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As we've been saying, most people are good at judging people by their appearance, compared to the low-ranking mercenaries who are always dirty in cotton armor and old leather armor that emit a long-lasting stench and most of the ordinary civilians who are also covered in mud. Wizards, who had been indoors for many years and had spent many years studying materials and ancient texts in order to acquire relevant knowledge, were always relatively clean and tidy, and with their knowledgeable words and understanding of magic, it was only natural that they should be separated from the common common people like the aristocracy.

Therefore, the magician, whether elementalist or blasphemous in the eyes of the church state, is supposed to represent nobility, elegance, and neatness.

Behoove.

Just as the nobility was supposed to represent a nobler and more elegant body and mind, the image of a particular group of people with little contact in the minds of the uninformed general is often very different from its real appearance—it is true that most of the apprentices of magicians must be at least nobles or slightly wealthier merchant families to be able to support them, but there are still many people who can meet this limit. Just as before the political chaos of intrigue on the side of Sivalier, due to the rich minerals and magical items sold by Avenella through them, there were not a few merchants on both sides of this trade route who were nourished by it, and with the advantage of being close to the water, in fact, before the war with Avenela to block the border, the number of apprentices and would-be apprentices of magicians who used the magical materials produced by Avenella and was learning all kinds of knowledge was as many as several hundred or nearly a thousand in the territory of Sivalier.

- That's a lot of numbers, even though they are still at a 1-2oo or even 1-3oo level compared to mercenaries and other swordsman and archer classes, but Sivalier - at least in numbers - is still a thriving magical country.

It's just that sometimes, numbers are just numbers.

When Sivalier was mired in civil strife and the borders of Avenella were blocked, many apprentices and would-be apprentices fled to Avenella, in addition to refugees forcibly recruited by the lord. And what these intellectuals, who should have belonged to the noble and elegant in the eyes of the general public, are now under the leadership of our Sage in the territory of Dawofberg in the southern part of the Acasta Plains, and what they are doing can live up to this impression?

The answer, no.

"Espatinor, Espatito, Etea!" "Boom-!" "Cough-cough-cough, cough-cough-" The light of magic flashed, and a large area of soil collapsed in an instant in the dim passage, and the gradually dry part behind it was affected by it, and the gray-faced magician master, who was wearing a gray robe with two gold threads on his sleeves, shouted loudly in Sivalyer to his fellow mage apprentice, who was also dirty, "I don't want this life! I mean, I can stand starving to buy a book, and I can bear to skin my prey with the mercenaries in exchange for money and get bloody, but digging in the dirt, this thing is beyond my reach, friend, far away - cough, cough, cough, cough. ”

It was obviously not a good idea to open his mouth and shout emotionally in the smoke and dust, and on the other side, the gray-robed mage apprentice with three gold threads on the cuffs and a higher level calmly covered his mouth and nose with a scarf and stepped forward to pat the other party's back, and with his movements, a large cloud of dust fell from the back of the apprentice who used the magic.

He waited until the smoke cleared before he took off his scarf and said, "You have to understand, apprentice Adrian. He said that magicians do not call each other by their surnames, because there has never been any real family of magicians, and because of their creed, each person is an individual, so they only have a rank-related title in front of their name. Ordinary apprentices are added in front of their names, and regular mages are added after their names at first, for example, if Adrian is wearing dark cyan robes at the moment, he will be called Adrian Elementalmaster, dark blue is Adrian Elemental Master, and as for the highest level of pure white, then everyone who meets him will call him Master Adrian - back to the point, the higher-level mage apprentice continued.

"You can't make enough money from work that isn't hard or dirty, and you've been stuck in Level 2 for a long time. There is already chaos in the hometown, the lords and archbishops are constantly fighting among themselves, and the precious things have been bought by the merchants to hoard and raise the price, a book that used to be bought for 200,000 denaux can now be bought five times the price, and the gold coins of Sivalier have depreciated to the point that they can only be melted and melted out of the silver and gold and directly shopped by equal weight, the world is not good, so don't complain so much. The apprentice of the High Elementalist rolled up his sleeves, and while this did not conform to the rules of a mage, it also stated that mages are on a mission to explore knowledge rather than digging in the dirt.

"Alright, apprentice Charles, do a good job. Adrian sighed, then patted the other man on the shoulder, turned around and began to walk towards the back of the passage, behind him, with the same spell reciting the fluctuations of magic power again, like a warm wind blowing through Adrian's bare skin, the passage under the Acasta Plains stretched several meters ahead.

"How's the progress. "It's okay, I'll take a break to regain my strength, and now I'm doing it for Charles." Adrian returned to the back, somewhere in the back, where a dozen or so other apprentices awaited, and the candles were burning, and they had drilled many holes in the ceiling leading to the ground to ensure air circulation in the long passage, and with a loud noise sounding from a short distance leading to the outside, a tall figure walked over.

"Yo, chief. The apprentices greeted Henry, perhaps the sage's Gnoslan-like appearance and standard Sivalier tongue, and they seemed quite kind to him. However, this is only at the level of intimacy, Henry himself speaks with a consistent gentleness, and there are some questions that even the magician apprentices cannot understand, and to some extent, he feels mysterious to these magician apprentices, coupled with the tattoos that no one can read because of the narrow passage and wears only simple clothes on his neck, but everyone can feel the subtle fluctuations of magic, curiosity and mystery, and finally these people have a little respect for him。

"Everyone has worked hard, those who have run out of magic power should go back and replenish their physical strength first, the salary will be calculated for you, just pay directly with books and materials. The sage nodded at them, and many of the mage apprentices, including Adrian, who had been complaining before, were sincerely excited, and although they were dirty, they still looked full of energy.

"Thank you, Chief, but we're not tired yet, the consumption of this bit of magic power is nothing!" There must be a brave man under the heavy reward, the temptation of the reward is impossible to refuse for human beings, and the magician naturally cannot escape this level, but it is not a good thing to rush in, Henry waved his hand: "Wait, wait until we have strengthened this section of the passage before continuing, you guys have a good rest." He said this, then waved behind him and let the soldiers of Avenella walk in with the pre-arranged wooden supports.

"--- Ertea!" "The moment he just walked over, there was another collapse in front of him, the vibration of the spell of the elemental system was very quiet, and the magic power passed through the soil and destroyed its structure, and then it naturally fell, without any heavy impact at all, and the passages of several meters and meters fell back to the ground.

"Charles, how's it going? Henry raised the torch forward to illuminate the passage that stretched out again a short distance in front of him, while the Yavennella militiamen behind him lowered their stakes and began to use their small shovels to press the dirt that had fallen and piled up on both sides as far as possible around the passage, and after stabilizing the structure of the wall, they put the supporting stakes on it, but they did not cling to the wall of the cave as the miners would do, but kept a certain distance.

"Come on, sir, but there's some trouble ahead. Charles took off the scarf from his face when he heard the voice, and Henry bent down and walked forward on the scattered dirt, and when he felt the coolness of the area where Charles was standing, he immediately understood what the magician's apprentice was referring to - the sage frowned: "Water, the groundwater of the Garriel River has seeped here." He said this, and Charles nodded, as if on the premise that the other party was also a magician, and then spoke: "You also know that elemental magic can only be used at the same time, and if the soil needs to be drained in advance after too much water is mixed with water, the efficiency of excavation will be greatly reduced, and if you forcibly cast the spell, it will not only be ineffective, but it will also drain the mana for a long time, causing the whole person to enter a weak state." ”

He said this, and Henry didn't mind the tentative hint of the shrewd fellow's words—curiosity was in a mage's nature, and it was only natural for this man to use some words to tempt him. The sage did not affirm or deny this, but nodded, then beckoned to the militiamen behind him, and after explaining a few words in Avenella, this paragraph required manpower excavation, and said to Charles again: "Go and rest, it's almost over." ”

As he spoke, Henry walked back behind him with Charles, digging up the part that contained water was both a bad thing and a good thing, because it meant that they were not far from Wolfsburg - the castle had its own well inside, and for the sake of defensive warfare, the site was chosen to have the most groundwater infiltrated by the Garril River. Although it was necessary to dig up in order to achieve their goal, it at least proved that they were not seriously wrong in the direction.

"Does the chief want to dig straight into the castle? Charles continued to probe and Henry shrugged his shoulders and did not answer him, and the sage glanced at the mage's apprentice, who was not very old, only in his twenties, and whose intelligence and shrewdness in his words and deeds proved that most of them came from a wealthy merchant family on the side of Sivaliers - not nobles, and the higher the nobility of Sivaliers, the more one generation was inferior, and the children of those nobles were all interested in politics and infighting, and had zero interest in magic and any other knowledge.

Is it that even such a man has fallen to Avenella? This is what Charles was thinking at first sight when Henry went to search for a suitable candidate among the mercenaries, and that magicians and magic, while mysterious and powerful, were in a sense not as popular as one might think, at least on the west coast of this era.

One of the most important things that limits the status of a magician is talent, Sivalier claims to have a thousand magicians, of which only qualified "quasi-apprentices" actually account for the vast majority, and these people are limited by family conditions and the conservative transmission of knowledge in this era, many of them really just stay at the level of quasi-apprentices all their lives, and have never been able to reach the level of real recognition from the Spell Association to get as a magician apprentice.

As for those who became magekeeping, most of them had slightly better off families, had received some instruction from a full-fledged mage during the prospective apprenticeship stage, and were recommended to receive the true mage's apprenticeship badge - but that's about it.

The so-called "master leads the door, and the cultivation depends on the individual." "In an age when books are very valuable, there are very few mages who are willing to teach you what they have learned in their lives in the true sense of the word, so these large number of mage apprentices can only go on mercenary missions or other tasks on their own to earn money and buy books from their mentors.

- This is very realistic, after all, no one has the obligation to spread knowledge to everyone, and it is not a good thing that knowledge such as magicians can really be turned into a profession of weapons.

But in a way, it also made the high-ranking magicians richer and richer, while most of them struggled to survive and find work.

It is true that the Elementalist has a more powerful ability to use magic than the average class, but this power is limited by many things. In addition to the environmental factors, it is important to have magic itself.

The power of a mage comes from the knowledge of magic that is learned, and the knowledge is either passed down orally or in books. And in an age when books are scarce, knowledge means value - the rarer it is, the higher the price.

What can really be passed on is some basic magical knowledge, which has led to the fact that the apprentice class is very similar in level, and they all learn the same set of bad spell control methods. This method of casting is extremely medium-oriented, and the mana consumption increases exponentially as the range increases, and if the spell cannot be successfully and effectively released, the continuous mana consumption will also put a great burden on the heart.

For example, if an Elementalmaster apprentice uses the simple magic of Fireball to shoot a distance of 1o meters with 5% of the mana, then the mana consumption doubles for every half of the distance added - and due to the humidity in the air and a host of other things, the result of this spell is likely to be very different from what was expected.

If the fireball is to shoot a distance of 1oo meters, the mana consumed will directly drain the heart and blood flow throughout the body, resulting in sudden death, shock, or deep weakness - a distance that a trained archer can do with a high-pull longbow and attack continuously.

The apprentice's method cannot be used after becoming a formal magician, and each formal magician has his own set of more effective plans, which can make the attack power of magic more powerful, farther, and more varied. These people are also the source of the people's impression of noble, elegant, and knowledgeable magicians. But it's a pity that all of these people understand how valuable the magic operation method they have summarized is, so no one will be willing to publish it.

Even if it is passed on to a beginner disciple, it will be passed on to an extremely strict rule to avoid spreading it outside.

Therefore, the vast majority of magician apprentices can only choose to use their bodies to contact the medium to effectively save magic power, and this method is limited by their poor physical ability and financial and physical strength that cannot afford armor, resulting in extremely inefficient in actual combat. Most of the apprentice magicians who wandered out were like the lady Henry and Mira had met on their mission in Sivalier, using magic more as a reliable, silent, and effective tool for intimidation than as a means of frontal combat.

It's a tough situation -- but who doesn't.

In any case, our Sage saw the special role of these apprentice magicians - they began to dig a tunnel in a hidden alley in the middle of the town as Archduke Lesky and Edward and Charles made a terrible feint on the surface to attract the attention of the people inside the castle.

It's only a dozen meters away from reaching Wolfsburg -- (To be continued.) )