Would life be any different if there was an additional magic apprentice in the family?
Of course, nothing could change. This was because the two teachers were still as lazy as they were in the past.
Basically, Marchioness Barland's magic knowledge was still taught by her close friend, Kaya, just like when she first learned necromancy. It was just that they had come in secret before, but now they were learning and discussing openly. Kaya herself had also started to study necromancy seriously.
When there was something she didn't understand, she would ask the marchioness' nominal teacher during the break after dinner, the Lich who didn't really discipline his apprentices. He listened to the women chatter about some nouns that a certain someone couldn't understand no matter how hard he tried. He didn't know if the two apprentices really understood, but a certain someone was still confused and didn't understand anything.
As for how they were progressing, a certain someone didn't really care. Besides, the three girls didn't seem to want to take the conventional path of magic learning. They would start from the first to third circle apprentices, and then go through tests again and again until they finally became official Mages recognized by the Association.
The main reason for this arrangement was that the teachers could receive a subsidy from the Society of Sorcerers. It was a personal subsidy from the Association to cultivate magic apprentices. However, Fen wasn't short of money. That was to say, she hadn't seriously made any money. Could a certain someone be considered an upgraded version of a tool — a wallet? In short, Fen didn't care about the meager subsidy.
Of the four apprentices in the family, the only male, Leonardo, had already given up magic. Lin didn't want to force the kid, but he felt that it was a very serious mistake to let him go out to fend for himself. After all, they were from the same hometown. Whether or not Leonardo was the person he thought he was, it wasn't a big deal to have an extra mouth, so he kept him until now.
That was to say, the kid's temperament was still quite unstable. He wanted to learn everything except magic, and everything was a three-minute passion. It wasn't that he didn't learn well. When Leonardo was serious about something, the finished product was always admirable. But his attention would be diverted to other places all of a sudden, and what he thought would develop in this direction would be thrown to the back of his mind in the blink of an eye.
This could only be said to be the privilege of young people. They wanted to try everything. Lin Feng did not try to stop such ambitions, and instead allowed them to develop.
Kaya and Halloumi, on the other hand, had strayed off onto some unknown path. A certain someone had long since lost track of them. Therefore, he had long decided to give up on treatment. In any case, these two girls' hearts and abilities had been trained well by a certain someone. Ordinary difficulties were no longer in their eyes.
Marchioness Barland studied magic purely out of interest or for some unknown reasons. She did not care about the evaluation or rank of the Society of Sorcerers at all. Besides, with her family background, it wouldn't be difficult for the association to provide services to her, or even give her some leeway. There was no need for others to worry about it.
However, outside of that home, the news that was revealed during the apprenticeship ceremony caused a huge uproar.
More than ten bishops of the Three Holy Churches and the Lord of Life also wished to become the Lich's disciple. They were even willing to go against the priests of the Lord of Justice. More importantly, the God of Justice had burned one of his own priests.
In the churches of various gods, it was not uncommon for gods to punish believers who had betrayed their faith. However, using such drastic measures to deal with a high-level believer, and even in front of outsiders, there were many things behind such behavior that were worth pondering over.
Therefore, the capable nobles not only began to pay attention to the rumor of the Devil King who had been resurrected a thousand years ago. They also began to investigate what had happened that caused the Three Holy Churches to behave in such a manner. Moreover, this was not something that the middle and low-level church members in the Empire's diocese could understand. Otherwise, the priest of justice would not have made such a mistake.
The support of more than ten bishops was something that even the emperor of the Guevana Empire might not be able to obtain. However, a mage, especially a Lich, did. What was the reason behind this? None of the nobles were not curious. This was not to satisfy their desire for gossip, but for political considerations. They had to know where to place that person.
In a certain majestic castle that was more focused on actual combat than glamour, in a remote and dark study, the owner of the castle was receiving reports from those who walked in the dark. It was not an exaggeration to describe the contents of the report as "unbelievable." He asked, "Are you serious in writing this?"
"Sir, do you think the Guild has the means to deceive you? This information was revealed by a powerful person in the Three Holy Churches. That sir would not speak carelessly if he revealed it himself. And it was not just one person, but many people said the same thing. I believe that the credibility is very high. "
The former Devil King was supported by the Bishops of Life to the extent that as long as she made a call, the Three Holy Churches would split on the spot. Even the faith of the Lord of Life would be challenged.
This was because of the conflict between the three ways of healing in the Three Holy Churches. The first way was to consume the life force of the person being healed to speed up the recovery of injuries or diseases. This was an effect that magic could also achieve. However, it would not have any healing effect on people who were about to die, because such people's life force had already been exhausted.
The second way was to consume the divine power of the Lord of Life to create a so-called "miracle." Unfortunately, the divine power of the Lord of Life was not endless. In the history of this god, there had been a time when he was in danger of dying because of excessive consumption. This was also the reason why the Three Holy Churches were charging so much for healing.
Although using "money" to filter who was qualified to be healed and who was not was a very unscrupulous thing to do. However, it could at least eliminate the vast majority of people who only wanted to be saved but did not have the ability or were unwilling to pay.
The third way was medicine. There were many magic potions, panaceas, and resurrection potions in the Lost Land. To be able to produce these miraculous medicines, the raw materials were also extremely precious. And the herbs that ordinary people could afford were not systematically organized at all. It was purely based on word of mouth or rule of thumb to determine what medicine to use and how much to use. Not to mention the research on diseases.
What that Lich did was to make up for the shortcomings of the Three Holy Churches and the Lord of Life.
And why this matter was so valued could be gleaned from the cost of the three ways of healing. For the first way of dying people, it was impossible to save them, so it could be ignored.
The second way of healing with divine power had the disadvantage of being expensive, very expensive.
As for the third way of using medicine, as long as reasonable substitutes were found, there was a way to lower the price of the medicine to a level that ordinary people could accept.
To be able to become a believer of the Lord of Life, his original intention must be to save more people. It was also impossible to reject the research that Fen was doing. Because this Lich was studying diseases and hoped to find a specific medicine to target them. As long as one was completed, it meant that countless people could be freed from the threat of this disease.
This was the reason why the bishops of the Lord of Life chose to protect a Lich.
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