At the same moment, in a hotel in Maryborough, Diana lazily climbed out of bed. Like Erica, she got up later than usual this morning, and it was also because of last night's incident.

The quality of sleep may be poor, but the reasons for the two are fundamentally different.

Diana, who had just climbed out of bed, was in a terrible mood. The reason for her unhappy mood was the result of her conversation with the person from the Council of Sages last night. Although she did not hate this loose organization, based on the recent

The various unsatisfactory performances of this organization over the years still made her really dislike it.

For example, this time the prince stole knowledge about gunpowder weapons. In fact, this is not the first time that this kind of thing has happened within the parliament. It is just that in the past, there were always some hard-liners in the parliament who were responsible.

They are just people or guardians to intimidate Xiao Xiao, but since the quota of this batch of reincarnated people has almost reached its bottom in recent years, the number of fresh blood in the parliament has also begun to decrease. Most of the older generation have passed away, while the new ones have

It has not appeared for a long time, and due to certain rules within the parliament, the descendants of reincarnated persons are basically not allowed to participate, so this has led to a gradual breakdown among the members of the parliament. The final result is that

In order for His Highness the Prince's little plan to succeed as expected, gunpowder weapons suddenly appeared and triggered the war that is currently taking place in the Principality of Michael.

Of course, in Diana's eyes, even if the prince had not obtained the knowledge of these gunpowder weapons, he would still launch this war for his own ambitions. The difference between the two is nothing more than time and war.

It's just a difference in technique. After all, there are many weapons in this world that are more lethal than gunpowder weapons. Just like the magicians under the prince at this moment, they are the most intuitive example.

Diana did not have any comment on the ambition of His Highness the Prince, and she only had a very ordinary level of disgust towards him. But what really made Diana unhappy about this matter was actually the parliament's attitude toward knowledge.

The response to the theft incident was really poor. Although the thieves were discovered in time after they stole the things, they delayed it for more than a month before coming to the conclusion that they should take the initiative to solve the problem. When they determined

More than half a year had passed since the solution to the problem was put in place, and within this six months, His Highness the Prince had used the resources in his hands to digest most of the knowledge and drawings, and quickly armed tens of thousands of people.

A new type of army and launched a war of aggression on such a scale. It was only after things had developed to the point where they were completely beyond the control of the parliament that they thought of seeking outside help, and they still think that as long as they hire people to get rid of those

His Royal Highness can bring things back under control...

"Absolutely ridiculous!"

It was precisely because of this that Diana felt very disappointed with this parliament. When things reached this point, it no longer mattered whether the prince was dead or alive. Because those people who should not have appeared at this time

The knowledge has already penetrated into the camp under his command. It is estimated that the only way to prevent the continued spread of this knowledge is to completely destroy the prince's base camp, that is, the entire Dukedom of Nosk, and also to destroy more than a dozen people in the territory.

Thousands of people must be wiped out to prevent the leakage of technology. At the same time, the local black market must be completely wiped out to eliminate potential threats. In order to be safest, the entire Kingdom of Solis or the Borderlands in the north must be controlled...

This is not a rational and effective method from any point of view. If you really want to do this, unless Diana has the strength... or rights like the goddess Hex.

Anyway...Diana was in a terrible mood.

But she doesn’t completely hate this session of the Council of Sages, because she just learned from Speaker Sean Wilson last night that there are now less than 30 people left in the Council of Sages, and more than half of them are young people.

There are over half a hundred elderly people who can only be named in name, and people like him who are over 28 years old are actually considered young people, and there is only one person younger than him in the entire parliament, and that is a 16-year-old

The magician girl Thea Kruger is also the person involved in this knowledge theft incident.

As early as a few years ago, the Sage Council stopped its annual regular gatherings due to the dwindling number of people and the serious aging of the surviving members. Therefore, strictly speaking, the Sage Council is in a state of "out of business" at this time.

There is neither an effective policy maker nor a decision-maker there, which has led to an unusually inefficient and weak behavior in recent years. Moreover, it is said that the place they use to store earth knowledge does not even have a decent guard.

No. Diana still remembers that when she witnessed the birth of the Parliament, the place used by that generation to store knowledge was even stricter and more secure than a bank warehouse, and Diana also remembered that several magic geniuses in the first generation of Parliament directly created

A large number of mithril golems that can run for hundreds of years serve as guards...

Yes, a hundred years... In fact, it has not been a hundred years since then, but most of the members of the first generation of parliament have already passed away. Most of the members of the parliament now are still second-generation members, but they are also

They are all old. Even the mithril golems that can stand for hundreds of years have experienced many storms in the past few decades and have all failed. The genius magician who created the golems passed away more than 50 years ago.

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Time flies by, things change and people change, and fifty years go by in the blink of an eye.

Diana inadvertently felt a little warmth in her eyes. After all, she just remembered that she had heard Wilson tell the names of the current members of parliament last night. There were only two names that sounded familiar to her, and the other names were too unfamiliar to her.

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Diana raised her hand and rubbed her eyes, then she turned around and threw herself on the bed, thrashing and rolling around wildly, intending to vent her melancholy and unhappiness. However, because the bed in the hotel here was unusually

It was thick and soft, so Diana's uncontrollable willful behavior was not heard by the people downstairs, and she also rolled to the ground holding the thick down quilt and hurt her butt, and then stopped quickly. Fortunately, it was under the bed.

The floor was covered with a thick woolen blanket, and due to the elf's light weight, the sound of her falling to the ground was also very subtle, but this fall made her mind sober a little.

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Diana got up from the ground with her butt stuck out, then rubbed the area that hurt from the fall, and quickly tidied her messy pajamas shyly. Then she regained her usual calm and walked to a corner of the guest room to wash up.

Anyway, she has calmed down now, and she has managed to get through a night of poor quality rest, so her mind is somewhat relaxed, so she has to go to Beicheng District after breakfast today to continue talking to Wilson.

Talk about parliamentary matters.

Apart from anything else, Diana felt that she couldn't ignore what he told about the internal problems of the Council last night. After all, Diana knew very well that she still had some attachment to the so-called Council of Sages in her heart, and at this time, the Council

It can be said that they are in such an extreme state of decline that they no longer even have the ability to go out to seek justice. If this continues, the restless forces surrounding them may swallow up the Council of Sages, and those inappropriate aliens in the Council may

World knowledge will also flow to the outside world and have a certain impact on the world...

Diana couldn't guarantee whether this would happen, but she also didn't dare to bet on how much negative impact the subtle knowledge from the earth would have on the world after the parliament disappeared. And to take a step back, even if Diana

No matter how much I don't like this parliament, I'm not willing to watch it be trampled and tainted by outsiders. After all, Diana still had many friends in the parliament back then. Although they are no longer here, this loose organization can be considered their

The product of friendship between each other, and it happened that Diana herself was also a petty character. She was never willing to share her own things with others, and this Council of Sages was in such a very delicate position in Diana's heart.

products on.

Diana is indeed unwilling to let unimportant people get involved in the Council, and this has nothing to do with the knowledge in the Council, but even so, she is not willing to have too much contact with the Council of Sages, after all, all her friends are not here

So Diana didn't want to touch the scene too much.

Of course, Diana actually had another thought in her heart that drove her to feel that she needed to find time to go back to the library of the Parliament, because there were some "unbearable" records of Diana's youth.

"The library of the Parliament... Oh, by the way, that place has now become the territory of the Kingdom of Solis..." After washing, Diana walked to her luggage and dug out a very old sheepskin package, carefully

After untying the leather ropes and unfolding the almost torn parchment, a map was clearly drawn inside. However, the mottled ink on the parchment paper could no longer identify the shape of the pattern, so Diana had no choice but to sigh helplessly: "That's right...

...It’s been decades, this thing should have been out of use long ago.”

As she spoke, Diana planned to throw the parchment paper that would fall apart even if touched casually into a nearby trash can. However, she suddenly regretted it after accidentally tearing off a piece of old parchment paper with her fingers, so she simply

After some hesitation, she carefully put the pieces of parchment back together into the package and wrapped it.

"After all... you drew this with your own hand, and there is only one copy in the world. If you lose it, you will definitely turn into a ghost and give me nightmares, right?" Diana looked at the broken parchment map in her hand.

He muttered in a pale tone.

Diana held the parchment package in both hands and gradually shed tears, but she quickly wiped the tears with her hands and said dissatisfied: "You all left with a smile, so I also

I won’t cry, I know it doesn’t make sense...but..."

Diana, who lost control of her emotions again, couldn't hold back the feeling in her heart. She buried herself on the bed and covered her head with the quilt and cried loudly. Although she tried her best to control her emotions and volume, she was still heard by Ruby who was standing outside the door.

arrive.

Ruby was sitting on the arm in Cana's arms and bowed her head silently. They originally planned to come over and wake Diana up. After all, this hotel did not have a restaurant, so everyone had to go to an outside restaurant for breakfast. Ruby was originally

She planned to wait in the room for Diana, who had gotten up early, to come over and then go out to have breakfast together, but after waiting left and right, she still didn't wait until Diana came and knocked on the door, so she couldn't hold back the hunger in her belly and had to come over and call Dai.

Anna got up, but she never expected to hear Diana crying.

Ruby motioned for Cana to put her down, and then told her to go back to the room and take Serenir to the restaurant where she went yesterday to order. After all, Serenir was still at the age where he relied on instinct to act.

So if you let her starve for a long time, she will develop some bad habits.

With an unchanging smile on his face, Cana obediently put Ruby on the ground, then bowed politely and returned to the guest room next door. He quickly carried the sleepy Thrannier downstairs and left the hotel.

"Diana?" Ruby opened the door gently and walked in and asked, "Are you okay?"

Diana still covered her head under the quilt without sticking it out, but the moment Ruby opened the door, her voice suddenly lowered again. Ruby guessed that she must have forcibly blocked her mouth, but there was something abnormal.

Ruby, with her keen magical senses, could still "hear" the subtle sobs in the quilt.

When Ruby closed the door and the silence continued for a while, Diana finally made a sound and asked: "Who let you in?!"

Ruby's tone was a bit strong when she heard this sentence, but she still looked at Diana who was talking under the quilt and it was very funny. After all, Ruby's body was still in the toddler stage, so it was obvious when she laughed out loud.

She felt that something was wrong with Diana's mood, because Ruby was keenly aware of the terrifying magic power fluctuations that instantly condensed in Diana's palms.

"Ah...no...I wasn't making fun of you just now..." Ruby was a little flustered for a while, but she still felt that the magic power on Diana's side was getting stronger and stronger, and even the air in the entire guest room seemed to be...

It dropped many degrees in an instant, so she hurriedly said again: "Okay, I just said it wrong, but... you should know that I didn't mean it... and... I heard you say it when I was standing outside just now.

He opened the door and asked for help, "Who can help me?"

Immediately after Ruby said these words, she felt the magic fluctuations in the room disappear. Then Diana got out of the quilt obediently. At this moment, Ruby almost couldn't hold back her laughter again, because

She saw that the tears on Diana's face were mixed with sweat, making her hair sticky and messy. It was very funny. But this time, Ruby quickly covered her mouth with her hands before speaking.

, because she didn’t want to continue to make Diana angry.

As expected, Diana frowned again the moment Ruby spoke, but this time she did not send out any terrifying magic waves. She just silently walked to the bucket to wash her face. Ruby did not dare to move rashly and remained standing.

He stayed where he was and waited silently.

After Diana finished washing again, she walked to the edge of the bed and sat down. Then she waved to Ruby to tell her to come over. Ruby was naturally reluctant to come over, but because of Diana's threat, she still forced herself to do it.

Done. When she got close to Diana, she was suddenly hugged into her arms. Ruby originally thought she would be punished, but even after waiting for a long time with her eyes closed, someone noticed something about her body.

He didn't feel any pain, but instead felt Diana's hand gently caressing his head, just as gently as Diana used to take care of him.

"You know, Ruby, I just fell into a very confusing conflict..." Diana stroked Ruby again and again and said softly: "I don't like sad things, but there are some things that I always

I can't escape, so the more things I suppress in my heart will always flow out of my heart uncontrollably at a suitable time..."

"Things from the past?" Ruby looked up at Diana's face, then took out a handkerchief and wiped her chin, which was still dripping with water, and said, "Things related to humans?"
To be continued...