A few days later, the palace held a second meeting.
This time, Shia's proposal was about the arrangement of the lords. A total of twelve lords were killed in the Dark Moon Crusade. Except for four who were hereditary and had confirmed heirs, the remaining eight territories were unowned and needed to be arranged immediately. Candidates.
Shea suggested that the two small territories near Chiyou and Bailing be merged into the two major territories respectively as a reward, and a medium-sized territory would be awarded to those who have been lurking by Joseph's side for many years and made great contributions to Dark Moon. The behind-the-scenes hero Royce. The other two medium-sized territories and the four small territories will be discussed by the elder family and the royal family to determine the lord's choice.
As expected, Angelie and other elder families expressed their opposition to this proposal. The territory of the four major territories was already very large, and their power was too inflated. For the long-term interests of the empire, it was necessary to control it as much as possible, rather than allowing it to grow further. Rewarding property or treasures can be considered, but the territory must not be let go.
This opinion is quite sufficient, and it is indeed from the perspective of the great interests of the empire. However, the "Four Territories" proposed by Angelet included Dark Moon and Blue Melt together, which actually secretly stuck Shang Xia to death. The rewards for these two territories proposed at one time, and with the treasury deposits left by Obsidian, if the so-called material rewards are to be cashed, it is very likely that Shia herself will have to pay for it.
Angelie's methods are quite sophisticated, holding high the banner of putting the overall situation first, making full use of the rules, and quietly weakening the emperor's decision-making privilege. Shea is now the empress of the empire, and she first focuses on the interests of the empire. If she insists on going her own way, some members of the elder family and the royal family who were originally waiting to see her will re-evaluate her in their hearts. There must be more opponents, and her prestige will further decline.
The new empress of Xia is at a time when her foundation is not stable. Even with the support of the Toro family, she is still weak. In this case, there are not many choices. In the end, the rewards of the two major territories were changed to material rewards, and the lords of the seven territories were divided between the royal family and the elder family. Under Shia's fight, Royce became one of the candidates for the smallest territory, or as a "concession" by the elder family to Her Majesty the Queen.
Many people could see that there was displeasure in Xi Ya's eyes, and more of it was helplessness.
After the meeting, the old Cowen of the Toro family stayed alone and reported to Shia about the situation of the last elder meeting.
"Although the Sword of the Fallen Angel won His Majesty's ascension to the throne with everyone's support, many members of the royal family and veteran families expressed doubts about His Majesty's ability, and many people are still in the observation stage. Master Feng Saka became the master craftsman The alliance is a long-term good move. It’s just that your Majesty wants to open up the current situation through Princess Square. I’m afraid there will be great difficulties. The business structure of the imperial capital is relatively fixed. In order to prevent the interests from being divided, those families will unite to boycott the princess. Fang, I'm afraid..."
Xi Ya shook her head: "I know what you said. What I can tell you is that Master Fengsaka and Princess Square have other functions. It doesn't matter if those branches are suppressed, excluded, or even closed down. At the next meeting , I will once again bring up the issue of the establishment of the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Military Affairs, and the left and right prime ministers. What is certain is that my proposal to let the elder family members give up a position will definitely be strongly opposed and rejected. At that time, the response of the Toro family can be fierce. Some, to make my failure more real."
Old Cowen was stunned, and quickly realized: "Your Majesty is deliberately showing weakness? But if you do this, Your Majesty must carefully weigh the gains and losses. If things go on like this, I'm afraid His Majesty's prestige will..."
"The Toro family is the first elder family to invest in me. In the days to come, your experience and the strength of the Toro family will become one of my trusted arms. I hope to listen to your suggestions." Xia A gleam flashed in his eyes, "But in the current environment, I can't disclose some key things for the time being. You just need to do it, understand?"
Old Cowan looked at Shea's determined eyes, and felt a lot more at ease in his heart, and bowed deeply: "Understood."
As expected, in the next two meetings, Shea suffered setbacks again, and the intensity of decision-making began to become more tactful. In many places, the interests of the elder family were taken into consideration. For Angelet and others, this is a good sign. After all, Shea is the queen, and Angelet's original intention was not to force Shea to step down, but to maintain the power and influence of the elder family, so they also showed appropriate obedience and concessions accordingly. Royce's appointment Got the pass and became the master of that little territory.
The territory that Royce obtained is called Green Shade, which is relatively small in size, with dangerous terrain and barren soil. It is located north of Chiyou, and besides Chiyou, it also borders on several small and medium-sized territories. To put it nicely, it is an important buffer zone for each territory. To put it bluntly, it means that the development space is restricted to death. However, this does not affect Royce's joy and gratitude in the slightest. The glory of the Kunda family shines again at this moment, not just restoring a surname. Royce knew very well what the real reason he was able to become the lord was, and he was very grateful for the decision to surrender at Lanbo Lake, which was the most correct choice he made in his life.
In Chen Rui's initial stage, both Royce and Araux were important pawns against Joseph, but as Chen Rui's strength grew and Dark Moon's talents increased, he and Araux The effect is getting smaller and smaller. However, after Xi Ya came to the throne, Chen Rui did not forget him as a servant who was no longer of much value. In his hands, the Kunda family not only recovered their reputation, but also will shine even brighter. Royce secretly made up his mind that he must make some achievements to repay the kindness of his master.
With the permission of the mistress Athena, Royce returned to Dark Moon from Red Nether, and then left Dark Moon with his wife Vasasa, his best friend Araux and some confidants, and went to the Green Shade Territory.
In the imperial capital, apart from the original Youyue Pavilion in the southern suburbs, which is still being renovated, four new branches of Princess Square have opened in the city, but many shops around immediately began to sell products similar to those of Princess Square, at lower prices, and used All kinds of methods were used to rob customers, and the situation of Gongzhufang was extremely difficult for a while, and it could not make ends meet.
When Dark Moon Princess Square first opened, there was a boom in novelty products, but it quickly cooled down under the control of other merchants. Today's princess (eldest princess) has become the empress, and Princess Square also represents Her Majesty the Empress to a certain extent, but there are circles and rules for doing business, and the rules of this circle are also that the strong are respected. If she loses her competitiveness and only relies on the Queen's power to forcibly gain a foothold, even if she can gain temporary benefits, it will not last long, and Xia will lose more hearts, which is not worth the loss.
General George's army withdrew from the imperial capital and returned to Warlock Fortress to garrison. Sicari also withdrew part of the army. This move made Angelet and the others more confident, and they had a good feeling that the situation was under control.
During the game between Xi Ya and the elder family, Chen Rui did not stay in the imperial capital, but found a guard of similar stature to wear a mask and cloak to replace him and appear beside Xi Ya from time to time. This is the benefit of the masked man No, no one knows the true face of "Agulie" anyway.
The place Chen Rui went to was the Bailing Territory, and there were still many good things here, which were too late to take away last time, but this time he was finally free. The Medusa tribe has been on standby in Bailing City, and the lamp spirit who accompanied him to solve "Sikali" has returned to the underground ruins in the Loeb mining area.
Chen Rui rode a bipedal dragon and flew directly to the Loeb mining area. Last time under his instruction, Sikali ordered the suspension of mining in the Loeb mining area under the pretext of the disaster of monsters, and closed the area around the mining area so that the lamp spirits act. Chen Rui didn't encounter any obstacles along the way, and went straight to the underground ruins of the Loeb mining area.
This ancient alchemy civilization relic is actually a moving mechanical castle. Unlike before he left, many damaged parts of the castle have been repaired to a certain extent, and crystal lights are shining everywhere, like countless bright gems.
"Master!" Ginny and Jinsha led the lamp spirits to salute Chen Rui. Ginny once gave her life as the key to open the ruins. When Chen Rui left before leaving, a large number of spiritual fruits were transformed into top-level energy Essence, Ginny and others were also revived. Not only that, there are more than 2,000 resurrected lamp spirits, including Ginny and Jinsha, there are seventy-two golden-eyed lamp spirits at the demon emperor level, and eight silver-eyed lamp spirits at the demon king level and the great devil level. One hundred and thirty, and one thousand and three hundred black-eyed lamp spirits at the high-level demon level.
Demon emperor-level lamp spirits do not have the power of domains, but they have long-range energy attacks and special force fields similar to domains. This force field can also be used in combination. The more people there are, the greater the power. Chen Rui has seen it in the illusion.
Due to the scarcity of energy, when Ginny and the others competed with Medusa for the snake blood fruit, they could only use hand-to-hand combat and magic talents, and could not use these energy-consuming special attacks. Now with the top-level energy essence provided by Chen Rui, it seems From a poor man with insufficient food and clothing to a rich man with a lot of money in one fell swoop, he can naturally exert the strongest power.
So many lamp spirits are a very powerful force. More than 70 demon emperor-level lamp spirits, if they strike at the right time, are enough to kill ordinary demon emperor powerhouses, not to mention that there are crystal beasts, structural beasts and so on in the ruins. Dress up terrifying war machines like battle puppets and crystal behemoths.
There are still a large number of crystal beasts, constructed battle partners, and crystal behemoths in the ruins, but the damage is relatively serious. The crystal beasts and crystal behemoths are basically unusable, but there are a few complete constructs. It can be used normally, but the attributes of the lamp spirit itself conflict with the constructed battle partner, so it cannot be used as a driver.
Chen Rui frowned for a while, and asked Ginny beside him, "Can you repair these crystal beasts or battle partners?"
Ginny shook her head: "The lamp spirit doesn't have this kind of ability, even if my heart lamp is damaged and dying, I can't repair it by downgrading."
Chen Rui showed a look of regret. It seems that it can only be handed over to Tetnis for research, or a large number of senior goblin fighters are needed as assistants.
"Master, why don't you create spirit attendants? With them, the crystal monster may be a little troublesome, but the crystal beast and the construction of the battle partner should not be a problem."
Ginny's subsequent words sparked hope in Chen Rui's eyes, spirit servant
"Master is the inheritor of civilization, so he doesn't know about spirit servants?" Ginny looked curious.
Due to the relationship of swallowing, the memory obtained by Chen Rui is very incomplete, and he has never heard of it. After thinking about it, he replied: "You should have heard that Jin Sha said that after I accepted the inheritance, I fought against that powerful enemy underground Although he was defeated in the end, the inheritance memory was also affected, some of them were blurred, and many things could not be remembered, now you tell me about the ghost attendant."
Ginny didn't doubt anything, and replied respectfully: "In the alchemy civilization, the crystal behemoth is the great guardian, defending the entire fortress; constructing a battle partner is equivalent to a weapon of war, and people can use it to exert power beyond themselves. The stronger the spiritual power of the owner, the greater the power of the battle partner; the crystal beast is equivalent to a guard, protecting the safety of the master; our lamp spirits are magicians on the battlefield, and maids who dedicate everything to the master in life; They are the lowest level of servants. They have no combat power and cannot leave the limited range of the castle, but they have the special ability of repairing and manufacturing. If a large number of spirit servants can be produced, coupled with the top energy essence provided by the master, not only crystal beasts and others, The whole castle was able to function again."
Chen Rui was overjoyed, and then he showed doubts: "Then how do you make spirit servants?"
"Now there is a large amount of top-level energy essence, which is enough to activate the city's central life crystals, control the entire domain castle, and then only need to provide energy to create a large number of spirit servants."
Chen Rui noticed Ginny's words: "Domain Castle?"
"The entire moving castle is a country in a domain. The authority I have is only to know this knowledge, and the rest has to rely on the master's inheritance memory."
Domain country? It's not the first time Chen Rui has heard the word eye. It has been heard several times in Satan's mouth. It should be the mystery of the realm beyond the realm of the devil emperor, and it may be the embryonic form of the kingdom of gods.
According to Ginny, this moving castle turned out to be a domain country? When Chen Rui thought of Satan's Mount Sercred, he had a faint understanding in his heart. It's just that the so-called "inherited memory" is just a cover for seizing the house. The lamp spirits don't seem to know this, and the half-god-level soul that failed to seize the house was finally swallowed up by Chen Rui, and now there are still a lot of them. Part of the power has not yet been digested in Huaxing. After all, Chen Rui, the inheritor, is not worthy of his name, and he can even be said to be the enemy of the entire castle. I don't know if he can really control the entire castle, maybe he is still in danger.
Spirit servants, crystal beasts, golems, crystal monsters... and this huge and powerful domain kingdom, no matter what, you have to give it a try.
"Ginny, take me to the central life crystal now."
"Obey, master."
Ginny led Chen Rui all the way through, and came to a large palace, which was very similar to the palace in the main city that Chen Rui had seen in the illusion. Entering the palace, through layers of spiral stairs, Ginny stopped in front of a huge room on the basement floor: "Master, I can only send it here before you activate the central life crystal. Inside is the main city. control center."
"You go down first." Chen Rui nodded, and Ginny bowed and retreated.
There was no door to this huge room, but a faint light shone from the inside, which seemed mysterious. Chen Rui took a deep breath and walked in.
As soon as he approached the entrance of the room, he felt a strong mental wave coming, which seemed to have a terrifying aggressiveness. Once there was any abnormal change, it might wipe out the whole soul. Chen Rui hesitated for a moment, and continued to walk forward.
The mental fluctuations became more and more terrifying, and every step forward would increase by one point. Even Chen Rui's current level of S+ mental power felt trembling in his heart, as if he was walking towards the abyss of death step by step.
Chen Rui's consciousness became blurred under that kind of oppression, and his five senses gradually lost their effect, but his body still walked forward firmly with almost instinctive movements under the support of his will.
Can't see or hear what danger lies ahead, just keep going.
In the process of advancing, Chen Rui felt that countless strands of thoughts were enveloping him, penetrating into his soul, and the super system continuously transformed them into aura, but the speed and intensity of penetration were extremely powerful, and the speed of transformation was faintly compared with If the speed of penetration cannot be increased, if this continues, the whole soul may be in danger of collapse.
Could it be another cheating house grab? Chen Rui felt cheated, and was about to try to escape. At this moment, the power of the soul stored in "Huaxing" began to fluctuate. Logically speaking, unless Chen Rui absorbed the power in Huaxing himself or through double cultivation Pass it to a happy object, otherwise it will not change automatically. Now this situation should be drawn by external ideas.
The power of the soul in Huaxing fluctuated more and more violently, resonating with external thoughts. With a thought, Chen Rui infiltrated his spiritual power into these soul powers. If it was "inherited", it would definitely be impossible to do, but now these soul powers are already in his pocket, which is equivalent to The food in the refrigerator can be opened and enjoyed at any time, so it is not a problem.
The demigod soul power that wrapped Chen Rui's spiritual power finally couldn't restrain it, and was constantly surging out under the attraction of powerful thoughts from the outside world. Although the soul power stored in Huaxing was huge, this surging speed still made Chen Rui Secretly startled. Fortunately, the attraction quickly weakened, and the lost soul power miraculously returned to the body, and there was something more, which seemed to be some kind of spiritual imprint, blending with one's own spiritual power.
Before Chen Rui could react, the whole room was brightly lit and changed into a different look.
The entire huge room looks endless and seems to be an independent space. The material of the floor is an unknown metal, and there are strange facilities everywhere. In the center is a huge crystal, suspended between the ceiling and the two golden round platforms on the ground. In the middle, it seems to be connected to the sky and the earth, with various strange symbols flashing around.
The crystal emits a soft purple light, and a soft female voice rang out: "The power of the soul is 100% consistent, and the spiritual imprint has been added. Welcome, my master."
Why is it so like an intelligent computer system? Chen Rui was taken aback for a moment, thinking that he had traveled through time again and came to a sci-fi world.