ARCHDEUS

ALEX THE PIOUS (3)

Arcentioch, Capital of the Kingdom of Artchania

This sunny day is not only warmed by the sunlight but looks the happy face of all the pedestrians who are there.

Today is a special day as the Kingdom of Artchania has declared the completion of a national emergency in the Canadia region.

The announcement was welcomed by everyone. Although everyone here is a resident living in the capital, but the sense of togetherness and sympathy for fellow citizens has crossed regional boundaries. Everyone here can feel the pain and sorrow of what happened in Canadia.

Especially not a few residents who have a string of brotherhood with residents in Canadia.

In addition, they now do not need to worry if the black death outbreak spreads to the capital. With the completion of the national emergency signifies that the kingdom has won the war against the black death plague.

To give appreciation to everyone who has contributed, especially the soldiers from the military, temples, and scholars will be greeted with great fanfare.

In front of the entrance gate of the capital is seen a military parade coming from soldiers who have returned after completing a mission in Canadia.

The number even though decreased but still reached fifty thousand people.

This means that there are not many fatalities that fall during this mission and there are no losses that they have to bear again. The country has lost enough with the fall of Canadia which is the main economic area in the southern region of the kingdom.

In front of the line of soldiers, there was a person of high stature riding a horse. He is the main star of the day, Alex Ivanov Fertiphile the savior of Canadia. News of Alex's appointment by the temple soon spread across the capital.

Now he is known as Alex the Pious, a noble noble who walks the path of virtue in order to fight the damned disease that symbolizes immorality.

When the march entered the city, they were immediately greeted by the praise of the people.

Temple bells were rung to greet the people.

Fresh flower petals scattered in the air and cheers of praise from everyone had warmed the hearts of the soldiers.

They never thought they would be greeted like heroes who had just returned to the battlefield.

The heart of every soldier is warm. They felt all the effort and struggle they had gone through all this time had paid off by the smiles of the people here.

All these soldiers will go to the barracks not far near the palace. There they will rest and prepare to return to their respective agencies. Next either they will return to their respective homes or return to full duty is the decision of their agency.

But especially for Alex, he could not go straight home. It seems to have a lot of schedules. Three days from now he will go to the prime minister's office then a week later he will go to the state palace.At the palace, ceremonially will be held a welcoming ceremony back soldiers who have carried out the mission.

The king will personally congratulate Alex and will reward him for his services.

After they reached the barracks, the soldiers immediately did a farewell event. Although they come from different factions, but the brotherhood that has been formed on the mission that occurred for two years has formed a strong bond. Whether it was the royal soldiers, the soldiers belonging to the nobles, the adventurers, or even the magicians and priests had formed a sense of solidarity. Although they are not in the area of conflict or the arena of war, but the fear and worry of being in the area affected by the plague unconsciously make everyone become mutually guard.

A few days later Alex, accompanied by Rain, decides to stay at the inn.

The reason is simple, in the barracks Alex can not freely send letters to question the condition of his territory. Moreover, although the state-run barracks were much better than the nobles' barracks, Alex still longed for the convenience of service to the aristocrats. Especially about food. Barracks do not provide sweet foods, they provide oily and high-carb foods. Alex doesn't like him very much, he has lived 19 years as a noble with his mouth spoiled by the sweetness of sugar, honey, and chocolate.

In the end after Alex said goodbye to Falcon team members and every military official, he finally rented a pretty luxurious inn.

This was not the most luxurious inn in the kingdom but at least this inn was indeed devoted to the upper class.

Although the price of food here is very expansive but Alex now has a lot of income, at least Alexandreia Investment has managed to provide a lot of dividends. Although economically they are still not profitable because the value of their investment is still higher, but it never hurts to enjoy a little money they have earned.

While Alex was enjoying his meal quietly and solemnly, Rain who was sitting nearby could not stop chewing. Although he now often eats foods that are classified as luxurious considering he is Alex's person, but this is the first time he eats food as delicious as this.

That made it the attention of everyone in the lounge. But Alex who was nearby did not care much about it.

When the third day after they were in the capital, Alex accompanied by Rain immediately went to the prime minister's office.

It turned out that they had provided a horse carriage that was already waiting in front of the inn.

After traveling and arriving at the prime minister's office, they are led in the waiting room by a senior staff who is quite familiar in Alex's eyes.

Alex was expecting all this. He had expected that the prime minister would speak to him again. If the guess is correct, then perhaps they will discuss the appointment of Alex as ruler of Canadia.

It didn't take long for Alex and Rain to meet with the prime minister. They greeted each other as usual. Yet Rain who had never met such an important person like the prime minister was not very aware of the etiquette to do the noble greeting. That's why he just followed Alex stiffly.

Fortunately the prime minister also did not care much about the clumsiness of the person.

The three sat on the sofa and talked about trivial things.

He simply enjoyed the food provided at the table and heard the two men laughing lightly.

"Lord Baron, I have a special request for you. But I can talk about this only with you" the prime minister said.

Alex and Rain looked at each other before Alex finally answered the prime minister's remarks.

"Sure, I think Rain's like he's going for a walk."

"Right, I will ask a staff to accompany him" the prime minister replied.

Rain asked permission to go out to the two people. He went for a walk accompanied by a female staff as a guide.

The door of the room was closed again. But this time the atmosphere of the room that was cheerful became very serious.

"Mr Baron before I talk about what I want to say, I want to ask you a question" the prime minister said.

"Of course My Highness. You can ask me anything" Alex replied.

"Lord Baron, you can actually master what magic level?"

"I'm sorry?"

The prime minister asked doubtfully. Duke Louis Edouard Norchaster, prime minister of the Kingdom of Artchania. He is the strongest arcane magician in the country because the only arcane magician capable of casting tier 8 magic. Aside from his extraordinary abilities, there was one secret that he had always hidden. In reality Duke Norchaster had a very unique talent. That talent was referred to as the [Eyes of Providence] which was an innate talent that allowed him to see the level of a magic caster. That talent will be able to give one the ability to judge the level of magic caster based on which quantity the magic caster has. The principle was similar to Alex's [Eyes of Esoteric].

But now Duke Norchaster was for the first time hesitant about his abilities. The first time he saw Alex when he was at a parliamentary meeting he was sure Alex was just a magician capable of controlling level 3 magic then at the next meeting he again realized Alex had a very rapid improvement become a magic caster capable of controlling level 6 magic. But two years ago precisely when he listened to reports of attacks carried out by undead and the existence of a mysterious girl figure among the undead who was able to kill level 6 magicians, level 6, Warfoy and the girl figure were defeated by Alex making Duke Norchaster doubt his own judgment. Especially when he heard that the area where the duel between Alex and the mysterious figure was destroyed as if top-tier magic[1] had just been dropped.

Everyone was convinced because they did not know Alex was a magic warrior, they considered Alex's opponent to be a magic warrior capable of mastering high-level magic. Possibly seeing from the magnitude of the destruction in the dueling area and the loss of Warfoy, it was suspected that the person was able to use magic level 7 and above. But Norchaster who knows Alex's ability to also control magic has a different assessment. It was not impossible that the destruction of the duel area between the two people was caused by the magic Alex cast. If so then Alex becomes the third witch in the kingdom after Norchaster and Pontifex Eliarius capable of using tier 7 and 8 magic.

But Norchaster hesitated again because when he saw Alex this time, he realized that now he was completely unable to see which one this young man had.

Note:

Top level magic[1]: magic levels that start from level 7 to level 10.

Here is the structure of magic levels quoted from ARCHPEDIA: Introduce Levels/Ranks/Tiers

Magic Tiers

The Higher Magic Levels

the -Lvl 10

the - Lvl 9

The High Magic Levels

the - Lvl 8

the - Lvl 7

The Middle Magic Levels

the -Lvl 6

the -Lvl 5

the -Lvl 4

Low Magic Levels

the - Lvl 3

the -Lvl 2

the -Lvl 1