A strange world

Chapter 1279 Chapter 201. The dragon slayer turns into an evil dragon

The Broken Mountains are a secluded place.

Even if it is located in Middle-earth, it is still an isolated place in Middle-earth. It’s almost the same as “The Golden City is luxurious and magnificent, but the streets are still full of poor people.”

When a lord is indifferent to what is happening in the outside world and keeps to himself, arrogance and arrogance will skyrocket.

The essence is that there is no clear understanding of things, leading to errors in judgment.

The reason why Annan felt so emotional was Captain Lane's test.

When they talked about Lord Raymond's past, Annan showed curiosity. They told a story that was half true and half false:

The Raymond family is said to have come from Wilhelm. They traveled across the ocean to Middle-earth and chose to develop their territory in the Broken Mountains.

As the Raymond family luckily discovered a gold mine in the Broken Mountains and unearthed the first pot of gold, the Raymond family, suddenly rich but lacking in strength, began to be coveted.

Survival is of course more important than gold. But without gold, they couldn't survive - so the Raymond family made a wise decision: to seek refuge in the Church of Wealth.

They each got what they needed, and the Raymond family got a stable and secure territory. The Church of Wealth has an additional territory of its own, and a large amount of gold is donated every year.

After hundreds of years of development and reproduction, the Raymond family has completely taken control of the Broken Mountains with the help of the Church of Fortune.

Lord Raymond is the thirty-fifth generation lord of the Broken Mountains. Originally, he would just keep the Broken Mountains stable like previous generations of lords.

Unexpectedly, not long after he took over, the Broken Mountains would face the biggest crisis in its history: mineral depletion.

It's not that the gods have lost contact, that would be at best the second biggest crisis for the Raymond family - some careerists even think this is not a bad thing.

In short, for a territory that relies on minerals for its livelihood, mineral depletion is undoubtedly a disaster. In the past, many famous city-states suddenly appeared and disappeared suddenly, causing a splash in the long river of time.

At this time, Lord Raymond stood up. By digging through the records of past lords, he selected coal mines that had been ignored for hundreds of years, purchased a large number of coal mines, sanctioned the mine owners who held the minerals for sale, and hanged them. A lot of bad guys took the opportunity to do evil and forcibly shifted the center of gravity of the Broken Mountain Range from the gold mine to the coal mine.

Through this operation, the order in the Broken Mountain Range that was on the verge of collapse was restored to stability, residents who lost their jobs and were hesitant about the future stopped migrating. And order returned, and vicious incidents dropped sharply.

Lord Raymond gained a lot of prestige as a result. As the gods lost contact and the Church of Wealth lost its power, the status of both parties changed subtly.

The Broken Mountains remained stable for a few years under the rule of Lord Raymond, and the transformation brought a lot of jobs and brought many small characters to the stage who seized their opportunity.

As for the people like Adele among them...the dead cannot speak, but the living still sing praises.

But coal is just coal after all, and a truckload of coal is not as valuable as a piece of gold.

The cost of mining and transporting a cart of coal is completely different from that of mining and transporting a piece of gold...

Soon the mine owners discovered that the more minerals they mined, the more taxes they had to pay and the less money they made.

Locals are finding themselves working longer hours and getting paid less.

As mine owners discovered that slaves were more useful and cheaper than workers, the slave trade began to blow in the Broken Mountains.

As slave owners brought slaves into the Broken Mountains in large numbers, mine owners became more and more interested in using slaves as miners. They don't need to be paid, they don't need to be treated, and they die when they die. Anyway, they can buy another one for dozens of silver coins.

Residents who have lost their jobs will never be better than slaves. They can only sit and work the same hard work for a pitifully small salary, and then at some point suddenly wake up and "how the hell did the environment become like this?" What a ghost!"

"So this is a story about a dragon slayer who turns into a dragon?"

In other words, Lord Raymond actually lost himself and lost the ability to examine himself due to success again and again.

It's like he doesn't realize there's something wrong with his body shape.

"A dragon slayer turns into a dragon? Hmm... that seems to be the case."

Captain Ren exchanged glances with the others.

Olmedo seemed to really know nothing.

It seems that this guy who calls himself Jeffrey Olmedo is not from the Raymond family, or even from the Emerald Mountains.

On the other side, Annan is determined to learn a lesson...

At least it can't look like that!

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In the corridor of the Golden Palace, the black widow lowered her head slightly and followed the golden guard.

She quietly listened to everything coming back from the dining room and murmured to herself: "It's really pitiful... I was feared by my legitimate son and beaten by my father, so I am timid, impulsive and irritable, and have lost my confidence?"

"What did you say?"

The golden guard turned back.

"I was thinking how could gold be used as armor when it's so soft?"

The golden guard showed pride: "This is Mr. Mora's invention of golden armor. It has a high gold content and is harder than fine steel!"

"Mora...he's still an alchemist?"

The name makes Black Widow a little more serious. This is not a city of mages, but there are still many powerful people, and it will be troublesome if they are discovered.

Speaking of which, what can I do to help Annan solve the trouble here smoothly?

When he comes back and sees that he has done well, he will have reason to ask him to reward himself...

Black Widow reshaped the spell left on Killian by tapping his shoulder into a channeling spell.

She was a little concerned about Killian's absent-mindedness during the day. This guy's childhood seemed to have a hidden story - maybe it could be used as a breakthrough.

Back in the guest room, the impatient Black Widow planned to collect some interest first.

Black Widow lifted the transformation spell, and two Black Widows suddenly appeared in the room.

The fake Black Widow was startled and looked out the window.

"Won't it be discovered like this..."

"If that great lord is really stupid enough to spy on us, then there's no need to play house with him."

She didn't believe Annan's peace-loving nonsense - Free City has been built for less than three years, but it has already launched two wars and an expedition.

Peace? Not letting the war spread to the mainland is peace, right?

Swish -

The wizard closed the curtains with his hands, dimmed the magic lights, and Black Widow released the transformation spell again - but not for herself, but for another her.

The fake Black Widow's body shrank rapidly and turned into Annan's appearance.

"It's my turn to play!"

The Black Widow's narrow eyes brightened instantly and she walked towards the fake Annan.

"I, I, I didn't know that you and Lord Annan had this kind of relationship..." The fake Annan cried and retreated to a corner with no way to retreat.

"You don't know much."

The Black Widow exhaled like orchid and lifted "Annan's" chin.

"Don't cry, crying doesn't look like him."