The mage arrives

Atalest von Eisenstein, wearing a pure white gold-rimmed robe, stayed quietly in the room on the highest floor of the mage tower.A huge crystal ball was placed in front of him, and inside the ball was a strange scene of chaos and turbulence.

Atalest's hands were open, and he was slowly moving in the air above the crystal ball. His fingertips shot out red electric light, moving around like a spirit snake.

He muttered: "Soon, soon, the first omen is about to happen. It's on the vast ocean, right on the deep seabed..."

Just then, three bells rang.Atalest glanced at the door, and said to himself: "Joseph is here? Didn't you tell him that I will be doing important magic research recently, so don't disturb me?"

Although he was very dissatisfied, Atalest also knew that the Patriarch Joseph made an exception to come to him, and there must be something that only he can solve.

The mage left the crystal ball, tidied up the mage's robe, and said, "Abe, let Joseph come in."

As a nine-ring mage who studies the spells of the prophecy school and the spell of the change school, Atalest, who is 230 years old this year, has extremely strong strength.He even has the ability to activate his mage tower with the magic of the transformation school, turning it into a special existence with wisdom and life.

Every brick and stone in the entire mage tower can obey the mage's order.

When the Eisenstein family was not very powerful, Atalest used the geographical advantage of this mage tower to bury an unknown number of invading enemies.This mage tower named "Abe" belongs to the entire Eisenstein family.It can be regarded as a hero with quite old qualifications.

As soon as Joseph entered the Mage Tower, he felt a strange feeling of being swallowed alive by some huge monster.If he hadn't had to, he didn't want to come here either.But what happened in Shadowcastle.Only Archmage Atalest, who has experienced the period of the four heads of the Eisenstein family, has the ability to solve it.

Coming to the top of the mage tower, Joseph saw Ataleste.

Although this mage has lived in the world for more than 200 years, he still looks like a 25-year-old young man.He has a handsome face, piercing eyes, energy and quick thinking.

Every time Joseph sees Ataleste.My heart will be filled with jealousy and envy.

"Arcane is really amazing. Just because it can greatly prolong life and maintain youth, it is worth putting all your energy into arcane research." Joseph sighed in his heart.

If you have magical talent.He would rather abandon the position of Patriarch Eisenstein to explore the endless arcane world.

"Joseph, didn't I say I'm very busy recently, don't bother me? A big change is coming. Not only do I want the Eisenstein family to survive this big change, but I also want to use this as an opportunity to make the family more powerful. Growth. This matter has the highest priority, don't you understand?"

Joseph didn't dare to talk back to Ataleste, he just bent down and bowed to apologize, and then said: "Of course I know, but something happened to Gray Shadow Castle. An evil enemy from unknown origin attacked there and completely destroyed Gray Shadow Castle. The family has lost a lot, and my daughter Ephraim is missing."

"Ephran?" Ataleste thought of the beautiful and enchanting female mage.

In terms of seniority, Avran is the great-granddaughter of Ataleste.However, the two still had an intimate relationship for a long time.Ephraim served Ataleste with her mature and fiery body in return.Atalest gave Ephran some arcane knowledge.She successfully transformed her familiar Chimera, thanks to the help of Ataleste.

In fact, apart from Evelyn, many women in the Eisenstein family have had relationships with Atalest, including the mother and sister of the owner Joseph.

Ataleste didn't find this strange or immoral.

Those who possess great power are naturally qualified to ignore the rules of the world and enjoy all good things.

Although he has many women, Atalest still has a crush on the young, beautiful, smart and obedient Ephraim.He said to Joseph, "Let me check for you."

"Grateful."

The nine-ring mage came to the front of the crystal ball and chanted spells while manipulating it.

Soon, in the originally blurred crystal ball, a scene of all kinds of devils attacking Gray Shadow Castle appeared.

"Devil?" Joseph frowned, and the murderous intent in his voice was gathering, "Who sent these devils? Dare to attack the Eisenstein family, and they will die!"

In the crystal ball in front of Ataleste, the picture began to blur and gradually turned into a cloud of gray mist.The mage shook his head and said, "Unfortunately, my spells can't find the murderer."

The spells of the School of Prophecy are not omnipotent, even a nine-ring magician like Ataleste may not be able to work.It's like using fuzzy searches on a search engine to find answers.

"The murderer who attacked Gray Shadow Castle was very cunning, and used some means to block the detection of the prophecy spell. I have no way of knowing his information." Ataleste tried a few more times, but still got nothing, and finally gave up.

The disappointing result made Joseph's heart sink rapidly, and he had an increasingly bad premonition.After hesitating for a while, he finally asked the question he wanted to know the most: "And what about Ephraim? Where is she?"

Master Jiuhuan said, "Wait a moment."

Operating the crystal ball again, the expression on Ataleste's face became more and more ugly as time went by.Finally, he sighed, shook his head and said: "Unfortunately, I can't find her existence in the main material world and all other planes that my spells can reach. In other words, Ephraim is dead .”

Although he was mentally prepared, Joseph still felt dizzy when he heard the bad news, and he almost couldn't breathe.

Patriarch Eisenstein, whose face paled instantly, panted heavily, and it took him a long time to regain his composure.

His eyes were bloodshot, and his whole body was surrounded by overflowing anger: "Yes! Gordon Freeman! Gordon Freeman must have done it!"

Today, the entire Freyton Empire has conflicting forces with the vigorous Eisenstein family, that is, the Stryker family where the Lord Warhammer belongs, the Baratheon family where the Silmaril Lord belongs, and the death of the Lord Scepter. the remnants of the latter.The two grand dukes of the empire are old and cunning figures, and it is impossible for them to make such a radical move as attacking Gray Shadow Castle.Therefore, the biggest suspicion falls on Gordon Freeman, who has great hatred with both Durlington and Ephraim.

"Gordon Freeman?" Master Nine Rings read the name lightly, and found that he didn't remember it.Since August last year, he has spent almost all his time in the mage tower, in a state of indifference to world affairs.

Although Avran's death is a bit of a pity for Ataleste, it is nothing more than that.For this mage who has lived for more than 200 years, Ephran is just a well-behaved and obedient family member.Ataleste might have helped if he had nothing to do, but Ataleste had many more important things to attend to right now.Not only does he want to further find out the exact time when the big change will come, but he also needs to "renew" this body to maintain vitality.

"I'm going to continue working." Ataleste said lightly.

Seeing that the other party had no intention of making a move, Joseph could only leave unwillingly.

"Damn old guy, selfish bastard!" After Joseph walked out of the mage tower, he began to curse Ataleste in his heart, "Even if you old guy doesn't make a move, I can easily kill the Freeman family! "

After the Battle of High Rock City, Patriarch Eisenstein made several clever moves. Not only did he promote his son Derrington as a war hero of the Empire, but he also took advantage of the honeymoon period with the Anduin royal family to expand the situation and strengthen his power. Rapidly promoted, there is a tendency to replace the Antaello family.He didn't put Gordon Freeman in his eyes at all, and just let Durrington and Ephraim deal with this student of Rob Antello.

Joseph originally wanted his son to defeat the enemy who had been overwhelming him, so as to gain experience for a broader stage in the future.But the result made him extremely angry.

Durrington is still lying in bed, unconscious.Joseph has already released the news, saying that Derrington was injured by the cultists of the Three Holy Baptist Church in the previous Battle of High Rock City, leaving hidden dangers in his body, so he made abnormal behaviors in the victory celebration contest.

Because His Majesty still needs to support the Eisenstein family against the two imperial princes, he tentatively believes this statement.However, it is difficult to restore Dellington's reputation in the entire empire in a short period of time.

While Joseph was struggling with his son's affairs, something happened to his daughter Ephraim.This made him determined to shift the focus of resources of the entire family, and first try to eliminate the Freeman family with all his strength.

"The pain my children have suffered will be repaid a hundredfold by the Freeman family!"

The furious Joseph had just returned to his residence from the mage tower when he got bad news.

"My lord, both the Stryker family and the Baratheon family are moving!"

"What?" The two beards on Joseph's lips trembled in shock.

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"Brother, isn't it too... earth-shattering for you to do such a thing?" Xiona was startled when she heard what Gordon said after the breakup, and after thinking about it for a long time, she came up with " Earth-shattering" is an adjective.

"Earth-shattering? Maybe." Gordon laughed.

The two brothers and sisters were sitting in a luxury carriage, heading south all the way to the fief Haiwen area.

"Brother, don't put on such an indifferent expression." Xiona frowned slightly, "Shadow Gray Castle was destroyed, and Ephraim was killed. Even if the Eisenstein family can't find any definite evidence, they will be killed in anger. Next time, they will also target us. Now let’s think about how to deal with the next attack of the Eisenstein family. It’s really...” (To be continued..)