Doakes was stunned, scratched his temples, and muttered in a low voice: "Have I ever written something like this? Why don't I remember it?"
The gray merchant smiled: "I remember that magazine was "Light of the Southern Region", which was the third to last issue before "Light of the Southern Region" ceased publication."
Doakes heard the gray merchant mention "Light of the South" and suddenly realized: "Oh, I remembered it!"
Doakes turned to Vai and said: "Isn't this the masterpiece I wrote after we learned about Najir's incident when we were in Lorenbir?"
Vai looked at Doakes with a look of disgust: "...You said you can be alone and don't take me with you. I only know that you were very excited when you heard about Najir, but I didn't know that you were still doing this.
Wrote two high-level treatises."
"And, the magazine "Light of the Southern Realm", ha."
Vai did not talk about the situation of "Light of the South" in detail, but the disgust on his expression was undisguised, which showed how much he disliked the magazine and did not even bother to talk about it.
Although Angel had never heard of the magazine "Light of the Southern Realm", he still remembered that Diablo once complained to him about the chaos in Sky Mechanical City's publishing house. Diablo was once in charge of the publishing house.
Regarding registration work, according to him, during the time he was working, publishing houses came to apply for it every day, and publishing houses closed down every day.
Most of the reasons for bankruptcy are that they think too highly of themselves and offend some extraordinary people. However, most of them are not really bankrupt. They just try to save face, and then change their names and continue to apply for a new publishing house. This is why there are bankruptcies every day, every day.
Reason for application.
In order to attract attention, these publishing houses, which are inferior and have no real content, will choose some sensational magazine names. They don't even consider whether they can suppress these names based on their own magnitude.
For example, "The Grand View of Truth", "The Secret of the Origin", "World Talk"...the names are all big and empty, and the actual contents are all meaningless hydrology.
"Light of the Southern Realm" according to the name, feels similar to this...
By the way, when it comes to Diavolo, I wonder how he is doing lately?
While Angel was thinking about horse racing, Doakes heard Vai's disdainful tone on the other side, but he didn't care at all. He even said quite proudly: "With such a memory, I seem to have returned to that exciting era.
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Vai continued to complain on the side: "Blood boiling? It's just a chicken blood shot, and it's just incompetent howling."
Gray Merchant: "Those articles written by the Red Sword Wizard are indeed very exciting."
Vai looked at the gray merchant in shock: Doakes is enough to enjoy himself, why are you, the blood wizard who was criticized to death in his article, joining in the fun?
Moreover, why are you flattering Doakes? Is this a strategy before the battle, to relax Doakes' vigilance?
Vai turned to look at Doakes, and sure enough, Doakes was already looking at the gray merchant with admiration, as if he saw something similar to the hero.
Vai secretly sighed in his heart. Fortunately, the Gray Merchant's calculation was wrong. It would not be Doakes who would fight the Gray Merchant later. Otherwise, with Doakes's flattering appearance, he would have achieved eight achievements.
Already pretty good.
"Hey, why are you complimenting him? Don't forget, they are enemies now." The evil woman floating in the air said to the gray merchant.
The evil woman's attitude at this time was much more restrained than before, and even her tone became more cautious.
Gray Shang: "I'm not flattering, I just put myself into the perspective of the Red Sword Wizard. Writing these articles during that period can really make people excited."
Fen Mo whispered in the ear of the demon elephant: "So the former Lord Gray Shang had such a strong ability to empathize?"
The demon elephant chuckled and did not answer. Instead, the shepherd lazily leaned against the wall and said, "Even now, Lord Gray Merchant has a very strong ability to empathize~"
Fen Mo, on the other hand, looked unbelieving. The shepherd did not give an explanation. If Hui Shang had poor empathy, how could his personality change drastically because of a memory?
After the gray merchant finished answering the evil woman's words, he looked at Doakes: "I wonder if the Red Sword Wizard can answer some of my questions?"
Upon hearing the gray merchant's inquiry, Doakes originally had an expression of "I hate meeting you so late", but he quickly retracted: "No."
"You still have some brains," Vai muttered.
Doakes rolled his eyes at Vai. Vai has been living at home for so many years, but his impression of him is still from many years ago. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Actually, it's not bad. Someone always treats you as a teenager, isn't that good?
The rejected gray merchant did not show disappointment, but continued to say politely: "That's really a pity. In fact, we have no choice but to fight with you. I believe you can understand."
Doakes didn't say anything. It was not his turn to answer such a non-specific topic.
"It's no use talking anymore, let's get started." The speaker was the Black Earl. He turned around the stone slab and wanted to look at the wise master behind him. However, when he looked back, he found that the wise master had disappeared. And the man in black robes high in the sky,
It was originally an energy shadow, but now it has become a real body, and its robes are swaying in the breeze.
The Black Earl suddenly spoke, causing Gray Shang's pupils to shrink slightly. Even the evil woman floating in mid-air had her pupils suddenly become slits.
They had been guessing what the nose on the floating stone slab was and why it had such a strong energy aura. Now, the other party spoke, and his tone had a completely different majesty from Doakes.
This made them feel a little bad.
They vaguely thought of a rumor.
It shouldn't be possible, right? It's impossible for them to be so unlucky that they would meet someone from that family here?
"I don't know, Your Excellency..."
The gray merchant wanted to open his mouth to confirm the other party's identity, but before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the Black Earl: "Don't waste time, let's get started."
After finishing speaking, the Black Earl looked up at the wise master in the sky.
The wise master who had changed his skin looked a little less youthful than before, but more mysterious. He did not answer the Black Earl's words, but looked at the gray merchant: "If you promised me before,
The test is successful, and the reward I give you is to choose the competition venue and propose a competition rule that does not violate the principle of fairness. For example, you can propose that both parties must make a true self-introduction before the competition. What do you think?
Won’t the answer you know come out?”
"What a pity... Not only did you refuse my test, but you also failed to find them, alas."
The gray merchant bowed apologetically: "It's our fault, we let Mr. Referee down."
The wise master looked at Gray Shang quietly, and after a few seconds, he burst into laughter: "I was just thinking about what she would use to threaten you, but I didn't expect that she would use this trick."
Doakes: "What trick?"
The wise master glanced at Doakes: "Imprison the person who knows you best."
Doakes frowned slightly and repeated the words "Imprison the person who knows you best" in a low voice... Soon after, Doakes said with emotion: "Her methods are really despicable."
Although many wizards have no limit to their shamelessness, wizards with a slightly normal mind will generally not do anything that harms others. This method, in Doakes' view, is a bit underhanded.
However, Doakes obviously misunderstood the meaning of the wise master.
On the other side, as a party involved, the gray merchant understood that although the black-robed referee did not say it explicitly, he must have seen his situation.
The gray merchant didn't have much reaction to this. After all, this referee should be on the same side as the man in the mirror. It is normal for him to know the other party's methods.
Gray Shang didn't care, but Fen Mo, who always liked to ask a lot of questions, narrowed his eyes and said, "Shouldn't a referee be fair? Why do you have to answer when they ask questions?"
Wise Lord: "Originally I wanted to reveal more, but after hearing what you said, I suddenly didn't want to reveal it anymore."
The wise master naturally saw the situation of Gray Shang. He had observed Gray Shang before and knew that he was a cold and harsh person, which had absolutely nothing to do with his current gentleness and elegance. With such a huge change, Gray Shang's subordinates still couldn't
There is no doubt that the opponent's strength can even be preserved. With that person's method, there is only one method: sealing the most important memory of the past in the mirror.
As for the way to remove it, only the goddess could do it before. But the wise master saw with his own eyes that Angel took out the derivative of the wood spirit from the oil painting. If Angel can also decipher the secret of the mirror space, maybe
The gray merchant's memory can be rescued from that mirror.
Because of this, it was rare for Gray Merchant to reply to Doakes' question. As a result, Fen Mo interrupted him again.
Just once, twice in a row, even though the wise master thought it was not a big deal, he had no intention of helping them "discuss outsiders".
Moreover, telling them really would not be of any benefit to the wise master, and would only make the goddess more antagonistic to him.
Although the wise master has joined forces with Angel and others this time to test the goddess, he will not really get into a tense situation with the goddess. Angel and others can finally leave, but he cannot
If you leave, you still have to face the goddess.
If an inevitable disaster like a void storm occurred again and the magic array was damaged, he would still have to look for the goddess with a shameful face.
Therefore, we should fight without dividing, argue without arguing, and we still have to do some superficial work.
On the other side, Fen Mo's heart skipped a beat when she heard the wise master suddenly say these words. She...could she have said the wrong thing again?
Both the evil woman and the gray merchant had looked at Fen Mo with unclear eyes, which made Fen Mo feel even more flustered.
Just when Fen Mo was at a loss, the wise master spoke: "However, you are right. For the sake of fairness, I also allow you to ask me a question. Also, to show fairness, my answer will be the same as
Same as before."
The wise ruler spoke this time, but he helped Fen Mo get out of the situation.
The evil woman withdrew her gaze, and the gray merchant cast a comforting look at her.
This time Fen Mo can be regarded as having done something good for them and got a chance to ask questions. Although the referee has already pointed it out, his answer will be the same as the way he answered Hong Jian before, that is to say, he will not give a clear answer.
The answer will only give directions. Questions such as asking the other party's identity may not be answered.
However, there is one question that the gray merchant is really curious about. I have always wanted to ask it before, but I didn’t know where to start, but now I have the opportunity——
"Mr. Referee, I want to know where they hid during the previous little test?"
The wise master chuckled lightly and gave an answer that was not an answer: "Didn't I remind you just now?"
The gray merchant under the mask frowned: "Remind what?"
The wise master stopped answering at this time, but stretched out his index finger to make a "shush" gesture. This action did not silence the gray merchant, but told the gray merchant that he had already given the answer. If he asked any more questions, he would be fine.
It does not comply with the principle of "fairness".
Gray Shang understood what the wise man meant, but he still didn't understand, what was the truth?
"Before, the referee said that Fen Mo might have a chance to find them. Is this a hint?" Shepherd asked.
Gray Merchant looked back at Fen Mo, thinking of the illusion traces left on the scene when he broke through the siege of mutated scavenging squirrels, and he had a vague guess in his mind.
"Is it...an illusion?" Gray Merchant was somewhat unconfident when he expressed this guess. Because if it really was an illusion, there should be illusion nodes and traces of energy, but when they searched in all directions, they found no clues.
Does this completely invisible illusion really exist?
The wise master chuckled, but still did not answer the gray merchant, but said: "If you have any other words, please put them aside for now. If you continue talking, some people will become impatient."
The wise man ruled that "someone is impatient". Gray Merchant and others thought it was referring to the nose on the stone slab opposite, but in fact... it was the person looking here through the mirror.
"Before the official competition, let me tell you the rules."
The wise master repeated the rules mentioned before, including apprentices versus apprentices, wizards versus wizards; the winning team can replace other teammates at any time, take a rest themselves, and continue to play after they have rested...and so on.
All the rules have no other restrictions except that they must play against each other at the same level.
This means that this time the competition is not just about strength, but also about their respective methods and trump cards.
In fact, from the perspective of the wise master, it is best to add some restrictions to avoid one-sidedness, but... the goddess is not willing. She just wants to see clearly the trump cards of Angel and others. If restrictions are added, how to see the trump cards clearly?
In fact, Gray Shang and others already know these rules. They are very confident in their combat power, methods and trump cards, especially after seeing that the opponent has a wandering wizard like Red Sword Doakes, they are even more confident.
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However, the identity of the nose on the slate made them a little concerned... If it really belonged to that family, their trump card might not be of use.
However, it shouldn't be so unlucky, right?
Maybe.
After the wise master finished explaining the rules, he added one more sentence: "Although I can't help but live and die, I still hope you can click as far as you can."
This sentence seemed to be fair, but in fact it was meant for Angel and others.
Because the theory of truth plays the trump card, the wise master is not optimistic about the gray merchant and his team at all.
You must know that in addition to the three wizards in Angel's side, there is also a wind elemental creature whose strength is close to that of a formal wizard, and... a demon from the Panic Realm whose strength is close to the true knowledge level.
"Okay, let's stop here." The wise master paused: "Now let's make a decision, should we start with the apprentice or the wizard?"
The wise master thought for a while and turned his attention to the gray merchant. For the sake of fairness and to reassure the man in the dark, he decided to let the gray merchant make the choice.
Faced with the question from the wise master, the gray merchant thought for a moment, stretched out his hand to the other side politely and said: "This decision does not affect the outcome. Let the other party make the decision."
If Gray Shang's memory had not been sealed, he would have definitely given the answer at this time. But Gray Shang, whose personality has returned to his former self, is quite polite and humble... although this is only superficial.
The wise master sighed inwardly and turned to look at Angel: "What do you mean?"