Prince Chaos followed behind his mother with the same feeling that he was heading to the battlefield where he was sure to die.
But when Queen Yekana just turned around, the tall figure of General Fred appeared in the embassy of the country of steel.
"My servant told me that you came to visit the embassy in person." General Fred walked quickly to Queen Yekana and gave a salute.
"A magic net?"
Queen Yekana did not feel that letters were so efficient. The attendants in the embassy could inform General Fred of this information so quickly, it must be through the text messages in the magic net.
"General Fred, please sit inside and talk. I have a lot of things to ask you." Queen Yekana showed due courtesy to the old general. She seemed to be from the embassy. The host also invited General Fred to the reception room of the embassy.
Prince Chaos followed behind the two in a complicated mood. Not needing to go to the Hearthstone Tavern was not good news for Prince Chaos. The return of General Fred just brought forward his execution time.
"His Royal Highness Yekana, what's the problem with you looking for me in such a hurry?"
General Fred sat on the chair and looked at the queen sitting opposite, as well as the pale-faced Prince Chaos.
"I heard from the embassy's attendant... Are you going out this time to go to a tavern to sign up for a certain game? I'm a little curious, what kind of game will attract you to participate." Queen Yekana asked.
"Your Majesty gave me a task, that is to get the leaves of the World Tree as much as possible." General Fred replied to the queen without changing his face, "The owner of the leaves happens to be a man named Hearthstone Tavern. The owner, he held a competition, and if he wins, he will get a crystal of the World Tree."
"The crystallization of the World Tree as a bet? The scale of this game must be not small."
Queen Yekana is a powerful spellcaster. She has no absolute power in the country of steel. She can't climb to this position just by her appearance and luck.
She is proficient in magic and alchemy, of course, she understands that the crystallization of the world tree is... what a precious alchemy material.
Aside from the effect of the crystal link magic net, just concocting medicine alone can cure any disease and terminal illness.
This game with crystals as a reward... is expected to attract all Nolan spellcasters to participate.
"Your Highness Yekana, you are thinking too much. The scale of this competition is very small. There are at most 40 participants, representing six countries." General Fred said.
"Six countries? Will the Frostland Congress participate?" Queen Yekana asked suddenly.
"The representatives of the Land of Frost are the old foxes of the Karshilov family."
General Fred instantly understood what Queen Yekana was referring to, and when he said this sentence, he also had Ling Ran's killing intent in his voice.
"Very well, the game starts tomorrow, right?" Queen Yekana's question was affirmed by General Fred. "Then I'll stay here for another day, and General Fred, my servant told me. ... Kaos was a little lazy during his time at Nolan?"
Here comes the final sentence.
Prince Chaos sat up straight and was ready to choose death.
"Indeed, but that was six months ago. Kaos often went to and from the Rusk Magic Academy, but recently, in order to welcome the arrival of the sage's trial, he stretched himself like a long sword."
General Fred's words made Prince Kaos' eyes widen in disbelief, and the expression on the general's face remained unchanged.
Queen Yekana glanced back and forth at them and suddenly stood up from her seat.
"But this is not the reason for his defeat. I will consider finding a new mentor to supervise you."
After Queen Yekana left this sentence, she said goodbye to General Fred and left the reception room.
Prince Chaos breathed a long sigh of relief as he watched the back of his mother leave. This feeling of escaping from death was really too exciting.
"Do you know the reason for your defeat?" asked General Fred.
"The biggest reason is that my magic power reserve is far less than Sophia... Her affinity for the thunder element is far beyond my expectations." Prince Kaos said.
"The rest is to think about winning next time." General Fred also stood up and prepared to leave the waiting room.
"Wait a minute, General... Have you selected your candidates?" Prince Kaos said.
"You want to fight?" General Fred saw through Prince Kaos' mind.
"I don't know... but please give me a substitute qualification." Prince Kaos still doesn't have the courage to play the magic net game in front of his mother.
But he wants to defeat the Karshilov family, no matter in any field, as long as he wins a game.
"It is said that the little girl from Karshilov will also play. I will give you a substitute position. It is up to you to decide whether you are willing to go to the battlefield." General Fred also left immediately after speaking.
…
Nolan, Black Dove Press Association.
Qiao Xiu came here directly after returning from the Tower of the Sages. The reason was that the dark elves wanted to "clean up" their organization.
The building on Squirrel Street has been transformed from its former squalor into a busy "administration hall".
Just sitting at the desk busy in addition to humans, there are also a group of goblins and orcs, and occasionally can see the figures of some rarer races, such as... Lizardmen.
"It's been said that don't submit the manuscript of the fight again! The masters of Nolan's spellcasters are not interested in orc fights!"
"There was another fire in the alchemy workshop of the man in red yesterday, can you write!"
"Yes! Why can't you... take a picture? Come and see it."
"Boss, this is the third time to report an accident in the red-clothed man's alchemy workshop."
"The caster can't help it if he likes to watch it! Just change the fire to an explosion."
Joshua stood in the center of the hall and watched the goblins and orcs running around the hall with a pile of white paper, full of busy scenes.
Most of the orcs and goblins here have put on glasses, and they look polite.
Although Qiao Xiu is the boss behind the scenes, this setting makes Qiao Xiu feel very inconsistent.
"Your cleaning is over?" Qiao Xiu glanced at the dark elves who came out of the "CEO"'s office, along with a group of "unemployed" holding their belongings.
There are five people in total, including two orcs and three humans, who should belong to the upper echelons here judging from their clothes.
"Desire always makes some guys want things they shouldn't have."
The dark elf glared at the group of people, their angry expressions were instantly replaced by panic, and then ran away from here.
"Aren't you afraid of their revenge?"
Joshua looked at the five, and from the point of view of an orc with a scar on his face, it didn't look like a good kind.
"Have you forgotten what I did before?" The dark elf made a wiping gesture at Joshua, hinting at what would happen if Joshua's group of guys were restless.
"My boss is a cold-blooded killer. This setting can be used to write novels..."
Due to Ciri's rest at Hearthstone Tavern, only Joshua could resist the banner of complaining.
"Let's stop the chat, I'm very interested in the idea of the newspaper you mentioned before, Joshua." The dark elf went straight to the topic.
"Do you want to try a newspaper after you've tasted the thrill of writing a magazine? That thing is more troublesome than you think."
Qiao Xiu always felt that with the daytime news of Nolan TV, things like newspapers seemed a bit tasteless, but in the eyes of the dark elves, this was not the case.
"The Kelia Chamber of Commerce can sell us all the printing workshops on the other side of the River of Gears, and those workshops should be able to support the production of newspapers." The dark elf looked at Joshua cautiously when he said that, "The premise is that you are willing to spend money. buy them."
It was the first time that the dark elf appeared in an uneasy mood in front of Joshua. She used to ask Joshua with the idea of "it's okay", but this time she really wanted to buy those printing workshops.
But the price of a workshop is not a joke. If it was replaced by the old black pigeon, even if the dark elves were sold, they could not afford it.
"Do you think money is something I care about?"
Qiao Xiu, as Nolan's No. 1 dog owner, is a veritable answer to the sentence "A problem that can be solved with money is not a problem."
The dark elf was slightly startled by Joshua's answer, and soon she laughed a little self-deprecating.
"I still underestimate you, Your Royal Highness."
"But the problem is that my investment in you doesn't mean you can spend freely." Joshua said to the dark elf in a serious tone, "Once you start doing these two things, newspapers and magazines, I will never allow you to stop them, and newspapers The interval between publications is much shorter than that of magazines, and I don’t ask you to be a daily newspaper, but at least one is published every three days, which is a huge workload.”
"It seems that you underestimate me too, Your Highness." The dark elf lifted the hair around his ear with his hand, and showed Qiao Xiu the pointed ears unique to the elf family, and the long ears shook slightly. .
"As long as I still exist in this world, the Black Pigeon Press Association will last forever."
"Longevity? A little envious."
Only then did Joshua remember that the lifespan of elves was terribly long.
"I'll take care of it at the printing house. Do I need to specify the layout and specific types of newspapers?" Joshua said.
"Of course, Gagamo! Hurry up and come here with that pen and canvas!" The dark elf immediately asked a goblin to fetch tools for Joshua.
When Joshua proposed the concept of the magazine before, he also gave the layout of the original magazine prototype of the Dark Elf.
Qiao Xiu wrote down some of the general layout of the newspaper on the white paper, as well as the choice of layout.
"In short, this thing is a consumable item that is thrown away after it is used up. Although the magic printing press in the country of steel was invented not long ago, there are similar newspapers in that country. You can ask them what they use. material."
Joshua asked the dark elves again after giving some of his own opinions.
"So when will the first issue of the Black Pigeon News Agency be released?"
"Tomorrow." The dark elf gave Qiao Xiu a very positive answer.
…
Embassy of the Iron Nation.
Prince Chaos woke up from a dream and a nightmare today.
The sweet dream is that he defeated Sophia, the apprentice of the man in yellow, and the nightmare is that he found out that he used the "Holy Spirit" to defeat the opponent, and was dragged to the guillotine by the enraged queen after being known by Queen Yekana.
What a weird dream it was!
"Mother… "
Prince Kaos put on his clothes and stood at the door of the embassy with General Fred. Queen Yekana walked out of the embassy with her attendants.
Today, Queen Yekana will go to Hearthstone Tavern to watch that game in person.
Prince Chaos followed Queen Yekana to the magic car. Just as Prince Chaos opened the door of the magic car, a shout suddenly came from across the street.
"Big news! The strongest spell caster in the Sage Trial is born! The chief apprentice Kaos of the Fire Mage Tower defeated Sophia of the Thunder Mage Tower three times!"
At this moment, Prince Chaos' hand that touched the car door was already stiff, but the expression on Queen Yekana's face beside him was the same as usual.
Prince Kaos immediately raised his head and looked across the road, and found that it was a young man whose clothes were incompatible with those of the Nolan downtown area.
Queen Yekana's attendant came directly across the road, stopped the young man walking towards the end of the street and brought her to the queen.
"What are you holding in your hand?" Queen Yekana looked at the young man with a slightly frightened expression with a smile.
"Yes... Mr. Newspaper." He mustered his courage and said, "The new publication of the Black Pigeon News Agency, with this you can understand the major events that have happened in Nolan in the past few days! It only takes three copper coins!"
Queen Yekana glanced at the attendant by her side, and he took out a silver coin and handed it to the young man.
"Give me a copy, you don't have to look for the extra money."
"Thank you, you will definitely have good luck." After he thanked the queen, he handed a newspaper to Du Fu and ran away immediately.
Queen Yekana also got into the magic car directly, and Prince Kaos took the back seat as a matter of course.
The queen unfolded the newspaper directly on the magic car. At this moment, Prince Chaos could clearly see a line of black typing on the cover of the newspaper. The content was probably that he was defeated by Sophia in the Tower of Thunder.
This is not to mention his mother, Prince Chaos was so angry that his breath was a little short, and now the whole Nolan may know what happened in the sage trial yesterday!
But his good self-cultivation allowed him to control his emotions.
The atmosphere in the magic car was very terrifying. The surrounding air was so thick that Prince Chaos could not bear it. Although Queen Yekana's expression was normal, the atmosphere was enough to show that she was not in a happy mood.