Chapter 441: Visit from the Court Mage
The distance from the Royal Capital Port to Lars and to Dutata City is almost the same. Since the former is upstream and the latter is downstream, the yacht heading to Dutata City approaches the port half a day in advance.
This private yacht, which looks luxurious and is worth a lot of money, has a special berthing area at the dock and is not moored with cargo ships, merchant ships or ordinary passenger ships.
Not long after the yacht entered the port, Kingsley, who was watching over his apprentice at the Lord's Mansion in Dutata City, came out of his meditation, opened his eyes, and looked calmly towards the port.
"Are you here..."
Kingsley jumped off the couch and put on his boots.
When passing by the door, he pulled off the cloak hanging on the coat rack next to the door frame, threw it on his shoulders, and fastened the hidden buckle on the shoulder of the cloak with a "click".
He tidied up the messy red hair on his head with his hands and walked out of the door and into the courtyard.
Release the subspace barrier to block the ordinary people's sight.
The mental field was released, and the huge mental power constructed a translucent summoning array in the open space in front of Kingsley at an extremely fast speed. A two-legged bone dragon covered with bone spurs, pitch black, and with huge bone wings wrapped around its body slowly rose from the center of the array.
The translucent summoning circle constructed by magic shattered and dissipated, and the two-legged bone dragon carrying Kingsley soared into the air, roaring towards the port.
A ferocious bone dragon flew over the port, and Kingsley lowered his head.
On the deck of the yacht below, there stood a male spellcaster wearing a gorgeous robe and with his hands behind his back, and a young-looking female spellcaster wearing a simple gray robe and holding an exaggerated staff.
Kingsley canceled the summoning, and the bone dragon disappeared, falling vertically in the air.
When Kingsley was about to hit the dock, two clouds of black mist exploded right below him. Hot wind rose and supported Kingsley's rapidly falling body steadily, allowing him to land slowly.
Kingsley stepped on the ground with his soft-soled boots, and stood still, looking up at the two people on the boat.
"Good day, both of you."
The spellcaster, who looked like a red-haired boy, smiled and nodded in a friendly manner, but his powerful mental power spread out wantonly, sweeping away those who came and went.
The middle-aged spellcaster in gorgeous robes remained expressionless. He raised his hand slightly, and his mental field surged out, barely blocking the powerful mental pressure that was coming towards the yacht.
"It's been a year since we last met, and you've become so much stronger." The middle-aged spellcaster said with a mixture of admiration and regret, "A genius spellcaster who appeared out of nowhere three hundred years ago and astonished Nabarron, has now fallen to the point of being bewitched by his disciples... What's the point?"
Kingsley laughed: "Needham, do you believe this yourself?"
"You don't think that's the case?" The gray-robed female mage next to him frowned and said, "Kingsley, you should understand your disciple's style better than anyone else. It's not a good choice to go along with him."
"Gloria, I'm more curious about how Needham made you willing to stay in Rhine and accept royal services." Kingsley said with a smile, "If I remember correctly... the King of Rhine must have hated you the most when you were young."
There are not a few high-level spellcasters on the continent of Nabarron, but not too many either; because spellcasters love to travel and their lifespan is longer than that of ordinary people, they are always familiar with each other.
Gloria, a gray-robed female wizard with a rather flamboyant face who looks like she is only in her twenties, is actually over two hundred years old. She became famous at the same time as Upton, the illusionist who traveled to the outer continent.
"Who can be young and willful forever? People always have to learn to coexist with unpleasant things." Gloria said calmly.
"That's what I think, too." Kingsley nodded in agreement. "So even though I can't accept my disciple's radical style of behavior, I haven't gone so far as to want to have nothing to do with him forever."
Back then, Yang Qiu caused such a huge trouble that Kingsley could not even go back to the Mage Tower to avoid harassment. He never announced to the public that he would sever ties with this unfortunate apprentice... Well, threatening Yang Qiu on a daily basis does not count.
Nidam, the chief court mage of the Rhine royal family, shook his head and said, "It seems that the two of us can no longer resolve the dispute through communication."
Kingsley smiled and held out his hand to the two of them: "Please."
After he finished speaking, the invisible spiritual field around Kingsley suddenly "came alive", carrying Kingsley's body forward, crossing the river surface that was dozens of meters wide like a cannonball, and flew towards the other side.
The two court mages who watched Kingsley fly away twitched their eyes to varying degrees.
He did not use the wind, but relied purely on his mental power to fly at low altitude. Kingsley was showing off how abundant his mental power was...
This kind of operation can be performed by high-level spellcasters, but there is no need to waste mental energy before the fight; Needham nodded slightly to his companions, and Gloria gently shook the extremely gorgeous staff in her hand, which was very inconsistent with her simple clothes.
At the top of the staff, in the gem-studded metal ring, a slowly rotating oversized magic crystal emitted a faint cold light. A whirlwind swirled out from under the feet of the gray-robed female wizard, lifting the two of them into the air and chasing in the direction where Kingsley was leaving.
Kingsley opened the warp barrier, but the two court mages did not hide themselves; the passengers and dock workers at the nearby passenger terminal saw the two men soar into the air and fly towards the horizon, and they all screamed excitedly.
If we consider it from the perspective of striking the Nightmare Butcher and the Undead regime, the most appropriate way is to let the court mages fight a big battle in the city... The damage alone is enough to make the Undead regime cry.
But the court wizard's bottom line is obviously not likely to be this low. Not only will he actively release the mental field to remind Kingsley after arriving, but he will not fight with Kingsley in the city.
They flew low over a distance of dozens of kilometers, one after the other, and landed in a wilderness, facing each other from a distance.
"He is very strong... He is already close to the 'third gate'. Don't be careless."
Needham instructed his companions and took a step forward.
With this step, a huge magic circle with a diameter of about ten meters took shape under the feet of the chief court mage. A circle of deep blue light rose from the edge of the magic circle and shot straight into the sky.
In an instant, hundreds of icicles of varying sizes emerged from the dim light curtain, making long "whooshing" sounds and pouring down towards Kingsley.
When Needham launched the icicle spikes, Gloria also raised her staff and pointed it high into the sky:
"Wind—roar!"
Directly above Kingsley, a violent tornado formed in an instant.
The eye of the storm was only the size of a house at first, but in a short time, it expanded to the size of a small mountain...
"Gloria is a very young woman, but she is so cruel."
Kingsley, who was originally prepared to use only his mental field for defense, suddenly changed color and hurriedly used his mental power to lift himself and fly sideways - it was quite difficult for him to resist the attacks from the front and above at the same time.
As soon as he moved, the huge tornado seemed to be enraged by him and swooped down towards him violently.
Obviously, a human body cannot fly faster than a tornado. Just as Kingsley managed to escape the coverage of the icicle spikes, the violent tornado wrapped him up...
A thousand meters away, the two court mages who witnessed this scene changed color at the same time.
"What's wrong with this guy? How dare he resist?!" Needham said in shock.
"Wait - that's not right!" Gloria, who had cast the tornado, suddenly changed her expression.
The tornado that was swirling violently at high speed above the ground, stirring up flying sand and rocks, was shrinking rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye!
The eye of the storm, which was over a hundred meters in diameter, shrank to eighty meters, sixty meters, thirty meters, ten meters...
In about six or seven seconds, the tornado as big as a hill was forcibly compressed from the outside to the inside, condensing into an extremely unstable ultra-miniature storm only the size of a walnut.
Kingsley stretched out his hand, holding up the miniature storm that had shrunk countless times but was still spinning at high speed, and smiled at the two court mages.
Gloria, the famous storm mage from the Nabaron continent, looked shocked.
Chief Court Mage Needham also took a deep breath...
There are many people who can gather and disperse the power of a storm of this magnitude, defeat it, interfere with it with mental force, and decompose it directly at the elemental level.
But just by applying pressure from the outside inwards and concentrating it to a high degree, this is amazing - apart from anything else, how big a spiritual field is needed just to wrap up the huge storm like a small mountain? !
“…It’s really amazing!” Gloria took a deep breath and raised her staff again, “So what—Wind’s Sigh!”
A gentle breeze came from nowhere, ruffling the branches that had just sprouted new buds, caressing the low new grass, and in an instant filled the entire sky and earth.
Kingsley, who was proudly showing off his mental power, suddenly felt his body getting heavier.
Where he was, the sky seemed to be pressing down slowly and unquestionably, and the surrounding space seemed to be slowly squeezing towards him - it was as if he was being rejected by the "world" where he was standing.
"Using wind energy to simulate the power of 'world rules'? Are elemental mages nowadays so good at it?"
Kingsley just muttered something, and suddenly his expression changed. He stomped his feet heavily, and his external spiritual field quickly penetrated downwards.
In the distance, Needham, who saw Kingsley's actions, shook his head regretfully.
"As expected of Jin, it's not that easy to succeed in a sneak attack."
A huge icicle with an astonishing diameter and staggering length emerged from the ground, lifting up the mud ground about three meters wide and one meter thick under Kingsley's feet, and lifted Kingsley into the air.
Kingsley, who hastily used his mental power to change the quality of the ground beneath his feet and narrowly defended against the attack, was so angry that he shouted loudly: "Needham! You, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, actually know how to launch a sneak attack!"
Needham: “…” What kind of curse sentence is this?
Gloria, who was concentrating on controlling the "Forbidden Magic: Breath of the Wind", couldn't help but turn her head to glance at the Chief, her gaze lingering on Needham's face, which indeed had thick eyebrows and big eyes.
Needham: "…Is there something wrong with the way I look?"
At the same time, another luxury yacht, which arrived at its destination half an hour later than Chief Court Mage Needham and Elemental Mage Gloria Storm, sailed into the port of Lars City.
As the three court mages in robes walked onto the deck, their expressions changed slightly.
On the deserted dock where the workers and passengers had been evacuated, a man in a black three-piece suit and a black cloak was looking at them with a smile.
"Good day." The man smiled and nodded politely to the three court mages who came from afar.
The three court mages all looked somewhat heavy.
The black magician Yang was standing on the dock less than a hundred meters away from them.
But...the three of them couldn't sense each other's mental fluctuations at all!
