Chapter VIII

When Old Charles and Jiang Zhe were talking about the Great Magician Weston, the Royal Chief Magician in their mouths was rushing to the west.

Weston didn't know the legendary space magic, and there were two servants behind him, so the group of three honestly drove the horses to the road, and almost all of them came this way.

In several important large cities of the empire, there are so-called magic teleportation arrays, which are not open to civilians because they are in a certain danger.

The magic teleportation array is generally used as a teleportation material, of course, if the war is urgent, it will also teleport the soldiers to the front line through this magic array, but, as I said just now, this has a certain danger, space magic, has not been thoroughly studied by magicians.

Besides, the more you get to the edge of the empire, the fewer big cities there are, and sometimes, you can't see a small town for several days, where does the magic array come from?

But fortunately, Weston is a great magician, even if he is proficient in the water and fire systems of green magic, he still knows some low-level wind magic, and he has used the 'wind power' to speed up, and the speed of the horse is not slow.

What?What is the physical strength of a horse?

This is even simpler, the 'restoration' in the water magic can almost completely cancel out the consumption of the horse while running.

The further west we went, the more barren the land became, with sand and rocks, but fewer and fewer plants, and the sand and gravel brought up by the wind obstructed the view of the three travelers.

This is already the western border of the Empire, and beyond that, except for the only Imperial fortress, Bird, there are no people for hundreds of miles, and even mercenaries will not come to such a place where birds don't.

"Take a break here!" Weston pulled the reins and looked up at the fiery sun in the sky.

"Whew!" let out a long sigh, the knight of the trio took off his helmet and wiped the hot sweat from his forehead with his cloak, it was so hot here that the knight in full armor couldn't stand it.

His lips were already chapped with dryness, and he didn't have time to rehydrate as he ran all the way.

As he reached out and touched the horse's neck, his expression suddenly froze, and the water he had replenished in the small town of Set seemed to have been lost on the way......

Looking at the Grand Magician Weston, the knight's face was full of embarrassment.

Weston shook his head helplessly, stretched out his right hand, and his lips moved slightly.

I saw an incongruous breeze caress by, and the scarce moisture in the air gradually condenses into water droplets, and then, towards Weston's right hand, a water balloon appeared in his palm, and in the blink of an eye, a water balloon appeared in his palm, and it grew in size at a very fast speed: in this hot environment, it is absolutely impossible to extract water from the air without great control.

"We can only rest for ten minutes!" Weston said as he controlled the water balloon to divide it into three equal portions.

Although Weston was very concerned about this mission, he was not in a hurry, so he accepted the invitation of old Charles to have the worst dinner ever in that dilapidated chapel.

And after dinner, Weston happily 'coaxed' Nina to be his apprentice, as he sent two other servants to Bird Fortress first.

Until late at night, the two servants who were supposed to send magical messages at this time were not heard from.

You know, that's the Royal Magician's special communication stone, and the interruption of contact can be almost so small, so dependent, there is only one explanation, and the two servants may have been unable to communicate......

The two servants, one is also a royal knight, and the other is a summoning magician who is proficient in earth magic, and his strength is good, and such a combination can't even send out simple communication, which makes Weston a little worried.

"Keep on your way!"

"Yes!"

As a human nation, the empire is very powerful, hundreds of years ago, King Sassen relied on black magic to defeat the enemy country, and after conquering several countries, the empire was established.

In the past few hundred years, successive emperors have been very wise, relying on armies and royal magicians to gradually encroach on the surrounding countries, which has achieved a powerful empire.

Once, the empire has always been opposed to the Holy See established by the White Magician, however, this is a human civil war, in addition to the Holy See, the empire has a strong enemy, no, it should be that the human race has a strong enemy!

In the west of the empire, far away, that's the territory of the orcs!

In ancient times, the orcs were among the oldest inhabitants of the continent, and in their time, there were elves, dwarves, and even giants, but in the end, humans occupied the richest places on the continent and drove them to the far west.

That history was glorious for humanity, but it was not glorious......

After defeating the orcs, the Terran king turned his back on the alliance, and the elves were first forced to leave their homes and hide in dense forests to avoid persecution by alchemists......

This was followed by the dwarves and savages, who were driven to the cold north......

Once upon a time, relations between the Terrans and the rest of the Alliance were tense until the emergence of King Sasson.

King Sassen first eased the conflict with the dwarves, and then helped the dwarves and barbarians defeat the giants of the north, and many barbarians once joined the enemy [***] team, and still are.

Only the relationship with the elves has not been able to heal, and there are still a large number of elves who call the human race 'traitors' and 'fraudsters'.

After the reconciliation of King Sassoon, the dwarves first gave up revenge, for them the green land was not much different from the white snow, and the barbarians finally gave up revenge, because after all, the barbarians also belonged to the human race, and there were only differences in height, strength, and faith.

The elves lost the strength to retaliate against the human race because of their own civil strife, and after the efforts of the successive generations of Sassen kings, the elves and humans maintained the principle of non-aggression.

Only the orcs, they have never forgotten revenge, and they have never forgotten to recover the ancestral dwellings, as early as the time of King Sasson I, the orcs once attacked the territory of the Terrans, at that time, the Sasson king stopped the war with the white mages of Sassoonia, and then attracted the dwarves and barbarians to resist the orcs, and then, the white mages of Sassalonia, and a small part of the elves also participated in the battle, helping the Sassen king to drive the orcs back to the far west.

And more than ten years ago, the reason why the empire and the Holy See stopped fighting was also because they found that those orcs were ready to move in the far west, so they put aside their prejudices and maintained an attitude of both hostility and cooperation, and the paladins, this powerful faction, was also born because of this.

(Here is a brief introduction...... Well, even if it's simple...... ）

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Bird Fortress is a fortress set up by the empire on the western border, and successive Sassen kings have never neglected this military fortress, in addition to renovating it every year, King Sassen VII has built a magic teleportation array in this ancient fortress, which is even more precise and stable than the magic array in the imperial capital.

However, a year ago, the magic circle suddenly became ineffective, and the current King of Sassen, the fifty-six-year-old wise emperor and King Twelfth of Sassen, hurriedly dispatched an army of two thousand men to the fortress, including three royal archmages and thirty mages.

But half a year ago, when the army was about to approach the Bird Fortress, the message was suddenly cut off, and there has been no news since......

As the chief wizard of the Crown, Weston Malagiji Hastings sensed the seriousness of the situation, so he recruited four powerful men as servants to go to the western frontier of the empire to find out the situation.

However, Weston did not believe that this matter could have anything to do with the orcs, because after more than ten years of reconciliation between the empire and the Holy See, an army of 500 people had been sent to confirm the situation outside the fortress, and nothing unusual was found.

Perhaps, the orcs still obediently stay in the far west......

Perhaps, that's just some drunken mercenary talking nonsense......

But now, Weston feels like things might not be so simple!

Because he keenly noticed that the magic in his body was contained, although only a little, Weston felt it......

Able to suppress the fluctuation of magic on a large scale, Weston once read from the history of ancient magic, only the orc leadership shaman can do it......

Could it be that Bird Fortress has been ......

Barely reluctantly putting the foreboding behind him, Weston picked up speed once more.

Finally, in the early morning of the third day, Weston and his party rushed to Mount Gerais, and over this mountain range, it was the Empire's distant western fortress, Bird.

At this time, Weston's magical containment had reached the point where the Holy Magician-level Royal Chief Archmage could not cast a forbidden spell......

I'm afraid, this is the purpose of the other party......

Abandoning their horses, Weston and his party hiked up Mount Djilas, standing on the top of the hill and looking out at the towering Bird Fortress......

"Oh my God......"

The old magician's face was filled with shock.

In front of him, most of the fortress walls were destroyed, and under the fortress was a dark red scorched earth, on which a totem made of skulls was piled up......

Bird Fortress, no longer exists......

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