Mage Veigar

Chapter 686 Preparations
Everyone is united.

Over the next dozen days, led by the Minister of Logistics, some loyal officers and officials cooperated to launch a full-scale sweep across the West Coast. The targets of this sweep were of course some wealthy nobles.

Menno provided information.

The Minister of Logistics has to take the blame this time.

The nobles' backer Okasos was also dead, and Vega's prestige was at its peak.

All these factors combined made the entire mopping-up plan very successful. The aristocracy was completely plundered without even having a chance to resist. After this thundering attack, only one tenth of the old aristocratic forces in the Jialan Empire remained.

This is the benefit of breaking down and then building up.

When the dynasty collapsed and everything returned to zero, Vega could completely drastically take action on the areas he had wanted to take action on before without worrying about the consequences.

Preparations are in full swing.

Vega himself was not idle either. He first found Xia and said, "Xia, I hope you can stay in Dunbu City this time."

"You still can't take me with you this time?"

There was some disappointment in Xia's eyes. Even now, she still wanted to stay with Vega.

Vega learned from his mistakes. This time he did not explain anything. Instead, he patiently said, "Xia, I need you to stay in Dunbu City. This is our home. Please guard this place for me."

"Am I...finally needed?"

Xia's eyes flashed with excitement: "I understand. I will defend the city of Dunbu and will never let the troops from the eastern part of the empire set foot on our territory while you are away."

"Thank you, Shia."

Vega thanked Xia solemnly.

Xia hesitated at this time, looking as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.

Vega seemed to be more and more considerate of Xia's feelings. He did not leave in a hurry, nor did he ask questions. Instead, he waited quietly for Xia to speak out what was in her heart.

Vega's consideration gave Shia courage.

At this time, she made a request to Vega: "If possible, please sign a new contract with me."

They were a pair of exquisite rings.

One of them was relatively simple, and was obviously given to Shia by Vega during the battle of Saint Laurent. The other one was glowing, and should have been remade recently. Presumably, by wearing this ring, the contract with Shia would be completed again.

Vega retracted his outstretched hand.

He smiled and said, "Let's talk about this next time."

The war is not over yet, and the future is very bleak. Vega feels that he cannot enjoy this bond for the time being, not only for himself, but also for Shia.

"sorry!"

Xia apologized to Vega, then took a step forward, lowered her head and kissed Vega on the lips.

About a minute later, when their lips parted, Vega found a brand new ring on his hand.

The contract came into force again.

Vega shared half of Shia's life force, but in return, if Shia died, he would die too. However, Shia had the initiative to cancel the contract. Judging from the last situation, if Shia encountered danger again, it was very likely that Shia would do something similar to cancel the contract.

all in all.

This contract is of great benefit to Vega.

But for Shia, it added a risk out of nowhere, because even if Vega was about to die, Shia would most likely not be able to cancel the contract, which was why Vega refused.

It is most difficult to accept the kindness of a beautiful woman.

He can be cold-blooded and ruthless to others. For his own benefit, he even kills innocent civilians and children, and does not blink an eye to slaughter tens of thousands of his subordinates. But this does not mean that he wants to drag the whole world down with him when he dies.

It's like if only one of him and Shia could survive, he might choose to sacrifice Shia.

But since he was 100% sure of his death, he certainly couldn't be so bored as to drag Xia or anyone else into the water.

This doesn't make any sense.

Therefore, what Vega is really afraid of now is that he has too many ties with Shia. One day, when faced with a situation where he has to choose between two options, he will not be able to sacrifice Shia for his own choice.

Although that choice had been impossible to make before...

But Vega believed that he was not yet terminally ill and might still be able to be saved.

However, the moment Shia forced the ring on him, Vega thought that he was probably hopeless.

So there is only one thing we can do now -

Become stronger, avoid the situation of having to choose between two options, and never let that bad situation occur.

After realizing this, Vega said goodbye to Shia and focused on his own strength.

If he thought about it carefully, Xia Ya's strength was higher than his now. If there really came such a day, the situation that would happen would not be that Xia Ya was in desperate situation and he had to take the risk to save her, but that he was not strong enough and Xia Ya would be buried with him.

After all, Xia is a being that possesses star magic.

And what about him?
Although he was promoted to Star Mage and Star Professional, the one million soldiers from the previous coalition of various countries made him reach the pinnacle of Star Professionals and took a big step towards the sainthood, but in fact, it was not as optimistic as it seemed.

He lacks one important thing.

Magic and combat skills.

High-level combat skills and magic are different from mid-level ones and are now very rare.

It was so rare that even with Okasos's background, he only found one page of star element magic runes.

Now the problem comes to him.

Star Shadow Magic Rune Pages are even rarer than Star Elemental Magic Rune Pages. How can he find them?

Without star-level magic and combat skills, he is at best a superior wizard and superior professional whose magic power and mental strength are dozens of times greater than that of an ordinary wizard.

To give an example, it is like installing a rocket engine on a Wuling Hong... well, on a tractor. It cannot exert its true strength at all.

"The most important thing now is to find magic of the corresponding level."

Veigar has a clear understanding of himself.

As for how to find star magic?
In Vega's opinion, it is difficult to search by one's own. After all, he is not as knowledgeable as Okasos. Therefore, the only means for him is war!
Constant war.

Continuously expanding territory.

Constantly expand the army and power.

When one day the entire East is unified and all the manpower is put into it, why would you be afraid of not being able to find what you want? This is the simplest and crudest way of finding things that Vega has come up with, but it must also be the most effective way.

Figured this out.

Vega put aside his thoughts and began to formulate a battle plan.

The next battle is neither difficult nor easy.

The simple part is that as long as he can survive the opponent's probing means, the opponent will definitely retreat. The difficult part is how to conceal his identity. After all, he cannot release the divine magic again.

Of course, this is just in case.

Maybe Foster and Augustus would just retreat without even trying to test him?
(End of this chapter)