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Chapter 185 The Turning Point

Richard is a good boy, but he has no talent for magic, otherwise he would be fine as a son-in-law.

Fred often thinks this way. Although he has successfully escaped from the frail home country of Tambunita, and successfully established roots in the magic city to marry and have children, he still misses his childhood life.Although life in the countryside is poor, the neighbors and friends are very close. We grew up together and looked forward to the future together, until he was discovered with magical potential and got the opportunity to enter the magical country.

"Probably he will be an intermediate mage in this life."

When the teacher at the Tambuneta School of Magic said this, his tone was full of disdain, and it sounded like gospel to Fred.His parents spent all they had to pay for the tuition. After he worked, he brought his parents to the city of Tambunita to live. This is a small city, but it is already an incredible big city compared to his hometown. The automatic operation The magic cleaning puppet, the spring water that gushes out of every household, and the house that maintains a constant temperature all make the neighbors in his hometown envious. Every time he returns to his hometown, Richard always jumps and asks about things Wenxi, this curious child has always been very popular with him. After his parents passed away, he never returned to his hometown.

This is the world of magic!

Fred became the administrator of the magic foundry. He has some experience in mathematics and magic. After more than ten years of peaceful life, he would get some news about his hometown from time to time: the parents of the good neighbor Richard went to Passed away, Richard's elder brother disappeared after leaving home, Richard had a sister who was lucky enough to marry into the Los Angeles branch, Richard went to a small place called Moon City, the civilization of his mother country was extinct, in fact, he has been He felt that it could not be regarded as civilization at all, not even a civilization god, but the disappearance of his hometown still brought him a little ominous worry.

The wife and daughter who were born in a big city didn't understand Fred's emotions at all. In their view, everything except Tambunita was wild land, except for the Ten Kingdoms, the rest of the world was barbaric and not worth mentioning. Until a plague shattered the stability of this ordinary family.

Fred walked the empty street, expressionless.

His wife and daughter were infected with the Black Death one after another, and their deaths came very quickly. Fred was not quarantined, but the people who carried out the quarantine order also began to fall. The shadow of the plague quickly swept across the entire city. Don't worry about Algi's "hanging garden" suddenly coming to destroy everything, and the fear of death and disease quickly swept the entire city.

After that, even the fear was gone, and corpses began to pile up on the streets of the city. The cleaning puppets could not deal with such a large "garbage", so they could only clean up the putrefaction leaking from the corpses over and over again, until Nita was also burnt out and lost. The cleaning puppet powered by mana just stopped somewhere.

At the beginning, Fred reserved a magic slot every day to use healing magic. After a while, he was too lazy to keep it, and sometimes he was too lazy to eat and drink. He just chose a place where he used to go often and sat for a whole day without saying a word. Said, did nothing, and what's more sad, he hadn't seen a living person for almost a week, and he seemed to be the only one left in this block.

This city is not even purgatory, it is just a dead city.

It was the eldest son who had rushed back from Algis to save Fred. When he saw the familiar face, he thought it was a hallucination, or he was already dead, because it is said that Algis had been occupied by the plague, and everyone died. Dead, how can not be contacted.

"Father! Father!" cried the son, "I'm back! Where's the mother? Where's the sister? Father, it's me!"

Fred's frozen face melted in the midsummer sun, and he wailed and hugged his son's shoulders, finally coming back to life.

Fred knew why no one came to the rescue, knew that Foster III had come forward to govern, and knew that those treacherous officials and rebellious princes had been dealt with. However, this meant nothing to him, his wife and daughter had passed away, The eldest son will return to Algis soon.

"I've been promoted, father, the Department of Magical Warfare has allowed me to enter!" The eldest son said happily, "Although there won't be any wars in the near future, I have finally entered the official system. As long as I work harder, I will be certified as an advanced magician." , I might get a salary increase, and then I can buy a house in Algis, and getting married will not be a problem! Father, at most ten years, no, five years, I can take you over!"

Fred was a little dazed. It seemed that more than ten years ago, he had promised his parents in the same way that one day he would be able to gain a firm foothold in Tambunita and lead his family to live a good life.

"I'm going to Moon City." Fred said. This man in his early forties was as old as an old tree stump. "It's said in the healing magic, the Middle Kingdom, the Land of Dreams, I'm going there."

"The Middle Kingdom is nothing more than..."

The eldest son frowned but didn't say anything. He remembered Foster III's speech just now, in which there was quite a hint of goodwill towards the Middle Kingdom, but the Middle Kingdom he knew was just a place where some "gadgets" were invented. In the countryside, I heard that most of the people there don't know magic or are not used to magic life. He can hardly imagine how a "decent mage in a big city" can survive in a place that is completely indistinguishable from the wild.

"Father, don't be joking! Everyone in the Middle Kingdom defecates in one place, and it's in the city, and there are people living next to it!" The eldest son said anxiously, "Are you sick? How can a mage live in that kind of place?" go down?"

"It's not like that..." Fred retorted weakly, and then closed his mouth again. He remembered the news brought by his fellow merchants. The Middle Kingdom is a different country, and there will be a way out other than magic. "You know, I defecated everywhere when I was a kid. Anyway, I'm going to see, you don't have to say anything. I heard that Richard is there too, and he will take care of me."

Fred has been pursuing magic all his life. He always believed that only magic can bring a different color to his dry life. However, he still couldn't get anything in his middle age.

Maybe it's time for me to think differently, magic isn't everything.

"Magic isn't everything, of course, and slave owners can't decide everything."

Also holding the idea of ​​"big rebellion" is a slave named Aipan in St. Panier. She was born in a small civilization in the surrounding area of ​​​​Lochester. She married a man very early. In a small country that is not well-known, there is a younger brother named Richard and a younger sister who married into Los Angeles. Originally, this was a well-matched marriage. She had a poor but close family. However, when the illegal slave hunting team arrived In the end, everything came to naught, her husband was killed, and she was sold to St. Panier.

Aipan has peculiar purple hair, like the evening clouds and snowy night sky, which made her favored by her master, climbed into bed and gave birth to a son so that she lived to adulthood, and also made her come into contact with many expensive books and magic , broadened horizons.

Now, the master has a new slave, who is younger and more beautiful, and because she gave birth to a child—half the blood of the master makes this child treated much better than ordinary slaves—she can live on as a servant in this family .

"Let's run away," said Epon to his son, "Let's go to the Middle Kingdom!"

"Mom, the master said we should obey." The boy was not afraid but confused, "Why did you run away? The master gave us food and shelter, and he treated us so well, we are not even considered slaves! We have never been beaten , I have never been hungry, and others still call me young master!"

"I didn't become a slave voluntarily!" Aipan raised her voice excitedly, then lowered it again, she didn't want to scare her son, "And, I want to be a mage, a real mage! Don't you have anything you want to do? Have no dreams?"

"Didn't you learn how to make clothes and jewelry?" The son became more and more puzzled, and even had a trace of anger, "Why are you so greedy? If it wasn't for the master, you would still be living in those small civilizations and small countries where the soil is not as good as it is." Li, don't understand anything!"

There was anger and sadness in Aipan's eyes: "Greed? I have the potential of magic, why can't I learn magic? I want to master thunder and lightning, I want those powers, I can do it too! And, I... son, don't you got it!"

"You don't make money and you don't have any skills, who will pay the tuition?" The son said plausibly, "You are so shameless, Mom, if the master doesn't satisfy your wishes, will you run away? Why don't you show consideration for the master?" What? He bought you and paid for it, so many slave owners are competing with him, he is running around all day, working so hard, isn’t it all for us?”

Aipan opened her mouth but couldn't utter a word, her big beautiful eyes were filled with tears, after a while, she lowered her head dejectedly: "I was... wrong."

The young man said with satisfaction: "That's it, Mom, as long as you obey the master, you will definitely get better treatment. You must be considerate of the master! You can't always think about yourself, it's too selfish!"

That night, Aipan ran away without her son. She knew how she would be judged: vicious, shameless, and obscene. Once caught, she would definitely be burned alive by the slave police. She has no choice, and this chaotic moment is probably the only chance in her life.

Aipan got into a corpse truck going out of the city. During this period of time, the rumors about the fight for the throne had never stopped. She didn't know what happened, but more and more vehicles were transporting corpses out of the city every day. Too much, she sold those decent clothes, gave up her comfortable residence, stored magic bread for a month, and ensured that she had enough magic places to drink water every day, and then she embarked on a journey of escape alone.

Aipan is not aimless, she secretly learned healing magic but never told others. Recently, she heard a sentence from healing magic: the Middle Kingdom, the land of dreams.

The Land of Dreams, if I go there, can I learn to master the magic of lightning?

Aipan really wants to know what it feels like to hold thunder and lightning in her hands. During the time when she was most favored by her master, she saw a mage, just waved her hand, and the dark clouds rolled up, and the bright lightning split like a giant snake. The dazzling picture was deeply burned in her memory, unforgettable.

Epon was not the first slave to escape, nor would he be the last, but Nelson knew he would be the last foreign soldier to set foot on St. Benzie.

"Saint Benzie is about to perish, and the evil will be crushed!" Loschere's army commander declared so loudly, "We will leave our name in history and eradicate the evil slavery from this continent! At this moment, you will be Heroes! Heroes, look at St. Panier! Look at St. Benzer! The end of slavery has come, raise your sword, mount your horse, and go! St. Benzer!"

Nelson calmly shouted the slogan and returned to the dormitory to wipe the magic sword. As a mage who is good at war magic, he does not need to be on the front line in person, but he is also good at body strengthening magic. His magic teacher made a testament about blood , The more people he kills with his own hands, the greater the effect of magic will be. This is an opportunity and a training. He will not let go of any chance to go into battle. This is an opportunity to kill in an open and honest manner.

Besides, Nelson doesn't hate blood. Watching those enemies struggling on the ground, it seems that the blood and wailing have turned into strength and filled his body. Deep down in his heart, he enjoys all of this. Of course, he is not so stupid as to put Get those words out.

"Nelson, are you still on the front line this time?" a comrade in arms shouted.

Nelson nodded: "What about you, are you planning to shrink back and set off fireworks?"

"Fart, my Thunder Strike is a weapon of mass destruction!" The comrade-in-arms shouted, and then said with some emotion, "I didn't expect St. Several big slave owners in the city have performed. At that time, His Majesty the King and the King of St. Panier were not very good? Why did they suddenly..."

"What nonsense!" Another comrade-in-arms stopped the disrespectful words, "Your Majesty the King said that the evil slave owners are greedy, and many slaves are not voluntarily sold at all. They are all captured by illegal slave arrest teams Go, these slave owners are too cruel! Have you not watched the recent Les Miserables? It is said that it is the personal experience of escaped slaves!"

Nelson had heard of the play, which was put on by the Middle Kingdom Drama Troupe. It was sung in a strange way, but the music was really moving, and there were many instruments he had never seen before.The Middle Kingdom is a mysterious country in his eyes. When his king came back from a trip, there were many things that he had never seen before on the market. Among other things, the food, paper and soap were really good, and the price was too low. But the improvement of the quality of life can be seen with the naked eye, let alone cotton cloth. He did not expect non-magic cloth to be so cheap, soft, comfortable, and wear-resistant. It is a pity that there is no stock and he needs to order it. Fortunately, he only needs to wait a few months. Thirty sets including quilts.

The world has changed, and no matter what, I will be a maker of history instead of a piece of trash, Nelson thought confidently.

In the Middle Kingdom, where the world has been successfully turned, Cecil is negotiating with Russell.

"Four days, four days, okay?" Cecil said, "We not only need to create exports, but also stimulate domestic demand. Isn't it good to have a holiday? We are still on 999 now. This kind of work and rest is killing people, so let's relax once in a while." It’s good to have it all at once! Just wait, there will definitely be concentrated and large-scale consumption in the country!”

Russell said blankly: "If you are on vacation, the boss will directly pay overtime wages and ask the employees to come back and work overtime."

"Are the employees short of overtime wages? Does the boss dare to fire the employees?" Cecil said loudly, "Have a holiday, let the employees release their consumption hopes, so that they can better invest in value-creating work!"

"What are you so proud of?" Russell asked puzzledly, "Why are you so keen on national holidays? You insist on emphasizing real holidays, and no holidays are allowed. Are you obsessed?"

Cecil cleared his throat embarrassingly, calmed down his emotions, and said: "Look, there are three days in the New Year, three days in May Day, and three days in the Hot Pot Festival. This is only nine days, and two of these three festivals are in the The cold season is not conducive to everyone's travel. Now there is a festival, and the weather is cool after the busy farming season. Everyone has money and leisure. Just go out to play and stimulate domestic demand. We can also make a fortune..."

"Okay, okay." Langdon said, unable to listen any longer, "How many days do you want?"

"Seven days!" Cecil said impatiently, "Let's set it to mid-October."

"You can try it this year." Langdon said, "What name?"

"Harvest Festival." Cecil blurted out, obviously thinking for a long time, "Isn't this a good name?"

"Yes." Langdon nodded, "However, government personnel do not have holidays."

Cecil, who was still in high spirits, suddenly froze, his eyes widened in disbelief, and he stuttered: "No, isn't it? Why?"

"What's the matter? You don't try your best to set up a vacation just to let it go by yourself?" Oxpi said with a nonchalant smile, "You don't do anything every day, do you?"

"You fart!" Cecil yelled angrily, "Do you know what time I get up every day? What time do I go to bed? How much time do I spend eating?"

"I know you do it a few times a week." Russell said slowly, "And I think you should restrain yourself a bit, and Langdon is fine with it. Can your human body take it?"

Cecil's words were choked in his throat, his face flushed, and he couldn't help looking at Langdon for help.

"My magic slots are very sufficient, thank you for your concern." Langdon said calmly, "In addition, your bonus for this month is gone."

Russell's expression changed: "Why?"

"Disrespect to the king," Langdon said calmly.

Russell opened his mouth and held it back. After all, this is a serious law, and talking about the king's bed affairs is not what a king should do.

"Stop making trouble." Cecil said weakly, "By the way, is there a way for you to fix the steel ring? How long will he be pestering me?"

"Unless you are also willing to be imprisoned in a prison van for a few days, he won't give up." Langdon said, "It doesn't matter, anyway, he won't take revenge on you beyond this level."

Cecil looked up to the sky and sighed for a moment, then said: "How about I sit in the prison car for a certain period of time every day, and then the accumulation will add up, can I get revenge in installments?"

On this question, Cecil got a rightful refusal.

"Of course not!" The steel ring sat on the mailbox at the garden gate. His thick and short body had already bent the wooden mailbox, but he didn't think there was anything wrong with the pointed mailbox under his buttocks. , not heroic enough!"

"Is it heroic for you to punch a hole out of my feet?" Cecil is now able to answer calmly, especially after the steel rings ruined his well-arranged small garden like ruins, "You How can I pay for my garden? Your revenge is beyond what you need!"

The key information I got from Langdon is that dwarves cannot retaliate excessively, that is to say, the other party only slaps one slap, and they slap two slaps is excessive retaliation, and they are to be despised. This kind of revenge is not "just revenge." , just meaningless anger.

Cecil felt that the dwarves were really unreasonable, but the rims were used to this trick. Hearing this, he lowered his head in shame, and then said stubbornly: "I will pay for your garden, but not now!"

"How do you pay for it!" Cecil said angrily, "Crystal Rose! A new variety in High Court! There are only a dozen of them in the whole world! How do you pay for it?!"

Of course the rims couldn't afford to pay, so he also yelled angrily: "Then what are you going to do?"

The Taiwanese accent that came out suddenly made Cecil tremble, and said bravely, "Give up your revenge on me!"

"No!" Sure enough, Steel Ring refused, "This is my honor, absolutely not!"

Cecil sighed and said, "Either way, why don't you save some underground magic? For example, how to dig holes, how to find people on the ground underground, how to judge the underground water layer, etc."

Cecil didn't expect this kind of request to be fulfilled, but he was really curious, so he just said it casually, but he didn't expect the steel ring to think about it for a moment, and said: "It's okay."

"Huh?" Cecil was shocked, "You agreed?"

"Yeah." Steel Ring crossed his arms in front of his chest, "Why? Isn't this what you want?"

"Well... since you said so, it's naturally possible." Cecil suppressed the excitement in his heart, "Let's go."

"What?" Steel Ring jumped off the ground even though he asked, "You don't mean to lock me up, do you?"

"No, go to school." Cecil said, "I don't know magic, so what's the use of you teaching me."

The steel circle snorted twice, and whispered as he followed: "Anyway, you can't learn it."

Not necessarily, Cecil took this sentence to heart.

When they got to school, the steel ring finally showed a surprised expression when facing the teacher: "Fuck, are you crazy?"