Dreamland.
Night covers the earth.
Compared with the previous forest paths, the magisters are in the central pavilion of the lake.
The dim light of fireflies flickers around you. Under the light, the flowers, plants and trees by the lake seem to be covered with a hazy veil, making them look particularly quiet and have a deep temperament.
The moonlight on the lake reflects the small buildings on both sides of the lake. The glazed lamps emit bright light, evenly surrounding the pavilion, illuminating the surrounding environment.
This wonderful and ever-changing fantasy territory can satisfy everyone's real and imaginary imagination at any time, and there are often no rules or common sense.
Just like the size of the island seen from the outside, due to the mutual checks and balances of spatial relationships and geographical location, this lake should never exist at the same time as the previous landscape of streams and cabins.
Yet everything is so real.
All that is needed is the word "dream".
"To be honest, my personal feeling is that although Lucifer Lestus is terrifyingly powerful, he really doesn't look like a conspirator."
Sonny Rodriguez's opinions were sharp and in-depth. Others looked at him one after another, but with different thoughts. The main purpose was to see what this enemy who prioritized eating crabs wanted to express.
However, this is indeed a general and overly bold guess.
The reason why these gathered magisters were confused was because ever since he appeared, the blond king had adhered to the principle that silence is golden.
One more thing:
Sonny also discovered that these guys were afraid of losing face by saying something wrong if they didn't understand well, and he was the only honest person who expressed his opinions seriously.
Everyone was sitting around in the gorgeously decorated hexagonal pavilion. The white pillars looked like carefully carved works of art. The material was delicate, smooth and textured, as if exuding sacred fluorescence.
This excessive silence also made Sonny feel uncomfortable, thinking to himself that these guys all seemed to be easy to get along with, but when it came to really important topics, they were all mute and quite able to hide.
Unlike him, he doesn't say anything.
The Magister is not a lobbyist, and for a long time there was no excuse to pursue the matter. No one wanted to provoke an unpredictable person for no reason and forcefully open his mouth while others were watching.
Caroline glanced at Sonny, "What basis do you have for making this judgment - relying on your 'leader's' vision that has been wasted for more than two hundred years?"
You can't say that she eats everything inside and outside. After all, being a master of fooling around involves basic operations. Although not everyone among these magisters can learn it, they are always good at keeping silent.
Caroline's words were a disguised reminder and the experience of her predecessors.
For someone as frank and straightforward as Sonny, not to mention holding him back, he can only be said to be easily led into a ditch.
Sonny's eyes twitched, "It's not my fault whether this issue can be over or not. I've seen a lot of people, can't I feel a little bit better?"
The magisters have nothing to do, and some "open secrets" will appear when gossiping and chatting with each other:
For example, Sonny Rodriguez, an excellent mage who was respected in the outside world, was an out-and-out street gangster more than two hundred years ago.
It is said that he also established a small gang composed of a group of wandering orphans, named himself the boss, went on rampage and led other children into trouble, euphemistically called it "recruiting capable people", and claimed to be the leader.
It wasn't until he picked up a magic book that Sonny, the young and crazy gangster leader, finally washed his hands of his troubles because he wasted his "immortal" career by studying.
As for who actually learned about the insignificant episode of the Kingdom of Cole more than two hundred years ago and exposed this secret to everyone - no one knows if you ask, but everyone understands it tacitly.
Seeing such an embarrassing scene, Julia Winter, who was sitting demurely aside, smiled gently:
"There is no need to make the atmosphere so tense. What Rodriguez said makes some sense, but more reference is needed to connect it with the actual situation."
These words may sound like support at first, but they are not. All valid opinions contain preconditions, which are almost as if they were not stated at all.
Caroline Sandra didn't take this very well. She raised her eyebrows and immediately retorted.
"I say Great Magician Winter, you'd better say something nutritious. Just trying to smooth things over will not help us solve the problem between us before King Lestus arrives."
Even if she was originally on the opposite side of Sonny to harm him, the great magician of the Kingdom of Crowley would not be able to take advantage of her externally.
But Caroline's tone actually slowed down a little, not as well as before.
At the same time, she glanced at Winter's expression, which was still as gentle and warm as spring breeze. She also suppressed the second half of the hurtful part, perhaps as a sign of respect.
Even as a citizen of the Kingdom of Cole, her original attitude towards the great magician of the Kingdom of Crowley should have been at least consistent with that of Quint, who was suspected of defecting to the top brass of the Kingdom of Crowley.
But this is not the case.
Not just Caroline, almost any magister would have the same reaction - the main one is Julia Winter, who is not an ordinary Crowley.
As the great magician of Crowley Kingdom, Winter is recognized as a good person.
It is said that she served the Crowley royal family as early as three hundred years ago and continued for hundreds of years. She retired and retired from the service in an upright manner, which was considered a good ending.
It wasn't until more than a hundred years ago that she was once again heartily invited by the senior officials of the Kingdom of Crowley who were trying to "gnaw at the old age". When the former great magician disappeared, she was appointed to take up the post of great magician.
Compared to Winter, who had an excellent reputation among her colleagues and was known to be enthusiastic about helping her younger generation, the Crowley Kingdom she swore allegiance to was not only disgusting, but was in a very awkward situation.
As we all know, the twin continents are divided into two halves, the Iverson continent and the Milnik continent. They are separated by distant seas and are extremely isolated. Only sparse islands are scattered along the shipping routes.
Due to the geographical separation, because their fates are tied together, the Kingdom of Denton and the Kingdom of Cole, the Kingdom of Crowley and the Kingdom of Lestus will more or less have closer ties with the mainland countries.
In this era, maintaining peace and stability among the same clan is the mainstream. Because the human race, which has a lot of experience with this truth from the lessons of history, knows this.
However, the Kingdom of Lestus has been almost completely closed since nearly a hundred years ago.
Normal diplomacy is no longer held, as if it has turned itself into an isolated island standing in the snowy mountains.
Not only that, because of conflicts over some trivial matters, the already poor closeness became even worse, and the relationship between the Kingdom of Lestus and the Kingdom of Crowley became increasingly tense.
Lestus's sense of existence only comes from the "mystery" generated by the lack of presence. It maintains a basically non-interference attitude towards other countries. At the same time, its power is daunting, and it is naturally outside the normal diplomatic system.
In this way, the Kingdom of Crowley, which did not even have good relations with its neighboring countries, was naturally isolated among the four countries. Compared to Lestus, who was self-isolating, the effect was quite embarrassing.
——Lestus believed that he did not need diplomacy at all and was willing to isolate his development from the outside world. However, the vast Kingdom of Crowley needed it very much and complained endlessly about it.
Because of this, the Crowley Kingdom, which had absolute advantages in land area, total population and production capacity a hundred years ago, has not been able to realize its ambition to rule the four countries.
Crowley was difficult to please in the past, and he also provoked the Cole Kingdom when he was running a conspiracy, creating a gap that was difficult to resolve.
It is said that the initial trigger of the several-year war between the Crowley Kingdom and the Cole Kingdom was because this estrangement was the last straw in the antagonism, and it got out of hand.
However, after the war thirty years ago, some facts were kept as secret files. In the end, all that was known to the world were some general and vague descriptions and heroic deeds.
Perhaps hundreds of years later, when most of the people involved have died, this information will be released, but this is not what needs to be considered now.
As a witness to many events over the past few hundred years, Winter is undoubtedly an old antique who knows more about the past than almost everyone present.
At the same time, many of the magisters present had been helped by this older magician, and they really couldn't say they were disgusted.
Some people received her patient guidance on attribute magic before they became adults, and some were led and accepted by this gentle female mage when they first entered the magister meeting...
This also makes Winter a person with excellent personal temperament and interpersonal relationships, who is completely difficult for everyone to feel disgusted... and who has to actively exclude and remain suspicious because of his position.
