Xia He was taken aback, and forcibly terminated his cultivation, but he didn't find anything abnormal, and then he used the power of his divine sense to sense it carefully, and found that it was not his own mistake, but the entire city, which was drawing strength from the deep space of the universe. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The huge city of Juno, this magic array, is maintained by the power of deep space.

Xia He mistakenly thought that he had returned to Shenzhou, and in Shenzhou, this technique had spread to the countryside and was very mature. And Juno City is purely a primitive method, so the power of deep space escapes and is accidentally absorbed by Xia He.

Although it is very primitive, with the research attitude of the Arcane Empire, it may not take 10,000 years for this technology to develop to a high level, and the magician will have the real ability to fight against the gods. Fortunately, he came early, otherwise this city of Juno would be a small Taoist palace, and it would be even more difficult to deal with than the gods.

The gods cannot come directly, they can only rely on believers to govern the world, but magicians are different, if they learn to absorb the power of deep space, powerful magicians are as terrible as the gods descend.

In the Dao Palace, there are many earth immortals and heavenly immortals, and even the golden immortals may descend to the mortal world.

No wonder the magicians of the Arcane Empire dared to make the temple extinct, it was not because of arrogance, but because they saw the possibility of replacing the gods.

There was nothing to say all night, and on the second day, more than a dozen magicians from the House of Lords came to the villa and asked Xia He to come over.

These magicians are not of high rank, they look like they are in their thirties, only a dozen levels, and they are wearing imperial noble robes. The first person is a magic master of about twenty-five levels, but he is also sixty or seventy years old, his breath is not as stable as that of Cotton Jack, and the magic control on his body is not satisfactory.

"Count Asla, I am Baron Karolaka in the Secretariat of the Imperial House of Lords. ”

"Baron. Xia He nodded slightly, this magician nobleman looked old, although he still had a few decades to live, but he had no hope of becoming a legend in this life, so he could only concentrate on this kind of government affairs.

"I want to ask the Earl to come over and verify the documents, keep the file and fix the salary. ”

"Fixed salary?" Xia He was surprised, he didn't expect that he still had a salary to get.

Baron Karolaka smiled: "What about our House of Lords, others call us blood nobles." ”

Xia He suddenly realized that the aristocratic system of the Arcane Empire was different from other empires, and it was the upper and lower houses that held power. The nobles of the House of Lords, extrapolating forward, are all descendants of meritorious deeds who assisted the royal family in establishing the country. The people in the House of Commons are outstanding talents who have been promoted in various industries.

The word bloodline nobility has a bit of irony, which means that your status today depends on your ancestors, not on how strong your own ability is.

The reason for such irony is naturally because the upper house has more power, and although the lower house is in charge of the bureaucratic system, it is difficult to meddle in major national affairs, not to mention that the upper house has veto power, and the proposals of the lower house must be passed by the upper house before they can really be implemented in the country.

This bloodline nobleman has a salary, even if he does not hold an imperial position.

Xia He was canonized as an earl, and he could get three thousand gold coins a month, which was not a small amount, and Xia He could raise three or five hundred elite cavalry.

The empire strictly controlled the aristocracy, and on the Rhode Island side of the Xia River, there were already bureaucrats sent by the empire to govern it, and some of the taxes had to be paid. Therefore, these 3,000 gold coins were not actually issued, but the royal family made magic coins, similar to white stripes, to offset the taxes paid in the territory.

Some people are miserable and don't have much to pay, and the magic coin will rot in their hands. Then sixty percent of the big nobles will buy it and use it to offset their own taxes.

Xia He figured out this way, and just smiled.

He has a map of Rhode Island, although it is a little barren, but the area is not small, and if it is well managed, it will not lose money. He didn't expect the 3,000 gold coins to feed his family.

The carriages of the House of Lords were parked outside the door, inlaid with gold and silver, and lined up in a line of luxury.

This is a showmanship, because to let Xia He pass, you don't need so many people at all. Xia He couldn't cry or laugh, he didn't expect that the mage nobles also had this kind of flashiness.

Karolaka accompanied Xia He into the carriage, sat down opposite, and Xia He said: "Baron, I am not very familiar with the imperial capital, please advise me on some things." ”

"Don't dare, Lord Count. "Karolaka has the cunning of a small person, even if this Asra has no real power, he is respectful.

"Before I came, I heard that someone in the imperial capital had a lot of complaints about me?"

"Lord Earl, we are nobles by blood, and there will always be people who are jealous. Don't listen to this kind of gossip. ”

"What if someone says it to their face?"

"How is this possible? They don't want the face of the nobles?" Karolaka was a little excited, Xia He estimated that he had also been sprayed before, so he was so indignant, definitely not for his own grievances.

"If the aristocracy doesn't say it, some people don't have to. Xia He knows that the law of the empire, the nobles killing civilians, the crime is reduced by one degree, but it is not something that can be settled by spending money.

Karolaka is a little embarrassed, he is a blood nobleman, but his qualifications are not high, relying on family resources, after becoming a magic master, he has not made any progress, and can only retire in the house.

There are many times when people are ridiculed, even sarcastic in person.

The Lords' Chamber's Secretariat, which has a lot of responsibilities, has built a huge magical building for this purpose. Entering the gate of the house, La Roraka became nervous, and he ordered his men to go and take Xia He to the top floor of the building by metal elevator.

Xia He looked at the golden gate, and there were more than a dozen armor soldiers standing, and he was a little nervous in his heart.

"The Count is here, let him in. A voice came from inside the door, very clean and calm, making Xia He resound those powerful Taoist priests in the Shenzhou world.

The door opened automatically, silently, and what was inside could not be seen clearly from the outside.

Xia He was unprepared, so he could only walk in.

The room is large and can easily accommodate a few hundred people. A wall of glass windows, where sunlight pours in, spreads on the tabletop. This table is extremely heavy at first glance, and it is full of documents and drawings.

The tall man who looked down at the drawings should be the emperor.

He wore a black robe with a pattern on a dark gold background, which was very concise. Xia He came in, and the emperor glanced up at him, his eyes were flat and calm, and there was no spirit leaking, making him look like an ordinary middle-aged man. But according to the standards of the Shenzhou world, this middle-aged man looks dignified, and the whole person stands there, very different from all living beings, with the appearance of an emperor.

is such an ordinary emperor, and the feeling of danger to Xia He is even more dangerous than that of the Dawn Pope.

"Asla, did you sleep well last night?"

Xia He carefully recalled that the emperor of the Arcane Empire in front of him was Juno III, who had reigned for thirty years, and his real age was only in his fifties. Becoming a demigod in his fifties? This speed of cultivation is also outstanding in the Shenzhou world.

The so-called demigods are probably equivalent to ninth-order Taoist priests, human immortals.

"The minister has seen Your Majesty, I slept well last night, and the residence is relatively secluded. Xia He performed the mage ceremony, and felt that the emperor did not deliberately create pressure on himself, and his body was a lot lighter.

"Come and have a look. Juno III beckoned Xia He to the table, and Xia He agreed, bypassing the wide table, coming to the emperor's side, and looking down.

On the table was a magic map.

The dozens of layers of magic patterns made Xia He also dizzy, so he had to release the power of his divine sense to sweep it. Judging from the outline of the map, it is the entire Ice Maple Continent, and the location where Juno III looks is the part of the Half-Elf Empire below the map.

This part is not as complete and clear as the above, and the magic pattern is only seven or eight layers, and some places are still blank.

The part near the Arcane Empire is the clearest, and the drawing is very detailed, forests, mountains, rivers, cities. Looking deeper, you can see the geological structure under the earth, the direction of the leylines, the dark river and the like are all marked, and the vein caves are also very detailed.

Then there is the part on the ground, where the magic pattern also maps the air currents in the air, the annual temperature changes, the concentrations of various elements, and so on.

If this is a map prepared for war, it is detailed enough.

"Your Majesty?"

"Asla, I heard that in Cape Storm, the will of the gods came, tell me about it. ”

Xia He didn't dare to slack off, first took out a page of the Book of Light, and said, "Minister......"

"You don't have to be so restrained, in front of me, and in the common saying, you have to get used to your identity. ”

Xia He suddenly understood that he was a close minister, and he obtained the title by offering treasures, and this title was still a little unclear, and the identity was forged by the emperor for him.

"Your Majesty, before this, I was given a page of the Book of Light, which I started from the Temple of Dawn. ”

Juno III glanced at it, not much interested.

"When I was in the Green Forest Continent, I met a friend who fell in love with a female priest from the Temple of Dawn. I was on an adventure in the Green Forest, and I was involved in the conflict between the Temple of Dawn and the Temple of Light, and I met the Pope of the Temple of Dawn. ”

"Did you see him?" said Juno III, who was too weak to see such a figure.

"The Dawn Pope is very powerful, and his Great Prophecy Technique killed the Pope of the Temple of Light in an instant, one of the strongest legends. But I feel that Pope Dawn is still a little worse than His Majesty. ”

"Then you say, what is he inferior to me?" the emperor asked Xia He with a smile.

"The most intuitive way to put it is that he and His Majesty are short of a Juno City, but apart from the problem of Juno City, he is still inferior to His Majesty. His power was borrowed from the gods, and His Majesty was separated from the city of Juno and was still the strongest existence in the world. The power of magic is real. ”

Juno III smiled: "The strongest in the world is not enough, but compared to the believers of those gods, I am not afraid. Asla, I'm asking you about Cape Storm. ”