Chapter 1672 - Where the Profit Goes
Instigating the Magic Tower to build a country cannot be done, but it does not stop people with intentions from obtaining greater benefits from other aspects. The Magic Array City naturally entered the field of vision of these people. The spies from all sides also followed their own channels to approach the city, which was sheltered by the Magic Tower.
The first thing that can be determined is that there are three regular legions of the Gwana Empire, numbering about 30,000 people.
Half of the Haidel Empire's airships are stationed, numbering about 10,000 people.
There are also elves from various wood elf tribes and elven kingdoms, and the number is unknown.
There are still empty houses, so I don't know how they will be distributed.
According to the grapevine, the two imperial powers, along with the elven forces and the magic tower itself, have divided the ownership of the city. The two empires together accounted for two-thirds, the elves accounted for a quarter, and the rest went to the owner of the magic tower.
Originally, the two empires were prepared to take the city under military control and completely barracks it with the attitude of facing a great enemy.
But after seeing that the magic tower wiped out the 500,000 troops of the Sulitang Empire with the power of one tower, the two emperors also seemed to feel that the original plan was not interesting, so the people below changed the development direction of the magic array city.
There are still garrisons, but they don't need to be as many as originally arranged, and people can bring their families there. The Gwana Empire even considered setting up another eleventh legion, adding another establishment to the original ten regular legions, which would be specially used to garrison the Magic Array city.
The Hyder Empire will also reclaim the vast majority of airships, leaving only one squadron, i.e. five airships. This is already the minimum number of airships to carry out stationed tasks, and most of the operations are still mainly single boats.
This is not to say that the five airships will be permanently stationed in the Magic Circle City. Usually only one or two will remain, and the rest will cruise between the main base of the Heider Empire and the Magic Array City.
In addition to the task of transporting and replenishing, they also have the task of maintaining the safety of the waterway and patrolling. Each mission is rotated by five airships, a mix of old and new airships.
Although the military power of the two empires has shrunk significantly, this also means that there is more room for the expansion of civilian power. There is no need to find a way to drag other countries into the water, and the nobles within the empire pounce like wolves, wanting to divide the interests here.
And what is the interest of the Magic Array City? This starts with the annihilation of the 500,000-strong army of the Sulitan Empire.
After a person is killed, he must always clean up the aftermath. In particular, so many people died, and there were all kinds of riding beasts and camel beasts, such as horses and camels that were more than humans.
If the corpses and blood are not disposed of, they will be left for three days and three nights. With the current summer climate, these remnants of the dead do not need to be undead, and the miasma generated by corruption alone can turn the city into a barren land, and no one can approach it.
Therefore, cleaning up the battlefield is quite important.
Lin didn't leave this matter to the two empires and elves to deal with. According to his usual style, if he doesn't throw out all the bad things, he simply ignores others and takes everything on his own.
This time, it was like that.
With the magic tower in hand, a certain confident traverser will certainly not bother those imperial masters in everything. If you owe a lot of favors, it will inevitably hurt when you have to pay it back. So this kind of trivial matter in front of you, just come by yourself.
Not to mention how troublesome it is to clean up the battlefield, think about where the twin towers of the gate are guarded, and what kind of world is on the other side? This kind of top-level blood sacrifice is a great supplement for the demons!
If the door of the abyss is opened for the demons to pass through, it will be better than the aunts who see the supermarket specials, and Uncle Hei will start a zero-yuan purchase, so as not to be robbed by the surging demon tide, then the demon's greedy name can be erased as soon as possible. Because the name doesn't live up to it.
However, the bait was very fragrant, and of course Lin could not do it. One of the conditions of being agreed to guard the Gate of the Abyss was that the demons would not be allowed to pass through. It's only been a few days and I'm going to slap myself in the face, it's too ugly.
You can't let the demon come, but you can send the blood sacrifice over. It's not too easy to control the magic tower to fetch things in the air or something.
Besides, those people came to trouble themselves and let their remains be reused, and Lin had no psychological burden at all. While intimidating the human side, it can also lure the demon side, which is a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.
When someone controls a magic tower and casts a magic similar to telekinesis, it can easily gather hundreds of thousands of people and the remains of many times as many creatures.
And in an episode, these things don't need a necromancer to cast spells to pull them, and naturally there is a tendency to condense together and awaken the will that carries the thoughts of death.
I saw the huge mass of flesh floating in the air, terrifying, constantly deforming and tumbling. Countless ugly faces that looked like people and non-humans, like beasts and not beasts, appeared on the surface of the flesh mass, and then drowned in it. There are also stumps of hands and feet stretching and stirring inside, as if someone wants to struggle out.
Just looking at this terrible sight makes people san off, and if you don't go crazy, you have to have nightmares for three days and three nights in a row.
However, someone is also experienced in such indescribable things, and such idle things cannot scare him. What's more, there is a proto-lich standing next to him, playing necromantic magic, this is an expert.
With Fen's help, the restless mass of flesh was split in four. One of them is a variety of metals, which come from the weapons and armor of soldiers. Then there are the three categories of blood, flesh, and bone, all of which are clearly separated, and at the same time stabilized.
If someone has a special eye that can directly see ghosts or something, they can see a fifth huge ball in addition to the four foreign objects in the air.
It is the remnant of the souls of dead soldiers and civilians who have been channeled by their respective ancestors or gods of faith. It is usually a feeling of nostalgia for something in the world, or a combination of negative emotions such as resentment, anger, hatred, etc.
When a person dies unexpectedly, these negative spiritual forces cannot be used by the gods, or to put it bluntly, they are disliked and left in the world. If this power is too strong, it will even pollute the soul and eventually become a treacherous or powerful thing.
Regardless of whether this power is deeply tied to a certain consciousness because it pollutes the soul, it is a rare delicacy and great tonic for negative creatures such as the undead and demons. Of course, Fen could not let it dissipate between heaven and earth, or be taken away by others.
The metal ball is easy to handle, stay and wait for the craftsmen of the follow-up technical guild to arrive, they naturally have the ability to classify and purify. After that, it can be reused.
The remaining blood, flesh, and bones are packed directly and sent to the twin towers of the gate on the side of the abyss to attract demons. The evil thoughts were not sent away, because there were still a lot of souls in it that were polluted and could not return to the ancestors or gods.
If these souls were sent into the abyss, it would be like adding more population to the abyss. It won't be long before a new demon is born. Even if the newborn demon is quite weak, as long as the base number goes up, there will always be some geniuses and aliens coming out.
This is the truth of the demographic dividend. Ninety-nine percent of people are born to foil the one percent. The base is increased so that the one percent can produce more numbers.
Purifying these polluted souls and evil thoughts is the job of the Three Holy Light Churches. Moreover, those priests can also be slightly improved through the action of purification.
There may be mental exhaustion, but it is not a concern compared to the harvest. In the words of a certain crosser, it is impossible to consume some blue and then increase the maximum value of the blue bar.
As for the flesh, flesh, and bones, they are just the food for the demons that already exist to improve themselves. Although it strengthens the demons, it does not increase the number of demons.
This seems to be the enemy's action, but it is not as serious as outsiders imagine.
The hard currency of the abyss is the soul. Sinful, depraved souls can produce an endless stream of negative emotions that can nourish other demons, or accumulate to a certain extent and transform themselves into demons.
It can be said that a sinful soul is like a hen that can only lay golden eggs.
But blood, flesh, and bones are dead things, and even if they are made into undead creations, they will not have the same continuous output as souls. For demons, it's like jelly beans and food, it's okay to be able to improve yourself, but it's also consumables, and it's gone.
If demons are called evil because they eat blood, flesh, and bones, then what are human beings who also eat meat and vegetables?
The difference between the two is probably that the former is used to eating raw, and the latter is used to eating after cooking. The similarity lies in the fact that they all rely on devouring other beings to obtain the nutrients in them, so as to perpetuate themselves or strengthen themselves.
So when Lin controlled the three lumps of blood, flesh, and bone and sent them to the other side of the Abyss Gate, the soldiers and elves of the two empires who witnessed all this did not say anything.
Anyway, as long as you don't summon demons to bewitch the land, how people want to use the loot is their business. Where can outsiders care? Even if you want to manage it, do you have the strength to manage it?
On the side of the Lost Land, I don't dare to have an opinion on the aftermath of the magic tower, so the abyss side is quite welcome.
Although these flesh and blood are in the eyes of high-level demons, they are snacks and mouth-level things. But who wouldn't like snacks that can be eaten? Not to mention those demons with weak strength, they can get these flesh and blood to devour, and their strength will not increase by a wave.
Although bones cannot be eaten directly, they can be used to craft weapons or demon-specific items. Popularity doesn't lose to flesh, but in order of demand, flesh is more popular, and bones are a giveaway.
With the help of a certain demon prince who was secretly working and the bait of the unscrupulous tower master, the demons began to try to contact the twin towers of the door on the side of the abyss.
The history of trading between demons and humans has a long history, and it is difficult to trace it back to the earliest. Anyway, since there has been trading, fairness has not existed in the trading behavior of the two species. It's always been a pit, today I pit you, tomorrow you pit me, it depends on who is better.
Therefore, when the unscrupulous tower master proposed to exchange the abyssal specialty for flesh and bones, the demons who were used to being pitted and were keen on the pit did not refuse such a trade request, and found a lot of magic materials named by a certain tower master, or substitutes of the same level.
These magic materials are ready to be used to fill the magic circle city on the side of the maze, and the unfinished earthen embryo houses. It's just that due to the problem of manpower, there are not enough craftsmen to turn these magic materials into suitable building materials and put them where they should be.
Since there were no manual workers, the materials returned from these transactions were randomly piled up in an open space. Therefore, the materials are all primitive rough embryos, piled up like hills. Then all those who saw it were excited.