The Wizarding Age

As a newly emerged giant city, Crimson Wing has a terrifying population of up to two million.

In the magic world where transportation and resources are not so abundant, this is already rare and precious.

You know, the definition of cities in the wizard world is: a small city with a population of 10,000 to 20,000, a medium city with a population of 20,000 to 50,000, a large city with a population of 50,000 to 90,000, and a giant city with a population of more than 90,000...

Such a definition standard naturally has its deep reasons, that is, the restrictions on transportation, food and water sources!

In the higher planes such as the wizard world, although wizards have already flown into the sky and hid in the ground, they can turn rivers and seas upside down and move mountains with a wave of their hands. But in the lower class of society, in the mortal world, they still adhere to a more primitive lifestyle such as farming, fishing, hunting, and animal husbandry.

The lives of wizards and mortals are almost like heaven and earth, and the huge difference is simply unimaginable. Wizards would rather spend a huge amount of resources to breed and cultivate some sweet fruits and vegetables, and would not spend a little bit of thought to improve the yield of rice and grains for mortals.

This means that the grain produced by a large number of farmlands and cultivated land is not enough to feed too many people. Ordinary farmers have simple meals and work hard all year round, but they can only fill their stomachs. If they want to eat meat and have a good meal, in addition to raising some livestock, they can only venture into the forest to hunt.

Therefore, the lack of grain output makes it impossible for a population to be too dense in the region, otherwise the food problem alone will give the rulers a headache.

If there is a shortage of local food, can it be imported from the outside?

This has to mention the terrible roads and transportation in the magic world.

Most of the roads in the wizarding world are simple and rough dirt roads, which are ordinary dirt routes. There are many travelers and caravans walking, and the simple roads are trampled out by rolling. Such roads are simply impassable on rainy days. Even if the weather is fine, the potholes and stones everywhere can turn a trip into a disaster.

Most of the cargo transportation here relies on load-carrying carriages, a kind of wooden carriage pulled by special wildebeests. Its characteristics are small cargo capacity, easy to break and slow...

Such roads and such transportation methods can handle short-distance transportation of some things. It is simply a joke to continuously import basic living materials such as food, drinking water, and firewood from hundreds of miles away every day.

It is this series of backwardness and primitiveness that restricts the emergence of giant cities!

Even the main cities of several famous 4th-level forces in the central part of the continent have a permanent population of only 110,000 or 200,000. It's not that they can't gather more people, but they really can't afford the resource disaster caused by a large population.

In contrast, the giant city of Crimson Wings has gathered a population of about two million, and the deep meaning contained in it makes many top wizards who come from afar secretly puzzled.

Could it be that the resources of the Crimson Family are already so abundant that they can benefit ordinary people? But isn't it a huge waste to consume resources on these lowly and despicable mortals?

You know, these mortals don't have any wizard talent. Their only value is probably to enrich the territory, and the other is to live desperately, using the huge number of the whole to pile up a certain proportion of wizard apprentices.

Only those wizard apprentices are worth cultivating, and it is worth the wizard family to pour resources into them. And mortals without any talent are just like mules and livestock in the eyes of many wizards. They are just a tool to maintain the necessary population!

Therefore, they never disdain to spend time and energy on these useless people, let alone solve their problems and improve their lives.

However, this huge wizard city, Crimson Wing, is obviously different!

This is a strange city that integrates witchcraft into society and life.

Uniform streets, clean and flat stone hardened roads, rows of shops and stores, living areas, commercial areas and entertainment areas with the same style... And on the streets, in addition to the crowded pedestrians, the most surprising thing is the numerous cargo magic machines and metal sports cars.

The Crimson Wings have abandoned the slow and inefficient horse-drawn carriages and used metal magic machines driven by magic batteries as their main means of transportation. The vehicles running on the roads are no longer slow-moving horse-drawn trucks, but strange magic machines made of all metal.

Small goods are transported by land-based magic machines, while the real bulk goods are transported by strange goblin airships.

After switching to magic power, these goblin airships no longer have the shocking sight of steam everywhere they go, nor the huge noise of propellers whirring. They shuttle back and forth in the sky silently, following a certain special flight trajectory, coming and going in a flash, with a sense of booming magic machine civilization!

Since the Crimson Family obtained the stable Quelras alloy from the Molten City, the creation of the magic furnace has never stopped. In this way, magic energy is no longer a so-called problem that troubles the Crimson Family.

Many goblin shops were opened in Crimson Wing City, openly selling unarmed magic machines and providing free magic battery charging. Such behavior undoubtedly provided the greatest convenience for the promotion of magic machines.

A land-based magic machine that can run continuously for hundreds of miles without sleep is even more cost-effective than raising an entire caravan. Therefore, in the entire Crimson Wing City, those ancient and primitive mule and horse caravans are almost no longer seen.

Instead, there are land-based magic machines that run as fast as lightning.

However, for the sake of pedestrian safety, all land-based magical machines entering Crimson Wings can only run at the lowest speed, and must also drive on dedicated petrified roads.

The large-scale promotion and application of magical equipment and the fruition of witchcraft civilization have also allowed Crimson Wings to give birth to many strange professions that are not available in the outside world. Like magic machine technicians, magic machine repairmen, airship pilots, magic seed researchers, cleaning staff, urban law enforcement teams...

I have to say that this is a new world that is completely different from other wizarding cities in the wizarding world! The energy and vitality contained in it are somewhat incomprehensible, incomprehensible, and incomprehensible even to top wizards like Monash Gaia.

"Did that Greem come up with these new gadgets after he was full?" Monash Gaia put down the car curtain, with a look of disbelief on his face: "What's the use of him serving these humans so well? When the enemy comes, They're useless, they might as well be a wizard apprentice who can throw small fireballs!"

"You don't need to worry about this..." Alfred, the lord of Molten City sitting opposite, smiled and stroked his mustache, and whispered: "Just tell me whether the residents of this city are happy or not. ?”

"Happiness and happiness are of no use. What can we achieve by wasting resources and energy on them? Can they help us conquer a secondary plane?" Monash Gaia is obviously a typical person who puts blood first and wizard first. A staunch supporter of the theory, he is not interested in these fancy things in front of him: "With their fragile little bodies, I am afraid that as soon as they arrive in the alien plane, half of them will die before the other party comes to kill..."

The Molten City Lord shook his head and smiled, instead of arguing with him, he changed the subject.

"You have seen the changes in this Crimson Wing, haven't you noticed that it is different from other wizard cities?"

"You mean magic?"

"Yes! You should also feel that this city is full of magic energy. It is almost a prosperous city supported by magic energy. Then you are not curious, where does their magic energy come from? Don't tell me which wizards' high schools it comes from. Towers, they cannot support such a huge demand..."

"What do you mean...the Crimson Family has some kind of endless energy? What is it, a treasure or some kind of witch formation, or some special alien means?"

"I have already investigated it. It is a special device called the Magic Furnace, which can continuously extract violent magical energy from the void world and reconcile and tame it..."

"Isn't that exactly the same as the Elemental Altar!"

"It's not the same. At least the elemental altar needs to choose a fixed leyline node to build, and the construction cost is astonishingly high. But the magic furnace they built is a furnace that can be moved at will and can be loaded with energy on any magic machine. Source." Alfred narrowed his eyes slightly and said with infinite emotion.

"No wonder the Crimson Family is able to use metal magic weapons on a large scale. It turns out that it relies on these endless magical energy! If any civilization or force wants to develop and grow, the minimum requirement is energy and resources, and they have no shortage of energy. Well, as long as we continue to expand outwards and seize the necessary resources from other planes, it is not difficult to build a huge force..." Monash Gaia also sighed sadly: "No wonder that Greem can still stir up trouble everywhere. The more they fight, the stronger they get. It turns out that this is the real reason why they become stronger!"

"Don't think so much. This time Greem summoned us all here to discuss how to deal with the coming demonic tide. Clara and I have a very clear attitude. Everything will be based on your direction, brother. If that Greem If the request is not too excessive, we will reluctantly agree to it. If his blackmail is too harsh, I hope you can argue with reason and not let him do whatever he wants..."

Hearing this, Monash Gaia, the leader of the Golden Clan, had a half-smiling expression on his face, and said calmly: "Is this the attitude of you and Clara?"

"And Florentino Ariza and Roderick... Among the wizards in the Central Region, you are the only one who can compete with Greem. So..."

"So you just pushed me out and roasted me on the fire?" A sarcastic smile appeared on Monash Gaia's face.

"It's not about opposing that Greem, it's just about arguing with reason!" Alfred couldn't help but laugh sarcastically.

Strength represents status.

Without strength, even their group of fourth-level wizards felt a little weak when speaking.