It was already the month of harvest when I was receiving aunt Canlenli and Paliya on the island.
At this time, the huge profits of the salt farm were almost on the decline. According to information, many cities in the mainland have begun to build salt farms of the same structure. Although the salt farms on the island are heavily guarded, it is too easy for the world to peek into secrets, especially secrets that are not protected by magic.
In this case, the salt farm does not need to be heavily guarded, and there is no need to concentrate so many people. A large number of slaves still return to traditional production - farmland, fruit forests, and animal husbandry. Of course, the militia as high as 1,100 were also scattered in half, only 500 were retained, and the guards of Prince Reinstein were also withdrawn.
However, in the past two years, the islands are not goblins, the population has reached 10,000, the slave trade has stopped, 11 villages have been reorganized, and a total of 100,000 mu of farmland has been developed. Now the plains have almost been developed, and if you want to develop, you must build hill terraces.
Therefore, the island at this time is already a prosperous territory. Even if there is no salt profit, it is enough to be self-sufficient and quite rich.
Canrenli has been here before, but now it seems that he is of course feeling.
The banquet was near the hot springs. After two years, a group of wooden houses had been built along the stream. The nearby wild grasses and trees had long been removed. As a result, there were various flowers, as well as grape vines and fruit trees. In front of the wooden house, and on the right of the wooden bridge of the stream, there was a stone table.
The servant was busy putting exquisite food on the stone table. At this time, the moon had risen, and it was really like water.
"Miss Canrenli, Miss Paliya, please, let's have a meal here today to enjoy the moon." Annien said, mosquito repellent spells have been used here, ensuring that there will be no mosquito harassment for a day and overnight.
The two young elf ladies who were over 200 years old but still looked young and looked smiling. The stone table was full of silver tableware, which was not necessarily expensive, but very exquisite and looked clean.
On the island, near the seaside, there are of course many aquatic products, including six-style fish soup, lobster, sea crabs, but there are no meat such as chicken, duck, cattle and sheep. Some are also various processed fruits and pastries.
When the two elves saw half of them were fish, Paliya didn't say anything, but Canrenli frowned: "Annien, why do you make such a lot of fish? You should know that we rarely eat meat."
Indeed, although the elves do not absolutely eat meat, they eat very little meat, which is what everyone knows.
"Miss Canlenli, Miss Paliya, don't talk about it first, you will know if you taste it. I'm confident that it tastes good."
Paliya smiled, and she spooned a spoonful of soup first, took a bite, and immediately her expression immediately spread out - the fish soup is fragrant and delicate, and it is extremely delicious in the mouth. More importantly, there is no smell of fishy smell. By the way, the reason why elves rarely eat meat is because they are afraid of this smell, so this is exactly the taste of the elves.
"Oh, is it really delicious?" Canrenli asked suspiciously, and also ate a spoonful of soup. Although she did not lose her composure, it was obvious that she also thought it was very delicious.
"I have prepared juice without wine, so please drink it!" Annien said, jokingly, no matter which world, there is the same rule. Only a highly civilized world can lead to a luxury and enjoyment without the pressure of survival. These fish soups are all carried out with the ancient recipe of the earth and have been researched and improved for centuries. Just as the awakened intelligent brain began to recover some of the materials, so it was drawn and worked hard to find similar condiments in this world to cook. If it is not delicious, it would be unreasonable.
"It's so good. What's inside? It's so delicious, there's no smell of fishy smell." After taking a few bites, Canrenli raised her head. She seemed to have thought of something and asked with great concern.
Annien knew that elves do not like meat. In this world, if you want to be strong and fight, vegetarian food alone cannot meet nutritional needs. Even elves themselves know this. However, elves' natural taste and food are very special, and the requirements for meat food are quite high, so there has never been a solution.
Annin is quite suspicious that the general relative weakness of the elves' constitution is related to this diet.
"Several special seasoning plants, with certain cooking methods, the salt farm has made huge profits. I can also sell these seasoning plants, and I can also compare gold." Annin said lightly.
"Oh!" Kanlunli knew that he had always been a bit of a skill in rotting wood into gold. In fact, he was already famous in the North. His personal strength was second to him. The key was that he earned hundreds of thousands of gold coins in two years.
Now that the salt is thinner, new things have appeared in this guy. Although there have been spices among the nobles, this is completely incomparable to the things now.
Canrenli couldn't help but look complicated. He saw him in Moon City three years ago, and now he is now three years later, the changes are simply earth-shaking. His growth is so fast that both of them have the same feeling of dreaming. In the eyes of the elves, Annien's efforts are simply one word to describe: workaholics!
Just like a horse being spurned at the same time, running forward desperately and refusing to rest. In terms of wisdom, humans and elves are actually similar, but there is a huge difference in this regard. Yes, the elves with long and leisurely life only study for one hour a day, but Annien learns at least ten hours. Is this the nature of human beings?
The 300-year-old Kanlunli is only a level 14 mage, but Annen, who is only eighteen, is already a level 7 mage.
Thinking of this, Canrenli felt a sense of crisis again, but this feeling was suppressed by her. Now is not the time to think about this, so she drank juice, ate delicious fish soup at the moon. Seeing that they were eating so delicious, Annien couldn't help but pity them: "What a elves who have never seen the world, I have never eaten this one!"
Although he also knew that this was generally determined by the level of civilization and the peaceful environment. In a world with many ethnic groups and constant wars, it is difficult to develop such things that are purely for enjoyment.
Facing the two elves who had eaten very happily, it was obvious that this moon-under-the-moon dinner was quite successful. Because of the first time I had such delicious fish soup, I almost ate them all. Two hours later, the two elves who he called him had never seen the world were very full, and they drank the juice to digest it with great satisfaction.
After chatting for a while, when the moon rose into the hollow, Pariya had already said goodbye. She first prepared to wash the hot spring and then change into new clothes to go to bed. However, Canrenli and Annien came to a wooden room, opened the wooden door, and then Annien lit the candles on the wooden table and candlesticks. Although magic has various levels of magic to solve the lighting problem, Annien always felt that the not-so-bright candlelight is more suitable for the atmosphere of talking to the beautiful elves.
In the wooden house, almost everything is made of wood, without paint, only the west side made a fireplace for winter with bricks. Everything is so simple and natural. The moonlight shines in from the window, and the room is silent.
Today, of course there was a negotiation, and one person and one elf understood it very well.
"Annien, I heard you are going to build an arcane tower? Is it a little earlier?" Kanlunli said first, opposite the candle, her beautiful face looming in the dim light. Generally speaking, if you want to build an arcane tower, you should have at least a level 9 mage, but now he is only level 7.
"It's getting late, Aunt Canrenli, the situation in the North seems to be very bad. I hope to improve myself in the past few years. For me, an arcane tower will help me very much." Annien said calmly, and his eyes were calm and unpredictable during the negotiations.
A mage tower is the most critical for mages. To some extent, a mage who does not have his own mage tower is unlikely to become a high-level or even legendary mage. This is because mages need the help of powerful mage towers when studying spells at level 5 or above.
The construction of a mage tower must first have an arcane structure drawing. After completion, the relationship between the mage and his tower is as close as that of a magic pet. Through arcane geometry, the mage or the builder of the mage tower can establish a connection with the tower owner, so that the magic power of the two can flow to each other and collect the surrounding magic power on the mage tower.
In essence, the Mage Tower is not so much a residential building as a gathering and controlling device for magic energy. The most important core is the magic pool and magic transformation system, which can draw energy from the four major elements and even other planes. The Mage can greatly enhance the mage's power through the Arcane Tower, better control elements, and even extend its power to other planes. It can summon and control more powerful existences to serve itself through the energy accumulated by the tower.
How to quickly strengthen his power? Annien immediately thought of plundering and devouring other life energy, especially the energy of life in the outer plane. In order to achieve this goal, Annien's own energy is completely insufficient. Therefore, the increase in the arcane tower and the anti-detection function are very critical to him.
Seeing Anne's expression, Canrenli wanted to say something, shook her head and gave up. She took out a roll of paper and began to officially enter the program.
"Then where are you going to build?"
"Just above this hill, the Magic Tower is the lighthouse in the nearby sea area at the same time. You don't have to worry about the specific preparations for stone, stone materials and artificial materials. You just need to provide arcane drawings, and the foundation area is about 300 square meters."
"How many floors are you going to build?"
"The third underground floor, the first floor is the magic laboratory, the second floor is the confinement room and the summoning room, and the third floor is the negative energy pool."
"Negative Energy Pool?" Kanlunli couldn't help but frown. Although teaching with negative energy is essential for magic, negative energy is still generally known as evil. But she didn't say anything, just recorded it: "What about the above?"
"The first floor on the ground is the hall, kitchen, grain storage room, second floor, guest rooms, small conference halls, dormitories, third floor, magic library, laboratory, vault, close-range transmission door, fourth floor is the Arcane Garden, four elemental energy pool, as well as energy conversion center, and fifth floor is the positive energy pool!"
"So, should you design a secret door or a trap inside?"
"No." Secret doors or traps are to guard against gentlemen but villains, and they have no use.
“Where is the soundproofing board?”
"Magic laboratory, confinement room, summoning room when building."
"The Arcane Drawing Design, priced at 5,000 gold coins, is not expensive. As for the specific construction cost, it is up to you to complete it yourself. Magic reinforced stone wall, 3,500 gold coins, positive energy pool, even if it is a small one, 5,000 gold coins, four element pools, 3,000 gold coins, negative energy pool, also 5,000 gold coins, energy conversion system, 10,000 gold coins, with magic lightning attack. Arcane Garden, 1,500 gold coins, powerful bondage room 10,000 gold coins, plane exploration room, 1,000 gold coins, magic library barrier, 1,000 gold coins."
Arcane Garden is a small ecosystem that uses magic power to grow plants. It is generally plants used for various magic. Of course, it can also produce food. Basically, an arccane Garden, under the circumstances of magic inducing birth, can produce 100 people for a year of food in three months.
The bondage room is even more indispensable. Any mage who wants to summon or control powerful alien creatures should build a bondage room in his tower. The purpose of this room is to safely imprison demons, elements, and various other alien creatures. Moreover, using the powerful magic array and energy in the bondage room, the mage can use secondary alien oath bondage and advanced alien oath bondage across the first level. Any summoned creature will be suppressed by the energy in the tower.
As for the barriers of the library, it is to control pests (borers, rats, mosquitoes) and will automatically extinguish any fires.
There is a crystal ball in the exploration room. Various mysterious patterns are embedded on the wall of the room with mitral threads, which collect the energy of the tower into this room to enhance the tower owner's exploration ability.
These are very necessary, Annien calculated it and said, "54,000 gold coins? What if a permanent avoidance detection is built on the tower?"
"Add ,000 gold coins, you can defend against the detection of level 20 mages and priests."
Although avoidance detection is only a third-level spell, if you want to cover the entire tower and solidify it, the project will be huge. However, for a mage, this can prevent his enemies from using exploration on him, so you can feel at ease to study, meet guests, or do other things here without worrying about being reconnaissance.
Of course, it may still be detected above level 21, but this kind of legendary and demigod power is no longer blocked by ordinary spells, and it is meaningless to invest in it.
"That's 70,000 gold coins?" After counting this number, Annien couldn't help but frown. He spent 70,000 gold coins in magic alone. If the construction is included, at least 100,000 gold coins. Although he has made a lot of money in the past two years, due to the investment in territory construction, especially the decoration of the castle, all his savings are only 160,000 gold coins. The magic tower is really a waste of money!
Seeing Annin frowning, Kanlunli secretly breathed a sigh of relief. As long as she had difficulties, she was embarrassed if she agreed. She said deliberately: "As for the intelligence of tower heart, it can only be completed by the ninth-level spell structure and quasi-body activation technique. At least 10,000 gold coins must be added. This is a discounted price, but I believe you, even if you can pay for this money, you won't do this!"
The quasi-body activation technique can flexibly transform the master of the tower into a wise life. Basically, the wisdom of the tower will be better than that of most ordinary people. It can automatically open, close, lock and close all doors, windows and doors in the tower, see and hear anything happening in the tower, manipulate the energy in the tower, cooperate with the master's spells, and even automatically dispatch magic servants in the tower to arrange the life of the mage, or dispatch guards and magic to defend and fight. The most interesting thing is that the tower spirit can even design it to have gender, which will affect the character it shows. However, the tower spirit will definitely obey their master unconditionally - and the so-called master is actually the person who performs the activation technique to give them life, so Annien will never borrow others in this regard - because this is equivalent to giving the tower to others.
"Of course, can this be discounted?"
"This is already the biggest discount for Moon City." Canrenli replied. In fact, Moon City is indeed discounted, but she also wants to make some money through this project. In order to cope with the situation in the North, Moon City needs a lot of military and diplomatic expenses. Therefore, now you can make more money by making more. Annien will make money like this, and Moon City will not be too polite.
After a pause, Annin said, "Auntie Canlenli, do you seem to have any suggestions?"
Looking at Anne's calm gaze, Kanlunli immediately knew that he had seen through some of his intentions, and immediately said: "Moon City is the biggest discount, but it is not only on the one hand, we also have enough mages in terms of the elves."
"What do you want?" Annin asked directly.
"First, I want to build a temple of elves on the island, second, I hope you can give us those spices, third, and, you have formally formed an alliance with the elves. If you agree to these requests, I have the right to directly use the power of the elves to build a luxurious arcane tower for you for free."
In fact, the spice was added temporarily by her, which can improve the dietary structure of the elf, which is of great significance.
Annien thought for a while and replied: "It is OK to build an Elf Temple. Welcome to promote the glory of the great Elf Lord Anshuyar. I will fund this temple! As for the spice issue, you can have the right to buy it first and all the goods are 20% off. What do you think?"
Of course, Kanlunli knew that these spices would be traded for hundreds of thousands in the future. If they could do so for a long time, it would be considered very discounted. He nodded and smiled at the moment to agree.
"As for the formal alliance with the elves, isn't that what I am now? Maybe we can sign an agreement to guarantee each other?"
The formal conversation can be said to be done with one beat, and the two sides are very satisfied at the moment.
"As an elder, I want to ask you, Annien, how do you think of Paliya? She is only one hundred and forty years old and is my niece."
"Auntie, I like her very much."
"That's good, why don't you marry her?"
Hearing this sentence, Annien smiled: "I'm so glad."
Chapter completed!