Terra 775, May 18, the city of Glow.

The illuminated Victory Square is filled with residents and tourists alike, as the groundbreaking ceremony on June 1 leads to the sun-lit draperies and vendors selling their delicious snacks.

Most of these roadside stalls are not very hygienic, but the appetizing aroma and lively atmosphere are really hard to control.

A convoy of horses that looked unremarkable on the outside, with no additional decorations, arrived at the checkpoint - although Xiahui City had no walls, there was still a management office on the avenue to inspect the convoy.

After passing the review, the envoys of the Huaiguang Church came to Xiahui City in such an ordinary carriage.

"It seems that the lord already knows that we are coming."

The sworn archbishop is a 'maiden' dressed in red and black ceremonial robes.

Her robes were layered on top of each other, and her obsidian and light blue were mixed together, looking complex and magnificent, and she looked at most fourteen or fifteen years old, her long hair dancing in the wind like black flames, but her eyes were a dead ice blue.

And if you look closely, you can see that the sworn archbishop has a pair of panther-like beast ears in his hair. She's a filmmaker.

He was accompanied by a bald man who was so big that he looked a little like a Milos. His eyes were closed, but light was shining from them, and he could faintly see the bright golden eyes beneath his eyelids.

Archbishop Tianyan nodded slightly: "I sense that this city is enveloped by an invisible force that I can't capture, probably some kind of spiritual energy lock, or the inscription circle of the superior. ”

"The Prophet and the King of the Mountain are waiting for us at Silverpeak."

Turning his head, the archbishop swore that although his face was expressionless, he said in a soft tone to all the members of the envoy: "You are free to move first, and Tianyan and I will come over to visit—the banquet can be eaten, but it doesn't need to be so fanfare." ”

Yinfeng is the cliff peak where the Lord's Mansion is located, although it is only one or two hundred meters high, it is enough to overlook the whole city, and the Lord's Mansion at the top of the cliff peak is brightly lit, and there are even people who are hanging the banner of 'Warmly Welcome to the Huaiguang Church Envoys', and have prepared a banquet to welcome them.

Obviously, there was no advance notice on the Huaiguang side, but the Prophet did already know that they would arrive today.

Everyone responded, and the two archbishops vanished.

The seven people who were allowed to move freely were divided into two groups, they smiled at each other, looked at each other, exchanged a few gestures, and then went their separate ways.

"It's hard to imagine that this is the former ...... of Ryan City."

In the team of three, the white-haired dragon nun stared at the city in front of her in amazement, Yingguang was not a person who made a fuss, but rather that she was very calm, even in the face of the remains of the alien god that was enough to scare people into screaming.

But there are some things, the more contrasting they are, the stronger they become.

Sister Yingguang still remembers that when she first came to Ryan City to investigate the disappearance of the caravan, it was only a small town with a population of only a few tens of thousands, and the city was surrounded by glowing grass, and the whole city revealed a quiet and harmonious, but vaguely gloomy and dead atmosphere.

Yingguang dared to say that even if Baron Ryan did not secretly rob the population for biological experiments, the atmosphere of Ryan City would not be sunny - after all, this is a city in the mountains surrounded by mountains and forests, and the people's character is also lazy because of the deliberate 'high welfare' of Ryan Ling.

It is the protective layer that Baron Ryan uses to disguise himself, and naturally there can be no inner vitality.

But now......

Sister Dragonman involuntarily raised her head and looked at the huge chimneys erected on the west side of the city.

Unlike the chimneys of the alchemy workshops she had seen in the past, the chimneys here did not emit grayish-black or colorful 'glows'. In contrast, in this city named after the glow, the chimneys are as pale as white as snow.

The Huaiguang Church had done their homework before, and they knew that this was the result of the practical application of the lord's 'reuse of alchemy techniques'.

When Ian Yinfeng first arrived in the imperial capital and passed the alchemy assessment, he invented this genius technique, although it is not suitable for high-end alchemy, but a little improvement is the best measure to prevent pollution.

The chimneys, which seemed to rise into the clouds, spewed white gas, faintly connecting with the flowing clouds in the sky, and just as the light was reflecting the clouds, a shadow swept through the sky, obscuring the city and the streets.

It was a dragon - the dragon nun saw two real dragons flying slowly.

The true dragons landed in a mountain peak northwest of the Xiahui Domain, and then two rays of light went straight into the Lord's Mansion, presumably the King of the Mountain of Nanling and his child, the Spirit Dragon Theo.

The King of the Mountain was originally responsible for guarding the treasure of the Steel Dragon, waiting for the appearance of the successor, but after Ian Silverpeak became the Emissary of the Dragon God and inherited the entire inheritance of the Dragon Dragon, he should return to the Dragon Island and wait for the next action.

But perhaps it's because of Mahdi's relationship with Ryushima, or maybe Ian himself is Ryushima's target...... In short, the King of the Mountain, who was supposed to leave, not only did not leave, but even directly participated in the construction of the new holy land 'Frost Sky Dome' of the former Dragon God Belief and now the Chongling Sect.

At this point, even some nobles in the imperial capital no matter how much they read the words, saying 'how can the Yinfeng Territory be worthy of the glory of the first earl of Nanling without a fourth energy level' and 'How can a twenty-year-old young man control such a large territory', it is useless.

Because on this land, there are really fourth-level true dragons living there.

The appearance of the dragon did not cause disorder among the people in the streets, they all just stopped, saluted silently, and then continued to laugh and laugh, and do what they had to do.

"Strange ......"

The Milos people on the side muttered: "It's not that Long Wei doesn't mean that he won't be afraid if he sees too much, it's the instinctive reaction of the spirit and bloodline, how can this group of Yinfeng people be so calm?" ”

"I'm afraid it's because this group of Yinfeng people is not ordinary."

And the White Folk Priest Hui Jian smiled slightly, he swept the streets in front of him, the 'fluorescence' in everyone's body, and then looked at the northern part of the city.

Unlike the hustle and bustle of the southeastern city, the western part of Xiahui City is a dense alchemy park, which is heavily guarded, and the atmosphere is as hard and indifferent as steel, except for the sound of the workshop running.

To the north, at the other extreme—a cluster of towers that shimmered with infinite lightning and flashed like a lightning storm...... This is the energy center of Xia Huiling, and one or two electric sparks are blown up in the void from time to time between the high-voltage towers.

Magnetic storm coils, prism towers, and a brand new, ever-rotating eight-sided prismatic tower that dot the city all depend on the site's energy supply.

The energy pipes here are buried deep underground, and although they are hidden, it is also evident that the main structure of the place, the power furnace, is underground.

[The pipeline leads directly to Xiahui Lake...... Have you already built an energy furnace that uses the 'Heavenly Fallen Relic'......]

Huijian's eyes flashed with pure white spiritual energy, and he thought thoughtfully: [Ian's ability has once again exceeded our expectations, maybe there is a reason why he took the initiative to choose Xia Hui Territory as his territory in the first place...... According to the deduction, his choice should be to return to Port Harrison, use some means to get rid of Viscount Grant, and plot to seize the port and the Great Labyrinth of the South China Sea.

[But now, he still has information that we don't know]

"Want to go straight to the Lord's Mansion?"

Ransom noticed the performance of his companions, and said with some surprise: "I will say it when the archbishop returns." ”

"Hmm. There is no hurry. ”

Huijian responded with a smile, and he motioned for Ransom to follow Reflection: "Let's take a look at this city first." ”

The city is bustling with activity, and Xiahui City has the air of a big city at the moment, with a wide, lively, brightly lit commercial street that is not allowed to pass through the traffic - this is a pedestrian street, flanked by vendors, and a number of mobile hot dog shops and kebab shops.

"It's only been a year since the food disaster, right? Will they be able to eat meat like this? ”

Ransom opened her mouth widely, not because she was surprised, but because she was hungry, the Milos paladin touched the horns on the top of her head, swallowed and said, "And the spices are used too much, don't they want money for spices?" ”

"It's just chicken and duck meat, and the breeding is already fast."

Hui Jian noticed that today's Xia Hui Ling's meat diet is still dominated by chicken, fish and duck and other fast-growing poultry.

As for spices, Canaan Moore, which has cooperated with Xia Hui, is the origin of spices, and the Ember Lantern family directly controls many spice plains, not to mention that most of the knight manors in the Golden Plains are also cultivated spices, as long as they reach a cooperation agreement, there will definitely be no shortage of this aspect.

"Is the main priority for the supply of civilian goods?" The only thing that made Blade think was Ian's attitude, and it was clear that the lord didn't seem to intend to turn the realm into his own testing ground or a supply point for sublimation - if that were the case, he wouldn't have set up a chicken and duck breeding plant or an agricultural building, but would have everyone go to the mountains to mine.

Now, what Ian does is mainly to make ordinary people well-fed and well-fed...... While it is indeed a good thing, what is the purpose?

Even Hui Jian couldn't figure this out for a while, and judging from what Terra knew so far, after feeding the people, their work would be slack...... Or even give up thinking altogether.

Although it may not sound good to say, but the fact is that some elves in the remote areas of Canaan Moore still live in wooden houses, isn't it because the life in the coastal jungle is too simple, and they don't need to bother to eat enough?

On the contrary, they lived in the mountains and plains, and even in the underground space, and those elves who needed to work hard to fill their stomachs began to develop and expand very early, and evolved into the prototype of today's Canaan Moore.

Unless, Ian finds another way where ordinary people can still have 'desires' after they are full.

And just when Huijian was thinking that Ransom had already paid for Xia Huiling's specialty grilled stone shrimp sausage, Yingguang found a novelty on the side of the street.

"Vending machines?"

Curious, she came to a large checkered glass 'storage cabinet', with a special terminal on the left side of the vending machine, where Xia Hui led the locals to use the terminal to buy something.

After they manipulated it, the vending machine automatically pushed a product into the vending door, and the buyer took it and left, very smoothly from beginning to end.

"How can you still ...... like this"

Yingguang can be regarded as a long insight: "Isn't there a thief who steals things here under Xia Hui Ling?" Such a large container is placed here, no one is watching, isn't it stolen all at once? ”

With such doubts, Yingguang went to a passer-by to ask this question.

"That's going to jail! And no one can escape! ”

The passerby's answer was very simple: "In the first two weeks, there were fools stealing things from vending machines every day, but those who stole were caught every day, and it was useless to hide." ”

"The first time was just three days to criticize education, the second time was to go to the West Swamp to work and renovate for a month, and the third time was to ...... I've never seen such a stupid fool who dared to do this kind of thing three times, and he died. ”

"But don't say it yet." Passers-by seemed to have thought of something, and the gray-black haired mountain man said: "I really know a 'thief' who stole three times - he is not a thief, but he lacks the heart to see what happens if he steals three times." ”

"A few days ago, he came back from the laboratory, and he became a decent person, and he didn't talk in a mess, and I almost didn't know that stupid boy - he would even call me Uncle San instead of 'old thing'!"

Hearing this, Yingguang frowned slightly.

The laws of the Xia Hui Domain are not strict at all, and it is normal for this kind of thief to steal the 'government property' arranged by the city hall to be directly cut off in other noble territories of the empire, and he will have to be beheaded the second time.

As for the third time, it is obviously hopeless, even the kindest lord must hang such a person - put Terra in this hellish place, be content to be hanged, some are better than death.

But in the end, for the third time...... What happened to the third punishment?

This reminded Yingguang of the one of the three children in Ryan's collar who could manipulate his memory...... His psionic energy seems to be able to play a similar role?

There were some doubts in his heart, but Yingguang didn't think much about it, after all, in the case of being caught every time, there are really few people who can really steal official things three times.

Not to mention, how could a knight as kind and reliable as Ian use the same terrifying methods as Baron Ryan back then?

The only thing that is more peculiar is how Xia Hui Ling can catch every thief.

Could it be a prophet?

No, no, no, it is not advisable to lean on the prophet in everything......

And just when Yingguang was comforting herself, she suddenly saw a person suddenly running out of the vending machine not far away.

The man held a fan in his hand and sweated profusely complaining that it was too hot inside the vending machine, and passers-by teased him.

"Huh? Artificial? ”

Sister Yingguang, who saw this scene, was dumbfounded, and the demeanor of a priest who had originally maintained a good position suddenly became a village girl - not only her, but even Ransom took a bite of the shrimp grilled sausage in shock: "I thought it was a real automated system, but I didn't expect it to be manpower!" ”

Now it's completely clear why every thief gets caught.

But Hui Jian raised his eyebrows.

He noticed that the man's clothes were not like a vending machine operator, but more like an engineer...... He seems to be the person who repairs and replenishes the stock?

Vending machines, maybe really automated. In this case, then Xia Hui Ling must have the means to monitor the entire city, and that is the 'monitoring circle' and 'psionic lock' in the mouths of the sworn archbishop and the archbishop of Tianyan.

"Or rather, the web program of the pre-epoch civilization?"

He was thinking in his heart.

And just when the Huaiguang Church team was moving freely in Xiahui City.

Lord's Palace, Ian has already met with the two archbishops.

"This time, we are here on behalf of Huaiguang Holy Mountain, and we want to reach a 'natural disaster mutual assistance cooperation' with the Chongling Sect in Nanling."

As soon as they met, the sworn archbishop who was the leader did not have any greetings, and said directly: "Because there are prophets in Nanling, and it is also the existence of you, a prophet lord with great influence, the Holy Mountain cannot predict any disasters around Nanling, and even if it does, we can't be sure whether the information is distorted." ”

"Fortunately, Count Yinfeng, you happen to be a crisis prophet, so we want to sign a prophetic agreement with you on behalf of Huaiguang Sacred Mountain—as long as there are signs of a large-scale disaster or a crisis that is predicted, notify us immediately, and we will send relevant personnel to cooperate with you to deal with all possible natural disasters on the mainland."

Although the archbishop is petite and young and beautiful, he can clearly understand her seniority by looking at the posture of Archbishop Tianyan's low-eyed follower on the side...... It's not just about strength.

Subhumans are very young until the time they die, and the same is evident for the Archbishop.

As for the Archbishop's proposal, Ian's mind was 'of course yes'.

Huaiguang Sacred Mountain must have reached cooperation with all the forces with prophets in terms of natural disasters, so as to avoid some extremely influential disasters in a certain territory in a certain place and unpredictable.

This is also the reason why the Terra continent has an extraordinary respect for the Prophet, and they can indeed ensure the survival of the vast majority of the people on the continent from multiple dimensions.

But there was only one thing that bothered Ian.

(I know that the natural disasters are a bit too much)

Ian thought to himself: (Is it better to say all of them to prevent them from happening, or to say them one by one?) I don't know how to talk about it...... ）

After Ian was distressed and swore that the archbishop had finished speaking on the most important matter, Archbishop Tianyan spoke.

He slowly talked about another key cooperation: "In addition, the existence of the Chongling Sect has been recognized by the four major Orthodox Sects such as us. Later, by June 1, other Orthodox emissaries will also arrive in the Radiant Realm, and we will publicly authenticate the Cult at the time you wish...... And as a requirement, you must be well aware. ”

"I must have a regular team of psionic priests."

Coming back to his senses, Ian took over Archbishop Tianyan's words, and he smiled and said, "And the core goal of this team is not to simply fight, but to be able to penetrate into the Void - it's about demons, right?" ”

"It seems that there are many things that we don't need to talk about."

The Archbishop raised his eyebrows, and Tianyan smiled, and the burly former knight said calmly, "That's right. You've learned a lot, and you've even mastered artificial psyker technology...... However, in order to avoid misunderstandings, we must inform you of the relevant details. ”

Speaking of this, he cocked up his finger and said seriously: "And—please don't get me wrong!" ”

"In order to ensure our cooperation in the future, the clergy troops on the side of the Cult of Soulfulness may need to be trained by us...... This is not to seize power, nor to contain it, nor to force a hand, but the clergy forces need to abide by some rules to survive better, so we may send some instructors to teach ......"

"Great!"

Ian didn't bother to listen to the self-proving words of the Huaiguang Church in the future, he directly stroked his palm and exclaimed: "When will I send someone to teach our priests?" Of course, as you know, there are not many priests in our country at the moment, and there are only two young people in the throne......"

"It's all the same."

Archbishop Tianyan obviously didn't expect Ian to be so insensitive, or ...... So believe in Huaiguang.

So after a pause, he also nodded with a smile and said, "According to our judgment, the Chongling Sect will have a long period of development, so our instructors will be stationed in the Xiahui Territory for a long time. ”

"As for the candidates...... You should also know the Earl of Silverpeak. ”

"They're moving freely around the city right now, and they'll respond to the call later."

And at this moment, the Yingguang trio had already arrived at the foot of the silver peak.

The manor next to Yafeng has long been vacant.

Today, there is only one model of a super-giant battleship.

"What's that......"

Ransom Guang, who didn't know much about this, muttered to herself, she looked up at the incomparably delicate battleship model in front of her, and hesitated a little: "When I went to the World Tree Capital back then, I felt as if I had seen a similar structure, but the World Tree Capital was upright, and this battleship was ......"

"It should be the tree capital of the world."

Hui Jian tilted his head and said, "According to our information, Ian Silver Peak has received a thank you gift from the World Tree Capital, and this model is probably one of them—could it be that the World Tree Capital also shared its own structure with Ian?" So what did he do to get this kind of payment? ”

"I don't think it's that complicated."

Yingguang tilted her head thoughtfully, and she said quite surely, "I think Ian might like this model a lot—it should be a hobby." This model should be a miniature, not a real flying miniature airship."

"How is that possible?"

Ransom Guang was unimpressed by his junior sister's naïve thoughts: "A person like Earl Yinfeng has a purpose in everything he does, how can such a model be so big, how can it be purely for hobby?" ”

"Yes."

Yingguang thought about it and felt that it was right: "Earl Yinfeng's idea is definitely not that simple. ”

"We need to think about it."

(End of chapter)