On the Seven Towers

Seeing that the Chinese won another match without any dispute, the king smacked his lips in a dull manner. Although they won, the mage named Luo Ling seemed to be injured and had to be supported to walk off the ice.

"Your Majesty, since the challenger has lost two matches, there is no need to compete again, right?" Marquis Francisco asked as he came to the balcony.

"Well..." The king glanced at Savach, who was supposed to be the third to play.

"Your Majesty. I request that I be allowed to play the last match. It is the honor of a warrior to fight in a challenge of doubt..." Savach said.

"What's the point?" Xiao Chen asked loudly, "Questioning a challenge only requires a result. Now that the result has come out, the challenge will naturally end. We refuse to have any more duels. If you insist on going against us, it will be the beginning of a war."

Savah asked, "Don't you think this is an honor?"

"Is your honor just a piece of skin attached to interests? Don't think I don't know what you want to do. We have respected the traditions here. If someone still wants to make things difficult for me, it means disrespecting us. This behavior itself has no honor at all."

"Only cowards are afraid of an opportunity to show their strength!" Savah didn't expect the mage to be so aggressive, and his voice softened unconsciously.

"Show your strength?" Xiao Chen sneered and said to Ye Zi, "Let him see what strength is."

The tattoo on Ye Zi's hand suddenly disappeared, but this time it did not turn into the spear, but into the appearance of Javier's God of War bracelet. There was a gun-shaped metal decoration near the gem on the bracelet, which was very similar to the appearance of the shadow gun. This is the new form of the Shadow Gun. In the state of the bracelet, it still retains all the bonuses such as strength and speed, and has the function of increasing magic power, which is equivalent to a top-grade wizard's wand, because its previous owner, the Valkyrie, is a powerful person who has reached the extreme of both magic and magic.

With the bonus of the bracelet, Ye Zi cast a giant force spell on herself, which can double a person's strength in a short period of time.

Ye Zi picked up a stone from the ground and cast a gas explosion spell on the stone, which is an enchantment magic that increases the power of projectiles. Then she condensed her fighting spirit and jumped high, and then threw the stone fiercely into the lake. The addition of fighting spirit, the bonus of the bracelet and the blessing of magic made her burst out with more than a hundred times more strength than her original physical strength at that moment.

The stone wrapped in Dou Qi rushed into the floating ice, making a loud noise. The ice was shattered, and the broken ice and pool water were thrown more than 30 meters high in the air, and then turned into hail and rain, falling inside and outside the pond. Even the pavilion built by Luo Ling was blown away by this blow.

The guests who were close to him screamed and dodged the water drops falling from the sky, and kept retreating.

Ye Zi stuck out her tongue, "Sorry, I didn't control the strength well."

Xiao Chen smiled at her encouragingly, and then asked Savah with a stern face: "This is the power you want. We have demonstrated it."

Savah's face turned red and white. Although he was a high-level warrior, he could never use a small stone to blow away half of the water in the pond. He looked at Ye Zi, and fear arose in his heart.

There are very few people in this world who truly practice Dou Qi and magic. There are more warriors like magic knights who use magic to assist martial arts. Artifacts like the God of War Bracelet are unique. So except for Mei and Xiao Chen, almost no one understood what Ye Zi's series of actions just now contained.

Savah didn't know that Ye Zi achieved this effect entirely by combining the right magic with the power props. The attack in the real battle could not reach this level at all.

He retreated.

"I... give up the challenge." After he said this, he lowered his head and left the scene.

The kingdom snorted coldly and cursed in a low voice: "Coward."

"Your Majesty, since the challenge is over, let's continue to complete the canonization." The queen reminded.

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The territory canonization ceremony naturally returned to the meeting hall.

The whole process was a bit like the signing ceremony on Earth. On the land deed, the names of the king, Count Carlos and the representative of the Tower of China, Xiao Chen, were signed, and then the representatives of the Temple of Nature and the Kingdom Magic Association at the scene signed and certified. Then the deed was made in triplicate, and kept by the royal family, the Arias family and the Tower of China respectively. Since then, a large area of ​​land in the Black Mountain area has truly belonged to the school in the eyes of the locals.

Then the king gave Xiao Chen a top-grade ice staff with snow sandalwood wrapped in mithril and ice dragon skin wrapped at the nodes, and a protective robe with low-level magic absorption function. Xiao Chen and Li Jia took the staff and robe respectively and expressed their gratitude. This represents that the Tower of China and the royal family have established a cooperative relationship. They need to provide services to the kingdom at certain times as a reward for land and taxation rights.

"Sir Xiao Chen, welcome your Tower of China to become the 25th magic tower to establish friendship with the kingdom. I hope that the Tower of China and the royal family can become long-term partners." The king smiled and said to Xiao Chen, as if the previous tripping incident did not exist.

"Your Majesty, there is an old saying in our hometown. If the king treats others as cherished as his hands and feet, others will naturally treat the king as their own heart." Xiao Chen said lightly.

"What the senior wants to say is: if the king treats his subjects as his hands and feet, then the subjects will treat the king as their heart, right?" Ye Zi asked in a low voice.

"No, what he meant was that if the king treats his subjects like dirt, then the subjects will treat the king like an enemy." Luo Ling said, her complexion had recovered a little, "But this sentence is not suitable for us."

"Why?" Ye Zi said.

Luo Ling smiled but said nothing.

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In the evening, in Xiao Chen's study in the office.

Xiao Chen and Luo Ling sat opposite each other with glass wine glasses. Xiao Chen drank wine, but Luo Ling drank water.

"Why did you tell Ye Zi that Mencius's words were not suitable for us? She asked me." Xiao Chen asked after taking a sip of wine.

"Because we will not be anyone's subjects. In the final analysis, we are irreconcilable with the king or the nobles." Luo Ling said.

Xiao Chen held his chin and looked at Luo Ling, who was serious under the light. "Are you going to say: No matter how you look at me, I will look at you as an enemy?"

"Enemy? No, we have no personal grudges, so we are not enemies." Luo Ling turned the wine glass in her hand, "Maybe grass is more appropriate. Because one day we will sweep them into the garbage dump of history."

"Is it too early to say this now?"

"Is it too early? I feel that the moment of collision will come soon."

"I really don't like the feeling of fighting."

Luo Ling sighed, "I don't like it either. But this is always the ultimate way for us humans to solve big problems. It's the same in any world."

"Well, anyway, from today on, we are on the stage of this world. Let's toast to this first." Xiao Chen raised his glass.

Luo Ling's glass touched his lightly, and she smiled and said, "No, we have always been on this stage. Since we came here, we are like a torrent that has broken through the dam, and no force can stop it from surging forward."

(End of the third volume of the torrent)

Happy New Year everyone! On the first day of the new year, this volume finally ended. In this chapter, Xiao Chen and his friends began to walk to the center of the stage. In the next volume, the ancient secrets will be further revealed, the Elf Kingdom will appear, and the royal disputes will unfold.