Age of Adepts

Ruijing Garden, Floating City.

The situation has become increasingly dire.

The news from the north proves that the floating city of Light of Truth has been attacked by star beasts.

Although relying on a clone of the Arcane Emperor to deal with the enemies there, the scattered invaders still brought all kinds of unimaginable disasters and losses to the Arcane Empire.

One by one, remote villages and cities fell one after another, and one after another human settlements were slaughtered and burned. There was not much time left for the Morian plane.

The upper layers of the Arcane Empire are naturally aware of the disasters facing the Morian plane, but when the news reaches the middle layers, the relevant content becomes much simpler and cruder. And when the news reached ordinary arcanists, the information was already so blurred that it was hard to tell the truth from the fake.

As for the ordinary people at the bottom of the plane, they are all abandoned objects, so it is naturally impossible to know what kind of disaster is about to befall them.

The large-scale selection of arcane apprentices happened so abruptly.

It's not yet time for the selection of arcane apprentices, but the floating cities located in various places have issued mandatory orders to select outstanding arcane apprentices and send them to the floating cities for backup.

A large number of outstanding and talented children were selected and sent to the floating city one after another, and this city, which was facing a huge danger of war, was rejuvenated due to the injection of a large amount of blood.

The Empire is retreating... The news is no longer a secret, but a matter of intense discussion among all Arcanists and apprentices.

Most of the arcanists were naturally included in the retreat list, but the list of arcane apprentices was relatively small.

Ruijing Garden Floating Void City is the arcane center of Rui'an Province in the Kentos mainland. The number of arcane apprentices living, studying and researching here is as high as 30,000. In addition to the newly selected little guys, the number is approaching. 50000.

According to authoritative information circulated internally, the maximum number of apprentices that the Arcane Empire can transfer away is 4,000.

After all, the entire Arcane Empire has seven continents, more than twenty provinces, and seventy-six floating cities. Even if only 4,000 people are selected for each floating city, that is a huge number of nearly 300,000.

What's more, in addition to the future new blood of arcane apprentices, each floating city also needs to transfer a large number of arcanists, arcane equipment, various precision instruments and equipment, plus a huge amount of resources and materials, as well as various A living material.

To be honest, even the quota of 4,000 arcane apprentices was squeezed out after the upper echelons of the Arcane Empire gritted their teeth and abandoned a group of arcanists who had no potential for development.

It's just that those at the bottom will never understand the good intentions of the upper class, and they are still only obsessed with simple comparisons of numbers.

50,000 vs 4,000...

What a huge disparity between the two figures!

If the units behind them were gold coins, the huge disparity would be enough to be secretly amazed. But if the unit behind them is human life, the value embedded in it is so huge that it is difficult to estimate it in detail.

These days, people in Ruijing Garden Floating Void City are in a state of panic. All arcanists are busy with resource transfer and material scheduling, and most arcane institutions and facilities are facing suspension and abolition. Those arcane apprentices who were at a loss, either went around to find out about the withdrawal list, or knew that they had no hope of getting into the list of 4,000 people, so they could only pack their bags sadly and prepare to return to their hometown and hometown.

Although it is difficult for them to understand the current situation of the battle, it is difficult to know the dynamics of the high-level, but the difficulty of the situation in front of them is obvious to all.

There have been six or seven terrifying incidents of foreign invaders openly attacking the Floating Void City in the Arcane Empire. Although most of the attacks were repelled and the invaders were eliminated, there were still two floating cities that became sacrifices of war and fell into the sky amidst the wailing of the crowd.

The fall of the floating city... Such a thing has almost never happened in the development history of the arcane empire in the past ten thousand years, so the blow to the confidence of the arcane people is particularly severe.

The floating city is no longer a sky garden that never falls, nor is it an arcane fortress that is absolutely safe in the hearts of the arcane people. Numerous news from all over the world also indicated that most of the invading monsters took large cities and floating cities as their final targets.

Therefore, in this situation where the Arcane Empire is on the decline, staying in the floating city will not feel safe, but it will be even more worrying.

Many arcane families who are not qualified to board the retreating fleet can only find another way, and build some shelters in some of the most desolate and hidden places on each continent, preparing for the coming arcane twilight.

Therefore, those arcane apprentices who were not included in the list of 4,000 people were anxious to rush back to the family as soon as possible, and strive to occupy some better positions for themselves and their relatives in those safe fortresses. And in order to strengthen the family's momentum and seek a greater right to survive, they are also trying their best to win over some helpless high-level apprentices.

And Lucia, as a great beauty who has the title of senior apprentice in both alchemy and puppet refining, naturally received the most olive branches. It's a pity that Lucia was unmoved, and simply rejected everyone, and continued to shuttle between the arcane research room, library, and arcane academy as usual.

On this day, Lucia walked hurriedly on the familiar moonlight path with a thick stack of arcane tomes in her arms, surrounded by apprentices in a hurry. There is no smile on everyone's face, and there are no leisurely and relaxing young figures beside the soft sandy beach and beautiful fountain. The whole floating city seems to be trapped in a kind of low pressure, depressing and painful.

Lucia walked silently with her head down.

It wasn't until she saw the corner of a familiar cloth robe and a pair of exquisite arcane leather boots that she stopped in surprise and raised her head.

What appeared in front of his eyes was the heroic, handsome and handsome young apprentice Sauron.

And he frowned, his face was haggard, and he looked like he was tortured by his mind.

"Sauron, you... haven't left yet?" Lucia covered her mouth in surprise.

Seeing Lucia's pretty and bright eyes, Sauron opened his withered mouth a few times, and finally spoke.

"My grandpa has decided to evacuate today..."

"Congratulations! I will bless you..." Lucia showed a sincere smile on her face.

Sauron carefully inspected Lucia's face with painful eyes, but he couldn't find any falsehood or pretense in the other party's smile.

"Grandpa has already urged me to leave...I just want to ask you one last time, are you...really unwilling to go with me?"

Lucia slowly put away her smile, and shook her head solemnly again.

"Lucia...I...I take back what I said earlier, I will not use this quota to force you to do anything anymore. You...you are free...you come with me, I will not force you anymore Do whatever you don't want, just ask you to come with me... okay?" Sauron said with difficulty, the expression on his face twisted in pain, it was obvious that he made a big decision determination.

Lucia was startled at first, and then a beautiful smile slowly bloomed on her face.

She took a step forward, cupped Sauron's face, and offered her first kiss willingly.

However, just when Sauron was overwhelmed with surprise and wanted to hug her, Lucia suddenly took a step back and got out of his embrace.

"Sauron, let's go!" Lucia's face was still bright red from the kiss just now, full of stunning brilliance: "This kiss is our farewell gift. We may never see each other again, So... I hope you can leave without worries, and continue to work hard for the future of the empire and the inheritance of the arcane civilization!"

"No... Lucia, I... I can't leave you here!" Falling from the peak of joy into the deep valley, Sauron obviously couldn't accept the reality before him, and his voice was almost hoarse.

"I won't leave!" Lucia's face faded from embarrassment, but because of the strange look in her eyes, she cast another layer of sacred light: "My life belongs to the arcane! Even the next moment I will face death, and I will not stop my footsteps. This... is the oath I made when I was elected as an arcane apprentice, and it is also the belief I have pursued throughout my life. Therefore, even without this disaster, we are destined not to be together ! I hope you can understand what I mean..."

Sauron looked painful and sad.

After a long time, he finally gave way to the Arcane Academy.

Lucia stared at him deeply, and hurriedly embarked on the journey again.

Looking at that pretty and resolute figure, and feeling his heart as if cut by a knife, Sauron finally shed tears.

At some point, an old-faced arcanist figure appeared beside Sauron. He also silently looked at the direction where Lucia disappeared, his eyes full of silence and pain that could not be concealed.

"She is a good girl...Unfortunately, she doesn't belong to you!" The old man said indifferently: "If I were as carefree as her, maybe I would make the same choice as her. It's a pity... ..."

After lowering his head and pondering to adjust his mentality, the old man raised his head again.

"Let's go, Sauron! There is no hope here... The task of rebuilding a new arcane empire in another world is not easy. Your future is not here, but far away. The glory of the arcane, the glory of the family, we You are already old, and you can only pass on and carry forward these things. Therefore, cheer up, grit your teeth, and live strong for the sake of the Arcane Empire and the Jonas family!"

Sauron's body trembled slightly.

After a long time, he finally wiped away his tears, turned to face his grandfather, nodded and said, "I understand... let's go, grandpa..."

Then, in a sudden flash of white light, the two of them disappeared abruptly.