The mountain rain is coming, and the wind is full of buildings

Over the next ten days, several things happened,

First of all, Alma's lord Alice's father took over the original imperial garrison, and then completely closed Alma City, temporarily cutting off trade ties with the city, and then sent someone to inform the forest, asking for the activation of the steam power cannon for the defense of the city wall, and at the same time doubling the patrol guards, and building some defenses around the city to deal with possible emergencies,

The second thing is that there is a shortage of food in the city, not that people can't eat now, but that everyone began to hoard food in a tense atmosphere, intentionally or unintentionally, and people were panicked for a while, but fortunately, thanks to the efficiency of the guards, the current stable situation was temporarily maintained, and there were no vicious incidents such as looting, and then the lord issued an order to directly guard the troops to take over the grain depot, and only distribute necessities according to the capitation,

At the same time, all livelihood measures, including the steam farm, were stationed in a large number of garrisons, and the tree forest was also detached from the usual idle state, and began to work hard, after receiving the notice, the tree forest did not go home, and has been living in the steam farm.

In this cloudy environment, several vicious disappearances suddenly broke out in the city of Alma, and the guards investigated to no avail, and finally attributed all the charges to the strange conclusion that there were cultists in the city, and then began to arrest cultists on a large scale in the name of protecting the people.

Then, in the following time, news came from afar, several cities declared their independence, and then wars broke out.

The Thousand Towns Empire, which has been inherited for thousands of years, completely fell apart in a few months.

What does the demise of the nation mean, everyone has their own answer in their hearts,

Alma was located in the border desert, and for a while he was unaffected by the war, but everyone knew in their hearts that this false peace would not last long.

However, the most worrying thing at the moment is still not the threat from the human race itself, but whether the fierce beasts in the desert will come back due to the destruction of the old enemy, Alma as the front line of the human race against the fierce beasts, if it lacks the support of the entire empire, even if there is the latest steam technology as a basis, even if the beast queen is completely sealed today, she still can't face these powerful existences called human enemies alone,

Even so, the lord organized a patrol of all crystallists to repeatedly patrol the desert around Alma in the hope of responding in a timely manner

The essence of crystal magic is to communicate with the origin of the world through crystals, so as to mobilize the original power of the world, generally crystal magic below the second order only needs to be unfolded through a specific technique to release, basically as long as it is meditated and trained, everyone can use it, and the third-order crystal magic is the most obvious watershed that distinguishes ordinary people from crystallists,

Only after reaching the third order will each crystallist be recognized by the origin of the world and endowed with a unique and unique ability, this ability will accompany him for life and cannot be changed, and the subsequent promotion is only a simple enhancement of this ability, but because of the different soul structure and attribute affinity, each person's strengthening direction is also different and irreversible,

The two crystallists with the same fire attribute affinity,At the third order, they were both endowed with the ability to release flames by the origin of the world.,At the fourth order, one of them may have a weak affinity for the water attribute at the same time.,Make their flames sticky.,And the other person may have a special effect of bursting because of the fiery personality.,Because of the different ways of application,It's impossible to judge which of the two is stronger or weaker.,But purely in terms of destructive power, the latter does surpass the former a lot.,

Although each crystallist will only be endowed with one ability by the origin of the world in his life, there are many kinds of crystallography magic, and all kinds of applications emerge in an endless stream, and it has always been said that there is no strongest crystallography, only the strongest crystallist.

However, the higher the level of the crystallist's understanding of the origin of the world and the affinity of the elements of the world, the more powerful the ability will be, and the control and understanding of his own ability will be more refined.

Since ancient times, there have been countless low-level people who have challenged high-level people for various reasons, but there are very few successful ones, and these people are all the future figures of this continent.

Because of the war, there was no trade between the cities, and closing the city gates for a short time had no effect, but the problem would slowly become apparent over time.

First of all, there is the problem of materials, because Alma has always relied on commercial purchases, Alma lacks some necessary production lines, and some items cannot be self-sufficient, because the desert area cannot grow flax, cotton and other crops, if the trade routes cannot be opened, it will not be long before the Alma people will not even be able to wear clothes, and secondly, there is the problem of insufficient food, ore, and means of production, etc.

But most importantly, it is the threat of a fierce beast like the sword of Damocles hanging overhead,

What is urgently needed now is to start trading with the surrounding cities to obtain the necessities of life, and to form an alliance with the surrounding cities as soon as possible to face the possible threats posed by the beasts.

Alma decided to send an envoy to visit the surrounding cities that were still neutral, in order to persuade the surrounding cities to form a strategic alliance to face future threats, and at the same time, a large caravan was formed to follow the envoy to open the trade network between the new cities, and Quercus, as the leading steam artisan in Alma City, also went with the caravan in order to purchase the necessary consumables and to obtain greater profits in the trade of ore and technology,

A large caravan of nearly a hundred people, the stout body of the desert dragon pulled a cart of goods, these are Alma's special goods, including a small part of crystallography ores and spices, as well as a large number of iron ore and desert specific metals, after all, Alma is located next to the black desert, the largest output is iron ore, and the rest is the gifts that some envoys plan to give to the surrounding neutral cities, some fireworks and fruit wine made from desert cactus fruits,

The lord sent a team of guards and several crystallists to protect the envoys and the caravan, and the caravan would go with the envoys to the nearest neutral city 'Ammon', and then the two groups would separate, and the envoys would continue to the surrounding cities, and the caravan would return to Alma after Amon procured Alma's much-needed materials to relieve their urgent needs.

The large army cannot use the steam mobile equipment that is not very reliable when marching in the desert, and can only choose the traditional way of camel dragon, so with the speed of the team where the oak forest is located, if nothing else, it will take about a month to go back and forth.

"I hope everything goes well" Quercus sorted out his scarf and goggles to prevent wind and sand, found a comfortable position to ride on the camel, and looked at Alma City in the distance. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－

The third day of Quercus's departure from Alma City

A raunchy uncle appeared at the gate of the lord's mansion with a barefoot little girl with a torn cloak, and her dirty appearance was worse than when Querca saw them.

"Stop, who's who" The guard stepped forward to stop the two,

"Don't be nervous gentlemen, I have no ill intentions, we want to meet the lord"

The man thought for a moment and pulled a necklace from his neckline,

The necklace is engraved with a small dagger with a gilt pattern, and on the back is engraved a pair of open wings around a scepter that passes through the crown,

"This is my token" The man handed the necklace to the guard,

The guard took it and took a look, handed the necklace to the slightly fat guard behind him, and the fat guard took the necklace into the lord's mansion and handed the necklace to a person who looked like a butler and whispered a few words,

"We've sent someone in to report it, you wait here for a while"

The little girl seemed to be full of curiosity about the things in front of her, pulling the man's withered yellow trench coat and looking left and right.

After a while, the butler-like man returned,

"Your Excellency, please let you in."

The man staggered the little girl into the lord's fiefdom, then paused, took off his cowboy hat and made a standard imperial gentleman's salute to the guard behind him,

The main building of the Lord's Mansion is some distance from Alice's courtyard, and the area is dozens of times larger, because it has to assume the role of a part of the fortress, and the whole is built with huge rock columns, and at the same time, it is also inlaid with defensive crystalline crystals.

Walking through a long corridor decorated with frescoes, passing through a hall, I came to a huge inner room without windows,

The only light in the room was two dim candles.

The butler-like man tapped on the door frame, then bowed slightly and retreated, not forgetting to take the door with him as he left.

By the faint light of the candle, the man could see a person nestled on the sofa in the dark corner playing with the necklace he had just taken out, and the expression on his face could not be seen clearly in the dark.

"Tell me, the former commander of the Imperial Special Forces 'Dark Night', one of the famous Imperial Twin Walls 'Shepherd' Klose, why would such a big man come to me Alma" The man in the darkness made a cold voice,

The man took off his hat, found the sofa facing the man in the dark, sat down, and put his feet cross-legged on the ornate low table in front of him, which looked like it was too expensive.

"Those names have dissipated with the fall of the empire, and I am now just a ghost full of hatred."

"Then what is the purpose of your coming here?"

"Millennium pointer," the man said slowly, playing with his hat with his fingers.