Chapter 864 Trial
As they walked through the forest again, the three of them became more and more silent, and Fernando seemed to be a humanoid storm that was about to break out, the more depressed it was, the more terrifying it became.
The secret stronghold provided to Douglas was a hidden cave, with only traces of the magic circle running in the deepest part, and the appearance was a pure natural cover.
"Mr. Douglas, you will live here for a few days, and then come to you after we arrange things." Even though Douglas's attitude was kind and warm along the way, it was like a spring breeze, and when he was about to say goodbye, Roland still chose a very polite title, after all, this was a great mage.
Douglas didn't feel left out at all, knocked on the situation in the cave, nodded slightly, and said with an unchanged smile: "I am very satisfied to have a place for me to study."
He didn't mind being guarded against, on the contrary, he was quite satisfied, because the organization that did not guard against and tested the magicians who defected to it had almost died out and became dust in history, and he didn't want the organization he was going to join to be like this, which was no different from sending him to death.
Under the temptation, oppression, and coercion of the church, parents abandoned their children, apprentices assassinated their masters, friends attacked each other, and other incidents occurred one after another, and this did not disappear with the initial collapse of the magical empire, but was even more severe, because for a large part of the magicians, there was no longer the capital to wait and see and hesitate, either betrayed or died.
"It's best not to conduct magic experiments, black-clawed dogs have a keen sense of smell." Fernando reminded with his face, afraid that the archmage from Antifleur would be too confident in his own strength.
Douglas took out thick white papers from his storage bag and placed them on the stone platform in the cave, looking at them as if admiring the perfect lover: "Don't worry, I have enough mathematical research to consume all my energy."
"Mathematical Research...... Are you from the Tower?" Hearing about magic, Fernando's emotions eased a little, and he asked with interest, in his impression, the geometry of the tower was the first thing that frustrated his magic learning, and the magicians in the tower were full of enthusiasm for mathematical research, just like Douglas in front of him.
The magicians of the ancient magic empire have long begun to pay attention to mathematical research, because it is closely related to the construction of spell models, and has achieved a series of results, such as the geometry of the tower, but most of their energy is still focused on spell learning and bloodline research, after all, the results of mathematical research are difficult to achieve immediate results, only a small number of magicians enjoy them, most of them are astrologers, and the tower is one of the most famous astrologer organizations.
When the Dawn War broke out and the church began to gain the upper hand, there were even fewer mages willing to study mathematics with their free time, at least Fernando had never seen a guy with such a fanatical expression when talking about mathematical research.
Douglas raised his head and laughed self-deprecatingly: "Actually, I really want to join the tower, but they don't want me as a weirdo, and I haven't seen them since the fall of Antifleur."
"It's nice that you've always been aware of your eccentricity, and if you could ask less why, you'd be a very good friend." Fernando has always been willing to hit others, even if the other party is an archmage, he will not change.
Douglas smiled and did not respond to Fernando's words.
Roland glanced at Fernando complainingly, why did he make up for his mistakes every time? Doesn't he not speak if he doesn't sarcastic others? Bai gave birth to a likable handsome appearance!
He coughed: "Mr. Douglas, don't worry about Fernando, he is a descendant of Arthur, a barbaric empire, you can hear it from his accent, by the way, what you need, you can make a list these days, if there is anything particularly urgent, let me know now."
"No." Douglas shook his head and watched Fernando and Roland leave, clearly knowing that when they came back, it would be time for him to be tested.
What kind of test will it be?
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Leaving the forest in silence, Fernando and Roland did not speak to anyone, but very tacitly changed the hidden location, hid in the city, and walked towards the villa of Viscount Erekan - this was their safest hiding place, a place known only to the highest levels of the organization, and a place that the night watchmen could not imagine.
When this nobleman had not yet inherited the baronial title, he hooked up with a high-ranking mage of the "Magicians' United Union" during an operation to exterminate magicians, and then used his power to eradicate powerful enemies and successfully obtained the title.
Fernando and Roland had already changed their appearance, swaggering through the main gate in the familiar appearance of the Viscount's housekeeper, no one doubted it, because this was indeed them, their apparent identity.
The old housekeeper remained silent as always, and did not ask a word to the two guys who often received special orders from the viscount.
After returning to his room, Roland had just washed up when he heard Fernando's familiar violent knock on the door.
"Something? How can the discussion test Douglas?" Roland asked suspiciously, after a few days of emotionally tense life, he just wanted to take a good rest.
Fernando's mental force field spread, he casually closed the door and roared in a low voice: "Roland, we must fight back!"
"Assassinate the vulture?" This is something they have discussed a long time ago, so Roland was stunned for a moment and then reacted, and said cautiously, "We have to make a strict plan to use other people's whereabouts to lure the vulture and then besiege him?"
"No." Fernando's bright red eyes were full of seriousness and anger, "Benson defected, how many of us are here, the Blackclaw Dogs know very well, maybe it won't be us who surround the vultures, but they will surround us, you know, this insidious method is the specialty of the Black Claw Dogs, and I want to kill Benson together!"
"How is this possible? Benson must be hiding in the court now, we can't lure him out and kill him at all!" Roland vetoed Fernand's proposal without hesitation, "Otherwise, let's wait a little longer and contact the headquarters to have a few more high-level magicians, so that we can be more confident in strangling the vulture."
Fernando controlled his anger and shook his head: "The vulture's sense of smell is very keen, and after a few days, he will no longer raid so recklessly, but will unite with the local nobles and clergy to act together, and even rush to other areas."
"Then what are you going to do?" Roland asked puzzledly, this is not good, that is not good, what does Fernando mean?
Fernando almost roared: "Attack the court directly and kill the vulture and Benson! They must be there!"
"You're crazy!" Roland felt that either Fernando was crazy or he was crazy.
In the past, when the Magic Empire still existed, there were indeed cases of breaking through the court and even the cathedral, but in the past hundred years, no magician has dared to directly attack the court, this is the lair of the black-clawed dogs, with a powerful magic circle and a high-level night watchman, where is the magician who flees like a rat in the gutter can hit its idea, and suicide has to choose a good way!
A light breeze blew, and Fernando's slightly messy hair fluttered slightly, like a prelude to the start of a storm: "Since you can't imagine it, the church and the black-clawed dogs can't even imagine it, for more than a hundred years, the court has not been directly attacked, their reaction will definitely be sluggish, and it will inevitably be very chaotic at that time.
"This, this...... But, but our strength is ......" Roland felt that his brain was in chaos, and he felt that this was indeed something that vultures could never dream of, and then he thought it was too crazy and funny.
Fernando said without a smile: "We have an archmage."
"Douglas?" Roland suddenly woke up, the magician's instinct recovered, and he said to himself, "The strongest in the entire city is the vulture, the eighth-level heavenly knight, the others are newly promoted cardinals or heavenly knights, and maybe a few high-level magicians who have betrayed, but there are definitely no archmages, otherwise we wouldn't have escaped so easily, losing at least two-thirds of our personnel."
He paced back and forth: "The magic of the Nine Rings is weird and powerful, the strength of the archmage far exceeds that of the high-level, in the case of a raid, there is no problem in breaking the court, it would be better if it would 'stop time', well, Benson had no idea that we would pick up an archmage, except for Garros, only Mr. President knows, well, there is no problem with the comparison of strength, but Douglas has not been tested yet? Will they betray us?"
Fernando still had a straight face: "This is the test, kill the vulture, he is one of us."
"That's right...... Roland felt that there was a possibility of success, but he was very wavering, "But this will anger the church, I am afraid that the 'Heart of Time' will be sent over then."
When it comes to "Heart of Time", he has a fear that he is not aware of, the epic knight used the bones and blood of magicians to forge his own glory, and even killed a legendary lord, which is the nightmare of countless magicians, and the true abyss demon in their minds.
Speaking of this, he suddenly realized that he was led around by Fernando: "We have Douglas, and we can use lure methods to kill the vultures, even if this is their deliberate scheme, they will never think that we have an archmage, why attack the court directly? Fernando, don't let anger blind your mind, and find an opportunity to get rid of Benson next time."
Fernando snorted: "Let others evacuate Peforth County in advance, and you will leave early, and the church will retaliate, you must find us first."
His expression became a little more serious: "We must kill the traitors immediately, only if we prove that we have the ability to kill the traitors and cause trouble to the church, will the nobles be willing to secretly cooperate with us and support us in causing more trouble, so that they will not betray us at will!"
"Roland, how critical the situation is now, you should know very well, if you are not willing to take risks, you can only wait for death slowly, we must show our value, so that we will be helped, and retreating step by step will only lose all opportunities for cooperation."
Roland gritted his teeth and thought for a while: "Fernando, you need to pay attention to safety, especially to prevent Douglas from being a traitor."
According to the rules of the Magician United Union, as long as both leaders of the branch agree, then they can take action.
Fernando didn't smile because Roland agreed, his hands were clenched, suppressing his anger, and he was ready to explode again at the right time.
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In the forest, near the hidden stronghold.
"I'm guarding outside." Roland said to Fernando that he was afraid that there would be night watchmen ambushing around.
Fernando nodded and went straight into the hidden cave.
He had just crossed the last barrier when he suddenly stepped on a piece of paper full of words, and the ground was full of such paper.
Looking at Douglas, who was immersed in writing, seeing that his neatly combed hair was already very messy, Fernando curiously picked up the paper under his feet and looked at the contents on it.
He has always been recognized as a magical genius and is also very talented in mathematics, but the formulas, words, and symbols written on the paper make him feel like he has never learned mathematics!
What exactly is Douglas studying?
(End of this chapter)