Chapter 22 – I’m being wool-gathered?
Chapter 22 – I’ve been wool-gathered?
“This is the theory of the activity of magic elements, do you understand?”
In the middle of the carriage, Emily rubbed her swollen head and shook her head helplessly.
These magic theories that Wright spoke about were completely different from what she had learned since she was a child. It would not be too much to describe it as deviant.
Wright couldn’t help but sigh when he saw this, ”To put it more plainly, there is also a difference between active and inert magical elements.
This is something you can understand, right?
There are fire elements around us, and they don’t spontaneously combust without fire. We have the water element, but we don’t have wet clothes.
That’s because the element of magic, in its natural state, is inert.
Including the magic power within a magician’s body, it is also inert. Otherwise, wasn’t there always a flame burning inside a fire magician?
When we release magic, through the empowerment of spiritual power, it is transformed from inert to active, which in turn stimulates the magic effect.
Why is it that the same Primordial Magic Fireball Spell has a different power when cast by a Holy Order Magician and a Trainee Magician?
That’s because a Holy Order Magician’s spiritual power is stronger, so the elements that make up the magic are more active.
Understand?”
Emily nodded and shook her head again.
Wright sighed, “Take your time to figure it out, it’s not something that can be done overnight. After you’ve mastered the magic element activity, you’ll even be able to manipulate the non-calibrated magic elements in the outside world.”
“Freely manipulating magical elements outside the body, isn’t that a realm that can only be reached by a Legendary Archmage?”
“A different path!”
Emily paralyzed in despair in the carriage, losing the high light in her eyes.
“Where’s the shortcut to getting stronger?”
“But you’re a paladin, why is it that you can draw on the blood element as well?”
Wright spread his hands, “Then that brings us to, Elemental Mimicry Theory, Elemental Displacement Theory, and Elemental Ascension Theory ……”
“Okay..! I was wrong! Forget I asked!”
Emily plugged her ears, feeling like her head was going to explode if she continued to listen.
“That’s because you just don’t have the right foundation!”
Wright shook his head and reached over to lift the curtains of the carriage, “Kelster, are we there yet?”
“Your Highness, the Holy City is just ahead!”
“Is it?”
Wright poked his head out of the window, “Wrong way to go, isn’t it, isn’t this heading towards the north gate?”
“Yeah, to the north gate.”
“Nonsense! Why don’t you just go dang near the main east gate?”
“Because the main gate …… ah! Look at my brain! Go through the front door! You have to go through the front door!”
The Knight Commander gave an order, and the caravan immediately turned around and headed towards the main gate in the east. He, on the other hand, dismounted and trotted all the way to the side of the carriage.
“Your Highness, have you finally dispelled your anger?”
“What, what dispirited?”
“Huh? You’re going to use the main gate, doesn’t that mean you’re going to lift the seal?”
Wright’s head was full of questions, “Seal, what seal. Is there a seal on the main gate on the east side of the Holy Capital?”
“There is. ……”
“Nonsense! Simply nonsense!”
Wright exasperatedly slapped the window of the carriage, “The Holy Advent Ceremony is approaching, and believers from all over the world are going to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Capital! The main east gate is surprisingly sealed!
What are you thinking? What were those winebags at the Holy Temple thinking? What do you think you’re doing at the Inquisition?
Where is the majesty of the Holy See? Where is the majesty of the Holy Light?”
“Yes yes yes …… you are right!”
“When was this seal set? And who did it?”
The Knight Commander smiled awkwardly, “Three years ago, when you left …… set it.”
The air, all of a sudden, was quiet, only the wheels were constantly turning. Wright then felt the expression on his face stiffen a little, “It …… was? How come I don’t remember?”
“You forgot that three years ago when you left the Holy Capital through the main east gate, you backhandedly nailed your holy weapon in front of the gate in a fit of anger.
After you left, the entire gate was wrapped in the power of the holy weapon. No one could get out or in.
In the end, there was no other way out, so the Holy Temple gave the order to expand the northern gate as the main entrance and exit passage.”
The corner of Wright’s mouth twitched in embarrassment, “Oh …… that sword of mine right! It seems like there’s such a thing ……
But I didn’t put a seal on it! Why don’t you guys find someone and pull it away?
And open a north gate, laboring!”
Knight Commander Kelster laughed dryly, “If I could pull it off, wouldn’t I have pulled it off already?”
When Leite thought about it, he was right, apart from himself, the only people in the entire Holy Capital who could pull it off were his two teachers.
The two of them …… estimated that they couldn t wait for those guys in the Holy Temple to eat a defeat, and they definitely would not take the initiative to pluck.
But staying for three years is equivalent to hitting the face for three years.
The two old men, don t look old, are still as careful as ever.
The Knight Commander scratched his head with some embarrassment, “I’m ashamed to say that I even went to the main east gate to draw my sword.”
“What did you go to mess up?”
“You don’t know, do you, but now that place has become an attraction!”
“What?”
“Almost all the clerics will go and try to draw it! Newly joined trainee paladins will also take the act of drawing a sword, as a sacred ritual!
Because those who are not strong-minded will be rejected by the holy weapon. The act of going to the Eastern Main Gate to draw a sword has become a part of selecting people.”
Wright rubbed his temples, “It’s so weird, and I can’t say what’s weird about it, but it’s definitely not right!”
The Knight Commander sighed, “After Your Highness took back the Holy Weapon, although the East Gate was able to reopen. But the Paladin’s military expenses will be missing an important income!”
“Wait wait wait, what does this have to do with the Paladin’s military expenses?”
“Pull it once, one hundred silver drones!”
Wright felt his ears ringing, “One hundred silver …… isn’t this a robbery? All of this money has gone to the paladin’s military expenses?”
“No, the Paladin’s military expenses and the Pope’s private cabinet are split 70/30.”
“…… I said teacher how the two of them are not willing to pull out the holy weapon! I thought it was a grievance for me, overestimating them.”
Between words, the caravan had arrived outside the main east gate. Wright probed to see a long line that stretched from the gate to a small hill in the distance.
“It’s during the pilgrimage, there are more people. Normally, there are about half as many.”
Wright smashed his mouth, that’s a hundred silver drones for one person!
It would only take a few seconds for a person to try and pull the holy weapon.
Looking at this situation, there were several thousand people every day. That’s hundreds of thousands of silver drones in one day.
“Tsk, it’s going to not count. Let’s wait for the Holy Proclamation Ceremony to pass, then we’ll pull out the Holy Weapon and forget about it. This money, it’s not worth it if we don’t earn it!”
Wright rubbed his chin, the abacus beads in his heart snapping.
“But, gotta get the income back! Good guy, these people woolgathering, woolgathering Road to my head? They have been woolgathering for three years! How can this be tolerated!”
Just as Wright was contemplating how to ask the two old men for the money, noises came from outside.
“Kelster, what’s the situation outside?”
“Your Highness, it’s not good! The paladin who is looking after the holy weapon stalls is arguing with the Protestants! It looks like they’re going to fight!”
Wright slapped his thigh, “Outrageous! In such a sacred place as the main east gate, in front of so many pious believers, they are fighting and brawling!
I must! Strike with justice!”
Emily, who hadn’t said anything in the carriage, sneered, “Oh, you’re afraid of delaying your money making, right?”
(End of chapter)