The evil witch BOSS just wants to develop in a low-key manner

Chapter 148 Steam Kingdom, Construction Plan!
Through the wide and bright glass, Zorn looked out over the vast bay of the ancient porcelain holy city.

A large number of steam and steel ships enter and leave the port, and the heavy and deep sound of the whistles seems to echo with the sea.

The terrain advantage of Half Moon Bay, coupled with the continuous improvement of waterways by the water system extraordinary people in the Ancient Porcelain Holy City in recent years.

This enabled the ancient porcelain holy city to have extremely developed maritime transportation, and it also benefited fully from the steam-wave Age of Exploration.

It is precisely because of this that the Ancient Porcelain Holy City can become the capital of the soon-to-be-born Steam Empire.

After arriving in the Holy City of Ancient Porcelain and settling down, Zorn came here today at the invitation.

"How is it here?"

Not far away on the sofa, the Sun Lady, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and holding a sun cat, looked at Zorn and asked.

"This place is located on a sea cliff, with a beautiful view. You can see the entire bay of the Ancient Porcelain Holy City, and half of the Ancient Porcelain Holy City is in sight."

"in addition……"

Zorn paused.

"This is also an advantageous location for the Steam Ritual Tower. Building a Steam Ritual Tower here is much better than anywhere else."

"Not bad!"

Ms. Sun nodded.

"As a ritual expert in Ogland City, you are indeed unique."

Immediately, Ms. Sun put the Sun Cat down and also came to the wide and bright floor-to-ceiling window.

Looking at the huge Ancient Porcelain Silver Moon Bay in the Ancient Porcelain Holy City, which has been busy and bustling since the beginning of spring, she slowly spoke.

"I heard that the old guard in the Holy City of Ancient Porcelain had a powerful Level 7 [Puppet Master], but he seemed to have died a few days ago."

"After all, he is also a level 7 puppeteer. His strength is extremely astonishing, and he also has a strong voice in the Ancient Porcelain Holy City."

"He was last seen in the ancient cedar town. There seem to be some changes deep in the ancient forest there."

"Do you...know the details?"

Zorn thought for a moment and then shook his head.

"I'm not quite sure about that."

"In order to advance to level 6, I deliberately avoided other people and hid in secluded corners along the way."

"The promotion process cannot be interrupted. I avoid these troublesome things as much as I can, so why would I take the initiative to participate in them?"

"but……"

Zorn paused.

"I speculate that it may be related to the hidden kingdom of God or the giants in the gray fog."

"The secret kingdom of God? The gray fog giant?"

After thinking for a moment, Ms. Sun nodded slightly.

"There is indeed a very terrifying power behind that hidden kingdom of God."

"Without anyone noticing, he had tricked the Blood Shadow Rose."

"The Blood Shadow Rose management invested millions of pounds of resources, but in the end... everything was in vain."

"This made the Blood Shadow Rose leadership extremely angry. The witches who led the excavation were all imprisoned and their souls and memories were plundered. They died extremely tragic deaths."

"That Saintess 'Julia', with whom you had a fleeting romance, has also vanished without a trace. You should know that the Blood Shadow Rose left many secret methods and traces on her."

"All of them were eliminated one by one by the terrifying existence behind Saint Julia."

"As far as I know, Qiao Liya is now completely out of the control of the Blood Shadow Rose."

"now think of it……"

Ms. Sun paused during her explanation, and her tone became serious and solemn.

"The water in Ogland is deeper than we thought, the kind that's bottomless."

"Using the Kingdom of God as bait, allowing the Blood Shadow Rose to sink into it unknowingly, this move is truly astonishing."

As she spoke, Ms. Sun looked at Zorn.

"You and Qiao Liya are classmates, and I heard that you seem to like her very much."

Speaking of this, Ms. Sun couldn't help but smile softly.

"[Blood Shadow Rose] didn't cause you any trouble, did he?"

"In Ogland City, do they... dare to cause trouble for me?"

Zorn raised his brow and smiled.

These words made Ms. Sun slightly stunned!
She thought about it for a moment and felt relieved.

In Oglan City, the Blood Shadow Rose would not easily provoke Zorn Korrik.

Although the Oglan City Hall said that the powerful [evil spirit] was Zorn's friend.

But these forces who are well-informed, have spies in the city hall, and have good relations with the powerful people in the city hall are all aware of it.

The so-called "evil spirit" Zorn Krikgan.

The golden magic circle tree resonates with the ancient divine spell unearthed from the ancient ruins.

Although it borrowed the power of the Golden Ring Tree.

But she will never forget that devastating, miraculous blow.

This shows that while Zorn Korrik's own [Fighter] sequence is extremely powerful, he also possesses amazing [Evil Spirit] power.

This was also confirmed by the battle in a small town south of Oglan City.

Level 5 Zorn Korrik used the spellcasting method to pin the level 6 [Evil Spirit Fire Mage] to the ground and beat him.

It is said that after this news was revealed, many evil spirits in Oglan City fled overnight.

If you don't run away now, you'll be waiting to die.

Zorn Krik would literally catch them and eat them.

"actually……"

Zorn said thoughtfully.

"Later, several masters from Blood Shadow Rose also came to see me. Of course, they were very polite."

"Plus, Qiao Liya and I are indeed just classmates. Okay... maybe we have some in-depth understanding between us, but that's just a little."

"So... they didn't bother me again."

Ms. Sun listened carefully to Zorn's explanation.

After a moment, he said nothing.

"The 'Divine Kingdom Incident', where the Divine Kingdom was used as bait to lure the Blood Shadow Rose into taking the bait and causing her to pay a terrible price, is truly extraordinary. It would be best if we didn't get involved."

"Of course, these things are only secondary."

"The main reason I invited you here this time is to discuss the upcoming founding ceremony, which is of utmost importance."

"The founding ceremony of the Otangele Steam Empire will carve an immortal [National Steam Stigma] into the epic story of the entire northern border."

"As long as the Steam Empire exists, it will be able to continuously contribute stigmata to us top-level transcendents."

“The benefits of the founding ceremony are enormous.”

"But... the founding ceremony will inevitably be invaded by the national ritual power from Saint Simon."

"All parties want to get a piece of the pie."

"Currently, there are nine major groups involved."

"That means there are a total of nine Steam Ritual Towers to be built."

"The core and foundation framework of the nine ceremonial towers. You can come and take a look."

As Ms. Sun spoke, she spread out an extremely complicated ritual framework diagram on the table.

The framework of nine steam-powered ceremonial towers.

In the middle is the core steam tower with the totem of the sun goddess.

The surrounding areas include Oglan City, the Kingdom of Otanston, the Kingdom of Saint Gregory, the Ancient Porcelain Holy City forces and some other participating forces or groups.

Such as the conservatives of St. Gregory, the mountain witches, the royalists including Winnie Isaiah, etc.

Zorn had seen countless frameworks for founding ceremonies.

Whether the framework is good or bad, and which force created it, Zorn can tell it clearly at a glance.

"The frame structure is a bit crude and simple, which is understandable. After all, the actual controllers of each faction's Steam Ritual Tower have different levels of skill, so a bit of crudeness and simplicity is actually a good thing."

"It's too sophisticated and requires extremely high operational requirements. If we can't achieve a unified and resonant relationship with each other, it will be troublesome."

"The energy resource conversion efficiency seems okay, but with this crude framework, it's a bit touching."

"Besides, this ritual obviously has some minor loopholes. Hmm... opening a backdoor for yourself is a bit too blatant!"

"But then again, this ritual clearly originated from the Hidden Wasteland Cult. Are Madam Sun and the Hidden Wasteland Cult collaborating with each other?" "Have these secret forces also begun to intervene in the new era's steam wave?"

After carefully examining and observing every aspect, Zorn had already memorized the overall framework in his mind.

Zorn didn't care what the other people's "Steam Ritual Tower" looked like.

But Zorn will follow the overall operating framework and redesign and construct the "Steam Ritual Tower" belonging to the city of Oglan.

Others do not have a rich enough background in supernatural studies to construct a steam ritual tower that suits them.

But for Zorn, that was his forte.

Of the huge amount of assets invested by the city of Oglan, Zorn can enjoy 20% of the "National Steam Stigma".

Therefore, in this founding ceremony, the more efficiently Zorn used the ceremony he constructed, the more he would get.

Not to mention the national ceremony of launching the "Steam Ritual Tower", which will also continuously bring "Fighting Essence" and "Spiritual Essence" to Zorn.

This is also the benefit that high-level extraordinary people can gain by working together to control large forces.

After the inspection, Zorn slowly sat down on the sofa and looked at Ms. Sun with a faint smile.

"so……"

He spoke slowly.

"Our partner is the Secret Wasteland Sect?"

Ms. Sun, who was sitting across the table, suddenly contracted her pupils and couldn't help but hold her breath.

"True experts in the study of national framework rituals will use the overall layout style, the direction of the lines and trajectories, and the techniques used in the framework to determine which faction is intervening."

This was what the high-level master of supernatural rituals explained when he gave her the Steam Empire ritual framework structure diagram.

The previous teachings are perfectly echoed and confirmed at this moment.

"Yes!"

Ms. Sun sat down on the sofa opposite Zorn, her eyes falling on Zorn with extreme caution.

She knew that Zorn was an expert in this area, but she didn't expect him to be able to easily identify his partner.

"It was the Hidden Wasteland Cult that supported us."

"So... there's something wrong with this national ritual framework?"

Zorn smiled.

"That depends on how you define 'problem,' Ms. Sun."

"If you and those in the Church of the Sun fully understand the full function of this national framework ritual diagram and its hidden influences."

"Then this structural diagram is only slightly rough, but it is very suitable for the current situation."

"If you are not familiar with the true meaning hidden within this structural diagram."

Having said this, Zorn paused and then said seriously.

"Then... this will be a 'book of shame'."

"A 'Book of Shame' engraved on the forehead of the new generation of the Steam Empire."

"A book of shame?"

Ms. Sun frowned slightly, then spoke slowly.

"They said they would only take 10% of the stigmata at most."

"One percent?"

Zorn raised his brow slightly.

"That's just the apparent percentage. There's another 10% hidden away, so the actual percentage is—20%!"

Two percent?

Even Ms. Sun, who always has a very good temper, seemed a little angry at this moment.

"How dare they?"

"Even though they will give us great help, taking 20% is too much!"

Ms. Sun said as she looked at Zorn.

"How can we change the ritual while preventing the theft?"

"I don't know about this."

Zorn spread his hands helplessly.

Pretending to be angry, and then trying to take advantage of me for free.

How is that possible?

And Zorn also knew that the Church of the Sun also had experts in this area.

There was no way they couldn't see the problem.

Her gaze lingered on Zorn for a moment before Ms. Sun spoke slowly.

"Okay! Actually, we've also discovered a problem with the structural framework of this Steam Ritual Tower."

"We also suspected they might steal additional items secretly."

"But the core was provided by them. We can't change it. We can only start with the Steam Ritual Tower we built ourselves."

"But... we don't have a very good solution at the moment."

"If you can resolve the issue of our own Steam Tower being stolen."

"We might be able to provide you with some additional resources."

Funding resources?

When Zorn heard this, he immediately became excited.

He thought for a moment before speaking slowly.

"That secret wasteland sect loves to do little tricks like this."

"In my opinion, why should we let the Secret Wasteland Cult take that 10%?"

"Of course, I don't have to worry about other people's draws, but I can redesign ours."

"I can guarantee that they can't extract even a trace of the stigmata. If you're willing, Madam Sun, let alone the stigmata, they can't even extract the steam essence."

When Ms. Sun heard this, a faint halo of the sun suddenly appeared in her pupils.

"Can you make it so that the Secret Wasteland Sect can't extract it?"

Not only can it prevent them from extracting, but if I were to redesign the core framework, they would even owe us something.

Of course, Zorn would never say this.

"Of course it can be done."

Zorn said seriously.

"I will come up with a plan within the next few days and build the Steam Ritual Tower as soon as possible."

"in addition……"

He looked at Ms. Sun and said thoughtfully.

"Although the enemy frames we're using this time do interact with each other, they all interact with the central Steam Tower."

"When fighting against the steam-powered invasion from the Saint Siman Empire, it all comes down to individual abilities, right?"

"Yes!"

Ms. Sun nodded slightly.

“Although we have the same general direction, we still have many disputes.

"If we really want to resist together, not to mention those who slack off, there will even be people who hold us back."

"Each party will build steam towers and defend themselves. Each party will have to show its true strength."

"If they can't stop the steam wave attack, they will only suffer losses."

Zorn looked at the large number of steamships in the bay outside and said slowly.

"In that case, the steam ritual tower must be stacked higher and more stable this time. Otherwise, when the huge steam wave arrives, there will be a risk of the tower being destroyed and people being killed."

"And once we withstand the attack from Saint Sman's steam wave."

"Once the new Steam Empire Ritual Tower is completed, we tower keepers will also reap rich rewards!"

"Yes!"

Ms. Sun nodded slightly.

"With the establishment of a new steam empire, we, the founding fathers, will be the biggest beneficiaries!"

(End of this chapter)