Lord of the Myriad Worlds

Chapter 585: Boulder Druid

[Global Proclamation]

[The former false king William and Emperor Karl of the Orson Empire formally reached a peace agreement. The former will once again become the King of the Locke Kingdom, and take away 15% of the Mana Reserve of the Ascension Continent.]

[Therefore, Emperor Karl successfully defeated or expelled all opponents and enemies on the Ascension Continent, unifying the Ascension Continent. From this moment on, the Orson Empire Reconstruction Mission, having lasted 19 years, 6 months, and 3 days, successfully concludes.]

[The Nine-Star Council is currently commencing the settlement. The settlement results will be announced in three days.]

[Global Proclamation]

[Emperor Karl has chosen to change the empire's name to the Aussenville Empire in memory of his father. He is currently forging an Imperial Magic Seal. All living beings and all natives on the Ascension Continent will feel this Imperial Magic Seal and be bound by the Imperial Magic Seal. This process will last for three days.]

When these two paragraphs of Global Proclamation floated in front of everyone, Li Wei was also currently transformed into a Level 7.5 Giant Eagle. Carrying the pocket-sized Adai, he soared above a high altitude of several tens of thousands of meters. Behind him were ten Sky Griffins with wingspans similarly exceeding a hundred meters, but with even more massive and majestic bodies capable of accommodating ten Rangers.

Second Aunt, this Alchemist, was still very awesome. Over the past eight years, through preparing Five-Star Magic Potions suitable for the enhancement and growth of Sky Griffins, she ultimately completed a 100% incubation rate.

She could be called the gold-medal veterinarian of the magical world.

"I didn't expect ah, Falcon Karl unexpectedly truly had the last laugh. Does this count as establishing the Jin Dynasty?"Li Wei sighed quite a bit in his heart, and then led the team to slowly land above Liwei Keep.

Nowadays, Liwei Keep had undergone another large-scale Upgrade and expansion. Although it still couldn't be mentioned in the same breath as Weir City currently, it already looked to possess quite a bit of a Central City demeanor.

The population of over four hundred thousand also brought vigorous vitality and prosperity to this Central City. Barely, it could be considered to have reached the passing mark of a Duke.

"Li Wei, do we need to hold a meeting?"

Hathaway poked her head out from above her Level 4 Mage Tower. Nowadays, she was already a mother of three children, yet she was still as bright and beautiful as back then, and she had finally managed to raise her Collective Sanity.

Recently, she was currently teaching ten Caster Apprentices. These were carefully selected. Casters had to establish a team, otherwise many things couldn't be resolved.

"No need. We've already done what we should do. Next, we just need to patiently wait for the settlement."

Li Wei nodded and disbanded the Sky Griffin Legion. He himself strolled along the tall and broad City Walls alone, feeling very comfortable.

Yes, he could relax slightly now.

He knew that Emperor Karl found him very displeasing, but there was no other way. Even if displeased, he had to endure it.

Over the past eight years, his development in the Locke Mountains had been flourishing and booming. He had already cumulatively sent +6 Collective Sanity to Emperor Karl.

Plus the 5% Founding Shares—haha, if there were no obvious faults and unforgivable crimes, Falcon Karl would have to lose at least 15 points of Collective Sanity to make a move against him.

In short, this was truly cozy.

At this time, Li Wei's heart suddenly stirred. He saw his Troubled Times Pioneering Card rise up. A golden radiance was ignited on it like a holy fire. At the same time, the dozen or so Troubled Times Pioneering Cards he had continuously accumulated over the past eight years by sneaking out and hunting various small and medium-sized factions also automatically flew out. Like fuel, they injected into the Pioneering Card, instantly making the golden radiance within it become greater and brighter.

This wasn't the settlement starting, but Falcon Karl forging the Imperial Magic Seal.

As for specifically what the Imperial Magic Seal was, actually it was like a kind of Magic Web that could seal Mana and carry out large-scale supervision of Mana.

You are a Spellcaster, and you want to cast a Sequence Four magic? Sorry, apply first, and it must be registered in the central Magic Web————

It was roughly this sort of appearance.

And this was the most important foundation of being a Magic Empire. If it couldn't even control Mana, would it have the nerve to call itself a Magic Empire?

In a certain sense, this was also a major policy reform. The first step was to nationalize all Mana————

The second step was to supervise the Mana, supervising it into the Magic Seal and forming a Magic Web. The Empire would be managed and run on the basis of the Magic Web.

Because Mana was the means of production ah.

Waiting until the third step, the Ascension Continent would downgrade from a Medium Magic World to a Low Magic World, because the majority of the Mana would be compressed into the Imperial Magic Seal.

Of course, Li Wei didn't understand the subsequent procedures, but it didn't matter. Because he currently controlled at least 2% of the Mana Reserve in his hands, which was of the same nature as the 8% taken by the Sarleon Kingdom, the 12% taken by the Rylinbas Kingdom, and the 15% taken by Tyrant William.

A large portion of these Mana Reserves was absorbed and stored by Mage Towers. This portion could be used for oneself without needing to log into the Magic Web, but it might also require negotiating with Falcon Karl regarding what ratio to import into the Magic Web.

As for another large portion, it was stored in various forms.

Among these, a rather awesome point was the Five-Star Stone Mine.

The preciousness of this thing was unquestionable, but looking for it was extremely troublesome, nor was it easy to find. Previously, even if Li Wei guarded the entire Locke Mountains, actually wanting to find it wasn't that simple either.

After all, prior to this, Falcon Karl, and even Duke Will, Duke Juniper, and even Duke Caidell, actually had all sent out professional Stonemasons and Miners to search, ultimately reaping very little.

It seemed that to find a Five-Star Stone Mine, it was best to find a Stone Giant tribe. Yet there truly wasn't even a single Stone Giant tribe in the Locke Mountains.

The result? Master Thomas on Li Wei's side unexpectedly played a major role in this matter.

In the battle eight years ago, both he and Xuanxuan Zhao received several Eight-star Golden Cards and Purple Cards. After all, in the battle that day, besides the Blazing Legion performing the best, Thomas and Xuanxuan had killed the most Earth-Walking Dragon Giant Beasts.

Thus, following a year or two of tossing about, the two respectively successfully promoted to the Fourth Tier.

Xuanxuan Zhao from then on was like having her Ren and Du meridians unblocked. Under Hathaway's help and guidance, and in the situation of having Six-Star Artifact blueprints, she was already able to forge Six-Star Divine Armor and Weapons.

And Thomas, on the other hand, went straight all the way, adding his Dulling Innate Talent to 55 points in one breath.

Then he could only converse with Li Wei and Xuanxuan Zhao; he was uniformly unable to respond to anyone else. Facing this kind of situation, it was still that princess in distress of the Moor Kingdom, Istana, who was experienced and knowledgeable enough, with an abundant breadth of knowledge. She suggested giving Thomas a Druid Card to let him try walking the path of a Boulder Druid.

After all, Druids were also divided into paths—Sky Druid, Earth Druid, Nature Druid, and so on. Although a Boulder Druid had never been heard of before, what if it was feasible?

It just so happened that Thomas promoting to Tier 4 Legend could add a Profession Card, so Li Wei bound a Druid Card to him. However, this was a Combat Card; after binding, he had to start from one star.

The result was like a blind cat running into a dead mouse, or treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor—the effect was remarkable.

Thomas's petrified Dulling state was alleviated somewhat, and he even mastered the Mountain Piercing talent nowadays. And so, Li Wei's side from then on lived a happy life, gaining Five-Star Stone Mine freedom.

No one could imagine that thousands of meters deep underground in the Locke Mountains, it was all freaking Five-Star Stone Mines.

With enough Five-Star Stone Mines, Hathaway, under Istana's suggestion, began to use the pretense of constructing and expanding the Central City to start building the Luo City defense circle.

Yes, since Emperor Karl had conferred the title of Duke Luoshan upon Li Wei, then Li Wei also wouldn't be picky.

The reputation of Luo Mountain, he would defend.

The three corners of Liwei Keep, Hathaway Fortress, and even Fierzway Fortress were the foundation of Luo City.

Of course, this was destined to be a grand project, and it might not show results for decades or even a century.

But once successful, Luo City and the Locke Mountains would truly be bound together.

Currently, this massive construction plan had only just initiated a few points.

At the same time, massive amounts of Mana were also conveniently supplemented into this area.

As long as Five-Star Stone Mines were operated well, they were natural Mana storage vessels.

Anyway, it was extremely complicated when Istana explained it. Li Wei's understanding of it was simply—feng shui.

In short, there was no need to worry too much about this aspect. Professional people doing professional things, right?

At this time, Li Wei's Pioneering Card had already transformed into a massive ball of raging flames. Like a small mountain, it continuously ascended into the sky, as if wanting to leave Li Wei. Because nowadays, there was currently an even more powerful force extracting the Mana of the entire Ascension Continent. This was the process of nationalization.

Theoretically, there was nothing wrong with this.

This was also something human power could not contend against.

However, Li Wei had 5% of the Founding Shares! No matter how Karl jumped around, with various god-tier operations or showy maneuvers, no matter how he messed around, this couldn't be bypassed. Unless Li Wei was willing to return it————Haha!

Therefore, when that mountain-like ball of raging flames soared up tens of thousands of meters high in one breath, and looked to be on the verge of becoming part of the Imperial Magic Seal and part of the future Magic Web, the 5% Founding Shares rule activated. Karl's Pioneering Card was unable to continue extracting, and instead directly bypassed Li Wei's portion.

Not only that, but actually because of this operation by Karl, it caused Li Wei's Pioneering Card to possess a magical priority similar to the Imperial Magic Seal—oh no, a secondary magical priority.

This was the imperial foundation akin to an original constitution of Mana ah.

Thank you, Karl.

Li Wei silently and sincerely expressed his thanks in his heart, because even he at this moment felt it was indeed too much. Then... there was no then.

Let's all live our lives well together. From then on, they lived a happy life.

Haha!

Smiling faintly, Li Wei raised his head to look at the sky. At this time, preliminary settlement information had already begun to appear in the sky, but it was all other people's settlement information.

Oh, incorrect. It was the information of other large, medium, small, micro, and ultra-micro factions.

Among this, there was one set of data that made one sigh with emotion quite a bit.

For example, the total factions participating in this Empire Reconstruction Quest—that is, the factions that obtained a Pioneering Card at the start. Regardless of whether you were a mountain bandit or Thief group, or a peasant uprising army, they all existed.

The total number of these factions was 125,782.

And the Total Population that participated—meaning those whose physical bodies had come to the Ascension Continent, not counting those doing Logistics in the rear—the Total Population was 23,539,827 people.

The cumulative death instances—note, it's instances, meaning a person dying and Resurrecting counts as one instance—this number was 158 million————there was too much change, so he didn't look.

Roughly speaking, it seemed each person had died an average of five or six times.

The war truly was Like a Raging Fire ah.

But ultimately, these large, medium, small, micro, and ultra-micro factions were like the fallen leaves and withered grass in autumn. Blown by the wind, spinning once, and then they were gone.

Even if they could still return alive to their original Territory or province, it was basically considered returning after a disastrous defeat.

Those who could earn a sum, who knew how many were left?