free lich

() It has been more than half a month since the undead invasion incident. Although Zemas suffered heavy losses, he still has the supplies of several other cities and the background of the past, but he has not fallen into a state of collapse. As for the forced exit and Arthur Pendry, who head-on and beheaded the Skeleton King, returned to the Nathan Lake Palace on the grounds of injury and entered a closed state again.

The aftermath of the matter naturally fell on Merlin. After the first few days of busy work, all kinds of work have also entered the right track. Repairs that should be repaired, pensions that should be paid, and those that should be buried Burial, so far there is no need for Merlin to worry about anything.

Of course, if Merlin had to worry about it himself, it would be the matter of the Temple of the Sun and the Temple of Life being provoked by the rumors on the mainland. The two temples have tacitly maintained a balance, and the Sun Temple has also paid a price. Ten bottles of Sun God Water represent ten lives!

Of course, he doesn't care about the Temple of the Sun and the Temple of Life, and he doesn't want to get involved, but since this incident happened in Zemas, as a high-ranking officer in Britain, he took the initiative to go to the Temple of Life and the Temple of the Sun to explain separately. And said that he can cooperate with the investigation of the two temples at any time.

Of course, the actual situation is just as Merlin guessed, the two temples themselves knew what was going on, and sent Merlin back with a calm attitude. Of course, Merlin was happy to do this!

But this also confirmed Merlin's conjecture, "The Temple of the Sun is really getting more and more domineering, Goddess of Magic, why don't you build a temple of magic? If so, would the Temple of the Sun still dare to be so arrogant? "

"Guess who I am?" Two pink hands covered Merlin's slightly wrinkled eyes.

"Okay, Liya, stop making trouble."

"Mages are so annoying, they can always be seen everywhere."

"All?" Merlin smiled and held Liya's little hand, "Do you know any other mages?"

"No," Liya rolled her eyes, and hugged Merlin who was sitting on the chair from behind, "I was thinking, if Uncle Merlin hates it so much, then other mages must hate it too."

"How did you come to Zemmus? Who escorted you here?"

"Uncle Thomas, I stayed in the palace for half a month, almost suffocating to death, and then they said they were afraid that there would be undead spirits that had not been dealt with, and they wouldn't let me play in the forest, so I can only come to you up!"

"Thomas?" Merlin naturally knew that Thomas was one of the four knights of the royal family and the younger brother of the previous king, and the other three great knights were also of royal blood. Of course, Merlin thought that the previous King Arthur was dead. , and he did not leave any son, then the sword in the stone should choose one of these four great knights as the next king, but unexpectedly, no one expected it, the sword in the stone chose the current queen, Arthur Pendry.

In the face of the strength of the King of Knights, even if the four royal knights are unwilling, they may have no choice but to choose to assist the new queen. However, Merlin also feels relieved that Arthur Pendry is definitely A qualified king.

"It should be that Her Majesty the Queen ordered Prince Thomas to send it here, so you came here."

"Oh, Uncle Merlin, you have to be a little confused at such an old age!"

"Haha, it's okay for you to walk around the city, but you are not allowed to go out of the city, do you hear me?"

"Ok."

"Boom~" Liya kissed Merlin while speaking, then turned around and ran away without a trace.

"I have met Master Merlin," Thomas saluted slightly. Of course, this does not mean that Thomas' status is lower than Merlin's, but just a kind of respect. After all, Master Merlin, as an outsider, has done his best to assist two generations of kings.

"You don't have to be polite, the Duke. I don't know what's going on this time. Let the Duke come over in person."

Sitting next to Merlin, Arthur Thomas took out a handwritten letter signed by the king, "This is an order from Her Majesty the Queen, because it is carried out across the country, so in order to prevent some people from chewing on their tongues, let me personally write the handwritten letter." Bring it here, it will be convincing."

Merlin took the handbook and looked at it, and his expression changed a little, "This...I'm afraid there will be a lot of resistance in implementing it."

The content of the handbook is probably, "In view of the threat of necromancers, from the day this order is issued, all people who die in Britain must be cremated first and buried. Those who have been buried within one year before the order is issued, if you agree to If the body is dug up, cremated and then reburied, the tax revenue for the coming year will be reduced by 20.00% five."

And the reason why there is some resistance is that whether it is the world of Faerun or the earth, the corpse is very important to his relatives, after all, it is the proof that human beings finally existed in the world.

Back then in the Celestial Dynasty, when the cremation was announced, it also encountered a lot of resistance, but because the then chairman and a large number of top leaders took the lead in signing and expressing their willingness to be cremated, this matter was implemented.

Naturally, it is not necessary to do this in the world of Faerun, but as a wise ruler, or an excellent regime, you still need to have a good excuse to appease your people. After all, those talents are the foundation of a country. Even if your king is strong, without the productivity of civilians and slaves, the collapse of this country will happen sooner or later.

"Why did Her Majesty the Queen suddenly issue this order?" Merlin gently put away the handbook, and asked with some doubts.

"Isn't it because your report said that you couldn't guess how the dead necromancer activated the sacrificial magic circle, but this time, we lost nearly 5 people in Britain, and Her Lady Queen doesn't want this kind of thing. Let it do it again!"

"Oh," Merlin nodded, "Prince, don't worry, I will leave this matter to me."

"That's good. To be honest, I came out this time mainly because Her Majesty the Queen didn't trust the little princess and asked me to be a nanny. The little princess may stay here for a while, so I think I can only disturb the little princess during this time." you."

"Hey," Merlin sighed, "I feel that taking care of the little princess is more troublesome than carrying out the queen's orders..."

In the villa dedicated to Alsace outside the main city of Arraschi, Don Quixote was sitting on the sofa watching Alsace give him some experience on spell slots. His main purpose of coming here this time is to follow Alsace, who is already a mage in the domain, consulted some information, such as whether there is anything to pay attention to when constructing the spell position for the first time, or some experience of the mage of the ring, etc. Of course, there is another purpose, although the Temple of Life is very interesting to help him He hid his identity, but he couldn't put everything on the Temple of Life himself, so he didn't plan to hang out outside during this time, and wait until the matter calmed down completely.

"Boom!" Alsace, who was concentrating on reading the daily newspaper, suddenly slapped the coffee table, which startled Don Quixote, "What's wrong, teacher?"

Alsace handed the newspaper in his hand to Don Quixote, and as a result, a few lines of huge headlines came into Don Quixote's eyes, "Fight against the undead! The whole country of the British Empire mourns! For the sake of future generations, King Arthur ordered that Britain be Cremation must be implemented! Many countries have followed suit!" Then came a bunch of flattering words praising King Arthur's wise decision, judging from the writing style, it should be the editor who hacked Don Quixote in the first place.

"Pfft~" Don Quixote couldn't help laughing, and returned the newspaper to Alsace, "It seems that your career as a gravedigger is coming to an end, sir."

"Hmph, isn't this nasty little girl just a few undead, who deserves to be cremated across the country? I just have a good temper. If it's the past, I'll have to argue with her!"

"However," Alsace obviously didn't want to read the newspaper anymore, but leaned on the sofa, "you dare to offend the Sun Temple because of a woman, aren't you afraid of their revenge?"

Don Quixote continued to flip through the notes calmly, "Don't be afraid!"

Alsace suddenly felt that his question was a little lacking in level. The kid in front of him didn't even care about his own life. When did he care about who the enemy was, so he hurriedly found a way for himself, "You have a bad temper. You are worthy of my students when you were young! Those guys who rely on the sun god to be arrogant, you should teach them a lesson!"

As a result, Don Quixote raised his head leisurely, "I'm not afraid just because I'm a believer in the great goddess of magic. I'm afraid of the Temple of the Sun? The Goddess of Magic can uproot the Temple of the Sun from this world with a single sneeze!"

"Cough~ cough~ Yes! Yes! It makes sense!" Alsace looked at Don Quixote who was flattering the goddess of magic, and suddenly felt that this guy could become the mage of the ring It's not without reason!

Of course, this is just Alsace's joke. The goddess of magic never gives power to someone just because she flatters her. ah!However, Alsace was really taken aback when Don Quixote became the Mage of the Ring in one step. After all, the speed of this three-level jump is not unprecedented, at least it is almost unprecedented!

But after thinking about it again, I think it is actually quite reasonable. Every mage with innate spells will have a qualitative leap in soul strength after awakening the innate spells and absorbing the tree of souls, and Don Quixote can directly become a mage of the ring , it is naturally related to his special free will attribute, the soul of this attribute is extraordinarily powerful, so it makes sense that the soul tree it grows is taller than ordinary people.

Thinking of this, Alsace suddenly asked curiously, "Boy, what kind of innate spells do you have? You can actually defeat ascetics with golden light body protection. You must know that those bald heads are simply the nemesis of our mages."

Alsace mentioned the ascetic, and Don Quixote remembered some doubts in his mind, "Master, do you know the origin of this ascetic? And what is the pure land of bliss? These guys are indeed A bunch of lunatics, I don't want to fight with these guys anymore!"

"Ascetics?" Alsace seems to be caught in some kind of memory, "they appeared about 1000 years ago, no one knows their origin, because they have been very low-key, at first they existed for many years They are known, and they never called themselves the so-called ascetics, that's what we call them."

"Did it appear suddenly?"

"Almost, before that time point, I have never heard of it. After that time point, it appeared sporadically. As for the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, it feels very similar to the true God. You give him faith, and he gives you strength. If the purity of your belief meets its requirements, you can leave your body and live forever in that world."

"It's obviously not a true god, but it robs believers like this, won't the other true gods care?"

"Existence is reasonable. They have existed for more than 1000 years. If you want to take care of them, you should take care of them. Anyway, stay away from these guys in the future. Their golden body armor is really disgusting!"

"Well," Don Quixote nodded thoughtfully.

"Okay, let's talk about your innate spells. At my age, that's all I'm curious about."