Magisters and fifth-order dragons are both top representatives of the magic field in the known world.

Many people are full of curiosity about which of these two types of strong people is strong and who is weak, theoretically, the dragon is not only a super-level magister, but also an invincible air fortress and a brave man with infinite combat power, which is not a little bit stronger than the weak body of the magister. However, judging from the actual battle examples, the battles between the Magister and the dragon mostly ended in the victory of the Magister.

The ability of the Magus and the fifth-order dragon to manipulate magic is basically the same, and compared with the same fire Magister and the fire dragon, the dragon uses a superior language, and the control of magic is faster and more accurate. However, many times, advantages can also turn into disadvantages, once the dragon enters the fifth order, it will naturally use forbidden spell magic, and it has an incomparably strong body, all of which are innate advantages. And the human Magister, in order to hold such a supreme title, each of them has to devote themselves to the study of magic at almost the cost of their lives, and must challenge such a natural monument as the Tower of Beggars. The level of hard work of the two is not the same, and after that, the proficiency of magic and the application of advanced magic of other departments are not the same thing at all.

Especially if a magus has a superb magic wand, the distance between him and the dragon is already very small.

What's more, most dragons live alone, and the Magus will not challenge the Dragons alone - those who can fight alongside the Magister, whether they are warriors, thieves, priests, or knights, have extremely high combat power, and in this case, the fifth-order dragon is of course at a disadvantage.

-- "Chi Yizi, The Polemics", Chapter 2, The Five Drums and Tiger Souls, such bad news was obtained from the merchant travelers who walked through the Desert Empire and the Holy See.

While replenishing their food and water in a small oasis, the dragon knights came across this small caravan that had just made a long journey from Amy's empire.

There are a lot of such small caravans on the continent of Eminole, and because of their small capital, they cannot monopolize the specialties of certain areas like the big conglomerates, and in order to make more profits, they have to go in and out of relatively dangerous areas. This time, due to the continuous battles of the Chi Aotian Expeditionary Force on the Huayu Plain, many continental roads were cut off, according to the information coming out of the treehouse bar, the Holy Desert Empire, which has always imported grain from the hinterland of the Amy Empire, has begun to use the war reserve grain a month ago, and according to reliable information, the great nobles of the Desert Empire are willing to buy grain at ten times the price before. Many small caravans were rushing to earn this money by pouring grain from all over the mainland. The dragon knights' small caravan in front of them, guarded by just over 20 mercenaries, was one of them, they had set off from a small town on the west side of Scambre that had been subordinated to the Burmese Empire, and before they set out, most of them had seen thousands of orcs and more than a thousand human soldiers driving down from the forests in the northwest, and they had heard with their own ears that the human soldiers were talking about the capture of Hamburg City.

Most of the orcs still speak the Phanotic language, but they can hear the simple syllable "hamburg", and the human soldiers are all natives of Eminole, and they all speak the lingua franca of the continent. The inhabitants of the small town have long known that the Phanos army is besieging the city of Hamburg, and seeing so many soldiers, of course those who are interested will not give up such an opportunity, many mercenaries or magicians' guild people, and even merchants, bards, etc., approached them under various pretexts, and finally got incomplete news:" The three Magisters and the eight Cardinal Archbishops of Fanos built a flying castle and used it to attack the city of Hamburg day and night, when the city's fortified walls had been bulldozed, and the soldiers came down the mountain to hunt down the Imperial soldiers who had climbed down the cliff more than 1,000 meters high. ”

The four dragon knights were all stunned - all the families of the small mercenary group were in Hamburg City at this time, even if there was no Amy and Daqingshan, there were nearly 10,000 soldiers and unprecedented natural dangers, how could they be overcome? Not to mention that there were more than a thousand elven archers, many magic masters, and five dragon knights. The four of them couldn't believe the news. However, these businessmen will not deliberately deceive.

In the end, Long and Ling Yun agreed that Long and Guan Shan would accompany the two to return to Hamburg City overnight, and if there was nothing to do in Hamburg City, they would come back as soon as possible, if it was true...... Then go to war in the city of Hamburg. Ling Yun and Su both continued to search for the missing Chi Aotian Legion.

As a last resort, Ling Yun and Su both traveled to almost every corner of the Huayu Plain, and later, when they heard that the Pope and the Emperor of Mianyang would participate in the completion ceremony of the temple, the two approached the original Rhodes City as wandering warriors.

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"Who is Your Excellency?!" The Pope was not familiar with Chi Aotian and did not recognize the person in front of him. It's just that in the hall dedicated to the god of light and the god of war, there is such a strange situation, and His Majesty the Pope has already classified the young man in front of him into the demon clan.

"Snort-" The black-clothed young man laughed disdainfully, although the young man's appearance was extremely strange, but the young man's sunny smile made the hearts of hundreds of thousands of people in front of the temple shock. A man's smile can be described as a city, and the charm of such a man is really indescribable. Some of the young women in the audience even let out a cry of joy.

The hearts of the two white-clothed young men slammed into the bottomless abyss - this is not Chi Aotian, no matter how similar they look, but Deputy Head Chi Aotian will definitely not have such a smile.

"What kind of demon is Your Excellency, who dares to offend the majesty of the two main gods?" The laughter of the young man in black also shook His Majesty the Pope's consciousness, but fortunately, His Majesty the Pope quickly regained his demeanor.

"Oh, Lord God?" the young man looked back at the words on the temple, and his long black hair fluttered in the wind: "So what? Is this place allowed for you to come, for the Lord God to come, for the people in front of me to come, not for me? ”

"Your Excellency...... What does it have to do with His Excellency Chi Aotian?" the blonde king asked in a deep voice.

Hearing such a question, there was an exclamation in front of the temple.

After several months of boundless killing, Chi Aotian is definitely as well-known as thunder in the Holy See, maybe some people don't know the name of His Majesty the current Pope, but there will definitely be no one who hasn't heard of Chi Aotian. There was even a burst of panic in the audience.

"He?" The smile on the face of the young man in black became even thicker: "I don't have much friendship with this person. What I didn't expect was that the man in black, who was extremely similar to Chi Aotian's appearance, actually pushed it cleanly.

"That'...... What are you doing here?" His Majesty the Pope heard the name Chi Aotian, his face was already slightly pale, as the highest authority of the Holy See, His Majesty the Pope knew Chi Aotian's experience very well.

"Oh...... Nothing. The young man in black took a few steps on the stage idly: "I heard that a big temple is going to be built here...... Oh...... Wrong...... Look, I'm using the wrong word again, sorry, it's to build a big hall. As he spoke, the young man looked up at the hall that seemed to be about to stand up to the sky: "I like it here, so I want to come over and discuss, can I live for a while?"

"Your Excellency, this is a place dedicated to the God of War and the God of Light, and if you want to live here, you must become a clergyman. "His Majesty the Pope still doesn't know the identity of the person in front of him, is it ...... Is it really Chi Aotian? His Majesty the Pope is using words to cover this great enemy of life and death.

"Really?" The smile on the face of the young man in black became even stronger: "That's nothing, just ask the two of them to move out, anyway, I see that they have a lot of places here, but I ...... It's very poor, but there is no place. ”

"Nonsense! How dare Your Excellency offend the majesty of the Lord God. Come, kill this madman here, and sacrifice his blood to the two supreme gods!" From such rebellious words, His Majesty the Pope immediately judged the true identity of this young man—who else dared to do so except Chi Aotian. Come to think of it, which behaviors were the actions of this god-killing teenager in order to confuse people.

Dozens of instructors and senior priests rushed up from the audience, and the bright sword instantly pierced everyone's eyes.

"Alas...... Why bother...... Can't we reduce some killing?" looked at the instructors who came up from all sides, and the smile on the face of the black-clothed young man did not waver in the slightest.

The jade-like index finger and middle finger were gently placed on the rosy lips, and a thin black air mass erupted from the lips and coiled around the fingertips......

"Knock ......"

"Knock ......"

"Knock ......"

"Knock ......"

"Knock ......"

The black air mass hit the drum surface, as if the five wrestlers were beating the drum with all their might, the drum frame was obviously drooping under force, and the huge drum sound was transmitted to all directions like a wave of air, and the instructors who rushed to the front were violently swept away by the air wave, and the senior priests in the back were even lifted off the steps and rolled down.

The Pope and Reynolds floated in the air, feeling like they were almost blown away by the drums...... Who is this?

"This must be a demon who dares to disturb the two main gods!Quick!Gather the Templars and the Order of the Knights of the Dragons under His Highness Renol!" the Pope commanded as he gestured to several cardinals in the audience.

In order to prevent anyone from coming to make trouble, the Holy See had already arranged defensive troops, and as soon as the order was issued, large flags were erected on all sides of the temple at the same time, not only the Knights Templar and the Knights of the Dragon, but even a Phanos legion drove in from a distance. The instructors used their guns to push out several passages for onlookers, and the knights whistled their mounts into the roar.

"Summon, summon the dragons! Let them fly high in the sky first, and come down as soon as they are summoned. Ling Yun said as he took out the dragon flute.

The two dragons were not far from here, and when they heard the sound of the dragon flute, they immediately roared.

Reynolds saw a faint cloud suddenly appear in the extremely high sky, and his brows immediately furrowed tightly, as a dragon knight, of course he knew that this faint swirling cloud was the most common method used by dragons or dragon knights to hide their traces, but it was just ...... What are the dragon knights doing here?......

Several of the leaders of the Templar Order were all Phantom Beast Knights, and they quickly came to the front of the main hall with their subordinates who had already turned over and dismounted, and all the Templars were startled - Chi Aotian? This person in front of them was Chi Aotian! In the Battle of the Ox Waist, the Templars had seen the portrait of Chi Aotian, and it was definitely this person, and they could not imagine that this person had escaped the fire of Heyang in Sicily, and he was so bold that he ran here.

"Chi Aotian, Your Excellency needs to atone for your sins!" the head of the Templar Order, Saint Johan, pulled out a silver-white sword from the back of the phantom beast.

"Huh...... It's all said, and you've made mistakes. The smile on the face of the black-clothed young man was not shaken by the shiny weapons in the hands of hundreds of knights: "However, there is nothing here, it is a matter of time before it comes, what it should do, and what it should return." The boy said as he walked, waving his right hand and tapping lightly on each drum.

In full view of everyone, the five-sided drum fell in response to the beat...... The drum rack shattered to pieces, and a puff of dust and smoke rose faintly.

Huh, the many Templars didn't know what the man was doing......

But...... Just after the drum rack fell to the ground, just after the dust and smoke faded away......

One of the bone-of-a-bone index fingers of the drum rack that had fallen to the ground lightly tapped the granite floor, and the crisp sound of "ding-" pierced everyone's ears like a metallic string sound.

Before the strings fell, the ten white hand bones moved at the same time, and they deftly ran up and down the broken drum rack, tearing off one bone and "snort" One drum skin was torn apart......

Strangely enough, the ten white hand bones are clearly divided into five pairs, one of each pair is mainly engaged in dismantling, while the other hand is "building"—yes, that is, building, or more precisely, gluing, gluing together bones, pieces of skin, and a cloud of black gas in the drum rack.

Not just the millions of onlookers, not only the Templars, but even the two kings were stunned by what they saw, and in the vast world, except for the young man in black, all of them were staring at the skeletal fingers on the ground that were comparable to the most dexterous craftsmen in the world.

In the midst of the people's blank eyes, five fingers crawling up and down quickly, pasting, the five giant drums disappeared, and in their place, five human skeletons.

Almost at the same moment, the five hands completed their work at the same time, their last action was to pick up the other hand and stick it to one forearm, and then, the already glued fingers picked them up and dotted some black air mass and stuck to the other forearm.

Five people!

Even the believers in the audience who didn't know anything knew that the five-sided drum in front of them was originally made of the skeletons of five people!

At this time, it was only then that it was seen that these five people were either tall and majestic, or agile, or low and powerful...... Everyone has different characteristics of each skeleton, and each skeleton has a different style of each skeleton.

The right hand of each skeleton held its own bit of black air mass, and in an instant, the black air mass suddenly transformed into a long sword, a war hammer, a longbow, a magic staff, and a thin moon scimitar.

"This is a necromantic demon, surround it, let's release the divine magic!" The two cardinals reacted the fastest, for necromantic creatures, divine magic is their natural restraint magic, even a beginner priest can easily kill this kind of low-level skeleton!

I can't say the master's words: the online version needs to be stopped, and the reason is simple - we have once again surpassed the chapters of the Taiwanese traditional Chinese version of the physical book.

Here's a note about the publication of the simplified Chinese version.

On July 20, 2004, Mercenary World signed a publishing contract with a company in Xi'an, according to which the other party was supposed to publish it on December 31, 2004 at the latest. However, it is a pity that I don't know what happened to the other company, and it was delayed for 270 days before it could be published. I have sent a formal written request to the other company, and if the other party is still unable to publish by October 2005, then I will terminate the contract in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Contract Law of our country.

At present, there are also five or six publishing houses that keep in touch with me, once the contract is terminated, I will choose a more reputable publishing house to cooperate with (I can't say that I don't pay much attention to money, otherwise I would have already added a starting point VIP, and I can't just hope that the publisher can invest more money in printing and provide readers with better quality books), and I hope to publish the simplified version of "Mercenary World" by the end of this year.

In addition to "Mercenaries World", the simplified version also has two side stories "Raging Dwarf King" and "Descendants of Heroes". The former is written about Horns, and the latter is written about the descendants of Amy, Daqingshan, etc. The number of words in the external transmission part is not necessarily a lot, and the key depends on how much space can be set aside for arrangement in the end.

Some readers reported that their cities were relatively remote and they might not be able to buy books. When the book is officially published, I hope to find a better service company to meet the requirements of readers and friends. I don't know the final retail price of the mercenary, but I roughly calculated that after removing the "mailing + registration fee + separate packaging box + money for buying books + 5% loss", in the end, the total cost of mailing is about 85%~95% of the price of the book. Of course, in order to thank readers and friends in remote areas for their continued concern, Xiao Na will give each reader in the mail a signed photo - the kind of bald monk, please laugh.