The goal of Shuge's visit to the sword-wielding retreat was simple and straightforward.

The most important goal of this trip is to draw a line between the Dawn Society and the sword-wielding hermit, so that the newly established Dawn Sword can learn as much as possible the skills and abilities it needs from the sword-wielding hermits.

These guys, who are seen as mage executioners, have a terrible reputation, but everyone must admit that they are experts in the whole word when it comes to using extreme means such as violence to confront their spellcasters.

The sword-wielding retreat was established very, very early.

According to Shuge's understanding, at a time when the ruling power of the Dharma-Council was shaken to a certain extent and Merlin Lehe's position was constantly questioned, countless Wild Mage societies were established in Van Eng, so the original Sword Retreat was actually nothing more than a large prison for the detention and interrogation of important Nomage prisoners.

And the first group of sword-wielding hermits who were specially selected by the legal committee to target the wild mages were basically the jailers in this cruel prison.

From a specialized prison to today's professional institution, the time spent and the distance traveled to retreat with a sword can be described as quite exaggerated, how to find potential wild mages, how to use the power in their hands to confront the target, how to pursue and fight the enemy to the maximum......

Although the current goal of Xiuge and the others is not to hunt down those wild mage societies, the skills and experience mastered by the sword-wielding hermits can also be applied to the members of the Black Sun Society.

The sword-wielding hermits had already been notified by the Dharma, and the members of the retreat held two very different extreme opinions.

One of the parties is relatively reasonable, and they believe that although Shug Ernst was once marked as a dangerous wild mage who escaped and had a record of killing sword-wielding hermits, there were many traces of the operation of the Black Sun Society, and the warrant for his arrest had long been cancelled, and the two sides were now in a position of equal exchange and cooperation.

Not to mention, Xiuge and the Dawn Society have used their actual actions to completely clarify their positions, and the Law Committee and the Dawn Society should be able to reach a consensus on the fight against the Black Sun Society, not to mention, the current Xiuge Ernst already has the status of a formal mage in the true sense, and it stands to reason that the retreat has no reason to continue to maintain hostility with it.

But on the other hand, it is quite extreme.

This part of the sword-wielding hermits were basically the "vanguards" of the past against the wild mage community, and they upheld the most traditional and strict sword-wielding rules, although they received direct orders from the legal committee, but they resolutely did not recognize Xiuge's so-called "official mage status".

After all, in their opinion, this so-called mage identity is nothing more than a false certificate issued by a group of "mutineers" who have left Merlinle, of course, there is no problem in cooperating, but before that, both Xiuge and the Council should be completely liquidated!

"One or two have problems with their brains."

Regarding this undisguised hostility, Xiuge directly gave his own comments in his heart.

In this way, in an extremely unpleasant silence, both sides passed through the simple, yet seemingly sturdy, gates of the ashram.

There was an extremely stable isolation ritual field here, and this magical power caused the real scene inside and outside the gate to be camouflaged and isolated, and after successfully passing through the ritual field, a picture that was enough to make ordinary people frightened appeared in front of his and Richard's eyes.

A variety of magic golems of different styles are erected on both sides of the gate, including the classic style of the large knight golem covered in the silver armor of the Demon Strangler and holding the silver sword and shield of the Demon Strangler, as well as many new styles that have been specially modified to wield crystallized guns or operate some heavy firearms, in addition to the sword hermit who is fully armed and on standby.

Shuge noticed that in the past not too long time, these sword-wielding hermits had completed a round of outfits, and most of these tall and sturdy sword-wielders who seemed to have infinite energy were now equipped with two different guns at the same time, one was the classic crystalline gun that could support high-power crystalline bullets, and the other was the new type of revolver rifle that had begun to gradually become popular.

The previous abrupt end of the war obviously brought a lot of impact and influence to the sword-wielding hermits, but as the most thorough group of "pragmatists" in the Law Committee, their transformation speed is also amazing.

After another inspection and the cold eyes of several "conservatives", the two finally officially arrived at the interior of the ashram.

Behind the gate is a drab clearing, and the only thing that can be considered "decorative" is a sculpture erected in the center of the clearing.

In terms of appearance and form, the sculpture clearly depicts Mel, the goddess of magic, but here, this goddess is completely different from the image in other occasions.

Ninety-nine percent of the statues of Goddess Mel tend to maintain a gentle, harmonious, and serene posture, and it is only in certain solemn places that she is deliberately added to her solemnity.

However, the image of the goddess Mel holding a weapon, Xiuge is really the first time he has seen it.

The goddess in front of her was straight, her face still beautiful but with an awe-inspiring aura like the Inquisitors, and she was no longer wearing the loose robes and gowns that symbolized mages and scholars, but a light armor with a cape that looked imposing.

In her hands, she held a broad, sharp sword, the tip of which touched the ground, making people dare not look at it directly.

In front of the statue, Shug saw a stone tablet carved with the Proverbs.

"We will die for Merlin."

"We are the storm of Mel, the wind of Vann, the wrath of the Sea of Sinar."

Shuge silently repeated these words twice in his heart, bowing his head slightly in front of the majestic statue in respect.

The sword-wielder who was walking on the side glanced in the direction of Xiuge, and seeing that he seemed to respect the goddess of magic enough, the coldness on his face faded slightly, and when Xiuge and Richard had finished saluting, he motioned for the two to follow him.

Spell Stranglehold Silver is probably the most common element here.

As an ordinary person, Richard was naturally not affected by these special substances, he was simply nervous, and for a spellcaster like Xiuge, the accumulation of a large amount of demonic silver could easily affect the efficiency of the magic power in his body.

Fortunately, Xiuge is not a "serious mage" after all, and the magic power accumulated in his body is not "serious magic" at all, in the face of such a large amount of magic silver, Xiuge just feels that his magic speed is limited, and the range of magic perception is greatly reduced, but this does not affect his own magic use.

However, the residents living in the metal discs are a little uncomfortable.

The endurance of Snikch and Kalon Touch was significantly better, and they quickly entered a semi-dormant state, directly shielding this pressure from the outside world, while the Mirror Emissary, the Court Hound, the Roots, and the will of the family were highly sensitive to the surrounding environment, and felt very aggrieved by this.

"Damn, I feel like I'm being stuffed back into those coffins!"

"That's how I feel, I can't move, and my thinking speed slows down...... I felt like I was a hundred years older all of a sudden. ”

"It's also a remarkable achievement, in the history of all the families of Van Grace, there has never been a collective entry into the sword-wielding retreat!"

"Why, do you think this is a historic moment? Why don't you go back and record it in the family archives, and say that we have finally been in the prison of the Law Committee again after we have been dead for so long, this is really enough to shock the Plateau Giant Eagle! ”

Xiuge frowned slightly, directly isolating these noisy conversations, and the change in his expression also fell on the eyes of the sword-wielding hermit on the side.

This surprised the sword-wielding hermit who was in charge of leading the way.

Generally speaking, the more proficient a mage is in magic, the more dependent they are on magic, and those who reach the valley and lake level and above tend to show severe discomfort when they arrive here, and the fear of completely leaving the magic is not something that ordinary people can resist.

No kidding, there have been many spellcasters who have lost their sense of magic and are urinating here.

But now, the young face in front of him only frowned.

He looked even more relaxed than the other young man who was with him.

Seeing this, the sword-wielding hermit also gave up the idea of continuing to test Xiuge, he restrained his hostility, and led the two of them through the monotonous corridor to a special room.

The reason why it is special is because in this extremely boring complex, it seems that there are very few places with ornaments and ornaments, but these so-called decorations are actually very simple, and the paintings hanging on the walls are also biased towards realism and praise to the goddess Meier, all of which make the room in front of you look more like the legendary "penance".

A figure looked up from behind a huge table at the end of the room, and to the surprise of both Hugg and Richard, it was a woman.

She was also a tall woman wearing sword-wielding hermit-style demon-smothering silver armor.

She wore a half-metal mask embedded with magic crystals on her face, the left half of her face was completely obscured, while the exposed right half of her face was not very special - it was a very ordinary face, and the two curved scars on her cheeks were more likely to attract attention than the face itself.

The standard firearm she fastened to her waist and the standard sword placed next to the old desk also showed that this woman, who looked to be in her thirties, was also one of the sword-wielding hermits, and judging from the patterns on her armor, this woman's status within the Judicial Council was also very high.

The sword-wielding hermit who was in charge of leading the way bowed slightly, and then left Xiuge and the others directly in the reception room, and he turned to leave.

"You two seem surprised?"

A somewhat hoarse neutral voice came from behind the desk, and although it sounded relaxed, there was no smile on the scarred face: "Is it because I suddenly saw a woman in a place like this?" ”

"That's true."

Xiuge behaved very calmly, and he nodded politely to the other party: "As far as I know, a good sword-wielder is often inseparable from drinking a large amount of potions, and this kind of potion is often mutually exclusive with a woman's body and spirit...... The mortality rate will be high. ”

"But there are exceptions, just as they have happened to you, Mr. Ernst."

As he spoke, the female sword-wielder pushed forward a thick stack of papers and made a "please" gesture to Shuge.

When he stepped forward, he immediately found that it was a large stack of documents related to him, including various investigative reports, life experiences, and relationships, as well as a bill for manuscripts from the Peace Newspaper and several magazine anthologies containing all of his work.

"And this."

As she spoke, the female sword-wielder took out a delicate flannel bag, and Xiuge opened it, but drew out two dragon tooth cards that had been made, these two dragon tooth cards were very delicate, and in order to maximize the expression of the picture, the card maker used a large number of high-quality magic crystal powder and magic ink at any cost.

On these two cards, Shug once again saw the two wild figures that merged with the flames of the city.

And underneath these two cards, there is the message given by Xiuge.

"May the fire be as hot as their hearts."

Shuge silently looked at the two cards, and then he looked up, but the scarred face in front of him seemed to soften a little: "I thank you for my two brothers, although they didn't come back, but at least they ...... Their childish wish was fulfilled. ”

The female sword-wielder calmly put the two cards back into the flannel bag and put the flannel bag into the deepest part of her desk: "They have been addicted to this boring card game since they were children, and they have always hoped that one day they will be able to become 'important' card characters, and now their wish has come true. ”

"Mr. Ernst, as a thank you for saving you some of the unnecessary cumbersome processes and formalities, this does not mean that the Sword Lodge will welcome spellcasters with renegade credentials."

"Now, please tell us directly about the purpose and purpose of your visit, as one of the current heads of the retreat, I will make a preliminary judgment on what you have said."

(End of chapter)