Chapter 279 Divination Spell

Because of the influx of a large number of people into Harland Territory, five elementary schools have been expanded this year. With the enrollment of a large number of students, thousands of school-age children have undergone magic qualification tests in the past ten years. In the past two years, a total of eleven children with magic qualifications have been detected.

Now the total population of Harland Territory is more than 500,000, and there should be more than 5,000 people who can meditate. Unfortunately, the Harland Territory Mage Association, including the reserve members, has less than 100 people in total. More than 98% of the talents have no chance to practice meditation, and the pearl is covered in dust.

However, given the reality of Harland Territory, there is no ability to test the qualifications of all the population, and there are no educational resources for them to practice meditation. Harland Territory now has only one magic crystal ball. Only Sofia, Wendy, and Richard, three intermediate magicians, can use the magic crystal ball to test qualifications. Only the newly enrolled children have the opportunity to be tested every year, and the number is less than 1,000.

A mid-level magician can test 50 to 60 people a day using the crystal ball. A thousand children need Sofia and the other two to take turns to be busy for seven or eight days to complete the qualification test. As more and more students enter the school, the pressure of this work will become more and more serious.

Among these eleven children, there is an apprentice with medium qualifications, Dilson. Apprentices with medium qualifications grow up step by step, and can basically be promoted to four-ring magicians before the age of forty, becoming the backbone of a magic organization.

In the years since the establishment of the Harland Territory Mage Association, only three medium-qualified talents, Annie, Barryka, and Dilson, have been discovered. Together with Butler, Richard, Wendy, and Sophia, there are only seven people with relatively good qualifications.

According to the statistics of the Harland Territory, the population with magic qualifications is less than 1% of the total population, and the probability of the appearance of apprentices with medium qualifications is about 1/1000. For apprentices with high qualifications, the Harland Territory has tested thousands of children, and the probability is still zero.

Zooming in to the entire Grant Kingdom, the high-qualified magicians that Richard has seen are only a few people, such as Senna Walton, the Archbishop of the Dawn Church of the Grant Kingdom, and Pansy Grant, the president of the Grant Mage Association.

On the contrary, in the Harland Territory, Sophia and Butler actually have high qualifications. Even Richard and Wendy, brother and sister, have only close to high talents in magic.

Wendy's magic resistance is average, and Richard does not have a very good elemental affinity because of his shortcomings in talent. The qualifications of the brother and sister are slightly worse than the high magic talent, but a few points higher than the average medium talent.

After the third wave of plague ended, the high-level priests of the Dawn Church entered the Harland Territory to investigate the cause of the epidemic.

In addition to Richard's acquaintance Deng Lejin, the investigation team sent by the Dawn Church also has two high-level magicians.

"Count Richard, you have met Sanchez. He is an old friend who blocked the plane channel together. Delian is from the headquarters and is good at using divination spells."

"Dear friend, we haven't seen each other for nine years." Richard shook hands with Sanchez enthusiastically, then opened his arms and hugged Delian.

"Welcome Mr. Delian to Harland. If there is anything we cannot take care of, please forgive us for our poor hospitality."

Delian looked rather reserved and didn't say much. He exchanged a few pleasantries with Richard and went straight to the point: "Your Excellency the Earl is too polite. I heard that the magicians under the Earl's command have isolated the plague virus. I need to use divination magic on the virus to trace the source of the plague virus."

Richard has also come into contact with people with Delian's personality. This kind of people are not good at socializing and don't care much about the ways of the world. This type of people is not stupid, but they focus on the research of science and magic and don't like to bow to the secular world.

Delian looks to be in his early forties. He is already a seven-ring magician and a rising star in the headquarters of the Dawn Church.

Richard doesn't like people who flatter. The experience of the past and present lives, adding up to more than sixty years of experience, has given Richard enough life experience. When he debuted, he was considered worldly-wise. Seeing that the people from the Dawn Church went straight to the point, Richard nodded immediately and said, "Please follow me. The first generation of viruses is stored in the Bacteria and Virus Research Institute.

Through the research of medical workers, we found that the plague virus has been iterated for three generations this year. Now the first generation of viruses is no longer popular and basically no longer exists in the outside world. However, because our territory has some research materials of the necromancers, we have used magic to preserve the virus. According to common sense, the first generation of viruses is closest to the source. If we use divination spells, we should be able to obtain more information."

Richard took Deng Lejin and the other two to the heavily guarded Bacteria and Virus Research Institute.

Studying bacteria and viruses is a very dangerous thing. If you are not careful, it will leak. The leakage of plague viruses will definitely cause serious accidents. Therefore, the Bacteria and Virus Research Institute was not established in a densely populated area, but in the north of the swamp basin, where there are basically no people nearby.

The headquarters of the Harland Mage Association was established in the swamp basin, and the Virus Research Institute was placed in the north of the swamp basin, more than ten kilometers away from the Mage Tower, which is convenient for magicians to conduct research.

The Bacteria and Virus Research Institute was built on the mountainside. Almost all the houses in the institute were built with huge stones. They looked very solid and had a strict isolation system set up inside. Strict disinfection was required for entering and leaving the institute. Not only alcohol spray disinfection, but also magic was used to kill viruses.

The periphery of the Bacteria and Virus Research Institute was guarded by the military controlled by the intelligence department, and outsiders were prohibited from entering.

Richard took the pastor of the Dawn Church into the virus research institute, and Sophia happened to be studying the virus with the doctors and magicians from the Harland territory.

Harland Territory has a deep foundation in researching plague viruses. The Mage Association has mastered a large amount of human experiment data on necromancers. Heath, Butler and others are from the Tower of Death, the necromancer organization, and know some knowledge about how necromancers create viruses. Combined with the biological knowledge that Richard had mastered in his previous life, and the high-power microscope created by Harland Territory, viruses can be observed and studied intuitively.

In the understanding of bacteria and viruses, Haaland's territory is already far ahead.

Through research on the plague virus, Harland Territory is already developing drugs to treat the plague. By purifying, extracting, and boiling various herbal juices and giving them to patients, doctors found that castor extract was the most effective and could treat patients with mild symptoms.

As for seriously ill patients, they can only rely on magic.

Eliminating Plague is a spell that is very effective against bacteria and viruses. Using this magic, you can treat various viruses such as plague, smallpox, influenza, and cholera.

Using this spell to treat this plague has a very good effect. Although the effect of Richard's improved plague treatment technique is not as good as eliminating the plague, it can still kill a large number of viruses in the patient's body. When combined with the spell to increase vitality, it can also treat seriously ill patients.

The virus circulating this time is a magically modified malaria virus, which is mainly spread through contact. Mosquito bites are also a key factor in virus transmission.

After discovering the transmission route of the virus, the Haaland Territory immediately took countermeasures, using a large number of mosquito coils, mosquito nets, filling puddles and other methods to reduce the probability of mosquito bites. With the correct response methods, the Haaland Territory An important factor in blocking the impact of the third plague.

"The third-generation virus has enhanced its transmissibility and weakened its toxicity. Through our observation and comparison of more than a hundred patients, we have found that using castor extract, 96% of the patients can be treated, and the remaining 96% can be treated. Four require the use of healing spells.”

Listening to the researcher's report, Sophia made a decisive decision: "Do we have enough castor grass in reserve?"

Castor is a common herbal medicine that has some analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects. It has been six years since this herb was discovered in the Haaland territory, but its efficacy is not particularly outstanding and it has not been planted in large quantities, so the reserve quantity is naturally not enough.

Sophia turned her head and saw the embarrassment on Adrian's face, and immediately understood the reason.

"If you ask people to print castor patterns in large quantities, I will arrange for the spare labor force to dig castor in the wild, and then ask the winery to provide high-altitude liquor and manufacture large quantities of medicine to treat the plague. Since castor extract has the effect of killing viruses, Next year, the planting area should be expanded, and the hospital should also deploy manpower to study the efficacy of castor extract to see if this drug can treat other diseases and restrain several viruses. "

Upon discovering that Richard had brought outsiders to the Institute of Bacteria and Viruses, Sophia immediately stopped and waved away several researchers around her.

Seeing Sophia looking at him with confusion, Richard suddenly understood and introduced several pastors of Dawn Church to Sophia.

"Bishop Denglerkin, you have met before. This gentleman's name is Sanchez, who is the bishop of Nolan Diocese. This friend's name is Delian, who comes from the headquarters of the Church of the Dawn and is proficient in divination. Mr. Delian came here, I just want to do a divination to trace the origin of the first-generation virus.”

Although Sophia once studied magic at the Markholm Magic Kingdom and her knowledge was far beyond that of Richard and Wendy, there was no magician in the Mage Tower where she was who knew how to divine spells.

Divination magic, prophecy magic, and astrology magic are all easy to learn but difficult to master. This kind of magic explores the mystery of cause and effect through the connection between the micro and the macro, and infers future misfortunes and blessings through spiritual contact with special items.

After hearing that Delian was proficient in divination, Sophia suddenly became very interested and wanted to see with her own eyes how the magician performed divination.

Delian is very talented in divination magic. He improved a kind of divination magic and created the seven-ring divination spell of tracing its origins.

This kind of spell has particularly high requirements on the divination medium, and it must be a magical creation. Then analyze the structure of the magical creation and you can trace it back to the source.

Delian carefully observed the first-generation magic virus. His mental power was continuously released, and in an instant it turned into a mental barrier. Then he activated the magic runes and released the seven-ring magic to trace its origin.

In an instant, countless pictures appeared in Delian's mind. Delian mobilized his mental power to delete the useless pictures, then picked up paper and pen and began to draw simple maps.

Looking at the picture on the map, Richard's face suddenly became solemn. He turned to Denglerkin and asked: "It looks like it is in the Earl of Martins, upstream of the Kaiya River."

The Earl of Downey Martins is located in the northwest of Gascoigne Province. Richard led his men to attack the Viscount of Cisse and once passed through the upper reaches of the Kea River. His memory is very good, even after a long time, he suddenly recognized a map showing the upper reaches of the Kea River.

Denglerkin has been preaching in the northern border areas of the Grant Kingdom and is very familiar with the terrain of the northern provinces. More than 20 years ago, Denglerkin also served as the bishop of the Flame Castle area and led a team to explore the source of the Kea River.

"It's in the Earl of Martins, in the west of the Eagle Mountains and at the source of the Kaia River. This area has always been the territory of the legendary ogre, but you didn't expect the Necromancer to be hiding here?"

Although the area of ​​the Martins Earldom is vast, its development level is not as good as that of the eastern county of the Grotta River. There are only more than 50,000 people on 60,000 square kilometers of land.

In the vast territory, there are two castles, both of which are located in the upper reaches of the Rania River, a tributary of the Black River.

All the more than 50,000 people in the Martins Earldom live near the two castles. On the 60,000 square kilometers of land, only the areas near the two castles have been developed a little, with some traces of civilization, and the rest of the land is basically barren. The security of this territory mainly depends on the guarding of the Redeemer Corps.

If King Roger had not issued a loan of 300,000 gold coins and sent the Redeemer Corps to help garrison, this territory would not be able to be defended by the power of the Martins family.

Because of the low level of development, the Martins Earldom has almost no ready-made roads. The transportation of the territory depends entirely on the transportation of the Rania River, and it is only barely self-sufficient now.

There are no ready-made roads in the area where the necromancer may hide, and there is a lack of supplies along the way, which is not suitable for large-scale military operations. To hunt down the necromancer, only a small number of elite personnel can be dispatched.

After Delian finished the divination, Richard said to Deng Lejin: "The place where the necromancer is hiding is very dangerous, only about 120 kilometers away from the base camp of the legendary ogre. This area is located in dense mountains and forests, and there is only one supply point, Songtao Castle, more than 100 kilometers away. It is not suitable to dispatch too many people for this operation. According to my idea, at most about 100 people can be dispatched. But these 100 people must be elite soldiers, mainly professionals. Even if they encounter the legendary ogre, they have the strength to retreat safely."

Deng Lejin nodded and said: "The forces of the Dawn Church in the four northern provinces can participate in the battle, and about 30 people can be dispatched, including eight One level priest, one level seven magician, two level six magicians, and 26 low- and middle-level professionals. The rest of the manpower can only be found from the nobles of the Northern Frontier. "

After hearing what Deng Lejin said, Richard immediately said: "The Harland Territory can also be transferred 30 people, the Territory Mage Corps can be transferred 10 people, and the remaining 20 people can be transferred from the Demon Hunting Team. We can also provide 50 iron-horned horses to serve as pack animals for the team."

"There is still a gap of 40 people. I plan to let Duke Edward help. They have fought against legendary ogres for many years and are familiar with the nearby terrain. "

Seeing that Deng Lejin was going to transfer troops from Duke Edward, Richard immediately shook his head.

"No, I have fought with the Ogre Tribe and know that the Ogre Tribe has seriously infiltrated the Duke Edward's territory. If we withdraw personnel from the Duke Edward's territory, the news is likely to leak. My opinion is to withdraw personnel from the Mad Lion Legion."

Deng Lejin said: "Okay, I will write a letter to Archbishop Xisai and ask the Archbishop to coordinate, and we will do as you wish."

About ten days after Deng Lejin wrote the letter, it was late July. The Dawn Church and the Grant Kingdom had coordinated their relations, and the Mad Lion Legion drew an elite force of 40 people to go to the source of the Kaia River to fight against the undead wizard.

The officer leading the Mad Lion Legion was Richard's third uncle.