Mage? Spell Engineer!

Since the fall of the First Fire Tower, there are no more large magic towers in the Empire's existing control area, that is, the Kingdom of Marin and its surrounding areas.

Perhaps there are still wild magic towers in the mountains and hidden spaces, but as the emperor's "power outage" plan progresses, it is only a matter of time before they are exposed and come into conflict with the Empire.

The magic guild has withdrawn from the core area of ​​the Empire. Now they seem to be coming back in another way - transforming themselves into maintainers of forbidden magic devices.

The Empire's team alone cannot fill the gap in engineers needed. At this time, Baditz also introduced an outsourcing service company from Valois, which not only guarantees the supply of transmutation dust, but also provides some technical and operational guarantees.

The branch company grandly listed in the Empire is just an empty shell, but they are strong and can recruit on the spot with money, and can recruit full staff overnight. Each of them is good at writing, calculating, and knowing magic. It is hard not to wonder what the master did before.

It turns out that there are so many "wild talents" in my country, why don't I know?

The great Emperor William was sitting on the throne, holding his head with one hand, thinking deeply. Was it that the empire's talent selection system was not strong enough, or that foreign companies obeyed the law and provided high benefits? In the end, he simply stopped thinking about it. He chose to turn a blind eye and no longer care about the tricks inside.

During this period, he also suspected that the representative of the "rationality first" association was a spy. After many banquets and conversations, he confirmed that the lovely Mr. Baditz really thought he was digging the foundation of the guild and all mages. He had devoted himself to the cause he had identified and did not pay attention to the diversity of the association members at all.

After conferring the honorary title of Imperial Baron to Mr. Baditz, the emperor bid farewell to this idiot. He rubbed his eyes tiredly and joked to the courtiers in a relaxed manner: "I have been meeting with barons these days, one is fake and the other is real."

"Your Majesty, who do you think is behind Mr. Baditz?"

"The Committee of Valuana? Or the Magic Guild? Who knows." The emperor called the maid to remove the banquet, and he and the courtiers walked to the window sill of the banquet hall: "The Republic has reason to do this, because in their view, the threat of the alliance is greater than ours. This is a fact, and perhaps we can continue to extort something from them in the future. They and Istani hope that we can maintain a balance with the rebels.

"Guild. It must be their handiwork now, but that big fool has not noticed it yet, thinking it is his own credit. Maybe the association has been infiltrated by all parties. "The emperor just thought it was funny. Those bastard spellcasters even found such gloves to get back into the empire. Are they humiliating him?

"Then your majesty, as long as you give an order, I can do it."

"You can do what? Forget it, as long as it helps the plan, we will accept anyone who comes." The emperor set the tone. After discussing these things, he looked up at the sky.

At this time, a ladder ring happened to fly over the sky along the orbit. After a while, it will pass near Prager. It should be a low-level ring close to the ground, with a height of no more than 10,000 meters. With the moon as the background, the emperor saw a very small but clear black ring silhouette. Soon the black silhouette changed from a solid line to a dotted line. It was the engine and magic circuit on the ring that maintained the posture that were flashing.

The courtier noticed where William II was looking. He was old and his eyesight was not as good as the emperor's. It took some effort to see the ring.

Based on experience, the courtier expressed his opinion according to the emperor's previous attitude: "Strange tricks. "

But the emperor still stared at it. When the ring flew over the moon, it turned into eight relatively fixed stars under the deep blue starry sky. The eight stars and the emperor looked at each other in silence. Together with the faint light emitted by other celestial bodies and the light reflected by the moon, they shone on the magnificent buildings of the imperial capital.

The artificial stars at an altitude of 10,000 meters are no different from other celestial bodies for the empire. They are all out of reach.

William ignored the words of the courtiers, stared for a long time before saying to himself: "They are leaving the earth."

"Yes, Your Majesty, those cowards were frightened by the evil god believers and even wanted to give up their homes."

"The new 'ladder to heaven' has a total of five ring steps and can open a portal with a diameter of 40 meters. It is twice as large as the early version and four times the area. Through its spacecraft, it can directly lead to the star realm and can sail to other planes on a large scale."

The courtier was shocked. He didn't expect that His Majesty actually knew so much about the creations made by the wizards. Did he guess that his speech just now was wrong?

"If we stay, will we be swallowed by the end of the world? Is the magic-proof device really reliable? "William held down his new left arm, feeling anxious and fearful.

But there was no turning back now.

He gathered his thoughts and sorted out the current situation: "The Empire and the rebels are separated. The southern states have their own ideas. We need to win them over and appease them. The Imperial Parliament must continue to be held, focusing on reaching an agreement with them on trade exchanges.

"Valois may covet the areas bordering it, especially those with minerals. We can continue to negotiate with the Republic. As far as I know, their situation is also terrible, and they may not be able to continue to be tough.

"Between the alliance and us, the central region of the Empire has erupted from time to time with the pollution of the Mother Goddess. The rebels and our army have been seriously involved, and now it has become our isolation zone.

"At home, you are honest and capable." William turned his head to look at the courtiers.

The praised minister immediately lowered his head: "With the wise leadership of your majesty, we should work hard."

If it was when he first ascended the throne, William would definitely be delighted, but now he is immune to these praises. The emperor has realized that his authority now, which comes from the legacy of the previous emperor and the terror brought down by Gregory and the church, will become increasingly thin.

And there is another problem: "After the expansion of the dead magic zone, the wizards in the territory will inevitably cause dissatisfaction. Now, the empire's spellcasters are concentrated in the army, but this is only a temporary solution."

"Your Majesty, why not gather those wizards and designate a special area for them, where the device will not cover. Now in the north of our country, there are frequent activities of evil god cultists in the border area with the dwarves. Why not allocate that bitter and cold land to the spellcasters and let them toss around."

"Well, there must be someone who can calm them down for me." The emperor thought of someone, looked up at the starry sky again and murmured to himself: "Richard, you are a loyal minister, but I can't tell what you are loyal to."

Richard is also thinking about this question. He is now sending Franz back to Rorschach in his personal name.