The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 291 New Magic (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)
After returning to the Laza area, Ryan just quickly inspected the Amethyst City which was designated as the capital and then left for Iron Gate Castle.

Iron Gate Fort is located on the north bank of the upper Skazadan River. It is also the only city built on the north bank of the Skazadan River. The city stands on the shore of the only shallow ford in the upper Skazadan River that can accommodate large-scale military traffic. In previous years, those Dothraki who went south to rob crossed the river from here to the Laza Desert. And Ryan learned from the troops stationed here that some scout cavalry had recently appeared near the fortress.

Fortunately, with the existence of radio and the faith network established by rose crystal, Llane can receive news from all over the world no matter where he is. Obviously, the Dothraki don't know that the Lazarin have established an efficient monitoring system along the river. In two months, five or six thousand people crossed the river to rob, but after being lured into the enemy's depth, they were annihilated by the siege of mobile troops and river gunboats, and no one could escape back to the north bank of the Skazadan River. Now, this place has become a place shrouded in the fog of war for the Dothraki.

Naturally, they also realized that crossing the river in small groups was tantamount to committing suicide. According to the intelligence gathered along the river, only a few Dothraki reconnaissance teams crossed the river in the past month, and each time they would not leave the river for more than 20 kilometers. In this way, although Dothraki teams were discovered several times, they had already crossed the river and escaped when the mobile forces arrived.

The most intensive reconnaissance area for the enemy was the Iron Gate Fort area, but under Ryan's orders, the army would only shoot to disperse those enemies who came too close, while the alchemy birds flying in the sky were responsible for the corresponding reconnaissance mission. According to the results of aerial reconnaissance, there were only a number of elite reconnaissance troops near the Iron Gate Fort, at least there were no large troops within a day's march of the cavalry.

In previous years, in addition to collecting tribute from several city-states, the Dorask people came to the Laza region to obtain slaves. They could not have reacted to such a big change this year, so now everyone can only wait for the enemy to appear in Iron Gate Fort. Fortunately, the Laza region is mainly plains, and with the help of a large number of robots, the railway has been built to the other side of the river. The sudden explosion of productivity this year has led to a bumper harvest of grain and other products, which also allows the 15,000 soldiers in Iron Gate Fort to have enough logistical strength to continue waiting here.

Especially with Rose Crystal staying overnight at Iron Gate every other day, morale here is very high. Organizing to watch movies (mainly cartoons), playing games, and listening to sermons by the clergy known as Crystal Priests also contributed greatly to maintaining morale. In this situation, Ryan believed that his patience in waiting was much higher than that of the Dorask people, whose major source of income had been cut off.

During the waiting process, the news of the great changes that had taken place in this land began to spread slowly. One month after Ryan took charge of Irongate, in October of the year 297 of the Aegon calendar, a delegation from afar arrived at Irongate.

The delegation consisted of only a dozen people, and the leader was a man wearing a beaded robe, with dark purple-blue skin and blue-black lips. The man behind him was dressed similarly, with pale skin and blue lips.

"Is this the Avatar?" Ryan thought a little impolitely. But when they walked into the hall, Ryan felt a very chaotic and weak magical reaction from them. At the same time, they looked like middle-aged men, but in the perception of life magic, they were old and thin.

"Hey, wizards?" Ryan was very happy to see people willing to communicate with him in this world, even if they looked very bad. After all, those who attacked him with very rough blood or shadow curses were easily crushed to death by angry rose crystals, so Ryan could only get some knowledge by interrogating their souls.

After some simple exchanges, Llane learned that the wizards of Qarth were led by their leader, the Immortal, who claimed that they were seekers who came to find the true meaning of magic and came here to confirm the existence of magical power.

Ryan received them in a friendly manner and arranged for them to stay in the Crystal City first. After all, he had to command the war recently and had no time for academic exchanges.

So after they left Iron Gate Castle and headed for the Crystal City the next day, Ryan put the matter behind him until three days later when he was awakened by Rose Quartz while sleeping.

Rose Crystal came here in such a hurry because the wizards who were the guests did something very evil: they broke into the Crystal Palace at night, killed several priests and guards, and took away the box where Rose Crystal rested as a holy object. Because after the Conferred God, even if they were fake gods, Rose Crystal had the ability to teleport to each other in its own temple. So she immediately teleported back to the Crystal Palace from the temple of Iron Gate Castle after she felt something was wrong, just in time to block the evil guests who were killing and robbing.

Those wizards tried to resist with magic, but fighting the gods in the main temple of the gods was a pure act of seeking death. Even though the rose crystal was a fake, it still easily killed the robbers. Later, through soul torture, she found that these wizards found that the existence of the box could enhance the magic power of wizards when they visited the Crystal Temple, so they wanted to take the box back to Qarth.

This incident made Rose Crystal very angry, especially since the wizards obviously didn't need to hurt the people in the temple. So she teleported back to Iron Gate Castle to discuss with Ryan how to retaliate.

After fighting back sleep and discussing until the sun rose, the two finally came up with a revenge plan. The next morning, after bidding farewell to Rose Crystal, who was about to be teleported to a merchant ship in Qarth through her shrine, Ryan yawned and returned to his bedroom to take a nap.

A week later, Ryan saw the little doll flying in excitedly while working in the office. It seemed that she had gained a lot from this trip to Qarth. In the little doll's excited chatter, Ryan finally figured out what she had done.

As soon as she arrived at Quarth, she used magic to blow up the Immortal Temple. However, under the temptation of mastering magic, all the wizards who stayed in the Immortal Temple became Rose Crystal's lick dogs. During this week, Rose Crystal collected all kinds of magic information there and trained those wizards to become her own clergy.

Of course, Rose Crystal did not forget to help Ryan obtain docks and shops for the new country in Qarth. With the help of the wizard who had obtained supernatural powers, it was easy to take over the property of the four slave city-states in Qarth. After handing over the property to the caravan, Rose Crystal returned to Iron Gate Castle with a lot of magic information.

In the following time, Ryan studied the materials copied on leather, wood, and even carved on stone, while continuing to deal with various things.

It was not until November that Llane received news from the merchants: Khal Drogo, the most powerful khal, had gone to Pentos in the west to marry a wife, and might not return for a while.

This news made everyone feel a little depressed. Some commanders suggested whether the alert level could be relaxed a little. After all, the resource consumption and personnel fatigue rate were a bit high under this highest alert state. However, these suggestions were rejected by Ryan, because he felt that since the enemy was the most terrifying khal on the grassland, he should never be underestimated.

Sure enough, half a month later, alarms were sent out from many outposts in the west: a cavalry force of about 100,000 people on the north bank of the river was marching eastward day and night, apparently intending to raid the Zara area.

Rose Crystal's aerial reconnaissance also proved this point. The decisive battle between the two nations that had been holding hatred for hundreds of years was about to break out.

(End of this chapter)