CHAPTER XXXIII

(Regarding the title of the protagonist, I look at the voting data, when Soth surpasses Jiang Zhe, I use Soss, but I think Zhe can be used as a nickname, just like Lavia's Ive.) ）

In the same way, west of the empire, Ron!

For more than half a year, Jiang Zhe set off towards the small town of Reochs Academy, which has now been converted into a military fortress for the western border of the empire's defense.

The inhabitants of the nearby Imperium were semi-forcibly relocated to the east, and the lively town was now filled with tension, where it was no longer just ordinary residents, but well-armed Imperial Guards, and occasionally a few brightly armored royal knights.

For more than half a year, the empire sent no less than 3,000 troops to garrison here, and a duke and three counts were ordered by the imperial city of Sassen to send troops here to guard.

Ron has become the first line of defense for the Orcs of the Empire.

The original lord of the town has been transferred and replaced by the young commander, Earl Brian Elvis.

Earl Brian Elvis is the heir to the throne of the Grand Duke Elvis, graduated from the Royal Knight Academy three years ago, although he is only twenty-three years old now, but he is very good, he once put down a small rebellion two years ago, and is one of the commanders being trained by the Empire.

Unlike the conservative Grand Duke Elvis, Count Brian Elvis is a member of the radical faction who admires the use of his sword and the glory of being a royal knight to destroy any force that dares to offend the Empire!

This is also typical of the royal knights who were educated by the Royal Knight Academy of the Empire.

After receiving the order, the young commander rushed to Ron within a few days and built a defensive line, but he did not rush to attack the orcs, but focused on collecting information about the orcs, and besides, the attitude towards the orcs in the imperial city of Sassen has not yet reached a unity, and many nobles do not want to 'provoke' that ancient race, so as not to invite revenge - a thousand years ago, the war was enormous, and the human race paid a heavy price to drive 'them' to the far west!

And now, the young commander is standing on the walls of the castle, looking out to the west.

The two figures beside him, an old man and a little girl—the royal chief magician, the Grand Magician, Weston Malajiji Hastings, and his apprentice, Gianna Malagiji Hastings—the archmagician doted on his apprentice as much as he doted on his granddaughter.

"It seems that our 'neighbor' is not going back......" the old magician sighed slightly.

"Yes, Honorable Archmage," said the young commander as a respectful gesture of respect, then propped up the wall with one hand and pointed to the west with the other, "Three months ago, I sent ten excellent knights to investigate the situation of Bird Fortress and the town of Seth, and at that time I found that the orcs had cut down the forest, collected stones, and built a ...... on the ruins of the town A ......"

"Ancestral Altar," sighed and glancing at the silent apprentice beside him, the old magician sighed secretly and smiled reluctantly, "As far as I know, the orcs worship their ancestors, they regard their ancestors as gods, and the leading shaman among the orcs, using a special power, different from magic...... This is to be warned, we don't know enough about them!"

"Yes, Grand Mage!" Commander Brian nodded, then gave a knightly salute and said solemnly, "Bet on the glory of the royal knights, these murderous fellows will never be allowed to take another step!"

"Drink!" echoed the rest of the royal knights on the ramparts, almost all of them young knights who had just graduated, brave, upright, and valued glory as their life.

"I'm sure you can do it, Brian!" the old magician complimented with a smile.

"Your affirmation of me is a supreme honor, thank you, esteemed archmage!"

"Hehe," the old magician smiled, and when he turned his head to see his apprentice looking to the west with a sad expression, he hurriedly changed the subject, "Nina, it's very windy here, why don't we go back to the castle......?"

I saw that the girl shook her head, suddenly raised her hand and pointed to the west, and said softly, "There...... It's a small town...... It turned out to be ...... Passing through the forest outside the town, there is a nice little lake, which is Soth's usual favorite place to go......"

"Nina," the old magician sighed secretly at the words full of sadness and sadness, and when he saw that her body trembled slightly, he coughed, and changed the subject, "Do you feel cold?" I think we should go back to the castle, and we will have to travel in two days!"

Hearing the old magician say this, Brian hurriedly said, "I'll have someone prepare some refreshments right away!"

Before he could finish speaking, he heard the girl whisper, "Old Weston, I want to stand here for a while......"

Glancing at Brian, who was a little confused, Weston waved his hand and said, "Brian, I'm sorry to disappoint you, kid...... I'll stay with this kid for a while, and you can go and deal with things first, I think you have a lot of things to deal with......"

Brian was stunned, suddenly understood, and said with a hint of regret, "Yes, respected archmagician, then I'll leave first, oh, by the way, I'll ask someone to prepare refreshments......"

"Hmm!"

The young commander left, and Nina took off her cloak and let her brown hair blow away in the cold wind, her obsidian eyes looking sadly to the west.

Seeing her little face pale by the cold wind, the old magician was very distressed, thought about it, coughed, and changed the topic again, "Nina, do you think that the thunder compound magic is the most powerful?"

"Huh?" said the girl, turning her head in surprise, "Old Weston, don't you always say that there is no magic of the most powerful?"

"What do you think," the old magician blinked, and said, "If you want to use thunder magic, you must be proficient in both fire and water blue magic, which means that that magician can go anywhere, whether it is the hot western desert or the cold northern wasteland, a place that is inaccessible to ordinary people, but it does not pose any threat to him, isn't this the most powerful magic?"

The girl giggled, the sadness in her eyes fading.

Seeing this, the old magician struck while the iron was hot and said, "Isn't it?" For example, now, the wind here is indeed very strong, and the weather is very cold, but as long as you are a magician who practices fire-based green magic, you can condense a layer of fire element on the surface of your body to resist the cold, look!"

As soon as the words fell, a faint red light condensed on the old magician's body, and then he chuckled and said, "Nina, can you do it?

"Of course!" Nina nodded unconvinced, closing her eyes, and it didn't take long for the surface of her body to be covered with a hint of red light, and then opened her eyes, looking at Weston triumphantly.

"Ahh

After a long time, the old magician sighed and said, "Nina, we're leaving here tomorrow......"

"Yes," the girl nodded, "where?"

"Hmm," the old magician thought for a moment and said, "I want to take you to visit some famous magicians to increase your knowledge, the strength ......of a magician depends on knowledge, only the more things you know, the more powerful a magician can become! A guy who can only perform a few spells is not a magician at all!"

"Well, I remembered!" Nya nodded obediently, then her eyes casually swept over the west side, and said worriedly, "Old Weston, what ...... Those orcs...... I remember you were royal...... Royal ......"

"The Royal Chief Magician!" the old magician said with a little helplessness, shaking his head and sighing, "It is recorded in the literature that the orcs are a stupid, murderous, and unnamed race, but this is not what I have seen...... This is also an intelligent race, just like us humans, you see, Nya, the orcs are not going to war with us now, of course, we are not going to go to war with them now, because a thousand years apart, we don't know each other, although I would love to avoid this, but...... Maybe in a year, maybe in a few years, this war will break out, but once it breaks out, it will not be a war between nations, but a war between one race against another, either win or perish, and countless people will lose their lives because of this war...... On the other side of this ancient race, we are not sure of victory......"

"If there will be a lot of people who will lose their lives because of this war, why not reconcile?" Nina asked in confusion.

"Reconciliation?" the old magician shook his head and smiled bitterly, "A thousand years ago, we defeated them and drove them to the far, barren West, which is not so easy to dissolve, besides, ......" As he spoke, he paused, glanced at Nina, and said softly, "Hatred is not so easy to dissolve, is it?"

I saw a haze flash in Nina's eyes, and she lowered her head in silence, biting her lip and looking at the stones under her feet.

Alas!

The old magician sighed secretly, squatted down and put his arm on Nina's shoulder, and said earnestly, "No matter what happens in the future, Nina, you must be firm that your purpose of learning magic is not for revenge, but to fulfill the wishes that others have not fulfilled, I think that child, he will never want your hands to be stained with sinful blood...... Me too!"

"Yes!" Nina nodded, looked up, and smiled at the sky, "yes, although Soth is lazy, doesn't listen to me at all, and sometimes makes me angry, and never wants to call me sister...... But he's kind......"

is my dearest brother......

Forever!

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"Ahh

inexplicably sneezed several times in a row, which made Jiang Zhe feel a little incomprehensible, he didn't have a cold?

Having said that, if you are a magician majoring in fire-based blue magic, if you catch a cold one day because of a cold, you will definitely be laughed to death if you spread it, although the two are not much related.

"I'm here, do you feel uncomfortable like that?" On the sofa opposite, Lavia was holding a copy of the magician and glanced at Jiang Zhe lightly.

"That's not it," Jiang Zhe shrugged, "maybe it's a cold!"

After a few months of getting along, Jiang Zhe can be regarded as a girl on the other side who has a rough understanding, competitive, stubborn, and unwilling to admit defeat, probably out of temper, she doesn't have many friends except for two roommates, which is very similar to Jiang Zhe, in addition to Scott and Allen, Jiang Zhe can only be called a friend, and there may only be the third-grade senior sister Dia.

As for Lavia......

With the increase in the number of meetings, the two can be regarded as half friends and half competitors, but Jiang Zhe has always been a little unable to stand the strength of that girl.

"Cold?" Glancing at the dense fire element beside Jiang Zhe, Lavia snorted noncommittally and said to the information in her hand, "Theoretical explanation of the fireball!"

"Hmm," Jiang Zhe coughed and recalled, looking at the direct eyes of the girl opposite, "...... Rely on spells, gestures, and props to gather the fire elements in the atmosphere and condense them into a relatively stable form......"

"Special surname!"

"Hmm...... The heat, the scorching, the explosion!"

"Very good!" Lavia nodded slightly, flipped through a page of information with her right hand, and continued, "The elemental arrangement of the fireball!" As she spoke, she pushed a stack of parchment paper on the table in front of Jiang Zhe, the meaning was obvious.

"Hey, there's no need for that, right? I've already memorized it, otherwise I'll cast a fireball?" Jiang Zhe couldn't laugh or cry, please, it would take at least ten minutes to draw!

Lavia didn't say a word about Jiang Zhe's shirk, but just put the inkwell and quills next to him in front of Jiang Zhe......

“...... OK!"

After more than ten minutes of hard work, Jiang Zhe handed in the paper, but Lavia just glanced at it and put the paper on a plate.

In fact, Lavia also understands that as that guy's best magic, how could he not remember it......?

"I just hate your arrogance......" Looking at Jiang Zhe's depressed expression, Lavia pursed her lips slightly and muttered.

"Hmm, did you just say that?"

"No, didn't say anything," quickly shook her head, and Lavia coughed lightly and continued, "Soth, you should know about Moore, right?"

"Is it the energy in magic?"

"Yes, but not exactly," Lavia nodded, put down the information in her hand, and asked in a deep voice. Theoretically, the magic power of a mole unit can drive the elements of a mole unit, but in practice this is not the case, for example, if you cast a fireball, an ordinary fireball, theoretically need to consume fourteen mole units of mana, but in fact, you consume more, because some mana is lost in the process of condensing the elements, but the energy of the fireball itself is still fourteen mole units, that is, the longer it takes you to cast magic, the greater the mental power consumption, the greater the magic consumption, and the lower the energy generated by this magic。 ”

"Oooh......"

"Can you be serious?"

"Please, I've been serious!"

"You!" Lavia seemed to be a little angry, and looked at Jiang Zhe for a long time before frowning and finishing the next words, "The explanation of the magicians is that the essence of magic, that is, the mass of the elements, is constant, and theoretically the consumption of the fireball you cast is fourteen mole units, but in fact, almost no one can reach this standard, even if it is a great magician, it is only infinitely close to this standard, not completely reached, so where does this lost energy go?"

"I don't know ......"

"I didn't ask you!" Lavia frowned, it seemed that she hated being interrupted, "A century ago, the Grand Magician Yuri J. Speer made a vision for this, why can magicians use magic to condense elements, because the elements themselves have a special surname of absorbing magic, theoretically a unit of elements absorbs a unit of magic, which allows magicians to use this to release magic, the process of condensing elements is actually to expand your magic breath and attach it to the elements of the atmosphere, although then you can control those elements, but in the end, you only control your magic power, generally speaking, the elements themselves are not consumed, Uncontrolled, you can see it as a necessary item to cast magic...... But there is not only one element in the atmosphere, even if you don't need other elements, and those elements will still absorb your lost magic power, which is a waste of magic power, so you need to use mental power to control it, perceive the fire element in the atmosphere, and squeeze out other unwanted elements, and spells, as well as amplification items, is to speed up, The means to strengthen this step, and the affinity of the elements is more important, it allows you to easily condense the elements, just like the fire elemental next to you, although you do not condense them, but under the influence of your magic, they still actively move closer to you, the higher the affinity, the more obvious this is......"

"Oh......" Jiang Zhe nodded suddenly, suddenly thought of a question, and asked suspiciously, "Do you mean that the elements themselves tend to be magical? Then why is there only the fire element around me? According to you, shouldn't it be all kinds of elements?" As he spoke, he glanced at the surprised expression of the girl opposite, frowned and said, "What's wrong?"

"I thought you would never ask questions," Lavia smiled faintly, looked at Jiang Zhe's speechless expression and explained, "I have also thought about this question, but in the end I still can't think of any answer, but well, there is a magician in history who put forward a hypothesis, he regards the process of casting magic as a contract, and magicians drive a part of the elements at the cost of magic...... This is a contract signed by the power of the soul, and the more contracts you sign, the stronger the affinity of the elements, but we all know that there is no intelligence in the elements themselves, so this assumption has been overturned by other magicians...... If you have to explain, you can understand it as...... The higher the affinity of the fire element, the weaker the affinity for other elementals......"

"Huh?" Looking at Lavia in an unconfident tone to tell the conclusion, Jiang Zhe felt like laughing.

"Do you have times when you don't feel confident?"

"Why am I ......?" Lavia suddenly came to her senses and said angrily, "What do you mean by that?"

"No, it's not interesting!" Jiang Zhe stretched, got up and said, "It's already past the class time, right?"

"What do you mean?" Lavia looked at Jiang Zhe suspiciously.

Pointing to the wall clock on the wall, Jiang Zhe said angrily, "Even if it is a long self-study class, it will be over," as he spoke, Jiang Zhe picked up the magic robe on the sofa and added, "I'll go out for a walk!"

"Where are you going?" Lavia glanced at the thick stack of documents on the long table, she still had a lot to say to this guy!

Noticing Lavia's gaze, Jiang Zhe glanced at the information on the long table, the corners of his eyes couldn't help but twitch a little, and he coughed and said, "I suddenly remembered that my understanding of the fire element is not thorough enough, so I want to go to the library......"

"That's ......," Lavia seemed a little surprised, and in surprise, the fox asked, "This can't be your excuse......, is it?

Jiang Zhe rolled his eyes, reluctantly smiled and said, "Of course not, if you are willing to stay here, please feel free to ......"

"You think I'm willing to stay here!" said Lavia, standing up and walking out of Jiang Zhe's side with a soft hum.

"Hey, your information ......," Jiang Zhe shouted from behind.

"Just leave it there, I've memorized it all!"

Okay!

Glancing at the room, especially the sofa on which he often dozed off, Jiang Zhe sighed and closed the door.

I knew it would be troublesome, but I didn't expect it to be so troublesome......

Ten minutes later, Jiang Zhe did come to the library, but he didn't choose any books from the shelves, because he wasn't here to read books, he was here to catch up on sleep......

It's strange to say, since he came to this magic world, somehow, he has spent a lot more sleep than before, in this regard, Jiang Zhe understood him as having exhausted his magic power too many times, after all, he can completely recover his mental power and magic power after sleeping, this kind of anti-heaven talent has a bit of side effects It is too normal, restoring mental power is far more difficult than recovering magic power, many magicians are likely to not be able to recover for several years after being created by spirits, of course, this is also related to the gap in levels.

But in any case, Jiang Zhe didn't care much when he saw this, even if his sleep time was gradually increasing recently, and he was easily sleepy, he also understood him as being overstressed and mentally weak......

Everybody has experienced this kind of thing, hasn't it?

"Hey!" was a gentle tap on the shoulder.

"Hmm?" Jiang Zhe, who was napping on the long table in the library, raised his head, glanced at the visitor, yawned and said, "It's you, hi, Dia......"

The person who came was Jiang Zhe's only friend in the Reox Academy besides Scott and Allen, Dia.

"Hey, is this the tone that senior sister should have?" Dia Jiao sat down beside Jiang Zhe with disgust, looked at the sleepiness on Jiang Zhe's face, and then looked at the long table without a book, and said with a smile, "This is not a place to sleep!"

"Isn't it impossible......"

"Hmm?" Placing the magic book on the long table, Dia asked suspiciously, "No way, since you're tired, why don't you go back to the dormitory to rest?"

"Can't go back......" Jiang Zhe turned his head lazily.

"Why can't you go back...... Huh, are you asleep?" It was just a matter of turning a page of the book, and as soon as Diya turned her head, she found that Jiang Zhe had fallen asleep, which made her a little crying and laughing, and shook her head and flipped through the book.

After more than two hours, it was dark, and the number of students in the library was gradually decreasing.

"Hu ......" flipped through the pages and used shorthand magic to extract important information, and the two-hour homework made Dia feel very tired and her eyes looked a little sore.

And the faint snoring beside him still continued......

"Still asleep?" Dia turned her head angrily and whispered, "It's going to catch a cold, ...... Soth"

"Hmm......" Jiang Zhe, who was sleeping in a daze, answered vaguely twice.

"Hehe!" Smiling slightly, Dia held her head and looked at Jiang Zhe, looking at it, her eyes gradually became a little dazed.

"Sister, when we went hunting, we met a magician, very powerful, but unfortunately my sister didn't go......

'yes, that's a pity......

'I'm going to be a Dark Mage too, a very powerful Black Mage!'

'Well, I believe ......'

“...... Dea muttered the words!" Dia muttered.

If my brother is still alive, he should be about the same age as this child......

Biting her lip, Dia looked at Jiang Zhe a little distractedly, and after a long time, she stretched out her hand and touched Jiang Zhe's cheek with her fingers......

"Hee-hee-hee......"

"What are you laughing at?" said a puzzled question.

"Scared?" Di Ya came back to her senses, only to find that Jiang Zhe was looking at her with a puzzled expression, and quickly took back the hand that was still raised in the air, and stammered, "Uh...... I just ......"

"Hmm?" Slowly raising his head, Jiang Zhe wiped the corners of his mouth with his palm, and said in wonder, "I'm drooling?"

"Uh...... So I want to warn you, maybe I'm wrong......"

"Oh," Jiang Zhe nodded, stretched, looked left and right, got up and said, "It seems that the library is about to close, I'll go back ......"

"I should go back too," said Dia, who hurriedly packed up the materials on the table and asked casually, "Soth, after the year-end assessment, do you plan to stay in Reox or go home?"

"Go home?" Jiang Zhe was stunned, holding his head in his hands and said, "You should stay here, Scott and Alan don't seem to be going back...... Oh, by the way, my professor of the Fire Blue Magic course, Professor Hodd seems to have mentioned it two days ago, and asked me to follow him after the year-end assessment, he seems to live in a small town in the south of here......"

"Well," Dia nodded, then said with a smile, "It seems that you are very valued by Professor Hodd, maybe he wants to teach you something new......"

"I hope so, what about you?"

"Me?" Dia was stunned and said with a bit of melancholy, "I haven't planned it yet, the third-year assessment is difficult, if you can't pass it successfully, it will be very troublesome, and you will be laughed at......" she said, sticking out her tongue.

"It's okay, I'm sure you'll be able to pass it at your level!"

"Giggle...... If that's the case...... Then I'm leaving!"

"Well, goodbye!"

Smiling slightly, Dia walked towards the dormitory with the excerpted materials in her hand.

It's true...... Looks like that......

ps: Thank you for the name of the person who provided the tomato embarrassment ^^

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