Starfall 837, Northern Empire, Moldavia.
It was a cold, clear day in April, and the clock struck thirteen. Amidst the church bells, Priest breathed in the long-lost cold air of the North and returned to this land after a month and a half absence. He stood in front of the tall keel gate of Southern Moldavia and looked up at the people in the city. The building was taller than the city wall, and his eyes were blank.
"Good guy, is this still Moldalvi?" Priest muttered.
After only leaving for a month and a half, the changes in Moldavia have already made this Champion Academy intern and member of the experimental team of the Northern Empire's External Development Department feel a little strange, even though he only lived in Moldavia. It took less than half a year, but just a few months were enough for Priest to regard the Northland as his second hometown.
And the fact is just as he thought, Moldavia has changed tremendously.
In the southern outer city, magic energy factories are still producing. They are spewing gray-white mist in the atmosphere. The newly added purification array is operating at full power, purifying most of the condensed magic dust. The factory is as tall as a hill to ordinary people, and the only things taller than these giants are the teaching building of Champion Academy and the headquarters of the Northland Chamber of Commerce.
The newly built Northland Chamber of Commerce headquarters is a huge black rectangular building. It is about 80 meters high, 40 meters long and 30 meters wide. Overall, it is more like a huge rock block than a building. The surface of the building without any decoration or carvings is entirely composed of black rocks, and on its four wide walls, there are four huge screens.
This is an LCD screen. Has it become popular? Already entering the city, Priest immediately discovered the headquarters of the Northland Chamber of Commerce. Some pictures of beautiful scenery were being played there, and elegant melodies were also coming from the magic circle. Listening to the soothing piano music, Priest did not marvel at it from time to time like the passers-by around him, because he was no stranger to this thing. During the month and a half of training at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Development's plateau base, Priest Te often uses this strange alchemical creation.
In fact, in addition to this thing, he also saw a lot of novel things in the training base that he would never have access to before - magic net, points exchange system, single-use flying device, special magic armor, and various other things. Among all kinds of wonderful alchemical creations, the LCD screen is just the most ordinary one. Its greatest function is to create a long-distance communication screen, or as it is now, to play some videos and music for everyone.
"It's finally time to go home."
After crossing the trade area where the Chamber of Commerce is located, Priest walked towards the residential area around the industrial area, that is, his home in Moldavia. Looking at the familiar street scenery around him, the man could not help but sigh softly: " Even though it’s only been a little over a month… it feels like a long time has passed.”
Since the beginning of Starfall 837, when Priest joined the Winterhold Academy and was invited to join the Empire's External Development Department, his life has undergone tremendous changes.
After a week of the most basic systematic teaching and training at Champion Academy, Priest already had a basic understanding of extraordinary powers such as magic and fighting spirit. Then, he quickly joined several other students who were also invited. Was transferred to the training base located on the East Bander Plateau. Here, they will undergo a month of high-intensity exercise, as well as targeted talent development and training.
One month, to be honest, is only thirty days. Priest even frowned when he heard the news - what can he do in one month? Is this really training and not a trip to the plateau? You must know that whether it is holy light or magic, fighting spirit or martial arts, they all require long-term training to achieve success. Look, among those great magisters and chief priests who have achieved great fame, which one is under the age of forty? And who among those famous warriors has not experienced hundreds of battles
In one month, at most one apprentice can be trained. Priest did think so at that time, and thirty minutes later, he knew he was wrong.
The high-intensity training he understood was completely different from the high-intensity training that the adult understood and designed.
All in all, one and a half months of hell training has ended, and Priest feels that he has been transformed - he has learned fighting spirit, can fight with the silver violent bear, he knows how to make traps, make fires, conduct stealth investigations and build simple shelters. Rist has learned 81 ways to survive in the wild, memorized and integrated a lot of knowledge about other worlds. He still remembers the "100 simple techniques for identifying edible plants based on their vitality" that he recited while running a twelve-kilometer sprint. All the details in this book, in the last week of real survival internship, Priest even learned how to build an entire small exploration base in the wilderness with his bare hands.
Now, even if Priest is thrown to Mycroft with empty hands, he can survive smoothly and comfortably, but even so, all this is just the foundation, because his goal, Instead of surviving in this comfortable hometown, he left his homeland and went to the void to explore a different world that was completely different from Mycroft's world.
The same goes for the entire External Exploration Department.
Of course, now it seems that compared to the changes in Priest's life, the changes in Moldavia - or in other words, the whole world - are not inferior.
[Now insert a piece of news: In the Eastern Province, the Lord of Glaier, Yassen Glaier, was deprived of his title and territory. According to the Imperial Noble Tribunal, the former Earl of Glaier was suspected of human trafficking, torture and murder of civilians, and practicing cults. He was shot dead on the spot during the ceremony. He was the highest-ranking nobleman currently involved in the case.]
[The prosecutor is cooperating with the local garrison to conduct a large-scale manhunt in the Glenelg Territory. More than 120 people involved in the case have been arrested. The organization conducts human trafficking, drug trafficking, cult sacrifices, illegal dissemination of unknown alchemical creations, etc. This is the fourth large-scale evil force to be eradicated this month.]
The melodious piano sound suddenly stopped. At the headquarters of the Northland Chamber of Commerce, which has the imperial royal family's capital injection, the four huge LCD screens quickly switched. A female prosecutor with a dignified appearance and a calm tone read the manuscript seriously to the screen. The magic circle Her voice spread across half the city, and her clear words could be heard by almost everyone who was not busy with work.
The news ended soon, and the large LCD screen continued to play beautiful scenery pictures and music. The original piano was now replaced by a violin ensemble. The passers-by who originally stopped on the street and listened to the news also felt quite emotional. The people nearby started talking.
"Well done! Well done! All traffickers must die!"
"It's been a lot more peaceful recently. My relatives in the east contacted me some time ago and said that all the gangs had disappeared and that life was much better without Bang Bang. They even planned to invite me over for a tour!"
"No, thousands of people have been arrested... there are also many nobles. It seems that His Majesty the Emperor is really taking action and is not joking!"
"Does that need to be said? Although I don't know who it is, it was a count. He was actually shot to death on the spot... Could it have been done before?"
"I remember that Lord Lord seemed..."
"Can this compare?"
Although they are still a little uncomfortable, there is no doubt that this is not the first time for the residents of Moldavia to see this kind of news. At this time, they are just sighing at the various drastic changes that have occurred in the empire, but they did not expect that in What kind of secrets are hidden behind these seemingly ordinary severe blows? Ordinary people don't care about these. They can only see that the empire is scraping away the abscesses on the body with a knife from top to bottom, and the lives of ordinary people are getting better and better. Feel relaxed.
Upon hearing the news, Priest, who was almost back home, couldn't help but stop. He turned his head and glanced at the huge LCD screen behind him, and then breathed a sigh of relief.
So cool.
To be honest, Priest, who originally lived in the south of the empire, really didn’t have any good feelings or feelings towards the nobility. In that land where the Black Forest Warcraft attacked human towns, basically all the nobility lived in solid castles and In the fortress, those people enjoyed a comfortable life together with the legions stationed in the big cities.
Except for collecting taxes, Priest and his family have never interacted with these nobles. Even during the dragon disaster, not many people came to lead them to the refuge... This kind of nobles is actually quite good, because they They just ignore their own people and enjoy their own arrogance. In more territories, the noble lords have all rights over their people. They are the gods of ordinary people and can oppress and exploit them at will. It is difficult to maintain their lives. of civilians.
It’s not that he hates the rich, Priest just likes the feeling that justice has been done. Of course, not everyone thinks so. Even in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Development, there are many people who feel that this kind of justice is too much compared to the past. They felt that the emperor's power was too great, and the review was too strict and too fast. Israel and his noble court almost ignored all the privileges of the nobles. They even ignored the law and did not Arresting noble men in their mansions without any evidence.
Everyone has lost their sense of security. They feel that their freedom and dignity have been oppressed. They oppose this simple and crude 'atrocity' and say that if it continues, the entire empire will become a hall of His Majesty the Emperor. Sreer will become the biggest and most evil dictator.
And the man scoffed at this.
Freedom, dignity? First of all, people must survive before they can consider such things - and only with freedom and dignity can others oppress them. Most of the lower-class civilians in the empire simply do not have the conditions for freedom and self-respect. They are oppressed by gangs and squeezed by nobles. They have to worry about attacks by monsters when walking in the wild. It is already very difficult for them to live, so how can they consider this
If His Majesty the Emperor can allow all lower-class civilians to live well, have freedom and dignity - then why can't such atrocities be carried out? why not? If a ruler could eradicate all inequality and darkness, expel all dirty violence and oppression from ordinary people's lives, if he could make monsters disappear from the roads of major cities, and if he could make all civilians eat If he has enough food to live a life without worries, then there is no doubt that he has the right to be dictatorial and to carry out such 'atrocities'.
He even has the right to demand that people worship him.
Speaking of this, Priest couldn't help but look to the southwest of the world. He raised his head and looked at the sky - at the end of the distant sky, a hazy space was flashing. It was covered with boiling water vapor, and blurry white light flashed in it... There was the boundless heaven, the residence of the gods.
More than a week has passed since the spectacular vision from the heavens descended on the human world. Most of the people who originally chatted endlessly about these things have now shut their mouths. In major cities, propaganda called 'News' is broadcast on LCD screens. Now, even illiterate farmers know that the gods have tried their best to prevent the heaven from suddenly falling into the world. At this time, they are tired and need to rest, and the heaven is slowly and completely integrating into the world. And because of the sacred fluctuations that swept across the entire world that day, many people who did not originally believe in God have recently begun to go to churches to pray to those holy symbols.
The world has changed... Although he can't feel it yet, Priest knows that all this is just a prelude. When the gods walk out of their residences, the heavens completely merge into the world, and when the atmosphere of the entire empire is cleared. , the ancient world of Mycroft will take on new vitality.
This is indeed an exciting future. Priest couldn't help but start to think about it, but soon, he suppressed his thoughts. Now is not the time to think about these-these problems are too vast to even think about. , it’s not his turn to worry, this is a question that only their lord needs to think about.
No matter what, in this world with extraordinary power, he just needs to be himself.
Now, Priest stood in front of an ordinary two-story house. The man calmed down, then took out the key and opened the door.
"I'm back."
He suppressed his excitement and said so.
Soon, another surprised but joyful girl's voice came from inside the house:
"You're back, brother!"
Almost at the same time, in the inner city of Moldavia, the artificial intelligence girl's surprised cry rang out in the lord's mansion, followed by the helpless complaints that the Shenji siblings and the black dragon had long been used to.
"You're back, Joshua?" "Master, you're finally back!" X3
"Um."
A man's voice sounded from the top floor of the Lord's Mansion. He was holding a ball of light that was "dinging, dinging, dinging," as if it wanted to pounce on the head of a black dragon girl, and said calmly: "I'm back."
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