"You went to the Southland before, right?"
In response to Crusch's question, Dahlia thought about it and nodded truthfully.
After all, she had reported to the church before leaving. There was no church in the southern territory, so she only needed to register with the headquarters and she could enter and leave there freely.
In response to Dahlia's nod, Crusch pondered for a moment, and finally said:
"That's perfect. I'm going to the southern border this time. Since you've been there before, you can be my guide."
"Me? A guide?"
Dahlia was shocked not to have expected that the leader of the Knights of Judgment would say such a thing and actually want to go to the southern land where no gods shine.
Without giving Dahlia time to prepare, Crusch said calmly:
"I have already reported this to Bishop Morris. Since I am not eligible to apply for the teleportation array for the time being, I will set out for the southern border starting tomorrow. I estimate that I will arrive in a month."
"this… "
"Time is precious. We are not qualified to waste it. So don't make any excuses for me this time. This is an order!"
"I… "
"Then go back and rest first, and gather at the church entrance tomorrow morning."
After saying that, Captain Crusch turned around and left without saying a word, leaving Dahlia, who was about to cry but had no tears, disheveled in the wind.
After all, she had just ended her trip to the South with great difficulty, completed the latest filming assignment for Director Edward, and returned before the church called the roll.
Unexpectedly, before I even had time to sit down, my own captain asked me to set off for the southern border again the next day. This was too outrageous.
Thinking back on what happened in the past six months, Daria couldn't help but feel that her life was very magical.
As a young paladin who grew up in the Church of Holy Light, Dahlia felt that the various rules and regulations within the church were too boring and too restrictive, so she secretly accepted the missions in the church without informing her direct superior, Treasurer Ershu, and ran away to the ungoverned southern border.
There would have been no problem with this matter up to this point, but the problem was that just a few days after Dahlia arrived in the South Territory, she was recruited as an actress by Durin Edward, the most legendary young magician in the South Territory, and was taken to do a job called filming a movie.
At the beginning, Daria was somewhat reluctant, but she was afraid of the other party's title of great magician, so she patiently worked under him.
However, in the process of playing the role of Darkness, Dalia unconsciously felt the joy of filming a movie. The very act of playing another character that had nothing to do with herself made her very excited.
So, after finishing the first movie, when Du Lin found her again and wanted to make a sequel, she agreed without hesitation.
Because of this, she even missed the Holy Light Church's year-end conference. If Captain Crusch hadn't helped her and made up an excuse for her to cover up her lie, she would have been demoted to the lowest level of Holy Light Knight and assigned to the most remote places as a guard.
All in all, after spending almost all her time rushing between the Church of Holy Light and Edward Studios, Daria finally finished her work on the movie.
But when she returned to the Church of Holy Light, thinking about taking a few days off, she never expected that her immediate superior, the Paladin Crusoe, would ask her to go to the southern border.
All of this makes Daria even more confused about her magical life. She just wishes she could be a masochist like the character she plays, Darkness. Then, maybe she would enjoy such a life.
Of course, in fact, Daria didn't think there was anything wrong with this.
After all, she had originally planned to come back and stay for a few days before heading to the South to watch the latest movie. Now she just needed to set off early and follow her leader.
However, Dahlia could not understand why her talented and powerful leader of the Paladins suddenly decided to go to the South.
After all, the South Territory, as a place without the blessing of gods, is the place that all clergymen hate to go to the most.
In a sense, for the people of the Church of Holy Light, the South Territory is even more unacceptable than the North Territory, where the mortality rate remains high.
That is a land truly rejected by the gods.
"Forget it. There's no point in thinking too much. I should think about how to explain to the captain what I did during my visit to the southern border."
Muttering to herself, Daria was obviously unwilling to tell the other party the truth about her filming.
After all, the role he played in the movie was in some sense too subtle. If his boss knew all this, he would be socially ruined on the spot and would be so embarrassed that he would want to escape from the human world overnight.
Chapter 279: The huge influence of movies! (IV)
Chapter 279
Southland, Edward Studios.
With the Spring Festival Film Festival approaching, everyone in the studio is working at full speed and busily preparing for the festival.
After all, at the beginning they still measured the workload by the standards of the previous Southern Territory and felt that one month was enough time for preparation.
But later, everyone in the studio realized that this Spring Festival Film Festival covered not only the southern border, but also the eastern and western borders, almost covering half of the empire!
The total amount of work brought by this huge flow of people made everyone in the entire studio fall into the same state as Du Lin, working overtime day and night.
"Ah, I'm so tired. Why do I have to go to the East Territory and then to the West Territory? Even if Du Lin gave me the authority to use teleportation magic, I can't stand it anymore!"
Helena was the first to issue a strike declaration.
She had joined the studio simply to make money to pay off her debts. Now that her debts had been almost paid off with the huge salary Du Lin paid her, she naturally wanted to run away.
Now, after experiencing 007-level overtime, this idea has become even stronger, and I am almost ready to put it into action at any time.
As for this, Zat on the side also had a miserable look on his face, but he was a squire knight of the Edward family after all, and he would not just run away like that.
As for Aya, no one knew where she had gone early in the morning. But no one expected her to be of any help in the first place. It was good enough that she didn't make things worse. Naturally, no one cared about her.
At the same time, Viz and Beldia had closed their tavern business and were fully committed to helping the studio prepare for the film festival.
But even with the addition of two undead beings, the workload was not reduced significantly.
The possible reason seems to be that a certain lich often gets various numbers wrong, causing loopholes in all the data, resulting in the need to start recalculation.
In the end, Du Lin decisively arranged Wiz to the customer service position, whose specific job was to delay inquiries from all parties.
I think that a group of cinema managers who were eager to come over to take the crystal statue would not vent their anger on such a big-breasted sister when they saw her.
At this moment, after watching the original crystal images of "FateZero" and "Steins;Gate", Du Lin nodded slightly.
Due to an unexpected incident during Chase's filming, the entire process was delayed, which led to the postponement of the production of the imaging crystal.
The chain reaction this caused was so chaotic that the entire studio was in chaos.
Fortunately, the original imaging crystals have now been collected. The next step is to make copy crystals using the current mature imaging crystal production line, so that the original movie copies can be quickly copied and distributed to cinema managers in the east, west and south.
The reason why imaging crystal is still used instead of the previously proven live broadcast technology is very simple, that is, the coverage time of live broadcast technology is too slow.
If we wait until the signal covers the entire empire, I'm afraid the opportunity will be lost.
Therefore, now all the cinemas in the entire empire actually use the imaging crystal mode, which is uniformly produced by the studio and then distributed to cinemas across the country.
Although this approach is not very efficient, the process is very mature, so it is the best option.
Coupled with the Film Publishing Law promulgated by King Hubbard himself, it was basically impossible for someone to seize the imaging crystal and make pirated copies.
Of course, this kind of behavior did occur from time to time in the early days, but now, after many piracy eradication operations carried out by the imperial army itself, it has gradually become less common.
Even if some of them survived, they could hardly cover a large area and could only hold open-air movies in some remote mountain villages that were beyond the reach of the imperial army.
In a sense, this behavior was condoned by Du Lin.
After all, he also hopes that someone can spread his movies to places that are not covered by movie theaters, so as to bring entertainment to more people.
Only in this way could he create the world of his dreams.
At this moment, after sending the initial version of the imaging crystal to the production line set up by the magicians in the Southern Territory, Du Lin returned to Edward's Tavern.
Facing a bunch of chaotic studio members who couldn't even tell day from night, he could only say apologetically:
"The original imaging crystal has been copied. Your work will be much easier from now on. At least no one from the major movie theaters will bother you anymore."
As for Du Lin's speech, no one in the studio even had the energy to be happy.
Even Juno, who was the most energetic, had now collapsed on the table, and her motionless appearance made one think she had fainted.
"Ahem..."
In this regard, Du Lin could sense the resentment of the crowd and said quickly:
"Don't worry, I will definitely pay you overtime for this period. I will definitely not treat you unfairly in this regard!"
“Ohhhhhhhh!!!”
Hearing Du Lin's words, everyone cheered.
Du Lin did not complain about these guys' greed for money. He just smiled and took a sip of water.
He himself was exhausted during this period. After movies spread to most of the empire, this industry had completely transformed into a behemoth.
Today, the film industry still only has Edwards Studio, and the pressure this brings can be imagined.
Basically, countless eyes of the empire are staring here, staring at this small tavern.
In a sense, the dangers outweigh the opportunities for Edward Tavern. Du Lin very much hopes that there will be a force that can break this balance, or at least alleviate the incredible pressure that Edward Tavern will face in the future film industry.
Simply put, Du Lin hopes that a second film studio will emerge.
At present, the person who has the greatest hope of accomplishing this is actually his subordinate Chase, who has accumulated a lot of experience in the process of filming "Fate Zero" and is already considered a qualified director.
But when Du Lin asked for the other party's opinion, he was unexpectedly rejected.
The other party believes that he is not yet capable of shooting a movie on his own and needs to continue his studies in the studio.
Although Du Lin was somewhat dissatisfied with this reply, he had no way to change the other party's mind and could only let the other party continue to waste time.
Therefore, in the end, Du Lin discovered somewhat helplessly that Edward Studio’s monopoly on the film industry might continue for a long time!
Chapter 280: Spring Festival Film Festival! (I)
Chapter 280
Since the film premiered in the East and West in January, it has been sweeping across the Empire in a huge way, tugging at the hearts and minds of countless people within the Empire.
In this already bustling and tense situation, the news of the Spring Festival Film Festival was like a big stone thrown into an already restless pot that could boil at any time, causing people in the east, west and south to fall into a complete frenzy.
Under the influence of various forces, even the imperial capital and the northern border, where movie theaters were not yet popular, heard the news of the movie.
Of course, this is because Du Lin had carried out some publicity for the film industry in the past, both in the imperial capital and in the North.
There is no doubt that the North has many small cinemas that were built in the Adventurer's Guild when "Goblin Slayer" was filmed.
As for the imperial capital, after the birthday party, many nobles spontaneously promoted it.
Of course, the nobles' initial purpose of spreading the news was simply to criticize and belittle the so-called movie. However, when those people who were instigated by them and had no idea what a movie was actually went to the South Territory to watch a movie, the original critical atmosphere was immediately reversed.
Everything has its limits. The almost one-sided criticism of the film has completely reversed since then, and even some ordinary people in the capital have learned about the film.
In the end, the self-righteous behavior of the imperial capital's nobles actually helped the film spread quickly in the imperial capital, and it gained a large number of loyal fans without any unnecessary publicity.
Therefore, when the news of the Spring Festival Film Festival came out, not only the people in the east, west and south were excited, but even the audiences in the imperial capital and the north also responded and rushed to movie theaters everywhere.
…
Southland, Northrick.
Seeing the huge poster erected at the entrance of the cinema and the numerous advertisements posted on the streets with almost overwhelming force, the people were shocked and could not help but start discussing it.
After all, let alone anything else, just the two big movie scenes on the movie poster are enough to make people's blood boil!
"Fate Zero and Steins;Gate are finally here!"
"I didn't expect that both films would be finished at once this time. I thought they would be released separately."
"That director Du Lin is shooting the movie so fast. I thought it might not be released or might be delayed."
"Ahh, why is there still more than a week left? I don't want to care about it anymore. Someone come and knock me out. I want to see the newest movie tomorrow!"
"Don't push me anymore, just wait patiently."
"It's been a week. You might as well kill me if you make me wait that long!"
"… "
The public's discussions continued to boil at the entrance of the cinema.
Although the New Year period is not as free as the Frost Festival, most people are still fully focused on the movies and are eager to gather in front of the cinema all day to discuss the film festival.
This situation is naturally not limited to the city of Northrick. Similar situations have occurred in almost the entire southern border, including major cities in the east and west.
People's expectations for the movie can be said to have far exceeded expectations and have reached a fanatical level.
…
Imperial School of Magic.
After completing the preparations at Edward's Tavern, Du Lin came here as soon as possible.