The hot summer winds drove the leaves to fall, and the ground swelled with a rustling sound. The dim hue of the sunset sliding towards the horizon not only casts a veil of silence over Edinburgh against the red clouds, but also outlines the two figures walking side by side at the top of the tall city walls.

"We can't determine the exact location of the scourge, so we can only shrink our defenses, set up garrisons along trade routes and cities, and give local forces in the Highlands the right to raise their own arms. However, if you do this, it is likely to cause the sequelae of the tail and affect the rule of the military management office in the highland kingdom. Pompey followed behind the black-haired knight, holding a thick copy of the plan, his gray eyebrows tightened, and said with some gains and losses.

"Before the Demon Calamity, all the contradictions between human beings were trivial, and as for what will become after that, it is not a question that we should consider now. Besides, all we want is a docile and obedient Highland kingdom, which has been unshakable since the end of the Fannon dynasty. ”

The black-haired knight looked at the lush grass that was gradually yellowing in the suburbs in the distance, and couldn't help but tighten his eyebrows: "There is no one cultivating in the suburbs, and there is too much barren land in the Highland Kingdom, we have to hurry up and expand the guard." ”

The old man shook his head again and again, there is no one to cultivate in the suburbs, and it is not because Edinburgh has been looted by your men.

Although he secretly slandered in his heart, Pompey still had a meticulous expression on the surface:

"Based on the existing arable land in the southern Celts, we can expand the number of guards to 50,000, and perhaps increase some of them in the future as the land is developed. But now that number is pretty much the limit. ”

"Why are you only counting the cultivated land of the southern Celts?" Areley turned to him in surprise.

"With all due respect, Your Excellency the Governor, the land of the Highlands must legally belong to the Highlands. If you use the cultivated land and manors obtained by the Highland Kingdom as a garrison, then you are undoubtedly helping the Highland Kingdom train and raise its army. ”

The old man stroked his long beard and said eloquently:

"Although the combat effectiveness of the Weisuo army is strong, it essentially belongs to the mining army that integrates soldiers and farmers, and your new army are two different things, where the land is, they will have a centripetal force on it. In the Celtic province of the Empire. His Excellency the Governor is the master of the land, so you can call for it at will. And in the Highland Kingdom...... It's okay for a short time, but for a long time, their sense of identity must belong to the Highland Kingdom!"

"So. We must not expand the garrison in the territory of the Highland Kingdom, otherwise there will be endless disasters!" At the last sentence, Pompey jerked his head up, a serious look on his face.

At this time, the black-haired knight suddenly let out a long laugh.

"Hahaha......"

He smiled and patted the old man on the shoulder. There was a mysterious expression on his face. After satisfying the other party's appetite, he said with a serious face:

"The military advisor really underestimated me, how could I not think of this kind of thing that is obviously cheap to others? Not only did I think of it, but I also had a strategy to crack their centripetal force. ”

"Huh?"

Pompey first showed a look of surprise, and then hurriedly asked:

"Your Excellency the Governor, please make it clear!"

"Quite simply, all the land in the Highland Kingdom is under the direct jurisdiction of the Governor's Palace, and at the same time, the yield of each manor and per acre of land is evaluated. When this part of the land is granted. The holder has only nominal rights to the land, and all income from the land is paid at the equivalent value through the calculations of the Governor's Palace. ”

The black-haired knight finished in one breath. Negative hand smiled:

"In this way, although they nominally own the mintel, the money bag is in my hands, and the centrifugal force will naturally crack it. Since the land is not linked to one's own station, the combat power may be affected, but it should be the most suitable to absorb idle Scourge Knights. ”

Pompey remained silent and listened carefully, his mind darting to analyze, his eyes getting brighter and brighter.

"Shall I name this method the Void Yi Knighthood System, Strategist, what do you think?" Arei puffed up his chest rather proudly, and learned to touch his shallow stubble as the old man touched his shallow stubble.

"Your Excellency the Governor is not confined to conventional thinking, and can innovate on the basis of the system of the guard, and come up with such a good way as conferring knighthood on the Void City, the old man really admires it!" the old man exclaimed with a look of joy and sincerity.

"Hahaha......"

The black-haired knight laughed a few times, and then suddenly felt that something was wrong, how could Pompey praise his tone the same as he praised the emperor.

Alas, it's all bad!

......

After nightfall, the Highland Palace.

Yare sat at a pine table with a silver candlestick with a white bamboo wax stuck in each of its seven branches.

Made from a plant wax that is a specialty of the Highland Kingdom, these candles emit a clearer light, produce less smoke than commonly used candles, and carry a refreshing incense.

These pale white botanical waxes are often the favorite of the Rune warriors, and they are also loved by many mages and fairy doctors through smuggling channels.

Even if it is not allowed on the surface, relying on the quality of the goods themselves, many clergy and mages in Rosevia are eager to use it. Since the two countries have now settled their old suspicions and engaged in friendly trade, even many nobles and tyrants have fallen in love with this expensive candle.

The batch used by the black-haired knight was a special supply for the royal palace, and in terms of grade, it surpassed the highest batch on the market. But for him, the only reason to use this candle is that it smells good, at least not like the weird smell of a regular candle.

In the tranquil atmosphere created by the refreshing scent, Yalei did feel his thoughts clearer. He closed his eyes and sat in silence for a long time before picking up a hardcover book from his desk and reading it carefully.

He expects his Hurricane Fighting Spirit to reach its peak within a month, and there are still five months left before the Black-Haired Knight learns to deal with the Black Goat Mother Goddess with a more powerful fighting spirit.

Each of the Dou Qi Secret Texts provided by Alex was the highest level of Dou Qi, but Yare himself was not familiar with them. Therefore, I can only give preference to the most familiar Crimson Dragon Slayer Douqi study.

As the Inbas family, whose background is not inferior to that of the Tudor family, their inheritance of the Mystical Archive is naturally unusual, at least in the eyes of the black-haired knight. Back then, he had no advantage over Luya, who was at the same level, and he worked hard to exhaust it.

Charlene was lying on the bed beside her, covering herself tightly with a thin blanket, revealing only her short half-damp hair and two large emerald eyes, flipping through a book of vindictive ether deductions.

Like the Hurricane's Secret Classic, the beginning of Crimson Douqi is also a diagram of the human body, which is different from the former. The human body structure diagram in the Crimson Dragon Slayer Douqi Secret Archive is more complex and sophisticated, from bones and muscles to neural networks, all of which are separated independently one by one.

The black-haired knight struggles to activate brain cells. With the characters on the pages in his mind, he wasn't in a hurry to learn Crimson Douqi now, he just wanted to memorize the entire book in advance, so that he could quickly retrain it after the Soul Shaping Ritual.

With the candle flame emitting a bright glow. Hot candle tears fell into the candlestick. After some time, Arley felt that the light was dim, and when he turned his head, he saw that the candle was almost burned out.

Temporarily dropping the hardcover book in his hand, the black-haired knight stood up and prepared to move his muscles, and found that Charlene had fallen asleep soundly on the bed next to her, and the aether deduction that had been turned a third of it was pillowed behind her head.

Yalei looked at the pure face of the green-haired girl in her sleep and smiled slightly. Walk over and help her put a bookmark, and then put it on the wooden cabinet next to her.

Moved his body slightly. The black-haired knight sat down in his chair again, picked up the crimson hardcover book of the General Compendium of the Scarlet Dragon Slayer, and gently stroked the delicate texture of the pages, and couldn't help but feel sincere admiration for the professionalism of the pirates.

He turned to the next page, and as soon as his eyes made contact, he was attracted by the annotation in the picture, which is a complex structural map of the human brain, and the image is marked with a kind of "dragon eye" spiritual technique.

To Are's surprise and surprise, the Dragon's Eye's position coincided with the Stargate.

Not only are the positions overlapping, but even the measurement techniques and exercise methods are very close, the only difference is that the stargate focuses on refining the soul power into pure destructive power release, while the dragon's eye focuses on the spiritual interference.

Could it be that the ancestors of the Tudor family and the ancestors of the House of Imbas had communicated with each other?

Or is it ...... They all happened to discover the role of the stargate, so they summed up the exercise techniques and recorded them for future generations?

It can make these two top families have a strong interest, and develop different usage techniques, the so-called "Star Gate" and "Lombok", which may be particularly different.

Yalei looked at the "dragon eye" that won the bid on the page, and immediately became interested in this magical location.

......

Royal Palace, Rune Workshop.

After several expansions, Kenneth's laboratory area became large, and it was still rectangular in shape, with a variety of used crystal beakers, test tubes, distillers,

There are also large quantities of viscous silver metal, strange parts that appear to have remnants of heat, and so on, all of which are scattered throughout the space in a manner befitting the nature of the lab's owner.

Kenneth was sitting in front of a lab bench with rows of glass test tubes inserted into a wooden shelf containing a clear solution.

The man was holding a dropper in his hand, sucking a silver solution from a transparent glass vial in his hand, and then carefully dripping it into a row of pale red glass tests.

When the silvery droplets fall into the test tube, they quickly react with the reddish solution. This strange reaction is not like the cloud-like diffusion of other liquids dissolved in water, but is a more subtle phenomenon. The silvery droplets spread out in the clear solution as if they were exploding, and they looked like boiling silvery slurry.

The whole phenomenon lasted for more than ten minutes, and the silver paste in the entire test tube boiled and spread upward, and then began to bend and jump like a spirit snake.

The scientific name of this silvery solution is "Liquid Essence", and it is a highly compatible magic alloy that Kenneth has been using to make the main body of the "Moon Spirit Liquid".

Behind Kenneth sits the "Big Mac" model, which has always been about nine feet tall, consisting of hundreds of intricate parts, mainly liquid essence and mica silverstone, but also small amounts of Mithril, moon-long adamantite, spinel powder, and other materials.

Most of these materials have excellent conductivity and good compatibility, with a small white light source in the middle of the "Big Mac" model, from which several rays of light are emitted on a huge disc directly behind.

The three seemingly unrelated objects, located in the laboratory, form a very harmonious picture with Kenneth himself.

On the test table, a row of test tubes boiled one by one, and in Kenneth's expectant eyes, with a "gurgling" sound, he slowly squirmed and climbed upward, forming a huge mercury curtain wall.

The entire wall of the mercury screen was constantly changing and looking beautiful, this was a debugging that Kenneth had done to test the performance of the "Moon Spirit Liquid", and the raw materials alone cost about six million soles, and such experiments had been carried out hundreds of times. It can be seen from this that the birth of any kind of weapon is made by money.

"No, no...... Stretch is still not enough......" Kenneth stared intently at the mercury wall, staring at the liquid that was squirming to the limit, and then his face became worse and worse.

A huge spiritual force suddenly opened, and the mercury curtain wall collapsed all at once, and the waterfall-like mercury liquid suddenly lost its restraint and splashed in the big and small corners of the laboratory, like arrows of light.

"Damn, shit, shit, what's wrong?"

An unspeakable irritation surged into his heart, Kenneth couldn't help but overturn all the glass test tubes in front of him, his pupils and facial muscles constricted regularly at the same time, and he said to himself nervously:

"I have to make a better, tougher, more flexible Moon Spirit Liquid, or if the Big Mac gets out of control, the user will end up in the same fate as me...... The materials and proportions have been tested countless times, why can't the extensibility be improved!?"

As the man roared like a vent, the countless glassware placed in the laboratory shattered one after another, and the angry spiritual fluctuations pushed the air hard, and a drop of moon spirit essence instantly spilled into an empty bucket, and then, the entire empty bucket trembled violently.

"Huh?"

He was immediately attracted by the vibrating empty barrel, and quickly turned his two wheels to come over.

In the wet empty barrel, a drop of Moon Spirit Essence almost stretched into a thin line, smashing around in the small space, and the half-sound did not stop.

"What's going on...... The extensibility has suddenly risen so high?" Kenneth stared at the barrel with a look of surprise and delight on his face.

Then he looked down and saw the label, the dissolver, from where the empty barrel was close to the ground. (To be continued.) )