Chapter 104: Archmage

Chapter 104: Archmage

“Louis,” said Crowley. “We’ll be leaving first then—Sir Bach, the carriage is ready, let’s go to the pala… Huh? Huh??”

Earl Crowley turned around and searched for a long while, only to find the three Archmages already lifting their robes and scurrying away, swish swish swish.

When the three were halfway down the path, Bach even turned his head to shout at Louis, “We’re going into the city too, Mr. Louis, wait for us a moment! We’ll get our luggage down—we’ll wait for you by the carriages!”

He didn’t even glance at Earl Crowley.

The corner of Earl Crowley’s mouth twitched.

These three big shots, it seemed, had suddenly changed their minds and decided not to visit the King today.

Well, they really weren’t in a hurry to see the King—these ‘Solerndor Archmages’ acted very proudly at the Royal Court.

Usually, the relationship between them and the King wasn’t that they had a hard time getting an audience with the King, but the opposite. Especially Queen Delphinia, who almost treated the three as teachers.

So they weren’t in a hurry to go to the Royal Court. And it looked like the three Archmages planned to follow Louis around today.

Crowley thought there was no need to wonder; he probably guessed right. The real Archmage was this one. And those three Mister Mages had already taken Louis as their teacher.

“Fine, Sir Ron and the others are very familiar with Englen City.” At this point, Crowley looked towards Kate, who was the farthest from Louis among the strolling crowd, and couldn’t help but frown—what was going on? Why run so far away? This is a guest. You are my daughter; you need to do some hosting.

Yes, our family is quite conservative, and we also believe in the Moon Goddess. The education you received since childhood was like this; you shouldn’t be too close with men. But this depends on the situation.

“—Kate,” Crowley said a bit unhappily. “I might be away for the next few days. While you’re at home, you must take good care of Mr. Louis.”

“Fine, Father,” Kate said very reservedly, nodding at her father, not even looking at Louis.

Seeing Kate’s lukewarm attitude, Earl Crowley suddenly understood—it must be because last night, when Louis drank too much, he acted a bit frivolous at the dinner table, which disgusted his usually conservative and reserved daughter.

He secretly sighed, not willing to say much more to his daughter, whom he felt he owed a lot. He left.

But Bishop John, who had stayed in the room below Louis’s last night, secretly twitched the corner of his mouth and didn’t make a sound. He nodded and smiled at Louis.

Bishop John wasn’t in a hurry to invite Louis to the Lunar Court. Our connections with Sacred Oak were many. He remembered this ‘Special Mysterious Affairs Handling Detective Agency’ next to the Sacred Oak Seminary. Just you wait, I’ll definitely make a phone call later. I’ll have your Bishop send you!

This Paladin is definitely ours at the Lunar Court!

The Bishop and the Divine Official left with Earl Crowley. As soon as Earl Crowley and the others turned the corner and disappeared from sight, the reserved, conservative, and very ladylike Miss Kate Crowley whooshed over and glued herself to Louis, hugging his arm, rubbing against him affectionately like a cat, and asked her great master where he planned to go have fun today.

“I’ll take you anywhere,” Louis said, looking at Ocris’s good friend and big sister, patting her head as if petting a little cat, and said with a smile. “Let’s go.”

After taking a walk with Kate by the small lake, Louis ‘saw’ from afar that Ron and the others had already arrived at the vehicles in the small square by the gate with their large and small luggage. So he took Kate over there too.

He indeed planned to visit the Mage Association today.

Ever since chatting with the three mages at the dinner table yesterday, Louis realized they were actually very knowledgeable, not just for show. Or rather, besides magic, they understood a lot of other knowledge.

The haphazardly written magic spells in that book even made Louis feel somewhat amazed.

Indeed, what these three guys wrote couldn’t be used, but theoretically it was correct. By removing the messy stuff they added wrongly due to being misled by various books and making some slight changes, they all became good things. Among them, eighteen were powerful magic spells strong enough to be treasured by Holy Oak Academy.

Louis suddenly understood why wizards were afraid of wild wizards learning magic. Because once they learned magic, they could be much more powerful than those noble wizards who liked inbreeding and didn’t strive to improve—just look at those eighteen powerful magic spells they created themselves.

In the entire Academy City of twenty thousand wizards, how many powerful magic spells had been created in the last decade or so? Even the Demon-Banishing Charm still used that outdated stuff from three thousand years ago!

And these powerful spells, if placed in Sacred Icon Tree Academy, could be collected in the treasured magic books on the very top floor of the Library—belonging to the category of the half-finished ‘Demon-Banishing Charm’. They could be revered as classic new magic.

Additionally, Louis found some special formulas in the three men’s books yesterday—the Magic Enthusiasts Association seemed to have been constantly exploring ways to cast magic.

The direction the three went in was to use materials to assist.

Although their formulas were completely wrong, Louis had already corrected them for them and added some knowledge about casting spells with formations.

This new Magic Powder was relatively cheap to make. It could absorb the magical elements from the environment, condense a Magic Circle, and directly help the mage cast spells, compensating for their own lack of Mana—these things were their ‘Wands’.

Last night, these three guys seemed to have stayed up experimenting and made some new Magic Powder.

If they were smart, they would later find that this stuff could be used to make Magic Scrolls…

And Sacred Icon Tree Academy still didn’t have Magic Scrolls…

However, the reason why Magic Scrolls didn’t exist among wizards was partly because they didn’t value innovation and knowledge, and partly because scrolls were something anyone could use.

So the noble wizards didn’t want, nor did they like, the appearance of Magic Scrolls.

‘But, it’s fine if you don’t want this kind of thing to appear. Someone else does want it to appear.’

It wasn’t like burning the blueprints of the Seven Treasure Ship meant large ships would never appear in this world.

Soon, Louis and Kate arrived at the small square in front of the castle’s main gate and saw the three mages—Helen, who had just finished looking at the Mermaid, was also here joining in the excitement.

Among the three mages, two were currently loading luggage at the back of Kate’s Vintage Car. Ron was holding a book, looking at its contents with a pained expression. Many servants around were also watching them curiously.

“Did we prepare the Magic Powder wrong?” Bach said, while throwing another handful of Magic Powder into the air. “Ron, try again? Just that spell that makes the statues come alive.”

As he said this, Bach excitedly touched an old scar on his chest—once these eighteen spells could really be used, whenever they encountered werewolves, Vampires, or headless knights in the future, why would they still need to fight desperately?

Those revived statues weren’t just immensely strong—the divine power accumulated on the statues over the years would also be activated by the magic spell. So they were Celestial Soldiers and Generals.

First, smash them into pulp, then use that ‘Flame Burns the Soul’ or whatever to send them back to hell.

“That’s right, did I misread it? Huh? Huh? I feel a bit dizzy… so weak.”

At that moment, the sound of grinding stones rumbled. Many servants suddenly lifted their heads numbly, looking like a bunch of silly geese at the stone statues on the castle.

And those stone statues also slowly tilted their heads to look at the servants.

The butler suddenly grabbed Ron’s arm tightly, trembling as he pointed towards the castle. The three mages frowned and glanced over, stunned.

Helen turned to look and also clapped excitedly, jumping up—these spells were much more powerful than the professors’!

She flew over like a little kitten and hugged Louis’s arm. “Louis, Louis, you’re too amazing. Ron and the others have become real Mages!”

The butler and servants in the distance looked over blankly. Seeing this scene, Kate also looked at Louis blankly.

Louis smiled.

He had just seen that the Storybook’s term for these three ‘Muggle wild wizards who loved magic’ had changed.

[‘Archmage’.]

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