Gwen and Amber went to check on the hundred or so future "intelligence elites". On the way, Amber asked about the rumors she heard in the territory. "By the way, I just heard that there's a new 'ancient grand mage' in the territory?"
Gwen nodded. "His name is Kamel. You'll see him soon."
Hu Po's eyes darted around. No one knew what he was thinking, but he suddenly asked, "Did you dig her out from the ruins in the mountains?"
"… Not really." Gwen felt that the half-elf's choice of words was a little strange. "He was trapped in a different dimension …"
"Then I dug him out." Amber said matter-of-factly. She then began to look at Gwen from head to toe. The latter got goosebumps all over. "What's with that look?"
"There's another one in the territory who can lift the coffin!" The half-elf clapped her hands. "Is it because you're the only ancient person in the territory and feel that there's a generation gap between you and everyone else, so you decided to dig someone older than you? But isn't there a generation gap between you two too? "
Gwen suddenly felt that he had knocked her a little too lightly …
However, Hu Po's convoluted train of thought and her big mouth were not new to Gawain. Gawain had long developed a good immunity to it. As long as he ignored Hu Po, she would soon calm down.
But this time, Amber's blabbering seemed to be more powerful than usual. Even if Gwen ignored her, she kept on opening up new topics. After being nagged by the half-elf for a long time, Gwen finally could not help but glance at her. "Why are you so talkative this time?"
"Am I?" Amber was stunned. She then shook her head. "I don't think so!"
"You're just a little nervous." Gwen looked at her helplessly. "You talk a lot of nonsense when you're nervous, and you can't even feel it."
After being reminded by Gwen, Amber realized that she had inadvertently exposed her emotional changes. She sighed at how a Knight could be so sensitive. She finally nodded a little awkwardly. "To be honest … I'm a little nervous. But I'm not nervous about myself."
Gwen had actually vaguely guessed Amber's thoughts. "Is it because of those people you brought?"
"Something like that …" Hu Po laughed drily. "What I want to say is … those people are all b * stards who grew up in the gutter. Ruffians, liars, and thieves were their main characters in the past. Even though they swore before they came that they would follow the rules, I know what kind of background they have … I hope you can be mentally prepared. Don't be angry because of their vulgarity and rudeness. Those guys … are actually a bunch of good guys. "
Gawain stopped and looked at Hu Po with a faint smile. It was only when Hu Po turned his head away awkwardly that Gawain smiled and said, "It's rare to see you speak so cautiously — and you're even trying to excuse someone else."
"I've been through life and death with them. Although it was many years ago." Amber pursed her lips. "I want to take this opportunity to help them, but I'm really worried about them."
Gwen smiled and shook his head. Suddenly, he brought up a seemingly irrelevant topic. "You know the Royal Shadow Guards who are loyal to the Royal Family of Ansu, right?"
Amber was stunned. She suddenly nodded. "Yes, I know. I met one when we went to the Captical last time. The one who was kicked out of the Shadow Realm by me and almost fainted was the Royal Shadow Guard, right?"
Gwen: "… Don't be so smug about that one time. If you really faced the Shadow Guard at that time, even ten of you wouldn't be enough to deal with him. The Royal Shadow Guards are the most powerful undercover and intelligence personnel trained by the Royal Family of Ansu. Since the founding of Ansu, they were responsible for secretly protecting the security of the kingdom and collecting all kinds of intelligence for the King. And I was one of the first trainers of the Royal Shadow Guards. "
"I seem to remember you saying that." Amber frowned and tried to recall. "Oh, you taught them two-handed swordsmanship and physical training …"
Gawain was choked once again. It was not a good feeling to try to show off one's character only to be repeatedly choked back. However, he still braced himself and continued, "… I did teach them these two things, but other than that, I also participated in the development of the entire training process for the Royal Shadow Guards."
Amber finally understood what Gwen meant, but her face was full of surprise. "Don't tell me … you want to train those guys according to the standards of the Royal Shadow Guards?"
Without waiting for Gwen to answer, she waved her hand vigorously. "Don't joke around. Do you think I don't know what those guys are capable of? Other than swindling and a few tricks, what else can they do? It's hard to train them into ordinary soldiers, let alone those elites. "
"They don't need too much force, and I don't expect to train them according to the standards of the Royal Shadow Guards." Gwen smiled and shook his head. "After all, the Royal Shadow Guards and the intelligence personnel I require are different. I don't need a group of elite combatants … intelligence gathering, secret communication, identity disguise, the use of espionage tools, they can learn a lot as ordinary people. You should have some confidence in them. "
"I don't know what you're thinking." Amber looked at the confident Gwen and could not help but scratch her head. "But you always have a lot of ideas. I'll trust you this time."
At the same time, in the magic laboratory in the southern part of the territory, Heti and Rebecca, who was her assistant, were testing a strange-looking 'stone'.
They had opened up a large open space in the center of the magic laboratory. The ground was covered with a 'portable honeycomb magic network' made of rune boards, which was easy to disassemble and move. Between the honeycomb units of the magic network were three red copper boards for conducting magic power. The three boards were arranged in a triangle, and in the middle of them was a 'stone' that was dozens of centimeters high, roughly in the shape of an obelisk.
The surface of the 'stone' had a deep purple luster, and its texture was between crystal and metal. It was the Holm stone that had been purified and recast.
To purify this strange magical material, Heti and Hammer of the metal smelting factory had put in a lot of effort. Unlike ordinary metal ores, the Holm stone could not be smelted and cast through high-temperature calcination. As the temperature increased, the Holm stone would only break apart and eventually turn into useless powder like sand. Although Egg Nicholas had successfully overcome the 'allergic flu' symptoms of the Holm stone, his ability to manipulate metal did not work on the ores. In the end, the purification problem was solved by a seemingly inadvertent mistake.
Heti had accidentally poured the acid used in the experiment into the original sample container. She found that the ores, which were impervious to oil and salt, would be dissolved by the acid. The useless components in the ores would react with the acid and become the residue that could be filtered out. After a series of subsequent reactions, replacement, and purification, the acid finally turned into a powder that could be smelted. After a series of smelting and casting of the ores, Heti had obtained the first pure Holm crystal.
After making sure that the precious Holm crystal was firmly connected to the magic network, Heti turned to Rebecca, who was standing beside a magic circle in the corner of the room. "Can you sense the magic field over there?"
Rebecca (who had been searched) glanced at the sensor crystal in the center of the magic circle. The crystal was glowing faintly, and three of the dozen runes around the crystal were lit up. "I got it! But the strength is still very low … "
Heidi frowned slightly as she looked at the Holm Crystal that was connected to the Mana Net. "Hmm … It's easy to release a mana field after purification, and it works just by connecting it to the most basic Mana Net unit. This means that the purification is effective, but the strength of the mana field doesn't change much … Could it be that the upper limit of the mana field released by this thing is that high?"
Rebecca said as she tried to recall. "I remember that when you infused the crystal with additional mana, the strength of the magic field increased for a moment …"
Heti frowned. "Did it? Why didn't I feel it? "
Rebecca was a little unsure. "Maybe I saw wrongly …"
"No, we can try." Heidi, on the other hand, was a person who would not let go of any details. Upon hearing Rebecca's suggestion, she immediately picked up her staff and placed the tip of the staff close to the purified Holm Crystal on the ground. Then, she cast a simple enchantment spell. "Can you see if the Sensor Crystal has changed?"
"It did seem to light up for a moment …"
"What do you mean by 'seems'?" Heti glared at Rebecca. "How many times have I said that magic experiments are very rigorous. You can't use words like 'seems' or 'probably'! Let's try again! "
While Heti and Rebecca were busy testing the purified Holm crystal, Kamel was studying the 'teaching materials' that Jenny had brought out in the Rune Research Institute, which was quite a distance away from the magic lab.
The ancient sorcerer from a thousand years ago was eagerly absorbing all the knowledge that could be of use in this era. It did not matter if the knowledge came from a knowledgeable scholar or a lowly fourth-level runemaster, as long as it was useful, he was happy to learn it. Although he was rather disdainful when he first learned that a little girl who was not even a beginner sorcerer was leading the research of runes in his domain, after seeing the materials on rune logic that Jenny brought out, the ancient scholar who loved to study was deeply impressed by this novel theory.
Jenny, on the other hand, was filled with a mixture of awe and delight as she looked at the unimaginable grand magus in front of her. When she first saw Carmel, she was shocked, and after knowing his identity, she fell into a state of nervousness and uneasiness. Although she had already adapted to the relaxed and respected life in Cecil Territory, the pressure of a high rank magus still continued to press down on her heart. In her mind, powerful grand magi were all arrogant, cold, and frightening. Not only would these powerful magic casters not spare a glance for the weak like herself, they would also view their research results as deviating from the norm. If the current generation of magi were like this, then how arrogant and unfathomable would an ancient grand magus who had lived from a thousand years ago be?
She was prepared to face Kamel's wrath, and was prepared to defend the dignity of rune logic under such circumstances. However, she did not expect that the ancient sorcerer was not angry at all after seeing the rune logic. Instead, he showed great interest in it.
This made her very happy. It turned out that grand sorcerers and grand sorcerers were not all that unreasonable.
Kamel lowered his head and read for a long time. When he finished reading about interference knots, he raised his head. He seemed to want to say something, but before he could open his mouth, his body suddenly trembled slightly. "Hmm?" Kamel asked in a puzzled voice.
Jenny immediately became nervous. "Master Kamel, what's wrong?"
The arcane light on Kamel's body gradually stabilized. "I don't know … I just suddenly felt itchy."
In the magic lab far away from the Rune Research Institute, Heti once again placed her staff on top of the Holm Crystal. While preparing to cast a spell, she reminded Rebecca, "Look carefully this time. You must count how many runes are lit up!"
As soon as she finished speaking, a small white light burst out from the tip of Heti's staff, and the Holm Crystal glowed slightly.
In the Rune Research Institute, Kamel had just put down the data in front of him with the Hand of Energy Evoking when his body trembled again.
Jenny became nervous again. "Master Kamel?"
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