Great Nobleman

This morning, when Brand was still attending class at home.

Catherine suddenly used the blank screen to send him a communication request.

Wait for him to summon the light screen of the empty screen and pass the communication request.

Catherine, who was in a luxury tent, said:

"Young Master, the Palace Mage Group has organized a temporary meeting and invites the Young Master to attend as soon as possible."

Hearing this, Brand nodded and said:

"I know, I'll be back in a moment."

After finishing the brief communication with Catherine.

Brand stood up, turned his gaze to Celine, and then said with some regret:

"My dearest teacher, I need to ask you for leave now.

If nothing else happens, the classes in the next few days will be postponed. "

While speaking, Celine, who had heard the conversation between Brand and Catherine and knew that Brand was about to leave, had also stood up, came to his side, and began to straighten his slightly skewed collar.

Then, she said warmly:

"I agree to your request for leave, but there must be no injuries.

Otherwise, if I don’t approve the next time you leave, just stay at home with me! "

It’s different from the past because I have opened up to Brand and no longer hides my identity.

So Celine is not wearing that veil at this moment.

Crystal fragments like looming glass floated around her all the time.

Plus well-groomed makeup.

Brand had to admit:

From the perspective of appearance, his teacher ranks at the top of all the ladies he has ever met.

And it has a unique exotic style that is different from the Kaya Empire.

After such thoughts flashed through my mind.

Brand responded with a smile:

"To me, it was just an ordinary trip.

In contrast, when I was away, the teacher had a happier life every day! "

After a warm farewell.

Brand went all the way to the underground space and activated the teleportation circle for the return journey.

Wait until the surrounding scenery falls like a curtain.

Instead, there was the usual warm luxury tent.

After he put away the portable transmission device, he opened the tent door and walked out.

Outside the dome barrier that enveloped the entire camp, he saw the terrifying wind and snow that was raging crazily.

Pieces of ice crystal flowers bloomed continuously on the outer layer of the barrier, and were dispersed by the water texture of the barrier that swayed from time to time!

It's obviously morning, but it's like a dark night with wind and snow!

——This is the Farnes continent, the snowy mountains, the coldest northern edge!

A week ago, when the finishing work on the eastern battlefield was basically completed.

The group of mages who were about to detour through the snowy mountains and launch an expedition toward the coast of the Endless Sea in the north of the empire gathered secretly and waited for the time to come.

——The library is one of them!

Looking at the frost and snow outside the barrier, Brand sighed:

"It's snowing really hard! I thought it would stop when I came back!"

While he was talking, Catherine who was waiting aside had already taken out a fleece jacket and put it on him.

He put on his fleece jacket and was about to go to the camp of the Palace Mage Group to attend the meeting.

Brand suddenly smelled a faint scent of meat.

His eyes also followed the scent to a stove next to him that was burning with a slight flame.

Seeing this, Brand couldn't help but said curiously:

"What's that delicious?"

Catherine explained:

“Not long ago, an adult cold crystal snake ran around our camp, hit the camp’s barrier, and was picked up by me.

It just so happens that lunch can give the young master a change of taste. "

Hearing Catherine's description, Brand couldn't help but sympathize with the cold crystal snake for a second.

Then, he raised his eyebrows and said:

"Are there any intermediate-level monsters in such a fringe area?"

Catherine responded:

“This should be just an isolated case, maybe related to today’s snowstorm.

But if we dig a little deeper, mid-level monsters like the Cold Crystal Snake shouldn't be that rare. "

The Cold Crystal Snake is an intermediate level monster.

The combat prowess of an adult body is usually considered to be at the level below the Grand Knight, from the Junior Knight to the Senior Knight.

Special mention needs to be made:

This is just a determination of combat power under ordinary circumstances.

With the cold crystal snake's ability to control the ice element, plus the environmental bonus of the snowy mountains where ice and snow elements are everywhere.

Its actual combat power is difficult to estimate specifically.

Even in an ordinary environment, the Cold Crystal Snake can probably only fight a junior knight back and forth.

In this environment of snowy mountains, it is not impossible to compete with an experienced senior knight.

And this is only the peripheral area in the northern part of the Snowy Mountains!

Once you get deeper, there will probably not be many adult high-level monsters that can compete with absolute power as adults and have the same combat power as a great knight!

Furthermore, it is not impossible to see top-level monsters on the same level as dragons, firebirds, and Beamon!

And in a harsh environment full of ice elements like the snowy mountains.

These monsters with ice attributes can exert more powerful power.

This is the threat of monsters in the snowy mountains!

After putting all these troubles aside for the time being, I looked forward to the dishes for lunch.

Brand walked towards the camp gate, with Catherine following closely.

After running the magic power, adding an [Intermediate Spell·Scorching Flame Shield] to myself and Catherine respectively.

The two of them took steps to leave the range of the barrier.

Then, under the ruthless blow of frost and snow.

The originally inconspicuous shield ignited a slight flame in an instant and began to resist the cold outside.

The current scene was like someone continuously releasing spell attacks of the ice element type at them.

Brand was not in a hurry to move forward, but was interested in sensing the consumption speed of some magic power to judge the "intensity" of the current snowstorm.

After some perception, Brand came up with a rough number:

About 200 Pa!

——Already comparable to the standard spell strength of some relatively powerful primary spells.

"No wonder the snow-covered mountains are called the Jedi. If ordinary people are exposed to such wind and snow, they will be frozen into ice cubes in just one encounter!"

After sighing like this, Brand also walked forward.

After passing several mages' camps that were also wrapped in barriers but were much larger in scale.

They arrived at the central area of ​​​​this station, the camp of the Kaya Empire Palace Mage Group.

——Compared to the mere hundred or so people in the library, the number of other mages is much larger!

Even among the smaller ones, the number of people is upwards of 500.

——Five times that of the library!

The largest number of visitors, the Palace Mage Group, even exceeded 5,000.

They are one of the three truly medium-sized mage groups in this expedition!

The other two are the [Northern Mage Group], which the empire has been stationed at the border of the North for a long time, and the [Skolin Mage Group] of the Duke of Skolin family.

Like Claude and the Cesir Mages.

Although they rely on some incomplete pre-theory of transcendence.

It can also exert the power of a medium-sized mage group, can materialize the framework of the mage group, and possesses elemental fields.

But strictly speaking, they are just two small mage groups.

——After all, they only have a thousand people, which is more than double the threshold of 3,000 for a medium-sized mage group!