Chapter 9 Unchanged
"Ivan! Amira! Stop playing with your dragon, there is something big about it!"
Star Falls in 834, November 3, Nicee Snow Mountain, Winter Fort College.
Frost butterflies were flying in the bleak north wind, and the weather was getting dryer and colder day by day. However, in the pine forest around the college, a pair of platinum-haired brothers and sisters were squatting on the ground, smiling and feeding a young dragon in front of them.
Next to the brother was a big bucket full of sea fish, and the sister was holding a few light blue crystals containing the magic fluctuations of the second ice water system. In front of the two, a young dragon with a tail about two meters long was swallowing the fish and shrimps placed by his brother, stopping from time to time, looking at his sister with hopeful eyes, waiting for her to throw a crystal.
There are many requirements for feeding young dragons. The first and most important thing is nutritional matching. In addition to the most basic meat, it also needs to be supplemented from time to time to time to cultivate young dragons' casting talents. Although magic crystallization is expensive, it is undoubtedly the best choice. Moreover, for the Makarov brothers and sisters who have completed many tasks recently and are rich, this effort is a drizzle.
Hearing the voice of his friends not far away, Ivan and Amira stood up at the same time and turned around to look. In their eyes, the red-haired girl Karin was jogging over with the dwarf Nick. A brand new notice was waving in her hand. It seemed that this was the so-called big thing.
"What a big deal, Karin..." Amira reluctantly touched the young dragon who was rubbing her calves beside her, and then threw all the crystals in her hand to the other party. She said with some dissatisfaction in the cheering sound of the young dragon: "I'm deepening my relationship with Baishuang. If you have something to say, don't waste your time."
Baishuang is the name of this young dragon. Because it was found through the test of the college tutor that compared to controlling the water element, the young dragon's talent is more inclined to create static and low temperatures. Since it is now white and fat, it looks like a winged seal, so it is very popular among girls.
"I think it just likes the magic crystal in your hand, not likes you." Without hesitation, the red-haired girl did not talk too much nonsense. She directly handed the notice in her hand to Ivan, who was the captain, and then said to the two with a mysterious smile: "You brothers and sisters who are almost isolated from the world will never guess what news is circulating in the academy now!"
Hearing this, neither Amira nor Ivan responded, because they have indeed not paid much attention to the outside world in the past ten days. After all, walking the dragon... It is indeed very time to establish a relationship with the young dragon. Sometimes, just to make the young dragon adapt to their breath and physical contact, it takes several hours to slowly adapt, and it often recurs.
"In mid-November, Dean Radcliffe will lead the team to lead the top ten elite student team to the Ural Plain for a trial."
Without waiting for the red-haired girl to speak, Ivan quickly swept through all the contents on the notice. He frowned and thought about the meaning of the information, and then murmured to himself strangely: "Lord led the team personally. What trial mission requires legendary powerhouses to press the formation? And isn't the Ural Plain the place where we cleared out the demonized beasts half a year ago? What else can be tried in that place..."
While speaking, a silver star of the past flashed in the boy's mind suddenly in the sky with a silver star crossing the sky, and finally fell silently to the ground, forming a fog that covered a range of thousands of meters.
Is that a trial?
"I don't know, as the team with the highest points, we will definitely participate in this trial, so I came here to find you to plan together. We must not let the 'outsiders' behind us steal our limelight!"
Karin has always spoken so skillfully and directly. The flames known as fighting spirit were burning in the eyes of the Knight's daughter. She gritted her teeth and said, "There are rumors in the academy now that if we had not had the advantage of time, our strength alone would definitely not be the opponent of those outsiders, and we would definitely not be the team with the first points!"
Hearing this, the other three frowned.
The outsider mentioned by the red-haired girl was more than 30 young people brought back from where the lord had no idea half a year ago. These people all joined the "Warrior Division" of Winter Castle Academy and were divided into scattered categories such as the Knights, Warriors and Rangers.
This was nothing at all. At most, Joshua recruited another group of students. But what was surprising was that these foreigners were not the local people of Moldavia who were extremely powerful. Except for a few geniuses, most of the local people were snatched away by them. Now the second-ranked team in the academy is a team composed of outsiders. Their points were followed by Ivan and others and could catch up at any time. In other words, if Ivan and the others had not done tasks three months earlier than these people, the points might have been surpassed by them.
"If we hadn't taken care of the young dragons in recent times, how could they have caught up with us!"
Ivan and Amira are usually calm, but after all, they are still young people. When they hear this kind of rumor of doubt about their own strength, they are naturally full of anger. As the captain, Ivan immediately made a decision: "You are right. This time we do need to plan carefully and we must knock out the limelight of those outsiders!"
"Tsk, the most important thing is obviously not this. Karin, you will talk nonsense, listen to me!"
At this time, the dwarf Nick, who had been silent since the beginning, saw that everyone was full of fighting spirit, then he put his hands on his chest and said, "I heard that, I just heard that Lord Lord is planning to accept a few students in this trial!"
"Unlike the students who are collectively trained in the academy, Lord Lord is planning to accept real disciples this time!" He said loudly with a subwoofer's voice, even the needles of the pine wood beside him trembled.
"You big mouth!"
The news did indeed shock Ivan Amira siblings in an instant. Seeing their astonished expressions, Karin, who was beside him, glared at the dwarf fiercely. This was originally the information she planned to use for the finale, but Nick said it casually.
"But, something is wrong!" Although Amira was shocked by the news, she did not lose her ability to think. The slender girl felt her feet numb, so she simply sat on the back of the young white dragon who was eating. She frowned and began to think hard: "Lord Lord is indeed very powerful. No, Lord can be said to be the most powerful group of people in this world. Being his disciples must be the luckiest thing, but..."
"But the dean is a warrior. We are all mages. Even if we become disciples of the master, I can't do anything." Ivan took the words of his sister. He held the tree with one hand, and his face was unexpectedly serious: "And this is not ordinary news. Since no one has come out to refute the rumors, it means that it is most likely true!"
"Oh, what do you know?" Karin waved impatiently: "Anyway, no matter what, we have to compete with that group of outsiders. They are all warriors. It is really possible to become disciples of Lord Lord. Even if we try our best, we cannot let them win! What's more,"
Speaking of this, the red-haired girl elongated her tone and kept her insincerely said, "There are also very powerful magicians around the Lord. Although you may not have noticed it, Miss No. 3 who has been following the Lord, is likely to be a rune mage of extreme spirit! I heard that the guardian array covering the entire Moldavia main city was from her. If we win the first place, even if the Lord does not accept us as disciples, it will not be difficult to let Miss No. 3 teach us, right?"
"Yes, and to be honest, we are just black iron-level mages."
At this time, Nick also nodded and said, "If you can become a disciple of a legendary warrior, then it doesn't matter whether you are a mage or not. My goal is just to change your destiny and become stronger, that's all."
Everything that follows is speechless.
Change your destiny and want to become stronger... Is there any way to change your destiny and become stronger than becoming a disciple of a legendary warrior?
The aura called fighting spirit spreads in the silence of the four people.
At this time, in the lord's mansion.
Joshua is talking to Nostradamus through the transmission array.
At this time, due to the significant increase in magic density, some unstable noises occasionally appear. However, because of this, the magic array that could only transmit sounds in the past only needs to undergo a little bit of careful cultivation, and even the picture can be broadcast in real time without any distortion.
The arrival of the great demon tide has made magic technology a leap forward in all aspects. Many technical difficulties that cannot be broken through are easily solved in high-concentration magic environments. Even in the eastern plains, there have been news that real-life magic video broadcasts news.
"You actually robbed my students! Joshua, how could a warrior go to the wizard academy to recruit disciples?!"
The warrior looked at the old mage with white hair and angry faces in the transmission array and smiled. He calmed down and took a sip of the black tea made by fireflies before slowly saying: "Master Nostradamus, Winter Castle Academy is no longer a simple mage academy, but a professional academy. What's more, this matter is not important. I didn't say that after becoming my disciple, I won't let them study in the academy. You can continue to teach."
"you!"
Unlike Joshua, who was full of indifferent faces, the old mage on the other side of the communication array was obviously anxious: "If you promote this, the whole Winter Castle Academy will be unstable. Who can learn magic and explore the truth with peace of mind? Radcliffe? After you achieved the legend, you are bored and itchy. You started to accept students because no one accompanied you to learn the same way?!" When he said this, Nostradamus smiled angrily. He did not believe that the warrior's idea was so superficial. There must be unknown plans behind it.
But the warrior's idea was so simple. When he recalled his previous life, he was the head of the martial arts hall, Joshua nodded. He was indeed bored and planned to take one or two disciples to pass the time. Nostradamus was so smart that it was not surprising that he could see.
But now it is not the time to chat in this regard, so he interrupted the old mage's complaint: "The empire is in a bit difficult recently."
This was so straightforward and irrefutable that Nostradamus frowned for a while after hearing it. Not long after, he slowly spoke and said in a serious tone: "Why do you say that?"
"It's obvious."
Joshua did not have the habit of keeping it in hiding. He said directly: "The changes brought by the Great Demon Tide are not only the advancement of magic technology. My territory is around the Black Forest, so it is very clear that its activates monsters and monsters. Although the empire is not like jungles far south, large hills and unmanned forests also occupy a large part of the territory. Under the urging of such a strong magic power, even ordinary forests will transform into black forests."
"Now the army in the empire has contracted and caravans have decreased. Various places have built factories to make full use of air transport as the main force, intending to temporarily give up the increasingly dangerous suburbs, prepare to initially purify and clear the city as the base, and then gradually reopen the land trade route. However, this has greatly reduced the control of the central government over local aristocrats. In addition, there are countless adventurers and professionals in the country who have reached their limits before but have not broken through, all under the urge of the demon tide. These sudden forces are also the source of turmoil."
This is indeed the truth, the old mage nodded silently.
The demon tide brought all-round sublimation to the continent of Mycrov, but this sublimation will also bring riots. The rapidly expanding black forest and the endless restless strong men are part of it. You should know that there is a saying in the empire: "I would rather go against the nobles than make enemies with the adventurers." Because the power of the nobles is in the open. If it is not a great hatred for life and death, it is not impossible to deal with it if it is cautious. Adventurers are originally wandering between life and death, wandering on the edge of the illegal zone. They are not good people themselves. They often kill in anger and then flee to the distance themselves.
Even the nobles didn't want to deliberately make enemies with adventurers, because only the genius knew whether these people or their relatives and friends would suddenly break through to gold or even super-minded powerhouses because of their exploration of relics or other luck. Many noble families suffered from defeat because of their unscrupulous behavior and offended some young adventurers. As a result, they were suppressed and destroyed by them who became powerful decades later.
Now, the great demon tide has made many people who cannot break through, which can be said to be an opportunity to benefit all living beings. However, these newly emerging strong men have changed the power structure of the entire empire and have also made many nobles with great strength have some thoughts in their minds. In addition, the imperial royal family's dominance over the local area is weakened, and it is very likely that after the situation stabilizes in a few years, a large number of local emperors of all sizes will be added in the empire, which has made Isreel's suppression over the years fail.
"This is just an external force. Isreal is definitely troubled by the problems within the royal family."
Joshua pointed out another point, but this was a matter within the royal family after all, so he didn't say much: "The return of the second prince Dimore undoubtedly made the eldest prince and the others nervous. Even if I am in the north, I can still feel the turmoil inside the imperial capital. The reason why you plan to break through next spring is probably to calm down those in the empire who should not have thoughts."
After the analysis, the warrior was about to listen to the old mage's reply, so that he would cooperate with the other party next year to make those local aristocrats calmer. Although he himself was a local aristocrat, the legendary strong man had privileges, not to mention that His Majesty the Emperor and the old mage have always taken good care of him, so he naturally wanted to repay his favor.
But after a long time, Nostradamus kept his shocked expression and no reply.
Not only that, Joshua also noticed that the Shenji brothers standing beside him were also extremely surprised. The firefly's mouth opened, and the silver-haired girl's little mouth was now enough to stuff an egg. Rin swallowed, her eyes full of seeing a ghost.
Even No. 3, floating above the ceiling, fell down because of stopping control of the magic power. The magic projection twisted for a moment when it touched the floor, and then restored to the original appearance of the Winged Man Girl. This means that the artificial intelligence lost control of its own projection in a short period of time, and her expression was also very subtle and very humane.
"Truth is supreme...how do you think so much!"
After a while, Nostradamus muttered to himself in an incredible tone: "I must be..."
The Shenji siblings also began to whisper: "The master actually thinks so much. Is it too boring these days..."
"Yes, it feels like a completely different person, it's incredible!"
No. 3 also rose to mid-air. She looked at the warrior from afar and said quietly: "Joshya, you have changed..."
Oh.
Do you really think I am a person who only works but not works? This is not something that is difficult to understand.
Seeing the responses from his friends and weapons, the soldier took a deep breath. He shook his head and said in a deep voice: "Okay, enough jokes? I don't think about this issue because I don't need it, not that I can't talk about the serious matter!"
"No, Joshua, I already know what you mean."
On the other end of the communication array, the old master of Joshua touched his beard slightly, and he smiled wisely again: "That's it, Joshua, thank you for your kindness."
Speaking of this, Nostradamus's eyes were blurred for a moment. He seemed to have recalled some memories from a long time ago. He sighed slightly, and then sighed in an extremely serious tone: "You have indeed not changed because of your achievements in the legend."
"Norstradamus."
Hearing the old mage's words, Joshua also laughed, and he shook his head lightly: "The world will change, and people's hearts will change."
"But I won't."
Chapter completed!