Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 21 Diary

This shipment should rest for a while. Back in the attic, Claude remembered Albert's performance at dinner and couldn't help but squeeze his mouth up.

It was just sitting there, not knowing how much Claude knew, the time of a meal, how many times Albert stared at Claude with his eyes, he wanted to ask clearly, but he didn't dare, even when Claude looked back at him, he didn't consciously go to avoid Claude's eyes.

Even his mother noticed Albert's anomaly. Ask him what's wrong.

Albert said everything was fine, but as soon as he ate, he left home in a hurry. Claude wondered if he was rushing to that clothing store right now to find out if Claude had asked the owner about him and Miss Christina buying clothes.

Claude didn't put Albert on his mind, but he was anxious to decode the pages and see what else the magician wrote in his diary.

… 15 Aug 3341 Normatin, Clear.

Three more teams of magicians arrived today in the town of Kanshui Lu, from Marino, Sharizer and Chirassons.

They were luckier than Master Jones and were not attacked by musketeers on the way.

Pawta is not a noble magician, but rather a stray mercenary and drunk, as he hangs out with the waitress in the pub day and night.

Brother Davary didn't care about him either.

Magician Jones was drunk in the pub again.

By the way, last night I heard Clemento cry in his own room, and this morning I asked him, and he looked at me cold.

Arya said I was so happy that I didn't know anything. The ignorant were fearless.

I feel like they're hiding something from me.

… 16 Aug 3341 Normatin, Clear.

Heard the town sent a team to check on the Jones magician and their team came back from the scene of the attack. Brother Davari went to see it in the morning and said that the bodies of the seven magicians had been brought back. There were still 22 mutilated bodies at the scene. The ambusher's identity had been confirmed, which was the notorious fraternity.

It's crazy, I don't understand why those musketeers ambushed our magician team, and they seem to have good organization and discipline, as Master Jones said, even if their companions were blown to pieces around them, they wouldn't turn around and run away...

Maybe five years ago I shouldn't have improved my gun...

Five more magicians arrived in town today, but they didn't live in the perfume pub.

I don't know where they came from, but Brother Dawari told me to stay in the room and not let me go out.

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Claude frowned and looked at the decrypted sixth page of the diary, where he finally saw a familiar name: Brotherhood.

In the history of the Farea continent, the Brotherhood was a stronghold of resistance to evil sorcerers. At the end of the dark past, it was the Brotherhood that led the people of the entire continent to unleash a war against evil sorcerers. After great sacrifices and arduous struggles, it finally expelled evil sorcerers to the island of Higros and liberated the entire Farea continent.

This diary seems to contain the war between the Brotherhood and the Wizard at the end of the Dark Calendar. Is it true that this recipe is nearly 600 years old? This is amazing, look at this recipe, say it's a centuries-old antique, but 600 years old, huh, don't you know that the shelf life of beast paper is only two or three hundred years at most...

Perhaps this is the magic that makes the time that passes lose its purpose on this recipe, and avoids the problems of rotting mold and insect bites caused by the humidity of the air, which makes this recipe look so complete.

Let's just settle down and decipher the remaining three pages of the diary that have already been copied. After all the nine pages of the diary have been deciphered, we will continue to copy the rest from that magic recipe. There are 17 pages of that magic scribble paper made from the skin of a scorpion lion. Nine pages have been copied. I don't know if I can finish copying all the rest tonight...

… 17 Aug 3341 Normatin, Clear.

At midnight last night, Zhenxi had a fierce explosion and a wide range of magic fluctuations.

Too bad Brother Davari won't let us out.

I heard people in the lobby say last night that two magicians fought each other, as if they were enemies, fighting for a woman.

Four houses were destroyed in the western district of Kim Shui Lu Town because 17 people were magically killed and nearly 100 wounded...

Had it not been stopped quickly, there would have been more deaths and injuries.

How can they fight in densely populated residential areas...

Brother Davary came back, and he said the punishment for those two guys was to pay the dead one gold coin, the wounded one silver coin.

He said the two guys were afraid to go too far from town to fight because they were afraid of being ambushed by musketeers, and that's why they fought in that little open space on the west side of town.

It's just too light a punishment. One life is one Sullivan. Those two guys who should go to hell, I find that there seems to be a hidden hatred in the eyes of the townspeople...

Three more teams of magicians arrived today, and I was too lazy to ask where they came from.

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… 18 Aug 3341 Normatin, Clear.

We've been in Kim Shui Lu for eight days, but the messenger hasn't arrived, and we don't know when we're going to San Pani City.

There are more and more magicians in town, but the atmosphere is getting worse and worse. I find that many magicians are obviously starting to manic, and often people fight when they talk, and they don't care if it's the town center.

Fortunately, the Interim Executive Committee just organized was quite powerful. They were all five-ring magicians who quickly stopped the feverish brains, so the damage to the town was small.

One shocking news came in this afternoon that the two damn dueling guys in Zhenxi were really dead, one was poisoned with lamb eating cranberry juice and the other was stabbed in the love with the waitress at the tavern.

The murderer was captured, a male cook and a waitress, all of whom were said to be relatives of those who had died as a result of the magic of the duel, and all of their families had died, so that they decided to use their lives to avenge them.

Both murderers were hung from the gallows in the centre of the town, and their souls were burned by magic for three days and three nights before they could die completely, as a warning to those who dared to harm the sorcerer.

The people in town saw us from afar and avoided, or closed doors.

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… 19 Aug 3341 Normatin, Clear.

The Interim Executive Council decided to evict all residents of the town centre to camp on empty land on the outskirts of the town and to expropriate their houses as temporary accommodation for magistrates.

More and more magicians now have to test their food while eating…

I heard a rumor that the Magic Council had called us to St. Parney's, not to repair the Rubik's pattern that detected the Tower, but to deliver us to the newly discovered position of Campbell using the Tower's transmission array, where we were in dire need of human and material support.

I went to ask Brother Davary if this rumor was true or false, and he looked gloomy and didn't answer me.

Didn't you say Campbell was a high-demon battle world? It's said that a rabbit there has more fighting power than a five-ring magician. What can I do to get a magician like me who only knows alchemy? Besides, I'm still a four-ring magician who won't fight...

The news must be false.

However, the owner of our magic tower, Archmage Ronk, went to Campbell a year ago. He is the archmage of the Seventh Ring. He must be fine there...

A large army arrived this afternoon, with more than 50,000 people and more than 7,000 carriages. Their camp was set up in the fields of the east of town. It was magnificent not to look at the dense numbness!

I hear they're shipping the black crystal stones to St. Parney's, which is an order of the Magic Council. By the way, they also have a licensed, officially staffed firearm unit of more than 8,000 people.

That's 7.8. Ninety-three pages of diary information is a little big... and Claude touches his chin and thinks. One is to identify this diary magician, a low-level magician, a four-ring, whose strengths are alchemy and scripture, and whose weaknesses are not combat. It also has five and seven rings, which should be the symbol of the high and low level of the magician.

Second, magicians can also be easily killed by ordinary people, just like those two men who fought for women, poisoned and stabbed to death, which is, of course, in their defenceless state. However, magic seems to be powerful, two four-five ring wizards dueling, affected by magic can cause so many casualties.

Third, the magic council seemed to summon these low-ranking magicians to some campesino position. Although the diary said it was a rumor, according to the performance of his companions recorded by the owner of the diary, it did not seem to be a rumor, but the owner of the diary was quite surprised. Besides, his fellow magicians seemed reluctant to travel to this campus.

This is as the cybernovels of previous generations describe, the magical world is divided between a world of high demon combat and a world of low demon martial arts, and the battle power of a rabbit in Canberus is comparable to that of a five-ring magician on the Farea continent, which is clearly a world of high demon martial arts. So the low-ranking magicians were reluctant to go, and only by order of the magic council did they have to concentrate in Kim Shui Lu Town.

Fourthly, a new place name appeared in the diary, the city of St. Parney, which seemed to be the destination where the magicians who had been assembled were about to arrive. And there's a transport formation in the city called the Tower of Tongtian that can take people to other positions, like the Campbells.

And the owner of the diary, the quadrucyclical magician, has always thought he was recruited to detect the magic script that repaired the Tower of Heaven. This on the other hand demonstrates that the transmission array called Tongtian Tower is very large and needs manpower maintenance, so the owner of the diary has no doubt about the purpose of recruiting so many low-level magicians for the Magic Council...

It can also be seen from the diary that the relationship between the wizard and the ordinary man is not harmonious, that the wizard should be high, and that the ordinary man is powerless to resist, just as those who died by the magic, in the eyes of the wizard, a human life is worth only one gold coin, and Sullivan should be synonymous with the gold coin.

Another point is that ordinary people have to listen to that magic council call, and the diary on page 9 concludes with a large army of magicians transporting magic stones, more than 50,000 people, more than 7,000 wagons, and even a firearm unit licensed to officially assemble up to 8,000 people.

Obviously, there should also be a secular regulator among ordinary people, otherwise the convoy of more than 70,000 wagons of 50,000 people could be dragged down by a single supply of grain and the maintenance of order. In particular, the licensed officially prepared firearms cadre represents at least a local government or a country with effective autonomy and managerial capacity.

This is where Claude was bewildered, because the historical record of the Dark Calendar that he had read never mentioned in a book what other national and local regimes existed at that time, only that the entire Farea continent was ruled by evil magicians and the people did not chat...