Soul Echo

morning sun was gradually raised from the horizon, and at dawn, Zhong Ye ate the last dry food he was carrying.

Wake the draught horse from its slumber by patting the horse's back lightly, and when the two horses had also finished their breakfast, he hung the rope around them.

Not far away, a dark and solemn castle stands on the top of the hillside, like a giant.

The farmhouses are radiating along the slopes, scattered on the ground, guarding the castle.

There are no fences around the village, but they don't need to be afraid of wild beasts because their lord is a powerful mage.

The Mage Lord of Etrull is also unique in the entire Western Continent - Mage who are powerful and willing to devote part of their energy to the kingdom can ask for a reward from the king or duke, and then they can get a Titles and their matching territories.

Territories and titles cannot be hereditary. At the same time, as lords, mages are also obliged to protect their subjects.

But on the other hand, the mage lands do not need to pay taxes, or in other words, the difficulty that mage lords solve for the kingdom is the 'tax' they need to pay.

The lifespans of powerhouses are mostly long, and the mages are the longest among them. They have enough time to develop the territory. After the territory is developed, they can get a lot of taxes from the territory to support them. spell experiment.

Although the mage's territory cannot be hereditary, the mage will be re-nationalized after the mage dies, but the mage can hand over the inheritance to the students or descendants, so that they can reapply for a mage's territory.

The kingdom can get a lot of mature industries, and the wizard has the funds to carry out spell experiments, everyone is happy.

This system has been around for a long time in the Kingdom of Etrull, even dating back two thousand years, and other countries simply cannot play it.

Even if the Kingdom of Etrull declines due to various coincidences, it can rely on this system to stand up again.

Mage territory is easy to distinguish from ordinary noble territory, and people usually call their territory by the name of the mage, indicating that their territory belongs only to themselves.

Zhong Ye drove a scooter and entered the territory of Master Victor. It was still early, but there were already farmers on the road.

After he entered the village, he saw a group of villagers gather and get on a donkey cart.

If there is no accident, the donkey cart should pull them to the factory and start a new day of production.

The trolley continued to walk, slowly approaching the castle.

Although the villagers were curious, they didn't respond too much.

They have a powerful mage lord, and there are many powerful followers under the lord, so don't worry.

There is only one road leading to the castle in the village. When Zhong Ye came to the gate of the castle, he found that the gate was closed.

He was silent, stepped off the carriage, tightened the reins, and took a deep breath.

The breath circulates in the lungs, rising suddenly, vibrating the vocal cords.

"Anyone?!!!"

Like an angry lion roaring wildly, the loud sound even frightened the two draught horses. They pull.

Soon, the side door was opened, and a young man in a robe looked out.

Seeing a man dressed as an adventurer standing in front of the castle gate, with a carriage behind him, the teenager shouted: "Who are you? What are you doing here?"

Zhong Ye glanced at the side door, "I'm Zhong Ye, I'm here to ask Mage Victor something, and for that, I've brought a living troll."

"A living troll? !"

The teenager screamed, and immediately found his lost self-control, and hurriedly covered his mouth.

"You, wait a minute!"

The boy dropped such a sentence and slammed the side door, but the sound of eager footsteps from behind the door became more distant.

Zhong Ye stood in front of the door and waited silently. About ten minutes later, the main door was slowly opened. The previous teenager and his companions walked out of the castle behind a serious-looking old man. .

The young man lowered his head and looked down. Before he could confirm with his own eyes whether the adventurer brought a living troll, he ran to report it to the teacher and was reprimanded.

The old man was the lord of this territory, Victor. He stood under the city gate and watched Zhong Ye for a while, before walking over again, and the apprentices and followers behind him hurriedly followed.

"Your name is 'Zhong Ye'?" Victor brows slightly wrinkle, "Easterland people?"

He was puzzled that an unknown Easterland person brought a living The troll came to him to ask something?

The mage has secretly set the trigger technique. Once the Easterlander on the opposite side attacks, even if he can't react, the spell will automatically counterattack.

But to his surprise, Zhong Ye didn't do anything, but moved away and let him see what was on the scooter - a pale-skinned troll!

"white troll?"

Victor frowned, he couldn't remember which troll skin on the world was white.

The troll gene is stubborn and not easy to mutate. The latest research has confirmed that trolls, humans and elves were born at the same time, but now humans and elves have developed a prosperous civilization. Demons are still like wild beasts, their intelligence is not as good as that of monkeys.

This is a mutant troll with high research value, and it is still alive.

—Victor saw the troll's chest rising and fell and heard the troll's breathing and heartbeat.

"...You don't look like a mage."

After a moment of indulgence, Victor said slowly: "As a warrior, you can actually catch a living giant. Demon, it must have taken a lot of work. I don't know if you know the value of this troll, but I can tell you that this troll is very valuable to me - now I ask again, do you still want Adhere to the previous conditions?"

"Your justice is admirable." Zhong Ye praised Master Victor and his face became serious, "But I insist, I do have some things I want to know. !"

Victor opened his mouth slightly and was stunned for a moment, he had never seen such a stubborn person.

I have already pointed out the value of that troll, but this Easterlander still only wants to get answers to a few questions...

Stroking his short beard, the old mage took a deep breath , "Okay, what do you want to ask?"

Zhong Ye looked around strangely, "Here? As the host, shouldn't you invite me in as a guest?"

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Victor nearly pulled his beard off, staring at the Easterland man in disbelief with round eyes.

Does he know what he's talking about?

That is his mage tower. In a complete and exclusive mage tower, mage is almost invincible - low-level mage impossible has his own mage tower.

"...If you insist on doing so."

Victor made an inviting gesture and asked the servant to pull the carriage into the castle, and led Zhong Ye inside.

After entering the castle, the old mage first let the apprentices and followers spread out to do what they should do, and then took Zhong Ye to the reception room.

The old master pushed open the door of the reception room, and Zhong Ye saw the tea pot on the shelf automatically fly out, unscrewed the lid, poured the tea into the teapot, and the teapot twisted its huge body and ran to the stove , the cabinet door suddenly opened, the tray flew to the coffee table with two cups, the tea cups jumped onto the coffee table, and then ran to both sides of the coffee table.

Victor led Zhong Ye to his seat, the steam spewed out from the spout and air hole of the teapot, the teapot flew up, poured the hot tea into the teacup, and the black tea swirled a few times in the cup.

"Please."

Old Master smiled and picked up the teacup, and took the first sip to demonstrate when inviting Zhong Ye to drink tea.

Zhong Ye tried it out with a little curiosity, and was surprised to find that the temperature of the tea was just right.

"I don't know Mr. Zhong Ye, what questions do you need to consult?"

Although Victor is a lord, he does not like to go around like a secular nobleman. , he prefers his identity as a mage to lords and nobles.

The Easterland man sitting across from him was paying a 'big price' anyway, so he naturally had to show corresponding respect.

hearing this, Zhong Ye put down the teacup and silently sorted out his thoughts and words in his head.

Seeing Zhong Ye's calm and serious expression, Victor waited quietly.

"I don't know Master Victor... What do you think of 'another world'?" Zhong Ye took a deep breath and raised his eyes, "I had a dream, and this dream continued on and off. For more than ten years, in that dream, there was a logically consistent and complete world, and everything seemed to be real. I would like to ask, do you think there is 'another world' in this world?"

"The question you raised is not my school of thought." Victor shook the head, first of all to point this out.

Then, he changed his words: "However, I can tell you for sure that 'other world' exists, not only exists, but in recent years we have also observed that our world is interacting with other worlds. One world is close. And the closeness of two worlds will naturally have some effects. For example, the dream you have now has a scientific name: echo sign.

"'Echo sign', as the name suggests, two The approach of a world has caused many ripples, and these ripples contain a lot of information, both in this world and in the foreign world. The ripples can be received by the soul, which is manifested in the knowledge acquired suddenly, and your dream.

"But you can rest assured that this is not a disease, just a symptom that may cause you some trouble, but it will not actually cause you any harm."

Having said that, Victor paused and continued: "Speaking of this, the last few days are just the window period for stargazing, if you are not in a hurry, you can stay here first, tonight I can let you Look at the world that is approaching us."

Zhong Ye was silent, he heard his heart thumping.

"...good!"