Lords love rabbits.

It soon became a joke in Myr City, and then the entire Heim Territory. "For the sake of the rabbit!" replaced "for the health of the lord" as the most common toast.

The Lord's Mansion didn't stop this either, and when Siegel heard the news, he said, "It's okay to let them joke, even if you stop this, can you stop the next one?"

In fact, Siegel's management of the Heim Territory has always been like this, leaving everything to the small council and the people themselves. The largest population of Heim Territory is still composed of peasants, and Siegel uses a considerable part of the gold coins earned from the workshop to subsidize food production, build water conservancy and equip Golem farming tools, which reduces a lot of worries for farmers and makes Heim Territory's villages much richer than ordinary villages in the Star Kingdom. With the money you have, you have the means to hire adventurers and mercenaries to deal with simple problems such as the beasts that appear around the village, or the wandering undead. As for the bandit gangs of kobolds and orcs, most of them were enough to solve without the armies of the various lords.

The booming mercenary industry has increased the demand for weapons and armor, which has made Heimling's workshop a lot of income. Due to the combination of the Myrcanon Core and the High Creation Circle, the production of the workshop has been increasing, and all the products belong to the lord, which provides Siegel with a steady stream of wealth.

A large number of cheap products hit the market of the Star Kingdom, and many lords complained and were happy at the same time. Although wealth continued to converge on the Heim Realm, the overall equipment level of the human race increased at a very low cost, and soon surpassed the elves and dwarves. Evan also saw this, so he resigned himself to the fact that Siegel sold a large number of weapons and armor, and even the Star Royal Family was one of the largest buyers. Evan knew very well that it was impossible to stop Heim Collar's production capacity. The only option is to profit from it and never be left alone.

There was not much he could do about Siegel returning to Heim Territory. After hearing about what Siegel had done at the Tower of Babel of the Mage Guild, His Majesty also knew that this was a way for Siegel to vent his frustrations. He got back the hundred-faced dice, and the Mage Guild obediently started the operation against the goblins. But compared to letting Siegel leave the Star King City and leave his side, is it worth it?

Every day he would wake up with this question, and then go to sword practice before breakfast with this question. The number of 100-faced dice has dropped recently, and it has never reached its original high, always hovering around sixty. Only then did Evan realize that he had regressed, and that regression meant weakness, a fatal weakness for the king and the kingdom.

According to the information he received, Siegel returned to Heim Territory in addition to arbitrating disputes over the territory. It's just a stuffy head studying spells. This was expected by everyone, after all, many magic scrolls he got from the Tower of Babel, these had to be transformed into strength. A lord who has become an archmage is still improving his strength, which is a stimulus for His Majesty the King. Can he defeat him with his own sword, can he deal with his magic ship with his own army? When he heard that Siegel was fully exertive, it only took him half an hour to return from the Tower of Babel to the city of Myr, and with unstoppable power, he defeated Alexander, the lion king and current lich of the original Federation.

His Majesty Evan felt a sense of crisis, and he realized that the Heim Territory had enough strength to break free from the control of the Star Kingdom, like a horse that was too fast would break free from the reins. Leave the Kingdom of Stars like this four-wheeled carriage. He also recognized the Mage Guild that could be regarded as an adversary by the Heim Lord. Its power is also above that of the Star Royalty, but how has the kingdom maintained its rule over the long term?

It was obviously impossible to rely on loose, fragmented lords, and even more so on long swords and steel armor. Even with magic ships and griffon legions, they won't do much in real combat. Evan Mo clutched the hundred-faced dice, thinking about what the kings before him had done to maintain his rule. found that they all fell into a misunderstanding: there is such a big hidden danger, but they have been turning a blind eye, why is this?

Since the problem of the last mage lord, the Star Royal Family should gradually weaken and control the Mage Guild, instead of allowing the association's subordinate organization to slowly infiltrate the city. This anomaly caught his attention. It occurred to him that Siegel had told him something: everyone in the world knew about the Wall of Storms and regarded it as a normal phenomenon, and even those mages who had been to the other world rarely associated it with the universal Storm of Destruction, which in itself was abnormal.

Maybe it's really like Siegel said, that someone is subtly changing everyone's perception to make everyone stupid and stupid so that they can be better controlled? He looked at the hundred-faced dice in his hand, and realized that he only had the idea of countering the Mage Guild when he was holding the dice, and he had always compromised and delayed before. Siegel may have exaggerated what he was saying, but as a swordsman, he understood the importance of taking the initiative.

Where can the Kingdom of Stars start to counter the Mage Guild and the Academy?Evan put down his sword and fell into deep thought.

Far away on another continent, Siegel works day and night. He wants to study advanced spells and study the Ring at the same time, and he wants to divide himself into eight people to use. In order to save time, except when attending the meeting of lords, Siegel has always remained in skeleton form, using the power of the undead to reduce sleep. This gives him half the time he spends studying and working than normal, but half of the extra time is still insufficient.

To add more time, he conducted a "crazy" experiment. When firing the Void Cannon, a key step is to oscillate space-time to generate more acceleration time and duration. This acceleration is temporary, and the corrective inertia of space-time compensates for this part of the oscillation, shortening to cope with the extension, and expanding to compensate for the collapse. However, as a warhead, it does gain a period of "extra time", and Siegel wants to use this method to gain extra time.

He isolated part of an arrow tower in Myr Castle, forbidding everyone from entering and leaving the area, and quarantined it with a complex magic circle. With some knowledge of the "Time Pause" spell and the power of Myrcancore, he began to shake time in this area.

It is impossible to stop the time in this area completely, but it is possible to make it flow at a different rate from the surrounding time to a certain extent. It's like pulling a spring with this opponent at the same time, the greater the force of the pull. The longer you stick to it, the more extra time you get. Then just leave that area before the spring springs back and enjoy the stolen time. At first, Siegel could only steal more than ten seconds, which was not enough to prepare for the cost.

After each time he did this, Siegel was exhausted. This is not a physical discomfort, but mental fatigue. It's a burden caused by manipulating time and space. In doing so, he has come close to manipulating the power of the rules, a means of constructing legendary spells. But legendary spells have their own difficulties, and none of the most difficult are time-related spells.

He thought of that, too. If he followed the easy-to-hard approach, his first choice would have been some kind of elemental spell, such as the Four-Veined Divine Arrow Rainstorm or something. However, his need for time was too urgent, and this method was the best way to exercise his spell control ability, so Siegel gritted his teeth and persisted.

It took a week to go from a dozen seconds to a minute, and another half a month from one minute to ten minutes. Siegel finally got his senses and gradually found a way and a trick. It's starting to get easy, and progress is growing by leaps and bounds. After another half a month, he could steal two hours at a time.

But out of those two hours, it would take an hour just to meditate to restore the spirit. I didn't have time to do any magic experiments in the rest of the time, and it was a little insufficient to look at the spell book and check the information.

However, this greatly increases Siegel's casting level.

While he was trying to seize the time to improve his strength, Liele's previous layout began to show its effects. An all-out war between Waterdeep and the Raven Tribe is on the verge of breaking out, and in fact a small-scale battle has begun. Both sides understood that the moment had come when the winner had to be decided. Siegel tries to mediate between the two sides, but where will things be as easy as he thinks?

Kerry was willing to take a pause. Give Waterdeep a chance to explain, but Siegel's prestige in Waterdeep is very inadequate, and the People's Assembly of Waterdeep doesn't pay any attention to the messenger of Heim Lord. There was no positive answer at all, and it was said that Siegel of the Heim Territory intended to surpass the Star King and intervene in the affairs of other territories. Waterdeep's return to the Kingdom of Stars has not yet been completed, and the royal family has not yet sent a lord to manage it. They already claim to be the territory of the Kingdom of Stars, and it seems that they have made up their minds to drag the jackdaw into the war.

I don't know where their confidence came from, but it is likely that the Mage Guild is behind it. When the mages of the Federation heard the news and wanted to share Siegel's worries, they suggested that the magic ship return to the Tri-Peak Tower. It's a ruin, though. But it is still the land that belongs to the Federation. As long as the magic ship arrives, no matter how much the Mage Guild helps Waterdeep, the outcome of this battle will be in the hands of the Federation.

Siegel also thought it was a good idea at first, and it wasn't necessarily going to be a fight, as long as the spaceship arrived and showed its attitude, it was possible to avoid this war. It was Janet who reminded him: "Liel and the Mage Guild have never been targeting Waterdeep and the Raven Tribe, but the Heim Collar and the Mage Federation. When the magic ship leaves Myr City, away from your Segal's protection, it is likely to be targeted. ”

"Fort Hub is also on the move, and it is very likely that in the event of war in the north, or attack the rear base camp of the Raven tribe, or cut off the connection between the Raven and the Heim Territory, how to support Kerry at that time will be a problem. Will the elves be at peace? The fact that the elves and the Mage Guild are surprisingly unanimous in the matter of goblins has already explained a lot of problems, don't they want to turn over from defeat to the victory of their dreams? The lords of the south may not be able to fight well, but their ability to cause trouble will not be small. Even the dwarves ......"

Janet still had something to say, but Siegel had already understood that if she wanted to "make peace with the mud" in this situation, she could only get involved in it, and it would not do Heim any good.

"Call all the messengers back, and tell Kerry that I can't affect Waterdeep, so I won't interfere in this matter. At the same time, report the situation to His Majesty the King, and say that I have done my best. As a local lord, I am powerless to dissuade myself from fighting between my neighbors, but I am confident that the Heim Lords, as part of the Kingdom of the Stars, will not be invaded or harmed. ”

Janet looked at Siegel, winked and persuaded, "You're not helping your good brother Kerry?"

"You mean to ask me to speed up the process of ending this matter and simply let the Ravens take over Waterdeep?" Siegel shook his head: "The matter of the last war between Knox and the elves has caused a lot of criticism, and it will be completely unclear if you make another move." ”

"What's the difference between being clear and not being able to tell?"

Siegel's face sank: "Let me think about it carefully." (To be continued.) )