Gawain and Amber went to inspect the hundred or so future "intelligence elites" together. On the way, Amber inquired about the rumors he had heard in the territory: "By the way, I just heard someone talking about the territory. Is there a new 'Ancient Great Magister'?"
Gawain nodded: "His name is Kamel, you will see him soon."
Amber's eyes rolled around, and she didn't know what she was thinking. She suddenly said: "Did you dig people out of the ruins in the mountain?"
"...It can't be said that it is. "Dig it out," Gawain felt that there was something wrong with the half-elf's choice of words. "He was trapped in a different space..."
"That's what he dug out," Amber said matter-of-factly. He began to look at Gawain up and down, until the latter looked at him with goosebumps all over his body: "What do you mean by this look?"
"There is another person who has raised his coffin in the territory! "The half-elf lady clapped her hands, "Did you decide to dig someone older than you because you are the only ancient person in the territory and feel there is a generation gap between you and everyone else?"
< p>Gawain suddenly felt that he had hit this guy a little too lightly...However, Amber's twists and turns of thought and Geng Zhiqiu's big mouth did not happen in a day or two. Gawain has already developed a good immunity. As long as she ignores this guy, she will calm down soon.
But this time, Amber’s baba seemed to be more powerful than usual. Even if Gawain ignored her, she kept opening new topics beside her. After being talked about by this half-elf for most of the way, , Gawain finally couldn't help but glance at her: "Why did you talk so much this time?"
"Really?" Amber was stunned, and then shook his head, "I didn't think so. !"
"You must be a little nervous," Gawain looked at this guy helplessly, "When you are nervous, you will talk a lot of nonsense, and you can't even feel it."
After being reminded by Gawain, Amber realized that she had inadvertently exposed her emotional changes. While lamenting why a knight had to be so sharp, she finally nodded awkwardly: "To be honest... it's a bit... But I'm not nervous about myself."
Gawain had already vaguely guessed what Amber was thinking: "Is it because of the people you brought?"
"Absolutely... Amber laughed dryly, "I just want to say...those guys are all bastards who grew up in the sewers. Gangsters, liars, and thieves were their main roles in the past. Although they all swore to abide by the rules before they came, I know their background... I hope you can be mentally prepared and don't get angry because of their vulgarity. Those... are actually a pretty good group of guys."
Gao. Wen stopped and looked at Amber with a half-smile. Until the other party turned away awkwardly, he smiled and said: "It's rare to see you speak so carefully - and for the sake of it."Others excuse themselves in advance. ”
“I have a life-long friendship with them—even though it was many years ago,” Amber curled her lips, “I want to take this opportunity to give them a hand, but they are really weak.” It makes me worried. "
Gawain smiled and shook his head, and suddenly brought up a seemingly irrelevant topic: "You know the royal shadow guards who are loyal to the Ansu royal family, right? "
Amber was stunned, and suddenly nodded: "I know, I met someone last time we went to the capital - he was kicked out of the Shadow Realm by me, and he almost fainted and turned into a grandson. Is that the Royal Shadow Guard? ”
Gao Wen: “… Your record was so unlucky just because of that one mistake. If you were to face that 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 stalkers and intelligence agents trained by the Ansu royal family. Since the founding of the Anzu Kingdom, they have been responsible for secretly guarding the security of the kingdom and collecting various intelligence for the king - and I, He was one of the original trainers of the Royal Shadow Guard. "
"I seem to remember you saying this," Amber frowned and tried to remember, "Oh, you taught them two-handed swordsmanship and physical training..."
Gao Wen was choked again. It was uncomfortable to try hard to show off his B pattern but to be choked back continuously. However, he still had to bite the bullet and continued: "...I do teach them these two things, but other than that , I also participated in formulating the entire training process for the Royal Shadow Guards. "
Amber finally understood what Gawain meant, but her face was full of surprise: "Do you mean...you want to train those incompetent guys according to the standards for training royal shadow guards? "
Before Gawain could answer, she waved her hands vigorously: "Don't be kidding me. I don't know how much those guys weigh? What abilities do they have except deception and a few deceptive tricks? It is difficult to train them into ordinary soldiers, let alone elites. "
"They don't need too much force, and I don't expect to train them exactly according to the standards of the Royal Shadow Guards." Gawain smiled and shook his head, "What the Royal Shadow Guards and I require After all, intelligence officers are different. I don't need a group of elite combatants... intelligence collection, secret communication, identity disguise, and the use of spy tools. As ordinary people, they can learn a lot. You should have some faith in them. "
"I don't know what you are thinking," Amber looked at the confident Gawain and couldn't help but scratch his hair, "But you always have a lot of ideas, so I believe you. It's better this time. ”
At the same time, in the magic laboratory located in the southern part of the territory, Hetty and Rebecca, whom she recruited as her assistant, were lowering their heads to test a strange-looking “stone.”
They opened up a large open space in the center of the magic laboratory. On the ground were laid "portable honeycomb magic nets" spliced together with rune substrates that were easy to disassemble and move. Between the honeycomb units of the magic net, Three blocks are placed for conductionThe magic red copper substrates - these three substrates are arranged in a Z-shape, and in the center of them is placed a "stone" that is tens of centimeters high and roughly in the shape of an obelisk.
The surface of the "stone" has a deep purple luster, and its texture is somewhere between crystal and metal - it is the purified and recast Holm rough stone.
In order to purify this strange magical material, Hetty and Hammer of the metal smelting plant spent a lot of effort - unlike ordinary metal ores, the rough Holm stone cannot be simply refined. Calcined at high temperatures for smelting and casting, after the temperature continues to increase, these rough stones will only fall apart and eventually become useless powders like sand. Although Nicholas Egg successfully overcame the "allergic cold" symptoms to the Holm rough stones, he His metal manipulation ability was ineffective on these ores - the final solution to the purification problem was a seemingly inadvertent wrong operation.
Hetty accidentally poured the acid used for the experiment into the container holding the original sample, only to find that the ore, which was inaccessible to oil and salt, would be dissolved by the acid. In the process of reacting with the acid, the ingredients become residues that can be filtered out, and the acid itself finally becomes a powder that can be smelted after a series of subsequent reactions, replacements, and purifications. After processing these mineral powders After a series of meltings, Hetty obtained the first pure Holm crystal.
After confirming that this precious Holm crystal has been stably connected to the magic network, Hetty turned to look at Rebecca, who was standing next to a magic circle in the corner of the room: "You can sense magic over there. "Rebecca (who had already been searched) glanced at the induction crystal in the center of the magic circle. The crystal was glowing slightly, and the dozen or so runes around the crystal were Three lights up: "Yes, yes! But the intensity is still very low..."
Hetty frowned slightly and looked at the Holm crystal connected to the magic network: "Hmm... ...After purification, it becomes very easy to release the magic field. It can work just by connecting it to the most basic magic network unit. This shows that the purification is indeed effective, but the intensity of the magic field has not changed much... Could it be that this Is the upper limit of the magic field that something can release so high?"
Rebecca said while recalling: "I remember that when you injected an extra amount of magic power into the crystal just now, the intensity of the magic field increased for a moment. ..."
Hetty frowned: "Really? Why didn't I feel it?"
Rebecca was a little unsure: "Maybe I saw it wrong... ..."
"No, we can try," Hetty is a person who will not let go of any details. When Rebecca mentioned this, she immediately picked up her staff. , put the tip of the staff close to the purified Holm crystal on the ground, and then released the simplest infusion spell, "Do you see any change in the induction crystal?"
"It seems to be bright indeed. After a moment..."
"What does 'seem to' mean?" Hetty glared at Rebecca, "How many times have I said that magic experiments are right and wrong?Very strict, you cannot use words like ‘like’ or ‘probably’! Let's try again! ”
Hetty and Rebecca were busy testing the purified Holm crystal, while in the Rune Research Institute, which was far away from the magic laboratory, Kamel was studying James with great devotion.
This ancient magician from a thousand years ago eagerly absorbed all the useful knowledge of this era, whether it came from knowledgeable scholars. Still coming from a small fourth-level rune master, he is willing to learn as long as it is useful - although he felt quite disdainful when he first learned that a little girl who was not even a junior mage was leading the rune research in the territory. But after seeing the runic logic information that Jenny brought out, the ancient scholar who loved studying was deeply impressed by this novel theory.
And Jenny was filled with awe and enthusiasm. She looked at the great mage with an incredible form in front of her with mixed emotions of joy. She was startled when she first saw Kamel, and she even fell into a state of nervousness and uneasiness after knowing his identity. Center - Although she has adapted to the new relaxed and respected life led by Cecil, the pressure from the senior magician still continues to weigh on her heart. In her mind, the powerful magic Magicians are arrogant, cold and terrifying. Not only will these powerful spellcasters look down upon weaklings like themselves, they will also regard their own research results as deviant. This is still the case for contemporary magicians. How proud and elusive must the ancient magister who lived to this day be?
She is already prepared to face Kamel's wrath, and is prepared to do so in this situation? She wanted to maintain the dignity of rune logic, but she did not expect that the ancient magician would not be angry at all after seeing the rune logic. Instead, she would show great interest in research.
This made her not angry at all. She was overjoyed - it turned out that great magicians or magisters were not all so unkind.
Kamel lowered his head for a long time, and then raised his head after reading the discussion about the interference knot. He seemed to want to say something, but before he spoke, his body suddenly shook slightly, and he made a confused voice: "Huh? "
Jenny suddenly became nervous: "Master Kamel, what's wrong with you? "
The arcane light flow on Kamel gradually stabilized: "I don't know...I suddenly felt itchy. ”
In the magic laboratory far away from the Rune Research Institute, Hetty once again placed the staff on the top of the Holm crystal, and while preparing to release the magic, he told Rebecca: “This time it will be Look carefully and be sure to count how many runes light up! ”
After the words fell, a small white light burst out from the front of Hetty’s staff, and the Holm crystal lit up slightly.
In the Rune Research Institute, Card As soon as Meier controlled the plastic hand and put down the information in front of him, his body started to tremble again.
Jenny became nervous again: "Kamael.division? "
"...I don't know what happened, but I felt itchy again..."