Chapter 239 Sponsorship fee of 180,000 gold dragons
Rumble!
On Lingya Mountain, there are engineering puppets everywhere, digging foundations, moving stones, pumping water and sand, surveying and marking. They are very busy.
The roar of mechanical rotation is continuous.
Most small puppets use the puppet core to output driving force, consuming spiritual energy without causing any pollution. However, there are also some large puppets that rely solely on the spiritual energy of the puppet core to 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 burning can cover the sky and the sun.
At this time, the black smoke emitted by the large puppets on Lingya Mountain was also constantly spraying out, spreading into the sky, and soon merged with the black smoke from the direction of Cuihai City, forming a layer of dark clouds in the sky.
"Gah!"
"Gah!"
Unknown birds moved in and out of the dark clouds, pecking at the spiritual particles carried in the black smoke.
Duke was surrounded by a large group of people and inspected the construction site of Lingya Mountain. After descending the mountain, he met Karius Flamingo's nephew, Carter Flamingo.
A 2nd level arcane mage.
"Sir Duke." Carter bowed and saluted.
"Sir Carter, will you personally supervise the construction?"
"I came here to see you, sir." Carter said.
"Looking for me?"
"My uncle just learned the news that the United Tower has passed an internal resolution to cut down the three-ring tree king - Ten Thousand Years Pine Tower. I think if the Duke Sage Mage Tower has this three-ring tree king, it will serve as the mage tower.
If we have the backbone, then this mage tower will be more perfect."
"Have you decided to cut down the Ten Thousand Years Pine Tower? I understand." Duke nodded to express his understanding.
Carter conveyed the news and said goodbye: "Then I wish Lord Duke to bid for this tree king and build the best mage tower."
The Mage Tower is not an ordinary building.
To be more precise, it should be a quasi-arcane weapon. 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 the tower will be.
Moreover, Duke also needs to transform Chicken's grandmother, the trilobite ancient spirit Pheasant Feather, into the tower spirit of the mage tower. The quality of the materials used requires higher pursuit.
If a three-ring tree king can be used to build the backbone of the mage tower, it will obviously greatly improve the safety and spirituality of the mage tower.
"It's just a pity that the Ten Thousand Years Pine Tower has escaped the invasion of ancient evil creatures, but it has to end its growth at the hands of humans."
After getting on the airship and rushing back to Shenjiao City, Duke sighed in his heart.
The Union Tower has decided to cut down the Ten Thousand Years Pine Tower, and he has no way to stop it. After all, he is only a member of the Five Towers Conference, not the leader of the Union Tower.
Back to Suktala Master Tower, the teacher has just returned.
Duke immediately asked: "Teacher, has the Ten Thousand Years Pine Tower been decided to be cut down?"
"I knew you would ask about this." Suktala had expected it and said gently, "Once Cuihai City is built, the drain on the spiritual spring will be very serious, and it will be difficult to support two three-ring trees at the same time.
The king needs it, so cutting down one tree is the best choice.”
"Is that so?" Duke said thoughtfully, "So the reason why one of the two original tree kings in Shenjiao City was cut down was because of such concerns?"
Suktara said: "Yes."
Although the arcane mages of the Seven Towers Federation do not pursue the harmonious coexistence between man and nature. Every time they occupy a spiritual spring, they cut down and shovel all the surrounding flowers, plants and trees, and discharge industrial black smoke and waste water to the surrounding areas at will.
But only by planting spiritual plants can we sort out the spiritual energy, everyone knows this.
Therefore, it is possible to avoid destroying spiritual plants, and arcane mages will naturally not destroy them at will, especially rare third-ring spiritual plants like the Tree King.
Unfortunately, the growth of the Tree King is too dependent on the spiritual spring.
This conflicts with human needs. There is no doubt that the tree king will be sacrificed in the end, and it cannot be human beings.
"Teacher, if I want to bid for this Ten Thousand Years Pine Tower, are there any conditions?"
"The 3-ring tree king is the trophy of my Black Dragon River land. Only the local arcane mages can bid for it, but there are many people staring at it." Suktala changed the topic and smiled, "But you are knowledgeable
Sage, you want to build the Sage Mage Tower again. If you lobby for it, everyone should give you face."
"I'm just afraid that the Black Jade Baron won't give me face."
"Then let's put the Ten Thousand Years Pine Tower on the table of the Five Towers Conference. Everyone will definitely support you instead of the Black Jade Baron."
"This...I'll contact you right away." Duke quickly understood.
He is a self-trained arcane mage from Black Dragon River. How can he be compared to an outsider like Bernoulli when he fights at home?
First, visit the Kirston Wizard Tower.
Christian squinted his eyes and said, "Why do you want to take advantage of everything in your own bowl? The twin springs are yours, and you want to grab the three-ring tree king too?"
"Don't I just have a need? Sir, you are the leader of the Black Dragon River, so you have to support us juniors."
"I can support you, but as the leader of the United Tower, my bowl of water has to be leveled."
"Forehead……"
Duke was thinking of words.
Christian suddenly had a change of heart: "But if you promise me one thing, I will give up my old face and help you."
"Please tell me."
"I want you to give birth to a child for the Raging Waves family." When Christian squinted his eyes and spoke, he didn't look like a lion king, but more like an old fox.
Duke was stunned and responded: "But I don't know how to have children."
"Ahem!" Christian rolled his eyes, "Who asked you to have a child? There are so many daughters in our Nutao family, and it's not easy to give birth to a child!"
"But why do you have to have my child?"
"Because you are good enough." Christian said without mincing words, "And don't say you don't want to have a baby with me, the daughter of the Nutao family, Shenjiao City Yi Zhiliya. If that is the case, I will have to consider marrying someone from another city.
The nobles are getting married."
"How could it be possible? Kiliya and I truly love each other." Duke suddenly thought of the bloody romance dramas on Earth.
Immediately, Dayi said solemnly: "Don't worry, Sir, as long as Kiriya is willing, I don't care how many children I have."
Why not give birth to a child and raise it in the Nutao family, and inherit the Nutao family's legacy?
Christian nodded with satisfaction: "That's right."
Duke then asked: "However, the Nutao family is very prosperous and is the largest family in the Black Dragon River. Why do you need one of my children?"
"You don't understand." Christian shook his head and sighed, "Although the population is large, talent is lost from generation to generation. It was not easy to cultivate Kylia, but she is still a girl. Nowadays, the spirituality of Black Dragon River is...
You monopolize 80% of it, so I have no choice but to be shameless and ask you to have a child."
Every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite.
The Nutao family seems to be firmly established as the overlord of Shenjiao City, but in fact they have not trained many arcane mages among their descendants.
No wonder Christian had such thoughts.
However, Duke thought in his heart that Christianson's plan would be in vain sooner or later. When it came to physical talent, Duke was not that high.
Ninety-nine percent of his talent lies in the golden finger.
In any case, with the help of Keithon, the Ten Thousand Years Pine Tower is basically stable. However, Duke will still visit the remaining members of the Five Towers Conference one by one and make a favor, asking them to give up the fight and cut off their love.
to yourself.
Perhaps he had heard the news, and when the Ten Thousand Years Pine Tower was put on the round table of the Five Towers Meeting to discuss how to deal with it, the Black Jade Baron Bernoulli did not attend the meeting at all.
final.
This three-ring king tree, which took thousands of years to grow, was successfully acquired by Duke. Of course, the price paid was not small.
This is equivalent to the price of 1.5 million gold dragons.
Duke is required to repay Shenjiao City's public finances in installments within ten years until the material cost is fully paid off.
"The debt has increased sharply. It's a huge pressure!" Duke personally came to the lakeside of the Spiritual Spring in Cuihai City and watched the three-ring tree king - the Ten Thousand Years Pine Tower being uprooted. "One and a half million
Golden Dragon, a number that I didn’t even dare to think of before, but now I owe it casually.”
This towering tree, which was a full 350 meters high, caused the whole ground to shake when it fell to the ground.
Silently reciting two sentences of sin.
He personally directed the workers to remove all the branches from the Wannian Pine Tower, and then divided it into thirty-five sections based on the spiritual distribution of the entire trunk.
Then they were transported piece by piece to Lingya Mountain in a black beetle truck.
Teacher Suktara, a level 1 arcanist mage who is studying alchemy with Terrence and others, is already waiting here in advance.
"teacher."
"Let's work and try to refine the Wannian Pine Tower into qualified backbone material as soon as possible so that the construction team can start construction as soon as possible." Suktala rolled up her sleeves with a smile and went on to refine the Ten Thousand Years Pine Tower in person. This kind of work she
Have been doing this for over a hundred years.
She even taught several Level 1 arcane mages while working - in fact, these people were all her former students.
He left the Mage Tower with Sorel.
When Duke was promoted to Erudite Sage, several other students came back except Sorrell who was too shy to come back because he was too shy.
Suktala didn't care about them, and after discussing with Duke, he happily accepted these students.
Duke did not immediately participate in refining the spiritual materials, but approached Carter Flamingo and proposed his new idea: "Now that we have the Ten Thousand Years Pine Tower, this tree king's material is enough to refine the backbone of two mage towers.
use."
"Yes, it's definitely enough." Carter responded.
"So, I want to change the design."
"Please give me your orders."
"I want to integrate the mage tower with the future castle, so that the backbone is connected to each other, that is, an integrated design from the mage tower on the top of the mountain to the castle at the foot of the mountain." Duke put forward his own idea. He did this for the sake of pheasant feathers.
grandmother.
If the Mage Tower uses a separate set of backbones, then after the tower spirit is transformed, Grandma Zhiyu can only move within the Mage Tower.
However, after the integrated design with the backbone of the castle, Grandma Zhiyu can move around the entire Lingya Mountain.
In this way, the entire castle and mage tower can be brought under the supervision of Grandma Zhiyu, which is enough to nip most crises in the bud.
"In this case, we need to build a second spring in violation of regulations." Carter hesitated.
"Don't worry, I will buy this spring sooner or later, I will just put it here temporarily." Duke smiled.
Carter nodded and said: "Okay, I will arrange for someone to design it and come up with a new plan as soon as possible."
…
Time flies.
The hottest summer has passed in a flash.
The construction of Cuihai City is still in full swing. Even with the influx of a large number of people from other places, many construction sites are still lacking people.
Recruitment notices were plastered all over Shenjiao City and surrounding market towns, and spread all the way to other cities. Even Cuihai City recruitment notices appeared on the streets of Runwu City. With generous treatment and the ability to settle in a big city, such conditions made
Many people are moved.
After packing my luggage, I took the Black Beetle or Black Centipede to a new city hundreds or even thousands of miles away.
Sheshou Town, close to Cuihai City, has become a transfer center for people and goods.
The Black Snake family made a lot of money by relying on tax collection and transportation, and the entire Black Snake Manor was filled with joy.
"Be prepared for danger in times of peace."
Mulan Black Snake squinted his eyes and grabbed a handful of golden dragons from the vault. He watched the golden dragons dripping from his fingers. Under his smiling expression, there was a hint of worry: "The Black Snake family has been poached recently.
There must be a lot of great knights gone."
"Yes, second uncle." Muhans Black Snake replied with a serious face.
"Before my father passed away, he once said that if wealth and strength do not match, disaster will inevitably occur. Hans Mu..."
"Second uncle, please tell me."
"The Black Jade family has frequently shown goodwill recently, and even hinted at forming alliances with each other. In your opinion, should they be used as backup?" Muland asked in a deep voice.
Muhans pondered: "The Black Jade Family will definitely become one of the big families in Cuihai City in the future, and the branches of the Armored Shu Family will also become one of the big families. Plus several other branches from other cities.
The family is a big force."
"Keep talking."
"If we turn 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."
"Then what?" Muland grabbed another handful of golden dragons. He liked to hear the crisp sound of the golden dragons colliding with each other when 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 cannot remain neutral, it is necessary to join one of them. For now, our only advantage is
Duke.”
"Yes, external forces look down on our Black Snake family, and local forces also have dissatisfaction with us. Duke is the only one we can truly rely on." Muland said with emotion, "Unknowingly, Duke has grown into a family.
It’s a big mountain.”
"It's only been a few years, it seems like yesterday." Hans agreed.
"Since Duke is enough to be our backer, then be firmer and deeply bind the Black Snake family with Duke!" Muland made the final decision, "Muhans, you will count half of this year's income.
Send it to Duke."
Muhans was stunned and said: "Half of the profit?"
"Not only that, half of the income every year from now on will be sponsored to Duke for the development of Duke." Muland clenched the remaining golden dragon in his hand tightly, "The family has even a 2-level arcane mage.
If you can’t cultivate them, what’s the use of leaving so much money!”
Muhans hesitated and said, "If we do this, will Mudis and the others have any objections?"
"If you have any opinions, ask them to come to me, and just do as you please."
"yes!"
Muhans took the order and left.
Muland let go of the golden dragon in his hand, threw it into the vault, walked out with his hands behind his back, raised his head and looked at the sky at a 45-degree angle: "Duke has the prospect of being an arcane mentor, although no one can guarantee whether he will really be able to do so in the future.
It’s grown to that point, but it’s worth the stud!”
The most important thing is that Snake Head Town is Duke's hometown. This affection will always be there at all times. As long as Duke does not fall, the Black Snake family will not fall.
The next day.
When people sit at home, a golden dragon comes from the sky.
Duke, who was doing experiments in Master Suktala's tower, was soon informed happily by his assistant Mulali: "Sir, my father is here."
"Okay, I'm going to see Uncle Muhans."
After meeting, Muhans directly handed over a list: "Mr. Duke, this is half of the total income of Sheshou Town in the first half of this year. After our Black Snake family unanimously decided to hand over this income to you,
Sponsor you in exploring spiritual arcana.”
"Sponsor me?"
"Yes, every year from now on, the Black Snake Family will use half of its proceeds to sponsor you in exploring spiritual arcana."
"Well..."
Duke took a look at the list. The amount on the list was 180,000 gold dragons.
This is half of the Black Snake Family's half-year income. In other words, the Black Snake Family can earn approximately 720,000 gold dragons a year.
It has to be said that the Cuihai Valley development war and the Cuihai City urban construction plan allowed the Black Snake family to reap the dividends of Bo Tianfei.
Duke easily thought that this money was more of a protection fee than a sponsorship fee.
A low-level nobleman earning 720,000 gold dragons a year would obviously make many people crazy with envy.
after all.
Some level 1 arcane mages can't even earn 10,000 gold dragons in a year.
The Black Snake family only has one 2nd level arcane mage and four 1st level arcane mage, but it can earn an annual income of 720,000 gold dragons. It is hard not to be hated by others.
After thinking about this clearly, Duke declined symbolically, and then asked someone to collect the sponsorship fee: "I will accept the sponsorship fee. I will take some time to go to Sheshou Town and follow him.
High Priest Muland, let’s talk about investment.”
Investment is not the purpose, promoting the relationship between the Black Snake family and itself is the purpose.
The Black Snake Family was so willing and paid such a high protection fee, so Duke naturally did his best to protect the Black Snake Family.
Now he is a member of the high-level local circle in Heijiao River, and he has enough influence to protect the Black Snake family.
"Then I won't disturb you in your experiments, Mr. Duke. You can go about your business. Mulali will just stay with me." Muhans stood up and left.
He became increasingly unwilling to stay in Duke's presence for any length of time.
Firstly, his daughter Mulali is just the mistress of the other party, and his name as father-in-law is not justified; secondly, although the other party is a junior, his achievements and status are frighteningly high, which really puts too much pressure on him.
Duke also understood this and did not persuade him to stay. He just asked Mulali to stay with Mu Hans and wait for dinner together at noon.
Then he returned to the laboratory.
His current experiment is indeed tense.
Because the fusion technology of slide cards and fantasy cards has reached the final stage, with more efforts, the birth of a new technology can be announced.
"Film and television technology has been announced for a long time, but in the end, everything has to be done by yourself." Duke sighed and leaned over the experimental table.
Film and television technology has been learned to the highest tower and promoted to the entire Seven Towers Federation.
Although it is favored by countless arcane mages and considered to be an invention that can revolutionize society, the feedback is far less than that of strong light technology.
The reason is simple.
There is no difficulty in bright light technology. Once promoted, old lamps can be completely replaced immediately, thus gathering the spiritual feedback from millions of people.
However, film and television technology, limited by the capacity of slide cards, has been unable to spread to society, and the public cannot afford this new technology. The high-level arcane mages, while researching and waiting for the technology to mature, have not made any move for the time being.
Being silent, 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 three-thirds of an acre in Heijiao River, relying on the Phantom Musical that DreamWorks Pictures is promoting - unfortunately, the screening cost is too high, and it is far from being profitable.
.
"It's better to rely on yourself than to rely on anyone else. If you can't promote film and television technology, I will do it myself!" As the progress of the experiment accelerated, Duke became more confident.
Busy until noon.
He had just left the laboratory and was going to have lunch with Muhans Black Snake. At this time, another assistant, Murasan, reported: "Sir, Mr. James from Lingchi Farm is here and is accompanying Muhans.
Uncle, speak."
"Is James here too? It just so happens that we can chat at the dinner table."
When Duke entered the dining room of the castle, James immediately took the initiative to pull out a chair for Duke and helped Duke sit down.
"James, you don't have to be busy, sit down."
"Hey, okay, sir."
After drinking a glass of wine, Duke asked: "James, have you already chosen the new location of Lingchi Farm?"
"I'm about to report this to you." James is now Duke's vassal, and everything is dominated by Duke. "In accordance with your instructions, the new location was chosen between Lingya Mountain and No. 3 Mutated Forest. I have already
Purchased all approximately 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 this undeveloped wasteland.
“What is the quality of the land?”
"Among all the land around Cuihai City, it is not the most fertile, but the advantage is that the terrain is relatively flat. After a few years of cultivation, it should become mature farmland."
"There are advantages to not being fertile enough. Maybe it has advantages in cultivating snow-blowing pillars." Duke said with a smile.
The reason why he wanted this land was that it was next to Mutated Forest No. 3.
The underground of Mutated Forest No. 3 is where the ancient evil creature shed its shell. Although the shell has been shattered and destroyed, the escaped evil energy may not be completely dissipated for hundreds of years.
The current Mutated Forest No. 3 has become a collection place for new specimens. Many arcane mages in the field of spiritual plants have sent mercenary groups to search for new varieties of plants. Duke is more specific and only identified an evil plant called Chuixuezhu.
.
After all, he doesn't have that much energy to study the field of spiritual plants.
Now it's a matter of whether there are dates or not, so two shots are taken first.
"I haven't been to Lingchi Farm for several days. How is Ji Yulu doing?" Duke asked again.
James replied: "Ji Yulu has not changed much, but there are already several 1-ring spiritual plants in the surrounding yulu, which seem to be evolving. They may evolve into 2-ring spiritual plants in the near future. I guess
By then, Ji Yulu should have changed a bit."
"Yeah, pay close attention."
Duke has completely handed over these specific recording tasks to his subordinates. He only needs to summarize the data.
At that time, it will be handed over to Xiaoyi to organize, calculate, and then draw conclusions.
Lunch didn't last long, Hans rushed back to Sheshou Town in a hurry, and James also had to go back to Lingchi Farm to handle chores.
Duke naturally continued to invest in the experiment. He didn't plan to go out in the past few days, so he stayed in the laboratory to complete the finishing touches.
Now his vassals are gradually increasing, especially after taking over Suktala Mage Tower, he has more capable subordinates. Supervision of the construction of Duke Sage Mage Tower, financial review of the Giant of Light Spirit Weapon Company, and supervision of the Phantom Base
Inspection work is assigned.
This is what the title means.
In the Seven Towers Federation, arcane mages only need to focus on spiritual arcana, and everyone else will live around the arcane mages.
that's all.
A week passed by in a flash.
In Master Suktara's tower, in Duke's laboratory alone, the spiritual apprentices were busy, and in the laboratory, a brand-new piece of equipment on the experimental bench was carried on Duke's shoulders.
This device is very similar to the camera on Earth.
"It's so beautiful, isn't it." Duke carried the equipment and looked in the mirror, "The brand new camera made by Austrian hands is more artistic than a real camera."
"This is due to your high-end aesthetics, master." Xiaoyi echoed Duke's boast.
Duke humbly said in his heart: "Not only that, it also includes your design of craft casting, Xiaoyi. It is the cooperation of you and me that can create this brand new camera... Next, let us try it
The effect!”
With the camera pointed out the window, Duke began to take pictures of the natural scenery around Shenjiao City.