Knights and Magic Wand
Chapter 702: 327: Returning North to Search for Treasure_3

Chapter 702: Chapter 327: Returning North to Search for Treasure_3

Leon couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow upon hearing this.

It seems that in this dimension, the Athias Empire’s understanding and theoretical level of magic lags quite a bit behind his own world…

One must know, when the Mage Tower of Lady Aphrodite was first discovered, Kovis, who was then an apprentice, could self-teach ancient Lorelette magic from the Magic Guidebooks in the Mage Tower Library, just based on the incomplete system education he had received in Pilireno.

…The use of the Netti Furnace, Garner’s methods, the Undead Magic Disaster, Guardian Spirit Holy Lamp, Rolannar’s Great Magic, Dwarf Ruins… there was hardly any magic issue his little think tank at home couldn’t solve.

Simply a magic superman.

Unexpectedly, after the change of fate with overwhelming power, Acro, who was once a remarkable Official Position Mage, was actually not as exceptionally intelligent as before.

Is this perhaps a gain and a loss?

Or is the gap this significant without the help of Lady Aphrodite’s library?

Leon didn’t know, he only sighed while recalling the theories in the Magic Guidebook, guiding Kovis through his doubts about the Quenching Life Technique.

He couldn’t help but glance at the Black Armor Guards standing outside.

On the battleship, besides the empire’s sailors, there was at least one battalion of the Athias Army’s elite soldiers accompanying.

He had already learned from his prior inquiries about Acro’s current status in the empire.

It’s hard to say that Kovis’s current power is less than that of the monarchs of various kingdoms across the continent. Despite lacking actual territory and complete independence in imperial military power, Acro is now able to mobilize resources and forces that might be far larger than those of a typical king.

One must know that in this world, he is among those few dozens who stand above hundreds of millions of people in the Athias Empire.

Leon sighed in his heart…

If it weren’t for the fact that he could never leave behind the Olivia from his original dimension and his deceased friends.

If he were still alone as he was when he first crossed over, he might have wanted to grab Acro’s hand and say, “Brother, this life I follow you.”

After all, the Athias Empire in this dimension currently seems quite “humanized.”

…

After clarifying those issues troubling Kovis, Leon didn’t disturb the already contemplative other, and got up to walk out of the upper cabin.

He came upon the deck looking for Ines, and coincidentally, he saw Princess Ines, who had taken off her hood and was only wearing a veil over her face, seemingly chatting and joking with a certain Mage Apprentice under Kovis’s command on the starboard.

Speaking of which, the Athiasians didn’t seem to have any traditional taboos against having women on the ship.

At least not on the battleship.

Leon could see several female spellcasters among Kovis’s students and subordinates, and they obviously didn’t row over here from the Eastern Continent, nor would the captain of Athias dare refuse female mages to board.

In the empire, it seems that whether male, female, or neither, as long as one can master magic, they are all kings.

Looking at it this way, Athias… or rather, the mage group, seems to be relatively at the forefront of gender equality.

After all, the innate ability to master magic is entirely luck-based, and the scarcity of talented people ensures that this group cannot differentiate power by gender.

Although it still appears there are more male spellcasters, at least from Leon’s recollection of the mages he’s seen so far, in the Athias Empire and the Northern Wizard Association, the ratio of male spellcasters hasn’t shown an absolute overwhelming majority.

Being able to harness magical power depends on spirit, willpower, and intelligence, not physical strength.

Fearsome female mages like Aphrodite in the magical illusion of the past should not have been rare in Ancient Lorelette civilization either.

Leaning against the ship’s railing, Leon boredly admired the unchanging sea and sky horizon, waiting until the Mage Apprentice sighed and left before returning to Ines’s side.

“Your Highness, what were you talking about with him just now?” Leon asked, a bit curious about the expression on the Mage Apprentice’s face as he left.

“What’s the matter? Mr. Leon, are you jealous?”

Ines turned around, leaning against the railing, her eyebrows arched, she seemed to be laughing under her veil.

Leon’s brows furrowed into a figure-eight, somewhat helpless against the young girl’s growing fondness for teasing him.

“Alright, alright, just joking with you~” Ines embraced herself and continued, “Since there’s finally a chance to interact with Athiasians, I definitely have to dig for information and figure out what that Wizard Empire over on the Eastern Continent is really like. Even if it’s a different world’s Athias, I think the general situation should be similar.

The Drakemar family has an ancient saying, ‘To know oneself is like looking into a mirror, to know the enemy is like observing a shadow, then a hundred battles are like songs’, in case we return in the future, we still have to deal with those persistent Athiasians.”

“Did you find anything out?” Leon couldn’t help but be curious.

“A lot~, like their administrative system, their army, their history… When these Athias spellcasters talk about their empire, their noses are almost in the air, without any scruples. However, what I’m most interested in has to be matters about that Magic Emperor. It’s said that their ‘Emperor’ seems to have locked himself in the royal palace for many years without engaging in any state affairs, and now the empire is ruled by six governors collectively…”