The Sun King's Evidence

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At the end of the Winter Veil Festival, Ryan and Sulia teamed up to do several things.

The first thing is that Ryan officially accepted Sylvia as his third female courtier. This matter was promoted by Sulia. The Duchess even held a small gathering specifically for Sylvia. Sylvia bought a wedding dress and asked Sylvia's father Vincent to come to the scene and go through the entire process. In this way, Sylvia gained a protected identity and a formal status as a female courtier.

The day after the rally, Sylvia, the iron-clad maid who never rested, was forced to ask for leave from Sulia for a few days to recuperate before she could barely walk.

The second thing was that the third turkey banquet was held in the Duke's castle. Emilia and Veronica were absent from this banquet. The Fairy of the Lake gave a speech at the turkey banquet, emphasizing that about nine months later , Lane will ascend the throne in Kurona. Facing new opportunities and challenges in the new historical period, we must seize the opportunities of the times, realize a "soft landing" in Lane's backyard, and never allow anyone to sneak into their group. , and Ryan will never be allowed to have any chance to go out, and must be strictly controlled from physical to psychological.

The proposal was unanimously approved at the meeting.

The third thing is that after Aurora and Theresa discussed it, they finally decided to agree to Ryan's proposal and establish a new intelligence department. Ryan named it "MI7", with offices in Bordeaux, Carcassonne, and Branches have been established in Mousilon, Curona, Lyonnasay, Winford and Noor, and Aurora will send some of her witch subordinates to lurk into these cities to conduct intelligence work.

After the three matters were dealt with, Ryan set off to Veronica's Dawn Wizard Tower to see how Veronica was doing.

At this time, the Dawn Wizard Tower was already a little crowded. Obviously, the wealth and comfortable climate of Lane's territory far outweighed the harsh environment of Sky Castle. When building the Dawn Wizard Tower, Veronica spent all her money. The cost, both the living environment and the working environment are first-class, so many witch apprentices try their best to come to Veronica to further their studies.

Ryan's appearance triggered screams from the witch apprentices. A group of little lolita dressed in fiery red robes and little leather boots, revealing their young faces reddened by the cold, surrounded Ryan. It seemed that they were because of The reason for Veronica's absence was that these witch apprentices were particularly bold. They crowded into a group and rushed to introduce themselves. They wanted to tell Ryan his name, and even secretly slipped a small piece of paper with his dormitory room number on it. Ryan had no choice but to He yelled to signal everyone to get out of the way, and then found Veronica's personal apprentice, Katherine, who was now an official light witch.

"Catherine, where is Veronica?" Ryan asked directly.

"The mentor is in retreat on the top floor, attacking the sanctuary." When she first came to Britannia, Catherine was still a shy blond beauty embryo. Now she is a mature and official witch. Ryan can even vaguely see him and Victoria. Ronika’s sense of déjà vu when they first met: “Can you take me up?”

"...Please come with me." Catherine hesitated for a moment, then nodded in agreement. She turned around and motioned for Ryan to follow her upstairs.

Ryan didn't say anything else. He followed Catherine closely. After entering the Dawn Wizard Tower, there were still groups of witch apprentices following Ryan, pointing and looking at Ryan with eyes of admiration and fascination. , as if looking at a plate of delicious food and some treasure, making Ryan feel like a light on his back.

If a wizard wants to get ahead, the most important thing is resources, and there are generally only two sources of resources.

The first is provided by a mentor. For example, although Veronica was poor before, she was valued by Speaker Margarita. She received her personal guidance and was allowed to enter her private library to borrow books, so at least she had a reserve of knowledge and spells. No problem.

The second type is provided by nobles. For example, Ryan provided Veronica with enough money and a lot of manpower and material resources. He also personally invited Teclis to teach and bought elves at a high price from the White Tower of Hoth in the Kingdom of Savri. magic book.

If you have resources, you may not be able to raise a holy witch, but if you don't have resources, you won't be able to raise a holy witch.

Since the mentor is so successful, the apprentices naturally want to copy the mentor's path. Unfortunately, Lane is the only one. When Lane himself follows Catherine to the sixth floor, the witch apprentices have to stop here, because the seventh and eighth floors are In Veronica's private area, the stairwell from the sixth to seventh floors was sealed with an iron door. When Catherine saw this, she said to Ryan: "Your Excellency, please stay here for a moment while I go get the key."

"I have a key." Ryan took out a large magic key from his body.

Catherine was shocked when she saw this. She pursed her lips. She was slightly shocked that Ryan had the key. When she saw Ryan, she directly used the key to open the door. Catherine had no choice but to follow Ryan upstairs: "Sir Ryan, please don't be so anxious. , the mentor is attacking the sanctuary, you are not suitable to enter at this time."

"Then when should I come in? Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Ryan frowned slightly, and he felt something unusual in Catherine's behavior.

"In about twenty minutes, once the energy tide has passed, you can go up and check on your mentor." Catherine whispered, "Your Excellency, please wait in the mentor's office for a moment while I go get ready."

"Okay." Ryan really doesn't know much about magic, and he doesn't know how wizards break through the holy realm. Theresa mentioned her situation a few days ago that warlocks must condense if they want to break through to the holy realm. And strengthen her own bloodline, and then purify the bloodline, Teresa is now troubled that she can't find a way to condense her bloodline.

While Catherine was out, Ryan carefully looked at the interior of Veronica's office.

A huge cherry wood desk is filled with various documents, as well as some exquisite props, and a pen imported from the high elves - unlike ordinary quill pens, this pen can produce ink evenly for a long time. The imperial nobles are proud to own it. There is nothing being written on the table. It can be seen that although Catherine is cleaning it carefully, Veronica has not used this table for a long time.

There were a large number of magic books on the bookshelf nearby. Ryan took a quick look and found that the books that Veronica read the most were "Hexi's Light Spell Encyclopedia" written by Wolan, the chief wizard of the first imperial royal family, and "Hexi's Light Spell Encyclopedia" written by Tai. "Analysis of the Origin of Magic" written by Gris, the golden book "The Origin of Chaos" written by the Lord of Mankind himself, in addition to "The Fire of Aksha" and "The Self-cultivation of the White-robed Wizard" are all books written by Vero Nika likes to read books with lots of sticky notes inserted into them.

In addition, Veronica also has a library of her own. If the books in it are taken out, they will be robbed by wizards. In this world, printing is a technology that can be corrupted. Books printed using movable type printing will be directly corrupted by Tzeentch if they are not under the protection of the church or wizards. Therefore, the production of magic books can only be carried out in wizard workshops or churches, and a powerful wizard is required. Writing and mass-producing magic books yourself is a troublesome task, and most wizards can only borrow them.

"Well, she still likes this kind of high-end leather sofas and bearskin carpets." Ryan looked carefully at the office with an area of ​​about 40 square meters. There were three copper shelves placed on top of the high-end bearskin carpets. , the top of each copper shelf is a transparent glass ball placed on a staggered gold base. The glass ball contains Veronica's magic.

"This is a telescope. Apparently Veronica ordered a new set." Ryan bent down and looked at Veronica's magic props: "I remember this is a communication tool used by the witches of Gloria. It is said that it can Contact Sky Castle directly from here...let me try how to activate this thing?"

Ryan stretched out his hand and held it on the transparent glass ball, wanting to try to use the telescope, but he obviously didn't know how to operate it. In this way, the magic prop also recognized that Ryan was not its owner, and it resisted Ryan angrily. The operation, with its hot surface and the sound of metal rubbing against it, resisted being used by Lane.

The machine soul is unhappy!

"Okay, I won't touch you anymore, I won't touch you anymore." Ryan had no choice but to retract his hand, and the telescope seemed to know that Ryan had a close relationship with its owner. After Ryan retracted his hand, it also returned to calm.

"Then what is this for?" Ryan then opened another cabinet.

Inside is a whole cabinet of high-heeled shoes and high-heeled boots, in various colors, and almost all of them have stiletto heels of more than five centimeters, a dazzling array. Ryan smiled and shook his head: "It's the same as before, she especially likes to wear this kind of stiletto heels. Not only do I like high heels, but she also feels that they help her build confidence and show off her beauty.”

There was a large husky doll in the corner of the office. Ryan walked over and picked up the plush husky doll made of real wolf skin: "Oh, it was my first gift. She also accepted it." Well, when I took her back to the Norman Castle of Auternag for the Winter Festival for the first time, we sat in front of the fireplace and ate apple pie made by my mother. When she saw this doll, she insisted that I give it to her."

"Your Majesty the Duke?" Catherine's voice came from outside the door. Ryan put down the doll when he saw it, but after seeing the witch's dress, Ryan only felt the veins on his head twitching.

In just ten minutes, Catherine took off her fiery red robe and replaced her long witch skirt with a 20-centimeter red plaid pleated skirt above the knees, paired with thick black pantyhose and Wearing brown leather boots, a white blouse with a red bow tie at the collar, Catherine, who is already an official witch, couldn't help her expectant gaze: "Well, Your Excellency, the tutor may not be so fast, do you want... …Let’s take a rest in the office first?”

"..." Ryan squinted, thinking that if Veronica found out about you like this, she wouldn't know how you would die.

"Um... Your Excellency the Duke?" Catherine couldn't help but feel secretly happy when she saw Ryan staring at her. She tentatively said: "If you have no objection, I can sit with you for a while..."

"No, no need, just tell me the specific method and time." Ryan waved his hand: "Go and do your business."

"...Yes." Catherine couldn't help but be disappointed. She slowly handed over the matter to Ryan, and then stepped back. Seeing that Ryan never said anything to stop her, she had no choice but to close the door and go out.

Ryan sighed, he knew how popular he was, but he was now very content with the status quo.

Catherine told Ryan how to go upstairs and how to open Veronica's room. Upon seeing this, Ryan immediately went upstairs. The wizard tower on the eighth floor is Veronica's private magic workshop and a place to practice magic.

Now, the heavy metal door made with the dwarf's magic-forbidden runes is firmly closed. According to Catherine, after Veronica retreats, the door cannot be opened from the outside, but can only be opened from the inside.

Obviously, Veronica's plan is not to give up until she breaks through the sanctuary.

Ryan checked the door. There were no signs of damage. Due to the influence of the dwarf's magic-forbidden rune, he couldn't feel how Veronica's magic power was now. Is she close to success or might she fail? What about Ryan? He couldn't even feel it. Thinking that Veronica was inside, Ryan couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

What happened? I have been in retreat for almost a year and there is no news at all.

After thinking for a while, Ryan decided to reach out and knock gently on the door: "Veronica? Honey?"

"Dear? I'm here to see you." Ryan gently knocked on the door a few times again.

There was no reaction in the room.

"Damn, what's going on?" Ryan wanted to reach out and knock on the door hard, but he was afraid that Veronica would be interrupted when she was concentrating and get backlash. The man paced repeatedly at the door, feeling uneasy. A sense of irritability and powerlessness arose in Ryan's heart. He looked at the closed door and stamped his feet, feeling that the whole thing was strange.

After waiting in place for more than half an hour and seeing no movement inside, Ryan finally couldn't help it anymore. He moved his eyes to a position on the forbidden magic rune door. There was a small window above this position. Catherine gave With the Lane key in hand, Veronica allowed Catherine to open the small window only in the most urgent of circumstances.

Ryan hesitated for a few minutes holding the key, and finally decided to use the key to open the small window: "Veronica?"

Looking into the house through the small window, it is simply a purgatory formed by flames and light. Hundreds of magical energy are flying around in disorder, bouncing on the walls, and the too bright light and The scorching temperature forced Ryan to retract his head as soon as he got closer. The chosen champion of the Fairy of the Lake took a few seconds to adapt to the high temperature and bright light, and he looked intently into the house again.

Veronica's figure was looming among the flames and light.

"Veronica? Can you hear me?" Ryan shouted inside again, but Veronica seemed to be immersed in the arcane way. She didn't respond at all. She closed her eyes as if she was meditating.

Ryan shouted several times, but there was still no response. The Duke was a little disappointed. It seemed that this time he was in vain.

But just when Ryan was about to reach out to close the small window and turn around to leave, something happened suddenly!

A hurricane-like airflow exploded out of the gap in the small window. The forbidden magic rune door opened instantly, and the oncoming explosion shock wave blew the unprepared Ryan completely away, directly hitting the wall of the wizard tower. , too much flame magic and light magic seemed to go crazy, flying around with the wind, devouring everything unscrupulously, and burning the entire environment outside the house to black!

"Boom!" Ryan's whole body hit the wall like a cannonball, and then fell directly to the ground. The burning pain and the feeling of his internal organs being displaced made him cry out in pain. Fortunately, his physical fitness was amazing, and he exerted all his strength. Taking a breath, Ryan immediately stood up and pulled out the Nemesis: "Veronica! It's me, what's going on?!"

"L...en?" Veronica's extremely tired voice came from the ruins of the training room: "Is it you...out there?"

"Yes, it's me!" When Ryan heard Veronica's voice, he immediately put away the Nemesis and cautiously approached the room with black smoke: "I'm here, dear, what's wrong?"

"I... lost... and almost... couldn't come back." Veronica looked extremely weak. She was lying on the ground, her hair was messy, and her dress was full of damage and burnt marks: " It’s the evil god, the evil web of fate weaved by the Great Demon of Tzeentch that disrupted my perception, and my soul has been trapped in the void for several months.”

"Damn! I knew it!" Ryan ran quickly and picked up Veronica: "Damn Tzeentch! I will make him pay the price!"

"I succeeded, Ryan. At the most critical moment, I heard...heard your voice, I heard you calling my name." Veronica leaned weakly on Ryan: "I felt When we arrived, that matrix of light points of order, I knew it was you. When you came, I found the direction to leave."

"I succeeded, Ryan, I advanced to the Holy Realm!"

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