Chapter 43 Elder Halua(1/2)
Brian carefully looked at the guests who came to his study, wanting to know the real age of the wizard in front of him.
He knew that after most wizards reach the legendary realm, they can keep the traces of time at the age they most hope for.
Generally speaking, for reputation and prestige, male wizards tend to be more mature age to show wisdom and rich experience.
Female wizards, such as Arabe's female lord Mycella, pay attention to her own charm more than prestige. In order to keep her beauty in the most perfect moment, she used the ritual of prolonging life, and even used the ancient and elegant spirit blood of the fairy wilderness.
Arad, the wizard elder from Harua, looks in his prime, with no more than fifty years old, and fine wrinkles spread all over his forehead, corners of his mouth and eyes.
Although he specializes in the Necrotic School, his gray eyes look gentle, deep and wise, and his body does not emit the negative energy breath that is not close to anyone.
Seeing this face that he had seen in the game world made Brian recall some information about this elder Harua.
Arad, one of the twelve members of the Supreme Elders of the Kingdom of Harua.
In Halua, their form of rule was mainly oligarchy.
It means that a few absolute rulers, mainly composed of elders of Halua, share power, and then divide the territory into independent areas to rule.
Therefore, in the Kingdom of Harua, the number of elders with strength of level 4 or above remains at least 400.
And one of the indispensable conditions for their Supreme Elder Council, composed of twelve elders, to join is that their strength must reach the medium legendary realm.
Each elder has a wizard group or wizard organization.
Elder Halua in front of him is the leader of the Silent Wizard Society. These spellcasters mainly focus on undead and illusion, and the two major schools.
According to the information that Brian once knew, the elder named Arad's own experience was still quite legendary.
Of course, it is undeniable that every professional who has reached the legendary field will have more or less praiseworthy legends in their careers.
In the Kingdom of Harua, wizards like Arad, who are of good magical talent and are born in ordinary civilian families develop according to the normal historical trajectory without the support of financial resources and relationships.
His life will be about the first level of strength. After graduating from Arcane Academy, he will fall into the dead cycle of making magic scrolls, potions and magic items, and even going out to take risks to make a living, just to save money to buy more advanced magic knowledge to improve his own strength.
If you have the opportunity to reach level 3 or above, you will join the Elders' Council and become a human being.
Otherwise, even if the strength reaches the second level (about 5-10 level), it will be difficult to find a life-threatening and very easy life in Harua, a society with severe inclination. (Note: In the Kingdom of Harua, more than 90% of the mortality rate of spell casters die from spell research experiments and magic production, 8% die from adventures, and the remaining 2% are other accidental deaths.)
In the end, he will be like most wizards, like a leek, constantly giving out his unequal labor and being harvested bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit.
This is true. As strength and age continue to grow, Arad's life has indeed moved towards a three-point lifestyle.
But people often say, "Knowledge changes destiny, and magic creates the future."
And this sentence is fully reflected in Arad.
As a wizard who graduated from the Magic Ban Branch of the Arcane Academy, he has a very high talent for Magic Ban and Magic Protection System.
He was obviously very clear about his ability and development direction, so in order to collect magic materials for research and experiment with spells faster, he eventually committed theft, resulting in the arrest of the law enforcement team on the spot.
But in the Magic Prison in the Dongbishan Town of Halua, he used his abilities to open the magic shackles, and then used disguise spells to lie that he came here to do business, so he walked out with a swagger.
After escaping, he tried to use the magic skills he mastered to crack the airship's protection system and magic ban and steal it, but was once again captured in the magic prison of the town.
Surprisingly, during his three-month imprisonment, he and his inmates successfully broke the magic restriction and space lock of the cell, and successfully escaped for the second time by teleporting spells.
After being released from prison, he devoted himself to practicing for a year, and his hard work paid off. Finally, he used his understanding of restrictions and protective spells to successfully steal a flying boat in the town.
Who would have thought that the owner of this airship belonged to the Harua law enforcement team and the ruler of the town immediately contacted a relative far away in the capital, a legendary strong man, and used prophecy to successfully arrest him.
With previous experience and Arad's multiple crimes, the town's law enforcement team sentenced him to death without surprise.
After learning the result, in order to save himself, he began to study magic. Finally, on the day of his execution, he successfully developed a three-ring spell called "Alad Break Forbidden Technique" and obtained the silver star badge personally issued by the Magic Temple in Mount Taras.
Because of his great meritorious performance, the entire Dongbishan Town became famous. Therefore, the town's elders' council decided to exempt him from his death penalty, and instead reprieve him, he was imprisoned, and continued to support him in research on magic.
In this flash, twenty years later, when Arad developed the fifth spell and once again attracted the attention of the Temple of Magic, he was finally released from prison.
It is said that in order to thank the elders council of Dongbishan Town for his support for his magic research, he personally helped the town's magic prison and upgraded the protection system.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! From then on, in the Magic Prison in Dongbishan Town.
No one else could escape from jail, rune dwarf from the Great Rift Valley, Ruren's ghost halfling, or Chara's centaur, Mantis or Lion man.
"Please sit, Lord Arad." Brian, who saw the guest had entered the room and sat behind the table, came back to his senses and reached out to his heart, "You can speak freely here."
"I'm glad to know you." Elder Halua sat in his chair and said softly and politely, "Thank you very much for bringing me the news of your mentor. So, Lord Brian, the young wizard Lord and Lord Guardian of the Kingdom of Cormier, your openness and honesty have been recognized by me and the opportunity to continue our talk."
Brian nodded slightly, and did not speak, but waited for him to continue speaking.
In the last century's "Ofa Catastrophe", Halua's prophet predicted the disaster in advance and made sufficient preparations.
When the Magic Goddess Falls and the Magic Net collapses, they use the power of the mysterious blue flames that ravaged the Magic Net collapse to transmit all the people of the kingdom to other worlds outside Torrell through the flying ship and the wizard tower.
And the small world where Brian was reborn is one of them.
If you take it seriously, he is indeed a Halua native.
The main reason why he came to Arad was that the elder Harua, who was responsible for leading the people to transport them into the small world, was not only a lich who was lucky enough to survive during the Naseril Empire, but also Arad's mentor.
It was this lich tutor who realized his extraordinary talent that not only secretly sent someone to imprison him in a magic prison, but also fully supported his spell research.
Brian also learned in the game world that Arad had never given up on finding his mentor and the branch of the Wizard Tower.
Unfortunately, it was a closed world located on the edge of the crystal wall system. After the "Aofa Catastrophe" was calmed down, under the influence of ancient evil objects, even the magic net could not be covered.
The most important thing is that the flow rate of time is also different from the main material world. Ten years in the small world are equal to one year in the material plane.
In other words, the "Aofa Catastrophe" a hundred years ago has been around for thousands of years since the small world, and almost all of the wizards who have lost their magic net have disappeared in the dust of history.
The small world has an unequal time flow rate. After Brian temporarily deviates the ancient evil things and lets the magic net sense this world, he learns from Herist that the gradually stable world, the time flow rate has approached the material world.
"Now, I have made a comprehensive understanding of the stories about Mokou Town and Lord Lords, and even anything that has happened in the Cormier Kingdom recently. Out of caution, this is something I have to do, please don't mind." Arad continued:
"I can agree to your request and lead all members of the Silent Wizard Society to join you, but, on the same premise, you also need to agree to my several conditions."
"I like your honesty, Lord Arad."
Brian obviously expected it, and he said indifferently, "You have saved us a lot of indirect time. Now, you can tell your conditions."
Arad's expression was correct, and without thinking, he said seriously and seriously: "I am blunt, since you can find me directly, you must have a better understanding of the situation in Halua."
"Of course I understand," said Brian. "Otherwise, I wouldn't have invited you."
Although the Kingdom of Halua is dominated by oligarchy, it is also divided into three major factions within the Elders' Parliament.
The strongest ones are the faith factions mainly composed of the magic goddess Mistra and the magic god Azus, who occupy 6 seats in the Supreme Elder Council.
This faction was gradually established since the remnants of Naseril settled in the southern territory of Harua.
This is a conservative. They advocate loving magic, not using it as a weapon to forcefully change the country with their own will. As the power continues to grow, they must learn to use magic as little as possible. Only by learning to restrain their urge to use magic can they learn true wisdom.
Next is a new faction that was born after the end of the "Ofa Catastrophe" and all the Halua mages and people returned to their territory one after another.
Due to the disaster of the "Ofa Catastrophe", most of the casters in the kingdom dominated by magic were infected with magic plague, and a few people died of death.
Therefore, the elders of this faction believe that we cannot rely too much on magic nets. We must study skills to cast spells without magic nets and benefit from all low, medium and high-level, and even legendary spell casters.
These spellcasters have begun to focus on studying the essence of magic, rather than detecting the deeper mysteries of magic nets, and binding themselves with the magic nets to prevent the magic goddess from falling again and causing her inexplicable death.
This faction occupies 4 seats in the Supreme Elders Council. Their main research topic is the casting technique of "Leave the Magic Net".
As a time traveler and having experienced nearly ten years of adventure in the game world, Brian is naturally the most qualified to tell the future of these two factions.
Because this faction did succeed in making the Arcane Empire sprout again.
Whether it is the magical powered constructs they studied, the elemental fission and elemental reactors, they have all brought about the re-rise of the Arcane Empire and the changes brought about by the invention of the steam engine in the real world.
Brian's method of making Aufire also draws on the skills of the Harua wizards to escape the Internet.
In a sense, Brian is indeed a wizard of this faction.
The third faction is the Shadow Faction, some arrogant elders of Halua, silently corroded in the whispers of the Lost Lady Shar's messengers, and were transformed into Shadow Mage.
This faction has two seats in the Supreme Elder Council, and is also two powerful and ambitious Shadow Mages.
They believe that Misterra's magic net is the key to hindering the growth of its own strength, and because the shadow mage is very united by Shar's belief, he intends to promote the magic net casting and the faith of Lost Lady in this place where magic prevails.
It was because Brian knew that Arad was an independent faction that he dared to invite him because his goals were indeed similar to those of the conservatives.
"Since we have the same goals and vision, we naturally have a common language," Arad said slowly, "then I will speak out my own conditions in a blunt manner."
"First of all, when the time is right, I need your Excellency to go to the Kingdom of Halua in person, fully support our faction and occupy an absolute voice in the Council of Elders."
"I promise you this condition." Brian said without hesitation.
To him, the conservative views in the Elders' Council were indeed unable to be recognized by him. They were like a group of salted fish, without even the dream of turning over.
Moreover, he not only needs to support the independents, but also occupies an absolute voice in the elders' council, but also wants to become the true ruler of this group of people.
After all, in the future time nodes, the Abel world that the gods are everywhere will definitely merge with the Torrell world, and the first one to be affected will be the Harua Kingdom.
Their homes will be completely destroyed in the collision between the two worlds, and eventually have to return to the Enoak Desert to compete with Ferin Demon Ao for the right of residence.
"It's really a neat nod." Seeing Brian agreeing, Arad's serious expression showed a slight shock, and he couldn't help but wonder, "So, is this a kind of self-confidence or blindness?"
"What do you think is," Brian replied. "It depends on how you think."
"This is really an ambiguous answer." Arad smiled, without delving into it, and continued: "The second condition is from my private request."
"If I expected it would be about the Chult jungle." Brian met Arad's gray eyes and said firmly, "I'm right, Lord Arad?"
Silence quietly descended in the study.
To be continued...