"My lord, I've already decided!"

James arrives at the Penrose Mage's Tower and sees Duke, who has just sent out the papers: "I have decided to pledge my allegiance to you, become your vassal, and help you manage the farm!" ”

Duke was not surprised by James' choice.

The system of the Seven Towers Federation determines that the arcane mage is the only ruling class, and others can only get the greatest benefits by relying on the arcane mage.

James is a 1-ring Great Spirit Planter who owns his own farm, which is not too large but not too small. But without the support of the arcane mage, he would only be able to do this in his life, and it was impossible for him to become a farm tycoon on the monopoly side.

"Pretty good choice, James." Duke said with a smile.

He was very satisfied with the addition of James, an old acquaintance he had known since he was a child, and he had good abilities and means, and would be a fairly qualified vassal.

"Next, you will delist Duke James Farm, well, let me think about it, and hang the signboard of 'Spirit Pond Spirit Plant Base', and the farm will be privately owned by me in the future, and as for your part of the equity, I will pay you according to the market price."

A vassal is a follower of the master, but not a betrayal to the master.

The Federation of the Seven Towers had already abolished slavery, and even the servants of the aristocracy were nominally only indentured workers.

In the office of the Mage Tower, Duke and James complete a simple follower ritual and sign a vassal contract.

James then returned to the farm.

According to Duke's instructions, the signboard of the farm was replaced with Lingchi Farm.

The farm is divided into three parts, one part is planted with Gyokuro, which helps Ji Gyokuro in her evolution; Some of them planted snow blowing pillars in an attempt to breed new varieties of blowing snow pillars with Lingchi genes; The third part is planned as an anthill site.

Red has already laid eggs in her nest, and when it hatches, she will have her own colony, where Duke will train her colony.

Wait until the colony expands and separate a group of females who can lay eggs.

Perhaps Duke could also recruit a group of Gu Knights to serve him, just like the Bernoulli Earth Mage did.

Like taming beasts, the Imperial Gu is an important field of spiritual mystery.

"My lord, I actually have an idea." James accompanied Duke on a tour of Lingchi Farm.

"You say."

"I have been doing it for more than a year, and it can be said that whenever I have free time, I will cast spells for Ji Yulu and carefully record Ji Yulu's growth every day." James said that the record was the work that Duke had arranged to do, "and gradually came to an idea." ”

Duke walked slowly.

James continued to confide in his thoughts: "I think relying on Ji Yulu to infect ordinary Gyokuro, help ordinary Gyokuro evolve, and give back to Ji Gyokuro's natural power, it seems a bit insufficient, or a little bit is missing. ”

Elves are magical creations, and in the entire Seven Towers Federation, there is very little research on elves.

It's not because elves are rare, in fact, no matter how few elves there are, there are still a lot of them on the scale of the Seven Towers Federation.

Many arcane mages have studied elves, but they haven't found much success.

Like phantom beasts, humans have not yet mastered the key nodes for the gestation of elves, and they know very little about the evolution of elves.

"Oh, what do you think is missing?" Duke asked.

He had seen another elf in the Keystone Mage Tower before, the caterpillar-like bellflower, and later learned how the Kirite Mage Tower cultivated the elves by asking Kiria.

The method is similar to Duke's, which is to give it enough spirit crystals, and then let its body, the elf spirit plant, infect more spirit plants, so as to feedback the power of nature, help the spirit plant itself evolve, and then promote the evolution of the elf.

In fact, those old nobles all cultivate elves in this way.

"I think Ji Yulu lacks a little bit of excitement." James had already spoken of his thoughts, "Ji Yulu's infection of the Spirit Plant Yulu is all due to Ji Yulu's unilateral payment, just asking for a little bit of poor natural power to give back, but if we plant more high-grade foreign Spirit Plant Yulu, can we give Ji Yulu more feedback?" ”

He continued, "In the past, the farm had to make money, so I was bent on infecting the Gyokuro Spirit Plant and selling it to the outside world. Now that the farm has become an experimental base for adults, there is no need to think about making money, so I just wanted to give it a try. ”

"Hmm, what you said makes a bit of sense, we can't rely on Ji Yulu alone to win the hope of evolution, we have to help it more!"

Duke agreed with James.

Then he ordered: "Then, I will allocate a batch of funds for you to search for Gyokuro spirit plants on the market, mainly 1 and 2 rings, don't be afraid to spend money." ”

Although Duke owes more than a million gold dragons outside.

But he is not short of money, the patent fees continue to converge, and the sales dividends of the Giant of Light and the dividends of Xibidi are also big gains.

In addition, the Shenjiao City Hotel also raised his annual consultant dividends, from 1,500 gold dragons to 12,000 gold dragons.

This is the value that comes with being a scholar.

Mr. Sukhtara is not in a hurry to repay the loan, so Duke has no financial pressure at all and can invest in his research to his heart's content.

After hearing this, James excitedly said: "Yes! ”

"By the way, take that pot of 2-ring spirit plants, go back and pack them, and send them to my office, I'll be useful." Duke commanded again.

In the past two years, Ji Yulu has successfully infected a 2-ring spirit plant-Cicada Yulu.

There are many varieties of gyokuro, and Ji Gyokuro and Cicada Gyokuro are just one of them, and they are close to each other and can be infected by Ji Gyokuro.

A 2-ring spirit plant-cicada jade dew, with a market price of about 13,000 golden dragons.

This is also the farm's biggest asset in the past two years.

James was a little reluctant, but nodded in response, "Yes, sir." ”

"Don't be stingy, keep casting spells, Ji Yulu will soon bring us a new 2-ring spirit plant. As for this one, my teacher is about to celebrate his birthday, so I took it as a gift. Duke was very attentive to the feelings of the vassals and explained more.

He knew that since James saw the chick, he had thought to himself that he could also breed a little elf, and then contract to become a 2-ring elf envoy.

Having a goal is a good thing and will be a constant source of motivation.

So Duke doesn't want to hit James, he always has to give the other party a life goal to catch up, so that he can put more energy into doing things for him.

Return to the Mage's Tower.

I saw the little assistant Mu Lali, talking and laughing with her sister Mu Lashan in the office.

Seeing Duke, Mulali hurriedly got up and poured tea and water, and handed over a letter: "Sir, it's an invitation from Rainbow Bay City, and Master Tagolon Tagor invites you to attend the academic salon scheduled for the fifteenth of next month. ”

"Tagoron Mage Tower?" Duke doesn't know much about the arcane mages of the Outer City.

However, Mulali had already done her homework in advance: "The owner of the Tagollonian Master Tower is the 3-ring Arcane Master Tagoron Armadillo, a puppet scholar who likes to hold academic salons, and many young scholars in Shenjiao City have been invited by Tagoron to participate in academic salons. ”

"Hmm." Duke took the invitation and rolled his eyes.

After thinking for a while, he then said: "Forget it, help me quit, I have no plans to contact the puppet field for the time being, so I won't go to any academic salons." ”

Rainbow Bay City is located in the bubble area, far away from Shenjiao City.

Even if you take the teacher's shadow chasing airship, it will take several days to go back and forth, and if you count the time of the academic salon, it will be delayed for at least a week.

It was too much of a waste of time for Duke.

One more point.

Duke is full of awe of the transcendent world in his bones, and always feels that Heijiaohe Land is his own territory, and he feels safe here.

Once you leave the Black Jiaohe Land and go to other regions, you will step into someone else's territory.

In case something happens, Rao is protected by the identity of the Arcane Mage, and there may be some mistakes, and it is better to be still.

Wouldn't it be nice to stay at home and play with the little assistants?

Mu Lali blinked her big watery eyes and said playfully: "Sir, Xiao Shanshan and I have recently learned some massage techniques, do you want us to give you a massage, can you point out where we are not good enough?" ”

"Hmm, learned massage techniques?" Duke smiled, "Come on, I'll give it a try, I'll criticize you if I don't press it well." ”

Mulali was eager to try: "You can see it." ”

Mu Lashan was a little shy, but her body did not lag behind Mu Lali at all. Two girls, one left and one right, one pinched one of Duke's shoulders.

"Hard, haven't you eaten?" Duke squinted, feeling that life was really comfortable.

The two girls immediately exerted their strength, kneading and pushing at Duke, and soon their foreheads were sweaty and panting.

Dangdangdang.

There was a knock on the door, and Duke was immersed in the girl's massage, and lazily responded, "Please come in." ”

Immediately, I saw Kiria push open the door, and as soon as she entered the door, she saw Duke who was surrounded by Mulali and Mulashan, enjoying a good life.

Slightly stunned.

Duke opened his eyes and didn't stop the two girls from serving, just smiled and said hello: "Hi Kiria, is there something wrong?" ”

"I'll look at the chicks, and I've brought the bellflowers, and he's going to miss the chicks." Kiria came to her senses and smiled as she carried the basket to her desk.

Inside was a large snow-white caterpillar, which was none other than the elf bellflower.

Kikyo climbed out of the basket, stood up on the desk, and said crisply, "Duke, I'm going to play with the chickens." ”

Pat the belly, and the chick will come out with a whoosh.

After seeing the bellflower, he grinned: "Little white worm, come to play with my brother!" ”

"My name is Kikyo."

"You know, your name is bellflower, little white worm." The chick didn't care what the other party's name was, "Let's go, brother will fly with you!" ”

It lands on the table, Kikyo quickly climbs on its back, and then the chick takes off and swims around with Kikyo in the office.

Duke also waved his hand to make Mulali and Mula Shan stop: "Okay, you guys can rest and rest, and pour a glass of water for Ms. Kiriya." ”

"Yes, sir."

"You're good at enjoying it." Kiria sat down and smiled.

"When you sing about wine, life is geometric, such as morning dew, and there are many bitter days in the past." Duke recited a poem, which he adapted from the poetry of the earth into the words here.

The two worlds may not be able to understand each other, but the beauty of art can transcend all barriers.

Kyria listened to Duke's poetry, her beautiful eyes shining: "Is this a poem you wrote?" ”

"How?" Duke asked rhetorically.

"It's good, but it sounds very free, but the mood is a little bleak." "I thought I could see your genius, but I didn't expect you to be so versatile and a bard. ”

"Qingqing Zijin, my heart is leisurely, but for the sake of the king, I have been chanting so far." Duke read two more lines of poetry.

Waiting for Mulali to bring the tea, she took a sip, and then responded: "Think about the lifespan of Master Ao, at least more than a hundred years, if I only have practice and research for the rest of my life, it will be too boring, enjoy life, love life is equally important." ”

"You're living better than most."

"You can do it too."

"But I don't have that many artistic cells." Kiria stroked her big wavy blonde hair and said, "I really envy you, you can do what you like without restraint, and you don't have to care about other people's opinions." ”

"How can you feel good about life, this is not what we should do at our age?"

"No, maybe I've been building an arcane wonder lately, and I'm a little tired."

"What arcane did you choose?"

"Water Shield."

"Water shield technique, well, the bloodline of the Angry Waves family has a great blessing for the water attribute arcane, right?" Duke probed curiously.

Usually this is the secret of the nobility.

However, Duke and Kiriya are already good friends, and they can discuss some sensitive issues.

Kyria didn't hide it, and said: "The bloodline of our family is the bloodline of the Angry Waves Jiaolong, and it needs to be promoted to an arcane mage to be stimulated, the conditions are relatively harsh, but once it is activated, in the realm of water attribute arcane, it has a natural affinity, which can greatly increase its power." ”

She continued, "When I build the Arcane Wonder of the Water Shield Technique, my instantaneous Water Shield Technique will have a power comparable to that of the 2-ring Arcane. ”

"Wow, that's enviable!" Duke exclaimed.

In other words, maybe after Kiriya's instantaneous water shield technique, his ring of sand eagles may not be able to penetrate the water shield technique.

In other words, in the face of ordinary 1-ring mages, Kiriya is almost invincible.

"But not including me, if you can't shoot through a single shot, I'll shoot a few more shots. If this doesn't work, when the Sand Eagle 1.52 Special Effect Bullet-Element Edition is developed, I will immediately ask Xiaoyi to develop the strafing function. I don't believe I can't wear thick armor! ”

Duke has a lot of confidence in himself.

Kyria could see that Duke didn't really envy the Raging Dragon Bloodline in her, and she wasn't surprised by that.

Some arcane mages like the blessings of spirit animal bloodlines, while others prefer pure spiritual arcane powers.

And the more high-level arcane mages are, the more they like pure psionic energy.

Pure psionic energy is more convenient to draw, and it is as if the bloodline of the spirit beast has been drawn on a blank piece of paper, limiting more possibilities.

"With Duke's confidence and talent, he will definitely be promoted to the Great Arcane Mage, and it is really normal to look down on the spirit beast bloodline." Kiria thought.

Then he stopped talking about the bloodline of the spirit beast, but said: "I'm here today, in addition to letting the bellflower play with the chicken, I have news to tell you." ”

"What's the news?"

Grandpa took the other six members of the Five Towers Council and set off for the Cuihai Valley together, and they were ready to find out. If it is determined that it is a large spring, an urban development report will be submitted to the Holy City of Ofa and a city will be built in the Green Sea Valley. ”

"What's the reaction of the Bernoulli Mage Tower?" Duke came interested.

"I don't know yet, grandpa said that he was going to hit His Excellency Bernoulli by surprise." Kiria laughed, "Grandpa doesn't like Bernoulli very much. ”

"I can understand that Lord Keystone is a fan of frontal attacks, and he doesn't like the way he stands behind bugs and silently cleans up the battlefield."

As a scholar of the Imperial Gu, Bernoulli likes to use bugs to pave the way for war.

"If it's really a large spring, I'm afraid the Cuihai Valley Exploration War will have to change its plans, and I don't know how the Bernoulli Mage Tower will respond."

"I don't know, just eat melons silently." Duke was very calm, his level was too low, and he was destined to be unable to intervene, "Anyway, Lord Keystone promised me that he would give me Chick's grandmother, and my biggest expectation for Cuihai Valley is Chick's grandma." ”

"What are you going to do with an Elder Spirit?"

"I didn't think about it, maybe I would build a mage tower and let the chicken's grandmother become a tower spirit, but a mage tower can easily cost millions of gold dragons, and I will definitely not be able to build it in a short time." Once upon a time, his wish was to have an airship.

Now, his wish has become to build his own mage tower.

It can't even be said to be a wish, because of the matter of building the Mage Tower, he already has enough strength to make preliminary preparations.

I chatted with Kiria for a while.

Then Kiriya politely said goodbye and left, taking the crazy elf Kikyo away by the way.

"Duke, I think Kikyo." The chick hovers in the doorway of the office, flicking its thick tail in amazement.

"You've just been apart for a minute and six seconds." Duke gives the exact time.

Chick looked back: "So what?" ”

"It's okay if you're happy, will you return to the sea of qi?"

"Let's go back."

Mulali pushed the door in, and when she saw Duke, she bounced and hummed a song, and then helped sort through the papers on the table.

"Why are you so happy?"

"Nope." Mulali shook her head in denial, and then couldn't help but laugh secretly, "Sir, Ms. Kiriya has been so diligent lately, and sir, have you seen it, when I gave you a massage with Xiao Shanshan, Miss Kiriya was obviously a little displeased." ”

"Yes."

"Of course, sir, Lady Kiria must have liked you!" Mulali is very convinced of this, and swears that "this is an accurate judgment based on my woman's intuition!" ”

"Women?"

Duke smiled.

……

An astonishing piece of news spread throughout the Black Jiaohe River.

"The Spiritual Spring of Cuihai Valley is a large spiritual spring, and the Arcane Holy City is about to approve the construction of a new city in Cuihai Valley!"

"It is said that the new city still belongs to our Heijiao River Land and exists as a sub-regional center!"

"A large number of foreign mercenaries are coming!"

"The Black Snake family is about to develop, adjacent to the future city, and the snake head town may be connected with the new city!"

"It is said that Master Ao has already gone to Cuihai Valley to explore the springs, and there must be many small springs scattered around the large spiritual springs, which are all good locations for building the Mage Tower in the future."

"Cuihai City?"

"Didn't you say that Lord Bernoulli wants to make Cuihai Valley a family fief, this has built a city, how can he still have a fief?"

"Then find another medium-sized spiritual fountain to serve as your own fiefdom."

Keystone Futao, with the members of the leadership team of the Five Towers Conference, personally rushed to the Green Sea Valley to investigate the spiritual spring. It was found that the spiritual spring in Cuihai Valley was blocked by half of it in an earthquake, and it would only show the characteristics of a medium-sized spiritual spring.

It was then revealed to the media, and with the newspaper omission, the matter has become known to everyone.

"Teacher, how's the situation?"

The newspaper was just a simple message, and Duke wanted to know more, and in addition to asking Kiria, he could also ask his teacher.

Sukhtara served as the internal director of the United Tower, and these things could not avoid her.

"The city plan has been submitted to the Alpha Holy City, and it will be approved soon, and the leading party should still be my Shenjiao City. However, the Runwu City United Tower will definitely be involved, and as for the Bernoulli Mage Tower, it should not be willing to give up. ”

Runwu City is the central city in the field of wind and breath, which is equivalent to the provincial capital.

Shenjiao City is equivalent to an ordinary prefecture-level city.

However, the relationship between the Runwu City United Tower and the Shenjiao City United Tower, although the level is different, is not a relationship between the upper and lower levels.

Each region of the Seven Towers Federation has considerable autonomy.

This is also the normal system of a federal state.

Not only cities like Heijiaohedi-Shenjiao City have a great deal of independence, but even the market towns under their jurisdiction are basically aristocratic fiefdoms, and they also have huge independence.

"Can you determine that after the establishment of the city of Cuihai Valley, it will be used as the sub-center of the Black Jiaohe Land, rather than independently planning a new area?"

"Eight or nine are not far from ten, the geographical location of Cuihai Valley and Shenjiao City is too close, and if the two regions are divided, each other will be greatly restricted by development. The lords of the Arcane Holy City, if their heads are not stupid, they will not plan a new area. ”

A region, a city, is the general plan of the Federation of Seven Towers.

But there is also a region where there are two cities, or even three cities, and the main reason for the existence of these special cases is that the large spiritual springs are next to each other.

"If this is the case, the development of Heijiao River Land will inevitably rise to a new height." Duke exclaimed.

"So, there are definitely a lot of people who come to grab food."

"Grab it, grab it, as long as the meat rots in the pot of Heijiaohedi, there is nothing wrong. If you can accommodate the Bernoulli family, you can accommodate more arcane master families, and develop the Black Jiaohe Land together, and it is the king to become bigger and stronger. ”

"You're a big deal." Sukhtara looked at Duke gently, becoming more and more satisfied, "That is, you are a little younger and have not grown up yet, otherwise you will definitely become a trendsetter in the big event of the establishment of the city in Cuihai Valley." ”

"I don't have the idea of making a trend, I just want to cultivate and study in a down-to-earth manner, and delving into spiritual mysteries is more important than making meritorious contributions."

"If you think so, the teacher will be relieved."

The two teachers and students stopped talking about digressions, and soon entered the teaching state and began to study how to design the arcane weapon of Shanfeis.

Shanfeis's materials were almost not ready, but it did not prevent him from informing the two of them of the mysterious weapon he had envisioned in advance, and planning and designing it in advance.

"Psionic perception tentacles, you seem to be a classmate who wants to delve into the medicine of ordinary people." Sukhtara looked at the design requirements and said.

The arcane artifact that Sanfiz wants to cast.

It is an auxiliary equipment that can penetrate into a person's body like a tiny tentacle, strengthening the mage's psionic perception for a more accurate insight into the subtle changes in the human body.

To give Duke the feeling that this is going to build an endoscope.

"Teacher, I have a little idea about this mysterious weapon." Combined with his previous life's understanding of endoscopy, he put forward some of his own suggestions.

I was a little embarrassed in my heart.

In his previous life, he made a little money, just eat, drink and have fun outside, hollowed out his body, and fell into a bunch of problems at a young age. But I was very afraid of death, so gastroscopy and colonoscopy were not less, but fortunately, they were all performed under anesthesia and did not suffer too much pain.

"Your idea is very good, when we designed, we can keep the function that Sanfiz wants, and at the same time, help him improve the effect of the arcane weapon."

Sukhtara entered the teaching state, and began to teach Duke almost hand-in-hand, how to design arcane weapons, how to design spell models.

And Duke is like a sponge, greedily absorbing all knowledge.

And it can absorb the knowledge cleanly, and not a drop is left - Xiaoyi can not only store information without reservation, but also play it repeatedly, so that Duke can reproduce the details of teaching anytime and anywhere, ensuring that no drop leaks.

Time is in the teaching, little by little.

On the schedule in the Dukeling Sea, the original Sand Eagle 1.52 Special Effect Bullet - Elemental Edition was stuck at 95.4% progress, but there has been no new progress because of the technical difficulties that cannot be overcome.

This time, with Suktara's explanation, Xiaoyi got new data and overcame the technical difficulties in one fell swoop.

The progress is so fast that it can be called a miracle.

didn't bother Duke, Xiaoyi just sketched a simple text on the vindictive holographic screen: "Congratulations to the master, the successful development of the Sand Eagle 1.52 bullet special effect - Element Edition, the power of the Sand Eagle is more powerful and unpredictable." ”

"At the same time, according to the master's previous settings, a new process will be added for you...... Process 3: Sand Eagle 1.6 Burst Version, R&D consumes 19% of the power ......"

Ask for tickets~

(End of chapter)