Jonah was not an idealist who shouted slogans. On the contrary, from his narration, Lu Ning could tell that he had visited countless places and dealt with several incidents of magic book contamination.
"Perhaps...you are the real 'book-burning official'." Lu Ning sighed, "But you are the only one who can think so, because your companions seem to be just a group of people who use this slogan to A profit-seeking lunatic.”
"I have no way of knowing how many evil things they have done." Jonah took two steps forward. "I only know that the current Book Burning Order is different from what I expected when I joined. But I have no choice. Because only the concept here can accommodate me. Thank you very much for listening to what I have said so much. I do not expect you to understand, nor do I expect you to change your mentality because of this. For an apprentice, You have gained the benefits here, and you should use this to grow until you can think about this kind of thing."
His body surrounded by white light walked past Lu Ning and walked towards his own body.
"Leave. Don't tell anyone what happened tonight. Burning books - I will fulfill my responsibility like this, but it doesn't mean that others will do the same."
At this moment, two large crossbow arrows suddenly flew from another oblique angle, one aimed at Jonah's soul, and the other flew towards Jonah's body!
The sudden attack did not make Jonah panic at all. The light on his body became even more dazzling. After contacting the light he released, the two crossbow arrows shattered in the air and fell to the ground without power.
"Don't move! Guard!"
Several black figures rushed out, and two artificial life forms rushed at the front, with bright magic arrays shining on their bodies, and powerful beams of light blasting out from their bodies. But Jonah had already returned to his body in an instant, took out the sickle from behind with his backhand, jumped up to avoid the beam, threw the sickle away in the air, and two bunches of charms woven with charms hung from the handle. , rolling up a pure white flame.
"go."
With a clear chant, the two flames rushed towards the artificial life. The protective magic array drawn on them had no effect. The flames burned through the core in an instant and stopped running.
At this time, Lu Ning also heard Jiefeni's voice.
"Lillian! Great! You're okay! Let's get out of here! That guy is a dangerous person!"
Lu Ning nodded, turned around, and quickly left the battlefield with Jiefeni.
She felt some sympathy for Jonah. Although the other person was much stronger than her, she still had a goal that she could accomplish, but the other person had absolutely no possibility of realizing her ideal. Since he has done so much thinking, he must have realized that unless he can control the most supreme power in the world, it is impossible for him to change everything. Perhaps hundreds of years later, Jonah will be praised by future generations as a great man or a pioneer, but this cannot change the fact that he is powerless now.
Therefore, she still narrowed her gaze and focused it in front of her eyes. It’s impossible for all book-burners to be like this. Their reputation is not just a rumor. Even Jonah himself said that others might not do this.
What exactly is the principle behind burning books?
"Jefni, this may not be the only place where Book Burner operates."
"What?"
"Before you arrived, I had a brief conversation with him. He said that there will be book burnings in many places tonight... Do you know what this is?"
"I don't know! I've never even heard of this name! But it must mean something bad is going to happen, right?" Jefni looked a little panicked.
"It must be something very bad." Lu Ning nodded, "Jefni, we have to sound the alarm - oh, damn."
Just when Lu Ning and Jiefeni ran to a road, they saw several monsters appearing in the ruby area in the distance.
They are made entirely of rock and range in height from five to seven meters. They become very conspicuous when they stand up. Coincidentally, Lu Ning really knew the origin of these monsters——
[These little giants that grew up by devouring minerals are called "Usga" by the locals, which means "moving mineral veins". 】
This is recorded in the magic book "Cauldron of Chaos". Now it seems that even if it is not that book, a similar magic book has been burned. The appearance of these monsters is the result of book burning not being strictly enforced.
But... something like that just happened, and the guards must still be working. Can they really cause any big turmoil with the monsters released in a book?
Lu Ning took Jiefeni for a while and saw the door of the Crow Hotel. The store door was open at this time, but the people gathered in the store were all the underground partners summoned by Pierre, and Black and White Rose were also here.
"Lillian!" White Rose waved as soon as she saw her.
"White Rose? I heard that you went to investigate some issue of abuse of transformation. Is the matter over?"
"I lost him." White Rose shrugged, "I was only sure that the person was Yilaire. This guy got a kind of magic that can transform at will from somewhere, and he took advantage of the chaos in the store where he originally worked. He killed the original shopkeeper, played different roles during the day and night, and contacted many famous guys in Evarang through the shopkeeper's network. He disappeared later, probably because he was too lazy to play the shopkeeper, he must have a better identity. "
"Like a traitor?"
White Rose snapped her fingers.
"But the situation outside is not very good now. I met Book Burner..."
"Book Burner?" Pierre shouted, and everyone's eyes suddenly focused on him.
"No...why did they suddenly start attacking?"
"To be precise, they burned books. Pierre, do you know the specific situation?" Lu Ning asked him directly.
"I don't know everything." Pierre shook his head, "The Book Burners always remain mysterious, and few people witness their actions."
"But I've still seen the endgame." Someone said.
Most of the friends that Pierre summoned were people who did less visible things. Most of them, like Black and White Rose, were not resident in Eval Gallery, but they had no choice but to stay here this time. But this means that these half-thieves, half-bandits running around are actually quite knowledgeable.
"I have seen a place where books were burned. Anyway, there is no living thing in the area about one kilometer around the center. Even the soil has been severely eroded by magic, making it difficult to grow ordinary crops." The magician seemed happy to show off his knowledge, "There is a black circle in the center, about one meter in diameter. I can feel that the concentration of magic there is hundreds of times higher than normal. People who have asked some of the surrounding villages know I came a day late.”
"Have you seen the death of the people there?" Lu Ning asked.
"Death state? Of course I saw it. They were chopped into pieces by the bones growing under their own skin, and they died miserably."
Jefni's face turned pale when she heard this.
"But I'm sure it wasn't caused by pollution. After all, organisms produced by pollution don't have this habit of committing suicide. It's true that the death was caused by external forces. How about that? I can only provide so much information. Can I get any useful conclusions? ?" The magician looked at Lu Ning with a grin.
"That's enough, thank you." Lu Ning nodded, "Then please note that the attack caused by burning books is a short-term and highly lethal attack. If I were to make an irresponsible guess, it should be through burning The host body makes the inner soul violent, completely liberating the magic power in the magic book, and driving the soul to release the magic it was good at in life. But after all, the soul cannot maintain it for a long time without support, so it will lose its power in no more than one day, but the huge The magic will still remain in that land.”
"Hey, we'd be in big trouble if that were the case."
After the magician said this, everyone suddenly felt the ground shake.
"Hey, hey, hey! Pierre! We can't sit here peacefully like this!" Someone yelled, "Evarang has even controlled that kind of scene, can't we still control this kind of problem?"
"External hidden dangers are external after all, and it is easy to find a response strategy for the defense of Evarang. But this time is different." Pierre said.
"What's the meaning?"
"You can go outside and take a look at the library."
After everyone heard this, they walked out one after another. Soon, exclamations came: "Light! Why is the light gone?"
"That's not a light, it's just the magic flickering caused by the eternity stone at the top of the Violet Library constantly gathering magic power." Pierre walked out, "It's not that conspicuous in the night, as if it's just a part of the starry sky. But when it disappears, it means something is wrong in the library.”
"Internally? Something happened to the Magic Council itself? Isn't this... too ridiculous?"
"Pierre." Lu Ning said, "How many people can the eternal stone you mentioned be able to touch it?"
"I think you have the answer to this question yourself. Twelve members." Pierre sighed, "Now, they are taking action at the same time, and these people inside Evarang are the enemies who truly understand the weaknesses of the Magic Council."
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"The book burning has begun."
Heinz sensed the magic power that was beginning to fill the surroundings and said to the magician beside him: "It seems that the first step has been completed. Gascoigne is indeed a trustworthy ally."
"Your Excellency, the news coming from the front is that the medical team that was brought into the diamond area as a medical team has been trapped in a maze. They didn't notice it and were still treating the wounded."
"Very good. This matter has nothing to do with them in the first place. There is no need to involve them."
"But..." The magician hesitated.
"speak."
"Your Excellency, burning books will still lead to the death and injury of many innocent people in the Evar Gallery. Is this really okay?"
"This is what I have to pay in exchange for the Book Burner's help. Although I know they have ulterior motives... but the external problems are easy to solve. The Stone of Eternity no longer shines, the Violet has fallen into darkness, it is time to wake us up The 'books' have been prepared for a long time."
Heinz took off a pendant from his neck. A thin silver thread was threaded through fifteen copper plates with names engraved in ancient characters. He began to recite something in a low voice. Soon, fifteen A green flame ignited on the copper piece. After the copper piece disappeared in the flame, Heinz threw away the silver wire and raised his head.
"There is actually someone..."
"Heinz!"
A mage in purple robes stood a street away, followed by his attendants. This mage naturally saw everything Heinz did, and his knowledge was enough to understand what Heinz did.
Pablo, the magician that Lu Ning met by chance the night before the library opened, is known to like to learn about all kinds of magical things, and of course he will not miss the incident in Evarang. But now that he saw Heinz's behavior, he immediately started to curse.
"How many people do you want to die? I didn't expect that you who usually don't like to deal with people would hide such deep ambitions! No! It's simply a devil! Have you ever thought about how many people will die because of this? Is this the justice and courage you expected when you were young?”
"People change, Pablo. If you were in my place, you would change too. This is for Evaleria, and for magic to flourish."
"I think it's pretty good as it is now! And your prosperity is just to push yourself to a high position! I understand! You just think the current situation is not correct! Dulemond is not iron-blooded enough! Are you martial arts practitioners? Is it just training the muscles into the brain?”
"Pablo, I don't want to talk nonsense here, get out of the way."
"Sir... it's best now..." the attendant also advised from the side.
"Wumeng, get out of my way! Heinz, I know from what happened before that those people can't make any big waves, but you! If it were you, even the Magic Council might suffer heavy losses because of this! Your so-called prosperity , do you want to set magic back a hundred years before starting?"
Heinz lowered his hand and put it on his sword.
"Very good, are you going to use force? Heinz, I tell you clearly, I am just standing here scolding you, and if you kill me, it will prove that you are just a hypocritical careerist! You can only plan one A conspiracy to satisfy your own desires, not for any high-sounding justice! You can’t even be a ruler because you can’t even listen to anything that is against you!”
"you're right."
Heinz's figure disappeared instantly, and then returned to the place a second later. He slowly pointed the sword at the scabbard, and blood was dripping from the tip of the sword.
Pablo lowered his head and glanced at his cut abdomen, where internal organs mixed with blood were flowing out.
"I know very well that I am not qualified, and I have no intention of being a ruler. I am a warrior, just to clear the way. When this is all over, I will naturally find someone who can take the position, but Pablo, you It really helped me understand myself, thank you.”
"You bastard..." Pablo fell down with a twisted expression, and the flames rolled up and engulfed his body. Heinz sighed, but suddenly found that he could not find the attendant.
"Forget it, let's continue."
He walked through the flames.
