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‘Bang~~~’

The car door closed gently, blocking out all the noise of the world.

The car became unusually quiet.

This is the latest electric car built for Duke Weilan by Weilan’s First Car Factory in conjunction with major weapons research bureaus at a huge cost.

Rosen drove the car himself, and Naya sat in the passenger seat.

Both of them used the legendary transformation technique to disguise themselves, and they looked like a pair of ordinary middle-aged people.

The appearance of the car was also covered with transformation, and it looked exactly like an ordinary civilian electric car.

“Is this a black stone car?” Naya was surprised.

Rosen shook his head, stepped on the accelerator, and drove onto a newly opened tempered clay avenue.

In the passenger seat, Naya carefully felt the means of transportation that Rosen showed her.

First of all, it is very safe, with all kinds of shielding and defense arrays, and the body is extremely thick, no worse than her black stone car.

Secondly, it is amazingly comfortable to ride, far surpassing her black stone car.

The thick leather chair under her was not only soft and thick, but also wrapped her like a broad embrace. The constant temperature airflow array in the car completely isolated the summer heat.

Even if the speed was greatly increased, the car was as quiet as ever, and there was no smell of burning black stone in her nose.

That was fine. As long as she was willing to spend money, Nawat's black stone car could do it.

What shocked Naya the most was that the car accelerated very quickly, and the high-speed changing scenery outside the car window also fully demonstrated this, but she hardly felt any bumps.

For a moment, she even had sensory distortion, thinking that the moving scenery outside the window did not really exist, but was a spell phantom.

The sensitivity of the legendary wizard allowed her to quickly find the reason.

"It's the force spell driven by the legendary crystal!"

She found that every time the car accelerated, a completely opposite force would act on her, almost perfectly offsetting the discomfort of acceleration.

Similarly, there were similar phenomena when turning and braking.

She asked directly: "How can the adjustment speed of the force spell be so fast?"

Rosen smiled slightly: "It is a brand-new achievement of magic, called 'Force Vector Control'. This is a military technology, a system spell composed of multiple sub-spells. The basic principle is not difficult, but the structure is very complicated."

"I personally don't think it is necessary to install it on the car, but those research mages insisted on installing it for me in order to show off their achievements to me."

This technology comes from the Aircraft Research Bureau.

It is very powerful. It is currently widely used in high-speed blasting unmanned aircraft. It can greatly stabilize the flight posture of high-speed aircraft. Installing it on the car is really an overkill.

After a pause, he explained: "This is the masterpiece of our Weilan First Car Factory. Its scientific name is 'Black Oil Lightning Car'. It has not been fully promoted yet, but the technology is mature."

"The power to drive the car comes directly from the lightning magic weapon, and ultimately comes from an oil extracted from black stone. We call it 'Black Stone Extraction Light Oil', or black oil for short. Of course, it is not actually black, but transparent and slightly yellow."

"Because it is oil, it can be transported into the combustion chamber through a pipeline, avoiding the tediousness of adding black stone manually."

"At the same time, the products of oil combustion are all gas, so there is no need to clean the combustion chamber again and again."

"Finally, the body is formed in one piece using a large-scale deformation technique dedicated to engineering, which avoids the loosening of structural connectors due to long-term use as much as possible, which not only increases the firmness of the body, but also avoids various annoying noises to the greatest extent."

While speaking, Rosen stepped on the accelerator, and the electric car suddenly accelerated violently, and the speed exceeded 100 kilometers per hour in a few seconds.

Even at such a high speed, the cabin is still very quiet and the body is still stable.

This is not only the excellent quality of the electric car itself, but also because the road surface is extremely wide and smooth.

As long as you have eyes, you can see that such traffic quality is several generations ahead of Nawat!

What shocked Naya even more was that they were not the only cars on the road.

In fact, there were quite a lot of cars on the road, and the speed was not slow, but the big and small cars were on their own roads in an orderly manner.

"Is it like this in the whole Weilan?"

Rosen shook his head: "Of course not."

"This road has just been opened, with a total length of 150 kilometers. Most of the cars on the road are also public assets, and the drivers have undergone rigorous training."

"Only a very small number of cars are private property, accounting for less than one percent."

"But everything is improving rapidly."

"Soon, wide and smooth roads like this will be spread throughout Weilan, and will greatly improve the efficiency of cargo transportation between regions."

This is obvious, Naya nodded in agreement.

After driving for about an hour, Rosen turned the rudder and turned from the tempered clay avenue into an equally flat and wide fork road.

"Where are we going now?"

"There is a river ahead. A new shipyard has just opened by the river. It can quickly manufacture various small and medium-sized ships."

"Quickly?"

Naya didn't quite understand the meaning of fast.

After a while, the car drove to a high ground by the river.

Rosen parked the car on the open space on the side of the road, and then used the "Eye of Glory" to make the shipyard below the high ground appear in the car.

"Look at this pillar carved with runes. This is the most core manufacturing tool of the shipyard, called the "Pillar of Creation."

"You see, a large amount of shipbuilding raw materials are sent to the slipway under the Pillar of Creation. The total weight of these materials is about 100 tons."

"Under the joint control of multiple engineering mages, these materials can be fused and deformed at once to form the main hull of a small ship."

"If there are sufficient materials, such a shipyard can build 15 inland waterway cargo ships a day, each with a carrying capacity of more than 200 tons."

The "Arcane Transformation Circle" has two application directions, one is food creation and the other is transformation.

The Pillar of Creation is the application of large-scale transformation.

The one in front of me is a civilian shipyard, and the Pillars of Creation equipped are far from the largest.

The largest one is at Weilan First Shipyard. That thing can deform 5,000 tons of materials at a time and directly create a warship.

The First Shipyard has currently built two pillars of creation and is expected to build 20.

If the horsepower is fully activated by then, the 5,000-ton Blackstone battleship can launch one battleship in one day and 30 ships in one month, which is faster than launching dumplings.

Naya was shocked as she looked at the various craftsmen and mages busy around the Pillar of Creation, and at the small cargo ship that was rapidly taking shape.

"So, this is how this car was transformed?"

"Similarly, this car uses a high-speed precision deformation table. The scale is much smaller than the Pillar of Creation, but the advantage is that it is fast and precise."

"In short, we have developed many magic weapons based on the same principle to adapt to various application fields."

After a pause, he revealed a little: "Similar technologies are also used in the manufacture of various weapons."

Naya was slightly shocked.

She also understands the arcane transformation circle.

Navat also has many applications, but it is far less effective and widely used than Weilan.

Because she can see clearly that the arcane conversion circle is only the basic principle, and all kinds of fantastic ideas in subsequent engineering applications are also very important.

A wonderful idea is just a small improvement. When countless wonderful ideas are gathered together, there will be a qualitative leap.

For example, in the private shipyard in front of her, Naya found that the workers cooperated extremely well with each other, and each worker was only responsible for a small part of the work.

The advantage of this is that each worker is very familiar with his or her own work. Not only is the work efficiency extremely high, but the quality of the product is also very stable.

And whimsical ideas like this happen to be what Nahuat lacks the most.

Because Nahuat devotes too many resources to fighting demons, not enough is devoted to encouraging innovation.

The people also live in a state of vigilance against the devil all the time, their spirits are always tense, and naturally they lack many sparks of inspiration.

When all the factors are added together, Nahuat excels in demon defense, but has obvious shortcomings in the creation of social wealth.

All kinds of thoughts turned into a long sigh: "The plane of Dritan is lucky to be able to avoid the prying eyes of demons for a long time."

Rosen nodded in approval: "But this kind of luck will never exist forever. In the foreseeable future, the invasion of demonic forces will definitely intensify significantly."

Naya was relieved to hear this, and she looked up at Rosen.

"Master Rosen, I'm very glad that you have such a sense of crisis, but if a powerful demon like the Lord of Shadows descends on the Natural Alliance, how will you deal with it?"

After all, there is no blood soul army of Nahuat here, nor is there the vigilance of all the people. At the same time, there is very little experience in fighting against demons.

Relying on one legendary mage alone is far from being a match for the six legendary demons.

Rosen was not worried at all about meeting the Lord of Shadows. He smiled and said: "Master Naya, don't forget, I, Weilan, have enough mana crystals."

Naya was startled, then patted her forehead gently: "Oh~ I forgot such a good thing."

Most of the worries in her heart immediately dissipated, because the legendary crystal is indeed an artifact that can turn the situation around!

With this thing, Nahuat will have a large number of mages with legendary power, and the Duke of Wayland in front of him will definitely store a large amount of legendary mana.

With his superb fighting skills, as long as he has enough legendary power to support him, ordinary demons are really no match for him.

Therefore, the emergence of the legendary crystal is a turning point for mortals to fight against the life in the void.

She felt much better and asked with a smile: "So, the Grand Duke of Weilan, do you have anything good to show me?"

Rosen smiled slightly: "Aren't you worried about the Radiant Empire's aircraft? Then I will let you see our aircraft."

As he spoke, he raised his hand and touched the interior of the car. The light and shadow changed, and a background of blue sky and white clouds appeared.

"This is the sky above us, about eight thousand meters high."

"Wait a moment, about five minutes."

While speaking, Rosen raised his hand and touched a rune on the car, and said to the rune: "Execute plan No. 1."

Then, Naya heard a very concise and serious response: "Received."

Obviously, this is Weilan's unique communication weapon.

There are also magical weapons with similar functions called Nawat. Naya has not studied the principle in detail, so she is not surprised.

She waited patiently.

After the fourth minute, a group of light suddenly passed through the image at an extremely fast speed.

‘Swipe~~’ I swiped across it, and I vaguely felt it was a silver-white aircraft, but it was moving very fast, and I couldn’t see its specific appearance at all.

"What is it? I didn't see it clearly at all!"

Rosen immediately opened the door and got out of the car: "Come, look at the sky."

Naya followed and got off the car, and saw an inconspicuous white line in the sky extending rapidly towards the distant sky.

At first glance, it didn't seem fast, but considering that the other side was eight thousand meters high, and after a little calculation based on the angle difference, Naya found that the speed of this thing reached an extremely amazing level.

It was a speed that Nawat's airship could not even imagine!

The white line in the sky appeared for about thirty seconds, and then disappeared without a trace.

She subconsciously asked: "Where did it go?"

"It's still in the sky, but the invisibility spell has been activated."

When saying this, Rosen showed a hint of ostentatious pride on his face.

"Madam, perhaps the Glorious Empire was once far ahead in invisibility, but our Weilan's invisibility is not bad either."

"I believe that in some aspects of invisibility performance, it may not be worse than the Glorious Empire, and may even have surpassed it."

Naya didn't believe it.

She said seriously: "The Glorious Empire has more than 600 million people and has been developing for many years. Weilan only has 30 million and has just started. The total investment in the field of invisibility is probably 100 times different."

"Why do you surpass them?"

Rosen immediately felt that this was a key question.

Not only Naya was asking, but also the faction behind Naya.

They were asking themselves: 'Why should we give up cooperation with the Glorious Empire and support you Weilan? '

He knew that he had to explain his advantages.

So, Rosen also put away his casual attitude and answered seriously.

"Master Naya, what you said is all right, but it does not fully reflect the current real situation."

Seeing that Rosen changed his previous casual attitude due to intimacy, Naya immediately returned to work: "Master Rosen, then please point out the real situation."

Rosen began to explain one by one. "First, we, Weilan, are just starting out, but our starting point is not much different from that of the Glorious Empire."

"The reason is that we once seized a batch of advanced glorious magic weapons from the Glorious Empire on the battlefield, and I also studied the power of glory carefully with the keenness of the legendary realm. In some aspects of the understanding of the power of glory, I even surpassed the Lord of Glory."

"And this is the real starting point of our invisibility. Obviously, this starting point is not much worse than that of the Glorious Empire."

Naya nodded in agreement: "You are right."

Rosen continued:

"Second, although Weilan has only 30 million people, the entire Natural Alliance has nearly 600 million people. In terms of population size, there is no obvious gap between the Natural Alliance and the Glorious Empire."

Naya felt something was wrong, and she immediately stopped: "Wait, Weilan is yours, The Natural Alliance is not. You can't put the Natural Alliance on your head. "

Rosen smiled: "The Natural Alliance is indeed not mine, but the flow of talent, business exchanges, and trade markets of the Natural Alliance are completely open to Weilan."

"Except for Aaron, there is almost no barrier in other kingdoms and duchies."

"And because of my personal reputation in the Natural Alliance, the top talents of the entire Natural Alliance are pouring into Weilan fiercely."

"Master Naya, we all know that in the development of cutting-edge magic, ten thousand farmers are no match for a wizard who has received advanced magic education."

"And a thousand mages with higher education are no match for a top wizard with outstanding talents."

"The truth is, in terms of the number of top wizard talents, my Weilan is no better than the Glorious Empire. How much is the gap between the two countries? Perhaps it has reached half of the Glorious Empire. "

Naya nodded slowly: "I haven't done a detailed investigation in this regard, but with your status and achievements in magic, it is indeed enough to attract a large number of mages to come and join you. I will assume that what you said is correct."

"But even if it is true, the number is still half. 50 people fight 100, you still have no chance of winning."

Rosen stretched out his third finger: "Finally, it is the institutional advantage of my Weilan."

"The Glorious Empire is an empire with emperors and nobles, and the emperors and nobles control a lot of national resources. "

"Although it has been reformed over the years, the intensity is not great. Resources used for personal enjoyment still account for more than 70% of national resources. "

"And our Weilan system is not much different from Nawat, you must be Know the advantages of this system. "

"I can also tell you clearly that my Weilan can use more than 90% of the national resources for development. "

Naya blinked: "Duke, your Swan Castle is not cheap."

Rosen immediately said: "Swan Castle is not mine alone, but also the administrative center of the entire Weilan. I personally only occupy less than one-fifth of the area of ​​​​Swan Castle. "

"But even if Swan Castle belongs to me alone, it is far less luxurious than the Lord of Glory."

"The Empire's Never Night Palace, the area of ​​​​the horse farm alone, is three times the size of my Swan Castle. Not to mention that there are a large number of aristocratic interest groups in the country."

Naya immediately said: "But Weilan is too small. Even if you take out 90% of the resources for development, and the Glorious Empire only takes 30%, the actual resources invested are still far greater than yours. "

Rosen immediately said: "My Weilan is making money crazily from the entire Natural Alliance. Of course, it is still far less than the Glorious Empire, but the difference is not that great. "

"At the same time, I have also developed some financial means of making money, which can advance future money to use now. "

"The overall result is that if the Glorious Empire can spend one gold coin to develop magic, then I, Weilan, can spend two or even three gold coins to do the same thing."

"Of course, Weilan's current comprehensive strength is definitely not as good as the Glorious Empire, but we have unique advantages in some areas. These advantages allow us to protect ourselves and even defeat our opponents in some areas."

There has never been a real victory of the weak over the strong in the world. It's just that the wise use their own strategies to create local strength and hit the soft spots of powerful opponents, thus achieving the superficial victory of the weak over the strong.

But in essence, it's still the strong defeating the weak.

Rosen currently uses a lot of resources to develop high-speed unmanned blasting aircraft.

He also believes that this move is enough to help him win any offshore defense war.

Naya has done some research on Weilan and knows that what Rosen said is not a big problem.

Seeing Rosen speak so confidently, she was also greatly encouraged.

Because the voices supporting the Glorious Empire in Nawat are very loud, and even many people in her faction believe that there is no need to confront Duke Weilan and Sassmar.

But Rosen's record of killing demons in succession was too dazzling, and the results of his magic he shared were also amazing, which convinced some people to support Rosen with the idea of ​​giving it a try.

But it was just a try. If they saw that the situation was not right, they would give up immediately.

Therefore, her trip to the plane was actually under great pressure.

But now, she was completely determined to support Rosen.

Seeing the young duke facing the sun, with a vigorous look, she couldn't help but smile teasingly: "Grand Duke, if someone who doesn't know hears you say this, they will definitely think you have a delusion."

Of course, Rosen could hear Naya's joke, and he could also feel that she was completely convinced by him, and he was very happy in his heart.

He smiled and said, "My sweetheart, the saints said that valuable information in the world must come from down-to-earth investigations, rather than rumors hanging around your mouth. You have perfectly practiced this."

"You remember the saints' words clearly."

"I remember the words of the truly great people clearly, because their words contain the most valuable knowledge in the world."

After saying that, he turned back to the car: "Let's go, I'll take you to see our newly opened flour mill."

"It's my honor."