My Magic Age

There are actually very strict requirements for being promoted to a Lord in the Green Empire. Many noble families have been worrying about maintaining the glory of their families. Of course, there are also ambitious people who want to create something in their lifetime. Immortal meritorious deeds have made the family more prosperous and stronger under his leadership.

During the reign of Emperor Charles the Great, he made a very concrete contribution to the promotion of noble titles in the Green Empire. If you want to be promoted to a noble title, there are currently two simplest and most direct ways. The first is to hunt foreign invaders, just like hunting barbarians in Sloit Province, because you are worried that someone will pretend to be the leader of the military. Dislike, so when counting military achievements, the barbarian's left ear will be used to calculate the contribution value.

Of course, in Haiyinsi City, you can hunt down the Naga Sea Tribe to obtain the dorsal fins of the Naga warriors, and you can also receive military merit from the Southern Legion Logistics Department in Haiyinsi. However, the Green Empire and the Naga Sea Clan are now in a truce. If anyone dares to hunt down the Naga Sea Clan warriors at this time, what awaits him will be spending several years in prison.

Humans and barbarians are mortal enemies, but whether they will fight or make peace with the Naga Sea Tribe depends on the game between the upper-class nobles.

The second method of promotion to a title is simpler than the first, that is, nobles can expand their territories and fiefs.

As we all know, the magician noble will receive the title of third-class baron at the beginning of awakening the magic pool. This is the lowest title among the imperial lords. Corresponding to the title, Emperor Charles of the Green Empire will reward this newly promoted person. The magician nobles have their own fiefdom. Now on the main plane of the Roland continent, every piece of land is owned by famous flowers. It is impossible for Emperor Charles to give any land to the new magicians of the empire. them.

The territories now allocated to new magicians are actually lands on barren planes. Some of these resource-poor planes are already very barren. Apart from land and basic resources, other resources are very scarce. , some of which were previously plundered and plundered by powerful nobles, and the entire remaining land was given to the newly minted magicians by Emperor Charles the Great.

The land owned by a third-class baron is only about ten hectares, and the population under his jurisdiction is about a hundred people. Now that I have become a first-class baron, the land I own has grown to one hundred hectares, and the population under my jurisdiction has grown to one hundred hectares. The population has also increased to one thousand. These are the rewards awarded to me by the Grand Duke of Sloit. They are obtained in exchange for my achievements in hunting barbarians. Of course, the left ears of those barbarians can even be filled with five. The magic box.

Nobles cannot expand their territory through sales and transactions. The replacement of land by nobles will be strictly limited to their own title. For example, a third-class baron has no right to purchase land that exceeds the upper limit of his title. For example, Marvin is already a third-class baron, and he already has a ten-hectare fief. Before his ten-hectare fief is cancelled, he has no right to purchase a new territory. If he buys it privately, he will be punished by the tax officer. Found out, he faces a hefty fine.

If the nobles want to expand their territory, they can only rely on their own power to go to the undeveloped planes and plunder and occupy the original indigenous residents of those planes. They can drive them away, hunt or capture them. The new territory opened up in this way is considered an expanded territory.

Many small nobles only had a few retinues and followers at the beginning. They would take their retinues and followers to fight in some planes that were not completely under the control of the empire. These planes are usually the private property of certain wealthy families in the empire. These wealthy nobles will organize some powerful private armies to gradually develop these planes and plunder the resources in the planes.

These wealthy families usually welcome some small nobles to attach themselves to them. They will open the door to allow these small nobles to lead their own teams into the private property planes of the wealthy families to fight. Of course, these expeditions are not all without cost. The small nobles They lead their knights to fight in these still wild worlds. The land they occupy will be divided into ten points, of which the Green Empire will extract 17% of the land as tax, and the rest of the land will be divided according to the The previous agreement between the small nobles and the wealthy families was separated.

This is how small nobles expand their territory. Once their territory and the number of residents in the territory reach the upper limit of the next title, they can apply to the empire to promote their title.

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The sunlight shines through the vine-like carvings on the camphor wood windows, casting murky shadows on the floor of the room. Beams of sunlight shine in through the clear and transparent glass, causing the temperature in the room to rise rapidly. The fuel in the oil stove on the desk has burned out, and the water in the round beaker on the iron stand is no longer boiling. Dennis and I both seemed a little uncomfortable with Noah's explanation of the knowledge about nobles being promoted to lordships. Still not finished.

Dennis made no secret of the fact that he came from an ordinary little aristocratic family. If he had not become a magician, he would probably have stayed in his fiefdom, inherited his father's title in obscurity, and lived an ordinary life without any worries. But now Denis has become a magician, and he is the most promising person among this year's graduates in Salta Province, so this is the source of his own confidence.

Dennis really wants to make some meritorious deeds by himself after completing his studies. Magicians are usually very popular in the army, so Dennis's ideal is to become an accompanying magician in the North Wind Legion, yearning to fight the barbarians. , in his subjective consciousness, this kind of battle can allow him to quickly accumulate merit and be promoted to Lord.

Before I came to the imperial capital, I never cared too much about whether I was a noble. In El City, people there looked down upon the nobility. Maybe the nobles were very unpopular in El City. In addition, I had a free status in El City. The large number of civilians made everyone overlook the importance of the nobility. But after arriving in the imperial capital, I realized that I was not exempt from the secular world after all, and deep down in my heart, I also developed a desire for a noble title.

The reason is that it is difficult to ignore the level gap. In El City, I can ignore Ying Li's status as a princess, yes! I can regard her as an ordinary aristocratic girl living in the wealthy area of ​​El City without any pressure, and I will feel very relaxed getting along with her.

But when I saw Ying Li again in the imperial capital, the feeling she gave me was completely different. Although her original intention has never changed, she has a strong aristocratic aura. Although she usually looks like I have to be careful when I get up, but the strong aura of a princess still makes me feel a lot of pressure.

I would even ask myself when I was lying in bed at night unable to fall asleep: Jijia, what are you doing? Are you pursuing a princess from the Green Empire? Do you just want to live such a mediocre life? Even if Yingli will eventually resist all the pressure and marry me, will I be able to listen to those sarcastic words calmly and remain indifferent?

I think that the big mountain standing between Ying Li and me is not Ying Li's relatives, but the hierarchy of the Green Empire. Even if Ying Li and I don't care, after all, we are not from stone. What came out of the cracks is that we have our own relatives around us. After all, we have to take into account their feelings. I can’t imagine that one day in the future, Liant and Fanny will be at the same dining table as Ying Li’s parents. What a scene it will be like to have dinner.

The greasy face of the logistics quartermaster from the Material Logistics Department of the El City City Hall came to mind. He said to me extremely diligently: The greatest authority of the El City City Hall can only promote me to a first-class baron. If you want The third-class viscount must go to the material logistics headquarters in Sloit City. Only the quartermaster there has the right to be promoted to a noble viscount.

He sighed softly, thinking that the nearly a thousand merits required by the third-class Viscount could not be collected in a short while. It seemed that the road to promotion was by no means easy.

Dennis casually rummaged for the oil burner from his magic pocket, and kept complaining: "I heard that there is a kind of fuel called corpse fire oil on the Pai Plateau. It is said that that kind of oil burner only has..."

He paused for a moment, as if he was thinking very intently, and then he gestured with his hands in front of his chest and said: "It's like an oil stove as big as a log tree stump. The whole furnace can burn the oil continuously without interruption." Last month, my God, if there was such a stable fire source, wouldn't the difficulty of alchemy be many times less? Look at what our empire produces. This kind of oil stove, a small one as big as a lunch box, can only boil two pots of water. Even the larger ones are not hot enough. I guess there must be someone in a certain orc tribe who is good at alchemy. Elder Shaman, do you want to go shopping in the market in the Imperial Capital this afternoon? I think there should be a shop selling that kind of oil burner in the Imperial Capital."

"Isn't there a store in Salta Province where you can buy this kind of oil stove? I have heard of this kind of oil stove. I saw it in the magic shop in the provincial capital of Palestina, but I didn't pay much attention to it at the time. It was a natural thing. There's a smell, it's terrible," Noah said.

"Well, even if there is one, it has been snapped up by adventure groups and lone demon hunters. I have been to the magic shop several times and have never been able to buy it." Dennis said helplessly.

I never thought that this kind of oil-fired furnace with corpse fire oil would have a certain market in the imperial capital, and the final audience turned out to be some alchemists.

"I want to go to the library. A few days ago, I finally found a book called 'Concentrated Black Oil Technique' from the library. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough points at the time. I redeemed some points yesterday and finally I was able to borrow it from the library. If you have any books you want to borrow, I can help you." Noah said.

"Can points be redeemed? What can be used to redeem them? Magic crystals?" I was very interested in the information provided by Noah and asked quickly.

"Oh, it's a magic crystal...actually not really. I used the empire's merit points to exchange for college points. Speaking of which, I bought those merit points with magic crystals." Noah said hesitantly. , obviously it is difficult to say this kind of thing.

Noah talked about using magic crystals to buy merit points. In fact, this kind of thing is most common in the city of El. Many falcons make a living on this. The falcons will form teams and go outside the city to hunt down the fallen. Single savages, capture their left ears. Anyone can hold these left ears and exchange them for merits at the Material Logistics Office of the City Hall in El City. These merits can be used by nobles to promote their titles, or they can be exchanged for corresponding magic materials at the Material Logistics Office. Magical equipment and more.

Many nobles like to buy some barbarians' left ears to add some merits to themselves. I think what Noah said is to exchange merits in this way!

The merits of the empire can actually be exchanged for the points of the academy. In this case, I think I still have more than 300 merits, which were obtained by hunting barbarians during the winter hunting. It turns out that these can be exchanged for points!

"Points, this is okay for me. I joined an alchemist club. Every time I participate in club activities, I can get a certain amount of academy points. I can also receive tasks in the club. After completing them, I can also earn a certain amount of points, so I don't need it!" Dennis spread his hands and said proudly. It can be seen that he has some sense of superiority for his alchemist identity. Of course, magicians who can come to the Royal Magic Academy have some capital to be proud of.

"Then if it is merit points, how will it be exchanged for points?" I asked Noah curiously.

"One to ten, one merit can only be exchanged for ten points. Calculated, the cost of borrowing books from the library is still very expensive!" Noah said to me.

At this time, there was a knock on the door of Dennis's dormitory. A maid who looked very beautiful and well-proportioned stood at the door, bowed deeply to Noah, and then said softly: "Mr. Noah, the things you asked have been completed. Do you have any other instructions?"

"Forget it, forget it, that's it, you can go. If I leave you here, my brother will definitely come from Palestina Province to scold me." Noah stood up, walked to the door of the dormitory, reached out and took out a handful of gold coins from his arms, stuffed them into the arms of the maid, and sent her away.

Along the terrace of the dormitory, I saw more than a dozen maids walking out of the dormitory in an orderly hunting team. Noah and I stood on the terrace and watched them walk away one after another. At this time, Noah smiled, leaned close to my ear, and asked me in a low voice: "If you have any favorites, you might as well tell me. Those female slaves are all trained and very docile..."