……

Matthew's proposal was not uncommon in previous lives, and this idea of artificially creating firebreaks was mostly used to deal with wildfires.

But for the continent of Aindor, where civilization is developing slowly, this way of thinking is undoubtedly subversive.

He had not seen a similar template in the several solutions proposed by the Seven Saints Alliance.

So when Matthew said this, Rhaegar and Old Fallon's expressions were full of absurdity.

Their lips parted and closed, as if they wanted to refute it, but couldn't find a suitable reason.

Eventually, Rhaegar cautiously replied:

"With my shallow knowledge of spells, I can't judge the feasibility of your plan for the time being, I'll have to ask a few more people, at least I have to consult Zeller before I can give you an answer."

Matthew nodded.

It's normal for Rhaegar to have this kind of reaction, after all, this is his territory, and if he messes around, he will pat his ass and leave.

The lord is the biggest person responsible in Rolling Stone, and the safety of the territory is at stake, and every decision he makes must be made carefully.

"There's no hurry, I should be able to hold them off for now."

Matthew said confidently:

"If you don't feel comfortable with the Death Scorched Earth ritual, I can also set up a small experimental field so that you can see the effect of the ritual."

The two of them spoke.

In the distance, on the hillside, Richard's graceful figure appeared.

He walked expressionlessly, clutching the end of a rope to which one person after another was tied, and these people were reluctant to go, but they did not dare not go.

It looked awkward, like a flock of little sheep being grazed.

Matthew counted.

There are eleven members of the Silverfrost Brotherhood, half of whom are arsonists and the other half are gangster swordsmen.

At the same time, he noticed that the leader named Selentek who had spoken out earlier was not among them.

It seems that he ran away?

Richard led the group up to Rhaegar and handed the rope to a nearby guard.

"Except for the one named Setrenk, the rest are here."

Richard picked up the cane on the ground and flicked the dust off it.

Rhaegar laughed:

"Let him run? It's okay, these few people are enough, I'm going to hand them over to White Rock City, the average bounty in White Rock City will be lower than that of Jade Cangting, but it is also a considerable income, and when the account is over, I will let Zeller hand it over to you. ”

Richard did not respond.

He doesn't seem to care much about money.

So Rhaegar repeated Matthew's plan.

Richard's face was shocked.

Rhaegar asks:

"How? You don't think it's reliable, right? ”

Richard shook his head:

"At least it's more reliable than the plan proposed by the boss of the Seven Saints Alliance back then."

The boss of the Seven Saints Alliance?

Matthew was curious:

"Which of the Babel mages came up with a strategy for dealing with the Death Scars? Why didn't I find it in the information that the alliance gave me? ”

Richard looked at the traces of the dead that kept shaking outward and sparked, and said with emotion:

"That was many years ago, when a Master of Babel was very keen on dealing with the mess of the Marks of the Dead.

After many years of trying and unsuccessful solutions, she finally came up with a very surprising coping strategy.

It was a super spell called "Demon Duncan's Scalpel".

The level of the spell is the seventh order, which is also known as the divine spell, and only the mage who is above the level twenty-eight can cast it.

It is said that the principle of this spell is to summon a huge pair of scissors, cut the earth open, cut out the traces of the dead, and then throw them into the astral plane.

Well, I have a mage in the Alliance who I know well, and that's what he described to me at the time. ”

Matthew was also shocked when he heard this.

A spell of this level is equivalent to reshaping the plane!

Not to mention the final effect, just cutting the earth can easily cause the collapse of the energy field and the outbreak of space-time turbulence.

At that time, he may not be able to throw the traces of the dead into the astral boundary, and there will be one more astral ruin in the center of the Aindo continent.

This plan is much more ruthless than him!

Although the others couldn't understand what the seventh-order spell meant, they knew from the tone of Richard's description that this plan was absolutely dangerous.

"And then?"

Rhaegar nervously asked:

"When did this happen, how did I not know there was such a plan? How was it stopped? ”

Richard said:

"This plan has not been stopped, it is only because it cannot be implemented because of practical factors.

In fact, the Master of Babel had already made all the preparations.

Because this spell required the help of three divine mages at the same time, she and the other two Tongtian mages in the alliance also greeted each other.

You must know that at that time, there were only three god mages above level 28 in the alliance.

These three are also known as the Big Three, and they are the real big shots.

The three giants joined forces, not to mention that there were many Ain, and even Tianlun Palace had to tremble.

But in the end, when it came time to implement it, the other two Tongtian mages suddenly repented for some reason.

It is said that they feel that the risks far outweigh the benefits.

So the plan ended in nothing.

It's just that since then, the mental state of the Master of Babel has gone a little wrong, and she always feels that the other two giants are targeting her.

It didn't take long for her to break away from the Union and go to the North alone.

Then she started an organization that we all know -

Worship the Dragon.

And the mage's name was Isabel, and Mr. Ronan was probably the most familiar with her.

After all, he was one of Isabel's most proud disciples, and even Mr. Ronan's wife was chosen for him by Ms. Isabel. ”

Speaking of which.

Richard looked at Rhaegar with a smile and teased:

"A while ago, I heard that you were going to trouble the Bailong Sect, I thought that the position of the mayor of Rolling Stone Town was about to change hands, and I even prepared the election manifesto of the new mayor, but I didn't expect you to come back alive."

Rhaegar immediately looked afraid.

He patted his chest:

"Fortunately, I was lucky enough to not really confront the Dragon Worship Sect this time, according to you, if I really kill that Blinken in a big way, there will be a Master of Babel waiting for me later? Wait, so Blinken is actually Ronan's younger brother? ”

Richard shrugged:

"I don't know about this, there are too many pickled things in the league, and I have tried to choose not to see out of sight over the years. I just wanted to remind you in passing that Ms. Isabel still has a lot of influence in the league - even Ronan probably won't openly disagree with her. ”

As he spoke, he looked approvingly at Matthew:

"But the plan you just made is really not a problem from a logical point of view, you can come up with a better solution than the god mage, even if it is just to slow down the expansion speed of the mark of the dead, it is amazing enough, no wonder Ronan values you so much, my suggestion is, you can try it."

Matthew said a few words modestly, and then asked again:

"By the way, that guy named Setrunk, do you know where he came from?"

Richard's expression immediately became a little strange when he heard this.

He looked a little confused.

A few seconds passed.

He sighed deeply and said:

……

"I was about to tell you about Setrenk, which was a bit hard to talk about, but given the safety of Rolling Stone, I still can't hide it-

You may have also heard that many years ago, a tragedy occurred in a village called "Poplar Village" in the Jade Garden.

Later, the Shadow Leopards in charge of the investigation discovered that only one human child in the entire village who had been adopted by the Wood Elves had survived.

He was only about six or seven years old at the time, and he survived by hiding in the heart of a banana tree.

The Jade Court has undergone many investigations.

In the end, the suspect was locked on the body of Sener, the head of the Silverfrost Brotherhood at the time.

The reason is that Sen'er was found to have been active on the border of the Jade Garden, and the timeline of the Poplar Village tragedy also perfectly coincides with the timeline of Sen'er's promotion to the legend.

At the same time, Sen Er happened to be the notorious "Scarlet Hunter".

One of the conditions for progression to this legendary evil class is to slaughter a village or a city.

So Sen Er carried this black cauldron without question.

Until now, Jade Cangting still thinks that the incident back then was done by Sen Er.

But in the circle of the shadow world, the news I got was a little different.

Wanderers have spread the legend that Sen Il's advanced ritual was to slaughter an entire city of grey dwarves.

The name of that city is "Bande", and it used to be a famous commercial city in the dark area.

Later, it perished overnight, some say that it was done by Sener, and some say that it was killed by dragon fire.

No one can tell, anyway.

But if you want to choose one of the two crimes of the Poplar Village tragedy and the massacre of the Gray Dwarf City, you can put it on Sen'er's body.

I would definitely choose the latter.

As we all know, the quality of the Advancement Ritual determines the power to enter the Path of Legends.

I've dealt with Sen'er, and he's a total villain, scumbag, and brute.

He didn't have any psychological burden to slaughter the old and weak women and children, but Poplar Village was too weak for him, so weak that if he used the slaughter village to ascend to the legend, he could only gain one domain at most.

This is also not in line with the strength that Sen Er has shown after the legend. ”

……

At this, he paused, as if recalling more.

Matthew looked at Richard:

"And then what about the human child?"

Richard said calmly:

He was sent to the royal city of the Jade Garden, and after living for a while, it is said that because he did not adapt to the living environment there, he finally left the Jade Court and has not been heard from since.

Almost a few years later.

Sen'er, who has been promoted to the Scarlet Hunter, has a small follower by his side.

He claimed to be a disciple of Sen'er, and his name was Setrenk.

A few more years later, he left Senel and worked on several cases on the East Coast on his own.

The Jade Court offered him a separate bounty of 30,000 gold coins, second only to the notorious Sen'er, who was a complete lunatic, a killer, and an anti-human.

But I still can't do anything about him. ”

Speaking of which.

Richard's tone became particularly sad and self-reproachful.

Matthew had already reacted:

"So it's not that he's fast, it's that you've let him go—you're related to Setrenk?"

Richard did not deny it.

He just turned away silently:

"That's another story...... I just remember when I held him, he was just a baby. ”

"I'm sorry, I don't want to reminisce about those things anymore, I can only assure you that I have warned him, and Setrenk has promised me that he will not enter Rolling Stone's territory again."

"If he breaks his promise, I'll take matters into my own hands to deal with him."

That's all that is said and done.

He tapped the tip of his cane lightly, and his waist was straight:

"Then gentlemen, there should be nothing to do here, please allow me to leave early, there are several topics to be discussed in the committee of five early tomorrow morning."

"By the way, you better be careful with these people, although Setrunk swore to me, there is no guarantee that he has no other arrangements for these people."

Richard reminded the bound fraternity.

Rhaeggar's expression was serious:

"I understand what you mean, and I'm going to strengthen the supervision of the prison next."

Matthew nodded.

The Brotherhood scrambled to get into prison.

It's not really a place to eat and drink for nothing.

……

After Richard left.

Matthew continues to pay attention to the condition of the Marks of the Dead.

A few days after that.

He took up his place in a cabin in the woods.

Since he didn't have to go to work to fish, he spent a lot of time planting trees, learning spells, and preparing forbidden rituals in addition to paying attention to the traces of the dead.

After being choked by the throats of the undead.

The ash creatures in Scars of the Dead have always been tepid.

With the perfect cooperation of Reniesme and Bing.

None of the Ash Samurai survived for more than 8 seconds.

After the second day.

The refresh rate of the Ash Samurai is greatly slowed.

On the night of the third day.

Under a round of brutal torture by the undead.

Not to mention the Ash Warrior who refreshed slowly, even the Ash Pawn that refreshed the second before is gone.

Matthew then observed for two more days.

It was discovered that the ash creatures really didn't appear anymore.

This made him somewhat regretful.

Ultimately.

He counted the loot, a total of 28 soul crystals, Matthew talked about the meritorious deeds, and Renysme and Ah Bing shared two each.

Ah Bing is fine.

Rhaenysme was rewarded, her loyalty increased to 90, and she shared a new ability with Matthew.

"Deck Pace: When you walk on a deck that shakes violently from a storm, you have the balance of walking on the ground."

This ability is not bad.

When Matthew goes to the sea later, he can use it.

And with the exception of Matthew.

Rhaegar and his lords' guard have also been patrolling around the Traces of the Dead for the past few days.

For now.

The first round of the Ember Lord's attack was neutralized.

And Matthew is also going well with the forbidden ritual.

"Deathscorched Earth" is actually a very simple ritual, and its taboo is that no normal person or organization will allow a necromancer to transform the earth into soil similar to a negative energy plane in their own territory.

It only took him two days to grasp the essence of it, and what he lacked was actual combat experience.

And against the backdrop of everything going well.

The slow progress of the Malicious Transfiguration is a bit glaring.

The current Matthew can only do about the same as a goat's creatures-

For example, pigs and dogs become woolly pigs and dogs.

This progress is clearly a long way from true Malevolent Transfiguration.

Therefore, after studying the ritual of death scorched earth, he immediately threw himself into the arms of Transfiguration.

This time Matthew made a bloody investment.

He bought three goats to take with him.

The purpose is simply to further feel the scent of the goat.

On the afternoon of the fourth day.

Matthew had just finished planting the oak tree for the day, and was playing in the forest with the goats.

Suddenly.

The bell around his waist tinkled.

This was a low-level spell that he had managed to master in just half an hour recently-

"Bell Technique".

The purpose of this spell is to be a reminder or notification within a range of 20 km.

Usually there are only very important things.

Peggy would notify Matthew by shaking the bell at her house in Rolling Stone.

At the moment, Matthew didn't dare to slack off.

Say hello to one of the knights in charge of keeping an eye on the Marks of the Dead.

He hurried to the town.

……

"Onboarding? Is it so sudden? ”

In the living room, Matthew looked at the man and woman on the couch in surprise.

The man's name is Vandal and the woman's name is Alice, and they claim to be the examiners of the Seven Saints Alliance, and Matthew has seen their magic credentials, but there is no problem.

"I just came back from outside, can you let me take a shower first?"

Matthew asked.

The blonde-haired, smiling Fandal replied with a smile:

"I'm sorry, this is the rule of the alliance, the entry assessment must be completed unexpectedly without the knowledge of the new members, you can prepare a little, for example, drink a cup of tea to calm down, but you don't have to take a shower."

As he spoke, he took out his staff and cast a "spotless" on Matthew.

Matthew looked down and found that he had a new look on his body.

Seeing that Vandal and Alice were serious, he didn't say anything.

"I'm ready, do you have any requirements?"

Vandal said intimately:

"You just need to tell the truth, we will write an appropriate comment on your answer, and in the end, our superior mage will give you a rating, which will not only determine whether you can join the Seven Saints Alliance, but also affect your first rank after joining the Alliance."

said.

He patiently explained to Matthew the rank system within the league.

From bottom to top, they are: D, C, B, A, and S.

In addition to the S grade, each other grade is divided into two grades: 1 and 2.

Only the S grade has three grades: 1, 2, and 3.

In this system, the lowest is D1 and the highest is S3, for a total of eleven rank levels.

The rank level determines a mage's status and resources in the Seven Holy Alliance.

And when it comes to some information with a level of confidentiality, the rank is also extremely important.

After listening to Vandal's explanation.

Matthew's originally nervous heart immediately relaxed.

Although the other party did not say it explicitly, if whether he could join the alliance was an uncertain matter, there was no need for Vandal to go to such great lengths to explain his rank and rank.

Combined with the words of Taling 177.

Matthew realizes that Van Dal is hinting at himself that the onboarding process is just a formality.

So he relaxed.

At this time, the lady with brown hair and slender eyes next to her also asked in a gentle tone:

"Can we start? Mr. Matthew. ”

Matthew nodded:

"Ask questions, Ms. Alice."

Alice asks the first question:

"I found out in your resume that your Excellency is a necromancer, but after communicating with your summon, the Minotaur Lady, I learned that Your Excellency has been learning Malicious Transfiguration recently, how are you learning?"

Matthew showed a wry smile, and he replied truthfully:

"My talent for Transfiguration seems to be relatively average, and I haven't fully mastered it yet."

Alice nodded, and then she spread out a piece of paper in front of Matthew, and what was written on it could be clearly seen by Matthew-

"Although Mr. Matthew is a necromancer, he also has a longing for other spells, and he often spends his free time learning spells in other fields, such as malicious transfiguration.

As far as I've observed, Mr. Matthew's Malicious Transfiguration has reached the point of perfection, which is rare among third-order mages in the Alliance."

Matthew was a little ashamed when he saw himself:

"Well, isn't that right? My Transfiguration is fairly average. ”

Alice looked at Matthew quite naturally:

"Your Excellency's malicious form is a goat, right?"

Matthew nodded.

Alice said cheerfully:

"Next is spell practice time, please use malicious transformation on it, we want to evaluate the effect of your spells."

Matthew followed her fingers.

As a result, I found an ignorant goat.

He hesitated for a few seconds.

Raise your hand and unleash a malicious transfiguration spell on the goat.

Bang!

Spell failed.

The latter did not move.

Vandal exclaimed:

"Such a brilliant malicious transfiguration, I can't tell the difference between it and a real goat!"

Alice was also quick to write:

"I've seen with my own eyes that the target of Mr. Matthew's spell is exactly the same as a real goat, which is really rare considering his age, and he is highly recommended by Mr. Ronan."

Next, they asked Matthew a few more questions.

No matter what Matthew answers.

What they write on paper is full of praise.

It wasn't until Alice asked the last question:

"What is the spell ritual that you have been researching recently, or that you have completed researching?"

Matthew still chose to answer truthfully:

"Deathscorched earth, a ritual of the realm of the dead."

Hear this.

For the first time, Alice and Vandall's eyes became serious.

……

(End of chapter)