Chapter 61: It's Not Good at All (5,000 words chapter, two chapters in one today)
What exactly does Master Anika want?
Although the contradiction between the two has been resolved, and Moria's little jealousy has been vented, Shuer is not naΓ―ve to think that everything is back to normal now and can continue to be carried out according to the original plan, if he thinks so, he looks down on Moria too much.
Similarly, Judy and the other mages, who had been watching, although they didn't know what code words were being spoken between the two, but at least they had collected information and understood the teammate relationship between the two, but the mages were not worried that Moria would change their position because of Shule's appearance and help Shul deal with them at the negotiating table, even if the riddle-like conversation between the two made the mages inexplicable, the mages did not think that the two were colluding with the code language to trap them together, because they also knew very well that Moria would not do that.
No matter what the reason is, since he has taken over this task of Lord Anika, he will carry it out with his heart, and will never affect the interests of the client, that is, Lord Anika because of personal relationships, this is the professional ethics that a mature mercenary should have, and the contradiction is solved, which only means that there will be no more trouble next time (yo yo, how is it possible, don't joke), but this time it will not be changed because of the solution of the contradiction.
So the mages are very relieved, especially Mia and Miriday, they are the most assured, they have lived and died together countless times, they both know Shure and Moria's personality very well, if they easily change their attitude because of personal relationships, they will not be able to get to this point today. What's more, as bystanders, and fully aware of the intimate relationship between the two, it is easy to guess what the hell these two idiots are doing.
"You'd better put flirting aside, this is not a place for flirting. Although the speakers didn't say anything, Mia still said with a cold face, "Time is pressing, business is important." β
"Eh, isn't this a good place to flirt?" If it was Saf, she would probably have blushed and hid aside, but unfortunately, Mia was facing a deer, well, the shame of animals is obviously not the same as that of normal intelligent creatures, Moria just blinked, stared at Mia blankly, and asked with an innocent face, "I thought this place was specifically for flirting, otherwise why did you two appear here together." β
Very good, Lin Jing was the winner in the first round, the corners of Mia's mouth twitched, and the corners of Miridy's mouth twitched, and the two of them felt more and more that the venison in their hands was delicious.
"So, I'm curious to know, what does Lord Anika want?" asked if she didn't understand, Shul put this truth into practice, and asked the doubts in his heart, "Even if she is an overseer, even if she helps the mages and mythical beasts to connect them, there is no need to stand directly in the front desk, unless, she has her own plans." β
Yes, that's what bothered Shul and why he felt something was wrong.
Moria's story is very informative and interesting, and perfectly explains why Lord Anika was involved, but if that's all, she only needs to send down an oracle to endorse the mythical beasts, and promote the temporary union of the mage and the mythical beast to deal with a certain gold devouring beast together, there is no need to send the most important children as representatives, so as to expose her existence, let alone spread out the ancient secrets in front of mortals.
But she did it anyway, maybe it was the result of Moria's efforts, but regardless of the reason, at least she now thought it was necessary to do so, and the only explanation that Shul could come up with was that Lord Anika also wanted to get a share of the benefits of this unprecedented cooperation, and other than that, Shul couldn't think of any other reason to allow Lord Anika to focus on the Savage Lands while he was busy with the internal affairs of the rift space.
"Eh, are you sure this kind of thing is appropriate to talk about now?"
Yes, a campfire, a grill, the venison skewers on the grill sizzled, and the fat dripping from the skewers into the fire, not only made the flames more vigorous, but also made the enticing aroma waft all around, arousing everyone's appetite. It's definitely a good place to eat now, but unfortunately, it's definitely not a good place to negotiate, especially when it comes to the fate of a race, a profession, and even the future of Pavatiga.
How would later history books record this negotiation? On a certain day, a group of people sat around a campfire, eating kebabs, and decided the fate of Pavatiga? Shul could not even imagine what kind of expressions scholars would have shown when they studied this period of history many years later.
Therefore, Moria is right, such an important matter is indeed not suitable for talking about now, the question is ......
"Who do you think is causing the current scene? Xiu'er rolled his eyes, and no longer had any hope for Lin Jing's thinking logic, "So, how boring are you to come up with such a genius idea as running to a wild kebab in the wilderness, don't say that it was not your deliberate, I don't think the Central Tower will always have grills and campfire materials, let alone meat skewers." β
"Hey, hey. β
"It's not complimenting you, you don't need to put on a smug face. Shuer rubbed the corners of his forehead, sighed helplessly, and turned his head to the blue-robed mage speaker with a subtle expression and said, "I'm sorry, this deer has disturbed everyone's plans, but fortunately, through the first two results demonstrations, I already have a general understanding of the importance of the research results of your mages." Well, I must admit that your results are beyond my expectations, and they do have the qualifications to affect the future balance of power in the rift space. β
Shul wasn't complimenting, he really thought so.
In fact, after hearing Mia's introduction yesterday, he didn't sleep all night, because he knew very well that what the mages were studying was simply too important for Pavatiga.
The original distorted void community, civilization was divided into four systems by his mind, technology, body, spirit, and magic civilization that used magic power and crystal energy to transform the world, and the most typical and only representative of the last system was undoubtedly Pavatiga. In the four directions, the vast majority of civilizations have developed in many aspects, but they will definitely focus on one of them, so the direction that they focus on represents its civilization system.
Although the Pavatigars also pursue physical and spiritual strengthening, and even now they have begun to contact technology, they essentially use the ubiquitous magical energy in the world to enhance themselves, including the equipment used by the Pavatigars in their daily lives, which are also driven by magic and crystal energy, so it is appropriate to classify Pavatiga as a magical civilization.
The problem is that, compared to the representative civilizations of the other three systems, Parvadiga is so primitive that it is impossible to compare. The members of other civilizations still don't know the true situation of Pavatiga, and have always believed that Pavatiga's magic civilization is also quite powerful, and this perception is completely caused by the gods, and the gods come from Pavatiga, and those civilizations naturally mistake the power of the gods for the power of Pavatiga.
But Shur knew that this was just an illusion, if the bonus of the gods was put aside, Pavadiga was quite backward, and he didn't even dare to communicate openly, otherwise once it was known by other civilizations, it would be a small problem to affect the future of the Pavadiga people, and maybe it would also affect the worship and worship of the gods by some races, which would be a serious problem.
Shul is actually not as cold-blooded as Mirhak described to Lisa, although he always said that he was an outsider before, had nothing to do with Pavatiga, and didn't care about Pavatiga's survival, but deep down, a few years of life had made him identify here, so he still hoped that the Pavatiga civilization would occupy a favorable position in the future community, not only in hope, but also in the premise of not affecting the overall situation, he was also willing to do something for it.
For example, find a way to solve the fatal flaw of Pavatiga.
In fact, it was not only Shul who thought about it, but many visionary leaders had actually seen Pavatiga's fatal flaw and were also distressed by it, but in different ways of their efforts.
The clergy serve the gods, and naturally want to start with the gods, since putting aside the bonuses of the gods will seem to be quite backward in Pavatiga, then it would be good not to put them aside, just to prompt the gods to favor Pavatiga extraordinarily, then the Pavatigars will naturally have the same status as the representative races of the other three civilizations. It is difficult, but not impossible, that the community can be established, that all the churches and even all believers have made great efforts, and that the gods should respond to this.
In contrast, the way of the mages is surprisingly effective, they do not abandon the basics, but choose the most direct way, since backward primitive is the most serious problem, then it is better to solve the problem directly and make yourself less backward primitive.
So, the mages did it, and they did.
Yes, it was just speculation, and from the two demos that have been presented, Shure confirms that they have done it.
It's not that their achievements are advanced or powerful, but in fact, even if the algorithmists turn their achievements into real objects, it is impossible to confront the representatives of the other three civilization systems.
The technological power of metal lifeforms allows them to directly destroy a galaxy by changing the local dimension, and the body of the shuttle-type person will not be damaged even if it is bombarded by the mage's planetary batteries, and the small black hole opened by the Void Eye with its will is an unsolvable threat, and any one of the three systems can easily make the mage's efforts come to naught.
But what we want now is not confrontation, but recognition.
The results of the mages made Xiuer recognize that the magic civilization is no longer a small system limited to one region or one planet, it has stepped into the interstellar era with one foot, and is qualified to enter the stage of the community without relying on the gods and relying purely on itself, becoming the fourth civilization system, and Xiuer believes that the leaders of other civilizations will have similar understandings.
The current strength is not strong, and the development is relatively backward, which is a problem of development time and system characteristics, which can be made up, so it is not so important. As long as the other three civilization systems accept the magic civilization, which is a civilization system that is beyond their cognition, then as long as there is no more mature and far more than the magic civilization of Pavatiga, the status of the representative of the Pavatiga civilization system will never be shaken, that is to say, Pavatiga will rely on the name of the magic civilization and have the same status as the other three civilizations that are so powerful that they cannot understand.
In other words, the mages used amazing efficiency to solve the problems that the priests were still struggling with, and even Shuer, the founder, did not think about how to deal with it.
In fact, it is no longer the mages who are looking for Xiu'er to ask for investment, but Xiu'er takes the initiative to send the investment to the mages, and if it is not enough, it can be added, tsk, the origin of the magic civilization, one of the four major branches of the Void Community, and it is the only one among the four branches that has not been erased by the rift space.
Therefore, after understanding the importance of the mages, Shuer immediately decided to take the mages in his hands, not only to help them complete their research, but also to seize the future benefits, which will be shared by the two moons, even at all costs.
Of course, that's in the future, and it will take a long time of development experiments and countless failures before the problem can be truly solved, at least until now, it's just a hope, and because of this, Xiuer can rest assured that the price will be lowered, if you wait until the design on the drawings becomes a reality, it will be too late to reduce the price.
For now, among both mortals and gods, only Shur truly understands the importance of these results, and the mages have made the most appropriate choice to seek investment from him. It's not that he's smart, it's that he has the most comprehensive information, controls the development of the whole situation, and knows the most about the future, so that he can see what others can't see.
Shul had thought this was the case, but Moria's appearance made him know that he was still underestimating the Pavatiga. At least the living deer and the forest goddess behind her didn't have much less information than he did, and they might not have guessed what he could see, and if they really saw the importance of the mages, it wouldn't be surprising to jump out and ask for a share of the benefits.
But Shul won't be stupid to ask Moria, do you see it, that kind of behavior is too stupid, let's leave it to someone else to do, Xiuer still needs to think about how to catch the Tower of Seven Yao who doesn't understand the importance of his experiment, and doesn't know that the status of demand and supply has been exchanged, and doesn't let them run away.
"I've learned a lot from the demonstration just now, so I don't think there's any need to continue the demonstration. β
"Well, that's fine. The Speakers looked at each other, and Schul's words were ambiguous, which could be interpreted as either literal or to mean that he was not interested in it at all or was very disappointed and did not want to waste time any longer. Diametrically opposed interpretations, but look at Mia with a calm expression, well, her expression is estimated to not change much in the next few hundred years, but at least her behavior is still very calm, so the speakers decided to understand it on the good side, the blue-robed mage smiled and asked softly, "Why don't we talk in detail in a more normal place?"
"Eh, why change places, is it uncomfortable to sit here or is it bad to barbecue...... Hmm β
"It's fine. Forcibly suppressing the wild animals that were still trying to mess around, Shure motioned to Judy, "But shouldn't we solve the first problem first? After all, Judy's time is precious, and he shouldn't waste too much here." It's better for everyone to split up later, Master Judy will solve the chaos of the leyline energy, and let's sit down and talk in more detail. β
The split action was originally an action that had been discussed yesterday, and Shul was ready to bring back the situation that was slightly out of control because of Moria, but today it seems that even fate is playing a joke on him, and the plan that has been set has encountered problems again.
"The matter of leyline energy is actually not in a hurry. Unexpectedly, Judy, who was very anxious before, was not in a hurry at all at this time, but showed an elegant smile that Shuer called a tail wagging, "The leyline energy that wants to calm the chaos is not feasible at any time, it requires a specific point in time, and the time point changes every day. Today's time for calm down is still early, and there is still plenty of time, seeing how lively your presentation was just now, I suddenly became a little interested in your negotiations, why don't you let me be an observer and a witness?"
How? Not at all, of course.
Shul didn't want Judy to be involved at all, just kidding, really let her sit in on the negotiations, after understanding the plans of both parties, with the cunning of this fox, her own plans would definitely not be able to hide from her, and she had a share, she didn't plan to get involved, she was really sorry for her fox identity, so Shure didn't explain the situation to her in detail from beginning to end.
Unexpectedly, even if she was very careful, she still didn't prevent it in the end, in the end, it was a close relative of the canine animal, this fox's sense of smell was too sensitive, it should be the appearance of Moria, which made her smell an unusual smell, and simply found a reason to change the original plan.
Xiuer has no reason to refuse, I can't say that I'm going to cheat people so I won't let you participate, that's too obvious, in order to reassure the mages, even if he doesn't want to, he can only agree with a wry smile.
Hell, this fox must have seen my situation clearly and knew that it was impossible for me to refuse, so he found a reason casually, tsk, even the excuse was so casual, and there was no professionalism at all.
"Oh, thank you very much. Covering his mouth and smiling with satisfaction, Archbishop Judy blinked his beautiful eyes, "Then let me, the she-fox, take a look at where the gold-devouring beasts of the Rose Capital smell of gold coins this time." β
"It's not funny at all. β
"But I think it's funny. β
"Hehe, hehe, okay, I laughed. Xiuer pursed his lips and said to the blue-robed mage, "Then please ask Your Excellency the Speaker to lead the way." β