A mage's journey begins with a battle mage.

Chapter 293 Miracle Node

"How much longer will it take us to encircle Saint Martin?"

A mage dressed in a purple robe asked.

"I've estimated it will take about three years. After all, these charlatans aren't pushovers, and those miracle nodes are too difficult to clear."

"These charlatans, all they know is to seek out gods to solve their problems, and they're always doing this kind of stuff."

Jiang Shuzhou was new to the area and although he had some understanding of the situation in the Storm Sea, he didn't know the specifics as well as these veterans, so he didn't interrupt and just listened quietly.

A so-called miracle node is the blessing of the gods; a miracle node is a node where the gods bestow miracles.

Just as the lands of the Mage Alliance are protected by the Enchanted Lock, some of the more important territories of the Saints Alliance are not only protected by divine runes, but also by the blessings of the gods. These blessings are no ordinary ones.

They are the constraints imposed by the gods on something.

For example, one cannot fly, or one cannot cast spells of a certain type, etc.

However, the more stringent the conditions, the more divine power these gods consume. Therefore, banning a certain type of magic is already the limit. If all magic were completely banned, it would probably be impossible to exhaust all the divine power of these gods.

At the same time, these blessings will strengthen friendly forces, such as increasing the power of divine spells cast within the blessing's range, or enhancing the physical strength of ordinary soldiers, etc.

Breaking these protections is also quite simple; just find the nodes and destroy them.

These nodes are usually churches, which is why the All Saints Alliance likes to build churches so much.

Furthermore, each deity's blessing has its own characteristics. For example, the blessing of the god of protection is characterized by its superior protective abilities.

And so, Jiang Shuzhou listened quietly to the speeches that might affect others, until the meeting ended.

"Okay, that's the gist of it. Everyone can go now if there are no problems. Contact us again if you have any."

Harvey couldn't wait to announce the end of the meeting, after all, it was still very unpleasant to be caught in the middle as a peacemaker.

Jiang Shuzhou had no objection to this. This was his first time attending a meeting; he had come to see what was going on and get a feel for the situation.

It seems that things aren't going well for Velisco; the mages' power is a bit too scattered.

The so-called Mage Alliance is disorganized, with each mage having the same goal but different methods, and personal relationships outweighing public obligations.

Take Alger, Sidney, and Jiang Shuzhou for example. The three of them form an alliance of interests. This alliance was established entirely because Jiang Shuzhou and Alger have a good personal relationship, which is why they were willing to help each other.

If Alger tries to impose any public duty mentality, Jiang Shuzhou will definitely not buy it.

"It seems everyone gave you face; at least they didn't say you hadn't contributed anything this past month."

"You'll soon find out about my contributions."

"One week from now, my army will descend upon the world and annihilate millions of enemies."

"Alright, alright, are you talking about prophecy? Don't believe in these things too much."

Alger didn't take it seriously. Perhaps Jiang Shuzhou could indeed eliminate some enemies, but no matter how powerful his army was, it was impossible to eliminate hundreds of millions of enemies. After all, even if it was a hundred million pigs, it would take half a day to bombard them with magic, let alone kill them.

"We look forward to it."

Jiang Shuzhou looked at Alger's disbelieving eyes but said nothing.

They're all old folks, and their imaginations are still lacking.

"I'll go first, I have something to take care of."

After Jiang Shuzhou finished speaking, he used a teleportation spell to leave the conference room.

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"bump!"

A bullet pierced the merman's skull, and soon, after twitching once, the merman died completely.

Denozie held the Redemption in his hand and fired at the fishmen with a blank expression.

One, two, three.

The killing did not impose any additional burden on Denoz.

"You were born for this."

Jiang Shuzhou flashed and appeared in front of Denuozhi.

Jiang Shuzhou was very satisfied with Denor's performance; this was the quality a qualified weapon should possess.

The merman's soul was torn apart by redemption, and fragments of his soul turned into bullets, which were loaded into the magazine.

As the number of soul fragments increases, Redemption will become more and more powerful.

It has to be said that Jiang Shuzhou was quite envious of something that could be infinitely stacked. After all, what man wouldn't like a gun that could be infinitely stacked and strengthened?

"Professor, I've made a new discovery."

After speaking, Denuozhi looked at Jiang Shuzhou and leaned his head over as if asking for some kind of reward.

Jiang Shuzhou gently rubbed Denuozhi's hair with his hand.

"Redemption can take many forms."

Jiang Shuzhou was not surprised at all by this.

After all, many rare items and advanced weapons have similar abilities, such as Jiang Shuzhou's soul weapon, the Sharp Blade Staff.

It can not only transform into a sickle, but also into all sorts of other things, even firearms.

However, shooting consumes mental energy; otherwise, one cannot benefit from Jiang Shuzhou's Battle Mage talent enhancement.

Of all Jiang Shuzhou's talents, only the Battle Mage talent is the most unique, since it is the only talent that is not original.

Jiang Shuzhou's other talents were mostly his own, but his Battle Mage ability seemed to have been given to him by someone else.

After advancing to a higher rank, Jiang Shuzhou fully confirmed the true composition of the Battle Mage's talent.

Similar to wondrous objects, they are products formed by the convergence of laws.

Creating such a thing requires extremely advanced technology; it's likely that only Roland could have done it.

At the same time, this thing is extremely well hidden, and even legendary mages have no intention of seeing through it.

Perhaps this is the difference between legends.

"Not bad, you have great talent, but you still need more practice and haven't killed enough people."

But none of that matters; we can deal with the infected later.

De Nuozhi was very pleased with Jiang Shuzhou's praise.

"You're awake. It's time to learn. Don't just sit around doing nothing and end up shooting, becoming a hopeless illiterate."

After saying that, Jiang Shuzhou took out a large pile of books from his spatial ring and handed them to the reluctant Denuozhi.

"Study hard; a good child is one who does well in school."

Jiang Shuzhou has started his crazy PUA again.

"I will."

Denoz nodded in agreement, indicating that there was no need to worry about her future studies.

"If there's anything you don't understand later, just tell Booker, and I've already had it teach you."

Without a doubt, Jiang Shuzhou himself has no time to teach others; he himself has to learn a lot of other things, and he has no spare time at all.

"Master, none of these magic stones of mine were used for nothing."

Booker was on the verge of tears. He had done everything in his power for those magic stones, not only constantly calculating as a system, but now he even had to be Denoz's teacher.

"Keep up the good work, I'll be checking up on you occasionally."

After saying that, Jiang Shuzhou left.