Duke was a little curious about the gem that Lenia handed over, only to feel a little cold in his hand.

When Duke turned the gem over and over again, he realized that it was not a gem, but something that resembled a Warcraft crystal nucleus.

Its material is unknown, and there is no magic fluctuation, but it seems to have countless streamers swirling on it, and at the same time, it strangely does not feel the slightest coercion.

"What is this? I never seem to have seen it. Duke couldn't help but look at Lenia suspiciously, hoping for an answer.

"We don't know exactly what this is, we picked it up while cleaning the battlefield, but it's not a Warcraft crystal nucleus, because it doesn't have any magic power. Lenia took the gem as she spoke, urging her own energy to try to activate the object in her hand, but nothing happened.

"At the same time, its material is very strange, and it doesn't seem to exist in this world. So Joseph suggested that I dedicate this unknown gem to you. Lenia placed the gem in her hand gently in front of Duke's table.

Duke was intrigued by this thing, and now he found that he seemed to have a little familiarity with it, but he couldn't say the specifics.

I wonder if there is a systematic identification technique?

He thought so, remembering his mental power on the unknown gem.

Almost instantly, the voice of the system came to his mind.

Effective!

[Big Star Fragment.]

Purpose: Originating from the disintegration of a large star that fell from the sky in 752 of the New Era, with an unknown effect distributed throughout the continent, it is the only material for the upgrade system]

Well?

Fragments of the fall of the Great Star?

Upgrading the system?

And the effect that even the system doesn't know about?

Duke was a little surprised to receive the information he had just received, and couldn't believe that his soldiers had picked up such a treasure by casually cleaning the battlefield.

And you can upgrade the system!

"Lord, do you know where this thing came from?" Lenia looked at Duke's surprised expression, thinking that the lord might know something.

"Do you know about the fall of the star?" Duke didn't answer Lenya's question, instead asking her curiously about the events of the fall of the star, which he didn't seem to have in his memory.

"The Great Star has fallen?" Lenia was also confused.

"That was twenty years ago, when a dazzling comet capable of illuminating half of the night sky fell from the south of the sky and then disintegrated into countless streams of flames, scattered around the world, leaving all the powerful and adventurers to scramble wildly. The answer to this question was Joseph, who had just come to the door, and he symbolically knocked on the open door.

"I hope I didn't interrupt your conversation, my lord. He stepped into the room and pulled out a wad of white paper from his bosom, "I'm here to report to you the list of the first shipments." ”

Twenty years ago? was the year I was born?

It's normal that he and Lenia don't have any memories.

Duke touched his chin and put other thoughts down for a moment.

To verify the usefulness of this fragment, we have to wait until I am alone, and now that the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Chief Knight are in front of me, it is not easy for me to do anything.

"I'm about to find you, I have something to do. Duke took Joseph's list, and when he found that it was basically an account, he looked at how much money he could make in the end and nodded and stamped it.

"I need you to buy some slaves to populate the population of the realm, as well as a large number of finished metal and magic materials. Duke handed Joseph a list of the metals and magical materials needed to activate the Dwarven Magic Rune Plate.

"We do need more people, but why do we need so many metals and magical materials, which are not cheap. Joseph took the list and skimmed through it in general confusion.

"I'll show you this. Duke said as he handed the two rune plates to Joseph and Lenia.

"It's ...... Rune plates made of dwarven magic?" Joseph and Lenia exclaimed in surprise almost at the same time.

"Isn't this technology lost, why do you still have it in stock, and depending on the amount of materials you need, you still have a lot of stock!" Joseph was surprised, and flipped the rune board over and over again.

"I see! it must be the secret treasure of the Duke's treasury, right?" Lenia on the side seemed calmer, as he had seen Duke use epic magic scrolls before.

"Hah, indeed. Duke touched his nose and pushed it all onto the empty Duke's treasury.

"Now I've found about two hundred rune boards, so I hope that the next army will be able to sift through a good group of people. Duke took back the rune board and said to Lenia seriously, "The quality of our army is too poor, and we don't know if there will be the next wave of beast tides, so it's best to prepare early, and if necessary, expand the army appropriately." ”

"But we don't have that many soldiers. Lenia posed her own question, "The freedmen in the realm can't support so many soldiers who are out of work. ”

"That's what I'm going to do next, I'm going to select a group of able-bodied and good-character people from among the serfs and untouchables to join the army, and with good food they are also a good group of soldiers. At this point, Duke paused, as if considering something.

After pondering for a while, Duke assured Lenia: "As for the food problem, the Minister of the Interior and I will find a way to solve it, you just need to strengthen the army, don't worry about anything else." ”

"As you wish, my lord. Lenia also gave a solemn knightly salute to receive the order.

"If you have nothing else to do, step down, I'm going to get back to work. Duke nodded in satisfaction to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Chief Knight, and gave the order to expel the guest.

Lenia and Joseph looked at each other, then bowed together and withdrew.

After Duke had sent Lenia and Joseph away, he wrote two more carefully worded letters, asking the soldiers to be sent to the palace and cathedral in the imperial capital.

In the letter, he detailed the situation of the encounter with the beast tide and the speculation of his ministers about the cause of the beast tide, and also emphasized the tenacious fighting spirit of the soldiers of the northern fortress.

I hope that the bigwigs will see that they are so miserable and help one or two, and by the way, they expressed their concern about the erosion of meaning.

When the soldier who delivered the letter turned to leave, he pulled out a few more pieces of paper from the drawer for the decree, pondered for a while, and began to sign the decree to be posted on the bulletin board tomorrow.

Duke thought that in other realms, this work was written and passed on by the lord's exclusive clerk, and he was a little helpless to draft it himself.

However, he chuckled and continued to write, and a decree was born that would completely upend the social ecology of the entire Duchy of the North.