"This is wonderful!" Jiao Ming was overjoyed. Involuntarily unfolding, there is no doubt that the portal will have a huge impact on production and life and military warfare. Not to mention anything else, just how many people will benefit without having to crowd the bus to and from work every day. Considering the decentralization effect it produces, urban housing prices will not soar, and how many people will benefit.

However, it seems that Emily is not the character who will run for the good news alone, and most of the people who came here this time are asking for something, "This kind of research is of great significance, and if there is anything that can help, even if you ask, you will not refuse." ”

"Quite simply, more black substance. Emily threw the silver ring back and said helplessly, "I just tried it, and with this thing, I can't pull it out from underneath." ”

Jiao Ming nodded, this was not surprising, in the first winter, he also tried the silver ring to Zhuoshan and the others, but it was useless. And according to Siccuton's own records, the resistance of the following layer of obstacle avoidance to space distortion cannot be solved by simply increasing the number of rings.

"No problem, as much as you want. I just don't know how long it will take for the portal to be built?"

"I don't know. Emily shook her head, then smiled slightly: "Seeing that you are in such a hurry, it is better not to be a baron here, come back and continue to do research with me." The apprentices stuffed by the Wizards' Guild are so stupid that I despair. If you rely on them, you may need to wait until the beginning of spring, and if you join, the time will be shortened by at least half. ”

"I'm sorry, but I can't pull away here. Since they were acquaintances, Jiao Ming didn't bother to think of any euphemistic excuses, but a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he suggested: "Why don't you come here?" Not only is the environment here beautiful and the climate pleasant, but the problem of building materials has just been solved, so it will not be a problem to build you a new mage tower. ”

Emily laughed out loud, and asked, "Is it okay to win me over in turn?" I have seen that you have used magicians as slaves, and when the time comes, I will not look up and look down, for fear that you will not be bothered to move stones and concrete. ”

"How can you be called a slave when you give money?" Jiao Ming defended, but in his heart, he felt more and more that this plan was reliable, and he persuaded: "Borrow my vine teleportation network, come and go like the wind, and don't delay the school's teaching tasks at all, just waste some energy a little every day." And you have nothing to do with the Blue Python Kingdom, and as long as Vice President Sassu has results, he will not ask where you live and study. ”

These are just the reasons on the table, and there are even more reasons that cannot be spoken. Not to mention the eye-catching or façade problems, if the situation in the Red Mountain Kingdom changes again, there will be multiple helpers when the teleporters are evacuated. Recently, the situation has changed from the beginning, and the proportion of time spent in charge of the body has increased from half to 70 or 80 percent, and the risk of occurrence has become less and less due to the fact that you have taken more precautions when you are aware of the disease. Chunyu and Eth are fine, and Emily is fine.

"Sounds good, but I'm afraid these reasons aren't enough. Emily was clearly motivated, but she did not shy away from raising the price. What kind of benefits can the entry of the eight-ring magic master bring to the territory, everyone knows that in the territory of the kingdom under the jurisdiction of the entire magician association, there is not one barony in the barony of the eight-ring magic master mage tower. This kind of master is a good match for a little barony.

"You also know my little capital, as long as you are willing to move, you can say whatever you want. Jiao Ming took out the posture that the dead pig was not afraid of boiling water.

Emily tilted her head in thought, and the corners of her mouth curled up to the sky, "How about your time?" ”

"I'm glad you think of me like this. But I'm afraid not, there are still many things to do as a lord. How about two hours? About three hourglasses, midday to one-third of the dark. Jiao Ming landed and repaid the money.

"It's still an afternoon, but I can lend you the apprentices some chores. These people are stupid to study magic, but it's okay to do menial work, and it should be able to replace the amount of work you need to do in the difference time. "Although Emily is not a bad person, under the influence of this world, she also feels that her apprentices are 'coolies' who sell themselves to learn magic, although they will not kill and kill like slaves, but it is even more common to beat and scold them to do some personal work at will.

Emily herself would not treat them harshly, and she would not say much when she saw her peers mistreating their apprentices, because she did not feel that there was anything wrong with this 'rather gentle' behavior at this time.

Jiao Ming twitched the corner of his eye, and wanted to persuade him from a moral point of view, but he still gave up, wasting his tongue. On the other hand, as long as the two points of voluntary and equal pay for equal work are strictly adhered to, it is not necessarily a bad thing to give those apprentices more opportunities to practice magic, and the brain will be broken if they stay in the small room of the mage tower all day and draw.

However, when Jiao Ming explained the employment conditions, Emily was confused and asked, "Is there any benefit to co-authoring me, introducing the apprentice to you for nothing?"

"Considering the objective environment, it's understandable that you take some of it, how about 30 percent?"

"Do you really care about this little money?" said Emily, unbreathingly, "but it doesn't matter if you insist on it, as long as I study it for an afternoon every day, I'll promise you." ”

Jiao Ming slapped his forehead, feeling aggrieved. Dare to love this 'fairness and justice' is all regarded as a quirk and coerced by this, which is really good and not rewarded. I was about to explain again, but there was a knock on the door, but it was Luo Hua who brought in dinner, smelling the aroma of food, Jiao Ming, who suddenly felt hungry and stopped the topic to eat.

Because of Lord Jiao Ming's insistence on the taste of food and the recent implementation of health regulations, the cooks in the lord's mansion have suffered enough, but they can't bear to lose their jobs and go back to fishing, so they can only work hard and be careful. The spices of the whole continent are used casually, and although the cooking skills are not yet able to satisfy Jiao Ming's tongue, they are already delicious for others.

Emily, who wanted to maintain etiquette and eat a few bites, quickly fell into it and couldn't extricate herself, and only came back to her senses after eating three percent more than usual, and praised: "I didn't expect your food here to be better and better, I thought only Crocodile Collar could make such a delicacy." ”

"You're mistaken, Crocodile Collar's side learned from me. Jiao Ming, who was half-full, said vaguely.

Emily is not a foodie, and after eating the food, she wiped her mouth elegantly, and she didn't have much interest in this topic, so she stared at Jiao Ming and gobbled it up for a while, and said with a smile: "I heard from the crocodile that you are not from a noble background, but I believe it when I look at this food." ”

"Laugh. Jiao Ming swallowed the food in his mouth and restrained his movements slightly, after all, no one grabbed it. Yu Guang fell to the two big balls on the table and asked, "The black thing can block the space and twist, have you tried the wood kind?"

"Of course!" Emily flicked her fingers, and a spatial crack split the wooden ball in half, "Listen to your introduction, this wooden material is more powerful, so I used it for experiments first, and it ended up wasting several days." As you can see, it doesn't work. ”

Jiao Ming noticed the desktop without a trace of scratches, secretly praised the accuracy, and said: "Don't underestimate it, it can exist eight thousand meters underground, there must be something peculiar, but we haven't discovered it yet." ”

"Perhaps, as a material, it won't be useful to us qi mages anyway. I've done all the material tests I can do, and I can't go wrong. Emily said as she began to carve the wooden hemisphere with qi magic, apparently watching Jiao Ming finish eating, and simply practicing magic accuracy out of boredom.

At this moment, there was a sudden explosion outside the Lord's Mansion. Due to the far sound, several people in the house did not pay attention, Jiao Ming walked to the window with the bowl and looked down, he couldn't see the details clearly in the half-dark skylight, and saw that the dense black smoke was rising from the dense forest not far in front of the lord's mansion, and the signs of weakening were obvious. There were also a few black shadows jumping out of the windows on the second and third floors, obviously the crocodile territorial water magic warriors who were joining in the fun.

"There seems to be fluctuations in the Holy Demon Sea, probably fire magic. Emily reminded non-stop, nonchalantly.

Jiao Ming squinted his eyes while eating, and finally saw some eyebrows, "It seems that two magicians were caught by us, and it looks like they are not my laborers, nor are they people who have been supported by crocodiles." ”

"It's probably because you're developing well, and you're feared by the nearby lords. Emily guessed with her usual thinking, but it was obviously far from the truth, after all, she didn't know anything about the sensitive situation of the Red Mountain Kingdom at this time.

Jiao Ming didn't think so, and at the same time sped up his swallowing speed and tried to finish before the news came, after all, no matter how small things needed to be paid attention to at this time, and the two magicians who sneaked into the territory had to deal with it personally. And when Jiao Ming saw the two magician spies in the hall and took the letter sent by Dieda, his heart was full of absurdity, and he asked confirmatively: "Declare war on me? Did this bird feather lord take the wrong medicine?"

"This letter is indeed written, inviting you to fight a baronial war in three days in the valley of the northeastern border of the realm. Dieda repeated, seeing that Jiao Ming was still confused, he had to use his slender fingers to point out the key information on the battle book.

Jiao Ming barely confirmed this fact with his limited Chinese proficiency of the Red Mountain King, and felt even more ridiculous, and asked Yi Si, who rushed back from the Hetan factory area after hearing the news: "Is it okay to declare war casually without even writing down a reason?"

Knowing more about this, Yisi was not interested in taking a look at the formulaic war letter, and had a quick conversation with the two spies, or the messenger, and replied with a frown: "It is indeed a bit strange to choose this time. ”

"I'm questioning the declaration of war itself, not the timing. Jiao Ming's tone was slightly accentuated.

Yi Si blinked his eyes twice, and then suddenly realized, "You misunderstood, although this kind of war is also called war, but it is different from border wars, and the more accurate translation should be 'group fighting', which is the rule set by the original kingdom in order to maintain the combat power and blood of the magical aristocratic family. There is not only a limit on the number of rings, but also the supervision of the superior lord and a slight guarantee of life safety. ”

Jiao Ming breathed a long sigh of relief, it turned out that he was rare and strange, so the explanation was much more reasonable.

"It's not timely. Over the past 200 years, this kind of 'group fighting' has not only become less and less, but has also become more and more perfunctory, and there has even been a situation of fighting on behalf of others. It is not an exaggeration to say that it exists in name only. Yi Si said and glanced at the two messengers, Jiao Ming waved his hand to take them down, and Yi Si continued: "This time the incident is too coincidental, I suspect that there is a problem, we need to be careful." ”

Jiao Ming nodded in agreement, even if it is a 'group fight', it should not be taken lightly, and when he was a student, he had also heard rumors of group fights killing people, and at this time, the danger of magic increased, so he asked about the many details and evolution of this 'aristocratic war'.

The first is the restriction condition, the so-called baron level, the upper limit of combat power is ten six-ring magicians, there is no lower limit, and it is okay to throw ten ordinary people to death. The second is supervision and security, which is under the control of the higher-level lord and viscount, but considering the rise and fall of the magic family, it is common for powerless old and young to appear, so sometimes it is just a decoration. Finally, the cost of victory and defeat, depending on the on-site negotiation between the two parties, most of them are property slaves, and there are similar cases of 'snatching relatives', but they are very rare. As for the fundamental thing such as land, it has never been there, after all, this is just a game to maintain combat effectiveness, how can the kingdom leave a loophole for annexation.

After Issy finished giving a detailed introduction, Emily, who was listening to the fun, was very impressed by this set of gameplay, compared to her own hometown, no wonder the Red Mountain Kingdom is so powerful. Yi Si thanked him, with three points of pride in his expression, without the slightest sense of modesty, it was not rude but he did not have a cultural background in this area, and then he also praised Yi Si's hometown a few words. Since Jiao Ming has been investigated, the background of his master Emily will naturally not be unknown at all.

Jiao Ming interrupted the business exchange between the two women and asked, "What will happen if you don't participate?

Eth rolled her eyes, apparently both questions were too unusual. The former is okay, there are never a few deserters, and the latter is simply a contempt for the aristocracy, and if you change it to the earth, the village chief doesn't know who the county magistrate is in charge of him for a few months, isn't it funny.

"If you avoid war, you will be looked down upon by everyone, no one wants to be close, it is impossible to be promoted to viscount, and you may be troubled at other times. But you don't seem to care about that. As for your immediate boss, it is the Viscount Bakker family, and the current head of the family is a fire magician of the Eight Rings, who is nearly sixty years old and is not in good health. Three days later it could have been his son who appeared. Six-ring fire magician, I can't remember the name, Aze or Aluo. ”

"It's amazing to remember so much. "The Red Mountain Kingdom is not small, and there are many magical noble families, large and small. Compared with Zhong Guo, it is not easy to remember the names of all the mayors, let alone have an impression of the mayor's son.

"This is the basic requirement of the children of the royal family. ”

"And what about this baron who declared war?"

Of course, Yi Si will not be stumped, "The Baron Sardok family, the current head of the family is the Fifth Ring Earth Department, a female magician in her forties, but since she launched a declaration of war, she should be promoted to the Sixth Ring." ”