The alien sky pollution invasion triggered by the Blood Sun Divine Seal ended within 12 hours.

But the turmoil and aftermath of this incident lasted for several days.

Just as Li Nuo speculated, the Rift Corridor had a serious collapse. From the 30th basement floor to the underground floor where the black city is located, all the wall bricks are broken and the corridor collapses.

Thankfully, the Alchemy Sanctuary had taken this extreme situation into account when it built the Rift Corridor. They used hard alchemical rock layers in advance to separate the foundations of the lower city from the rift corridor.

The foundations of the entire lower town are built on this alchemical rock formation, which is not directly connected to the Rift Corridor.

Because of this, the buildings in the lower town survived.

The Contaminated Realm is closed, and the Battle Alchemist moves the alchemy container that sealed the "Winged Giant" to the lower branch of the Alchemy Sanctuary. Residents of the sectors returned to their homes in the city. The various alchemy forces took on the task of repairing the cloister.

All post-war restoration work was carried out in an orderly manner.

Although the Alchemy Sanctuary had a disagreement with the Elemental Trial, the Elemental Trial contributed to the closure of the Pollution Realm after all. Out of the spirit of the Alchemy Sanctuary, a generous reward was sent to the manor of the Elemental Judgment.

The Elemental Judgment is responsible for distributing the reward to the wandering wizards who assisted the Alchemy Sanctuary in closing the polluted realm.

Three days have passed since the closure of the polluted field.

On the morning of the fourth day, Li Nuo was invited to the Cat Society Manor.

He was greeted by Filia.

The second-ring witch who had never entered the realm of pollution had not heard of Li Nuo's specific deeds from her mentor.

When she received Li Nuo, she still maintained her previous friendly attitude.

However, there was a hint of sorrow between her brows, and she was no longer as agile as before.

"Eh, Li Lei. We're moving away from Convergence City. ”

In the sun-drenched corridor of the manor, Filia walked slowly forward and said softly:

"The teacher said that she was in conflict with the Alchemy Sanctuary in the polluted realm. irreconcilable conflicts. The first-level magic research institute established here by the Elemental Judgment will be removed within a month. All of us would follow the teacher and leave for the Unas Ring. ”

Li Nuo asked as he walked:

"I remember there were a lot of wizard students here, right? And they should all be natives of Aggregation City. Would you like to leave here and go to Unas Ring? ”

Filia lifted her shoulders and sighed:

"I can't help it. Even if you can't let go of your relatives and friends here, you have to leave the Gathering City. According to the contract signed between the Elemental Judgment and the Alchemy Sanctuary, once a local becomes a wizard student of the Elemental Trial, he is automatically deemed to have broken away from the Golden Federation. Unless we voluntarily give up our identities as wizards and join the alchemy forces, we can't stay here in Convergence City. ”

Filia stopped by the brightly painted window, looked at the colorful patterns on the glass, and said:

"I've asked the teacher. After leaving Convergence City, we must be promoted to the rank of Triple Ring Wizard in Unas Ring before we can leave. Therefore, for a wizard student like me who is not talented enough to be smart, he may not see his parents for several years. ”

Li Nuo was silent, nodded, and didn't say anything more.

Regarding the fact that Filia and other wizard students were about to be separated from their relatives for a long time, Li Nuo really couldn't find any good way to comfort them.

Let Filia and Betty adjust it themselves.

"Don't talk about that." Filia came back to her senses and squeezed out a smile to Li Nuo:

"Come with me, let's go to the teacher's study. She'll pay you a gratuity, and discuss some things by the way. ”

Filia led the way, and Lino followed her half a step behind.

The two of them walked up the spiral staircase to the second floor of the castle and entered the spacious and comfortable study.

After taking Lino into the house, Filia left on her own.

In the study, Li Nuo sat down at Mayfler's invitation.

There were a lot of documents piled up on Mayfla's desk. It seems that she is busy with the move.

While talking to Lino, Mayfle's magic pens kept working, writing manuscripts, correcting reports, or writing letters.

"When the Alchemy Sanctuary negotiated a reward with me, I asked them to exchange the Aggregate Coins for gold. Gold is one of the raw materials used to make Unas Gold Coins, and while not as valuable as Unas Gold Coins, it is still better than Aggregate Coins. I hope you don't mind if I make a claim and exchange the gratuity for gold. ”

Mayeve snapped her fingers and asked the magical servants in the room to bring a metal box and place it in front of Lino.

The lid of the box opened, and a gold bar the size of five fingers appeared in front of Li Nuo's eyes.

Li Nuo threw out the deconstruction technique and looked at it, and the total weight of the five gold bars was 1,000 grams. No more, no less, just 200 grams each. The fineness of the gold bars is excellent at 99.999%.

Unas Gold Coin is a magical creation, and the main material is gold, supplemented by top-secret magic materials.

The ratio of gold to Unas gold is basically fixed. For every 100 grams of gold, it can be exchanged for 50 gold coins. Depending on the fineness of the gold bar and the number of gold bars, the exchange ratio will fluctuate slightly.

The 1,000 grams of gold bar in front of you is 500 Unas gold coins.

Compared to the 150,000 gold coins required for the island project, these 500 gold coins are insignificant, but if they are placed here in the Aggregation City, the aggregate coins they exchange for are absolutely sky-high.

Li Nuo closed the metal box, put it in his pocket, and said with a smile:

"Thank you, Maefra. For me, gold bars are indeed much more convenient than aggregators. ”

Maeve responded with a smile. She interrupted the work of the magic pen for a while, and let the little things that had been busy for a long time fly back to the pen holder.

The sound of writing in the study stopped.

Maeve looked out the window. The sun outside the house cast a golden glow on her cheeks, and her earrings and pendants glistened in the sunlight.

The smile on the corner of her mouth gradually retracted, and her expression seemed a little melancholy, like a delicate but sad sculpture.

Maevle looked at Li Nuo, smiled bitterly and said:

"I've lived here for ten years. When I came, I was full of confidence and made up my mind to go back with the rich research results. Now, I'm almost empty-handed. This Golden Island is really evil. First, the ten years of research results of the Death Society were destroyed, and then our Elemental Trial was forced to terminate the research. I wonder if the next magic research institute in the Tatis Empire and the Golden Federation will have a bumpy fate like us. ”

"It's not your responsibility for the Elemental Judgment to be forced to terminate research, Maefler." 李诺 says:

"The Alchemy Sanctuary has cooperated with alien sky pollution first. You found out about the hook-up between the two sides in time. You will apply to the wizard to terminate your research, not for your own reasons, but to dissociate yourself from the Alchemy Sanctuary tainted by the alien sky. I don't think there's a problem with that. ”

The wry smile on Mave's face grew thicker:

"I know, Li Lei, it's not my fault. If I had known about the secret collaboration between the Alchemy Sanctuary and the alien pollution, I wouldn't have wasted ten years here. When I think about it, I feel remorseful. ”

Maeve leaned back in the chair, closed her eyes, and gently pressed her fingers into the eye sockets:

"I'm a very covenant-abiding person. Whatever is written in my contract with the Alchemy Sanctuary, I will do it 100%. They didn't allow me to explore the depths of the Rift Corridor, check the situation in the Black City, and leave the manor and sector 8 without permission. I did it all. I desire to trade my peace and security for the trust of the Alchemy Sanctuary. It turns out that I am wishful thinking. If I had arranged for spies to enter the Black City earlier, probe the situation there, and find traces of alien sky pollution, I probably wouldn't have spent ten years here. ”

Li Nuo maintained a calm look on his face, but he was secretly shaking his head in his heart.

It is useless to arrange for intelligence agents to probe the Black City and the Minaret. Because the contamination of the Blood Sun Divine Seal is concentrated on the Angel Seed, which is in Nicole's body, and Nicole's appearance is nothing more than a stunted aberration.

Not only will the spy not be able to find out the specific whereabouts of the alien sky pollution, but he may also be cursed by Nicole for offending Nicole and become an aberrant.

In short, under the strict defense and precise planning of the Alchemy Sanctuary, only by mastering the pressure of the core system of deconstruction can we have a chance to get a glimpse of the truth of the matter.

Whether it's Maeve or the battle wizard Gardner or Kevin, they can only see one side of the matter after all.

Li Nuo faced the beautiful lady who confided in him his journey, and chose to divert the topic from the other party's failure experience.

There is a saying that it is better to blame others than to blame yourself.

Li Nuo felt that this was suitable for enlightening the other party.

"Maefra, since the Alchemy Sanctuary has chosen to join forces with the alien sky pollution, will there be a new first-level magic research institution? I doubt that when the other wizarding forces hear about this, they will still be willing to enter the Convergence City. ”

"I've thought about that too." Mayfler opened her eyes, twisted her chin lightly, and said:

"The old wizard forces will definitely stay away from the Alchemy Sanctuary and are reluctant to set up a magic research institute here. But the emerging wizarding forces are not necessarily the same. In fact, even after I told the professor about the situation, quite a few new wizarding forces came to ask me for the details of the Gathering City. All of these forces should be interested in setting up a magical research institute here. ”

"For example," Li Nuo continued to guide the conversation.

Maeve thought about it and didn't hide anything from Li Nuo:

"For example, Gilmat, the Soul Shaper. The professor was most interested. He pulled me around and asked about many things. It can be seen that he is very eager to send wizards to the Convergence City to establish the next magic research institute. ”

Li Nuo's heart moved slightly.

He had previously judged that the "Soul Shaper" Gimat might have obtained part of the inheritance of the "Soul Reager". Both of them have mastered the two spells of "Soul Extraction" and "Soul Shaping Technique", which is the most powerful evidence.

Is Gimat so concerned about Convergence City just to study the souls of the aberrants? Is it possible for him to reach a secret cooperation with the heir of the Blood Sun God Seal to help the other party open the Pollution Realm again?

Li Nuo smelled a hint of conspiracy.

However, it has nothing to do with him.

He and Dinas decided that when the Elemental Judgment was gone, the two of them would also go.

The Elemental Trial has set up a first-level magic research institute here, which is equivalent to the backing of wandering wizards.

The sky fell, and the research institute of the Elemental Trial was the first to stand on top.

After the Elemental Trial is gone, it will take at least half a year or so for the next magic research institute to be officially established.

During this half-year gap, there were no magical institutions in the Gathering City. The local wandering wizard has no backer behind him. If something really happens, the Alchemy Sanctuary will be the first to take the wandering wizard.

Based on these considerations, Leno decided to take Dinas with him and leave the island.

"Maefra, I have more than 1,200 alchemy weapons here that I need to get rid of. Are you interested in seeing how well they are looking? ”

Leno picked up the suitcase at his feet and placed it in front of Meevle.

Maeve was stunned for a moment and asked:

"How many alchemy weapons did you just say?"

"More than 1,200 pieces." Li Nuo repeated.

"That's so much." Maeve was slightly stunned.

Opening the suitcase handed by Li Nuo and taking a look, Maeve was a little dumbfounded.

As far as the eye can see, it is full of alchemical weapons that have been compressed into the size of tofu blocks by the folded space of the suitcase.

On a cursory look, the color of most of the alchemy weapons is relatively old, with the majority of them being from the first order to the third order.

"The quality of the more than 1,200 alchemy weapons I have here is similar to what you see now."

Li Nuo reached into his jacket pocket and took out a list written by Dinas and put it on the table:

"Look at it, there are statistics on the alchemy armaments of each class, a total of 1,227 pieces. I had planned to sell these alchemical weapons to the Gold Chamber of Commerce. But you and I already have a rudimentary trust between us, and we're both wizards. So, I'm a priority to make this deal with you. ”

"It's my pleasure, Lei Li. To tell you the truth, the Elemental Judgment is in great demand for alchemy weapons. In the past, most of the alchemy weapons collected by the Cat Society were bought by me. ”

The sudden transaction seemed to make Maeve a little excited.

A smile welled up on her face, and she picked up the list and read it carefully.

After putting down the list, she reached into her suitcase and pulled out a "tofu cube" that was rapidly growing in size.

In about three seconds, it broke away from the alchemy armament of the folded space, and changed back to its original size from a "tofu block".

This is a seventh-order alchemy weapon. The shattering is so severe that the original appearance is almost invisible.

Feedback from the Deconstruction Technique revealed that it was an alchemical weapon known as the Volcanic Stone Turtle.

As its name suggests, the wearer of this alchemical weapon usually needs to be on all fours in order to move properly. The whole looks like a stone turtle carrying a heavy shell.

In its intact condition, the "Volcanic Stone Turtle" will have a super-small volcano about five meters high and more than two meters wide on its back. With a single thought, the wearer of the alchemical armament can manipulate the volcano on his back to eject a magma column tens of meters high.

This is one of the effects of this alchemical armament.

When the Transfiguration effect is activated, the "Volcanic Stone Turtle" transforms into a human form, and the wearer becomes a humanoid creature covered in hot lava. Liquid magma with a temperature of up to 1200 degrees Celsius will firmly envelop his body, melting everything around him that can be melted.

More alchemy effects of the "Volcanic Stone Turtle" need to be activated with the wearer's Alchemy Stone. For example, creating a magma field that exists for half an hour, creating a super-miniature volcano that spews magma, spewing black smoke from the crater on its back to obscure the view, and so on.

The "Volcanic Stone Turtle" that Li Nuo took out to trade was badly damaged, and the "integrity" column on the panel was only 32%.

But that doesn't prevent trading.

The battle destroys the fragile parts of the alchemy's armament. The hardest, most valuable part will not be easily destroyed in battle.

The remaining part of the alchemy materials of the "Volcanic Stone Turtle" is the essence of the entire alchemy armament.

These alchemy materials can be picked up in magic or alchemy, and they can be reused to make new alchemy weapons or "magic equipment".

For the Elemental Trial, alchemy armament has another purpose.

Maeve put the "Volcanic Stone Turtle" in her hand back into her suitcase and said with a smile:

"I want all of your 1,200 alchemy weapons, Li Lei. In order to maintain the "Great Forge" of the Fire Elemental Realm, we at Elemental Judgment need to provide it with a constant supply of extraordinary items that can be used as fuel. If you have any other extraordinary items waiting to be sold, please sell them to me. How much I want, how much I want. Of course, it must be made of metal and rock. ”

Leno knew about the existence of the Great Forge, and he had heard about it from Dinas.

This thing is the heart of the fire elemental realm. It unleashes surging fire elemental energy by burning extraordinary props made of metal and rock. In this way, wizards who have mastered the fire elemental spell can extract the fire elemental energy from the fire elemental realm.

Once the Great Forge is extinguished, all wizards who rely on the Fire Elemental Realm to cast spells will suffer. For such wizards, it is an innate mission to continue to fuel the "Great Forge".

In order to encourage wizards to provide fuel on their own initiative, the Elemental Inquisition has set up a system of generous rewards.

The specific details of the reward system were unknown to Dinas and other non-elemental trial members, and Li Nuo had no way of knowing.

But seeing Maeve smiling and handing over the reward for fuel definitely made her very excited.

"In the next month, I'll be going back and forth in the Rift Corridor to collect more alchemy. I'll bring them to you when the time comes. ”

Li Nuo paused and said:

"Then let's negotiate the price, Mayfla. I'll leave the Convergence City with you. Aggregator coins are useless for me. It's best to buy Alchemy Armaments with Gold or Unas Gold. ”

Maeve nodded slowly:

"Gold or Unas gold, no problem, I can meet your requirements. Please give me some time and I'm going to calculate the exact amount. ”

"Yes, ma'am. I'll let Dinas bring all the alchemy weapons first. She'll teleport over and drop her suitcase. I hope you don't mind if she uses teleportation here. Li Nuo said.

"Please, I won't care."

The study flickered with firelight.

Dinas answered, placing seven more suitcases on Mave's desk.

She and Maefrau greeted each other briefly, and then left through the teleportation technique, not lingering too long.

Through soul sensing, Leno praised Dinas for her crispness, causing the other party to giggle.

Lino regarded Dinas as a close companion, so he would never skimp on his praise. As long as he has the opportunity, he will praise the other party vigorously.

(End of chapter)