When he came to the agreed place, Lin Lei learned that the training hall designated by Johnnedy to meet was actually an actual combat training hall.

Lin Lei had also vaguely heard that the actual combat training hall was a special combat venue set up by Noah in order to improve the actual combat ability of the students, and the basic setting was similar to the magic show in Noah's city, but the scale was greatly reduced.

However, this kind of place is usually mixed with sixth-year students, only those who are about to leave Noah Academy need to consider the problem of actual combat, there will be no battle in the academy, or focus on the spirit of the advanced first is the right way, after all, six years is not short, and it is not long.

At this time, in the training hall the size of a football field, there was already a chaotic battle of magic, wind blades, water dragons, earth thorns, thunder movies, and several magicians wearing student robes besieged a golden figure in the field, but the number of people did not show any advantage, but was chased up and down by the golden figure.

All the magic that hit the golden figure only splashed a golden light, but it couldn't shake it in the slightest, and the golden figure threw out a golden blade from time to time, forcing the opponents to retreat in unison.

"It's ...... Gold magic?" Lin Lei was surprised in his heart.

Gold magic belongs to the extremely rare mutated magic system, which is a variant of the earth system, which is indestructible when attacking, and is the most suitable system for melee combat among all magic.

Mutation magic refers to the practice of magic, the perception of the associated magic elements, so that the original magic power mutates, although it still follows the original mystical system, but the magic released by it is a more advanced form.

For example, this gold magic, in the process of practicing earth magic, felt the existence of metal elements and captured them, after a long period of cultivation and accumulation, the earth magic power was mixed with a large number of metal elements, so that the released earth magic, all aspects have a qualitative leap.

However, magical mutations are rare, and the current magical academic community has not reliably studied its roots, and there is no knowledge of the specific mutation conditions, which can only be attributed to the fact that they are unattainable.

Even whether most of the magic systems have mutated or not is still unknown, it can only be said that what has been discovered exists, and what has never been discovered may not exist at all.

For example, Lin Lei's major in fire magic has never found a mutation.

This was the first time Lin Lei had witnessed the legendary mutant magic, and he was so focused on watching it for a while that he forgot about the meeting with Johnnedy.

When the golden figure turned around, he seemed to see Lin Lei at the entrance, so he made a gesture, and when the others saw it, they all stopped.

Then, the magic light on the golden figure flashed, and the golden skin of the whole body slowly changed to a normal color, revealing a young man with a tall figure and a handsome face but a little thin, slowly walking towards Lin Lei.

The two looked at each other, and Lin Lei inexplicably felt that this one looked handsome but not chic, but a little murderous young man, and it was Johnnedy who he was looking for.

Sure enough, the young man quickly walked up to Lin Lei, stretched out his hand and smiled, "Your Excellency Lin Lei, hello, I'm Johnnedy. ”

Lin Lei hurriedly stretched out his hand and made a hand-to-hand salute with Johnnedy - the hand-to-hand salute is a polite way to greet the humans of the forgotten world, and the two sides stretched out their hands and touched lightly with the back of their hands, which was equivalent to the handshake of the world before Lin Lei.

Under Johnnedy's guidance, the two of them went to the side lounge area, where they had a clear view of the training hall, comfortable seating, and a variety of magical delicacies, all of which were paid for and twice as expensive as the outside of the library.

As soon as the two sat down, Johnnedy took out a rubbing magic book, pushed it in front of Lin Lei, and said with a smile: "This is the information of the Rat Mercenary Group, including the main members and the secret station, which can be regarded as a meeting gift." ”

Lin Lei looked at Johnnedy, and sighed in his heart, this guy has worked himself, not only forcing his sister to give him a hug, but also getting even the secret information that Tinas has a headache for, how valuable is he in his mind, and it is worth his efforts?

However, no matter what, this is a meeting gift that Lin Lei can't refuse.

Seeing that Lin Lei had taken the rubbing, Johnnedy added: "It's a pity that the employer's information has not been found, most of this kind of task is contacted through the mission guild, unless the task guild manager is arrested, there is no way to know the employer's information." ”

Lin Lei looked through the information in the rubbing book, and said indifferently: "Your Excellency Johnnedy, what should I pay to take this thing with peace of mind?"

"Trust. Johnnedy smiled and said without thinking.

"It's that simple?" Lin Lei was stunned for a moment: "You have paid so much, just for these two words?"

"If you want to gain the trust of a future Rank 10 Great Mage, these costs are not too much...... Johnnedy smiled, "Of course, what I want is not just trust, but the possibility of sincere cooperation when we have the same philosophy." ”

Lin Lei pondered for a moment and said, "I heard Linda say, you want the position of patriarch?"

Johnnedy nodded and said: "The position of the patriarch is bound to be won, but if my generation is only open-minded about this, this information of the fierce rat is enough as a meeting gift, so why bother to do more, I have to pay for my own sister." ”

After a pause, Johnnedy said again: "I wonder what Your Excellency Lin Lei thinks, compared to other regions of the empire, what is the greatest advantage of our Southern Region?"

"It should be magic...... Lin Lei thought for a moment: "The magic weapons in the Western Regions and the magic potions in the Eastern Regions are actually all magic born from the Southern Regions. ”

"Yes, but Your Excellency Lin Lei knows that above the Imperial Palace, the role, status, and influence of the Southern Regions on the Empire have actually been gradually regressing for decades.

The empire can have today, the south rejects the sinister villains of the Dahe Empire, the dungeon demon dwarves in the west, the elves of the ancient continent in the east, and the unknown abyss of oblivion in the north, which is unbreakable in all directions, and the root cause lies in the development of magic in our southern regions for hundreds of years, as well as various magical applications derived from magic.

A hundred years ago, the Southern Regions were the head of all domains, and above the imperial palace, the Southern Regions did what they said, and even the royal nobles had to retreat, but since the empire deliberately rewarded the nobles and cultivated the family in the Southern Regions, the current Southern Regions are already a plate of scattered sand, each doing its own thing, tilting each other, and no longer returning to the glory of the past.

The Eastern and Western Regions, in the past fifty years, have surpassed our Southern Regions in the mind of Wilhelm the Great.

The Demon Source Machinery of the Western Regions is now the main military force of the Empire, although in terms of individual combat power, their highest-end magic weapons are only comparable to our seventh- and eighth-level great magicians, but it takes less than a year to make a magic weapon like that, and the entire Western Regions can produce at least two hundred of them a year.

The Demonic Warriors of the Eastern Regions, although their combat power is not worth mentioning, but the tens of millions of the Empire's army comparable to Warcraft are all derived from this, and the entire Eastern Regions can cultivate tens of thousands of Demonic Warriors a year.

And how many of our seventh- and eighth-level great magicians in the Southern Regions can produce in a year? ten or twenty?

There is also the magic source equipment that we have newly researched in the past twenty years, which can only be played by mercenaries at all, and the improvement of combat power cannot be compared with magic weapons, and the low cost is not worth mentioning in front of the magic potions, just such an expensive and useless thing, those old fellows of the academic school still do everything possible to hinder further research and design.

The highest-end combat power of the entire empire is still the ninth-level and tenth-level magicians in our southern regions, but what are those masters doing now? either they are retired in the royal family, or they have become old scholars who have achieved nothing in the goddess hall, or they simply hide in the family and support those juniors who only know how to compete for fame and fortune.

The Southern Regions is a magical holy land, but in our magical holy land, in the past twenty years, there have only been three advanced ninth-level magicians, and one ninth-level magician has advanced to the tenth level, and until now, they are still at the beginning of the tenth level, what kind of magical holy land is this?

Look at the current Southern Regions, what are those families doing? mining, looking for resources, and even secretly hooking up with demon dwarves in order to get more scarce resources, in order to seize the demon costume market, dumping each other, all kinds of disgusting methods...... Of course, the Bruce family did the most disgusting things.

If it goes on like this, it won't take twenty or thirty years, and when those tenth-level and ninth-level old guys die one by one, the Southern Regions will become a marginal area that is dispensable to the empire, the glory of magic will no longer be there, and the development of the Eastern and Western Domains will be changing with each passing day, or after a few decades, there will be no need for great magicians in the world. ”

At this point, Johnnedy stopped and looked at Lin Lei fixedly.

"That'...... What does Lord Johnnedy mean?" Lin Lei nodded as if he didn't understand.

In other words, as a native of the Southern Regions who understands the history of the Southern Regions and has deep feelings for the Southern Regions, Johnnedy's words may make people's blood boil, but when Lin Lei came to this world, Lin Lin was still less than a full moon, and he didn't know much about what Johnnedy said.

However, Lin Lei still understood the general meaning of Johnnedy-this Johnnedy, the ambition is not small.

"What I have in my heart, I don't want the whole Southern Regions, I want it to be glorious again......" Johnnedy clenched his fists, and his face reproduced a murderous aura: "Your Excellency Lin Lei, I will definitely be the first mage in the empire in the future, and I hope to get the full support of Your Excellency Lin Lei." ”