……

It was close to four o'clock in the morning, and there were already people shouting for fresh vegetables on the agricultural produce street behind the post house.

The crowd was staring at each other on the street, and it was obviously not the same thing.

So at the suggestion of Zeller, who had been driven out after hearing the news, the group came to the office hall of the Lord's Palace.

With Matthew's understanding of Zeller, this arrangement is probably waiting for the matter to be negotiated here, and it can seamlessly connect with the morning meeting for a while.

He yawned heavily, but the current situation could only make Mrs. Wesley, who had been woken up in a hurry, a few more cups of coffee.

Inside the office lobby.

The atmosphere is somewhat subtle.

The Big Three of Rolling Rock each performed their duties, and Loren sat generously in the guest seat.

Richard, on the other hand, was the only person in the room who was not seated, and claimed to like to stand.

The confrontation between the two legends could not be more obvious.

But Rhaegar and the others were clearly happy to see it happen.

Matthew knew that the presence of Loren would still be a bit stressful for them, and if it weren't for Richard, they might have fallen out before negotiations began.

But even Richard, Rhaegar usually couldn't stop him, and the older gentleman seemed to care only about the work of the Council of Five.

Of course, he has no less work to catch thieves on weekdays.

Matthew suspects that Richard is also responsible for Richard's security in Rolling Stone.

The silence was broken by Loren first.

He smiled and looked at the others:

"Don't look at me with a viper-looking look, Matthew and I are very good friends, and after last night's battle together, I thought I was half of my own."

Everyone looked at Matthew with inquiring eyes.

Matthew nodded slightly, and then he asked Lorain:

"Do you still need to play Lady Alena next?"

"I don't need it anymore, the assassins of the Cult of the Underworld have been arrested, and Alena has probably launched an operation against the situation in Deep Blue Harbor, so my performance should be over."

Lorraine explains:

"The Cult of Pluto is one of the more active criminal organizations on the East Coast, and they are also very interested in Rolling Stone, I was here to warn you, but since the Silver Serpent is here, then everything is not necessary."

As he spoke, he couldn't help but complain:

"Matthew, you should have told me there was a silver serpent, so I wouldn't have been so nervous.

After all, the Silver Serpent, as a legendary class of wanderers, is best known for targeting its own people - I mean wanderers in the realm.

After all, wanderers are small mice, and what Silver Snake is best at is eating rats.

Where there are silver snakes inhabiting, the extinction of thieves within a radius of a hundred miles is the norm, am I right? ”

As he spoke, he glanced at Richard defiantly.

Richard's expression was calm, and he spoke unhurriedly:

"As it happens, I also know some of the abilities of the Twilight Chanter, and I have heard that they draw strength from the destruction and loneliness of grandiose things.

Wherever something bad happens, you rush to it, and although bad things don't happen because of you, no one welcomes your coming.

So in the Age of Enlightenment, the gods called you ravens.

And I have an even more vicious conjecture, if you can draw strength from destruction, why don't you create it yourself, you say? ”

Luo Lan showed a frightened expression:

"Snakes are indeed the most vicious of life, and when they open their mouths, they slander.

It is true that I can draw strength from the destruction and end of big people, big organizations, and even the world, but the core element of the chant is to observe, to sing, but never to participate.

If you're going to accuse me of bringing disaster to Rolling Stone, I'm very wrong.

But I can understand that, after all, snakes generally have a small brain capacity. ”

Richard sneered and said:

"But your demigod realm is fraud and acting, even if I suspect that this group of drows is also a play directed and acted by you, it is not too much!"

Loren showed no weakness:

"Really? Do you feel like you're worth being cheated of? Acting is also very labor-intensive, and I don't think you are qualified to be my audience and be deceived by me. ”

"You two, don't be angry."

Zeller took the initiative to be a peacemaker:

"I'm willing to believe that Mr. Lorrain has no ill will towards Rolling Stone, and if it weren't for Mr. Richard, the information he brought would most likely come in handy."

"I just received a secret message from the scouts on the front line + Just around three o'clock in the morning, the troops displayed at the border of the South Trade Post in the Red Clay Mountains were evacuated."

"It's highly likely that the Drow Assassins were captured, and that army is about three hundred people, and if they do attack the Southern Trade Post, we may suffer some losses."

As he spoke, he unfolded the note in his hand.

Matthew noticed that Zeller didn't have the note in his hand when he entered the office hall with him.

It seems that Zeller has a secret set of contacts with his scouts, and it is quite time-sensitive.

"More than three hundred! So much, huh? ”

Rhaegar looked surprised.

Zeller nodded solemnly.

For the existing structure of the south of Aiindo, an army of three hundred men, if well equipped and morale, is a force to be reckoned with.

The true elite of Rolling Rock Town is no more than about forty Lord Guards, and at most the same number of garrison members, there are less than a hundred in total.

the others were like the attendants of the lord's guard, a hundred and seventy;

The militia of the various villages together also numbered more than 100 people.

Considering that the permanent population of Rolling Rock is between 6,000 and 8,000, plus the border villages, it can barely exceed 10,000.

Without considering the factors of the purgatory portal, if the army is increased regularly, about 1,000 people is a threshold.

Going up further, it's not that you can't afford it, it's going to be very difficult.

Red Clay Hill is three to five times the size of Rolling Stone, and so is its wealth.

Combined with the previous intelligence, their main force was attacking the High Leaf Collar and sweeping the Golden Fertile Fields, and the number of people threatening the Southern Trade Post was only a quarter of the number at most.

Looking at it this way, the new lord of the Red Earth Mountains had organized a regular army of more than 1,200 men in a very short period of time.

It's not an easy thing to do.

It can be seen that even if an army in Hongtu Mountain is scared off this time, there will be a lot of hidden dangers in the future.

"The war potential of the Red Earth Mountain is terrifying, the fall of the Golden Fertile Field will cause the price of grain in the south to rise significantly this year, and if Gao Yeling is also occupied by them, the economy of Rolling Stone Town will be very seriously affected. Of course, what is more important is their own threat to us, even with the deterrence of legendary mages, they may still test us from time to time, which is a very troublesome thing. ”

Zeller concluded solemnly.

The other three also looked grim.

Only Loren still looks calm and breezy:

"An army of three hundred mortals? I'll be able to get rid of them all by myself! ”

Richard asks:

"By mouth?"

Loren shrugged:

"Occasionally, you have to use your hands."

Rhaegar asked suspiciously:

"If Your Excellency is really that powerful, why don't you just calm the Deep Blue Harbor for Alena?"

Lorraine replied as he should:

"I'm just her cousin, not her father, and I'm not obligated to settle everything for her.

Once you enter the legend, you will understand that, in addition to a lot of necessary entanglements, the less mortal things are touched, the better, it will distract you, it will become a drag on you, and I myself hate fighting, killing, that is not elegant at all, I prefer to applaud and praise to fighting.

I almost forgot that I'm here to negotiate with you on Alena's behalf! ”

Zeller and Rhaegar looked at each other:

"Tell me about your conditions?"

Lorain immediately gushed out.

After listening to this, Zeller cautiously replied three or four sentences.

Loren is another tirade.

This time, Zeller replied a lot more, but most of it was vague and ambiguous.

That's it.

The two of you come and go, and your tongue is full of lotus.

Don't talk about Matthew.

Richard and Rhaegar also couldn't cut a word.

The two big men's verbal swords are naturally nothing to look at.

Matthew stretched and crept into his office.

He believed that the two of them could come up with a good outcome.

So he decided to take advantage of this time to continue learning spells.

Recently, Ma Xian has been learning two spells, namely "Heart-Warming Gaze" in the Necromantic Realm and "Petrification" in the Transfiguration Realm.

Matthew mastered the former very well.

He sat in a soft chair and crushed the spleen of a squirrel, and the next second, his eyes seemed to turn into two terrible black holes.

……

"Hint: You used the spell "Mindsetter's Gaze".

Mindset Gaze: During the time the spell is in effect (60 seconds), your eyes will turn into a hole full of terrifying power, and you can designate a unit within 18 meters that touches your gaze for perception determination, exempting the loser, and you can force him to enter one of the following three outcomes -

1. Sleep: The target falls into a coma and sleeps until he is injured or shaken violently by another creature.

2. Fear: The target is caught in uncontrollable fear, he will lose some of his mind and run wildly in the direction away from you. It won't go away until it's out of your line of sight.

3. Sickness: The target is in a state of illness-like weakness, and all actions will be severely punished.

In the sick state, the target will perform an additional perceptual judgment every sixty seconds, and once the waiver is successful, they will be able to get out of the sick state."

……

This is a powerful single-target field control spell that is primarily used against rushing units.

But Matthew felt that it would be good for him to turn into a wilderness form, and rush to the enemy's side to take a heartfelt look.

After a period of practice, Matthew has been able to calmly control the switch of the heart's attention.

It's just that the casting materials for this thing are not easy to find, you have to have a squirrel's spleen, and the only good news is that a piece of spleen can be used repeatedly.

In contrast, the study of petrification is not very smooth.

But Matthew didn't care.

He was now confident in the spells of the Transfiguration Realm-

Not confident in yourself, but confident in Rhaegar!

At that moment, he took out a piece of meat and tried to petrify it.

After several failures, he calmly glanced out and saw that Zeller and Loran were still tugging, while Rhaegar was ostensibly listening, but was actually drinking coffee and reading the newspaper.

So he raised the volume:

"Rhaegar? Is it convenient to come in? ”

Rhaegar said without raising his head:

"You have to add money."

Matthew thought for a moment:

"It's about Sif, I'd like to talk to you about it."

Rhaegar immediately put down the newspaper and rushed to Matthew's office.

"What happened to you last night?"

His eyes were fixed on Matthew, and if Matthew's answer was not correct, he might have to go back to his room and pull out his big sword.

"No, I just noticed that Seve yawns all the time, has she been sleeping a lot lately?"

Matthew asked.

Rhaegar breathed a sigh of relief:

"I thought something was going on! This is the influence of family bloodline, and it is not a big problem. ”

Matthew asked curiously:

"Is she going to awaken to the powers associated with purgatory? That's why you didn't let Siv touch spells? ”

Rhaegar nodded:

"For the people of the Blood Banner Family, taking the initiative to learn spells is actually harmful. We have the power of the superior devil flowing in our veins, and when the time comes, this power will automatically awaken. In a sense, we're no different from warlocks. ”

"I see."

Matthew nodded reassuringly, and then expertly slapped five gold coins on the table.

"Come on, come and practice a spell with me."

A few minutes later.

Mrs. Wesley walked in from the other side of the corridor with a broom, and she came to Matthew's office, and looked at the stone statue in the center of the room with some surprise:

"Oh my God, is this the statue you carved for Rhaeggar? It's really vivid. ”

As she spoke, she gently patted the stone statue's face and pinched the stone statue's ears vigorously.

Without waiting for Matthew to speak, she hurried out:

"Don't move the stone statue yet, I'll call Seve to come and see the fun!"

Hearing this, Matthew hurriedly canceled the petrification technique and said:

"After solving the case, I'll say that Siv wasn't arranged by me."

Rhaegar touched his reddened ears and said indignantly:

"I knew she did it, this old woman is so hateful, I have to quit her!"

Matthew already heard a calloon in his ears.

He asked:

"When will you quit?"

Rhaegar said categorically:

"Next Monday!"

"Let her get an extra week's salary."

"Last week!"

……

When Matthew left the Lord's Palace, the battle between Zeller and Lorrain was still over.

Matthew couldn't get into it.

He was in a hurry to go back to plant trees and repair graves, and finally asked for leave in advance.

Walk on the way to the oak grove.

Matthew violently a spirit:

"I just said, it seems that something has been forgotten!"

"Eli!"

Think of it.

He walked briskly in the direction of the official post house.

When you arrive at the gate of the inn.

A strange force poured into Matthew's body.

He couldn't help but stop.

……

"Hint: Comprehending the mysteries of the Transfiguration Realm many times has allowed you to accumulate a large number of relevant elements, and you have successfully set foot in the sub-realm of "magic", "Transfiguration", and completed a short stay in it!

In return for being involved in the field, you can pick one of the following three abilities –

1. Material-free spellcasting (you will not need any casting materials when you cast spells related to the transformation field below Legend; Legendary and above materials halved)

2. Dual-stage Transfiguration (Your Malicious Transfiguration is enhanced, and after turning a target into a sheep, you can apply a second-stage transformation to it.)

In the second stage of the sheep state, the target will revert back to the state of the first stage of sheep after taking the first overlimit damage.

After taking over-limit damage again, it will completely revert back to the original type.

In addition, in the second stage of the sheep state, the damage taken by the target will be fed back to the entity after its transformation is completed.

Note: The difficulty coefficient of the second stage of changing sheep is about three times that of the first stage)

3. True Transfiguration (Stone): You can transform yourself into a real stone and get the exact same experience as the stone."

……

"Material-free spells" are really fragrant.

But Matthew did not hesitate to choose the "Second Stage Transfiguration".

This ability is too perverted.

Under normal circumstances, the injuries suffered in the state of changing sheep have nothing to do with the target body, but the second stage of changing sheep is different.

The fact that the light can damage the enemy is enough to make Matthew make a choice.

Not to mention that the second stage of the sheep can also play a lot of tricks.

As for "True Transfiguration".

It's also powerful, and it gives a person the ability to completely transform into another form.

The druid's wilderness form can only be said to be a great simulation of animal form, and there is still a certain distance from the real transformation.

It's a pity that it turned into a stone.

Matthew is not Loraine, and he has no intention of developing with the stone element beauty, so he naturally has to give up.

"It's a pity that there are no status rewards."

Matthew noticed that the reward for breakthroughs in small areas was relatively average, which may also have something to do with the way he broke through.

He had the experience of consciousness leaving his body when he entered the oak tree or the undead.

Temperance, minotaurs, and metamorphosis are not.

Correspondingly, the rewards are much less.

Matthew's gaze shifted from the gains in the Transfiguration realm.

He looked at the door of the official post house and instinctively wanted to go inside, but who knew that at this time, an owl flew over.

Matthew took a silver envelope from the owl's hand.

After disassembly.

Inside is a text message.

……

"Dear Master Matthew,

Your application for a crash course in Combat Spells has been approved, and the training method is 1v1, and the instructor is Ms. Margaret at the A1 rank.

Ms. Margaret has plenty of time available, so please contact her at the Alliance office as soon as possible if you are available in the near future.

The contact details are as follows......

……

Matthew's long-awaited battle spell course is finally here!

He no longer hesitated.

Strode in the direction of the Crucible House.

For ordinary mages, the Crucible House is only open at a quarter past four.

But he's an A1.

You can go if you want.

"Something seems to have been forgotten."

"Forget it, I'll wait until that lady Margaret comes back!"

Matthew's back gradually disappeared at the door of the inn.

And in the glass window of one of the dressing rooms in the second hall.

A little black cat was staring blankly at the blue sky and white clouds outside.

Meanwhile.

Not far from him is a street of agricultural products.

A woman dressed as a peasant woman quietly put down the white cat in her arms under a corner:

"Go ahead, Akika."

"I feel Eli's weakness and confusion, and this is the best time for you to take advantage of it."

"Don't let your mother down."

The white cat climbed a few steps on the dirty ground.

She glanced back at the peasant woman, and quickly jumped a few times on the edge of the wall, and disappeared smoothly behind the high wall.

……

(End of chapter)