There are many roles for Gasley, and this card is definitely a trump card in Alex's hand when played well.

Her value is not in herself. No matter how stunning her appearance is, in Alexey's eyes, it is just flesh and blood, not worth mentioning. Some people may fall in love with her beauty, but if it's just a flattering gift, it's really not rewarding.

The most valuable part of Gasley is her identity, she is the daughter of Francinica, who was already one of the world's most famous archmages before Alexei was born.

In other words, even if Frankie doesn't have the resources at hand, she has an incomparably wide network. This is an advantage that Alec Racing cannot match.

Why, before Alexe, there were no cities in the vast expanse of Norf? Imperial scholars will tell you that because of the climate, because of the payoff - the constant cold of the four seasons made it difficult for the food crops grown in Norf to survive, and the Imperials, who were accustomed to farming, could not live in the area, except for the local barbarians who lived by fishing and hunting birds.

Even when Alexey arrived in Norf, he didn't have much of a good solution to this, and the only feasible way at present was to mobilize food from nearby cities to feed the inhabitants of the city. However, the roads between the Empire's Northland and Norf were potholes and a small amount of food could be satisfied, and if he did build the city, the increasing number of inhabitants would quickly cause food shortages.

Not being self-sufficient, this must be the number one problem for Alexei in the future in urban construction.

He had not made any plans, but it would have been better to find a sheltered ice-free port off the coast of Norf, and to alleviate the urban famine caused by the high cost of shipping by sea.

For this, he needs to pay a large sum of Ducat. Alexey, who couldn't afford to pay the money, hoped that other forces could help him share the financial pressure.

There was no hope for Count Longverd's help. According to the Ortarion family's idea, they will only stop at Norf Point, a mine that can meet the transportation needs, hundreds of workers in charge of escorts and shipments and a walkable road are already the limit of what Ortarion is willing to provide, and the rest, they will not squeeze their own blood to feed Alexey's ambitions.

With the exception of the mines, the rest of the Alexes were self-reliant.

In this way, Gasri's role was infinitely expanded in Alexey's heart. Francinica's 100-year network of contacts is definitely the lifesaver of Alexey's future city.

Half an hour earlier, he had commissioned Rimge to send a letter and a small box containing the secret of his fortune back to Winterfell with the grain cart on his way back, and it would not be a matter of two days for Lady Frankenica, who was in Feldenburg, to receive Alex's warm handwriting, with a slightly fiery and outrageous reply.

If nothing else, Alexei would spend three or four days in Darune to settle the finishing touches, and then he would rush to Oncor to read Madame Francinica's reply while reading the Lady Francinica's reply, using the Chambers of Commerce, which was linked by the arrears of three thousand ducats, to complete a chess piece that he was about to withhold.

This is undoubtedly the first step that Alex really took after opening the chessboard, and it is also an extremely important step. If he succeeds, his next financial pressure will be greatly relieved, and if he fails, everything will be over, and he can really only be a mine owner, dormant, and secretly waiting for the strength to be accumulated.

But the cost of that failure was too great, and Alexey was unwilling to waste more than ten years for it, because he had to do it beautifully in his plan and perfect in time.

Today, the layout of the city has not yet been fully decided, and the inhabitants are only a few hundred craftsmen, not to mention the top priority that Alex has set up, the Winterhold Academy. The castle in the snow, which he had envisioned to be on par with the Glio Davido Mage Academy, was now nowhere to be seen, but the core of the academy was already in Alexey's hands.

The holy water produced by the Infinite Holy Grail has been verified by Alexei and Blue Dream in terms of efficacy, and the holy water is indeed an incomparably magical substance, which can permanently improve the absorption of magic in the human body in the blink of an eye, and comes with the removal of dark wounds and waste products from the body, so that the human body can be infinitely close to the natural caster - pure-blood elves.

Its effect was so powerful that Alex was not willing to rely on it alone to produce mages belonging to Winterhold Academy.

He didn't want to wait for a moment, he wanted to use the holy water in his plans right away!

After a few simple field experiments, Alexei discovered that although the holy water is insoluble in water, the blood of those who have drunk the holy water can be used as a wonderful neutralizer between the holy water and other liquids.

He tried to mix a synthetic liquid of holy water, blood, and pure water in a ratio of 1:5:100, and found a few live small animals to experiment. It was discovered that the liquid containing the power of the holy water had successfully exerted some of the effects of the holy water, which was also the prototype of several potions that Alex brought to Frankinica after his success.

Alexey, who was very excited after getting the effective finished product, immediately tried to mix more, and he observed that the effect of the holy water would disappear in a precipitous decline as the dilution increased, and the blood of himself or Blue Dream as a neutralizer between the two was better, which would more or less affect the quality of the final product.

After initially determining the effects of the potion on several small animals, Alexei immediately named the new potion, which was actually a dilution of holy water, as a cure-all. According to the different degrees of dilution, he divided the medicine into three grades, namely ordinary, high-efficiency and super-high, and the dilution ratios were 300, 100 and 30 respectively.

The effect of the three grades is obvious, the ordinary elixir has the effect of refreshing the mind and curing diseases, while the high-efficiency one can further improve a part of the physique, and the super product can barely make the user cross the threshold line of becoming a mage. In view of the different effects, Alexei plans to use the super-grade elixir as the internal medicine of the Winterhold Academy in the future, and the other two will be put into the market to attract the attention of merchants in the empire and kingdom, attract their resources to Norf, and help Alex play a significant role in the process of establishing the city.

Of course, if you want to open up the sales channel of the panacea, it is far from enough to rely on your own publicity.

He was not only for a better and faster layout, but also for the subsequent in-depth cooperation with Frankinica, where Alexei placed three normal, high-potency, and super-quality elixirs in the small box he brought to Laminica, with detailed instructions. In the letter, he described the elixir in the box as an apology, and vaguely mentioned that he still had a part of the stock in his hand, hoping that she would be able to spread it among the nobles of the empire and kingdom after determining the effect of the elixir.

This is Alexey's soft move, and if Frankinika accepts it, it will naturally be a win-win for both parties. But if she doesn't accept it, then the mention of Gasley between the lines will become Alex's hard move to threaten Frankinica's acceptance, so that most of the strategies to borrow Frankinica's connections will succeed, and Alexei will be able to continue to play his second move.