Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 434 Who to go with?

Before Bart's wedding, the resident wizard of Würzburg died of unnatural causes, allowing that kid to take over the job, and it was his turn to be the next one, but unfortunately the unlucky assassin found Rorschach.

Later, the superior of the resident wizard promised to launch an investigation, but nothing came of it, and there was no news of the inspector Mariano who almost died. It is very likely that the investigation was suppressed by the military and the wizards accompanying the army.

As for the reason for the assassination, Rorschach guessed that those people might be big imperialists who would not tolerate the resident wizard who was close to the state having close contact with the king.

"Thank you for your reminder." Rorschach admitted that this information was very important. The mad dogs' attention should not be on Byrne at the moment, but that didn't mean they wouldn't come back again, especially if Byrne Kingdom might take the initiative to intervene in the situation in the future.

As for the archives, now that the agency is gone, it does save him a lot of trouble, but it doesn't matter to Rorschach now. With his current strength, even if the agency still exists, no one can stop him from leaving the agency.

Even if the secret files brought by the chancellor were made public, Rorschach would not be able to accuse the Empire. Moreover, he did not have the desire to "come to power" like Bart, and there were no so-called political enemies who would use this matter to harass him. As the saying goes, "no desire makes one strong."

The chancellor may have known this, so he handed the file to the person concerned: "I wonder if Master Rorschach is satisfied with this 'gift'? You should thank Mr. Sabines: outside of this file, your identity is covered with a code name. Therefore, even if the military wizard takes over the broken agency, he will not be able to find you for the time being."

"I'm a little curious about my code name."

"Isbis. The ibis that is placed with high hopes." Sabines never trusted spellcasters and controlled the number of mages in the mechanism, but the gap between ordinary people and spellcasters could not be made up by scrolls and alchemical items alone. Regardless of whether he realized this later, Otto also knew that the failure of the mechanism was inevitable.

At least the old friend's vision was correct. The prime minister had no idea about the current strength of Rorschach, who seemed to be devoted to running the business. In terms of this foundation, at least he was not much inferior to the Bindisen family in the palace.

The private dinner was still going on. The Prime Minister actually knew that Rorschach had participated in the development of new communication technology in the Starry Tower. Of course, he also noticed the telegraph line in Byrne.

Rorschach promised to license the technology to the Empire's companies, but the Chancellor wanted radio technology instead.

The Starry Tower was successfully developed? Was it Master Poincare who did it? This was because Rorschach was behind the times. He didn't even know that a prototype machine had been seized from the battlefield by his former roommate. So he could only confess that radio had not yet been realized when he participated in the research.

But he had a new idea: "The advantage of the Imperial Army is that there are more low-level spellcasters than the National Guard. It is feasible to study and copy Valois' technology, so why not take advantage of it?"

"You mean"

"Improve it on the basis of [Telepathy]." Rorschach thought it was feasible. [Telepathy] was a somewhat secretive spell. Rorschach did not study its principles in detail. He could only confirm it from the process of learning it. It relied on the vibration of environmental magic to spread.

But obviously the vibration of environmental magic can't spread very far, the range is about the same as normal speaking. So can we introduce electrical magic and turn the caster into a humanoid base station?
"[Telepathy] and [Electric Claw] are both low-level magic. What if we try to combine them? We can discard the radio's transmission and reception principles and mechanisms, and replace the carrier of magic transmission with electromagnetic waves. This will make it different from Valois's radio mechanism to avoid being easily intercepted, and at the same time, it can achieve a longer transmission distance. Sorry, these are all immature ideas."

"I don't understand this, but I assure you that this idea will be taken seriously." As the chancellor spoke, the secretary took notes. While Rorschach was talking, the chancellor was also thinking. The current trend is that magic is spreading, and the empire will speed up the discovery and training of talented people. But is it necessarily a good thing to expand the ranks of spellcasters in this way? Just like the imperial army that is gradually out of control...
Mages will intervene in the army and will soon not be limited to the army. The subordinates of the chief military mage are examples, and the person you are talking to, Bart, is also an example.

But in order to defeat the National Guard, which also has mages, they have to do this. There is a proverb in the Far East: drink poisoned wine to quench thirst. From the perspective of the prime minister, the two countries are now competing in drinking poisoned wine, and then hoping that the other side will die of thirst or poison.

During the conversation with Rorschach, Mr. Otto also received a return gift from Rorschach. The young man revealed that he would develop a new light gas, whose density is only slightly greater than that of light phlogiston, but whose properties are stable. Filling it into the airship will not turn it into a mobile barrel of explosives in the air.

What comforted the chancellor the most was that when he revealed the reform of the small constituencies in the empire, Rorschach also showed full interest. Since the young man was willing to cooperate with the empire, the chancellor no longer worried that he would turn to Valois, and since he was willing to support the reform, it showed that he was not someone who would obey the orders of the Bavarian royal family.

That was enough. Otto would not be stupid enough to expect a mid-level wizard to pledge allegiance to an emperor he had never met.

The prime minister's journey has not yet ended. He has to visit the palace again, and then visit the southern states according to his schedule.

Familiar faces were all present in the meeting room, including Bart and the "new face" Valan. The unlucky guy still looked pale. Although he had come to Bayern a long time ago, he had never been assigned a job. Instead, he focused on recuperating and only recently began to take over some of Andre's work. If Andre continued like this and had little time to practice magic, he would probably have to be an apprentice for life.

When Master Humboldt came to visit, he happened to "recheck" this patient and concluded that his "lungs" were functioning well.

As for Varang himself, he was young but had "died" several times. What kind of storms had he not seen? At this time, in the conference room, in front of all the "bigwigs" in the Special Administrative Region, he made his debut, and his emotions were as stable as a dead person.

In his eyes, King Byng was about to run out of good juice. The young wizard sitting at the head of the round table, his savior, was once a guest of Charles XVI. He was the only one in the conference room who knew that from the gold mine incident to the bankruptcy of the mining company, the outbreak of the crisis until the king was killed, they were all inextricably linked to Rorschach.

Seeing that the tyrant king of Byrne dared to let the "King's Nemesis" do things on his own, haha
Click, the door lock closed under Rorschach's [Mage's Hand], and at the same time, a spell was cast to seal the meeting room (Rorschach used the spell cloud to cast the spell uploaded by Caroline). This change made the participants suddenly tense and serious, except for Valan who was calm.

"Some things need to be said behind closed doors. Thank you for your hard work. Now the Special Zone has two locations and five factories. The scale is so large that even the chancellor of the empire is smelling it."

The conference room was filled with happy laughter, except for Varan.

"Unfortunately, our time of peaceful development is coming to an end, and we have reached the moment of decision. We can only attract the power of the Prime Minister, so which side should we side with?
"The Royal Family of Bavaria." Rorschach looked at Bart and Mr. Hasse;

"Valois" eyes fell on Teacher Caroline, Andre, and the expressionless Valentin;

"Empire." He paused. "Who will we join forces with and share the spoils with? Or will we not choose anything?"

(End of this chapter)