The sun was setting in the west. Five magic hours had passed since the conversation that decided the fate of mankind in the Silver Salmon. After that, Merlin wandered to the pier to feed the pigeons and played a few rounds of poker in the casino. He won some and lost some. When he converted his chips back to gold coins and returned to his residence with beer and skewers, it was already night time.
Merlin estimated that the people following him had mostly dispersed. He threw the food in his hand on the table and turned around to see the little golem Hector standing by the door, looking hesitant to speak.
Merlin snorted coldly. "What, a golem like you is worrying about humans?"
Hector lowered his head and looked at his toes.
"I don't remember giving you a sentimental personality when I gave you life. What, do you want to be a bard?" A mocking smile appeared on Merlin's face. "With your current state, you'll be captured in less than two days and chopped into pieces. However, there are countless people who want to cut you open to see what your core looks like. Have they considered that you're also an intelligent being?"
The little golem scratched his head and made a gesture. This was not right.
"Well, that's enough. Since when did you have the right to tell me what to do?" Merlin said coldly. "How's the thing I asked you to do?"
Hector pointed to the secret room behind the fox masked man, but then shook his head.
The fox masked man was too lazy to pay attention to it. He only said, "Guard the house. If anyone comes in, inform me."
After that, he opened the door of the secret room. Hector watched Merlin's back disappear behind the bookshelf, and his eyes flashed with a trace of unconcealable worry.
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Morteris.
Including Lolo, Lilith, Roselle, and Pushkin, the higher-ups of the Magic Association and the Lionheart Empire gathered together. The Free city-state and the Holy Alliance also sent out their emissaries.
On this day, all the representatives of the human world gathered at the Mitchell Magic Tower.
The future Supreme Wizard Your Honor teleported back late at night. Lilith originally wanted to postpone the meeting until the next morning, but no one was sleepy, so Rob simply washed up and opened the door of the council hall.
Everyone got up and showed their respect to him.
First, the representatives of the three factions introduced the current situation in their respective territories. Overall, the Free city-states were in the best situation, followed by the Lionheart Empire, and the Sacred Alliance. During the time when Luo Bu had gone to Gudilesi to look for Merlin, the representatives of the three parties had discussed many times and reached a basic consensus. The Lionheart Empire and the Free city-states would send another six hundred thousand troops and a batch of resources to support the Sacred Alliance. This included the two hundred thousand troops of Lyhart the Seventh who had been left behind at Saint Massa City. The number of allied troops assisting the Sacred Alliance in battle would reach eight hundred thousand.
On the other hand, the Magician's Association also promised to transfer another 1,000 intermediate magicians and above from the Free City-States to support the Sacred Alliance. Lilith then briefly explained the current work priorities to the three parties. At present, the Magician's Association was mainly focused on three things. The first was to continue the construction of the magic network, which was also a big headache for the Magician's Association. Once it was successful, it would completely change the way magicians fought. Before Arbus died, he had repeatedly warned Dardarion to do this. So basically, the Magician's Association's experts were invested in this project.
The second thing was to deal with the Cracks of the Abyss everywhere. Although Luo Luo could close the Cracks of the Abyss with her origin power, she needed time. During this period, Lilith did not intend to just wait. In fact, a long time ago, both the Church and the Mage Association had dealt with the crisis of the Cracks of the Abyss. Although their methods were not as efficient as Luo Luo's, it was not a problem to deal with some small cracks that had not yet grown. Now that the monsters everywhere were rioting, it was also an opportunity. The monsters took the initiative to attack, and this was the time when the cracks were at their weakest. The Mage Association had also sent elite teams under the escort of the army to try to seal some cracks.
The third thing was to encircle and annihilate the monsters. This was also the current effort of all parties. Whether it was the Free city-state, the Lionheart Empire, or the Holy Alliance, there were monsters roaming within their borders, which brought great harm to the local civilians. They were extremely destructive. Just one or two of them could cause several small towns in a region to lose their peace.
Other than that, there was also the research on the plague. In short, Lilith had hardly rested recently. She was still a mother of a child. Because of this, the criticism of D 'Addario in the Magic Association was growing. The latter, the nominal president, disappeared after only a few days. In comparison, he was a little incompetent.
Lilith didn't have any dissatisfaction. She calmly ended her speech and sat back in her seat.
In the end, everyone's eyes were focused on Rob. Everyone in the conference hall knew very well that although they had been doing their best to resist wave after wave of attacks, they still couldn't make up for the huge gap between the gods and humans. So far, the human side was only passively defending, and the casualties were increasing every day. If this continued, it was only a matter of time before they were destroyed. Most people had heard the story of the four-eyed "man" civilization. In terms of the development of civilization, humans still couldn't catch up with the natives of the Dawn Continent tens of thousands of years ago. Their only hope was the man in front of them.
Rob nodded. "I met with Merlin this morning. He agreed to tell me the method to become a god. He also promised to provide me with enough Philosopher's Stones to help me directly advance to the ninth rank. If I succeed in becoming a god, I should have a way to deal with those things in the holy kingdom."
"What's the price? What does he want?" Asked Lolo. She had also dealt with the fox-masked man in the Simos Academy. He didn't look like a philanthropist.
The future Supreme Magus, Your Honor, shook his head. "This time, he doesn't want anything."
Everyone was pleasantly surprised when they heard this. Lilith and Roussel looked at each other.
By now, the fairy's prophecy was no longer a secret, and the contents of the prophecy had come true. Only the last half of the prophecy was left — "Remember to be wary of the underworld tree." The underworld tree was the emblem of the Holy Roland Brotherhood Academy of Magic. So, if there was no mistake, it was referring to Merlin.
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