Chapter 90: The Queen's Message
It has been more than half a month since the Necronomicon invasion, and although Zemas has suffered heavy losses, there are still supplies from several other cities and the background of the past, but he has not fallen into a state of collapse, as for Arthur Pendrie, who forced his way out of the customs and killed Skeletron, he first returned to the Nathan Lake Palace on the grounds of injury, and entered a state of retreat again.
The aftermath naturally fell on Merlin's body, after the first few days of busyness, at this time all kinds of work are also on the right track, the repair of the repair, the pension of the pension, the burial of the burial, so far there is no need for Merlin to worry about anything.
Of course, if you have to have Merlin's own heart, it is naturally the matter that the Sun Temple and the Temple of Life have been provoked on the mainland, as the saying goes, people become old and refined, this kind of thing must be done by the Sun Temple in Merlin's opinion, but the two temples have tacitly maintained a balance, and the Sun Temple has also paid the price, ten bottles of Sun God Water, that represents ten lives!
Of course, he didn't care about the Sun Temple and the Life Temple, and he didn't want to get involved, but since this incident happened to Zemas, as a high-level Britannia, he still took the initiative to go to the Temple of Life and the Sun Temple to explain to each other, and said that he could cooperate with the two temples at any time to investigate.
Of course, the actual situation is just as Merlin guessed, the two temples themselves know what is going on, and in the spirit of calming things, they send Merlin back, of course, Merlin is not happy to do this!
However, this also confirmed Merlin's conjecture, "The Sun Temple, it is really getting more and more domineering, the goddess of magic is above, why don't you build a magic temple? If that's the case, does the Sun Temple dare to be so arrogant?"
"Guess who I am?" Two small pink hands covered Merlin's slightly wrinkled eyes.
"Alright, Liya, stop making trouble."
"Mages are so annoying, they can always be seen everywhere."
"Both?" Merlin smiled and took Liya's little hand, "Do you know any other mages?"
"No," Liya rolled her eyes and hugged Merlin sitting in the chair from behind, "I was thinking, Uncle Merlin is so annoying, then the other mages must also be annoying."
"How did you get to Zemas, who escorted you?"
"Uncle Thomas, I've been in the palace for half a month, and I'm going to suffocate to death, and then they said that they were afraid that there would be undead spirits that hadn't been dealt with, and they wouldn't let me go to the forest to play, so I could only come to you!"
"Thomas?" Merlin naturally knows that Thomas is one of the four knights of the royal family, the younger brother of the previous king, and the other three big knights are also people with royal blood, of course, once Merlin thought that the previous King Arthur was dead, and he did not leave a son, so Shi Zhongjian should choose one of the four great knights as the next king, but unexpectedly, no one thought that Shi Zhongjian chose the current queen, Arthur Pendrey.
In the face of the strength of the knight king, even if the four royal knights are unwilling, I am afraid there is no way but to choose to assist the new queen, but Merlin is also pleased that Arthur Pendley is definitely a qualified king.
"I guess the Queen had some order for Prince Thomas to send it over, so you came along. ”
"Oh, Uncle Merlin, you're going to be a little confused when you're so old!"
"Haha, it's okay for you to walk around the city, but you are not allowed to go out of the city, do you hear?"
"Okay. ”
"Po~" Liya kissed Merlin as she spoke, then turned around and ran away without a trace.
"I've seen Chief Merlin," Thomas bowed slightly, of course, this does not mean that Thomas's status is lower than Merlin, just a kind of respect, after all, Master Merlin, as an outsider, has done his best to assist two generations of kings.
"The duke doesn't have to be polite, I don't know what is going on this time, let the duke come over in person. ”
Sitting next to Merlin, Arthur Thomas took out an edict signed by the king, "This is the Queen's order, because it is carried out for the whole country, so in order to prevent some people from chewing their tongues, he personally asked me to bring the edict, which is somewhat convincing." ”
Merlin took the edict and looked at it, and his face suddenly changed slightly, "I'm afraid that there will be a lot of resistance to the implementation of this." ”
The proclamation reads, "In view of the threat of necromancers, all those who die in Britain must be cremated and buried from the date of this decree." If it is agreed that the body has been buried within one year before the order is issued, the tax will be reduced by twenty-five percent for the following year if it is agreed that the body will be exhumed and cremated and then reburied."
And the reason why there is some resistance is that whether it is the world of Faeron or the earth, the corpse is very important to his relatives, after all, it is the proof of the last existence of man in the world.
In the Celestial Empire, when the cremation was announced, there was a lot of resistance, but because a large number of top officials such as the chairman at that time took the lead in signing and expressing their willingness to cremate, this matter was implemented.
Naturally, there is no need to do this in the world of Faeron, but as a Ming monarch, or a good regime, there is still a good excuse to appease his people, after all, those talents are the foundation of a country, even if your king is strong, without the productivity of commoners and slaves, the country will collapse sooner or later.
"Why did the Queen suddenly issue such an order?" Merlin gently put away his hand and asked with some confusion.
"It's not that your report said that you couldn't guess how the dead necromancer opened the sacrificial magic array, but this time, we lost nearly 50,000 people to Britain, and the Queen doesn't want it to happen again!"
"Oh," Merlin nodded, "rest assured, Prince, I'll leave this matter to me."
"That's good, to be honest, the main reason why I came out this time is that the queen is not worried about the little princess, let me be a nanny, the little princess may stay here for a while, so I think I can only disturb you during this time."
"Well," Merlin sighed, "I feel that it is more troublesome to take care of the little princess than to carry out the Queen's decree."
In the special villa of Alsace outside the main city of Arschi, Don Quixote was sitting on the sofa looking at some of the experiences that Arthas gave him about the spell position, he came back here this time, the main purpose was to consult with Arthas, who was already a mage of the realm, to consult some information, such as whether there was anything to pay attention to in the first construction spell bit, or some experience of the mage of the ring, etc., of course, there was also a purpose that although the Temple of Life was very interesting enough to help him hide his identity, But he couldn't put everything on the Temple of Life himself, so he didn't plan to hang out during this time, and wait until this matter was completely calm.
"Bang!" Arthas, who was intently looking at the daily newspaper, suddenly slapped the coffee table violently, startling Don Quixote, "What's the matter, teacher?"
Arthas handed Don Quixote the newspaper in his hand, and the huge headline entered Don Quixote's eyes, "Fight against the dead! The British Empire mourns together! For the sake of future generations, King Arthur decreed that Britain must be cremated from now on! Many countries have followed suit!" followed by a bunch of sycophantic words praising King Arthur's wise decision, judging from the writing, it should be the editor who hacked Don Quixote in the first place.
"Poof~" Don Quixote couldn't help but laugh and returned the newspaper to Arthas, "It seems that your profession as a gravedigger, teacher, is coming to an end." ”
"Hmph, isn't this hateful little girl just a few dead spirits, who can be cremated all over the country?
"But," Arthas apparently did not want to read the newspaper anymore, but leaned back on the sofa, "for the sake of a woman, how dare you offend the Temple of the Sun, and are you not afraid of their revenge?"
Don Quixote calmly continued to look at his notes, "Don't be afraid!"
Arthas suddenly felt that his question was a little lacking, the kid in front of him didn't even care about his own life, when did he care who the enemy was, so he hurriedly found himself a step down, "Your temper is quite like the demeanor of my youth, and you are worthy of being my student!
As a result, Don Quixote raised his head leisurely, "I'm not afraid that just because I'm a believer in the great goddess of magic, I'm afraid of the temple of the sun?
"Ahem~ahem~ Yes! Yes! Makes sense!" Arthas looked at Don Quixote, who was patting the goddess of magic on the back without even being red and panting, and suddenly felt that it was not unreasonable for this guy to become a mage of the ring!
Of course, this is just a joke of Arthas, the goddess of magic will never give someone strength just because they pat her ass, if that is the case, then the world has long been full of mages, patting sycophants, who wouldn't! However, for Don Quixote to become a mage of the ring in one step, Arthas was indeed shocked, after all, the speed of this three-level jump is not unprecedented, at least it is almost unprecedented!
But after thinking about it, I think it's actually quite reasonable, every mage with gifted spells will have a qualitative leap in soul strength after the awakening of the gifted spell and absorbing the soul tree, and Don Quixote can directly become a mage of the ring, which is naturally related to his special free will caste, this kind of caste soul is exceptionally powerful, so the soul tree it grows is taller than ordinary people, and it can also be said.
Thinking of this, Arthas suddenly asked with some curiosity, "Boy, what kind of talent and spell are you? You must know that those bald heads are simply the nemesis of our mages."
When Arthas mentioned the ascetic, Don Quixote thought about some of the questions in his mind, "Teacher, do you know where this ascetic came from? And what is the Pure Land of Bliss? These guys are really a bunch of crazy people, and they don't want to fight with these guys anymore!"
"Ascetic?" Arthas seemed to be stuck in some kind of memory, "They appeared about a thousand years ago, no one knows where they came from, because they have always been very low-key, at first they existed for many years without anyone knowing about them, and they never called themselves ascetics, that's the name we gave them."
"Did it appear out of nowhere?"
As for the Pure Land of Bliss, it feels very similar to the true God, you give him faith, he gives you strength, and when the purity of your faith reaches its requirements, you can leave the body and live forever in that world."
"Obviously not the true God, but robbing the believers like this, won't the other true gods care?"
"Existence is reasonable, they have existed for more than a thousand years, if you want to manage it a long time ago, anyway, it is good to stay away from this group of guys in the future, their golden light protection body is indeed very disgusting!"
"Hmm," Don Quixote nodded thoughtfully.
"Okay, let's talk about your talent spells, at my age, that's all I can be curious about."