The cold light sprinkled on the flowers blooming in the small garden, giving them a hazy beauty.
Lucien and Rhein walked side by side on the path in the garden. After a short silence, Lucien asked directly, "Mr. Rhein, can you tell me where the Headquarters of the Magic Council is?"
"Where do you think it is?" Rhein, who had been wearing a faint smile, asked Lucien.
Lucien thought for a while and answered, "I think it's in the depths of the Dark Mountain Range or on the other side of the mountain range, because the Church's westward march ended early."
Rhein chuckled, "If you go to the Dark Mountain Range, you'll only find those gloomy and crazy ancient sorcerers. Although they're powerful, and many of them are senior-rank sorcerers, and some of them are even archmages and legendary sorcerers, if you're not in their favor, you'll become their test subject. Then you'll either get uncontrollable power or die. Also, the creatures in the Dark Mountain Range are much more powerful than the beasts and low-rank magic creatures in the Melzer Black Forest. If you go in recklessly, you won't survive more than ten days. "
There were indeed some ancient sorcerers in the Dark Mountain Range.
Lucien confirmed one of his guesses, "Mr. Rhein, is the Headquarters of the Continental Magic Congress in a certain country? Is it a country that believes in the Northern Sect or other gods?
"Wrong answer. It's in a country that believes in the Southern Saint Truth." Rhein shook his head as if he had thought of something funny, "You should have heard of it. It's the Kingdom of Holm. The specific location is Allyn, the floating city near Renstadt, the capital of the Kingdom of Holm. "
"Allyn means' sky 'in the ancient language of Sylvanas." Lucien habitually interpreted the words, and then he looked at Rhein in surprise, "The Kingdom of Holm? Renstadt? The country where Natasha's mother came from? "
And this country also believed in the God of Truth! Why did the Grand Dukes Of Orvarit visit this country?
"Isn't the love story of the Grand Dukes Of Orvarit a well-known story across the continent? I've sung and told a few different stories. " Rhein was amused. "But there is no poem, no story that can explain what evil forces are blocking them."
Lucien asked in confusion, "Is it the Continental Magic Congress? Why is there such a strange situation? "
Rhine smiled and looked at Lucien, "If you've ever learned anything about governance, you'll know that it's a political problem on the continent. Everything will return to balance, the balance that the nobles need. "
"Balance?" Lucien pretended to be confused, but in his heart, he was thinking, "Actually, I have a lot of textbooks on international politics. Do you want to take a look?"
Knowing that the Headquarters of the Magic Council was not in a dangerous place, Lucien was much more relaxed.
Rhein was half a body taller than Lucien and walked forward slowly. "In the last two hundred years of the War of Dawn, the power and authority of the Church reached the peak. No matter if it was the poor or the emperor, when facing the Pope, they had to kneel down and kiss the tip of the shoes of this representative of God. During that time, the Church could casually abolish a Count, a Marquis, a Duke, and even the Emperor of the Holy Helvetic Empire. Therefore, no one dared to offend the Church. "
"So, the Church split into the North and the South at the Highest Religious Conference, because of the support of the nobles?" Lucien suddenly realized why the Grand Cardinals could be followed by almost all the nobles in the North.
Rhein turned around and looked at Lucien. "Very sharp. Lucien, you're right. When some of the Grand Cardinals planned to overthrow the Pope for some unknown reason, the nobles in their countries joined the conspiracy without any hesitation. However, these nobles deliberately leaked part of the information in advance, so the Pope was prepared and was not overthrown. Therefore, the North and the South were divided. After all, for the nobles in the North, if the Grand Cardinals overthrew the Pope and took control of the Church, their situation would not be fundamentally different from before. "
"When the North and the South were divided, and the two sides were equally powerful, the power of the nobles became the most important weight in the balance." Lucien followed Rhein's words and said.
Rhein smiled and shook his head. "Wrong. The North Church was much weaker than the South Church, but the elves, dwarves, and other countries in the northwest of the Dark Mountain Range, as well as the magic creatures and the remaining sorcerers in the Dark Mountain Range, would never watch the North Church being defeated. After they joined the game, the South attacked the North and the South was barely holding on. "
"But this is different from the current situation? Now it seems to be a balance. Even the North Fortress fell once. "Lucien thought carefully." So, at that time, the Church split again? The Kingdom of Holm supported the Congress of Magic? "
Rhein was slightly surprised. "Lucien, you're really good at learning and thinking. You're right. After seeing that the status and identity of the nobles in the North were greatly improved, the nobles in the South also had ideas about their own situation. Most of them chose to negotiate with the Church, but a small part of them secretly supported the magic forces, using their strength to fight against the Church in their own kingdom, and they themselves were in the middle to fight for the right to speak. "
"This small part of them was the nobles in the four kingdoms across the Storm Strait. But they made a mistake, which was that they did not expect that an archmage named Douglas would make changes to the ancient magic system at this time, from simply imitating magic creatures to studying the law of nature. Under the leadership of Douglas, the power of the Congress of Magic grew exponentially, and powerful sorcerers and legendary sorcerers emerged incessantly. More than a hundred years ago, after integrating several hidden magic organizations, the Continental Magic Congress had expanded into the second most powerful force in the world. "
"This was a change that the nobles in the four kingdoms, including Holm, did not expect at all when they supported them."
Lucien heard the familiar name, "Mr. Douglas? I know him. " Lucien did not ask whether Douglas was still alive, because a powerful sorcerer like him must have countless ways to prolong his life. It was not a problem for him to live for thousands of years. For example, the Lich Transformation Ritual recorded in Lucien's Book of Astrology and Elements could be performed after one became a senior-rank sorcerer. Once the ritual was completed, one's life would be extended to at least 1,500 years.
"Mr. Douglas is one of the top ten most powerful sorcerers in the world. He's the first grand arcanist, the president of the Continental Magic Congress, and the founder of Arcana." Even Rhein, the most mysterious man, showed a hint of awe when talking about Douglas, "So now, the power balance is balanced, and the nobles are benefiting from it. Hehe, in the Kingdom of Holm, sorcerers are already half-public identities. Although the Church has a large part of its power concentrated there, it is still badly suppressed. If it were not for the help of the nobles, it would have been uprooted by the Congress of Magic a long time ago. "
Lucien more or less understood the current situation, "That's why the Church allowed a noble like the Grand Dukes Of Orvarit to visit the Kingdom of Holm. It seems that the Church wants to pull all the nobles in the Kingdom of Holm to their side. Hehe, the Grand Dukes Of Orvarit did a good job. "
"Even the Grand Duke himself did not expect it to be like this. The nobles in the western and southern countries and the Holy Helvetic Empire are known as the most extreme and most conservative supporters of the Church. You can imagine the sensation caused by the marriage at that time. Although most of the nobles in the Kingdom of Holm understand the situation on the continent, they will definitely choose to be loyal to their lord, not because they are noble, but because if the nobles do not follow the most basic rule of loyalty to their lord and unite together, they will be divided and swallowed by the Congress of Magic and the Church. How can they be allowed to be in such a dangerous balance? "Rhein said with a bit of sarcasm.
Then he made a gesture of pressing down, "Alright, you don't need to know the complicated things. What you need to think about now is how to get to the Kingdom of Holm. The Storm Strait has always been blocked by the Church. Only the nobles and merchants with permission can go there, and the inspection is very strict. Of course, you can also cross the area where the North and the South Church are confronting each other, and then cross the Schachran Empire to the North, and then from the North to the Kingdom of Holm. The only problem is that the area where the Church is confronting each other is even more strictly blocked than the Storm Strait. Even the nobles and big merchants cannot go there. "
"The Congress of Magic should have its own path, right?" Lucien thought of the gentleman from the Headquarters of the Magic Council.
Lucien dared not to ask Natasha for help, even though her grandfather was the king of the Kingdom of Holm. It was the Congress of Magic that stopped her parents, and she was a devout believer of the Saint Truth. If he told her his identity as an apprentice, plus the previous deception, he would probably be killed directly.
Rhein nodded, "There's a contact of the Congress of Magic in the Pearl of the Sea 'Sturk', but I don't know who it is. You have to find it yourself. Even so, it's very dangerous to sneak past the blockade. That's why I said that you can only go there when you become a real sorcerer and have the ability to protect yourself. Of course, if you can become a middle-rank sorcerer and learn how to fly, you don't have to worry about that. The sea is so wide. The Church can block the ships, but they can't completely block the sky. "
"Become a real sorcerer …" Lucien did not know if the Church was still observing him, but he was sure that they would not contact people in the circle of sorcerers as a professor anymore. Therefore, the best way to become a real sorcerer as soon as possible was to go to the relics and enter the magic maze of the Grand Cross first. But could it be a trap set by the Church?
Rhein put his hands behind his back, "You'll become a senior-rank apprentice in two days at most. And with your talent, as long as you use the common Silver Moon potion, you'll have a great chance to become a real sorcerer. So, you have to weigh the risks yourself. The most I can tell you is that the Church can't spare any manpower recently. "
"Really?" Lucien looked at Rhein, slightly surprised. It seemed that he knew something. If what Rhein said was true, then Lucien should take the risk and go to the relics. "By the way, Mr. Rhein, may I know who you are?"
Rhein chuckled, "I'm just an observer, someone who likes to observe interesting things. Of course, I won't rule out the possibility that I'll do it myself, as long as it's interesting enough. "
After answering Lucien vaguely, Rhein looked at him meaningfully, then he sped up and disappeared into the darkness.
Lucien stood there and watched Rhein's back disappear. His heart was calm. After hearing the news about the Headquarters of the Magic Council, he felt a lot more relaxed, as if a giant stone that had been pressing on his heart for a long time had been removed.
In this indescribable sense of relief, Lucien suddenly felt that his soul had expanded a little bit, and it started to break the limit. (To be continued. If you like this work, you're welcome to come to qidian.com to vote. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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