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"Yes! That's right, but it takes a lot of money to set up a spell association, right? Chen Kai took the approval clause from Xu Fei's hand, which was a document issued by the General Association of the Imperial Capital of the Hansting Empire, which showed that the General Association of the Imperial Magic Association had approved the establishment of a branch of the Spell Society in Burkner Town. However, this does not mean that Burkner Town can immediately obtain a Spell Guild chapter, after all, spellcasters are a group of people who are very much in need of money, whether it is spell research or scroll making, they need gold to rely on.

"Yes! It takes about a million gold coins! Xu Fei estimated a little and then said the number that made Chen Kai stunned for a long time, he didn't say that this was the lowest price, in fact, it would take at least 10 million gold coins to really set up a branch of the Spell Association. It was ten times the number Xu Fei said, but this kind of gold coin would not be able to make up at all unless Chen Kai sold the few holy artifact weapons in the treasure room. Now the total gold coins in Chen Kai's pocket are only more than five million, which has to pay for next month's soldier's salary and various miscellaneous expenses, it can be said that the operation of the entire Berkner Town is supported by Chen Kai's money bag.

The large amount of gold coins cost Chen Kai's pockets quickly dried up, if it weren't for the latest attack on the city by demonized soldiers, allowing Chen Kai to sell the equipment of those demonized soldiers in exchange for some gold coins to alleviate the shortage of money bags, maybe Chen Kai would have started to worry about money by now. However, most of the equipment that was picked up from the demonized soldiers was digested by Chen Kai himself, and only the poorer ones were sold by Chen Kai.

What Chen Kai didn't expect was that it was not the player lords around him who spent the most money to buy things, but the nobles of the Northern Aboriginal Noble Alliance. It's just that what they bought was not equipment, but the head of the demonized monitor lizard, to put it bluntly, in order to buy it back and make it into a specimen for display. This kind of thing made Chen Kai very speechless, but the other party's bid was really not low, and Chen Kai sold it half to those lords. After all, for Chen Kai, the head of the demonized monitor lizard was just a pile of garbage. It contains very little blood, and it can't be used as a concoction for magic scroll ink. The most important thing is that the meat of the demonized monitor lizard cannot be eaten, and at the same time, it cannot be used as fertilizer, except for the skin and bone tendons, Chen Kai does not know what the use of this demonized monitor lizard is.

Of course, in order to sell it at a good price, Chen Kai did not saw off the horns above, and if he sawed it down, he might be able to make a few bone short swords. But even the price of making a short sword is not as high as the price of those nobles who want to show off their military exploits, because unless it is a means of alchemy, it is also a tabula rasa weapon worth thousands of gold, but it was sold to the other party Chen Kai for 150,000 gold coins. Chen Kai thought that it was estimated that no one would act as the wrongdoer at such a high price. In the end, it was found that there were really people who did such a thing, and the heads of the four demonized monitor lizards made Chen Kai turn a full 600,000 gold coins. In the end, all this money was used by Xu Fei as a fund for the establishment of the Spell Association, and Chen Kai added 600,000 out of his own pocket in addition to contributing 600,000 gold coins. Although in Xu Fei's opinion, this gold coin is still not enough, but it is already possible to establish an ordinary spell association.

When the Spell Guild in Burkna Town was officially launched, the Mercenary Guild and Adventurers' Guild in the town had been open for nearly a month. Although there were still very few mercenaries and adventurers coming to Burkner, it was much better than when the city was first established. It's just that there are many more spies from the Northern Noble Alliance than the adventurers who venture to Altinis in the south, and Chen Kai doesn't have much to do with such people, as long as Chen Kai can't catch the evidence, he will be driven out of the city. Those who seized the evidence were confiscated and beaten out of the city with sticks. …,

Of course, those spies who can be found out are absolutely second-hand fools, and it is impossible for Chen Kai to drive out some residents who can't find evidence as secret agents without any reason. So the spies who have been kicked out of town for now are just a few stupid spies who feel too good about themselves, and they don't know how to restrain themselves, as if it is very honorable to be a spy themselves. Of course, for such a foolish secret agent, Chen Kai will definitely not be soft and fight out with his mercenary group. It's just that the only ones who were stripped of their equipment and cleaned up were such two fool spies, and the other mercenaries Chen Kai didn't move. Because Chen Kai didn't want to offend these mercenaries too much. Who knows if there is a hidden more powerful storage zài among them. Even though these mercenaries had the possibility of acting as spies for the Northern Noble Alliance, Chen Kai was still unwilling to clash head-on with most of the mercenaries.

After all, if Chen Kai's city is to develop in the future, he still has to rely on mercenaries to protect the caravans to reach the city. Without the protection of the caravans, relying solely on Chen Kai's troops, it is estimated that not many caravans will be able to cross the Great Rift Valley from Altinis to the town of Berkna in a year. The most important thing is that Chen Kai also relied on the power of mercenaries to open the road to Altinis, and relying only on his troops, it may take several years for the trade route blockade between the northern and southern regions to be penetrated. But Chen Kai's wealth couldn't last that long, and at the same time, it was impossible for the prime minister of the Hansting Empire to let Chen Kai have so much time to accumulate strength. The harshly worded executive orders were a true portrayal of the imperial prime minister's heart, although he also knew that he couldn't force Chen Kai's travelers too much, and if Chen Kai took the burden, he wouldn't be able to find a new wrongdoer to do it. In fact, if Chen Kai's city is to develop in the future, he still has to rely on mercenaries to protect the caravans to reach the city. Without the protection of the caravans, relying solely on Chen Kai's troops, it is estimated that not many caravans will be able to cross the Great Rift Valley from Altinis to the town of Berkna in a year. The most important thing is that Chen Kai also relied on the power of mercenaries to open the road to Altinis, and relying only on his troops, it may take several years for the trade route blockade between the northern and southern regions to be penetrated. But Chen Kai's wealth couldn't last that long, and at the same time, it was impossible for the prime minister of the Hansting Empire to let Chen Kai have so much time to accumulate strength. The harshly worded executive orders were a true portrayal of the imperial prime minister's heart, although he also knew that he couldn't force Chen Kai's travelers too much, and if Chen Kai took the burden, he wouldn't be able to find a new wrongdoer to do it. You must know that not every stupid nobleman can win the favor of that earl. Not every baron does not know what is the cause of Hugordi's current situation. In fact, they all knew very well that opening the road to Altinis was not a difficult thing for the Hansting Empire. The difficulty, however, is that opening up this trade route would harm the interests of some of the current vested interests. In fact, the reason why the army of the Hansting Empire did not come to open the trade route is very simple, that is, it was all used to guard against the private armies of those great nobles. Of course, the most important point is that the empire does not have so much money to waste on the troops of the former lord of Hugodi. After all, there are so many underground passages in the Great Rift Valley that it would be a thankless task to find the former Hugodi lord and his remnants in these extensive tunnels, and military spending alone would cost tens of millions of gold coins. For the Hansting Empire, restoring the vitality of the Golden Plains was the most important thing, and it was not too late to deal with the food crisis when the trade routes were connected. …,

However, this will make Chen Kai miserable, because he will basically receive an executive order from the imperial prime minister every week, basically asking when the trade route can be opened. For the Imperial Prime Minister, he was known to everyone as a matter of severity about the Empire's food crisis. In fact, the grain in the north of Hansting was not as abundant as expected. The amount of time that can be consumed by the current grain inventory is entirely based on the premise of not wasting it, but the reality is that the situation of food waste is even more severe, and the prime minister is also very aware that the actual stock of grain in the granary of the empire is definitely less than on the books. In fact, no matter what era it is, the granary is the most important place in a country, but it is usually the place that is most neglected and nourished. Prime Minister Capello was able to gain the favor of the current Emperor because he was dealing with the granary, but at the same time he knew better that he was dealing with only a small problem. The royal family, the nobles and officials of the Empire, and the bureaucrats of the grain warehouse turned the granary, an important lifeblood of the Empire, into a giant rat's nest, whether it was reselling grain or using inferior grain as good food, and those bastards did it.

But the people involved in this are so great that Prime Minister Capello does not dare to lift the lid at all. Once revealed, not only will he die, but even the entire thirty-odd members of his current Capello family will die without a place to be buried. Therefore, he could only desperately ask Chen Kai to speed up the opening of the trade route in the Great Rift Valley, so as not to break out in advance of the food crisis, thus destroying him, the prime minister of the empire. Of course, in Chen Kai's opinion, the prime minister was a bit too demanding, and he just wanted the horses to run quickly and the horses not to eat grass. Aside from the executive order, Prime Minister Capello did not have any practical support for Chen Kai. It is completely unreasonable to ask Chen Kai to do a lot of things without even giving a little gold coin. Of course, Chen Kai's Prime Minister Capello may be poorer than him, after all, the matter of the Golden Great Plains has not been properly concluded until now, and if you want to completely restore the soil of the Great Plains, you need the earth elemental caster to cooperate with the temple priest to constantly clean up the death power that seeps into the soil. It was an extremely long process, in which the Golden Plains, the once extremely prosperous granary, became almost the most painful part of the empire.

Most of the remaining inhabitants have lost their farmland, and although the land is still theirs, what grows in the land is no longer edible. Anyone who eats this food dies or becomes a half-human, half-corpse being, and the plants grown in the soil are gradually distorted, and the trees are constantly dying and exuding the smell of decay. This is now the Great Plains of Gold. In the past, a bumper harvest was enough to keep the entire Hansting Empire from famine for two years, but now it constantly exudes the smell of death. Although the Hugodi territory was separated by two or three counties from the Great Golden Plain, there were still many refugees who fled here.

As Chen Kai, who had personally experienced the ghoul disaster of the Golden Great Plains, was very aware of the consequences of that disaster, and the grain that had been harvested in the granary was either burned or contaminated, and basically could not be eaten. Although there are now several lords in the Golden Great Plain who are working hard to restore the production of the territory, especially the senior brother of Chen Kai and the unworthy son of Prime Minister Capello are all working hard to stabilize the territory while holding signs in this place. But they are even worse than Chen Kai, although the territory area is almost more than twice the area of Chen Kai's territory, and there is almost no place for cultivation. Large areas of the land are black. But it wasn't fertile black. Rather, it is a rotten black that exudes a strong smell of death. Living on such a land, even ordinary people will gradually contract strange diseases and die violently. Therefore, they are simply fighting for their lives to act as lords there. …,

What a large number of temple priests do every day is to constantly release divine magic to disperse the death power in the soil, but these death forces grow faster than the priests' dispersal speed, and in the end they can only choose to completely shovel up the most fertile soil on the surface. A full thirty centimeter thick layer of soil had to be shoveled off, and a large number of earth elemental casters did not have a good rest for a day, they had to work for four or five hours a day, and then meditate constantly. These soil-made rocks were eventually transported to a place where they stacked up into a death plateau that players would later call the Cursed Lands.

All the rocks here are black and red, exuding a strong smell of death, and ordinary life, even if they are as strong as a cow, will age and die very quickly if they are not professionals. Creatures that die here instantly turn into undead, and due to the abundance of a large amount of death power, this place naturally opens a path to the underworld. Some of the undead who escaped from the underworld have settled here. Constant growth and more. Of course, this is almost a year later, and at present, the land of the Golden Great Plains is gradually recovering under this method, at least in a short time to be able to cultivate. Even though the yield of grain grown by this cultivation is very low, almost only slightly better than the grain harvest, because the fertile soil is completely eradicated, there is basically no fertile soil underneath. So in fact, although Chen Kai's territory is a little smaller, it is still a relatively good place, but no matter how good the place is, if he can't open up the trade route to Altinis, then Prime Minister Capello doesn't mind taking Chen Kai under the knife. Let him also taste what it is like to escape to the underground world and be a rat. In fact, if Chen Kai's city is to develop in the future, he still has to rely on mercenaries to protect the caravans to reach the city. Without the protection of the caravans, relying solely on Chen Kai's troops, it is estimated that not many caravans will be able to cross the Great Rift Valley from Altinis to the town of Berkna in a year. The most important thing is that Chen Kai also relied on the power of mercenaries to open the road to Altinis, and relying only on his troops, it may take several years for the trade route blockade between the northern and southern regions to be penetrated. But Chen Kai's wealth couldn't last that long, and at the same time, it was impossible for the prime minister of the Hansting Empire to let Chen Kai have so much time to accumulate strength. The harshly worded executive orders were a true portrayal of the imperial prime minister's heart, although he also knew that he couldn't force Chen Kai's travelers too much, and if Chen Kai took the burden, he wouldn't be able to find a new wrongdoer to do it.