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"Make amends for the mentor's mistakes?"
Bontou looked at the young man before him, his eyes gradually filled with color.
"Yes, although the mentor made an irreparable mistake, knowledge is innocent. With proper guidance, the knowledge left by the mentor can be applied in the right way."
Aide Jia stated with considerable confidence in his argument:
"Everything is for the prosperity of our country."
That's very well said; it perfectly captures Bontou's mindset.
"You"
As Bontou looked at Aide Jia, the figure seemed increasingly familiar, as if he were seeing Yuenka for the first time many years ago.
In his eyes, Yuenka's figure gradually merged with Aide Jia's, which made him feel nostalgic.
That was so many years ago, I miss it so much.
Then His Majesty the King waved his hand and said:
"Arrest this guy!"
The guards who had been waiting for this opportunity acted in unison and instantly pinned the magician Aide Jia, who was the epitome of "delicate and frail," to the ground.
"Huh?"
Aide Jia's face was pressed against the ground, and he seemed to utter a sound of confusion in the face of this sudden and unexpected situation.
This "Huh?" made Bontou's eyes burn with even more rage.
"Do you think this kind of talk can still convince me? Do you think the vision your mentor gave me back then was less than yours? Fine, I have nothing to say to you and your mentor. Take him away and lock him up."
Bontou looked weary and waved for the soldiers to take Aide Jia away and lock him in jail.
He will no longer trust anyone associated with Yuenka!
He would never repeat the same mistake he had already made!
The series of improved magic developed by Yuenka must be stopped from spreading, and the battle aura conversion technology must also be stopped. We have no idea what Yuenka and his apprentice have done in those things, so we cannot let our guard down.
He now has an idea about what to do with the Mage Tower left behind by Yuenka and the things inside it.
That is—to give it to the Magic Association as a gift for cooperation!
Indeed, embracing the authority of the official authorities is more reassuring.
There's another question.
That is where the future of the Warrior Country lies.
Before his death, Yuenka revealed a series of shocking revelations. Even Bontou never expected that he still had dragon blood flowing through his body, and that this dragon blood was the cause of all the problems.
He considered many reasons for the decline in the Warrior' talent in the Warrior Country: it could be a curse from another country, the work of demons, or something else entirely.
I never imagined it was because of dragon blood, and all the culprits who caused this accident are dead.
This caused him to feel frustrated because he couldn't find anyone to vent his anger on.
Well, things have come to this point, so we can only look for new solutions.
Bontou mustered his spirits and prepared to take charge of disaster relief efforts, but before that, he had one thing to do:
Ask the spirits of your ancestors what to do next and seek their guidance.
Normally, finding the spirits of ancestors requires a series of complicated rituals, but Bontou uses a simplified version of magic, just like the one used by Delu in the Strategy Team. You can seek advice from ancestors, but you can't be sure which era the ancestor is from.
"Ancestors, please tell me what to do next. How can we rebuild the Warrior Country? How can we find the battle that each of us Warrior seeks to fight?"
With the help of magic, he soon received a large number of replies from his ancestors.
"A stone, smashed twice, becomes sharp, and hurts when it hits."
This is probably an ancestor from the ultra-ancient period.
"Provoking neighboring countries, poisoning, flooding, assassination."
These seem to be ancestors from a period when social morality was very bad.
"Can't you come up with something useful?!" A vein bulged on Bontou's forehead.
Just then, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his forehead, as if he had been hit hard on the head with a feather duster by an elder. Wait, this familiar feeling is from my deceased grandfather?
"Dungeon raiding? Everything else is rubbish!"
His grandfather uttered these words and then kicked him out of the illusion created by his ancestors' magic.
His grandfather's generation were traditional Warrior Country, and they were very short-tempered in everything they did.
Bontou rubbed his aching forehead and muttered to himself:
"Dungeon raiding? Lan Le seems quite enthusiastic about that kind of thing."
"Is Yuenka's goal to become the God of Magic, and then replace the God of War as the faith of the Warrior Country?"
"The plan was well-thought-out, but we encountered unexpected troubles during its implementation."
Inside the basement of the Mage Tower in Yuenka.
Professor Tu Erqi, the magic professor, picked up the broken sapphire Life Vessel from the ground, while Seth, standing nearby, was offering his speculations about Yuenka's motives.
Now it's time for a reckoning, or rather, a zero-dollar purchase. They searched everywhere for Yuenka might still be alive, but to no avail. Finally, they gathered and searched inside the enemy's Mage Tower.
Unexpectedly, they found something resembling Lich's Life Vessel in the basement, but it was broken and had completely lost its luster and its original effects.
Once you see this, you'll understand.
Yuenka is probably dead.
"I have never seen an attack like this before."
Tu Erqi looked at the damage on the Life Vessel; judging from its shape, it had been pierced by a dagger-like weapon.
However, the damaged area still bore traces of what appeared to be burning. In fact, when they first discovered the Life Vessel, a black "flame" was continuously burning it, and the flame only went out after the professors arrived.
When she saw the Black Flame, Tu Erqi got goosebumps.
She couldn't explain why, but she just felt that the thing was ominous, and her intuition was warning her never to touch it.
She wasn't even confident that she could develop a defensive magic that could protect against that power.
"So many strange things happen every day."
Tu Erqi carefully put away the Life Vessel, then a cold smile appeared on her lips as she said:
"Alright, let's get to work. Seize this infringer's residence and find the previous items to use as collateral for copyright fees!"
In short, ransacking!
Yuenka's improved magic does have its merits. If the aura conversion technology could be stripped of Yuenka's hidden agenda, it would be a groundbreaking innovation. Moreover, the Mage Tower also contains the research notes of its master.
For the Magic Association, this is a treasure trove waiting to be tapped, and Bontou would never refuse to let them mine it.
The King doesn't have many chances left, and the Magic Association is confident that it can make him cooperate with them.
For magic professors, raiding homes is now a delightful activity.
In addition to raiding homes, the Magic Association, having received a message from Tu Erqi, also began to take action, paying attention to the reactions from all sides.
Just like the Black Eagle Rebellion before, only this time the reactions from all sides to the Warrior Country incident will be much stronger.
It is said that when Yuenka transformed into what appears to be the "God of Magic," the various statues enshrined within the church, whether it be the Holy Light Church, the Church of Nature, or other ancient sects, exhibited different behaviors.
But after Yuenka was killed by Radagon (and the Black Knife Assassin), the idols gradually calmed down.
The collective manifestation of the idols, and at the same time, greatly alarmed those within the church. They will undoubtedly search for the Warrior Country after they realize what's happening, and will certainly set their sights on Yuenka's legacy.
Therefore, the Magic Association has begun to be wary of the Church's influence and has instructed Tu Erqi to begin a gradual process of recovering Yuenka's legacy.
But strangely enough, only one church's idol did not respond to Yuenka.
It is the Sparkfire Church, which worships the fire god "Gwyn".
Even now, the church is unaware of Yuenka's situation and continues its daily routine of promoting the church to adventurers.
On the other hand, if the Gwyn statue really did react to Yuenka, then the first person to be puzzled should be Gong Qiying.
Besides the church, some grassroots forces are also active.
For example, the dungeon research organization led by a scholar named Hua Lai Si is actively searching for information about the red-haired man who killed Yuenka; they don't even know the name Radagon yet.
A nature-loving organization was singing and dancing around the Erdtree, praising it as a miracle of nature, while other members of the organization rushed over.
Adventurers do everything, they're never idle, so it's not surprising that they do anything.
Meanwhile, the neighboring countries of the Warrior Country have not yet made any noteworthy moves.
Today is destined to be an extraordinary day for the Warrior Country, a day that will surely be recorded in history.
Whether it was the dragon's attack or the God of Magic, each of these events, taken individually, was a major event comparable in significance to the Black Eagle Rebellion in the neighboring Arnor Kingdom.
Yes, a major dark event.
The Arnor Kingdom experienced the Black Eagle Rebellion only once, while the Warrior Country experienced it twice in the same period.
Is this considered a form of numerical inflation?
In this disaster, some people, like Abei, prayed for the safety of their families while doing good deeds and helping others; some people, like Bontou, were so confused that they sought help from their ancestors; and some people, like the Magic Association, felt a sense of joy and abundance.
Meanwhile, people are searching for family members who went missing in the disaster.
"Have you ever seen my father? His name is Jia Paer, he should be quite famous, he was just fighting here!"
"Didn't you see him? Thank you, I believe he's alright too, thank you for your comfort."
Has anyone seen the Sword Saint?
In this place that was once the Imperial Capital but is now in ruins, You Fei is searching for Jia Paer.
Even she would worry about her father's safety in the face of such a major event.
"Honestly, where have you been, you old geezer?!"
Inside the Zane Dungeon, Jia Paer seemed to sense something and suddenly sneezed.
Who misses me?
He rubbed his nose, then looked at the scene before him, his expression immediately turning strange again, and muttered to himself:
"And where exactly is this?"
Before Jia Paer lay a forest shrouded in darkness.
An ominous atmosphere permeated the place; he had never seen such a scene in Limgrave or anywhere else.
After being swallowed whole by Baylor, he woke up to find himself in this situation, unable to find a way out.
What the hell is going on? Can't you just send me to a warm and Roundtable Hold?
Moreover, he discovered something strange here.
When he tried to summon Torrent, who had always been at his beck and call, refused to appear. Instead, a line of magical runes appeared before his eyes:
[Torrent is afraid of something, and cannot summon it.]