Chapter 218

Early the next morning, Mrs. Xia Lanwei came to visit.

"Good morning, Your Excellency."

When Ren walked into the living room, Xia Lanwei stood up and saluted. She was wearing a neat casual dress today, with a little makeup on her face. She looked like a strong woman in a shopping mall, which reminded Ren of the elite white-collar women in her previous life.

"Mrs. Xia Lanwei came very early."

Ren greeted her and sat down. It could be seen that she didn't seem to rest all night.

Xia Lanwei was in high spirits, without the slightest sign of fatigue, and impatiently handed over a stack of thick paper, and said, "Your Excellency, this is my plan, please read it over."

"good."

Ren took the plan and began to look through it.

He is not familiar with business planning, and has never done similar projects before, but Mrs. Xia Lanwei's plan is very detailed, even a layman can understand it.

This plan has nearly a hundred pages, each page is handwritten, and the handwriting is beautiful. It is obvious that it has been carefully prepared for many years, and it cannot be written in one night.

Ryan spent half an hour browsing through it, and there was generally no problem.

The content of the plan is not much different from what Mrs. Xia Lanwei said yesterday, and the budget details for the initial investment are attached.

When he saw the amount, he felt a little distressed.

According to Xia Lanwei's idea, the entire Shibo Village was built into a small urban area, and hundreds of high-rise residences, as well as supporting facilities and shops were built. It took five years and invested a total of one million gold shields.

The first start-up capital alone cost 200,000 gold shields.

According to the distribution ratio negotiated yesterday, he would immediately have to take out 98,000 gold shields and hand them over to Xia Lanwei to operate.

He counted his cash assets last night, and there were over 200,000 gold shields.

This will shrink by a third.

Seeing Ren's frown, Xia Lanwei couldn't help feeling a little nervous, and asked, "Your Excellency, is there something wrong?"

"No." Ren shook his head and said with a smile, "Madam Xia Lanwei's business talent is really rare in the world. No wonder she can become the top richest man in Modu."

Xia Lanwei breathed a sigh of relief, and when she heard the praise, she said modestly, "Your Excellency, you are so honored."

She said that she had won the award, but she was very happy in her heart. This kind of affirmation and trust in business made her feel happier than being promoted to a legend when she entered adulthood.

Ren put down the plan, took out a large box of gold shields and tickets directly from the ring, counted 98,000 and handed them to Steel Dragon on the spot.

He gave the money so readily, and he was not afraid of the steel tornado money running away at all.

A monk can run away but not a temple. The value of Xia Lanwei's assets in Modu is much higher than this money.

The light of the golden shield made Xia Lanwei a little excited.

"In a few days, I will hold a canonization ceremony for you and officially announce that you have become my knight." Ren said.

"Yes, my lord." Xia Lanwei immediately changed her address to Ren.

According to the agreement, she has a cooperative relationship with Ren, and is not a knight who is truly loyal to Ren, but the process has to go through again. After the canonization ceremony, she can clearly become the lord of Shibo Village.

Ren laughed twice, letting a steel dragon serve as a vassal knight, is there any precedent?

Xia Lanwei put away the funds and bid farewell.

"Wait a minute." Ren said suddenly: "You have been in Modu for many years and have a wider network than me. I need you to help me purchase a batch of things. This is the list."

Xia Lanwei took the list and looked it over, with a surprised expression on her face.

There are many items on the list, including a complete set of mechanical equipment, machine tools with different functions, steam engines, furnaces, forging tools, and hundreds of tons of metal materials, such as steel, copper, aluminum, more than a dozen rare metals, secrets, etc. Silver fine gold and so on.

In addition, there are a large number of alchemy materials, of various types and surprisingly large quantities.

If you buy everything on the list, you can open a mechanical workshop and an alchemy shop.

Xia Lanwei didn't ask Ren why he bought so many things, thought for a while, and replied: "My lord, these equipment and materials are not uncommon. I can get most of them in my store. The rest, give me two days It will be delivered to the castle in time."

"Then I will trouble you." Ren nodded and said, "I will settle with you at the market price at that time."

What he meant was that Xia Lanwei could make a profit as a middleman.

"My lord is the most generous lord I have ever met." Xia Lanwei admired sincerely.

Ren smiled and sent her out of the castle.

Xia Lanwei's work efficiency was extremely high. Sure enough, it took less than two days to buy all the items on Ren's list and send someone to the castle.

Ren had already cleared out a wide hall inside the castle, and moved all the equipment and materials into it as his private mechanical alchemy room.

At the same time, he asked Oxilia to set up a protective circle for the mechanical alchemy room, and designated this area as a forbidden area, and no one could enter without his permission.

Outside the door of the mechanical alchemy room, there are always two Ultramarines standing guard.

From this day on, apart from going to Floating Void City to study at noon and spending the afternoon at the Great Library, Ren spent the rest of his free time in the mechanical alchemy room.

Occasionally, there was an explosion in the mechanical alchemy room, arousing the curiosity of the mercenaries and servants in the castle.

Everyone is guessing what the lord is doing inside.

Even Emily was aroused, and after a few insinuations, Ren didn't answer directly, and warned her not to go in without authorization.

Half a month later.

Top floor of Wedzeland Tower.

Ren raised his hand to concentrate on casting spells. A bright ball of electricity was formed on his fingers, which quickly expanded to the size of his head, and then he threw it out. It exploded instantly, and dozens of lightning bolts burst out, raging the entire space, but was covered by an invisible layer of lightning. The force field blocked it without causing any damage.

"good!"

Anse Wodos clapped his hands, with a satisfied expression on his face, and said: "Your learning progress is faster than I imagined. It only took less than 20 days to master the electric explosion ball, and you have initially mastered the method of fast casting. Skill."

"This is the teacher's good teaching." Ryan looked humble.

"Come on this."

Anse Wodos stroked his snow-white beard and glared at him, "No matter how good I teach, it is not as useful as your own talent and comprehension. Don't just say nice things to me. A thousand years ago Tired of hearing it."

Ren scratched his head helplessly.

After getting along with each other these days, he knows that his teacher is actually an easy-going person, informal and sincere, but has his own bottom line and principles in his heart. He is definitely a trustworthy leader and admirable.

The teacher taught without the slightest reservation.

Ren's magic knowledge has advanced by leaps and bounds. It is far more than a spell of electric blast ball, and has a huge rune knowledge system.

Originally, it took more than two seconds to cast the electric explosion ball, but now it has been accelerated to one and a half seconds!

Of course, he was able to master the fast casting of the electric explosion ball so quickly, not only because of the teacher's careful guidance, but also because of the effect of the will of truth.

This legendary element is an excellent support for spellcasters.

It can help you master every thought and every soul power in your mind, and you can achieve fine control, with very few mistakes. You only need to practice enough times to achieve the desired effect in the shortest time.

Also, this is just the initial quickcast.

Ren predicted that as he became more and more proficient with the electric explosion ball, he would be able to compress the casting time to less than one second in less than half a year, and even achieve instant casting in the future!

In the next step, he continued to study the electric explosion ball, but switched to another technique, that is, extremely effective spellcasting.

This technique can exert the greatest power of the spell.

The Modus school's spellcasting concept is to specialize in a small number of spells, starting from the first spell, and only after learning all three skills, will they specialize in the second spell.

"Okay, let's go here first today." Anxi Wodas said: "Tomorrow I will teach you the ultimate spellcasting."

"is teacher."

Ren got up and was about to leave. He remembered something, stopped and asked, "Teacher, has there been any news from Speaker Korsted?"

"not yet."

Anse Wodos glanced at him, "I just contacted him yesterday. He has already checked the small half of the Shield Island area, and found no abnormalities. It may take another half a month to get results."

Ren nodded slightly, but did not speak.

But I was thinking in my heart that if my guess was correct, Korsted might never find out any clues, let alone half a month, even half a year would be useless.

He also spied on Farina a few times recently.

Farina's sea trade company and alchemy shop are operating normally, and they should be the industries she founded outside the floating city. They are her money-making channels, and they are the training resources for wizards.

She only comes to the company once every two or three days, and only stays for an hour or two before returning to Floating Void City.

Ren squatted for a few days, but found nothing.

Now the only suspicious clue he knows is the Marquis of Atlanc, Pierino Aiden. Yisu has been staring at him, and sent someone to ask twice, but the reply has not changed.

The past half month has been uneventful, as if the threat of the Floating Void City crashing no longer exists.

Farewell to the teacher, Ryan entered any door to the Wezeland Library.

He found Oxilia on the fifth floor of the large library.

"Cilia."

"Hmm." Oxilia heard the voice, looked up at him, nodded slightly, and continued to immerse herself in the world of the book.

After class every day, Ryan would go to the big library and sit for a few hours, secretly copying books and expanding his database.

At the same time, I can also see Oxilia.

This iridescent dragon is very housebound. Except for meditating and studying spells, he spends the rest of his time in the big library, reading and absorbing knowledge day and night.

Because they met a lot, the two formed a tacit understanding and often sat together.

Occasionally, Ren would exchange a few words with her, but most of the time, the two of them read books and sat quietly for the whole afternoon without saying a word.

Ryan enjoyed the peaceful atmosphere very much.

This reminded him of the days when he was a librarian in his previous life. A book could fill the whole day, swimming in the ocean of knowledge, he didn't feel empty at all, but felt very fulfilled.

After time travel to Allenius, not only can I continue to read books, but I can also be accompanied by stunning beauties.

This is so beautiful!

In the evening, Ren closed the book and got up, nodded goodbye to Oxilia, activated the portal on the badge, and stepped in.

The other end of the portal is in the study of the castle.

As soon as Ren sat down, the door of the study was pushed open, and the wind spirit Fabian hurried in and said loudly, "My lord, something happened."

"What's the matter?" Ren looked at his face and realized that the matter might not be small.

"In the afternoon, someone reported to the patrol team that there are a large number of bones in a manor in the territory, which is probably a bone altar." Fabian said briefly: "Ms. Emilys has brought people to look at it, but they haven't come back yet."

"Altar of Bones!"

Ren couldn't sit still immediately.

The bone altar is used to offer sacrifices to the lord of the dead, and the appearance of the altar means that there are undead creatures moving around, which is an ominous sign for one's own territory.

"Tell me the location, I want to go there myself."

Ren immediately set off and rode out of the castle on his dragon-scale war horse.

After a while, he brought a few Ultramarines to the manor as quickly as possible. The manor was located by the sea, and there were already centaurs and mercenaries guarding the outside to keep people away.

Seeing that it was Ren coming, he quickly saluted and called, "My lord."

"Um."

Ren jumped off his horse and scanned the manor.

This manor is very luxurious. It was built in less than ten years. It is relatively relatively large. The layout design is very grand, and it is carefully maintained. It can be seen that the owner of the manor has a lot of money, and the whole manor can accommodate hundreds of people.

However, his voice of all things only heard a few heartbeats in the manor.

Enter the lobby of the main building of the manor.

Ren's face couldn't help changing slightly. The originally magnificent hall was now gloomy, and the scene was chilling.

In the middle of the hall, a two-meter-high altar stood up, all made of white bones.

There were corpses scattered around the altar. The flesh and blood of these corpses had all disappeared, leaving only the white bones, and the stench filled the air, lingering.

Roughly counting, there are at least two hundred bones here!

There are a few figures beside the altar, they are Emily and her high-level mercenary group, who are carefully exploring the clues in the hall.

The ground was covered with bones, and there was almost nowhere to set foot. Ren could only walk over by stepping on the bones.

Every step under his feet made the sound of bones cracking.

"My lord." Emily called out.

While looking at the altar, Ren asked, "Did you find anything?" While asking, he opened the eyes of the soul to observe the altar.

A few wisps of pale soul flames remained on the altar, indicating that the sacrifice had already ended.

There is nothing else.

Emily shook her head and said: "We came too late, there is no living person in the whole manor, and we haven't found any useful clues, and we haven't found anything."

Ren was about to ask again, when a short figure said:

"Captain, my lord, this bone altar was built by a necromancer, it should not be far away, and it is still in the territory."