For the next two days, Hobert spent the next two days in the city of Angelou in the southern continent, discussing with Prime Minister Kondra and Minister of Personnel Donna about the rapid establishment of effective rule in the Saint-Nosse Basin.

First of all, it is necessary to conduct a thorough investigation to determine the distribution of the population, cultivated land, and mineral deposits in the plains and mountains, and then formulate a systematic plan for receiving them.

On the other hand, Hobert discussed with the officers led by Hill about the military suppression of the basin and the construction of a defensive line.

Hobert didn't intend to coexist with the kings and generals, he wanted to establish a more effective rule rather than a "proxy rule".

He had sent for all the kings and generals in the realm to come to the city of Angelou to meet Archduke Hobert, and then at the audience they would declare that all their lands belonged to the duchy.

Finally, ask them who is for and who is against?

However, because the transportation in the southern continent is very inconvenient, and some earth kings will not be able to reach Angelu until about a week later, so Hobert arranged the garrison and the extraordinary here, and after building the teleportation array, he temporarily returned to Beckland.

Yesterday Dophys came to report that Princess Alice had invited Hobert to the palace as a guest.

Hobert knew that the other party must have to talk to him about the teleportation array, the war between Rune and the Fusak Empire was fought fiercely on the southern shore of the Jianhai Sea at the beginning, and the first batch of reinforcements supported by the Rune Kingdom from the Western Front will reach the southern shore of the Jianhai Sea at least tomorrow.

This is still the result of the immediate transfer of troops after the outbreak of the war, Hobert thinks that Rune's military is not moving so fast, even if it is so fast, a train can only bring a regiment to support, how many trains can Rune draw in a while?

Hobert, in accordance with basic etiquette, sent Dophes to the palace to report to the princess that he had returned to Beckland, and to inquire when it was appropriate to meet him.

The answer was: Immediate audience.

So Hobert changed into his formal attire, rode into the royal palace in a carriage, and met Alice and Georgina in a nicely furnished garden.

However, they didn't immediately talk about business, but Georgina talked about the situation in the Southern Continent.

At this time, the Kingdom of Rune not only fought with the Vorsack Empire in the Northern Continent, but also fought fiercely between the colonial armies of the two countries in the Southern Continent.

Hobert smiled and said: "As long as the Principality's arsenal is built, we can contain some of the enemy forces, and now the Principality's strength cannot even complete its own defense." ”

Alice said, "Don't worry, you still have some time. ”

As they spoke, Emilius came in from outside, and Alice invited them to a meeting room.

It's a meeting room, but it's more like a command room, with tables full of maps and tools to measure them.

On the wall is a huge map, outlining the battle situation of the entire northern continent with red and blue lines.

Alice opened her eavesdropping seal and invited everyone to take a seat before she said to Hobert: "The indiscriminate bombardment of Beckland by the Vorsack Empire has made all the people and soldiers of the Kingdom of Rune angry, so we have decided to plan a bombardment of the Vorsack Empire!" ”

Hobert was stunned, the purpose of the royal family looking for him was not quite his conjecture.

Alice continued to say to Hobert: "But this war came too suddenly, and we don't have enough extraordinary forces to mobilize, so we need you to send enough extraordinary forces to protect the airships that were bombed this time. ”

Hobert asked: "How many airships are planned for bombing?" ”

It was Emilius who answered him: "24! ”

Hobart smiled: bullshit "not enough extraordinary power to be deployed"! This is obviously a suicide mission, they plan to let the power of the "founder" jump into this fire pit!

All three of them looked at Hobert, and Hobart thought for more than ten seconds before saying, "Yes, but I have two conditions." ”

Alice breathed a sigh of relief: "You say." ”

"First, we will command this battle!" Hobert Road.

"Absolutely!" It was Emilius who answered him: "But we will designate the bombing targets." ”

Hobart asked, "Where are you going to bomb?" ”

Emilius replied: "St. Millon, the capital of the Vorsac Empire, of course. ”

Hobert pondered for a moment before he said, "Just such a small airship is only enough to bomb the industrial area of St. Millon." ”

Alice leaned back in her chair: "You can decide the bombing range, as long as it is St. Millon." ”

For the Kingdom of Rune, if a bomb falls on St. Millon, even in the countryside on the outskirts of St. Millon, it is a great victory.

The symbolism of this sneak attack is more significant than the actual damage inflicted on the enemy.

Moreover, this battle can be used to stir up hatred between the extraordinary people of the "Founder" forces and the Fusak Empire, which is a very good deal for the Kingdom of Rune.

But when Hobert said the second condition, Georgina and the others didn't think so.

"The second condition is that Rune needs to provide some industrial technology," Hobert said. ”

Alice asked, "Which one?" ”

"Wait a minute." Hobert unscrewed the pen, took a blank piece of paper from the table, and handwrote a list of technical needs.

Before the war, Hobert's team had already drawn up the technologies that their forces urgently needed at the moment, and held many meetings to discuss them, and Hobart was ready to ask the Kingdom of Rune for these technologies at the first opportunity.

Hobert wrote a list with 15 major items and 22 minor items.

It includes machine tool manufacturing, machinery manufacturing and other fields involving confidentiality, as well as shipbuilding, train, horse-drawn carriage manufacturing, etc., which involve the field of transportation.

In addition, there should be some technologies that are not difficult to master, but require trial and error to master, such as alloy casting, sugar refining, chemical industry, textiles, etc.

This is all the accumulation of technology in the four countries of the Northern Continent for hundreds of years, and at the same time, these are also relatively unfamiliar fields of Hobart himself, at most he can only point out a general direction to his subordinates, and it takes a huge amount of time to master these technologies through continuous trial and error.

Alice looked at the list, and she sighed: if these technologies were given to the Duchy of South Bailang, and they had enough funds to build it, it would be ten years at most...... No, with Hobert's execution, it won't take ten years at all, and the Duchy of Southern Bailang will have a level of strength similar to that of the four countries of the Northern Continent.

After taking a deep breath, Alice began to bargain with Hobert, and finally agreed to technical support for only 10 major items and 16 minor items.

In the eyes of Georgina and Emilius, such a condition would be worth it even if the forces of the "Founder" killed a few demigods in the next raid, and it was impossible for Hobert to send a large number of demigods to the war.

After they negotiated, the next step was for the Ministry of Industry of the Kingdom of Rune to contact Hobart's subordinates and receive technical information.

Unbeknownst to Alice, Hobert had asked Todd to send people to some of the heavy industrial cities on the southern shore of the Sea to recruit workers, and the new place of work promised to bring her family and food and shelter.

Because gunfire could be heard every day in several industrial cities, many people were worried that the army of the Fusak Empire would break through the defense line of the Rune Kingdom, so it only took two days to recruit a large number of skilled workers.

Todd is currently transporting them south by train, using Beckland's teleportation array to Longtail Island.

The machinery of all kinds of factories in Changwei Island's light and heavy industries is basically in place, all of which are orders placed from the Kingdom of Rune, and these skilled workers can start work when they go.

It is expected that in October, the industrial base of Changwei Island will be fully operational, and at that time, Longwei Island will be able to meet its own industrial needs, and at least about one-third of the industrial needs of the Principality of South Bailang.

After talking about the bombardment of St. Millon, Alice asked the servant to serve a pot of tea, and everyone drank a few cups of tea and rested for a while before talking about the teleportation array.

In this regard, Hobert has been prepared for a long time: "There are two ways to cooperate, the first is to charge for each teleportation array, 200,000 pounds each.

"One is a way to sell you blueprints and ask for power, which includes 8 teleportation arrays, and is a 1+2+5 co-op mode.

"That is, when our people set up the first teleportation array, you can watch from the sidelines, and our people from the two teleportation arrays teach your people how to arrange them.

"The remaining five teleportation arrays are arranged by themselves, and our people only provide some supervision and guidance.

"If you want the exclusive right to cooperate, the price is 4.6 million pounds! If exclusivity is not required, it is £3.6 million.

"If you don't have a suitable goal of praying for strength in the later stage, you can pray for strength from the 'founder', and we will discuss how to settle each prayer at that time."

Alice and the other three felt that the second way of cooperation was very novel, and they also preferred the second way, but that was the second stage of cooperation.

"We want to start with the first form of cooperation, which is to build six teleportation arrays between the western part of the sea and the southern shore of the Middle Sea. ”

Hober nodded: "Although we haven't met the need for the teleportation array ourselves, we can help you build it first, and ...... next week."

Emilius interrupted Hobart with a deep breath, "Can it be built in two days?" ”

The Rune military has no time to learn the technology of the teleportation array now, and they very much need a way to complete the support of the southern shore of the sea as soon as possible.

At this time, the war on the southern shore of the Sea was fierce, and the attack of the Vsak Empire from the gap between the Minsk and Amanda mountains in the east was also fierce.

They must have been scouting for a long time, and as soon as they came up, they seized a large number of positions, causing a large number of casualties among the Rune army.

The soldiers of the Western Front had to quickly complete the eastward transfer, and Beckland's supplies had to be quickly transported to the front.

Therefore, Emilius did not care about any negotiation skills, and directly put forward the most urgent needs.

Hobert pretended to be stunned for a moment, and then pretended to think for a while before saying, "I will personally arrange it for you, and I will definitely let you use it within two days." ”

In fact, at present, only Hobert and Foirth have mastered the drawings of the teleportation array, and this batch of teleportation arrays must have been arranged by Hobert, but when he said this, everyone listened to it comfortably.

And he expected that when the Rune military came up, they didn't have time to study the drawings of the teleportation array, and the two cooperation modes he mentioned were actually successive cooperation methods.

In other words, he has to earn both of these money.

Alice and the others didn't know the inside story, and when they heard that Hobert was going to the teleportation array in person, they thought that they really didn't have enough manpower, and Hobart was really a friend enough, so he went to do this kind of work as an extraordinary person at the third level of the sequence, and the leader of the extraordinary power of the dignified "founder".

So Emilius paid the huge £1.2 million on behalf of the Ministry of Defence with little hesitation.

As for the total cost of these 6 teleportation arrays, it was only more than 100,000 pounds, because Hobert had recently asked Dophys to buy eight gem mines in the Southern Continent, and the cost of making teleportation arrays had dropped significantly.

What Hobart didn't expect was that diamond mines were not even as expensive as silver mines, because the rough gemstones in the southern continent could not be sold for a price at all, and they had to be cut and set in the northern continent, and then they became very valuable after the speculation of merchants.

But the vast majority of the money is made by the processing and sales companies, and in the Southern Continent, a rough stone worth a few hundred pounds can be bought for tens of thousands of pounds after being cut and set in the Northern Continent!

The rough of the little diamonds and small gems that cost thousands or hundreds of pounds in Bakeland was sold by cars.

Running a diamond mine is often extremely risky, because of the speculation of the merchants, people have the impression that it is almost the same value as gold, so many adventurers will try to loot the diamond mine.

The problem is that diamond mines are not as profitable as gold mines, and rough ore is often unsalable, but maintaining the security of the mine is a big expense for investors.

So Hobert bought eight mines for just over 200,000 pounds, and hired a dedicated cutting team in Beckland, and immediately achieved gem freedom.

After talking about the teleportation array, and this is the end of today's meeting, Hobert returned to the Earl's Court and immediately used his "travel" to Tony's Manor in Byam.

Patriarch Osmond immediately came out to greet him, and after arriving at the meeting room, Hobert went straight to the point without even drinking tea: "Prepare the family members who are preparing to be promoted to 'War Bishop', I have an excellent promotion opportunity here." ”

Osmond's eyes lit up: "Yes, I will ask His Highness Raymond to select the members to be promoted later." ”

Then he asked, "What else do we need to do?" ”

"I'm going to send out 2 more demigods, 8 Sequence 5 to assist in this battle, and I'll pick them up tomorrow morning." Hobert paused and said solemnly: "There may be some casualties. ”

"I understand." Osmond said: "With the promotion of this route, it is inevitable that there will be some casualties. ”

Hobart nodded, and said to his side: "Say hello to His Royal Highness Raymond on my behalf, the war has begun, and I still have some affairs to be busy with, so I have a chance to talk again." ”

Osmond hurriedly said, "Mr. 'Divine Favor', there is a small matter that I would like to hope for your help with. ”

"Please."

"Can we expand the Tony family's squad? Let more extraordinary people serve the 'founders'? Osmond said sincerely.

After serving in the Tony family's Extraordinaire Squad, Osmond and other family leaders learned that the Balk family had been completely absorbed by the "Founder", and a total of more than 100 Extraordinaries in their family were currently serving the "Founder".

The Tudor family also has more than sixty extraordinary beings in the service of the "founder", and it is said that Angus, who followed Hobart in the early days, has been promoted to demigod with Hobart's help.

The Tony family suddenly felt that their power was very marginalized among the "founders", and it was on the same level as the "temperance faction" who was not very involved, how could this work?

That's why Osmond had such a request.

Hobert smiled helplessly: "Okay, when this raid is over, add ten more places to your squad and let Pixar choose people." ”

Pixar is the commander of the Tony family's extraordinary forces.

As far as Hobart is concerned, there are currently more than 260 extraordinary people under his command, not counting the "assassins" of the Witch Research Society and the "apprentices" of the Traveler Research Society.

These extraordinary people were enough for him to deal with the current situation, and his plan was to wait for the Duchy of South Bailang to begin a large-scale external expansion, and then find an opportunity to completely absorb the Tudor family and the Tony family.

In Osmond's thanks, Hobert walked away briskly.

The other business that Hobart was talking about was that Intelligence Officer Hugh had agreed to submit an investigation report on the third group of members of the Aurora Society today.

In the study of the Earl's Court, Hobert got the materials that Hugh had organized.

Because many members have already been assassinated, the four members of the third group have all changed their residences.

Fortunately, Hugh's intelligence network had begun to take shape, and they found their new place to live.

According to Hugh's subordinates, two members of the Aurora Society were also identified in addition to the information given by Hobert.

Hobert smiled, "I really didn't expect these crazy people to be quite calm this time." ”

Hugh reported: "I actually felt that someone was following me while I was investigating, but I kept pretending not to know. ”

Hobert nodded, thought about it for a moment before saying, "I'll assassinate these targets tonight." ”

He looked at Hugh and said, "This time we are going to take a risk, and when we assassinate the first target, you will go by yourself."

"I'll give you a charm, as long as you inject spirituality into the charm, I can sense it, and rush over to support you within three seconds."

Since the other party has not removed the members of the Aurora Society who Hugh is investigating, it means that the senior management of the Aurora Society still wants to observe Hugh again, and wonder if there is a demigod ambush behind Hugh?

Then when Hugh carried out the assassination for the third time, they found that Hugh was only one person, and it was very likely that he would act decisively.

If they didn't want to clash with Hugh, they would simply transfer the members away instead of continuing to watch.

Hugh took the spell from Hobert: "Good." ”

Of course, she knew that she was going to be the bait this time, but with the help of the "1-107" Law Mage Gauntlet, she was confident that she would hold out for three seconds under the demigod's attack.

Hobert gave her another seal: "This seal has the ability to 'travel' and 'flash', if I can't take care of you after the battle starts, quickly find a way to leave the battlefield." ”

He earnestly admonished, "Don't try to do anything to help! ”

Hugh also said seriously: "I know. ”

Of course, she knew that even if she had a level 1 seal, the demigod-level battle was not something she could participate in in a sequence 6.

Hobert added, "Because tonight's action is very risky, whether you succeed or not, you will get a reward."

"Or the potion recipe for the 'Punishment Knight', or this seal with the ability to travel, well, but you can only get half of this seal, and the other half needs to be exchanged for another merit."

Hugh barely thought about it and immediately said, "I want to get the potion formula." ”

If she hadn't joined the forces of the "founder", she would have chosen the latter.

But now it's different, she finds that the role in the extraordinary court makes the "judge" digest the potion very quickly.

At this rate, you will definitely be able to completely digest the potion around the New Year.

Hober nodded, "Okay." ”

After discussing the details of the plan, Hobert stayed behind for dinner, and the two of them went their separate ways to prepare.

On Hobert's side, he directly transferred Angus, who had just been promoted, to Beckland to let him feel the demigod war.

At the same time, Hobert asked Dophes to join the war, so it was important to end the battle as soon as possible.

At about eight o'clock in the evening, the three demigods were in Hobert's study while fighting "fighting evil" while waiting for the signal of rest.

Angus was a little excited about this operation, he had met Dophes before, and knew that the butler was a demigod who was still helping Hobart with some affairs, and belonged to someone Hobart trusted very much.

The fact that the "Divine Favorite" was able to allow himself to participate in this battle also shows that he trusts himself.

This gave Angus a sense of déjà vu that he had become the top of the extraordinary power of the "founder".

In fact, even if he didn't gain Hobert's full trust, with his demigod level, he was already a high-level.

……

On the eastern side of Beckland, Hugh got out of the carriage early and galloped towards his target's quarters, as he had done in the previous two assassinations.

Just as she was about to attack, the spirit felt something, and suddenly glanced at the shadows on the side of the street, but there was nothing.

Hugh took a deep breath, adjusted his state, and quickly launched a surprise attack, ending the battle in just a dozen seconds, carrying the corpse back to the carriage and coming to the second target's residence.

This time she still felt as if there were a pair of eyes looking at her in the dark.

In fact, she also knew in her heart that someone must be staring at her, so she adjusted her mentality again to carry out the assassination operation.

Just like last time, she lunged into her target's room and finished them with a single blow.

But soon Hugh felt that something was wrong, the spirituality of this path was very high, and every time he had an assassination mission before, the other party had noticed it, but this time the target did not react at all.

Just then, Hugh saw the target on the bed turn into a dark shadow and rushed towards Hugh.

Hugh was startled and quickly jumped out of the window, infusing the spirit into the spell that Hobart had given her as he jumped.

As soon as she felt the heat of the spell, Hugh suddenly felt her body stiffen and her thinking become unclear, and when she came back to her senses, she found that the streets around her had become like realistic toys, and four tall walls had appeared around her.

Boom~

There was a muffled sound overhead, and the top was covered by the walls that surrounded the street in front of her.

Hugh found that each of his movements was getting slower and slower, and gradually he moved like clockwork.

Her mind had been running for more than half a minute before a worrying thought came to her mind: "Oops...... I was ...... Trapped...... I don't know...... Hobert ...... Do you have...... Roger that...... I...... ...... issued Signal. ”

Hugh was indeed trapped, and he was trapped by a level 0 seal.

When Hobart and the other three arrived, they happened to see a man with brown hair dressed in a mysterious black robe, closing a silver-black jewelry box.

Hobert immediately recalled that it was the "box of old days".

Then Hugh in 24 hours, there is not much danger.

The man in the black robe and holding the jewelry box was none other than the Sage Boutis of the Aurora Society.

Without Hobert's order, the three of them immediately launched an attack on Boutis.

(End of chapter)