Chapter 377 Moving the Land
"Human-oriented?" I don't understand the word, what does it mean to be a king?"
The chirping of the crowd interrupted the troubadour's high-pitched voice, which he thought was magnetic and charismatic, and he was somewhat displeased. "Listen up, listen well, this is a notice from His Majesty the Emperor of the Revy Magic Empire, don't interrupt!
After shouting twice in a row, the noise around him completely disappeared, and the troubadour bowed to the crowd in thanks, and then continued to read the announcement in his hand. Now, reading the announcement is very important to them, and only if they undertake this work will they be eligible to perform locally. Not only do they need to read aloud, but some of the most important ones need to be memorized, as they are often spot-checked by local workstation staff. If you recite correctly, you will be fine, but if you memorize it wrong, you will be deducted 1 point, and you will not be able to perform within half a year after the 12 points are deducted. There is one chance to take the exam once a year, and those who pass can increase their points back to 12 points.
Neither the resident troubadours who made a living from the tavern performances, nor the itinerant performance troupes, could disobey this order from His Majesty the Emperor, which increased their workload. However, those who can obey and complete and have points left on hand will receive tax-free benefits. For the sake of the "thin side" of the gold coin, it's nothing if the workload is so large, anyway, whether it's the score or the lines, didn't it need to be memorized in the past?
Moreover, taxation is greatly restricted by the ability of management, and it is basically impossible to calculate the exact value. If you want to do the math correctly, you need detailed regulations, complete records, and excellent statistical and calculation skills. If there was such a talent, Feige would have called him to the palace long ago, instead of staying in the people. The current way of "taxation" in the empire is the same as before, a very subjective "recognition tax system", which is flexibly controlled by tax officials within a certain range. A profession like a troubadour, for example, has never been satisfied with the amount of tax they pay, so tax collectors have a negative image in their artistic performances.
Now it's different, after completing the publicity work on time and in good quantity, they will receive a tax clearance certificate, which will be used throughout the Magic Empire, which directly increases their income. They often have to travel north and south, and they have seen a little more, so it is not difficult to see that the Magic Empire is in a phase of expansion, and the powerful emperor can defeat any lord's army at any time and anywhere. Hurry up and hold on to this thigh, so that there are more and more tax-free areas, which has become their basic consensus.
"That guy has such a good voice, and his voice hasn't been hoarse after reading it for so long, if it were me, I would have been speechless. "Roger was a member of the task force, he was only sixteen years old, and for six years of his life he sped on information for Maxers under the cover of servants. In order to know what kind of information is more valuable, he learned to write and calculate, so he quickly adapted to his new position after joining the working group.
"Roger, I've found the scissors and a crowbar, let's cut the rope and see what's inside this wooden box!"
Roger nodded, he took the scissors from Jessica's hand, cut them down the lines of the hemp rope, removed the rope, and began to work the nails. Jessica was two years younger than him, a member of the task force, and not a spy, and was very good-looking—especially in Roger's eyes. Others may not like the hazel freckles and darker skin, and the emerald green eyes and golden pupils are relatively strange, but that doesn't affect Roger. He liked her lively personality and enthusiastic attitude, especially her happiness when talking about crops, fruit trees, flowers, and farming, and he would certainly be infected by her.
The members of the working group generally come from four places, the spies provided by the Minister of Intelligence, the tax collector of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Goode, the "potato" expert of the Minister of Agriculture and Industry, and the graduates of His Majesty's School of Magic. Spies are the most numerous, accounting for half, magic schools have the fewest graduates, often only one, the largest group is only two, and the rest of the places are divided between tax collectors and farm experts. Roger has his eye on Jessica early on, and he is trying to find a way to pursue her, but there are still two difficulties. One is Jessica's father, Kelson Collingwood, who is also a member of the working group, who doesn't have much affection for spies, and the other is the "more handsome" Lamb Hide, a graduate of the school of witchcraft and wizardry.
"Roger, this is the first time the above has sent a box, right? By the way, have you noticed the team of the Knights of Hell? They are so well equipped that they look amazing!"
"Do you like the Hellknights? I heard that after completing the two-year working group, there will be a chance to enter the Hellknights' assessment. Would you like to let me try it?"
"The Knights of Hell need to learn magic, and it's hard if you don't have a foundation. But if you're willing to go, I'll cheer you on. Jessica blinked and urged, "Come on, remove this nail and you can open the lid!"
"His Majesty the Emperor will not send snacks. Roger jerked the nail off, then removed the lid, and the two men looked inside with their heads touched. This box was a quarter the size of a standard teleportation array box, and there was a lot of straw in it, and a few things were buried in the grass. Roger leaned down, pulled away the straw, and pulled out a rectangular box, a reel barrel, and a rattling money bag.
"There is a seal on the money bag, don't open it. Oh, there's ...... on the box too," Jessica sighed with some disappointment. As curious as she was, the Working Group's rules were very strict, and the cost of violating them was significant, and she didn't want to lose her job so quickly. "Open the scroll, there is no seal on it, and you have to work hard to read it to me. ”
"It's not hard at all. Roger smiled and pulled the lid open, poured the scroll out of the barrel, and sat down side by side with Jessica on the box. "Instructions for the use of wands"? Inside the long box are two wands: a stone drawer and a training animal. Uh, what is this thing?"
Feige is not good at choosing names, but he at least has a purposeful name. The Levi Magic Empire, the first two words come from the former Levi Central Empire, which represents the Truth Thunder Goddess to maintain it, which can be regarded as Feiqi's exposure to the light of his ancestors, providing a good reason for him to continue to expand his territory. The word magic is what he values most, which directly shows how he wants to manage the country and what the most powerful fundamental power of the empire is.
Magic has a very strong effect in the Yongli Continent, which can stand up to comparison. The old man also said to Feiqi, "The spells in your world are primitive and shallow." Primitiveness can be solved by development, and shallowness is also an advantage in some cases, which refers to "the power of spells that can be approached and manipulated in a very simple way close to the rules of the world".
In some worlds, spells are difficult to get started, and it takes a very long time to learn and the conditions are extremely harsh if you want to exert rich effects, but the Yongli Continent is just the opposite. It was created by the Creator, who then gave the administration to the Goddess of Truth and Thunder, and this handover actually exposed many of the rules of the world, which were passed down in the form of Goddess Divine Runes. If the rules of the time of the Creator are considered precious ores, then the time of the Goddess of Truth and Thunder becomes an open-pit mine. And with the goddess in pieces, this treasure mine is not even guarded.
Learn from the spells of other worlds by learning the runes of the gods, the runes of the creator, and then the runes of hell. Feiqi's magic is very close to the core rules of the Yongli Continent, and he already has the ability to mine. He had already managed to dig up some ores, such as the rules of space and illusion, plus some of the rules of souls. Digging and digging, he found an interesting design: a wand.
"Immortal" Orianna has a bone staff, densely stamped with the runes of the Creator, which she uses to cast and strengthen spells in the realm of the soul. After Feige's victory over Oriana, the bone staff became his trophy.
Spell items with runes written on them were nothing unusual, but a rune on the bone staff caught Feige's attention, and he decoded it to find that it was used to extract the power of the soul and strengthen the spell. Feige didn't learn this ability until he became a Hellpuritory, and he didn't expect to achieve this effect within the scope of the Creator's Father's spell. Feige was keenly aware of this rare opportunity.
Drain some of your soul power to power specific spells so that ordinary people with simple training can use spells.
For Oriana, she can use her soul to enhance spells with impunity, but ordinary people cannot, so the wand's wear and tear on her soul must be within the limits of what ordinary people can afford—and this is the realm of mind spending. Feige experimented and improved, and since the materials were readily available, he didn't need to "invent" the spell, just tested the range and continued to enhance the control, and the wand was made. The difficulty of using a wand is similar to that of a magic gun, but the requirements for magic are lower, and even ordinary people can withstand the intensity of casting spells twice a day without bad effects if they use the simplest, rough, and primitive method of recovery - which is actually to eat and sleep well. With the ability to use better meditation recovery methods, even if a spell can't be cast, you can use your wand ten times a day.
Feige was very restrictive, and the "no-starter" wand was only used to create simple spell effects. The Stone Drawing Wand uses a complex weakened version of the Earth Elemental Binding Spell, which can summon stones to the surface within a maximum area of 900 square meters, with a total weight of no more than 300 catties, and buried no deeper than half a meter. These stones are also limited to stones that have been "in the power of earth and nature for a long time", and are not effective against stone walls, stone slabs, and stone paths that are processed by humans.
This wand is used to clear the wasteland.
There are good and bad soil in the field, and there are also paddy fields and dry fields, but there is one requirement that remains the same: soil not stones. Trees can be cut down, weeds can be burned, but stones can only be dug by hand, picked up, and discarded, which is quite laborious, and stones under the soil are a threat to hoes and other farm tools.
"His Majesty the Emperor is really amazing!" Jessica exclaimed, "With this stone-pumping wand, the wasteland of our entire jurisdiction can bloom before the spring blossoms." You can't do it without that many seeds, but you can take turns planting or plant crops that don't require much management!"
"Is it that powerful?" Roger didn't quite understand farming, but he knew he should be happy with Jessica. Jessica, as mentioned here, can control the radius of the Stone Drawing Wand when it is mastered, making it a narrow shape that can be used to reduce the workload of digging channels. ”
"Uh-huh, that's a very good feature too. Where's the other wand? Look for where it is!"
The function of the wand is relatively simple, and it is only used to assist in the control of domesticated domestic livestock. "Well, I heard that the cattle will be divided before spring, I guess this is used to manage the cattle, right? His Majesty the Emperor thinks the cattle are difficult to control?"
Jessica frowned, and Roger felt that his time had come. He thought quickly, and then said, based on his knowledge of living in a noble castle, "I think that it is not only the control of cattle, but perhaps the inclusion of horses, not everyone can ride horses. And the dogs, I've seen trained hounds, which together are a very formidable force. Oh, we can raise a dozen dogs, and with this command, will ordinary beasts and robbers still dare to come?"
Seeing that the eyes of the girl he likes are getting brighter and brighter, Roger is becoming more and more confident: "It can let the sheep go to the designated place to graze, let the ducks not run around, and maybe let the chickens lay more eggs......"
"Hahaha, I don't think it's okay to let chickens lay more eggs!, but it can be used for breeding......" Jessica blushed, looked at Roger, and lowered her voice with some uncertainty: "Maybe His Majesty the Emperor hasn't thought about this usage, right?"
"I don't know, I just know not to speculate on the power and thoughts of His Majesty the Emperor. It really doesn't say anything in the manual, but we'll just try it then. ”
"Why are we two trying? You don't know magic, so you'll have to leave this thing to Lamb to use, right?"
Roger was uncomfortable at hearing Lamb, but he wasn't going to show it in front of Jessica. He was silent and quickly looked at the manual, suddenly showed a surprised expression, pointed to a line of words and said to Jessica: "Look, it is said here, even ordinary people who don't know magic can use magic wands, and everyone in the working group has to learn and use it in turn according to the specifications." Here's how to use it, see if I'll show you how to use it right away!"
"Don't be pushy! Let's look at Lamb first! And the wand box needs him to cast a spell to open. Jessica jumped to the ground and said, "Wait for me a while, I know where Lamb is, call him over and let's see what the wand looks like!"
With that, Jessica happily ran away, which made Roger feel a little down. "What's so big about magic, it's not His Majesty the Emperor's ......", snorted, picked up the long box with his hand, he just wanted to see the sealed rune on it, he didn't expect it to emit a flash of light, and then unseal it himself.
The box was stuffed with soft cloth, and two slender wands lay quietly in it. The wand is made of brass, about thirty centimeters long, one-third of which is a grip with a non-slip pattern, and in the center there is a rectangular iron plate nameplate that reads "Draw stones" or "train animals", and the first third is filled with dense runes.
Roger swallowed, and his desire to lose made him pick up the stone-pumping wand. As soon as he started it, his heart was pounding, except for the nervousness, the rest was excitement, and there was no worry at all.
"The usage method and precautions are here, and it doesn't seem to be difficult to ......"
Jessica and Lamb exclaimed as they returned. They saw Roger lying on the ground with his wand in his hand, and not far away in the wasteland, the white snow was covered with black holes, and the stones were beside it. It was as if the large and small pieces of stones had jumped out of the hole and lined up in broad daylight.