Mage? Spell Engineer!

It seems that the reason why the teacher was tracked down by the Knights was because she happened upon this scandal.

In fact, the Church of Order and the Holy Kingdom had long suspected that Istany was related to the Order, but at first everyone thought that Mother Earth had developed and infiltrated organizations that believed in Him in Istany. Unexpectedly, it was as a ruling group. The Knights went down personally.

"At first, I didn't suspect that I was from the authorities, until the police and relevant personnel tried to prevent me from leaving the country and my residence was searched." When speaking of this, Caroline frowned slightly, obviously feeling that the kingdom had offended her.

Rorschach asked: "Does the Magic Guild not care?"

"I also tried to contact the magic guild, but they refused to provide me with cross-border connections, and other magic towers also refused."

Is this direct pressure from the Kingdom? Rorschach felt a little ridiculous. When he contacted the magic guild in Storm City, the staff was indeed lukewarm, but there was no obvious obstruction, but no progress was made at that time.

"The magic tower here has such a weird attitude. There must be reasons for it, but the worst case scenario is that these mages are also involved and collude with the cult." Caroline concluded: "To be cautious, the guilds here are not It can no longer be regarded as being on our side.”

"Then ask for help, from Master Kano, Tower of Stars."

When she heard Rorschach say Kano's name, Caroline was stunned for a moment. She smiled: "From your letter, I know that Mr. Kano has also changed a lot. Perhaps it is due to our Rorschach." She said He patted the boy on the shoulder, and the sudden movement made Luo Xia quickly take a sip of tea to calm down his shock.

However, Caroline rejected Rorschach's idea: "If our lives are threatened, we can try to contact Kano or colleagues in the empire to help secretly, but it is not that easy to solve the underground cult.

"Think about it, if the local magic tower and the authorities don't cooperate, can the forces from the Holy Kingdom or the Empire openly attack the sect across the border? Let alone the cooperation partners of the authorities."

"Haha, it seems we are." One was a man from the Holy Kingdom who was forced to get involved, and the other was a man from the Empire who took the initiative to investigate and studied in the Holy Kingdom. They met in the shadow of Istani.

"That's why I said it can't be made public." Caroline refilled Rorschach's tea. In the steaming mist, Rorschach thought of the Marquis of Shadowland:

"It is clear that the development of the cult in Shadow City will shake the rule. Why did the Marquis refuse my offer of cooperation? It is said that he has the strength of an archmage, so there is no need to sit still and wait for death."

"First of all, the Marquis' attitude towards me was quite positive at first. At first, his power and I did deal with some leaders of the cult and cleared some contaminated strongholds, but he was very conflicted."

"contradiction?"

"He is afraid that more mages will enter the shadow land. Wouldn't this also shake up the rule? It is best to be the same as it has been for hundreds of years. Those who fall are the old, weak, sick, and marginalized people in society, so that he can manage it easily.

"Secondly, the Marquis realized that the Earth Order was a relatively large organization in the upper realm, and he quickly adopted a more passive defensive posture - you should have seen the 'characteristic road signs' in the core area."

The prisoner's pendant penetrated directly from bottom to top. Looking back on it, Rorschach still felt a little disgusted: "Yes, it was quite laborious."

"That was exactly the Marquis' method. He believed that as long as the people of the Shadow Land did not believe in the Mother Earth, it would be difficult for that existence to infiltrate the Shadow City. Therefore, he used violence and torture to intimidate the residents in the core area and strive to reconcile and educate them. The water from Tuanjing's well does not interfere with the water from the river."

Rorschach did not think that the Marquis's strategy would be effective, because there were various signs that Mother Earth was gradually recovering, which meant that this "sewer where reality and symbolic worlds blended" would definitely be infiltrated by His power, and even due to Its characteristics will bear the brunt.

Then the reason why the Order attaches great importance to this place is also easy to explain - as the underground mirror of Storm City, mastering this place can mean that the Order will easily capture Storm City.

Caroline hadn't finished her words yet: "Secondly, you just said that the Marquis has the strength of an archmage, right?"

"Yes. Oh, it was the black monk from the Upside Down Church who said it."

Caroline shook her head: "I don't know much about that monk, but I know about archmages, like Master Kano, Master Poincaré, and the gap between archmages like us and intermediate mages is greater than the gap between ordinary people and low-level spellcasters. Even bigger.

"I don't agree with the saying that the Marquis's strength is equivalent to that of the Archmage. In the final analysis, he is just an agent of the power of the shadow. This area is like a beast entrenched in the gap between reality and illusion, constantly devouring people to maintain its own exists, and he is chosen as the agent of order.

"The Marquis is slightly stronger than our intermediate mage, but definitely not up to the level of the archmage."

When Rorschach came into contact with Carnot and Poincaré, they were all amiable and did not show any special power.

However, he forgot for a moment that these two men faced the descending angels without any external assistance, directly confronting the most powerful existence under God. The "own members" of the Church of Order, except Du Plessis and Joseph, were all absorbed by the angel corpse after witnessing it.

In contrast, Granor deserves the title "The Shame of the Archmage".

"What kind of existence is the Archmage?"

"You ask me? I haven't been promoted either. Maybe like most mid-level mages, I will never be able to reach it in my lifetime." Caroline spread her hands, looking a little playful, but more of a helpless one.

"It is said that in front of legendary spellcasters, reality is as fragile as paper. If they are willing to pay a terrible price, they can rewrite reality and even history. But based on my understanding of Master Kano, he is more interested in using magic to dominate others and transform the world. Would love to taste the food.”

Maybe what maintains the current appearance of the world is balance? Is it the mutual restriction between forces? Rorschach could only guess. Returning to the current situation they were facing, they had been talking for so long and came to the conclusion that there seemed to be no solution.

Rorschach looked directly into Caroline's eyes and advised: "Teacher, in this case, let's go directly, leave this ghost place, and leave the Istani Kingdom. I have a way to contact Master Kano and ask him to respond to us. Since The Archmage is so powerful, it’s not easy to catch two people.”

From her description, continuing to investigate is going against the entire kingdom. Just let them run all the way into the arms of the Virgin. The worst is to build a wall on the coastline, out of sight, out of mind.

"Who says there's nothing we can do? Teacher, I'm just waiting for an opportunity here. Do you know the resistance on Air Island? I was able to hide in because of their help."

Meanwhile, on the Isle of Air, on the edge of a swamp. The moonlight shone softly on the earth, but it could not conceal the solemn atmosphere.

The Knights of the Burning Lion gathered in the mud. They were fully armed. The leader of the group mobilized with a fierce look on his face: "In front is the stronghold of the Mudblood rebels. Anyone with ears will be killed and burned by me. No one will be left alive." !For Her Majesty the Queen!”

"For Her Majesty the Queen!"