Mage? Spell Engineer!

The Sixteen-Year Meeting, as the name implies, is a meeting held every so long.

The participants include the elders of the Arcane Senate, including the chief of the Thirteen Towers, the leader of the Alchemy Order of the Starry Tower, and the president of the Space Guild; there is also a special participant, the dwarf master craftsman.

Can the emperor be allowed to join the meeting? Snow and Simon did not express their opinions on this, but just conveyed this request for Paul. Snow emphasized that the emperor's purpose was not to spy on the secret meeting of the top spellcasters, but to try to meet the convener of the meeting.

The other participants tacitly gave the decision to Caroline.

Therefore, it was the chief of the Tower of All Arts who questioned the chief of the Tower of Stars: "It must be you who revealed the secret to Paul."

"Don't be so partial to your fellow junior brother, okay?" Snow's expression in the communication device was still playful, just like his predecessor, not a serious old man: "The emperor's purpose is very clear and his will is very firm, so I guess only Brother Rorschach can persuade him to give up."

"What?" Caroline did not understand Snow's riddle for a while.

The other party revealed the answer: "No matter whether the monarchs in history were foolish or wise, they often hoped to live longer. Our wizard emperor is no exception, and he is even more greedy. In this regard, the wisest emperor is also the most foolish."

"Eternal life?"

"Exactly. What's more regrettable is that he has found some clues, and it is related to Brother Rorschach."

Caroline interrupted him and continued: "I know, please ask him to come, but whether Rorschach is willing to meet is not up to me."

"Thank you for your help, ma'am. Wait, there is one more thing - when will my people be released? That kid just wants to make some extra money when he is short of money. There is no other meaning." As if to cover up his thoughts, Master Snow took a sip of purple soda to calm down.

"Earning extra money should not be involved in subversion. This is unforgivable in any country."

"Brother Rorschach didn't do much back then. Hey, don't go. I was wrong. You name the price."

After cutting off the communication, Caroline rubbed her brow. The conspiracy of the imperial faction was only a minor episode, and it was also a complete historical burden left by the alliance. The descendants of the royal family also integrated into the new society. There should be no more troubles before the fourth sixteenth annual meeting.

She walked from her office to the next room. This room was very special. It was in an independent small space bubble and could only be entered through Caroline's office. After entering, the furnishings remained unchanged for more than sixty years, and the appearance of that person was still there.

This was Rorschach's workroom in the past wizard tower.

Caroline moved the chair away and sat down quietly, supporting her elbows on the table and taking off the necklace from her neck.

The necklace pendant was a colorful glass, without polishing and faceting, exactly the way it looked after falling from the sky that year. Because of this, the smooth surface after melting and cooling was as warm as jade when it was close to the body.

Now she wanted to use this as a prop for simple divination. She took a deep breath, grasped the other end of the pendant rope with her left hand, and told Paul about meeting Rorschach. Then she just injected magic power, and the pendant began to rotate.

It was clockwise. After Caroline got the result, she immediately put the pendant away, and then stood up to restore the room.

This kind of divination will only be effective when it is close to the node of sixteen years. In fact, it is a simple means of communication between her and Rorschach.

It took sixteen years for Rorschach to appear for the first time after the Black Sun Disaster, but at that time it was only vaguely conveyed to Caroline alone, informing the current situation of the Mother Goddess and the Lord of Order, urging them to migrate to the astral world as soon as possible.

After that, the pendant did not respond, and Caroline waited until the second sixteen years, when Rorschach's voice was conveyed again through the glass, and there was a vague phantom. Witnessing the phantom, there were also the then-chief of the Mystic Tower and Andre, who became the first ruling of the alliance at that time, and the record was submitted to the Senate.

In the third sixteen years, according to Rorschach's intention, all the chiefs of the Senate participated in the meeting. Except for him who could attend the meeting "online", the rest had to go to the closed site.

So far, the meeting has become extremely high-level. The outside world does not know the mysterious convener. They only know that these top spellcasters who live in seclusion will hold secret gatherings every once in a while, and then bring back news and measures that change the world.

The agreed day has arrived.

The outer orbital station of the air element plane ushered in a gorgeous ship. After hovering in the airport, several huge and majestic humanoid machines flew out of it. They have both classical armor shapes and engine nozzles, and modern weapons. They adjust their steady postures in the air, line up in two columns, and face each other.

These are the emperor's "grenadier armor" guards, inheriting the glorious name and performing more glorious duties-laying the ground for the invincible Paul I.

The emperor himself is even a little insignificant in comparison. Although he can make himself fly through spells, he still stands on the head of a mecha with his hands behind his back, and then flies to the ground after reaching the destination.

Andre, who greeted him, raised his eyebrows slightly, implying disdain for the exaggerated behavior. The two of them were once opponents, one led the alliance, and the other ruled the Valois Empire to this day.

"Welcome, Your Majesty."

Paul nodded and shook hands, then got straight to the point: "Can I attend the meeting?"

"On behalf of Master Caroline, Your Majesty: You cannot attend the meeting, but you can meet whoever you want to meet after the meeting. In fact, they have already started, please follow me to the reception room and wait."

"Good, good, good!" The emperor called out three times and strode into the room.

At the same time, Caroline also walked into a hall. It was almost pure white with nothing but a round table. The top was not a chair, but a pedestal with intricate patterns and connecting points.

The other participants had already taken their seats and focused on Caroline, watching her take off the pendant of her necklace and perfectly fit it into the pedestal.

The next step was to wait for the glass to light up little by little, and the light spots floated out to form the figure of a young man. Caroline's eyes were fixed on Rorschach, who still did not change a bit.

Rorschach's eyes also first saw his teacher. He smiled and nodded, then scanned the entire conference hall: "Long time no see. There are many old faces here, and there are also a few newcomers. Welcome.

"But time is tight, so let's skip the self-introduction link and get down to business." Rorschach had an illusory notebook in his hand:

"First of all. The number of times necromancy magic is used has increased by 31% year-on-year in the past sixteen years, and the entropy flux has increased by 11.7%. What's going on? ”

The new chief of the Forest Tower is a lady who knows the relevant situation:

“You suggested using the apoptosis process of necromancy magic to treat the distortion caused by the pollution of the Mother Goddess. We have already accumulated mature experience. Two years ago, the Alliance and the Empire rolled out this treatment technology. ”

The participant of the Dark Tower added: “In the past few years, the dwarves have been trying to make their own puppets to strengthen the mining operations in the Fire Elemental Plane and break the monopoly of our magic guild. Can they be banned from using [Necromancy]?”

Rorschach refused: “I can’t do it directly from the spell cloud. You should first investigate whether the dwarves violated technical standards and humanity in this process. If not, you must not interfere.”

Then he opened the next topic: “The Storm Tower proposes to increase the output power of the lightning spell prototype by 120 basis points to deal with the secondary threat posed by the Mother Goddess. You have all read the proposal. Do you pass it? "

Others agreed, and from then on, the power of lightning spells triggered by the spell cloud increased by 1.2%, and the difficulty of casting increased slightly. Of course, this effect will be doubled on high-level spells.

Time passed little by little, and Rorschach reviewed the matters submitted by the last elder:

"A squadron of the pilgrimage fleet of the Church of Order disappeared, and reappeared on the past path, repeating the cycle many times. Well, this matter is not very related to our topic, so let's not discuss it at the meeting. Now let's talk about more important things:

"The will of the Lord of Order has completely disappeared, and His power is weakening and dissipating. This means that the progress of the Mother Goddess's revival will be restarted, and it is likely to be accelerated.

"Everyone, are you ready for the end of the world?

"Or are you ready for the new world?"