Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1642 The Neighbor is a Psychopath

As soon as the truth was spoken, the attribute panel of the source crystal in front of Zhou Xu suddenly unfolded in front of him...

Name: Source Crystal
Introduction: A naturally generated special energy crystal. The special texture of the crystal itself can convert the absorbed natural energy into attributeless storage, and has excellent compatibility. It is one of the commonly used crystals needed to make many equipment and machines in the old civilization period.

Looking at this introduction, Zhou Xu's eyes suddenly lit up.

[Source Crystal? Isn't this thing just a lower-level substitute for Mithril?! ]

Why are special metals important? Because special metals are often able to store energy. In the process of smelting alloys, adding special metals can bring this property to the successfully smelted alloy.

In this way, this alloy has the basic conditions for engraving enchantment inscriptions and making enchanted equipment.

Of course, special crystals like acridite have relatively poor energy storage properties. If you rely solely on the energy storage properties provided by acridite to make an enchanted weapon, you can basically only maintain the most basic simple enchantment, and the effect is often not long-lasting.

In order to enhance this property, they need to add some special energy storage metals when smelting metals.

The most typical one is Mithril!

Mithril can not only greatly increase energy storage, but also improve energy conversion efficiency and operation efficiency, thereby reducing consumption and improving enchantment effects.

This is also the power of Mithril, but at the same time Mithril is also rare!

Now their Great Zhou does have a Mithril Island overseas, which can produce some Mithril, but the output is pitifully small.

The output of mithril is unstable, and for the miners responsible for mining mithril, this job requires a certain amount of luck.

When you are unlucky, you may not get even one piece of mithril in a month. When you are lucky, you may be able to dig out three or four hundred grams, or one or half a pound, which is considered pretty good.

Ever since he got the mithril mine, Zhou Xu finally understood how devastated Saint Laurent I was when he negotiated with him.

Mithril cannot be calculated by tons, it has to be calculated by grams!
With this output, how can it be used?

The fact that the Saint Laurent Empire was able to take out all that mithril to trade with him must have been a fortune that they had accumulated over many years.

Now the emergence of source crystal stone has undoubtedly solved this problem.

It may not have properties like mithril that can improve energy conversion efficiency and operating efficiency, but for now, the most important thing is actually the energy storage property. As long as the source crystal can do this, it will fully meet Zhou Xu's expectations.

Under this premise, it is also mentioned in the introduction that Source Crystal is one of the commonly used crystals used in the production of many equipment and machines in the old civilization period.

This means that the source crystal is definitely not a rare ore in essence, at least not as rare as mithril.

This can also be seen from the fact that there are source crystal veins in Copper Furnace Castle.

As long as he can obtain a sufficient number of source crystals, he can definitely develop a small communication cube, not to mention weapons.

The biggest problem before was that there was no way to get the raw materials!

Now that we have the source crystal, this problem is basically no longer a problem.

"Pass on my order. Directly block the area outside Yuancheng where the mineral vein was discovered. Set it as a Level 2 strategic location. No unauthorized persons are allowed to approach. Build a mine as quickly as possible to mine for source crystals!"

"At the same time, since there are source crystal veins in Copperforge Fort, they should also have stock of source crystals. Let's confirm the situation and transport them to Blackmoon City for research." Due to the previous damage caused by Saint Laurent's army, the interior of Copperforge Fort is still being repaired and the relevant reports have not been submitted yet.

This is a good opportunity to make further confirmation.

Zhou Xu had just given the order when another personal soldier ran in quickly.

"Your Majesty, the latest news from the front line!"

Zhou Xu, who received the report, remained very calm.

Now that Saint Laurent I and Marshal Adolf were dead and 30,000 soldiers were captured or killed by them, he did not think that the Saint Laurent Empire would have any resistance against their army.

In Zhou Xu's view, the complete collapse is only a matter of time.

After opening the report, Zhou Xu took a quick look and found that the battle situation on the front line was going smoothly.

At this stage, facing the offensive of their large army, Saint Laurent's side was forced to take the means of continuously gathering troops and retreating.

It is not difficult to see from this that the other side has no intention of giving up resistance.

But I have to say, this trick is still useful.

After the other side withdrew, they occupied the territory and always had to send troops to garrison. In this way, they had to face a situation where the number of troops on the front line became increasingly smaller.

By using this method, Saint Laurent's side not only bought time for themselves, but also dispersed their forces!
Taking this into consideration, Shi Lei also requested follow-up military support from him in his report, mainly for garrisoning new territories.

There was nothing to say about this. Zhou Xu gave an order and quickly mobilized a group of troops.

It just so happened that they had captured nearly 20,000 prisoners from Saint Laurent's army, providing a large number of cheap labor. The young and middle-aged men freed up during this period could be recruited into the army and garrisoned in the new territory.

As of now, the garrison mission itself does not have much risk. It can be disbanded after the war is over.

At the end of the report, Shi Lei also mentioned that Yves Saint Laurent sent representatives to negotiate with them, and showed an attitude of "any conditions are acceptable".

However, after the Saint Laurent Empire did such a thing and brought things to this point, it was obviously impossible for Zhou Xu to accept the other party's request for peace talks.

It’s not that Zhou Xu really wants to destroy them.

In fact, he has always wanted to develop peacefully. They can't even develop themselves within the Great Zhou, and Zhou Xu has no strong desire to continue expanding the territory.

But! When you find out that your neighbor is a psychopath who may go crazy at any time, you will no longer want to be his neighbor.

The current Saint Laurent Empire is undoubtedly the lunatic in Zhou Xu's eyes.

No matter whether you want to apologize, negotiate, or compensate, it will be useless no matter how nice or sincere you say it.

Because I found out that you are a psychopath, and you are completely unreasonable when you are crazy, and I absolutely do not want to be a neighbor of a psychopath!
Long before leaving the front line, Zhou Xu had already made this attitude clear to Shi Lei, and he would not accept the other party's peace talks!
So this time, Shi Lei only mentioned it briefly in the report, and their army's advance continued!

(End of this chapter)