Li Xi arrived at the City Lord's Mansion during dinner, the tall City Lord's Mansion belonged to the shiniest buildings in Tiama City, even when darkness fell, it still emitted a warm glow.
There was no electricity here, but the City Lord's Mansion was still brightly lit, using sorcerer power.
As long as this City Lord's Mansion, which still emitted light at night, was around, the civilians of the entire city would have a backbone.
"Hahaha, kid, I thought you were going to be late, but I didn't expect to really let you arrive within five days, and I didn't have a chance to punish you even if I wanted to find a reason to do so."
"Too bad."
Gelu's rough voice made the entire hall tremble, and all the people in the room looked at Li Xi who walked in.
Ordinary appearance, and his breath was pathetically weak, only the flesh that emanated a super active body indicated that this was an apprentice body refining sorcerer.
Curiosity, indifference, happiness, all sorts of sights fell on Li Xi's body, which caused his footsteps that were stepping in to pause for an instant.
The heavy sight made Li Xi take a closer look at the people eating in the hall.
First of all, there was Grue who was eating and drinking furiously at the very top, his bloody mouth seemed like a machine on fire, eating frantically.
Next to him was a middle-aged man who was very delicately maintained, each of his slender fingers had a gem-encrusted ring, and his gorgeous robes were lined with nobility.
Although his aura was far inferior to Grue's, it was much more powerful than Li Xi's. This should be Tiama City's City Lord Samachi, a peak elemental sorcerer apprentice who had failed to promote to a first level sorcerer.
On the other hand, there were four on each side of the lower hand side, all in sorcerer's robes, and their breaths were much stronger than Li Xi's. There were actually eight Sorcerer Apprentices.
There were actually eight sorcerer apprentices present!
Li Xi scanned the circle and was somewhat disappointed that he did not find the aura he was looking for.
At the same time, he was shocked in his heart, Tiama's quest was only taken by him and Grue, it was not said before that there would be so many sorcerer apprentices.
"Little brother Li Xi, right, I have long heard that Master Grue has a student with extraordinary talent, and today I have seen that he is really a talented person."
Samachi was worthy of being a veteran who could run a city for hundreds of years from nothing, and did not make Li Xi feel uncomfortable at all.
Greeting, personally arrange Li Xi seat, food arrangement more let Li Xi heart happy, from time to time conversation are all can let Li Xi pick up the topic, dinner has not been carried out half, Li Xi to this city master has already had a lot of good feelings.
What's happier is that this is not the kind of money to taste the food of the college, a variety of different flavors of food so that Li Xi dazzled, let go of the waistband a wild eat.
Li Xi who did not care about his image did not feel embarrassed at all, body refining wizards are like this, good body and big appetite.
Including Samaqi and the eight elemental sorcerers on Li Xi's performance did not surprise, smilingly talk from time to time.
Only Li Xi was very unfamiliar with their topic, so he didn't talk, just ate.
Didn't see behind Grue stood a row of subordinates responsible for transporting food, one bite, one plate, ten seconds can solve a table.
Li Xi is not even a brother compared to him.
After eating without much conversation, those eight elemental sorcerer apprentices left quickly, Li Xi was arranged to go to bed early, and by the time the next day had not yet dawned, Li Xi was already up.
"Teacher Grue."
According to the work schedule of the Purple Flame Wizard Academy, now should be the time to spar with Gru.
Gelu almost didn't need to sleep, seeing Li Xi come over he directly threw over a few materials, "You take a look first."
Li Xi opened it, one was a map of Tiama City and a detailed description of the nearby environment; one was the tasks they needed to do in these twenty years; and the last one was Gru's time training schedule for Li Xi.
The first copy was nothing, nothing more than some population, fields, minerals, and resource distribution descriptions.
The important thing was the last two copies.
The mission introduction in the second copy was far more detailed than the mission that Leahy had seen in the academy.
At that time, the mission that Li Xi saw in the academy was just a standard township guard mission, which was nothing more than population growth, apprentice training and so on.
But inside the mission introduction that Grue had given him, in addition to the aforementioned basic missions, there were also the recent dangers that Tiama City needed, and Li Xi understood that these were the main missions.
There were mainly three, one was the sudden appearance of missing people in Tiama City within the last five years, with the age concentrated below twenty years old.
The Wizard World was not as convenient as Earth's transportation, and there were many cities here that were very far away and not competitive, so there was no need to plunder each other's population.
Moreover, under the rule of the academy, the academy does not allow such things to happen, the population is the cornerstone of the rule, the academy never lets the number of civilians to appear big fluctuations, war, plague these are not allowed to appear.
That's why the missing population of Tiama City was an unusual event, especially all of them were young.
Twenty years old was the age limit for testing whether one had the talent to be able to become a sorcerer's apprentice!!!
Samachi had investigated before, as a sorcerer apprentice who had once impacted the first level, his means were much more powerful than Li Xi, but he still didn't have the results of the investigation, and seeing that the missing population was about to approach a four-digit number, this was why he had to contact the academy.
Although Li Xi did not have a detailed investigation of the incident, but as long as he saw that the missing people were all under twenty years old, he knew that this was definitely a big trouble.
The second thing was that there were many wild beasts around Tiama City that had riotous beast tide events in recent years, which had caused very great damage to Tiama City's farming, and there had also been many incidents of injuries.
Tiama City had its own guards, and even Samachi, the peak sorcerer apprentice, had also made many attempts, but the many encounters did not resolve the beast tide, and simply reported them together to the academy.
The last incident was that Samachi had stumbled upon traces of other academy sorcerers near Tiama City, which was far more serious than the first two incidents.
Discovering sorcerers from other academies within this Purple Flame Academy's sphere of influence, or the kind that sneaked over without greeting, using one's heel to think was not an attempt to give you a surprise, but was more likely to be a bad guest at the door.
The first two things are of unknown danger level, but the third thing, which is definitely between wizards, has a very high danger level.
This was the reason why Li Xi saw those eight sorcerer apprentices at the time of the night banquet last night.
They were not here to do the township guard mission, but they were here alone to deal with the third matter, dealing with the other academy wizards.
"So in addition to picking the right sorcerer apprentices to assist Samachi in running the town, we also need to investigate the missing people and the beast tide, right?" Seeing this Li Xi asked.
"That's right, but all of these things mainly need to be done by you, and I will only step in if peak sorcerer apprentices and full sorcerers appear." Gru pointed at Li Xi and said.
Li Xi nodded his head without rebuttal, he had already thought of it, this kind of thing could not even use the grade of second level body refining sorcerer, the usual township guarding tasks could be done with just a first level formal sorcerer, second level was simply a flak cannon hitting a mosquito.
So Gelu taking him as a laborer would not be a surprise at all.
Gelu put more tasks on his own, although saying so had the suspicion of raising his own stature, but that was the case.
Li Xi, who had already seen through the machinations of the Purple Flame Wizard Academy, had positioned himself very accurately.
Li Xi carefully looked at the third detailed training table that Gru had arranged for him, and indeed verified his own suspicions.
The sparring practice of getting beaten up all the time was gone, replaced with confrontations against various harsh environments.
For example, in the desert, severe cold, volcanoes, swamps, poisonous miasma .... And so on these harsh conditions for asceticism.
These were further development of the limits of the physical body and were the basic subjects of the body refining sorcerer.
Li Xi saw these and quickly looked over the introduction about the terrain around Tiama City, and sure enough, these harsh environments could be found within a hundred miles of Tiama City.
"Found it?" Gru looked at Li Xi with a smirk.
Li Xi nodded his head, it was quite hard to find all these environments in one place, it was absolutely impossible to put it on Earth, that is, it could only be found in the Wizard World.
"There have been terrible battles here, leaving behind quite a few harsh environments, which may not be pleasing to other sorcerers, but it is indeed a treasure land for us."
"Alas, in order to sharpen you, I have gone through a lot of effort, rummaging through the information of the Purple Flame Academy, and this is the right place." Gelu let out a long sigh as if he was tired.
Li Xi thought slightly and suddenly had a conjecture that the entire Tiama City's township guarding mission was incidental, what with the missing population and the beast tide riots, it didn't matter, the most important task of their trip was to continue to sharpen him.
"Still, I don't care about your personal matters, but you have to make sure that during the town guard mission, your physical body's defense can resist 100 points of attack." Gelu laid down the requirements.
Li Xi nodded his head, his current pure physical body defense power was only 20 points, even the kind of beasts that Gatling could slaughter could harm his physical body, it could be seen that he was indeed non-compliant as a body refining sorcerer apprentice, of course, this was also unrelated to the short period of time that he had been practicing.
In Gelu's words, when Li Xi could rely on his physical body to tear a level one beast with his hands, he could be ready to advance to level one.
These words reminded Li Xi of the sorcerer apprentice he met on the way here, that was a peak sorcerer apprentice who could kill a level one fierce beast in seconds over the level.