This is a normal two-storey house.

On the second floor is the master's bedroom, the guest's bedroom and study, and on the first floor is a spacious hall and a small kitchen and toilet.

Storage room is in the basement.

Today, the hall on the first floor is surrounded by several large workbenches, which are filled with steel components, wooden strips, papyrus with messy patterns, wire rings, and other messy things, and the bright beams of light through the windows move on the desks, and floating dust shuttles between them.

Lu Yuan put down the coil in his hand decadently, and leaned his whole body on the recliner.

As a child, he had many, many dreams.

When reading martial arts novels, you will imagine that Guo Jing is as righteous, as heroic as Qiao Feng, and as lucky as Shi Potian.

When you read a fantasy novel, of course, you will also dream of becoming a magician and wielding powerful effects, but the focus is on magic with brilliant colors and loud nouns.

Now that he has really come to the world of magic, he seems to have broken into the world of fairy tales, disdainful of those adventure stories or something, and occasionally make a paper airplane that can fly by himself can be happy for several days, and can be shown to many people.

As simple things no longer became difficult, he inevitably set his sights on something more profound.

For example, rice cookers, such as radio, and even satellites and mobile phones in the future.

Once he got to that, he felt mad, and the magic he mastered now was completely insufficient!

Precision instruments, machine tools, stable electrical energy, working places, spell-casting capabilities, etc., are all obstacles that are difficult to overcome. An easy way to solve these problems is to build a mage tower!

This gives him a safe environment to work and experiment, the Mage Tower can gather arcane energy far beyond his own to help him cast spells, the Mage Tower can greatly reduce the wear and tear of his body to make magic items, and the Mage Tower can also provide a stable amount of energy. And he needs to study magic. He now knew what the Tao was, and most high-level mages liked to stay in the mage tower and study magic. In an age where information was spread by bards and taverns, it was simply too difficult to learn magic invented elsewhere.

If he hadn't occasionally obtained the spells of the Bigbay Slap series through the magic net, and if he had to find it himself, he would have to cross the plane to the Gray Eagle World Realm, and then have a relationship with Bigbaya, no matter how hard he thought about it, it would be extremely difficult!

How many spells are there? In addition to the twenty or thirty standard spells per ring, there are thousands of spells that are original or mutated by the magician, which may have only been spread in one place, or simply recorded in someone's magic book as a private treasure. Lu Yuan believed that somewhere in this world, there must be some magic that could solve his problem, but he couldn't find it, he was faced with a situation that all mages faced—magic could not meet his needs. That's when a magic tower is needed.

These are all benefits.

The difficulty lies in the astronomical amount of money, and a piece of land.

Even, the biggest problem is not the money to buy expensive magic materials, but the land.

This is the Middle Ages of magic, and all the lands are basically ownery.

And Baldur's Gate, and even the Coast of the Sword, are not feudal feudalism. The city council was formed by the large landowners who controlled the land, the big merchants who controlled the economic lifeline, and the powerful people of the various guilds. Together with the Grand Dukes, they manage, or divide, all the interests of Baldur's Gate and the areas under their control.

This interest group has been passed down from generation to generation and is indestructible.

If there is no earth-shaking change, new people will not want to rise.

The ongoing conspiracy between the Iron Throne and Shavlok is to create such an opportunity, and in the same way, he himself will become an opportunity for others.

Lu Yuan pondered whether he should get a piece of land to build a tower in this great change.

I got up and cleaned up the remnants of scrap a little.

Lu Yuan opened the ring, and there were several empty large glass cups in the center, which contained various fresh fruits.

Lu Yuan was really tired of making fruit milk ice cream before, so he directly wrote down the method and handed it to Comrade Goddess. It is very simple to know that making milk ice cream is nothing more than boiling the milk, pouring it into sugar and egg yolk for mixing and stirring, cooling and filtering and freezing. After that, add fresh fruit to make fruit ice cream, and add chocolate to make chocolate ice cream.

It's not that hard.

Then Comrade Goddess will be able to make something extremely unpalatable.

Lu Yuan later tried to let several people make it, but whether it was the innkeeper, the kitchen aunt or the Jill girl, the things made were more unpalatable than the other, and the people/gods of the other world were stupid?

In the end, Lu Yuan still had to do it himself.

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"Knock knock", Lu Yuan put down the funnel with the filter in his hand and looked at the door suspiciously. Then there was a knock on the door, which made him confirm that there was really a guest on the door. After tidying up the kitchen a little, Lu Yuan walked through the hall and opened the door to the room.

"William?" Lu Yuan was surprised to see that it was actually his cousin William, who was standing outside the door with a bottle of red wine.

William looked at him for a moment, then looked away in embarrassment.

"Ah", Lu Yuan remembered at this time, and took off his apron from his body, "Come in, when did you come back?" ”

"The other day, I heard from the people in the town about you, so I came to visit. Wow, you're a mess here. William walked in with emotion, put the red wine on a table at the door, and casually visited his test bench.

The two of them chatted like friends they hadn't seen for a long time, their tone was affectionate and casual, but they were clear in their hearts that they were not friends, just allies.

After Lu Yuan found two cups and the two of them sat down, Lu Yuan asked in a casual tone, "Iron ore crisis?" ”

"Yes, the iron ore crisis." William nodded, not showing anything unusual for Lu Yuan's acuity, the two of them had confirmed each other's abilities before choosing to become allies. "I just arrived, did you find anything?"

"Hehe", Lu Yuan smiled lightly, "Who sent you?" We all know that the problem is not here, the problem is at Baldur's Gate, what can you find here? ”

William's eyes lit up, "It seems that you know what to say?" The old fellows had been arguing with the Iron Throne for a long time before they came to an agreement to put me in charge of dealing with the iron ore crisis in Nasikai, and I had no clue right now. ”

"William, William, William, I do have what you want, I want to know what I can get? I want to know Lu Dao......" Lu Yuan shook his wine glass and smiled, "Who is standing behind you?" ”

The two arcane forces were separated by a light touch in the air, and the dust between the two of them quickly rose to the sides, and William looked up in surprise. Lu Yuan's mage level is close to 6, and William's mage level is 7, and the battle just now is almost equal. Although it is a real competition, Lu Yuan will definitely lose if he does not use his hole cards, but as a test, this is enough. Lu Yuan showed his super talent and progress, and now he has a lot of chips, and no one can force him.

"Really...... It's a pleasure", William drank his glass of wine in some frustration, and it seemed that the word he wanted to say should be "spoiled". He is a mage after all, and reason always prevails. "What do you want to get?"

"It depends on whether the person behind you can give it."

"Behind my back...... It's the person I've always admired. William replied hesitantly.

"William, William, William, let's be honest, we can join forces to get great benefits in this matter. As an ally, I will need your strength, but at the same time, you need to be honest. Don't be vague, I need a name. ”

"Anta Silver Shield."

"Wow~", Lu Yuan whistled, William, this young mage leader who is known for his youth and radicalism, behind him is actually the most conservative of the conservatives, the Grand Duke of Baldur's Gate, Anta Silver Shield! This was unexpected.

"Please." William, who said his name, leaned back in his chair and made a gesture of please.

"Shaflock", Lu Yuan also said a name.

"Is that him?" William straightened up, "This can't be...... All his money comes from the arms trade, and the iron ore crisis will directly harm his interests, what good will it do him? Wrong...... Unless ......"

Seeing that William had already guessed, Lu Yuan nodded and echoed, "Of course it's not just him, but also the Iron Throne Business Alliance behind him, they have found a new source of iron ore." ”

"Ha, sure enough! In this way, they will be able to eliminate small arms dealers and completely monopolize the arms trade, clever! It seems that after the Cormier Kingdom banned the Iron Throne Merchants Alliance from entering the country, they began to implement this plan. William applauded.

"If there is a war at this time......" Lu Yuan reminded again.

"This can't be," William's face became a little ugly, once there was a war, it was no longer limited to the realm of commerce, "what good is it to provoke a war for that group of merchants?" Businessmen don't put themselves all on the scales, and they're not gamblers. Besides, even if they provoke it, the Grand Duke and the Council will definitely stop it! There is also the Flame Fist, and the Iron Throne does not have that much strength. ”

Lu Yuan shook his head and stopped talking.

"What do you want?" Lu Yuan's meaning is very clear, if there is no benefit, it will end here. This made William impressed, he didn't expect his cousin to be really a difficult character, and refreshed his cognition again and again.

"Magical materials, a piece of land."

"The Magic Tower? Yes, you have a great future ahead and you need to have a magic tower sooner rather than later. In or out of the city? ”

This question is critical. The city meant that Lu Yuan would also intervene in the distribution of political interests, which was unlikely to be acceptable to William and the people behind him.

"Outside the city, south of Baldur's Gate, preferably hilly." Lu Yuan was not interested in politics, and this choice made William breathe a sigh of relief.

"I can vouch for it, this condition is not worth mentioning to the Grand Duke."

"The Iron Throne may not want to provoke a war, but Shavlok thinks that the Iron Throne, who is tied to the chariot, will have to go along. Behind Shaflok is the temple of the murder god Baal, you know their usual style of acting, as long as Anta Silver Shield is assassinated and the war starts, Shaflok can easily become the new Grand Duke, looking at his past achievements, he knows that he has been preparing for this. ”

William nodded, and stood up to take his leave. Now that Shaflock's plan has been obtained, I believe that Anta Silver Shield has the ability to handle the next thing. But when he arrived at the door, William couldn't help but say, "Lu Yuan, forget it this time." In the future, before the benefits are in hand, it is best not to reveal your hole cards, not everyone is your cousin. ”

"Hehe", Lu Yuan laughed softly.

"William, what do you know is the most powerful in the multiverse?"

Without waiting for William to answer, he continued, "The most powerful one is 'a team of adventurers'!" Because of such a 'team of adventurers', the Demon Prince can be expelled from the main plane, and because of such a 'team of adventurers', the goddess Woking is saved from the abyss. At the climax of the story, I will walk into Baldur's Gate with such a 'team of adventurers' and cut off Shaflock's head", Lu Yuan stretched out his index finger with a smile and tapped lightly, "If you still want to harvest the assets of the Iron Throne smoothly, you can't rely on me!" ”

The iron ore crisis at Baldur's Gate, from the eyes of ordinary citizens and merchants, sees the clouds of war between Baldur's Gate and Am; From the eyes of the aristocracy and the chaebols, what is seen is the struggle for the distribution of power in Baldur's Gate; From the eyes of the temple and the alliance of harpers, what is seen is the turmoil of the balance of the main plane; From the eyes of the gods, this incident is related to the future camp of the Baal god - good or evil, orderly or chaotic, as a powerful divine power, the Baal Throne is a decisive weight.

But in Lu Yuan's eyes, this is still a game in essence. He could choose to continue playing, or he could choose to flip the table, which even Anta Silver Shield couldn't do.