Act 230: City of Trees (1)
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Viewed from the sky, the Tonigel region is high at both ends and low in the middle, with a basin to the southwest, and the fir castle is located in this direction. Looking east from the fir castle, the blue sky is the shadow of the rolling hills, and the large hilly area that rises from the western foothills of the Grajal Mountains and where the tributaries of the Gris River meet, is the best hunting ground in autumn and winter, and is the most densely forested area.
Located on the border of the Mintai region with the fir realm, it is bordered by Pallas to the north and the Shavlund mine to the east, which is the most important passage to the outside of Tonigel, and is the best location for Tonigal Fortress as conceived by Brando.
Although the terrain is undulating, the terrain is never a problem for dwarves. It was only for financial reasons that the plan was now in full swing, with some troops stationed in the hills, and a few forts erected on the main roads.
In the heart of the hills, the forest is thought to have carved out a clearing that was supposed to be a place of lush vegetation, but now the clearing is covered with rocks collected from the forest, and the gray uneven surface depicts a large circle.
The main body of the circle was made up of multiple concentric circles, and there were many mystical runes written on it, which might not be recognizable even if the most prestigious masters of the Eruin Royal Society could identify them. For Brando, the circle dates back to at least the pre-Dark Dragons, dating back to the Battle of Dusk.
There was a mysterious power flowing through the circle, like the whispers of the woods, a purely natural force that filled the forest, and many green vines grew in the crevices between the rocks at a speed visible to the naked eye. Although the circle has only been built for less than a week, the vines look like they have been sleeping in the forest for hundreds of years. Werther had been unusually lush for several days, and the circle seemed to be able to gather the magic of the forest.
This is the completed Valhalla Central Circle, which has a groove in the center that fits the city core in Brando's hand, which is the place reserved for it.
"The magic circle does not need an external source of magic power, and once it is completed, it can extract free magic power, such a powerful law, even if we are silver elves, we don't have it." Médisa looked at the magic circle in the forest, and Cao sighed: "What a pure natural breath, Lord Lord, you are so powerful." ”
"It's not my work." Brando replied embarrassedly.
"That being said, but the information on the crystal about this circle is not deciphered by anyone, even the druid elders who came from the Black Forest can't do anything, and the lord happens to have read the ancient books in this area, which cannot but be said to be a choice of fate." Behind Brando, the older sister of the wild elves also agreed with the elven princess.
Hearing Flo say this, Brando smiled. He can decipher the crystal more or less because of his special identity, he can use the additional information projected on the retina to understand the true purpose of an object, while the aborigines can only guess what a magical object does through archaeological or general identification methods.
"So Brando, when are you going to put the crystal on it?" Roman asked, sitting on the rock.
"It should be now."
Brando said.
He has also seen scenes in past games where the city core is nurtured, which is actually a semi-intelligent artificial life that is planted like a tree seed and then injected with magic to make it grow.
However, before planting, a magic circle is needed to strengthen it, and Brando has seen it for the first time. He inserted the crystal in his hand into the groove in the center of the circle, and felt the crystal buzz and vibrate in his hand, and the inside seemed to glow faintly, and the light flowed out like golden water along the runes of the circle.
Brando quickly shook his head.
For a moment, he almost thought he was mistaken, because a row of green words appeared on his retina asking:
"An unfamiliar request, access to the lord system."
Brando's lord system was actually activated when he first obtained lord status, and the lord system after it was opened is a bit like a town board in an SLG game, which can be used to monitor the operation of his territory.
For example, Brando's lord system at the moment has two downward submenus, the Ring of the Trade Winds and Tonigel (2/3 of the territory), he can see the income and expenditure of the two territories, specialties, population, mine forest resources, and security status, etc.
It also comes with a set of personnel appointment numbers, such as the ability to see who the current person in charge is in different sub-options. For example, in Tonigel's financial situation panel, the person in charge is Roman.
If Brando were to remove Roman from this position at this moment, he could see a series of implications for the future finances of the realm. This system exists in the game, but it is more powerful in the game, and the player lord can even use this system to complete personnel appointments and dismissals and issue some government decrees.
But in this Vaynd world, the territory system doesn't actually work, it's basically just a surveillance system. Just surveillance, it's very powerful. Brando can see that if Roman is placed in charge of the Schavrend silver mine, it can increase the mine's revenue by almost a third in the next three months.
It wasn't until he discovered the secrets of the lord's system that the merchant's abilities were first understood, but even so, he preferred to keep Roman in his position as the head of Tonigel's finances.
Although little Roman's talent for financial management is far less than her talent for business, the trade in the territory is now more than just the income of the silver mines, and in terms of the total amount, it is still much more cost-effective for him to stay in this position than to be the head of any mine.
Of course, these are all off-topic. Brando looked at the dark green text suspended on his retina, froze for a moment, and then agreed to the request.
Immediately after that, there was a subsystem under the lord system, and the name was Valhalla. However, the system was still gray, and Brando tried to touch it, but immediately got a prompt:
"In Valhalla's cultivation, the first stage requires mana, 132,000."
"132,000 units of mana!?" Brando was taken aback, the magic unit here is mana, of course 130,000 mana is not something anyone can provide, even wizard leaders like William and Tulaman are estimated to be sucked dry when they come - so much magic can only be output by magic crystals, Brando immediately reacted.
One of the lowest levels of the Mana Crystals is the secondary Moonstone, followed by the Flame Agate. However, he was not a wizard before, nor was he a professional alchemist, and he really didn't know how many units of magic the secondary moonstone could be converted into, and he was really a little apprehensive for a while, if the conversion rate was too low, then this thing called 'Valhalla' was purely a bottomless black hole.
Thinking of this, Brando hurriedly took out the magic crystal that had been prepared long ago from the dimensional cave, it was a secondary moonstone, the quality of the veins of the magic crystal mine in the Black Forest was still good, at least the magic power on this secondary moonstone was much richer than what Brando had seen on the market.
He threw the secondary moonstone onto the circle, and almost in the blink of an eye, the diamond-shaped magic crystal lost its color and became transparent, like glass. The cues in the face Brando's retina have also changed:
"Valhalla is being cultivated, and the first stage requires 131,900 mana."
“1:100。” Brando breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, if the lowest-level moon crystal could be exchanged for four units of mana, then the high-level magic crystal would not be a problem. He tried the flame pattern agate again, and sure enough, the exchange ratio of a flame pattern agate was about 2000.
In this way, the magic crystals needed for 130,000 units of magic power are only a few hundred. The magic crystals mined by the Rich Magic Crystal Mine in the Black Forest for the first time are tons, and the magic crystals that are needed in the territory at the moment are actually just the forges of Charles and other mages, Lu Bai and Tamar masters, so Brando almost allocated half of the mining amount to his own pocket, not worrying about the magic crystals that Valhalla needs.
But he soon realized that he was naïve.
Hundreds of crystals were thrown down in exchange for a pile of transparent and colorless glass, and at this time, the city core finally absorbed enough of the magic needed for the first stage, and the whole crystal made a creaking sound, and immediately a large number of cracks appeared on it.
Then, with a click, the core of the city shattered in plain sight, and a tree grew out of its original groove......
A small tree bud.
"It's Mao!" With Brando's knowledge, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded at this moment, it was outrageous enough to plant the heart of the city like a tree seed, but he didn't expect to really grow a sapling for him.
However, Brando also knew that this tree must be extraordinary, and no one would believe that what would come out of a few hundred magic crystals would be an ordinary sapling, only to see that the sapling grew in the wind, and grew to about the height of Brando in an instant.
Brando looked up and saw that the sapling had begun to thicken and lengthen, stretching out its branches, almost like a sacred tree of ancient elves, and in a moment it had grown to the point that it needed to be hugged by one person, reaching a height of several meters.
In just one minute, the 'sapling' had grown to the level that the average tree would take at least ten years to reach, but it had no intention of stopping.
Everyone present saw that dense aerial roots began to grow on the trunks of the trees, and many roots also sprang up under the surface of the rocky magic formation, and these roots were also growing at the speed of a dog visible to the naked eye, and then clumped together.
After a few breaths, the 'sapling' was bigger again.
I saw that there was an ancient tree.
"This ...... This is ......" At this time, Otares, who had been sleeping in Brando's heart, also woke up because she felt the drastic changes in the magic around her, and she was a little speechless when she saw the tree.
Brando was actually speechless for a long time.
Because right in front of him, the sapling was getting thicker and thicker, and countless roots and branches were extending from the trunk, and now it had risen to the point where it took seven or eight people to hug it. But the height of the tree was never high, and the highest was only a few meters above the ground, and at this time Brando gradually saw what the tree looked like, and it formed a wide field between the canopy of the tree.
“**!” Brando finally reacted at this moment: "Isn't this the World Tree in the Ring of Trade Winds!" ”
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