Alexander just added another stone to the building by hiring a future rank 8 mage and maybe made a friend ?
He now had to take care of the rank 6 slaves that he had obtained through his various deals, they had to be trained and disciplined because even if they had orbs of obedience placed in them, they could still rebel if he pushed them to much
he captured their flesh but not their hearts
he therefore gathered the 100 level 6 mages who were all more or less at beginner level 6, he sorted them according to their age because if a level 6 mage exceeds 500,000 years, he starts to go crazy
Alexander had obviously taken this into account when he negotiated with the two institutes and the different groups, he had only taken mages aged between 100.000 and 300.000 years old
he then started a big meeting where he talked with the mages, explained the situation and the system in place
all the mages here must work under Alexander for at least 100,000 years after that and depending on their merit they can even buy their freedom
the groups were divided into 10 groups with 10 mages in each groupe
their was a mage who would manage a group of 5, then a leader for the group of 10 and another who would control the group of 100 mages, to choose the different leaders, Alexander set up a competition excluding the orcs, they would be placed in a separate group
he asked the Silver Bird Academy to provide him with rank 6 light mages to treat any injury sustained in the competition and the academy accepted.
some were princes from distant kingdoms, others were scientists and some of them were simple level 6 orcs, he could not afford to choose the strongest to lead otherwise it was the orcs who would win and a group led by orcs can't go that far
this is why Alexander also used another object to choose the differents leaders, the scarlet crown
there were two crowns to be exact , one of them allowed the thoughts of the bearer to be read and the other obviously allowed them to be transmitted, the object was called the scarlet crown because usually when the truth comes out, it will be followed by blood wich is red in color
an important detail is that the crown only works on mages of level 6 or lower
he obviously did not tell the other mages that he intended to use the crown on the first ten winners of the tournament and offered several attractive rewards to entice the competitors
level 7 element stones, herbs to strengthen your affinity with mana, strength potions, Alexander pulled out all his items
in any case the mages present were already part of his men, so he felt no remorse in making them stronger
alexander was still at level 6-beginner, which meant that some mages of rank 6-pianncle started to release their aura on him to see his reaction but nothing happened because he was 4 times more powerful than a mage of rank 6
in a real fight, he would surely be killed but if it was only the control of mana and the elements around them he had nothing to fear
the scientists were not numerous but their was still 2 alchemists so Alexander transferred them to the alchemy section of the group, a non-combat unit
Once all the contestants were healed from their previous wounds and ready to fight, the tournament began.
since these were rank 6 spells, the tournament took place in the forest of ugul, near liberty city
even though he wanted to be discreet and even casted a camouflage spell, several mages came to attend the tournament
Enu even took the opportunity to bet
each contestant would draw a number between 1 and 88 and each even number would fight the number above him 1 with 2 , 3 with 4 , 55 with 56 and so on
generally earth mages are powerful against fire mages and water mages beat earth mages , water and fire mages are the same but the winner of the fight will mostly depend on the purity and the control of the mana
after some hours of fierce combat where Alexander and Enu had to intervene to prevent the participants from killing each others , 10 mages were selected
the competition was intense and a lot of blood was shed which made the crowd even more electric
fortunately Alexander had asked for light type mages, he had also invited Douglas and Harold to show the Heartofsteel family that he was doing well and at the same time because he wanted to imrpove his friendship with douglas
some mages received 10 lashes as punishment because they did not listen to Alexander, their right to participate in the fights and their rewards were also taken away, if this happened again Alexander was going to put them into the group of orcs to teach them discipline
it is in this atmosphere that the last ten mages were selected
then Alexander made them ingest a poison because he did not know what would be the result of the scarlet crown because all the ten mages were level 6- pinnacle
and as expected, two of them were spies from the silver bird academy and the witches of the abyss
Alexander gave them the choice, either they submitted completely to him or they will be killed.
both accepted to submit
the silver bird and the witches of the abyss sent spies because they did not know that alexander had a scarlet crown, he had only obtained it at the banquet in exchange for 10 trips through of the space portal
I should send a good bottle of wine to the mage gave me this crown alexander thought.
As for taking action against the two groups Alexander didn't even think about it, the other two groups were too powerful
the first 3 mages were not spies but 1 of them was a former black mage
the other two had secrets so important that even with the scarlet crown alexander could not analyze them
the two mages were roland gallagher and stephen moore ranked 1st and 2nd respectively because alexander stopped their fight midway afraid that they get seriously injured
Gallagher was a spy master, he had already lived 400,000 years , he was captured because he was betrayed by his students and was surrounded by several level 6 mages
his fight lasted 3 days and three nights and at the end of the 4th day, he collapsed on the ground, because he knew several secrets , he was put for sale as a slave to the highest bidder
all his previous masters disappeared under mysterious circumstances
so it was a poisoned gift from the witches of the abyss thought Alexander and taking advantage of gallagher's state of weakness after the fight , alexander implanted him with a second orb of obedience but this one would kill him if Alexander ever died
gallagher didn't know alexander's toughts and when alexander escorted him to another room , he first tought he was going to die because he showed to much power
Alexander told him that after witnessing his fight, he thought that a single orb of obedience was a protection to weak compared to the power he displayed and that alexander continued by saying that he liked to take precautions.
he also explained to him the function of the second orb
Gallagher's eyes widened, slaves have a low status and no one would pay too much attention to one of them butt Alexander directly used on him a second orb of obedience
this master is not simple thought gallagher
after his discussion with gallagher, alexander turned to stephen moore, moore was an evil doll, offered to a prince by a powerful level 8 mage to protect him, his level was level 7 but after several centuries of operation , the energy the doll could release only reached level 6 -pinnacle
unfortunately the prince's empire was destroyed and the prince lost his life during a battle outside the castle, the doll therefore no longer had a reason to live
once the castle was conquered, the doll's brain was changed but the mage who carried out the operation was only level 7, so the doll became mad and gave off a devilish aura
the doll had developed a fascination for chocolate, moore loved it so much that he could do anything in exchange for chocolate
stephen moore was one of the level 6 slaves offered by the elementary researchers who were a level 7 group
but what they did not know was that Alexander came from a world where chocolate was consumed in several forms, from iced bars of Mars to different sculptures made only in chocolate, alexander only needed a pastry chef to control the evil doll