……

"Gan fucking wood elves!"

About the news.

Matthew just thought it was incredible.

But it is unlikely that Beanna lied to him, and then thought of the abnormal attitude that Jade Cangting had concealed before-

Everything seems to make sense.

"Isn't it enough to be fooled once?"

"Do you have to be deceived again?"

"Are wood elves gullible to belief? No, it could be a fertile constitution ......"

Matthew complained wildly in his heart.

While researching the Traces of the Dead event, Matthew had delved into the history of the Wood Elves.

This race does have a wealth of experiences of being deceived.

Especially the elven queens of the past dynasties, almost every face has a simple and easy to deceive.

I won't mention it during the troll period.

There have been at least three elven queens in history who were deceived into becoming pregnant by sorcerers, demons, and high devils.

It's just that the other two didn't make a big fuss as the traces of the dead.

Coincidentally.

The three crooks initially chose to disguise themselves as bards when approaching the elven queens.

This also led to the murder of the Bard in the Elves.

The Jade Court once ordered the expulsion of all bards near the royal capital, presumably to prevent its own queen from being deceived again.

Matthew felt.

If there is a love brain field in this world, then the elf queens of the past generations are estimated to have become gods.

In addition to being gullible to be deceived.

Wood Elves seem to have two other qualities, one of which is to insist on their own opinions in advance and be extremely stubborn.

The second is that they don't reflect on themselves afterwards, but only blame others.

Matthew observed.

Historically, the entire Wood Elf race has a great gamble, and even if they find some clues that are wrong, even if their allies kindly remind them, in most cases they will still choose to stick to their opinions.

Unfortunately.

The path they have followed has overwhelmingly proven to be wrong.

There are also high-ranking mages in the alliance who have conducted in-depth analysis of the Wood Elf race.

The final conclusion was:

There are two main reasons why this race has these strange characteristics -

First, the status of the wood elves in the elven clan is very embarrassing, according to the original order of honor and inferiority arranged by the ancient elven gods, they are on the same level as the sea elves, and they are one level lower than the night elves and cloud elves.

But unlike the isolated sea elves.

The Wood Elves have extensive contact with the major civilizations on the continent, and on the one hand, they do not look down on weak humans, and on the other hand, they want to get close to the Night Elves and trolls.

It is a race that would die without spiritual idols.

There is a great servility in them.

It is precisely because of this that they can easily be coerced or go astray themselves.

Second, compared to other elves, the elements in the body of the wood elves are more single.

It's quite similar to the elves.

The High Mage had found that the more singular the elements in the body, the more likely it was to become dependent on other powerful species, and therefore easy to be enslaved.

But for historical reasons.

Even after the rise of human beings, it is estimated that the wood elves will maintain the mentality of "Lao Tzu's ancestors are also wider" for human beings.

For this.

The High Mage came to the conclusion that-

……

"Wood Elves can easily succumb to any powerful race in history that has slaughtered them.

The reason why they still maintain their pride in human beings.

Simply because humans have not carried out a massacre of wood elves.

The mage also pointed out.

Other elves are more or less in a similar situation.

It's just that the wood elves have the most extensive contact with humans, so these characteristics are also the most vividly reflected.

Therefore, if the alliance wants to completely control the power of the elves, it is better to find an opportunity to carry out a round of slaughter against a certain type of elves."

……

This passage impressed Matthew because it was too aggressive.

At that time, he still felt that this senior mage was too extreme.

And now.

Matthew understood the source of the other party's radicalization.

"These elves aren't human beings at all!"

Matthew gradually calmed down.

He opened a second letter.

This letter is from the winter moon of Ailan, and the style of the letter is very different from that of Beanna.

Ellen happily told Matthew.

The Presbyterian Council has changed its attitude towards Matthew, and they are considering accepting Matthew's involvement in the Traces of the Dead to deal with the incident.

But at the specific level of implementation.

The Presbyterian Church still insists on its program.

Ai Lan also vaguely pointed out that the change in the attitude of the Council of Elders was mostly related to the Blood Moon Strike incident.

The half-elf mage wants Matthew to be able to go to the Jade Garden—

Even if you can't directly take over the handling of the traces of the dead.

At the very least, I can get some opportunities to intervene.

As for the one million that Matthew mentioned earlier.

Ai Lan reluctantly said that this was unacceptable to the Council of Elders.

And she also doubts that there are enough gold coins in the treasury of the Jade Court to pay for Matthew's appearance fee.

But if Matthew is willing to come.

Ai Lan herself expressed her willingness to pay out of her own pocket and give Matthew some compensation.

The mood of the whole letter was quite optimistic.

She didn't even mention Lance the Sorcerer!

This made Matthew a little confused.

Ai Lan is a registered mage of the Jade Court and a member of the Elf Clan.

How could she be ignorant of the Presbyterian Church's plans?

Matthew thought left and right.

The probability of Ai Lan being mentally controlled by the sorcerer or being rebelled by the Council of Elders is still relatively low.

Most likely, the Presbyterian Church has done a good job of secrecy.

So why did Beanna know?

It may have something to do with the General Terrani next to her.

Matthew had learned about the Elder Church's dirty affairs from Setrunk, and he had also learned that there was an anti-Presbyterian force within the Wood Elves.

The Wind Chaser General seemed to be one of them.

Maybe she wants to remind herself and the alliance through Beanna's channels?

Maybe it's a call for help?

Matthew didn't think much about it.

Whether or not Terrani was appealing to the Alliance for help, her worries were certainly unfounded.

Since the Blood Moon event.

Matthew realized the ambition and execution of the Alliance.

The legendary mages, led by the Seven Saints, are slowly cleaning up the various problems in this land.

Among them, the unstable factor of Tianlun Palace will definitely be completely erased before the odd number of days change.

At the moment-

The second-generation god of war fell on the surface, but in fact became his own dog's leg;

The Lord of the Storm and the Sea fell, and the gods led by him also buried their own kingdoms, and will form an astral storm in the astral realm near Tianlun Palace that will last for several years;

The plot of the Glowlight and the God of Knowledge to descend on Crosstown through the Sea Elf Reincarnation technique was also thwarted.

It is said that He himself was devastated by that operation.

At present, there are only a few people left in Tianlun Palace.

One of them is the Midnight God who hooks up with the Scourge Order.

Matthew had learned of the Scourge Order's Patriarch, Mary Joy, about its internal sordid affairs.

The god of midnight wants to make a fuss again.

The only chance is the Marks of the Dead!

This coincided with the timing when the Wood Elves suddenly began to behave as demons.

Matthew doesn't think it's all a coincidence.

Even I can think of this myself.

Then Isabel and others could not have imagined.

If the Blood Moon Strike is a major external deterrent.

Then solving the traces of the dead is a key step for the alliance to further consolidate its dominance internally and completely solve the hidden dangers of Tianlun Palace!

"Maybe the teacher and Ronan are somewhere, silently watching the Elders' death......"

Thought of this layer.

Matthew's heart suddenly brightened.

He was no longer bothered by the silly behavior of the Wood Elves.

Instead, they began to think about how much oil and water they could get from this incident.

After all, the S-Class project of Traces of the Dead had been assigned to Matthew by Isabel a long time ago.

It's different from this Blood Moon event.

He is more than capable of playing a bigger role in it!

"If the alliance really wants to take advantage of the scars of the dead to eat the Jade Court, then there must be a lot of people involved, and I can't tear much even if I add Rolling Stone Town alone."

"You need to recruit more people, and most of the partners who have fought side by side before can be called."

"And Hood and his Riptide City."

"It's most likely a carnival ......"

"But there will definitely be a lot of deaths......"

Matthew completed the preliminary deduction in his mind, and then he calmed down and wrote back letters to Ellen and Beanna respectively.

In his letter to Ellen, Matthew asks for warmth and talks about the profession of spells.

He didn't say a word about the Marks of the Dead.

And Beanna is different.

Matthew warned her to stay safe and evacuate in time if something went wrong.

He also sent him a set of spell scrolls for escape and a talisman of his own making.

After that.

Matthew also reported the news of the sorcerer's suspected collaboration with the Wood Elf Elders to the Silver Council and Isabelle, respectively.

It's one thing they probably know.

It's another thing to report the information you get in a timely manner.

It is worth mentioning.

After the Blood Moon Strike, Matthew was promoted to the second level of the Silver Council.

His power in the Seven Saints Alliance has been further enhanced.

It includes the right to advise on the daily administrative affairs of the Alliance, the right to supervise the registered mages in various places, and so on.

It is not yet visible in the territory of Rolling Stone.

But if he went to other cities under the jurisdiction of the Alliance, he would be treated with a privileged treatment in stark contrast to what he had done before.

Of course.

For Matthew.

The biggest benefit that being a second-level councillor has brought him at the moment is that he can use the Alliance's public teleportation array for free!

Even using long-distance teleportation spells on your own is expensive.

Accumulated over a long period of time.

That's a lot of money!

Matthew was quite happy with this.

After writing the letter.

He toured the fourth floor of the catacomb as planned.

Overall, the progress is not bad.

Although there was a slight landslide during the initial excavation phase, the fourth level was largely opened up thanks to the intervention of magic and after adjusting the direction.

It's more exaggerated.

The fourth floor is larger than the previous three floors combined.

The ambition of the skeleton prince Li Rick can be seen.

He was already training when Matthew went down.

A large number of skeletons repeated one simple action after another under the command of Lirick.

At this point, they still looked no different from the skeletons that had nothing to do before.

But Matthew felt an unusual determination and temperament from Li Rick.

There must be a story behind this guy.

Joining your own cemetery is probably not a small plan.

Matthew wasn't worried.

It's a good thing that his subordinates have ambitions, he even took Vasnov, and he still cares about a skeleton prince?

So he just got a closer look at the characteristics of the Skeleton Knife Axe and left.

As Matthew observed.

Skeleton Blade Axe Men generally practice both combat skills at the same time.

One is knife art;

the second is axe;

Knife skills are melee combat techniques, while axes are used to throw them at medium distances.

Lirick himself is proficient in both techniques.

Matthew is also aware.

The combination of the two can greatly compensate for the shortcomings of the Skeleton's weak combat power.

Pair it with some cluster tactics.

Li Rick's skeleton soldiers may really surprise themselves!

Pyrene, Skeleton Axeman, Creeper Zombie and Farmer Zombie...... Not only is the number of elite undead in the Death Graveyard increasing, but ordinary undead are also evolving in the direction of the regular army.

Matthew believes it won't be long.

His graveyard would become the most powerful force in the Rolling Stones Kingdom and even in the entire South!

And in order to further consolidate the foundation of the cemetery.

Matthew has decided to plant a few trees when he goes to the moon tonight!

……

Mid-February.

Obsessed with planting trees and training necromancy, Matthew receives a letter from Bobo.

Bobo mentioned in the letter.

Lumière's robotic arm has been built and is about to undergo adaptation surgery.

Up to a month of time.

He will be able to turn back into that fierce young man, and his strength will even be greatly improved.

Meanwhile.

She also mentioned another secret source in the letter.

It is said that it was because they were besieged by the God of Hunting during the last exercise, and neither Cloud City nor the Aerospace Ship could support them.

Death of the World, this special cloud elf force, is planning to break away from Cloud City and Cyberdragon.

Exactly where he was going to move, Bobo didn't know.

She looked a little lost in the letter.

It can be seen that she still likes Cloud City, after all, the wisdom palace that supports her to become a powerful wizard comes from the cloud elves.

But compared to this.

She still values Holkins' kindness to her more, and where the Huo sisters go, Bobo will go.

For Bobo.

It may just be a matter of confiding in a friend about your troubles.

But Matthew soon realized where the world was gone.

Joke.

A cooperative force mixed in Cloud City and Cyberdragon, even if it suffered a little loss in the exercise, how could it be so easy to say and leave?

Under normal circumstances, it is already the mercy of the cloud elves to be able to dissolve smoothly.

Hawkins could have thought of something else.

Then there is only one object that can successfully take over this force.

That's the Seven Saints Alliance!

"I said what the Southern Mage Legion was doing with building so many floating fortresses on the moon, those buildings are obviously in the style of Cyberdragon and Cloud City!"

Matthew suddenly realized.

Sure enough.

It didn't take long for him to find this news in a very inconspicuous page of the weekly League magazine that he had rubbed from Rhaegar -

The Death of the World, which originally belonged to Cloud City, has been reorganized, and all the reorganized personnel have joined the Southern Mage Legion and received a new unit designation, "Moonfall".

That's it.

Qin Wuyue barely spent anything extra, and he obtained a super army that controlled a large number of cloud elves and cyber dragon black technology.

It's certainly not that easy to change to usual.

But the aftermath of the blood moon blow is still there.

The members of the Dead of the World really want to get out of Cloud City.

Cloud City had to swallow the bitter pill.

And this incident only became the beginning of the crazy swiping of the Southern Mage Legion throughout February.

Next week.

The Alliance Weekly published an important news -

The Southern Mage Legion signed a conscription and garrison agreement with the Night Elves of the Eternal Song Forest.

A portion of the Night Elf hunters volunteered to join the Southern Mage Legion.

They will obey Qin Wuyue's command.

Furthermore.

The "Snail Valley Prison", which the Night Elves had guarded for thousands of years, was also handed over to the Southern Mage Legion.

To know.

The people who are imprisoned and sealed in this prison are real big shots!

The most famous of these is the Lord and Ancestor of the Thousand Changelings, Gasliwen!

Able to take control of the Snail Valley prison.

This means that the Southern Mage Legion will have a legitimate garrison in the Eternal Song Forest.

It also shows the Alliance's indirect control over the Eternal Song Forest.

Furthermore.

Another piece of news on the same page was about the signing of a city building agreement between Rhaegar of the Rolling Stones Kingdom and the Southern Mage Legion.

This construction agreement was carefully reviewed by Matthew.

The content is nothing more than that Rhaegar exchanged a small amount of future income from the Rolling Stone Kingdom for the strong construction support of the Southern Mage Legion.

In accordance with the specific agreement.

The Southern Mage Legion will complete the entire expansion of Rolling Rock by the end of this summer.

The Rolling Stones City is already ten times larger than previously planned.

The expansion even includes a large circle of superwalls around the core territory of Rolling Stone.

It's the giant shelter that Surrell had mentioned to Matthew.

Matthew had seen the design drawings.

This kind of super city wall only needs to be modified and camouflaged to effectively resist the invasion of giant beasts of about 200 meters.

As for whether it can be made taller and bigger.

It depends on the civil engineering ability of the Southern Mage Legion.

But on the moon, Matthew had seen what they were capable of.

Completing the agreement must not be a big problem.

It is worth mentioning.

In this agreement.

The Southern Mage Legion did not gain the right to garrison the Rolling Stones.

Zeller told Matthew.

The negotiators of the Southern Legion of the French Division did not make such a request at all.

Consider that Rolling Rock is Ronan's hometown.

Qin Wuyue and Ronan also owned an entire mage district's land and houses in the original area of Rolling Stone Town.

This is actually quite abnormal.

The only explanation is.

They took into account Matthew's existence and future growth, and directly ceded this power to Matthew.

This is fairly common in the game's upper echelons of the league.

But for Matthew's juniors.

Ronan really gave too much......

He even really wondered if he was Ronan's illegitimate son!

But Matthew soon dismissed the idea.

Although both of them are quite good-looking.

The facial features and veins are obviously not the same way.

And if he was really an illegitimate child, Qin Wuyue would definitely not give himself a good look.

Matthew could only be silently grateful.

All in all.

Throughout February, the fledgling Southern Sect Corps can be said to have gained a sense of existence.

In addition to the content on the news.

Their series of operations to purge the evil forces in Jewel Bay are also being praised by the people.

Everyone clearly felt the difference brought about by the return of the Southern Guardians.

The already turbulent situation in the south was stabilized all at once.

This is the power of legends!

And Matthew has seen more from this series of events -

The Southern Mage Legion annexed the forces of the Cloud Elves;

took over the night elf's prison;

The only exception was that there was no substantial contact with the Wood Elves.

This further confirms Matthew's previous prediction.

The big one is coming......

If Matthew is the high-rise of the Jade Garden.

He must have been panicking now.

Thankfully, he wasn't.

So he was able to continue the long winter days with peace of mind, learning knowledge and spells.

At the end of February.

Matthew's basic skills of constantly making up for evil have finally begun to bear fruit.

……

"Hint: Your knowledge (Aindor spells) has been raised to an intermediate level, equivalent to the level of a sixth year in a regular magic academy.

You have a complete understanding of the world's spell system.

You have gained the super-magical ability "Spell Echo" from knowledge

Spell Echo: You can continuously simulate the casting of a spell in your mind, so as to achieve a higher responsiveness and sensitivity of your brain and mana to the spell within a certain period of time.

And at the moment of casting.

Your spells will automatically be blessed with all of your super-magical abilities and additional random super-magical abilities."

……

"Spell Echo" is a fairly powerful supermagic ability.

What this thing means is that after you've been simulating a spell in your mind lately.

You may only have this spell left in your head.

And when you cast this spell.

You will be blessed with a series of super-magical abilities such as Spell Instant, Spell Silence, Multiple Spell Casting, and Spell Upgrade.

Of course.

How many super-magical abilities you can get depends on your own mastery and a certain degree of luck.

This ability is best used in conjunction with ultimate.

Let's say the signature spell.

This ability has a high level of practicality and growth.

Because many supermagic abilities actually require extra concentration.

Spell Echoes saves you that extra focus.

Therefore, as you master more and more super-magical abilities.

The effect of spell reverberations will also become stronger and stronger.

All in all.

This ability can be said to be the best feedback for Matthew's insistence on making up for the basic skills these days.

The rapid accumulation of knowledge and the continuous precipitation of spells have greatly reduced the hidden dangers caused by Matthew's high-speed upgrade.

Take this opportunity.

He spent one Practice Point and a lot of XP to raise his level to LV17.

At this point, Matthew has officially stepped into the threshold of the fifth order!

For Matthew, the changes brought about by LV16 to LV17 are quite intuitive.

The first was that he could finally learn fifth-order spells.

The types and quantities of fifth-order spells are much more complex and heavy than those of fourth-order.

This is the last preparation before the legend.

Therefore, every suitable fifth-order spell Matthew intends to study carefully.

Secondly, after entering the fifth order, mages will have the opportunity to upgrade their spells.

"Spell Upgrade" refers to the process of increasing the power of a low-level spell to a fifth-order power.

The number of times a spell can be used can be done through spell upgrade training.

The opportunity to train for spell ascension is invaluable.

Among the five orders.

There is only one training opportunity per level.

Matthew was not in a hurry to start the training of spell upgrades, he had to make perfect use of every opportunity to get as many spell upgrades as possible.

On the other hand.

Many pre-requisite spells will usher in their advanced spells at the fifth tier.

Because there was a foundation before, it was not difficult to cultivate these advanced spells.

The more solid the foundation, the better.

For example, it took Matthew half a day to get the advancement of the Malicious Transfiguration Technique-

"Mass Malicious Transfiguration"!

And that's not all.

In the process of progressing, he also gained more control targets than ordinary people!

This may be the blessing effect of the field of transformation.

A normal malevolent transfiguration can turn six to eight people into goats or frogs.

But Matthew's group of malicious deformants is a full sixteen!

That's twice as many as the average person.

It can be seen that Matthew's efforts in the Malicious Transfiguration Technique were not in vain.

Of course.

Rhaegar must have played a major role in this.

And other than that.

LV17's Matthew has the ability to wrestle his wrist head-on with ordinary legends even if he doesn't use special means.

One of his ordinary spells can reach the level of pseudo-legends according to the effect of spell upgrades-

It's a lot more fierce than the ordinary fifth-order, but it's still not as good as the legendary.

And his signature spells.

It can directly threaten the life of the legend!

Especially with spell reverberations.

Matthew has the ability to cast spells that compete head-to-head with the legend.

Got to this point.

Matthew's heart was filled with emotion.

Next.

It's time to wait and see the changes in the jade court and make some preparations in advance.

But before that.

Matthew plans to find someone to practice his hands first.

This time he didn't call friends.

He just took Peggy and Bing with him, opened a portal, and left the cemetery.

Twenty minutes later.

Gold Coast.

The Lord's Mansion of the City of Cordo.

Under the watchful eye of an unusually tall and muscular group of guards.

Matthew walked into the hall with a natural expression.

The fat man, who was originally sitting behind the extra-long Nanmu desk, immediately stood up.

Immediately, two figures with blond hair draped over their shoulders left from under their desks in a dog-crawling position.

The fat man grabbed his belt with a smile on his face:

"Mr. Matthew?"

"What a rare ......"

Matthew looked at Yu Yao gently:

"Can you get your guards to step down first?"

"The fox stench from purgatory on them has smoked me."

The guards looked indignant.

Yu Yao waved his hand and told them to retreat.

Without waiting for the guards to leave.

Matthew glanced at the huge chains in the corridor to the side, and couldn't help but ask:

"Who is the devil behind you?"

"There aren't many forces in Purgatory that can make the three-headed dog loyal."

Yu Yao's smile was a little stiff:

"I'm just a businessman, sir."

Matthew smiled:

"A businessman can't be the lord of Kordo."

Yu Yao spread his hands:

"Believe it or not, at first I just wanted to run my own casino, but the city lord of the dog day before came to me for three days, and I had to kill him, and then I found out that I could only do better business after becoming the city lord."

"So I can only sit in this position now, and I can't abdicate to make way for Xian."

"As for the devil, the devil is just one of my gold masters, if the Seven Saints Alliance is willing to become my gold master, I can sell those devils raised by bitches right now!"

"You say yes, Delores?"

He looked at the three-headed dog next to him, chained.

The only thing that greeted him was the rain of sulfuric acid in the sky!

"Don't mind, it's Delores' way of showing affection."

Yu Yao wiped his face absently.

Then he suddenly roared at the three-headed dog:

"But you've soiled my new carpet, bitch!"

The three-headed dog's six eyes stared at him indifferently.

Matthew interrupted all this impatiently:

"Stop acting in front of me."

"I'm not here to find trouble!"

Yu Yao immediately smiled:

"That's good, that's good."

"As long as you're not here to find trouble, I'm here to welcome you, and I welcome any invitation and cooperation from the Tree Planter!"

Matthew said calmly:

"I want all the information about Queen Naga."

Yu Yao's face suddenly collapsed:

"You're really here to find trouble!"

"Queen Naga, you want to move too? I know your alliance is very powerful right now, but the bottom of the sea is another realm......"

"Do you know the risks I face if I betray her information?"

"You know ......"

He wasn't done yet.

Matthew silently placed a suitcase in front of Yu Yao's desk.

The suitcase opens.

A round ball of metal was exposed.

The atmosphere fell silent.

"What is this?"

Yu Yao seems to have been stirred up bad memories.

Matthew said calmly:

"World peace."

Yu Yao breathed a sigh of relief:

"It's good if it's not a bomb."

Matthew shrugged:

"It's a little more powerful than a normal bomb."

Yu Yao's fat body suddenly tensed.

The next second.

Trembling, he took out a large pile of materials from the safe behind him.

Then it was carefully handed into Matthew's hands.

……

(End of chapter)