Age of Adepts

Mazik's father is an old goblin with an old face and a stooped figure.

To be honest, it was beyond Locke's expectation that it could survive the suppression of the plane and reach the wizarding world alive.

In terms of appearance alone, it stands with Locke, and outsiders will only regard them as a pair of goblin grandparents. But who would know that Mazik's father is actually Locke's closest goblin partner since childhood.

Seeing that the little goblin brought Locke, a smile appeared on Mazik's old wrinkled face.

"So it's little Harold! Now that you're here, help me guard the shop first, Locke and I still have something to say..." After saying this, Mazik took out a The exquisite mechanical chicken was thrown into the arms of the little goblin, and he shook his head at Locke, and the two entered the warehouse behind the shop one after the other.

The warehouse is crowded and dark, and there are tall iron shelves everywhere, filled with strange creations of various shapes and unclear uses.

And Mazik's father didn't hold the lamp, just stood in the dark, silently watching this childhood friend who was completely different from him.

The basic lifespan of a green-skinned goblin is only 30 to 40 years, and even if it is properly maintained, it will not live to be 60 years old.

However, since Locke successfully advanced to the first level in the wizarding world, under the nourishment of the magic package and magic breath, his life has far exceeded the life limit of ordinary goblins. If there are no accidents, Locke can live at least another 120 years.

Although such lives are much less than human wizards, they are already amazing compared to most of their companions.

Therefore, this pair of childhood partners who have played since they were young, stood together at this moment, one in the prime of life like a seven or eight-year-old young goblin, and the other in a senile state, aging like an old coffin about to be buried in the ground.

The difference in appearance between the two is so great that the two goblins are also embarrassed!

"Did the princess ask you to come?" Locke's eyes flickered in the darkness.

"You... how do you know?" Mazik's father opened his mouth wide in surprise, and his shocked expression was not faked at all.

"Ha... If Lord Tiggule or Kirby asked you to come, it's impossible to be so mysterious..." Since he was promoted to a magician, the soaring mental power has also made Locke's mind and thinking become more consistent. The former is completely different: "Thinking about the past and the future, probably only Her Royal Highness would spend such thoughts!"

It took a lot of effort for Mazik's father to break free from the shock in his heart.

The young 'handsome' goblin in front of him made him both familiar and strange!

What is familiar is the youthful face, what is unfamiliar is the meaningful smile on the corner of the other party's mouth.

Father Mazik stabilized his mind, and finally asked that sentence.

"Locke, Your Royal Highness asked me to ask you a question, do you... still consider yourself a goblin?"

Locke closed his eyes in the dark and thought for a quarter of an hour before opening them again.

"I have green skin and goblin blood flowing in my body. Of course I am still a goblin! This is an irrefutable fact!"

"As long as you still consider yourself a goblin..." Father Mazik quietly breathed a sigh of relief: "His Royal Highness wants you to join the Magic Society!"

What should come is finally here!

Locke sighed and fell into the long exam again.

Over the years, as a large number of goblins have integrated into the Crimson family, many goblin organizations have emerged one after another in the Throne of Flame, in the White Tower, and in various goblin garrisons.

Like 'King of Steam', 'Magic Machinery Research Association', 'Goblin Mutual Aid Association', 'Green Peace'... Some organizations are for the retro, and want to bring the goblins back to the great steam age; some organizations are purely In order to bring the goblins together and avoid being bullied by other races...

However, the most famous of them is probably the 'Magic Club' established by the goblin princess Vanessa!

At the beginning of the establishment of the Magic Association, Princess Vanessa launched a call to gather all the goblins who have mastered extraordinary powers, conduct in-depth research and master the great magic power, and make the goblin camp once again brilliant and powerful.

It sounds like a beautiful original intention, and an admirable ideal.

But unfortunately, there are very few applicants!

Not to mention new wizards like Locke, even the great goblin god of war Tigule didn't seem to join this magic society. The goblin sage Kirby directly rejected Princess Vanessa's invitation.

This incident also caused quite a stir and discussion among the goblin community.

Some said that this is a few goblin bosses fighting for power, some said that Princess Vanessa's ambition and ambition are too great, so that the rest of the people dare not approach...

But no matter what, the Magic Society was successfully established in the White Tower under the strong request of Princess Vanessa.

Some time ago, Locke also heard from certain channels that Princess Vanessa was trying to get close to Dean Gongga, and wanted to draw all the goblin engineers from the Magic Alloy Laboratory into the Magic Society.

This made Locke more and more affirmed some of his conjectures.

Princess Vanessa really hasn't given up the past glory and glory of the goblin empire, and wants to seek a certain degree of independence and freedom. And the one she wants to emulate the most is probably that brain monster Gazlowe who thinks of himself in the plane of Lance!

The magic energy society... That Princess Vanessa probably pinned all her hopes on the magic energy, thinking that as long as the goblins mastered the magic energy, they would be able to get rid of the wizard's control and become truly independent from then on.

As a goblin with a narrow mind and low vision, it is actually understandable to have such delusions and thoughts. However, as an advanced goblin, Locke's thoughts and vision are completely different from other goblins.

What is mana?

It's just a magical power that fills the world inside and outside the plane!

Human beings rely on magic energy to give birth to wizards, and thus develop a great wizard civilization.

Relying on the power of faith, the world of gods gave birth to gods, large and small, to rule one side.

Cosmic powerhouses like the Titans rely on their own integration with mana to dominate the entire multiverse.

So many races and so many worlds have been strengthened by mana. It stands to reason that goblins should be able to do the same.

Unfortunately, the goblin plane is a rare low-magic plane!

The plane environment there was not enough to support a system of magic energy users, so it also made the goblin plane embark on a different development path - steam machinery.

Unfortunately, compared with mana, the power of steam machinery is too weak.

That's why in an 'accidental' wizard invasion, the entire goblin plane became an appendage of the Crimson family, and many goblins became slaves and servants next to each other.

The resources of the entire plane are usurped by others, and the population of the entire plane is at the mercy of others... Although this kind of life is bitter, it is also a fate that the goblin plane has always been unable to escape.

Locke came to the world of wizards, read many books, mastered powerful magical powers, and looked back at his own world and country.

Goblins are not a powerful race, and they encountered a low-magic world, so they showed an overall 'weakness'. Gathering the essence and strength of the entire plane, but unable to resist the invasion of a small wizarding family in the wizarding world, this... what is there to complain about?

From another point of view, if the goblin plane is a high-magic plane, can the goblin family still occupy the dominance of the plane by relying on steam machinery because they are inherently weak?

Taking another 10,000 steps back, Wizard Meryl of the Crimson Clan is already a moderate faction rarely seen in the wizarding community. The policies and methods she implemented on the goblin plane are so mild that even Locke feels too 'indulgent'. How could it be possible for other wizard families to give goblins so much freedom and power!

Among the many goblins that Locke came into contact with, they didn't know it at all. They feared it like a tiger and respected it like a god. Wizard Meryl was just a "insignificant" first-level witch in the Crimson family. And on top of her, there are the terrifying Tier 2 bug witch Billis, the mysterious Tier 2 witch Alice, and the incredibly powerful Tier 3 legendary wizard Greem and Blood Queen Mary.

Wanting to resist the rule of the Crimson family is undoubtedly very dangerous, and may even pull the entire goblin camp into the bottomless abyss!

And that Princess Vanessa mastered the magic power for the first time, and the vanity of the power expansion made her heart swell, and she could no longer clearly see the irreparable huge gap in power between goblins and wizards.

Resist... how to resist... magic energy?

Wizards have spent tens of thousands of years researching mana, and goblins dare to surpass them with decades of research? This bet is too big... One bad move will wipe out the entire goblin plane.

Once the resistance fails and the wizards brand them as traitors, I am afraid that all the goblins will have to pay a heavy price for this.

When he thought that he would lose his current life, when he thought that he would be branded as a slave and sent to a dark and damp mine, Locke's heart beat a little uncontrollably.

"Lock...Lock...you...will you join us?" Father Mazik asked timidly.

"Yes!" Locke suddenly smiled, and his face was covered with a gentle smile again: "Mazik, you are my best partner after all, even if I don't help others, I will definitely help you!"

"That's good... that's good..." Mazik, who was worried, finally breathed a sigh of relief: "I'll arrange for you to meet with the emissary of Her Highness the Princess right now?"

"No hurry, I still need to go to the Black Forest to do a few tasks tomorrow, and I will be able to return in about 4 days. It will not be too late to meet the secret envoy then!"

"Okay, then I'll let the emissary wait for you here for a few days, you must go early and return early!"

"Don't worry, I will definitely come back. We are all goblins, and goblins will definitely help goblins!"

"Yes, the goblin will definitely help the goblin!"

"By the way, Mazik, you should remodel your goblin store! The entrance of the store is so low and small, it doesn't serve the outside world at first glance, and it is easy to arouse the suspicion of outsiders..."

Under the repeated promises of Mazik's father, the two goblins left the warehouse.