Chapter 312: Technology Brings Innovation
Seeing off Destier, Rost called the waiter to come in and clean the room, and he walked to the castle lookout, leaving the range of the magic array, and the cold air in the far north suddenly hit his face, and Prince Rost, who was used to living in the far north, did not shrink his body, but enjoyed the cold wind blowing a little.
From the lookout, Prince Rost looked down at a large building covered with white cloth in a high wall and a protective circle, which was a portal built by the silver-haired elves and dwarves sent by the old gods not long ago, knowing that the food provided by the old gods for the kingdom of Saxony was originally piled up in the forest, and then the Belica Fortress was responsible for sending personnel to transport it. The road and wind and snow made this method of transportation extremely inefficient, and it seems that the Old Gods did not like to send too many of their followers to transport food for the Kingdom of Saxony, so they sent craftsmen to build this large portal to transport the food directly from the Holy City of the Old Gods to the Belica Fortress in one go, and then the fortress personnel accepted it and transported it directly to the granaries across the country.
Science and technology are the primary productive forces! This sentence is equally valid in other worlds.
Rost has to admit that advanced technology can greatly improve work efficiency, and this large-scale portal simplifies a lot of unnecessary work and saves a lot of manpower and material resources. Although Prince Rost is not a magician, he also knows some things about space magic, teleportation spells are the magic that many magicians will do, but teleportation spells are the limit of teleporting 1-3 people at a time, and the limit of the teleportation circle dedicated to transportation services in some big cities is about ten people, and each teleportation requires a lot of magic power, which is expensive. Not to mention commoners, even some minor nobles can't afford such expenses, and they are usually used for important intelligence transmission and personnel transportation.
However, this portal of Belica Fortress has no restrictions at all, and it can generally transport people and goods on a large scale all the time, although the consumption of magic power is also large, but its effect is definitely worth the price. If you think about it, if this kind of portal can be popularized, then the distance between territories in a country will be completely broken, and the king can control the situation of the whole country more freely. And whether it is the flow of people or the transportation of materials will become very convenient, there is no need to worry about robberies and accident losses during the transportation process, in terms of logistics supply and army mobilization during the war, it is to make the balance of victory and defeat quickly tilt in favor of the side that has mastered this technology!
This large-scale teleportation technology is truly priceless, and it is worth more than the minerals in the Kingdom of Saxony!
It's a pity that this portal can only be teleported in one direction. Each time, it is the believers of the Old Gods who can activate the portal. Obviously, this portal can facilitate transportation and facilitate the enemy's advance! The old gods are well aware of this, and Rost is also very aware of this, when the portal was built, Rost was responsible for supervising the work on the spot, and the location where the portal was built was also the strongest fortress in the fortress, and it was also specially covered with protective circles around it, guarded by Praetorian Guard soldiers 24 hours a day.
Although the mages stationed in the Belica Fortress have also studied the portal. But it's a pity that the protective circle used for secrecy above is too complicated. The mages are simply at a loss. One of them, a level 11 water mage who likes to study magic circles, also stays in his room every day to study the magic circle on the portal. But I don't seem to have a clue until now.
Moreover, in addition to the teleportation technology possessed by the old gods, the advanced communication technology at the first meeting was also very enviable, knowing that the distance between the royal capital of Saxony and the Arnold Mountains is very far. Usually the communication magic guide is simply this distance to communicate. Large magic portals, magic guides for long-distance communication, God knows how many magic techniques the old gods still have that have long been lost in the world.
Walking on the rooftop, Rost couldn't help but think about how to make the Saxon Kingdom get more help from the Old Gods, now the only link between the Saxon Kingdom and the Old Gods is his sister Luo Jie'an, as far as the relationship is concerned, the Old Gods do not want others to disturb themselves, and the Saxon royal family is counting on the power of the gods to get rid of the annual war with the Oug barbarians. The Old Gods wanted to lure elves and dwarven fugitives into the Misty Forest, and the human kingdom of Saxony would receive most of its annual food needs.
Clearly, this is a completely asymmetrical partnership.
The kingdom of Saxony paid too littleββ every year to avoid a senseless war and get most of the food it needed, and it was only two things that were done with a small hand, although the second thing may involve a dispute between the gods. But it is clear that such a cooperation is very dangerous, and the old gods can cancel the cooperation at any time, and there is no need to bear any price, but for the kingdom of Saxony, it is not a price to bear whether it is a food problem or a border security problem.
Prince Rost did not consider himself a philanthropist, and as a ruler, it was natural for him to strive for the best interests of his country, and if it was a normal deal between countries, the Kingdom of Saxony might take advantage of the situation to extract the maximum amount of profit. But the identity of the transaction partner of the Kingdom of Saxony this time is too terrifying, as a god who can use the dragon as a servant, how dare mortals do something under the nose of the god?
As for the issue of mineral mining, in fact, Prince Rost would prefer to be handled by the ancient god Yalin, in a way, it can tie the interests between the Kingdom of Saxony and the old gods more tightly, and it would be good if he could get some magic technology assistance.
I hope this meeting will go smoothly!
Thinking of this, Rost got up and returned to the castle.
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In a secret underground prison somewhere in the royal capital, it is a special prison for many felons who have committed serious crimes, including crazed mercenaries who have killed more than twenty villagers in small villages and dismembered their bodies, assassins who have even assassinated members of the nobility for money, mages who have gone insane in the study of magic, and many more criminals who have committed horrific crimes. Any criminal sent to this particular prison means that he or she does not want to get out alive, and the only chance to leave is to be turned into a corpse and thrown out in a coffin by the prison guards.
In the gloomy torture chamber, several soldering irons were burning in the blazing brazier, and the executioner with a black mask was taking out a reddish soldering iron and pressing it the prisoner hanging in the air, and the hoarse screams resounded throughout the room.
"Okay, let's be honest, it's useless for you to deny it now, if you don't want to suffer a little more!"
"NoβI β I'm not β a cultist β I'm not a cult β"
Faced with the prisoner's answer, the torturer's face was gloomy and he took a bottle of holy water containing the light element and dripped it on the prisoner's arm, and immediately a black smoke rose, and a strange emblem gradually appeared on the prisoner's arm.
"Sue me for what is this?Filthy Demon Emblem~Hurry up!Which demon are you loyal to, and where is your altar!Don't worry, I'll be impatient, I have more time to play with you!" The torturer roughly grabbed the prisoner's hair and said viciously, while the person in charge of the execution took out more chilling torture instruments from the cabinet next to him.
Soon the room began to hear a chilling, high-pitched wail!
Half an hour laterββ
"I'm sorry~ Holy Priest Grant, the prisoner's will is very strong, and I am afraid that I will not be able to pry the news out of his mouth for a while. "In an office room on the upper floor of the prison, one of the interrogation guards reported to the priest of the Holy Capital in the room.
Grant the Moon Priest was flipping through the books and looking at the demon insignia marked on it, and soon the old priest raised his head and said gently: "There is no need to torture the prisoner with too much pain, his insignia already indicates which demon he is loyal to, and let him be imprisoned for the final judgment according to the laws of the Kingdom of Saxony." β
"Lord Priest, don't you need to continue to inquire about the whereabouts of his comrades?" the guards knew very well that the final sentence of any country on the mainland for the cultist would definitely be death.
"No! His comrades must have already begun to flee. β
Moon Priest Grant frowned, from the information he received, it seems that these cultists have infiltrated the Saxon Kingdom recently, and it seems that they are looking for some news in the Saxon Kingdom. Recently, the Kingdom of Saxony has arrested several suspected cultists, and judging from the insignia on the bodies of these cultists, they should all belong to the followers of the Demon Domination of the Killing Master Areguso!
Located in the abyss, the top of the nine masters, is the most powerful demon master, once he has descended directly into the main material plane in his body, and even fought with the ice goddess Ejoma, but in the end, the terrifying demon master was still defeated by the goddess's divine power and fled back to the twisted void
Grant recalled some of the past events recorded in the Holy Capital's holy scriptures, and at this moment, the Moon Priest couldn't help but be a little worried.
There weren't too many negative feelings in the royal capital of Saxony, and there weren't any points of convergence, and besides, both the Holy Capital and the Holy See were stationed here, and the Demon Lord wouldn't be stupid enough to build the altar here. It seems that after the Lord of Pain raged in the Holy Capital, the other Demon Masters also looked like they were about to move, could it be that the demons in the abyss were carrying out some big plans! (To be continued......