Volume 1 The Imperial Dark Gold Puppet Chapter 7 Lori Butler's Mother
On June 6th, the gods descended to earth. Carry the ticket on the ticket~)
Augustine's current situation was that of a man who had discovered a great treasure with no one to share it with, no worker or subordinate to dig for him, and he had to share the joy and loneliness alone. NOWADAYS AUGUSTINE HAS NO GRUDGE AGAINST THE PAPAL MAGNATES WHO DESPISE HIM AND TREAT COSMO AS A CLOWN, HATRED IS ALSO A DRAINING DRUDGERY, AND THE ELEGANT DUCHESS ONCE SAID THAT IT IS BETTER TO GO ALONE THAN TO SWAY IN THE ABILITY TO SHELTER A GREEN SHADE.
He can only wait for those slim "alms" of the Holy See. He just has to put his head down and give 120% of his sweat to do what he can.
The nobles of the Empire can be expected to do something to add flowers to the crown insignia, but they must not have the luxury of handing out even a copper plate when they are down. So Augustine did not stand on the walls of the castle at the castle of Stang, and his day was often to sneak into the underground castle after praying in the morning, as in the seminary of Maideola, and he first had the child Elizabeth carry a backpack with a dozen pieces of black bread and a few jugs of water, and then Ares the lame with a quill, ink, and, of course, large drafts of wood pulp paper and a new parchment, the latter of which was more suitable for long-term storage. All he had on him was a sketch of the underground labyrinth that he had brought with him from Jupit, and it was only the first layer. His goal was to spend two days to draw the complete pattern of the first basement floor of Stango, to correct and make up for the missing and wrong parts, but the fact is that it took him a full three and a half days to run the entire minus 1st floor without missing a step, and his life was boring, and then the crazy Elizabeth began to be passive and absent from work, leaving Augustine and Ares to run to the bottom of Swan Lake to enjoy the scenery, Augustine did not embarrass her, engineers and architects were originally the opposite professions of imperial knights and bards, and they were the dangerous jobs known as the top three in the marriage breakdown indexγ
When Augustine meticulously ran the 4th floor of the entire underground castle, 27 days had passed, of which minus 1 and minus 2 floors were the same area, and minus 3 was a real labyrinth, which seemed to want to separate the first and second floors from the bottom, forming a natural barrier that did not need to place too many troops, if it weren't for the two perverts with excellent memory of Ares and Elizabeth around him, plus Augustine carefully carved the logo of letters and numbers at each corner, otherwise he would have been in and out nine times out of ten, so minus 3 was also the most costly layer of Augustine's mind, and the minus 4 floor was like the bottom of the Black Swan Lake on the second floor, Who would have imagined that a huge botanical garden could be cultivated in a place dozens of meters underground, all thanks to the layer of sunstone mirror covered on the ceiling, it is like a sun, providing the basis for photosynthesis of this botanical circle, it can be seen that this botanical garden suffered severe damage 40 years ago, but not completely, after nearly half a century of reproduction, nearly 9000 square meters of soil plants are lush and varied, because the underground world has a drainage system that exceeds the level of craftsmanship of ordinary cities in the empire for decades, and the vibrant botanical garden grows independently in this cornerγ
"It's all relatively ordinary plants, and they can't develop valuable magic powders. It is a treasure trove of these species that have survived because they occupy 95% of the botanical gardens today, and the fragile and precious species were almost all extinct during the war. Elizabeth regretted.
Augustine was already content, and this was the perfect prototype of half of the "Garden of Eden" in his mind.
The scratch paper and parchment scrolls he had had been used up for the second time, and Augustine had to return to the ground of the castle of Stangko, where he had carried all the materials from the wagon to an old study on the ground floor of the minus 4, which was supposed to be the private domain of one of the people in charge and had been carved out by him as his new study.
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Standing on the top platform of the side building of the castle of Stangza, the lame boy handed him and Elizabeth the water and black bread that he had just bought from a distant town, and Elizabeth "Miss", who had a big body and a big witch's heart, nibbled two mouthfuls of dry hard bread, and suddenly screamed: "Augustine, I have had enough of your abuse, I want red wine, venison, goose down bed, mink shawl!"
"Yes, you can go to the imperial capital and find a random nobleman, and tell him that you are the great shaman from the northernmost part, that is, the lady Elisabeth, who is very high on the blacklist, and I think he will definitely give you the red wine of ChΓ’teau Portu, the tender meat of Everard Deer Park, the huge goose-down bed, and the most valuable mink shawl. Augustine held out his hand to the little girl in a daze, "Give me back your black bread and water before you go, I'm a miser who can't squander even a few small copper plates." β
The little girl turned her head, bit the rough black bread fiercely, and muttered, "Even if I want to leave, wait for me to eat you poor first!"
It seems that the lovely Miss Elizabeth has forgotten that this lady of hers does not eat much, and it is not easy to eat the poor young master Augustine, who has a small treasury.
"Alright, when the Black Swan Lake Castle is successfully operational, I will consider giving you the treatment of a noble lady. Augustine said with a smile, looking at the turquoise lake embedded in the tranquil Black Swan Lake, if he could really grow Csomo, he must list the Black Swan Lake as a forbidden area, otherwise it would be easy to leak the truth that it was close to the third layer, thinking of this, Augustine wanted to stop talking.
"I'm not a lady in the first place, just a heretic in the guise of a human child. You don't need to take me seriously at all. The little girl said angrily, sitting on the edge of the wall, shaking her little feet.
"Without you, how could I have gotten the 'entry ticket' in many fields such as arcane, large and small gamma, red and black alchemy, and so on?" Augustine sighed softly. There is no shortage of geniuses in any era of the empire, but not all geniuses can step into the threshold of multiple fields at the same time, and occasionally some lucky people with both talent and background often cannot have a "powerful and knowledgeable" teacher like Elizabeth, without her tireless guidance, Augustine, who is not a genius, may still be just an ordinary talent with only a few more messy heretical theories than ordinary people.
"Your subtext should be, you wouldn't be able to walk those roads unhindered without me, right? You hateful fellow!" said the little girl, gritting her teeth, transferring all her anger to the black bread, and soon a large loaf of bread, which cost 1.5 copper plates, was cleared by her.
"Without you, I wouldn't even be able to walk out of the imperial capital, let alone walk out of the imperial capital to this Black Swan Lake Manor. Augustine came to her and sat down slowly, "A poor creature who has no family, no friends, not even half an ally or a trading partner, and a guy by his side who is willing to keep his back, even if she is mean and likes to bite, it is a good thing to keep the mood from falling to the bottom." β
"If I accidentally accompany you through the whole section of your life, it may be the darkest journey of your life, I am so great. The little girl said softly, looking at the black swan lake like a sapphire in the distance, no longer entangled with the unlucky miser next to her to give it to others, she retracted her gaze and turned her head to look at the man who was still looking into the distance, raised a bright smile, and said with a bright smile: "Augustine, if I leave one day like Artemis, the teacher in your mouth, will you miss me as a bad woman? β
"Yes. Augustine whispered that although he had spent his entire childhood in that Rotonchild mansion, he was not a man who liked to lie, especially low-level lies.
The little girl stopped talking and drank one sip of water.
"If you're really leaving, don't say hello to me. β
Augustine smiled wryly, "But remember to leave a little of my valuable belongings, and don't all be hollowed out by you, my Elizabeth 'housekeeper'." β
"Haha, no, where does a cute little Lori with a butt and a chest not stand up have the strength to steal from you?" the little girl blinked.
This time it was Augustine's turn to be silent.
Augustine looked into the distance and said to himself, "It's time to come." β