After hearing what Hashir said, Wang's first reaction was to look at Rosalie.
Rosalie spread her hands: "I didn't receive any notice from my father, and now that we are here, this ship might have set off before the destruction of Qianshui City."
Elizabeth answered naturally: "That means this ship is unlikely to carry the rations we urgently need now."
Rosalie frowned and glanced at Elizabeth who specifically pointed out this point.
Elizabeth also looked at her with her hands on her hips: "Am I right?"
"Yes, Miss Langdon is so smart." Rosalie deliberately called Elizabeth by her last name.
Elizabeth: "Thank you, Miss Myhrvold."
Wang: "No matter what, let's go to the ground to check the situation. By the way, I just said so much, Flint, what do you call your old friend?"
Only then did everyone realize that they had not asked the old mage what his name was.
Flint: "Actually, you can call him an old liar."
Xiaobai raised his hand and pointed at the old mage: "Old liar!"
Wang gently tapped Xiaobai's head: "Don't do this. Even I, a person without emotional intelligence, know that this is wrong."
He turned to the old mage: "May I ask what you call me?"
"You can call me Minsk." The old man said. "By the way, I don't hate the title of old liar. Especially the little girl who can be my granddaughter."
The little white girl made a serious face: "I have experienced 24 complete seasons of reincarnation, and I am not a little girl."
Wang: "His 'small' refers to his size."
During the conversation, Hashir's voice came from the speaking stone in Rosalie's hand: "The ship from upstream is releasing a small boat. Do you want to let them land on the island? There are people dressed as mages on the ship. I'm worried about letting them go rashly. You will be raided if you come ashore.”
Wang: "First stop them from landing. We will go to the ground immediately."
"I got it. Kids! Hold your crossbows and don't let them reach the shore!"
Because Hasiel suddenly raised his voice to shout at the members of the Pelican Gang, Rosalie frowned and took the sound transmission stone farther away.
Wang: "Let's go up quickly. Mr. Minsk, because there are spellcasters on the other side, please help us stand down. After all, we don't know their purpose."
Rosalie: "Since they can pass through Monrovia, these mages should not be hostile to us, otherwise my father will not be able to let them come over."
Wang: "It's better to be prepared."
**
The group of people arrived at the shore of the floating island.
As soon as he saw the mages on the boat, Minsk took out a bottle of potion. Marika quickly grabbed his hand and prevented him from drinking the potion.
The next moment, the potion was in Marika's hand: "Advanced invisibility potion?"
Wang: "What?"
He took the potion from Marika's hand and looked at it. It was indeed a high-level invisibility potion.
Wang: "Minsk, what do you mean?"
Minsk frowned: "I just want to... save you a little trouble."
Wang: "What do you mean?"
At this time Nini said: "The two mages on the boat, as well as the mages on the boat behind with the Monrovia flag, all have the logo of the Austrian Law Federation on their robes."
Wang suddenly realized: "You want to run because they are mages from the Arcane Federation! The mage tower you belong to was destroyed by the Arcane Federation!"
Xiaobai: "I don't understand this. They are your enemies. You should bite them. What's the matter with running away?"
Minsk smiled and said: "My hatred for the Austrian Federation has long since disappeared, but after all, they are the organization that killed my mentor and classmates. I don't want to see them."
Wang: "Is it my imagination? Your expression doesn't look as simple as what you said."
Minsk: "It's your imagination."
Flint: "It's not your imagination."
When Wang was about to speak, the mage of the Austrian Law Federation, who was still on the boat, bent down and saluted, and then said loudly: "Are you the captain of the salvation team, Mr. Wang? I am the plenipotentiary envoy of the Austrian Law Federation, Kesette, and we have brought some things that you may Something that would be of interest.”
Wang glanced at Malika and ordered "catch him", then turned to the Federation envoy on the boat: "Can you tell me what it is? Or is it something that is not convenient to talk about in public?"
Kesette smiled and said: "Of course we can say in public that the President of the Austrian Law Federation decided to send us to join the salvation team after learning the information about the annihilation crisis in detail."
Wang: "Are you sure you want to join us? We are already openly opposed to the Catalan state religion."
The envoy's expression froze: "The Catalan State Church? Is it... the religious order of Lagnola?"
Wang: "Yes, Lagnola is the source of the crisis of annihilation. Although the headquarters of the Austrian Law Federation is not in Catalonia, it is not far away, right?"
Special Envoy: "Yes, we still have a branch in Catalonia, and we will recruit talented apprentices from Catalan. In fact, the leader of the Lagnola Cult was originally one of our apprentices."
Wang: "So... do you still want to join us on our journey to save the world?"
Special envoy Kesette lowered his head and was silent for a few seconds. Then he raised his head and said, "I can't decide this matter. We have to ask the president for instructions."
Wang made an invitation gesture to the ship flying the Monrovia flag: "Those guys, please go back. It won't be too late to wait for the president to make a decision before landing on the island."
The envoy saluted the king, and then said something to the sailor who was punting the boat, and the sailor turned the bow of the boat.
Old Mage Minsk breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you for not letting them go to the island."
Flint: "Old man, your reaction has definitely offended the Alfa Federation. You will be finished when they recognize you!"
Minsk looked at the surrounding Pelican Gang members and said, "Let's go back down and talk in detail."
Marika also whispered: "The expressions of several gang members indicate that they are paying attention to this area. Maybe they are spies from other forces - of course, they may also be simply curious. Let's go down and talk."
The king nodded.
**
Returning to the safe central control room, Minsk readily showed off his cards: "In fact, I didn't buy this scroll from a merchant at all. I intercepted and killed the expedition team hired by the Austrian and French Federation to capture it. I killed the leader of the team. The Arcane Union mage then asked the origin of this fragment through conversation with the dead.
"The Austrian Law Federation purchased this fragment from an intelligence dealer, as well as the information about its origin, and then organized an expedition to prepare to dig into the ruins."
Wang: "When did you intercept and kill the expedition team?"
Minsk: "Just a week ago. I promise I didn't lie this time!"
Wang looked at the map and drew a line between the capital of Monrovia and the current location of the island.
Nini said directly: "When the expedition team was intercepted, it was almost the same time that the special envoy Kesette set off from Minos."
Wang: "People from the Arcane Federation can teleport to Minos. They could have rushed to help when the orcs invaded before, but no magician from the Arcane Federation came to reinforce."
Rosalie took up the topic: "Because there are people in the Austrian and French Federation who hope that the orcs will slaughter the city and Monrovia will be destroyed. At that time, they were indifferent, but now they are so enthusiastic about sending people to join the rescue team. Thinking about it, this Austrian and French Federation It would be very suspicious.”
Wang: "Rosalie, you immediately order Hashir to be on guard. These people from the Austrian Law Federation may not have good intentions."
Minsk: "Of course they have no good intentions! Do you know why they destroyed our Mage Tower back then?"
Wang: "Why?"
Minsk: "To gain the knowledge our Mage Tower has! Our teacher was a master of Mordenkainen's line of magic at the time. He could even create new Mordenkainen rune locks.
"The Arcane Federation originally wanted to persuade the teacher to share his knowledge, but the teacher refused! Because the teacher looked down on the insects of the Arcane Federation. They are just a group of bandits who go around stealing other people's knowledge, and their own research level is in shambles!"
Wang: "Is the Arcane Federation such an organization? My family... according to the records in my mage tower, there are many good people in the Arcane Federation."
Flint and Malika said together: "Of course there are good people."
Then they both looked at each other.
Wang: "Have you both met the magicians from the Arcane Law Association who are pretty good?"
Marika: "Yes. I was able to escape from my bloody fate thanks to a gray-robed mage from the Arcane Federation. He also has a big beard."
Minsk touched his beard: "Any organization will have one or two good people. This is not surprising. But this does not change the nature of the organization! I swear what I said is true! Now that the Austrian and French Federation is looking for you, also Absolutely no good intentions!"
Wang: "I just said the same thing. The problem is, they won't try to take the knowledge of our Mage Tower as their own, right?"
Elizabeth suddenly exclaimed: "Your spell book! The Complete Book of All Magic! They might want to steal this!"
Wang: "But that one is the same as my dimensional bag, and it's bound to me personally."
Rosalie: "Do they know that?"
The king scratched his head: "You should know, right? I said it in front of the Archmage of the Court of the Kuosania Empire, and the Archmage of Langdon also knows... Huh? Wait a minute, did I say that?"
Elizabeth: "You said it, but you said it when you were teaching my archmage how to take dragon form, saying that only you can open that book."
Wang: "That's the end of it. They're not here for this book."
Elizabeth: "But... what if they want to control you and then ask you to read the book? After all, my great mage did copy the dragon shape spell from your book of all methods, which proves that this is feasible. As long as you let you Just come and flip through the book.”
Wang blinked: "This... can't be true, this is too unreliable, and I have resisted the power of the Nine Rings. What kind of magic can control me?"
Elizabeth: "My charming human."
king:"……"
(End of chapter)
