Traveling to another world, inheriting a mess at the beginning

Due to the lack of reliable intelligence sources, Aarons has hardly received any useful information recently.

He has no idea what happened to Keliya, and he can only rely on the third prince Luo Lan to help him get some information about the movements of Kadia and the internal forces of the empire.

A few days ago, Mo Qianyun suddenly brought back a strange thing - because Yalu hated that thing very much, Jiangyue immediately took it to study.

Although Aarons does not understand magic, what makes him wonder is why someone would deliberately hide this thing with magic?

[Brother-in-law, I have an urgent matter to inform you... My father urgently summoned me back to the palace for an audience. ]

"An audience? At this time?"

[I don't know what's going on... This news was notified to me by His Excellency Wushen through a secret line. I feel a little strange, so I used the secret line of Yumenhuahao to inform you. ]

Although the secret line spiritual talk is difficult to be eavesdropped, because it requires the use of an external one-time encryption module, the time that can be used for talk will not be very long.

Because Kulan had given Aarons an encryption module before, Aarons still knew this knowledge.

"His Excellency the God of War personally notified you through a secret line? Something is not right... Could His Majesty be in trouble?"

This matter was indeed a bit strange, so Aarons subconsciously thought of the worst result - and after connecting a series of strange things recently, he suddenly felt that his premonition might be true.

[It shouldn't be? Father has always been in good health. He is still a level 4 warrior. It is impossible for ordinary people to hurt him in the imperial city. ]

"Don't say so much, you should leave now... In addition, don't tell anyone about returning to the imperial capital, whether it is a minister or a noble, don't tell anyone."

[Okay... Then take care of yourself, brother-in-law, and we will contact each other when the emperor sister comes back. ]

After hanging up the encrypted message, Aarons immediately found a map of the empire and began to study it.

The territories of Duke Scott and the nobles of related forces occupied the entire northwest of the empire, while Duke Booker occupied the area from south to southeast.

Because the Duke of Ophir was squeezed into the corner of the northeast, the young duke planned to open a trade breakthrough... so he was actually the most likely person to betray the empire.

But Aarons didn't think he would betray - because the man with a cold appearance actually had a very blazing fire in his heart.

He came to me that time not because he really wanted to discuss any cooperation with me... but to visit Claire.

"So who is it? Who wants to subvert the existing rules and order of the empire?"

Although Aarons himself wanted to kill all these nobles, he would not rely on the power of outsiders.

And this hidden betrayer was colluding with foreign countries, trying to push the nobles and people of the empire into the abyss.

——Why does this person hate the empire so much?

"Marquis, are you free now?"

While Aarons was thinking hard, Jiang Yue, who had been staying in the research room, suddenly came to the Yumenhua.

The beautiful sage with dragon horns on her head looked unusually serious at this time.

"Teacher Jiang Yue, I don't have anything to do."

"I have just analyzed the things Qian Yun brought back... It's disgusting."

Jiang Yue usually wouldn't use such adjectives, so Aarons immediately became serious.

At this time, any details may be clues to identify the culprit, so this matter should also be very important.

"Before I explain what that thing is, you need to know a common sense in the magic world... About two hundred years ago, someone in the Magician Guild proposed a very special theory."

"Is it the period when the magic source stone began to be used on a large scale?"

"Yes, at that time, the whole continent was exploring the veins of magic source stone, so someone specifically studied the distribution of all the veins on the continent and finally drew a detailed distribution map."

Jiang Yue flipped through the bookshelf in the captain's room, and then took out a fairly complete map of the continent.

"In the center of this continent is an active volcano named Kliatis... which means [Eye of the Star]."

"I seem to have heard from Zhu Ying... I heard that there is no lava in the volcano, but actually a highly active carbon-uranium fluid."

"At that time, no one knew what carbon-uranium was, so that person was just studying the distribution of magic source stone at the beginning. But he soon discovered that the magic source stone veins on the continent seemed to extend from Kliatis."

The veins of magic source stone are like a huge spider web, extending from the volcano to the continent.in every corner.

However, humans at that time did not know that the material in the volcano was a variant of the magic source stone, so they did not connect the two at all.

"Although this is indeed a great discovery, it has no practical value. Humans were busy making various magic machines at that time and had no time to think about where the magic source stone came from."

"Then what?"

"This person finally proposed a fairly complete theory - all the magic source stones were produced by volcanic lava flowing deep in the continent, and after being squeezed to the surface and cooled and solidified, they became the current magic source stone."

The various conjectures in this theory actually have an 80% accuracy rate, but humans at that time did not care about where the magic source stone originated from, so this research soon fell into disuse.

"And he finally put forward a key guess - the magic source stone veins on the continent are actually the flow routes of the planet's energy... in short, the ground veins."

"Ground veins? Does this thing really make sense?"

"I used to think it was just the route of lava flow, but after I completed the awakening... I definitely felt the existence of the ground veins."

As the incarnation of the natural spirit, Jiang Yue can of course sense the flow of energy in the earth - and this theory that was originally shelved was also confirmed by her personally hundreds of years later.

"Warcraft is generally born on the ground veins close to the surface, and many large cities built since ancient times are actually built on large convergence points of the ground veins."

It is precisely because of the energy of the planet that these ancient settlements are so prosperous.

These key nodes of the ground veins usually produce abundant food and water sources, and after humans obtain sufficient survival resources, they will establish a stable civilization circle nearby.

"You should have understood the basics by now, right? Then I'll get to the point... The thing Qianyun brought back before was used to interfere with the earth veins."

"What?! What will happen if the earth veins are interfered with?"

"The problem will not erupt on the surface all at once. But after a period of time, various disasters will definitely occur on the surface."

Food production declines, climate change, frequent disasters - the land that has lost the nourishment of the earth veins, no matter how prosperous it was, will eventually become a barren land.

"The most disgusting thing is the thing in the metal ball... There is actually only an artificial magic beast in that thing. Although it looks like a piece of rotten meat, it can absorb various energies in nature like ordinary magic beasts, and then release specific magic power."

The artificial meat installed on the weak point of the earth vein can not only use the energy of the earth vein to hide its existence, but also use magic power to quietly block the earth vein, so that the land on the subsequent path will slowly lose the nourishment of the planet's energy.

And this is why Jiang Yue evaluated this thing as "disgusting".

"According to my judgment, this thing was only made in the last few months... If this thing is really installed in large quantities on the ground veins of various places, famine will probably begin to occur in the empire in a year or two."

After knowing such a horrible result, Aarons immediately realized another more serious problem.

"Who... why did he do this?! Is that guy planning to completely destroy the empire from beginning to end!"

This is no longer a simple struggle for interests... The hidden enemy is planning to destroy the real foundation of the empire.

Who on earth can do such a wicked thing?