ushernet Chapter 138 Slave
Chapter 138 Slave
No doubt, the bugs had been sent by the Worm controller Blake himself!Save me?
Could he really be pleading for help?
Devour Bleia?
Why would he leak his best workable plan to Leon?
After posting a bunch of questions to the Chip and having it analyze the possible answers, a terrible plot was soon discovered, and it simply left Leon chilled to the bone!
Most probably, Worm controller had been totally controlled by Mage Eclivel until now, and that had forced him to seek help from his enemy, Leon. As for how a Pseudo-Mage who was under the total control of an Mage was able to deceive his master and retain his soul consciousness, perhaps that had something to do with his unique bug body!
Though he was fortunate enough to retain his self-conscious under the evil plot of Mage Eclivel, obviously, there was no way he could escape from the control. Therefore, he used the method of leaking their treacherous plot in exchange for Leon's interference.
However, even though Leon knew all this, was there anything he could do about it?
Should he lodge a complaint with Mage Keoghan, who was also an Mage from the Sarubo Family, and tell him about the impudent behavior of Mage Eclivel? That might make Mage Eclivel suffer some punishment, but it wouldn't change the situation at the root, as Blake would be still under his control. And if Eclivel made it clear that he was willing to give up the right of control, perhaps the Sarubo Family would take over the control of a family Mage who obeyed all their orders, wholeheartedly.
If that happened, Bleia still wouldn't escape her tragic destiny!
Defeat and kill Eclivel? This was simply something impossible to achieve!
If all of the four formidable golems anticipated by Leon were ready and he could lure Mage Eclivel to some pre-set place, together with the help from Bleia and Blake, they might have a slight chance of killing him. However, the success rate for a plan like this would never exceed 12%, according to the Chip. Leon would never take such a huge risk!
In the past, whenever someone had mentioned how powerful an Mage was, he had only had a rather vague and general idea. But through the training he had gone through in the past half a year, Leon finally had a basic outline in his mind.
Take Beginner Apprentices as an example. Their bodies were nearly identical to a normal human; the only difference was that they had mastered one or two magic spells of average power, and that was a really low number. With this grade, if an apprentice went to carry out a mission, they usually hired some human mercenaries to protect them from being hurt by ordinary humans, such as damage coming from arrows, flying daggers, traps, and other similar weapons.
Once they had managed to become an Intermediate Apprentice, the power of an Apprentice Mage would start to show up. At this grade, either they had chosen their direction of future development or they possessed some approach that would bring them strong power; no ordinary human could compare anymore. Even the militia organized by the common cities would not provoke anyone from this group of fearful existences. However, so long as they employed an appropriate approach, the possibility of ordinary humans killing Intermediate Apprentices still existed.
But, once an apprentice entered the Advanced Apprentice realm, then even a mortal army would not be able to defeat him anymore. Imagine this, a person who possessed the vigorous vitality of a wild buffalo, was able to run as fast as a cheetah, and could put out the formidable strength that was no weaker than a burly adult. For an existence like this, even without using any magic spells, they would be able to wreak havoc within the mortal army. If he was aided with magic spells, annihilating an army of two hundred men would be like cutting through butter with a hot knife.
Of course, if a human noble was willing to pay a huge price to equip an army of fearless soldiers with the finest weapons and armor, it was still possible to defeat an Advanced Apprentice by sacrificing the lives of over three hundred soldiers.
But once an Apprentice Mage became a Pseudo-Mage, then the army of an ordinary human noble would lose any effectiveness. If this Pseudo-Mage was shameless enough to conduct guerrilla warfare, he might even be able to collapse some small kingdoms. In order to deal with a Pseudo-Mage, it would need the life of at least 1000 elite soldiers. As for whether could they kill the Pseudo-Mage, it would purely depend on their luck during the battle!
Of course, the comparison of overall strength mentioned was derived from a situation where the mortal powers weren't aid by any mysterious forces. Yet currently, throughout the entire Mage Continent, if a kingdom didn't seek protection from an Mage Family, there was no way it could survive. Many Kings or Grand Dukes of human kingdoms were actually agents sent by Mage Families, random mortals who were experts in managing and running a territory, or Apprentice Mages who had lost all hope of advancing further.
In brief, mortal power was always a tool for Mages, and the relationship was never reciprocal.
So, in order to deal with an Mage, mortal forces would never be dependable.
Only an Mage had the possibility of killing another Mage!
This true saying had been deeply engraved into the bones of all mortals. No human nobles, big and small, who were protected by Mage Families would want to offend any Mages, even if the one in question was the lousiest Mage. After all, the power of an Mage was extremely dreadful!
Therefore, after estimating the overall strength of both sides, Leon quickly gave up the stupid idea of fighting Mage Eclivel face to face.
Although Mages were dangerous and fearful, so long as one could find the right way, an Mage was rather fragile!
Every year, there were a bunch of Mages who accidentally died in magical experiments and there was also many of them who ventured deep into a savage forest and never came back. But most of them actually died in the conquering warfare of the Mage Families.
Sometimes, it was the war for territory between different Mage Families of the original plane, sometimes it was the conquering and colonization warfare the Mage Family conducted in the other planes. In brief, if Leon and others became official Mages, they too would probably have to participate in many bloody wars.
However, sitting back and waiting quietly for Mage Eclivel to kill them was an absurd thought. With the nasty character of Mage Eclivel, where he would spend years dwelling in the Swampy Tower and never go out, one could easily tell that he was a re
It was extremely tough to escape from Mage Eclivel's control just by relying on his strength alone. That was why he had secretly sent a few of his bugs to seek help from the enemy he hated the most. But too bad, both distress calls he had sent were like stones dropped into the sea, producing no response at all. With that, Blake couldn't bear it and became restless with anxiety.
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