Even after two years, when the Grand Duke of Eastwood had spent money to build an armoured floating fleet entirely of his own, the scene of His Excellency Baron Aldrich Triss demonstrating the strength of his family at the full moon banquet of his eldest son was still repeatedly mentioned by ordinary citizens of the Customs Union. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In particular, the final fireworks display, a special device placed on a mile-long rope bridge connecting the two mountain peaks, instantly ignited the fuse, and continuously erupted a large number of Martian fireworks into the mountain stream valley, and even surpassed the flaming waterfall of the legendary Dawn Floating City.

Thousands of hanging flames dressed the lonely mountain that had been silent for many years like a lady with bright eyes, and the extravagance and generosity beyond the imagination of ordinary people made the guests present at that time feel excited.

It is not worth mentioning that the iron rope bridge was so red and hot by the flame flow waterfall that it was only a quarter of an hour long, so that the next morning there was still a residual temperature, so that several professors from Rotin College, who were very interested in engineering technology, had to stop visiting the nearest place.

It was a very wise choice, the professor, who came from a family of scholars, turned to His Excellency Aldrich Triss for advice, but the Baron, who had a strong sense of secrecy, did not refuse on the spot due to social etiquette and needs, and directed them to the family study.

When the three professors of Rodin College saw the drawings weighing a quarter of a ton, they couldn't gnaw it down in less than ten days and half a month, and they immediately chose to give up.

Approaching the end of the school year, it is the busiest time, and in terms of their own jobs and personal interests related to salary and income, as long as they are clear-headed, they will choose the former normally.

Sending away a few curious guests without being soft or hard, the head wolf entrenched in the lonely mountain put away his claws and teeth, and had no intention of continuing to provoke the lion king, but the wolves who supported him behind him were encouraged to boost their morale and become more and more self-reliant.

With the financial backing of the Temple of the Friends of the Merchant, Aldrich Triss built a fleet of flying speedboats for the family, but except for the first Kirov airship, the other eleven were only models that could fly into the sky, with only simple lights inside, and the empty shells on the surface were enough to frighten the nobles who did not know the details.

The upper class of Eastwood City was mixed with envy, jealousy, and even a little hatred for Mrs. Lovette's affairs, and the aristocratic maidens and even noblewomen who had come into contact with Aldrich Tris, such as Dyneth Schultz and others, all sighed, hated themselves for not looking away and not making a move in advance, and seizing this unfathomable potential of the best.

True, the recent rise of equity transactions in the Spanish-Turkish Customs Union, although only circulated in a small area, was highly sought after by the aristocracy who had a lot of money but no local investment.

Aldrich Triss learned about the situation from the leftover knight, although he was always stared at and did not make a big move, the doppelganger secretly contributed to the situation by clinging to the Ten Thousand Death Society composed of small nobles around him, with a rigorous calculation to two decimal places, the grasp of the expected returns of the factory invested, and the means of selling high and buying low, successfully earned the first pot of gold in his life, and even attracted the attention of some big people.

"The new factory owners and the old aristocracy played with each other, and the products of the compromise, through the sharing of profits from the operation of commercial capital, each took a step back, and barely made the interests of the two sides partially overlap, you have me, I have you, and they are no longer tied to each other. ”

"It's a very good phenomenon that the upstarts have accelerated their growth, and they are calling for wind and rain in the equity market, making unimaginable profits, and the conflicts that are bound to erupt are postponed intentionally or unintentionally. I don't know who started the first transaction first, it's simply the most genius idea since the beginning of the written record of commercial trade!"

Aldrich Triss put down the ledger of transactions provided by the Society of the Dead, and could not help but think highly of this group of aristocratic children who had a flexible mind and knew how to achieve their goals.

Turning his head through the glass window of his private study, he looked at the light gray cloudy sky, and the cold wind rolled up the crystal clear frost flowers, which fell one after another, and the winter in the west was later than usual, but the festival of the king of reindeer still came as scheduled when the ground was covered with thick snow.

"The war in the south has given rise to an incomparably huge arms market, and as far as I know, the evil Grand Dukes who took the lead in provoking the war have almost exhausted the war dividends they have swallowed in the early stage, and have begun to use their own treasury. As for the confident countries of Middle-earth, they were indeed stunned earlier, but when they recovered, with their huge population and economic scale, they had saved a lot of the war. ”

"The heaviest losses are the frontier realms of various countries, as well as a dozen or so small countries attached to them, including the country of mountains and the country of cedar trees occupied by the orc steel tribe, and the core area is the fortress of Kailongso on the peak of Mount Derno, the geographical location is dangerous, and the garrison can easily repel ten times or even dozens of times the enemy, and near the fortress is a dead zone where the spell is ineffective, and even the blood clan standing behind the evil Grand Duke has a headache. ”

"The orc servant legion that served as cannon fodder was originally just a victim of opening the way, but I didn't expect that hundreds of years of slavery and the prayers of countless hard laborers would give birth to a wild awakened great shaman, raising the flag of rebellion on the front line of dogs' teeth, otherwise the situation of the battle would have to cost more to turn around. ”

"Perhaps this is the reason why the far-sighted nobles of Middle-earth would rather squeeze food and grass supplies out of their teeth than maintain the existence of the Iron Tribe. They need time to adjust the wartime economic production system, mobilize the reserve corps of the second and third lines, complete basic training and armament, and need buffer areas to avoid facing the elite army of the evil Grand Duke in the south. ”

"The huge orders in the international market are the most military supplies, the new weapons are relatively few, and the traditional knight equipment still occupies the mainstream, but the war situation has long changed, if the countries of Middle-earth do not hurry up and follow the trend, it is foreseeable that after the winter snow melts next year, the evil Grand Duke of the South will definitely join forces to launch a spring offensive. ”

"According to the information from the secret channels of old friends in the south, our chief knight stirred up the storm in Virginie and Lotrun, the front frontier legion positions were facing each other, and the backyard was always on fire, so that the steel tribe went south to the land of ten thousand horses to loot winter supplies, and the new army of the Principality of Maryland broke the frontier front, resulting in the fall of most of Virginie's territory. ”

"Is the news reliable? Our chief knight has been staying in the old mansion of the Lonely Mountain, wielding a thunder hammer for a few months, repelling at least one legend, three master spellcasters, and nearly half a dozen peak black knights. ”

"Aldrich Tris, this great knight of virtue is not simple, not only does he break through the limits without bottlenecks, but he has stepped into the legendary realm of the knight lord with one foot, and his strength is beyond even me. ”

"Fate is too favored by this man! It has only been three years since he left the country and the declining manor and entered the city, what has happened in it? I want to find out, and I will definitely know the details of him, and even the secret of why he is so powerful. ”

One of their members, Master Felix, was invited to the old house of the Tellis family in the Lonely Mountain to participate in the full moon banquet of His Excellency the Baron's sister-in-law, due to his past friendship with Aldrich Tris.

Close contact, follower of the Way of the Oak, Master Felix wanted to see his roots with his own eyes, and when he opened his true vision, only endless brilliance surged, instantly flooding his source, and had to close his eyes and forcibly cut it off, when he finally regained his vision, all he could see was Aldrich Triss's smile.

The gap between the two has widened far, and Felix didn't tell the truth to his friends in the Eight Leaves Organization, because he knew that it was best to do so, and if the truth was revealed, I was afraid that even Master Edmundo, the head of the Eight Leaves, would be discouraged.

"No matter how strong an individual's strength is, there is a limit, even if he learns his secret, at most he can train and cultivate an ace knight group composed of great knights of virtue, before the long-range attacking artillery and the close-range platoon of guns are fired, how far can they go even if they are wearing heavy armor?

Felix proposed, turning his head to look at Master Elliot, who was known for his alchemical potions imitating arcane arts, and was encouraged and silently supported, immediately coughed to attract everyone's attention, and then began to talk.

"Using the smelting furnace obtained by the Three Kingdoms of the North Sea, as well as the elemental collapse technique, coupled with the continuous power output of the steam engine, I tried to combine the advantages of the three parties to restore the power core of the floating city. ”

When Master Edmundo heard this, he couldn't help but shake his head lightly: "The times are different, even if you can restore the Myser Energy Core 100%, without the Elemental Great Tide Period, the primordial and violent elemental energy flow will not be able to lift the floating city of tens of thousands of tons at all. Otherwise, with the abilities of the Blood Clan and the legacy accumulated in the old era, how could they retreat to the Flying Sky Castle as the next best thing?"

Undeterred, Master Elliot resolutely abandons his promising project and returns to the ground to talk about his alternate plan, the plural step-by-step mechanical beetle, starting with the emerging bionics.

The Beetle's unique curved shell, stable with multiple steps, spreads its wings when necessary, sweeps low, magnifies its size up to a hundredfold, replaces its arthropods with steel, and drives it with gears and shafts, crushing all enemies with sheer weight as long as the speed can go up.

Edmundo, the head of the eight leaves, is quite interested, and several other masters seem to have been stimulated by their curiosity, they can live until now, continue the inheritance of the caster, and are definitely the most flexible and adaptable elites, and for the large machinery that has risen in industrialization, it is not like the old antiques that have recently come out to reject or even resist.

"I personally support the establishment of the project for previous research and development!Dear Elliott, complete the first version of the materialized model according to the drawings as soon as possible, and gather everyone's wisdom to improve the deficiencies, after all, this is the idea of opening up a new field!"

Karkus, who specialized in prophecy, nodded slightly, and his rare direct statement made the masters present rejoice, and it seemed that they all saw a better tomorrow.