"Do you mean that our dear count Radcliffe has once again left his own territory and has gone somewhere?"

In the imperial Library of Morley palace, the capital of the northern Empire, Israel raised his head from the stacks of documents. His majesty, the majestic and tall emperor, blinked first, looked at the comer for a long time, and then continued to ask in a familiar voice, "how long have you been away?"

When he spoke, Israel's right hand was still correcting memorials and various documents and asking for instructions, while his left hand was holding a large silver barbell, which was exercising up and down. The emperor's tone was calm and gentle, but the helplessness and unhappiness in his tone could be heard by anyone.

"Keke... Father, you know, the leader of Moldavia didn't need the Lord's direct jurisdiction for a long time..."

In front of the desk, dimore, the second prince of the Empire, coughed softly. His eyes drooped and his face looked ashamed. Dimore was embarrassed to ask Israel: "so the territory is running as usual, If it wasn't for Liu Di's visit to lindongbao college, we might not know the news yet. "

"Well, it means that no one knows where Radcliffe has gone, and no one knows when he will come back, and his territory has even been used to this for a long time, So it's working as usual without a lord - how many days has he been back to the mainland? Why are you running out again

Israel sighed. He put down his pen in his right hand and continued to exercise in his left hand. The emperor leaned back against the big chair and summed up the news about Joshua. But halfway through, he patted his thigh angrily: "nonsense! At least he is an imperial nobleman. At least he should consider his own identity! How could this man, like a wandering adventurer, not be able to stay in one place quietly for half a year? "

"What if there is an emergency, such as the sudden invasion of the abyss demon, but others can't find it at all?"

——That's not the case.

The emperor was depressed here, but dimore stood aside, thinking of the voice of the black haired soldier in his heart. He said: the invasion of the abyss devil? How could that man miss such a thing.

"Father, count Radcliffe, after all, is also a legendary strong man. His usual actions do not need to be reported to us."

Although he thought so in his heart, dimore would not say it. At this time, after thinking about the meeting, he suggested to Israel: "the name of count is too small for a legendary strong man with great achievements. It's normal for him not to care about territory, Maybe we can consider... "

But Israel shook his head and interrupted dimer. First, he looked impatiently at the numerous documents on the desk, then waved to his son and said, "don't worry, dimer. I'm not angry, and I don't think that Joshua is doing something wrong. On the contrary, legend should have lived as he likes, It's their right privilege. "

"As for territory and title, do you think he would care? Do you think Joshua would be happy if I gave him all the uninhabited territories north of the great AEAS and gave him the title of Duke of northfrost

Of course not.

Without any consideration, dimore can come to the conclusion that Joshua may be very concerned about the development of Moldavia, but it is only because the territory is inherited from his father's generation. If the whole great AEAS mountains, the Arctic ice sheet and the sea of blankness are really assigned to each other, and then he will be given the title of Duke, Joshua would never have too much identity with the whole empire. Instead, he would feel inexplicable and irritable.

"Legends are so strong that they can't be restrained. Look at all the legends in the whole continent, which one is not? As for Mr. Nostradamus and I are special cases. He needs the support of the whole empire to realize his ideal, while I am

"I'm first delmond the great of the northern Empire, then Israel the legendary strongman, and that's my responsibility."

In a calm tone, Israel squinted at dimer. He said in a rather playful tone, "my child, I put you beside me so that you can take over the burden on my back, but now it seems that your strength has slowed down due to the lack of training in recent years."

"My fault, father! Recently, life is too easy. I've really neglected a lot! "

When Israel said that, dimore could not help but feel a deep sense of shame. To this end, he immediately knelt down on one knee and seriously introspected: "in a few days, I will go to the South fortress deep in the black forest to experience. I will never slack off!"

"That's not necessary."

With his left hand weighing the silver barbell, Israel narrowed his eyes and laughed. He stood up and motioned to dimore to get up too. The emperor handed the barbell to the other side in his son's confused eyes."This, this is?! Well -- "

At the beginning, dimore didn't think much of it. It was just a barbell. No matter how heavy it was, it was just like that. He was a little different from his extreme intention. Even a magic object weighing dozens of tons could be rubbed like a paper ball. But when he took over the barbell, he was very happy, The handsome face of the second prince, who had no defense at all, was distorted when he was stunned. The floor of the imperial study burst open in an instant, and cracks spread in all directions: "Ka... No way!"

With fierce fighting, dimore held the barbell in his hands, which seemed to be the size of an ordinary person's arm. His arms were blue and his eyes were full of blood. He reluctantly raised his head, bit his teeth, looked at Israel and said, "father, what is it?"

"It's the exercise equipment that Radcliffe gave me not long ago. It's said to be made of very rare materials. Now I'll give it to you."

Seeing that dimer seemed to be unable to catch his breath, Israel not only did not have a worried expression, but also seemed very satisfied. His majesty even stepped forward, patted dimer on the shoulder, and then whispered: "when you can lift the barbell almost freely without damaging the surrounding environment, Then you'll be barely enough to take my place. "

In this way, Israel turned his head and looked out of the window of his study. The magnificent palaces reflected the golden glow of the sun. His voice was calm as usual, without any ups and downs: "work hard, dimer, the era of war is almost over, and a new era is coming."

"After doing what I should do, I won't sit on the throne forever."

With such a meaningful sentence, Israel left his study, sweating, and trying to control his own strength. Dimore, who did not destroy the surrounding environment when he grasped the barbell in his hand, was among them. He asked the second prince to think about the deep meaning of his father's words when he tried his best to use his own strength.

"Is it..."

……

Maccroft world, northern Empire, northern Moldavia, main city.

Generally speaking, the local hunters and farmers in Beidi will affectionately call this black iron city in the middle of Moldavia "Lord's place", while the slightly learned people, such as the peddlers, will respectfully call this city's real name "Moldavia".

The name of the main city is the name of the territory, which is a very normal thing for the whole continent of mirov, especially for the northern empire. This is a tradition that has been handed down for nearly a thousand years, almost everywhere.

However, at this time, Moldavia is no longer a small city with a population of more than 100000. Today, it has completely become a super large urban agglomeration with a population of more than one million.

Starting from the central inner city, which was the original main city, four large satellite cities have been set up in the southeast, northwest and four directions with the help of magic power machinery. Countless hunters and herb gatherers who originally lived in the villages in the mountains and forests have gone out of the forest and settled in these satellite cities under the guidance of the government, He became a part of the city. When he noticed the tall buildings and the magic power tower in the satellite city, these hunters, who were still in the primitive times, were surprised and speechless.

If it is not for the continuous attacks of the Kuroshio, dragon disaster and heretics, it is almost impossible to move the mountain people who usually live in seclusion in the mountains and never come out of the city except for trading the necessary supplies. The reason why Moldavia officials emphasize the importance of moving mountain people is that the government of Moldavia emphasizes the importance of moving mountain people again, It is precisely because the magic power factory in the territory is in urgent need of a large number of labor force. Therefore, Moldavia officials even accepted many adventurers from other territories and countries, so that they could easily get permanent residency.

A few years ago, when Lord Moldavia and Northern Rune dwarves jointly developed the first magic machine armour, the modernization of magic power in the whole territory had been written into the plan. With the establishment of lindongbao college, higher talents from Imperial Royal mage college and seven gods church joined in the joint research, Originally quite primitive magic factory also updated equipment and produced products from generation to generation, changing the style of this ancient city bit by bit.

It may sound incredible, but in only six years or so, the whole Moldavia achieved semi demonization. With the help of the magic crystal veins around the palmprint lake, the magic research institute directly under lindongbao College as the center, one by one huge magic furnace cores were produced, and then transported to the other side and loaded underground in the city, Supply a large number of public facilities demand, and more than 20 magic factories scattered around the four satellite cities, production similar to magic furnace and other commonly used equipment.

Today, the original arms and armor business of Radcliffe's family has been gradually replaced by exported magic equipment. With a lot of money coming back, almost all the factory leaders have decided to expand the factory, but it's not enough just to have equipment. It's always people who control tools. In order to get cheap labor, these factories are responsible for promoting Moldavia officials to absorb foreign population as much as possible, and select the right people to enter the factories. They are not afraid of any security risks or technology leakage, because the owners of these factories are a powerful legendary strongman. Even in addition to this legendary strongman, they are backed by the Royal mage Association of the northern Empire and the seven gods church."Brother, is this Moldavia?"

Nanwei Star City, the business district around the gate of the city, accompanied by heavy footsteps, a huge dragon car slowly stopped next to the new post station, the crowd came down from the dragon car, a team of city guards stationed at the post station stood together, maintaining the order of the team.

And in the team, there is a little gray haired girl who looks less than ten years old. At this time, she is sitting in the arms of a tall man, biting her thumb, muttering vaguely: "there are so many people, much more than our hometown... We will live here in the future?"

"Yes, little Lanny, the house here is very cheap. We can buy it even with our savings!"

Holding the little girl with gray hair, he went to a relatively open corner, carrying two huge luggage packages on his back. The tall man with gray hair also said to his sister in a low voice. The man's face was scarred as if he had been scratched by some wild animal's claw, and there were all kinds of scars on his bare thick arm, which made him look extremely ferocious and difficult to provoke. But even such a ferocious man showed a sincere smile: "Moldavia is now a famous big city in the Northern Empire, looking for a job here, It's better than home. "

"So brother prest won't fight those monsters again?" The little girl seemed to be worried and said, "I won't leave for more than half a year and leave me alone with my aunt?"

"No, Britney, it's safe here, and I won't leave you again."

Recalling a few years ago, the tall man named prest had a rather sad expression on his face. A few years ago, in the strange Kuroshio and dragon disaster that almost swept half of the continent, many areas of the northern Empire were attacked by varying degrees, and his hometown happened to be surrounded by a group of green dragons.

In order to protect their homeland and support the arrival of Imperial Army reinforcements, the parents of the brother and sister paid the price of their lives, and Prester was also seriously injured. In the end, although the imperial army killed the troubling green dragons, the farmland and pasture in their hometown were eroded by the venom, and could not be used in the next ten years.

In order to support himself and help his younger sister live a hard life since childhood, Prester entrusted her sister Britney Spears to her aunt. With her strong physique, Prester joined a caravan to transport and sell specialty goods back and forth between the north and south of the Empire. Although she worked hard, she was also very easy to be attacked by wild demons and robbers, But the salary of this job is really quite high. Just two years' hard work has given Prester a lot of capital. He can consider finding a place to settle down and live a safe and stable life.

And Moldavia is where prest chose to be.

"This place is so peaceful..."

The tall man recalled what he had experienced all the way, and could not help but exhale with joy: from the Ural Mountains to the main city of Moldavia, the Dragon cart passed through four or five forests and two Great Plains along the way, but there were not half robbers on the way, There's not even a monster to attack! For the people on the mainland of mirov, it's totally inconceivable. Who won't encounter a few magical things when traveling?

But around Moldavia, there is no! No, it's better to say that even if there are, there are no demons who dare to attack human beings.

After all, it's the city where the legendary strongmen live. Priestly was glad for his choice. Even the most ferocious dragon beast would not dare to attack even a few years old child within the majesty of the Dragon Slayer Lord.

After a short rest, the tall man took out a map from his pocket. After he looked down at the meeting, he continued to walk to the other side of the city with the little girl who seemed to be about to fall asleep. Since Prester chose to settle in Moldavia, he had already made all the preparations. He was a friend of a caravan that he once worked for, At this time, he withdrew from the caravan and settled here. It was because of the invitation of the other party that he made up his mind to come to the end of the mainland, the far north.

"Prest! How fast you came! I thought you'd have to wait until autumn at least... Is this your sister? What a lovely girl! She will be a beautiful girl when she grows up

In the east of Nanwei Star City, next to a magnificent building which is as tall as a trapezoidal pyramid, and shocked by the pyroxene street lamps and the magic tower along the way, Prester finds the address left by his friend according to the address and asking local people. In front of a two-story single family building, Prester knocks on the door, Then he stepped back to listen to the rapid footsteps coming from the room. Then, when the door opened, he saw his friend who was surprised and had not seen him for a long time.

"Dear Dahl, it is your invitation that makes me make up my mind."

The brother and sister are invited into the house. Dahl asks punost and Britney Spears to sit aside while he goes to prepare tea. The blonde man with a face of some vicissitudes is putting the tea at his friend's table. Punost quickly thanks, while Britney Spears, the little girl, has fallen asleep in the chair because of the fatigue of the journey.He added a blanket for the little girl. After a while of reminiscence, Dahl said with emotion: "thank you for your kindness and generosity. The house price in Moldavia is no different from free gifts. Even a guy like me, who has little savings, can have a small building of his own."

"This is really enviable. You know, in my hometown, the city around the southern desert, a single house made of stone needs at least 1500 gold coins to buy."

He drank up his tea, and naturally he was envious. Dahl was a member of the caravan with him at that time. They helped each other and saved each other's lives several times. They were more affectionate than their real brothers. Because of this, he also knew that Dahl's savings were far less than that of him because he spent a lot of money on weekdays. Even if he could buy such a good house, he would not be worse.

"But it's important to note, punost, that such low prices won't last long."

After a cup of tea for his friend, Dahl whispered in a rather mysterious tone: "to tell you the truth, there are too many people who want to be residents of Moldavia recently, which is far beyond the expectation of the Lord's government. Therefore, the purchase conditions of the houses in the four major satellite cities have been limited."

"What conditions?"

When he heard this, he was naturally very nervous. You know, he drifted all the way from the south of the Empire, and then he came to Moldavia, where the conditions are excellent, and he was ready to settle down. But now he suddenly told him that the house purchase conditions are limited. How could he not be in a hurry.

"Don't be nervous, friend. Since I invited you here, I have already considered everything... Although it's a bit impolite, I have to say that I have my own purpose."

Dahl laughs. This man, who is not old enough, doesn't care any more. He says straightforwardly: "if you want to buy a house at the previous preferential price, you need to get Moldavia's" permanent resident card ", and if you want to get a permanent resident card, you need to get a real job in Moldavia! And what is serious work? It's not an adventurer, it's not a bar dishwasher, it's not a businessman. Only those who work for the Lord's mansion can be regarded as serious work! "

"Prest."

At this point, Dahl's expression became more and more serious: "have you ever heard of the magic factory?"

……

"Not bad, great guy. Your physique seems to be very suitable for working here... Dahl, the guy you recommended is really good. Go ahead, take this voucher and go to the financial front desk to get your reward."

"Well, Mr. Lund, I'll go now - don't worry so much, prest, you'll meet the requirements!"

A few days later, among the huge trapezoidal buildings, a nervous looking Prester stood inside the building structure of the magic factory, which seemed to be made entirely of steel and crystal. He looked down in fear and looked at the stout, bearded dwarf patting his knees, The dwarf, who claimed to be responsible for the factory, seemed very satisfied with his physical fitness: "our technical content in the work of the" Rune liquor factory "is not high. Although the requirements are relatively fine, it's easy to learn. Compared with thinking, the most important thing is the physical fitness of working 18 hours in a row when working overtime... Of course, Overtime pay must be in accordance with the standard of the Lord's office. You don't have to worry about paying and not paying in return. "

In the name of Lande, the dwarf factory owner's nagging, Prester finally understood the current situation.

His friend, Dahl, is now working in this Rune Factory. This factory produces some strange magic power equipment, but due to the shortage of manpower, it is very difficult for the factory to complete the order normally, and it often needs to work overtime. Therefore, as the owner of the factory, Runde, a dwarf, offered a reward. As long as he can find a suitable worker reserve, he is willing to pay a reward. Dahl naturally thought of his good friend for the first time, so he invited him to Moldavia.

In this regard, prest is naturally very happy - anyway, according to this Lande, the production of magic machinery does not need the operator to have any magic knowledge, just need to remember the correct operation process, and enough physical strength for processing, men naturally believe that they can be competent. What's more, they are now producing a strange magic power called "Goblin card table" which has no complicated mechanical structure. The core parts are produced by other factories or research centers, and they are just sent to them for assembly.

After a few days of training, prest has successfully learned how to assemble Goblin card tables. According to his serious character, he is naturally appreciated by Lande, the factory owner. With the help of his friend Dahl, prest has naturally become one with other workers in the whole factory.

As workers, their salary is related to their working hours, but even in the most leisurely eight hour working hours, Prester earns more than he used to work as a caravan guard. Somehow, the Goblin card table they produce is extremely popular. It's even heard that nobles and even royalty buy these things, So there is no shortage of orders in the factory, and there is almost no leisure time.In the tense work, the time flies general flow, between the trance, is several months passed.

"You don't seem to be twenty-five by now, prest?"

One day, Runde, a dwarf, was touring the production workshop when he came to prest, who was seriously controlling the workbench and assembling goblin cards, and suddenly asked, "it seems that he is in his early twenties."

"Ah, factory director, I'm twenty-four years old. I'll be twenty-five before winter."

I don't know why Lande asked, but Prester answered as he worked. In fact, he was only 21 years old. However, in order to join the caravan, he lied about his age. Now he has gradually accepted that he is 24 years old. Anyway, it's not a big deal.

"Well... To tell you the truth, our factory only belongs to the Lord's mansion and lindongbao college. In fact, there are several places recommended by the Department of war and vocational education of lindongbao college in the factory. How many qualified employees have to go for their children, and now there is only one left. You are not twenty-five years old. Theoretically, you are qualified to try to fight for it."

"The test is before winter. To tell you the truth, I don't think many students can match you in physique and physical strength... Listen to Dahl, you once fought against the green dragon and survived. This is the natural magic power!"

At this point, there's no need to go on. Looking at the sincere eyes of the dwarf factory owner, Prester grew up. He clenched his fist and said in a lowered voice: "factory director, I will work hard!"

"Hard work is not enough. What you need is hard work - and don't be too grateful to me. It's more cost-effective to bring out a potential professional than a hard-working worker. Anyway, if you don't succeed, you can only come back and continue to work for me. "

After waving his hand, Lande began to laugh. But immediately, he turned and left with a straight face: "OK, keep working. Today, there will be partners to check the quality of the products. Don't be distracted."

"Of course not!"

……

Moldavia, a welcome hotel built by the Lord's palace.

The sixth prince, Adrian, was sitting on the edge of his bed, looking at four little people with dragonfly like wings and different colors in front of him. They were having an impassioned discussion that he didn't understand at all.

Since Adrian reached a series of agreements with Lord Moldavia's mansion and the northern dwarves and got the assistance of four large Rune factories in the northern region, the Goblin card table, which was originally made of expensive raw materials, has become cheap step by step with the wisdom of the public. Nowadays, there are several Goblin card tables for customers to play in almost every pub in the north. In the aristocratic circle, getting a Goblin card table with a special style and default card back is also a part of showing off. This gadget, which he thought had great potential, suddenly became so popular, It really made Adrian feel a little weird.

"Is it hard, I'm actually a business genius?"

Although this idea occasionally arises, Adrian knows that if his father is not the emperor Israel, if count Radcliffe is not his father's good friend, if the northern dwarfs are not loyal to the Dragon Slayer Lord, if he does not have a good relationship with the goblins... He can do nothing, Even if it can produce Goblin card table, it is just the end of being taken away by other big forces.

Of course, the most important thing is the "goblins" who have designed almost all the goblin cards.

In the hotel room, on Adrian's bed, four elemental goblins, who had left the palace of Morley, were making a very hot speech.

"Fellow citizens

The whole body is blue, as if it is the spirit incarnated in the element of wind. Changfeng's delicate and beautiful face is full of blood. She said loudly: "in the glorious era, the goblin kingdom was in the seven continents of the world. Among many races, our goblins were not the top, but at least the pillar! Whether it's to stabilize the situation on the mainland or to adjust to various natural disasters, we all try our best. Without making any mistakes, we can almost get the ruling power of the Mainland... Well, well, it's not a little bit, and not to mention the sages, the sages are beyond the outline. At that time, who in the whole continent would have thought that there would be such a sage among the human beings? Don't say it's the younger generation among us. The past goblin queens didn't expect it

Although the speech was refuted by other Goblins who didn't give any face at the beginning, Changfeng still didn't flinch. She clenched her little fist and said firmly: "don't talk so much - the goblin queens have already known our achievements in goblin village. Your majesty thinks that this is very potential! Goblin card is undoubtedly an important channel for us goblins to return to the main material world and obtain the first sum of money! Israel doesn't have time to help us, so let's do it ourselves! ""Let those people know that we goblins don't ask for help!"

"Dudulu..."

"Good, good..."

"Changfeng, what you said is great. When can we go back?"

The other three goblins, representing earth, fire and water, gave out their cheers. Among them, the fire element goblin named flame complained impatiently: "Adrian, it's so boring here. I don't want to design any cards here with Changfeng. You can take us out for a walk."

As she said this, Guangyan tried to get close to the sixth Prince's arm, but she was immediately driven away by the tense Changfeng: "go, even if you don't want to help, you still try to abduct my students! If you want to play, go to Israel yourself, Adrian, but I found it. I will never give it to you! "

Well, I'm not your toy.

With a deep sigh in his heart, I don't know why Adrian, who is very popular with goblins, really wants to roll his eyes, but at this time he can only show a wry smile and answer Changfeng's words: "yes, yes, teacher Changfeng..."

In fact, the sixth Prince knew that Changfeng was right, Goblins can really rely on the publicity power and funds brought by goblin cards to return to the world of mirov in a fair way... At that time, most people who played goblin cards would not exclude goblins from becoming part of the human world. But why did the Goblins who lived in the goblin village for nearly a thousand years suddenly think of returning to the mainland? For this point, Adrian felt that there must be some important news behind him that he did not know.

With the direct support of her students, Changfeng immediately became proud. She looked around at one or two other Goblins who were listless, flapping her little wings behind her, clenched her fist in a very serious tone, and said, "again, we goblins don't ask for people! The promotion of Goblin card is imperative

"Yes..."

And at the same time, the other goblins answered in a listless voice, in the distance, the great AEAS mountains.

With the violent fluctuation of time and space and the sudden rise of most of the strong men in the main city and lindongbao college, a white airship with numerous mysterious runes floating around it, accompanied by bursts of dark blue waves, ran through time and space and appeared on the great eyas volcano.

A black haired man, holding the hand of a dragon girl, came out of the airship and stood in the air overlooking the land.

"I'm back."

The man looks at the familiar land, the familiar city, and the familiar mountains, and shows a smile. Behind him, the two legendary mages come out of the airship, releasing their legendary energy fluctuations without any cover. Suddenly, with the incomparable majesty spreading, all the people in Moldavia will know in an instant.

Their Lord has returned to his land