Chapter 0909 Magic Energy Society
Papa Mazik is an old goblin with an old face and a hunched body.
To be honest, it was beyond Locke's expectation that it could survive the plane suppression and arrive in the wizard world alive.
In terms of appearance alone, when it stands with Locke, outsiders will only regard them as a pair of goblin grandfather and grandson. But who can know that Papa Mazik is actually Locke's closest goblin partner since childhood.
Seeing the little goblin bring Locke, Papa Mazik's wrinkled old face immediately showed a smile.
"It turns out to be little Harold! Since you are here, please help me watch the store first. Locke and I have something to say..." After that, Papa Mazik took out a finely crafted mechanical chicken from under the dark counter and threw it into the arms of the little goblin, nodded at Locke, and the two entered the warehouse behind the store one after the other.
The warehouse was crowded and dim, with tall iron shelves everywhere, filled with strange creations of various shapes and unclear uses.
And Father Mazik did not light the lamp, just stood in the dark, silently watching this childhood friend who was completely different from him.
The basic lifespan of a green-skinned goblin is only thirty or forty years, and even if it is properly maintained, it will not live beyond sixty years old.
However, since Locke successfully advanced to level 1 in the wizard world, with the nourishment of the magic energy package and magic breath, his life has far exceeded the lifespan limit of ordinary goblins. If there is no accident, Locke can live at least another 120 years.
Although such a life is much less than that of human wizards, it is already amazing compared to most companions.
Therefore, this pair of childhood friends who have played together since childhood, at this moment, one is in the prime of life like a young goblin of seven or eight years old, and the other is old and frail, aging like an old coffin that is about to be buried.
The difference in their appearance is so great that the two goblins are also sighing!
"Did the princess ask you to come?" Locke's eyes flickered in the darkness.
"How...how do you know?" Father Mazik opened his mouth in surprise, his shocked expression was not fake at all.
"Ha...if Lord Tigul or Lord Kirby asked you to come, it would be impossible to be so mysterious..." Since he was promoted to a magician, the surge in mental power has also made Locke's mind and thinking completely different from before: "Thinking about it, probably only Her Highness the Princess would spend such thoughts!"
It took a lot of effort for Father Mazik to break free from the shock in his heart.
The young and handsome goblin in front of him made him both familiar and unfamiliar!
What was familiar was the youthful face, and what was unfamiliar was the meaningful smile at the corner of the other's mouth.
Father Mazik calmed his mind and finally asked that question.
"Locke, Her Highness the Princess asked me to ask you a question, do you...still think you are a goblin?"
Locke closed his eyes in the dark and thought for a quarter of an hour before opening his eyes again.
"I have green skin and goblin blood flowing in my body, so of course I am still a goblin! This is an irrefutable fact!"
"As long as you still think of yourself as a goblin..." Father Mazk quietly breathed a sigh of relief: "Her Royal Highness the Princess wants you to join the Magic Energy Association!"
What is coming has finally come!
Locke sighed and fell into a long thought again.
Over the years, as a large number of goblins have integrated into the Crimson Family, many goblin organizations have appeared in the Flame Throne, the White Tower, and various goblin settlements.
Like the 'King of Steam', 'Magic Machinery Research Association', 'Goblin Mutual Aid Association', 'Green Peace'... Some organizations are for retro, wanting the goblins to return to the great steam age; some organizations are purely for gathering the goblins together to avoid being bullied by foreign races...
However, the most famous one is probably the 'Magic Energy Association' founded by the goblin princess Vanessa!
At the beginning of the establishment of the Magic Energy Society, Princess Vanessa launched a call to gather all the goblins who have mastered extraordinary powers, deeply study and master the great magic power, and make the goblin camp glorious and powerful again.
It sounds like a very good original intention, and it is also an ideal worthy of admiration.
But unfortunately, there are few people who respond!
Not to mention new wizards like Locke, even the great goblin war god Lord Tigule does not seem to have joined the Magic Energy Society. And the goblin great sage Lord Kirby directly rejected Princess Vanessa's invitation.
This incident also caused a lot of sensation and discussion among the goblin community.
Some said that this was a fight for power among several goblin bosses, and some said that Princess Vanessa's ambitions and aspirations were too big, so the rest of the people dared not approach...
But no matter what, the Magic Energy Society was successfully established in the White Tower at the strong request of Princess Vanessa.
Some time ago, Locke had heard from some sources that Princess Vanessa was trying to get close to Dean Gongga and wanted to bring all the goblin engineers in the Magic Alloy Laboratory into the Magic Energy Association.
This made Locke more certain of his guesses.
Princess Vanessa really had not given up the past glory and splendor of the Goblin Empire and wanted to seek a certain degree of independence and freedom. And the person she wanted to emulate the most was probably the brain monster Gazlowe who acted on his own in the Lance plane!
Magic power will... Princess Vanessa probably placed all her hopes on magic power, thinking that as long as the goblins mastered magic power, they could get rid of the control of wizards and become truly independent from then on.
As a narrow-minded and short-sighted goblin, it is understandable to have such delusions and ideas. However, as a goblin who has been promoted, Locke's ideas and vision are completely different from those of other goblins.
What is magic power?
It is just a magical power that fills the inside and outside of the plane world!
It is with magic power that humans gave birth to wizards and developed a great wizard civilization.
The world of gods gave birth to gods of all sizes with the power of faith, thus ruling one side.
Titans and other powerful cosmic races rely on their own harmony with magic power to dominate the entire multiverse.
So many races and so many worlds have become powerful with magic power. Logically, goblins should be able to do the same.
Unfortunately, the goblin plane is a rare low-magic plane!
The plane environment there is not enough to support a systematic user of magic power, so the goblin plane has embarked on a different development path from then on - steam machinery.
Unfortunately, compared with magic power, the power of steam machinery is too weak.
Therefore, in an "accidental" wizard invasion, the entire goblin plane became an appendage of the Crimson Family, and many goblins became slaves and servants.
The resources of the entire plane are usurped by others, and the population of the entire plane is driven by others... Although such a life is bitter, it is also a fate that the goblin plane can never escape.
Locke came to the wizard world, read many books, mastered powerful magical powers, and looked back to re-examine his world and country, with a kind of pity for their misfortune and anger for their lack of struggle!
The goblins are not a powerful race, and they have encountered a low-magic world, so they show overall "weakness". Gathering the essence and strength of the entire plane, but unable to resist the invasion of a small wizard family in the wizard world, this... what is there to complain about?
From another perspective, if the goblin plane is a high-magic plane, can the goblins, who are inherently weak, still occupy the ruling power of the plane with steam machinery?
Taking a step back, Meryl Wizard of the Crimson Family is already a rare moderate among the wizards. The policies and methods she implemented in the goblin plane were so gentle that even Locke felt that they were too "indulgent". If it were another wizard family, how could they give the goblins so much freedom and power!
And among the many goblins that Locke had contacted, they didn't know that Meryl Wizard, whom they feared like a tiger and respected like a god, was just an "insignificant" first-level witch in the Crimson Family. Above her, there are the terrible second-level insect wizard Bilis, the mysterious second-level witch Alice, and the incredibly powerful third-level legendary wizard Grimm and the blood queen Mary.
The idea of resisting the rule of the Crimson Family is undoubtedly very dangerous, and may even drag the entire goblin camp into the bottomless abyss!
Princess Vanessa first mastered the power of magic, and the vanity of the power made her heart swell, and she could no longer see the irreparable gap between the goblins and wizards.
Resist...what to resist...magic?
Wizards have been studying magic for tens of thousands of years, and goblins dare to surpass them with decades of research? This bet is too big...If it goes wrong, the entire goblin plane will lose everything.
If the resistance fails and wizards brand them as traitors, I am afraid all goblins will pay a heavy price for it.
When Locke thought about losing his current life, thinking about being branded as a slave and being exiled to a dark and damp mine, Locke's heart beat a little uncontrollably.
"Locke...Locke...will you...will you join us?" Father Mazk asked timidly.
"I will!" Locke suddenly smiled, his face full of gentle smile again: "Mazik, you are my best partner after all. Even if I don't help others, I will definitely help you!"
"That's good... That's good..." The anxious Mazik finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Shall I arrange for you to meet with the secret envoy of Her Royal Highness the Princess now?"
"No hurry, I still need to go to the Black Forest to do a few tasks tomorrow, and I will be able to return in about 4 days. It won't be too late to meet the secret envoy then!"
"Okay, then I'll let the secret envoy wait for you here for a few days, you must go early and come back early!"
"Don't worry, I will definitely come back. We are all goblins, and goblins will definitely help goblins!"
"Yes, goblins will definitely help goblins!"
"By the way, Mazik, you should renovate your goblin shop! The door of the shop is so low and so small, it is not for external services at a glance, it is easy to arouse suspicion from outsiders..."
With Mazik's father's repeated promises, the two goblins left the warehouse.
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