Chapter 938 Extra: Holiday Special: Daily Life of the Ascended: The Second Millennium of Shurima

The first festival special · The daily life of the ascenders · The second millennium of Shurima

From the first millennium to the second millennium when the Shurima Empire was established, the customs of the Shurima Empire have changed a lot.

As the use of the power of ascension became more and more familiar, the empire prospered more than a millennium. The underground waterways connecting major cities and regions also guided the power of ascension, bringing vitality to every region and city in the empire.

The abundant energy is enough to turn the desert into an oasis. For the Shurimans, the sun disk is an inexhaustible source of energy. The only thing they need to think about is how to better use this energy to make the great Shurima Empire even greater.

So, how to show the greatness of the empire?

If it were a thousand years ago, perhaps the Shurimans would choose to expand their borders and explore the limits of the earth.

But as the territory of the Shurima Empire grew larger and larger, it was no longer worthwhile for the empire to continue to explore and expand outwards - especially when Shurima had already brought the entire continent under the control of the empire. If it wanted to continue to expand, the biggest problem was how to transport the power of ascension across the sea.

Moreover, it was at this time that the "power limit" of the sun disc gradually emerged. Although the current Shurima Empire can still rely entirely on the power of the sun disc to maintain a large number of amazing wonders, if the empire's territory continued to expand, as more cities needed the power of ascension to maintain and as the loss caused by the increase in distance further increased, perhaps one day, the sun disc would no longer be enough to maintain everything in the empire.

This was something no one wanted to see.

Therefore, when the large tunnel project was abandoned halfway and only one-third of the planned plan was completed, even the wise and powerful Regent had to carefully examine the empire's subsequent plans and put the "backup energy plan" on the agenda.

Everyone still listens to the words of His Majesty the Regent, not to mention that he has always been the helmsman of Shurima University, but privately many people's thoughts are completely different from the past.

Shurima now... isn't it good?

It is thriving and still thriving.

Although the carrying capacity of the sun disc seems to have reached its limit, this limit is enough!

As long as there is no further ascension in the future, and the areas controlled by the subsequent empire are regarded as non-directly affiliated areas, alternative energy sources and so on, it is completely in time!

Compared with the energy crisis that will come at an unknown time, for the current Shurimans, it is more important to know how to occupy the headlines in the next two thousand years of celebration.

The Millennium Celebration is the biggest event in the Shurima Empire, and it is truly a once-in-a-millennium event.

Legend has it that the Panyang of Narimaj is so famous because several ascenders fought for meat in the last Millennium Celebration. Although a thousand years have passed, it is difficult to verify whether this matter is true or not, but it is not difficult to see the status of the Millennium Celebration in the hearts of the Shurimans.

However, with the increase of internal communication and close contact, unlike the last Millennium Celebration, now all parts of Shurima have known each other well. At this time, it is not eye-catching to honestly build an exhibition hall and promote local culture and characteristics.

For the departments responsible for publicity in various places, how to attract attention and attract attention at the Millennium Celebration is probably the top priority of their work in recent times.

Fortunately, with a piece of news on the headlines, these people quickly found a way.

[Shurima City will soon build a Thousand Gods Wall to record and commend the achievements of the Ascendants and use it to inspire future generations. ]

The design plan for the Thousand Gods Wall is still in the stage of soliciting opinions, but it can be confirmed that all the Ascendants should return to Shurima City for such a grand event, so taking this opportunity to find local Ascendants to promote it... maybe it is a good choice?

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After receiving the publicity task, Aatrox looked uneasy.

Apart from the publicity task itself, there were two pieces of news in front of Aatrox, one good and one bad.

The bad news is that when the governor of Zerima persuaded him to help promote Zerima, he cited the example of the mutton he hated the most.

The good news is that the governor of Zerima did not seem to be fully aware of the cause and effect, and Aatrox's dark history was not exposed.

Originally, Aatrox was not interested in such local affairs. According to the rules of the empire, ascenders rarely get involved in specific affairs - they usually display their talents in the fields of military and research, and rarely serve in the purely political field.

According to Kalya, "this can avoid conflicts between the immortals and the short-lived." After all, there is a big difference between ascenders and mortals, and both sides can hardly be considered the same species.

Aatrox did not really understand the logic.

But even he had heard about the stagnation of livelihood projects caused by the ascension of Rebesai last year.

Although the supply of ascension power affected was only concentrated in some entertainment fields, such as the closure of some holiday oases in Uzeris and the failure of flowers in Vikola to be on the market in season, etc., this also made him realize that the ascension ceremony seemed to be a ceremony that consumed a lot of ascension power!

Aatrox, who has never been interested in these magical theories or the lives of mortals, obviously did not realize the crisis behind this matter. The biggest problem facing him at this moment is "how to endorse Zerima".

As the commander of the Zerima Legion, Aatrox can refuse most of the governor's requests, but for this request, after thinking about it, he decided to accept it - he had to go back to Shurima City anyway, so it was not impossible to find something for himself at this time.

The old man always said that he had no business, you see, isn't this a very important business?

It's just that Aatrox was a little hesitant about the form of endorsement.

In theory, Zerima is an important mining city in the south of Shurima, and Aatrox can completely endorse the metal products here.

The civilian propaganda staff who contacted him also suggested this.

But the question is... what is there to endorse for metal products?

The Shurima army does not need to bring their own weapons, and the biggest demand for metal products by civilians is probably the kitchen knives that every family will use - how to promote this thing?

Is Aatrox going to take a Zerima-made kitchen knife and give the old man three cuts and six holes in the street of Shurima?

To be honest, Aatrox has no doubt that he has this ability, but if he really does this, he will probably be hung on the sun disk by Empress Wu to dry, and Zerima's kitchen knife will become a real ominous thing.

The clerk in charge of the connection obviously didn't know that Aatrox, who looked quite serious, actually had some treasonous and messy ideas in his mind. Facing the doubtful Ascendant, he quickly came up with a set of carefully designed marketing plans.

The core of the plan looks quite familiar - strengthen the reputation of daily tools, open up new product tracks, and add cultural value to products...

These tricks obviously can't fool Ascendants, let alone Aatrox, even Renekton won't believe it.

But for mortals, since they need to buy kitchen knives anyway and kitchen knives made anywhere are good to use, it seems that it doesn't matter which one they buy. At this time, if they want to compete, isn't it important to tell a good story?

Aatrox didn't fully understand this.

But after reading the plan and confirming that there was nothing he couldn't accept, he finally nodded and agreed.

Attend events, wear accessories, and keep smiling.

If the business is so simple, then it's not a big problem to do it occasionally.

In this way, Aatrox returned to Shurima City with his personal guards under the expectations of Governor Zerima.

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Looking at the Shurima City in front of him, Aatrox doubted his eyes a little.

Is this Shurima City?

It's only been a few years since I last saw it, why is it so fancy?

It's no wonder that Aatrox was surprised. With the arrival of the second millennium celebration, all parties in Shurima City are almost going crazy to attract attention.

Although the Second Millennium Celebration should not be celebrated in an extravagant and wasteful manner under the request of His Majesty the Prince Regent in "Strike Back at Extravagance and Establish the Right Way of Celebration", driven by profit, merchants are very flexible in their minds to find loopholes.

What is extravagance?

What is waste?

It must be the behavior of "unreasonable and insufficient use, resulting in the consumption of resources exceeding the amount of resources required to complete a certain activity itself".

What if everything is reasonable?

It is an obvious waste to lay a thousand feet of silk carpet to attract customers.

But you can't say that it is a waste to provide a large number of free tastings when attracting customers?

This way of attracting attention by offering benefits should be okay under any circumstances, right?

This is just the first stage.

When tasting, discounts, and performances are gradually failing to attract people's attention, many more flexible merchants have already focused their attention on other aspects-setting off fireworks during the day is a waste, but what if you hire a spellcaster to set off a magic firework from time to time?

When Aatrox returned to Shurima, the competition had already reached the third stage.

Magic fireworks are not enough, magic projections are cooler!

As the date of the celebration approached, Shurima completely turned into a city that never sleeps. Various magic projections shone here, showing everyone interesting products from all corners of the world. As long as they attracted people to stop and look, they would win.

In this case, Aatrox had already felt that the plan he designed in Zerima before would not seem to have any good effect.

Compared with the merchants in Shurima, Governor Zerima was a little too conservative.

Facts have proved that Aatrox's idea was right, and like Governor Zerima, he was a little too conservative.

Although it was an event attended by ascenders, there were almost no people at the event site except for the invited agents - now the residents and tourists of Shurima have completely raised their excitement thresholds by various fancy activities. What's so good about ordinary events attended by ascenders?

Not only that, but what was even more embarrassing than no one coming was that many colleagues had also held similar events, and they were all equally deserted.

Not to mention Aatrox's Zerima Metal Exhibition.

Even the stone carving art competition in Keneser, where Nasus and Renekton brothers attended and even personally participated, few people paid attention!

Among the many activities participated in and supported by the ascenders, only the "Uzeris New Potion Competition" hosted by Shabeka and Shabek personally caused a wave of enthusiasm - and this wave of enthusiasm was not caused by how professional this competition was, but because of the sharp and pungent comments of Shabeka and Shabek, these two funny guys.

Uzeris spent a large amount of money to sponsor this potion competition, originally hoping to promote the potion culture of Uzeris and let more people choose Uzeris potions as the first choice, but what really attracted attention was Shabeka and Shabek's crazy and sharp comments on the contestants.

These two crazy guys were not polite at all when they made sharp comments, which made many contestants embarrassed, but the onlookers just liked to watch this scene.

After realizing this, the clerk of Zerima found Aatrox again, hoping to "slightly change the format" and add sharp reviews to their own links.

Although Aatrox himself did not realize it, everyone knew that this ascender was also an expert in the field of sharp reviews. Shabeka and Shabek were at most a little boring, but Aatrox really looked down on everyone.

Aatrox did not want to agree.

But considering that the event he participated in was really embarrassing, even Shabeka and Shabek, the two crows, he decided to save some face.

However, while Aatrox was still preparing for the sharp review event, the Zurita people had already played a copy first-Uzeris had Shabeka and Shabek, and we also have Varieva and Varus!

And unlike the noisy Shabeka and Shabek, the siblings Varieva and Varus can highlight a "smiling praise and dark criticism and cold and sharp criticism", and the contrast is more sufficient.

Contrast is combat power!

As a result, Aatrox fell behind again, Zurita was a great success, and local brocade also set off a trend.

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Shurima City was prosperous.

But behind this prosperity, Kalya keenly perceived some subtleties.

At this moment when the Ascendants were about to gather, His Majesty the Prince Regent of the Shurima Empire did not stay in Shurima City, but quietly left the center of the empire, went south along the Targon Peak, and then turned east to re-inspect this huge empire.

When Kalya returned, it seemed that all Shurimans had set their sights on the Thousand Gods Wall that was about to be built.

They marveled at the magnificence and magnificence of the manuscripts for public comments, but only a few people noticed that at this lively time, the only thing His Majesty the Prince Regent showed up was to launch a [Special Field Research Allowance].

Unpopular fields such as magic ore smelting, metal alloy research, plant and animal genetics, and energy theory foundations were included in the special allowance category.

In the second millennium of the Shurima Empire, amidst the prosperity and prosperity, a crisis has quietly been brewing.

Happy New Year!