The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Do you think he will agree?" Sylvia asked Leo while putting away the medicine on the table.

"Yes." Leo gave a very positive answer, and said, "He has no way to refuse, because his body doesn't have much time left for him."

"His body?" Sylvia was taken aback, looking at Leo puzzled.

Leo explained: "Do you know how he resisted the erosion of wizard power?"

"You already know his secret?" Sylvia's eyes lit up, and she immediately thought that if Leo really unlocked Henry Jones' secret, it would mean that she could also create more in the Dodd Group. of the Bloodstripe school of wizards.

Leo nodded and said: "Actually, it's very simple to put it bluntly. Only extraordinary power can fight against extraordinary power."

Sylvia didn't understand the words for a while, but she quickly realized and asked confirmingly, "Is it the power of the gods?"

Leo nodded again, and said: "I feel the power of the Lady of the Lake in him. If I guessed correctly, he not only has the Turing Radical Circle of the Bloodstripe School wizards, but also has the The sacred motto of the Lady of the Lake blessed by the gods, who is using the powers of the gods to weaken the influence of wizard powers on the mind."

"It seems that the effect seems to be good." Sylvia quickly had some application countermeasures in her mind, and said, "We have a good relationship with the Church of the Lady in the Lake, the Church of the Sea God, and the White Deer in the Black Forest. We can also use them to do this by the holy precepts of

"You don't think that this kind of thing has no harm, only benefits?" Leo rejected Sylvia's proposal, and said: "If you say that what you gain from becoming a wizard of the Bloodstripe School is to become an extraordinary person, what you pay is your own. Mind, then what is gained by using the sacred words of the gods is that the mind can remain normal, so what is the sacrifice?"

"Physical?" Sylvia guessed following Leo's previous words.

Leo nodded and said: "I can feel that his body has undergone irreversible alienation, and he may still be able to bear this alienation now, but if it continues, the power of gods and wizards will be in his hands A more chaotic alienation is caused in the body, and he may be worse than death by then."

"Can you cure him?" Sylvia asked again.

"No." Leo replied truthfully, "If he can fully cooperate with my inspection, I should be able to prepare a medicine that slows down the alienation, but it can't cure it. If he doesn't cooperate with my inspection, my medicine can at most only To ease the pain that occurred during his alienation process."

Sylvia thought for a while and said, "Even so, it's not bad, at least it can maintain combat effectiveness for decades."

Although Henry Jones' Bloodstripe School wizards have flaws and future troubles, Sylvia has no intention of giving up. On the contrary, she is still optimistic about this kind of artificial wizards, and feels that she will test the feasibility after returning.

Leo did not express any objection, but he was not interested in this matter, because even if this kind of bloodstripe school wizard succeeded, the power he could master was not very strong, and the effect of the mutation potion he researched would not be better than that of the bloodstripe school of thought. How much worse is the wizard, and it doesn't have such a strong side effect.

Like Henry Jones, he needs to maintain the fragile balance in his body, and he needs to constantly obtain the blessings of the divine power of the Lady of the Lake, in exchange for the sacred proverbs of the Lady of the Lake on his body not to be invalidated, and he also needs to have a strong enough will, otherwise, even if he has the sacred proverbs It's useless, this kind of power will be affected by the church at the beginning, and it will give the church too many opportunities to manipulate, so as long as you think about it, Sylvia will never use this method to attack Create artificial wizards.

"Are you really going to buy two million slaves?" Leo didn't continue to ask the wizard of the Bloodstripe School, but asked another question.

Hearing Leo's question, Sylvia shrugged indifferently, and said: "As long as he can get two million slaves, I naturally have no reason to refuse, regardless of the population of the New Porto area compared to The surrounding area is already quite a lot, but if the expansion rate of the Dodd Group is in accordance with my plan, the population will become a big problem. At that time, the surrounding kingdoms will definitely issue a population restriction order like a food restriction order. They will allow their population to flow into our territory again, and instead of trying to find a way at that time, it is better to prepare in advance."

The population problem is not only a problem in the New Bodo area, but also exists in the entire Vinylon World. The wave of mutant monsters will bring a large number of casualties. The number of newborns cannot make up for the loss of adults. Over the years, the population of all countries and regions in the world has shown a downward trend.

It's just that other life-and-death issues are more eye-catching. In addition, a large number of people have given up living in the suburbs and are concentrated in towns with walls. The illusion of a large population.

However, an illusion is an illusion after all, and it will be punctured sooner or later. At that time, the restrictions on the flow of people from various countries will become extremely strict, so Sylvia wants to use slaves from the wasteland to fill this population gap.

Although there will be many hidden dangers in introducing population from the wasteland tribes to fill the vacancies, such as the problem of mixed-race tribes that the wasteland tribes have to face now, it will definitely appear in the new Bodo area in the future, but as far as the current problem is concerned, the population problem is the most important issue. The primary problem, as for other problems, we will deal with them slowly after the population problem is solved.

For Leo and Silvia, they will have a long lifespan, enough time to stabilize the situation and solve problems.

The two only chatted in the room for a while before leaving the exchange. When they left, they did not leave any address or other information. With Henry Jones' ability, he should be able to know where they are now.

The streets of Beberante were built by the colonists at the time. Although it was abandoned for a long time and many places were damaged, the main body of the street and even the buildings on both sides of the street are still intact because of the extremely strong stone materials used. Well preserved.

At the beginning, when Beberant was being rebuilt, the builders at that time wanted to destroy these streets, dig out all the stones, and rebuild the city, because these streets were not a good thing in the memory of the tribal people. For most people, every crevice in these streets is filled with the flesh and blood and resentment of the tribal people who became slaves at the beginning.

However, when ideals face reality, no matter how great the ideals are, they often have to make concessions for reality. After some calculations, the builders at that time found that the cost of overthrowing everything and rebuilding far exceeded expectations. The city may not be able to compare with Beberant after being abandoned for many years.

So in the end, the builders at that time had to compromise for reality, and directly on the abandoned site of Beberant, relying on a solid foundation and the main body of the building, they rebuilt the city at a very small cost.

What's interesting is that the original builders wanted to rebuild the city into a trading city connecting the north and the south, giving the surrounding tribes a place where they could provide shelter, but the result was counterproductive. It returned to its original appearance and became the largest slave trade center in the entire Mozambique continent, and it can even be said to be the slave trade center in the entire Vinen continent.

It's just that the slaves sold in Beberante are no longer just those tribal people. A considerable part of them are civilized people from outside countries. Interestingly, some of them are even sold as slaves voluntarily.

Now the world is like the New Porta area where basically everyone has a job and everyone can eat. There are very few stable areas. The vast majority of people are living in precarity. Compared with the turbulent In terms of the external situation, the situation in the wasteland seems to be much more stable, at least the number and scale of large mutated monster waves appearing in the wasteland are much smaller.

Some people ventured into the mutated monster wave that was gradually forming to find the reason. They found that even the mutated monster wave that appeared in the depths of the wilderness would rarely attack the wilderness tribe, unless the wilderness tribe happened to block their way forward, they usually It will pass through the endless forests of the wasteland, enter the kingdoms of the Mosang continent, and attack the cities there.

There are different opinions on the cause of this situation. Some people say that these mutated monsters are nature’s backlash against human beings, which is caused by the destruction of nature by human industry outside. However, the reason why mutated monsters do not actively attack the wilderness tribes is because the wilderness tribes fear nature and respect the nature. Naturally wait.

This statement has been recognized by many people. Almost all the people who came to the wasteland to seek refuge, whether they moved to the tribal alliance in the northern part of the wasteland or those who went to the wasteland to sell themselves as slaves, believed in this statement, and believed that the wasteland was the last place for human beings. of pure land.

However, for those in power in the Outer Kingdom, they all scoffed at such claims. As for the evidence, it was easy to find, for example, there were also some sudden outbreaks of mutated monsters that would frantically attack all the surrounding tribes.

However, even if there is sufficient evidence to prove that the so-called natural revenge theory is completely nonsense, for ordinary people, it is clear that the credibility of those in power is not enough, and the number of people who choose to seek refuge in the wasteland is also increasing day by day.

Just like on the streets of Beberant now, among the pedestrians coming and going, the ratio of the local aborigines of the tribe to those who took refuge in other places is basically one to one.

For people who fled to the wilderness from other kingdoms, where to live is a big problem. Traditional tribal towns are obviously impossible to be their choice, and their living habits cannot adapt to the traditional way of life of the tribe. Emerging cities built on the basis of colonial cities became their first choice.

Among the many refurbished tribal cities, a city like Beberant that still retains a large number of colonial buildings and living habits is their best choice.

It is also because of the influx of a large number of fleeing people that the subsequent development of the city of Beberant completely violated the original intention of the original rebuilders. The merchants who engaged in slave trading like Henry Jones were mostly non-tribal people. This also made many tribal people think of the arrest and enslavement of the tribe's natives by outsiders during the colonial period, so the relationship between the local tribe's natives and the later refugees has always been very bad, and there are constant conflicts with each other.

Just now, on the four streets that Leo and Sylvia passed, they saw no less than six quarrels between tribesmen and outsiders. Look, if those in power in Beberant don't find a way to quell this confrontation, sooner or later something big will happen to Beberant.

However, for Sylvia, this is not what she should care about. She is more concerned about whether Beberant has what she needs than whether Beberant will have a race war.

The reason why Sylvia and Leo stayed in Beberante was not only because of Henry Jones, a slave trader, but also because of the semi-annual mining fair here.

Different from areas outside the wilderness, even if the ownership of the mines in the wilderness is traded, it is not permanent. Usually, a new mining site only has a one-year mining period. If you count the time for miner recruitment, equipment placement, etc., the real The mining time may only be a few months, more than half a year if you are lucky, and less than half a year if you are unlucky.

And those mines that have been mining for a long time, such as the mine on the outskirts of Badisa, the mining time for each transaction is much longer, usually several years or even ten years, but no matter how long the time is, no mine If you can dig it, it's not worth it.

Therefore, even if the new mining site has a short mining time, it is still the end point that all ore merchants pay attention to, especially in the wilderness. Most of the mines are open-pit mines, and the mines can be dug out only by digging on the ground. Time will pay back.

Before coming to the wasteland this time, Sylvia had already received all kinds of information from offices in various places in the wasteland. Among these information, information about mining sites was the most important. After all, an industrial group like Dodd Group, all kinds of The purchase, mining and storage of ore are the most important things.

In these information, three mining sites are mentioned. These three mining sites are open-pit mines that produce high-quality tungsten, tin and other ores. Two of the mining sites will be re-auctioned after expiration. This mining point has been auctioned for the third time during the mining period. The value is slightly lower, but the mining time has been extended a lot, and the remaining one mining point is newly discovered, and it is also an open-pit mine. The uranium crystals of the catalyst are extremely valuable, and the mining time for a transaction is also extremely short, only half a year.

Although these three mining sites have their own advantages and disadvantages, Sylvia hopes to win them all, and the trade fair for these three mining sites happens to be in Beberant, at noon tomorrow.