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Chapter 1 The Kingdom of the Mage, Bout

The place where ice and fire blends together is a wonder of the Yara world. It is one of the places that travelers want to visit most in the past seven hundred years. The place where ice and fire blends together is located at the junction of the permafrost ice field and the country of the wizard. It is a narrow corridor with a width of less than 500 meters. Here, on one side is a hard ice that never melts for thousands of years, and on the other side is a hot place where you only need to wear a single piece of clothing even in winter. The distance between the two sides is less than 500 meters. Just in this area of ​​500 meters, you can see it in more than 30 degrees.

Icicles that are still frozen in the high temperature can also be seen growing in hot places, lush branches and leaves stretching to dense plants on the cold ice fields. Strong tourists can even enjoy the scorching sun above their heads and lying on the cold ice with sunglasses to sunbathe. The cold and heat collide in the human body, giving people a very strange enjoyment. Most people cannot get used to it at the beginning, but once they get used to this pleasure, they will be completely conquered by it and will always want to try again.

I don’t know how many thousands of years the existence of the land of ice and fire blending has existed, but since the Fourth Age, it has only become a tourist destination in the past seven hundred years. Because it is located in the territory of Bute, the ancient and mysterious country of wizards. Seven hundred years ago, Bute was still in a self-enclosed environment, and few ordinary people dared to enter Bute at will. In the consciousness of ordinary people, Bute is a strange and dangerous legendary land.

Since the end of the Third Age, the school of Necromancers who are good at the Necromancers and Minds disappeared, there are about three mainstream mages in the Yara world at this stage. One is from the Elf Forest, good at illusion and variation spells. The representative building is a tree tower produced by spells. This is a vital plant mage tower. The mages of this genre are called forest mages. The second one comes from the area contained in the current Neville territory and is also the original location of the mage guild. These mages are mainly good at prophecy and protection spells, and are especially good at potions making and magic array inscribed. Because this area is located on the plains, it is vast. Therefore, these mages like to use the mage tower within a large range.

A building complex was built in a tiled way. Because their aesthetic views like dome buildings, buildings belonging to the mage tower would be built into domes. Therefore, people call them dome mages. The last genre is the mages from Butt, the ancient mage country. They are good at energy-shaping and spelling spells. The representative buildings are floating islands that relies on the energy-raised in the sky and the towering spire mage towers built on the floating islands. These mages are called tower mages. Because they mainly study energy-shaping and spelling spells, most of them become irritable because of their specialty problems. In addition, due to their specialization, the mages prefer to use simple and crude spells to solve battles, so they are also called combat mages.

Due to the special geographical environment of the Kingdom of Mages and the numerous energy nodes of the earth, dozens of floating islands are floating above the Butt Plateau. Each floating island is not only a magic tower, but a fortress for battle. The owner of each floating island is at least a golden rank or even the top master on it. These wizards are called the wizard lords, who control the land of the wizard lords of the wizard lords. The highest authority of the wizard lords is called the wizard lords, and the wizard lords are composed of all wizard lords, and the direction of the entire wizard lords is determined by negotiation and voting.

In the early stage of the Fourth Age, the three-type mages were closed and rarely communicated. After all, the pain of the war between the gods had not yet passed, and hatred still ate the hearts of every participant. However, due to various reasons, it was impossible to re-explode a large-scale war, so everyone simply chose to act as if the other party did not exist. Until the Fourth Age 1686, the last forest mage who participated in the war between the gods also reached the end of his life. There was no one among the forest mages who had participated in the war between the gods. Even if the second generation of forest mages were still affected by hatred because of the education of their elders,

But the new third-generation mage had almost forgotten the tragic war that had been forgotten. So Anthony, the name that was remembered by later mages. This mage, who was like a milestone in history, was the first to step out of closure and extend a hand of friendship to the mages of the other two factions. With his efforts, the three-type mages came back again, communicating and integrating with each other. They were originally erudites and quickly absorbed the knowledge of other factions, grew and grew rapidly, and soon learned the advantages of others on the basis of maintaining their respective characteristics, and made surprising developments.

For example, the mage tower, after communication, the mages of the other two schools recognized that the structure of the mage tower is more suitable for mages and is more conducive to the progress of battle. Therefore, a large number of dome mages and forest mages combined with the technology of the tower mages to build their respective mage towers. The tower mages also recognized the creativity of the dome mages' building complex with the full balance of offense and defense functions, and added many auxiliary buildings on their respective floating islands. There are many similar situations. In short, the mages entered a state of healthy development through mutual learning. By the time the first mage exchange meeting was held in 2548, although the three major schools still had obvious differences, they had undergone considerable changes and became quite familiar with each other.

However, this is only between mages. In the eyes of other professions and ordinary people, the country of mages is still a mysterious world, which is inseparable from the origin of the tower mages. At the end of the Third Age, there was a group of mages standing among the strong. They diluted their faith due to their fanatical desire to explore knowledge. These mages ignored the camp, ignored good and evil, and fought just to explore new knowledge. They hated the wars that affected their research, so they made an appointment to leave their own country and camp, forcibly occupy a territory on the current Butt Plateau, ignored the melee outside, and re-entered the research behind closed doors. In order to maintain their mastery of this plateau, mages ruled the civilians with their strength and mystery.

In the eyes of ordinary people, these mages are as mysterious and powerful as gods. Therefore, the tower mages are even more arrogant among the mages. They are used to looking down on creatures with a condescending attitude. Every new tower mage who grew up from the bottom receives such education. They naturally believe that becoming mages can look down on ordinary ordinary people and other professions. Arrogance has become an instinct engraved in their souls, and maintaining their own mystery has become a natural choice. It is precisely because of their habits that in the eyes of outsiders, Butt is full of mystery and unknowns, which makes ordinary people dare not enter at will. The professions are better, but most people also try to minimize the number of times they enter Butt.

Until more than 700 years ago, with the development of the world, cooperation between all ethnic groups and countries became more and more frequent. Even an ancient and closed country like Bute had to follow the trend and open its doors to the outside world. Only in this way did people from the outside gradually understand Bute, and more and more travelers and business travelers worked hard to climb the plateau and exchanged with the business travelers and mage lords in the country of the wizard. It was from this time that more tourists in the place where ice and fire merged gradually increased.

After all, the number of tourists I have been doing is only compared to the past. After all, this place belongs to the But Plateau, the highest terrain in Yala, and is also the easternmost area of ​​the mainland. There are only a few people who can or are willing to come here every year. There are only 50,000 or 60,000 people who come here to visit on average, and on average, there are only about ten people a day. Of course, it is not really that average. In the peak season, it may receive fifty or sixty people a day. It is normal for a short season like midsummer to not have a single tourist for a few days.

Today's place of ice and fire blending is still the same as before. The temperature of the Butt Plateau in spring is not very hot, only less than 30 degrees. This is already a very normal temperature for the Butt Plateau, so the number of tourists is also normal. As the town of Barro, the closest place to the place of ice and fire blending, no, it should be renamed Barro City. In this small city of Barro, more than 20 tourists were received. However, since the weather is not very good today, the unique rainstorm in spring may come at any time, so tourists can only stay in the hotel lounge and spend time unlucky in the hotel lounge, and look out from the window facing the hotel gate and city gate to see which unlucky guys have changed their itinerary by being forced to get closer and closer rain. As soon as they entered the city, they could only stay in the hotel first and complain with them about the damn weather.

Just when several men were bored that the following group of people who stayed in hotels were singular or even, a team of people wearing weird clothes appeared in their sight. It was a small team of one man and five women. Everyone was wearing very thick clothes and holding a few coats and coats. Such outfits would definitely be hot and sweaty in the temperature of Barrow. These people must have felt very uncomfortable, but the remaining clothes on their bodies were not convenient to put on and take off in public, so they could only rush to find a hotel where they could stay so that they could change into this inappropriate outfit.

"This group of people is so interesting." A few boring men said with a smile: "Are they going to the Ice Field in this outfit? No one must have told them that if they go to the place where ice and fire melts, even if the ice does not melt, they still have to wear as little as possible, otherwise they will suffer, hahahaha."

"It is better for all guests not to laugh at them in person." After all, the waiter at the hotel has seen too many people and is very clear about the meaning of such outfits. He whispered: "These people are probably high-level adventurers who have just returned from the ice field. Being able to venture in the ice field and return safely in the end means that I don't need to explain what I want."
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