Chapter 416: Magic Arbitrary Door |
Early the next morning, Li Wei, who was still fast asleep in his dreams, suddenly received a message applying for entry.
[Respected Four-Star Lord, I am a Five-Order Mage of the Magic Association subordinate to the All-Heavens Lord Alliance. I have come under orders to construct a Magic Arbitrary Door for your territory. Please confirm whether you permit me and my assistants to enter the border?]
[Friendly Reminder: Please ensure that your current location and spatial state are suitable for us to enter, because we need to utilize Spacetime Transition Magic to appear within ten meters of your surroundings. If you have already made the relevant preparations, please select confirm.]
Yi?
Fuck me!
Li Wei jolted up and rolled out of the spacious and soft large bed. Beside him, Hathaway let out a grumbling sleep-mutter, then fell back into deep sleep.
Ten seconds or so later, a fully dressed Li Wei had already charged out of the territory building, rushing all the way to a spacious area. Only then did he select confirm. Practically the very next second, a purple magic array appeared beneath Li Wei's feet, enveloping a full ten meters.
He only heard a buzzing hum resonate. A golden light shone down from the high altitudes. Immediately following, the magic array brilliantly radiated light. Then, Li Wei felt as if seven or eight people came smashing down like dumplings being cast into a pot of boiling water. Frightened, he hastily dodged sideways, leaping ten meters away. Upon turning back, he heard a barrage of bang bang bang crashing sounds. A full eight figures crashed onto the ground spread-eagled, entirely battered and exhausted, in an exceptionally sorry state.
Surely it's not to this extent, right?
"Bleurgh!"
Someone started vomiting. Someone was wailing in agony; it seemed their leg was broken from the fall.
There wasn't a single dignified or decent-looking one.
Li Wei looked up, originally thinking that Five-Order Mage would make the final grand entrance. But the result was that the magic array vanished.
"Stop looking. I am precisely that Five-Order Mage. Please, my waist seems to be twisted, aiyo, aiyo!"
At the very bottom of this group of people, a forty-to-fifty-year-old geezer was shouting and hollering with a ghastly pale face. Truly, throwing away the face of you Casters, ah.
Li Wei hastily supported this big bro up. He was even heavily suspecting—alright, in front of this kind of Five-Order Mage, it was best not to think about anything.
"Too late, my honorable Lord Milord. But rest assured. I am fundamentally different from those Witches. I won't fuss over these secret slanderings in your heart. You might not believe it if I say it, but because we just transitioned across 12 Light-Years, going through such a spacetime transition, being able to preserve our little lives is already pretty good."
That guy grunted and groaned.
"Your Excellency, I don't quite understand. Why not use the Arbitrary Door?" Li Wei was very curious. Taking the Arbitrary Door to the Royal Capital first, then to Weir City, then coming here—wouldn't that be much better?
Not to mention leaping across 12 Light-Years. Is this showing off technique, or is this showing off technique?
"This is not showing off technique. Even if I wanted to show off, I wouldn't show it off entirely out here to you. This is merely one of the methods for checking and accepting the retrieval of disordered magic power."
"Your Excellency, could you elaborate in detail? I don't quite understand."
Li Wei asked curiously, smoothly slipping 5,000 Barbarian Gold Coins over. He was worried this geezer wouldn't accept Standard Gold Coins.
The result was entirely as expected: the geezer accepted them. Perhaps 5,000 Barbarian Gold Coins were not even worth mentioning to him, but the key point was the attitude, ah.
Tsk tsk tsk, the child is teachable.
"Actually, it's very simple. Think about it. If you spend money to build a highway and are asked to inspect and accept it, how do you inspect it?"
"Me? Of course I'd drive a car and run a lap!"
"Haha, exactly, exactly, that is precisely the reasoning. Our All-Heavens Lord Alliance pays exquisite attention to the principle of rescue-and-salvage style plundering. Those Chaotic Magic Particles will cause various aberrations and various forms of pollution. Therefore, we need to completely clean up the planets one by one, and the starfields region by region."
"For example, this planet where your territory is located was originally deeply affected by Chaotic Magic Particles. But after undergoing the rescue-and-salvage style plundering, it is now suitable for the normal reproduction and living of ordinary life forms. Everything will also return to its initial original appearance. Could this possibly be bad? Therefore, my inspection and acceptance is just like this: directly jumping through a spacetime transition. If all the planets and starfields along the way have been cleaned up properly, my spacetime transition will be very stable, and it will be very precise."
"Look, the inspection and acceptance this time was very successful, right! Do you understand now?"
"Understood. Many thanks for Your Excellency's pointers." Li Wei felt quite amazed and surprised in his heart. Although originally he held distrust towards this bizarre core philosophy of the All-Heavens Lord Alliance—how could there be such a purely good organization in this world?
Must be joking. There must absolutely be a conspiracy within this. However, it didn't matter. The position of one's buttocks determines the position of one's head. As a vested beneficiary, Li Wei naturally wouldn't care.
Yet resulting in the present, he actually couldn't help but believe it two or three parts.
Truly, just yesterday he still felt the plundering legions of the King of Locke and the Duke of Weir went too far. But thinking about it today, if those mutant creatures hadn't been removed, if those ancient magic fragments hadn't been taken away, would such a planet still possess a future hereafter?
Returning a planet enveloped by Radiation Storms back to its original appearance, was that not good?
Let the ordinary return to the ordinary, and let the extraordinary return to the extraordinary!
At this time, that Five-Order Mage had already headed straight for the Mage Tower. His assistants and apprentices scrambled to keep up, stumbling and staggering, in an exceptionally sorry and miserable state.
Next, Li Wei fundamentally couldn't insert a single word. Including Second Aunt who rushed over after hearing the news, they could only observe from the sidelines. Like a gust of wind, this Five-Order Mage and his assistants constructed a Magic Arbitrary Door that they fundamentally couldn't understand at all—an old, dilapidated, weather-beaten telephone booth. The bird droppings on top of it were still fresh.
"It's done. Honorable Lord Milord, I wish you good luck!"
Having said this, this group of people directly burrowed into the telephone booth and departed.
The entire process concluded in less than a minute.
Fuck me!
"Second Aunt, did you understand it?"
"Understand my ass. Going back and sleeping a wink holds far more value than pondering over this problem!"
Haha!
Second Aunt had truly suffered a setback.
But Li Wei's mood was excellent. With this Arbitrary Door, he could freely travel to the Weir Province. Yes, he could only travel back and forth to the Weir Province; he couldn't go anywhere else. Going anywhere else required transferring from the Weir Province.
But even so, this was an exceptionally superb welfare benefit from the All-Heavens Lord Alliance. Because those naturalized Freemen whose hometowns originally were in Weir City could have the opportunity to visit their relatives once every year. Including the other Freemen, as long as they accumulated sufficient merits, they could also spend ten gold coins per person for a one-day tour to Weir City.
Mhm, in the capacity of a tourist.
This aspect would have to be gradually relaxed and opened up in the future. You couldn't seal it off even if you wanted to. Once the business of Novice Missions began rolling out within the territory, it wouldn't be able to be kept a secret from them at all.
Next, Li Wei calmed his heart and began tending to the winter wheat. The one thousand mu of winter wheat over at the Main City was taken over by him. Every single day he adjusted the magic power and conducted infusions. Although this would consume a considerable cost of magic power, it was truly the best method to grind the Farmer Destiny Grid.
Like this, a month later, Zhao Xuanxuan successfully forged Enchanted Armor for Li Wei, Li Yue, Second Aunt, Hathaway, and Thomas. However, it could only be Four-Star.
Among them, Li Yue, Second Aunt, and Hathaway all possessed a set of medium full armor, providing overall Defense +70.
Thomas's was a set of heavy armor, providing overall Defense +90.
Li Wei's was a set of Four-Star Enchanted Light Armor, providing overall Defense +50, and also a set of Five-Star Enchanted Heavy Armor, providing overall Defense +100. Because this set of heavy armor was scavenged from a Neanderthal Centurion, it was out of the ordinary. After Zhao Xuanxuan repaired it, the effect was precisely like this.
Calculated based on 1 point of Defense granting immunity to 10 points of damage, just this set of Five-Star Enchanted Heavy Armor alone could resist 1,000 points of damage.
At this moment, Hathaway also crafted five Sequence 3 Magic Crests. Aside from herself, the other five each obtained one. Placing it over the heart protector mirror, the sense of security was absolutely solid.
With this, Li Yue, Thomas, Zhao Xuanxuan, as well as a group of naturalized Freemen returned to Weir City on the very day the Arbitrary Door was completed.
These naturalized Freemen conversely knew exactly what was going on. They were also active enthusiasts for migrating outward to pioneer. Because this planet was currently still in the Low-Magic Era, there was still a lot of oil and water to be scraped up. Wait until another few decades or a century passed, and it would truly return to normal.
Yes, even the originally tampered physical laws would gradually be restored.
If they didn't seize the time to strengthen themselves now, wait until the Flame Viscount's territory ascended in the future, if they couldn't keep up with the rhythm, they could only remain upon this planet to act as indigenous natives.
Just like this, everything proceeded smoothly.
With a flash of time, five months passed. In the early summer season, it was the harvest of the winter wheat. Li Wei stood amidst the wheat fields, smiling cheerfully.
In order to supply the growth of these one thousand mu of winter wheat, Li Wei utilized three hundred units of magic power from beginning to end. Now... mhm, the Royal Capital Taxation Department and the Weir Province Taxation Department had come again.
This time, Li Wei didn't attempt to condense True Particles, because he urgently required the Farmer Destiny Grid.
It was merely that doing things like this naturally alarmed the taxation departments. He currently still lacked the qualifications to intercept and retain Four-Star Wheat. These were all tribute offerings, designated for the use of the Royal Family.
Even the Duke of Weir couldn't purchase them.
This round of harvesting ultimately took twenty days. It was entirely Li Wei alone harvesting and gathering.
Cumulatively harvesting 4,000 catties of Four-Star Wheat, with a market price of 100 gold coins per catty, this amounted to 400,000 coins. Simultaneously, he could obtain a 10% King's Tax reduction preferential policy.
Cumulatively harvesting 200,000 catties of Three-Star Wheat, with a market price of 10 gold coins per catty, Li Wei could retain a portion for himself. He kept one-fifth, and sold the entirety of the remainder to the Duke of Weir. The income acquired was 1,600,000 gold coins, and due to this he obtained an 80% Duke's Tax reduction preferential policy. This equated to him not needing to pay the Duke's Tax for many years into the future.
It was just that the cost was far too great. After harvesting was completed, these one thousand mu of land became unfathomably barren and impoverished. It would have to remain desolate and uncultivated for the next few decades.
Not to mention there was still the consumption of three hundred units of magic power.
Fortunately, just this one wave was sufficient for Li Wei and his subordinate elites to eat for many years.
And the most important thing was the Farmer Destiny Grid.
A total of 25 Destiny Grid points. Therefore, Li Wei's current Farmer Destiny Grid had reached 97!
Speaking of it, this was far too difficult and uneasy.
And in order to obtain these two numbers, Li Wei first had to be a Four-Star Lord, a Substantive Viscount, possessing his own city, and possessing his own Mage Tower. Only after putting forth so much effort in the early stages could he possess this qualification, acting so extravagantly and luxuriously this once.
Otherwise, a Three-Star Lord or a Substantive Baron might not necessarily dare to be this extravagant.
Because the maximum storage cap of a Three-Star Magic Well was precisely 500 units. Once the Pioneering Mission concluded, the entire planet wouldn't be able to extract much magic power. Then how would the territory develop in the future?
Did one still want to live pointlessly or not? The moment any twists and turns occurred, it would be heading straight to bankruptcy!
In fact, even Li Wei couldn't afford to mess around with a second batch of one thousand mu.
The magic power stored within the Magic Wells and the Mage Tower had to be retained just in case of unexpected situations. For example, an invasion by Neanderthals?
This matter couldn't be guaranteed. Kakh City had already been invaded once. Although it was seized back later, the massive damage and losses directly caused that Baron Mark to go bankrupt.
Yes, that big bro had already gone bankrupt. Otherwise, the Novice Missions wouldn't have been allocated to Li Wei's side.
Speaking of which, this year's Novice Missions had already begun unfolding in the surroundings of Li Wei's territory. A total of seventeen novice teams, distributed thousands of li away to the east, south, west, and north.
And the exam questions for the Novice Missions were authored by Li Wei. Specifically, it referenced the storyline of him receiving and escorting Hathaway back then.
Namely, the novices had to search for resources at their respective spawn points, assemble vehicles, and search for and travel to the largest survivor base in this apocalypse: the territory of the Flame Viscount.
Theoretically, as long as they stepped into Riverside Fortress, or stepped into Dawn Fortress, or arrived at the Territory Main City, or Hathaway's Barony Territory, the mission would be considered a success.
But this matter wasn't easy. They were roleplaying a family. They had to fill their stomachs, they had to scavenge through the ruins, and they had to be careful of ambushes and sneak attacks from bandits and mountain thieves...
These bandits and mountain thieves were naturally all played by the soldiers beneath Li Wei. The kind that were paid a salary. But they wouldn't truly fight them, just frightening and intimidating them when there was nothing else to do, only allowed to utilize one-tenth of their strength. If they died, they could even revive in the Temple...
The difficulty wasn't high at all, but the acting skills absolutely had to be excellent. Anyway, occasionally going to secretly watch the storyline acting of this bunch of novices was actually quite entertaining and engaging...
However, there were currently no candidates for the final stage BOSS. This usually required providing a genuine BOSS. If there wasn't one, the Tactics Department of the Weir Province would capture one from somewhere else...
Yes, a portion of the business of the Tactics Department was precisely doing this.
"Wow, I actually have the sensation of binge-watching a drama series."
One day at the end of June, Li Wei and Hathaway were drinking chilled red wine amidst the fiery setting sun. As they grilled Two-Star veal steaks, they utilized the Examiner Card to observe the month-end settlement scenes of those novices. It was just like seventeen television stations, highly entertaining and engaging.
The remote control was wielded blisteringly fast by Hathaway, watching with keen relish and profound interest.
However, Li Wei's interest wasn't immense, because these novices were truly far too perfunctory.
Perhaps this was the drawback and malady of playing as second-generation wealthy kids. They had learned too many routines and formulas from a young age. They could even vaguely surmise the existence of the examiners. So it was meaningless and uninteresting.
It was still more entertaining and engaging to find suitable novices from distant planets unpolluted by Chaotic Magic Particles, original and authentic in their natural ecological state.
Because they wouldn't know anything, only able to guess through limited information, groping and exploring in the dark. Finding the rules during this process, and utilizing the rules...
But this kind of novice setup was usually extremely luxurious and lavish.
For example, these seventeen groups of novices in Li Wei's territory had a total investment of only thirty thousand gold coins. Everything seeped with a cheapness and shoddiness.
Looking back at the novice setup he was in initially, according to what Hathaway said, the initial investment reached two hundred thousand gold coins. It was even continuously supplemented with additional investments three times subsequently.
One of those times was an additional investment for that Sam. The remaining two times were both additional investments for Li Wei.
As long as a certain group of novices performed exceptionally well enough, capable of expanding into better storylines and capable of generating larger profits, then the examiners and hosts wouldn't mind making additional investments.
For example, that Great Witch in Kakh City, as well as her two daughters. They were all captured by the Tactics Department from an exceptionally dangerous Killing World at a heavy cost. And Night Owl cast a Memory Magic upon them...
Anyway, they played all sorts of fancy tricks and schemes.
Looking at the present comparatively, the Novice Missions in this world of Li Wei's, the final stage BOSSes were merely seventeen Three-Star mutant piglets or mutant puppies, kittens, and the like. They would be deployed based on the development of the storyline...
Sigh, how boring!
(End of this chapter)
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