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Chapter 186 Crazy Human Resources

Originally, the Middle Kingdom didn’t have many children. Most of the citizens were immigrants, and children who were weak during the migration process were prone to die. Even if the newlyweds had children immediately after arriving, they were only four or five years old, and they hadn’t even started school yet. At most, a group of children were sent by Burton to "cook food", and a group was taken away when they became adults, leaving only a few more than 30 suitable for school, which made the school in Yuecheng deserted.

Cecil was amazed that Russell did not spend much on education.

"He usually spends a long time talking about a copper coin." Cecil said with a smile, "The school is very generous in buying furniture."

"Education is the only way to get good results, and it is impossible to become a talent if you only give a bowl of rice." Langdon laughed, "The Gay Knights also attach great importance to education, which is traditional."

Cecil praised at the time, but a question was buried in his heart: Who are the people who have gradually shaped such a super "fashionable" gay knights in the process of continuous travel?Who is the current group leader?

Regarding this matter, Langdon did not hide anything: "Headmaster? It's in the main hall."

"Where is the main hall?" Cecil asked.

"An island." Langdon said, "The main hall cannot be located in any country or any civilization, so as to show the aloof position of the Gay Knights. The leader also has a rule not to go to other countries casually. It’s a rule, and the rules in the Knights Order are meant to be broken, but generally speaking, the leader doesn’t run around.”

Cecil asked curiously, "What does the leader of the Gay Knights look like?"

"You want to ask if he's handsome?" Langdon asked with a half-smile.

"Absolutely not!" Cecil said categorically, "No matter how handsome you are, it's impossible for you to be as handsome as you!"

Langdon gave two "hehe" and said, "The current commander is really handsome, and he is very good at knowing people. He basically promoted the current Templars. Like Burton, it was absolutely impossible before. In a management position, because the Gay Knights are not friendly to anything related to women, let alone dressing up as a woman, it is absolutely not allowed, but the current leader doesn't care, he thinks the soul is more important than the skin, and it is also Under his management, the time traveler has become more relaxed. If it were the same as before, even if you were not isolated and monitored, it would be impossible for you to be released as the king of a country."

The more Cecil heard it, the more itchy his heart became, and he asked, "Could this leader be a time traveler too?"

"No." Langdon replied straight away, "His life has not changed in any particular way, and the anchor point of his soul has never changed."

"Soul anchor?"

"A magic that determines the match between the soul and the body. Templars and above must use it to prevent the body from being occupied." Speaking of this, Langdon also specially winked, "If you can become a Saint Templar, 'you' won't come either."

Cecil grinned: "Then do you want me to come or not?"

"Does it need to be said?" Langdon leaned over and kissed, "Welcome, Your Majesty."

With the support of the royal knights, Cecil's school is still running smoothly. On the one hand, there are not many school-age children, and on the other hand, the school has established many non-magic subjects. Talent, so there has been no splash in Yuecheng School for a long time, not to mention foreigners, even the natives often don't know about it.

As for magic, the whole education is a book.

"You actually wrote down the magic?!" Steel Ring roared loudly, "And compiled it into a book? You let these children endorse it? Are you crazy? How can you ruin people like this?"

At this time, Cecil came directly to the school with the steel ring, originally planning to ask him to write some magic that is suitable for the underground, but he didn't expect this guy to go crazy when he saw the magic book.

"How can you make magic into a book!"

"Why not?"

"Because it's magic!"

"Isn't it easy to read spells written down?"

"Reading a fart, this is magic, you need to experience it with your heart!"

"Isn't writing down the same thing you can do with your heart?"

"It's different, it's magic!"

The steel ring turned over and over again and said "this is magic", as if it was a special spell. After talking about it, Cecil became impatient: "What the hell are you here for?"

The steel ring suddenly stopped talking. At this time, the children in the classroom, including the teacher, stared at him as if watching a strange beast. Some lively children even whispered to each other and let out giggles.

"You, you..." Steel Ring wriggled its lips and stammered, "How can you disrespect magic so much?"

Cecil rolled his eyes: "This is not a magic school. The children and parents who enter the school know that magic is just a sideshow."

The steel ring heard the words and flipped through the magic book. The printing of this book is too simple. After several years of picking and picking by the teacher, not only is it full of various annotations, but the pages are also torn and torn. It was also stained with ink and charcoal marks, and it was shabby.

The steel ring became more and more angry, and shouted tremblingly: "If you just learn it casually, why do you write so many magics!? There are so many magics in so many departments, and there are still big magic levels. Are you crazy? Learn why you have to write down the great magic! There is also space and time magic. The parents didn't have time to take care of it, so they threw it over, "How can such a young child learn advanced magic?!"

"Oh, I said it all, just read it casually." Cecil sighed, talking to the dwarf who accepted death was really exhausting, "Look, it also has some effects, such as... um, is there anyone familiar with books? "

The neat little hands were raised up, about [-]% of them were scanned at a glance, only one or two who were too young looked blank.

Of course, the main staff of the school are two teaching knights sent by the Knights, Cook and Ferro. Among them, Ferro was also the object of the original Cecil's night talk. It is said that they brought hundreds of refugee children here to cheat for food and drink, and the young couple lived a sweet life in the past few years.

Cook said expressionlessly: "Anyone who can recite the full text raises their hands."

This time it was a little less, about two-thirds.

"Have you memorized all of them?" Steel Ring murmured, "All of them?"

"Of course." Cook said with some pride in his tone, "It's just a book. Children's memory is very good."

The steel ring raised its voice: "Then..."

"No magic." Cecil added in time, "It's just memorizing spells, nothing special."

The aura of the steel ring was exhausted, and it took a while before he whispered: "You are blaspheming magic!"

Cecil smiled: "There is no profanity, and it is not formally learning magic." He thought for a while, and said, "How do dwarves learn magic?"

"It's the same, choose a teacher to learn from, the stronger the teacher, the stronger the student." Steel Circle said weakly, "Learning magic requires heart and soul to experience it. It's useless to learn spells first, your body can't control the storage Mana, no matter how many spells you know, it’s useless.”

Even though he knew the truth, Cecil still asked curiously: "Then how do you control the stored magic energy?"

"Everyone is different. You have to find a direction that suits you. If you have been in a state of confusion, you can travel. After going through all kinds of hardships, you can find magic power. Some people suddenly realize it in an emergency." When Steel Ring said these words, he raised his head involuntarily, and the holy radiance flowed up and down his body, which restored his momentum, "It is impossible for people like you to comprehend the true meaning of magic!"

Cecil: "Huh."

What kind of ghost comprehension, as long as there is enough magic energy, any creature will automatically absorb and get close to the magic energy, just like a sponge is to water, but everyone's physique is different, and the ability to experience the magic energy is also different, but generally speaking, the magic energy is sufficient This is why there are more magical countries in the west than in the east. The two existing magic energy wells are both in the west, and the concentration of magic energy in the west is much higher than that in the east. Of course, if it is too thick, then something will happen

No matter what the creatures do or do, they cannot affect the mana. At that time, Cecil asked how No. [-] could control the mana. It is something beyond human technology, and this super cheat cannot be built overnight. The Dijals built it for a long time under the guidance of a certain insidious law, and consumed only one immigration ship. , which later became Cloud City.According to No. [-], there were hundreds of immigrant ships at the time, and the scale was very large.

As for the level of magic that can be learned, it has nothing to do with the learner. In fact, all mages are destined to be able to learn a certain level of magic from the beginning. No matter what they do, they cannot break through this limit. The only limit is that mages can reach it from the very beginning. The upper limit is mana, there is not enough mana to cast spells.

Anyway, knowing this, and looking at the pious attitude of the steel ring towards the magic energy, Cecil couldn't help but sigh: the whole fucking planet is full of people who have been fooled and crippled.

The steel ring finally kept its magic while sighing, and then left with a sad gesture, leaving a big hole in the concrete floor of the classroom, which made Cecil very angry.

Langdon came back not long after he was notified. After studying the spell of the steel ring, he said, "It's pretty solid. There are several advanced spells."

In Cecil's eyes, these words were completely incomprehensible. There was no way, there was no word corresponding to magic in Chinese. He glanced briefly and said, "There are so many magic bits in the steel ring."

There are nearly a hundred magic spells left by the steel ring, and dozens of pages are densely written.

"It doesn't mean that there are as many magic slots as there are magic skills. There are always very few magic slots." Langdon said, "The ultimate dream of every mage is to be able to use magic without restrictions."

"Come on, even if there is no magic slot, there is still the limitation of magic power." Cecil finished speaking with a smile, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "By the way, where did such a thing as a magic slot come from?"

"Where did it come from?" Langdon smiled at first, then slowly restrained his smile and began to ponder, "You mean, things like magic bits don't exist naturally?"

"We have seen a lot of things that we thought were natural, but later found out that they are not, right?" Cecil waved his hand, "You think of magic energy as oil, and people are oil lamps, pour oil into the oil lamp and light it It can be illuminated afterwards, so why is there a magic bit? This thing seems to simply limit the number of times people can use magic, it’s almost like fearing that people will use magic unrestrainedly, in short, it feels awkward, like an extra one for no reason Procedures. Think about the transformation of the ancient survivors, if I am strong enough, can I add a will rule to all magic?"

Langdon showed a dazed expression: "You seem to have some truth in saying that." He patted Cecil on the forehead, "My Majesty is willing to use his brain on magic."

"I've been moving." Cecil opened the car generously and said, "Leave that aside, do you think the steel ring spell can be taught to students? Are there any traps?"

"No problem." Langdon laughed. "Dwarves are still a kind-hearted race. They are very committed and don't like to use dirty tricks."

Most of the spells of the steel ring are changed according to the special environment underground. For example, the spell of "twilight lighting" is different from the spell on the ground. It forms a ball of light on the ground, but his spell actually creates a flame. It needs to consume oxygen and has attachments, so that it can be used as an oxygen detection at the same time to detect hypoxia in time, and the overall brightness will not be so dazzling and more gentle.

The students are not against magic. Of course, children are curious about the colorful magic. Compared with ordinary science that has to be learned step by step, magic is much more interesting. Even if they can’t use it, they are willing to recite those awkward spells. Practice odd poses.

Cecil followed Langdon all the way back thinking about something, and when he arrived at the conference room, he looked at the papers piled up on the table and said hesitantly, "My dear."

"Huh?" Langdon has already started to review. He is not the kind of person who likes to procrastinate. Although things are always endless, they have to be done.

"You said... If I pull these youngsters who have memorized spells near the magic well, will they immediately become mages?" Cecil asked.

Langdon frowned: "First of all, these children will be drunk and accidents will happen."

"Actually, I think it's a bit strange." Cecil said, "It stands to reason that there are magic powers here in the east, too? According to the theory of the truth of magic, these children should know how to use magic after learning so many spells, but if they come here before If you don’t know magic, you won’t be able to use magic after you come here, which is illogical.”

This is also a phenomenon that Cecil has been intentionally or unintentionally ignoring. Before that, the Middle Kingdom had faintly been known as the "land of magic abandonment". Although there are magic powers, children who grew up in the Middle Kingdom seem to be naturally alienated from magic. Well, there are very few magical talents. According to statistics, the oldest child born in the Middle Kingdom is five years old, and none of them has shown any magical talent.

"Number Six said that there is no problem with the mana in this area." Langdon said silently, "There is no abnormal phenomenon."

Cecil really didn't feel right, like some kind of invisible netting, uncomfortable.

"Maybe we should ask someone with a broader perspective," Langdon said.

"Ok?"

"Gods."

Cecil managed to catch the paper book god wandering around the city. The "illegitimate son" of the paper god and the god of knowledge is now a teenager, always wearing ancient Chinese robes and combing his hair in a bun, like a graceful He is making trouble everywhere in the city like a son. The citizens have already seen the strangeness and even spread it as a good story. Gradually, it has become a similar scenic spot. There are often outsiders wandering around as soon as they enter the city, trying to "coincidentally" this "approachable" person. God of civilization.

On the earth, the paper book god has entered middle-aged and old age, and is in an industry where the sun is setting. Here, the paper book god is just like the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning.

"Ask me?" The Paper Book God immediately rolled his eyes after hearing Cecil's question, "How do I know? I don't know magic."

Cecil smiled and said: "Aren't you a god, maybe you can see things we can't see..."

"What's the use of me telling you what you can't see?" The Paper Book God interrupted Cecil unceremoniously, "I can see things like laws, but you can't see, touch, or hear , isn’t that a waste of words?”

Don't you waste so much nonsense?It's not cute at all when it grows up!

Cecil sneered a few words, and said: "So, magic is indeed resistant to me?"

The Paper Book God squinted at Cecil, and said: "You can't say that, the main reason is that the laws here are irritating, unlike the laws on the earth, except for the global shuffling of cards from time to time, it is quite logical. , easy to straighten out, the laws here are too annoying, and they will conflict with each other, in short, these things are not something you can mix, just do your own thing. If you want these children to be magic, take them out for a walk outside It's over."

Cecil replied resentfully, and was about to leave when he was suddenly stopped again: "Some people are coming to the house recently, you should prepare."

"Huh?" Cecil didn't understand, "Who's coming?"

"At home!" Paper Book God had an expression of hatred for iron and steel, "You have been here for so long, think about how many things you have promoted, and the conditions for extradition are ripe. For example, the Great Wall has long wanted to come. What's the matter? Not welcome?"

"Welcome! Welcome!" Cecil enthusiastically said, "You can come as much as you want!"

The paper book god nodded old-fashionedly, and handed over a piece of paper: "Please promote it to the relatives on it, don't make your family members wait too long."

Cecil raised his hands and took it solemnly. He looked down and saw "God of Internet Information" on the first line.

Cecil: "..."

Grandson really can't do it!

How many fucking things have to be invented!

Ancestor, I haven't even entered the steam age here!

What can Cecil say?

Of course not, I just silently accepted the note and pretended nothing happened.

The autumn wind is blowing, the fallen leaves are falling, and the pace of war is getting closer and closer. Although the Middle Kingdom does not need to send people to fight in person, backup is still needed. Cecil promised to provide a large amount of military equipment at a cost price—of course, the so-called cost price also has If the water is gone, in short, this business can't be lost.

It's not that the other countries don't know Cecil's little thoughts, but from their point of view, these things are still too cheap, so cheap that they don't even want technology, whether businessmen want it is another matter.

"It's better to buy than to build from the foundation!" Alexander said bluntly at the time, "Why waste time?"

When Cecil heard it, the corners of his mouth immediately grinned to the base of his ears, and he hurriedly nodded in agreement.

As for Alexander, apart from anything else, his ability to set up FLAGs is really one set after another. Before this war, he basically set up all the FLAGs of Sakura, bald head, and Germany, which made Cecil deeply suspicious of this war. Will wars with vastly different strengths capsize in the gutter.

The shortage of manpower in the Middle Kingdom has reached the point of insanity. Some merchants even voluntarily organize manpower to join the war on the grounds that they can grab some slaves and come back to work...

To this point, Cecil responded by spreading the word that "slavery is illegal, and anyone who dares to use slaves will have their illegal gains confiscated, fined, and punished with hard labor." The citizens praised such laws one after another.

"His Majesty the King didn't drive people out of the country, how tolerant!"

"I just said, Your Majesty is very gentle, different from ordinary kings!"

"Now you don't have to worry about becoming a savage!"

"Actually, we should be more ruthless towards criminals, right?"

"If you kill someone, you will die."

"It's just a matter of life, why don't you even sit with your family?"

To this day, Cecil still cannot adapt to the local three views of "not treating people as human beings".

In any case, most people in the Middle Kingdom still support this war without war mobilization. The reason is, of course, that once slavery is eliminated, slaves who have no skills, no magic, and even the country will cease to exist are excellent manpower. In order to save resources, businessmen have the idea of ​​hiring at low prices. Although the "Labor Law" has been promulgated for more than a year, new immigrants are still the cheapest labor.

Despite Cecil's repeated emphasis on the dangers of war and the fact that no one is allowed to hold slaves illegally, the merchants frantically organized a mixed team of mercenaries, adventurers, and human resources.

"We have only one goal, pull people! Pull people! Pull people!" The leader of this team shouted with a big horn made of paper tubes, "As long as they are still breathing, they must be pulled to the Middle Kingdom! Sick! Heal the injured! Heal the wounded! Let them marry wives and have children! Let them buy a house! Let their wives buy clothes! Let their children go to school! Then they will have to work all their lives, never stop!"

The members of the team burst into applause, full of excitement.

Cecil looked distorted from a distance, approached the bodyguard and said, "Who is that leader?"

"It's the human resources of the largest silk firm in the city." The bodyguard replied.

"...Human resources?" Cecil asked uncertainly, "Do you hire people?"

"Yes." The bodyguard said, "Now the human resources of all commercial firms must be high-level mercenaries or adventurers, proficient in various fighting skills, and have a foundation in magic, otherwise they will not be able to hire people at all. The battle for resources is particularly fierce."

Cecil: "..."

What a bunch of fucking lunatics this is!

In Cecil's mind, the scene of this group of people following behind the Luoxie army, yelling at the enemy on the opposite side of the field with a loudspeaker to promote their salary and benefits... It is really possible for this group of people to do it. !

In such a delicate atmosphere, the first battle to eradicate slavery began!