Chapter 13: The Underground "Lost City"
Rogers felt a certain change, not just in the town he was in, but at the level of the entire continent of Arrow, through the new business called "Newspaper" that has sprung up in recent years, even in this small town on the border of the empire can get big news from the whole continent. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"In order to get rid of the great inconvenience caused to the merchants by the heavy currency in the past, the six royal families of the five races in the whole Elo continent decided to collectively open the first bank in the whole continent, and vouched for this bank with the credibility of the six royal families." In today's newspaper, the headline position is undoubtedly occupied by this news, and two pages are spent below to explain what the new thing "bank" is.
Even if Rogers is a genius, he is still just an underage child, he has never heard of such a thing as a "bank" before, but one thing he knows very well is that it is worth opening collectively by the six royal families, this "bank" will definitely be a monster, an invincible monster on the continent of Arrow, even if there were rebellions of different sizes that began to break out in various places a year ago, but no one has ever doubted whether the position of the six royal families is stable, and even the ultimate goal of most rebels is to be loyal to the royal family and become vassals of the emperor again.
However, no matter how big the waves are on this Arrow continent, it is not something that the current Rogers can interfere with, although he is already a disciple of Mijas, but he is still just a small first-class knight.
Now Rogers is still following Mijas to lay the foundation, and at the same time, he has to learn a lot of "miscellaneous books" brought out by Mijas from the courts of various countries.
These were not mandated by Mijas, but ever since Rogers asked Mijas why the six royal families had to unite to set up a bank, Mijas threw him a book explaining the principles of finance.
Speaking of which, this book was written by the second elder of the elven race, and since Mijas summed up the previous monetary policy and proposed the concept of finance, no one thought that this would arouse the interest of the second elder of the elf race.
The old man spent a full decade perfecting Mijas's utopia, and he was also the chief responsible person of the central bank appointed by the six royal families, and the "banking industry" as a nascent industry needed such a wise old man as the helmsman.
Rogers is not very interested in the principles of finance, but he is very interested in the effects that finance can play, here he seems to see a small group of people in charge of the world, ordinary villager Rogers for the first time, in addition to strength and power, the third thing that can affect the world, capital.
From then on, Rogers began to beg Mijas to bring him more books to read, and Mijas had no problem with this, but Mijas was very casual every time he brought books, not only did he not care which palace he brought them from, but he also did not care about the type of books.
However, thanks to the first breakthroughs in magical technology fifteen years ago, the emergence of cheap papermaking and printing, the bearers of "knowledge" are no longer uncommon, otherwise the Elven Empress would not have allowed Mijas to take the books in the court so casually.
Although most of the low-level schools have been losing money, there are still a large number of businessmen who are willing to spend a lot of money to send their children to higher education, and counting the donations of graduates from time to time, on the whole, there is barely a need for Mijas to invest a lot of money.
Back to the topic, today's Rogers is training his physical fitness according to the menu formulated by Mijas, and strives to have 18 points of physique attribute after adulthood at the age of twenty, which is the most basic requirement for a knight who aspires to become a legend, although the physique growth of the half-elf race is not high, but fortunately, Mijas has enough alchemy potions, so Rogers' physique attribute in the future will not be below 19 points, and it is even possible to break through 20 points and obtain a "strong" specialty.
On the surface, Mijas has been looking at his disciples, but in fact, he is constantly thinking about the situation in the entire Arrow Continent.
Now that the reform is about to go on, some legendary mages have lost interest in research, and the six leaders are about to lose patience, and even the half-dead Nine Holy Church has a split problem, so to speak, the current Arrow Continent is a powder keg, and Mijas can detonate it at any time if he wants to.
"Rogers." Mijas spoke softly, and the young half-elf turned his head to look at his overly young teacher, knowing that the growth rate of the half-elf before the age of twenty and adulthood was the same as that of humans, which means that in another ten years, Rogers might be more mature than Mijas in appearance.
"What's the matter?" Rogers found his master unusually distracted, his fiery red eyes as if looking at him, but his pupils were completely unfocused, as if he was looking at something through himself.
"He's looking at the future of this planet." There was no reason for this thought to pass through Rogers' mind.
"Rogers." Although he wandered for a short time, Mijas quickly recovered and called Rogers to him.
"I'm sorry, but maybe you won't be able to live a full childhood again." Mijas spoke apologetically, the situation was a little more out of his control, after all, he was just an adult dragon.
"Is that saying, I can't go back to school?" Rogers had always been smart, and he was keenly aware of what Mijas meant.
"No, it's the opposite, you're going to learn too much, so you're going to keep going to school." Mijas shook his head at first, then continued: "But you can't stay here to go to school, you need to, change schools." ā
In Mijas's opinion, the only thing for Rogers to stay in this town on the border between the Knight's Empire and the Elven Forest is to allow him to have a full childhood, but Rogers is the one Mijas chooses, and he must have the consciousness to afford something.
"Is it that if I stay here, I can't become a legend?" Although intelligent, Rogers' lack of vision led Rogers to make a wrong judgment.
"I'm sorry, it's not like that, it doesn't hurt you personally to stay here, but I need you to sacrifice something." Mijas placed his hand on Rogers' right shoulder, as if to press something on his shoulder.
"To save the world?" Rogers half-jokingly said that he really didn't know what he could sacrifice.
"Yes, to save the world." Mijas said this quite seriously, leaving Rogers stunned on the spot.
After a short silence, Rogers finally spoke, "Okay! āć
Whether it was because of a ten-year-old boy's longing for a "big dream" of "saving the world", or because Rogers really felt something and chose all this, but since he said this answer, the life of the half-elf named "Rogers" has been magnificent since then.
"Master, where is this?" Mijas first took Rogers to go through the withdrawal procedures, nominally Rogers transferred to another school, but then Mijas led Rogers to a primeval forest.
"Could it be that my new school is an elven school?" Rogers thought to himself.
Mijas just smiled, but didn't speak, just walked headlong into the forest and controlled his speed to a point where Rogers could keep up.
There are no roads in the primeval forest, and many times you can't even find a place to stay, but fortunately, Rogers is a half-elf, and he has a race bonus when he moves in the forest, otherwise even if Mijas slows down, he will definitely not be able to keep up.
However, a legendary knight like Mijas can definitely control his speed to just right.
"Here we are." Just after Rogers wanted to speak for a third time to take a break, and then held it back for the third time, Mijas finally said something that made Rogers want to cheer.
"Caves, caves?" However, when Rogers recovered from his state of rushing and looked up, he saw a huge cave, the entrance of this cave was at least 50 meters high, but there was a majestic mountain in itself, Rogers just didn't expect that there would be such a cave on one side of this mountain.
"Go ahead." Mijas said as he walked into the cavern, and Rogers hurried up.
Although the entrance is quite spacious, and there is no sign of the cave ** getting smaller, the sunlight still disappeared after a few tens of meters, replaced by a lichen plant that can glow faintly in the dark, coupled with the natural dim vision of the half-elf, Rogers can still see everything around him clearly.
This unique landscape reminded Rogers of the adventure biographies he had read in the past, and famous adventurers would write about such a similar place, dark underground, glowing plants, and menacing monsters......
"Ahh Rogers suddenly saw a dark shadow pounce on them, not because the light was too weak, but because the opponent's speed was too fast, and at this time, Rogers, who was lowly in strength, could not see the attacker's face clearly.
Fortunately, Mijas was not a "lowly strength" person, he didn't even draw his sword, he directly raised his hand to lock the attacker's throat, and suppressed the other party with a strong "qi", so that the predator didn't even have the right to struggle.
"Are you still consumed, are you injured?" Mijas glanced back at Rogers.
"No, no." Rogers looked at what Mijas was pinching in his hand, it was a hideous-looking lizard, and swallowed.
"Master, could it be that we are going to an underground labyrinth?" Rogers couldn't help but speak after all, all of this was too similar to the "dungeon" in his impression, and even he was already fantasizing that there was such a castle in the depths of this cave, and there was a great demon king who would destroy the world, and his master brought him here to defeat him, otherwise why would Mijas say that it was to "save the world"?
"Underground labyrinth?" Mijas couldn't help but laugh, the kind of place that at least requires a team of legendary professionals to go to find out, it's still far from Rogers, "The place I'm going to take you to isn't so 'low'!" āć