Above the mage!

Chapter 408 Secondary Plane
Tucao returns to Tucao.

The three assembly calls have been sounded and Gaode has entered the city.

Apart from anything else, his identity as a Sea Sentinel Mage alone meant that he was destined to be involved.

Otherwise, not to mention the subsequent accountability, he would definitely not be able to continue his career as a sea sentinel.

The sea sentinels are all elite mages, and a deserter will be looked down upon.

"Let's go together." The guard mage said seriously.

"Okay, let's go together." Gao De nodded.

Auckland's Civic Center is located in the heart of Auckland City and can be reached directly via the Taiwa River.

The guarding wizard pulled Gaode onto a patrol boat specially used for inland rivers.

This is a typical rowing sailboat with a long and narrow hull. It can move flexibly even in the narrower channels of the Taiwa River. The main power source is sails and oars.

The bow and stern of the ship are relatively pointed, and it can travel faster on inland rivers than Gaode's ship.

The call to assembly was issued from the bell tower located in the center of the Town Hall Square.

By the time Gaode and the guarding mage arrived, the huge city square was already crowded with people.

At a glance, the number of people must have exceeded ten thousand.

This is the foundation of the Plantagenet dynasty. The number of official wizards in a city can reach tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.

However, although it is impossible to clearly see the wizard level of each person, Gode opened the Mandor Magic Eye and scanned it. Through the slight flow of energy, he can basically determine that among so many people, more than two-thirds are first-ring wizards.

The rain was still falling, and the bluestone slabs in the square were full of water, but there was no debris, and it was obvious that they had been cleaned up.

At the front of the Town Hall is Auckland City Hall.

The white brick and stone town hall looked cold in the dark clouds, and the gorse emblem at the top gleamed brightly, made of pure gold.

Even after being attacked by catfish, the city hall remained safe and sound without any signs of damage.

In front of the door of the town hall, Count Roland, wearing a black rainproof cloak with silver edges, stood on the steps.

Standing behind him were all the famous nobles and mages of Auckland City.

Gaode and the guarding mage were the last ones to arrive.

After all, they came from the city gate farthest from the city center.

So just about two minutes after they arrived, Count Roland spoke.

"They should all be here."

"Please all mages of the second ring and above come to the front." With the help of the power of magic, Count Roland's voice was not loud, but it was clearly heard by every mage present.

Then, a few scattered mages in the crowd began to move forward and gathered in the front row.

Gaode and the guarding mage both stood still.

However, he did notice that among the mages who were squeezing forward from the crowd, there was actually another mage who was also wearing a Sea Sentinel uniform.

Of course, the other party was wearing a warrant officer uniform.

"I'm glad to see that everyone has responded to the call for the mage assembly and gathered here in such a short time."

Count Roland swept his eyes from the second-ring and above mages in the front row, then turned to the largest number of first-ring mages standing in the back, and spoke slowly in an extremely calm and heavy tone.

"But I have bad news for you."

He paused, as if to give everyone some time to prepare themselves mentally.

After a pause of about three seconds, Count Roland continued, "The appearance and expansion of the catfish are too abnormal, and the three consecutive small whirlwinds that followed are unprecedented, so I asked our Auckland Chief Mage, Mage Theodore, to go out to sea to investigate the situation."

After saying this, he slightly turned sideways, and a silver-haired old man stepped forward. He was wearing a dark purple robe, had a hooked nose, and held an obsidian staff in his right hand. He looked extremely extraordinary.

He is Theodore, the chief wizard of Oakland.

In a city of Auckland's size, the chief mage is at least a senior fourth-ring mage.

"I was ordered by the Earl to go out to sea to investigate the situation and came to the place where the catfish whirlwind originated."

"There, I saw a space crack that was constantly expanding." Master Theodore paused when he said this. The rain dripping from the eaves of the City Hall fell down, but before it touched his body, it was blocked by a layer of transparent membrane.

"The other end of the space rift is connected to an alien plane filled with wind elements."

"Strong wind elements and strong winds are pouring out from this space crack."

"That is to say, the appearance of the catfish this time was not a natural phenomenon, but was caused entirely by this spatial crack. It was an extradimensional disaster."

The town square fell into silence in an instant, the only sound being the rain hitting various clothes and even magic tools.

After reporting the situation, Master Theodore quietly retreated and gave the "stage" back to Count Roland.

"Everyone should be very clear about the dangers of extradimensional disasters. For example, the appearance of a leyline can often cause a prosperous city to collapse in an instant."

"The earth vein is a spatial crack that connects the earth vein plane with our wizard plane, and this spatial crack that connects our wizard plane with the wind element plane is temporarily called the wind vein."

"The bad news is that this wind network is only 180 kilometres from Auckland."

When talking about 180 kilometers, Count Roland's face became very solemn, and there was a hint of sigh in his tone.

"One hundred and eighty kilometers!"

"Oh My God"

As soon as he finished speaking, the faces of many mages in the municipal square changed, and they couldn't help but speak out and start talking.

It's nothing, the distance is just too close.

"It's a distance of 180 kilometers, and this is also a wind element plane. Once this wind network is completely stabilized...

If nothing else, catfish-level cyclones will become commonplace for Auckland, perhaps once or twice a month."

After hearing this, Gao De also realized the seriousness of the matter.

If catfish come once or twice a month, Oakland will become a ruined city in less than a year.

However, the term "wind elemental plane" still made him feel a little confused.

Before this, he had only heard of the earth vein plane. Of course, since there is an earth vein plane, there must be other alien planes. This is reasonable.

However, this was the first time that Gao De had heard of the alternate dimensions other than the earth vein plane.

It seems that the level of the earth vein plane is relatively high, so it has many intersections with the mage plane. The earth veins are spread all over the world?

He began to speculate.

And what Count Roland said next also confirmed his guess.

"The good news is that this is just a secondary plane made up of pure elemental energy, not a stable material plane like the earth vein plane." "The size of the secondary plane is limited, and the energy is measurable. As long as we can disperse the elemental creatures in the secondary plane in the early stage of the expansion of the wind network before it takes shape, we can consume the energy of the secondary plane to a great extent."

"Once the secondary plane is in a state of insufficient energy, our Mage Plane, as the main plane, has a powerful self-healing ability, which will automatically repair the unformed spatial cracks, thereby dissipating this wind network."

"I am issuing a call to mages to gather everyone this time, so that everyone can go out to sea together to eliminate the elemental creatures in this secondary plane."

"Mage Theodore has preliminarily confirmed that, based on the energy concentration of this secondary plane, the strongest elemental creature is level five, and the majority are level one to three elemental creatures."

"Once the fifth-order elemental creatures appear, we will be the ones to deal with them. You don't need to worry about them. You just need to help eliminate these first to third-order elemental creatures."

Elemental creatures from level one to three.
When the mages heard about this level and this task, the tense atmosphere suddenly eased a lot, and everyone felt relieved.

Since they appeared here, whether they really wanted to or were forced by the powerful order of the Mage Assembly, as Auckland mages, they certainly did not want Auckland City to be destroyed by Fengluo, and they all had some thoughts of protecting Auckland City.

But if the task is too difficult, this thought will soon be driven away by fear and timidity.

Fifth-level elemental creatures are useless no matter how many of them there are.

The higher the level, the greater the gap; this is an eternal truth.

The knowledge mastered by an extremely talented primary school student may be no less than that of some junior high school students, but a PhD is definitely far superior to a graduate student.

But no matter what, this mission is still extremely dangerous.

After all, once a fight breaks out, especially at sea, the situation will be chaotic and there will be no rules at all.

It is very possible for a third-level elemental creature to find a first-level wizard. Although the wizard himself will definitely rush to help at the first possible moment, the risk is always great.

However, under the general trend, even if we are afraid, we cannot avoid war.

"It only takes a few days for a space crack to appear and take shape."

"So, we don't have much time left."

"The ship is ready. Let's act together now and set out to Fengluo immediately!" After briefly introducing the situation, Count Roland gave the final order.

Count Roland and Master Theodore had already made the specific arrangements and deployments.

These mages who were summoned by the assembly call mainly acted as "NPCs" and chess pieces, and all they had to do was wait for arrangements.

Gao De knew what was going on and acted very honestly according to their arrangements.

After all, I am just a first-ring wizard. In a "big plot" of this level, being able to be on the chessboard as a chess piece is already a great achievement. Do you still want to have your own will?

Unless he's the protagonist.
To be honest, Gaode doesn't like participating in wars, especially as a soldier.

Danger is secondary. What’s more important is that in war, unless one is a top-level wizard like Wizard Theodore, the power of an individual is too small.

Not to mention a first-ring mage, even if he is now a third-ring mage, he is probably just an insignificant character in this Fengluo "big plot".

In such a war, it makes no difference whether there is one more self or one less self. Victory will not be due to him, and failure will not be due to him.

And whether he wins or loses, he may die in the war.

This feeling is not good.

But since he had no choice, Gao De quickly put aside his rejection and focused his attention on the upcoming war.

Following an order, a group of mages, led by Count Roland and Master Theodore, rushed quickly from the City Hall Square to the Auckland Pier like a tide.

On the dock, dozens of warships were lined up in a row.

These are official warships, made mainly of solid oak and teak. The hull structure is huge and has a glossy luster in the heavy rain.

All warships were designed with multiple decks, and the largest even had three decks.

Dozens of flags embroidered with the gorse emblem fluttered in the wind.

As warships, they are different from ordinary passenger ships and trucks. In addition to dozens of sails, their power systems are also equipped with corresponding alchemical machines to provide additional magical power.

In addition, there are turrets on both sides of the hull, loaded with alchemical magic cannons, distributed on the decks of each floor, which can provide additional firepower support.

The leading warship, the "Crown of Thorns", was made entirely of metal and was equipped with a classic weapon that was usually only set up in cities and was often seen in God's Western fantasy novels: the magic crystal cannon.

Compared to artillery, the barrel of the magic crystal cannon is made of a whitish mithril, and the surface is engraved with runes.

These runes meandered on the metal surface like living things. The length of the barrel reached more than six meters and the wall was thick.

The tail part is the core of the magic crystal cannon. It adopts a design that combines rune arrays and alchemical machines. In the center is a huge diamond-shaped magic crystal slot for placing energy sources.

Under the command and coordination of the official wizards, the unofficial wizards who were summoned were divided into groups in an orderly manner and landed on different warships one after another.

At this point, Gaode separated from the guarding wizard who had led him all the way.

Because the official wizard who was in charge of guiding him on board, after seeing the sea sentinel uniform on Gode and confirming his identity, arranged him on another warship of obviously higher grade, and whispered to him: "This is a special warship for noble wizards."

Gao De immediately understood.

This is considered special treatment.

When the wizards are called to assemble, any wizard must respond to the call and go to sea, and noble wizards are no exception. In this regard, they have no privileges at all.

However, when arranging warships, they can be given warships with more complete equipment and stronger protective performance, thereby increasing the survival rate.

In any circle, there are some unique rules that are not written down but are accepted and followed by everyone.

But at least the Plantagenet dynasty was good in this regard.

Because in the tradition of the Plantagenet dynasty, the nobles should lead the way in war.

In the Principality of Sean where Gode had lived before, the situation would most likely be that the noble mages would stay in the rear to take charge of the command while they fought desperately on the front line.

Time was urgent, and the mages moved quickly and hurriedly on the deck like ants.

Soon, the blue flag was raised on the Crown of Thorns.

This is the departure signal flag.

Immediately afterwards, other military ships blew their whistles three times in succession. The sounds of the whistles one after another created ripples in the rain.

They show that they are ready to go at any time.

The next moment, the Crown of Thorns took the lead and sailed out of the port.

Godard looked at the huge figure of the Crown of Thorns breaking through the rain, and he was certain in his heart.

There are many reasons why the Plantagenet dynasty could become the oldest human dynasty in this plane, and the tradition that nobles must lead by example is one of them.

The rest of the warships were like a well-trained formation of geese, spreading out in a fan shape with the Crown of Thorns as the arrowhead.

From a high altitude perspective, the fleet looked like a sharp blade piercing into the rain.

The gorse on the canvas is faintly visible in the wind and rain.

(End of this chapter)