Chronicles of Ryan the Wizard

"But there will always be people who are addicted to the powerful power of magic and cannot extricate themselves, and eventually they will not hesitate to make a deal with the devil. This behavior will soon become a contract with the devil with their own soul, and become a certain demon on the mainland Agent. In order to maintain the power he gained, this agent had to find sacrifices everywhere in accordance with the provisions of the contract. Most of the devil’s sacrifices were related to the soul, so this agent slowly fell and became A powerful black magician."

"It is this desire for power that has allowed black magicians to continue to appear for many years. The magicians of this faction have tried various ways to solve them. They even trained a kind of magic warrior as a magician killer. Come to assassinate the fallen magician! Since magicians can fall, how can the assassin as the magician killer never have problems?"

Victor sighed and said, "For some unknown reason, an instructor in charge of training assassins suddenly rebelled with several assassins. Of course, this is just the beginning of a disaster. In the next ten years, this group The assassins killed more than 500 senior magicians, which changed the balance of power across the continent."

"Several empires that were originally balanced in strength have been assassinated one after another by their own magicians, resulting in a change in strength. The empire with the least loss of magicians has become the most powerful country, so people’s ambitions are no longer suppressed. Erupted."

"That was a tragedy, a tragedy in human history. This war has been going on for a hundred years. I don’t know how many civilians have lost their homes, loved ones, and even their lives. And behind this huge price, but It is a few careerists who get so little psychological satisfaction when looking at their own country map. In fact, they will never go to the extra places, and their children and grandchildren will never go."

"The source of this catastrophe is precisely caused by the magician's pursuit of power regardless of the consequences. People of insight began to think, should human beings learn magic, must they embark on this road of no return? Did the gods back then? Was it also out of this consideration to only impart magic to the elves? Perhaps the greed of humans made the gods helpless?"

"When mankind was at its weakest, the Undead Legion appeared. Mankind finally tasted the consequences of cannibalism. The empire that provoked the war first was the first to be submerged by the Undead Legion. The elite king's guard of the Kingdom of Dianis is here. In the Hundred Years of Catastrophe, I don’t know how many troops were defeated and how many civilians were slaughtered. They received retribution and were overwhelmed by skeleton warriors hundreds of times more than theirs.”

"The appearance of the archmage Meren marks a turning point. It is not only the continuation of human history, but also the solution of the problem that has plagued magicians for many years. That is to change the magician's dominance and supremacy of everything, and let magic enter the common people. Magic can not only slaughter, it can also improve our lives, magic is everywhere, it will make our lives better! Under the guidance of the archmage Melen, a large number of civilian magicians appeared on the mainland, They learn magic not to pursue power, but to think about how to make magic more useful for us humans."

"Some people have created huge stone golems, and they played their part in the construction of Fernando City. Others have created ships that can sail in the sea without manpower. This has allowed the rapid development of ocean trade. Seawind City was only 200 years ago. It is a small fishing village, and now it pays 10 million taxes to the empire a year!"

"There are also people who have gathered a large number of magicians' power and used the magic circle to create a fortress that can float in the air. However, since the fortress is too expensive to maintain flight, it usually falls on the ground. Its location is a secret No more than 10 people in the entire empire know."

"In short, the period when Fernando I was in power was a golden age in human history. In the military, mankind has won successively and obtained a huge living space; in diplomacy, humans, dwarves, and elves have concluded an unbreakable alliance and become the mainland Domination; in terms of magic, it solves the problem of magicians blindly pursuing power. It can be said that the archmage Meren created this golden age."

"However, after all, gaining power over others is the desire of everyone, because the nature of human nature is selfish. Therefore, the genre advocated by the archmage Melen and the previous genre of pursuit of power coexisted, and slowly There is a dispute."

"In order to encourage more people to learn magic, the archmage Melen meticulously designed a set of test rules. His original intention was to motivate everyone to work hard. Unexpectedly, after so many years of execution, it has become a constraint on the growth of magicians. Disadvantages. For hundreds of years, the golden age of the year and the present are completely different periods, but the promotion of magicians is still in accordance with the standards of 200 years ago, can there be no problems?"

Hearing Victor talk about the key part, Ryan couldn't help but ask: "Are the current promotion standards different from before?"

With a wry smile on Victor's face, he said, "It's no different."

"No difference?" Ryan repeated Victor's words again, puzzled.

Victor explained: "The promotion criteria 200 years ago are still being implemented today. However, the overall strength of human magic has been different for many years. I checked the records of the Magic Guild. In the year Fernando City was established, the Imperial Capital Magic There are a total of 379 people in the guild who have been promoted through advanced magicians, but now there are fewer than 300 advanced magicians. Can this be compared with before?"

"This..." Ryan was speechless, and he and Farasi looked at each other, feeling very surprised.

Victor added: "In a catastrophe that year, the promotion of magicians grew up in endless battles. If you don't work hard to improve your strength, you may not survive the next battle. And now? How many magicians are? Really put my mind on studying magic? The magician subsidy set at that time was to help civilian magicians buy materials for studying magic. For the magic circle sculpture I am good at, I make a fireball scroll every day. The mithril powder consumed in that month cost at least more than 20,000 gold coins. Without this subsidy, I would have been bankrupt. I can't hang all kinds of magic scrolls on the street and sell them, right?"

Hearing Victor's words, the corners of everyone's lips couldn't help but smile, and a scene of a magician wearing a tattered magic robe screaming in the crowded street came to mind.

Victor shook his head and said with a sigh: "In the past 200 years, the promotion standard has not changed, but the big allowance has been raised. Now an ordinary magician, as long as he has been promoted as a junior magician, it will be 100 per month. A gold coin, this is equivalent to the living expenses of 50 civilians outside the Imperial Capital City for a month. As long as you don’t spend it randomly, you can live easily in the Imperial Capital. Where is there any enterprising spirit?"