Alien world

Chapter 1508 142. Liberty City Development Fund

The entire Allen world will remember this day.

From the first sprout underwater to the floating city that allowed people to touch the sky for the first time...

Well, airships don't mean much to Allen's world.

But Liberty City will certainly remember this day.

Not only is the airship the second means of transportation besides the magic train, but its manufacturer is also Martin - although Annan came up with a lot of ideas behind the scenes.

After the airship landed, Annan led the workers to applaud and said to Martin, who was smiling innocently, "Go tell Aunt Susan the good news. She will be proud of you."

Liberty City encourages invention and creation, so Annan called the financial officials and asked them to quickly formulate a reward for those who participated in the production of the airship. Then he rushed back to the city lord's mansion without stopping.

The princess was still in the dining room, eating clumsily with a spoon. Although her hair always flew up like a child digging in the sand at the beach, this behavior itself showed that she was recovering better.

Find a teacher to teach the princess how to live?

The princess is shy, and currently only her eldest sister, Dad, and the elf mentor are able to get close to her.

They are all very busy, I seem to be the only one who has more free time...

Annan asked the head maid Abby to bring another set of tableware and sat beside her to teach the princess how to use it.

After a while, Luo Xi rushed in again.

Annan and the princess raised their heads at the same time.

"Lord Annan, the airship crashed and hit a house!"

Annan looked out the window and saw no smoke or shouting: "No one was hurt?"

"No."

"That's good."

Annan was not surprised that the airship fell, because a new invention always has to start from scratch.

Although Lilith is always watching over the city, it is better to practice the experiment in the wild...

But soon, the news that came back told Annan that it was not what he thought.

Martin misunderstood what Annan said as meaning to fly the airship home, and he did so, successfully floating above Aunt Susan's house.

The accident happened when the balloon landed in the yard. The wind at the seaside was erratic, and as soon as the airship descended, a crosswind pushed it into the house. The balloon lost its balance, and the updraft created by the magic runes could not fill the balloon, so it covered the house like a brown paper bag stuck to a passerby's face on a windy day.

After almost burning down his house a few days ago, Martin almost destroyed his house again.

Fortunately, the airship only looks intimidating. On the surface, it is about the size of a house. In fact, including the people standing in the basket, it weighs no more than 500 pounds in total, not even as loud as the noise made when Aunt Susan and Uncle Hollin wrestled.

The good news is that Martin was not sent to jail this time.

The bad news is that Aunt Susan just bought a new, handy broom yesterday.

"As expected of Martin."

Annan laughed, ignored him and continued teaching the princess.

……

Ingrid retracted her gaze and continued the previous topic: "I think you can accept it."

"The church doesn't need money." Bishop Garcia's words made people feel itchy.

“But what if the Church of Wealth continues to decline?”

Itching to change to Bishop Garcia.

Ingrid said bluntly: "In the years of turmoil, everything is possible. Ten years ago, any monarch who succeeded the throne needed to swear allegiance to the gods and be baptized, but now, they are too lazy to even pretend to do so."

"Liberty City is grateful for the help extended by the church, so it might as well regard the savings bank as an investment and a guarantee."

Bishop Garcia was moved. It was hard not to like this kind of sincerity without any ulterior motives... But he still shook his head: "Investment is another matter. This money is a pure donation."

This is very difficult.

There are principles on both sides: the church should give money to Liberty City just as if it were dropping a wallet on the street and giving alms to the poor.

The Liberty City will not accept free food and must give something back to the church.

As the stalemate continued, Ingrid went to Annan, hoping that her "immoral" lord could give some advice.

"How difficult can it be to spend money?" Annan asked back.

"The Church of Wealth wants the money to be spent wisely."

"That's not difficult. For example, we can set up a 'Liberty City Development Fund'. The church will set the standards, and provide assistance to Liberty City for each stage it reaches. That will give us a reason."

"I understand." Ingrid took out the notebook she carried with her and wrote it down.

Annan asked curiously, "How much are they prepared to pay?"

"No less than last time."

The four medium-sized arcane energy cores promised earlier have arrived, which means that the Church of Wealth has spent tens of millions of gold nars again.

Annan has worked hard for all these years but still hasn’t gotten as much as the Wealth Teacher can give him with just a flick of his fingers… He doesn’t want to work hard anymore!
"I'm going to talk to Bishop Garcia."

Annan had already figured out how to spend the development fund after getting it: the mountain copper in the Mage Tower was almost used up, so he could take the opportunity to purchase another batch of mountain copper, and then get some arcane energy cores to increase the area of ​​Free City to four kilometers in diameter. As for the rest... well, there would be no more than a penny left.

There is no way, since the arcane energy core is the crystallization of human civilization.

If we could gather all the money of the Church of Wealth together, we might be able to build a floating city similar to the Sky Island of Fior.

But what was the relationship between the Free City and Annan at that time?

The goddess of fate has long ago marked a price for everything she has secretly bestowed upon her.

As for alchemizing the arcane energy core... it's like a farmer stabbing a demon lord to death with a dung fork.

Don't ask why it is the Demon Lord.

It's February.

The Liberty City Development Fund begins to be drafted.

"The People's Singer" is still being rebroadcast in various places, and Ingrid's "notorious" ranking is quite effective. Fans are scrambling to grab models of their favorite singers, and peripheral products such as posters and signed shirts are also being snapped up.

The players' profits from selling their image rights are enough to provide them with a comfortable life for the rest of their lives.

It is reported that Ingrid also plans to let popular contestants go on tour and is discussing performance fees with them.

The Beans stayed in Conch City for a few days and then returned.

Upon learning that he could not recruit Ruth, the wealthy businessman Mercedes expressed regret and wished Ruth greater success in the future. As for whether he cursed her behind her back, no one could remember.

The weather is getting warmer day by day, and spring ploughing is about to begin.

Among them, Jack and Hunter are sharpening their knives, preparing to rent a larger piece of land this year and hire a few more skeleton farmers.

Skeleton farmers are good people. They can fetch water and farm the land during the day, drive away birds and beasts at night, and do odd jobs in their spare time.

What undead...even if the paladin comes, it's just a farmer!
The first-year students at Liberty City University are about to graduate, and the professors are busy setting up assessments all day.

The City Lord's Mansion was brightly lit from morning to night.

Annan had nothing to do, but in his own eyes, he was very busy.

He had to teach the princess during the day, meditate at night, respond to prayers late at night, and also find time to deal with the trivial matters in the city.

For example, the succubus's boots were stolen again, the goblin's crotchless pants that were hung out to dry were torn off and stepped on several times, and the orc reported to the police that a woman had sexually harassed him.

(End of this chapter)