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‘The eleventh ring is not complete. It is the boundary ring between the ring and the void. ’

‘Its biggest feature is that there is no ring pressure. ’

‘Because of this, after breaking through it, the soul power will flow back into the ring, causing the soul to collapse and disintegrate in an instant. ’

When reading this, Rosen felt like he was entering the vacuum of the universe from the atmospheric environment, and he was secretly a little scared.

‘I tried my best to break through before, but now it seems that I am just courting death. ’

He continued to read.

‘Because the ring is incomplete, there is no law restriction, so the upper limit of the soul strength becomes very high. ’

‘As long as the two key problems of ‘spiritual power backflow’ and ‘power absorption’ are solved, the soul can exist in the eleventh ring and continue to become stronger. ’

‘There is no solution to the backflow of spiritual power, but there are two general solutions to power absorption. ’

‘One is the mortal belief method. The other is the soul burning method. ’

The above is Mediana’s rough summary of breaking through the eleventh ring.

There is also some knowledge written at the back, which is neither rough nor detailed, and roughly introduces the difference between the Faith Method and the Soul Burning Method.

It is very valuable and can help Rosen save a lot of research funds, but there is almost no knowledge on the specific operational details.

After all, Mediana is only a seven-ring mage, and it is very good to know so much.

Reading this knowledge, Rosen recalled his past practice experience and his understanding of the power of the magic ring, and sighed in his heart.

'In other words, the magic ring has always been well taken care of by the magic ring, and is a baby with a pacifier in his mouth. '

'And the eleventh magic ring has grown from a baby to an adult, just like humans from the earth to the universe. Without the protection of the atmosphere, even the most basic breathing needs to be solved by yourself. '

'Whether you can survive and how far you can go depends on yourself. '

'I want to break through the eleventh magic ring. I need to understand the magic ring, the soul, and the laws of the world to an extremely deep level. '

Look at another piece of knowledge, which is the Aoli conversion.

This knowledge is quite detailed and occupies the main part of the booklet.

It is not difficult, and it can be used directly after a slight modification.

He plans to give it to Cavendish and Bell, and let these two research-oriented genius mages help him study it.

And the knowledge of breaking through the eleven rings is too advanced.

No one can help him for the time being, so he can only rely on himself to find a way.

‘Hua La~’

In the private study room of the inner house of Swan Castle, Rosen put down the book, pressed one hand on it, and tapped it with his fingers.

“If what Mediana said is true, then breaking through the eleven rings is imperative.”

“This is not only my personal practice, but also related to the future destiny of the entire human race.”

Otherwise, a tragedy similar to the Howling Plains may happen in the Natural Alliance.

Just as he had money on hand, Rosen immediately pulled out the experimental plan he had written before, and made some adjustments based on the knowledge provided by Mediana, and then drafted a document named “Dawn Plan” with a confidentiality level of ‘highest’.

The document was passed to the clone, and the clone notified the general manager of internal affairs, Alai.

First, he found Stonard, the director of the Weilan Foreign Affairs Bureau, and Turilan, the director of the Security Bureau.

In the study room by the lake, the clone had written two copies of the document and handed them to his most trusted subordinates.

"I want to set up a top-secret laboratory to study the mysteries of life and soul."

"You have two tasks."

"First, help me find a group of relevant talents in the All-Nature Alliance."

"Second, secretly build a large experimental center underground in Monte County."

"The relevant requirements are all written above, you can read it yourself."

After Stonard and Turilan read it carefully, they both nodded and said in unison: "Understood!"

"Do it now."

The two immediately turned and left.

Immediately afterwards, Rosen found the acting Minister of State Kruber.

"I need the cabinet to pass an emergency appropriation of about 500,000 Oggs, which will be used for secret experimental research. The specific content cannot be disclosed because it involves Weilan's safety."

It was the first time that Kruber heard Rosen use this statement.

It was not that there was no secret experimental research in the past, but Rosen would simply explain the content.

As Rosen's confidant, he naturally had no objection and just cooperated. However, since the citizen system was adopted, there would be different voices in the cabinet.

"Lord, this is a lot of money, and a reasonable reason is needed."

After all, the family is big and the amount of government affairs has also increased to a higher level, so there is an additional permanent cabinet than in the past to assist the Duke in handling government affairs.

There are ministers of government, finance, taxation, magic, etc. in the cabinet, as well as various secretaries, a total of hundreds of people, involving all aspects of Weilan's method.

With more people, there are more voices and more procedures.

And not only are there different voices in the cabinet, but there are also many enthusiastic citizens who have nothing to do in the folk.

This group of people took the "citizen" seriously and attached great importance to the promise of Rosen, the Duke.

Although he is not very capable, he is particularly concerned about politics. He likes to keep an eye on the cabinet's every move, especially daily expenses, for fear that everyone's money will be wasted.

With Rosen's current great prestige, of course he can ignore it.

But everyone is not a fool.

After a few times of doing what one wants, the previously accumulated credit will be gone, and various laws will become a joke.

This will seriously dampen the enthusiasm of Weilan's new citizens.

Positiveness is very important. It can greatly enhance people's subjective initiative and thus greatly stimulate the improvement of production efficiency.

If this thing is gone, it will essentially regress to the aristocratic era, or even the slave era, and everyone will become zombies who live one day at a time.

Therefore, if Rosen wants to do real big things and go a long way, he must take the lead in abiding by the rules he has set.

He wants to spend money, yes, but he must let everyone know where the money is spent, and it is best to make as many people as possible feel that the money is worth spending.

Such reasons are a bit difficult for contemporary rulers to find.

Because people can't imagine things they have never seen.

But for Rosen, there are a lot of good and high-sounding explanations.

He thought for a while and said, "Let's say it's to set up a medical laboratory."

"This laboratory is mainly used to study the treatment methods of various epidemic diseases. For example, tuberculosis, pediatric lung disease, encephalopathy, fever, women's dystocia, etc."

These diseases are indeed quite harmful to the people and are one of the biggest causes of death for ordinary people. It just happens to be studied together.

Rosen also had an idea in his mind: 'It seems that we have to split the Duke's personal property and Weilan's public property. Well, it seems that this is not easy to split. "

If too much private property is split, the subordinates will naturally follow suit, and soon there will be another mountain of interests.

If less is split, it will be useless.

After careful consideration, Rosen decided to find an opportunity to split.

Because as civic awareness gradually takes root in the hearts of the people, it will always be split.

'I, the Duke, will be paid a fixed salary by the Citizens Bank just like the northern nobles. But the iron-hatted Duke passed down from generation to generation, as long as Weilan is there, the salary will not be small.'

The salary is not high, 10,000 Oger a year is just for show.

Of course, this is the explicit salary, and what is really important is the implicit welfare benefits.

For example, the use of White Swan Castle and the maintenance of it at the expense of the public, and the children receiving the best master education since childhood, etc.

On the other side, Kruber's eyes lit up: "Lord, this reason is very legitimate, I will go back to discuss the allocation of funds."

Ask again: "Lord, is 500,000 Oger enough? ”

Welan is very rich now. 18 million Oger has just been received, and there are also banknotes. A lot of money can be squeezed out at will.

"It's enough for now. If it's not enough, add more."

"Understood."

Kruber responded, but did not turn around and leave.

"Lord, there is one more thing, it's about food supply."

"In the past year, the price of food in the Wit Continent has risen by 20%. It was originally increasing in an orderly manner, but the recent rate of increase is a bit abnormal."

"What do you mean?"

This matter is very important, and Rosen is very concerned.

"It's a bit too fast, it seems that someone is manipulating it behind the scenes."

"At the same time, Weilan's self-supplied food is still insufficient, and it will need to purchase a lot of food for at least two years."

"If the price of food continues to rise like this, I'm afraid it will greatly exceed the speed at which we earn foreign currency. "

Of course Rosen knew about this.

Although the entire Weilan has been increasing its grain production, grain is not something that can be grown from the ground immediately.

Although there is no shortage of farmers and fertile land in the south, because grain crops have not been planted for a long time, there is a lack of good seeds and planting experience.

The mountain potatoes on the White Sturgeon Island have also been increasing sharply, but it takes time to reclaim wasteland, and people cannot only eat potatoes.

Therefore, it will take at least two years to achieve Weilan's self-sufficiency in grain.

So, these two years have been very passive.

Not only does it cost a lot of money to buy grain, but it may also be targeted by opponents.

"I know about this and will find a way to solve it as soon as possible. "

Kruber really couldn't think of any solution Rosen could come up with.

But past experience told him that this mage duke could always find a way out of seemingly dead ends.

So he saluted again and turned to leave.

The soul laboratory was temporarily arranged like this. Once the laboratory was set up, I believe there would be a lot of progress soon.

But the second thing Kruber said made Rosen worried.

He had a vague feeling: 'I'm afraid someone is secretly manipulating international food prices!'

Although manipulating food prices is extremely unethical, it can indeed make a lot of money, and it is also directly related to Weilan's food security.

'We have to investigate the reason.'