You're not feeling well today. Go to bed immediately.
Daniel thought about Nicholas' words carefully. Nicholas was right. Although he was being put in an important position to manage such an important city, the other followers around Salin were closer to him.
This time, someone maliciously slandered him, and it was just a trick of the nobles. If other followers did this, how would the lord choose?
"Think about it carefully, Daniel, if you were a High Mage, Master would pay more attention to you. High Mages are very powerful."
"I understand, Lord Nicholas. I will work hard to train. I will remember your kindness today." Daniel bowed deeply.
"You're welcome, Daniel. Next, let's talk about how to catch those who spread rumors and killed civilians," Nicholas said with a smile. He was confident in dealing with this kind of thing. In areas controlled by the Vatican, the people were not pure and kind. There were many messy things. Believers could also commit crimes. Many professions in the Vatican were set up to deal with these crimes. The most extreme was the Inquisition.
With a backbone, Daniel began to cast a wide net to catch those who spread rumors and killed civilians in the city. As for how to deal with them, with Sicar's case as a precedent, they could conduct a public trial and use the Lie Detection of Magicians to determine whether these people were guilty or not.
Nicholas was a sly old fox. He suggested to Daniel that he not be in a hurry to start the trial. He should first look for the files of the Fourth Dynasty's laws, then secretly gather people to deal with them. They would take out the laws that were in line with Salin's rule and add them to the Metatlin Kingdom's laws.
There was no great chaos in Metatlin City. The real chaos was in Alchemy City.
Since the beginning of the year, there had been a frenzy of advancement in Alchemy City. Many geniuses emerged. Alchemy City now had more than four times more Magic Shooters than before, and the number of Great Magicians had even expanded by ten times.
As a result, the Hand of Magic, Devil's Horn, and other forces began to recruit new Magicians. For the first time, there was disharmony in Alchemy City.
The Hand of Magic was controlled by nine Level-Nine Magic Shooters and was the main authority in Alchemy City. On the other hand, the Devil's Horn and Serrigor Island were relatively weaker. However, the Devil's Horn took advantage of this trend and quickly recruited a large number of Magic Shooters. It felt like they were surpassing the Hand of Magic.
Seriger Island was supposed to be sealed for three years, but it was suddenly brought forward by a few months. People from Seriger Island also appeared and showed their faces in Alchemy City in a very high-profile manner.
Seriger Island was also recruiting mages, but the conditions were different. Seriger Island needed young, talented mages who did not have an official teacher to join. After joining Seriger Island, they would have to make a mage oath to be loyal to Seriger Island forever.
The conditions immediately attracted Magicians who were eager to obtain the inheritance. The Serrigor Island did not recruit people with official teachers, and it was said that the Serrigor Island would consider teaching the real inheritance to those who join.
By doing this in such a high-profile manner, Serigor Island was challenging the authority of the Hand of Mage. Originally, both the Hand of Magic and the Devil's Horn wanted to take over the island, but now, it was Lance who personally came out to recruit subordinates. He had already advanced to Rank 9 and became a powerful Magic Shooter.
They had no reason to fight for Seriger Island. But now, it was Lance who came out to recruit people. He had advanced to Level-Nine and became a powerful Magic Shooter. The fact that Sirigor Island was able to forcefully open the sealing formation of Sirigor Island in advance meant that the power of Sirigor Island had been greatly enhanced.
In fact, Seriger Island not only increased its overall strength, but it also perfectly captured the Fire Elemental Spirits and refined them into powerful Divine Artifacts, not just a few Demigod Artifacts.
The number of High Mages on Seriger Island had already exceeded 36. The reason why they were recruiting mages now was because the Seriger Island had reached an agreement. Jason would bring 36 High Mages to Metatlin City to develop, while the remaining High Mages would be led by Lance. They would no longer consider giving up on Seriger Island.
From then on, the 36 Magic Shooters who were taken away would only listen to Jason's orders, even though they would still enjoy some of the benefits of Seriger Island. This was what Jason exchanged for by giving up the Divine Artifact.
It wasn't that Jason didn't want that artifact, but he knew very well that his student, Salin, was already very rich. Coupled with the wealth left behind by his teacher, the two of them didn't need any artifact at all to forge a large amount of powerful equipment.
Salin could learn Water Flame Alchemy on his first try. That was a great talent. If both of them could advance to Level 9, they wouldn't need a third person's help to refine Divine Artifacts. They would be able to do so as long as they had enough high-level materials.
The 36 Magic Shooters were the most important. The loyalty of these Magic Shooters couldn't be seen in the outside world. Only in a closed environment like Seriger Island could there be so many loyal Magicians.
Jason still remembered Salin's words. The mysterious Demiplane and the Hexagon Space left by Rafael. If he had all of these, he could even mass produce Level 9 Magic Shooters.
Moreover, there was a completely independent space in the Demiplane. In that space, he could train a large number of Magicians and build a kingdom of Magicians.
Because Jason wanted to take away more than half of the Magic Shooters, Lance had to go to Alchemy City to recruit new people. These new people were lucky. If they swore to join Seriger Island, they could indeed obtain a good magic inheritance.
Jason also wanted to take away a large amount of Seriger Island's storage. No one objected to this, because these materials belonged to the batch of Magic Shooters that Jason wanted to take away.
Jason had already packed his luggage. Once Lance returned, he would bring people, pilot the warship, and rush to Metatlin City. That student of his should have already made a name for himself.
Thinking of this, Jason smiled warmly.
Magicians taking in students was basically an accident. When he went looking for a place to stay, he bumped into Salin, a child who wasn't suitable to learn magic.
Deep down, Jason didn't pity Salin. Magicians didn't need to feel pity. He just felt that his encounter with Salin was too coincidental. Jason wanted to try and see if he could break this rule of apprenticeship. If Salin was still useless in the end, it meant that the Magician who concluded this rule was wrong.
But after taking Salin in as an apprentice, Jason felt pity for Salin. Such a hardworking child couldn't even produce a magic string! From then on, Jason treated Salin as his own student and treated him with care.
When he met Salin again, Salin had already made a name for himself. He even kidnapped a princess of the Empire. That was when he got the Heart of the Sky. Under Jason's research, he realized that the Heart of the Sky wasn't just the power of the Sky City. It was man-made and not some mineral.
In the Heart of the Sky, Jason felt the power of the rule. If it wasn't the power of the rule, how could a small core make a huge city fly?
It was a pity that humans couldn't build a Sky City now. What was comforting was that in the Heart of the Sky, the rule he felt was getting clearer. With this thing, he would break through Level-9 and become a Level-10 Magician.
This was the luck that Salin brought him. Jason's smile became brighter and brighter, causing his followers who were familiar with him to feel goosebumps. Could it be that Lord Jason thought of some terrifying magic experiment?
Conflicts started to break out in Alchemy City. The people of Mage's Hand strongly condemned the actions of Devil's Horn and Seriger Island. Seriger Island and Devil's Horn simply joined forces and criticized Mage's Hand for controlling Alchemy City. Lance of Seriger Island even questioned Mage's Hand about why two warships heading to Lianyun City were sunk in June this year, but Mage's Hand didn't catch the culprit.
Mage's Hand was indeed in trouble. The warships they sent to Lianyun City were originally intended to deal with Metatlin City. There were dozens of Magic Shooters on the warships, but the two warships were sunk, and not a single person escaped. Because of this, Alchemy City even sent submersible warships to observe. They found that the two warships were sunk by a single-target attack spell. There was only one wound on each warship, and it was a huge wound.
The mages who observed closely underwater all agreed that it was done by a Level-9 Magician or above. This kind of attack was unheard of. The huge warships were almost cut in half. In fact, the warships had already been broken in the process of sinking.
The Level-9 Magic Shooters of Mage's Hand were terrified because this was done by a Level-10 Magician. It wasn't that Alchemy City didn't have Level-10 Magicians, but they weren't under the control of Mage's Hand, and they couldn't help Mage's Hand find the culprit. Level-10 Magicians were now obsessed with magic. They trained every day and would never leave Alchemy City.
Without the help of Magic Shooters, even if the nine of them went out together, they wouldn't be able to catch the culprit. Because the culprit could run, and they couldn't catch up or stop him.
Although a Level-10 Magician was no match for nine Level-9 Magic Shooters, they would always be alone. So, the task of catching the culprit became an impossible task. Mage's Hand simply stopped investigating and gave up on the idea of revenge.
After dozens of bloodless conflicts, Seriger Island and Devil's Horn both recruited a large number of new mages. Some of these new mages had been living in Alchemy City for a few years, but they still weren't favored by Mage's Hand. Of course, they were very dissatisfied with Mage's Hand. Now that two seemingly powerful forces came to recruit people, these mages couldn't care less about being reserved anymore, and they all joined.
Lance recruited enough mages to fill the gap left by Jason's departure. At this time, it was already the middle of the seventh month. News from Alchemy City told Jason that Salin's situation wasn't too good, so he hurried to Metatlin City.
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