I'm a mage, what's wrong with loving farming?

Chapter 257: Starlight Field, Duke of Hanjiao
In the dukes' barracks.

After Ian and Athos separated, they tacitly put the potion given by Cloya into the food of the two dukes' direct retainers.

Thanks to the extreme food shortage during this period, the food delivered now has basically not been inspected. After all, if you are hungry, even people can eat a lot.

Under such circumstances, their poisoning work was of course extremely smooth, and it could be said to be a complete success.

However, the personal meals of all the slightly important people were poisoned - how dare the chefs go against the wishes of the two dukes' sons?
After finishing the pleasant poisoning work.

Artos took a tray full of various animal organs, wore loose clothes, and entered the room of his father, Duke Nar.

On the other side, Ian, who was dressed neatly, entered Duke Olivier's room holding a tray with exquisite pastries, milk tea and cut fruits.

The door was sealed by magic and completely closed.

Time passed slowly.

About half an hour later, the two Duke's sons walked out of the room one after another. Ian's clothes were still neatly arranged, and he was stroking the ring on his other hand.

Assos's clothes were tattered, and there were some obvious scars on his smooth skin. There was an exquisite purse on his belt.

But both of them had smiles on their faces. Holding their respective spoils, they entered the rooms of their father's retainers one after another, and then entered the warehouse of the military camp one after another, and got some strange golden cherries from two kittens.

They were like children picking delicious fruits, tirelessly walking around the entire military camp and placing those golden cherries in every corner.

then……

A raging fire broke out in the military camp, accompanied by rumbling explosions that sounded like thunder.

Two cats, a squirrel and a snake hiding in the corner were all amazed, watching the golden flames rising into the sky without blinking.

"This is the magic that the master researched from the book that Miffin brought. It is said to be the golden holy fire that only the Church and the Holy Spirit gods have."

The gray cat of the tower spirit explained: "This kind of flame will not disappear until the sun sets. It is definitely enough to turn the entire military camp into nothingness."

The Emerald Demon Snake stood up and hissed, with a gloomy look in its eyes that only snakes can have: "They have done too many evil things on this land!"

The squirrel agreed: "Let them leave the North!"

As if to agree with the two little ones, a breeze was sweeping gently and blowing into the military camp, making the fire bigger.

The sunlight also became extremely scorching, as if an eye was casting an angry gaze down, letting everything be completely burned up in its anger.

Outside the flames, with the help of nature and magic plants, Robert, Lina and Kemoye have arrived here. Behind them are the wizard knights and magic plant beasts lined up.

Whether it's the Gnar monster or those battle mages, if they are slightly restricted they can be excellent labor force.

Therefore, they were destined to be unable to leave the North, and no one could escape.

……

Kloa, who was far away on the Reef Island, was studying the magical plant called the Star of Astraeus when he unexpectedly saw the burning fire.

Now the entire northern border is within the surveillance network of King Mu Yao Qu Teng, so of course he has been keeping an eye on that place for a long time.

He was slightly surprised: "It's quite fast."

"Looks like I can wait to harvest my spoils."

After a brief moment of surprise, he no longer cared about what was happening over there.

I simply grabbed the little star that wanted to fly around and held it in the palm of my hand to observe it carefully.

Through the Astral Body Imprinting Technique, it can be seen that its core is actually only about one tenth of its original size, and is wrapped in something with a crystal texture.

Clear starlight shone through the crystal, illuminating the surroundings.

“This strange crystalline growth seems to be a natural amplifier of magic power, otherwise it would be impossible to make the starlight so bright.

Hmm... this can be studied."

His fingers gently passed through the clear starlight that was like a stream of water, and his slender, bony fingers gradually became illusory in the blue.

Flesh and blood lost their meaning at this moment, leaving only translucent blue, which looked like bones. In fact, it was the flow of magic that supported the shape of the fingers, and the perception of magic became extremely sharp in an instant.

It's like being blessed.

"Yo."

Kloya shook his fingers, watching the smoke-like fingers swaying in the starlight. There was a subtle sense of sluggishness, as if his control over his body had weakened due to being drunk.

His current ability to control his body is extremely exaggerated. He can even interfere with the growth of hair. The magic circulation of the entire body is under his control.

To be honest, it's quite interesting to suddenly see a certain part of the body become "drunk".

After shaking for a while, he squinted his eyes and felt the surrounding magic power flowing into his fingers. The cool and refreshing feeling even made him want to moan.

He no longer had any doubts and sighed softly:

"It really is astral walking."

"I didn't expect this kind of magic to be included here. Is it because the people from the Holy Spring Chamber of Commerce want me to get addicted?"

"But it is really a precious gift."

He knew this kind of magic. It was first developed by a great magician of the elves. Its purpose was to relieve one's addiction to magic.

But the essence of this thing is actually to reduce the presence of flesh and blood to the minimum, allowing one's soul and the magic power in the body to directly contact the magic power of the outside world under the amplification of starlight.

Although both the absorption and perception of magic power will become very sharp, the problem is... it is very easy to get addicted.

Without the constraints of the flesh, the soul and magic power can circulate directly in contact with the outside world. Although this will make perception more acute, the price is magic addiction.

However, in the world of mages, magic addiction is not really a bad thing. There are too many mages who seek to face the reality of magic.

Can it make one's perception of magic more acute? Can it make meditation faster?

In comparison, a little magic addiction is nothing to a mage. As long as he can strengthen himself, magic addiction is not a big deal.

So this gift is quite precious.

Croix thought about how to use this gift.

In theory, this kind of gift can be used to train one's subordinates, which is equivalent to opening a magic circle to accelerate meditation.

I think the original intention of the Holy Spring of Solon was for him to train his subordinates. It should know that he is a lord.

However, Kloya did not intend to do so. He did not want his apprentices to become addicted to magic too early. It would be fine if he let them adapt before entering the star realm.

After a brief thought, he suddenly thought... could he use the starlight emitted by the Star of Astraeus to transform the magic plant into a pure astral magic plant?

In the star realm, this kind of magic power is everywhere. Those magical plants and magical beasts live in such an environment, becoming extremely strange and special.

In a sense, the environment of the astral world is actually extremely stable.

Especially after being illuminated by this starlight, he could feel that the magic power around him seemed to be completely suppressed by some force.

Thinking of this, he did not do it immediately, but first sent a message to Estner of the Mage Association in the royal capital, asking him to help him solve the subsequent trivial matters of this war.

Since the two dukes are dead, he must get what he wants next, including the title.

After sending the message, he stood up and quickly entered a room on the top floor of the Mage Tower.

The Oak of Orpheus has now grown to a very large size, and his Mage Tower has also become huge. Although it is not as big as the towers specially built by the Mage Association for those Level 6 mages, it is not much different.

He cultivated a special kind of magic plant in this layer. The magic plants were imprinted with the magic coordination he learned from the Dragon Nest and the space folding array magic taught by the angel.

It can be regarded as an experimental field. It would be best if these magic plants could gradually improve during the growth process. If they cannot be improved, it will also allow him to observe the changes in the magic power of space.

"Tower Spirit..."

He said this out of habit and then remembered that his tower spirit had gone out to play with Mu Yao Qu Teng Wang, so he could only retrieve the data himself helplessly.

He tapped a few times on the crystal board standing outside the field, and the current data was immediately displayed on it.

[Current Sky Tulip Growth Progress: 8%]

[Current space stability: 3%]

Well, these are appalling statistics.

“It’s so miserable.”

After taking a look, Cloya couldn't help rubbing his brows, and suddenly felt that it was a bit wishful thinking for him to use tulips to refine the power of the void into space energy that could be stably controlled.

"Alas, there is no other way. You are the only space magic plant I can get right now." He sighed deeply, took the Star of Astraeus and walked into the field of translucent, crystal white tulips.

The buds of these tulips are all tightly closed, but one can see through the petals that the inside is wrapped with a small piece of Sky Crystal fragment and some clear liquid.

There are some extremely fine magic patterns on the inner wall of the petals, which are constantly emitting imperceptible subtle magic power, gradually transforming the Void Shard fragments and white magic liquid inside.

[Sky Tulip (Kroya's Imperfect Space Stabilization Array and Magic Transformation Ritual)]

[During the growth process of this magic plant, there is a very small probability that it will infiltrate and fuse the internal Sky Crystal Fragments and White Space Magic Liquid. ]

[The current magic imprint is not yet complete. You need to continue to perfect the imprint or wait for the magic plant to grow on its own. There is a very small probability that it will be perfected. ]

This was the first time that Kloya had seen the Celestial Body Imprinting Technique describe the magic pattern imprinting inside the magic plant as "extremely small probability". In this case, wanting to perfect it was basically like praying for a few angel sisters to descend on the roadside.

Angels are asexual.

It is better to expect to learn it quickly by yourself than to expect this, or to rely on some external intervention.

After observing it for a while, he simply chose to ignore it, then rummaged through a pocket on the belly of his robe and took out a large pile of astral crystals.

This pile of crystals were all produced by the Star Crystal Turtle. After that guy got a wife, he wanted to have little turtles, so he transformed a magic crystal vein into a turtle nest.

So Cloya unceremoniously mined crystals from it, and tried hard to replace some of its important facilities and experimental equipment with astral crystal level.

After taking out enough materials, he began to build independent small rooms, completely covering a few individual Sky Tulips, and then built magic transmission channels, water purification, and soil and air stabilization magic patterns...

After a busy period, he built a single room for the ten Sky Tulips, which contained a series of magic patterns for survival, monitoring and regulation.

After doing all this, he placed the flying Star of Astraeus into the ceiling of the experimental field. Only a few channels that could accommodate and pull starlight were connected to the single room of the Sky Tulip.

Then he took a look at the magic crystal plate next to him and found that the magic stability column was rising at a very fast speed, which meant that it was indeed useful.

Croix nodded in satisfaction.

"As long as it works, it's good. If it can really make a difference, then I will transform the entire tulip field."

In the following time, he simply inspected the magical beasts and magical plants that were raised and grown in his wizard tower.

——There are coconut trees with dragon egg-transforming nutrition patterns engraved on them, four-color sunflowers preaching to more sunflowers, earth-stealing rats building their own castles and kingdoms, magic-fixing dangling grasses that transform magic potions, and magic crystal rats dreaming happily...

If an outsider came here, he would think he had come to some special zoo of magical plants and beasts.

……

When Cloya was inspecting his mage tower.

The capital of Nolant.

The representative of the Mages Association, Estner, is meeting and negotiating with a count from the College of Heraldry.

Both parties were actually quite embarrassed, but the one who was more embarrassed was definitely the chubby, dough-like, and rather likable-looking Earl.

He is Count Sangabe, Vice-Chancellor of the College of Arms.

Theoretically speaking, he is already the second-in-command of the aristocratic institution, the College of Heraldry, and is also a loyal retainer directly under King Norant.

His arrival actually represents the will of King Nolant.

King Nolant is not a useless person because he can create a country with highly centralized royal power but without any belief and not dominated by the church. On the contrary, he is very smart.

King Nolant is well aware of the importance of the Mage Association, but he has never had a suitable opportunity to formally cooperate with the association. In his opinion, even a selfish mage is much better than those people in the Vatican.

And now is an opportunity.

A mage duke who was born in the Mage Association but was canonized by the royal family can fully serve as a channel and signal for cooperation between the two parties.

Count Sangab recalled King Norant's order and said bluntly, "Master Estner, how about giving all of the northern territory to Master Croa as a fiefdom?"

"Okay." Estner nodded.

Although this is already a fact, it must be mentioned. Otherwise, where would the royal family put its face?

"Independent trade rights, the right to migrate, the right of the Heraldry Council..."

Count Sangab listed a series of powers that the Duke possessed - to be honest, they were all useless. Who would lack these obvious things to become a Duke?

Estner waited patiently for him to finish, tapped the table gently, and prompted, "Where's Sky Island?"

“……” Count Sangab hesitated.

He asked tentatively, "Ten acres?"

The answer he got was Estner's sneer: "Ha."

An empty island of ten acres? To house the slaves?
If he was really given only ten acres of land, he could now reject the title of Duke on behalf of Croa - if he took it in such a frustrating way, it would be better not to take it!
"Go ahead." Count Sangab's chubby face was covered with sweat. He wiped it with a handkerchief and begged bitterly, "You know, that's the heritage of the royal family."

"Aren't they just floating islands discovered in the North? If our Mage Association hadn't helped you stabilize your magic structure, they would have fallen long ago."

Estner said directly: "At least three hectares."

After a pause, he added: "There must be a waterfall of flowing light, there must be fields of cloud light land, there must be... a micro-sky ore vein!"

As soon as he said this, Count Sangabu's sweat poured down like rain, soaking even his extremely exquisite and specially made aristocratic clothing.

He trembled as he took out a golden knife inlaid with gemstones, put it on the table, and said with a look of death: "You might as well kill me."

"Three hectares, Flowing Waterfall, Cloudy Bright Land are all fine...but the Sky Mine is only found on five islands, and they are all territories directly under the royal family."

He tried to argue that this matter was beyond his authority and if he took out that thing he would have to stab himself in the back the next day.

"No." Estner shook his head, reached out to pick up the golden dagger, and pointed it at the fat count.

His voice was very soft, but it seemed to carry a biting cold wind, and his eyes were filled with a magical light.

"Does the former territory of Archmage Eurydice belong to you now?"

"Mr. Earl, does King Norant think so too?"

This time, the fat on the earl's face twitched violently twice, and sweat was not only flowing down, but his face even turned pale.

at this time--

"Please don't make things difficult for him. He is just a dog raised by my father. Why do you have to do this?"

A clear female voice like the sound of nature rang out, and the count immediately jumped up with an agility that was completely inconsistent with his body size. He took out a magic scroll and cleaned the table and chairs.

Then, he stood behind the chair like a dutiful dog, and looked respectfully at a woman with waist-length golden hair who leisurely sat down in the chair.

As if Estner had expected this, he lowered his head slightly and said, "Your Highness Mibeka, it seems that you still have to go there in person."

The woman he called Mibeka nodded slightly.

"I can agree to whatever you say on behalf of the royal family. I will personally convey my father's order."

"This book belongs to the Mage Association. It used to be the territory of Archmage Eurydice. He also went to the Reef Island. Perhaps this is the fate you often talk about."

She smiled, "But please contact Master Croa and promise us something."

"You say." Estner did not agree directly.

“…My mother is dying, and I would like to ask the mermaid to sing a funeral song.

If Master Croa can help me do this, I will give him an item I once obtained from the Kingdom of Sethen."

"It is said that it was a map of Gopherwood Paradise left by a legendary knight of the Kingdom of Sethen."

Estner's pupils shrank slightly.

"I'll contact him."

He did not agree immediately, but planned to contact Croya before answering. He thought Croya would agree.

Princess Mibeka smiled and said, "Please come with me in person. I also want to meet my brother. I wonder if he is doing well in the North."

"it is good."

After the two of them made this decision, they finally smiled at each other. The count on the side immediately and diligently arranged snacks that were more expensive than gold.

The scene suddenly became peaceful.

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