Pallas Floating City.

The Redstone Duke stood alone, watching the wizards clearing the ruins of the tower with expressionless faces. No one around dared to approach him.

"teacher."

Montalin appeared in front of him and shouted respectfully.

The Duke of Redstone turned his head and looked at him, asking in a low voice: "Has the loss count been released?"

"yes."

Montalin's painful face reported: "The attack killed 396 people, of which 38 were passengers and mechanics on two magic airships, 45 were residents who were bombed everywhere in the city, and the remaining 313 were..."

He said this and looked carefully at the teacher's face. Seeing that the teacher's expression had not changed, he continued: "Most of these 313 people are teachers and students from the Magic Academy. They were unable to escape in time when the tower exploded and collapsed."

The Duke of Redstone's heart twitched violently.

The floating city of Pallas dominates the entire northern grassland, with an actual fiefdom area of ​​more than ten times larger than other dukes, almost monopolizing the trade routes north of the empire and northwest. It has huge mineral resources and unscrupulously plunders taxes from foreign races on the grassland, so it has strong financial resources and is richer than Naser.

Relying on wealth that ordinary people can't imagine, Pallas Floating City recruits students and invests resources at any cost to cultivate a large number of wizards.

After more than two hundred years of accumulation, the number of Palas wizards exceeded one thousand, second only to Nesser, ranking second among all floating cities.

Before the Undead Natural Scourge, Vizelan had only more than 500 wizards at most.

This is also the capital for Pallas to dare to compete with Wizelland.

Now, more than 300 wizards died in one attack, a decrease of nearly one-third. All years of investment and hard work were in vain, and the losses could no longer be described as heavy.

The Duke of Redstone felt blood dripping from his heart.

The losses in the North Tower were mainly wizards.

Nanta is his magic laboratory and warehouse, which store wealth worth more than 50 million gold shields, including countless alchemy materials, demon souls, potions and precious magic items. Even if some of them can be rescued, the lost ones are still unbearable.

Many things are unavailable even if you have money, and their value is incalculable.

Pallas' overall strength has been regressing for at least fifty years.

In the next few years, millions of golden shields are required to repair the control array of Iola's core. Pallas lands on the ground, and Iola's core cannot be used. The magic protection of the floating city is invalid. I don't know how many enemies will secretly spy on it.

Palas suffered such a major blow and his personal prestige was also affected, especially when he was just promoted to one of the three giants in the empire, he seemed to have been slapped hard in the face and lost all his face.

The Duke of Redstone became more and more angry the more he thought about it.

It was clearly half a month ago, everything went smoothly. According to the plan, I would lead two floating cities, Pallas and Neser, to become the leaders of Neser faction and take charge of the empire.

However, things took a sharp turn for the worse.

Not only did Nesser fail to succeed, but his own Pallas was also in trouble.

Who is it?

The handsome face of a young man immediately appeared in the Duke of Redstone's mind, and his anger surged, and even the will of truth could not be suppressed. He whispered in a deep voice: "Ren Augustus!"

Since the first time I heard about this name, the Duke of Redstone was very upset because Rennes broke the record of his youngest legendary wizard, but he didn't care too much about it.

Later he kept hearing about this person.

With all kinds of heroic deeds and unprecedented cultivation speed, people always compare Rennes with themselves. As the great holy soul wizard, the number one genius in history, they can't compare to it and become a stepping stone for a young boy.

As he was compared more often, his impression of Rennes became worse and worse, even if he had never seen them before.

Then there is the opening ceremony of the Wizards Exchange Competition.

Renn made a big splash again. The Duke of Redstone did not watch Renn fight with his own eyes, but from the images recording the battle process, he judged at a glance that Renn had the same will to truth as himself.

This made the Duke of Redstone feel threatened, and he became hostile before he saw him.

When he met in person, what happened in that small plane, Renn destroyed his big plan that he had prepared for many years, and threatened himself in front of the Holy Soul Wizards, humiliated him, and never encountered such a big setback in his life.

On that day, he swears in his heart that Ren will never give up until he dies.

And it won't let Renn die easily.

However, the Duke of Redstone returned to Pallas without taking action immediately. He had more important things to do, and the reckoning of Rennes' hatred was at the back.

Renn hated him very much. The Duke of Redstone had never hated anyone so much, but he had to admit that Renn had extremely strong talent and strength, vaguely surpassing himself. He also had to rely on Wizelland and Ancivodaus, even if he was a level 33 holy soul wizard, he would be a little afraid.

What made him most afraid of was that Rennes was protected by the magic goddess and could not easily start.

So the Duke of Redstone chose to temporarily endure.

As long as that thing succeeds, even if Renn is promoted to the Holy Soul Wizard, even if Renn is a student of Ancivodaus, even if Renn has the favor of the goddess of magic, killing Renn at that time will be nothing more than a trivial matter for him, as easy as killing an ant.

However, the entire plan was disrupted.

Today's attack has stagnated the plan for at least five years, and he has been seriously injured. He has no power to retaliate before the floating city rises again.

This is really a coincidence.

As soon as he became enemies with Rennes, Pallas was severely injured and his vitality was severely damaged.

The Duke of Redstone couldn't help but wonder whether all this could be done by Rennes?

When Montalin heard the name he said, his heart was shocked and said, "Teacher, was the Earl of Glamorgan attacking Pallas?"

He had never seen the wizard who was the most popular in the empire, but he had also heard of all kinds of deeds. After his teacher returned to Pallas, he asked himself to send someone to investigate the other party and instructed him to secretly under the Glamorgan nail to monitor the other party's every move.

The teacher didn't say the reason for doing this, but obviously regarded Rennes as his enemy.

The Duke of Redstone did not respond.

He thought for a long time, recalling the enemy who had just discovered the airship, his superb mastery of teleportation spells, and the suicide-like black wizard in the control room of the floating city, and finally shook his head.

Rennes Augustus does not have such great ability.

Not to mention that Rennes is just a legendary wizard, Vizelan behind him cannot do it. Such a powerful and crazy move must be related to the gods.

"It shouldn't be him."

The Duke of Redstone is not sure.

He opened the portal and entered the control room of the floating city, and Montalin hurriedly followed.

The huge control room is like a bright hall, with the rune array on the ground and walls dull and more than 70% of it destroyed in the explosion just now. The core of Eola that hovered in the middle slowly rotated, still emitting endless light like the sun, but it stopped outputting energy.

The Iola core has not been extinguished, but has just stopped working temporarily.

The Duke of Redstone raised his hand and tapped.

A eight-ring spell "Light and Shadow Backtrack" was released.

Montalin also has this spell, and has been used many times. A few years ago, a magic airship in Pallas was robbed and killed, and he went to investigate it himself.

Montalin investigated for a long time at the crash site of the airship.

The robbery and killing obviously occurred in the sky. Before the crash, it flew far away. It was difficult to judge the altitude and distance. After exceeding the range of light and shadow, he only saw the scene of the orc called "Broxgar" robbing the wreckage of the airship, but could not find the battle on the airship.

After that, the orcs who committed the murder disappeared.

The Dragon Throat Clan also has no clue about this orc. It seems that there has never been an orc named "Broxgar" in the world.

This is still a unsolved case in Pallas.

Fortunately, the teacher has been concentrating on magic experiments over the years, but only asked a few questions, but did not blame himself for his poor investigation.

Montalin took back his mind.

Light and shadow return takes effect, and illusions appear in the control room, just like time flowing back, playing again in the direction of the past to show what happened.

Soon, the figure of the Redstone Duke appeared in the illusion. The process of suppressing the explosion with "distorted reality" made Montalin frightened. Only then did he know what had just happened. Pallas almost crashed and couldn't help but feel worried about the teacher.

The illusion continues to go backwards and reverts to the scene before the explosion.

A black wizard wearing a skeleton mask appeared.

"The Holy Emblem of the Dark Sun!" Montalin shouted in surprise: "It turned out that it was done by the believers of the fraudsters!"

"Not necessarily." The Duke of Redstone said lightly.

The black wizard in the light and shadow reached out and pressed on the black metal box for more than ten seconds, as if the energy explosion in the box was being stimulated.

"What's that?"

Montalin opened her eyes wide and observed the dark box.

With his knowledge, he had never seen this thing before. It was not like magic or scroll. The principle of operation was hidden in the box and could not be seen at all. The only thing that is certain is that its power is more terrifying than the Nine-Ring Extreme Effect Flame Explosion Technique, which was because they blew down two towers.

The Duke of Redstone did not recognize it either.

Obviously, the black wizard intentionally used black boxes as shells to cover up the magical items inside, but did not want anyone to know its origin.

Looking back further, the two saw the black wizard performing five consecutive cleavage techniques, breaking the magical protection of the Iola core.

Judging from the process of releasing the Great Sclerosis Surgery, the opponent's arcane attainment is extremely high. The Great Sclerosis Surgery of the Eight Ring can complete casting in only three seconds. Each Great Sclerosis Surgery hits the weakness of the protective array, so it is possible to expose the Iola's core in five casts.

Montalin also had a great cleavage technique, but he thought he was not as good as this dark wizard.

It would take at least decades of research if it were himself.

"Who is this person?" Montalin was very puzzled. A wizard who could master the great cleavage technique to such an extent, at least at the peak of the legend, must not be unknown.

But the other party seemed to have no concern for his life at all and directly exploded and died.
To be continued...