I really just want to be a big lord

Chapter 112 Must Be Strong (Part [-])
Keos left Brilliant Manor early in the morning. Of course, he must have found a reason to ask the disciplinary knight to escort him.

Just because of Earl Hummels, several teams of disciplinary knights came here, even Dominique came early in the morning, so it was easy to arrange.

Christina also jokingly said that she would send a team of contracted servants to protect him, but Kaios agreed unceremoniously, the more the better.

However, this journey was quite smooth, and I didn't meet the Marquis of Steel Heart.

But Kaios will not completely let go of his heart because of this, the Marquis of Steel Heart's revenge will definitely come, but he doesn't know what form it will take.

During the recent period of time, he should keep a low profile and be careful.

Before returning early this morning, when he went to meet Salveira, he found that the countess had already met his bodyguard and gave her a gift.

Christina did not break her promise, and indeed gave Salveira a piece of rare equipment.

It was a black mask with a pretty shape. After being activated, it could bring up to three phantoms to the user.

This phantom is not a simple phantom on the visual level, it can even imitate the traces of the user's own aura or magic power when activating the mask.

In other words, if the enemy uses the target's aura or magic power fluctuations to carry out long-range attacks with magic or aura waves, the wrong target may be locked, or even the target cannot be locked.

If before use, it is combined with concealed equipment that can reduce its own aura and magic power response, and with magic circles or props that reduce the visibility of the environment, then these three phantoms are suitable for those who do not have special locking magic or break phantoms and fake props. For a person, it is equivalent to three real existences that are exactly the same as the user, and will completely confuse the target.

It is said that there is a stronger "perfect level" version of this mask. After use, the phantom inspired can use certain aura waves and magic like the user. Of course, it is the user himself who actually pays the aura or magic power, which is very powerful. Weakness is also directly related to the strength of the user.

This kind of equipment is very useful in small-scale battles or duels.

Keos originally thought that the rare equipment that Christina would give her would be gold stockings, a gold skirt, and other items that were unique to her and would be seen as unusable in the aristocratic style. He did not expect that it would be such a practical combat item. rare equipment.

According to Christina, she didn't like the color of this mask, and if it was made into gold, it would destroy its structure, so she bought another gold one, and this black mask just matched Salveira's black body. Leather armor is more suitable.

It sounds like the decision to give this piece of equipment is purely based on color matching and appearance, but Kaios feels faintly that Christina is deliberately helping him strengthen Salveira's personal combat power. If the duel happens, it can guarantee her a higher chance of winning.

Keos didn't think this gift was too expensive to accept, anyway, he would soon cooperate with Christina on a new project, and he was confident that the benefits he would bring to the countess would definitely not be one or two The price of rare equipment.

After returning to Beishan Manor, Kaios handed over the rare grade "Shadow Splitting Mask" that Christina gave to his magic refining team to study to see if it could be transformed into a perfect grade.

But his team only took an hour to give a judgment:
Impossible, my lord baron!

Their current limit is to upgrade Salveira's weapon from a fine weapon to a level that is almost rare, so that they can directly upgrade it from the rare level to the perfect level?This is impossible!can't do it!
Keos was not discouraged, but continued to study with them to use other methods to make the rare-level "Shadow Mask" achieve the effect of perfect-level equipment, and create a "Phantom Clone" that can be used to actually fight the aura wave.

He has now formed several development teams for magic refining. Some of these teams exist for a certain project, such as "Magic Sealing Basket", "Magic Refining Tool", "Magic Shadow Box" and so on.

Some are conducting R&D and experiments according to the requirements put forward by Kaios, and conducting various pioneering attempts.

Among these people, some were originally his contracted servants, and many of them did not have much talent in magic cultivation, and they were transferred here after he found talent in refining weapons after screening with self-made test papers.

There are many more, which are bought in the special contract servant trading market.

For the nobles of the Holy Blessed Alliance, there are basically only two dimensions to determine the transaction value of a young contracted servant. One is the cultivation talent of aura or magic, the upper limit of cultivation tested, and the other is appearance and appearance.

For the nobles, there is no such thing as buying them back to be trained as craftsmen or alchemists to measure their talents in this area.

In their view, even if they want to be trained as a craftsman, the higher the talent for magic cultivation, the better.

Therefore, Keos bought a large number of young contract servants with lower magic talent test results and lower prices from the market, but he believed that they had smarter brains and better learning ability, and added them to various development teams.

Of course, the main force of most of the development team is still those small nobles and their magician contract servants who were recruited by Kaios with a large sum of magic coupons to study a certain direction.

Although Kaios and them are in a cooperative relationship, the magical device "Magic Alchemy System" led by him has achieved unprecedented success, and he can put forward very unique and eye-catching insights on various magical devices , so these nobles who are engaged in technology are more convinced by him.

So even if Kaios often puts forward some unconstrained, weird, and even unreasonable ideas, such as "make this rare-level equipment achieve the functions of perfect-level equipment in an achievable way", they will bite the bullet and go Try to find a way.

So, after three days of grinding by Kaios, the development team finally came up with a way to make the "Shadow Mask" have perfect equipment functions.

"Lord Baron, you see, with our ability, it is definitely not possible for this piece of equipment itself to have the function of 'Phantom Clone can also use aura wave' as a perfect level equipment. If we have that ability, we can directly We have created a piece of perfect equipment. If it must have the functions of perfect equipment, the only way we can think of to achieve it is to use an external magic circle to strengthen it..."

The person who introduced the plan that the team came up with after scratching half a catty of hair off was a little nobleman without land, Silvis, who introduced him to Kaios.He also practiced magic for the research of refining equipment. Now he is less than 30 years old, and he is already a level 9 middle-level magician. This level is already quite high among nobles.

While talking about the plan, he unfolded the design drawings and let Keos see their initial conception of the magic circle.

"Well, let's follow this plan and set up the magic circle." Kaios said affirmatively before he finished his introduction.

"My lord, the usage circle is the only way we can think of to realize it. How about other...uh, you mean...make it?" Silvis didn't realize it until he was halfway through, and the plan was actually passed.

To be honest, he originally thought that this plan would definitely not be approved by Keos. After all, the "Shadow Mask" is obviously a single-player duel weapon. First" right?

Even if it is an actual battle in the western realm and the northern realm, with the support of the team's logistics, no matter whether it is dealing with monsters, spirit beasts or barbarians in the western realm, there is no chance to set up the scene first. better?

Unexpectedly, Baron Keos actually approved of this plan?

Seeing Baron Keos's smile that seemed to have a deep meaning, Silvis still held back the question "Is this magic circle really useful?" He decided to make it first.

Maybe, the baron can give them some amazing creations that can break their heads.

In addition to the "Shadow Mask", Keos also brought two pieces of rare equipment and several pieces of excellent equipment when he came back this time - the duel spoils from Salveira.

He handed over these equipments to different teams. Although it was not like the "Shadow Mask", which required them to force the rare level equipment to achieve perfect level functions, they all had various transformation tasks.

Keos had already figured out who to assign these pieces of equipment early in the morning, and he had his own ideas for transformation.

In the process of transformation and reverse engineering, these teams can also learn the design ideas and technologies of these equipment to a certain extent, and it is true that they can achieve multiple things in one fell swoop.

In this way, after staying in Beishan Manor and indulging in various equipment transformations, another week passed, and there was still no movement from the Marquis of Steel Heart.

They neither sent anyone to harass Beishan Manor or other territories of Kaios, nor did they interfere with the sales of the "creator". stopped.

Dominique came to Beishan Manor and told him that the Marquis of Steel Heart has been abnormally quiet recently. I don’t know if he is planning some "big move". Let Kaios be careful, whether he is going to the city or to other places, It's best to first inform the disciplinary knight escorts who are patrolling nearby, and he will also arrange a few more disciplinary knight patrols here.

They also made some guesses about the possible means that the Marquis of Steel Heart might adopt.

According to their judgment of Joey Steele's character, since this guy didn't turn his face immediately and recklessly retaliate at all, it is less likely that he will carry out illegal acts of war against Kaios in the future.

But there are many other ruthless methods, such as sending people to keep an eye on Beishan Manor, and when Kaios did not punish the knight guards and traveled to a relatively remote area, it might not kill him, but kill him The contracted servant who accompanied the guards would definitely threaten and humiliate him.

They even speculated that the Marquis of Steel Heart might let a lord who was vassal to him make a move—in this case, as long as he was not caught by the punishment knight on the spot, he would not be afraid even if he was found out by the Holy Blessing Palace later. Not every lord has a promotion. What the Marquis needs, anyway, he is protected by the Marquis of Steel Heart, and he is not afraid of others to avenge Kaios.

Dominique also suggested that since Caios is rich and powerful now, it is better to buy a few more high-level or even top-level contracted servants to serve as bodyguards to enhance real combat power.

On the face of it, Keos agrees, but actually he doesn’t think so in his heart.

Of course, he also knows that improving his own strength is the best solution once and for all, but the problem is that there are very few contracted servants that can be bought now that meet his requirements.

Either the rank is high, but the talent has been squeezed to the limit, and even the senior contract servant who is suffering from illness, or the so-called potential contract servant who is not so high, but the test talent is very high, but the asking price is very scary.

The normal top-level combat power that is about 30 years old, non-pharmaceutical or other methods to forcibly increase aura and magic power, in the contract servant trading market, there is basically no price, and not many people will sell it, really want to sell If you don't have the idea, you will be taken down by the people around you as soon as you have that idea, and you won't be able to go to the market.

In the unlikely event that there is such a top-level powerhouse on the market, the price will make Keos feel that it is better to buy a few more top-level equipment to enhance the strength of the existing contracted servants.

Moreover, he has his own plan to improve his strength.

……

After Qi Weiyu and his companions got off the carriage, they were a little nervous when they saw this strange scene.

Like most of his companions, he has never left Yutan Farm or Yutan settlement since he was born.

He has been in good physical fitness since he was a child. He originally thought that he could practice spiritual energy or magic, but he didn't expect that in the final test, he fell a bit short and was not selected for the training camp.

But at the next best thing, he still easily passed the full-time farmer's test, and soon began a series of farmer training, including taking potions, built-in magic stones, built-in magic refining devices, and so on.

These physical pains are nothing to him, they are all tolerable. When he was a child, he was able to eat a lot of delicious food during the training period of a full-time farmer. The future is as promising as his contracted servant, but at least it is no problem to ensure that the family has no worries about food and clothing.

He originally thought that he would be a farmer for the rest of his life, until he died due to the backlash of magic power, or he was too exhausted to continue working, just like other farmers in the territory.

But unexpectedly, in the second year when he officially started working as a farmer, everything changed.

The lord's contracted servants brought several carriages of magical devices, and placed them in the farm, calling them "magic refining devices". "Sealing the Devil's Back Basket" started a set of harvesting training that, in the eyes of full-time farmers, was very unprofessional.

He and the other farmers looked at this magic device with the attitude of watching the excitement. They all thought that the master was young, and he might have encountered some novelty and wanted to try something new. When the harvest period was over, he knew that the benefits brought by this thing were limited. Nature goes back to the farmers harvesting, following this centuries-old classic method.

After one harvest, after two harvests, after three harvests...

What they didn't expect was that this system would continue to operate like this, and they knew from the farm steward that this magical device called "Creator. Demon Refining System" was developed by the master, and it has become popular now. All the farms in Yulang City, especially those farms developed in new magic planting areas, basically use this system, and no longer use farmers to harvest and squeeze magic.

Obviously using them to harvest, squeeze, and fill can save a lot of magic sticks, but their treatment only accounts for a very, very small part of those magic sticks.

So they couldn't understand at all why the lords and lords didn't use farmers and switched to these devices that consumed a lot of mana.

Although during this period of time, they were only assigned to do some simple moving work, and the treatment was no different from when they were working full-time as farmers.

But each of them knows that the lords will not always use this treatment to support them in vain. The treatment and work will always need to match. When they are actually divided into arrangements, or become porters, or enter the factory, the treatment will return. to the corresponding position.

If it was these positions at the beginning, they would not have any ideas, but now, their bodies have undergone a major transformation, the price has been paid, and the rewards have been reduced, so their hearts are naturally anxious and troubled.

But they also know that their anxiety and troubles can't change anything.

Everything, after all, depends on the will of the lord.

Today, being driven into a carriage and leaving the territory for the first time in this life, all the farmers including Qi Weiyu were ashamed.

They all felt that they were about to be relegated to positions with worse pay.

(End of this chapter)