Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 598: The Unreachable Stars

Since the destruction of the Tower of First Fire, there are no more large magic towers in the empire's current control area, that is, the Kingdom of Marin and its surrounding areas.

Perhaps there are still wild wizard towers in the mountains and hidden spaces, but as the Emperor's "power outage" plan progresses, it is only a matter of time before they are exposed and come into conflict with the Empire.

The magic guild has withdrawn from the core area of ​​the empire. Now they seem to be coming back in another form - as the maintainer of the anti-magic device.

The Empire's team alone could not fill the gap in engineers, so Baditz introduced an outsourcing service company from Valois. In addition to ensuring the supply of transmutation dust, it also provided some technical and operational guarantees.

The branch company grandly opened in the empire is just an empty shell, but they are powerful and can recruit locally by spending money, and they can recruit full staff overnight. All of them are good at writing, calculating and knowing magic. It is hard not to wonder what the master did before.

It turns out that there are so many "outside talents" in my country, how come I didn't know about it?
The great Emperor William sat on the throne with one hand on his head, thinking deeply. Was it that the empire's talent selection system was not strong enough, or that foreign companies obeyed the law and provided high benefits? In the end, he simply gave up and chose to turn a blind eye and no longer care about the tricks.

During this period, he also suspected that the representative of the "Reason Supremacy" association was a spy. After many banquets and conversations, he confirmed that the lovely Mr. Baditz really thought he was digging up the foundation of the guild and all mages. He had devoted himself to the cause he believed in and did not pay any attention to the diversity of the association's members.

After conferring the honorary title of Imperial Baron on Mr. Baditz, the Emperor bid farewell to this idiot. He rubbed his eyes wearily and joked to the courtiers in a nonchalant manner: "I have been meeting with barons these days, one real and one fake."

"Your Majesty, who do you think is behind Mr. Baditz?"

"The Committee of Valuana? Or the Magic Guild? Who knows." The emperor called the maid to clear the banquet, and he and the courtiers walked to the window sill of the banquet hall: "The Republic has reason to do this, because in their view, the threat of the alliance is greater than ours. This is true, and perhaps we can continue to extort something from them in the future. They and Istani both hope that we can maintain a balance with the rebels.

"The guild is definitely their work now, but that big fool is still unaware of it and thinks it is his own achievement. Maybe the association has long been infiltrated by all parties like a sieve." The emperor just found it funny that those bastard spellcasters specially found such gloves to get back into the empire. Are they trying to humiliate him?

"Then your majesty, as long as you give the order, I can do it."

"What can you do? Forget it, as long as it is helpful to the plan, we will accept anyone." The emperor set the tone. After discussing these things, he looked up at the sky.

At this time, a ladder ring happened to fly overhead along the orbit. After a while, it will pass near Prager. It should be a low-level ring close to the ground, with a height of no more than 10,000 meters. With the moon as the background, the emperor saw a very small but clear black ring silhouette. Soon the black silhouette changed from a solid line to a dotted line. It was the engine and magic circuit on the ring that maintained its posture that were flashing.

The courtier noticed where William II was looking, but as he was old and his eyesight was not as good as the emperor's, it took him some effort to see the ring.

Based on experience, the courtiers expressed their opinions based on the emperor's previous attitude: "Strange tricks and lewd tricks."

But the emperor still stared at it. When the ring flew over the moon, it turned into eight relatively fixed stars under the deep blue starry sky. The eight stars and the emperor looked at each other in silence. Together with the faint light from other celestial bodies and the light reflected by the moon, it shone on the magnificent buildings of the imperial capital.

To the empire, artificial stars at an altitude of 10,000 meters are no different from other celestial bodies. They are all out of reach. William ignored the words of the courtiers and stared at them for a while before saying to himself, "They are leaving the earth."

"Yes, Your Majesty. Those cowards were frightened by the followers of the evil god and were even willing to abandon their homes."

"The new 'ladder to heaven' has a total of five ring steps and can open a portal with a diameter of 40 meters, which is twice as large as the earlier version and four times the area. Spacecrafts through it can directly lead to the astral world and can sail to other planes on a large scale."

The courtier was shocked. He had never expected that His Majesty knew so much about the creations made by the mages. Did he misunderstand the tone of his speech just now?

"If we stay, will we be swallowed by doomsday? Is the anti-magic device really reliable?" William held down his new left arm, feeling uneasy and fearful.

But there was no turning back at this point.

He gathered his thoughts and sorted out the current situation: "The Empire and the rebels are separated, and the southern states have their own thoughts. We need to win them over and appease them. The Imperial Parliament must continue to be held, focusing on reaching an agreement with them on trade exchanges.

“Valois may covet the areas bordering it, especially those with mineral resources. We can continue to negotiate with the Republic. From what I know, their situation is also extremely bad, and they may not be able to continue to be tough.

“Between the alliance and us, in the central region of the empire, the pollution of the Mother Goddess breaks out from time to time, and both the rebels and our army are seriously involved. Now it has become our isolation zone.

"At home, you guys are honest and capable." William turned his head and looked at the court officials.

The minister who was praised immediately bowed his head and said: "With your Majesty's wise leadership, we should work hard."

If it was when he first ascended the throne, William would have certainly been delighted by this, but now he was immune to such praise. The emperor had realized that his authority, which came from the legacy of the previous emperor and the terror brought down by Gregory and the Order, would become increasingly thin.

And there is another problem: "After the dead magic zone expands, the wizards in the territory will inevitably become dissatisfied. Now, the empire's spellcasters are concentrated in the army, but this is only a temporary solution."

"Your Majesty, why don't we gather those mages together and assign them a special area that won't be covered by the device. There are also frequent activities of evil cultists in the northern part of our country, where we border the dwarves. Why don't we assign that bitter cold land to the spellcasters and let them do whatever they want?"

"Well, I need someone who can calm them down for me." The emperor thought of someone, looked up at the starry sky again and murmured to himself: "Richard, you are a loyal minister, but I can't tell what you are loyal to."

Richard was also thinking about this question. He was now sending Franz back to Rorschach on his own behalf.

(End of this chapter)