Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 722 The Mysteries of the Azure Maple Territory's Magic Array
As someone who had never understood mages and always made some minor mistakes when dealing with Arslan, requiring repeated questioning, the Knight King Travis has now become much wiser.

He shouldn't have cared about the monks' thought process; he should have just looked at the result.

In the end, that's the result he wanted anyway.

As someone in a position of authority, he doesn't need to worry about what his subordinates are doing... he just needs to have someone he trusts to oversee these matters.

Travis didn't realize how easy it was for him until Alsalan took over the palace's defensive array.

A high-ranking mage with quick thinking and strong mental power, capable of operating more than a dozen magic arrays simultaneously, and able to quickly command the core of the arrays to sort out various information according to their importance and urgency.

When he used to do it himself, the same thing took almost three times as long as Al-Saran.

But Travis doesn't regret the hardships he endured over the years.

Al-Saran is only now becoming useful.

He has his own legacy; his teacher has simply ascended to heaven, not died.

Al-Saran is not trustworthy unless he is certain that he will follow Travis to the bitter end.

There are some things that Al-Saran will tell him honestly now, but at that time, he will definitely go through his own hands first.

Moreover, given Travis's temperament, he will only entrust others with things he has thoroughly understood himself.

Even if he trusts that person a lot, he won't give them everything.

If you don't even understand yourself, don't expect a loyal person to remain loyal to the end.

As long as you are human, you will have selfish thoughts and desires.

Once he's certain that Travis knows nothing, he'll inevitably... think that it's an easy and inconspicuous thing to do to gain a little benefit for himself and erase some information that's detrimental to his friends and family.

Travis never gambles on human nature.

After all, he had already endured enough of the same hardships from his siblings, relatives, and friends... He had to grit his teeth and endure them before adulthood, but after adulthood, no one could make him endure them again.

Travis turned his head slightly to look at the sky outside. If Alsaran hadn't already decided to live independently and chosen to rely on him, he wouldn't have even indulged in this last bit of free time.

Having persisted for a century, he will never slacken his efforts at the last moment.

As for why Al-Saran suddenly changed his mind and no longer wanted to follow his mentors, Travis had a rough idea.

Until he took Lori as his student, Arslan was still just one of his close family mages, someone who was willing to do his best for the King of the North.

But he weighs the pros and cons of everything and won't easily follow Travis's orders.

After all, his future lies in the Astral Plane; the position of Grand Master of the Court is only a temporary one for him.

Until, through the incident of Alex's return, Lori managed to extract the truth about the magical ruins that Altharan had been searching for.

Although Al-Saran kept berating himself for his stupidity, his subsequent reaction was quite different.

If his attitude towards Lowry was getting better and better, more and more like that of his own child... then his attitude towards his elders in the sect suddenly dropped drastically.

You could say it took a complete 180-degree turn.

Travis didn't need to think much to understand that Arsalan, who had grown up in the underground palace of the royal palace and the adjacent valley of royal mages, probably had a thirst for magical ruins that stemmed from his own desires. But this fire of desire was not ignited by accident; rather, it was... deliberately set in motion by someone.

At least that's how Al-Saran himself sees it.

Travis didn't think those old guys' goal was to kill Al-Saran.

After all, although there are many legends about that ruin, there has been no real news for at least a thousand years about anyone finding it and benefiting from it.

The vague rumors could not deceive these mages who were based in the royal family; they could only be used to fool the uninformed, reclusive mages.

They used magical ruins to lure these newly recruited royal mages, all in order to find a max-level mage willing to stay on the earth.

They are all members of the royal family; Al-Saran was once a prince, a legitimate member of the royal family.

If he is determined to go to the stars, no one can force him to stay on Earth.

However, the royal family doesn't have many in-house mages with such capabilities.

If Al-Saran doesn't have this idea, then his teacher will probably have to stay until Travis takes over.

However, it wasn't just Arslan who had this possibility at the time. Just as Arslan has trained at least twenty high-level mages for the royal family, his teacher also did a lot of work.

Al-Saran is the best, but not the only one.

Unfortunately, he was the only one who genuinely took the bait.

Travis didn't know exactly how many people were involved, and Al-Saran didn't choose to stay on Earth just for that boundless fantasy... but that tainted his beautiful past.

The worst thing wasn't finding the half-eaten worm in the remaining apple, but discovering a layer of white maggots on the back of the pastry I had bitten into.

That feeling of nausea can truly haunt a person for life.

Apples can be eaten again, but that pastry is something I never want to see again. Al-Saran must have eaten that pastry.

You can't blame the person who gave him the snack, since there was definitely nothing wrong with it before.

Even the appearance of those filthy things was the very opportunity he gave himself... If he hadn't eaten it in the first place, or hadn't opened that box, this definitely wouldn't have happened.

But he can't blame himself for not finishing the meal in one sitting, right?
It's just a pastry!
His only mistake was not throwing away the rest of the things immediately; he still harbored some wishful thinking.

I think I can still eat it when I get back.

Ultimately, it all happened, and it's etched into Al-Saran's memory. The only solution is to sever all ties and cut that memory in half, throwing it into the trash.

But only with an Al-Saran like this would Travis use it.

He had never been so grateful for his past wariness and fear of those old guys in the Star Fortress.

When he was still the King of the North, the old guys had many ulterior motives, but they kept them hidden in their internal competition.

Although it's annoying, it's not fatal.

Even if Travis loses, the only loss is some financial gain; he can win it back next time.

But he no longer intends to remain on the throne.

Instantly, those old guys regarded him as an enemy.

I wonder if the Star Fortress is too crowded, and the power structure has become so fixed that it can't accommodate a new strongman... Or perhaps they just don't want to live in a fortress with a white dragon?

Travis couldn't understand the old guys' thoughts, but he wouldn't choose to respect them either.

Even if he ultimately chooses the path of divinity, he will not accept being preemptively attacked before he has even done anything.

Travis, standing on the edge of the terrace looking at the side building, had a glint in his eyes... Lowry had reminded him of something.

Even with his sponsorship, the fortress that Al-Saran built independently would not be very large.

Twenty years is nothing more than a prototype.

Although there's no need to rush because he needs to remain on Earth, some infrastructure projects must begin immediately.

If this fortress could be sent into space at the time the world began, it would surely bring immense benefits.

That would require Al-Saran to independently control this fortress... so the intelligence level of the magic circle core must be high enough.

However, this requires some skill and luck.

The higher the intelligence of the magic array core, the higher its level will be. If it accidentally exceeds level 16, then it will really be sending random gifts to the people in the starry sky.

The reason these national magic arrays are without problems is, of course, because the world's will granted them special exemptions.

The same result was achieved in the main temples of all major churches.

After all, if this thing were gone, the major human powers would immediately riot.

But the will of the world will only allow what already exists.

The reason why Lowry made his territory's magic array into a series of interconnected loops, using multiple cores to form a nested structure that converged in his study instead of gathering them into a single magic array, was not because he lacked the ability or didn't know how to do it.

That is a rare way to circumvent the restrictions imposed by the will of the world.

What enabled him to establish the chain core, besides the underground ice energy, was his special plants.

Without the Icefield Lace Flower, Lori wouldn't have been able to draw magical energy into his castle using only the magic array patterns.

Even the overly complex magical aura and energy throughout the entire territory are controlled and regulated by these magical plants.

This is inevitably inseparable from Valera and her Microlo.

Even if, as Valera said, she drew all the magic circles according to Lori's design when she helped Lori build them, she was the only one who could communicate with the magical plants planted at the key nodes.

Just ensuring that these magical plants don't take root randomly and grow exactly according to the patterns of the magic circle is an extremely troublesome task.

There are over a hundred magical plants in the Lorena territory!
Travis remembered that Lowry had mentioned that if these plants grew on the magic circle for a long time, they would gradually resonate with the energy light of the magic circle and eventually become part of the magic circle.

Of course, this is also a good thing for the magical plants themselves, since their biggest challenge is the long growth period.

Before they could wreak havoc, anyone could tear them to pieces.

However, if combined with energy nodes, it can not only shorten this growth period, allowing them to awaken their wisdom earlier, but also protect their safety.

Any magical plant that can be communicated with, even those that are inherently poisonous, will readily agree after understanding this.

Therefore, Lowry was able to manage Qingfeng Territory as a whole simply by sitting in his study.

(End of this chapter)