Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1594 Clouds and Rain
When Zhou Xu returned to Black Moon City, it was already midsummer. The scorching sun above his head seemed to burn the air dry.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead. According to the report from the personal soldiers who came to greet him, it had not rained in Black Moon City for half a month.

It's not a drought, after all, there is a huge Qingshui Lake next to Black Moon City.

But even so, the people in the city could not stand the hot weather, and unconsciously, they became a little irritable.

Seeing this, Zhou Xu raised the corner of his mouth.

"It's a good time to try this trick."

As he spoke, mysterious mantras quickly spit out from his mouth...

【Clouds and rain! 】

That's right, on the way back, he had already mastered the dragon language pronunciation of this mantra spell.

In an instant, with Zhou Xu as the center, as the power of mantra spread, the sky above Black Moon City was suddenly covered with dark clouds.

This stunned the people of Black Moon City who were working under the scorching sun and felt dizzy. They subconsciously looked up at the sky, but before they could react, the fine raindrops fell on their faces.

The cool touch of the rain instantly made the people who were working happy.

“It’s raining, it’s raining!!”

At this moment, people from the entire city cheered in unison, as if they were starting a celebration.

Faced with this sudden rain, people not only did not hide, but bathed in the rain. Some people who were originally in the house even ran out to get wet in the rain. They were all soaked like drowned rats, but they were laughing there.

A timely rain gave people a chance to vent their depressed and irritable emotions caused by the long period of hot weather.

The rain fell at noon, and the National Education Propaganda Department took the manuscript in the afternoon and started promoting it through storytellers.

"Today, the sky, which had been clear for half a month, suddenly became overcast. It started to rain without any warning! Do you know why?"

Inside the restaurant, Wang Pengfei was beaming with joy. As the number one storyteller in the Great Zhou, his professional ability was quite good and he quickly aroused the curiosity of the restaurant's diners.

"Why?"

"Say it quickly!"

"Yes! Hurry up and tell me!"

Faced with this scene, Wang Pengfei chuckled.

"Because His Majesty is back!"

Wang Pengfei's expression straightened up.

"As soon as His Majesty came back, he learned that it hadn't rained in Black Moon City for half a month. He then used his magical powers to instantly cover the sky above the city with dark clouds..."

As Wang Pengfei narrated and demonstrated, voices of "Praise the Emperor" soon rang out in the restaurant.

Thanks to Zhou Xu's empowering ability, the people of the Great Zhou are often accompanied by true words even in their daily lives.

Take the method of making rain for example, many people in the Ministry of Agriculture have mastered the mantra of "praying for rain".

However, even ordinary people know that the Ministry of Agriculture's "prayer for rain" can only be used as an emergency measure and its scope is relatively limited.

Because this true method of directly changing the climate is not something that everyone can use.

Zhou Xu's method of bringing long-term rainfall to the entire city with just one move can only be described as miraculous. Those members of the Ministry of Agriculture can only look up to him.

However, what people don’t know is that the reason why the effect difference between the two is so big is not only due to personal strength, but also the influence of the mantra effect is one of the main factors.

"Pray for rain" literally means praying for rain from heaven, and the caster is in a weak position. However, "Control the clouds and make the rain" means to control the rain directly.

The two are not on the same level in terms of invisible "power".

At the same time, combined with what I learned from the old Dragon King before, this 'control of clouds and rain' is probably the other party's core clerical ability, and its level will only be higher.

Under this premise, Zhou Xu discovered that the cost of 'Moving Clouds and Making Rain' was not as high as he had expected. In terms of cost-effectiveness, it could be said to be far better than 'Pray for Rain'.

This made Zhou Xu want to give the "Control of Clouds and Rain" to the Ministry of Agriculture.

This will make it easier for them to create artificial rainfall when necessary.

But unfortunately, he couldn't do it, because 'Moving Clouds and Rain' was a dragon language mantra, and he couldn't combine it with the local mantra and couldn't complete the bestowal.

Under this premise, Zhou Xu had also thought about other dragon language mantras.

But the problem is that he really doesn't have the Dragon Language Mantra.

Even though the lizardmen, including Bo Levin, have the ability to use the mantra, even the green lizard spearmen can perform the "Sprint", and they are all in the dragon language.

But these dragon language mantras come from their bloodline inheritance.

In addition, the Centaurs and Elves are the same. Their ability of truth is inherent in their blood genes. As long as they master the method of use, they can activate it.

At this stage, the Centaurs and Elves can only rely on inheritance within the tribe.

The lizardmen are luckier. Zhou Xu has the rank of "Dragon Lord". By upgrading, they can unlock the corresponding mantra items, so that they can gain the mantra ability.

And this method is actually very similar to "endowment", and it is even very likely to be "endowment".

It’s just that their methods are more sophisticated.

Based on this premise, Zhou Xu can almost be sure that all the dragon language mantras on the lizardmen are not original! Even the mantras contained in his "Dragon Lord" may not be the original.

Zhou Xu, who had roughly figured out the matter, didn't intend to dwell on it.

As for the mantra itself, it's luck if you can get it, and you can only accept your fate if you can't, let alone mantras like the Dragon Language Mantra, which are more special to them.

After returning to the palace, he took a short rest. During the whole journey, he was either meditating or studying the newly acquired mantra. In addition, he had just performed a large-scale "Cloud and Rain" as soon as he returned to Black Moon City. He was really tired at the moment.

I officially started working on the second day.

"Has Copperforge responded to our previous foreign trade cooperation?"

After entering the Qinzheng Hall, Zhou Xu asked casually before starting work.

Liu Bowen was in charge of monitoring the progress of this area. He knew that His Majesty would definitely ask about it when he returned, so the document had already been placed on his desk.

Now that their Majesty asked, Liu Bowen immediately handed over the documents.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Foreign Trade just finished discussing this yesterday. This is the document that was sent to us."

The report should have been made yesterday, but Zhou Xu took a rest as soon as he came back, so it was delayed until today.

Opening the document, in the first sentence of the report, Kong Daqian directly stated that Tonglubao was still trying to exchange for the steam engine.

Zhou Xu actually didn’t care, as long as the dwarf came up with a design that was attractive enough to make him excited.

He glanced down, and the name that came into his sight made Zhou Xu stunned...

"Steam-powered armor?"

(End of this chapter)