The Lord of Ashes

The time we meet is always short.

It's time for Thane and Mellie to part ways again.

Midic, the second-level peak magician, personally sent Thain to the outskirts of the Holy Tower of Dawn.

In the process of bidding farewell to Thain, Master Midici also brought additional news to Thain.

That was the memorandum of the Holy Tower of Dawn when it carried out the "mission to exterminate the blacks" in the Dark Region.

Of course, it was impossible for Master Midic to tell Thane all the details of the mission that year. What he produced was just a simple summary of the mission.

From the intelligence information provided by Master Midic, Thain saw the third-level black magician Martin, the second-level black magician Joanne, the second-level black magician Dadalon, and the first-level black magician Dils. Information.

Dean Dardalon, who once imprisoned Thane in the dungeon of the Academy of Dark Arts, died on the south coast.

After escaping from the Dark Territory, during the subsequent escape, he was jointly strangled by knights above level one from the Holy Tower of Dawn and surrounding areas.

The specific person who killed Dadalon was not noted in the memo.

The Holy Tower should hide and protect the information of these magicians and knights participating in the war.

Also confirmed to have died is Cosolon, the first-level black magician who left a deep impression on Thane in the anatomy class.

Master Corsolon has made great achievements in the fields of anatomy, death modification, and corpse synthesis.

If we put aside his status as a black magician and his evil interest in using his apprentices to physically modify their bodies, from a purely academic point of view, Cosolon is one of the most knowledgeable among first-level magicians.

Also in this memo, Thane saw information about the murderer of his mentor, the first-level black magician Diers.

The first-level black magician Diers is really lucky. Thain's mentor Mosheduo must have severely injured the opponent by self-destructing the magic weapon.

But this guy actually escaped from the subsequent siege of the Holy Tower of Dawn.

Also escaping like Diers were Level 2 Black Mage Joanne, Level 3 Black Mage Martin and others.

Thain did not see the information about Lena’s mentor Ferena in this memo.

According to Midic, these marked black magicians are all wanted by the major holy towers and knight halls in the wizarding world.

However, there are also some black magicians who were born and raised in the black realm of the Western Islands and have never committed crimes in the wizarding world, or have never been caught committing crimes, and have not been recorded.

Meili didn't put down her extended left hand. Until Thain's figure disappeared into the teleportation stone hall, Meili was still looking in that direction.

Beside Meili, low-level magic apprentice Anji pouted unhappily.

Just last night, while her attention was attracted by that owl, that man took away her senior sister?

Anji could clearly feel at this time that more than 70% of the senior sister's thoughts were taken away by that man.

You know, in the past, senior sister belonged to her completely!

Tugging at the corner of Meili's clothes, Angie announced his presence to her.

Only then did Meili come to her senses. After picking up Anji, she said, "Let's go back."

"It's time for me to start preparing to attack the first-level magician." Meili said.

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After leaving the Holy Tower of Dawn, Thane did not use the space teleportation array to go to Muser City, the westernmost part of the Holy Tower of Dawn's power territory. Instead, he went to Stormwind City in the south of the Holy Tower of Dawn.

Stormwind City is located in the extreme south of the Holy Tower of Dawn's power territory. It is one of the most prosperous large cities in the Holy Tower of Dawn, and it is also the largest port of the Holy Tower of Dawn.

Traveling to and from Stormwind City are not only commercial airships heading west to the Mamet United Alliance and the City of Steel, but there are even stables heading east to the top powers in the wizarding world such as the Beren Empire and the Kingdom of Jahana. business channels.

And according to rumors, the Holy Tower of Dawn and the Sea Tribe of the Wizarding World have always had a good relationship.

Stormwind City also maintains special communication channels with multiple Neptune Palaces in the depths of the endless South Sea.

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When Thain walked out of the teleportation stone palace, he was greeted by waves of heat and salty sea breeze.

Stormwind City was built on an island some distance deep into the endless South China Sea. In addition to the island itself as the main body of Stormwind City, there are also more than a dozen islands surrounding the island, all of which are included in the scope of Stormwind City.

It was also after arriving in Stormwind City that Thain learned that the power tentacles on the south coast of the Wizarding World were far less than the territory along the coastline of the Wizarding Continent.

There are also a large number of islands around Stormwind City and further south.

Some of these islands are as large as the island where Stormwind City is located.

But the area of ​​some islands is far larger than Stormwind City.

Calling it an "island" is actually a little inappropriate, because those islands are enough to be called a continent if placed in ordinary medium and small planes! On these islands, which are comparable to continents, there are also millions or even tens of millions of wizarding world humans living there.

One or more human kingdoms are located on these islands.

And those who occupy a certain amount of power and territory in these South China Sea islands are the knight halls built in the endless South China Sea.

No wonder Thain didn’t see much influence about the Knights Hall in the south coast cities he passed through.

It turns out that it’s not that the Knights’ Hall is less powerful than the Holy Tower on the south coast, but that they have other priorities.

There are more islands in the depths of the ocean than imagined.

Including the wealth of the ocean, it is not something that land creatures can imagine.

And because this is the territory of influence of many knights' halls, the rules may not be as strict as those in the Holy Tower area.

Therefore, due to the intertwining and influence of multiple forces, the number of black markets here far exceeds that of other places on the southern coastline.

The reason why Thane came to Stormwind City this time was not because he had a sudden idea, but because he learned from Meili that there was a large black market nearby.

In the depths of the ocean further south of the Wizarding Continent's coastline, the rules of the Holy Tower and the Knights' Hall still exist here, but because of the addition of the sea clan and the entanglements of interests, some gray areas are far more numerous than in other places.

In the past few decades, the Holy Tower of Dawn has indeed launched a large-scale operation against black magicians on the south coast of the wizarding world.

But no matter how powerful the Holy Tower of Dawn is, it will be difficult to extend its tentacles of power to the deepest part of the ocean.

The black market in the wizarding world does not exclusively serve creatures above level one.

Of course, there is such a high-level black market, but it is not the one that Thain is looking for now.

The huge black market in the wizarding world also maintains a complete structure from the bottom to the top.

Even the vast majority of the black market actually serves magic apprentices and knight attendants. After all, there are a huge number of bases there.

In terms of profit, it may be greater than the black market used by simple creatures above level one.

And because the life levels of magic apprentices and knight attendants are relatively low, they have not yet fully understood the seriousness of the rules of the Holy Tower and the Knights Hall.

In addition, the rules have always been biased towards these "seedlings" who have not grown up in the wizarding world.

This has led to this complex environment in the depths of the South China Sea.

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There is another update today, which will probably be updated around 8:30.