Throne of the North

Bullock and Bogeld finally returned from the south, bringing a large number of people with them. Ryan could see at a glance that many of them were not citizens of his own territory.

"They come from the territory of the southern nobles and want to learn blacksmithing skills from them."

Bullock said in a loud voice, he took out a sword and handed it to Ryan.

"The Amber Sword only needs to wait for its legendary master to appear, and it can grow from an embryo into a truly legendary weapon."

Ryan took the sword, and he felt the outline of dragon scales on the smooth and clean sword. The cold touch made Ryan feel like he was in the dragon's bloody mouth, and he might be swallowed at any time. Down.

It was similar to the feeling the frost dragon Areris gave him last time.

"This is a knight's sword forged from the amber dragon's scales. You should have left it in Calais."

Ryan said this, not because he doesn't cherish this sword, but because he believes that Bullock's forging skills are far from reaching their peak. In the future, he will forge legendary weapons that are more powerful than the amber sword, and he may not even need to go through the embryonic process at all. A process.

"Earl Clayton gave the dragon scales to Bullock, and the weapons he forged will of course belong to you."

Bogeld said loudly that someone had suggested that they do this, but they were beaten up by the girl. The fighting ability of the arena queen was not a vegetarian.

She was a little helpless because she couldn't get back a carful of women when she went to the south this time.

"I don't need this sword, and neither do you."

Ryan shook his head and said:

"I will give it to my father when he comes to the Tundra Territory. The Dragon Knight's generosity will not disappoint me, a little baron."

Ryan did not explain why he said this. He looked at the gorgeous carriages that were protected in the team.

Transporting certain precious things can sometimes be seen from the appearance. The materials used to build the mage tower must also have magic arrays to maintain the stability of those materials.

Archmage McCann and Master Luna rarely appeared together with Ryan today. Archmage McCann was also excited. This will be his own mage tower, not the mage academy.

The same goes for Master Luna. As a magician, no one is not excited to take a step further on this path, not to mention that this is the power that a magician who has transcended the world and life has always longed for.

With the Mage Tower, she is a real Archmage, not a puppet of the Archmage.

"I am a great mage myself. There is no possibility of failure. You might as well take a look first."

Archmage McCann said that Mage Luna had no objection, and she really wanted to see how other magicians built their own mage towers.

Ryan stood far away. In the words of Archmage McCann, his affinity with magic was too low, which would affect the movement of magic factors in the void.

Watching Archmage McCann once again display his magical power, the vast magic reverberated in the sky, which was much more spectacular than the knight's fighting spirit.

In front of Archmage McCann, the materials locked by him flew up one by one. This was not spiritual power, but the most basic magic that any magician must learn - the hand of the mage.

Mage hands appeared in the air one after another. As the most basic material of the Mage Tower, the floating stones flew out first, and the magic power was cutting their outlines. It was a magical scene. The magician's mental power was like a blade. It fell on the floating stone, and the floating stone easily changed its shape according to the magician's mental power like a sponge.

They are obviously not like this, and the magician's mental power should not easily turn into a blade, but when the two met, a gray-white tower appeared in front of Ryan little by little.

Many people around him were envious because there were many magicians among them, such as Yelena's magicians who followed him at the beginning, and those descendants of nobles in the world of Bilge who later had some talent in magic.

This talent shocked them when the Mage Tower appeared in front of them, because only those with talent can know what the existence of the Mage Tower means to magicians, and what an insurmountable mountain it is.

The mold of the mage tower appeared. The floating stone could not make such a large tower float by itself. It fell to the ground, causing the ground to shake.

The most critical step began. Around Archmage McCann, the mage's hands were holding hundreds of materials. Ryan even saw glass among them. He had never heard of such a thing being made.

Archmage McCann sent these materials into the Mage Tower. Only one-tenth of the materials were integrated into the surface of the Mage Tower. The remaining 90% were all lost in the Mage Tower. No one knows where they appeared. It is the secret of every mage tower, because those materials may be the key nodes of a certain magic circle, or they may be a link in the magic operation of the entire mage tower, or they may be the key channel for the mage tower to connect to the ocean of magic factors in the void.

Where it appears depends on the Archmage's own wishes and the best route for the Archmage. If all outsiders know about it, other magicians are likely to use some special means to destroy the mage tower.

In a magician's battle, there are two completely different concepts, with and without a magician tower.

It's similar to how one can only roll fireballs with his hands, while the other can instantly release the giant meteor technique.

Putting these materials into the mage tower, inlaying and fusing them, Archmage McCann began to carve his own mage secret patterns.

Each wizard tower must be completed by the wizard himself, which also leads to different magic patterns and magic arrays covering the inside and outside of the wizard tower.

Under the description of the great wizard McKen, Ryan only saw bright light and shadow falling on the wizard tower, and then this nine-story wizard tower changed from grayish white to a high tower with ice white and scarlet red.

Of course, the proportion of the two colors is not 50-50. The ice white color, like the color of the northern snow, occupies the main body, and the scarlet red, like the trace of blood flowing, is only about 10% or 20%.

The skills of the great wizard McKen may be the top among the great wizards. Just like Brock in the blacksmith, while he is depicting the magic array pattern, he is also forging the meditation space and magic source at the top of the wizard tower.

The magic source is a crystal clear, transparent crystal? Or gem? The forged pool, but in the end, Archmage McKen threw in a drop of blood-red water, which was the Heart of Life Rhythm that Ryan traded from the Frost Dragon.

When the Heart of Life Rhythm fell, the transparent pool turned into the color of blood and disappeared on the top floor of the Mage Tower.

And everyone around felt that the Mage Tower suddenly came alive, and its interior seemed to be beating like a heartbeat, and then the Mage Tower began to rise into the air and completely suspended in front of Archmage McKen.

"The magic patterns of the Mage Tower require a long period of accumulation. A great mage who has lived for hundreds of years may even have more dense and vast magic patterns on his Mage Tower than a legendary mage."

"But the original Mage Tower only needs a part of the magic patterns. If you want to engrave more patterns, you can't engrave them in front of other people, and it also requires huge energy."

"When my magic source is fully accumulated, I can replicate 33% of the secret patterns of the Mage Tower in the Mage Academy. After three times, this Mage Tower will be completely completed, which will take about one or two years. The magic factor of the frozen land is still rich."

After Mage McKen finished speaking, Mage Luna listened, and the tall golem puppet nodded slowly, dumbfounded.

Mage Luna understood that although Mage McKen was so relaxed, it was because he was originally a great mage, a great mage who had been famous for a long time.

It is easy to forge a magic tower with the magic power and means of the great wizard. If it were Luna herself, she would probably have difficulty in the first step, because she is not a builder and does not have a magic tower that once belonged to her to copy.

The structure of the magic tower itself is also very critical. An excellent design can save a lot of magic power consumption, so that more magic power can be used to bless the magician himself, rather than maintaining the magic tower itself.

This step is very critical and may waste a lot of time for Luna, and then the second step is the materials.

Each piece of material is critical and needs to be used where they are needed. What position on which floor, what is connected above, and what is bordered below are all critical. Luna, who cannot copy the answer, can only explore little by little, and this process is also a waste of time.

Relatively speaking, the source of magic power and the meditation space are more direct. When the magicians meditate, they know what kind of environment they need most.

With the notes of the great wizard McKen, the wizard Luna entered the state of research again. She needed to slowly and bit by bit build her own wizard tower, so others could not see it.

After asking, Ryan roughly understood that there would be no problem in building the wizard tower. The wizard Luna herself was a magician standing at the end of this step. The meaning of the existence of the wizard tower was to achieve success naturally, rather than to provide timely help.

"To become a great wizard, the most important thing is whether the magician himself can do it. The wizard tower is just a process to verify what he has learned in the past."

The great wizard McKen was in a good mood and was not so quick to return to the wilderness world to continue his research. After hearing that Ryan was recruiting people, he also planned to go to the new plane world to take a look.

"That big wild boar is very interesting."

While waiting for help, Master McKen said:

"The surroundings where it lives can actually affect the evolution of the flesh and blood of other wild boars, making them more delicious."

"More than that."

Ryan shook his head and said:

"In fact, the snow was very thick there before, but after that big guy went there, the snow melted and you could almost see the soil."

"The divinity bathed in its body, making it instinctively reject the environment of the North. This big wild boar is a treasure you picked up."

Master McKen has seen many people and many things. He told Ryan that at the beginning of a hundred years ago, the nobles were trying to use this method to change their blood and plunder the divinity of the gods who died in the war.

"The nobles were crazy about this, so now one-third of the land in the south can accommodate all the nobles of the entire Norris continent."

"A large part of the nobles paid the price for their greed, and the remaining nobles fell into a carnival of victory."

"Among them, the empire is the biggest winner."

The manpower is in place, and the great wizard McKen no longer talks about the ancient past. When the Ryan plane door opened, he couldn't help but marvel again.

"No space magician can do it as easily as you, even... gods."

The great wizard McKen didn't continue to speak. He felt that it must be his lack of cognition, rather than some extremely terrible speculation.

"You are the blood of the Clayton family. The dragon knight will not be wrong about this."

He suspected that Ryan was the incarnation of the gods. This was the authority of the gods, but he also believed in the Clayton family and the church.

If the gods really came, how could the church not react?

The servants passed through the plane gate and quickly came back to report that there was no danger on the other side.

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The sunlight was a little dazzling. The moment he passed through the plane gate, Ryan squinted his eyes and looked up, looking at the dazzling sunlight here.

"He seems to be very close to here."

The great wizard McKen said, but he did not feel any active magic factors in the void, even the elements brought by light.

If the snow in the north of the frozen land is white, then the land covered with snow under Ryan's feet at this moment is dazzling pale.

The sun shines on it, and it actually reflects light faintly.

"It's almost summer now. It's normal to have such light."

Bogeld said, but the great wizard McKen shook his head.

"The light is normal, but it is abnormal that such a dazzling light cannot melt the snow here."

What he said makes sense. Cold and heat erode each other, but here they are strangely harmonious.

"It seems that the environment of this world is not bad."

Ryan said with a smile, and then the result of the soldiers' exploration made his smile disappear from his face.

Not long after, Ryan came to the scene. Here, a total of twelve bodies of men and women were nailed to the cross stakes with their limbs and fixed on them.

But this is not all. The cruel thing is that every body has traces of gnawing. They were nailed here naked, and then some kind of beast gnawed them to death cruelly. Most of their bodies are bones, and bite marks can be clearly seen on them. Every face that is still intact has an extremely painful expression. They seemed to be alive at that time.

"This world... is dead."

Master McKen said, he was still puzzled. The magic factor without any activity in the void made him uncomfortable, like a fish without water, and he couldn't help making such a judgment.

"But, in a completely dead world, how can we still be here?"

"These people should not be alive either."

This is also a piece of evidence, so Ryan can only continue to send people to explore the surroundings. Due to the emergence of uncertainty, the soldiers were divided into teams of several people, and the northern war horses did not run wildly. After all, the terrain here is unfamiliar, and no one can guarantee that there is no bottomless hole under the flat snow in front.

"Baron, we found a beast in front."

The soldiers reported that this was the only trace of life found. Ryan led people to rush there, and sure enough, at the foot of a mountain, they found... hundreds of wild wolves.

Each wolf has black and gray hair. They are ferociously baring their teeth at each other and tearing each other's flesh and blood. These more than 100 wild wolves belong to both sides, and it seems that conflicts will also break out within each side.

Ryan saw that a wild wolf was helping a companion bite another wolf to death the moment before, but the next moment, after the wild wolf it helped was seriously injured, it did not hesitate to bite the other's neck.

The air was filled with strange smells. The smell of humans and war horses made the more than 100 wolves in the melee stop, and pairs of green eyes stared at them.

Greedy saliva flowed from the gaps between their fangs, and hungry eyes stared at the war horses under them and at them.

The next moment, more than 100 wolves seemed to have become a big family, running wildly in the snow, and then quickly surrounded Ryan and his 100 people.

"Dismount, defend!"

Brand shouted, and the soldiers stood on the periphery, drawing knight swords and shields.

"Awoo--"

With a roar, the black-haired wolves launched a charge, and then more than 100 wolves all bit these humans crazily, their pale green eyes were determined.

The long sword chopped the wolf, and the blood dyed the snow under his feet red. The knights and servants were as impenetrable as a copper wall, but the will of these wolves was also particularly terrifying. They were injured again and again, and one by one, the wolves died. The remaining ones did not give up and rushed towards these humans frantically.

Ryan drew out the beast bow, and the next moment the arrow was released from the string. The black wolf, who seemed to be the leader, stood up with hair all over his body and twisted his waist in a swift way.

The arrow that should have pierced its head pierced its abdomen, and the pain spread throughout its body. The black wolf roared in pain, and then a few jumps actually passed the knights and servants and attacked Ryan.

Before Brand swung his sword, the armored bear Volibear had already killed it. The deafening roar and the bear paw slapped the black wolf's head and slapped it away.

The thick snow slid out a bright red gully. The knights and servants wanted to kill it angrily, and then the other gray-black wild wolves on the battlefield were faster than them.

They rushed towards the black wolf frantically, and then tore its flesh and blood. The black wolf died in an instant, and most of its flesh and blood became food for other wild wolves.

As the black wolf died, the remaining twenty or thirty wild wolves also looked at these humans fearfully while howling, and then ran towards the distant forest.

Ryan felt that their eyes were at the edge of the forest, staring at them and the large number of wild wolf corpses on the ground.

"This world seems to be more cruel than imagined."

The wolf pack made Ryan's good mood disappear, and he didn't know what the humans in this world looked like.