Mage? Spell Engineer!

The train wheels and the railway made a clanging sound.

"How is it?" Master Humboldt who just came in asked.

Rorschach reached out and put his hand on Richard's forehead: "There are signs of collapse." He glanced at the anxious Libus and added temporarily: "But overall it's nothing serious."

The noncommissioned officers and guards who rushed over after hearing the sound suddenly opened the door. Their eyes briefly lost focus for a moment, and then they exited and closed the compartment door in a daze.

Libus finally realized a very critical issue: "You are casting a spell! This is within the empire's forbidden magic territory!"

"The reason behind it is very simple, but are you sure you want to listen?" Rorschach said with a serious face.

Libus flinched a little. She wanted to forget it, but she still mustered up the courage: "I want to know, just like I also want to know why Richard fainted, and why the two of them arrived immediately after he fainted."

Rorschach and Humboldt looked at each other and decided to tell the girl the truth.

First of all, the empire's large-scale anti-magic devices have been replaced on a large scale with "dual templates" - which can simply interfere with and distort magic like the old machines, and can be formed into groups to create large areas of dead magic. .

But it can also be switched into "weaver" mode to polarize the frequency of magic. In this case, the mage who knows string magic can of course continue to cast spells.

Libus was in disbelief: "Impossible, the emperor wants to ban magic! Unless the entire anti-magic agency has been bribed by you?"

"How is it possible?" Rorschach directly denied: "We bribed the entire empire.

"With its current industrial strength and economic status, it is delusional to roll out the entire system so quickly, unless it receives external support, and we have a roundabout way of sponsoring His Majesty Wilhelm II's great plan. It can be said that In the middle and late stages of the project, from new magic generators to disruptors and weavers, we provided them to the empire through Valois' company.

“The maintenance and operation of a huge system cannot be separated from external support, so who can provide such resources and technology to support it?

"So in addition to the earliest machines, everything running in the empire now has a 'back door'. The so-called dead magic area can be converted into an area covered by a special magic net at any time. As long as it is allowed and masters special spell-casting skills, it can' Go online'.

"How could your Majesty allow this?"

"He has no choice, and he doesn't need to choose." Humboldt continued: "No matter how the system operates, it can invalidate traditional spellcasting methods and suppress the activities of gods such as Mother Earth. For the emperor, That's enough.

"The new method of casting spells is now only in the hands of a small number of guild members. Miss Crocker, do you think the emperor is more threatened by the magic guilds that have been at peace with the empire for hundreds of years, or yours? Is the Empire’s spell caster a big threat?”

"Of course it is." Libus recalled the night when William II came to the throne. No matter which party was the magic guild, she swallowed the answer.

"Therefore, under the pretext of guarding the border, concentrating the empire's spell casters in the border duchies and the central areas, which are widely polluted by the Mother Goddess, is also the emperor's way of getting rid of the 'legacy of the predecessors'. After all, the chief magician who is loyal to the royal family is still in the army. He passed away earlier than the late emperor, and most of the remaining military mages became unstable factors.

"Richard is the new chief, the chief mage of the empire who is worthy of his trust. He is also the earl of the border, and a 'warden'. He subdues the imperial spellcasters who followed him to the north, and cultivates talents in the territory. A new batch of talents that can be used by the emperor, whether it is spellcasters or engineers who master new technologies," Humboldt finished his analysis.

Rorschach made the final addition: "This is the Senate's analysis of William's mentality and behavior. Although we have not communicated directly, fortunately, His Majesty is much more mature than when he first took office. He knows how to compromise and understand each other, so that It was much easier for us to interact with him.

"In return, we will not actively and massively leak the new spellcasting system to the original batch of imperial spellcasters. They will continue to fight against the servants of the Mother Goddess in the traditional way, while a new batch of people, regardless of whether they have magic talent or not, will Then you will receive our training and become a help in building the territory.

"That's part of the tacit understanding."

Libusi's eyes widened. Even though she had seen some so-called "things under the table" in the Grand Duke's Mansion, she was still shocked by the two archmages. Because the two people's tone was extremely calm, they talked about the emperor of the empire as if they were talking about the weather, dissecting his behavior, and rewriting the empire's plan according to their will and doing so, as evidenced by the fact that the two of them cast spells without any obstacles.

What shocked her even more was what happened next about Richard.

After chatting for so long just now, Richard gradually became active. This is because the area the train travels through is already covered by the magic net, unlike the Imperial Capital which is completely "dry".

He opened his eyes and saw the girl beside him, saw his friend and felt Rorschach's hand on his forehead. At this time, Rorschach had finished exploring Richard's body. He stayed in the Imperial Capital for too long, which was a completely and rigidly magic-free zone, and after the train left, it plunged into a place covered by a magic network.

Originally, his special body was stuck in the dead magic area, which made him feel empty. Although he would not die suddenly, he would gradually become weaker. When he suddenly entered the edge of the magic network, due to the performance limitation of the machine, the polarized magic power was scattered at the junction of the two areas. Richard was not in a good enough state to cope with the impact of the environmental change when he connected. The non-native magic circuit in his body was destroyed, and the soul and its container, which were not originally one, had gaps and cracks.

Now Rorschach used his own magic control method to reconcile the abnormal circuit operation in his body. In addition, the train had entered the stable area of ​​the magic network, and the soul was in harmony again, so he naturally woke up gradually.

However, at this time, he still felt extremely sleepy and had to force himself to open his eyelids.

"I'm fine. According to experience, as long as Rorschach arrives, I will be fine." Richard saw that Libus was worried, and smiled and told her not to worry.

Rorschach disagreed with Richard: "To be precise, I can always arrive if something happens to you, and then I can cover for you. Do you want to tell her what happened to you?"

"I'm sleepy and my brain is not working properly. I can't organize my words well, so please tell Libus, don't keep it secret."

"Okay." Rorschach told her everything about how he blew up his friend and resurrected him. Libus asked in a trembling voice: "Is Richard still him?"

"It is very certain that his soul has never been changed. He is still kind and upright."

Hearing Rorschach bragging about himself in front of Libus, Richard wanted to be modest, but he didn't expect his friend to say the next sentence: "As for the body, he just lost the genetic function, but his other abilities are very excellent, even better than the original one - the body I molded is close to perfect in many dimensions."