Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 359

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, the grass grows and warblers fly, and it is April in the wasteland.

As the weather warms up, the huge Phoenix Terrace seems much quieter during the day:
It was the sowing season, and most of the farmers living on the platform went to work in the farmland, not to mention a large number of staff stationed in the road rest area, Dongbingku prison and the left bank town left the platform to go to work.

So in these days, among the three major platforms of Fenghuang, Tongque, and Yuhua, there is a lack of people's voices, often only echoing the shouting of soldiers of the pioneering army during training, and the clanging noise of the construction site of Yuhuatai.

Xia Houyan got up early like yesterday, yawned, and hugged Wei Erfu, and walked slowly from the horned eagle manor to the Manhattan laboratory.

The day before yesterday, the lord had just rushed back to the territory from the rest area on Route 66, which was considered to be the end of the inspection of the rest area before the start of the peak trade season.

The results of the investigation made Xia Houyan a little frustrated.

Although the facilities along Route 66 have recovered from the wartime fortified walls and cleared fields, and have even been overhauled to a better state than before, but according to Mayor Joel's judgment, this year's Frost Maple Ridge may not be as profitable as last year in terms of business and trade. ;
The reason is also very simple: now the central plains of the empire are shrouded in the shadow of war that is visible to the naked eye, and even the willingness to bring the demon merchants from the south to sell goods northward has been greatly reduced-for one thing, the panicked people of the empire may no longer be willing to spend a lot of money to buy profit margins Huge luxury, and secondly, if the empire really cannot sustain the orc offensive, then the empire gold coins earned by the demon merchants will be greatly discounted;
All in all, although the two races of humans and demons certainly have no shortage of brave men who want to transport food and armaments to make a fortune in war, the number of ordinary merchants will definitely decline this year.

The lord, who was slightly disappointed with the prospect of the trade zone, returned to the territory and put his mind on another business:

This business is a new experiment that has been in full swing at the Manhattan Laboratory for the past few days.

The Manhattan Laboratory is located on the outskirts of the terrace, not far from the Horned Eagle Manor on the first ring of the territory.

Xia Houyan brought Vilf, who had been busy last night but was still eager to watch the excitement this morning, to the entrance of the Manhattan laboratory, which was shaped like two huge upside-down bowls, and said hello to the pioneer soldiers guarding the gate. After registering, I opened the door and walked in.

After passing through the long corridor, as soon as Xia Houyan entered the deepest "First Secret Studio", Xia Houyan heard an old and vigorous voice scolding his mother.

"Women in your whole family today! I said it was placed at twelve o'clock, twelve o'clock! Do you live in Sanshui Bay or Thorn City? Or is your home in the Demon Realm, and the direction of twelve o'clock is fucking south?! "

"Master Nicholson! It's so early in the morning, why are you so angry?" Xia Houyan patted Wei Erfu's buttocks, motioned for the chick to find a place to sit in the corner, and then greeted her with a smile on her face. Cursing Master Nicholson.

Seeing the lord coming, the anger on Master Nicholson's face dissipated instantly.

"Why bother you to come here again..." The old engineer bowed awkwardly to the lord, "Hey, these young people are ignorant, I can't be angry, it's okay..."

Xia Houyan nodded with a smile, glanced around, and looked at the scene in the studio.

In addition to the peripheral warehouses, material storage points and temporary dormitories, the main structure of the "Manhattan Laboratory" is divided into two vaults, the outer one is used for some routine military experiments and production, while the "First Secret Studio" "The deeper one is generally used to test those weapons of mass destruction and important projects.

In the "First Secret Studio" at this time, besides Master Nicholson, there are many middle-aged craftsmen and young apprentices who are busy. Drenched in blood, he hurried back to work.

But apart from these craftsmen, today's studio scene is indeed different from usual.

The central area of ​​the studio, where various siege weapons and trial production machinery are often parked, is now replaced by a huge circular magic circle drawn on the ground with magic dust;
From one o'clock to twelve o'clock, at every angle of the outermost ring of the magic circle, a purple "gift ring" was drawn for placing sacrifices.

According to the tradition of magic circles, for particularly rigorous large-scale magic circles, any sacrifices used for the operation of the magic circle must be carefully placed in the "ring of offerings" - and like the lord who had experimented in Adrian The vile act of pouring all the spell-casting materials up like in the room is absolutely intolerable for professionals;

A magic circle, a total of several "gift rings" designed by the magician to place sacrifices, also marks the energy consumption and power of the magic circle.

A total of twelve "rings of offering" undoubtedly mean.The circular magic circle currently located in the Manhattan laboratory is a complete and fake project.

Xia Houyan was still squinting his eyes to study the pattern of the magic circle in accordance with the professional habits of magicians. John Samonen, who was standing in the distance, also left the members of the "Northern Blizzard Mage Group" who were talking, and turned to the lord Come here quickly.

"Good morning!" The young magician greeted enthusiastically, "You are here again!"

"I've seen you all busy for a day yesterday, let's continue today, from the beginning to the end." Xia Houyan patted John Samonen on the shoulder, "How about it, are you confident to get this project out?"

Hearing this, John Summeren suddenly became a little frowning.

"I try, try..." Johann Summeren murmured.

The ongoing project at the Manhattan Laboratory is actually the work of John Summeren.

At the beginning, John Samonen followed the lord's convoy south to Frost Maple Ridge. His original intention was to use his summoning magic to help this wasteland territory, and it was also considered as a return to Elliot Igor for his life-saving grace.

It didn't turn out to be as expected, this kid huddled in his residence as soon as he arrived in the territory, and became addicted to Dongbingku Shuangwen's novels.

Now that several months have passed, John Summeren, who is in the sage time after the novel is finished, finally wakes up:

John, John, how can you be so depraved!Have you forgotten the help plan you made earlier?The teacher said, "Don't forget the kindness of others." Can't go on like this!
So a few days ago, John Samonen went to apply to the lord, wanting to use his professional expertise to start a great project called "Babylon Project" in the Manhattan laboratory!

The so-called "Babylon Project" is also very simple to say:
It is through summoning spells to create a productive force for Shuangfengling out of thin air.

As we all know, magicians of the summoning department are best at summoning all kinds of beasts, monsters and elemental creatures, and then use these summoned creatures to assist in combat through specific magic contracts.

So, since summoned objects can be used for combat, can they be used to help daily production and construction?

The answer is of course yes: as far as Xia Houyan knows, the magicians in the Northern Magician Academy City travel in carriages pulled by summoned elemental unicorns. extreme.

John Samonen's idea is to use his summoning magic to help Shuangfengling create a group of warcraft beasts that can be used. The summoned creatures are not ordinary cows and horses. a bit!

So, in the past two days, John Samonen plunged into the Manhattan laboratory, and with the help of the Frost Maple Ridge craftsmen, he built such a summoning circle in the studio, preparing to put his ideas into practice.

However, as the saying goes, "What is achieved on paper will eventually become superficial, and you will never know that this matter must be practiced";
It was not until the real practical session that John Summeren and other staff members discovered that "summoning some magical creatures for work" is not that simple!

There are two main technical problems:

First, the magic contracts of summoned creatures are time-limited. Once the time is up, the summoned creatures will be sent back to their own plane immediately under the influence of the rules of the plane——

——Even if the summoned creature is killed, its corpse will automatically return to its hometown when the time is up. The objective laws of magic are so hard to defy.

For Shuangfengling, this "summoning time limit" is really fatal.

Summoning magicians summon monsters, which are usually used to fight. After the fight, the summoned helper will leave;

But "Babylon Project" obviously intends to summon some monsters to work!

In the end, not to mention the eight-hour working system, maybe the summoned magic cows and horses returned home because the statute of limitations had expired within a few hours of work, and Shuangfengling couldn't even recover the cost of the magic materials used for summoning!
Of course, it is also possible to summon alien creatures without a time limit, but it often requires extremely strict conditions:

Or, directly tear a gap in the plane, and let the magical creatures living in another plane come through the gap by themselves. A typical example is the Scarlet Flame Demon Vulture who traveled to Haven Continent;

Or, you need to sign a permanent contract with the summoned object at a great price and with extremely high magical attainments—the original Frost Dragon, Cristiano, planned to sing "Dragon Language Summoning" at the cost of his own life , to help the Land of Cracked Soul permanently summon a "Green Sower"

However, these two methods of permanent summoning may be possible in a school city with a large number of magicians. For Shuangfengling, which has limited strength, it seems a bit unrealistic.

And John Samonen encountered the second technical problem.Even more annoying:
Not all summoned creatures are suitable for use as beasts for production.

In a sense, summoning creatures from another world is a bit like drawing cards in krypton gold mobile games. Magicians can only determine the source plane of summoned creatures through specific magic beacons, and at most rely on some magic skills to limit the target. The general characteristics of the summoned object;
But what kind of creature was drawn in the end, whether it was a white card or an SSR, could only be resigned to fate.

——This also means that whether a magician can summon a useful beast is purely a matter of luck.

Take the actual operation of the "Babylon Project" as an example:

Yesterday, John Samonen brought an ancient skull as an ancient beacon, and set the target plane of the summoning circle at the "Zerus plane" where alien beasts gather;
At the same time, John also used his superb summoning magic skills to lock the weight range of the summoned creatures at 500 to 2000 kilograms.

The reason for doing this is because the summoning target that John selected for Frost Maple Ridge is the "foggy wildebeest" that is a specialty of the "Zerus plane"-this kind of creature that resembles the wild horse of Haven, is a creature of all planes. A rare monster with a strong physique but a docile temperament, it is most suitable for plowing and grinding.

However, the cold reality told him that the fog mustache would not work.

For the whole day yesterday, John's magic circle failed to summon any "foggy wildebeest", all of them came from other species special to the "Zerus plane"-two-winged dragons, spine-thorn snakes, Zeus Ruth prancing beast...

This group of vicious beasts from other worlds, not to mention being used to serve them, just wiped them out in the Manhattan laboratory so as not to endanger the external environment, it took a lot of effort from the Igor pioneer army and the Northern Blizzard Mage Corps.

Today, the red-eyed John Samonen tried his best to continue to draw cards, and he wanted to spell out a "fog mustache wildebeest", but Xia Houyan, who was on the sidelines, always felt that there was little hope——

——And he felt sorry for his magic materials that were dropped by John Krypton.

You know, in order to be able to stably summon the elemental unicorns used to pull carts, the Hermes of the Mage Academy specially opened up a secondary plane in the void as a grazing land for raising unicorns!

——If it weren't for this, even the masters of the school city would not be able to guarantee the stable summoning of a certain elemental creature.

What's more, as long as the problem of the summoning time limit is not resolved, even if Shuangfengling summons the "Foggy Wildebeest", how many hours can these alien laborers do?Once it's time, you guys still get off work and go back to your hometown for tea!

To sum up, today, watching another "Zerus Prancing Beast" summoned by John's magic circle, before he could say "Are you my master?" The soldiers fell to the ground with volleys of crossbows...

... Xia Houyan has almost completely lost confidence in this "Babylon Project".

On the contrary, Wei Erfu, who was leaning in his arms, stared at it with great interest—most novel writers have not seen the world much, so they understand it.

"Speaking of which, don't you still have a Purgatory Beacon in your hand?" Wei Erfu stared at the summoning ceremony for a while, raised her face, and asked the lord, "The skull used by Samonen, and That 'Zerus Plane' doesn't feel very interesting... How about using the Beacon of Purgatory as a Beacon of Summoning?"

Xia Houyan read from this chick's left eye that she fears the world will not be chaotic, and from her right eye that art is explosion.

"Purgatory Beacon? At that time, the Purgatory creature will be summoned, and you will solve it?" He lowered his head and said with a fake smile, "A few prancing beasts from the plane of Zerus are enough to give us a headache. How many Scarlet Flame Demon Vultures are here? Do you think the Haiwen Continent has a long life?"

"There's no need to summon the Scarlet Flame Vulture either..." Weierf muttered pouting, "Can't your John Samonen set a weight limit for summoned objects? Make the limit smaller and summon more." Come out, the little devil, this girl must be able to fight!"

'little devil'?Xia Houyan blinked, lost in thought.

(End of this chapter)