Age of Adepts

As a newly rising giant city, Crimson Wing has a terrifying population of two million.

In the magical world where transportation and resources are not so abundant, this is already rare.

You know, the Wizarding World's definition of a city is: a small city with a population of 10,000 to 20,000, a medium city with a population of 20,000 to 50,000, a large city with a population of 50,000 to 90,000, and a giant city with a population of more than 90,000...

Such a definition standard naturally has its deep-seated reasons, that is, the limitations of transportation, food and water sources!

In a high-level plane like the wizarding world, even though wizards are already flying into the sky and hiding from the ground, they can turn rivers and seas and move mountains and mountains with just a few gestures. But in the lower class of society, in the mortal world, they still uphold the relatively primitive way of life such as farming, fishing and hunting, and animal husbandry.

The life of wizards and the life of mortals are almost in heaven and earth, and the difference is so huge that it is unimaginable. Wizards would rather spend a huge amount of resources to breed and cultivate some sweet-tasting fruits and vegetables, and would not spend a little effort to improve the yield of rice seeds and grains for mortals.

This also means that the grains produced by a large amount of farmland and arable land are simply not enough to feed a large population. Ordinary farmers live with simple food and drink, and work hard all year long to make ends meet. If you want to eat meat and make tooth sacrifices, besides raising some livestock yourself, you can only take the risk of hunting in the forest.

Therefore, the lack of grain output makes it impossible to have too dense population in the region, otherwise the food problem alone will cause the ruler to die of headaches.

Local food is insufficient, so can it be imported from the outside world?

This brings us to the horrible roads and vehicles in the wizarding world.

Most of the roads in the wizarding world are simple and rough dirt roads, which are ordinary dirt routes. There are many travelers and business groups walking on them, and they are simple roads that have been rolled and trampled. Such roads are basically impassable in rainy days. Even if the weather is fine, potholes and stones everywhere can turn a trip into a disaster.

Most of the cargo transshipment here relies on a wagon, a wooden carriage pulled by a special wildebeest. It is characterized by low cargo capacity, fragile and slow...

This kind of road, this kind of transportation method, can handle some short-distance transfers. It is simply a joke to want to continuously import basic living materials such as food, drinking water, and firewood from hundreds of miles away.

It is this series of backwardness and primitiveness that has restricted the emergence of giant cities!

Even the main cities of several well-known Tier 4 forces in the central part of the mainland have a permanent population of only 110,000 to 20,000. It's not that they can't gather more people, but they really can't afford the resource disaster caused by a huge population.

In contrast, the huge city of Crimson Wings has gathered a population of about two million, and the deep meaning contained in it has secretly puzzled many top wizards who came from afar.

Could it be that the resources of the Crimson Clan are already large enough to benefit ordinary citizens? However, isn't it a huge waste to spend resources on these lowly and despicable mortals?

You must know that these mortals don't have any wizard talent. Their only value is probably to enrich the territory, and the other is to desperately produce a certain proportion of wizard apprentices with the overall huge number.

Only those wizard apprentices have training value, and it is worthwhile for wizard families to devote resources to them. And mortals without any talent, in the eyes of many wizards, are just like mules, horses and livestock, just a tool to maintain the necessary population!

Therefore, they have never bothered to spend time and energy on these useless people, let alone solve their problems and improve their lives.

However, this huge wizard city, Crimson Wings, is obviously different!

This is a strange city that integrates witchcraft into society and life.

Neat and orderly streets, clean and flat stone hardened pavement, row upon row of businesses and shops, living areas, commercial areas and entertainment areas with the same style... On the streets, except for the pedestrians rubbing shoulders, the most exciting What surprises people is the multitude of cargo magic and metal sports cars.

The Crimson Wing has abandoned the slow and inefficient carriage, and used the metal magic equipment driven by the mana battery as the main means of transportation. Mercedes-Benz is no longer a slow-moving horse-drawn truck, but a strange magic machine made of all metal.

The small shipments are transported by land-based magical equipment, while the real bulk shipments are delivered by strange goblin airships.

After being powered by mana, these goblin airships no longer had the horrifying sight of steam everywhere they went, nor the loud noise of the propeller rattling. They shuttled back and forth in the sky silently, following some kind of peculiar flight trajectory, and there was a flavor of a thriving magic civilization!

Ever since the Crimson Family obtained the stable Quelas Alloy from Molten Fire City, the creation of the Magic Furnace has never stopped. In this way, magic energy is no longer the so-called problem that plagued the Crimson family.

A number of goblin shops have been opened in Crimson Wing City, selling unarmed magical equipment to the public, and providing magic energy batteries for free. And such behavior undoubtedly provided the greatest convenience for the promotion of Magic Equipment.

A land-moving magic weapon that can travel hundreds of miles without sleep is even more cost-effective than raising an entire caravan. Therefore, in the entire Crimson Wing City, those ancient and primitive caravans of mules and horses are almost no longer seen.

Instead, there were land-moving magical weapons that were running like flying and faster than lightning.

It's just that for the safety of pedestrians, all land-moving magic equipment that enters the Crimson Wings can only run at the lowest speed per hour, and they must also drive on special petrochemical roads.

The massive promotion and application of magical equipment and the blossoming of witchcraft civilization have also given birth to many strange occupations that the outside world does not have in Crimson Wing. Like magic technicians, magic repairers, airship pilots, monster researchers, cleaners, city law enforcement teams...

It has to be said that this is a new world completely different from other wizarding cities in the wizarding world! Even a top wizard like Monash Gaia can't understand the energy and vitality it contains, can't see through it, and can't see it clearly.

"That Greem made these new gadgets when he was full?" Monash Gaia put down the car curtain, his face full of disbelief: "What's the use of him serving these humans so well? When the enemy comes, They're useless, they're not as good as wizard apprentices who can throw small fireballs!"

"You don't need to worry about this..." Alfred, the lord of Molten City, who was sitting across from him, smiled and stroked his mustache, and said in a low voice: "Just say, are the residents in this city happy or happy? ?”

"Happiness and happiness are useless. What can we bring by wasting resources and energy on them? Can they help us lay down a secondary plane?" Monash Gaia is obviously a typical blood supremacy and wizard supremacy The staunch supporters of the theory are not interested in these fancy things in front of them: "With their fragile bodies, I am afraid that as soon as they arrive at the alien plane, half of them will die before the opponent comes to kill..."

The Molten Fire City Master shook his head and smiled, instead of arguing with him, he changed the subject.

"You have seen the changes in this Crimson Wing, don't you notice that it is different from other wizard cities?"

"You mean mana?"

"That's right! You should also feel that this city is full of mana, almost a bustling city supported by mana. Then you are not curious, where does their mana come from? Don't tell me it came from those high schools of wizards. Towers, they can't support such a huge demand..."

"You mean...the Crimson family possesses some kind of endless energy? What is it, a treasure or some kind of witch formation, or some special means from another world?"

"I've already investigated it. It's a special device called the Magic Furnace, which can continuously extract violent magic energy from the void world and harmonize and tame it..."

"Isn't that exactly the same as the elemental altar!"

"It's not the same. At least the elemental altar needs to choose a fixed leyline node to build, and the construction cost is astonishingly high. But the magic furnace they built is an energy that can be moved at will and can be loaded on any magic weapon Source." Alfred narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with infinite emotion.

"It's no wonder that the Crimson family is able to use metal magic weapons on a large scale. It turns out that they rely on these endless magical energy! Any civilization or force that wants to grow stronger needs nothing more than energy and resources. They don't lack energy. Now, as long as we continue to expand outwards and usurp the necessary resources of the alien plane, it will not be difficult to build a huge force..." Monash Gaia also sighed sadly: "No wonder that Greem can still stir up fires everywhere. The more they fight, the stronger they become, so it turns out that this is the real reason why they have become stronger!"

"Don't think about it too much. This time Greem summoned us all, it must be to discuss how to deal with the coming demon tide. The attitude of Clara and I is very clear, everything will follow your lead. If that Greem If the request is not too excessive, we will reluctantly accept it. If he blackmails too hard, I hope that you can argue with reason and not let him do whatever he wants..."

Hearing this, Monash Gaia, the patriarch of the Golden Clan, showed a smile that was not a smile, and said indifferently: "Is this the attitude of you and Clara?"

"There are also Ariza and Roderick... Among the wizards in the central region, you are the only one who can wrestle with that Greem. So..."

"So you just pushed me out and put me on the fire?" Monash Gaia had a mocking smile on his face.

"It's not against that Greem, it's just 'fighting with reason'!" Alfred couldn't help laughing embarrassingly.

Strength represents status.

Without strength, even their group of Tier 4 wizards were a little weak when they spoke.