Soon after, President Massa had arranged for the men to find the mage who accompanied him and returned to the deck of the Lucky Owen, and Chadordo inquired about the situation on the side of the Council of Severington.

"My lord, the council is gathering the people for your lordship, and when I went to inquire yesterday, I said that more than 400 people have been gathered, and I have heard good news!"

"Huh? What's the good news? Xia Duo asked curiously.

The last time he went to visit, the clerk there said that more than 300 people had been gathered, and if there was a hurry, they could be transported first.

But at that time, the fleet did not come, so what to transport people?

As for the good news or anything, he didn't deliberately inquire about it, and in his opinion, it was good news that he could transport 500 people in vain.

"My lord—"

Massa suddenly lowered his voice, and even looked around cautiously before replying, "I heard from the council that there was a new batch of artisan slaves recently, and I checked them up and down to put them on the list of new lords. ”

Huh-

That's great news!

Xia Duo looked Massa up and down, sure enough, he started in the slave business, and he could find his way anywhere!

However, there may still be some hidden dangers in this matter, and after thinking about it, Xia Duo asked again: "Do you know the identity of those artisan slaves?" What is it that became a slave? ”

"My lord, it's like this—" Massa didn't dare to hesitate, and immediately explained: "Because of the previous military operations in the underground passage, the council recruited a group of craftsmen from the territory of the Seven Towers Group, but some people heard that they might be stationed there and would often encounter underground monsters, and they immediately repented, and the Grand Arcanist was furious, so those people became slaves. ”

"That's it!"

Xia Duo understood the cause and effect, although he couldn't understand the brain circuits of those craftsmen very well, but it was obvious that since they had all been drafted, wouldn't it be self-inflicted trouble to regret it temporarily?

Even if it was forcibly levied by the Parliament, the rebellion would have been revolted a long time ago, and there was no need to start the rebellion until Severington.

"Have you seen those people? Who are the craftsmen? ”

"I've seen it! Adults know what I used to do for a living, and I guarantee that they are real craftsmen, 5 blacksmiths, 3 stonemasons, all in the prime of life, and one of them is said to have been involved in the construction of the Mage's Tower. ”

Hmmm-

As soon as he heard that there were stonemasons who had participated in the construction of the Mage Tower, Xia Duo immediately came to his senses and hurriedly gave an order, "Don't wait for the 500 people to be full, go to the council now and complete the handover!" ”

In fact, not only stonemasons, blacksmiths are also urgently needed in the territory, although no iron ore has been found in the territory yet, but with blacksmiths, at least some iron tools in the territory can be repaired in the territory by themselves, and there is no need to send them to the Savile Territory, which is time-consuming, laborious, and costly.

Massa listened, answered and immediately turned away.

……

On the deck, Xia Duo watched Massa leave with a team of crew and soldiers, and when he turned his gaze, he happened to find four people dressed as mages, and followed the steward that Massa had sent out before and walked in the direction of the fleet.

That should be the mage hired by the four chambers of commerce, including Hans, Sleving, Shining Gold, and Liadon!

One of them had gray hair, seemed to have some leg problems when he walked, and his robe was clearly embroidered with a spell level certification pattern common to the mage's guild.

The Mage Guild, nominally a subordinate organization of the Arcane Federation, is actually the product of the self-sprouting enclosure of some wandering mages from all over the world.

If you're a little self-motivated, you'll already be in the Mage Tower.

The so-called casting level certification, Xia Duo has also done certification, naturally he knows the trick very well, he himself has even been promoted, as long as he gives money, he can be certified to a higher level than the mage in charge of certification.

However, when many chambers of commerce recruit mage advisors and guards, they don't look at the actual ability, but look at the spell casting level, which is interesting.

Xia Duo thought about it carefully, and he recognized the certification pattern, level 6, and the casting level of this old mage turned out to be level 6!

However, as far as he knew, these four mages were all beginner mages!

Isn't this a blatant falsification of "academic qualifications"!

And he still hangs fake academic qualifications on his chest anytime and anywhere, as if he is afraid that others will not know.

Just as he was thinking about it, the four mages, along with the steward of the Slevin Chamber of Commerce who had come back from looking for them, had already boarded the boat, came to Xia Duo, saluted respectfully, and shouted, "My lord! ”

"Everyone is a spellcaster, so you don't need to be polite."

Looking at these four somewhat restrained mages, Xia Duo first said politely, and then asked: "Captain Owen said that when you came, you met a group of fish-man robbers in Lake Mecht, let me ask you, is there a spellcaster in that group of fish-man robbers?" ”

"Yes, one of the fish-people can bless the other fish-people with an acceleration state, but the fish-people are very flexible in the water, so it is not easy to see." The old mage spoke first.

The other mages also nodded, Xia Duo did not speak, but looked at Old Owen, who thought for a moment and said with some uncertainty, "My lord, it seems that the fish-people I met this time are indeed much more flexible than the ones I have encountered before. ”

"I see, you should be busy, you should rest, you should rest, you will notify me after the handover over to the council is completed."

As he spoke, Xia Duo took out two communication scrolls and handed them to the old mage who had just spoken, "You don't care how you use it, you can just activate it directly." ”

"Yes." The old mage respectfully took the communication scroll and put it in the dimensional bag.

Seeing that there is no problem here for the time being, Xia Duo is going to go back to the Gilles Tower, take care of some things one last time, and then return to the territory.

As for the fish-man, Xia Duo is not too worried, for ordinary people, even mages, the underwater fish-man may be difficult to deal with, but for Xia Duo, who has the [Water Control] bloodline ability, the fish-man is not difficult to deal with.

Even if it was a fish-man spellcaster, he didn't think that the fish-people in Lake Mecht would be stronger than the fish-people in the [Azurite Plane] who could summon elemental creatures.

This time he planned to return with the boat to take a good look at the scenery along the way, which was also a rare long-distance trip to this day, and by the way, he could also clean up the fish-people in Lake Mecht.

The territory will have to transport people in the future, if there has always been a fishman entrenched in the place where it must pass, then he is not at ease, if he is a fishman, a single "turn into the wind + chisel the ship", no need to fight hard, can defeat most of the fleet.

Although the fish-people lack suitable weapons and tools, they also have to guard against it, after all, intelligent creatures will always find a way to get tools, and it is better to clean them regularly.