Crimson Wing is a newly emerged giant city with a terrifying population of two million.
In a magical world where transportation and resources are not so plentiful, this is already rare and valuable.
You must know that the Wizarding World’s definition of cities is: small cities with a population of 10,000 to 50,000, medium cities with a population of 50,000 to 90,000, large cities with a population of 50,000 to 90,000, and giant cities with a population of more than 90,000...
Naturally, there are deep reasons for such definition standards, which are the limitations of transportation, food and water sources!
In a higher plane like the wizarding world, even though wizards have already flown into the sky and escaped from the earth, they can turn over rivers and seas and move mountains with just a few moves. But in the lower class of society, in the mortal world, more primitive methods such as farming, fishing, hunting, and animal husbandry are still adhered to.
lifestyle.
The lives of wizards and the lives of mortals are almost as different as heaven and earth. The difference is so huge that it is unimaginable. Wizards would rather spend a huge amount of resources to breed and cultivate some sweet fruits and vegetables than spend a little thought to improve rice seeds for mortals.
and grain yield.
This also means that the grains produced by a large amount of farmland and cultivated land are simply not enough to feed too many people. Ordinary farmers have a simple diet and can only eat a lot of food for a whole year. If you want to eat meat, you have to make a tooth sacrifice.
Apart from raising some livestock of their own, they can only venture into the forest to hunt.
Therefore, the lack of grain output also makes it impossible for the population to be too dense in the region, otherwise the food problem alone would give the rulers a headache.
If local food is insufficient, can it be imported from outside?
This has to mention the terrible roads and transportation in the magical world.
Most of the roads in the wizarding world are simple and rough dirt roads, which are ordinary dirt routes. There are many travelers and business groups walking on them, and they are simple roads trampled and trampled. Such roads are simply impassable on rainy days, even if they are
Even if the weather is fine, potholes and rocks everywhere can turn a trip into a disaster.
Most of the cargo transportation here relies on heavy-duty carriages, a kind of wooden carriage pulled by special wildebeests. Its characteristics are that it has a small cargo capacity, is fragile and slow...
This kind of road and this kind of transportation method can handle the short-distance transportation of some things. It is simply a joke to want to continuously import food, drinking water, firewood, carbon and other basic living supplies from hundreds of miles away every day.
It is this series of backwardness and primitiveness that has restricted the emergence of giant cities!
Even the famous main cities of Tier 4 forces in the central part of the continent only have a permanent population of 110,000 or 20,000. It's not that they can't gather more people, but they really can't afford the resource disaster caused by a huge population.
In contrast, the huge city of Crimson Wings has gathered a population of about two million, and the profound meaning contained in it has secretly puzzled many top wizards who came from afar.
Could it be that the resources of the Crimson Family are sufficient to benefit ordinary citizens? However, isn’t it a huge waste to waste resources on these lowly and despicable mortals?
You must know that these mortals do not have any wizard talent. Their only value is probably to enrich their territory. In addition, they work hard to create a certain proportion of wizard apprentices with their huge number.
Only those wizard apprentices have training value and are worthy of the wizard family pouring resources into them. In the eyes of many wizards, mortals without any talent are just like mules and horses, just a tool to maintain the necessary population!
Therefore, they never bother to spend time and energy on these useless people, let alone solve their problems and improve their lives.
However, this huge wizarding city, Crimson Wings, is obviously different!
This is a strange city that integrates witchcraft into society and life.
Neat and uniform streets, clean and flat stone hardened pavements, rows of businesses and shops, living areas, commercial areas and entertainment areas with the same style... And on the streets, in addition to the pedestrians rubbing shoulders, the most interesting thing is
What surprises people are the numerous magical cargo machines and metal sports cars.
Crimson Wings has abandoned the slow and inefficient carriages, and uses metal magic machines powered by magic energy batteries as the main means of transportation. What is running on the roads is no longer the slow-moving horse-drawn wagons, but the slow-moving horse-drawn wagons.
It is a strange magical machine made entirely of metal.
Small quantities of goods rely on land-based magical equipment for transportation, while real bulk goods rely on strange goblin airships.
After being driven by magic energy, these goblin airships no longer have the frightening sight of steam filling the place they went in, nor the loud noise of the propellers. They shuttle silently in the sky, circulating in circles.
It suddenly comes and goes with a special flight path, which has the flavor of a flourishing magical civilization!
Ever since the Crimson Family obtained the stable Quilas Alloy from Molten City, the construction of the Magic Forge has never stopped. In this way, magical energy is no longer a so-called problem that troubles the Crimson Family.
Many goblin shops have been opened in Crimson Wing City, which openly sell unarmed magic weapons and provide free magic battery charging. This behavior undoubtedly provides the greatest convenience for the promotion of magic weapons.
A land-traveling magical machine that can run continuously for hundreds of miles without rest is even more cost-effective than raising an entire caravan. Therefore, those ancient and primitive mules are almost no longer seen in the entire Crimson Wing City.
Horse caravan.
What replaced them were land-based magical machines that ran as fast as flying and healed with lightning speed.
However, for the sake of pedestrian safety, all land-based magical machines entering Crimson Wings can only run at the lowest speed, and must also drive on dedicated petrified roads.
The large-scale promotion and application of magic equipment and the fruition of witchcraft civilization have also given birth to many strange professions in Crimson Wings that are not available in the outside world. Such as magic equipment technicians, magic equipment repairmen, airship pilots, and magic seed researchers.
, cleaning staff, city law enforcement team...
I have to say that this is a new world that is completely different from other wizarding cities in the wizarding world! The energy and vitality it contains even top wizards like Monash Gaia can't understand, can't understand, can't understand.
distinct.
"Did that Greem come up with these new gadgets after he was full?" Monash Gaia put down the car curtain, with a look of disbelief on his face: "What's the use of him serving these humans so well? When the enemy comes,
They are useless, they might as well be a wizard apprentice who can throw small fireballs!"
"You don't need to worry about this..." Alfred, the Lord of Molten City sitting opposite, smiled and stroked his mustache, and whispered: "Just tell me whether the residents in this city are happy or not.
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"Happiness and happiness are of no use. What can we achieve by wasting resources and energy on them? Can they help us conquer a secondary plane?" Monash Gaia is obviously a typical person who puts blood first and wizards first.
A staunch supporter of the theory, he is not interested in these fancy things in front of him: "With their fragile little bodies, I am afraid that as soon as they arrive in the alien plane, half of them will die before the other party comes to kill..."
The Lord of Molten City shook his head and smiled, instead of arguing with him, he changed the topic.
"You have seen the changes in this Crimson Wing, haven't you noticed that it is different from other wizard cities?"
"You mean magic?"
"That's right! You should also feel that this city is full of magic energy. It is almost a prosperous city supported by magic energy. Then you are not curious, where does their magic energy come from? Don't tell me which wizards' high schools it comes from.
Towers, they cannot support such a huge demand..."
"What do you mean...the Crimson Family has some kind of endless energy? What is it, a treasure or some kind of witch formation, or some special alien means?"
"I have already investigated it. It is a special device called the Magic Furnace, which can continuously extract violent magical energy from the void world and reconcile and tame it..."
"Isn't that exactly the same as the Elemental Altar!"
"It's not the same. At least the elemental altar needs to choose a fixed leyline node to build, and the construction cost is astonishingly high. But the magic furnace they built is a energy that can be moved at will and can be loaded on any magic weapon.
Source." Alfred narrowed his eyes slightly and said with infinite emotion.
"No wonder the Crimson Family is able to use metal magic weapons on a large scale. It turns out that it relies on these endless magical energy! If any civilization or force wants to develop and grow, the minimum requirement is energy and resources, and they have no shortage of energy.
As long as we continue to expand outwards and seize the necessary resources from other planes, it is not difficult to build a huge force..." Monash Gaia also sighed sadly: "No wonder that Greem can still stir up trouble everywhere.
The more they fight, the stronger they get, and it turns out that this is the real reason why they become stronger!"
"Don't think so much. This time Greem summoned us all to discuss how to deal with the coming demonic tide. Clara and I have a very clear attitude. Everything will be based on your direction, brother. If that Greem
If the request is not too excessive, we will reluctantly agree to it. If his blackmail is too harsh, I hope you can argue with reason and not let him do whatever he wants..."
Hearing this, Monash Gaia, the leader of the Golden Clan, had a half-smiling expression on his face and said calmly: "Is this the attitude of you and Clara?"
"And Florentino Arissa and Roderick... Among the wizards in the Central Region, you are the only one who can compete with Greem. So..."
"So you just pushed me out and roasted me on the fire?" Monash Gaia had a sarcastic smile on her face.
"It's not about going against that Grim, it's just about arguing with reason!" Alfred couldn't help but laugh sarcastically.
Strength represents status.
Without strength, even their group of fourth-level wizards seemed a little weak when they spoke. (To be continued)