Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 399 The Era of the Wasteland, Boiling Expectation

Now that the situation of the "Tarantino Mild Steel" mine has been ascertained, the Frost Maple Ridge Expeditionary Force naturally does not need to stay in this foreign land any longer.

Xia Houyan left a group of "Scourge" zombies in the mine who were inconvenient to bring back to the territory, and asked them to cut down "Oujin vines" day and night in order to get the precious "Tarantino soft steel" in the plant tissue Extract it.

These magical metals will be continuously transported to Frost Maple Ridge on the other side of the Dust Mountains with the assistance of Dan-Azlea orcs.

As for the "hidden danger of landslides" mentioned by Master Linge, Xia Houyan didn't pay much attention to it:

Anyway, those who are responsible for mining are a group of worthless zombies, and if they die in an accident, they will die.

——But if you waste food because of choking and delay the territory to make money, then the loss outweighs the gain.

These days, it is not good to be a boss with a conscience.

After staying in Dan Azler for a few more days, Xia Houyan bid farewell to the teary-eyed Malena, and led the team westward, returning to the Land of Broken Soul along the dark elf cave.

When I went there, the mountain road was covered with snow, but when I returned, the scorching sun shone on the loess.

The Frost Maple Ridge Expeditionary Army arrived at Route 66 in the wasteland, and when they saw the caravans of humans and demons coming and going, they suddenly remembered that the stars have changed, and now it is already another year's peak trade season.

The years of expeditions that galloped on the Great Plains of Dolores, occupying the Temple of Blood and being surrounded by enemies on all sides, now seem to be nothing more than a dream of iron horses and glaciers.

Intellectuals like Calvino Master of Spiritual Songs in the team, standing next to Route 66, can’t help feeling sad and sad. I don’t know how much sad literature will be added to his "Southbound Travel Notes" ;

However, Xiahou's senior officials are much more realistic.

Because he cares more about business.

During last year's peak trade season, Xia Houyan was personally in command, and the level of micromanagement was even as fine as how many laxatives the "Dragon Gate Hotel" would put in the dishes—it was precisely because of this that Shuangfengling took advantage of the peak trade season to take advantage of the entire pot With a full bowl, he embarked on the broad road of getting rid of poverty and becoming rich.

No matter how much other industries in Frost Maple Ridge have developed in the past two years, the trade profits intercepted by the geographical advantage are the unshakable income pillar of this wasteland territory.

If in this year's peak trade season, because the lord personally leads the team to go out, there will be problems of poor management of the territory and loss of profits, then Xia Houyan will absolutely not accept it-after all, he is desperately killing people outside for the sake of Yellowish gold.

Fortunately, the messenger sent by Katerina from the Phoenix Terrace gave the lord a reassurance.

This year's peak trade season has lasted for a long time, and the internal affairs department of Shuangfengling has already made statistics on the basic income and expenditure of the territory.

According to the information brought by the messenger, Frost Maple Ridge's profit in this year's peak trade season has nearly tripled compared to last year - considering the turbulent situation in the Central Plains of the Empire, this is undoubtedly an outstanding achievement that is somewhat unreal.

Xia Houyan noticed that in addition to the steady performance of Route 66 and the rest areas along the way, and the harvesting of passing leeks, this year's Shuangfengling has two more important income channels:

First, after the "Spring of Rock Creek City" incident at the beginning of the year, this important town in the southern part of the empire has basically been under the remote control of the Igor family.Although Leon Houston inherited the title of Grand Duke of Houston, this kid is obsessed with the red sleeve tricks in the streets and wine alleys every day, and let a group of "staff" from the land of broken souls preside over the political situation.

Coupled with the control of the "New Boston Chamber of Commerce" in the trading circles in the southern part of the empire, a considerable part of the trade profits previously occupied by Rock Creek City have been turned into the pockets of Frost Maple Ridge this year.

——This is the result of Xia Houyan's decision to adopt Huang Lao's strategy to rest with the people in consideration of the initial determination of the civil strife in Yanxi City; Exploitation is more severe.

And the second source of income is the trade agreement secretly reached between Shuangfengling and the demon clan Goser Royal Court.

Prince Michael Gorther is worthy of being a gentleman and a wonderful man who speaks his words and is hard to follow.

After arriving at Frost Maple Ridge and negotiating trade matters with Katerina, he hastened the progress of related matters with the enthusiasm of a great voyage explorer. As a result, this year's trade season has not yet ended, and the demon royal family is already passing Frost Maple Ridge is dumping goods into the interior of the Empire.

Doing business with the demon royal family is a super taboo that seriously violates the "Claudia Blood Oath". Even in Shuangfengling, where the specialty taboo is, it is enough to make people tremble with fear.Therefore, all relevant procedures were carried out secretly under extremely confidential circumstances, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Shuangfengling even set up a "special trade department" to deal with this matter.

However, it has violated the taboo anyway, and Shuangfengling finally broke the pot and added a lot of condiments to this trade channel.

In addition to helping the demon clan Gaoser Royal Court export cheap manufactured products, Shuangfengling also used the most scarce food resources in the barren demon region as its flagship product, and launched an anti-dumping campaign against the demon clan market.In addition, at the suggestion of some clever ghosts in the territory, Shuangfengling even bought a batch of "shadow dust" from the western border of the empire and sold them to the demons.

As for whether these religious smoke will trigger a diplomatic crisis between humans and demons in the future, or even provoke some "shadow dust war", Shuangfengling's attitude can be summed up in a famous saying from the earth:

After I make money, I don't care about the flood!

Even Prince Michael Goser, who is only shrewd and ambitious, probably did not expect that Shuangfengling had become extinct to such an extent.

Taking advantage of geographical advantages to directly trade with the demon royal family is Xia Houyan's long-standing strategic plan. He even planned to wait for all the things here and go to the Demon Realm himself to ask for trade.As a result, he led the army to fight abroad, and Prince Michael Goser came to the door to negotiate a deal. This was really a surprise.

All in all, the emergence of these two major income channels has made Shuangfengling a fortune this year, and the savings in the warehouse of the internal affairs department of Fenghuangtai will obviously rise all the way.

Satisfied, the officials of Xiahou no longer had the heart to wander around, and led the Shuangfengling Expeditionary Force to head straight north along Route 66, heading towards Fenghuangtai, an old revolutionary area.Along the way, more and more residents of the wasteland gathered when they heard the news of the triumphant return of the expeditionary army, and flower bouquets of Huafang Town's special products were thrown on the heads of the expeditionary army officers and soldiers as if they didn't want money.

At the end, Miss Katerina Igor even greeted her along the road and gave her brother a big hug.

The lord, who was very relieved, walked side by side with his sister, and led the team all the way into the Phoenix Terrace triumphantly. He didn't even have time to drink hot water, so he hurriedly ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to prepare a celebration banquet for the expeditionary army. and awards ceremony.

Taking the initiative to invade the orc territory, not only beating countless enemies, but also occupying the holy place of the orc religion, and winning peace for the northern allies with a piss sprinkled on the face of the orc - this is a brilliant feat that can be recorded in the history of the empire. It is impossible to treat the heroes and generals of the expeditionary army badly.

As for those soldiers who were in charge of staying in the territory and missed the battle, they could only look red-eyed and feel extremely regretful.

Not long after sitting in Horned Eagle Manor, Mayor Joel and Master Nicholson arrived one after another, bringing some good news to the lord.

What Mayor Joel reported was the fruitful results that Shuangfengling had produced on the cultural front during the more than two months when the lord was away.

Xia Houyan was a little stunned to learn that after Dongbingku's novels became popular in the Central Plains of the Empire, several imperial theater troupes took a fancy to the popularity of Dongbingku's novels and asked to adapt the best of them into dramas and show them in various theaters in the empire. City tours—and Frostmapped Ridge can rake in a ton of royalties from these adaptations.

The Dongbingku writers who wrote these tragically adapted works were also awarded the title of "Platinum Writer" by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Shuangfengling for their outstanding contributions, and received a generous reward-a half-year sentence reduction.

In addition to Dongbingku's novels, the "Dark-Souls" virtual idol project that Shuangfengling vigorously operates is also flourishing, and has gained a huge response and a huge amount of money from the common people of the empire.

Xia Houyan recalled in a trance that when he walked into the gate of Phoenix Terrace just now, he saw posters of beauties plastered on the walls on both sides of the gate. Souls" project bandit writer's leather case.

To be honest, Xia Houyan agreed with Tom Lawrence's bad idea and sent bandits pretending to be beautiful girls to write letters and operate virtual idols. It's come to this point!
He originally thought that this group of natives from other worlds only had 29% enthusiasm for fake and shoddy beautiful girls, but he didn't expect it to be 92%!

The lord who has tasted the sweetness hastily told Mayor Joel to continue the "Dark-Souls" project, which is beneficial to the territory and the people, and at the same time, let the Military Statistics Bureau be vigilant and stop all attempts to Enthusiastic fans looking for the true face of the "beautiful girl" were imprisoned in Dongbingku, so as not to endanger the operation of the project.

Mayor Joel is such an old fritter, he had already prepared for these things, so he naturally agreed without saying a word.

If it is said that these achievements in the cultural field only made Xiahou officials overjoyed, then the news in the industrial field brought by Master Nicholson really shocked the lord.

"You said..." Xia Houyan was stunned for three seconds before confirming to Master Nicholson, "...John Summeren's experiment was successful?!"

"Exactly!" Master Nicholson looked around furtively for a while, and after confirming that there were no outsiders present, he finally couldn't restrain his excited tone, and tremblingly said, "My lord, it happened two days ago! Little master Samonin, successfully summoned a purgatory imp in the 'Manhattan Laboratory' permanently!"

Xia Houyan was in a trance for a while.

After "Spring at Rock Creek", John Summerning followed him back to Frost Maple Ridge, determined to use his summoning magic to repay Lord Elliot Igor for saving his life.

And John Samonen's final summoning target was the bottom creature from the Purgatory Realm—the little devil.

With the help of the Purgatory Beacon and the Demonology Forbidden Book in the Academy City, before the Frost Maple Ridge Expeditionary Army set off, John Summeren had actually successfully summoned the first little devil.

However, due to the huge difference in mana energy between the Purgatory Realm and the main plane of Haven Continent, the summoned little devil only lasts for about 15 seconds. Once the duration is over, it will disappear out of thin air and return to the Purgatory Realm.

Unless they can sacrifice their lives like the frost dragon Cristiano and directly tear a space-time rift between the two planes, creatures from the purgatory world will definitely not be able to exist in Haven Continent for a long time—and even if John Samonen Dedicated to dedicating his life to Frost Maple Ridge, his rotten life is obviously not worth as much as a sixth-order Frost Dragon.

Little devils are a stable source of magic power supply. The fire of purgatory burning around their bodies can be efficiently converted into the magic power needed by magicians by the magic circuit.

However, in just 15 seconds, the magic power that the little devil can supply is too limited, and it is not enough to fill up the energy required to drive the summoning circle. With the demonic power of creatures, they didn't have the idea of ​​using the little devil as a power bank.

Unless a way can be found to summon the imp permanently, it's a perpetual motion machine of the first kind after all.

Xia Houyan originally thought that John Summerning's attempts would stop there.

Because even an ignorant magic scum like him understands how important the simple word "permanent" is in magic theory——

For example, the spell "Resurrection Zombie" that can create zombies is just a basic trick in the necromantic spectrum. I have never created a few zombies, so I am ashamed to call myself a disciple of Simon Adrian's younger generation;

However, the zombies produced by "Resurrected Zombies" will always have a time limit, and they will be shattered into dust when the time is up-and if you want to create permanent zombies, the magic level required will suddenly jump to the master level However, the "resurrection technique" that is not one of the top ten forbidden spells cannot be done.

In the infected area back then, the lord relied on this "resurrection technique" to completely subvert Master Victor Laurie's perception of magic!
As with necromancy, so with summoning:
Even if it is an extremely humble little devil, it is not possible for John Summerning to summon it permanently-considering the particularity of the purgatory world and the behavior style of purgatory creatures never signing a summoning contract, there has never been one in history. There has never been a precedent for a magician to permanently summon a purgatory creature!

Because of this, Xia Houyan, who had long been distrustful of John Samonen, heard that the boy's experiment was successful, and his first reaction was not overjoyed, but full of doubts.

"Are you reading that right?" The lord confirmed to Master Nicholson, "Permanent summon? Little devil?"

"Don't say you don't believe it, we didn't believe it at the time!" Master Nicholson stomped his feet excitedly, "It's a long story, but in the end, we have to thank the Human Demon Race..."

Thank you Mozu?Xia Houyan's brain became even more confused: How did this matter have something to do with the demons again?

"Oh! We can't tell, seeing is believing! Come and see for yourself!" Master Nicholson finally got impatient, pulled up the Lord Lord's sleeve and rushed towards the direction of the Manhattan laboratory, leaving only The next group of horse boys looked at each other in the hall of the manor.

(End of this chapter)