Until this moment, Noah still couldn't believe that I had won a huge amount of merit in the Hierro plane at once, and was promoted to a third-class earl, and it was only when he saw the coronation book with the seal of the Duke of Samoyed that he accepted the fact that I had become an earl.He was rummaging through my golden count's medal, and the coronation book lay flat on the desk, and Noah whispered the words on it: "This honor is given to the magician Count Giga, who made outstanding contributions in the Battle of Trem." ”Before dawn in the city, the dark blue of the night sky gradually faded, and the brightest star was about to disappear in the sky, and the sky was glowing with a fishbelly white.One by one, the lights went out, and only the street lamps on the street were still emitting a glowing white light.Only at this time does the wind blowing in from outside the house feel cool.I leaned against the window and felt the breeze on my cheeks.Noah took a large sip of golden cider and said to me with a wistful look in his eyes, "In that case, those territories of yours are not in the North, but in the Trum region of Tanton City on the Hiero plane?"
”I held a goblet full of golden wine, nodded my head, pushed a glass of wine in front of him, and said, "Well, that's what happened."
It's just that I still think the Duke of Samoyed promised to build a town in Trum within three years, the kind with walls, at least to defend against these guys in the prison. ”Speaking of the rebuilding of Trum, it reminds me of the mountain town at the pass of the Crater, which has now only just been built on the most primitive pedestal, and six hundred barbarians spent three years digging tens of thousands of granite strips near the rocky mountain, piled up at the foot of the mountain, and looked white from afar.
Flower.
A piece of flowers.Bernd began planning to transport the stone bars to an underground warehouse to become a reserve stone for the castle of Troum.However, the transportation of these stone bars is a big problem, it is not enough to rely on those spider-men to pull trailers to carry stones, he has to set up a simple railway track in the cave, so he is ready to smelt all the black iron spears captured from the Hiero plane into black iron ingots, due to the purity of these black iron weapons, the magic black iron that can be refined is not too much, and a large number of iron ingots will be smelted.Bernd told me that the iron would be rolled into rails, and the magic black iron would be made into black iron ingots, but the iron smelted from the spears was far from enough to lay the rails, and I would need to buy it from the great mine owners of the Grimm Empire when the time came.As for the production technology of the railroad tracks and rail cars, he has already found some drawings collected from the goblin tribe, and it will not be long before the first rail car will be made by the blacksmith shop in the orc village, and as for the power part of this rail car, it still relies on three powerful spider-man slaves, who are naturally suitable for survival in caves.Noah naturally didn't know about these secrets of mine, and when he heard that I was going to build a town on the Hiero plane, he said to me in great surprise, "Are you crazy?
Build a town in three years, what are you going to do with the infrastructure, the building of houses, and the most important population, and now that the Hiero plane is still at war with the people of the Abyssal Niburu, how can someone go to your place at this time to help you build your town, are you going to buy some slaves?
”The amount of stone, wood, copper, iron and other resources needed to build a town will be a very large number, and Noah, who was born in a wealthy and aristocratic family, naturally has a certain understanding of these, and knows that the initial investment will be very huge, and he does not think that I have the ability to build a town.He didn't know that I owned a vast area of land in the Valley of the Willows, and of course he didn't know that Felix had given me a warehouse of dowry, which covered almost all kinds of materials, and I stored them in the underground warehouses of the Valley of the Willows, except for the grain, which I had to keep all the time to be used when I was ready to rebuild the town of Durm.Thinking of the untapped resources of that land, I said to Noah, "It's okay, my territory has two undeveloped iron mines and one undeveloped silver mine, and the Trump stronghold is surrounded by forests, with pine and oak forests and no shortage of timber, as long as there are enough manpower, the town can be built." ”Noah then asked, "What about the population?"
What are you going to do, there are many people who would rather beg for food in their hometowns than live away from their hometowns. ”"Immigration alone will certainly not work."
I said to Noah, I hit the idea on those Hierro natives in the caves of Xinliu Valley, due to their physical reasons, it is impossible to live in the underground world all the time, they need to go back to the surface, then the rebuilt Turum is naturally their first choice.Noah listened intently to my vision of the new territory with his glass in hand, and I said to him, "You can recruit some local natives, or some wanderers, and I can give them freedom and land, and give them a sense of belonging." ”Noah asked me, "Won't the natives necessarily accept your affection, but if you go to them first, occupy their homes, and establish towns to govern them, won't they all rebel?"
”At least there are 700 natives of the Hiero Plane in the Valley of the Willow who will not have any resistance, and if they do, it is probably not impossible to recruit some new aborigines.So I said, "You have to try these things to know!"
”I raised the goblet in my hand, shook it gently at Noah, and said, "Drink a glass, it will help you sleep." ”Noah took a sip of the golden cider, squinted his eyes and savored the aroma of the wine, and he said to me, "Jiga, I know that El City is the land of golden cider, but do all of you people there drink such high-quality golden cider?"
I think these golden ciders of yours are far more delicious than the golden ciders in our cellar.Before, I never thought it was good, but now you've changed my opinion. ”After drinking the wine, Noah returned to the bedroom, and I lay on the soft bed with three points of drunkenness, feeling my eyelids a little heavy, and I don't know when I fell asleep.When I woke up in the morning, the sky was already bright, a copper-billed bird stood on the branch and kept croaking, and the melodious sound of bells came from the bell tower in the distance, waking me up through the glass window from far and near.Almost every morning, in the cafeteria of the academy, I can hear some students talking about the affairs of the Ming Society, the Ming Master has a very high status in the group of magicians, and the Ming Society has worked together to create the magic pattern structure this time, but it has made some achievements in the early stage, and it has already attracted the attention of the students of the whole school.Of course, when a magician is in the academy, being able to befriend a master is a great gain for him.But after walking into the restaurant today, I felt that the focus of everyone's eyes had changed slightly, and since I walked into the restaurant, I began to have frequent eyes on me.Sitting in the corner of the dining room, Noah stared at two dark circles under his eyes, and was a little listless as he scooped the cereal porridge with a spoon and mechanically put it into his mouth, obviously looking sleep-deprived.My condition is also much better than his, and I am used to getting up early and going to bed late as an assistant at the Imperial Capital Magic Research Institute.Noah was amazed to see me leisurely eating breakfast, not in the slightest from the fact that I had only slept for two hours last night.But it seems that he is not in the mood to talk to me about this at the moment, and just wants to finish breakfast early and then take a short break in the classroom.I sat next to Noah, a little out of the woods, but there were still frequent glances at me, and they all looked at me in surprise, as if to say, "Oh, so he's the new man named Jijia!"
It turns out that he is the junior freshman who duel with William!
Some of the magic students around me frequently looked at me with pity, some with a look of schadenfreude, some with a hateful look at me, some even with a cruel sneer, and some with an incredible expression that was imprinted in my mind like a photograph, lingering beneath the golden surface of my spiritual sea.It seems that the news of my duel with William has spread in the academy, and when the group of people from the Ming Society finished breakfast and left the restaurant, Yi in the crowd still secretly looked at me, and when my keen eyes caught his gaze, he turned his head very vigilantly, avoided the collision with my gaze, and left the restaurant with a little weakness.Hiram and Jossenner came over with their plates, and I asked Noah to squeeze in to make way for the two of them, and they sat down eagerly, not in a hurry to eat breakfast, and looked curiously at the door with my gaze, and Hiram asked me with a big grin, "Giga, what are you looking at?"
”I withdrew my gaze, not wanting to get the subject to Ivan, so I said to Hiram: "I saw a familiar back, but it disappeared in a blink of an eye. ”Hiram was eating the crunchy wheat cake when he suddenly asked, "Jiga, I heard that you and William agreed to have a duel after the summer festival?"
”I shook my head firmly and said to Hiram "It's time for the first storm after the Summer Festival Ball. ”Hiram leaned close to my face, his snort almost squirming all over my face, trying to find something different in me.Hiram asked me: "Hey, tell me, who gave you such a strong heart, you are only a fourth-level magician, you are eight levels away from William's current level, such an eight-level gap in mana, what do you want to make up for it?"
”Qiao Senna, who was sitting next to him, also took a slice of white bread, stuffed it into his mouth, and then said vaguely: "Otherwise, let's find someone to make peace, although their Mo family is a top wealthy family in the imperial capital, they can climb the relationship." ”I shook my head slowly and said to the two of them, "Isn't there still more than a month, and things will turn around." ”Hiram and Josenner naturally didn't believe my rhetoric, and Hiram said with some exaggeration: "Turnaround?
Unless you can break through the bottleneck of a junior mage and become an intermediate mage within a month's time, you will have any hope of defeating William. ”These two people still don't have to question William's personal strength, maybe it's because my current rank and strength are too low, so they can mistake them like this.Noah on the side frowned and stuffed the last piece of bread into his stomach, then poured out the emptiness and joined us in the chat, listening to him say, "You still want to reconcile, give up this unrealistic idea!"
William is not only a fourth-year graduate with first-turn strength, he is also a dragon-blooded mage, except for the loss he suffered under Adele at the beginning, he has never lost any kind of competition. ”"It's okay!"
I said to Hiram.There was a sudden silence.Josenner had another question for me: "And, Giggar, have you been raised to the rank of Earl?"
It's true?
”I hesitated for a moment before I said, "Well, let's just say that!"
”Hiram and Josenner looked at me like they were looking at a monster.The wheel of time just ran over the trajectory of my life little by little.During the day, I was taking classes at the Royal Academy of Magic, and the amount of knowledge was increasing with each class, and I was gradually feeling a little overwhelmed.In the evenings, I stayed in the Imperial Capital Magic Research Institute, and I was in the laboratory of Yerkes with great skill in drawing those sets of magic patterns, and in the past few days, I have drawn more than a dozen sets of magic patterns, and they are hanging on the clothes racks in the laboratory.I was in Qige's laboratory, working on the development of exhaust fans, and at first I wasted a few wind magic rune metal plates, and now there are more than a dozen rune metal plates engraved with a very successful magic circle, of course, these few rune metal plates alone are not enough to make an exhaust fan.If you want to make these magic talisman plates into exhaust fans, you also need to prepare a lot of metal parts, and assemble these parts together to become an exhaust fan, these things don't need me to reach out myself, and some assembly things can still be done by the craftsmen in the blacksmith shop.The prototype of the first exhaust fan, which has been placed in front of Qige's desk, looks very bulky, hanging from the top of the window, the force of the tornado is very weak, but once it is activated, it will form a suction force, pumping the smoke in the laboratory, unexpectedly very mysterious.After a few days, I waited at the gate of the college for the belated postman, who brought a reply from Mrs.
Elia, who said that I was very welcome to her estate, and invited me to host a banquet at her house this week's weekend evening.