Chapter 699 698. Silly Child

  Sunset Town is a town located on the border of the kingdom, most of which is covered by black forest.

Many years ago, there were probably many numbers close to fifty or one hundred. In short, a long time ago, Rimu Town was still a very rich town, with large fertile farmland and rivers flowing, rich, comfortable and desirable. The idyllic life of the town is just an ordinary day for the townspeople here.

   Until the magic tide comes again and again.

  The scene of the blood moon hanging high and the monster raging became the deepest nightmare in the hearts of all the old people who were still alive in Sunset Town.

The average life expectancy of the Kingdom of Night is relatively longer. If a person is free from disease and pain, and has not been baptized by war, in most cases, he can live to two hundred years old. possible.

   In a place like Niigata Town, people who are 70 years old are already extremely rare, and they can live to a hundred years old, which is enough to call it longevity.

  Illness, monsters, all kinds of disasters attacked, it is quite lucky to be able to survive.

   The prosperity of this town in the past has gone with the wind, and only the current defeat remains.

  A lot of fertile farmland is occupied by those vines and twisted trees, the clean water source is polluted by the black forest, and drinking it will cause madness and hallucinations, and livestock are also polluted by the land, producing various mutations and even attacking humans.

In a place like   , it's a big joke to say what kind of oil and water you can get.

"Joste and I have known each other since childhood. He was exposed to magic when he was about four or five years old. He had the talent to be a mage and soon became an apprentice. I have some money in my family, but after years of exploitation , that money is quickly exhausted."

Baron Gerald was sitting at the table, he said, the glass was filled with wine that was as pale as clear water. Most of the nearby water sources were polluted. Drinking it directly would lead to insanity. It could only be boiled to quench thirst. Brewed with less pollution.

"It was only later that Jost violated some taboos, and he was kicked out of the palace, probably because he was so talented, so the crime that should have been executed directly didn't kill him, he was just sent to Such a border town."

   "At that time, it happened that my family's business could not go on at all. I was alone, so I simply bought the title here and took care of Jost."

   He glanced at the mage lying on the bed, who seemed to be having a nightmare.

   "You said he was very talented?"

  Lu Kizuna and Stone went out to check on the situation in the town, leaving Drizzt and Shia to communicate with Geral here.

"Yes, normally, a mage needs at least 40 to 50 years of study to reach the level of Jost, but he has already achieved such an achievement at the age of 20, which is very rare, even if he moves forward. Looking back, there are very few formal court mages as young as him."

   Baron Geral said here as if he was very proud.

   "That's really great."

   Drizzt agreed, he glanced at Shia, but the mage girl did not appear happy, but frowned slightly.

   "I don't think Jost is a rare genius. According to you, he may have made a serious mistake."

   Shia was outspoken.

"What is wrong?"

  Baron Geral felt that Shia was quite confident in every move she made, and she just showed a spell that even Jost thought was amazing. She must be a powerful court mage.

   "Magic is knowledge and pollution, just like the water you drink, these things are imperceptible, gradually eroding your body, and eventually accumulating to a certain extent, it will lead to lesions."

Shia looked at the wine in Baron Geralt's glass and said that although there was only a little contamination in it, for ordinary people, years of drinking will definitely lead to erosion. The residents and soldiers in this town have already suffered. Pollution of the Black Forest.

  In Shia's time, the survey of water sources and land was very important. Even in the towns in charge of border defenses on the border of the Black Forest, mages would use purification spells to ensure the safety of water sources and food.

   But in this era, there are obviously no such strict measures, and Jost is probably the only mage here, and he has no such awareness.

   Even if the magic tide does not come, the lifespan of the people in this town will gradually shorten. In the end, the whole town will either fall into madness and kill each other, or the remaining residents will move away and become an abandoned village.

"Similarly, the learning of magic by a mage is also a process of gradually accumulating pollution. You think that those mages who can master this level of magic at the age of forty or fifty are actually because they need time to digest, endure, and contain the pollution, and he, so He has mastered so much magic in a short period of time. I don’t know anything else, but his body is definitely not able to bear it. He is equivalent to contaminating other people’s digestion in fifty years. lead to loss of life.”

   Shia's words darkened Baron Geralt's face.

   He never thought of this possibility.

   It's no wonder that there were not many geniuses in the previous mage, because the really smart mage understands the truth that haste is not enough.

   Looking at it this way, Jost's genius actually shows his stupidity.

   In the face of knowledge, he is like an ignorant child, trying his best to pick up all the debris left on the ground, but he did not expect that the heavy debris had already bent his back and would lead to death.

   In fact, among those civilizations that have not yet known the horrors of the exotic, there are not a few such people.

   "Speaking of which, you said Jost was kicked out because he violated the taboo. What did he do wrong?"

   Drizzt asked again.

   "He wants to teach magic, to ordinary people, which is a serious taboo among court mages."

   Baron Geral replied.

   Drizzt didn't understand it at first, thinking it was a kind of class-hardening and ignorant measures, but soon, he understood why these were taboos.

Because magic itself is pollution, if ordinary people learn magic at will, the pollution will spread. Everyone's physique is different, and everyone's cognition is different. If magic is abused, it will definitely lead to huge social unrest, and may even lead to collective madness Or a more serious disaster.

   Court mages do not teach magic, which seems not to be tyranny, but reasonable.

  ". That's why he wants to study the magic net?"

Shia was thoughtful. She came to Jost's laboratory and saw a notebook falling from the ground. She opened it. Although it was written in the ancient language of the Kingdom of Night, Shia had learned some and was very Read it soon.

   Looks like this is Jost's note.

   She had just read a few pages when she heard Lu Bian's voice from outside.

   (end of this chapter)