Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 646 Sixteenth Annual Meeting
The Sixteen-Year Meeting, as the name suggests, is a meeting held once every such a long time.

The participants included elders of the Arcane Senate, including the Chief of the Thirteen Towers, the leader of the Alchemy Order of the Starry Tower, the President of the Space Guild; and a special participant, the Dwarf Master Craftsman.

Would the emperor be allowed to join the meeting? Neither Snow nor Simon expressed their opinions on this, but just conveyed this request for Paul. Snow emphasized that the emperor's purpose was not to spy on the secret meeting of the top spellcasters, but to try to meet the convener of the meeting.

The other participants tacitly left the decision to Caroline.

Therefore, the chief of the Tower of All Arts questioned the chief of the Tower of Stars: "It must be you who revealed the secret to Paul."

"Stop being so partial to your fellow apprentice, okay?" Snow's expression on the communication device was still playful, just like his predecessor, he was not a serious old man: "The emperor's purpose is very clear and his will is very firm, so I guess only brother Rorschach can persuade him to give up."

"What?" Caroline didn't understand Snow's guess for a moment.

The other party revealed the answer: "In history, monarchs, whether foolish or wise, often hope to live longer. Our Mage Emperor is no exception, and he is even more greedy. In this regard, the wisest emperor is also the most foolish."

"eternal life?"

"Exactly. What's even more regrettable is that he has found some clues, and they are related to Brother Rorschach."

Caroline interrupted him to continue, "I know, please ask him to come, but it's not up to me whether Rorschach is willing to meet."

"Thank you for your help, ma'am. Wait, there's one more thing - when will my people be released? That guy just wants to make some extra money when he's short of money, there's nothing else to it." As if to hide his thoughts, Master Snow took a sip of purple soda to calm himself down.

"Earning extra money should not lead to participating in subversion, which is unforgivable in any country."

"Brother Rorschach didn't do much back then. Don't go. I was wrong. You name your price."

After the communication was cut off, Caroline rubbed her brow. The conspiracy of the imperial faction was just a minor episode, and it was also a complete historical burden left by the alliance. The descendants of the royal family also integrated into the new society. There should be no more troubles before the fourth sixteenth annual meeting.

She walked from her office to the next room, which was very special. It was in an independent small space bubble and could only be entered through Caroline's office. When she walked in, she saw the same furnishings as in more than 60 years, and it still retained the appearance of the person who was still there.

This was Rorschach's workshop in the former wizard tower.

Caroline quietly moved the chair away and sat down, supporting her elbows on the table and taking off the necklace around her neck.

The necklace pendant is a colorful piece of glass, without any polishing or cutting, and it looks exactly like it did when it fell from the sky. Because of this, the smooth surface after melting and cooling feels as warm as jade when worn against the skin.

Now she wanted to use it as a prop for simple divination. She took a deep breath, grasped the other end of the pendant string with her left hand, and told Paul about meeting Rorschach. Then she just injected magic power and the pendant began to rotate.

It was clockwise. After Caroline got the result, she immediately put the pendant away, then stood up and restored the room.

This kind of divination will only be effective when approaching the sixteenth year mark. In fact, it is a simple means of communication between her and Rorschach.

It took sixteen years for Rorschach to appear for the first time after the Black Sun Disaster, but at that time it was only vaguely conveyed to Caroline alone, informing the Mother Goddess and the Lord of Order of their current situation and urging them to migrate to the Astral Plane as soon as possible.

After that, the pendant stopped responding. Caroline waited until the second sixteen years, when Rorschach's voice was transmitted through the glass again, and there was a vague phantom. She witnessed the phantom and Andre, the then chief of the Tower of Mysticism and the first ruler of the alliance, and submitted the record to the Senate.

In the third sixteen years, according to Rorschach's intention, all the heads of the Senate participated in the meeting. Except for him who could attend the meeting "online", everyone else had to go to the closed site.

By now, the meeting had become extremely high-profile. The outside world did not know the mysterious convener, they only knew that every once in a while these top spellcasters would gather in secret and bring back news and actions that would change the world. The promised day had arrived.

The outer orbital station of the Air Elemental Plane welcomed a gorgeous warship, which hovered over the airport, and several huge and majestic humanoid machines flew out of it. They had classically beautiful armor shapes, engine nozzles, and modern weapons. They adjusted their steady postures in the air and lined up in two columns, facing each other.

These were the emperor's "grenadier" guards, who inherited the glorious name and performed a more glorious duty - to set the stage for the invincible Paul I.

The emperor himself seemed even smaller in comparison, and although he could use magic to make himself fly, he still stood on the head of a mecha with his hands behind his back, and then flew back to the ground when he reached his destination.

Andre, who greeted him, raised his eyebrows slightly, implying his disdain for the exaggerated behavior. They were once rivals, one led the alliance, and the other ruled the Valois Empire to this day.

"Welcome, Your Majesty."

Paul nodded and shook hands, then got straight to the point: "Can I attend the meeting?"

"On behalf of Master Caroline, your majesty, you cannot attend the meeting, but you can see whoever you wish to see privately after it is over. In fact, they have already begun. Please follow me to the reception room and wait."

"Good, good, good!" the emperor shouted three times and strode into the room.

At the same time, Caroline also walked into a hall. It was almost pure white with nothing in it except a round table. There was no chair on top of it, but a pedestal with intricate patterns and connecting points.

The other attendees had already taken their seats, and their attention was focused on Caroline, watching her untie the pendant from her necklace and fit it perfectly into the base.

Next, we had to wait until the glass lit up little by little, and the light spots formed a figure of a young man. Caroline's eyes were fixed on Rorschach, who still hadn't changed at all.

Rorschach also first looked at his teacher. He smiled and nodded, then scanned the entire conference room: "Long time no see. There are many old faces here, and a few newcomers, welcome.

"But time is tight, so let's skip the self-introduction and get down to business." Rorschach had an illusory notebook in his hand:
"First of all, the number of times necromancy magic is used has increased by 31% over the past sixteen years, and the entropy flux has increased by 11.7%. What's going on?"

The new chief of the Forest Tower is a woman who knows the situation:
"It was you who suggested using the apoptosis process of necromancy magic to treat the distortion caused by the pollution of the Mother Goddess. We already have mature accumulation. Two years ago, both the Alliance and the Empire rolled out this treatment technology."

The attendee of the Dark Tower added: "In the past few years, the dwarves have been trying to create their own puppets to strengthen the mining operations on the Fire Elemental Plane and break the monopoly of our magic guild. Can we prohibit them from using [Dead Soul Enlightenment]?"

Rorschach refused: "You can't let me do it directly from the spell cloud. You should first investigate whether the dwarves violated technical standards and humanity in this process. If not, you must not interfere."

Then he opened the next topic: "Storm Tower proposes to increase the output power of the lightning spell prototype by 120 basis points to deal with the secondary threat posed by the Mother Goddess. You have all read the proposal. Do you approve it?"

Others agreed, and from then on, the power of lightning spells activated by spell clouds was increased by 1.2%, and the difficulty of casting spells increased slightly. Of course, this effect would be doubled for high-level spells.

Time passed little by little, and Rorschach reviewed the matters submitted by the last elder:
"A squadron of the Order Church's pilgrim fleet disappeared, and reappeared on the path of the past, repeating the cycle many times. Well, this matter is not very relevant to our topic, so we won't discuss it in the meeting. Now let's talk about more important things:
"The will of the Lord of Order has completely disappeared, and His power is weakening and dissipating. This means that the progress of the Mother Goddess's revival will restart, and it is likely to be accelerated.

"Everyone, are you ready for the end of the world?

"Or are you ready for the new world?"

(End of this chapter)