"Lord Athir, you are here."
Seeing Athir's figure from afar, Hu Kalo came down to greet him with a smile.
"You're here very early."
Looking at Hu Kalo, Atier was a little surprised.
He was always punctual, and this time he came two hours early, but he didn't expect the other party to be even faster than him. It even looked like he had been preparing here for a long time.
"I have no choice. There are many things to prepare. I have to come early."
Looking at Athir, Hukaro smiled and said, "These guards are all from my family. Although there are no wizards, there are several great knights who can help us solve some minor problems before arriving at the port."
Hearing this, Athir didn't say much, just nodded quietly.
Unlike Athir who is alone, Hukaro is not only a mentor of a wizard organization, but also an important member of a wizard family. The power he can mobilize is far greater than that of Athir.
Just from the guards temporarily transferred out, it can be seen that in addition to the two great knights, there are several other knights. This kind of force is enough to capture a small town in other places.
"Aaron, Vivian."
After a while, Hu Kalo called over the two younger generations who were about to go to the Meissen area and asked them to come and say hello to Athir.
In response, Athir maintained a polite smile on his face and nodded to the two apprentices.
The strength of these two apprentices is relatively weak. The calm young man named Aaron is okay, at least he has reached the second-class apprentice. The other girl named Vivian is relatively weak. Although she has also reached the second-class apprentice, the magic radiation emanating from her body is too weak. It seems that she has just broken through not long ago. Now she probably can't even cast a spell.
In the eyes of Athir today, such strength is totally not worth mentioning.
After a while, when everything was ready, the convoy slowly moved forward, led by a white-armored knight in white armor and a blood-red cloak.
As an honorable and official wizard, Atier naturally sat with Hukaro.
The roads in the wild were very difficult to travel on. In the carriage, after some communication, the two official wizards admired each other very much.
As a well-educated and senior formal wizard born into a wizard family, Hukalo undoubtedly possesses a wealth of valuable knowledge. Some of the secret knowledge at the formal wizard stage is exactly what Athir lacks now.
Athir was equally amazing. Perhaps he was still lacking in the depth of knowledge, but in terms of the breadth of various knowledge, Athir, who had a chip in his body, had an absolute advantage. Some of his knowledge about bloodlines made Hu Kalo's eyes light up.
From the chat, Atier also learned the reason why Aaron and Weiweian went to the Meissen area.
The Northland Plain and the Meissen region have been connected since a long time ago, and there is also a certain amount of communication between the wizarding organizations in the two regions.
Because the wizard civilization in the Meissen region is much stronger than that in the Northern Plains, many wizard organizations in the Northern Plains choose to send some of their apprentices to study in the Meissen region.
Aaron and Weiwei were apprentices sent by their family to study, and they were among the top talents in their family.
"In fact, among the wizards who have gone to the Meisen area in the past, formal wizards like you, Athir, are relatively rare."
Looking at Athir, Hukalo spoke bluntly.
"Oh, why?"
Athir was a little curious: "Since the wizards in the Maison area are stronger, the environment there must be more suitable for the growth of wizards. There should be many wizards who want to go there."
"Of course there are many people who want to go, but just the qualification to board the ship is enough to stump many people."
Hu Kalo said, "Of course, for formal wizards like us, as long as we want, even if we have to stay on the battlefield for a few years, with the strength of formal wizards, it is not difficult to get a certificate."
"However, even if they have the certificate, not many people actually have the opportunity to go because they are tied down by various things."
He looked at Athir and said with a smile: "After all, there are only a few people like you, Athir, who have been promoted to a formal wizard without signing any contract."
Sitting opposite Hukalo, listening to his words, Athir just smiled, with a flash of understanding in his eyes: "That's true."
After all, there are only a few official wizards in this world, and most of them are trained by those wizard organizations.
However, most of the formal wizards who are promoted in this way are bound by contracts.
Just like Atier, if he had not been accepted as a student by Professor Edith and funded with the resources needed for his promotion, he would probably have signed a contract with the academy long ago, just to obtain the promotion resources funded by the academy.
If you sign a contract with the academy, you will need to serve the academy for at least one or two hundred years, so it is naturally impossible to be as free as you are now.
Those wild wizards do not have this restriction, but they lack a systematic system and the resources to be promoted to formal wizards. The chance of promotion is very low, and it is difficult for a formal wizard to emerge.
"In addition to the contractual reasons, there is also no need for it."
Sitting opposite Athir, feeling the bumps of the carriage, Hukalo seemed to be interested and continued to explain to Athir: "Although the wizards in the Meisen region are generally much stronger than those in the North, the gap itself is not absolute."
"For many formal wizards who have become accustomed to a comfortable life, it is better to stay in a familiar place than to venture into unfamiliar areas."
"You seem to be familiar with the Meissen area."
Looking at the other person, Athir asked.
"Of course." Hukalo smiled and said, "When I was an apprentice, I also went to study in the Meissen area. I didn't come back until I was about to be promoted to a formal wizard."
"It must have been a very memorable time."
Athir also had a smile on his face: "How does it feel to be there?"
"Not very good."
Hukalo shook his head: "The Maison area is not like the north. It is the center of the wizard gathering area nearby. There are not only human wizards, but also many foreign wizards. Wars between wizards will break out from time to time."
"In fact, in that area, human wizards are not the strongest. Elves, sea creatures, orcs... every one of them is very powerful."
"Elves, are there still elves there?"
Hearing about the elves, Athir was startled at first, then pretended to be very interested and asked: "In my hometown, the elves have completely disappeared, and the orcs are not very strong. Even mortal knights can deal with them."
"The elves over there still exist, and they are not as weak as we are here."
Hukalo patiently explained to Athir: "In our area, the power of the elves declined thousands of years ago, but in the Meisen area, the power of the elves is very strong, and there are powerful elven wizards."
"As for the orcs, they are mainly composed of some bloodline people. What we have seen in this area is just the most common type. Their bloodline is not strong among the many orc branches."
In the narrow carriage, Hucaro continued talking to Arthur, telling Arthur some of the situations in the Meissen area.
This was also part of the previous agreement.
Athir promised to take care of the other party's descendants, and Hucaro reported some information about the Meissen area to Athir, which was considered a very fair deal.
During the communication, half a month passed quickly.
As half a month passed, they arrived at a spacious port under the escort of two great knights.
When he arrived here, Atier discovered that there were already many people waiting here.
Long convoys kept entering the port from outside, and there was a subtle spiritual fluctuation emanating from them, and it was obvious that there were wizards among them.
Compared to the convoys outside, which were getting longer and longer, Athir and his group were inconspicuous here.
"We've arrived relatively early. There are still three days until the agreed date. We can rest here for a while."
Getting off the carriage and looking at the people around him, Hu Kalo said to Athir.
"Let's find a hotel first. I don't want to sleep on the street."
Looking at the empty space around him, Athir said.
"Don't worry, there is a hotel specially opened for us, as well as delicious food and beautiful girls."
Standing next to Athir, Hukalo said to him with a smile: "The service here is very good, Athir, you must try it later."
"Sorry, I'm not interested in that."
Atier shook his head and refused bluntly, not wanting to waste energy at this time.
"That's a pity." Hu Kalo shrugged and didn't care.
That night, they stayed in this place, quietly waiting for the person who would pick them up to come.
It was not until one morning three days later that they walked out of the warm hotel and came to a spacious flat area.
The whistling wind blows constantly here, making people shiver unconsciously when it blows on their bodies.
Facing the cold wind, no one present looked strange, and they didn't care about the cold at all.
There were dozens of groups of people standing there, most of them were standing in groups like Athir, but there were also a few who were alone and looked lonely.
There were more than a hundred people present, but the place was very quiet. Everyone was looking at the sky, apparently waiting for something.
"Here they come!" At some point, a noise came from the place.
In the distant sky, a small black dot appeared and gradually grew larger in everyone's sight. The aura of magic was emanating from it without any disguise, and all the wizards present could sense it.
After a while, when the black spot came closer, people could see its specific appearance.
This is a black ship. The hull does not look like it is made of metal or wood. Instead, it looks like a unique crystal. It exudes a strong fluctuation of magic power that can be easily felt.
Looking at the ship floating in the air, a hint of surprise flashed in Athir's eyes, and he suddenly became very interested in the specific structure of the ship.
Being able to defy gravity and float in the air, or even move quickly in the air, the technology and knowledge involved must be very complex.
"Here I come."
Looking up at the sky, nostalgia flashed in Hukalo's eyes.
Under the gaze of everyone, the airship floating in the air slowly descended and landed smoothly on the ground.
After a while, when the airship landed completely, several people came out, led by an old wizard in a red robe who had a cold face and looked a little unapproachable.
"The time has come. Those who are boarding the ship please take out your credentials for inspection. We will depart immediately in two hours."
Looking at the dense crowds of people below, the old apprentice in the red robe had a cold expression on his face and spoke coldly to the people below.
He has messy red hair and an old-looking face full of wrinkles. Although his figure in the red robe is thin, the power contained in it cannot be underestimated by anyone.
"An unknown force field was detected... Unable to detect the target's body data." The mechanical voice of the chip sounded again in my mind.
Listening to the chip's prompt, Athir's eyes became a little serious: "A first-level transformed wizard who has solidified defensive spells?"
The protective force field of a formal wizard is something that current chips cannot penetrate. The fact that the opponent can make the chip's detection fail is undoubtedly a solidified force field-type defensive spell.
Judging from the aura that the other party intentionally exuded, this old wizard in red robes has completely reached the transformation stage and is by no means comparable to an ordinary formal wizard.
The so-called transformation period refers to a certain stage of becoming a formal wizard. It can only be achieved after the purity of the spiritual power has been raised to a certain level, and the power is far stronger than that of an ordinary wizard.
In the Elf King's ruins before, the blood wizard named Myerdo was at this level. If he had not been in the Elf King's Tomb at that time, his mental and magical powers were suppressed by the power of the Elf King, allowing Athir to exert his strongest physical strength. The opponent might not have died at Athir's hands, and even if he was not his opponent, he could at least escape.
Now that he is in the outside world, with his magic power and mental strength not suppressed, even Athir would be afraid if he faced a transformed wizard.
Of course, if a fight really came to a head, he would not necessarily lose to the opponent due to his physical strength which was far stronger than that of a formal wizard.
Standing there, listening to each other's words, the apprentices took out their tokens one by one and walked directly to the front along with the flow of people.
"Lord Athir, I will leave my two students to you along the way."
Looking at the crowd in the distance and standing next to his two juniors, Hu Kalo asked Athir for help again.
In response, Atier smiled and nodded, then walked forward with two second-class apprentices.
In front, the line was already very long.
The apprentices, holding black tokens, walked forward obediently under the gaze of the old wizard in red robes.
Atier observed for a while and found that among the dozens of wizards who were about to board the ship, including himself, only two were official wizards. The rest were all second-class apprentices. Even third-class apprentices were very rare.
(End of this chapter)