Nearly half a month has passed since the undead invasion. Although Zemas suffered heavy losses, it still had supplies from several other cities and its past heritage, so it did not fall into a state of collapse. As for forcing its way out and fighting head-on,
Arthur Pendry, who killed the Skeleton King, returned to the Lake Neisen Palace and entered seclusion again on the grounds of being injured.
The aftermath naturally fell on Merlin. After the first few days of busy work, all kinds of work were now on track. Repairs should be repaired, pensions should be paid to those who should be buried, and pensions should be paid to those that should be buried.
Burial, so far, Merlin doesn't need to worry about anything.
Of course, if Merlin has to worry about it personally, it is naturally the matter of instigation between the Sun Temple and the Life Temple that has been widely circulated in the mainland. As the saying goes, people become better with age. In Merlin's opinion, this kind of thing must be done by the Sun Temple. It's just two people.
All temples have maintained a tacit understanding of balance, and the Sun Temple has also paid a price. Ten bottles of Sun God Water represent ten lives!
Of course, he had no control over what happened to the Temple of the Sun and the Temple of Life, and he didn't want to get involved. However, since this incident happened in Zemas, as a high-ranking official in Britain, he still took the initiative to go to the Temple of Life and the Temple of the Sun to explain it to each other.
He also said that he could cooperate with the investigation of the two temples at any time.
Of course, the actual situation was just as Merlin had guessed. Both temples themselves knew what was going on, so they sent Merlin back in order to calm the matter. Of course, Merlin was not happy about this!
However, this further confirmed Merlin's conjecture, "The Sun Temple is becoming more and more domineering. With the Goddess of Magic above, why don't you build a magic temple? If that's the case, does the Sun Temple still dare to be so arrogant?
"
"Guess who I am?" Two pink hands covered Merlin's slightly wrinkled eyes.
"Okay, Liya, stop making trouble."
"Masters are so annoying, they can always be seen everywhere."
"Both?" Merlin smiled and took Liya's little hand, "Do you know any other mages?"
"No," Liya rolled her eyes and hugged Merlin who was sitting on the chair from behind. "I was thinking that if Uncle Merlin is so annoying, then other mages must also be annoying."
"Why did you come to Zemas? Who escorted you?"
"Uncle Thomas, I stayed in the palace for half a month and was about to die of suffocation. Then they said they were afraid that there would be undead souls that had not been dealt with, and they wouldn't let me go to the forest to play, so I had no choice but to come to you.
Got it!"
"Thomas?" Merlin naturally knew that Thomas was one of the four royal knights and the younger brother of the previous king. The other three knights were also people of royal blood. Of course, Merlin once thought that the previous King Arthur was dead.
, he did not leave a son, so the Sword in the Stone should choose one of these four knights as the next king, but surprisingly, no one expected that the Sword in the Stone chose the current queen, Arthur
·Pandrey.
In the face of the strength of the King of Knights, even if the four royal knights are unwilling to give in, I am afraid they have no choice but to assist the new queen. However, what makes Merlin happy is that Arthur Pendry is definitely the best choice.
A qualified king.
"It should be that Her Majesty the Queen had some order for Prince Thomas to be sent here, so you followed him here."
"Oh, Uncle Merlin, you must be a little more confused now that you are so old!"
"Haha, you have no problem wandering around the city, but you are not allowed to leave the city, do you hear me?"
"OK."
"Boo~" She said and kissed Merlin, then turned around and ran away without a trace.
"I have met Steward Merlin," Thomas said with a slight salute. Of course, this does not mean that Thomas's status is lower than that of Merlin. It is just a form of respect. After all, Master Merlin, as an outsider, has tried his best to assist two generations of kings.
"Don't be polite, Duke. I don't know what's going on this time. Let the Duke come over in person."
Sitting next to Merlin, Arthur Thomas took out a handwritten letter signed by the king, "This is an order from Her Majesty the Queen. Because it is implemented in front of the whole country, so in order to avoid some people gossiping, I personally asked me to sign the handwritten letter."
Bring it here, it will be more convincing."
Merlin took the oracle and looked at it, his face suddenly changed a little, "This... I'm afraid there will be a lot of resistance in executing it."
The content of the handwriting is probably, "In view of the threat of the Necromancer, from the date of the issuance of this order, all people who die in Britain must be cremated first and buried. Those who have been buried within one year before the order is issued, if agreed to be
If the body is exhumed, cremated and then reburied, the tax revenue for the coming year will be reduced by 25%."
The reason why there is some resistance is that whether it is the world of Faerûn or the earth, the corpse is very important to his relatives. After all, it is the final proof of a person's existence in the world.
In China, when the cremation was announced, there was a lot of resistance. However, because the chairman at the time and a large number of top officials took the lead in signing to express their willingness to cremate, the matter was promoted.
Naturally, there is no need to do this in the world of Faerûn, but as a wise king, or an excellent political power, you still have to have a good excuse to appease your people. After all, those people are the foundation of a country.
Even if your king is strong, without the productivity of civilians and slaves, the country will collapse sooner or later.
"Why did the Queen suddenly issue this order?" Merlin gently put away the oracle and asked with some confusion.
"Your previous report said that it was impossible to guess how the dead necromancer activated the sacrificial magic circle, but this time, we in Britain lost nearly 50,000 people. Her Majesty the Queen does not want this kind of thing.
Let it happen again!”
"Oh," Merlin nodded, "Prince, please rest assured, this matter will be left to me."
"That's good. To be honest, the main reason why I came out this time was because Her Majesty the Queen was worried about the little princess and asked me to be the nanny. The little princess might stay here for a while, so I think I can only disturb her during this time.
You are welcome."
"Hey," Merlin sighed, "I feel that taking care of the little princess is more troublesome than carrying out the Queen's orders..."
In Alsace's exclusive villa outside the main city of Yaraschi, Don Quixote was sitting on the sofa and looking at some of the insights Alsace gave him about spell slots. His main purpose of coming back here this time was to follow
Alsace, who is already a domain mage, asked for some information, such as whether there is anything to pay attention to when constructing spell slots for the first time, or some experience of the ring mage, etc. Of course, another purpose is that although the Temple of Life is very interesting to help him
He hid his identity, but he couldn't put everything on the Temple of Life, so he didn't plan to hang out outside during this period. He would wait until the matter calmed down completely.
"Bang!" Alsace, who was concentrating on reading the daily newspaper, suddenly slammed the coffee table, startling Don Quixote, "What's the matter, teacher?"
Alsace handed the newspaper in his hand to Don Quixote, and a few large lines of headlines came into Don Quixote's eyes, "Fight the Undead! The entire British Empire is in mourning! For the sake of future generations, King Arthur ordered that from now on Britain
Cremation must be carried out! Many countries have followed suit!" followed by a bunch of flattery praising King Arthur's wise decision. Judging from the writing style, he should be the editor who had hacked Don Quixote.
"Pfft~" Don Quixote couldn't help laughing and returned the newspaper to Alsace, "It seems that your career as a gravedigger is about to come to an end."
"Hmph, isn't this hateful little girl just a few undead souls that deserve to be cremated across the country? I have a better temper now. If it had been before, I would have had to argue with her!"
"However," Alsace obviously didn't want to read the newspaper anymore, but leaned on the sofa, "you dare to offend the Sun Temple for a woman, aren't you afraid of their revenge?"
Don Quixote calmly continued to look through his notes, "Don't be afraid!"
Alsace suddenly felt that what he was asking was a bit lacking. The boy in front of him didn't even care about his own life. When had he ever cared about who the enemy was? So he hurriedly found a step for himself and said, "You have a very temperamental temper."
You were so graceful when you were young, you are worthy of being my student! Those guys who are arrogant just relying on the sun god should teach them a lesson!"
As a result, Don Quixote raised his head leisurely and said, "I'm not afraid just because I am a believer of the great goddess of magic. Am I afraid of the Temple of the Sun? The goddess of magic can uproot the Temple of the Sun from the world with just one sneeze!"
"Cough~cough~Yes! Yes! That makes sense!" Arthas looked at Don Quixote, who was flattering the goddess of magic without even breathing, and suddenly felt that this guy could become the Mage of the Ring.
It’s not unreasonable!
Of course, this is just a joke from Alsace. The goddess of magic will never give someone power just because they flatter her. If that were the case, then the world would have been filled with mages long ago. Who wouldn't flatter someone?
Ah! However, Alsace was indeed shocked by Don Quixote's sudden rise to becoming the Mage of the Ring. After all, the speed of this three-level jump was not unprecedented, at least it was almost unprecedented!
But after thinking about it again, I think it is actually quite reasonable. Every mage with gifted spells will have a qualitative leap in soul strength after awakening the gifted spells and absorbing the Soul Tree, and Don Quixote can directly become the Ring Mage.
, is naturally related to his special free will attribute. The soul of this attribute is particularly powerful, so it makes sense that the soul tree it grows is taller than ordinary people.
Thinking of this, Alsace suddenly asked curiously, "Boy, what are your innate spells like? You can actually defeat the ascetics protected by golden light. You must know that those bald heads are simply the nemesis of our mages."
Alsace mentioned the ascetic, and Don Quixote now remembered some questions in his mind, "Teacher, do you know the origin of this ascetic? And what is the Pure Land of Paradise? These guys are indeed
A bunch of lunatics, I never want to fight these guys again!"
"Ascetics?" Alsace seemed to be lost in some kind of memory. "They appeared about a thousand years ago. No one knows their origins because they have always been very low-key. At first, they existed for many years.
No one knows about them, and they never call themselves so-called ascetics. This is the name we give them."
"Did it appear suddenly?"
"Absolutely. I had never heard of it before that time. After that time, it appeared sporadically. As for the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, it feels very similar to the true God. If you give him faith, he will give you strength.
When the purity of your faith reaches its requirements, your soul can leave your body and live forever in that world."
"Obviously he is not a true god, but if he robs believers like this, wouldn't the other true gods care?"
"It's reasonable to exist. They have existed for more than a thousand years. If you want to control them, you have already done so. Anyway, just stay away from these guys in the future. Their golden light body protection is really disgusting!"
"Yes," Don Quixote nodded thoughtfully.
"Okay, let's talk about your innate spells. At this age, this is the only thing that makes me curious."