The emperor was not a useless idiot, and now he knew that he had lost the war because of his great achievements. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Now he carefully examines the gap between himself and Roddy, but he feels that the other party really does not look like an "aristocratic ruler" in the traditional sense.

He was like a sudden emergence from a stone, his parents died young, and he came from a humble background. But he is also extremely powerful, judging by the current record is almost the level of "a thousand enemies", after the intelligence department contacted a number of battles related to the "arrow sneak attack", it was basically confirmed that Luo Di belonged to the role of "the upper limit of strength cannot be determined".

And such a person, with the sudden rise of a ruined city, what does he rely on?

There are not many troops, and the economic strength is not strong, so that the kingdom is rich and cannot be relied on by mouth cannons alone, Charles II now thinks most deeply about how to face this opponent who is his biggest headache at the moment - yes, after the "Temple" was controlled by Ivta, the royal family and Ivota are no longer the original disparity, but stand on an equal footing.

Roddy, who has replaced Augustine, has become a thorn in the side of the entire royal aristocratic group.

It stands to reason that what everyone should be worried about now should be the question of whether Ivota will take the opportunity to go south to continue the attack, but when I opened the newspaper, I found that they didn't mean that at all. On the contrary, there is a lot of construction within Ivota inside: yesterday it was "the completion of the first phase of the highway from Elson City to Hollier City", and today it was "the opening of the intercity transport train from Elson City to Jacobs Town".

Charles II was actually curious about what the "highways" and "intercity transport trains" were, but the intelligence forces sent had not yet replied to them, so he could only sit here and wait. But behind these news, a set of statistics made him unprecedentedly vigilant:

On the piece of paper beside him was clearly the names of the magic apprentices, assistants, and even low-level magicians who had left under the royal family and nobles in the last week.

There are so many people, and the number of people adds up to more than 100. You must know that even if these people are not middle and high-level mages who can go to war, they are all "intellectuals" who are free from "illiteracy" and have a very high level of education - that is, the lowest "magic apprentices", and it is easy to memorize the basic textbooks of magic.

In an era when the illiteracy rate is over 95 percent, such "intellectuals" are also a very small minority among those 5 percent. Therefore, the departure of more than 100 "intellectuals" is basically equivalent to the departure of the handful of people in the population base of 20,000 or 30,000.

The total population of the entire territory controlled by the Karen royal family may be less than 300,000, counting the nobles of the surrounding vassals can exceed 600,000, which is not bad, and the current royal family can count no more than 1,000 orthodox "magicians" - and those "magic apprentices" who have broken away are the foundation of the future magicians of the royal family!

Elson City didn't say that he was going to dig up the wall, but he just threw out a few job postings to let so many people out of control, what went wrong? Charles II flipped through "The Age of Karen", and a clue marked by him came into view-

"Elson School of Magic and Wizardry Second Campus Opens in Hollier City, Duke Sally Attends the Entrance Ceremony!"

"Three Colleges are located in the Golden Territory of Evta, register as soon as possible!"

"The Academy of Magic and the Academy have opened so much in one go, is this an effort to make civilians literate..."

Charles II flipped to the piece of news about the "Evta's civil service exam" that he had noticed earlier, and was silent for a long time.

Although Ivota did not organize any attack, the information one after another was like a mountain, and he was inexplicably overwhelmed.

......

August arrived as scheduled.

On a calm sea, the afternoon sun is unusually hot. The crew on deck took refuge in the shade of the sails, and the floating towers around the hull of the "Boratini" were immersed in the sea water and the waves rose and fell, and the sea breeze blew, and the smell was as fishy as ever.

By this time the landlubbers of Evta, who had passed their initial freshness, had taken refuge in the cabin and refused to come out. The barbarian soldiers and dragon lancers were accustomed to "recuperating" - to put it bluntly, a snort, while Roddy and the others enjoyed the cool breeze of the frozen circle and the "ice cream" made according to Roddy's opinion in the spacious ship's dining room.

This thing Roddy has tried DIY himself at home before, so he roughly remembers how to make it. There was no shortage of ingredients on board, and except for the time it took to make the cream, everything else was easily done with the help of magic - so now they almost all held a bowl of ice cream balls that had been magically frozen by Merinsera, and ate them one bite at a time.

"Such a delicious thing, Brother Roddy didn't know to let Elson's chef make it before, I think there must be a conspiracy!"

Nefi's lips were all white, and Roddy laughed: "What kind of conspiracy can there be? At that time, Elson was poor and white, and the broken bread tasted bad, so your mother told me to reduce the budget... You don't know, I almost rushed with her once, and if I reduce the budget, I won't even eat bread, I can just eat dirt!"

"Hahaha, the dignified city lord, you almost live by eating soil, and you are also the only one. ”

Merinthera especially likes to listen to Roddy's embarrassments, and she can't help but enjoy them. Akasha glanced at Roddy with gentle eyes, and said with emotion: "In the past, I couldn't eat a few mouthfuls of bread, and I even ate grass when I was the most hungry, which was only better than eating soil. ”

"We're not going to have a bittersweet meeting, by the way, Sylvia, what did the elves eat in the first place?"

"Hmm—the fossa..."

Sylvia had just taken a big bite, and she was speechless for a while, and swallowed it for a long time, and said with a little blush: "Also, it's nothing special, just some greens and pastries." Those nobles ate well, but I came from a commoner background and didn't experience those big meals... The magic tower will add some meat of Warcraft to us during the festival, and it tastes good. ”

The people at the table didn't feel disagreeing by talking about things that happened seven hundred years ago, but everyone was listening carefully when Sylvia spoke, which made her heart warm. But when the words fell, she was interrupted by Luo Di's question: "Isn't this kind of thing inedible because of the meat of Warcraft?"

What Luo Di said is actually right, there is a consensus on the mainland: the meat of Warcraft cannot be eaten, and once it is eaten, it will have various side effects. It can be fatal if it is mild, and the cause is difficult to find, and there is almost no solution.

"Tut-tut, that's really a pity, the meat of Warcraft actually tastes pretty good. ”

Merinthera licked her lips and recalled the old days, but when Roddy rolled her eyes and looked at her with disdain, she grimaced and added, "But it's true that normal humans can't eat the flesh of demonic beasts, do high elves have such special skills?"

"No, I heard that it has been specially treated, except that we haven't heard of anyone else eating Warcraft meat. ”

Silvia's explanation made everyone nod their heads in understanding. But Nephi came to the spirit, shouting for Roddy to find a way, and of course Roddy agreed to her request.

While everyone was talking and laughing, the dull sound of a horn suddenly crossed the sea, causing the faces of everyone present to change - "Akasha Nafi stayed in the cabin, and the rest of me went to the captain's quarters." (To be continued.) )