Lords of the Heavens

Chapter 416 The Magic Door

The next morning, while Li Wei was still asleep, she suddenly received a message requesting entry into the country.

[Respected Four-Star Lord, I am a fifth-tier mage from the Magic Association of the All-Heavens Lords Alliance. I have been ordered to construct a magical portal to your territory. Please confirm whether you may allow me and my assistant to enter.]

[Friendly reminder: Please ensure your location and surroundings are suitable for our entry, as we need to use time-space teleportation magic to appear within ten meters of you. If you are ready, please confirm.]

Huh?
What the hell!

Li Wei jumped up from the spacious and soft bed, while Hathaway next to her let out a complaining murmur before falling back into a deep sleep.

A dozen seconds later, Li Wei, dressed, rushed out of the territory building and into a spacious area before confirming his identity. Almost immediately, a purple magic circle appeared beneath Li Wei's feet, covering a distance of ten meters.

A buzzing sound rang out, and a golden light shone down from the sky. Immediately afterward, the magic circle shone brightly, and then Li Wei felt seven or eight people fall down like dumplings. Startled, he dodged and jumped ten meters away. When he looked back, he heard a series of thuds and eight figures crashing to the ground, looking disheveled.

That can't be right.

Is this a fifth-tier mage?

"vomit!"

Some people started vomiting, and others were groaning in pain, as if their legs had been broken.

There wasn't a single decent one.

Li Wei looked up, thinking that the fifth-tier mage would make his final appearance, but the magic circle disappeared.

"Stop looking! I'm that fifth-tier mage. Come on, I think I twisted my back! Ouch!"

At the very bottom of this group, an old man in his forties or fifties was shouting, his face pale, "You're a disgrace to all you mages!"

Li Wei quickly helped the guy up, and even had some doubts—well, in front of a fifth-tier mage like this, don't think about anything.

"It's too late, my esteemed lord. But rest assured, I am completely different from those witches. I won't hold grudges against them. You might not believe it, but we just traveled 12 light-years. With such a time jump, it's a miracle we survived."

The guy mumbled something.

"Your Excellency, I don't quite understand. Why not use the Anywhere Door?" Li Wei was very curious. Wouldn't it be better to go to the capital first, then to Ver City, and then come here?
Moreover, crossing 12 light-years, is this just showing off or something else?

"This isn't about showing off skills, and you can't show off here. This is just one of the methods for detecting and accepting disordered magic recovery."

"Your Excellency, could you please explain in more detail? I don't quite understand."

Li Wei asked curiously, and casually handed over 5000 barbarian gold coins, fearing that the old man wouldn't accept standard gold coins.

As expected, Old Deng accepted it. Perhaps 5000 barbarian gold coins were nothing to him, but the point was his attitude.

Tsk tsk tsk, this child is teachable.

"It's actually very simple. Think about it: if you paid for the construction of a highway and were asked to inspect it, how would you do it?"

"Me? Of course I'll drive there!"

"Haha, that's right, that's exactly the point. Our Alliance of Lords of the Heavens adheres to the principle of salvage plunder. Those chaotic magical particles will cause all kinds of distortions and pollution, so we need to clean up every planet and every piece of starry sky."

"For example, the planet where your territory is located was originally heavily influenced by chaotic magical particles, but after a rescue-style plunder, it is now suitable for ordinary life to reproduce and live normally, and everything will return to its original state. Isn't that good? So, my inspection will be like this: by directly using spacetime jumps, all the planets and star fields along the way will be cleared away, and my spacetime jumps will be very stable and precise."

"See, this inspection was a great success! Do you understand?"

"Understood, thank you for your guidance." Li Wei was quite surprised. Although he initially distrusted the strange core concept of the Alliance of Lords of the Heavens, what kind of organization could be so good in this world?

Just kidding, there must be some conspiracy involved. But whatever, where you sit determines where you think. As a beneficiary, Li Wei certainly doesn't care.

But now, he has to believe it to some extent.

Honestly, yesterday he thought King Locke and Duke Will's raiding legions were going too far, but thinking about it today, if those mutated creatures and those ancient magic fragments aren't removed, will this planet even have a future?
Wouldn't it be better to restore a planet shrouded in a radiation storm to its original state?

Let the ordinary remain ordinary, and the extraordinary remain extraordinary!

At this moment, the fifth-tier mage had already headed straight for the mage tower, while his assistants and apprentices followed in a panic, stumbling and falling in a sorry state.

Li Wei couldn't get a word in edgewise, and even his second aunt, who had come after hearing the news, could only watch from the sidelines. This fifth-level mage and his assistant built a magical portal that was completely incomprehensible, an old, dilapidated telephone booth, with fresh bird droppings on it.

"It's done, Your Excellency. Good luck!"

After saying that, the group went straight into the phone booth and left.

The whole thing was over in less than a minute.

What the hell!

"Second Aunt, did you understand?"

"I don't know anything! Going back to sleep is more valuable than thinking about this problem!"

Haha!

My second aunt was truly defeated.

But Li Wei was in a good mood. With this Anywhere Door, he could travel freely to and from the Province of Ville. Yes, he could only travel to and from the Province of Ville. He couldn't go to other places and had to transfer through the Province of Ville.

Even so, this is still an excellent benefit of the Alliance of Lords of the Heavens, because those who have become citizens and whose hometown is in Ver City can have the opportunity to visit their relatives once a year. Other free citizens, as long as they accumulate enough merit, can also spend ten gold coins each to take a day trip to Ver City.

Yes, as a tourist.

This area will be gradually opened up in the future; it can't be blocked. Once the newcomer missions are launched in the territory, it will be impossible to hide it.

Next, Li Wei calmed down and began to manage the winter wheat. He took over the thousand acres of winter wheat in the main city and adjusted the magic power every day to infuse it. Although this would consume a lot of magic power, it was really the best way to improve the farmer's fate.

Thus, a month later, Zhao Xuanxuan successfully crafted enchanted armor for Li Wei, Li Yue, her second aunt, Hathaway, and Thomas, but it could only be four-star.

Li Yue, Second Aunt, and Hathaway all wear a set of medium-sized full armor, with an overall defense bonus of +70.

Thomas is wearing a heavy armor set, providing an overall defense bonus of +90.
Li Wei has a set of four-star enchanted light armor with an overall defense increase of 50, and a set of five-star enchanted heavy armor with an overall defense increase of 100. Because this set of heavy armor was obtained from a Neanderthal centurion, it is extraordinary. This is the effect after Zhao Xuanxuan repaired it.

Based on the calculation that 1 point of defense can negate 10 points of damage, this five-star enchanted heavy armor alone can withstand 1000 damage.

At that moment, Hathaway also created five Sequence 3 magic emblems. Besides herself, the other five each received one, placing them on their breastplates for a sense of security. Thus, Li Yue, Thomas, Zhao Xuanxuan, and some of the newly naturalized free citizens returned to Ver City on the very day the Anywhere Door was built.

These newly naturalized free citizens knew what was going on. They were also active in migrating and developing the planet, because it was still in a low-magic era and there was still a lot of profit to be made. In a few decades or a hundred years, it would really return to normal.

Yes, even the laws of physics that were originally altered will gradually be restored.

If they don't seize the time to strengthen themselves now, they'll be left behind as native inhabitants when the Flame Viscount's territory is upgraded.

And so, everything went smoothly.

Five months have passed in the blink of an eye. In early summer, the winter wheat is harvested, and Li Wei stands in the wheat field, smiling happily.

To supply the growth of this thousand acres of winter wheat, Li Wei used three hundred units of magic power. Now—well, the tax departments of the capital city and the tax departments of the province of Ver have arrived again.

This time, Li Wei did not attempt to condense real particles because he desperately needed the Farmer's Destiny.

However, this naturally alerted the tax authorities. He was still not qualified to intercept four-star wheat, as it was all tribute intended for the royal family.

Even the Duke of Ver could not acquire it.

The harvest ultimately took twenty days, and Li Wei harvested all the produce himself.

A total of 4000 catties of four-star wheat have been harvested, with each catty worth 100 gold coins, totaling 400,000 gold coins. At the same time, a 10% tax credit from the King will be granted.

A total of 200000 catties of three-star wheat were harvested. Each catty was worth 10 gold coins. Li Weike kept a portion for himself, one-fifth of which was sold to Duke Will. He received 160 million gold coins and thus gained an 80% reduction in ducal tax. This meant that he would not have to pay ducal tax for many years to come.

The cost was too high; after the harvest, the thousand acres of land became barren and would remain abandoned for decades to come.

Besides, there's also the cost of 300 units of magic power.

Fortunately, this wave is enough for Li Wei and his elite troops to live off for many years.

But most importantly, it's the farmer's destiny.

There are a total of 25 fate points, so Li Wei's current farmer fate has reached 97!

It was really not easy.

To obtain these two numbers, Li Wei first had to be a four-star lord, a powerful viscount, own his own city, and his own mage tower. He had to put in so much effort in the early stages to qualify for such a luxury.

Otherwise, even a three-star lord or a powerful baron might not dare to be so extravagant.

Because the storage limit of the Samsung Magic Mine is 500 units, once the exploration mission ends, the entire planet will not be able to absorb much magic. So how will the territory develop in the future?

Do you even want to live like this anymore? If there's any trouble, you'll go bankrupt right away!

In fact, even Li Wei couldn't afford to develop a second thousand mu.

The magic stored in the magic mines and mage towers must be preserved in case of unforeseen circumstances, such as a Neanderthal invasion.

This is not a sure thing. Kah City has already been invaded once. Although it was later recaptured, the losses were so great that it bankrupted Baron Mark.

Yes, that guy went bankrupt, otherwise the newbie task wouldn't have been assigned to Li Wei.

Speaking of which, this year's newcomer missions have already begun around Li Wei's territory, with a total of seventeen newcomer teams scattered across thousands of miles in all directions.

The test questions for the new recruits were set by Li Wei, specifically based on the storyline where he helped Hathaway.

In other words, newcomers need to find supplies and assemble vehicles at their spawn point, and then find and travel to the largest survivor base in this apocalypse, the territory of the Flame Viscount.

In theory, the mission would be considered a success as long as they set foot in the Riverside Fortress, or the Dawn Fortress, or reach the main city of the territory, or the Baron's Domain of Hathaway.

But this was no easy task. They had to pretend to be a family, fill their stomachs, scavenge through the ruins, and watch out for attacks from bandits and mountain brigands.

These bandits and mountain bandits were, of course, soldiers under Li Wei in disguise, paid to do so. They wouldn't actually fight; they just intimidate people. They could only use one-tenth of their strength, and if they died, they could be resurrected at the temple...

It's not difficult at all, but the acting skills have to be good. Anyway, I would occasionally sneak a peek at these newcomers' performances, and it was quite entertaining...

However, no one has been chosen as the final boss yet. This usually requires a real boss to be chosen. If there isn't one, the tactical department of the Ver Province will bring one in from somewhere else...

Yes, that's part of the tactical department's job.

"Wow, I actually feel like I'm binge-watching a TV series."

One day in late June, Li Wei and Hathaway were enjoying chilled wine in the fiery sunset while grilling two-star veal steaks. They were also watching the month-end settlements of the new recruits through their examiner cards. It was like watching seventeen TV stations at once, which was quite exciting.

Hathaway was shaking the remote control very fast, watching with great interest.

However, Li Wei wasn't very interested because these newcomers were far too perfunctory.

This is probably the downside of playing as a second-generation player. They learn too many tricks from a young age, and they can even vaguely sense the presence of the examiner, so it's not fun.

It's more exciting to find suitable newcomers from distant planets untouched by chaotic magical particles, in their original, natural state.

Because we know nothing, we can only guess and explore based on limited information, and in the process, find the rules and utilize them...

But these newbie games are usually quite luxurious.

For example, the seventeen groups of newcomers in Li Wei's territory only had a total investment of 30,000 gold coins, which felt cheap in every way.

It's worth recalling that in the newbie group he was in, according to Hathaway, the initial investment was 200,000 gold coins, and it was subsequently increased three more times.

One of them was for Sam, and the other two were for Li Wei.

If a group of newcomers performs well enough, can develop a better storyline, and generate greater profits, then the examiners and hosts will not mind adding more participants.

For example, the great witch of Kahe City, and her two daughters, were captured from a very dangerous killing world by the Tactical Department at great expense, and Night Owl cast memory magic on them...

Anyway, they played it in a very fancy way.

In contrast, in Li Wei's world, the final boss of the newbie missions is seventeen three-star superpowered pigs, dogs, cats, or the like, which will appear depending on the plot development...

Ugh, so boring!

(It's almost the end of the year, and there's a lot to do, so I'll just stick to two updates a day for now.)
(End of this chapter)