Chapter 330
âTeacher, you shouldâve notified me before coming.â
The chief of Norlandâs Law Enforcement Agency, Saik, poured a cup of tea for his teacher.
âNotify? So that you can hide away those shameful things before my arrival?â
Yellow Mage shot a glare at his student. Back then, he was a boy that would follow after him shouting âI will one day be like you.â But now, he has grown into a middle-aged man with a face full of scruffy beard.
âWhile itâs true that we have some shameful things in our possession, theyâre all magical artifacts and living organisms used for alchemic purposes.â
Saik appeared very open and frank before Yellow Mage. He did not become afraid or reserved because Yellow Mage was one of the Seven Sages.
âTeacher, your sudden arrival would end up scaring those youngins. After all, your reputation in Norland is extremely fierce,â said Saik.
His words caused Yellow Mage to stop his tea cup-holding hand in mid motion. His long beard also trembled slightly. In the end, he managed to suppress his anger and sighed emotionally.
Among the Seven Sages, Yellow Mage had the worst temper. That sort of rumor has been spreading through the mages of Norland.
Because of that, the majority of the young law enforcers, especially his students, would always be extremely afraid when speaking with him.
It was as if the person standing before them wasnât their teacher but instead a monster capable of shooting lightning out of his eyes and reducing them to ashes at any moment.
âItâs a temper of many years, I canât change it,â After sighing, Yellow Mage Croshere drank all the tea in his cup in a single gulp.
âBut, if you want to have more young mages accept you, youâll have to curb your temper,â Saik had personally witnessed Yellow Mageâs malicious reputation in the flesh earlier. By himself, he threatened the entire Law Enforcement Department.
In the entire history of the Law Enforcement Department, only this ex-boss was capable of such a feat.
âPerhaps you can try walking the road of an âidol.â Thatâs a term popular in the Mage Forum recently. As you already know, thereâs quite many unknown civilians who, after getting on...â
Before Saik could finish his words, the tea cup in his hand shattered. But, the tea was still floating in midair.
âSaik, if you werenât one of my most outstanding students, the price of that joke of yours will not only be a broken tea cup,â Yellow Mageâs voice gradually grew colder.
âI... was merely speaking the truth. Teacher, that is an opportunity to change your reputation in Norland. According to the investigations from the Law Enforcement Department, many of Norlandâs youngsters are very interested in the âtelevisions,ââ Unknowingly, Saik continued to court his death.
âEven if I am to die, I would not do something that foolish,â Yellow Mage placed his tea cup on the table. Then, a wax-sealed sheepskin scroll appeared in his hand.
On the seal was a seemingly very complicated rune inscription. When Saik saw the rune inscription, the smile on his face was immediately replaced with a serious look.
That rune inscription represented the Sage Parliament. In other words, it was an order from the organization with the highest authority in Norland.
âTeacher, the discussions of the Sage Parliament this time around had something to do with the Law Enforcement Agency?â asked Saik.
âIt had nothing to do with the Law Enforcement Agency. However, the Law Enforcement Agency is needed to handle it.â
The same sort of rune inscription as the one on the wax seal appeared on Yellow Mageâs hand. Driven by the magic power, the sheepskin scroll opened in midair.
âThe banning of âtelevision?ââ
Saik quickly skimmed through the content on the sheepskin scroll. He immediately understood that it was an order to abolish television in Norland. On the signature line, it showed that the proposal was put forth by Yellow Mage. Two other Sages had also signed their signatures below his.
âTeacher, why? I feel that television is beneficial to Norland,â Saik questioned in a confused manner.
âSaik, do you still remember the magic craving stones?â
Yellow Mage asked the middle-aged man before him. When he heard the term âmagic craving stones,â the serious expression on his face was gradually covered with a layer of haze.
âHow could I forget what killed my parents? Teacher...â said Saik.
Yellow Mageâs disciple Saik was one of the victims of the magic craving stones. As people poisoned from the usage of magic craving stones, Saikâs parents died miserably before his eyes.
âAt the beginning, mages were saying the magic craving stones were harmless too. They were able to greatly increase the growth of oneâs magic powers. But, what ended up happening? You know better than me how miserable of an end those affected by the magic craving stones had.â
With a calm tone, Yellow Mage spoke of a matter that cannot be refuted.
âThe arcanotech device by the name of âtelevisionâ is different from the magic craving stones,â Saik refuted.
âIt corrodes the young magesâ minds,â interrupted Yellow Mage with a low voice, âItâs happening to your subordinates too. For the sake of those so-called television programs, those opera singers and actors, theyâve forgotten their mageâs knowledge-seeking instincts and what their duty was. This sort of thing is happening all over Norlandâs four advanced magic academies!â
âBut teacher...â
Saik stood up and walked to a wall in the office. A birdâs eye view map of Norland was on that wall. There were some special symbols on the map.
âIf you really wish to ban âtelevision,â our Norlandâs Law Enforcement Agency wouldnât be sufficient to handle the task.â
âWouldnât be sufficient? With the power of the Law Enforcement Agency, it is an extremely simple task to destroy those arcanotech devices spread all over Norland,â said Yellow Mage.
âIndeed, itâll be very simple to destroy them. But, the ones that will step up to stop us will not only be the people who created âtelevision.â Norlandâs... citizens... will also be among them.â
A faint white colored rune inscription appeared in Saikâs hand. A charcoal pencil started floating in the air. It pointed to the locations with symbols on the map in succession.
âAccording to the information weâve gathered in the Mage Forum, the organization by the name of Voice of Norland already has over two hundred and seventy thousand viewers. That number is still growing nonstop. If we are to add the live audience in the theater as well as the people who are only listening, itâll be another fifty to a hundred thousand people,â explained Saik.
âThat is an enormous number, roughly a fifth of Norlandâs population.â
âThey couldnât possibly...â When Yellow Mage was about to declare that those people wouldnât openly oppose Norlandâs Law Enforcers for the sake of television, he suddenly recalled the young law enforcer by the name of Khaga he met in the main lounge.
If all the audiences of the Voice of Norland were like Khaga... it was truly possible.
Yellow Mage was certain the expression in Khagaâs eyes was serious. If he wasnât held back by his colleagues, he would really attack a Sage for the sake of an originium crystal.
With that in mind, Yellow Mage turned to look at the map. Seeing the numerous symbols all over Norland, he knew that they were all places with television.
Exactly... what was so delightful about televisions? Yellow Mage started contemplating.
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