Age of Adepts

Goblin plane, mechanical city.

As the place where the entire goblin plane's magical equipment technology is integrated, the mechanical city has become the dream capital that all goblin engineers and technicians are eagerly looking forward to and yearning for.

This place was originally a private domain of Princess Vanessa of the goblin empire, but since the foreign wizards came to this world, it has become the place where the wizards garrison and open up laboratories.

A wizard tower rose from the ground, becoming the most conspicuous and eye-catching landmark here!

Originally out of fear of evil wizards, no goblin commoners and freelancers are willing to provide services to these guys who have deprived them of the right to rule the plane of their race. But with the passage of time, ten or twenty years have passed, and the older generation of goblins, who were full of fear of the cruelty and evil of the wizard's invasion process, have aged and died one after another.

Although the new generation of goblins still don't like wizards, their memories of wizard brutality have become blurred and ambiguous.

Correspondingly, there are always some guys who are willing to cater to the changes in the world. They happily ran to the wizard tower to join the wizard, and became the minions and representatives of the wizards stationed in various places. And they, too, quickly changed from an ordinary goblin to a magical warrior that everyone respected, possessing the powerful strength to crush ordinary goblin mechanical warriors.

Moreover, during the period when the beautiful and gentle wizard Meryl ruled the goblin plane, her gentle and friendly attitude also greatly resolved the hostility of the goblin nobles. Especially those life potions, beauty potions, charm brooches, instant magic wands, witchcraft scrolls, elemental talismans that have been handed down from the wizarding world...

These are super luxuries that the upper class of goblin nobles flock to, and they are irresistibly attractive to the goblin family whose life span is only 20 or 30 years. Coupled with the loud appeal of the goblin sage Kabi, believers should not use violent means to resist the rule of wizards, but to start dialogue and trade with each other conditionally.

This kind of argument is undoubtedly in line with the thinking of the goblin upper class, so some large business groups and chaebols also took the initiative to join the team of collaborators. The existence of wizards and the status of rulers, under the enlightenment and guidance day after day, were gradually accepted and acquiesced by all goblins.

As the most charismatic ruler, witch Meryl has unparalleled influence in the goblin plane. Under her call and practice, a huge mechanical city rose up outside the wizard's garrison, and guarded the wizard's tower in the center of the city in the way of stars and moons.

The new city is a typical steel capital, and it is also a magical capital!

Here, there are no wooden or stone buildings to be seen at all, and metal fortresses made of high-strength alloys are towering everywhere. And in the city, what ran and shuttled were horse-drawn carriages and beasts of burden, but goblin chariots or mechanical chocobos that were emitting thick steam.

Almost all those who can settle in the Machinery City are professionals with special abilities in metal forging or magic weapon manufacturing. They belong to more than a dozen goblin business groups or chaebols of different sizes, and their main business is cross-plane resource and material transactions.

Witch Meryl established strict trade regulations when she was in charge of the Mechanic City. Even those wizards who want to obtain resources from the Goblin Plane have to exchange "equivalent" magic crystals or witchcraft items. Of course, the prices of all transactions were jointly set by the Scarlet Wizard and the Goblin nobles after consultation.

And Witch Meryl's more clever trick is to accept Princess Vanessa, who is loved by all the goblins, as her alien disciple, and declares her to be the permanent controller of Mechanic City, and will not be subject to the resident wizards. replacement impact.

This point has greatly captured the hearts of the moderate goblins!

After Witch Meryl, the second resident of the goblin plane is her disciple, the wind wizard Desera.

Due to the same lineage, Desera naturally will not change too much the ruling model created by the teacher. Therefore, during the 20 years that the Crimson Wizard ruled the goblin plane, the goblin family also changed the previous ruling structure centered on the goblin royal family, and gradually transferred the dominance of the plane to this booming mechanical city.

At this time, it was the afternoon of the day, and the warm sunlight poured down from the sky, shining golden light on this metallic mechanical city.

Princess Vanessa stood quietly on the open-air balcony on the seventh floor of the tower, silently looking down at the rows of metal buildings below her and the pedestrians coming and going on the spacious streets.

With the slight adjustment of the red mechanical eyes in the exquisite eye sockets, she can even see the appearance and expression of pedestrians on the street from a distance of three or four miles. On their faces, they don't see the misery and misery after being ruled by evil wizards. Instead, everyone is busy and seems to be working hard for a better and happy future.

Will people who are enslaved and ruled by other races also have happiness?

Vanessa tilted her delicate head, her little head full of mechanical gears and magical energy was full of incomprehensible confusion and confusion.

Since her unexpected death in the Iron City, her soul has been preserved by wizards. Later, in order to win over Tigule and the goblin royal family, the wizards used some evil means to infuse her soul into a completely metal body.

And she also used this method to achieve the eternal life that most goblin nobles dream of!

Once upon a time, Princess Vanessa, who loved her people and wanted to lead the goblins to prosperity, was in pain and wanted to end her boring eternal life countless times. It's a pity that her strange metal body makes her a nearly undead monster.

Can't chop, can't chop...

An arrow shoots, but cannot penetrate...

Starved to death, she doesn't need any food at all except to absorb some magical energy...

Suffocated, since she was reborn, she has almost never breathed again...

Jumping off the building, the body made of super alloy was quickly and completely destroyed. Even if it was really broken, the wizards replaced her with a new body and she was resurrected again...

After a period of painful and dark suffering, with the encouragement of Tigule and many supporters, Princess Vanessa finally accepted her new body and started a new life.

Living in the wizard's tower, learning new knowledge from the wizarding world every day, and learning about the strange plane world outside... For the first time, Vanessa suddenly became enlightened!

Although she loved her people and the world in the past, she undoubtedly belonged to a complete frog in a well. Closed and guarded, numb to the self, using the so-called "love" to confine the tribe in a narrow, closed and lonely world.

Worlds like these will be found by alien races sooner or later, and there is no so-called friendship and harmony between the worlds of the planes. All they have are the interests of the red fruit and the unrestrained force.

In contrast, the wizards who invaded the goblin plane are willing to adopt a gentle rule over them. This... is actually the greatest happiness for the goblins!

For some reason, after being opened up by the novel and vast knowledge of other worlds, Vanessa became crazily obsessed with the combination of machinery and magic. With her encouragement and impetus, a large number of little goblins were selected and became apprentices of the newly established Magic Mechanism in Mechanics City, and a large number of goblin engineers also changed their careers to study magic machinery.

While she was quietly looking down at this strange city that represented the combination of goblins and wizards, two goblin maids came behind her and bowed to salute.

"Princess, Master Schroeder, please see me!"

Schroeder is the Minister of Finance of Machinery City. It came to see him, either asking for funding from the magic crystal or applying for the establishment of a magic energy research project. But in the final analysis, it still has to fall on the source of the magic energy.

Most of the goblins are magic insulators, and they can't sense the existence of elemental particles at all. Therefore, if they want to study magic energy, they can only rely on the magic power produced by decomposing magic crystals for in-depth research. As for the Quelas alloy that can make the space furnace, since it is all in the hands of the wizards, ordinary goblins have no chance of touching it.

Back then, when the Mech City was founded, Witch Meryl had to go through a lot of effort to apply for a space furnace from the high-level wizards as the power source of the Mech City. Otherwise, it would be wishful thinking to support such a huge mechanical city with only the consumption of magic crystals.

However, if a space furnace wants to drive the development of the entire mechanical city, the distribution of magic energy becomes increasingly important. 106 metal blast furnaces in the Machinery City need energy supply, 27 smelting factories need energy supply, and 32 foundry workshops need energy supply...

In addition, there are a lot of research departments such as the magic alloy refining workshop, the metal ratio laboratory, the magic weapon research institute, and the magic weapon development center, waiting for the mechanical city to allocate some magic energy for further research.

In the case of a serious shortage of magic energy, Princess Vanessa can only try her best to apply to the wizards in addition to trying her best to squeeze out some magic energy quota.

Fortunately, Tigule exists. As the controller of the Tier 2 magic weapon Goblin Ripper, it also has a considerable status within the Crimson family. The batch of magic crystals that it sends back to the Mechanic City every other month has become a scarce resource that many goblin engineers and technicians are scrambling for.

At this moment, these usually sanctimonious little greenskins can quarrel in the city council, and even fist clashes broke out a few times recently. This chaotic scene undoubtedly made Princess Vanessa even more depressed, so she could only sneak here to see the scenery.

It's a pity that, as the 'superficial' ruler of the Mechanic City, she still has to face all the hungry kings who are in urgent need of resources and energy.

Maybe, I have to find a way to ask that powerful wizard once...