Chapter XXVIII
The Arcane Council's branch in Ember City is a large three-story building with beige walls on all sides and neatly arranged vaulted windows covered in elaborate inscriptions. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The roof of the building is covered with vermilion tiles, and the "human" shaped roof extends on all sides to provide rain protection, and under the eaves of the façade - that is, on the corridor outside the wall - six tall columns are erected at intervals, and the white marble columns are carved with the images of six people, both as support and as a memorial.
From left to right: Suvin Parry, the founder of the Arcane Council, Hohenheim Young, the spiritual leader of the Styling School and the guardian of the scales who discovered the law of conservation of energy, Merdrak Wiz, the cornerstone of the Transfiguration School, Dooch Laplace, the demigod of the Astrology School [Future Eye], Pagliaz William, the Sage of the Occult School, and the strongest space mage, El Lohengrin, the strongest space mage.
They are the great men of the Abyss Wars five thousand years ago, and the founders of the Arcane Council. Although the sages are gone, their wisdom still blesses posterity, and in their honor, they have been transformed into six stone pillars that stand in front of each of the Arcane Council's residences for those who pass by.
By the way, the titles of the six great mages are different from the self-proclaimed heroic titles of the [Faceless], the former is the title given to the six great men by the god of wisdom Mudas, that is, they are titles recognized by the gods and with divine powers, although they will not bring a large increase in strength, but they will come with some different interesting special effects depending on the title.
For example, Pagliazi William the Scorn, whose title gives him the ability to instantly transform into a clown, seems useless, right? In fact, it is also a useless ability, and the great Scorn is just using this title purely to play the clown, and occasionally sneak into the circus to perform.
There are no guards in front of the large arch of the Arcane Council branch. First, the Arcane Council is a liberal believer, so their residencies are open to everyone, and of course, no ordinary people come in - they are afraid of the authority of the mage, and they are afraid that they will unconsciously offend the powerful mage. Second, no one would have the guts to cause trouble at the Arcane Council's premises, and even if someone succeeded in carrying out a terrorist attack on the Arcane Council's branch, they would be hunted down by a council jury composed of eight-ring mages.
Because of the above two reasons, Jack and Tifa walked into the Ash City branch of the Arcane Council.
The spacious hall is illuminated by hanging white headlights, and directly opposite the entrance is a circular service desk, on the left hand side of the doorway is a lounge area made up of several sofas, and on the right side of the door is an arch leading to the interior and a spiral staircase up to the second floor.
At first glance, there was no one in the hall, a young mage in a summer mage robe was quietly walking towards the inside of the branch, and in front of the service desk, two middle-aged mages whispered to the young mage apprentice in the counter asking something, although the hall was not silent at all, but it still gave Jack a feeling of coldness.
"You are really disgusting, lowly fellow, you remember to me, Mafei is my woman, please stop pestering her! In the future, he will enter the world of nobles, and you can only look at the curse in despair, continue to be your civilian magician, ha!" An arrogant young male voice suddenly sounded, "Civilian magician, how pathetic, how pitiful!"
The loud voice that seemed to tell the world made Jack know that his thoughts were just an illusion, and it also made the whole hall focus their eyes on the person who made the sound.
Jack twisted his head to the left, and in the rest area, there were three young men, one was dressed plainly-well, the word was not accurate enough, it should be said, it was a very shabby-dressed, ordinary-looking young man, and opposite him, a man and a woman, dressed very fancy, looking at the appearance of the man and woman, they were all very good-looking, and they were also talented and beautiful when they stood together, and they were very compatible.
However, everything can't just look at the appearance, it can be seen from the arrogance on the face of the fancy handsome guy that he and the beautiful girl are playing the role of villains here. In the afterglow of Jack's eyes, he saw that the mage apprentices at the counter were all angry at the fancy handsome guy's words, and it was clear that these civilian magic apprentices were innocently shot and affected by the map cannon.
As one of the protagonists, the civilian magician was expressionless, but from the corners of his trembling mouth and wide eyes, it could be seen that he was buried in his heart, he clenched his hands, as if using all the strength of his body, gritted his teeth and squeezed out a paragraph: "Are you really going to leave me, Muffy? I love you so much, and I have done so much for you, I work for you just because you want an enchanted necklace, and I beg for you everywhere, just because you want to be Greg the Silver Mage's assistant." And now, are you going to abandon your dignity and become the plaything of the nobles, and betray me like this?"
This sentence made Jack's brain make up a lot, this is really the plot of the money worshipper girl abandoning the poor boy and running into the arms of the local tyrant! After that, the local tyrant must continue to taunt the poor boy, let the poor boy throw down the cruel words and leave angrily, and then the poor boy will pick up the golden finger and begin to rise to become the world hegemon. Jack felt that he had seen through the routine of fate, but there was no doubt that the tearing drama in front of him was real enough for him to watch with relish.
"How can this be called a betrayal? The gold worshipper smiled helplessly, and said as if she was proud and regretful, "Love has no betrayal, only the beginning and the end, and now, Paddy, our love is over, and I left you not because of money, nor because of Sam's noble status, but because I don't love you anymore, because my fiery love for you has become a thing of the past!"
"You don't love me anymore? Why so suddenly? What do you don't love me, do I have a chance to correct it?" said Paddy with a sad look as he stared at Muffy and choked up.
"Paddy......" Muffy's eyes also flashed with nostalgia and reluctance at that moment, but the next moment, the aristocratic young man Sam came out and interjected: "Boy, I'll tell you! Muffy, she doesn't love your poverty, her ugly clothes, and her 'warm' sharing of joys and sorrows, she also doesn't love your weakness, in the future, I am destined to become the young mage leader of Ash City, and you will always be a small one-ring mage." ”
Sam's eyes were full of contempt, and Paddy's eyes were full of reluctance and resentment, and the two of them looked at each other silently, as if to herald the coming conflict.
Jack secretly said in his heart: "It's coming, it's coming, the high tide is coming, the classic lines are coming, let me see if the blood of the dog in the other world is thick!"
These plots, which can only be seen in novels in the harmonious society of the previous life, can finally be seen by Jack with his own eyes.
He seemed to be able to see the future of his prophecies—he used to like to read books like this, and the feeling of fate turning along the mind of man was very pleasant—to make people feel like gods.
"Is it a declaration of war? is it a duel on the spot or a throw-off of the classic 'Thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi?'" Observing the poor boy's face, his heart was excited, and Jack couldn't help but move his mouth slightly.
He learned Erqiao.
"Your next sentence is, let's duel...... Ah!!,, I'm so naïve!!"
(I think I'm a bit of a street hit, you say, wouldn't it be better for me to advertise too?)