Throne of Magical Arcana

"Hey!"

An eight or nine-year-old boy held a wooden sword high, exhaled loudly, and stepped down to strike.

boom!

On the opposite side, a boy who was about the same age as him swung his sword to block, and the two swords collided with each other, making a dull sound.

Under the scorching sun, the two boys were sweating profusely, and the water droplets slid down their cheeks to their necks, but even so, they still clenched their teeth and practiced swordplay with concentration in their eyes.

On the next steps, a man with blond hair and brown eyes nodded slightly, expressing his satisfaction with the practice of the two boys. He looks young and handsome, with a mature and stable temperament. It is difficult for people to judge his exact age.

But at this time, his eyes were a little dazed, as if he was looking at a distant place through the child in front of him.

"John, what are you thinking?" A slender and tall beauty walked behind him, with a gentle temperament, blond hair and blue eyes, which was different from Holm's general style.

John's eyes cleared up, he turned his head with a smile, and said to his wife Kailin: "Seeing the children practicing swordsmanship so hard, I thought of my childhood. At that time, Lucien and I also practiced like this, in the Alto poor It's just that he's not as strong as I am, and he doesn't have food to cooperate, so I knocked out the wooden sword every time..."

Kailin stood behind him, hugging his waist with both hands, and said with a gentle smile: "Who would have imagined that one of the two children in the slums of Alto became the Earl of the Empire, the Knight of the Sky, and the Knight of the Sword of Truth?" The deputy head of the regiment, the other is even more terrifying, god-like, great arcanist, prince of the empire, great musician..."

"Yeah, life is like a drama." John patted his wife's arm around him, and said with emotion, "I just wanted to be an official knight at first, to change the lives of my family, protect them, and protect the principality , I never expected a knight in the sky, nor a wife like you."

Karin was tall and could rest her chin on John's shoulder. After hearing what he said, she couldn't help but burst into a smile.

John looked ahead, his expression became dazed again, and he said with a smile on his face: "Lucien never thought that he would achieve what he is today. At that time, his greatest wish was to become a commoner with a fixed income. Destiny is really It’s amazing, even astrologers can’t predict it. I remember that Lucien and I often stood outside the chant hall, dreaming that one day we could listen to the concert inside. Hehe, I kind of forgot what the chant hall looks like ..."

"Miss Alto?" Karin asked sharply.

John smiled calmly: "Yeah, I miss the chant hall, I miss the old house, I miss the Black Forest where I trained knights, I miss the bards and street performers everywhere on the street, hehe, old people I always miss my hometown and my childhood."

"I'm getting old? You mean I'm old too? I'm only a few years behind you." Kailin said deliberately, "Do you regret that you didn't choose the territory near Alto, but continued to stay in Rentat? ?”

When he became the Earl, John had a chance to choose a hereditary territory. At that time, Natasha had already served as Grand Duke Violet, and he could seal his territory near Alto, but John finally chose to stay on the Storm Strait side.

John didn't answer, but clapped his hands to signal the children to stop, then, after giving them a few words, he pulled Kailin to go upstairs to the villa.

"It's time for me to conduct a routine patrol." John said in a calm tone.

Kailin nodded: "I have already prepared your knight uniform and armor."

When passing the hall, John pulled Kailin and pointed to the inside: "Listen, the sound of beautiful music, mother is holding a salon again."

"Yes." Karin didn't quite understand what John meant. Mother often invited noble ladies to the salon. What's so strange about that?

John pointed to the location of the upstairs study again: "Father should have gone to the Musicians Association."

"Yes." Kailin still didn't understand.

John smiled and said: "Rentat has magic gramophones, magic air conditioners, home TVs, magic refrigerators, alchemy cars, and many life-changing alchemy items. It is at the forefront of the popularization of magic, and father, Mother is already used to this kind of life, enjoys it, and has her own hobbies. Letting them go back to Alto is torture for them. Besides, now that there is a direct airship, even if there is no teleportation array , and I can arrive in Alto for vacation within a few days, so I never regret my choice.”

At the end, he added: "For me, a place with you is my home. Wherever you like, I will naturally choose where. Just now, I just miss my childhood and the past time more than I miss Alto. .”

Kailin blushed a little, did not speak, and pulled John back to the master bedroom on the second floor to help him change his clothes.

boom!

As John stood in front of the full-length mirror sorting his clothes, there was a dull explosion from the other end of the corridor.

Neither John nor Karin reacted unusually, as if it was an ordinary thing like opening and closing a door.

"Ivan's experiment went wrong again..." John listened attentively, and heard the footsteps of people walking in the laboratory, and then felt Ivan's breath of life, and then he sighed a little helplessly, "Damn With the help of potions, he became a second-ring mage, but he always refuses to devote himself to studying arcane arts."

Aiwen has a detached personality and doesn't like boring arcane and magic research. Instead, he pursues changeable spells and colorful and popularized alchemy items. In Lucien's words, he is more like an inventor than an arcane. magician.

Kailin comforted him and said: "Ivan is very smart, but he is only interested in popularized alchemy items. He will work hard when he understands that he cannot effectively carry out his own transformation without a deep foundation in arcane and magic. .”

Kailin herself is a second-level arcanist and a fourth-ring magician.

"Yeah." John nodded and put on the last part of the armor.

…………

In the sky above the Stroop Forest, John asked his subordinate knights to disperse and patrol in the aircraft, while he wandered in the air, observing the situation in the forest attentively and seriously.

Since many elves have integrated into human society, the guardianship of the gaps in the abyss is shared by the Elf Royal Court, the Druid Council of Elders, and the Magic Council, while several major knight orders of the empire are responsible for the demonic creatures or slipping demons in the surrounding forests. processing.

The handling of this gap in the abyss has always been full of controversy. The elves hope to seal it completely, as do the nobles and commoners in the surrounding counties. It expanded slowly, and some demonized creatures or escaped demons entered villages, small towns or cities. Although they were solved in time every time without causing much impact, some people were still disabled and died because of it.

However, most magicians and knights hope to keep this gap, the "town of the unknown", because it limits the strength of invading demons, and there is no need to worry about the terrifying existence of demon kings or dukes. It is a relatively good place to harvest many high-level materials The ideal tempering place is better than going directly into the abyss to take risks

As far as John knew, the Supreme Council had already made a decision to set up a research team, with the goal of separating the two worlds, while retaining a buffer zone on the first layer of the abyss to facilitate adventure and exercise.

ah!

A painful grunt came from John's communication earbuds, his expression immediately became serious, and he swooped down like an eagle.

In the forest, several knights resisted the attack of a beautiful woman back to back. She had small and cute devil horns on her forehead, and part of her body was covered with a layer of light black scales. Only powerful succubus.

Several knights were wounded, and they were caught off guard just now. Someone was seriously injured and dying, and rescue was urgently needed.

The succubus held a barbed whip in its hand, and attacked at a fast speed, and various innate spells were filled with pink or pitch-black mist.

Suddenly, a long sword with a faint black light slashed from the sky, dissipating the mist and all kinds of magic effects blessed by the succubus disappeared.

John has no elementalization, no lightening, he is ordinary, just like an ordinary great knight, but in the direction of the long sword, all the extraordinary abilities are returned to the ordinary!

"Eliminate the bloodline!" The succubus was startled, flapped its wings behind its back, turned and fled.

But her speed had been greatly weakened, and she was caught up by John, and fell to the ground with a sword.

"No, don't kill me, I can recognize you as the master, sign a contract, and serve you well!" The succubus deliberately twisted its alluring body in exchange for a chance to survive.

"When you attacked my team members, you didn't think about not killing people." John's eyes remained unchanged, and the long sword fell, killing the succubus directly.

Succubus' expression of astonishment froze on his face, and the several knights who were attacked behind were also full of regret.

Rumble!

The ground suddenly shook violently, making the knights almost unable to stand.

"What happened?" John looked in the direction of the shock in astonishment, and saw a blood-colored plain looming in the sky. There are layers of different abyss scenes.

In front of the protruding gap in the abyss, a young man wearing a black double-breasted long dress was floating there. He was wearing a black bow tie and wore a monocle on his right eye. abyss.

"Lucien?" John blurted out after seeing the familiar figure.

At this time, Lucien stretched his hands forward, and his whole body became blurred, as if he was in another world, unable to touch or approach, while the boundless starry sky stood out behind him, vast and dazzling.

Boom!

There was a deep black fog near the gap, and he didn't know what had changed. John only saw the surrounding space collapse, and the bloody plain and the abyss behind it slowly left the gap!

At the same time, a huge storm swept across the Scarlet Plain, completely covering it, and the thick and long silver-white electric snake was like a forest, separating it from the second layer of the connected abyss!

Push the "Abyss" away?

Looking at Lucien who looked like a god in the sky, John couldn't speak for a long time, and a touch of sadness suddenly came to his heart.