Mythic Card Master: Start with a Knight

Chapter 207 Reconstruction and Development, Lord Edel

Chu Ming looked at the shimmering soul box in his hand, and suddenly asked: "Carlos, tell me, how long can you live if you store your soul in the soul box?"

Carlos was silent for a moment, then hesitated and said: "1000 years should be fine, after all, I'm not a real lich."

"If there is an adventure, maybe thousands of years will do."

After Chu Ming listened, his eyes lit up slightly.

If Carlos can really live for thousands of years, maybe he can meet him in the next writing.

At that time, he can still keep Carlos shining, and maybe help him.

Thinking of this, Chu Ming fell into deep thought.

Chu Ming suddenly fell silent, Carlos panicked, thinking that Chu Ming had lost him, he hurriedly shouted: "Narend, we have a fateful friendship, you can't treat me like this."

"It's so noisy, isn't this trying to find a way for you?"

Chu Ming exited the state of thinking.

"Carlos, I can give you a puppet body, but you'd better not run around, at least not leave Fengyang Empire."

Carlos said in a serious tone: "Naturally, Narende, you think of me as an ungrateful guy, and I want to go to your tower of knowledge to help you study the spiritual wizard system."

Chu Ming glanced at the soul box in his hand, isn't this guy coveting the inheritance of spiritual wizards? It sounds so nice.

"Okay, you go to sleep first, I will wake you up after I find the puppet's body."

……

A month later.

Counties of Coutts, wizard hut.

A Lun excitedly came to Chu Ming, who was reading a book in the living room, holding a skinny puppet.

He said excitedly, "Narend, what do you think I found?!"

Chu Ming put down the book and looked towards Allen, only to see that the worn-out puppet in his hand was carved with mysterious and mysterious patterns, and its thin limbs drooped feebly.

He asked suspiciously, "Is this a puppet?"

Allen said with a smile: "I heard that this is a sword puppet used by some knight families in the Magic Era to practice swordsmanship. Although there is no special ability, the material used to make the puppet is unexpectedly tough. It's just that the appearance is a little worn out, and the wooden material has become a little brittle, so you should be careful when handling it."

"I'm sorry, Aaron."

Chu Ming thanked him a few words, bid farewell to Allen, and carefully carried the puppet into the laboratory.

Putting the puppet on the laboratory table, he began to think about how to use the puppet in front of him.

"Golem, golem... it should be driven by magic power, but I don't have magic power..."

Chu Ming looked at the stigmata mark on the back of his hand.

"I don't know if divine power will work."

He covered the puppet's head with his palm, the green mark on the back of his hand flickered a few times, and a surge of vitality poured into the puppet's body.

The puppet's crystal eyes suddenly lit up, and the wooden material exuding a decaying smell on its body was revived, and green leaves grew.

The puppet moved its fingers and got up from the table by itself.

"Sword... swordsmanship, please teach me."

He looked at Chu Ming with his crystal eyes shining with green light, and he was waving a sword in his hand.

"It's really good."

Chu Ming was stunned for a moment, and he took out the crystal soul box to wake Carlos up.

"I found the puppet for you, how do you borrow the puppet's body?"

Carlos slowly woke up from his deep sleep. After realizing that Chu Ming had found the puppet, he excitedly said, "What type of puppet is this?"

"It is said that it is a sword puppet used to train knight swordsmanship."

"what?"

Carlos was stunned for a moment. He was a wizard who used a sword to play the body of a puppet, which was not professional.

But now is not the time to be picky, he thought for a while, and said: "I remember that there is an area loaded with thinking logic in the back of the head of this low-level puppet, just put me there."

Under the curious eyes of the sword puppet, Chu Ming knocked on the back of its head.

After groping around, he finally opened the skull of the sword golem, and found a crystal ball with three-dimensional lines inside.

Chu Ming took out the ball, and the sword puppet's eyes became dim, and it fell into a panic.

Then he put the soul box into it, and closed the skull.

Chu Ming observed that the puppet was lying on the ground without any movement.

Just when he suspected that he had misplaced the soul box, the puppet's eyes suddenly lit up, and it came alive completely.

"Swordsmanship... Bah."

The puppet got rid of the inertia of thinking and stood up, with the light of wisdom shining in its eyes.

"I didn't expect that I, Carlos, could come back to life."

The man's tone was quite excited, but also with a bit of emotion.

"Narend, I really saw the right person."

Chu Ming waved his hand and said, "Okay, stop talking nonsense, get used to your body well, and I'll let someone take you to familiarize yourself with the Earl of Coutts."

"Oh, by the way, I maintain this puppet with weak divine power. I don't know how long it will last. You'd better find a way to refine the magic power yourself and provide magic power to the puppet."

Carlos just nodded, not sure if he understood.

Now that Carlos' body has been solved, Chu Ming is not interested in chatting with him anymore. After driving him to the Tower of Knowledge, he teleports to the Earl of Winter.

After a month of rest, all the counties have recovered their vitality, so a meeting about the future of the empire is going to be held in Winter City. Regarding issues such as the promotion of the wizard system, it can be said that this meeting will determine the direction of the empire for hundreds or even thousands of years.

Half an hour later, Chu Ming came to Yandong City, and a group of knights invited him into the castle hall.

In the hall, sunlight poured from the windows, Edel, Buret, the seven earls and a group of epic wizards sat at the long table to discuss matters.

After Chu Ming arrived, everyone enthusiastically invited him into their seats.

Chu Ming nodded to everyone and sat next to Edel, but he didn't speak, but narrowed his eyes and listened quietly to everyone's discussion.

Regarding the location of the new royal capital, the earls believed that it would be most appropriate to set up the royal capital in the old site in the southern border, so that both the north and the south could be considered.

But Edel disagreed, and he planned to set up the capital in the new capital of Counties of Coutts.

The earls couldn't understand this decision, and it was too dangerous for the king's capital to be close to the dark place, so they kept persuading them.

When Edel saw Chu Ming coming, he glanced at the earls, and said: "Everyone, the reason why I set up the king's capital in Count Kutz Kutz is that I have only one purpose, and that is to open up the dark land and completely Open up the channel with the King’s Peninsula, so that the new King’s City will become a hub connecting the old empire’s territory and XJ’s land.”

After the words fell, the earls looked at each other with shock on their faces.

Opening up the dark land is something that every ruler of the empire wants to do, but opening his mouth like Edel is to open up the dark land, and there are basically no passages, because this is almost an impossible thing to accomplish.

But today is different. The number of epics in the Fengyang Empire has swelled to hundreds, and this number is almost close to the number of peak combat forces in the early days of the Dark Era of the Fengyang Empire.

Coupled with the legend of Chu Ming sitting in the town, it seems that the word of opening the channel is not so far away.

The earls discussed it and felt that the possibility of opening up the dark land was very high, so they finally nodded in agreement.

The meeting continued, and several people talked about the plan for the restoration of the southern border.

When Edel proposed to establish a local administrative management system, the earls subconsciously frowned and wanted to veto it.

They have been accustomed to the empire managed under the aristocratic system, and they are resistant to this new system and doubt the effectiveness of the new system.

Edel was not in a hurry, but said slowly: "Do you want a new earl to be born in the southern border?"

The earls were shocked when they heard this.

If the southern border continues to be managed by the aristocratic system, the empire will indeed have some new earls, and their power will be dispersed by the new earls.

This was unacceptable to them. After chatting for a while and weighing the pros and cons, the earls decided to agree with Edel's plan for the local administration system.

At this point, Chu Ming and Edel's goal has been achieved for the most part. Edel strikes while the iron is hot, and continues to put forward the proposal to relax the restrictions on titles, and makes a big deal, saying that as long as the earls can open up territories in the dark land by themselves, the territories will will be assigned by them.

Earl Madeleine, whose territory was close to the border, immediately agreed: "Your Majesty is merciful. If it lasts for a long time, the territory of our Fengyang Empire will definitely become wider, and we will be able to accumulate more power to fight against darkness."

Several other earls also responded one after another. After all, their clan is facing the problem of title succession, and the succession of many titles is accompanied by invisible bloody storms. These earls have come this way all the way, and naturally they don't want future generations to repeat the same mistakes.

If the title and territory can be distributed to other heirs, the issue of title succession will be resolved.

As long as they can open up the dark land, their family's territory will be greatly expanded and their influence in the empire will be increased.

Chu Ming was observing the reactions of the earls, how could he not understand what these people were thinking.

It's just that things will not go as they wish. As long as the local administrative management system can be established, the power and strength of the central government will expand rapidly. At that time, even if their territory doubles, those scattered territories will be naturally isolated. The cooperation of these nobles cannot concentrate their strength against the behemoth of the empire.

Of course, Chu Ming could also directly use force to force the earls to submit to the new management system.

But this approach did not solve the real contradiction, but only planted the seeds of disaster for the empire.

Letting go of the title restriction is like boiling frogs in warm water. By the time they react, they will no longer be able to resist the empire.

At the negotiating table, the atmosphere was harmonious, and everyone smiled, and they were particularly satisfied with this proposal.

The meeting continued, and the next proposal mentioned the promotion of the spiritual wizard system.

Regarding the promotion of the spiritual shaman system, Chu Ming promised to release the restrictions on the inheritance of spiritual shamans and build wizard towers in the major counties, but all construction costs and early-stage wizard training investment will be paid by the major earls.

The earls were overjoyed. Unexpectedly, Chu Ming would really let go of the restrictions on the inheritance of spiritual wizards, and they all nodded in agreement.

Although they have to pay for the construction of the wizard tower and the investment in the cultivation of wizards, these are nothing compared to the inheritance of spiritual wizards. At best, they are an investment in the future of the territory.

In the second half of the meeting, Chu Ming put forward a proposal to support the development of the Life Church. The content of the proposal was to let the earls spend money to help the Life Church build new churches in major towns and provide the resources needed for pastor training.

If the earls still needed to weigh the pros and cons of the previous proposal, then this proposal was approved by the earls without much thought.

After all, these earls have experienced the horror of distortion. Even William Sterman, who is the king, cannot escape the fate of contracting distortion. How dare they gamble with their lives.

Even if they disagreed, it was just a matter of having some different ideas about the allocation of funds for the construction of the church.

……

The meeting lasted until the next day, and the three of Chu Ming walked out, especially Edel, with smiles on their faces.

After returning to the camp where the Cavaliers temporarily stationed in Winter City, Edel couldn't help but said, "Narend, it's exactly as you thought, they didn't object."

Burrett on the side sighed: "If this century-old plan can be realized, the empire will usher in a radical change."

"Narend, you are really a god."

Chu Ming smiled and said: "In the end, the world still depends on strength. If I don't sit down today, maybe these earls can talk about these proposals for several months."

Having said that, he patted Edel on the shoulder, "Governing the country is certainly important, but don't neglect your own cultivation."

Edel grinned and said, "Of course, I want to become the king of witch knights."

Looking at the two energetic young men, Burrett sighed in his heart, feeling that he was several years old.

The man said: "When do you decide to start exploring the dark land?"

Edel hesitated and looked at Chu Ming.

Chu Ming thought for a while, and said: "Opening up the dark land can't be done overnight, maybe we can start preparing now."

"If it takes decades to open up a passage to the King's Peninsula in advance, it will be possible to expand outward based on the passage and continuously expand the empire's territory."

"It just so happens that I also want to go deep into the dark place to see the situation inside. I will help the empire deal with the dangerous dark creatures along the way, but you need to do it yourself to open up the passage."

Edel nodded seriously, "That's enough."

"With the rune equipment, the average strength level of the knight team and wizard team can reach the level of the royal knights in the past, and the number is many times more than the royal knights. It is not a problem to open up the dark land. Even if it is in danger, there are epic wizards coming. solve."

"It just so happens that this opportunity can be used to cultivate a real Imperial Cavaliers and Imperial Wizards."

He paused, looked at Burrett, and said with a wry smile, "Father, I can't take care of the two tasks of developing the Dark Land and rebuilding the Southern Territory at the same time. I may have to trouble you to get old."

Burrett moved his body and said with a smile: "My old bones can just move a little bit."

"However, the southern border is, after all, an important position for the empire in the future, and you should come back occasionally to have a look. I don't want you to be criticized right after you take the throne."

Edel didn't care and said: "Let them talk about it, whether they say I am radical or impulsive, since I have the strength, there is no reason to give up opening up the dark land, and history will prove my achievements."

Chu Ming sighed slightly, expressing his understanding of the predicament faced by Edel, "Fengyang Empire has just survived the disaster, and it is indeed difficult to build the southern border and open up the dark land while facing the threat of distortion and black wizards. "

"But fortunately, the Tower of Knowledge has also cultivated hundreds of spiritual wizards over the years. I will ask Allen to lead these wizards who have not reached the epic to go south to resist the black wizards."

Edel's eyes flickered, and he said, "We can't let those earls stay in the territory so comfortably, why not send them to the southern border to help rebuild the southern border."

Burrett nodded and said, "This is indeed a solution."

The three chatted until midnight, and after arranging everything, Chu Ming took Edel and teleported back to the wizard's hut.

Edel stayed in the wizard's hut for a while, because there were still matters related to enthronement that needed to be arranged, so he left in a hurry.

……

A month later, Eder's enthronement ceremony was held at the New Metropolitan Town Hall Square.

Both nobles, dignitaries and commoners gathered in front of the square at this time.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Buret crowned Edel with the crown in his hands, and the ceremonial officer announced Edel's achievements on one side, and announced the honorable name of the new king—Lord Edel.

Under the stage, the crossed rice flags representing the Fengyang Empire moved with the wind, ribbons fluttered in the streets, and the people cheered.

Standing not far away, Chu Ming and Isabel witnessed the new beginning of Fengyang Empire.

And Allen also led a group of wizards to applaud and cheer in the audience.

Everyone had beaming looks on their faces, and their hearts were full of anticipation for the future.

The enthronement ceremony lasted until the afternoon, and the people in the streets and alleys of Xindu rushed to say goodbye, and the carnival started all night.

After everyone left, Chu Ming also prepared to leave.

Isabel looked up at the man, "Mr. Wizard, don't you go and see him?"

Chu Ming smiled and said, "He's busy enough today, so I won't bother him."

"It's you instead. I heard Maria say that you're going to the southern border, aren't you?"

Chu Ming stared at the girl's pure sky blue eyes, waiting for her answer.

Isabel lowered her head and hummed lightly.

"The churches in the southern region have been destroyed. There are no priests. The people there have no resistance to distortion. I have to go there."

"Purify taboo knowledge and expel distortion. This is what we have agreed with the gods. I will try my best to complete it."

"Although I also want to see the northern scenery with you..."

The girl's voice became weaker and weaker, and the more she spoke, the lower her head became, almost hitting Chu Ming's chest.

Chu Ming took her into his arms, stared at her misty eyes, and said with a smile: "It's not that I can't see you, why are you so sad, I only need one day from here to the southern border, and I will visit you often in the future .”

Isabel nodded slightly, wiped away her tears, and her eyes became firm, "I will definitely expel the distortion."

(End of this chapter)