The mage arrives

Yankee raised his head and glanced at Gordon who walked into the store: he had short black hair, and his facial features were fairly correct, with eyes full of spirit.Well, it didn't matter, his mage robes and clothes didn't have any insignia or sigils to watch out for, which was what Yankee cared about most.

Gordon changed into this set of mage robes when he left Clear Water City. Because he was performing a secret mission and kept a low profile, there was no sign on it that indicated his status as a baron.And Yankee obviously didn't have enough vision to recognize the value of his Salamander cape.Therefore, the always arrogant field mage of the Winter Claw Legion unfortunately regarded Gordon as a free mage with no background.

"This store is closed, I think you came to the wrong place, mage. Get out of here." Yankee didn't even look at Gordon, just put the spell note into the dimension bag.

He didn't expect that today he just came to extort some gold coins from his former useless student, but he got an unexpected gift.

Yankee had stagnated in the stage of the three-ring mage for several years. No matter how hard he tried, it was difficult to make a breakthrough. He sensed the fourth layer of the magic net during meditation.

In order to take a further step on the path of the arcane, he has been buying a large number of potions that can improve mental acuity during meditation and better communicate with the magic net.But this requires a lot of money.For a three-ring battle mage with only a knight title, it was not an easy task to get that money.

The Yankees did a lot of things that people criticized by unscrupulous means.One of them is to recruit mage apprentices regardless of their qualifications, but they don't teach them seriously.Just use them as tools to extract labor and money.

For this reason, those mage apprentices who couldn't bear the harsh treatment often filed complaints in court.But the Yankees are smart.When choosing apprentices, always choose merchant families with some money but no social status.He seized on the psychology of these parents who wanted to make their children grow up to improve their social status, and tricked them into sending their children to serve as mage apprentices.And after the incident was exposed, relying on the Winter Claw Legion's field mage and noble status, those accusations were often ignored.So far, he has lived a very nourishing life.

Dalinar can be regarded as a mage apprentice who has stayed with Yankee for a long time.And relatively speaking, the treatment is okay.But when Dalinar's father Bivis died, Yankee immediately turned his face.He squeezed Dalinar harder until the latter could no longer afford the high "tuition fee" and was kicked away.

In order to be able to achieve higher achievements on the arcane road, the Yankees don't care about carrying a little bit of notoriety.So after he saw the spell note in Dudlin's hand today.Immediately start snatching it down.

The use of arcane arts recorded in this note.As well as the understanding of the entire multiverse and the magic net, and the in-depth understanding of the nature of source energy, Yankee was eye-opening.He has benefited greatly from just a quick glance.If I study it carefully, I am afraid that I will save myself five years of detours and be promoted to a four-ring mage as soon as possible.

So when Dudley opened his mouth to take the spell notes back, Yankee slapped his hands and ordered the soldiers to smash the store to pieces.

He wanted Dudley to figure it out.Don't even think about getting what you get back.

After getting the spell notes.Yankee's desire to have fun with his subordinates tonight also faded away.He hoped to go back to his barracks at once, to read it carefully, and to learn more from his notes.

So for Gordon who suddenly appeared, he didn't have a good face.

"This is the gem of the wilderness, I think I came to the right place." Gordon said, pointing at Yankee, "The spell note you stole just now is my work, so please return it to Dalinar, and then compensate His material and moral loss."

"Ha ha!"

Yankee laughed wildly.Several soldiers around him also laughed wildly.

"Master, do you know who I am? I'm not the same as your talent, I can only go to the adventure group to dawdle, and the free mage who rolls in the mud is different. I am a battlefield mage belonging to the Winter Claw Legion. Knowing that De Ling Don von Eisenstein knight? Even if you don’t know what the surname Eisenstein means, you always know that you defeated ten times the number of warg cavalry at the Great Wall of Anduin to ensure the smooth defense of the fortress The vanguard cavalry regiment of the Winter Claw Legion retreating! Let me tell you, Knight Durlington is the commander of the cavalry regiment. And I am his friend."

Gordon was about to spit.I didn't expect Dellington to be so shameless and exaggerate his achievements so much.His Winterclaw cavalry was nothing more than a small, inconsequential victory on the battlefield.If I hadn't fought bloody battles with Viscount Demon and others to kill the two Cyclops, and if Grand Duke Rob Antello's golden dragon allies hadn't arrived in time, I really thought that with just five hundred heavy cavalry, I would be able to hold the fortress ?

Seeing that Gordon didn't speak for a while, Yankee thought that his words had shocked the other party, so he said triumphantly: "If you are sensible, get lost."

If it weren't for the consideration of the other party's official mage status, Yankee wouldn't say any more nonsense.

"Knight Dellington?" Gordon showed a dazed expression, and took a few steps back. "I do know his name. And speaking of it, I have a pretty good relationship with him."

Seeing Gordon backing away, Yankee thought that the other party was ready to leave, and his sarcasm was beyond words: "You, a free mage who smells like mud, deserves to be related to the noble Eisenstein family? Haha, this lie is so funny !"

"Really, I didn't lie to you." Gordon fooled Yankee, looked around, and found that he had distanced himself from several fighters on the other side.He laughed mockingly: "The relationship between me and the Knight of Durrington is so good that he is willing to stick out his face and let me slap casually."

"Bastard!"

Yankee's complacent face instantly turned to ice.Only then did he realize that he had been tricked by Gordon, who had no intention of leaving at all.He waved his hand, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Give it to me, just don't beat him to death!"

Yankee didn't know that Gordon had already quietly prepared for the battle, so the result of this indoor battle was doomed at the beginning.

"Dalina, close your eyes!"

As soon as the words fell, Gordon threw forward with his left and right hands, and two strengthened flashes flew out.Although these are just two zero-ring tricks, with Gordon's current spell attainments and the addition of powerful spells, the power is already comparable to the police flashbangs on Earth.

Caught off guard, Yankee and his subordinates were all caught off guard, their eyes could not see anything under the stimulation of the strong light, and they could only scurry around.

"Damn! Damn! You despicable thing!" Yankee yelled.He tried his best to open his eyes wide, but he couldn't see anything. He could only start chanting spells in a panic, preparing to bless himself with "protection against energy damage".Facing the current situation, the poor and rigid brain of the battle mage came to a conclusion: that mage will definitely use the evocation spell to attack next, so I must quickly prepare my defenses.Wait for your eyesight to recover before starting to fight back.

In this small shop, Gordon taught Yankee and Dudlin a good lesson.After he used the flash technique to take the initiative, he didn't cast any earth-shattering spells. He just took out a few pieces of flax rope from the inner pocket of the mage's robe, and then casually moved forward.

With the support of the arcane, five activated ropes flew out of his hands, and then tied up the completely blind Yankee and his four men.

The battle mage was still using gestures to guide the arcane energy, but suddenly felt that his arms were wrapped around a flexible object, and then tied behind his back abruptly.The spell was forcibly interrupted, and the out-of-control arcane energy immediately backfired, causing Yankee, who was tied up like a rice dumpling, to spit out blood.

He felt that his internal organs were about to explode under the ravages of arcane energy.

From start to finish, the battle lasted less than half a minute.As for Gordon, relying on just a few tricks and a ring of spells, he subdued Yankee and his party.

In Dalinar's eyes, Gordon has reached the master state of being relaxed and freehand, flowing, and coherent.This mage apprentice, who hadn't seen much of the world, was almost dumbfounded.

"This is my first lesson for you. Remember, Dalinar, as long as you use it properly, even the simplest spell can produce unexpected results."

After Gordon finished speaking, he walked to Yankee who was still wriggling and struggling like a caterpillar after being tightly bound.

"Now, the noble field mage of the Winter Claw Legion, please hand over my spell notes, and then compensate the store for all losses. If you refuse, I don't mind doing some spell tests on you."

His internal organs were injured due to the backlash of the arcane energy, and Yankee's face was pale at this time, and cold sweat broke out.He looked up at the dark-haired young mage, and finally realized that he was wrong.Although he only cast a few low-level spells, his spell application skills and ability to cast spells instantly are definitely not something a three-ring mage like himself can match.

Yankee endured the humiliation and resentment in his heart, took a breath because of the pain, and said, "My dimensional bag is at my waist, and the password to open it is..."

Gordon opened Yankee's dimensional bag, took back the stolen spell note, and handed it to Dalinar: "By the way, how much is the loss in your store?"

Dalinar gave Yankee a bitter look, and said, "You bought the valuable items long ago, and I haven't had time to buy them, so it's not too much, about two hundred gold coins."

Gordon selected cash and items worth four hundred gold coins from Yankee's Dimensional Bag—in fact, it was almost all the belongings of the battle mage, and handed it to Dalinar: "Here, two hundred gold coins to compensate the store Loss, two hundred gold coins is your mental damage fee."

"Mental damage fee?" Dalinar had never heard of this term. (To be continued..)