bored, and beside him, the two sisters, Natasha and Nataya, were constantly trying to meet their hearts and minds, in order to start formally learning the technique of combining spells in the shortest possible time. In the center of the chamber, Adams led a dozen people around a large table to busied, they opened the reports sent by their subordinates to read carefully, if it was just a small matter, they directly annotated it, and then handed it over to Adams for review and filing, if it was too big, it was placed on a special tray on the table, so that it could be handed over to Ryan for review.

I have to say that this way of dealing with it is really a bit too inefficient, but it is the most suitable way at the moment, Ryan did not put all his mind on the management of the entire territory, and the entire Cassano was only purged once not long ago, and did not select enough trustworthy and competent officials in a short period of time, so he could only gather all his power and use this kind of government similar to the cabinet to work.

"Step, stride, stride!" there was a crisp sound of footsteps outside the room, and soon, the door to the council chamber was gently pushed open, and two burly guards walked in with a little boy. The boy cowered and walked in behind the guard, his head bowed timidly, but his eyes were still curious, looking around at the completely unfamiliar environment in front of him, and when he saw Ryan sitting in the corner, his eyes lit up, and he obviously recognized Ryan as the one who gave him the emblem.

"You...... Hello!" the boy said hello in a very small voice, and Ryan, who was more than ten meters away, didn't hear what he was talking about, but only saw the boy's mouth move. Ryan smiled slightly, beckoned the boy, motioned for him to come over, and when the boy came to his side, Ryan asked in a kind voice, "Do you still recognize me?"

"Hmm!" the boy nodded vigorously.

Ryan smiled indifferently and said, "Do you know who I am?"

"Yes!" the boy's voice was much louder: "I have heard a lot about you along the way, you seem to be very powerful, and they are very afraid of you." ”

"Haha!" Ryan laughed softly, he saw the boy in front of him, he remembered the scene when he followed Galib, and couldn't help but want to say a few more words to him: "Then are you afraid of me?"

"Don't be afraid!"

"Oh, why?"

"Because you're my idol!" the boy's answer was a bit unexpected, and Ryan knew very well that on this continent, there were people who liked him, some people feared him, and some people who wanted him to die, but it was the first time he had heard such an answer, so Ryan flicked the emblem at the boy with a flick of his thumb.

"Tell me, do you know what magic is?" As the boy clumsily grabbed the emblem from mid-air, he also heard Ryan's question in his ears, the boy tilted his head in thought, shook his head and said, "I don't know." When the boy said this, he suddenly added with a blessed heart: "You teach me, and I will know." ”

"Good, good, good!" Ryan nodded again and again, the emblem left at the beginning of the thought finally allowed the boy to find himself, just this point, Ryan moved the idea of accepting apprentices, not to mention that this boy is quite similar to the scene when Ryan was young, but it also made Ryan feel a little emotional.

"Will you teach me?" the boy tilted his head to look at Ryan.

"Of course, as long as you're willing to endure hardship. Ryan replied with a smile, and when he said this, he opened his mouth and asked, "Tell me your name, I don't know what your name is?"

"My mom called me Richie, but they all called me a coward. ”

"Coward Richie, haha, that's a great name!"

"Well, when I learn magic, I'll no longer be a coward, I'm going to protect my mom and my sister, and I won't let anyone bully them anymore!" The boy puffed up his chest in front of Ryan like an adult, but he didn't know that he showed his naivety even more.

Ryan nodded, he understood Richie's state of mind very well, and didn't continue to talk about the topic, but instead asked about Richie's family. It turned out that Richie's father died early, and Richie and his sister relied on their mother to work as a cook for others, and then took on a lot of miscellaneous work such as washing clothes, and they were busy every day to barely make ends meet. This time, many chambers of commerce in the Free Paradise were preparing to open a trading post in Cassano, and many people were reluctant to leave their hometowns to come here, and Richie's mother came here with her two children because of the fairly good commission, but it was a coincidence that Richie was fulfilled.

Although Ryan understands Richie's situation, he doesn't plan to help him too much, and the hardships of childhood often benefit a person for life, and Ryan doesn't intend to artificially interfere with Richie's life at this point. He didn't even teach Richie anything himself, he directly asked people to take him to Barbara's side, and let Richie learn slowly with the more than a thousand magic apprentices first, after all, many things, too much concern will have the opposite effect, Ryan would not do that kind of thing.

――――――*――――――*――――――*―――――― Hai Lang rushed up to the soft sand, splashing white Lang flowers, and just when the Lang flowers turned into fragments and splashed, a big foot stepped down heavily, trampling the Lang flowers and the sand on the soles of his feet. Bailey shook his head, pulled his right foot out of the sand, and stepped it out again, leaving a trail of zigzag footprints behind Bailey.

Bailey's appearance is very funny, it looks like a toddler a few years old, this new body he is trying to control now, a large part of its materials come from the corpse of Maier who was killed by the Holy Light, I don't know if it is the natural rejection of light and darkness, or Maia's soul is still entangled, Bailey always feels that his body is resisting his will, this feeling has not completely disappeared until now, which makes Bailey feel very awkward.

"Whew!" a sea breeze blew, and Susan appeared in front of Bailey. After receiving the help of Bailey's secret method, this revenant banshee can already walk freely in the sun, her strength is stronger than when she was just transformed, and now she can directly deprive the target's soul from his body with a gentle groan, which is very similar to the effect of Bailey's "Finger of Death" magic, but Bailey can only attack one person at a time, and Susan's banshee howl has no limit to the number of people at all.

Bailey looked at Susan in front of him, did not speak, and continued to try to control his body, behind him, two monsters assembled from corpses followed in the distance, which was Bailey's masterpiece in recent times. In fact, when the Nicholas Lich, who goes by the pseudonym Safanas, comes here to preside over the undead transformation ritual himself, Bailey has become essentially a dispensable figure, even though he is still nominally the supreme person in charge of the area.

Naturally, Bailey has no complaints about the situation in front of him, not just because Nicholas saved Bailey when he was about to die, and accepted him as his student, and also taught Bailey a lot of necromancy to Bailey, but because Bailey himself was convinced of the strength of those who worked for him.

With Bailey's current strength, it takes about a week to assemble a monster, and the black-clothed people brought by Nicholas who stay under the cloak all day are at least 30 times more efficient than Bailey, which is enough to make Bailey embarrassed. Other than that, although there was no clear answer, Bailey still vaguely guessed from some details what kind of existence those guys under the black cloak were, and the only thing Bailey could do for the terrible dark creatures that existed in legends was to look up.

Susan didn't speak, she just silently accompanied Bailey, until he walked all the way to the beach and came to a deep cave, when she heard a faint howl from the depths of the cave, Susan suddenly spoke: "Bailey, what do you think...... Can we make it?"

Bailey turned his head and glanced at Susan, trying to squeeze a smile out of his stiff face, but unfortunately most of the muscles in his face had been replaced, and the stitches on it were obvious, and there were multiple breaks, revealing Bai Sensen's bones, and this smile looked even more intimidating.

"It's not the successful outcome that's important, it's the process. Bai Lei said slowly: "Don't worry about this, let's get back to work quickly." Those druids sent in the other day are all good materials, you might as well absorb a few more, it will be very helpful to increase your strength. ”

Susan didn't say anything more, and she followed Bailey slowly into the depths of the cavern. There, four lichs floating in black cloaks were running a magic circle with all their might, and powerful evil forces frantically poured into the body of the old man in the center of the magic circle, transforming his body and soul little by little.

If Alendor was here, he would naturally be able to identify this old man who was performing a dark ritual as the Silver Leaf Master of the Druid Tribe. However, at this time, the druid's face had changed drastically, his hair had completely turned dark gray, and the black deep eye sockets were even more empty, only two faint lights, and the whole body also faintly exuded a dark aura, which made people shudder.

"Alright, the magic ritual went very well. Nicholas, who was on the side, waited until the entire dark ritual was completed, and slowly walked down from his throne, and a voice full of coercion immediately filled the depths of the entire cavern: "Bailey, go get some materials, let's see the final result." ”