After stepping out of the door of the small hotel, Sharp's figure shattered like a blister and disappeared into the thick night.
"Whether we accept it in the end or not, the most important issue at the moment is that it is no longer safe here and we must move immediately." Douglas's expression was quite serious.
Fernando also woke up and muttered: "Whether or not this task is accepted is up to those old men to decide, all we can do is leave here, and then we have to establish another contact transit place."
This is an obvious problem, even if the union agrees to take on the task of assassinating Alfonso and establishes a good private partnership with the great nobles represented by Sharp, it will not expose the very important transit point for the entire organization to their sight.
In this kind of thing, carelessness will only mean that the organization is not far from destruction!
Then, Fernando was worried that the wall would have a psychic connection and said to Douglas and Old Green: "See the underwater remains of Lake Lamorag."
"Okay, you go first, I have to leave some secret notes to warn the mages who have come during this time." Old Green looked around the lobby of the small hotel, with obvious sighs and reluctance in his tone, as if he was forced to leave the home he had worked so hard to manage for decades and had to go away.
Fernando sneered: "If you lose this tattered place, you will lose it, what is there to regret?"
"In fact, this is a 'family business' that my great-grandfather started running." Old Green's tone was plain, without any annoyance, as if he was talking about someone else's business.
Fernando was stunned for a moment, looked down at his toes, then raised his head, looked at the wine cabinet behind Old Green with a pair of bright red eyes and said, "Maybe this hotel will still be preserved, you are a heavenly knight with a good relationship with many nobles, and it may come in handy in the future, but there won't be so many magicians here anymore......"
He nagged a lot of things indiscriminately.
"Get out of here, grumpy brat! I don't need your sympathy!" Old Green suddenly burst into a foul language, interrupting Fernando's words.
Fernando's face turned slightly red, and he snorted: "I sympathize with the black-clawed dog and I won't sympathize with you, an old man who is half-lying in the cemetery!"
After saying that, he turned around and left.
Old Green raised his chin and motioned for Douglas to follow, while hesitating: "Doesn't the necromancer often say that lying in the cemetery is the beginning of life?"
"Those stinky rotting corpses know what life is?" Fernando said without looking back.
"You stinky boy, you are not even a fraction of my age, do you know what life is?" Green Sr. "showed no weakness".
In Douglas's slightly helpless eyes, the two continued to quarrel until Fernando walked out of the door and blended into the night.
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Under the starlight, the lakes shimmered with brilliance, rippling, peaceful and quiet, and there were many such lakes, like scattered pearls, scattered on the earth, connected into a string of dreamy necklaces.
"As expected of the 'Land of a Thousand Lakes'......" Douglas, who was floating on the lake, said in admiration, taking a deep breath of fresh air with the smell of faint freshwater.
Fernando said in surprise: "Do you know the 'Land of a Thousand Lakes'?"
"Of course, its fame has spread to Antifleur with the magicians who come and go." Douglas laughed.
"What's so beautiful about this...... Fernando muttered in a low voice without aesthetic interest, and then said, "This is Lake La Morag, you follow me."
Douglas looked at the lake and found that it was not big, and some people believed that it was a giant puddle, but how could such a small lake have underwater relics?
The two cast a spell and fell into the water, quickly sinking to the bottom of the lake in the rippling waves.
Fernando noticed Douglas's strangeness and explained in the psychic connection: "I don't know which idiot magician built it, maybe he wants to connect the entire land of a thousand lakes, but it is precisely because of his idiocy that this ruin has not been discovered, and the church cannot imagine that there will be ruins under such a small lake with no resources."
Under a boulder lies a small cave, which does not seem to be carved out for humans, but rather the nest of some aquatic life.
Fernando directly vaporized his body and got in, Douglas did not hesitate, and followed suit.
After passing through the winding and narrow "pipe", Douglas found himself in a palace where many magicians came and went, and he was quite alert to their arrival, but after seeing Fernando's familiar handsome face, he turned his head again, busy with his own affairs, such as the exchange of alchemy materials and magic books, such as asking others to refine items.
In this regard, the magicians known as "sewer rats" are much more vigilant than the courts, because those who are not vigilant enough are already dead, or have "learned" to be "vigilant" at a high price.
"This is a bit of a gathering place for magicians......" Douglas said with a slight relief and a sigh.
"Douglas, Fernando, you came just in time, the president knows what happened just now, please go see him." Roland, who had fled early under Fernando's cover, trotted over.
"This is the headquarters of the trade union?" Douglas was a bit strange, Fernando hadn't mentioned it before.
Fernando also felt strange: "Is the president here?"
"Hmm." Roland nodded and looked Fernando up and down, "It's okay if you're okay. The chairman was going to meet Douglas here and hold a core meeting, but there was an accident at the Yakitu Hotel......"
It seems that they are still wary of me, and they haven't let me know where the headquarters is so soon...... Douglas thought to himself, but he never dwelled on such a small question, and nodded generously: "Roland, please take us to meet Mr. President."
"The fool's task they gave ......" Fernando followed behind Douglas and cursed quickly.
Passing through a stone brick corridor, a hall full of strange patterns appeared at the end, and an old man with white hair and beard and spirit strode out, laughing and saying: "Welcome to join our magician union, Douglas, you are an extremely good magician, your research on curves and irregular shapes has come before us, if you have the opportunity, I hope to ask you for advice."
Douglas was slightly stunned, and Arnold, the president of the Wizards' United Union, also knew that he was studying "flow numbers"?
"Flowing numbers" was the name of the preliminary order for the part of the mathematical content he had studied for himself, but he felt more and more that this name was inappropriate, and he planned to change it.
Douglas's surprise did not last long, and he soon woke up that his communication with Fernando in the past few days may have been paid attention to by Arnold, and he even decided to hold a core meeting a few days later, perhaps to have time to "observe" himself.
Being able to become the leader of a fairly large magical organization is indeed not easy!
"I have been inspired by the research of many great magicians in the past." Douglas said humbly.
Arnold had few wrinkles and a rosy face, pointing at Douglas and smiling: "Don't be modest, if you can successfully research, then all magic will be greatly reduced in learning and building, which will bring us a better future! Okay, let's not discuss this today, let's mainly talk about the task given by the 'Deep Blue Devil', by the way, this is Rig, you have seen it, this is Ramon, Veronica, they are both vice presidents of the union."
He introduced the few people who followed him, Rig with a lot of wrinkles and a hooked nose, Ramon with a tall and thin horse face, Veronica with blonde hair pulled high and green eyes like jewels, they were all wearing typical magical imperial robes, gloomy and deep.
After Douglas greeted them one by one, he smiled at a brown-haired young man next to Arnold and said, "Garros, long time no see."
The young man's hair was neatly parted to the sides, his high collar reached the top of his head, and he had a cynical smile on his face: "I really didn't expect you to do something like a raid on the court, this is Fernando's style."
He is Garros, who introduced Douglas to the Wizards' Union, Fernando and Roland's friend, Arnold's student, and a high-ranking mage with six rings.
"Hmph, are you envious?" Fernando didn't suffer at all.
Garros laughed, his black eyes looked at his toes, and did not answer, because President Arnold began to ask: "What do you think of the mission entrusted by the 'Deep Blue Demon'?"
Roland, who was leading the way, quietly exited the palace and closed the door.
Rigg said with a gloomy face: "He just used this mission to warn us that there is no need to dwell on this issue."
"But what if we can really get it done? Will he really value us and cooperate with us initially?" Ramon's face stretched long, disagreeing with Rig's opinion.
"First, we must be able to do it!" Rig and Veronica said at the same time, the sentences were different, but the meaning was the same.
The scene suddenly became quiet, and even Fernando did not dare to boast that Alfonso was not difficult to kill, after all, the union was currently being stared at by the "Heart of Time" Ketonia.
Arnold seemed to be very satisfied with this situation, the smile on his face remained unchanged, and he coughed twice and said, "It's not that we don't have a chance to complete this task."
"Chairman, don't joke!" Rigg said seriously.
"It's really impossible to rely solely on our own strength, but what if other magical organizations cooperate? They are not paid attention to by the 'heart of time'." Arnold smiled as if he had a good temper, and then continued before everyone spoke, "I have been busy contacting other magical organizations during this time, and I have just achieved certain results, and many magical organizations have been invited to 'Alinge' as guests to discuss the issue of cooperation, so I set today's meeting here instead of the headquarters, because 'Alinge' is also near Rentat."
He explained why he didn't take Douglas to headquarters.
"President, are you sure to persuade those organizations to cooperate?" Veronica gets straight to the heart of the matter.
Arnold smiled slyly, like an old fox: "If they know that we have joined forces with the 'Deep Blue Devil', the vice-captain of the 'Sword of Truth' Knights, they will definitely be willing to cooperate with us to complete this task.
"When did we cooperate with the 'Deep Blue Devil'?" This time, even Ramon expressed confusion.
Anold laughed and said: "After joining forces with other organizations to complete the task of assassinating Alfonso, he should pay attention to our strength."
Fernando twitched the corners of his mouth, the president is too treacherous!
"What organizations are coming to 'Alinge' this time?" Rig thought for a while, no longer dwelling on the question of the task, and asked cautiously.
Arnold nodded: "Don't worry, the organizations I invited are all weaker than us, not legendary organizations like 'Palmera's Hut', 'Death's Scythe' and 'Dance of Confusion', among which it is worth noting that there are one or two Nine-Rings Archmages 'Red Eye', 'Soul Supremacy', 'Shadow Singer' and 'Destroyer's Tower', and the rest are a dozen or twenty ordinary organizations without Nine-Ring Mages."
"When the time comes, me, Douglas and Fernando will participate."
(End of this chapter)