Thundered!

On Lingya Mountain, there are engineering puppets everywhere, digging foundations, carrying stones, pumping water and pulling sand, and surveying and mapping markers. It's a lot of fun.

The roar of mechanical rotation continued.

Most of the small puppets are driven by the output of the puppet core, and the consumption of psionic energy does not produce any pollution. However, there are also some large puppets, driven by the spiritual energy of the puppet core, which cannot drive the body, and must burn spiritual slag for energy.

Most of the spiritual slag is used in factories, and the black smoke generated by combustion can obscure the sky and the sun.

At this time, on Lingya Mountain, the black smoke emitted by the large puppet was also constantly spewing out, spreading to the sky, and soon merged with the black smoke in the direction of Cuihai City, forming a layer of dark clouds in the sky.

"Gah!"

"Gah!"

Unknown birds, coming and going in the clouds, pecking at the spiritual particles carried in the black smoke.

Surrounded by a large crowd, Duke walked around the construction site of Mount Lingya, and when he descended the mountain, he met Karius Flamingo's nephew, Carter Flamingo.

A 2-ring mage.

"Lord Duke." Carter bowed.

"Lord Carter, are you here to supervise the construction yourself?"

"I'm here to find you, my lord." Carter said.

"Looking for me?"

"My uncle has just learned the news that the United Tower has passed an internal resolution to cut down the 3-ring Tree King-Wannian Pine Tower. I think that if the Duke Sage Mage Tower had this 3-ringed tree king to act as the backbone of the mage tower, then this mage tower would be even more perfect. ”

"Have you decided to cut down the Ten Thousand Year Pine Tower, I know." Duke nodded in understanding.

Carter conveyed the news and took his leave: "Then I wish Lord Duke the best way to bid for this tree king and build the best mage tower." ”

The Mage's Tower is not an ordinary structure.

To be more precise, it should be a quasi-arcane weapon, and the main body must be built with a large amount of spiritual gold and spiritual materials in order to withstand various crises.

Otherwise, the higher the Mage Tower is built, the more dangerous it will be.

Moreover, Duke also has to transform the chicken's grandmother, the trilobite ancient spirit pheasant feather, into the tower spirit of the mage tower, and the quality of the materials used requires a higher pursuit.

If there is a 3-ringed tree king to build the backbone of the mage tower, it can obviously greatly improve the safety and spirituality of the mage tower.

"It's just a pity that the Ten Thousand Years Pine Tower, which escaped the invasion of ancient evil creatures, has to end the tree life in the hands of humans."

Riding the airship back to Shenjiao City, Duke sighed in his heart.

The United Tower had already decided to cut down the Ten Thousand Years Song Tower, and there was no way to stop him, after all, he was only a member of the Five Towers Council now, not the United Tower.

Back at the Sukhtara Mage Tower, the teacher has just returned.

Duke immediately asked, "Teacher, did you decide to cut down the Ten Thousand Years Pine Tower?" ”

"I knew you were going to ask about it." Sukhtara had already expected it, and said gently, "Once Cuihai City is completed, the extraction of the Spiritual Fountain will be very serious, and it will be difficult to support the needs of two 3-ring tree kings at the same time, so cutting down one is the best choice. ”

"Is that so?" Duke thought thoughtfully, "So the reason why the original two tree kings in Shenjiao City cut down one of them was also because of such concerns?" ”

Sukhtara said, "Yes. ”

Although the arcane mage of the Seven Towers Federation does not pursue harmony between man and nature. Every time it occupies a spiritual spring, it will cut down and shovel the surrounding flowers and trees, and industrial black smoke and waste water will be discharged into the surrounding area at will.

But planting spiritual plants can sort out the aura, and everyone knows this.

Therefore, in order to avoid destroying the spirit plant, the mages naturally will not destroy it at will, especially the rare 3-ring spirit plant like the Tree King.

It's a pity that the growth of the tree king is too dependent on the spiritual spring.

This creates a conflict with the needs of humans, and there is no doubt that it must be the Tree King who will be sacrificed in the end, and it cannot be humans.

"Teacher, if I want to bid for this 10,000-year-old pine tower, are there any conditions?"

"The 3-Ring Tree King is the trophy of my Black Jiaohe Land, and the only ones who can bid for it are the local arcane mages, but there are quite a few people staring at it." Sukhtara changed his words and said with a smile, "But you are a learned sage, and you want to build a sage mage tower, lobbying, everyone should give you face." ”

"I'm afraid that the black jade baron won't give face."

"Then let's do it, put the Ten Thousand Year Pine Tower on the table of the Five Towers meeting, and everyone will definitely support you at that time, not Baron Black Jade."

"This ...... I'm going to get in touch. Duke was quick to understand.

He is an arcane mage cultivated by Heijiaohedi, and he fights at home, how can he be compared to an outsider like Bernoulli.

Start by visiting the Keystone Mage Tower.

Keystone squinted his eyes and said, "Why do you kid want to pull any benefit into your bowl, the Twin Springs are yours, and you want to grab the 3-ring tree king?" ”

"Isn't it just that I have a need, old man, you are the guide of the Black Jiaohe Land, you have to bring us juniors."

"I can carry it, but as the United Tower, my bowl of water is even."

"Forehead ......"

Duke was thinking about the words.

Keystone suddenly came to a turning point: "However, if you promise me one thing, I will give up this old face and help you partially." ”

"Speak, please."

"I want you to give birth to a child for the Nutao family." When Keystone squinted and spoke, he didn't look like a lion king, but like an old fox.

Duke was stunned for a moment and responded, "But I won't have children." ”

"Ahem!" Keystone rolled his eyes, "Who let you have a child, I have so many daughters in the Nutao family, it's not easy to have a child!" ”

"But why do you have to have my child?"

"Because you're good enough." Keystone didn't need to beat around the bush when he spoke, "And don't say that you don't want to have a child with the daughter of my Nutao family, the flower of Shenjiao City, if that's the case, I will have to consider marrying a nobleman from another city." ”

"How can it be, Kiriya and I are truly in love." Duke suddenly thought of the bloody romance drama on Earth.

Suddenly, he said awe-inspiringly: "Boss, don't worry, as long as Kiriya is willing, I don't care if I have a few." ”

Give birth to a child and raise it in the Nutao family, and inherit the Nutao family inheritance by the way, why not.

Keystone nodded in satisfaction, "That's right." ”

Duke asked, "However, the Nutao family is very prosperous and is the largest family in the Black Jiaohe River, so why do you need one of my children?" ”

"You don't understand." Keystone shook his head and sighed, "Although the population is large, the talent is lost from generation to generation, and it is not easy to raise Kiria, but she is still a girl. Now that you have eighty percent of the spirituality of Heijiaohedi, the old man has no choice but to be cheeky and want you to have a child. ”

Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read.

The Nutao family seems to be firmly in the position of the overlord of Shenjiao City, but in fact, there are not a few arcane mages cultivated among the younger generations.

It's no wonder that Keystone had such an idea.

However, Duke thought in his heart that Keystone's calculation would be empty sooner or later, and when it came to physical talent, Duke was not high.

Nine out of ten of his talents fall on the golden finger.

Anyway, with Keystone's help, the Eternal Pine Tower is basically stable. However, Duke still visited the remaining members of the Five Towers Council one by one, leaving a favor behind, asking them to give up the competition and cut their love to themselves.

Xu heard the rumors, and when the Ten Thousand Years Pine Pagoda was placed on the round table of the Five Towers Conference to discuss how to deal with it, Baron Bernoulli of Black Jade did not attend the meeting at all.

Ultimately.

This three-ring tree king, which took thousands of years to grow, was successfully captured by Duke, and of course, the cost was not small.

It is fully converted into the price of 1.5 million gold dragons.

Duke is required to repay the public finance of Shenjiao City in installments within ten years until the material fee is fully repaid.

"The arrears have skyrocketed again, and the pressure is huge!" Duke personally came to the lake of the Spiritual Spring in Cuihai City, and watched the 3-ringed Tree King-10,000-year-old pine tower being uprooted, "One and a half million golden dragons, a number that I didn't dare to think of before, now I owe it casually." ”

The towering tree, which was 350 meters tall, shook the ground when it fell to the ground.

Silently muttered two sentences of sin.

He personally instructed the workers to remove all the branches of the Ten Thousand Years Pine Pagoda and divide it into thirty-five sections according to the spiritual distribution of the entire trunk.

Then it was transported to Lingya Mountain one by one by a black beetle car.

The teacher, Suktara, and the 1st Ring Mage who took Terrence and others to study the direction of alchemy, were already waiting here in advance.

"Teacher."

"Let's work, and strive to refine the Wannian Pine Tower into a qualified backbone material as soon as possible, so as to facilitate the construction team to construct as soon as possible." Sukhtara smiled and rolled up her sleeves and went on the field to refine the Ten Thousand Years Pine Tower, a job she had been doing for more than a hundred years.

She even taught several 1-ring arcane masters while she worked—in fact, these were all her former students.

Leaving the Mage Tower with Sorel.

When Duke was promoted to erudite sage, except for Sorel, who was embarrassed to come back because of his cheekiness, several other students came back.

Sukhtara didn't care about them, and after consulting with Duke, he gladly accepted the students.

Duke did not immediately participate in refining spiritual materials, but found Carter Flamingo and proposed his new idea: "Now that there is the Ten Thousand Year Pine Tower, the material of this tree king is enough to refine the backbone of the two mage towers. ”

"Yes, it's definitely enough." Carter replied.

"So, I'm going to change the blueprint."

"Tell me."

"I want to integrate the mage tower with the future castle, so that the backbone is connected to each other, that is, from the mage tower at the top of the hill to the castle at the bottom of the mountain, for an integrated design." Duke came up with his own idea, and he did it for Grandma Pheasant.

If the Mage Tower uses a single set of backbones, then after the tower spirit is transformed, Grandma Pheasant Feather can only move in the Mage Tower.

However, after the design of the main backbone integration with the castle, Grandma Pheasant Feather will be able to move throughout Lingya Mountain.

In this way, the entire castle and the mage tower can be brought under the supervision of Grandma Pheasant, which is enough to nip most of the crisis in the bud.

"In this case, it will be necessary to build a second spring in violation of regulations." Carter hesitated.

"Don't worry, I'll buy this spring sooner or later, just for the time being." Duke laughed.

Cardinal nodded and said, "Okay, I'll arrange someone to design and change the new plan as soon as possible." ”

……

Time flies.

The hottest summer has passed.

The construction of Cuihai City is still in full swing, and even with the influx of a large number of people from other places, there is still a shortage of people on many construction sites.

Recruitment notices were plastered all over Shenjiao City and surrounding market towns, and spread all the way to other cities, and even the streets of Runwu City appeared Recruitment notices in Cuihai City. Favorable treatment and being able to settle in a big city make many people excited.

packed up his luggage, took the black beetle car and the black centipede car, and rushed to a new city hundreds or even thousands of miles away.

The town of Sheshou, near Cuihai City, has become a transit center for people and goods.

The Black Snake family relied on tax collection and transportation, and they made a lot of money, and the entire Black Snake Manor was overjoyed.

"Be prepared for danger in times of peace."

Mulland Black Snake squinted his eyes, grabbed a handful of golden dragons from the vault, and watched the golden dragon leak down his fingers, but there was a little worry on his smiling expression: "The Black Snake family has recently been poached a lot of big knights." ”

"Yes, Second Uncle." Muhans Black Snake replied with a serious face.

"Before my father died, he said that if wealth and strength do not match, disaster will inevitably occur. Muhans ......"

"Second uncle, you say."

"The Black Jade family has frequently shown favor recently, and even has the intention of forming an alliance with each other in and out of their words, in your opinion, should it be used as a backup?" Mulland asked in a deep voice.

Mu Hans muttered: "If you want to talk about the Black Jade Family, it will definitely become one of the big families in Cuihai City in the future, and there will also be a branch of the Armored Rat Family, which will also become one of the big families." Together with several other families in other cities, this is a big force. ”

"Go on."

"If we fall to the Black Jade Family, it may not be one of the ways to solve the difficult situation, but ...... The Black Snake family may not be taken seriously by them. ”

"And then?" Mulland grabbed another handful of golden dragons, and he liked to listen to the crisp clashing sounds of the golden dragons colliding with each other as they landed.

"So I think the future of Cuihai City must be a process of collision between foreign forces and local forces. If the Black Snake family can't remain neutral, then it is necessary to join one of them. For now, our only advantage is Duke. ”

"Yes, the foreign forces look down on our Black Snake family, and the local forces also have a dislike for us, but Duke is the only one we can really rely on." Mulland sighed, "Before you know it, Duke has grown into a big mountain. ”

"It's only been a few years, and it's like yesterday." Muhans chimed in.

"Since Duke is enough to be our backer, let's be firm and tie the Black Snake family to Duke deeply!" Mulland made the final decision, "Muhans, you will count half of this year's earnings and send it to Duke." ”

Muhans was stunned: "Half the gain? ”

"Not only that, but half of the proceeds from each year in the future will be sponsored to Duke for the development of Duke." Mulland clenched the remaining golden dragon in his palm hard, "The family can't even cultivate a 2-ring arcane mage, what's the use of keeping so much money!" ”

Muhans hesitated: "If you do this, will Mudis have an opinion?" ”

"If you have an opinion, let them come to me, and you can do it."

"Yes!"

Muhans took the order and left.

Mulland let go of the golden dragon in his hand, threw it into the vault, walked out with his hands on his back, and looked up at the sky at a forty-five degree angle: "Duke has the prospect of being an arcane teacher, although no one dares to guarantee whether he can really grow to that point in the future, but it is worth studing!" ”

The most important thing is that Snakehead Town is Duke's hometown, no matter when, this affection is there, as long as Duke does not fall, the Black Snake family will not fall.

Following.

People sit at home, and the golden dragon comes up from heaven.

In the Sukhtara Master Tower, Duke, who was doing experiments, soon received a happy notification from the little assistant Mulali: "Sir, my father is here." ”

"Okay, I'll go meet Uncle Muhans."

After meeting, Muhans directly handed over a list: "Mr. Duke, this is half of the total income of Snake Head Town in the first half of this year, and after the unanimous decision of our Black Snake Family, we will deliver this income to you and sponsor you to explore the spiritual mysteries. ”

"Sponsor me?"

"Yes, every year in the future, the Black Snake Family will take out half of the proceeds to sponsor you to explore the spiritual mysteries."

"Hmm......"

Duke glanced at the list, which contained 180,000 gold dragons.

This is half of the Black Snake Family's half-year income, that is to say, the Black Snake Family can earn about 720,000 gold dragons a year.

I have to say that the Cuihai Valley Exploration War and the urban construction plan of Cuihai City made the Black Snake family eat the dividends of Botian Fat.

It was easy for Duke to think that the money was more of a conservation fee than a sponsorship fee.

A small nobleman at the lowest level, earning 720,000 gold dragons a year, will obviously make many people go crazy.

After all.

Some 1-ring arcane mages can't earn 10,000 gold dragons a year.

The Black Snake family only has one 2-ring arcane mage and four 1-ring arcane mages, but they can earn an annual income of 720,000 golden dragons, and it is difficult not to be hated.

Thinking about this clearly, Duke symbolically excused himself, and then asked people to accept the sponsorship fee: "I will accept the sponsorship fee, and I will take some time to go to Serpentine Town and talk to High Priest Mulland about investment." ”

Investment is not the goal, but the purpose is to promote the relationship between the Black Snake family and oneself.

The Black Snake family was so willing and gave such a high protection fee, Duke naturally did his best to protect the Black Snake family.

Now he is a member of the local high-level coterie in the Black Jiaohe Land, and he has enough influence to shelter the Black Snake family.

"Then I won't bother you with the experiment, Mr. Duke, you go and do your business, and Mulali will accompany me." Muhans got up and took his leave.

He became more and more reluctant to stay in front of Duke for a long time.

First, the daughter Mulali is just the mistress of the other party, and her father-in-law's name is not right; Second, although the other party is a junior, he is scary with high achievements and high status, which really puts too much pressure on him.

Duke also understood this, and did not hold back, but just told Mulari to accompany Muhans and wait for lunch together.

I went back to the lab.

He was really nervous about experimenting now.

Because the fusion technology of the slide card and the magic card has progressed to the final stage, and the birth of a new technology can be announced with more effort.

"Film and television technology has been announced for a long time, and in the end, everything has to rely on itself." Duke sighed with emotion and leaned over the bench.

Film and television technology has been learned to the highest towers and promoted to the entire Seven Towers Federation.

Although it is regarded by countless arcane mages as an invention that can change society, the reward is far less than that of the glare.

The reason is simple.

There is no difficulty in strong light technology, and after it is promoted, it can immediately realize the comprehensive replacement of old lamps and lanterns, so as to gather the spirituality of tens of millions of people to give back.

However, film and television technology, limited by the capacity limitation of slide cards, has not been able to sink into the society for a long time, and the people simply cannot afford to consume this new technology. And the high-level arcane mage, while researching, while waiting for the technology to mature, did not move for the time being.

Quietly, there is naturally no spiritual feedback.

At present, some related technologies have indeed been invented, but the development of film and television technology is minimal.

On the contrary, the place that gives back the most is still the one-third of an acre of Heijiaohe Land, relying on the Phantom Musical being promoted by DreamWorks Film and Television Company - unfortunately the cost of screening is too high, and it is far from making money.

"It's better to rely on yourself than on anyone, you can't promote film and television technology, I'll do it myself!" As the progress of the experiment accelerated, Duke's confidence became more and more high.

Busy until noon.

Before leaving the laboratory and preparing to go to have lunch with Muhans Black Snake, another assistant Mu Lashan reported: "Sir, His Excellency James from Lingchi Farm is here, and he is talking to Uncle Muhans. ”

"Is James here too, just right, let's talk at the dinner table."

When Duke entered the castle's dining room, James immediately took the initiative to open a chair for Dukla and waited for Duke to sit down.

"James, you don't have to be busy, sit down."

"Ah, yes, sir."

After a glass of wine, Duke asked, "James, have you chosen the new site of Lingchi Farm?" ”

"Was about to report this to you." James is now a vassal of Duke, and everything is dominated by Duke, "According to your instructions, the new site has chosen the area between Lingya Mountain and No. 3 Mutant Forest, and I have already bought more than 50,000 acres of land. ”

The area where Lingya Mountain is located is a suburb of Cuihai City, so the land is not valuable, especially since it is such an undeveloped wasteland.

"What is the quality of the land?"

"Of all the land around Cuihai City, it is not the most fertile, but the terrain is relatively flat, and it should become a mature field after a few years of cultivation."

"Not being fertile enough also has the advantage of not being fertile enough, and maybe it has an advantage in the cultivation of snow blowing pillars." Duke laughed.

The reason why he wanted this land was because it was next to the No. 3 Mutant Forest.

The underground of the No. 3 Mutation Forest is the place where the ancient evil creatures molted their shells, although this shell has been shattered and destroyed, but the escaping evil qi is estimated to be dissipated for hundreds of years.

The current No. 3 Mutant Forest has become a collection place for new specimens, and many arcane mages in the field of spiritual plants have sent mercenary groups to search for new varieties of plants. Duke is more single-minded, and only recognizes one evil plant, the blowing snow pillar.

After all, he didn't have that much energy to study the spirit plant realm.

Now it belongs to the first two shots with dates without dates.

"I haven't been to Lingchi Farm for a few days, how is Ji Yulu's growth?" Duke asked again.

James replied: "Ji Yulu has not changed much, but among the surrounding Yulu, there are already a few 1-ring spirit plant Gyokuro, as if they are going to evolve, and it may evolve into 2-ring spirit plant Gyokuro in the near future." I estimate that by then, Ji Yulu should change a little. ”

"Well, keep an eye on it."

Duke has completely handed over these specific recording tasks to his subordinates, and he only needs to summarize the data.

At that time, it will be handed over to Xiaoyi to sort out, calculate, and then draw conclusions.

The lunch didn't last long, Muhans hurried back to Snake Head Town, and James also had to go back to Lingchi Farm to deal with chores.

Naturally, Duke continued to devote himself to the experiment, and for the last few days he didn't plan to go out, just staying in the lab to finish the work.

Now his vassals are gradually increasing, especially after receiving the Suktara Mage Tower, and he has more powerful subordinates. The supervision of the construction of the Duke Sage Mage Tower, the financial audit of the Giant of Light Artifact Company, and the inspection of the Phantom Base were all assigned.

That's what the title is about.

In the Federation of the Seven Towers, the arcane mage only needs to focus on the spiritual arcane, and everyone else will live around the arcane.

That's it.

A week went by.

In the Sukhtara Mage Tower, in the laboratory that belongs to Duke, the spiritual apprentices are busy, and in the laboratory, a brand new piece of equipment on the laboratory table is carried by Duke on his shoulder.

This piece of equipment is very similar to a camera on Earth.

"It's beautiful, isn't it." Duke carried the equipment and looked in the mirror, "The new camera built by O'Shou is more artistic than the real camera. ”

"This is thanks to your master's high-class aesthetic." Xiaoyi echoed Duke's boasting.

Duke said modestly: "Not only that, but it also includes Xiaoyi's design of process casting, and it is you and I who have joined forces to create this new camera...... Next, let's try it out! ”

With the camera pointed out the window, Duke began to photograph the natural scenery around Shenjiao City.

Ask for tickets~

(End of chapter)