Chapter 574 73 Changes in the Falling Star Kingdom
Chapter 574 -73- Changes in Falling Star Kingdom
Hearing Nice's voice for the first time in a long time, Charlotte couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth slightly.
Don't say it, you really don't say it.
Although this guy Nice was full of bad habits, Charlotte suddenly felt a little nostalgic when she suddenly heard his voice again after not seeing each other for such a long time.
How should I put it, it feels like someone who has been wandering for a long time has finally returned home.
Of course, another reason is that Charlotte is very, very curious now.
She had been "sleeping" for three and a half years. She wanted to know how her family's order and kingdom had been during the past three and a half years. She wanted to know everything that had happened on the continent of Miria during the past three and a half years.
Not to mention anything else, just her believers, even if not talking about the faith network of the Holy Royal Court that she accidentally entered when she just woke up, she can still feel the huge power of her current faith.
Charlotte felt a little bit. During the three and a half years since she was asleep, the number of her followers had increased by an order of magnitude!
Although it won't exceed 10 million, I'm afraid it's already around 7 to 8 million.
And these are only the devout believers who can be recorded by her faith network.
You must know that shallow believers who have just converted or whose faith is not deep enough will not establish contact with the faith network.
According to Charlotte's understanding of the church's beliefs in Miriam, the ratio of light believers to devout believers is generally more than four to one.
In other words, the influence of the Dark Night Cult has radiated almost half of the entire population of Fallen Star Kingdom in just three and a half years.
The extraordinary power accumulated by the Dark Night Order in the past three and a half years is probably not a small amount, but... when Charlotte just connected to the faith network of the Holy Royal Court, she had almost stolen the power... ahem, it was filled up, so She did not investigate carefully for the time being.
But obviously, in the past few years when Charlotte was sleeping, her followers had probably been faithfully implementing the development plan of the cult she left behind before she fell asleep, and it seemed that it was developing quite well!
Thinking of this, Charlotte gently raised her hand, and the dress prepared on the hanger in the secret room flew towards her and she put it on herself.
Smoothing her long, light blond hair, she snapped her fingers to unlock the door to the secret room that only she could open.
As soon as the door opened, Charlotte saw another "self" rushing in excitedly.
However, a golden-red shadow was faster than the opponent:
"The supreme master, the great god of the night, the noble master to whom Roman is loyal! Woohoo, you... finally wake up!"
It's Roman's sword.
I saw this artifact flying over with a loud sound, passing over the black cat Ness who still looked like "Charlotte", and rubbing excitedly on Charlotte's thigh:
"Great! Great! Woohoo, I can finally sense your power again! You don't know that while you were sleeping, I felt like my connection with you was about to be cut off! I thought you abandoned me It’s over!”
Looking at the excited artifact of wisdom, Charlotte touched its gorgeous hilt and couldn't help but smile:
"Long time no see, Roman."
Roman's Sword is an artifact that has recognized Charlotte as its master, and its relationship with her is more special than other followers.
During the time she traveled through history, her connection with the Roman Sword also weakened the most.
If other followers just find it difficult to communicate with the "sleeping" true ancestor, then for it as an artifact, it is almost equivalent to the complete "disappearance" of the god.
After all, according to Charlotte's observations, her entire history of time travel has directly "traveled" through "existence" itself.
After appeasing Roman's Sword, Charlotte looked at Ness who had returned to his black cat posture and was looking at her longingly.
She smiled, reached out and rubbed Nice's cat head:
"Long time no see, Nice."
…
"Meet Her Majesty the Queen."
"Meet Her Majesty the Queen."
"..."
Falling Star Red Palace, inside the gorgeous palace.
Charlotte, who had finished taking care of herself, walked through the long corridor and nodded to the maids and knights who consciously stood on both sides to salute her.
Beside her, Ness, who had returned to his cat form, was following behind with his tail raised, and on the other side was Roman's Sword floating in mid-air.
Nothing in the palace has changed much from before Charlotte fell asleep, and everything is running normally.
No, it's not like nothing has changed.
In the corridor and inside the palace, Charlotte noticed that many lamps had been replaced by magic props. The proportion of magic equipment in the palace seemed to have increased a lot compared to before she fell asleep.
Obviously, this should have a lot to do with Charlotte's plan to vigorously develop the magic alchemy industry before she fell asleep.
There are also many new faces in the palace, who must be newly recruited attendants.
Everyone will bow respectfully when they see her.
That heartfelt respect was definitely not the perfunctory one when Charlotte first took the throne, it was even much more solemn than before Charlotte fell asleep.
Three and a half years have been enough for "Charlotte de Castel" to secure the throne of Fallen Star.
No one realized that their "Her Majesty" had been replaced.
Of course, no one realized it three and a half years ago.
Nice has obviously achieved great success in acting as a stand-in, and judging from the attitude of the palace attendants, he must have worked hard in recent years.
Thinking of this, Charlotte glanced at Nice with satisfaction. Feeling Charlotte's approving gaze, Nice's tail also raised higher.
Returning to her study, Charlotte sat down on the throne.
Nice happily poured her a glass of prepared sweet milk.
Charlotte took a sip of the milk, which was the sweetness in her memory, the taste of nostalgia.
In the past three and a half years in the Free City Alliance, she had not drunk it for a long time in order to maintain the persona of "Lilith".
"Lord Charlotte, this is the information I prepared in advance! From the day you fell asleep to today, all the information about the kingdom and the church is here, all organized according to the format you explained before you fell asleep!"
Nice happily pushed the prepared information to the desk.
It was a very thick stack, and Charlotte estimated that it would take a long time to read it all.
She nodded, took the information, and asked while browsing:
"Where are the others?"
Nice answered respectfully:
"Sebastian went to the northern coast to inspect the free tribe immigrant settlement. The kingdom has changed too fast in recent years, and he has been busy all the time. However, I have sent him a magic message about your awakening, and he is on his way back."
"Urst has been busy at the Magic Refining Industry Company recently. He has tinkered with a lot of new things in recent years and is already the chief alchemy consultant of the industry company!"
"Luff is still active in the church. Now your faith has spread to every corner of the kingdom. Although it has not been fully exposed, judging from the number of believers alone, it is almost as good as Luo The church forces in the Star Kingdom are competing against each other. "
"Of course, the believers don't know that you are the God of Darkness."
"The Ness Clan has also been on the right track. After you fell asleep, the Ness Clan had several small-scale riots, but they were eventually suppressed by Badak and Duke Robin. Now many vampires have joined the Falling Star Court, and they are called Crimson Nobles by other nobles."
"In the Hall Measures Clan, the Great Prophet Margo has been in contact with us, and they have also provided great help in the expansion of the Dark Night Cult."
"As for Albrecht... He came to Falling Star several times and seemed to have noticed your sleep, but I fooled him."
Charlotte nodded slightly.
She was doing two things at the same time, listening to Ness's report while browsing the various materials provided by the other party.
As Ness said, the Falling Star Kingdom has indeed undergone earth-shaking changes in the past few years.
Among them, there are two most critical aspects.
One is the magic and alchemy industry of the Falling Star Kingdom. After Charlotte integrated the power of the Nice Clan and the Hortsos Clan and set a development plan, the magic industry of the Falling Star Kingdom has experienced explosive development in the past few years.
It can be regarded as a natural outcome in a sense.
When Charlotte just succeeded to the throne of Count Castel, she realized that the Miria continent had reached a critical point of "industrial revolution" based on her understanding of the history of Blue Star.
Alchemy workshops of all sizes have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, and various novel alchemy tools have also appeared in all classes of the nobility. There are more and more new nobles who make money by alchemy technology and trade, especially in Castel Territory, which has already had the signs of capitalism.
Of course, here is the innovation of magic technology, not the industrial revolution on Blue Star.
After Charlotte succeeded to the throne, she has been deliberately guiding the direction of the magic revolution. Later, with the capital injection from the Hortsos Clan and the assistance of Nice, the former legendary wizard, everything is going according to her plan.
Among them, the most notable is the unprecedented success of the magic and alchemy industry company designed by Charlotte before she fell asleep. In three and a half years, relying on the capital chain of the Hortsos clan and the technology improved by Nice, it has become a giant in the north of the continent.
This also brought a series of chain reactions, that is, various magic alchemy workshops in the Falling Star Kingdom have developed rapidly.
According to Nice's data, the magic and alchemy props produced in the Falling Star Kingdom have almost occupied 40% of the market share, surpassing the Mage Association, which has long been ranked first.
The magic and alchemy industry company established by Charlotte before she fell asleep even did the trade business of magic props in the Kingdom of Koria in the east.
As for the profit of the industrial company, it has reached a rather exaggerated figure. Even if the Falling Star nobles who have invested in it have received a lot of dividends and invested in reproduction, it has also consumed a lot of funds. The profit left to the Falling Star royal family is also a rather enviable figure.
20 million...
A full 20 million quintana!
This is equivalent to the fiscal revenue of the Falling Star Kingdom for half a year when Charlotte just succeeded to the throne.
And this is only the third year since the establishment of the company. According to Charlotte and Nice's plan, with the further development of the company and the magic industry in the future, the income will increase further.
This made Charlotte sigh with emotion. Sure enough... trade is still profitable, especially the trade of high-end commodities with technological gaps.
The various magic props produced on a large scale under the industrialization of magic are more profitable than she imagined. Not only the nobles, but also the magic and alchemy props produced by Luoxing are very popular among wealthy civilians. In the past, owning magic props was the privilege of the great nobles, but now it is different.
The magic and alchemy industry company that was born by integrating the alchemy workshop of the Luoxing Kingdom, coupled with Nice's technical improvements and the "factoryization" ideas provided by Charlotte, is simply a dimensionality reduction strike in this era.
It can be predicted that it won’t be long before the financial situation of the Falling Star Kingdom will be completely improved, and it is even possible that it will become the richest kingdom in the entire Miria continent.