When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 714 Transition
Sitting in the carriage returning to the Mechanical Palace, Horn was still thinking about this matter.

The Kelben Mithril Refining Method is of great benefit to Horn's Holy Alliance, the entire empire, and even the Flesh and Blood King's Court across the sea.

However, at present, this butterfly has not had time to flap its wings, and it will probably take another ten or eight years before it can really exert its strength.

Mithril is a fairly precious metal, and in addition to its weight-reducing properties, its alloys are also rust-resistant.

Its market value is only slightly lower than that of gold, and it was even once considered one of the precious metal currencies.

The Holy See City has the Apostolic Guard, and the Royal House of Leia has the Iron Guards of Order, both of which are standing elite tower shield infantry.

Among the equipment of these tower shield infantrymen, the most important tower shield is mixed with a large amount of mithril to reduce the weight.

According to the reserve estimates from previous surveys, the reserves in such a large hollow earth plain or small plateau would be measured in tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of tons.

I thought Mithril was a very precious thing, but now it seems that the reserves are quite large.

Horn opened his eyes from resting and said, "Rafael, how is the cleanup of the Mafia secret party going in Black Snake Bay?"

"Currently, progress is going smoothly. We expect to give you a reply in early March. The overall situation is as follows..." Rafael, as the contact person for the Black Snake Bay Gendarmerie Regiment, immediately responded.

After the end of August, the gang secret parties thought that the law enforcement activities were over, but they did not expect that this was just the beginning.

After a four-month rest, county governors from all over the country began to make a comeback with recruited and trained tax police corps.

Since December last year, the towns and large settlements in Black Snake Bay have been in full swing.

Tax police, gendarmerie, militia and gangsters are fighting on the streets, with lead bullets, fireballs and crossbow arrows flying everywhere every day.

Go to any larger town or even village and you can see tax police and gangsters chasing people wielding iron-clad staffs.

When these local tax police capture a gangster, they can not only get 40% of the stolen money, but also receive bonuses or even promotions allocated from local taxes.

There were several incidents of secret parties instigating people to riot in various places, but they were all bloody suppressed by the fully-strength Divine Punishment Army in Black Snake Bay.

It is estimated that three to four thousand people will be sent to the Holy Trinity Education Team in the Eastern County to open up new land, and many of them have even participated in the war to support the Thousand River Valley.

But Otatila sent them away mercilessly.

If the New Year's Day in Qianhe Valley in 1448 was a rare reunion celebration after the bloody storm.

Then the New Year's Day in Black Snake Bay in 1448 was the bloody storm itself.

On the second day of the New Year's Day, Tiannv City and Changdi City were placed under martial law, and the military and tax police blocked important roads and waterways to prevent gang secret parties from colluding with each other.

Although Horn was paying attention, he did not intervene at all.

This cleanup of the mafia secret party was not only a token of loyalty from Otatila and others, but also a test.

The ability to govern requires training, practice and testing.

Horn set up a fully staffed Divine Punishment Legion in Black Snake Bay, assisted by a large number of elite backbones transferred from Thousand River Valley.

In this kind of absolutely advantageous situation, as long as the leaders of Black Snake Bay have governing abilities above the passing line, they can definitely hand in an answer sheet with a score of 80 or 90.

If it was 60 or 70 points, Horn would have to doubt Otatila's ability and consider whether to retake the exam.

If he fails, Horn will consider whether to use the gendarmerie to sideline the Speaker.

Otherwise, when the war breaks out with the Leia people, with this level of governance, they will basically be a drag.

"Since you will give me your reply in early March, then you can go to explore in early February. When Otatira comes to Thousand River Valley in March, I will talk to her about the Hollow Earth."

Horn calmed himself down and reminded the privy monk beside him: "Write it down on the memo so that it will be convenient for scheduling."

"Oh, oh." The new privy monk then began to record in a hurry.

Every time at this time, Horn would miss Armand very much.

The carriage returned to the Mechanical Palace. Although it was the second day after the New Year's Day holiday, Horn still stayed in the Mechanical Palace.

Because the first thing on the agenda today is to give the young men of the Loyal Army of the Mechanical Palace the first lesson of the spring.

He returned to the dining table and was about to take a bite of his unfinished breakfast when he saw Shilov was still sitting at the round table. "Aren't you supposed to study the lightning slime today? Or are you just on vacation?" Horn asked incoherently while stuffing the pie into his mouth.

Shilov said nothing, but stared at Horn with her tail between her legs: "Maybe I should go meet that Cynthia..."

"You have made indelible contributions to the Holy League." Horn squatted down and looked into Shilov's eyes solemnly. "These contributions are enough for you to sleep on. The victory obtained by your own unreasonable sacrifice is surrender, not a real victory."

"What if I want to see her myself?"

Horn gently rubbed the wolf girl's furry forehead with his palm, but he smiled and said, "Don't be too stressed. If Dragon Language Magic is really that strong, how come she is hiding in the dungeon while we defeated the church?"

Looking at Horn's back as he hurried to the side hall of the Mechanical Palace to teach the Loyalists, Shilov did not return to the Ether Spire immediately.

"Afu, please stand further away. I'll walk by myself."

Turning the wheelchair, Shilov slowly moved around in the Mechanical Palace.

From the time Horn discovered the Mechanical Palace in the winter of 1444 to the spring of 1448, nearly three years have passed, and the Mechanical Palace has changed a lot.

The original broken bricks and tiles were cleared, the damaged ground was repaired, and the wear and rust on the original palace were polished away one by one.

Several empty palaces that had collapsed were renovated, the walls were raised and expanded, and many round arches and viewing windows were added between the palaces like a garden.

Divided by walls and arches, small parks appeared in Shilov's field of vision.

One of her favorite places is a small plant greenhouse made of glass and steel frame.

All kinds of rare plants presented by the secret party of Black Snake Bay were neatly planted in the glass greenhouse surrounded by flues.

It is called a glass greenhouse, but in fact it is still a brick and tile structure, just with floor-to-ceiling windows and steel-frame skylights.

Although Shilov had never been to Black Snake Bay, she could still see the sickly large-petaled red flowers, umbrella-crowned ferns, Yirgamela, Litowater lotus, etc. in the glass house.

Some screaming flowers and faded forge grass were also placed in the small botanical garden in the Holy See city for people to visit.

Because she was wearing thick clothes, Shilov did not enter the glass greenhouse, but continued forward.

At the edge of the garden, you can see that the original elevated canal has been transformed into a huge two-story wooden barrel.

Although she couldn't see it, Shilov knew that the wooden barrel was filled with water-purifying gel developed by pharmacist Ceci and alchemist priest Robert.

In fact, it is a formula contributed by the secret party, which is just right for use on slime gel.

The extracted water will be filtered through a carbon block, then filtered through a water purification gel to absorb impurities and kill bacteria, before flowing out through terracotta pipes and brass faucets.

As I walked past the water tank, the gabled gate in front of me was getting closer and closer.

So Shilov's movements in turning the wheelchair became slower and slower, until the wheels rested on the threshold.

Almost in an instant, Shilov trembled as if struck by lightning, and that strange fear surged from her heart again.

The year before last, she said that she must leave the Mechanical Palace last year, and last year, she said that she must leave the Mechanical Palace this year.

But she broke her promise again.

The threshold was less than a foot high, and to her it was as insurmountable as a melting pot, a snowy mountain or a plateau.

The rooms were filled with art paintings depicting landscapes from various places and street sketches of the Holy See. Shilov spent a large amount of her salary on these paintings.

Because Shilov emphasized details and realism, it forced some local artists to study perspective, light and shadow in order to achieve realism.

But no matter how realistic the painting is, the blue paint can never smell like the sea.

Looking at the empty legs, Shilov sometimes really wanted to ask her mother why?
Why did she do this? Why was she so cruel?
"I'll never be able to get out in this lifetime..." Shilov lowered her head heavily, but perhaps this was not a bad thing.

No matter where Horn went, he would bring back local objects, plants, customs and practices and recreate them in the Mechanical Palace.

Compared to the past, she had gotten more than enough.

She would just stay behind the palace walls, waiting for Horn to create a new world and then show it to her.

(End of this chapter)