The First Magic World War

The Empire was highly vigilant and strictly restrictive regarding the nobles possessing supernatural power.

As a seventh-ranked noble of the Empire, Baron Philedrica was entitled to the protection of eight knights. At the onset of the war, he sent six of them to accompany the Duke into battle in the Southern Seraph Territory. Later, during a covert attack on Southern Seraph, the remaining two extraordinary knights died alongside Baron Philedrica on the battlefield.

Thus, Silver Pigeon Fort became nearly powerless.

Although Baron Philedrica possessed immense wealth, he never considered hiring outsiders, confident in his eight extraordinary knights.

In the Eastern Great Nation on Earth, due to long-lasting peace, many young people do not grasp that hiring someone for labor and hiring someone to risk their life are never priced the same.

Charles had once wondered why Baron Philedrica didn't hire a batch of detectives and adventurers. With time and a deeper understanding of this world, he finally grasped that hiring transcedents for tasks, murder, or war involvement were all differently priced affairs.

A few Fu Ers could get a transcendent to do some tasks for you, a few Aegeus might get a transcendent to kill for you, but at the lowest, the price would need to be ten times that to get a transcendent involved in war.

After all, the first two were selling skills, but the latter was selling their life.

The life of a transcendent was indeed quite valuable.

Baron Philedrica had only a little over ten thousand Aegeus in cash, enough to hire about a dozen transcedents for no more than ten days to fight for him.

Baron Philedrica was reluctant to spend his money.

Nor was he willing to exchange his most precious collections for money to hire transcedents.

Charles was different, he valued life over money.

He certainly wouldn't use "precious" cash to hire transcedents, as that was his money. However, those luxury items that were hard to liquidate, sitting useless in the fort, could be converted into cash to hire transcendent-level detectives, which might help him survive the upcoming war, especially since those were Baron Philedrica's collections.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Only the victor secures the richest fruits.

The loser gains nothing.

Charles conspired within the pigeon fort for a day with two individuals, reaching two deals: he handed Louis Simi fifty luxury items and Ross Bard thirty-five luxury items. They would convert these into cash for him and use it to hire a group of detectives and adventurers.

Throughout, the two businessmen never met nor knew of each other's existence.

Businessmen prioritize profit, but Charles did not trust his entire fortune to the two businessmen, nor would he discuss more important matters with them. He simply intended to transform the Baron's wealth into a force that could assist him.

While Charles was making every effort to reinforce the fort's defenses, Cyrus had identified more than ten young people who had studied in Strasbourg.

In this era, of course, photographs did not exist, and even portraits were rare, so he had to rely on written documents to determine who might be the murderer of Jonathan.

Curiously, the first document Cyrus picked up was about Charles Mecklen. Upon seeing that Mister Mecklen had a promiscuous private life and had once been chased sword-in-hand, running naked through the streets, he immediately tore up the document and discarded it, muttering, "How could such trash possibly be the murderer of Jonathan?"

As a disciplined man, Cyrus greatly despised Charles Mecklen's type, especially since Charles had broken through the South Ceraph Reclamation Army's lines during a battle between two armies and killed Jonathan with all his might!

If this fellow named Charles Mecklen was so skilled, how could he possibly be chased by a sword, running naked through a bustling market?

It is said that Mister Charles Mecklen disrespected even his fiancée and had long proposed an annulment.

Such a person could kill Jonathan, and in the bravest manner no less!?

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Charles was unsure whether Louis Simi and Ross Bard would bring him hope and assistance, or just take these luxury goods and watch to see if he would die at Silver Pigeon Fort.

But no matter how uncertain the future, he had to make this move, take a gamble; it was better than sitting on a gold mine and just waiting to die.

He sent the two merchants away and locked himself in his room.

This was originally Baron Philedrica's bedroom, very spacious and also the highest point of Pigeon Fort, with two terraces that provided views over the entire town of Silver Pigeon Fort as well as the vast plains outside the town.

As for luxury, perhaps only those top mansions worth hundreds of millions on Earth could compare.

Charles placed thirty extraordinary items before him, owning these treasures for many days but only now having the chance to truly admire them.

Baron Philedrica had a total collection of forty-five extraordinary objects, of which six were taken to the battlefield and forever lost, three were borrowed and could not be recovered, and six were given by Charles to Taoles and Philedrica, and granted to four subordinates: Yellow Bear, Dobin, The Spotted Deer Gwen, and The Wind Wolf Bankcroft, leaving only thirty items remaining.

Of these, his favorite extraordinary item was undoubtedly a carriage known as 'Dark Luxury,' which was now reverted to a gemstone ring, quietly worn on his left index finger.

Magic items and exceptional objects are also categorized into ranks, like the Transcendent Levels of humans: Low Order, Intermediate Rank, High Order, and even the Sacred Order!

However, as a baron, Baron Philedrica's collection did not feature any Sacred Extraordinary Items, but it did include two High Order Extraordinary Items, one of which was Dark Luxury, and the other being Floating Flowers of Prosperity, also crafted by the esteemed Alchemist Master Stardust.

Floating Flowers of Prosperity was a flying tool. On the Old Continent, only Sanctified individuals could fly, and flying tools below the Sacred Order were extremely rare, rarely seen even at the largest auctions on the Old Continent, perhaps appearing only once in over a decade.

Therefore, the price of Floating Flowers of Prosperity exceeded even that of Dark Luxury; Baron Philedrica had spent years of taxes from Silver Pigeon Fort to purchase it and hardly ever dared to use it after the purchase.

Saint Alchemist Master Stardust also serendipitously came across some seeds of strange flowers from a foreign land, which, once bloomed, would not wither for years and naturally had a unique attribute that allowed them to float in the air.

Stardust had asked many people, but no one recognized these peculiar foreign flowers, so he named them: "Floating World!"

This Sacred Order Alchemist, inspired by these flowers, created the Floating Flowers of Prosperity.

As he never obtained another batch of seeds of these peculiar flowers, he could not produce a second Floating Flowers of Prosperity, which underlined the rarity of this extraordinary object.

However, both Flowers of Prosperity and Dark Luxury were not Extraordinary Weapons and could not be used for combat.