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Time flies, eight days have passed. According to Hao's plan, they purchased a wasteland outside Sulan City at a very cheap price, covering an area of ​​about five square kilometers, but only used fifty spirit stones.

, this is also thanks to the identity of Ai and other elves. The identity of the elves is super-national treatment for the Plant Alliance. Although it is unlikely to be officially stipulated in the law, in these cases of dealing with the Plant Alliance government

, the advantages of the elves are too obvious.

With this wasteland, Noldo had used his ability to get familiar with the major circles in Sulan City, and it was useful now. He knew the cheapest material suppliers in the Sulan City circle, and he also knew the construction capabilities.

The strongest architect, the most reliable contractor, etc., and he can speak well. With the help of many people and forces, he got more than 70% of the original price, and the construction of the entire station only took more than 600 souls.

Stones, saving a lot more than the expected one thousand and five spiritual stones.

In addition to the construction of the station, Ai Yi's magic potion studio has also officially started operation. She has recruited five magic apprentices in Sulan City. They are all extraordinary people with magic power, but they are not even the first level. These magic apprentices are basically

They are all wild people. If there is no chance, the most they will do in their lives is

Become a first-level magician, and he is the weakest type among first-level magicians. He may not even have ten magic masters. He can only hang out in adventure groups for the rest of his life. At most, he will become a tribute to some small businessmen, and wait.

They have become first-level magicians, probably already in their old age.

So when a second-level elf magician recruited apprentices, the entire magic world of Sulan City was in shock. There was no magic tower in the entire Sulan City. Sulan City was just a town, not a city. A town in an alliance had no magic.

The tower is a very normal thing. The highest legal profession in this city is a second-level druid. What he owns is a natural holy land, a jungle outside the city, and the highest magician is only a magic apprentice.

There were a total of eight magic apprentices, but Ai only recruited five in the end. The remaining three magic apprentices were dismissed, and some even shed tears on the spot.

These five magic apprentices do not have any salary or income. They need to work for Ai Yi's magic potion studio for at least eight hours a day. They need to inject magic into the potions, carefully weigh the various potions, clean the house, and

...In short, almost all the chores are done by them. Only the production process of high-end magic potions is handled by Aiyi, and their reward is only to explain magic knowledge to them for half an hour every five days.

.

Yes, this is the true attitude towards magic knowledge in the ancient continent. To be precise, all knowledge with powerful essence is priceless, and legal knowledge is the top priority. Like Hao, you can read it at will.

Any power system book thing, that

It is a special case among special cases. It is almost impossible to happen in any other family except for the direct descendants of the holy throne, including noble and high-ranking families like the elven royal family. At most, it is only possible to select the best among them.

Just treat it.

This is the attitude of greatness towards power in its own world. This is also the true world of extraordinary people among all races in the ancient world. The strong are always strong and the weak are always weak. Just like the kind of adventure you get when you jump off a cliff, you can get it if you are not careful.

Treasures from heaven and earth, whatever you want

A person who gets an innate spiritual treasure in one adventure, and then rises to one level or even several levels after a casual fight. This kind of person is called a protagonist. From the birth of all races in the ancient world to the present, there are only Donghuang Taiyi and Tianhuanghuang Jun, oh.

, there is one more venerable person.

So far, the Magic Potion Studio can produce about ten bottles of first-level magic potions every day, and one bottle of second-level magic potions every two days. It may not seem like much, but aside from the cost, the most expensive

Labor costs are almost negligible. On average, you can make about 120 or 30 spirit stones per day.

Around, this number is already very good, and this is the beginning of the magic potion studio. Hao estimates that if Ai becomes a high-level magician, it will be enough to recruit first-level magicians as employees, and the studio will continue to expand, even one day

The income can be close to a thousand spiritual stones, which is enough to become a cash cow.

"...So, do I really only get 1% of the dividend?" Ai Yi slapped the table with his hand in an imposing manner, regardless of whether Hao was reading some documents. If she wasn't only about 1.23 meters tall, she would have a luoli face.

And her figure, to be honest, she looks really impressive like this.

Hao raised his head and glanced at Ai Yi, still looking at his documents without saying a word.

Ai Yi was extremely angry. She looked around, ran to the side and hugged a chair. She ran directly to Hao and turned it over. She sat on the chair and looked at Hao.

Hao was stared at by her like this for at least ten minutes, which made Ai's own eyes sore. But she just stared at Hao like this, and Hao suddenly seemed to remember something and took out a small one from under the table.

The box was handed to Aiyi and said: "Look at this."

Ai Yi was stunned for a moment. She took the box and opened it directly. She saw a pair of crystal bracelets inside. The style looked small and cute. Her eyes suddenly lit up. She looked at Hao with an inexplicable look and said, "This is

For me?"

Hao nodded and said: "Because the funds are not allowed now, and there is no information about the auction, I can't buy you magic items. As the only magician in the group, your safety is very important. Although this is Sulan City,

There is no legal system that can threaten you

, but there are too many unexpected situations, such as a high-level magician who has traveled to the city suddenly appears, or a legendary demigod passing by, or an extraordinary professional such as an assassin stalker is eyeing you, or you are kidnapped.

A group, a slave group or something like that..."

"Stop, stop." Ai Yi was still looking at the bracelet with bright eyes, and she asked, "Is this something given to me?"

Hao nodded again and said: "Yes, I gave it to you. I can't buy it for the time being, and I don't have enough funds to buy magic items. This is a semi-magic item I made myself. I don't have magic power, so I can't make a real one for you.

Magical object, the magic runes engraved by me on this bracelet are a combination of defensive magic runes designed and constructed by myself. You can think of it as a miniature version of the magic formation. You only need to input magic power.

form……"

Ai Yi has already input magic power, and suddenly, a layer of light appears outside her body. This is a magic barrier that can resist physical and direct magic damage at a certain intensity.

"... Wait until I finish speaking next time. What if it's an attack type of magic rune?" Hao's face suddenly turned ugly. He reached out and hit Ai Yi on the head. He looked at Ai Yi covering his head and then said

Said: "This still requires you to input magic power yourself. Depending on the amount of magic power input, the maximum

It is not known how many times it can withstand third-level strength attacks. You need to test it yourself. It is definitely not as good as those magical objects. You cannot charge yourself and cast it, but at least it can save you the time of chanting spells, and

The load and consumption of magic power...are you listening to me?"

"Hmm..." Ai Yi really couldn't put it down for this crystal bracelet.

Although for her, there are still magic items in the family, if she asks her father for them, it will be no problem to get one or two second-level magic items, but not the third level, which are high-level magic instruments.

They are all well known in the family, and even her father, as the patriarch, cannot give it to her at will. The elders in the family and the leaders of each branch will not allow it.

But she used to be very strong, especially when she knew that her father planned to find her a "well-matched" political marriage, so she came to join the army on her own to avoid this marriage, so magic items and other things were not something she wanted.

After thinking about it, the annual family dividends she received from her family, as well as military pay from the army, etc., had to be used for magician training. It was impossible to have enough money to buy these.

This crystal bracelet is beautiful in style and has good functions. In fact, although Hao knows a lot, has rich magical knowledge, and is a wise man, he is only a human being after all, not a real extraordinary person, let alone a magician.

Therefore, his valuation of the bracelet was not accurate at all, and he greatly underestimated the value of the bracelet.

It is true that magical objects, whether they are offensive, defensive, or have other properties, are automatically charged and can be released once or twice a day, but there is a gradual attenuation law in the magic rules, which is

Magic weapons, magic items and the like enchanted with the constancy spell will also gradually lose their effect over time, not to mention ordinary enchantments.

A magical object that is supposed to have third-level magical power may indeed still have this power the first few times it is used, but after up to three or five times, the power will gradually weaken. At the same time, any magical object is a legendary magic.

Rare items have a daily limit on how many times they can be used. This is an iron rule and cannot be changed.

As for the crystal bracelet engraved with magic runes by Hao, as long as the magic power is input, it saves the magic load and the time of chanting. As long as the magic power is enough, this magic barrier can be used unlimited times. This effect even exceeds that of third-level magic items.

Some legendary magical items may not be so useful.

The key reason lies in the magic runes engraved by Hao. It is not that no magician hopes to compress the magic circle and inscribe it on magic objects, magic weapons, and magic instruments. But the strange thing is that even if it is just to reduce the size,

, either the magic circle will directly fail, or a strange phenomenon will occur.

There is a possibility of strange negative effects, or direct explosion, and each magic circle can be constructed by countless magicians at great cost and generations of knowledge accumulation. To create a new magic circle, the size of

There are requirements for the content of the runes, the amount of magic power, etc.

This kind of arbitrarily engraving magic runes according to one's own ideas, condensing the size at will, and then forming an effect similar to a magic circle, at least Ai Yi has never heard of it. She held the pair of crystal bracelets tightly and kept looking at Hao

, for fear that Hao would discover the true value of this crystal bracelet, he immediately jumped off the chair and walked towards the door and said: "I...well, I'm tired. I made a day's magic potion today. I'm going back to rest. What's more?"

Yes, thank you for your gift."

Then he walked faster and faster, and without waiting for Hao to say anything, he opened the door and ran out.

Seeing Ai Yi like this, Hao shook his head slightly, and then focused all his attention on the document in his hand. This was a price list of Sulan City. He was analyzing the meaning behind these prices, especially

...meaning in terms of war.

On the other side, after Ai Yi ran out of Hao's room, she was so excited that she wanted to cheer, but she still held it back and just bounced while walking, symbolizing her mood at the moment.

She was only halfway through and was about to return to her room when she suddenly froze and muttered to herself: "Wait, wait a minute, I didn't come to Hao today to talk about the dividends from my magic potion.

Something? Did I just talk about it?"

Ai fell into a state of confusion about who I was, where I was, and what I was doing...

A few days later, Hao finally took out the design drawings of the station. At this time, the infrastructure construction of the station was still going on, but it didn't matter. Hao was very skilled at squeezing the value of his subordinates... no, he was very skilled in exploring the value of his subordinates.

Ai was liberated from the magic potion studio and began to use various earth magic every day to speed up the progress of infrastructure construction. With the addition of a second-level magician, in just three days, the infrastructure construction of the entire station was completed.

It's already done.

Then Hao divided the design into several parts and handed them over to several construction teams. Each construction team only completed a part of it, and there was nothing abnormal about these parts. Only after they were all completed could the secrets be known.

, so Hao doesn’t have to worry about leaks.

During the few days during the construction of the station, Hao also ordered Nuoduo and Gray to go to the main city of Sulan City to inquire about some things and buy some things. The day after the infrastructure construction of the station was completed,

Noldo and Gray returned to Sulan City. Gray purchased a batch of fine steel and high-energy fuel, while Noldo returned with the news he had learned.

After Gray reported the expenses and purchases of the trip, he left first, and Noldo began to tell the information about the goals of his trip.

"Yes, as you said, the food prices of the Plant Alliance are rising, but the increase is not large, because it is early summer, and it is estimated that there is still more than a month before the summer grain harvest. This period is usually normal.

When the plant alliance's food prices rise, it seems normal on the market. Although this year's increase is slightly higher than in previous years, it is still within the normal range." Nuoduo said directly to Hao.

Hao looked at the information on the price list. He pondered for a moment and then said to Nodo: "It seems that the war is about to spread to the Plant Alliance, but there is still some time. Judging from the rising rate of food prices in the Plant Alliance, it is estimated that

It will take at least half a year to nine months before the border war of the Plant Alliance will really begin... Time is running out."

Although Nuoduo didn't know how Hao confirmed that the war would break out in half a year to nine months, he was already very convinced of Hao and immediately said: "Then wouldn't it be very dangerous for us here? After all, it is not far from the border.

It’s so far away, I said… How about we go to the hinterland of the Plant Alliance? We’ll probably be much safer there, right?”

Hao shook his head and said: "If our goal is to become famous in the Plant Alliance, or even take advantage of this war to gain a high position, then what you said is indeed true, but the Plant Alliance is just our transit station, and we are only here temporarily.

Stay, become stronger, and be well prepared, then go to the mainland of the Plant Alliance,

On the contrary, this is self-defeating... In this war, the Plant Alliance will definitely lose, and even the Holy Order may participate in the war. In the end, all creatures will be wiped out. Although the border is dangerous, it can allow us to break away from the Plant Alliance as quickly as possible.

To escape this war, we can only stay here."

Noldor was silent, he hesitated, and then said: "Then we...have no way to win this war? Rely on your wisdom, rely on your strategy...win this war, and then go back to the Elf Empire?

"

Hao also fell silent. He stood up from the chair, walked to the window and looked outside. Outside were the tribesmen being drilled by the sergeants, and the plain orchids on the ground outside the playground.

After watching for a while, Hao shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Let's not talk about whether I can win this war by relying on layout and strategy. First, in what capacity should I order and command the plant alliance's army? If

I am not a human... Even if I am a low-level race, I am confident that I will become an upstart in the Plant Alliance within half a year, and let the senior officials of the Plant Alliance recognize my abilities, although I dare not

It is said that I can control all the Plant Alliance's troops, but I can still influence at least one or two. In this way, as long as I can win the first few wars, my right to speak will become more and more important... But is this possible? I am a human,

How is it possible for humans to do all this? If I really do this, within a month, I will die from drinking water, playing games, killing myself, etc."

"Second, this war is not as simple as you think. The Hades camp appeared at the border of the Elf Empire and blocked the border of the Elf Empire. At the same time, the ancestor of the Elf was pulled into the River Styx. The traitor among the top elf clan is still unclear.

, and the vassals of the alliance around the elves, as well as the top one hundred other tribes, seem to be indifferent. The depth of the inside story is beyond your imagination. The water is so deep that even the holy gods are like chess pieces.

"

"Third, our goal is to either pass the message to my master, or to find this thing. Either one is impossible to achieve in this plant alliance, and now we have to return to the elves...

Believe it or not, no matter what identity we come back in, what awaits us will definitely be a soul extraction examination. I and you will all be treated like this, and there is no other possibility."

Nuoduo shuddered and was completely speechless for a moment.

Hao was silent for a while, and then he asked: "Apart from these, what I told you before, did you find anything in the main city this time?"

Noldo came back to his senses and said to Hao: "Yes, I got news from several underground slave societies. There is still no problem in purchasing human slaves. The price has increased slightly than before, but the increase is not big.

The only thing we need is that we need to get the official people, I should be able to do this, but we need some activity funds."

Hao thought for a while and said: "I will give you a thousand spiritual stones and buy a thousand human beings, all...all of them are young and middle-aged, no elderly, no women, no children. The remaining spiritual stones will be used as your activity funds.

Is this okay?”

Nuodu calculated the price in his mind. One thousand strong humans could only be purchased with forty or fifty spirit stones at most. In other words, of the funds given by Hao, at least nine hundred spirit stones were used as working capital. He immediately

He nodded repeatedly and said, "It can be done. This can definitely be done."

"Don't be busy yet." Hao immediately said: "I also have a request. I can handle it through official channels. This is one. Second, in addition to human slaves, I also need some dwarf slaves, whether they are dwarves or dwarf variants.

OK, all is OK, quantity

Only twenty people are enough, but this requires you to carefully select and use your ability to speak eloquently. I need these twenty people to be at least experienced blacksmiths. This cost may be a bit high. You need to consider it yourself. You can do it.

Are you here?"

Nuoduo calculated again, nodded again and said: "This can also be done, is there anything else? Let's talk about it all."

Hao smiled and shook his head, indicating that Noldo could leave.

After Noldo left, Hao rummaged through the desktop and found several design drawings. These design drawings were all marked with patterns of magic runes. These were the weapons he designed.

Ai Yi underestimated him too much. Do you really think he didn't know how important this achievement was that the magic circle could easily compress it?

After Zi Hao helped Ai Yi analyze the magic formula, he realized that everyone understands and analyzes the magic runes differently. The same shape of magic runes may become completely different on another person.

Express meaning, and the same is true for magic circles. If the runes of the magic circle are copied and the size is reduced, the result will be various errors. Because of the difference in size, the magic runes must also be changed and converted.

, and for him who can analyze the source of magic runes, this is not difficult to do.

With this alone, he could do too many things. From this, he designed several semi-magical weapons, which were equipped with mortals, especially humans, and then used Ai as a supply.

If the energy center charges these weapons on-site, they can exert a power close to that of first-order magic firearms. There may be some shortcomings in power, but it is enough for mass production. Compared with the magic firearms of the elves, I don’t know how much cheaper they are.

times.

Although it is cruel to say this, the number of his tribe and humans is extremely large. They can basically be purchased through dark side channels in any town or city, which guarantees the quantity. In addition, the mass-produced semi-magic

Weapons, as long as Ai's magic power supply can keep up, then he will have the confidence to build an army with nearly the combat power of all extraordinary professionals, and an army that is not afraid of sacrifice or consumption...

Hao's eyes were a bit unbearable. He looked back and forth at the drawings, crumpled them into a ball, and opened them again. He kept looking at them again and again. After a long time, he gritted his teeth and carefully flattened the drawings and put them away.

Arrived at the desk.

(Yeah, didn’t I already make a choice? Mu’s sacrifice was the result of my choice. I chose him to die. Do I still think I’m a good person? I’m still feeling guilty about it.

Are you trying every possible means to deceive yourself? I must continue to choose until one day in the future I don’t have to choose anymore...isn’t it...)

Hao sat on the chair and looked at the desk blankly. As the sun set, the whole room gradually became dark, and Hao had already disappeared into the darkness...

One thousand human slaves were definitely not sent all at once, and the construction of the station had not yet been completed. Even if they were sent, there would be no place to live. On the fourth day after Noldor arrived in the main city, one hundred humans were

Several bark tribesmen sent it over.

The Bark Tribe is also a race of the plant lineage, but it is a lower-level race of the plant lineage. Except for the hardening of its skin and slightly stronger physical defense, it is almost powerful. These Bark Tribe people are armed with weapons.

A hundred humans could crush them to death.

But these one hundred humans were as well-behaved as rabbits. These bark tribesmen took them to the temporary camp along the way, beating and kicking them, and they beat them really hard. These humans did not dare to resist at all, even once

When he was beaten, he immediately knelt on the ground and buried his head deeply into the soil, as if even raising his head was a sin.

Hao assigned an elf to handle the matter with these bark tribesmen. These bark tribesmen were very flattering to the elves. Hao looked at these humans and then at the bark tribesmen. His eyes were deep, but

He didn't say anything or do anything, he just hid among the tribesmen and watched the whole process.

After the hundred people settled down, Hao walked in and talked with each tribesman. These human tribesmen were as humble as ants and bugs to the foreign tribes, but they ignored Hao, who was also a human.

He even showed a provocative look.

But it didn't matter to Hao, he wouldn't pay attention to it, but silently recorded the reactions of these tribesmen to his words, and then he was delighted to find that among the hundred tribesmen, eight of them belonged to the certain tribe.

The wise tribesmen are the scholars he now appoints

The proportion of officials was much higher than he expected. After that, Hao left. He did not dare to say a word after being provoked, which made the wise tribesmen among the hundred people laugh loudly.

Laughing, causing those ignorant tribesmen to laugh too.

Then the next day, they were drilled by Hao until they couldn't even stand up. Those who dared to stab them were even hung up and beaten by Hao...

Well, it's not an adjective, but a verb, hang up, hit.