Chapter 207 Reconstruction and Development, Lord Edel

Chu Ming looked at the soul box in his hand, which was gleaming with light. He suddenly asked, "Carlos, how long can you live if you store your soul in the soul box?"

Carlos was silent for a moment, and hesitantly said, "A thousand years should be no problem. After all, I am not a real lich."

"If there is an adventure, thousands of years may be enough."

After hearing this, Chu Ming's eyes lit up slightly.

If Carlos can really live for thousands of years, maybe he can meet him in the next writing.

By then, he can still make Carlos continue to shine and provide him with help.

Thinking of this, Chu Ming fell into deep thought.

Chu Ming suddenly fell silent. Carlos panicked and thought that Chu Ming had lost him. He hurriedly shouted, "Nalunde, we have a life-long friendship. You can't do this to me."

"Stop making a fuss. Aren't I trying to find a way for you?"

Chu Ming exited the thinking state.

"Carlos, I can give you a puppet body, but you'd better not run around, at least don't leave the Fengyang Empire."

Carlos said seriously: "Of course, Narender, you think I'm an ungrateful guy. I want to go to your Tower of Knowledge to help you study the spiritual wizard system."

Chu Ming glanced at the soul box in his hand. Isn't this guy just coveting the spiritual wizard inheritance? He said so nicely.

"Okay, you go to sleep first. I will wake you up after finding the puppet body."

...

One month later.

County of Kutz, wizard hut.

Alan came to Chu Ming who was reading in the living room with a skinny puppet in his arms.

He said excitedly: "Narender, look what I found?!"

Chu Ming put down the book and looked at Allen. He saw that the shabby puppet in his hand was carved with mysterious patterns, and the thin limbs drooped weakly.

He asked in confusion, "Is this a puppet?"

Alan smiled and said, "I heard that this is a sword puppet used by some knight families to practice swordsmanship in the magic era. Although it has no special abilities, the material used to make the puppet is surprisingly tough. Even after so long, the puppet is only a little worn out on the outside and the wood has become a little brittle. You should be careful when holding it."

"Thank you, Allen."

Chu Ming thanked Allen a few times, said goodbye to Allen, and carefully carried the puppet into the laboratory.

Putting the puppet on the laboratory table, he began to think about how to use the puppet in front of him.

"Puppet, puppet... It should be driven by magic power, and I don't have magic power..."

Chu Ming looked at the holy mark on the back of his hand.

"I don't know if divine power can work."

He covered the puppet's head with his palm, and the green mark on the back of his hand flashed a few times, and a vitality surged into the puppet's body.

The puppet's crystal eyes suddenly lit up, and the wooden material that exuded a rotten smell on its body was revitalized and grew green leaves.

The puppet moved its fingers and climbed up from the table by itself.

"Sword... swordsmanship, please teach me."

His crystal eyes flashing green light looked at Chu Ming, and his hands waved swordsmanship movements.

"Really good."

Chu Ming was stunned for a moment, and he took out the crystal soul box to wake up Carlos.

"I found the puppet for you, how do you want to borrow the puppet's body?"

Carlos slowly woke up from his sleep, and after realizing that Chu Ming had found the puppet, he excitedly said: "What type of puppet is this?"

"It is said that it is a sword puppet used to train knights in swordsmanship."

"Ah?"

Carlos was stunned for a moment. He was a wizard using the body of a sword puppet, which was not professional enough.

But now is not the time to be picky. He thought for a while and said: "I remember that there is an area in the back of the head of this low-level puppet that stores thinking logic. You can just put me there."

Chu Ming knocked on the back of the sword puppet's head under its curious gaze.

After groping for a while, he finally opened the skull of the sword puppet and found a crystal ball with three-dimensional patterns carved on it.

Chu Ming took out the ball, and the eyes of the swordsmanship puppet became dim and fell into a dead state.

Then he put the soul box into it and closed the skull.

Chu Ming observed, and the puppet just lay on the ground without any movement.

Just when he suspected that he had put the soul box in the wrong place, the puppet's eyes suddenly lit up and came back to life.

"Swordsmanship... Bah."

The puppet got rid of the inertia of thinking, stood up, and the light of wisdom flashed in his eyes.

"I didn't expect that I, Carlos, could come back to life."

The man's tone was quite excited, and there was a bit of emotion.

"Nalund, I really didn't make a mistake."

Chu Ming waved his hand and said, "Okay, stop talking nonsense, you should adapt to your body well, I will let someone take you to familiarize yourself with the Earldom of Kutz."

"Oh, by the way, this puppet is maintained by my weak divine power, and I don't know how long it can last. You'd better find a way to refine magic power and provide magic power to the puppet."

Carlos just nodded, not knowing if he understood.

Since Carlos' body had been dealt with, Chu Ming had no interest in chatting with him any further. After sending him to the Tower of Knowledge, he teleported to the Earl of Severe Winter's territory.

After a month of rest, the major earldoms have recovered their vitality, so a meeting on the future of the empire is planned to be held in Yandong City. The contents of the meeting include the king's honorific name, the location of the new capital, the restoration of the southern border, the promotion of the spiritual wizard system, etc. It can be said that this meeting will determine the direction of the empire for hundreds or even thousands of years.

Half an hour later, Chu Ming came to Yandong City, and a group of knights invited him into the castle hall.

In the hall, the sun shone from the windows. Edel, Berrett, seven earls and a group of epic wizards sat at the long table to discuss things.

After Chu Ming arrived, everyone enthusiastically invited him to take a seat.

Chu Ming nodded to everyone and sat next to Edel, but he did not speak, just squinted his eyes and listened quietly to everyone's discussion.

Regarding the location of the new capital, the earls believed that it would be most appropriate to set up the capital in the old site of the southern border, so that both the north and the south could be taken into account.

Edel disagreed. He planned to set up the capital in the new capital of the earldom of Kutz.

The earls could not understand this decision. It was too dangerous for the capital to be close to the dark land, so they kept persuading him.

When Edel saw Chu Ming coming, he glanced at the earls and said, "Everyone, the reason why I set up the capital in the territory of the Count of Kutzkutz is that I have only one purpose, that is, to open up the dark land, completely open up the passage between the King's Peninsula, and make the new capital a hub connecting the old territory of the empire and the XJ territory."

After the voice fell, the earls looked at each other, and there was a touch of shock on their faces.

Opening up the dark land is what every ruler of the empire wants to do, but there is basically no one like Edel who opens up the dark land and opens up the passage, because it is almost impossible to accomplish.

But now is different from the past. The number of epics in the Fengyang Empire has expanded to hundreds, which is almost close to the number of top combat forces in the early dark era of the Fengyang Empire.

In addition, with the legend of Chu Ming in charge, the phrase of opening up the passage does not seem so far-fetched.

The earls discussed it and felt that it was very feasible to develop the Dark Land, so they nodded in agreement.

The meeting continued, and several people talked about the plan for the restoration of the South.

When Edel proposed to establish a local administrative system, the earls subconsciously frowned and wanted to veto it.

They were used to the empire managed under the aristocratic system, and they were resistant to this new system and doubted its effectiveness.

Edel was not in a hurry, but just said slowly: "Do you want new earls to be born in the South?"

The earls were shocked when they heard this.

If the South continued to be managed by the aristocratic system, the empire would indeed have more new earls, and in this way, their power would be dispersed by the new earls.

This was unacceptable to them. After talking for a while, the earls weighed the pros and cons and decided to agree to Edel's local administrative system plan.

At this point, Chu Ming and Edel's goals were mostly achieved. Edel struck while the iron was hot and continued to propose the proposal to relax the restrictions on titles. He also made a big promise, saying that as long as the earls could open up territories in the dark land by themselves, the territories would be distributed by them.

Earl Madeline, whose territory was close to the border, immediately agreed: "The monarch is kind. If it can last for a long time, the territory of my Fengyang Empire will inevitably become more and more vast, and we can also accumulate more power to fight against darkness."

Several other earls also responded. After all, their families all faced the problem of title inheritance. Many titles were inherited with invisible blood and rain. These earls had come all the way like this, and naturally did not want their descendants to repeat the same mistakes.

If the titles and territories could be distributed to other heirs, the problem of title inheritance would be solved.

As long as they could open up the dark land, their family's territory would be greatly expanded and their influence in the empire would be increased.

Chu Ming observed the reactions of the earls from the side. How could he not understand what these people were thinking?

However, things will not go as they wish. As long as the local administrative system can be established, the power and strength of the central government will expand rapidly. By then, even if their territory doubles, those scattered territories will naturally isolate the cooperation of these nobles and will not be able to concentrate their strength to resist the behemoth of the empire.

Of course, Chu Ming can also directly use his power to force the earls to surrender and obey the new management system.

But this approach did not solve the real contradiction and could only sow the seeds of disaster for the empire.

Removing the restrictions on the titles is like boiling a frog in warm water. By the time they react, they can no longer resist the empire.

At the negotiation table, the atmosphere was harmonious and everyone smiled, and they were particularly satisfied with this proposal.

The meeting continued, and the next proposal mentioned the promotion of the spiritual wizard system.

Regarding the promotion of the spiritual wizard system, Chu Ming promised to relax the restrictions on the inheritance of spiritual wizards and build wizard towers in the major earldoms, but all the construction costs and the initial investment in wizard training will be paid by the major earls.

The earls were overjoyed. They did not expect Chu Ming to really relax the restrictions on the inheritance of spiritual wizards, and they all nodded in agreement.

Although they have to pay for the construction of the wizard tower and the training of wizards, compared with the inheritance of spiritual wizards, these are nothing. At best, they are just investments in the future of the territory.

In the second half of the meeting, Chu Ming put forward a proposal to support the development of Life Church. The proposal was to let the earls spend money to help Life Church build new churches in major towns and provide resources needed for pastor training.

If the earls still needed to weigh the pros and cons of the previous proposal, then this proposal was approved by the earls without much thought.

After all, these earls have experienced the horror of aberrations. Even William Stearman, who is the king, cannot escape the fate of contracting the aberration disease. How dare they risk their lives.

Even if they have objections, they just have different ideas about the allocation of funds for building churches.

…

The meeting lasted until the next day. Chu Ming and the other three walked out of it, especially Edel, with smiles on their faces.

After returning to the camp where the knights were temporarily stationed in Winter City, Edel couldn't help but said: "Narende, as expected, they did not object as you thought."

Burrett on the side sighed: "If this century-old plan can be realized, the empire will usher in a radical change."

"Narende, you are really a god."

Chu Ming smiled and said: "In the end, this world still depends on strength. If I don't sit down today, maybe these earls can talk about these proposals over and over again for several months."

Having said this, he patted Edel on the shoulder, "It is important to govern the country, but don't neglect your own cultivation."

Edel grinned and said: "Of course, I want to become the King of Witch Riders."

Bert looked at the two high-spirited young people and sighed in his heart, feeling that he had aged several years.

The man said: "When will you decide to start exploring the dark land?"

Edel hesitated and looked at Chu Ming.

Chu Ming thought for a while and said: "Opening up the dark land cannot be done overnight. Maybe we can start preparations now."

"If we can spend decades to develop a passage to the King's Peninsula in advance, we can use the passage as a basis to expand outward and continuously expand the territory of the empire."

"It just so happens that I also want to go deep into the dark place to see what's going on inside. I will help the empire deal with the dangerous dark creatures along the way, but you still need to open up the passage yourself."

Edel nodded seriously, "That's enough."

"With rune equipment, the average strength level of the knights and wizards can reach the level of the previous royal knights, and the number is many times greater than the royal knights. It is not a problem to open up the dark land. Even if there is danger, there will be epic wizards. solve."

"We can take advantage of this opportunity to cultivate real Imperial Knights and Imperial Wizards."

He paused for a moment, looked at Burrett, and said with a wry smile: "Father, I can't balance the two tasks of opening up the Dark Land and rebuilding the Southern Territory. Maybe I'll have to worry about you getting old."

Burrett moved his body and said with a smile: "My old bones can just use some exercise."

"But the southern territory is after all an important position for the future of the empire. You should come back and take a look occasionally. I don't want you to be criticized as soon as you take the throne."

Edel didn't care and said: "Let them talk, whether they call me radical or impulsive, now that I have the strength, there is no reason to give up exploring the dark land. History will prove my merits."

Chu Ming sighed slightly and expressed his understanding of the dilemma faced by Edel, "The Fengyang Empire has just survived the disaster, and it is indeed difficult to build the southern border and open up the dark land while facing the threats of aberrations and dark wizards. "

"But fortunately, the Tower of Knowledge has also cultivated hundreds of spiritual wizards over the years. I will ask Allen to lead these wizards who have not reached the epic level to go south to resist the dark wizards."

Edel's eyes flickered and he said: "We can't let those counts stay in the territory so comfortably. Why don't we also send them to the southern border to contribute to the reconstruction of the southern border."

Brett nodded and said: "This is indeed a way."

The three of them chatted until midnight, and after arranging all the matters, Chu Ming teleported back to the wizard's cabin with Edel.

Edel stayed in the wizard's cabin for a while, because there were still matters related to the throne that needed to be arranged, so he left in a hurry.

…

A month later, Edel's coronation ceremony was held in the New Metropolitan City Hall Square.

Both nobles, dignitaries and common people gathered in front of the square at this time.

Under the gaze of everyone, Burrett crowned Edel with the crown in his hand. The ceremonial officer announced Edel's achievements on one side and announced the honorary name of the new king - Lord Edel.

Under the stage, the cross-flag of rice ears representing the Pongyang Empire moved in the wind, colorful ribbons fluttered on the streets, and the people cheered.

Chu Ming and Isabel stood not far away, witnessing the new beginning of the Fengyang Empire.

Allen also led a group of wizards to applaud and cheer in the audience.

Everyone's faces were beaming with joy, and their hearts were full of expectations for the future.

The enthronement ceremony lasted until the afternoon. People rushed to leave in the streets and alleys of Xindu and started a night-long carnival.

After everyone left, Chu Ming was also ready to leave.

Isabel looked up at the man, "Mr. Wizard, don't you go and see him?"

Chu Ming smiled and said: "He is busy enough today, so I won't disturb him."

"On the contrary, it's you. I heard Maria say that you are going to the south, right?"

Chu Ming stared into the girl's pure sky-blue eyes, waiting for her answer.

Isabel lowered her head and hummed softly.

"The churches in the southern border have been destroyed. There are no priests. The people there have no resistance to distortion. I must go there."

"Purifying forbidden knowledge and expelling distortion is what we agreed with the gods. I will try my best to complete it."

"Although I also want to go to see the scenery of the north with you..."

The girl's voice gradually became weaker, and her head lowered as she spoke, almost hitting Chu Ming's chest.

Chu Ming took her into his arms, stared at her misty eyes, and smiled: "It's not that we can't see each other, why are you so sad? It only takes me one day to get from here to the southern border. I will visit you often in the future."

Isabel nodded gently, wiped away her tears, and her eyes became firm, "I will definitely expel the distortion."