When it comes to the name Esko, if it were placed thirty years ago, in the impression of the people of the Northlands, it may still be a ruin adjacent to the Great Desert of Ainook.

For those with a little bit of knowledge, you'll know that it was the site of the capital of the dwarven kingdom of Danzo adjacent to Nethriel thousands of years ago, and it was once the city of watchtowers that watched over the Orc tribes of the Supreme Glacier, and it was the Eye of the Watchman who guarded the Northlands.

It's just that following the fall of the Nether Empire and the continuous invasion of the orcs south, the three major medieval civilizations in the North have also been extinguished one by one like lights, and the dwarves who have been ruined can only be forced to retreat to Fort Adeba and Fort Felba, which are now the borders of the Silvermoon Federation.

But if you ask someone about it now, the person being asked will most likely show reverence and proudly introduce you:

It is the pride of our Northlands, the backbone of the Northlands rebuilt under the will of the Silver Dragon Lord Levi, the green buildings of the shelterbelts in the northeast of Zeellandia, the deposits of Cerdarin gemstones, and the powerful heart that now connects the trade between the east and west ends of the entire Korrell continent.

In the past barbaric years, with the collapse of the Nethriel, Danzo Dwarven Kingdoms and Yerlan Elven Empire, people once thought that the fire of civilization in the Northland was once endangered except for the surviving Water City, so even if the trade routes still existed, there were only two bad options:

Either you can start from the city of Drawing Water along the Derinsha River, to West Khambe, Noisy Water City, and Locke Town, to cross the Grey Peak Mountains, to cross the lonely wasteland, through the black roads of the Yellow Sand of the Anook Desert, through the Vampire Falls of the Comanso border, and to the Fort of Santil, which is famous for spreading strife and chaos despite its prosperity.

Or follow the ancient trade route south, through the Green Fields, the Giant's Plains, and the Dragon's Coast to the southern borders of Cormier.

However, these two trade routes not only take a long time, but also are a hotbed for some evil forces to parasitize and suck blood, and perhaps a very ordinary object may increase in price by tens or hundreds of times after it takes several months to reach its destination.

And today's Northland merchants, after the initial apprehension, soon have a third fragrant to bone crisp option.

That is, the ——— Northland Intercity Expressway was advanced by the Northland United Development Bank and constructed by the Fourth Bureau of Zelandia Construction Group...

At first, it was a little difficult for people to understand, but there was a natural and convenient trade route from Waterdeep to Silvermoon City, and Zelandia had to build a land route by the first iron.

But only the merchants who were eager to trade every day throughout the year knew that with the rapid growth of the Northland trade for more than half a century, the daily throughput of the old port had become saturated, whether it was Jishui City or Silver Moon City, and more importantly, no one could endure the months-long flood season of the Seburing River, let alone the muddy roads that warmed up in the spring and sank into the mud.

So the Northland Intercity Expressway was born in this situation, and then people were shocked to find out? In the past, the time between Drawing Water City and Silvermoon City was reduced by at least half? Arriving in Minastiris, a transit point, from two cities? It only takes three to four hours.

For the first time, people realized that the distance between the city-states could be so close.

The towns that are crossed by the Northland Intercity Expressway are even more pleasantly surprised to find that due to the surge in people, their towns are booming at a visible rate almost every year.

Of course, this expressway has indeed brought unprecedented convenience and changes to people's lives, but it is not without criticism.

That's a high-speed toll station set up in one town...

After all, it's people's nature to be a white prostitute, and I have to take my money when I walk?

But when a small chamber of commerce openly resists tolls, is thrown off the highway and added to a permanent blacklist, and returns to the medieval life of a small horse-drawn cart? All the businessmen were alert at this time, and lined up to pay the fee with a shy face, after all, there was that time, and two more trips to business was the last word.

In the face of simple calculations? No one is going to have trouble with money.

And the official of Zelandia also makes a lot of sense, no:

Do you all want to prostitute for nothing? Who will build you roads in the future?

A group of old drivers think so, after all, there is a road? They're more convenient to drive, aren't...

But just when everyone was honestly queuing up in front of the toll booth to pay, they saw a magic alchemy motorcycle speeding past from the emergency lane, and immediately a steam locomotive driver full of goods protested:

"Hey, that's not right, why can they skip the line and be free?"

The young lady in the toll booth immediately glanced at the license plate of the motorcycle with white letters on a black background, and then glanced at the small wooden sign held up by the slime next to the table, and immediately glanced at this guy and said:

"Keep your eyes open and see clearly! That's our Zeellandia military license plate, or is it obvious that we are on a mission, and we charge our own official tolls? What should I do if I miss the military plane? Is it because you have a bad intelligence or do I have a problem with my brain?"

As soon as the dwarf driver heard that it was a military car, he immediately withered, how dare he explain that there was a problem with your service attitude, so he quickly laughed and apologized:

"No, no, no, it's my brain!

I'm afraid that if I apologize late, I will be blacklisted, and if I am repeatedly seen by the patrol guards on duty, I will pull myself out of the cockpit for a breathalyzer test, and I will play ball!

When the young lady heard this, she immediately took out a small card and stuffed it into the dwarf's hand and said:

"Oh, if you have a problem with your brain, go to the 'forensic doctor' and do an ape intelligence improvement surgery, this is a new one, the chief surgeon is my senior, and I have a practicing certificate, and I can get a 9.5% discount with this card. ”

The corners of the truckers and small businessmen immediately twitched and looked at each other.

The reputation of ape-man intelligence enhancement surgery is unknown to anyone in the Northland today, but the price is just as staggering.

If they have the money to go for surgery and try to get off the path of the Faye, who will do the freight logistics!

......

Ciudad Esko.

When the scales stood up and Kanvian got off the locomotive, I only felt salivation at the corners of my mouth, both feet were floating, and then I looked at the position of the sun above my head... I was immediately shocked.

He was addicted to part-time work, and his thinking inertia was still stuck thirty years ago, and he still knew the former site of the capital of the Danzo Kingdom, because the dark geographical location of the Ferba Fort where the shield dwarves were located happened to be in the territory of Fadlim, in the north of the fungal forest in his mother's territory.

In the past, it would have taken him a whole day to fly with all his might to cross the fungal forest, but now... They had arrived from Minas Stirris, farther away, and it had been less than four hours?

But when I thought of the teacher's speed of more than 200 kilometers at that time... My legs trembled and I felt relieved, but then... There was another inexplicable awe of the silver dragon.

Kangvian has admired his mother Savian since he was a child, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he grew up reading her legendary biography.

The entire Valley of Screams, most of the fungal forest, was prostrate under her obscenity.

It took less than two hundred years for Savivian to rise from the saga of his prime, and he assembled a powerful army of dependents to sweep through the fungal forests and establish Ember City in the Valley of Screams, on a par with Gershorne and Ironmelt Castle in the Dark Realm.

Gerthorne, it took the drow elves nearly a thousand years to get to where they are today, while her mother took less than a fifth of the time.

So Kangvian has been determined since she was a child, to learn from her mother, and to prepare to use a shorter time to create a black dragon empire that belongs to him!

But when he started 'entrepreneurship' as an adult, he realized how difficult this road really was, and he also knew that he might not be able to achieve his mother's achievements in his life.

And her mother, a legend born in a dark region, can only change a city in her life...

Well, say it's a city... By the standards of surface city-states, they are a little embarrassed.

Compared to Minastiris, his Ember City is just a castle on the edge of the countryside...

And Tiberius, on the other hand... It took only a dozen years to establish the mining city-state of Zelandia under the noses of the Dzobs of Gerthhorne.

Next, it miraculously broke through the blockade of Drow's forces, and reached a trade cooperation with Silvermoon City and Jishui City, which are human forces on the surface, and gradually monopolized most of the mineral industry in the dark region.

Then, in less than half a century, Minastirris, the city of miracles, known as the crown of the Northland, was established... It has become a transit hub and freight distribution center for the entire Northland trade.

Immediately afterwards, he participated in the Moon Sea War in the state of everyone's eyeballs, and marched north to Luskan, completely returning the former sea overlord to its original form, stabilizing the Moon Shadow Island in the west, and turning this archipelago into a back garden that provided raw materials and population export for Zelandia.

Now, with the aftermath of the great victory in the Moon Sea War, the Northland United Development Bank was established, integrating the resources of the entire Northland, and began to build a high-speed and railway network connecting all the major cities and towns in the Northland.

Although the current progress is only to build a main road connecting the important city-states such as Jishui City, White City, Jishui City, and Esko, according to the current progress, I am afraid that if he is given another thirty years, this network connecting the entire Northland will be completely formed...

I didn't read much of Khangvian's books, but I also understood some simple truths, and I could see some trends that were already clear.

Nowadays, through this intercity highway connecting the city-states of the Northland, the distance between the city-states is infinitely shorter, and all kinds of trade and people flow back and forth every day, and people's geographical belonging is also rapidly blurred under this flow.

And the silver dragon on the seventh city of Minas Stirris, which overlooks the entire northland, his every will, every command, is also directly or indirectly, and the real radiation affects the lives of tens of millions of people in the northland.

In time, this will not be a kingdom... Is it even the rudiments of an empire ...

And Tiberius is the uncrowned king of this kingdom, the emperor of dragons...

Wow, this kind of encounter, this kind of achievement, the Bard would not dare to write like this.

Ah, this is simply the dragon life encounter he has dreamed of!

It's not just the goddess of fate who lifts the corners of her skirt to you...

It's just a straight skirt and a blatant face ride, okay!

Just as Khangvian's face began to deform due to extreme envy, he heard the teacher talking to several figures who were approaching him:

"Master Anthony, I came here to report on the orders of the city lord, I wonder how your preparations are going?"

When he saw the silver-haired old mage, he immediately cried out bitterly:

"It's no small matter about teleportation, not to mention the need to build a super-large portal across the Ainook Desert, which is likely to transport more than 50,000 people, this happened too suddenly, and we just received the order today. ”

Even Kangvian nodded secretly when he heard this, he still knew a little about some talent for spellcasting, in order to get more job opportunities in the magic research institute, he also worked his studies, and in his spare time, he would go to the night school of Zeellandia University of Magic to audit the white prostitution class.

Although thanks to the research efforts of generations of lawyers, teleportation spells have been innovated countless times, even from simplifying them to the point where they can be used by the magic of the five rings, and even the [Any Gate] that can be used by the four rings.

But as long as anyone with a little common sense knows, this kind of teleportation also has a nickname, called unstable teleportation.

That is to say, you basically can't accurately guarantee the destination coordinates on the other end of the teleportation, maybe at the other end of the door, is it underground, is it a cliff or a nest of a hungry earth storm bear in winter...

And when it comes to the [Otherworldly Teleportation] of the Seven Rings, although it can reach the point of traveling across planes, it is still an old problem, and there is a high probability that there will be errors in the coordinates, after all, the law and rate of movement between planes itself is a huge data model that can make mages bald.

In contrast, the mages who prefer precision prefer to use the [Advanced Teleportation Technique], but it also has its own drawbacks.

Because the root of teleportation is still a problem of model induction and calculation, this kind of accuracy is only accurate in a short distance under the condition of mastering the existing surrounding data.

Therefore, if the mages want to teleport over long distances or even on the plane, they have to do their homework in advance, that is, the preparation of regional model simulation, transmission data calculation and spell casting materials, otherwise God knows if the geographical environment on the opposite side has changed after using the teleportation coordinates for an unknown number of years.

Even so, before entering the door, most spellcasters will make a prophetic judgment, just like some of the Blue Star gods have to tell their fortunes when they go out.

In long-distance teleportation, the most difficult and expensive is probably the super-large teleportation across the plane, which is basically a difficulty for interstellar transportation in a plane like Blue Star.

One of the most real examples is that when the elves moved from the next plane to the Korrell continent, the treasury of the elves was almost exhausted, and the elven gods led by Corellon presided over it.

It is said that for this complex subject, in the Gate City leading to the Machine Realm, the Gate City government has built a whole building, which is full of accountants, calculators, and an ancient computing device, which is dedicated to calculating where the portal will teleport people to a specific time.

And as they followed Anthony to the city walls, they saw that between the two walls, hundreds of laborers were placing boxes and boxes of spell casting materials in the designated positions under the command of the priests.

I couldn't help but smack my tongue secretly, that guy from Tiberius really spent enough money to get those half-elf immigrants...

In his words, they want to make good use of this opportunity to completely alleviate the demographic crisis in Zeelandia?

But then I heard the mage named Anthony cry out:

"As you can see, it will be at least forty-three days before this portal is built, and I'm worried about whether the east side will hold on. ”

"What then?" Kirk was immediately blinded.