Chapter 700: The Battle for the Throne

Ghost Harbor City, the most famous port city in Diya.

Due to its proximity to the Ghost Sea, the concentration of undead dead air in Ghost Harbor City is extremely high.

The excessive amount of undead dead air makes this city very suitable for the survival of spirits without bodies.

Therefore, Ghost Harbor is also the second city with the most "ghosts" in the entire Diya, second only to the capital Sky City.

Qi Ge and Hex walked in Ghost Harbor City.

The gloomy black stone bricks are covered with broken tombs, which are the residences of ghosts.

If Qi Ge wants to follow Hex home, he will inevitably pass by the tombs. Whenever this happens, the ghosts living in the tombs will fly out and circle around Qi Ge.

Hex looked around in surprise and said to Qi Ge:

"Lord, these unconscious ghosts seem to like you very much? They are particularly active when they are around you."

Qi Ge glanced at the appearance of the ghosts in the sky and immediately knew:

"Ah, they are all female ghosts. It's normal. There's no need to panic."

"Is this really normal? They want to get close to you and pounce on you, but they are afraid of your power and dare not get close, so they can only hover.

I feel that these ghosts are going crazy."

"It's okay, they will give up after a while."

Qi Ge shook his head in his heart.

This is one of the negative effects of too high charm. For unconscious female undead who have no self-control, I am like a beacon in the dark, making them unable to resist the desire to get close.

Qi Ge can only silently replace the treasures that reduce her charm, so that [Infinite Charm] will not work.

This time, those restless female ghosts finally got rest and returned to their tombs obediently.

The layout of Ghost Port is a bit like Venice. The city is divided into land and river parts.

In the river part, a large number of dense water networks and river channels replaced the rock roads. If you want to move between buildings, you can only use bridges and ghost rafts on the river.

Moreover, most of the bridges are also made of ghost rafts.

These ghost rafts emit a faint dark light on the river, sometimes bright and sometimes dim. From a distance, they look like flickering fireflies.

When Qi Ge followed Hex to his home, Qi Ge realized that he did not hear wrong.

Hex lived in a mausoleum in the slums in Sky City, and he lived in a mausoleum in the slums in Ghost Harbor.

"My lord, we are here. Hehehe, it looks a little small, don't mind, it will be spacious inside."

Hex smiled awkwardly, looking a little embarrassed.

His mausoleum is the lowest level of all mausoleums. It is only a square cone, 3 meters high, 4 meters long, and 4 meters wide, which looks like a large urn.

This type of mausoleum is usually inhabited by the weakest corpse wizards of level 5 and rank 1. Any hero would not like to live here, let alone a pseudo-legend.

Although Hex's residence was dilapidated, Qi Ge did not laugh at him, but instead stood in awe.

Hex had spent so much research funds before, and as long as a small part of it was taken out, it would be enough to buy a luxurious wizard tower, but he still lived here.

This shows that he is probably really as he said, a fanatical researcher who can give up all material enjoyment for research.

He followed Hex into his mausoleum.

After Hex took Qi Ge on a tour, Qi Ge became more convinced of his guess.

Hex's mausoleum has an internal space, with a total of five floors, each floor is more than 200 square meters, and the total usable area is more than 1,000 square meters.

In such a large area, Hex only set aside less than 50 square meters as his living area and living room, and the rest are all his research equipment.

Qi Ge followed Hex all the way, and there were stone pillars, slabs, tombstones and research tables engraved with magic runes everywhere.

The potion research area, the corpse disposal area, the magic practice area... the equipment is so complete that it is beyond Qi Ge's imagination.

"My Lord, this is my most proud [Trosa Magic Centrifuge], which can decompose organisms into the most basic elements and help me analyze the basic composition of organisms.

This is the latest model that Bracada Trosa Chamber of Commerce has just released this year. There are no more than three people in the whole Diya who have this machine. I used my connections to buy it from Trosa Chamber of Commerce.

This machine alone is worth 800,000 gold coins.

This machine played an indispensable role in my research on the Devil's Son and the Skeleton Three-Headed Dog. Of course, it is also because of this purchase that I am so tight on money."

Qi Ge Looking at this machine that looks like a gyroscope, I was a little surprised:

"I seem to have seen this machine in my teacher's house, but it's not this small. There is a blue bottle on the left and a stone slab covered with magic circles on the right."

"Ah?! Um!!" Hex shouted in surprise:

"That is the top-end version of the Magic Centrifuge [Advanced Magic Analyzer]. The price is three times that of the centrifuge, and the purchase requirements are very high. You must be a Mithril-level VIP of the Trosa Chamber of Commerce.

Your teacher must be a great wizard who is more enthusiastic about research than me, right?"

Research? Emm...

Does researching the forest female archer count? Does researching Queen Medusa count? Does researching the bunny sisters count?

If it counts, then Teacher Aged is quite fanatical.

I remember that the Magic Analyzer was covered with a layer of dust and was piled up in the corner by Teacher Aged.

This world is really unreasonable. Hex, who is really passionate about studying biology, has been reduced to selling himself to get funding.

And the best research machines are gathering dust in the homes of people who are not interested in studying living things at all.

Qi Ge said with a pained face:

"That's right. I'll ask the teacher another day if he's using the analyzer. If he's not using it, I'll get it for you."

"Huh?!" Hex was overjoyed:

"Really? Lord, let's make an agreement! If I have an analyzer, my research speed will definitely be increased several times."

"Then I can still lie to you. Don't worry, I have always been very good to my own people. As long as you do a good job, I will let you have everything you want.

At that time, whatever instruments you need, you can make a list for me and I will get it done for you.

To be honest, I also have some connections in Bracada, which may be slightly wider than yours. "

Qige patted Hex on the shoulder and said meaningfully:

"Okay, then all the skeletons, soldiers, zombies, ghosts, etc. in your mausoleum should go out first and clear out all the living things. I will pack your mausoleum away in a moment."

"Hey, that's good!"

After seeing the scene of Dogothos sending Seven Pigeons away in person, Hex now firmly believed in Qi Pigeon's words.

Although he has not yet figured out who Qi Ge is, it does not prevent him from understanding how powerful Qi Ge is.

As a poor pseudo-legend, Hex is the only intelligent undead in the tomb, and the other undead soldiers are his unintelligent assistants.

Soon, these unintelligent undead all walked out of the tomb under Hex's order.

Qi Ge took a look and found that in terms of high-level units, there were about thirty Corpse Witch NPCs above level 4 on Hex's side, and he even had two level 5 miracle death knights who were responsible for looking after his family.

There were three nails in the broken ship, and the skinny camel was bigger than the horse.

Poor people are poor, but Hex is still a pseudo-legend after all, and he still has the financial resources he deserves.

If it weren't for Qi Ge, if it were any other player, Hex would be someone they would kneel down and lick.

Qi Ge and Hex waited for a while, and the city lord of Ghost Port City, a pseudo-legendary ghost hero, came to Hex's residence under the leadership of [Blood Dragon True Blood Lord].

"Sir, I am Barritt, the city lord of Ghost Port City. What is the purpose of your visit?"

The mythical blood dragon suddenly came to the door, and Barrit was obviously a little panicked. He was afraid that he had not done well enough and would be accused.

Qi Ge said with relief:

"Lord City Lord, don't be nervous, we are not here to inspect.

I just want to ask you for a favor, mobilize the power of the Yasha Fire Ring, and give me the ownership of this tomb. "

"That's it?"

Barritt was stunned for a moment.

"That's easy."

With the True Blood Duke present, Barrit didn't ask any questions and cooperated quite cooperatively in giving the ownership of the mausoleum to Qi Ge.

With the ownership in hand, Qi Ge took out the [Sequencing Hammer].

"eighty!"

Qi Ge yelled and hit the tomb with a hammer.

With a bang, Hex's mausoleum was uprooted from the ground and turned into a small mausoleum model in mid-air, which was put into Qi Ge's space backpack.

After reaching the Master Architect level, Qi Ge has a more complete grasp of the [Hammer of Sequence] and is more able to unleash the power of the [Hammer of Sequence].

Now, he can directly package his own building as a whole without having to dismantle the building into drawings.

Qi Ge had a hunch that if he reached Legend, he could even pack up the city and take it away.

Seeing his mausoleum being smashed into a model and disappearing by Seven Pigeons with a hammer, Hex was stunned:

"This, this, this, Lord, where is my home? I have such a big mausoleum and it is just gone?"

"Don't look, your home is with me. When you get to my territory, I will help you make arrangements."

"What kind of magic is this? It's incredible, it's incredible."

Qi Ge explained and expressed his gratitude to True Blood Duke and the Lord of Ghost Port City.

He took Hex, who was still in a daze, to the seaside, and took a small boat to join the Silver Spirit in the ocean area.

After that, the Silver Spirit will take Hex back to the City of God's Choice, and Qi Ge will take advantage of this time to take the ghost ship in the Ghost Port City and go to the [South Tomb City].

According to Dogothos's information, the vampire red wedding group is in the [Southern Tomb City].

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In recent times, the situation in Bracada has become increasingly delicate.

Brakada's upstart, the [Jenova Chamber of Commerce], which works closely with Seri, has risen strongly.

[Jenova Chamber of Commerce] obtained a huge amount of gold coin reserves through various means, and took advantage of Brakada's post-war period of weakness to buy low-quality assets throughout Brakada.

Mixue Bingtang spent a large amount of gold coins and turned them into factories, taverns, shops, and mines that could continuously generate profits.

These assets will generate predictable returns, which means they have considerable value.

Mixue Bingtang used the future income rights of these assets as collateral to borrow money from the Bracada Treasury.

For a gold mine that would take five years to complete and could earn a profit of 200,000 gold coins, Mixue Bingtang could loan out 150,000 gold coins.

When she purchased this mine, she only spent 50,000 yuan.

With one purchase and one loan, Mixue Bingtang's cash on hand increased from 50,000 to 100,000.

She will use the 100,000 gold coins to continue to acquire other assets and continue to mortgage.

In addition to this method, Michelle Ice Tang has many other methods of making money with complicated rules, but the core is to rely on loans to take out the gold coins from the Bracada Treasury and let her develop herself.

Once the game of making money starts, it is like a snowball rolling down the hillside. The snowball rolls bigger and bigger and can't stop.

Loans one by one will generate interest every month.

And these interests need Michelle Ice Tang to fill with new loans.

Once there is an interest that cannot be paid, the Treasury will freeze Michelle Ice Tang's assets.

But Michelle Ice Tang can pay all the interest, and at the same time, she can lend more gold coins and acquire more assets.

This method of relying on finance instead of self-operation to expand is something that the local magicians of Bracada have never thought of.

This is a dimensionality reduction attack from another world.

For the top brass of Bracada, although they don't understand the operation of Mixue Bingtang, they can see that one shop after another, factory and mine have hung up the sign of [Jenova Chamber of Commerce].

They can see the rapid development of Jenova Chamber of Commerce, which is like a prairie fire.

They can think of what kind of interests are behind such a rapid development.

Naturally, many people are jealous.

But no matter how jealous they are, they dare not touch Jenova Chamber of Commerce openly, because Jenova Chamber of Commerce has Ceri behind it.

Ceri may not be the strongest legend in Bracada, but she is definitely the legend with the strongest background.

In Bracada, all demigods have a good relationship with Ceri. Outside Bracada, Ceri also has friends all over the world.

She is an old legend who is independent of any faction and respected by all factions at the same time. She is one of the top dignitaries in Bracada.

Can't beat, and jealous, what to do? Join!

Ceri's friends are all over the world, even those who are jealous, many of them are Ceri's friends.

Today Trosa said hello, and Trosa Chamber of Commerce bought some shares. Tomorrow Titan Temple sent an invitation letter, and Titan Temple also bought some shares. The day after tomorrow, the president of the Mage Guild came out in person, and the Mage Guild also wanted to participate.

These top dignitaries in Bracada are all investing gold coins to the Jenova Chamber of Commerce to operate, waiting to sit back and enjoy the fruits of their labor and get a lot of dividends.

When Bracada's soldiers have surplus labor, the surplus turns into a beast called capital.

Before, this beast had been kept in a cage by the Bracada Treasury to cultivate a sickle called Titan Coin.

But now, this beast has been released by Mixue Bingtang.

More and more top dignitaries have participated in Mixue Bingtang's money-making snowball game. Everyone wants to make gold coins, so where do the gold coins come from?

The outside of Bracada has been sealed off by the Port City, the Church of Poseidon and the Church of Wealth. If gold coins want to make gold coins, they can only suck blood from the inside of Bracada.

The top dignitaries naturally drink blood and eat meat, while the lower-level goblins have long been penniless and have nothing to suck. Of course, the middle-level of Bracada is the one who bleeds blood and flesh.

As the Jenova Chamber of Commerce grows bigger and bigger, more and more small factories are closed down, more and more small businessmen go bankrupt, and more and more mages are dismissed.

Batches of once-luxurious mages have unknowingly discovered that their monthly income and expenditure have begun to collapse.

Prices have risen, and income has decreased. They are gradually unable to make ends meet. Their gold coins continue to flow from their pockets into the market and are then swallowed by an invisible gold-eating beast.

It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

The middle class, realizing that something is wrong, began their counterattack.

They first resisted the acquisition, raised the price of their assets or simply did not sell them, and then tightened their belts, gave up some less important enjoyments, and tried their best to keep the gold coins in their hands.

But their behavior is nothing more than a mantis trying to stop a chariot in front of the snowball that is rolling bigger and bigger.

The general trend of Mixue Bingtang has been established, and the monopoly of resources in the upper and middle reaches has begun.

The factory won't sell? Then raise the price of the resources you need for production, raise it so high that your products will not make any profit when sold, but will even lose money.

Tighten your belt? Then launch a propaganda war, engage in hedonistic comparison, and squeeze out the mages with less assets from the high-level circle, so that they have to continue to maintain their dignity in order to retain power.

Still not surrendering? OK, I have the same factory and products as yours. I won't make money, and I will sell at a loss. Do you want to lower the price with me?

I am big, I can withstand it, how long can you hold on?

The total amount of gold coins is limited. When the liquid gold coins in the market are sucked dry and controlled by a few people, the Great Depression begins.

Inside Bracada, a vicious circle begins to appear.

More and more factories are closed down, and the hot products they produced before - alchemical potions, treasures, war machinery, etc., can't find buyers.

The closure of factories has caused many mages to lose their jobs. When mages lose their jobs, they have no source of income, that is, no gold coins.

Without gold coins, the products produced by the factory will not be bought by anyone, so more factories will close down and more mages will lose their jobs.

The snowball from the honey snow rock sugar fell, hitting the dominoes called destruction.

The avalanche has begun, and a storm called financial crisis is brewing over Bracada and may fall at any time.

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At this juncture, there is another storm brewing in distant Krolod.

"Bah! Are you asking me to withdraw from the competition for the throne? Bolage is just dreaming!"

In the tattered tent, a tribal leader named Kilger stood up and yelled at the gorgeously dressed barbarians in front of him:

"Why, that coward Burrage wants to use pressure to force us contenders to participate in the battle for the throne?"

The barbarian glanced at Kilgor with indifference and disdain. Compared with the gorgeous clothes on his body, Kilgor's clothes were too shabby and shabby.

If he hadn't been on a mission, he wouldn't have been able to stand the stench in Kilgor's camp.

The barbarian pinched his nose and said:

"Korg, think about it again.

Our King Borag is a demigod and the most prestigious lord in the entire Krolod. He deserves to be the great chief.

You, a little guy who has just become a legend, will die in his hands even if you confront King Borag.

I just can't bear to have a legend with unlimited potential die in the internal strife of the throne battle, so I came here to advise you. "

"Bah!" Kilgor was furious:

"Who said that Borag was the most prestigious lord? Who said that he deserved to be the great chief?

So what if he is a demigod, in my eyes, he is still just an ignorant ogre! "

The barbarian's eyes widened in surprise, pointed at Kilger and said:

"You, you, you! How dare you disrespect King Borag!

Have you forgotten who is protecting you?

Without King Bolrag, your tribe would have been invaded by Brakada. "

"Invasion? That's when I wanted to hit them, but you stopped me!"

Kilgor slapped a battle ax on the ground hard, and there was a loud bang that shook the ground.

He looked at the barbarian in front of him mockingly and said:

"Haha. That's ridiculous. What ability does Burlage have?

He will only compromise and give in to Brakada, and will only use cowardice and being a dog in exchange for development resources.

During the thirty years he had been the king of the tribe, except for his own tribe, the entire Krolod became poorer.

And what he begged from Brakada, Brakada will eventually take back from us ten times a hundred times.

I've had enough of this for a long time. Whatever we barbarians lack, we should kill and rob!

If we don’t have enough resources, we should attack the Chaos Zone to reclaim new territory.

If the food supply is not enough, we should hunt wild monsters to obtain rewards from the Mother Goddess!

Instead of using tribesmen as slaves to pray to Brakada. "

"Joke, what do you know? Do you know how much sacrifice you are going to bring to us, Crow Lord?"

Attacking the Chaos Zone will kill a hundred times more people than [the people who go to Bracada to help with the work]! "

Kilger was unwavering:

"So what if there are sacrifices? Only gold coins soaked with blood can bring the glory of barbarians."

The barbarian couldn't stand Kilgor's shallowness anymore, and he cursed:

"You war lunatic, meaningless fighting will only bring death to the soldiers and heroes who have finally grown up.

Only by developing commercial trade, opening up the market, and learning advanced civilization from Brakada can we bring vitality to our backward and poor Krulod.

Do you know how Bracada developed? Do you know why Brakada is the strongest force? "

Kilgor scoffed:

"Business? Trade? Open markets? Study like Bracada?

Go to hell! How did Brakada develop? Is it none of our business as Cruelod?

We Krulod have our own Krulod path. "

"You you you you!!"

The barbarian was so angry that he could not speak.

He took several deep breaths before suppressing his anger and asked:

"Korg, you and I are friends. For the sake of us being friends, I advise you one last time not to run for the throne.

Bragg is a demigod and you will die at his hands. "

"Ha! Hahaha!" Kilger laughed three times and smashed the table in front of him with his axe.

He stared at the barbarian opposite and said word by word:

"Friends? From now on, we are not! Our friendship is as torn apart as this table.

So what if I'm a demigod? If Bragg is really capable, he should have a real fight with me!

Goethe, go back and help me tell Burlage.

Only if he can stand in front of my grave can he gain my respect! Otherwise, no one can make me give in and give up participating in the battle for the throne!

Come and bite me, see off the guests! "

"Hmph! Here we come!! Your Majesty Goth, please."