At the same time, in the snow-covered mountain range in the north of the continent, an unknown Magic Tower was quietly floating between the peaks.
This place was no longer under the jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Karen. Even the barbarians living on the glacial plains had never set foot here. The high altitude and endless mountain range had become a natural barrier. To most humans and even other creatures, this place was not a livable place.
However, this brightly lit Magic Tower was like an oasis of life, completely blocking the bone-chilling white wind and snow outside.
The floating Magic Tower was not as crude and useless as Lassiman's Floating Space Tower. It was like an exquisite piece of art. All the details revealed an aura that was completely different from human civilization. If the residents of Elsen City stood here, they would definitely feel that the image of this Magic Tower was very familiar.
This was because this was an authentic High Elf Magic Tower. Judging from the ability to move across the mountains, it must have once belonged to a "Grand Arcanist."
Of course, the High Elf civilization had already been destroyed for 700 years. All the living Grand Arcanist back then had basically become history. At the moment, the people living in the Magic Tower all belonged to a unified organization, "San Vallano High Elf Noble Council."
This was the "Holy Assembly" that Camilla had been loyal to.
Ever since the news of the failure of the exploration of Elsen City came, the "Holy Assembly" had been quiet for a long time. The reason was naturally because the failure of this operation was too heavy a loss for them.
The "Holy Assembly" was not a widely spread religion like the "Rose Cross" or the "Viper Cross". What they advocated more was the "theory of blood." Only true descendants of the High Elves could become members of this organization.
In order to not be targeted by the secular kingdoms, the "Holy Assembly" had been operating in secret for many years.
They believed in the Arcana, so they valued magic more than martial arts. They believed that only the "Arcanist" was the path to glory for every descendant of the High Elves. However, even though they had the High Elf bloodline and were much more attuned to the elements and Arcana than normal humans, most of them could not become Arcanists. They could only become weak Magician's Apprentices. The problem of the abnormal membership structure had become more and more obvious in the past hundred years. After seventeen powerful arcanists were killed in Elson City, the core power of the Holy Assembly was seriously damaged. The elders were upset about it for a long time, and they were all discussing whether they should change the way the Holy Assembly survived.
However, the results of these studies were always negative, because the longer an organization existed, the more they feared change. However, after the fluctuations of the Devil's Gate swept across the continent, these elders turned pale with fright. Finally, they could not hold back and decided to change the future strategy of the Sacred Assembly …
They all understood that the curtains to the upheaval of the continent had quietly begun.
In order to deal with this crisis, the elders of the Holy Congregation finally decided to go from the outside to the inside. They would try to increase the number of High Elf descendants as much as possible while building a centralized city and enslaving as many humans as possible to sustain the Holy Congregation's growth.
They needed to establish a more complete survival system, instead of remaining aloof and independent from the human world. Because these elders knew that … there was no use hiding anywhere in the face of a disaster.
And how could they find a city suitable for the Holy Congregation?
Elson City, where the "magic conference" was about to be held, immediately came into the sight of these elders …
The information channels of these High Elf descendants were not completely closed. Although Camilla had tried hard to cover up all traces of Elson City in the early stages of development, with the sudden acceleration of the development, a lot of information would naturally leak out through the people coming and going. Now, the Holy Congregation already knew that this city was rich and prosperous, and they also knew that it was a very powerful fortress city, perfectly in line with their goals and expectations!
What surprised them even more was that the "guardian" of this city was the one they were familiar with, Camilla!
Naturally, the elders would not naively think that Camilla would still listen to the Holy Congregation, but they, who were familiar with the history of the High Elves, knew very well the importance of the "guardian" — in other words, controlling the "guardian" was basically equivalent to holding the key to this city.
As for the lord of the city, Roddy … The information collected by the Holy Congregation only showed that he was a noble famous for his military exploits, and the speed of his rise was beyond everyone's imagination. As for his military exploits, in the eyes of the Holy Congregation, they were all fake and exaggerated. Although they were useful as a reference, they could not be completely trusted.
Exaggeration of military exploits was the most common thing in the human world. Once the news of one against three spread, it would become one against a thousand. As for Augustine, Elder Viper Cross, and so on, it sounded even more like nonsense.
No matter what others thought, Elder Dominic thought so.
The cold wind howled outside the Magic Tower, but Dominic was on the warm top floor of the Magic Tower discussing the next most important plan of the Holy Congregation with several Mages.
"According to the records, the" guardian "is connected to the entire city, and her individual strength will definitely increase a lot. At the same time, her control over the city is very strong, and she can even do it to monitor everyone who enters the city. "
This elder wore a white and blue magician robe, and his hair was gray. Although he looked old, he was unusually handsome. As one of the eight people with the highest authority in the Holy Congregation, his magic strength was also very good, reaching the standard of advancing to Level-48.
"Then, Elder Dominic, how do we avoid her detection?"
"I'm afraid normal camouflage won't work, so we need to wear some special accessories." Dominic took out a wooden box, which was filled with badges that emitted magic waves.
The magic circles on the badges were left by the previous owner of the Magic Tower, and they were used to block spying spells. What Dominic took out next was obviously the most important thing — a purple crystal ball appeared in front of everyone. He tapped it with his staff, and a moving shadow appeared inside. "'Confinement Sphere', this is the key to controlling everything."
"Will it really work on Camilla?"
A female arcanist in a blue magician robe stood up and walked closer, looking at it as she said, "Camilla is not weak to begin with, and the city that 'demigod' Cadgar built is not comparable to an ordinary city … I … This, this is a Dragon?!"
Her exclamation attracted the attention of the sorcerers beside her. The seven or eight senior-rank arcanists all gathered around, and to their surprise, they found that there really was a dragon in the crystal ball!
What surprised them was that this Dragon was not an illusion, but a real dragon imprisoned in the "folded space" of the crystal ball.
However, it wasn't an adult dragon with a huge body like Merinsera. Instead, it was a rather dumb "baby dragon" — a baby dragon wasn't a "baby dragon". It referred to a dragon that didn't have high magic talent and couldn't learn more spells. In a sense, they were closer to "beasts", because baby Dragons could not speak, and could not grow more than twenty meters tall. Among the Dragons, they could only be "cannon fodder" in battle, and their role was similar to that of the infantry in human wars.
Although they were "cannon fodder", it also depended on who they were compared to. In the human world, even a "young dragon" was an existence that had advanced to Level 50 and above. Even if it didn't know magic, with its ability to fly, high defense, high magic resistance, and powerful strength, it was still a piece of cake for it to bully an archmage …
"According to the records, the Confinement Sphere can contain existences below the level of a demigod. This baby Dragon was my harvest half a year ago. No matter how strong Camilla is, there is no way she could become a demigod in two years. "
Dominic's words were very clear. As long as they could get close to Camilla and imprison her, controlling Elsen City would be a piece of cake.
"What if she is not willing to cooperate?"
A sorcerer asked. "She gave up the opportunity to break the rules and went to that godforsaken place to stay for twelve years … She is very stubborn."
"There is a way to cooperate, but if she does not …"
Dominic's wand was pressed against the crystal ball. In an instant, the sorcerers around saw the baby Dragon begin to violently twitch and roll, obviously in great pain.
"Since the guardian is not willing to protect Elsen, then we will choose a new one."
*****
In Elsen City, Camilla, who was busy, did not know that someone had their eyes on her.
In the past three months, she had not been idle for a day. If she had not listened to Roddy's suggestion and assigned various administrative tasks to various officials, she would probably not even have time to sleep.
The main reason was that the results of the "autumn harvest" had exceeded everyone's expectations.
Before Roddy implemented the long-season ploughing, fertilization, and regular artificial rainfall, no one would have thought that the grain yield could be so high. Even before the research on "hybridization" had begun, this method of farming had increased the yield by an average of 2.2 times!
In other words, from now on, Elsen City had gotten rid of the awkward situation of needing Hollier City to transport food. Not only could it be "self-sufficient," but it could also start to feed the whole of Efta!
The farmers near Elsen were glowing with health, which was a stark contrast to the refugees in the east of the kingdom. They did not have much tax to begin with. After such a bumper harvest, the net income was almost equivalent to the sum of the previous four to five years. For the farmers of this era, this income was completely beyond imagination, almost surpassing that of many of the residents in the city.
After the harvest, Elsen City also purchased the surplus grain at a fixed price. Therefore, the farmers had some spare cash, and could walk along the compacted road to Elsen City to buy fresh things.
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