"Do you think he will agree?" Sylvia asked Leo while putting away the potions on the table.

"Yes." Leo gave a very positive answer and said, "He has no way to refuse, because his body does not have much time left for him."

"His body?" Sylvia was stunned and looked at Leo in confusion.

Leo explained: "Do you know how he resisted the erosion of the wizard's power?"

"Do you already know his secret?" Sylvia's eyes lit up, and she immediately thought that if Leo really unlocked the secret of Henry Jones, it would mean that she would be able to create more in the Dodd Group.

The wizard of the Blood Pattern School.

Leo nodded and said: "Actually, to put it bluntly, it's very simple. Only extraordinary power can resist extraordinary power."

Sylvia didn't understand what was said for a while, but she soon came to her senses and asked confirmingly: "Is it the power of the gods?"

Leo nodded again and said: "I feel the power of the Lady in the Lake in him. If my guess is correct, he not only has the Turing root array of the blood pattern school wizard, but also has the ability to obtain

By following the sacred words of the blessed Lady of the Lake, he is using the power of the gods to weaken the influence of the wizard's power on the mind."

"It seems that the effect is good," Sylvia quickly came up with some application strategies in her mind, and said: "We have a good relationship with the Lady of the Lake Church, the Poseidon Church and the Black Forest White Deer. We can also use them

The Holy Proverbs do this.”

"You don't think that there are no disadvantages to this kind of thing, only benefits, do you?" Leo rejected Sylvia's proposal and said: "If what you gain from becoming a wizard of the Blood Pattern School is to become a transcendent, you have to pay for yourself.

Mind, so what you gain by using the sacred motto of the gods is that your mind can remain normal, so what do you pay for?"

"Body?" Sylvia guessed following Leo's previous words.

Leo nodded and said: "I can feel that his body has undergone irreversible alienation. He may still be able to withstand this alienation now, but if it continues, the power of the gods and the power of the wizard will be in him."

It will cause even more chaotic alienation in his body, and by then he may be worse off than dead."

"Can you cure him?" Sylvia asked again.

"No." Leo answered truthfully, saying: "If he can fully cooperate with my inspection, I should be able to prepare a potion that slows down the alienation, but it cannot cure it. If he does not cooperate with my inspection, my potion can only

Ease the pain of his alienation process."

Sylvia thought for a moment and said: "Even this is not bad, at least it can maintain combat effectiveness for decades."

Although Henry Jones's bloodstained school wizards have flaws and troubles, Sylvia has no intention of giving up. Instead, she is still optimistic about this artificial wizard and feels that she should test the feasibility when she returns.

Leo did not express any objection, but he was not interested in this matter, because even if the wizard of the blood pattern school succeeded, the power he could control was not very strong, and the mutation potion he studied would not be more effective than that of the blood pattern school.

It's not that different from a wizard, and it doesn't have such strong side effects.

For example, Henry Jones needs to maintain the fragile balance in his body, and needs to constantly receive the divine blessings of the Lady of the Lake in order to exchange for the sacred mottoes of the Lady of the Lake on his body that will not expire, and he also needs his own will to be strong enough, otherwise he will even have the sacred mottos.

It’s useless. This kind of power will be influenced by the church as soon as it appears, and it will also give the church too many opportunities to manipulate. So as long as she figures this out, Sylvia will never use this method.

Create artificial wizards.

"Are you really planning to buy two million slaves?" Leo did not continue the question of the wizard of the Blood Pattern School, but instead asked about another matter.

Hearing Leo's inquiry, Sylvia shrugged indifferently and said: "As long as he can get two million slaves, I naturally have no reason to refuse, regardless of the population of the New Bodo area.

There are already quite a few in the surrounding areas, but if I follow the expansion rate of the Dodd Group in my plan, population will become a big problem. By then, the surrounding kingdoms will definitely issue population restriction orders like food restriction orders.

We will allow their population to flow into our territory again. Instead of thinking of solutions when the time comes, it is better to prepare in advance from the beginning."

The population problem is not just a problem in the New Bodo region, but also in the entire Velen world. Each wave of mutant monsters will bring a large number of casualties. The number of newborns cannot make up for the loss of adults. These twenty

Over the years, the population of all countries and regions in the world has shown a downward trend.

However, other life-and-death issues are more eye-catching. In addition, a large number of people have given up living in the suburbs and are instead concentrated in walled towns. The population of towns has not decreased but has become particularly crowded, resulting in

The illusion of a large population.

However, the illusion is just an illusion after all, and it will be exposed sooner or later. At that time, the restrictions on population outflow in various countries will become extremely strict, so Sylvia wants to borrow slaves from the wasteland to fill this population vacancy.

Although there are many hidden dangers in bringing in people from the wasteland tribes to fill the vacancies. For example, the problem of mixed-race tribes that the wasteland tribes need to face now will definitely appear in the New Bodo area in the future. But as far as the current problem is concerned, the population problem is

The primary issue, as for other issues, will be dealt with slowly after the population issue is resolved.

For Leo and Sylvia, their lifespans will be long and they will have enough time to stabilize the situation and solve problems.

The two only talked in the room for a while and then left the exchange. They did not leave any information such as addresses when they left. Henry Jones should be able to know where they are now based on his ability.

The streets of Beberante were built by the colonists. Although they were abandoned for a long time and many places were damaged, the main body of the street and even the buildings on both sides of the street still remain because of the extremely strong stone materials used.

It has been preserved perfectly.

When Beberante was rebuilt, the builders at that time wanted to destroy these streets, dig out all the stones, and rebuild the city, because these streets were not a good thing in the memories of the tribesmen.

For the people, every crevice in these streets is filled with the flesh and blood and resentment of the tribal people who were slaves.

However, when ideals face reality, no matter how great their ideals are, they often have to give in to reality. After some calculations, the builders at that time found that the cost of overthrowing everything and rebuilding far exceeded expectations, and even after the reconstruction

The city may not be able to compare with Beberante after being abandoned for many years.

So in the end, the builders at that time had to compromise with reality and rebuilt the city directly on the original site of the abandoned Beberante, relying on a solid foundation and main body of the building at a very small cost.

What’s interesting is that the original builders wanted to rebuild the city into a trading city that connected the north and the south, and gave the surrounding tribes a place to shelter.

It has returned to its original appearance and has become the largest slave trading center in the entire Moissan continent, and can even be said to be the slave trading center in the entire Velen continent.

However, the slaves sold in Beberant are no longer just tribal people, but a considerable number of them are civilized people from outside countries. What is even interesting is that some of them are voluntarily sold into slavery.

In today's world, like the New Bodo area, there are very few stable areas where everyone has a job and everyone has food to eat. The vast majority of people live in precarious conditions. Compared with the turbulent areas,

Regarding the external situation, the situation in the wasteland appears to be much more stable. At least the number and scale of large mutant monster waves appearing in the wasteland are much smaller.

Some people have specifically ventured into the gradually forming tide of mutant monsters to find the cause. They found that even the tide of mutant monsters that appear deep in the wilderness rarely attack the wasteland tribes, unless the wasteland tribes happen to be blocking their way forward. They usually

It will pass through the endless forest sea in the wasteland, enter the kingdom areas of the Moissan continent, and attack the cities there.

There are different opinions on the cause of this situation. Some people say that these mutated monsters are nature's backlash against humans and are caused by the destruction of nature by outside human industry. The mutated monsters do not actively attack the wilderness tribes because the wilderness tribes revere and respect nature.

Naturally wait.

This statement is recognized by many people. Almost all people who come to the wilderness to seek refuge, whether they are from the tribal alliance in the northern part of the wasteland or those who go to the wasteland and sell themselves as slaves, believe in this statement and believe that the wasteland is the last resort of mankind.

of pure land.

However, for those in power in the outside kingdoms, they all scorned such claims, and the evidence was easy to find. For example, there were also sudden outbreaks of mutated monster groups that would madly attack all surrounding tribes.

However, even if there is sufficient evidence to prove that the so-called natural revenge theory is completely nonsense, for ordinary people, it is obvious that the credibility of those in power is not enough, and the number of people choosing to take refuge in the wilderness is increasing day by day.

Just like on the streets of Beberant now, the ratio of pedestrians coming and going is basically one to one between native tribesmen and people seeking refuge from other places.

For those who fled to the wilderness from other kingdoms, the place of residence was a big problem. Traditional tribal towns were obviously not an option for them. Their living habits simply could not adapt to the traditional lifestyle of the tribes, so those who were previously

New cities built on the basis of colonial cities became their first choice.

Among the many renovated tribal cities, cities like Beberante that still retain a large number of colonial buildings and living habits are their best choice.

Precisely because of the influx of large numbers of refugees, the subsequent development of the city of Beberant completely went against the original intentions of the original rebuilders. Most of the merchants engaged in slave trading, such as Henry Jones, were non-tribals.

This also reminded many tribesmen of the capture and enslavement of the native tribes by outsiders during the colonial period. Therefore, the relationship between the local tribes and the later refugees has always been very bad, with constant conflicts with each other.

Just now, on the four streets that Leo and Sylvia walked through, they saw no less than six quarrels between tribesmen and outsiders. Although they were still in the quarrel stage, and neither side showed any signs of taking action, judging from the situation

Look, if the people in power in Beberante don't find a way to calm down this confrontation, then sooner or later something big will happen in Beberante.

However, for Sylvia, this is not what she cares about. She is more concerned about whether Beberante has what she needs than whether Beberante will have a racial war.

The reason why Sylvia and Leo stopped in Beberant was not only for Henry Jones, a slave trader, but also for another reason, which was for the semi-annual mining fair here.

Different from areas outside the wasteland, the mines in the wasteland are not permanent even if the ownership is traded. Usually a new mining site only has a mining period of one year. If you include the recruitment of miners, equipment installation, etc., the final real

The mining time may only be a few months, more than half a year if you are lucky, and less than half a year if you are unlucky.

For those mines that have been mined for a long time, such as the mine outside Badisha, the mining time for each transaction is much longer, usually several years or even ten years. However, no matter how long the time is, there is no mine.

If you can dig it, it's not cost-effective.

Therefore, even if the mining time of a new mining point is short, it is still the end point that all ore merchants pay attention to. Especially the mines in the wasteland are mostly open-pit mines. It only takes a few months to dig out the ore in the ground.

Time will pay off.

Before coming to the wasteland this time, Sylvia had already received various intelligence from offices across the wasteland. Among these intelligences, information about mining sites was a top priority. After all, for an industrial group like Dodd Group, all kinds of

The purchase, mining and storage of ore are the most important things.

Three mining sites were mentioned in this information. These three mining sites are all open-pit mines that produce high-quality tungsten, tin and other ores. Two of the mining sites will be auctioned again after expiration, and these two mining sites will be auctioned again after expiration.

This mining point has been auctioned for the third mining period. The value is slightly lower, but the mining time has been extended a lot. The remaining mining point is newly discovered and is also an open-pit mine. It produces a kind of fuel used as fuel.

The uranium crystals of the catalyst are extremely valuable, and the mining time for one transaction is also very short, only half a year.
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