Chapter 658 The Sound of the Horn
The emperor is not a useless idiot, and now he knows that he lost the war because of his great achievements. Now that he carefully examined the gap between himself and Rody, he felt that the other party really didn't look like an "aristocratic ruler" in the traditional sense.
He seemed to emerge from a rock suddenly, his parents died early, and he came from a humble background. However, he is also extremely powerful. Judging by his current record, he is almost at the level of "enemy of a thousand men". After the intelligence department contacted many battles related to "Arrow Sneak Attack", it was basically confirmed that Roddy belonged to "the upper limit of strength cannot be achieved". Judgment" role.
And such a person, relying on a ruined city to rise suddenly, what did he rely on?
There are not many troops, and the economic strength is not strong. Making the kingdom rich cannot rely on words alone. What Charles II considers most every day is how to face his most troublesome opponent at the moment—yes, he was defeated in the "Holy Temple" After Efta took control, the royal family and Efta no longer had a huge disparity, but stood on an equal footing.
Roddy, who has replaced Augustine, has become the thorn in the side of the entire royal family and aristocratic group.
It stands to reason that what everyone should be worried about now is whether Efta took the opportunity to go south and continue to attack, but when he opened the newspaper, he found that he had no such intention at all. On the contrary, Efta is engaged in internal construction: yesterday was "the first phase of the construction of the Elson City-Hollier City Expressway was completed", and today is "the opening of the Elson City-Jacob Town Intercity Transport Train" , just by listening to it, you can know that this is something that requires a lot of manpower and material resources to build...
In fact, Charles II was also curious about what the "highway" and "intercity transport train" were, but the intelligence troops sent had not yet responded to this, so he could only sit here and wait. But behind the news, a group of statistical data made him unprecedentedly vigilant:
On the piece of paper next to his hand, the names of magic apprentices, assistants and even low-level magicians who left under the royal family and nobles in the past week were clearly recorded.
There are so many people, the total number of people exceeds one hundred. You must know that even if these people are not mid-to-high-level mages who can go to the battlefield, they are all "highly educated elements" who are out of "illiteracy" and have a very high level of education-the lowest level of "magic apprentices", who know the basic teaching materials of magic fluently. It's all a breeze.
In this era when the illiteracy rate exceeds 95%, such "highly educated people" are also very few among the 5% of people. Therefore, the departure of more than one hundred "high intellectuals" is basically equivalent to the departure of a small group of top-notch people from a population base of 20,000 to 30,000.
The total population of the territory controlled by the entire Karen royal family may be less than 300,000. Counting the surrounding vassal nobles, it is not bad to exceed 600,000. At present, the orthodox "magician" that the royal family can count is only about a thousand people—— And those "magic apprentices" who have left are, to put it bluntly, the foundation of the royal family's future magicians!
Elson City didn't even say they wanted to poach the wall, but just threw out a few recruitment information and let so many people out of control. What went wrong? Charles II flipped through "The Age of Karen", and a clue marked by him came into view——
"The second branch of Elson School of Magic opened in Houllier City, and Duke Sally attended the entrance ceremony! "
"The three academies are located in the golden territory of Efta, sign up as soon as possible!" "
"So many schools of magic and academies have been opened in one go? Is this an effort to make civilians literate..."
Charles II turned to the piece of news about the "Efta Civil Service Examination" that he had noticed before, and was silent for a long time.
Although Efta didn't organize any attacks, the messages one after another were like mountains, overwhelming him for no reason.
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August is here.
On the calm sea, the afternoon sun was extremely harsh. The crew members on the deck hid in the shade of the sails to enjoy the cool and rest. The floating towers around the hull of the "Boratini" were immersed in the sea water and fluctuated with the waves.
At this time, the landlubbers in Efta have passed the original freshness,
They all hid in the cabin and refused to come out. The barbarian soldiers and dragon gun knights are used to "replenish their energy" - to put it bluntly, they are sleeping soundly; while Rody and others are in the spacious dining room on the ship, enjoying the cool breeze of the frozen magic circle and the kitchen according to Luo Di. Dee made out of the "ice cream".
This thing Roddy has tried DIY at home before, so he roughly remembers how to do it. There is no shortage of raw materials on board, except for the time it takes to make cream, everything else can be easily done with the help of magic—so now almost everyone is holding a bowl of ice cream balls frozen by Melinthra's magic, eating bite by bite Zhengxiang.
"Brother Luo Di didn't know to ask Elson's chef to make such a delicious food. I think there must be a conspiracy!"
There was a circle of white around Naifei's lips, which made Roddy laugh: "What kind of conspiracy can there be? At that time, Elson was poor and white, and the broken bread stinged his throat, so your mother told me to cut the budget …You don’t know, I was almost in a hurry with her once, and if I keep reducing the budget, I won’t even eat bread, I’ll just eat dirt!”
"Hahaha, the majestic city lord, almost lived on dirt, and you are the only one."
Merlinsera especially likes to hear such embarrassing things about Roddy, and she is overjoyed. Akasha glanced at Roddy tenderly, and said with emotion: "I used to be unable to eat a few bites of bread, and I ate grass when I was most hungry. It's only better than eating dirt."
"We're not going to hold a Reminiscence of Bitterness and Sweetness Conference, by the way, Sylvia, what did the high elves eat back then?"
"Uh—forehead..."
Sylvia just took a bite of a big one, and was speechless for a while because of the ice. She swallowed it for a long time, blushing and said: "Yeah, it's nothing special, just some vegetables and bread. Those nobles eat That’s good, but I’m a commoner, so I haven’t experienced those big meals... The Demon Tower will add some monster meat to us during the festival, and it tastes good.”
The people at the table didn't feel offended by talking about what happened seven hundred years ago, but everyone was listening carefully when Sylvia spoke, which made her feel very warm. But after the words fell, she was interrupted by Rody's question: "Warcraft meat? Isn't this kind of food inedible?"
What Luo Di said is actually correct. There is a consensus on the mainland: the meat of Warcraft is inedible, and once eaten, it will cause various side effects. Diarrhea can range from diarrhea to death, and the cause is difficult to find and almost unsolvable.
"Tsk tsk tsk, that's really a pity, the meat of Warcraft actually tastes pretty good."
Merlinsera licked her lips, recalling the past, but Roddy rolled her eyes and looked down on her, she made a face and added: "But normal humans really can't eat the meat of monsters, can the high elves have this kind of meat?" A special ability?"
"No, I heard that it has been specially treated, except that we haven't heard of any other places eating Warcraft meat."
Sylvia's explanation made everyone nod their heads, expressing their understanding. But Naifei came to her senses and clamored for Rody to find a way. Of course, Rody fully agreed to her request.
While everyone was talking and laughing, the dull sound of the horn suddenly crossed the sea, causing the expressions of everyone present to change—"Akasha Naifei stays in the cabin, and the rest follow me to the captain's cabin." (To be continued.)
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