Chapter Forty-Eight: Merlin the Magician

The convoy passed by Filip City, where Marret placed his men. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

When Yi Fan saw the slum attached to the outside of the city, Yi Fan pointed there and asked Ma Lie: "Who are they, why do they all live outside the city?"

"Assyrians. ”

Yi Fan couldn't believe it, he tried to pluck his ears to make himself listen more carefully.

"Assyrians, our fallen brethren. ”

Without the protection of the Empire, all the Assyrians had a hard time. All the Assyrians who had lived in the city were expelled from the city by the army after the arrival of the Phayan Empire. In order to survive, they could not leave the city, so they had to live around the city.

Is this war?

Yi Fan didn't have much affection for the Assyrian Empire, but when he saw those people who lived only for the sake of living, those Assyrians who had lost their ideals and hopes, and looked at their numb eyes when they saw him, Yi Fan was a little unbearable.

"How many people are there?"

Densely packed, there are tents erected everywhere, and each tent may have a dozen or twenty people coming out.

"Filip City, before the war, had 70,000 inhabitants and 30,000 garrisons, a total of 100,000 people. Only 30,000 remained after the war...... Today, there are only the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, less than 20,000 people. ”

Because Ma Lie often runs business, he knows the situation of the nearby cities, and it is precisely because of this series of data that he is full of hatred for Feiyang's invasion!

"Two years after the war, the Assyrians continued to decline. Either they died a miserable death, or they starved to death, or they were captured and taken as slaves. As it is now, there were only 3,000 Phyans in the city, but 20,000 Assyrians outside the city. Without shelter, the Assyrians died in all sorts of calamities. Ma Lie gritted his teeth. A team of Feiyang patrols passed in front of him, and Ma Lie's hand was hidden in his arms, and Yi Fan knew that his hand was clutching his rusty iron dagger.

Three thousand people, a thousand troops, two thousand Feiyang people who came with a purpose, Yi Fan analyzed from the other party's patrol team, their investment in Fili City, regular knights will not exceed a hundred, because, the ten-person team that just passed, only one armed knight led the team.

Why not rebel?

Because only civilians are qualified to stay outside the city, all knights and magicians who can form combat effectiveness are forcibly taken to Liya City, either imprisoned or die for them.

How can a commoner resist a knight?

Leaving Filip City, they passed through Oxford again.

The situation in Oxford was similar to that of Filip, and the horrific situation in the slums was chilling.

When it comes to Sidon, it is the only place outside of Sidon that there are no slums, because there is no need for slums here. In that night attack, except for the civilians in the two churches, all the other citizens of Sidon City were killed.

The breeze blowing in the face seems to have countless souls wailing here, which makes people shudder.

However, due to its special location, the city of Sidon will not become a dead city, on the contrary, because countless Fiyan people entered the Assyrian Empire from here, and the port here is still bustling.

Ma Lie and Yi Fan separated after entering the city, Ma Lie said that he was going to pay homage to his old friends, and Yi Fan was going to go to John's church to see what had become of it now, and whether Old John was still there?

Familiar streets, long-lost buildings, and they are dominated by a group of people in unfamiliar costumes.

Old John's church is still there, but it has been deserted, and Old John is gone.

Everything inside the church is still the same as before, and almost nothing has changed. The dimly lit candlestick, the simple cross, and the futon that old John used to pray on below.

Yi Fan walked to the attic, the narrow corridor and the old wooden ladder made Yi Fan miss it very much. The small bed that John had lain with back then was still lying there peacefully, but a handful of hairs on the bed indicated that the bed had changed owners, and it was supposed to be a spotted wildcat living here.

Pushing open the window to let in the sunlight outside, I still remember the moment when I was forced to leave Sidon.

"Miss Anna, are you alright?"

Standing on the windowsill, Yi Fan looked out the window. Once upon a time, it was a small bustling place outside, but now it is very bleak, and it happens to run past a wild cat catching mice, which makes it look less lifeless.

Downstairs, Yi Fan gently closed the door, walking on the road where he was going to be Miss Anna's companion, and before he knew it, Yi Fan came to the door of the Academy of Magic.

"Is there anyone else here?"

Yi Fan found that the courtyard of the Academy of Magic was very clean, and it was obviously cleaned by someone.

Is the current School of Magic still the original School of Magic?

The ghost sent the gods, and Yi Fan actually stepped forward to push the door.

When the door was gently pushed open by Yi Fan, and when he saw the plot inside, Yi Fan was immediately stupid!

He thought that there should be no one here, but as soon as he pushed the door open, he was greeted by a group of teenagers with water tanks, and they all looked at the door and looked at Yi Fan.

Yi Fan didn't know what to say, and his heartbeat missed half a beat.

He couldn't help but think of the rules of the magic academy back then, the magic academy did not allow non-aristocratic groups to enter and leave without permission. Civilians who enter and leave the Academy of Magic without permission will be treated as trespassing on the mansion of the nobility.

In the Imperial Era, the consequences of trespassing on the mansions of the nobles were very serious!

Before the other party could speak, a cold sweat broke out on Yi Fan's forehead.

Finished......

For a moment, Yi Fan forgot that he was a brave knight and a dragon moon magician, and if he wanted to run at this moment, no one in the group present could catch him.

"I'm sorry, we seem to have gone to the wrong door!"

When Yi Fan reacted and was about to slip away.

"Crackling", a water tank fell off, and one after another a water tank fell off.

"You are so bold, you haven't even reached half a pillar of incense!" Hearing the sound of the water tank falling to the ground, an old man in the academy flew out of the academy! He faced those teenagers and knocked them over one by one with his hands 'fried chestnuts with sugar', with great force, and each one knocked out a "dong dong" sound!

Beate covered his head with one hand, pointed at Yi Fan with the other, and shouted aggrievedly with tears: "Dean Merlin, it's not our fault, it's all that guy, he caused us to mess up!"

Someone took the lead in pointing at Yi Fan, and those teenagers who also smashed the water tank also pointed at Yi Fan, shouting that they were wronged!

Merlin floated lightly and came to Yi Fan's side.

He looked at Yi Fan for a moment, touched his beard and wondered, "Which department are you from, I don't seem to have seen you." ”

"Dean, he's not from our academy. Beyat obediently stood beside Merlin, and he analyzed and gave Merlin an idea: "According to the regulations, this person can be sentenced for trespassing in the magic academy, and we will hand him over to the law enforcement team?"

"That...... I really didn't know there were people here, and your door was not locked, and there was no guard to guard the door......" Yi Fan's explanation was pale and weak.

"If no one is allowed to trespass, should people just let people in when the door is open?

Beate didn't plan to let Yi Fan go easily, but before he finished speaking, he was almost knocked to tears by Merlin's another 'sugar fried chestnut'.

"Get out, go back to the water tank!" Merlin then asked Yi Fan to go with him, promising that as long as Yi Fan cooperated, he would not hand him over to the law enforcement team.

Merlin was a selfish genius who had many achievements that he never shared with him, so his research was always done by himself.

Recently, he had a study that was difficult to complete on his own, and he had to need an assistant to help him. He is also a magician, he is afraid that once the research is successful, the other party will steal his results. So he's been looking for candidates lately, he's been to slave trading grounds, he's been to the slums of the surrounding cities, but unfortunately none of them are good. This time Yi Fan sent it to the door, and he decided to let Yi Fan go to his laboratory with the idea of not using it in vain.

The magic tower of the Academy of Magic, Yi Fan, who had been a companion for a long time, came here because he took the wrong way, and that time he was almost nailed to the wall by an ice pick from a magician who came out of it with a black face, and now he still has a trace of palpitations when he thinks about it.

The Magic Tower has a total of seven floors, and the top floor, this entire floor is Merlin's laboratory, which is the exclusive privilege of the Dean.

Merlin's lab was a mess, with all sorts of books scattered everywhere.

He led Yi Fan in, flipped through the pages, found a red book from the pile of books and threw it to Yi Fan, and asked Yi Fan if he could read and write.

Joke, how can the fat man be illiterate!

"I understand a little, and reading is not a problem. ”

"Okay, give you three days to memorize the contents of this red book for me, don't be lazy!"

After saying that, he locked Yi Fan in the magic tower from outside the door and went to do his business by himself.

Holding the red book, Yi Fan didn't know whether to cry or laugh, he was worried that he had no magic power, but no real magic, and as a result, a dean-level magician locked him in his laboratory.

"Obediently a bell dingdong, the fat man has started to transfer?"

Three meals a day are served, and I only need to read this red book in three days, and there is no better errand than this.

Yi Fan cleared out a recliner and lay comfortably on the recliner, eating Merlin's unfinished snack, leisurely opening the book and reading it carefully.

"The Inscription of the Temple of Light"?

When I opened the book, the name of the book was actually written on the page.

Yi Fan was a little disappointed, and he was even more eager to read those magic codexes. However, before he could read anything else, he had to finish the book in front of him.