Chapter Fourteen Old Fox
After stepping out of the gate of the hotel, Sharp's figure shattered like a bubble and disappeared into the thick night. Old Green did not retract his gaze and said in a hoarse voice: "Are you going to accept his mission?"
"Whether we will accept it in the end, the most important question at the moment is that it is no longer safe and we must transfer it immediately." Douglas's expression was quite serious.
Fernando also woke up and muttered: "Whether to accept this task or not is determined by those old men. All we can do is leave here and then establish a new place to connect."
This is an obvious problem. Even if the union promises to take on the task of assassinating Alfonso and establishes a good private partnership with the great nobles represented by Sharp, it will not expose the contact transfer station that is very important to the entire organization to their sight. If communication is needed, it is better to maintain a smaller and one-way channel, such as Old Greene will shoulder this task.
In such a thing, being careless will only mean that the organization is not far from destruction!
Then, Fernando was worried that the partition wall would be connected with his ears and souls to Douglas and Old Green: "See the underwater remains of Lake Lamorag."
"Okay, you go first, I have to leave some secret notes to warn the mages who have come here during this period." Old Green looked around the lobby of the hotel, with a clear sigh and reluctance in his tone, as if he was forced to leave the home he had worked hard for decades and had to go far away.
Fernando laughed: "If you lose this shabby place, you will lose it. What's the point of regret?"
"In fact, this is the 'family industry' that my great-grandfather started to run." Old Green's tone was plain, without any anger, as if he was telling other people's affairs.
Fernando was stunned for a moment, looked down at his toes, then raised his head, looked at the wine cabinet behind Old Green with bright red and vibrant eyes and said, "Maybe this hotel will be preserved. You are a heavenly knight, and have good relationships with many nobles. It may come in handy in the future, but there will not be so many magicians here again..."
He talked endlessly.
"Get out quickly, a bad-tempered boy! I don't need your sympathy!" Old Green suddenly swears and interrupts Fernando's words.
Fernando's face turned slightly red and he snorted: "I sympathize with the Black Paw Dog, nor will I sympathize with you, the old man who is half lying in the cemetery!"
After saying that, he turned around and left.
Old Green raised his chin and signaled Douglas to follow, and he said, "Didn't the Necromancer often say that lying in the cemetery is the beginning of life?"
"Those rotten corpses with stinky smell know what life is?" Fernando said without looking back.
"You little brat, you are not as old as mine. You know what life is?" Old Green "is not showing any weakness."
In Douglas's slightly helpless eyes, the two of them kept arguing until Fernando walked out of the door and merged into the night.
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Under the stars, the lake is shining with bright light, rippling waves, peaceful and quiet. There are many such lakes, like scattered pearls, scattered on the earth, connecting them into a string of dreamy necklaces.
"It is worthy of being the 'land of thousands of lakes'..." Douglas, who was floating on the lake, said in admiration, and took a deep breath of fresh air with a faint smell of water.
Fernando said a little surprised: "Do you know the 'land of Thousand Lakes'?"
"Of course, its reputation has been passed to Antiffer with the magicians coming and going." Douglas laughed.
"What's so good about this..." Fernando murmured in a low voice without aesthetic taste, and then said, "This is Lake Lamorag, please follow me."
Douglas looked at the lake and found that it was not big. Some people believed it was a giant puddle, but can such a small lake have underwater remains?
The two of them cast their spells, fell into the water, and quickly sank to the bottom of the lake in the rippling waves.
Fernando noticed Douglas's strangeness and explained in the spiritual connection: "I don't know which idiot magician built it. Maybe he wanted to connect the entire Thousand Lakes. However, it was precisely because of his idiot that this ruin was not discovered. The church could not imagine that there would be ruins under such a small and resourceless lake."
Under a huge rock is a small cave that is not like it is opened for humans, but like the nest of some aquatic creatures.
Fernando directly evaporated his body and drilled in. Douglas did not hesitate and followed suit.
After passing through the winding and narrow "pipe", Douglas found himself in a palace where many magicians came and went, and were quite alert to their arrival. However, after seeing Fernando's familiar and beautiful face, they all turned their heads and were busy with their own affairs, such as alchemy materials, exchange of magic books, and asking others to refine items.
Among them, a high-level magician directly casts magic to check whether Fernando is transformed or disguised by others. In this regard, the magicians who are known as "sewer rats" are much more alert than the referees, because those who are not vigilant are dead, or they "learn" and "warned" at a high cost.
"It's just like a gathering place for magicians..." Douglas said with a slight relief and sigh.
"Douglas, Fernando, you are here just in time. President, I know what happened just now, please go and see him." Roland, who escaped early under Fernando's cover, trotted over.
"Is this the union's headquarters?" Douglas was a little surprised. Fernando had not mentioned it before.
Fernando also found it strange: "The president is here?"
"Yes." Roland nodded and looked at Fernando up and down, "It's fine if you're fine. The president had been planning to meet Douglas here and hold a core meeting, but there was an accident in the Grilled Fish Hotel..."
It seems that I am still wary of me, and it hasn't been so quick to let me know where the headquarters is... Douglas thought to himself, but he has never been confused about such a small problem and nodded generously: "Roland, please take us to see Mr. President."
"The fool's mission they issued..." Fernando followed Douglas and cursed quickly.
After passing through a corridor paved with stone bricks, a hall covered with strange patterns appeared at the end. An old man with white hair and beard and energetic strode out and laughed: "Welcome to our Magician Union, Douglas, you are an extremely outstanding magician. Your research on curves and irregular figures has come to us. If you have the chance, I hope to ask you for advice."
Douglas was a little stunned. Annold, the president of the Magician United Union, also knew that he was studying "flow numbers"?
"Flow number" is the name of the initial fate of the part of the mathematical content he studied for himself, but he increasingly felt that the name was inappropriate and planned to change it.
Douglas' surprise did not last long and soon woke up. His communication with Fernando these days may have been watched by Annold. He even decided to hold a core meeting a few days later, perhaps to have time to "observe" himself.
Being able to become the leader of a relatively large magic organization is indeed not easy!
“I was inspired by a lot of research from great magicians in the past,” Douglas said modestly.
Annold had few wrinkles and a rosy face. He pointed at Douglas and smiled: "Don't be humble. If you can study successfully, the difficulty of learning and building magic will be greatly reduced. This will bring us a bright future! Okay, today we won't discuss this for now, mainly talking about the tasks given by the 'Deep Blue Demon'. By the way, this is Rig. You have seen it. This is Ramon and Veronica, both the vice presidents of the union."
He introduced the few people who followed him, who had many wrinkles, a hooked nose, a tall and thin Ramon with a horse-faced face, a high and blond hair, and a gem-like Veronica. They were all wearing typical magic empire robes, gloomy and deep.
After Douglas greeted him one by one, he smiled at a brown-haired young man next to Annold and said, "Garros, long time no see."
The young man's hair was neatly separated to both sides, his high collar reached the top of his head, and a cynical smile on his face: "I really didn't expect you to do something to raid the referee. This is Fernando's style."
He introduced Garros, Fernando and Roland's friend, Annold's student, and an advanced wizard of the Sixth Ring Road.
"Hmph, do you envy?" Fernando was not at all at all talking.
Garros laughed, looking at the toes with black eyes, and did not respond, because President Annold began to ask: "What do you think of the mission entrusted by the 'Deep Blue Demon'?"
Roland, who led the way, quietly withdrew from the palace and closed the door.
Rigg said with a gloomy face: "He just used this task to warn us that there is no need to get involved in this issue."
"But what if we can really do it? Will he really value us and work with us first?" Ramon pulled his face long, opposing Rigg's opinion.
"First of all, we have to be able to complete it!" Rig and Veronica said at the same time, with different sentences, but the meanings are the same.
The scene suddenly became quiet, and even Fernando dared not boast that Alfonso was not difficult to kill, after all, the union was currently being stared at by the "Heart of Time" Ktoneya.
Annold seemed very satisfied with this situation, his face remained unchanged, and he coughed twice, "We are not without a chance to complete this task."
"President, don't joke!" Rigg said seriously.
"It is indeed impossible to rely solely on our own strength, but what if there are other magic organizations to cooperate? They have not received the attention of "Heart of Time". "Annold smiled as if he was a good temper, and then continued before everyone spoke, "I have been busy contacting other magic organizations for a while, and I have just received a certain result. I have invited many magic organizations to visit "Alinge" to discuss cooperation issues, so I decided to set up today's meeting here instead of the headquarters, because "Alinge" is also near Rentat."
He explained why he didn't take Douglas to the headquarters.
"President, are you sure to convince those organizations to cooperate?" Veronica pointed directly at the core of the problem.
Annold smiled sly, like an old fox: "If they knew that we were joining forces with the Deputy Commander of the Knights of the Sword of Truth, the Deep Blue Demon, and we would definitely be willing to cooperate with us to complete this task. Contacting the nobles to compete with the church is not a strategy that we can think of only us."
"When did we cooperate with the 'Deep Blue Demon'?" Even Ramon expressed confusion this time.
Annold laughed and said, "After joining other organizations to complete the mission of assassinating Alfonso, he should pay attention to our strength."
Fernando twitched the corner of his mouth, the president was so treacherous!
"What organizations have you come to 'Alinge' this time?" Rigg thought for a while, and asked cautiously without bothering about the task.
Annold nodded: "Don't worry, the organizations I invited are all weaker than us, not legendary organizations such as "Palmera's Cabin", "Death Scythe" and "Dance of Chaos". Among them, it is worth noting that there are one or two Nine Ring Masters' "Red Eyes", "Soul Supreme", "Shadow Singer" and "Tower of Destruction". There are more than a dozen or twenty ordinary organizations without Nine Ring Masters."
"At that time, I, Douglas and Fernando will participate." (To be continued. Please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!)
Chapter completed!