Chapter 24 Counterfeiting
Seven hundred years is not a long time for the capital of a kingdom, and it can even be said that it is a young city. The well-developed transportation and many specialties of the www.biquge.info have brought vigorous vitality to Nesmead, which has a population of nearly 400,000. Here, it is difficult to find monuments engraved with mysterious symbols, and few shops dare to hang the sign of a century-old store. Everywhere you look, you'll find a wide variety of goods in abundance, and you can even be surprised to find exotic items from faraway places in a nondescript street market.
Perhaps because of the city-state's 'fresh blood', Neisman is also the cradle of the Northland's most famous invention and innovation. The merchants and aristocrats here engaged in 'creative research' in music, art, magic, and crafts. It can be said that Neisma leads the fashion trend in the entire Northland Three Kingdoms and even the entire human country on the continent of Salano. Beautiful, contemporary, and utilitarian objects were transported to other cities and countries through the Continental Passage and the ships on the Raven River.
The people of Nesman, who are the most receptive to new things, will not laugh at you when you walk down the street, even if you are dressed like a tree elf and covered in green leaves. Here, you don't have to worry too much about the traditional things, if your bizarre 'beauty' can be widely recognized and imitated, merchants and aristocrats will find people to hook your creativity and interests, and the kingdom will have a special department to reward you with a bonus. At the end of the street, there are simple stages dedicated to showcasing one's creativity or aesthetics that are always open for free. This is also a unique folk feature of Nesman.
In contrast to free-spirited cultural practices, Nesman's laws are rigorous. This is evident from the fact that the king once dealt with the nobles who committed crimes in front of the people. Here, as long as sin is made public, there is a good chance that the head will be lost.
Fifty percent of Nessrael's borders border the wilderness, which doomed him to be a country that valued martial arts and related merits. It was also under this influence that Neisma's fortifications were repaired and expanded, and until now, part of the northern wall near the mountains is still being rebuilt.
Although Li Yun has Julio's memories of the city, after seeing it himself, his feelings are different. In comparison, Li Yun values Nesman's wealth more. Because it is the affluence and the calm of the frontier for nearly two decades that the people of this city are rapidly transitioning to enjoying life.
It's like when a person gets rich and goes to further study and wants to enrich his mind. Although the area is still rich in giant timber for the construction and repair of large ships, the Nesmai people are no longer willing to be ridiculed by the southern aristocracy as the inhabitants of the wild lands or the descendants of lumberjacks, as evidenced by the 'innovations' of the Nesmein merchants and nobles. Pursuit, desire for high taste, strong receptivity, but just starting. Undoubtedly, the general environment of Nesmani is very favorable to Li Yun and them, and Li Yun's 'true aristocratic' education of Lana is also implemented on such a mass basis. The purpose of Li Yun's trip is to use everything that can shock people's eyes, ears and thoughts, and strive to make Lana's status in the aristocratic circle an established fact with the speed of blitzkrieg.
More than a month ago, Li Yun did not expect that there would be such a luxurious lineup of teams, and he did not have the ability to catch horses and collect bird feathers in more than 30 days. But Ingrama's notes and the Eternal Water and the Rare Plant Seeds gave Li Yun another important skill, making fakes!
If there's one line of mages that has the closest relationship with zoologists, it's necromancers. A good understanding of the body structure of manipulated creatures can help create more powerful undead creatures, which is an indisputable fact recognized by necromancers. In particular, Ingrama, a necromancer who tried to break the shackles of the gods and create his own system, has achieved amazing results in this regard.
Li Yun is not in vain, how can he spend the long years of several hundred years? In addition to fighting and killing, of course, he will also have personal hobbies. In addition to the study of cold weapons, Li Yun's other hobby is reading. This hobby has led him to dabble in various disciplines to a greater or lesser extent. After all, even if you only read one page a day, the cumulative effect of hundreds of years cannot be ignored.
In this way, the knowledge of creatures and animals from another world collides violently with the magical knowledge of this world in a different way, resulting in a cataclysmic effect similar to that in chemical reactions. Although he has not reached the realm of great transformation into a living person, in terms of dark energy and corpse transformation, Li Yun has played with ingenuity and prosperity.
The pupils of his eyes changed color, his body was taller, his tendons were thicker, his head was, and his fur was smoother, it was nothing, if it weren't for the fear of being too shocking and too much, he could even turn a dead horse into a flying horse!
Then there is the important link of hiding the dark aura, and Li Yun has invested the largest proportion of energy in this regard. And the achievements can be crowned with such an unprecedented honor. To be able to make such a breakthrough in just over a month, the help of Julio and Ingrama in necromancy is certainly important, and the biological knowledge of the other world cannot be ignored. However, the most important thing is that the magical plant seeds that he asked for from the dragon god Karu have played a huge role.
When it comes to rare plant seeds, one cannot fail to mention the water of eternity. As far as Li Yun knew, the Eternal Water was definitely a treasure in this world. Those barren lands, barren lands, oases in the Gobi Desert are said to have been produced by a drop of eternal water. It can be seen that this planetary energy is fundamental to the prosperity of life. For the sake of materials, Li Yun transferred White Claw back to take a drop of Eternal Water and three seeds each, and then planted them not far from the headhunter camp, which was later known as the Pool of Holy Water and the Forest of Miracles. A natural spring pool, not much larger than a bathtub, with this drop of eternal water, gave birth to a huge valley with hundreds of acres of rare plants, and even the vast dense forests on the outskirts of the valley were rapidly transformed from secondary forests to primeval forests in the following years. This secret is also the root cause of the demise of that elite expedition.
When Li Yun had absorbed Julio's memories, he was already thinking about a question: Why did the necromantic mages get so miserable even if they didn't do anything bad compared to the mages of other departments? Even if you can't play tricks such as optical refraction and reflection like the Light Mage, if you want not to be hated by the people, you have to meet the general aesthetic needs of the public. However, if you look at those peers, nine of the ten necromancers are sneaky, tattered, windy, scorched, and disheveled...... Anyway, he threw a staff and other luminous objects and walked two steps in the zombie pile, which can definitely achieve the effect of fish and pearls. The rest was even more exaggerated, with a green light flashing in his eyes, and a thousand-year-old corpse crawled out of the coffin...... Can such a look be loved? It's really strange that someone can run over in slow motion with their arms open and tears in their eyes and shout the word "loved one" when they see it.
In line with this concept, and with special materials, a group of dog-like but really black-hearted, black-hearted, black-hearted, black-bellied guys were born. Of course, this gang includes thirty humans. (Two of them were used as experiments, and they were finally abandoned) Li Yun didn't care whether they were murderous or unjustly imprisoned, anyway, they were death row prisoners who were destined to die of exhaustion in the mines. For them, Li Yun can be regarded as extremely hardworking. Using the advanced necromancy of 'Dark Entanglement' one by one, even the increasingly powerful Li Yun took three days to complete. The special and terrifying thing about this spell is that after the recipient becomes immortal, the memory of the person who was born will not be lost. No matter how much resentment is towards the caster, there is no resistance to the caster's orders due to the bondage of the seal. It's like a prison cell for souls, and unless they are freed or the caster is destroyed, they will forever live like a marionette under the manipulation of others.
With the transformation of the nature of the body, the attributes other than the dark system that you possessed during your lifetime will be completely cleansed. At the same time, the basic characteristics of immortality are also reflected: immunity to psychic spells such as charm, hypnosis, fear, and psychic blasting, 20% absorption capacity to dark spells, and 30% less immunity to light spells. If you want to learn a skill, you can use an advanced spell called 'Dark Memory' to make it quick to master. However, there is very limited room for growth in this kind of 'ready-to-finish product' or 'blank'. Because 'Dark Coil' is an attack and torture spell, its effectiveness in torturing and destroying people is much higher than that of training undead or dark warriors.
In this way, there are knights who look like elites, and there are handsome horses. But there is still a shortage of tailors and skilled blacksmiths. This also made it difficult for Li Yun, the Black Iron Dwarf tribe that had dealings with Julio before his death was completely destroyed and looted by Li Yun. The Earthfire Crypt they live in is the closest dwarven tribe to Boulder Castle, which is the main reason they are targeted. Another path of development that Li Yun once pointed out for Albert and others was first tried in himself.
The Black Iron Dwarves are an offshoot of the notorious Darkfurnace Dwarven tribe on the continent of Salano. These men, who are known for their brutality and abuse, are eager to take possession of all the volcanic furnaces and precious mines in the continent. They enslave all creatures that can be conquered with weapons and chariots. This includes other dwarves and women of the clan. Rumor has it that the murder of the Dwarves of the Dark Furnace is due to the fact that the souls of their ancestors were corrupted by darkness. It is also said that it is because of the fact that generations of living in hellish lava fields have made their character brutal. Others say that they themselves are branches of the evil Underground Grey Dwarves. Either way, the Darkforge Dwarves are very different from the other Dwarves in appearance. They had swarthy bodies as black as cast iron, and their pupilless eyes glowed red like burning lava. Their mastery of pickaxes is as remarkable as their notoriety, and even more feared by other creatures. However, these are not obstacles for Li Yun. A small tribe branch of no more than 200 people did not need him to exert all his strength, and it was quickly solved by the wind like a leaf. Due to the need for the Black Iron Dwarf's technique, Li Yun had to use the 'Dark Winding' again. After combining Li Yun's manufacturing concept of cold weapons, more than a dozen craftsmen who were preliminarily selected created the majestic full-body armor. And the windfall of attacking the Black Iron Dwarves was that there was a human enchanter who colluded with them. Without discussing his character, in terms of abilities, this enchanter is outstanding. With him, the whole body armor was covered with an aura of magic, and it became more perfect.
As for the rare helmet, it was obtained by selling all the property of the Black Iron Dwarves, and some of them were collected by the Black Iron Dwarves themselves over the years. The carriage wasn't really the fruit of a magical tree, but it was pretty much the same, and it was made from the plants that had grown up with the seeds given by Karushu.
In order to conceal the hiding line and achieve the mysterious effect, Li Yun painstakingly broke it into pieces, assembled in batches of makeup at the place where Nesman was more than 100 miles, and changed clothes collectively after he and Lana arrived on the last day. As a result, the grand convoy chasing the royal family appeared out of thin air. And in the days that followed, it caused a sensation in Nessman, and even in the whole of Nessera and the surrounding countries.