The area responsible for food trade in the Hall of Radiance is still far away. Mokasa was just passing by, and Lu En was riding on the airship.

They stopped and stopped along the way, going down from time to time to see the local customs and customs. Lu En was now used to this rush. This was the fifth day of their flight to Apidou, which is currently the coastal grain transportation base.

There is still one-third of the map away from the newly established seaside city.

Just before, when the airship passed a cloud head, it started to rain. The soft and elastic wing fairing was rubbed by fine water droplets to create irregular ripples, which looked particularly atmospheric.

Viewed from above, the fortress formed by the steaming mist from the clouds looks like balls of fat bread just taken out of the oven. When the rainwater escapes into it, the mist quickly disappears for a moment, and then quickly gathers into a round shape.

According to the book "The Great Master's Notes on Strange Creatures", most of these clouds will have some small monsters called cloud monsters, which are strange creatures between the water element and the air element that can spit out thunder and lightning.

, absorbing strong winds, and his innate skills are Water Spirit 1 and Wind Spirit 1. His mind is about the same as that of a ten-year-old child. Although he can grow, he lives and dies in the blink of an eye. He is extremely sensitive to temperature changes. When the sun rises and the sun shines, he will fall from the clouds.

They are born naturally. When the temperature drops at night, the clouds will condense into liquid droplets and die. Sometimes when it rains, you can see them falling from the sky, turning into water droplets and falling to the ground together with the rain.

However, this kind of strange creature is most loved by nobles. Special magic equipment can be used to form a small cloud layer for the cloud monster to live in, so that they will not die due to temperature changes. They can be kept as pets. I heard that some people have passed this method.

This method raised a level 2 cloud monster.

Lu En was thinking about things when he heard another thumping explosion sound coming from outside, which seemed to come from the boiler room.

He didn't take it seriously. He thought it was a little strange at first, but after asking, he found out that a master alchemist was using the airship's boiler to conduct some kind of experiment. Such small experimental accidents basically happened many times a day, and they were completely unheard of.

It affected the people inside the airship.

After Lu En finished reading the newspaper, he opened the door again and came into the warm hall heated by the fireplace. However, he came very late, so every comfortable corner was occupied by people holding cats.

Not all of them are cats, some are pets, some are people, and some are monsters. Anyway, they generally have similar functions to cats.

He is currently on the upper level of the airship, which was specially built for dignitaries. The lower level of the airship is a warehouse and a cheap Datong store, while the upper level is extremely luxurious and goes to great lengths for enjoyment, such as Lu En

The newly replaced glazed window in front of me.

These exquisite colored glazes purchased in the eastern part of the empire lived up to its reputation. They were so clear and translucent that every stardust in the sky at night was clearly visible. There were always people watching at the windows, and the sea of ​​clouds could be seen from the sky.

However, the whistles in the air caused by the friction with the airship wings are still heard. Occasionally, there will be a flash of fire around the hull. It is the overflowing magic power. However, such sounds can affect the lower floors and cannot be transmitted to the lower floors. The sound insulation is good.

Inside the upper level of the airship, in each room on the upper level, there are one or several sleeping people, including men and women, humans and beasts, nestled on the soft feather beds.

The person in charge has not arrived yet, Lu En is reading the newspaper.

The empire's newspapers are very interesting. What he is reading is not a certain regional newspaper, but the major news reports of the entire empire. There are no daily newspapers yet, and there are even very few weekly newspapers. The spread of news mostly relies on magic, which is very costly.

The empire's territory was so large that newspapers were generally published every three months, so news spread slowly.

This week's weekly newspaper mainly reports on some major events in the empire, such as the arrival of the efreet on the border, but miraculously no one died. Duke Walder's home was smashed, and it spent a lot of space praising Walder.

Duke De's selflessness was the reason why he extended a helping hand and contained the efreeti in his own home.

There is also a picture in the newspaper depicting the arrival of the Flame Continent, which looks impressive.

Another piece of news is about the church. There is a heavenly apostle who has returned to heaven and is in charge of the newly restored fifth level of heaven, which is located at the same level as the Six Lords of Heaven. This was originally a normal thing, but what really made Lu En feel something was wrong.

What's interesting is that the name of the heavenly apostle is Urathil. The newspaper said that she once fell to the mortal world and caused a sensation, and then rekindled the fire of faith and ascended to heaven again.

Is this Urathil the light spirit I know?

Not sure, but it probably isn't, but... I guess there is some connection.

What happened four months ago was that the Sea Emperor Dragon regained power and the Lord of the Four Seas Abyss was imprisoned. The civil strife experienced by the Sea Clan has been temporarily subsided. At this point in time, the Sea Clan will definitely consider taking back the territory along the coast.

, after all, the coast is full of vitality and rich in products. There are a large amount of sediment materials transported by external forces such as rivers and nutrients denuded by sea erosion. The source of sediment is very rich. In addition, the shallow sea zone is rich in organisms, has sufficient sunshine, and has lush plants.

Even the Sea Tribe prefers the shallow sea along the coast to the lifeless deep sea, so taking back part of the shallow sea is what the Sea Tribe will definitely do.

As for taking them all, it is probably impossible until the Sea Clan grows up a level 10 person, and humans will not let go of those resources. The corals, pearls, and shallow water spirits in the shallow sea alone are a huge amount of resources.

wealth, not to mention other things, such as fisheries, seabed mineral veins, and even the ocean itself are resources.

It is foreseeable that war will break out sooner or later, and before the soldiers and horses move, food and grass will go first. Food trade and transportation will be the empire's next top priority. Large quantities of food will be transported to the seaside to supply the war effort.

By then, it will be too late, so Lu En must intervene before then, otherwise there is a high possibility that there will be no chance again.

But at this time, there was another explosion. It seemed that there was another explosion in the boiler room. Lu En's nose moved and he smelled the smell of blood.

It wasn't fresh, it had a rancid smell, it must have been a while, but it dissipated immediately.

He immediately blessed himself with a sensitive sense of smell, and with the power of magic, the putrid smell suddenly became stronger.

"Did someone get killed?" He put down the newspaper and walked towards the boiler room.

There were some door locks along the way, but he easily opened them with the tapping technique and walked straight inside.

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At this moment, in the boiler room.

The magic oven buzzes, emitting extremely high heat. In it, a large amount of magic power is gathered into a ball, continuously extracting magic power from the fuel, that is, magic crystals and the outside world, and turns it into floating power.

Let the airship sail down the monsoon belt and arrive at the coastal city of Apidou.

There is a lot of equipment in the boiler room, the crucible is gurgling, the air in the room is stuffy, there are many medicine refining instruments, the liquid is flowing in the brass pipes, the aroma of the caustic agent is everywhere, and many kinds of potions and raw materials are mixed.

There was a smell, and an unknown liquid flowed in the middle of the connected copper tubes, and was dripped into the test tube through distillation.

The test tube is directly linked to the center of the room.

On the shelf on one side of the boiler room, various honors obtained as an alchemist apprentice from childhood to adulthood are displayed: trophies, certificates and the like, while a large number of well-worn books are stacked high next to the shelf.

On the other side of the boiler room, there were two "people" locked in an iron cage. In addition, there was the mutilated corpse of a woman. It looked like an adult woman. Judging from the figure and skin, she was about forty or fifty years old.

Look.

Of the two people imprisoned, one is a girl of twelve or thirteen years old, her legs have been sawed off, and they have been hastily bandaged to stop the bleeding. Her eyes are dull and she does not know whether to live or die. The other has both her hands and legs cut off.

The girl's face was covered in blood so she couldn't see her face clearly, but her body was rising and falling slightly, so she could tell she was still alive.

In the center of the boiler room, a huge but simple magic circle was set up. The sheets were sewn from several sheets of different colors.

A bald middle-aged man was walking barefoot on the magic circle, carrying a small iron bucket in his left hand, and using a brush dipped in blood to draw the magic circle in his right hand.

In the center of the circle, there are the limbs of a person, which seems to be a girl from a cage.

The bald alchemist murmured: "Almost..."

From his words, it seemed that there was some kind of entanglement between the array and the magic furnace. From time to time, the magic output of the magic furnace would break away from the stable output state and turn to crackle and explode. This may be the source of the abnormal movement.

The girl in the cage cursed weakly, but couldn't say anything else.

The alchemist gave him a flat look and continued to complete his magic circle. When he finished the last stroke, he breathed a sigh of relief and stepped away from the bed to take a rest.

At this moment, he suddenly heard a voice, slowly explaining in his ear:

"Bloodline Extraction Formation Formation... Do you want to purify your own bloodline?"

The blood extraction and refining formation can use the blood of the same species as a guide to purify one's own blood. Nana can transform from mixed blood to pure blood, relying on this refining formation.

But compared to the one Nana used before, this one is too crude. The little girl used it to be done by an elder in order to hook up with Lu En. He used a level 7 alchemist from within a high-level vampire to draw the array.

, the grade and complexity are several orders of magnitude higher than this, and it does not need to be so bloody. To purify Nana's bloodline, the elder himself flicked a drop of blood out, thus directly turning Nana into the Night Familiar 3. To the elder

For the reader, it is not considered consumption at all, but at most it is biting the tongue.

And the one in front of me is obviously some kind of inferior compromise.

What confused Lu En the most was that this person didn't seem to have any mixed blood that needed to be purified. Of course he could see that this person had almost no monster characteristics and was completely a pure-blood human. And the materials he used to purify his blood,

In other words, those girls whose hands and feet were cut off are monster hybrids.

Pure-blooded humans use Mo Wuhun to purify their own bloodline? How pure is this? Turning themselves into pure-blooded monsters? Isn't that a huge loss? To humans, this is an insult.

"Who is it?" This alchemist also has magic skills. In fact, alchemy is basically related to magic. There are very few high-level alchemists who are not wizards. After all, alchemy is a branch skill of magic.

So he immediately stepped on the ground, and runes floated around him one after another. With a spell and a gesture, bursts of crackling sounds came out around the bald alchemist, and a ball of violet energy surrounded him.

"Hey, there is such a complicated spell?" Lu En was a little surprised, and the spell he was holding in his hand to release also fell away.

Magical backlash, this spell will cause the magic users in the affected area to have painful resonance backlash when casting spells. Every spell that takes effect will backfire on the caster himself.

Such a counter-shock will cause some unskilled mages to fail to cast spells with a high probability. Even skilled mages need to be distracted to maintain and not be affected by the counter-shock. In addition, magic resonance will directly cause damage, equal to every spell.

It will harm the mage himself. If it is a spell blessed by someone else, it will hurt the person who blessed it.

Lu En originally planned to stop the bleeding of the two children, but if he cast the spell directly like this, the backlash would kill both of them neatly.

"Who are you?" The alchemist took out a bottle of potion from his pocket and a scroll. Then he bit the scroll uneasily and took out a thumb-sized orb from his waist. After getting ready,

He looked at Lu En warily.

"The orb contains a level 8 powerful magic, the Labyrinth Technique..." Lu En said slowly.

Labyrinth spell is a spell that traps the subject by expelling it into a different-dimensional maze composed of force field planes, but it generally only lasts about ten minutes.

"The scroll is a sleeping arrow." The sleeping arrow can create a pure spiritual arrow that cannot be blocked by physical matter. It can put the target into a death-like sleep, and even if it is killed, it will not wake up.

"What is the potion? It's hard to tell. A potion to increase your spell power? A potion to transform your body into a gaseous form? Don't move. You can't tear the scroll apart, and you can't drink the potion. You'll be dead when you make a move."

Lu En tapped his fingers and frowned.

The reason that made him choose to intervene was not sympathy. He was not that boring. This might interfere with his involvement in the grain trade. He was sympathetic, but he would not let this hinder his business.

What really made him decide to show up was that the bald alchemist in front of him wore the coat of arms of the Walder family.

Why would a pure-blooded human want to purify his own bloodline? And he is a member of the Walder family.
Chapter completed!