Chapter 44: Cursed queen

　　 "These people seem to have said something interesting."
　　 Mr. Evelyn still has a lovely smile on his face.
　　 "The young queen of the Rhine Kingdom has been cursed. They hope to find an antidote in the magic tower."
　　 "Curse?"
　　 "Not bad."
　　 Richard's gaze turned back from him.
"Tell me."
　　 This is to the representatives of the nobles on the ground. When the two wizard leaders communicated, everyone else had to keep quiet, and they didn't even dare to take a breath.
"Yes, it is."
　　 The obese man wiped the sweat from his forehead and stammered.
"It happened a month ago when our noble and beloved queen came back from her hometown to visit relatives, but suddenly fell ill on the way. It was useless to find many people from all over the country. The court doctors were helpless. The queen’s body became weaker and weaker, but her condition did not improve. Later, Mr. Faulkner, the priest of the Church of Our Lady of Chartres, recognized that this was due to a vicious curse. But this curse has never been recorded in history. That’s why the palace will send people to visit famous wizards everywhere..."
　　 "Does the Holy See have no solution?"
"According to Mr. Charles, the bishop of the city of Saint-Michel, even if he has the ability to forcibly cast off curses through holy water, holy tools and rituals, the queen is just an ordinary person, and her weak body cannot withstand too strong purification effects. The best way is to solve the curse in a more gentle way by analyzing the nature of the curse. The knowledgeable archbishop was not in the city at the time, so he could only look for wizards who were more proficient in curses."
　　 "It seems that the result is not optimistic."
　　 Richard said lightly.
"Yes."
　　 The obese man's tone was painful, and his expression was serious, but he looked decent, as if he was really worried about the patient who was on the bed.
　　 "We finally asked the people of the Flamel family, but they also couldn't figure out a solution..."
When the nobleman uttered the word "Flamel family", the wizards around were a little commotion, and even the serious young man who followed Mr. Evelyn showed surprise on the face. Look.
　　 "This is it, my friend, don't you find it interesting?"
　　 Mr. Evelyn snapped his fingers and said with a smile.
"There is a little-known curse, but even the people of the'Crown Family' can't use it. It's not easy to want to come to cast the curse. Which dark wizard is this curse? How dare you in this age? It's really a great courage to attack a queen."
　　 Richard did not speak for a while, he was searching Rasputin’s knowledge base in his mind. "The Crown Family"... "Flamel"... He quickly got the answer.
As mentioned before, there are so many wizards in history. In order to pass on their knowledge and at the same time, they don’t want betrayers among their students, so they simply choose to accept their relatives or lovers as students. Double-layer relationship to deepen the connection-which led to the emergence of the wizard family. They generally have ancient occult traditions and often have a long history. They constitute the main force of "aristocracy" in the wizarding world and promote "theory of blood".
　　 In fact, on the Maya Continent, that is, in the wizarding world except for the "Three Towers of Stars", the wizard family is the mainstream of the wizarding world. These wizarding families with terrifying strength and profound background often maintain close relationships with the countries on the earth. The remaining wizards either become their vassals, or they can only survive in the shadow of the wizarding family like towering old trees.
　　Whether it is a free wizard who chooses to walk alone, or a wizard group that gathers into schools and associations, or even those academy wizards supported by the kings, they are in a disadvantaged position compared to wizard families who continue their power through blood.
　　 This is why the "Three Towers of Stars" will become a holy place in the minds of wizards on the mainland. Even if the internal competition is fierce and highly hierarchical, it is still a place that symbolizes freedom in the eyes of some wizards. The Wizard Tower is a world that flies in the sky and is not bound by blood. It is the yearning of all wizards.
　　 Among the large number of wizard families scattered in every corner of the continent, the ten families with the most noble status and power have always been called the "crown families." They have their own areas of rule, and the remaining families with names and surnames, without exception, have distant relations with the Crown family, or vassal relations.
The Crown Family is like a huge root system in the depths of the entire wizarding world. On the one hand, it supports countless people on the journey of exploring the magic way, on the other hand, it draws the flesh and blood spirit of countless people as "nutrition"; in it The branches and leaves growing on the body are so dense and prosperous that they almost obscure the entire continent. Only the sky is the area they cannot reach.
Flamel is one of them. Its creator is "Nicholas Flamel", a legendary wizard in the alchemy field known all over the world hundreds of years ago. It is said that he has even surpassed the realm of "legendary". Refining the highest achievement in alchemy, "Sage's Stone".
　　 However, Richard is temporarily not interested in matters on the mainland. Anyway, no matter how influential "Flamel" is, it won't be able to touch him for a while-the magic tower was originally no less powerful than the Crown family. What he really cared about was the word "curse," even though it was a term that was almost common sense.
　　 "So, what are you going to do?"
　　 Richard's gaze fell on the lead man, and asked lightly.
　　 "Even if we want to get the antidote, we have to show us what the curse looks like. How, did you send that woman up to the tower?"
"This……"
It took a while for the fat nobleman to realize that the "woman" mentioned by the wizard leader was the most noble woman in the Rhine Kingdom, Maria Antonia Josephine, but it seemed to him to mention an ordinary village. woman. If he were someone else, the fat nobleman would have to shake his might and yell at the other party's rudeness, but now he dare not even breathe, he only hopes that he is deaf and can pretend to hear nothing.
　　 "I, I... No, the queen, she is still in the palace..."
　　 Seeking an antidote is just an excuse on the surface, and they are even less likely to send the queen to the magic tower that is no different from Longtan Tiger’s Den. What's more, the king's side itself had a tense relationship with them. If someone really dared to make such a request in front of the king, they would definitely be sent to the guillotine in anger.
　　 "No? Then you just caught the cursed man... the dark wizard? Where is he?"
"This……"
　　 This is of course also impossible. If they can really catch the real murderer behind the scenes, they don't have to bother to ask the Holy See and the wizard family for help.
　　 The fat man was crying, as if he was about to faint. The fierce names of the magic tower leaders have long been accompanied by various horror rumors, and in the hearts of the people on the mainland, they have become the big demon king who kills but does not spit out the bones. , Will the wizard leader who seems to make people feel very cold and dissatisfied, just kill himself directly.
　　 "Haha, don't embarrass them too much."
Mr. Evelyn doesn’t care much. He is a type that looks very friendly and unassuming at least on the surface. Even if he is still a talkative attitude to ordinary people, it is no wonder that the fat nobleman will show up for a while. A relaxed and grateful expression.
　　 "But it is true, if only the queen can be sent up."
　　 The blond young man stroked his chin, showing a thoughtful expression.
　　 "Would you like to stop by Fengquan Palace and'invite' her to the tower?... Haha! Look at your expression, Mr. Harder, I'm kidding."
　　 "Mr. Harder" was the fat nobleman, and his face became even more ugly than before. It seems that he has realized that this seemingly kind man did not really take them to heart~EbookFREE.me~ This group of nobles from the Rhine Kingdom finally understood that they could not achieve their goals, so soon after Left round and round. In fact, most of the wizards on the tower would think so, including the previous Miss Shikodi said the same thing. The residents of the magic tower have a natural sense of indifference and alienation towards the people on the ground, just like a group of people who are holding up and looking down at the ants.
　　 Mr. Evelyn seemed to have lost his fun because of this, and took him away from the banquet. He came to test on his own initiative, and the dismissal did not get the information he wanted.
　　 "Curse...what does this correspond to in the past?"
　　And Richard at this time is full of this problem.
　　
　　In the wizarding world, according to the nature of the power and knowledge mastered, the various spells in the world are divided into nine areas.
The most common are the five "mainstream domains", namely "nature", "magic", "life", "alchemy" and "psychic"; except for the alchemy domain, the other four domains are on the magic tower The corresponding legendary wizard. Ninety-nine percent of wizards in the world will choose one or two of the above fields as the direction of study and mastery.
　　 In addition to the mainstream field, there are two "rare fields", namely "mind" and "prophecy". Wizards who have the opportunity to come into contact with rare fields are extremely scarce, and in order to avoid arousing covetousness of others, they tend to keep their abilities secret and rarely appear in front of the world.
The two remaining areas are the "curse" and the "plague". They are called the "evil area". People who are engaged in the field of evil have always been expelled and hunted by all kingdoms and the Orthodox Church, and even feared by wizards. And disgust, and this group of people are "dark wizards".