Chapter 827: Converging and Heading to the Imperial Capital

"Both of your mana capacities look very large; you are at least at the archmage level."

"And considering one of you is a Title Holder, yet the other remains so calm."

"So I just made a slightly bold guess."

Saying this, Nikolai bowed slightly towards Lan Qingyou and Elisa.

It was as if he were apologizing for his wild guess.

Although he was also shocked in his heart by the sudden appearance of two Title Holders.

There was no need to show it on his face.

"Alright, let's not talk about this anymore, it's meaningless. Let's talk about the matter concerning the Britt Rats instead."

Lan Qingyou waved her hand.

After all, it was a fact.

Once they went back, this Twin Moons of the Empire and the Flamingo Knights would promote it for them on their own.

So the important thing right now was still to finish dealing with the previous matters.

"Britt Rats?"

Hearing this name, whether it was Nikolai, Horn, or the members of the knight order behind them, none of them could help but frown.

It seemed these Britt Rats were indeed very famous in this place.

The moment it was mentioned, everyone had to frown.

Tsk, tsk.

It seemed that no matter what world it was, as long as one had some moral standards, they would scoff at this kind of thing.

"What happened to them?"

As a knight order, guarding the Imperial Capital and defending the country was their responsibility.

So at the very first moment he heard this, Commander Horn became serious.

He didn't have any of the relaxed feeling he had when he was complaining about Arthur just now.

"After hearing about the situation in the Wailing Marsh yesterday, Miss Lan Qingyou used a meteor fire shower to strike the Wailing Marsh."

"Following that, thousands upon thousands of Britt Rats came out."

As he spoke, Arthur took out the yo-yo that Lan Qingyou had thrown to him yesterday from a wooden box handed over by his subordinate.

"This is Miss Lan Qingyou's trophy. It's said that these guys have now all evolved the ability to dig holes and live underground."

Horn looked down at this yo-yo in Arthur's hand, which had undergone a simple anti-corrosion treatment.

He then reached out and propped open its eye.

The result he saw was an empty eye socket without an eyeball.

Evolved the ability to survive in underground tunnels, huh...

"Besides that, all the rats are capable of mental attacks, able to make a person fall into a coma or even die instantly in a split second."

Lan Qingyou added a sentence.

They had mental types too?

No wonder not a single one of the many investigation teams from before had returned.

It seemed this mental ability played a major role.

As for whether that was specifically the case, they would only know later.

After looking for a while, Horn snorted coldly.

"Hmph, thousands upon thousands, huh... I remember there used to be a saying that if the Britts don't reach ten thousand, they're manageable, but if they reach ten thousand, they're hard to destroy. Yet in the end, weren't hundreds of thousands of them still slaughtered completely clean?"

"You all, continue heading north, then set up camp outside the Wailing Marsh and wait for the next orders."

After saying this, Horn waved his large hand, having the knight order members behind him continue north.

After all, their mission was to escort Nikolai to the meteor shower crash site to investigate.

Now that the persons involved were right here.

It seemed there was no longer any necessity to continue executing this mission.

Therefore, he placed all his military forces on the Britt Rats inside the Wailing Marsh.

It could be said that contending with this kind of thing was his real job.

Of course.

This still required returning to the Imperial Capital to ask for instructions from the Emperor first.

But presumably, there wouldn't be any problems on the Emperor's side.

Which was why he had the knight order go over and station themselves first, awaiting the arrival of subsequent reinforcements.

So he turned his head and looked at Nikolai.

"Lord Nikolai, is this okay? Or do you plan to continue on to the Wailing Marsh to take a look?"

"No need, since we already know the cause of the meteor shower, there naturally isn't any reason to go anymore."

Nikolai shook his head.

He then looked at Lan Qingyou, who was floating in the air.

He originally came to figure out why the meteor shower had changed midway.

Now that he knew the meteor shower was caused artificially, there was no need to continue investigating.

Rather, compared to some meteor shower, he was currently much more interested in the two people in front of him.

After all, not only were these two alchemists.

They both seemed to possess quite good magical foundations.

And they were both exceptionally rare Title Holders.

With these three points combined, apart from the magical ability in the second point, they were simply carbon copies of him and Albert.

How could this not interest him?

As for those Britt Rats...

This kind of mongrel couldn't even attract his attention.

After all, rats were just rats; there was truly no comparison with humans.

Thus, with a plan in place, apart from the Commander who had to return to the Imperial Capital to report, the rest of the knight order members all continued heading north.

However, because they lacked their previous sense of urgency, they set up camp here for tonight.

And would continue their journey tomorrow.

Meanwhile, Horn and Nikolai followed the merchant caravan to Kumquat Town to rest.

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"So, the mana conversion process isn't as complicated as imagined; it just needs to be done according to attributes."

"What you're talking about concerns Mechanical Thaumaturgy; I'm talking about Biological Thaumaturgy. The two simply cannot be compared on the same level."

"Why can't they? Tell me, why can't they? Have you forgotten my Mirage System? Isn't that a perfect combination of biology and mechanics?"

"Yeah, perfect. So perfect that it can only be viewed from the bottom up. The moment you look from the top down, you can see lumps of mosaic pixels. If that can also be called perfect, then I don't know what a defective thing is anymore."

"..."

"..."

Inside a tavern in Kumquat Town, Lan Qingyou and Elisa were engaged in a heated debate on the topic of converting attribute-less mana into attributed mana.

In reality, they had already started this topic ever since they split up with the troops.

After arriving at Kumquat Town and sitting in the tavern to drink some alcohol, it spiraled entirely out of control.

As for the original intention behind their debate, it stemmed from a single sentence from Nicolas Romé.

"Since we are all alchemists, why don't we find a topic to discuss?"

Originally, Nikolai wanted to use this sentence to test the two's achievements in alchemy.

At the same time, to see if they were genuine and to verify the goods.

So he picked the topic of mana conversion, which his 'good friend', 'classmate', and 'academic rival', Albert, was currently researching.

Who would have thought that after this topic was thrown out, the two of them immediately picked it up.

Not only that, initially he could still occasionally chime in with a sentence or two, correcting some of their mistakes in the details.

But later on, he realized that not only was the two girls' alchemy foundation extremely solid.

But they also possessed unrestrained imagination and practical experience.

They even occasionally popped out with nouns he had never even heard of before, making it so that he had no way to interject and join the discussion later on.