James came to Penrose Master Tower and saw Duke, who had just sent the paper: "I decided to be loyal to you, become your vassal, and help you manage the farm!"
Duke is not surprised at all by James' choice.
The system of the Seven Towers Federation determines that arcane mages are the only ruling class, and others can only obtain the greatest benefits by relying on arcane mages.
James is a Level 1 Great Spirit Planter and has his own farm. The area is not big but not small either. But without the support of the arcane mage, he can only do this in his life. He wants to become a monopoly farm.
Tycoon, it’s impossible.
"That's the right choice, James." Duke said with a smile.
He is very satisfied with the addition of James. James is an old acquaintance he has known since his early days. He has good abilities and means and will be a very qualified vassal.
"Next, you will delist Duke James Farm. Well, let me think about it, just put up the sign of 'Lingchi Lingzhi Base'. From now on, the farm will be privately owned by me. As for your share of the equity, I will pay it according to the market price."
Pay you."
A vassal is a follower of the master, but does not sell himself to the master.
The Seven Towers Federation has already abolished slavery, and even the servants of noble families are only nominally indentured workers.
In the office of the Mage Tower, Duke and James completed a simple follower ceremony and signed a vassal contract.
Then James returned to the farm.
According to Duke's instructions, the farm's signboard was changed to Lingchi Farm.
The farm is divided into three parts. One part is planted with Yulu to help Ji Yulu evolve; the other part is planted with Chuixuezhu in an attempt to cultivate a new variety of Chuixuezhu with Lingchi genes; and the third part is planned to be used as ant nest land.
Xiao Hong has already laid eggs in the nest. When they hatch, they will have their own ant colony, and Duke will train the ant colony here.
When the ant colony expands, a group of female ants will be separated that can lay eggs.
Perhaps Duke can also recruit a group of Gu knights to serve him, just like the arcane mage Bernoulli did.
Gu control, like beast taming, is an important research field in spiritual arcana.
"Sir, actually I have an idea." James accompanied Duke, who came for inspection, to inspect Lingchi Farm.
"You said."
"For more than a year, whenever I have free time, I have been casting spells for Ji Yulu and carefully recording Ji Yulu's growth every day." The record James mentioned was the work arranged by Duke. "Gradually
Got an idea."
Duke walked slowly.
James continued to express his thoughts: "I feel that relying on Ji Yulu to infect ordinary jade dew, help ordinary jade dew evolve, and feed back Ji Yulu's natural power seems a bit insufficient, or it is still lacking something."
Elves are magical creatures. Throughout the 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 conducted research on elves, but they have not produced much research results.
Like the phantom beasts, humans have not yet mastered the key points in the gestation of elves, and they also know very little about the evolution of elves.
"Oh, what do you think is lacking?" Duke asked.
He had met another elf in the Keyston Wizard Tower before, the caterpillar-like Platycodon grandiflorum. Later, by asking Kylia, he learned how the Keyston Wizard Tower cultivated elves.
It’s similar to Duke’s method, which is to feed it enough spiritual crystals, and then let its body, the elf’s spiritual plant, infect more spiritual plants to feed back the power of nature, help the spiritual plant evolve, and then promote the small elf’s spiritual plant.
The evolution of elves.
In fact, the old nobles all cultivate elves in this way.
"I think Ji Yulu lacks a little excitement." James has already mentioned his thoughts, "Ji Yulu infected the spiritual plant Yulu. It was Ji Yulu's unilateral contribution and only asked for a pitiful return of natural power. But if we plant
Will more high-level exotic spiritual plants and jade dew give Ji Yulu more feedback?"
He continued: "Before, the farm had to make money, so I was thinking about infecting the Jade Dew Spirit Plant and selling it to the outside world. Now that the farm has become your experimental base, there is no need to think about making money, so I want to give it a try." p>
"Well, what you said makes sense. We can't rely on Ji Yulu alone to win the hope of evolution. We have to provide it with more help!"
Duke agreed with James' idea.
Then he ordered: "Then, I will allocate a batch of funds for you to search for jade dew spiritual plants in the market, mainly 1-ring and 2-ring. Don't be afraid of spending money."
Although Duke owes more than one million gold dragons.
But he is not short of money, and royalties are constantly coming in. The sales dividends from Giant of Light and the dividends from Xibi Di are also big sources of income.
In addition, the Shenjiao City Hotel also increased his annual consultant dividend, from 1,500 gold dragons to 12,000 gold dragons.
This is the value corresponding to the identity of a scholar.
Teacher Suktara is not in a hurry to repay the loan, so Duke has no financial pressure at all and can invest in its own research as much as possible.
After hearing this, James said excitedly: "Yes!"
"By the way, pack that pot of 2-ring spirit plant and send it to my office. I'll use it." Duke ordered again.
In the past two years, Ji Yulu has successfully infected a 2-ring spiritual plant - Cicada Yulu.
There are many varieties of Yulu, Ji Yulu and Chan Yulu are just one of them. They are closely related to each other and can be infected by Ji Yulu.
A 2-ring spiritual plant - Cicada Jade Dew, has a market price of about 13,000 gold dragons.
This is also the farm’s largest asset in the past two years.
James was a little reluctant to part with him, but he still nodded and said, "Yes, sir."
"Don't be stingy, keep casting spells, Ji Yulu will bring us a new second-ring spiritual plant soon. As for this one, my teacher is about to pass his birthday, so I will take it as a gift." Duke took great care of his vassal.
I explained one more sentence about my feelings.
He knew that ever since James saw the chicken, he had been thinking that he could also cultivate an elf, and then contract to become a second-level elf user.
Having goals is a good thing and will become a constant source of motivation.
Therefore, Duke does not want to hurt James, but always gives him a goal in life to pursue, so that he can devote more energy and do his best for him.
Return to the Mage Tower.
Then I saw my assistant Mulali and her sister Mulashan talking and laughing in the office.
After seeing Duke, Mulali hurriedly stood up, brought tea and water, and handed over a letter: "Sir, this is an invitation letter from Rainbow Bay City. Master Taigolon Tower invites you to attend the event scheduled for next month.
Academic salon on the 15th."
"Tegron Mage Tower?" Duke doesn't know much about arcane mages in other cities.
However, Mulali had already done her homework in advance: "The owner of the Taigoron Mage Tower is the third-level arcane mage Taigoron Armadillo. He is a puppet scholar and likes to hold academic salons. Many young scholars in Shenjiao City are attracted by Taigoron.
Invited to participate in academic salon."
"Hmm." Duke took the invitation and looked at it twice.
After thinking for a while, he immediately said: "Forget it, quit your job for me. 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, relatively far from Shenjiao City.
Even if you take the teacher's airship Chaiying, it will take several days to go back and forth. If you include the time in the academic salon, it will take at least a week.
For Duke, this is a waste of time.
There is one more thing.
Duke is full of awe of the extraordinary world and always feels that the Black Dragon River is his own territory and he feels safe here.
Once you leave the Black Dragon River and go to other areas, you have entered someone else's territory.
If something happens, even if you have the protection of the arcane mage, something may go wrong. In short, it is better to stay still than to move.
Wouldn't it be nice to stay at home and play with the assistants?
Mulali 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 tell us where we are not good enough?
”
"Well, have you learned massage techniques?" Duke smiled, "Come on, let me give it a try. If you can't massage it well, I will criticize you."
Mulali was eager to try: "Just wait and see."
Mu Lashan was a little shy, but her body was not lagging behind Mu Lali. The two girls, one on the left and one on the right, pinched Duke's shoulders.
"Try harder, haven't you eaten?" Duke squinted his eyes, feeling that life was really comfortable.
The two girls immediately used all their strength to rub and push Duke. Soon they were sweating on their foreheads and panting.
Dangdangdang.
There was a knock on the door, and Duke, immersed in the girl's massage, responded lazily: "Come in."
Immediately, Kiriya opened the door, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Duke, who was surrounded by Mulali and Mulashan, enjoying a good life.
Slightly startled.
Duke opened his eyes and did not stop the two girls from serving. He just smiled and said hello: "Hi, Kilia, are you okay?"
"Let me take a look at the chickens. In addition, I also brought Platycodon grandiflorum. It misses the chickens." Kilia came back to her senses, smiled and carried the basket to the desk.
Inside is a big snow-white caterpillar, which is the elf Platycodon grandiflorum.
Platycodon climbed out of the basket, stood up on the desk, and said crisply: "Duke, I'm looking for a chicken to play with."
Pat your belly, and the chick will pop out.
After seeing Platycodon grandiflorum, he grinned: "Little white insect, come to play with me!"
"My name is Platycodon."
"I know, I know, your name is Platycodon, little white insect." Little Chicken doesn't care what the other person's name is, "Let's go, I will take you flying!"
It fell on the table, Platycodon quickly climbed onto its back, and then the chicken took off, swimming and flying around the office with Platycodon.
At this time, Duke also waved to Murali, and Murasan stopped: "Okay, you guys should also take a rest, and give Ms. Kiliya a glass of water."
"Yes, sir."
"You know how to enjoy it." Kiriya smiled after sitting down.
"Singing over wine, the geometry of life is like morning dew, the last day is more bitter." Duke read a poem. This is the poem he adapted from the earth into the text here.
There may be a language barrier between the two worlds, but the beauty of art can transcend all barriers.
Kiriya listened to Duke's poetry, her beautiful eyes shining: "Is this a poem you wrote?"
"How is it?" Duke asked.
"Very good, but it sounds very free and easy, but the artistic conception is a bit bleak." Kilia said and looked at Duke carefully, "I thought I had seen your genius side, but I didn't expect you to be so versatile.
The talent of a bard."
"Qingqing Zijin is so long in my heart, but for the sake of you, I still ponder it." Duke read two more lines of the poem.
When Mulali brought the tea, she took a sip and then responded: "Think about Master Ao's lifespan, which is 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 and love
Life is equally important."
"You live more clearly than most people."
"You can do it too."
"But I don't have so many artistic talents." Kiriya flipped up her golden wavy hair and said with emotion, "I really envy you. You can be unrestrained and do what you like without caring about other people's opinions.
."
"How can we express our feelings about life? This is not what we should do at our age?"
"No, maybe I'm a little tired from building arcane wonders recently."
"What arcana did you choose?"
"Water Shield."
"Water Shield Technique, well, the bloodline of the Raging Waves family has great blessings on water attribute arcane magic, right?" Duke curiously explored.
Usually these are the secrets of nobles.
However, Duke and Kiliya are already good friends, so they can discuss some sensitive issues.
Kiriya didn't hide it and said: "Our family's bloodline is the bloodline of the Raging Dragon. It needs to be promoted to an arcane mage to activate it. The conditions are relatively harsh, but once it is activated, it has a natural affinity in the field of water attribute arcana, which can greatly
Increase power."
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She continued: "When I build the water shield arcane wonder, my instant water shield will be as powerful as a 2nd level arcane spell."
"Wow, how enviable!" Duke exclaimed.
In other words, maybe after Kiriya instantly casts the water shield, his sand eagle and bullets may not be able to penetrate the water shield.
In other words, facing an ordinary level 1 arcane mage, Kylia is almost invincible.
"Except for me, if one shot can't penetrate, I will fire a few more shots. If this doesn't work, after the Sand Eagle 1.52 special effect bullet-element version is developed, I will immediately ask Xiaoyi to develop the strafing function. I don't believe how thick it is.
I can’t penetrate your armor!”
Duke has full confidence in himself.
Kiriya could tell that Duke didn't really envy the blood of the Raging Dragon in her body, and she wasn't surprised by this either.
Some arcane mages like the blessings brought by the blood of spiritual beasts, while some arcane mages like the pure power of spiritual arcana.
The higher the level of arcane mage, the more they like pure spiritual energy.
Pure psychic energy is more convenient for painting. Invoking the bloodline of spirit beasts is like drawing a fixed background on white paper, limiting more possibilities.
"With Duke's confidence and talent, he will definitely be promoted to the Great Ao Mage. It is normal to look down on the blood of spiritual beasts." Kiriya thought.
Then he stopped talking about the spirit beast bloodline and said, "I'm here today. In addition to letting Platycodon play with the chicken, I also have news to tell you."
"What news?"
"Grandpa Zu took the other six members of the Five Towers Conference and set off to Cuihai Valley. They were going to find out. If it is confirmed that it is a large spring, they will submit an urban development report to Aofa Holy City. In Cuihai Valley
Build a city."
"What's the reaction from Bernoulli's Master Tower?" Duke became interested.
"I don't know yet. Grandpa said he wanted to catch Lord Bernoulli off guard." Kiriya laughed, "Grandpa doesn't like Bernoulli very much."
"I can understand that Sir Christian advocates frontal attack and doesn't like to stand behind bugs and silently clean the battlefield."
As a poison control scholar, Bernoulli likes to use bugs to pave the way for war.
"If it is really a large spring, the Cuihai Valley development war may have to change its plan. I don't know how Bernoulli's Master Tower will respond."
"I don't know, just keep silent." Duke was very calm. He was too low-level and was destined to be unable to intervene. "Anyway, Mr. Christian promised me that he would give me the chick's grandma. I am very interested in Cui."
Haigu’s greatest expectation is Xiaoji’s grandma.”
"What are you going to do with an ancient spirit?"
"I haven't thought about it. Maybe I will build a mage tower and let Xiaoji's grandma become the tower spirit. However, a mage tower often costs millions of gold dragons. I will definitely not be able to build it in a short time." Once upon a time, his wish was
There is an airship.
Now, his wish has become to build his own mage tower.
It can't even be said to be a wish, because he already has enough strength to make preliminary preparations for building the mage tower.
Chatted with Kiriya for a while.
Then Kiriya said goodbye politely and left, taking away the crazy elf Kikyo.
"Duke, I miss Platycodon grandiflorum." The little chicken was suspended at the door of the office, waving its thick tail in despair.
"You just separated for one minute and six seconds." Duke gave the precise time.
The little chicken looked back: "So what?"
"As long as you are happy, will you return to Qihai?"
"Go back."
Mulali opened the door and came in. After seeing Duke, she jumped up and hummed a song, and then helped organize the documents on the table.
"Why are you so happy?"
"No." Mulali shook her head in denial, and then couldn't help but snicker, "Sir, Ms. Kiliya has been very diligent recently, and sir, did you see it, when Xiao Shanshan and I were giving you a massage?
, Miss Kiliya is obviously a little unhappy."
"Really?"
"Of course, sir, Ms. Kiliya must have fallen in love with you!" Mulali was very convinced of this point and assured her, "This is an accurate judgment based on my woman's intuition.
!"
"Woman?"
Duke chuckled.
……
A shocking news spread throughout the Black Dragon River.
"The Spring of Spirituality in Cuihai Valley is a large-scale spiritual spring. The Holy City of Austria is about to approve the construction of a new city in Cuihai Valley!"
"It is said that the new city still belongs to our Heijiaohe land and exists as a sub-regional center!"
"A large number of foreign mercenaries are coming!"
"The Black Snake family is about to develop. It is adjacent to the future city. Sheshou Town may be connected with the new city!"
"It is said that an arcane mage has gone to Cuihai Valley to explore springs. There must be many small springs scattered around large spiritual springs. These are good locations for building mage towers in the future."
"Cuihai City?"
"Didn't you say that Mr. Bernoulli wants to use Cuihai Valley as a family fief? How can we fief the land after building a city?"
"Then find another medium-sized spiritual spring and use it as your own fiefdom."
Christian Furious, with the members of the leadership team of the Five Towers Conference, rushed to Cuihai Valley in person to conduct an in-depth investigation of the spiritual spring. It was found that half of the spiritual spring in Cuihai Valley manifested itself after an earthquake.
Characteristics of medium-sized spiritual fountains.
It was then revealed to the media, and with the newspaper’s omissions, the matter became public knowledge.
"Teacher, how is the situation?"
There was just simple news in the newspaper. Duke wanted to know more. In addition to asking Kylia, he could also ask his teacher.
Suktara serves as the internal supervisor of the Union Tower, and these matters cannot be avoided by her.
"The city plan has been submitted to the Holy City of Austria and will be approved soon. By then, I, Shenjiao City, should be the leading party. However, the Union Tower of Runwu City will definitely participate. As for the Bernoulli Master Tower, it should not be involved.
Be willing to give up."
Runwu City is the central city in the Fengxi area, equivalent to the provincial capital city.
Shenjiao City is equivalent to an ordinary prefecture-level city.
However, the relationship between the Union Tower of Runwu City and the Union Tower of Shenjiao City, although at different levels, is not a superior-subordinate relationship.
Each region of the Seven Towers Federation has considerable autonomy.
This is also the normal system of a federal country.
Not only cities like Heijiaohe District and Shenjiao City have great independence, even the market towns under their jurisdiction are basically aristocratic fiefdoms, and they also have great independence.
"Can you confirm that after the establishment of Cuihai Valley, it will serve as the sub-center of Heijiao River, rather than independently planning a new area?"
"They are inseparable. The geographical location of Cuihai Valley and Shenjiao City is too close. If the two regions are divided, the development of each other will be greatly restricted. If the gentlemen of Aofa Holy City are not stupid, they will not
Planning new areas."
A region, a city, is the general plan of the Seven Towers Federation.
But there is also a region with special cases of two or even three cities. The main reason for the existence of these special cases is that large spiritual springs are close to each other.
"If this is true, the development of Heijiaohe Land will inevitably rise to a new height." Duke praised.
"So, there are definitely a lot of people coming to grab food."
"Just grab it. As long as the meat rots in the pot of Heijiao River, there's nothing wrong with it. If we can accommodate the Bernoulli family, we can accommodate more arcane mage families, and together we can develop Black Jiao River."
Land, becoming bigger and stronger is the way to go.”
"Your layout is quite big." Suktala looked at Duke gently, becoming more and more satisfied, "That is to say, you are a bit young and have not grown up yet. Otherwise, you will definitely fail in the big event of the establishment of the city of Cuihai Valley.
Be a trendsetter."
"I don't have any thoughts of making waves. I just want to practice, study, and delve into spiritual arcana in a down-to-earth manner. It is more important than making achievements."
"If you think so, the teacher will feel relieved."
The teacher and the student stopped talking about the topic and quickly entered the teaching mode and began to study how to design Shanfei's arcane weapon.
Shanfeisi's materials are still almost complete, but this does not prevent him from informing the two of them in advance of the arcane weapon he envisioned and planning and designing it in advance.
"Psychic sensing tentacles, your classmate seems to be bent on studying medicine for ordinary people." Suktara looked at the design requirements and said.
The arcane weapon that Shanfeisi wants to forge.
It is an auxiliary equipment that can penetrate into the human body like a small tentacle, strengthening the arcane mage's psychic perception to more accurately discern subtle changes in the human body.
To Duke, this is about building an endoscope.
"Teacher, I have some ideas about this arcane weapon." He put forward some suggestions based on his knowledge of endoscopes in his previous life.
I feel a little sad in my heart.
In my previous life, I made a little money, went out to eat, drink, have fun, and emptied my body. I suffered from a lot of problems at a young age. But I was also very afraid of death, so I often had gastroscopy and colonoscopy. Fortunately, they were all taken.
Anesthesia was performed without much pain.
"Your idea is very good. During the design, we can retain the functions Shanfeis wants and at the same time help him improve the effect of the arcane weapon."
Suktala entered the teaching mode and began to teach Duke almost step by step, how to design arcane weapons and how to design spell models.
And Duke is like a sponge, greedily absorbing all knowledge.
And it can absorb the knowledge completely without leaving a drop - Xiaoyi can not only store information without reservation, but also play it repeatedly, allowing Duke to reproduce the details of teaching anytime and anywhere, ensuring no leakage.
Time is in teaching, passing by bit by bit.
On the progress chart of Duke Linghai, the original Sand Eagle 1.52 Special Effect Bullet-Elemental Edition is stuck at 95.4% progress. Because the technical difficulties cannot be overcome, there has been no new progress.
This time, following Suktala's explanation, Xiaoyi obtained new data and overcame technical difficulties in one fell swoop.
The progress is so fast that it can be said to be a rapid leap forward.
Without disturbing Duke, Xiaoyi simply sketched a text on the Dou Qi holographic screen: "Congratulations to the master, for successfully developing the Sand Eagle 1.52 bullet special effects - elemental version. The power of the one-ring Sand Eagle is more powerful and unpredictable." "At the same time, according to the owner's previous settings, a new process will be added for you... Process three: Sand Eagle 1.6 continuous version, research and development consumes 19% power..."