novelraw #171 - Section 171
#171 - Section 171
"So, our next core development is to strengthen research into cross-dimensional human and material transportation?" Sophie Amity asked.
This lucky cat is in charge of the entire Arcane Society's finances. If the investment shifts, her investment and subsequent industries must keep up.
Especially since the empire is now undergoing industrialization, various industries require huge amounts of capital investment. Wealthy nobles have not yet discovered the opportunities, so the national treasury and the officially backed Amity Chamber of Commerce must take the lead in investing.
From a long-term perspective, Sophie will definitely earn until her hands are numb, but the resources she invests without seeing any returns are astronomical figures that other chambers of commerce shy away from.
"No, that's the second step," the Eternal Night Empress said decisively. "The empire's next focus is still to strengthen people's livelihoods, improve national strength, gradually upgrade weapons and equipment, prioritize the unification of the Eternal Night World, and integrate resources for external expansion."
Frankenstein nodded and said, "The Chapter of Imbalance is willing to execute this task, but if you continue the unification process, I fear that the resistance led by the church will cause great losses to the empire, and the benefits will not be great."
The Eternal Night Empress revealed a confident smile: "The times have changed, and the empire does not need to directly conquer those countries. We only need to support factions that are inclined towards the empire to come to power and complete a community of interests against the gods in this plane."
She relayed the proxy war method presented by Margaret to these advisors.
Although everyone's main profession is mage, they have accompanied the empire through countless battles, and their military knowledge is not a blank sheet of paper. They quickly realized that this is a shortcut to expand the empire's influence with minimal resistance and harvest resources.
For countries and regions with disputes, their war efforts can be secretly provoked; between races without conflicts, new power spokespersons can also be cultivated, providing military assistance to use guerrillas to consume hostile forces.
There are many methods. As long as these cultivated 'puppets' are numerous enough, the empire may not have completed military unification on the surface, but the actual control and the resources obtained will definitely not be less than military unification.
The attempt in the Orc Kingdom has been successful and will soon enter the harvest period; the next attempt will be in the direction of the Mermaid Sea Kingdom, practicing the empire's hidden hand in the war.
"The Left Prime Minister is indeed worthy of having demon blood; his poisonous schemes are something else."
"I declare that our empire will be the biggest behind-the-scenes manipulator from now on!"
"I've already thought of dozens of old feuds who are hostile to each other…"
"What war? It's all business, business!"
Mages are different from nobles. While having knowledge, most of them also adhere to the principle of seeking truth from practice and are willing to actively accept the progress of new things.
Who told you that mages all like head-on confrontations in a fair and upright manner?
In fact, if a small magic can cleverly solve the enemy, no mature mage would waste magic power to release a meteor shower.
However, the Eternal Night Empress, an existence beyond the conventional system, is another matter.
In the end, everyone unanimously approved the Eternal Night Empress's model of strengthening domestic productivity, completing the magical industrialization and upgrading of industries, and using proxy wars to drive export economy.
Even if the Seven Gods will eventually ignite war in the Eternal Night World, these mages are not afraid.
In the multiverse, mages are the most steadfast atheists. In their view, gods are just some powerful life forms.
If there is an opportunity for anatomical research, they will definitely not be polite, and there is no such thing as awe.
Now, outside the Arcane Society, there is still an avatar of the God of Nature being constantly analyzed and researched. Things like god's remnants and godhead fragments pulled back from the astral world are even more numerous.
Following the Eternal Night Empress to resolutely resist the Seven Gods outside the country, or even outside the world, is the fundamental wish of every mage, and they are not afraid of risks at all.
And the development of the empire cannot be separated from the support of these mages.
They are the empire's scientists, engineers, senior technicians, and the wealthiest group besides the national treasury, as well as a guarantee of military power.
Only with their full support can the empire complete magical industrialization more quickly.
Previously, the mages only participated in the research of those 'New Arcana' ideas according to their interests, mostly with a playful attitude, and were quite lax.
After this round table meeting, the internal magical research of the Arcane Society will be regularized and institutionalized in the future. The Eternal Night Empress (copying Roger's homework) will propose unified planning, concentrating resources and manpower to make breakthroughs in the direction most beneficial to the empire as a whole.
This change marks that the research and development field of the Green Vine Empire has begun to have some characteristics of a planned economy, no longer the stage of barbaric growth with the interests of capital and researchers' personal interests.
The meeting ended in a pleasant atmosphere. The magical advisors had not met for a long time, and it was rare to get together, so they prepared to hold an 'exchange meeting' and invited the Eternal Night Empress to participate.
In fact, many people with political grudges back then were preparing to settle scores, and invited the Eternal Night Empress to be a witness.
Watching the excitement is what His Majesty wants, so she smiled and agreed, personally arranging the venue and banquet.
The advisors were also eager to try, looking at the old rivals who were not convinced, preparing to prove their new accumulation these days.
Clearly, everyone was very confident and looking forward to showing off a wave of operations when…
They discovered that the Empress's expression suddenly changed slightly, and she teleported away.
Just now, she felt an abnormal flow of magic power, suspected that Roger had activated the Magic Emperor's Order, and might be in danger now!
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City of Mysteries, slum district.
Shanna's attack was very sudden and completely did not belong to the normal human brain circuit.
Just now, she was talking about the philosophy of life, saying that she didn't want to live anymore, and the next second, she directly approached, disintegrated Roger's magic power, and kissed him, all in one go. Even scumbags and sluts are not so outrageous.
It's just that her kissing skills were so unskilled, and her attack movements were always fast and barbaric. Her cold lips slammed on like a calf, knocking Roger's lips and teeth together, causing pain.
"Are you crazy?" Roger pushed her head away the moment she also recoiled in pain.
How can there be such a thing without any emotional basis, saying that you want to be a little animal, and then kissing?
Is this really a farm breeding?
Of course, Shanna is beautiful, but this kind of action like a beast completing a hunt really doesn't make people feel anything, unpleasant, and even more like being humiliated.
Shanna, who suddenly found something 'fun', is not the confused and shy girl she was before.
Moreover, with the blessing of magic power, her strength is greater than Roger's. She directly slapped Roger's hand away, and then backhanded and lifted his collar, saying with interest: "Resist, I heard that the more you resist, the more interesting it is!"
Roger laughed in anger.
Where did you hear that from, the domineering president novels on the street stalls?
I knew I shouldn't come to this kind of place in the slum area. I don't know who is hiding the boring novels that satisfy the fantasies of little girls. This girl doesn't know how she saw it, and her thoughts were polluted!
Too hateful, she's still a child!
Shanna doesn't care so much. Roger's words reminded her of the Seven Gods' attitude towards traitors, and she understood that she was in a situation where she would die, so this rare freedom seemed precious—
Compared with the past meaning of angels existing to complete tasks, the lives of mortals obviously have more choices, but she may not have time to experience them one by one…
She created a temporary space, dragged both herself and Roger in, and then pushed Roger to the ground and started undressing.
Although she is open, she doesn't have the hobby of staging forbidden fragments for those children on the street.
"Enough!"
Roger was very angry and uneasy at the same time.
Just now, he mobilized the Magic Emperor's Order, and the Eternal Night Empress must have noticed it and will support him here at any time.
What would she think if she saw herself rolling around with a little girl who was only a few hours old?
Moreover, this kind of unromantic, truly animalistic 'social practice' is completely unacceptable to normal people.
He also tried to break free from Shanna's control.
But unfortunately, once he was attacked, he couldn't borrow His Majesty's magic power, and he really couldn't beat Shanna.
Seeing Shanna's two little hands becoming more and more excessive, Roger knew that something would really happen if this continued, and he hardened his heart, knowing that he had to take the initiative to have a chance to counterattack.
When the two people's bodies were constantly intertwined, clothes touched and rubbed, and Shanna's loose and light dress also deformed and changed its shape, revealing gaps.
Roger's hand probed in like a spirit snake, stroking some specific parts of the girl with a skilled rhythm.
"Hmph, not bad feeling, are you going to start serving me?" Shanna instantly became charming and silky, and the wonderful feeling made her very novel and comfortable.
Roger attacked the lower part with another hand.
Shanna did not resist, she thought Roger had also entered the state.
At this moment, she is a naughty child looking for different life experiences, and the comfortable feeling comes in waves, quickly relaxing her vigilance.
A flash of light flashed in Roger's eyes.
Shanna relaxed her suppression of him, the Magic Emperor's Order was activated, and magic power erupted!
At the same time, there were traces of being attacked in this temporary space.
Chapter 150 On tea art, Roger is not weak
City of Mysteries, slum district.
The figure of the Eternal Night Empress appeared where Roger and Shanna had just stood.
As a responsible empress who sympathizes with the people at the bottom, she has come to the slum area more than once and is very clear about the environment here.
So, the first time she walked out of the teleportation gate, she put on invisible protective magic to isolate those abnormal smells.
Her strength can destroy this area hundreds of times, but if you want to build it into a clean and tidy place, no matter how strong the magic power is, it will not help.
Even if you forcibly clean up all the garbage, as long as the lives of the residents do not change qualitatively, it will return to its original state sooner or later.
Construction is different from destruction, and personal strength cannot change the overall environment.
Only when everyone makes efforts can the empire's bottom layer complete the leap.
Therefore, the ideas proposed by Roger and the changes they have brought to the empire seem so unique and repeatedly make the empress feel amazed.
The Eternal Night Empress shook her head, gathering her slightly chaotic thoughts, and began to look for Roger's real location.
The moment Roger used the Magic Emperor's Order to mobilize magic power, it aroused the Eternal Night Empress's vigilance and directly teleported over to support him.
She is afraid that Shanna will cause trouble in the imperial capital, not because she is worried that a certain fox-faking junior mage will have an accident!
After teleporting over, she found that the location of Roger determined by the magic beacon had a considerable deviation from the actual location.
And the magic methods that can interfere with her are obviously not something ordinary people can do.
At that time, at that place, there was only Shanna…
"She actually dares to attack my little Roger?" A cold smile appeared on the corner of the Eternal Night Empress's mouth.
She thought Shanna was smart enough, but she didn't expect her to provoke herself like this!
Does she really think she is reluctant to kill her?
She suddenly raised her eyebrows slightly, and the Magic Emperor's Order was activated again, and she began to transmit magic power.
This shows that the battle situation over there has become more intense.
The Eternal Night Empress's face became more and more stern, and she couldn't help but show worry in her eyes, and her perception was fully opened.
In this short period of time, Shanna should not be able to run far.
She followed the residual magic wave in this area, and after some calculations and analysis, she deduced the coordinates of the temporary space generated by Shanna.
The Eternal Night Empress immediately bombarded with huge magic power, directly breaking the blockade of that space and crossing into it.
It sounds like a series of complicated operations, but from the perspective of the civilians in this area, there was just a graceful figure appearing and then disappearing in an 'eye-dazzling moment'.
"I tell you, I might have seen Your Majesty just now!" A young man rubbed his eyes and looked in the direction where the fragrance seemed to be still lingering.
"I believe that the benevolent Majesty will not forget us, the ants at the bottom, but do you, have the fate, have the luck to see Majesty?"
His companions laughed and pushed him on the shoulder, "Don't dream, you should honestly marry Maria, isn't she just a little fatter?"
"A little fatter? Her arms are thicker than my legs, I'm really afraid that my waist will be broken by her!"
A group of young people walked away laughing, no one dared to believe that they had really rubbed shoulders with the most honorable woman in this country.
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The Eternal Night Empress entered a space filled with light pink mist, with no top or bottom and no influence of gravity.
It is indeed a temporary demiplane, and all the rules are very simple, but it has a lot of ingenuity in hiding traces.
But it still can't hide it from me!
That little projection is buying time to prepare to use some complicated means?
I thought she was as pure as a newborn baby, but she actually played tricks, trying to secretly open the back door to the person I belong to?
Fortunately, I left words on little Roger's legs, so I can detect abnormalities and support him as soon as possible.
This pink mist has the effect of isolating perception, and the Eternal Night Empress can only grope forward.
Fortunately, she didn't fly for long before she heard Roger's righteous and stern reprimand: "If you are curious about this aspect, I can arrange it for you, but don't get any ideas about me. I am not interested in behaviors that simply satisfy animal desires."
The Eternal Night Empress's heart moved slightly. Is Roger Qing referring to fighting like beasts?
She scornfully clicked her tongue. This Shanna looks beautiful, but her heart is like a barbarian.