A mage? A spell engineer!

Chapter 262 Farewell to Valuana

In the outskirts, the original experimental greenhouses were temporarily used as parking lots, and many horse-drawn carriages were waiting to depart.

Rorschach handed the letter to Andrei: "Take this letter and find the resident mage named Bart. He's a good friend of mine, and the three of us are about the same age, so don't be too reserved. Just follow his instructions."

"But first, make sure your family is settled." Rorschach patted the boy.

"Thank you so much, Master Rorschach!" Andrei tried to express something to Rorschach with physical gestures, but Rorschach stopped him.

The airships are now out of service, but fortunately the Alchemy Department has a caravan heading north. Andrei's family will travel with the mages in a carriage, which should be the safest journey.

Kano finally kept his promise and sent some members of the Alchemy Department to help Rorschach build the Mage Tower in Byrne.

In fact, this was also a form of protection. Low-ranking mages and apprentices whose positions or backgrounds would be affected by this turmoil were arranged to leave Valuwana. Some went north, and some went south. The southern part of the kingdom had more abundant food and the situation was correspondingly more stable.

"Can't I use the teleportation array?" Rorschach felt that he had made some small contribution to stopping the angels, so it was okay to make an exception, right?

"You have the nerve to say that? Do you even know that besides that damn angel, all of our Magic Guild's teleportation nodes and the Star Tower's portal in the city have malfunctioned, along with the incalculable loss of other magical items!"

Fortunately, Rorschach used the [Divine Expulsion Spell]. The research building cut off the ether supply in advance, and the Star Tower sealed the entrance to the city. Otherwise, if the main body of one of the thirteen magic towers had been affected, Rorschach would definitely have been sentenced by the Arcane Senate to five hundred years of unpaid labor, and even in death he would have to become a tower spirit to pay off his debt.

Fortunately, the telegraph system withstood the test, except that the telegraph line leading to the hunting grounds was severed by the angels.

What does the disappearance of all the church relics in the city have to do with Rorschach? I'm really not familiar with him!

After saying that, Kano took out an exquisite bag: "Considering Master Rorschach's contributions, I've taken the liberty of giving you both a moral reward and material encouragement. Do you accept?"

"A bag of gold coins?" With the kingdom facing a shortage of metal currency, this income is certainly welcome. Rorschach's investments in "Fonda," the glass factory, and the synthetic dye plant have begun to yield returns, but most of the money remains untouched. When Rorschach tells the alchemy department members how much cash he has, it's immediately interpreted as "What's the budget for the Mage Tower?"

So it's foreseeable that we'll be living frugally from now on; having money is good, after all. Rorschach opened the bag, but his breath caught in his throat.

"Not bad, a bag of gold coins, but this bag is an enchanted storage bag!"

"How big is the bag?" Rorschach's voice trembled.

"One cubic meter, but don't get too excited yet, there's something else underneath."

Upon investigation, Rorschach discovered that the "other things" were not just filler items; there were also materials such as mithril and enchanted crystals, whose value was no less than that of gold coins.

Now they are all packed in small leather bags, thanks to magic, which taught Rorschach the meaning of a small gift carrying great weight.

"I would swim all the way to Istani if ​​you asked me to."

"Don't say that. Be careful in Istani. Don't force things if you encounter problems you can't handle; seek help from the guild immediately."

"I'm here to investigate; I'll call on others instead of charging in alone." Now, Luo Xia, carrying the information collected by the agency, the information given by the guild, and the church's archives about Mother Earth, has become a special envoy for all three parties, trying to find out the relationship between the island nation and Mother Earth.

Cano watched Rorschach board his carriage, bidding farewell to his students and subordinates. They went their separate ways.

It wasn't just the mages who left Valuwana; the nobles, realizing their fate was sealed, also left. When they discovered the streets were occupied by militia and their authority and nobility only earned them hostility, panic gripped all the nobles, regardless of rank.

Taking advantage of their last chance, many nobles fled by carriage overnight. Some received telegrams and discovered that their territories were also in turmoil, so some chose to go to the empire to seek refuge with distant relatives, while others went south to the southernmost kingdoms and city-states of the continent for a "vacation."

Besides being the Duke of Merovingian, he actually changed his noble royal surname to "Equality"! His son was very upset about this, and people at the Tower of Stars called him "Philip Equality" with a mocking tone, adding "De" to his middle name, which was even more ironic.

However, it was his father's decision, and Philip could only accept it. It wasn't until he became a full-fledged monk and his registered name was "Equal" that this proud young man broke down.

Some nobles also found another destination to escape to.

With chaos everywhere, where is there any "pure land" left?

Indeed, the once-forgotten "Sareaanna Region" has neither gold nor "wicked ideas that bewitch people," making it a good place for nobles and aristocratic mages.

The portal in the suburbs was activated again.

"Hurry! Hurry!" The former nobleman personally picked up his musket and urged the serfs and deceived farmers to huddle together. They were afraid of the unknown world, but even more afraid of the gun barrel that could take their lives at any moment.

The magic circle was activated, and a red teleportation light appeared, sending another twenty or thirty people inside.

"Nobody's here," the noble-affiliated mage anxiously surveyed his surroundings, but all he saw were the gathered supplies and carriages, the nobles lining up, and the coerced subjects.

François stared at the teleportation array's status: "The guild has tacitly approved our actions."

"Pah! Don't mention those worthless bastards!" The aristocratic mage was still furious when he thought of this.

François was not personally recognized by His Majesty the King as the heir to his deceased father's title, but among the nobles who entered the plane was a prince who promised all the nobles that they would support him to become the Count of Granor, the largest lord in the plane.

A young lady from a noble family shed tears because of her anxiety and reluctance to leave the capital and her life of pleasure. Her red and swollen eyes made her even more charming.

The noble mage stared at the girl, a look of lust on his face: "Hmph, once we get to that other plane, those good-for-nothings will understand who's in charge! Oh, of course, it's you."

Seeing François's unfriendly expression, the monk switched to a fawning tone and demeanor.

However, he revealed a reality that the foolish nobles who rashly entered the sub-plane did not realize: there is no water in the sub-plane!

Although the plane's settlement had cultivated fields during the year of operation, and the Alchemy Department had designed a long-lasting water-making machine, the source of life was undoubtedly entirely in the hands of the mages!

Moreover, entering and exiting different planes also requires mages, making it clear who is in charge within those planes.

The teleportation lasted for a full half-day. Without investing heavily in purchasing blue transmutation dust as an energy source, it would have been impossible for the teleportation array to be maintained for so long without a team of archmages.

After François confirmed that his family members had all gone inside, he looked around and saw that there was no one else left but him and the other noble mages.

"Go inside, everyone."

"What about the teleportation array? What if those people and their lackeys come looking for us?" Because Kano had apparently dealt with Granor, he had successfully gained equal treatment with the Dark Lord from a certain children's book among the noble faction.

They're a great mage; if they wanted to deal with us, they would have come long ago. François believes Cano isn't the culprit, but he still can't face the Tower of Stars and the guilds anymore, so going to the lower plane is his choice.

The best choice? The last choice? The boy, forced to grow up, didn't know, nor did he want to know. He would rather die on the red earth, in the land of his father's dreams.

The new Earl of Granor remotely lit a fuse: "The bomb under the teleportation array will detonate soon, hurry up."

He stepped into the teleportation array, gazing intently at the silent wheat field and the distant city walls. "Father," he murmured, as red light engulfed François.

boom!

The last remaining assets of "Sareanna Mining Company" were completely destroyed by the dwarves' high-performance bombs, the explosion startling the bulls into raising their heads.

In the cow's view, a carriage, unaffected by the explosion, sped along the road to the south, carrying the former prime minister to the City of Eternity.

(End of this chapter)