"Well, I'll tell you everything I know." Baron Paragus sat back on the sofa and said, "I only know that when he came to this world, it was still the era of the Black Dragon Empire. At that time, the Black Dragon Empire's control over the country was much stricter than it is now, and people were capturing refugees everywhere to be slaves or for blood experiments. He seemed to have spent a long time hiding from place to place. Because in this case, if his true identity was known to others, he would most likely be captured by those crazy royal wizards for experiments. After that, he experienced many difficulties and finally mixed in with a mercenary group. There he finally had the opportunity to learn how to use magic from a wizard.
The ancestor was a person with a high talent for magic. He learned very quickly and surpassed his teacher in a short time. On the other hand, he was also very experienced in running a mercenary group. After he joined the mercenary group for a few years, he greatly improved the strength of their mercenary group and successfully acquired a lot of industries. So later he became the deputy leader of the mercenary group. After their leader died unexpectedly, he became the official leader.
Later, he joined the army of the Black Dragon Empire with a mercenary group, and made many military achievements on the northern battlefield. Finally, he was canonized as a viscount by the emperor of the Black Dragon Empire. The fiefdom is where we are now. "
Xiao Chen said: "It's a very interesting history of how a family became rich. Are these all written in the first book?"
Baron Paragus said, "Perhaps. Anyway, this is all I know about him. But later, we spent a lot of money and finally won the status of nobility in the Kingdom of Iberia. However, the fiefdom was greatly reduced, and the title was changed to baron."
Xiao Chen asked, "It seems that your family has not been following Feng Wen's ideas to manage the territory for generations? At least your father didn't do that."
"Like Feng Wen said, managing a territory is not an easy task. Not every generation of a family is good at such things. Just like not all family heirs have his magical talent. My father is a mid-level magician, but I did not inherit the family's magical talent since I was a child. I could only be a warrior. On the contrary, Avadia has a higher magical talent than my father.
As for ruling the territory, my father was not good at it. He was kind and generous and liked to spend lavishly. Together with my mother, he quickly squandered the wealth left by my grandfather. I had some experience in managing people and things, so after inheriting the ancestral tradition from him, I managed our territory little by little.
The methods of our ancestors have been passed down, but the key is whether we, the descendants, put them into practice. As long as we, the descendants, combine the situation at the time and flexibly implement his ideas, we will generally manage the territory well. "
Xiao Chen said: "I am very interested in these two inherited books. Can you lend them to me to take a look?"
"Okay." Baron Paragus readily agreed to Xiao Chen's request.
Avadia said anxiously, "Father! You just handed over these two books that I didn't even have a chance to read?"
"Nonsense!" Baron Paragus scolded, "Master Xiao Chen is a great magician, and the Tower of China he belongs to is also very powerful. How could he have any intentions towards our two little books? You think too much!"
Xiao Chen admired the Baron's straightforwardness. Once he figured out the problem of joining, he immediately changed his attitude. Obviously, his son Avadia did not change his mindset in time. Xiao Chen said, "Don't worry, when you join our China Tower, millions of books in our library will be open to you. Whether it is magic theory and magic research, or books on business management, you can read them by yourself.
And if I find that these two books contain valuable information, I will personally give you enough rewards. From crystals to gold coins, or scrolls and magic props, you can choose. "
"You are so kind. Please follow me."
Xiao Chen followed the two to the baron's study. As expected, this was a magic family. There were many magic books and bundles of scrolls on the bookshelf in the study.
Baron Paragus moved a book from a shelf, opened a secret cabinet, and took out two books.
Xiao Chen took it and flipped through it. He found that there was nothing special about the magic experience book. Many mages in the Tower of China were far ahead of all other mage towers on the continent in terms of research, not to mention a mercenary mage from more than 400 years ago.
However, Xiao Chen could tell from this that Feng Wen, the author of the book, had reached the level of a great magician in the later period. This was a remarkable achievement for a traverser who lacked inheritance and foundation.
Another book about operating territories, the contents of which are like the internship notes of a student from the School of Economics and Management. It covers a lot of details, from economy to government, people's livelihood, military and other aspects. However, this book is still of little use to Xiao Chen. He knows that in the past two years, China Tower has already formed its own production and operation system, and many of the contents in this booklet are pieced together.
However, when he turned to the booklet of magic experience, Xiao Chen suddenly felt a magical fluctuation coming from the booklet.
He turned to the last page of the book and found it empty, but the feeling of magic fluctuations became stronger and stronger. He carefully observed the location of the magic fluctuations and finally found a hidden magic circle. Someone used space magic to hide some pages in an invisible place, and used other magic circles to suppress the range of this fluctuation to a very low and small range. If Xiao Chen had not been very sensitive to magic fluctuations, he might have missed this book.
This method of hiding books was the first time Xiao Chen had seen it. He felt the structure of the array and felt that he should be able to solve it.
He was seen holding the book in one hand and hovering above the book with the other hand. He began to feel the trajectory of the magic power and then tried to break the seal.
The seal was very delicately designed. It took Xiao Chen more than ten minutes to break the seal. Sure enough, behind the back cover of the book, there were dozens of pages of paper. It was a book nailed together, making the magic experience almost half as thick as before.
Xiao Chen looked closely and saw a line of Chinese characters written on the cover of the book that appeared: Feng Wen's Diary. (To be continued)