Studying Science in the Alternate World

  Chapter 217 Cuihai Valley City Construction Plan

   "My lord, I have made a decision!"

  James came to Penrose Master Tower and met Duke who had just sent the paper: "I decided to pledge my allegiance to you and become your vassal to help you manage the farm well!"

   Duke was not surprised by James' choice.

  The system of the Seven Towers Federation determines that arcane mages are the only ruling class, and other people can only obtain the greatest benefit by relying on arcan mages.

  James is the 1st Ring Great Spirit Plant Envoy, and he owns his own farm, not too big but not too small either. But without the support of the Arcane Master, he would only be able to do so in his lifetime, and it would be impossible for him to become a monopoly farm tycoon.

   "Very correct choice, James." Duke said with a smile.

   He is very satisfied with the joining of James. James is an old acquaintance he has known since his infancy. He has good abilities and methods, and he will be a quite qualified vassal.

   "Then you will delist Duke-James Farm, well, let me think about it, and put up the signboard of 'Lingchi Lingzhi Base'. From now on, the farm will be privately owned by me. As for your share, I will pay you according to the market price."

  A vassal is a follower of the master, but not sold to the master.

  The Seven Towers Federation has already abolished slavery, even the servants of noble families are only contracted workers in name.

  In the office of the Mage Tower, Duke and James completed a simple follower ceremony and signed a vassal contract.

   Then James returned to the farm.

   According to Duke's order, the signboard of the farm was changed to Lingchi Farm.

  The farm is divided into three parts, one part is planted with Yulu to help Ji Yulu's evolution; the other part is planted with Chuuxuezhu, trying to breed new varieties of Chuuxuezhu with Lingchi genes; the third part is planned as an ant nest land.

  Xiaohong has already laid eggs in the nest, and after hatching, she will have her own ant colony, and Duke will train the ant colony here.

  Wait until the ant colony expands and separates a group of female ants that can lay eggs.

  Perhaps Duke can also recruit a group of Gu knights to serve him, just like what Bernoulli did.

   Gu control, like animal taming, is an important research field of spiritual mysteries.

   "My lord, I actually have an idea." James accompanied Duke, who came to inspect, to inspect the Lingchi Farm.

"you say."

   "For more than a year, I can say that whenever I have free time, I come to cast spells for Ji Yulu, and carefully record Ji Yulu's growth every day." James said that the record was a job arranged by Duke, "I gradually got an idea."

   Duke walked slowly.

  James continued to confide his thoughts: "I think relying on Ji Yulu to infect ordinary Yulu and help ordinary Yulu to evolve, so as to feed back Ji Yulu's natural power, seems a bit insufficient, or something is still lacking."

  Elves are magical creations. In the entire Seven Towers Federation, there are very few studies on elves.

   It's not because elves are rare. In fact, no matter how few elves are, on the scale of the Seven Towers Federation, there are still a lot of elves.

  Many arcane masters have conducted research on elves, but they have not produced many results.

  Like Eudemons, human beings have not yet grasped the key points for the birth of elves, and they know little about the evolution of elves.

   "Oh, what do you think is missing?" Duke asked.

  He had seen another elf, a caterpillar-like Campanulaceae, in the Keyston Mage Tower before, and later asked Kiria about how the Keyston Mage Tower cultivated elves.

  It is similar to Duke’s method, which is to feed it enough spirit crystals, and then let its body—the elf spirit plant, infect more spirit plants, so as to feed back the power of nature, help the spirit plant itself evolve, and then promote the evolution of the elves.

  In fact, those veteran nobles cultivate elves in this way.

   "I think Ji Yulu lacks a little excitement." James has already talked about his thoughts, "Ji Yulu's infection of Lingzhi Yulu is a unilateral contribution by Ji Yulu, and she only asks for a little feedback from the poor natural force. But if we plant more high-level foreign Lingzhi Yulu, can we give Ji Yulu more feedback?"

  He continued: "Before the farm needed to make money, so I only wanted to infect the Yulu Lingzhi and sell it to the outside world. Now the farm has become your experimental base, sir, and there is no need to consider making money, so I just want to give it a try."

   "Well, what you said makes sense, we can't rely on Ji Yulu alone to win the hope of evolution, we have to provide it with more help!"

  Duke agrees with James' idea.

   Immediately ordered: "Then, I will allocate a batch of funds for you to search for Yulu-like spiritual plants in the market, mainly the 1st and 2nd rings, don't be afraid to spend money."

  Although Duke owed more than one million Golden Dragons.

  But he is not short of money, the patent fees are constantly accumulating, the sales dividends of the Giant of Light, and the dividends of Hebedi are also big income.

  In addition, the Shenjiao City Hotel also increased his annual consultant bonus from 1,500 golden dragons to 12,000 golden dragons.

  This is the value corresponding to the status of a scholar.

  Mr. Suktara is not in a hurry to repay the loan, so Duke has no financial pressure at all, and can invest in his own research as much as he wants.

  After hearing this, James cheered up and said, "Yes!"

   "By the way, pack that pot of 2-ring spiritual plants later, and send it to my office. I'll be useful." Duke ordered again.

  In the past two years, Ji Yulu has successfully infected a 2-ring spiritual plant-Cicada Yulu.

   There are many varieties of Yulu, and Ji Yulu and Chan Yulu are just one of them. They are closely related to each other and can be infected by Ji Yulu.

  A 2-ring spiritual plant - Chanyulu, the market price is about 13,000 golden dragons.

   This is also the largest asset of the farm in the past two years.

  James was a bit reluctant, but still nodded and said: "Yes, my lord."

   "Don't be stingy, continue to cast spells, Ji Yulu will soon bring us a new 2-ring spiritual plant. As for this plant, my teacher is about to pass his birthday, so I will take it as a gift." Duke took care of the vassal's feelings and explained one more sentence.

  He knew that since James saw the chick, he had been thinking that he could also breed an elf, and then contracted to become a 2-ring elf envoy.

  Having a goal is a good thing, and it will become a constant source of motivation.

  So Duke doesn't want to hurt James, and always has to give the opponent a life goal to catch up with, so that he can devote more energy and do things for him.

   Return to the Mage Tower.

   Then I saw the little assistant, Mu Lali, talking and laughing with her younger sister, Mu Lashan, in the office.

  Meeting Duke, Mu Lali hurriedly got up to serve tea and water, and then handed over a letter: "Sir, it's an invitation letter from Rainbow Bay City. Tai Gelong Mage Tower invites you to participate in the academic salon scheduled for the 15th of next month."

   "Tagoron Mage Tower?" Duke didn't know much about the arcane mages in the foreign city.

   On the contrary, Mu Lali has already done her homework in advance: "The owner of Tagoron's Mage Tower is the 3rd-ring arcane mage Tagoron Armadillo, a puppet scholar who likes to hold academic salons. Many young scholars in Shenjiao City have been invited by Tagoron to participate in academic salons."

   "Hmm." Duke held the invitation letter and glanced at it.

  Thought for a while, then said: "Forget it, resign for me. I have no plans to contact the puppet field for the time being, so I won't participate in any academic salon."

   Rainbow Bay City is located in the bubble area, far from Shenjiao City.

  Even if you take the teacher's Chasing Shadow airship, it will take several days to go back and forth, and if you count the time for the academic salon, it will be delayed by at least a week.

   For Duke, this was a waste of time.

   Another point.

  Duke is full of awe of the extraordinary world in his bones, and always feels that Heijiaohe is his own territory, and he feels full of security here.

   Once you leave Heijiaohe land and go to other regions, you will step into someone else's territory.

  In case something happens, even if you are protected by the identity of an arcane mage, there may be some mistakes.

  Stay at home and play with the little assistants, isn't it good?

  Mu Lali blinked her big watery eyes, and said prettyly: "Sir, Xiao Shanshan and I have learned some massage techniques recently. Would you like us to give you a massage? Can you point out where we are not good enough?"

   "Well, have you learned massage techniques?" Duke smiled, "Come on, let me give it a try, if I don't do it well, I will criticize you."

  Mulali was eager to try: "Just watch it."

  Mu Lashan is a little shy, but her body is not behind Mu Lali. Two girls, one on the left and one on the right, pinched one of Duke's shoulders.

   "Work harder, haven't you eaten?" Duke squinted his eyes, feeling that life is really comfortable.

  The two girls immediately exerted all their strength, rubbing and pushing Duke, and soon sweated on their foreheads and were out of breath.

   Dang Dang Dang.

   There was a knock on the door, Duke was immersed in the girl's massage, and he lazily responded, "Please come in."

   Immediately, Kylia pushed the door open, and as soon as she entered, she saw Duke surrounded by Mu Lali and Mu Lashan, enjoying a good life.

   Slightly taken aback.

  Duke opened his eyes, but did not stop the two girls from serving, but just greeted with a smile: "Hi, Kiria, what's the matter?"

   "I'll take a look at the chick, and I also brought Kikyo, it's thinking of a chick." Ji Liya came back to her senses, smiled and carried the basket to the desk.

   Inside is a big snow-white caterpillar, which is the elf Kikyo.

   Kikyo climbed out of the basket, stood up on the desk, and said crisply: "Duke, I'm looking for a chicken to play with."

   Pat the belly, and the chick comes out with a swish.

  After seeing Kikyo, he grinned loudly: "Little white insect, come and play with me!"

   "My name is Kikyo."

   "I know, I know, your name is Kikyo, little white bug." Chick doesn't care what the other person's name is, "Go, brother will take you flying!"

   It landed on the table, Kikyo quickly climbed up its back, and then the chick took off, swimming and flying around the office with Kikyo.

  Duke also waved his hand to make Mu Lali and Mu Lashan stop: "Okay, you guys also take a rest, and pour a glass of water for Ms. Kiriya."

"Yes, sir."

   "You know how to enjoy it." Kilia smiled after she sat down.

   "Wine is a song, life is so much, like the morning dew, the past is bitter." Duke read a poem, which is that he adapted the poems on earth into the words here.

  Maybe the two worlds do not understand the language, but the beauty of art can overcome all barriers.

  Kilia listened to Duke's poem, her beautiful eyes sparkled: "Is this the poem you wrote?"

   "How is it?" Duke asked back.

   "Very good, but it sounds very free and easy, but the artistic conception is a bit bleak." Kiria said and looked at Duke carefully, "I thought I had seen your genius side, but I didn't expect you to be so versatile and have the talent of a bard."

   "Qingqing Zijin, my heart is lingering, but for the sake of the king, I have pondered it so far." Duke read two more poems.

  Wait for Mu Lali to bring the tea, took a sip, and then responded: "Think about the lifespan of an arcanist, at least a hundred years. If I only have practice and research for the rest of my life, it will be too boring. Enjoying life and loving life are equally important."

   "You live more clearly than most people."

   "You can do it too."

   "But I don't have so many artistic talents." Ji Liya brushed her golden wavy hair, and said with a sigh, "I really envy you. You can do what you like without restraint, without caring about other people's opinions."

   "Why do you feel so good about life? This is not what we should do at our age?"

   "No, maybe I'm a bit tired of building arcane wonders recently."

   "What arcane art did you choose?"

   "Water Shield."

   "Water shield, um, the blood of the Nutao family, does it have a great blessing for water attribute arcane?" Duke curiously explored.

  Usually these are noble secrets.

  But Duke and Kylia are already good friends, so they can discuss some sensitive issues.

  Kiliya did not hide it, and said: "The blood of our family is the blood of the raging dragon. It needs to be promoted to an arcanist to activate it. The conditions are relatively harsh, but once activated, it has a natural affinity in the field of water attribute arcane, which can greatly increase its power."

  She continued: "When I build the water shield arcane wonder, my instant water shield will have the power comparable to the 2-ring arcane."

   "Wow, how enviable!" Duke gasped in amazement.

   In other words, maybe after Kylia casts the water shield instantly, even the bullets in his ring of sand eagles may not be able to penetrate the water shield.

   That is to say, Kylia is almost invincible in the face of ordinary 1st ring arcane mages.

   "But it doesn't include me. If I can't penetrate it with one shot, I will fire a few more shots. If this doesn't work, I will let Xiaoyi develop the strafing function after the Sand Eagle 1.52 special effect bullet-element version is developed. I don't believe how thick armor I can't penetrate!"

  Duke is confident in himself.

  Kilia could see that Duke didn't really envy the blood of the raging dragon in her body, and she wasn't surprised by it.

  Some arcane masters like the blessing brought by the blood of spirit beasts, and some arcanists like the pure spiritual power of arcane magic.

   And the higher the level of the arcanist, the more he likes pure psionic energy.

  Pure psychic energy is more convenient for painting, and it is as if a fixed background has been drawn on white paper when the blood of the spirit beast is inspired, limiting more possibilities.

   "With Duke's self-confidence and talent, he will definitely be promoted to a great arcane mage. It is normal to look down on the blood of spirit beasts." Kiriya thought.

   Immediately, he stopped talking about the blood of the spirit beast, but said: "I came today, besides letting the platycodon to play with the chicken, I also have news to tell you."

"what news?"

   "Grandfather took the other six members of the Five Towers Conference and set off to Cuihai Valley. They were going to find out. If it is confirmed that it is a large spring, they will submit an urban development report to the holy city of Austria and build a city in Cuihai Valley."

   "What's the reaction of Bernoulli's Mage Tower?" Duke became interested.

   "I don't know yet. Grandpa said he would catch Bernoulli by surprise." Kiria laughed, "Grandpa doesn't like Bernoulli very much."

   "I can understand that Mr. Keystone advocates frontal attack, and doesn't like the way of standing behind the bugs to clean the battlefield silently."

   As a gu scholar, Bernoulli likes to use bugs to pave the way for war.

   "If it is really a large spring, the Cuihai Valley development war may have to change the plan. I don't know how Bernoulli's Mage Tower will respond."

   "I don't know, just eat melons in silence." Duke was very calm, his rank was too low, and he was destined to be unable to intervene, "Anyway, Lord Keyston promised me that he would give me Xiaoji's grandma. My biggest expectation for Cuihai Valley is Xiaoji's grandma."

   "Owning an ancient spirit, what are you going to do?"

   "I didn't think about it, maybe I would build a mage tower and let Xiaoji's grandma become the pagoda spirit, but the cost of a mage tower can easily cost millions of gold dragons, so I definitely can't build it in a short time." Once upon a time, his wish was to have an airship.

   Now, his wish has become to build his own mage tower.

   It can’t even be said to be a wish, because he already has enough strength to make preliminary preparations for the construction of the mage tower.

   Chatted with Kylia for a while.

   Then Kiriya politely said goodbye and left, taking away the crazy elf Kikyo by the way.

   "Duke, I miss Kikyo." The chick hovered at the gate of the office, flicking its thick tail in disappointment.

   "You were just separated by one minute and six seconds." Duke gave the precise time.

  Chick turned back: "So what?"

   "As long as you are happy, return to Qihai?"

   "Go back."

  Mulali opened the door and came in. When she saw Duke, she bounced and hummed a song, and then helped organize the documents on the table.

   "Why are you so happy?"

   "No." Mu Lali shook her head in denial, and then she couldn't help laughing secretly, "Sir, Ms. Kiria has been coming here very diligently recently, and sir, have you seen that when Xiao Shanshan and I gave you a massage, Ms. Kiria was obviously a little unhappy."

"Yeah."

   "Of course, sir, Ms. Kiria must be in love with you!" Mu Lali was very convinced of this, and she swore, "This is an accurate judgment based on my woman's intuition!"

"woman?"

  Duke chuckled.

  …

  An astonishing piece of news spread throughout the Heijiao River.

   "The spiritual spring of Cuihai Valley is a large-scale spiritual spring. The Holy City of Arcana is about to approve the construction of a new city in Cuihai Valley!"

   "It is said that the new city still belongs to our Heijiaohe land and exists as a sub-regional center!"

   "A large number of foreign mercenaries are coming!"

   "The Black Snake family is about to prosper, and it is adjacent to the future city. Sheshou Town may be connected to the new city!"

   "It is said that Master Arcane has gone to Cuihai Valley to explore the springs. There must be many small springs scattered around the large spiritual springs. These are good locations for building mage towers in the future."

   "Cuihai City?"

   "Didn't you say that Master Bernoulli wants to enclose Cuihai Valley as a family land? After building a city, how can you entrust the land?"

   "Then find another medium-sized spiritual spring and make it your own fiefdom."

  Kiston Nutao, with the members of the leadership team of the Five Towers Conference, personally rushed to the Emerald Sea Valley to investigate the spiritual spring. It was found that the spiritual spring of Cuihai Valley was half blocked in an earthquake, so it showed the characteristics of a medium-sized spiritual spring.

   Then it was revealed to the media. Following the newspaper's mistakes, the matter has become known to all.

   "Teacher, how is the situation?"

  The news in the newspaper was just a simple message. Duke wanted to know more. In addition to asking Kiria, he could also ask his teacher.

  Suktara is the internal supervisor of the United Tower, and these things cannot be avoided from her.

   "The city plan has been submitted to the Holy City of Arcana, and it will be approved soon. At that time, I, Shenjiao City, should be the leading party. However, the United Tower of Runwu City must participate. As for the Bernoulli Mage Tower, it should not be willing to give up."

  Runwu City is the central city of Fengxi Domain, which is equivalent to a provincial capital city.

  Shenjiao City is equivalent to an ordinary prefecture-level city.

   However, the relationship between Runwu City United Tower and Shenjiao City United Tower is not a superior-subordinate relationship, although the levels are different.

  Each region of the Seven Towers Federation has considerable autonomy.

  This is also the normal system of the federal state.

   Not only Heijiaohe land-Shenjiao city has great independence, even the market towns under its jurisdiction are basically aristocratic fiefdoms, which also have great independence.

   "Can you confirm that after the city is built, Cuihai Valley will serve as the sub-center of Heijiaohe Land, instead of planning a new area independently?"

  "Ninety-nine are not far from ten. Cuihai Valley and Shenjiao City are too close to each other. If the two regions are divided, both will be greatly restricted by their development. The masters of the Holy City of Alchemy, if they are not stupid, they will not plan a new region."

  A region, a city, is the general plan of the Seven Towers Federation.

   But there is also a region with two cities, or even three cities as exceptions. The main reason for the existence of these exceptions is that the large spiritual springs are next to each other.

   "If this is the case, the development of Heijiaohe Land will inevitably rise to a new height." Duke praised.

   "So, there are definitely a lot of people who come to grab food."

   "Just grab it, as long as the meat rots in the pot of Heijiaohe, there is nothing wrong with it. If you can accommodate the Bernoulli family, you can accommodate more families of arcane masters. Let's develop Heijiaohe together, making it bigger and stronger is the kingly way."

   "Your structure is quite big." Suktara looked at Duke gently, becoming more and more satisfied, "It means that you are a little younger and haven't grown up yet, otherwise you will definitely become a trendy person in the big event of the construction of Cuihai Valley."

   "I don't have the idea of ​​being trendy. I just want to practice and research steadily. Studying spiritual mysteries is more important than making meritorious deeds."

   "If you can think that way, the teacher will be relieved."

  The teacher and the student stopped talking outside the topic, and soon entered the teaching state, and began to study how to design the secret weapon of Sanfis.

  The materials for Shanfeisi are almost not complete, but it does not prevent him from informing the two of the arcane weapon he envisioned in advance, and planning and designing in advance.

   "Spiritual perception tentacles, you, a classmate, seem to be concentrating on studying medicine for ordinary people." Suktala looked at the design requirements and said.

  Arcanite to be cast by Sanfis.

   is an auxiliary piece of equipment that can penetrate into a person's body like tiny tentacles, strengthening the psionic perception of an arcanist, so as to gain a more accurate insight into subtle changes in the human body.

  Give Duke the feeling that this is to build an endoscope.

   "Teacher, I have some ideas about this arcane weapon." He combined his knowledge of endoscopes in his previous life and made some suggestions of his own.

   In my heart, I felt a little embarrassed.

  I made a little money in my previous life, so I ate, drank and had fun outside. But I was very afraid of death, so I did a lot of gastroscopy and colonoscopy. Fortunately, they were all performed under anesthesia, and I didn't suffer too much pain.

   "Your idea is very good. When we design, we can keep the functions that Sanfis wants and at the same time help him improve the effect of the arcane."

  Suktara entered the teaching state, and began to teach Duke almost hand in hand, how to design arcane weapons and how to design spell models.

   And Duke is like a sponge, greedily absorbing all knowledge.

   And can absorb the knowledge cleanly, without dropping a drop - Xiaoyi can not only store the information without reservation, but also play it repeatedly, allowing Duke to reproduce the details of the teaching anytime, anywhere to ensure that no water is leaked.

  Time is in teaching, passing by bit by bit.

  On the progress table in Duke Linghai, the original Sand Eagle 1.52 special effect bullet-element version is stuck at 95.4% of the progress, because technical difficulties cannot be overcome, and there has been no new progress.

  With Suktara’s explanation this time, Xiaoyi obtained new data and overcome technical difficulties in one fell swoop.

  The progress is so fast that it can be called a thousand miles.

  Didn’t bother Duke, Xiaoyi simply sketched a paragraph of text on the vindictive holographic screen: “Congratulations to the master, the sand eagle 1.52 bullet special effect-element version has been successfully developed, and the power of the first-ring sand eagle is even more powerful and unpredictable.”

   "At the same time, according to the previous settings of the owner, a new process will be added for you... Process 3: Sand Eagle 1.6 burst version, research and development consumes 19% power..."

   Looking for tickets~

  (end of this chapter)