Goblin Plane, Mechanical Mech City.
As the center of magical machinery technology in the entire Goblin Plane, Mechanical Mech City had become the dream city of all Goblin engineers and technicians.
This was originally the private territory of the Goblin Empire's Princess Vanessa. However, ever since the foreign wizards came to this world, it became the place where the wizards set up their laboratories.
A Magus Tower rose from the ground, becoming the most eye-catching landmark here!
Originally, due to the fear of the evil wizards, no Goblin civilians or freelancers were willing to provide services to these people who had taken away their control of the plane. However, as time passed, the older generation of Goblins who were fearful of the wizards' brutality and evilness gradually died of old age.
Although the new generation of goblins still didn't like Sorcerers, the memories of the Sorcerers' brutality in their minds were blurred and ambiguous.
Correspondingly, there were always those who were willing to cater to the changes in the world. They excitedly ran to the Wizard Tower to seek refuge with the wizards and became the wizards' minions and representatives stationed in various places. They quickly turned from ordinary Goblins into magical machinery warriors that everyone respected. They had the power to crush ordinary Goblin Mechanical Warriors.
Moreover, during the period when the beautiful and gentle Wizard Meryl ruled the Goblin Plane, her gentle and friendly attitude had greatly reduced the hostility of the Goblin nobles. Especially the endless supply of Health Potions, Beauty Potions, Charm Brooches, Instant Magic Wands, Witchcraft Scrolls, Elemental Amulets from the Sorcerers World …
These were the super luxuries that the Goblin nobles flocked to. They were irresistible to the Goblins whose lifespan was less than 20 to 30 years. Moreover, the Goblin Great Sage Kabi constantly called on his believers not to use violent means to resist the wizards' rule. Instead, they should conditionally start a dialogue and trade with the wizards.
This argument was undoubtedly in line with the thoughts of the Goblin nobles. Hence, some large merchant groups and tycoons took the initiative to join the team of collaborators. The existence of a Magus and the identity of a ruler were gradually accepted by all the Goblins under the guidance and teachings of the Magi day in and day out.
As the most charismatic ruler, Meryl wielded unparalleled influence in the goblin plane. Under her call and actions, a huge mechanical city rose from the periphery of the wizard station, and the wizard tower was surrounded and protected in the center of the city.
The new city was a typical city of steel, and also a city of magic machinery!
Here, there were no wooden or stone buildings at all. Towering metal fortresses made of high-strength alloy stood everywhere. In the city, there were no longer carriages or beasts of burden. Instead, there were goblin chariots or mechanical chocobos emitting thick steam.
Those who could settle down in Floating Mech City were all professionals with special abilities in metal forging or magical machinery manufacturing. They belonged to more than a dozen goblin merchant groups or conglomerates of different sizes, and their main business was to trade resources and materials across dimensions.
When Meryl was in charge of Floating Mech City, she set strict trade rules. Even wizards who wanted to obtain resources from the goblin plane had to take out magic crystals or witchcraft items of "equivalent value" in exchange. Of course, the prices of all trades were set by the Scarlet Sorcerer and the goblin nobles after discussion.
Meryl's brilliant move was to take in Princess Vanessa, who was loved by all the goblins, as her disciple. She then announced that she would be the permanent ruler of Floating Mech City, and would not be affected by the change of the resident Sorcerers.
This greatly won over the hearts of the moderate goblins!
After Meryl, the second to reside in the goblin plane was her disciple, the Wind Witch, Deseira.
Since they were of the same lineage, Deseira naturally would not change the ruling style that her teacher had created. Hence, in the ten to twenty years that the Scarlet Sorcerer had ruled over the goblin plane, the goblins had also changed the ruling structure that used to be centered around the goblin royal family, and gradually shifted the control of the plane to this flourishing Floating Mech City.
It was currently afternoon, and the warm sunlight shone down from the sky, illuminating the metallic Floating Mech City with a golden glow.
Princess Vanessa stood quietly on the balcony of the seventh floor of the tower, quietly looking down at the rows of metal buildings and the pedestrians walking to and fro on the spacious streets.
As the red mechanical eyes in her exquisite eye sockets adjusted slightly, she could even see the faces and expressions of the people on the streets from three to four miles away. There was no misery and misery on their faces after being ruled by the evil Sorcerers. Instead, everyone was busy, as if they were working hard for a beautiful and blissful future.
Could the people who were enslaved and ruled by the other races also have bliss?
Vanessa tilted her exquisite head, her little brain filled with mechanical gears and magical energy filled with incomprehensible confusion and bewilderment.
Ever since she had died unexpectedly in the Steel Capital, her soul had been preserved by the Sorcerers. After that, in order to rope in Tichole and the goblin royal family, the Sorcerers used some evil methods to implant her soul into a completely metallic body.
And she had used this method to achieve the eternal life that most goblin nobles dreamed of!
Once upon a time, Princess Vanessa, who loved her people and wanted to lead the goblins to prosperity, was in so much pain that she wished she was dead. She had wanted to end her boring eternal life countless times. Unfortunately, the strange metallic body made her an almost immortal monster.
She could not cut through a knife …
Arrows could not pierce through …
Starve to death. Other than absorbing some magical energy, she did not need to eat at all …
Suffocate to death. Ever since she had been reborn, she had not breathed at all …
Jump off a building. Her body that was made of super alloy was quickly destroyed. Even if it was really broken, the Sorcerers would just give her a new body and revive her …
After going through a period of painful and dark torment, with the encouragement of Tichole and her many supporters, Princess Vanessa finally accepted her new body and started a brand new life.
She lived in the Sorcerer Tower and learned new knowledge from the Sorcerer World every day. She understood the strange dimensional worlds outside … For the first time, Vanessa was enlightened!
Although she loved her people and this world in the past, she was undoubtedly a frog at the bottom of a well. She closed herself off, numbed herself, and used the so-called "love" to trap her people in a narrow and isolated world.
A world like theirs would be found by the other races sooner or later. There was no such thing as friendship and harmony between the dimensional worlds. There were only blatant benefits and unrestrained violence.
In comparison, the Sorcerers who invaded the Goblin Plane were willing to use a gentle method to rule them. This … was actually the greatest blessing for the goblins!
For some reason, after being broadened by the vast and novel knowledge of the other world, Vanessa was crazily infatuated with the combination of machinery and magic energy. With her encouragement and push, a large number of young goblins were selected to become the students of the newly established Magic Machinery Academy. There was also a large number of goblin engineers who changed their professions to research on magic machinery.
Just as she was quietly looking down at this strange city that represented the combination of goblins and Sorcerers, two goblin maids came behind her and bowed.
"Princess, Sir Schroder wishes to see you!"
Schroder was the finance minister of the Mechanical Machinery Academy. He came to see her to either ask for a magic crystal grant or to apply for a research on magic energy. At the end of the day, it still depended on the source of magic energy.
Most of the goblins were magic insulators, and could not sense the existence of elemental particles. Hence, if they wanted to research magic energy, they could only rely on the magic energy produced by decomposing magic crystals to conduct in-depth research. As for the Quelas Alloy, which could be used to create a spatial furnace, it was all controlled by the Sorcerers, and ordinary goblins had no chance to come into contact with it.
Back then, when the Mechanical Machinery Academy was first established, Meryl had spent a great deal of effort to apply for a spatial furnace from the higher-ups of the Sorcerers to be the source of power for the Mechanical Machinery Academy. Otherwise, it would be wishful thinking to support such a huge mechanical city with the consumption of magic crystals.
However, if a spatial furnace wanted to drive the development of the entire Mechanical Machinery Academy, the distribution of magic energy would become increasingly important. There were 106 blast furnaces, 27 smelting factories, 32 foundry workshops, and 106 blast furnaces that needed to be supplied with energy …
Apart from that, there were also magic alloy refinement workshops, metal compounding laboratories, magic machinery research centers, magic weapons development centers, and many other research areas that were urgently waiting for the Mechanical Machinery Academy to allocate some magic energy for their research.
In a situation where there was a severe shortage of magic energy, Princess Vanessa could only try her best to squeeze out some of the magic energy quota and apply for the rest from the Sorcerers.
Fortunately, there was Tigule. As the controller of the Grade 2 Goblin Shredder, he had a rather high status in the Crimson Family. The batch of magic crystals that he would send back to the Mechanical Machinery Academy every month had become a scarce resource that the goblin engineers and technicians fought over.
Every time this happened, the usually sanctimonious green-skinned creatures would argue in the city council, and there were even a few fights that broke out recently. Such a chaotic scene undoubtedly made Princess Vanessa feel even more frustrated, and she could only sneak here to enjoy the scenery.
Unfortunately, as the 'ostensible' ruler of the Mechanical Machinery Academy, she still had to deal with the gluttons who needed resources and energy everywhere.
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