Mage? Spell Engineer!

The "real Senate meeting of Austria and France" is over, and the outcome of the afternoon inquiry meeting will also be clear. Kano stayed in the illusion for a while. In order to convene the meeting of dignitaries, he exchanged opinions with the representatives of the Tower of Thunderstorm and the Tower of the First Earth.

After exiting the illusion, Kano once again saw his heavily protected office. He picked up the documents submitted by the investigation team. The waste papers were ignited out of thin air and burned to ashes in a short time.

The strange thing is that the questioning meeting is still held in the top hall of the guild building, where Rorschach received the medal. Now he and Pascal have to accept aggressive questioning like prisoners.

What a shame! Rorschach specially put on the ceremonial robes worn during the award ceremony, and put on the "Ibis with the Moon" metal plate that symbolized a bad check.

Unlike the last time when it was fully lit and displayed magnificently, the venue was now extremely dark and gloomy, with very sparse lighting. And the audience seats were raised, and Rorschach and Pascal went to rock bottom for trial.

There are dozens of mages on it, and about half of them still use owls as synaesthesia stand-ins to participate in the meeting.

I don't know if it was a coincidence or spontaneous, but the mage who was present in person was sitting on the left side of the hall. Rorschach saw Ina among them and nodded to him. Others whose expressions could be seen were curious and smiling towards Rorschach.

On the right side is a large group of owls, constantly turning their heads and staring back and forth at the three people entering the room with their big eyes, which seems unfriendly.

"This kind of environment is suitable for owls." Rorschach did not forget to joke.

Of course, Morel, the chairman of the guild today, would not greet Rorschach enthusiastically at the door early. He was even lukewarm towards Master Carnot, and put all his sense of service into the chief seat of the inquiry group, where he sat Lord Granol, a new member of the Arcane Elders, the president of the Stonemasons Brotherhood, and the Earl of Shariana's plane!

“I didn’t know there were so many guests today,” Cano said easily, not taking any high seats but standing with his students.

Granol replied: "It is precisely because of your public idea that the referee of the inquiry has been expanded from the Senate to all the intermediate mages and above in the north of Valois. I'm sorry, Master Carnot, I didn't have time to inform you, after all, you are always in the afternoon Just woke up."

"It doesn't matter." Kano corrected the other party's mistake: "But I stay awake all the time."

"Really?" Granol opened the document like a file, and he was playing the role of judge and judge on the stage: "First, Master Rorschach will step forward. I will ask you a question, and you only need to answer 'yes' with 'not'."

Chairman Morell invited a mage: "Mr. Rorschach, in order to ensure the effectiveness of the inquiry meeting, this gentleman will apply [Power Word] to you to ensure that your reactions are true. Please do not use The will to resist.”

“Can I be silent in certain situations?”

"Of course, but the silence itself will also be the basis for the jury's judgment."

A spell enveloped Rorschach, and the person responsible for casting the spell nodded to Granol to indicate that the spell was cast successfully.

"Master Rorschach, are you from the Empire?"

"yes."

"A year ago, you graduated from the Imperial Academy of Magic."

"No." Kano was also shocked, but fortunately [Power Word] did not allow Rorschach to answer yes or no. He added: "Strictly speaking, it has not been more than a year."

Granol paused for a moment and read out the most critical question: "Master Rorschach, have you accepted the empire's assignment and come to the Holy Kingdom to have other tasks besides study and research?"

Granol is accusing this mid-level mage of being a spy sent by the empire! If Rorschach answered yes, harboring a spy would be a huge scandal for the Chief of the Tower of Stars.

As soon as this statement came out, not only the jury but also Kano stared at Rorschach's back.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Rorschach, who possesses the power of [Power Word], remained calm and calm. He answered clearly and without hesitation: "No."

Granol turned to look at the person in charge of casting the spell, who shook his head to indicate that [Power Word] was still effective.

In Rorschach's inner pocket, a small bead glowed silently. It represents the will of Chulimo, who is the protector of merchants and travelers, as well as the god of change and deception!

Rorschach, who guessed that there would be a method similar to "truth serum", "charged" the Pearl of Balaam before entering the venue.

This guy helped twice, so Rorschach decided not to reward him openly, but secretly reward him with something.

Not at all? Granol changed the question: "Have you received any funding from the empire?"

"Yes." Rorschach added: "I come from a rural area. Without funding, I wouldn't be able to pay for the trip to Valuana."

This surprised everyone except Kano, who had already known about it from Caroline. Rorschach doesn't matter, these people simply cannot understand the value of the title "I am a farmer's son".

The venue temporarily fell into a small commotion of whispers. Granol stopped the noise and reiterated: "Master Rorschach, please answer 'yes' and 'no'."

However, the core questions he prepared for Rorschach did not have the expected effect. Granol asked them several more times, feeling that this kid was not easy to get along with. Instead of rushing to charge Rorschach with charges, he turned to Pascal. Come forward.

"It's my turn?" Pascal was a little worried. He didn't expect there would be [Power Word] before entering the arena.

At this time, Kano, who had been silent, said: "Slow down!"

All eyes turned to the chief in the audience. Granol felt that something had changed, but Kano did not give him time to react: "Since it is an open and fair trial, I don't think you should be allowed to hide behind the scenes, right? Everyone should be honest with each other, and the next vote Only then can we have credibility!”

To everyone's surprise, Kano began to cast a spell. The full strength of a great mage made the ether in the venue seem to boil. Snow, who was far away in the Starlight Torch Tower, seemed to have received some signal. He directed the No. 2 "reactor" to output a surging force. The ether activated the antenna that penetrated the Star Torch Tower, and a preset spell was "broadcast".

Everyone in the venue could only watch Kano's movements with trepidation. After a while, the owls on the right began to howl and flutter, with their feathers flying.

"What are you doing!" Granol yelled, but the spell had been completed, and all the owls began to twist. A crack in the space appeared in each corresponding position, and the invisible force dragged out the mages who were "unable to be there".

Some of them wore aristocratic attire, some even nightgowns, and some even had to use their own limbs to cover their indecent parts. But these people, without exception, were all panicked and horrified to find that they were completely unable to resist Kano's call.

Yes, Kano "invited" all the mages who attended with owl synaesthesia to the venue. He looked around and said in a relaxed tone: "I didn't expect that in such a serious meeting, many people would attend the meeting without even wearing clothes."

Rorschach thought about it, if there were online classes during the epidemic, the teacher could drag his body into the classroom and scream. He shuddered.

"Arrogant! Arrogant!" Granol slapped the table and screamed: "Your students are acting like this, and the root cause lies with you! I impeach you, and I will never allow Leonor Cano to serve as the chief and representative of the Tower of Stars. Our mage from the Holy Kingdom!”

Kano turned a deaf ear to the hysteria. Although he was in the audience, his figure became taller in the dim venue; although there were screams on the side, his voice was clearly heard by everyone:

"Now that everyone is here, the real trial begins now."