A few days later, the palace held a second meeting.
This time, Jía's proposal was about the arrangement of lords. A total of 12 lords were killed in the Dark Moon crusade. Except for 4 who were hereditary and had determined heirs, the remaining 8 estates were ownerless. Candidates needed to be arranged immediately.
Jía proposed to incorporate the 2 small estates near the Red Spirit Estate and the White Feather Estate into the 2 major estates as a reward. A medium-sized estate would be rewarded to Royce, the behind-the-scenes hero who had been lurking around Joseph for many years and made great contributions to the Dark Moon. The remaining 2 medium-sized estates and 4 small estates would be discussed by the elder families and the royal families to determine the lord candidates.
Unsurprisingly, the elder families such as Angley expressed opposition to this proposal. The territory of the 4 major estates was originally very large, and their power was too inflated. For the long-term interests of the empire, it was necessary to control it as much as possible instead of letting it grow further. Rewards of property or treasures could be considered, but the estates must not be given up.
This opinion was quite sufficient. It was indeed from the perspective of the empire's major interests. However, the "4 major estates" proposed by Angley also included the Dark Moon and the Blue Lava Estate. In fact, it secretly blocked the rewards of these 2 estates proposed by Jía last time. Moreover, with the treasury left by Obsidian, if the so-called material rewards were to be cashed, it was likely that Jía would have to pay her own capital.
Angley's means were quite sophisticated. He held the banner of the overall situation, made full use of the rules, and quietly weakened the monarch's decision-making privilege. Jía was now the empress of the empire, and her priority was to focus on the empire's overall interests. If she insisted on doing things her own way, then some of the elder families and royal family members who were originally watching would re-evaluate her in their hearts. There would definitely be more opponents, and her prestige would further decline.
As the new empress, Jía was still at a time when her foundation was not stable. Even with the support of the Toro Family, she was still weak. In this case, she did not have much choice. In the end, the rewards of the 2 major estates were changed to material rewards. The quotas for the lords of the 7 estates were divided by the royal families and the elder families. Under Jía's efforts, Royce became one of the candidates for the smallest estate as a "concession" of the elder families to Her Majesty Empress.
Many people could see the displeasure in Jía's eyes, but more of it was helplessness.
After the meeting, Old Cowen of the Toro Family stayed alone and reported to Shea some of the situations of the last elder meeting.
"Although the Sword of Fallen Angel has won everyone's support for Your Majesty's ascension to the throne, many royal family members and elder families have expressed doubts about Your Majesty's ability. Many people are still in the observation stage. Master Fonsaq joining the Mechanic Association is a good long-term move. It's just that if Your Majesty wants to open up the current situation through the Princess Retail Store, I'm afraid it will be very difficult. The capital's business structure is relatively fixed. Those families will unite to boycott the Princess Retail Store in order to prevent their interests from being divided. By then, I'm afraid … "
Jía shook her head, "I know what you said. What I can tell you is that Master Fonsaq and the Princess Retail Store have another role. It doesn't matter if those branches are suppressed, excluded, or even closed down. At the next meeting, I will once again raise the issue of the establishment of the finance minister, the minister of military affairs, and the left and right prime ministers. It is certain that my proposal for the elder families to give up a position will definitely be strongly opposed and rejected. At that time, the Toro Family's response can be more intense to make my failure more real. "
Old Cowen was taken aback, and he quickly reacted, "Your Majesty is deliberately showing weakness? But if you do this, Your Majesty must carefully weigh the gains and losses. If this goes on for a long time, I'm afraid Your Majesty's prestige will … "
"The Toro Family is the first elder family to turn to me. In the future, your experience and the power of the Toro Family will become one of my trusted arms. I hope to listen to your advice more." A glimmer of light flashed across Jía's eyes, "But in the current environment, there are some key things that I can't disclose for the time being. You just need to do it, understand?"
Old Cowen looked at Jía's determined eyes, and he felt a lot more at ease in his heart. He bowed deeply, "Understood."
As expected, in the next 2 meetings, Jía suffered setbacks again. The strength of her decision-making began to become more tactful. Many places considered the interests of the elder families. For Angley and the others, this was a good signal. After all, Jía was the empress. Angley's original intention was not to drive Jía out of office, but to maintain the power and influence of the elder families. Therefore, they also showed appropriate deference and concessions accordingly. Royce's appointment was approved, and he became the owner of that small estate.
The estate that Royce got was called Tree Shade. It was relatively small with a dangerous terrain and barren soil. It was located north of the Red Spirit Estate. In addition to the Red Spirit Estate, it was also bordered by several small and medium-sized estates. To put it nicely, it was an important buffer zone for each estate. To put it bluntly, the development space was restricted. However, this did not affect Royce's joy and gratitude at all. The glory of the Kunda Family shone again at this moment, not just restoring a surname. Royce was very clear about the real reason why he could become the lord. He was glad for his decision to surrender at the Blue Lake. This was the best choice he had made in his life.
In the initial stage of Chen Rui, both Royce and Arux were important pawns to deal with Joseph. However, with the growth of Chen Rui's strength and the increase of the Dark Moon's talents, he and Arux played a smaller and smaller role. However, after Jía ascended the throne, Chen Rui did not forget him, a servant who had little value. The Kunda Family not only restored its reputation in his hands, but it would also become more and more brilliant. Royce secretly made up his mind to make some achievements to repay his master's kindness.
With the permission of his mistress, Athena, Royce returned to the Dark Moon from the Red Spirit Estate. Then, he left the Dark Moon with his wife, Vasasha, his best friend, Arux, and some confidants and went to the Tree Shade Estate.
In the capital, except for the original Leisure Moon Inn in the southern suburbs that was still being renovated and reorganized, 4 new Princess Retail Store branches were opened in the city. However, many shops around immediately began to sell similar goods to the Princess Retail Store at a lower price. They also used various means to snatch customers. For a while, the Princess Retail Store was in an extremely difficult situation. It couldn't make ends meet.
When the Dark Moon Princess Retail Store first opened, the novel goods once set off a craze, but it quickly cooled down under the control of other merchants. Now that the princess (Princess Royal) had become the empress, the Princess Retail Store also represented Her Majesty Empress to a certain extent. However, there were business circles and rules. The rule of this circle was also that the strong was respected. If they lost competitiveness and only relied on the empress's power to forcibly establish a foothold, even if they could get temporary benefits, it would not last long. Moreover, Jía would lose more people's hearts. The loss outweighed the gain.
General George's army withdrew from the capital and returned to the Warlock Fortress to guard. Sicali also withdrew a part of the army. What this move expressed made Angley and others more certain, and they had a good feeling that the situation was under control.
During the period when Jía was playing with the elder families, Chen Rui did not stay in the capital. He just found an imperial guard with a mask and cloak to replace him. He appeared beside Jía from time to time. This was the advantage of the masked man. Anyway, no one knew the true face of "Aguile".
Chen Rui went to the White Feather Estate. There were still many good things here. He didn't have time to take them away last time, but he could finally free his hands this time. The medusa tribe had been on standby in the White Feather City. The lamp spirits who accompanied him to deal with "Sicali" had returned to the underground ruins of the Loeb Mining Area.
Chen Rui rode a wyvern and flew straight to the Loeb Mining Area. Last time, under his instruction, Sicali used the demonic beast scourge as an excuse to suspend the mining of the Loeb Mining Area and closed the mining area to facilitate the lamp spirits to do things. Chen Rui did not encounter any obstacles along the way, and he went straight to the underground ruins of the Loeb Mining Area.
The relic of the ancient alchemy civilization was, in fact, a moving mechanical castle. Unlike before he left, many of the damaged parts of the castle had been repaired to a certain extent. Sparkling lights were shining everywhere, like countless bright gems.
"Master!" Genie and Gensha led the lamp spirits to salute Chen Rui. Genie once sacrificed her life as the key to open the ruins. Chen Rui left a large number of aura fruits before he left, which were transformed into top-level energy essence. Genie and others were also resurrected. Not only that, there were a total of more than 2,000 resurrected lamp spirits. Including Genie and Gensha, there were 72 Demon Emperor-level golden-eyed lamp spirits, 830 Demon King-level and Great Demon King-level silver-eyed lamp spirits, and 1,300 Higher Demon black-eyed lamp spirits.
The Demon Emperor-level lamp spirits did not have territory power, but they had long-range energy attacks and a special force field similar to territory. This kind of force field could also be used in combination. The more people, the more powerful it was. Chen Rui had seen it in the illusion.
Due to the extreme lack of energy, when Genie and others competed with medusa for the snake blood fruit, they could only use hand-to-hand combat and magic talent. They could not use these special attacks that consumed energy. Now with the top-level energy essence provided by Chen Rui, it was as if the poor people who lacked food and clothing became wealthy tycoons in one fell swoop. They could naturally exert their strongest power.
So many lamp spirits were a very powerful force. More than 70 Demon Emperor-level lamp spirits were enough to kill ordinary Demon Overlord powerhouses at the right time, not to mention there were terrifying war machines such as crystal beasts, assemble puppets, and giant crystal beasts in the ruins.
There were also a large number of crystal beasts, assemble puppets, and giant crystal beasts in the ruins, but they were all seriously damaged. The crystal beasts and giant crystal beasts were basically unusable. There were a few complete bodies of the assemble puppets. They could be used normally after replenishing energy, but the attributes of the lamp spirits conflicted with the assemble puppets, so they couldn't serve as drivers.
Chen Rui frowned for a while, and he asked Genie next to him, "Can you repair these crystal beasts or war puppets?"
Genie shook her head, "Lamp spirits don't have this ability. Even if my heart lamp is damaged and on the verge of death, I can't lower my rank to repair it."
Chen Rui showed a look of regret. It seems that I can only hand it over to Tetenis for research, or I need a large number of senior goblin warriors as assistants.
"Master, why don't you make gremlin servants? With them, the giant crystal beasts may be a little troublesome, but the crystal beasts and assemble puppets should not be a problem. "
Genie's subsequent words ignited a ray of hope in Chen Rui's eyes. Gremlin servants?
"Master is the inheritor of civilization, but you actually don't know gremlin servants?" Genie looked curious.
Due to the devouring, the memory obtained by Chen Rui was very incomplete, so he had never heard of it. He thought for a while and replied, "You should have heard from Gensha that I had a big battle with the powerful enemy underground after receiving the inheritance. Although I finally defeated him, the inherited memory was also affected. Some of it is vague, and I can't remember many things. Tell me about the gremlin servants now."
Genie didn't doubt anything, and she replied respectfully, "In alchemy civilization, the giant crystal beasts are the great guardians that defend the entire fortress; the assemble puppets are equivalent to war weapons. People can use them to exert power beyond their own. The stronger the spirit power of the driver, the greater the power of the puppet; the crystal beasts are equivalent to guards that protect the safety of the master; we lamp spirits are magicians on the battlefield, and we are maids who dedicate everything to the master in life; as for the gremlin servants, they are the lowest servants with no combat power. They can't leave the limited range of the castle, but they have special abilities to repair and manufacture. If a large number of gremlin servants can be created, coupled with the top-level energy essence provided by the master, not only the crystal beasts, but the entire castle can be restored to operation. "
Chen Rui was overjoyed, then he showed doubts, "So how to create gremlin servants?"
"There is now a large number of top-level energy essence, which is enough to activate the central life crystal of the city and control the entire territory castle. Then, as long as energy is provided, a large number of gremlin servants can be created."
Chen Rui noticed Genie's words, "Territory castle?"
"The entire mobile castle is a territory kingdom. I only have the authority to know this knowledge. The rest depends on master's inherited memory."
Territory kingdom? It was not the first time that Chen Rui heard this term. He had heard it several times from Satan. It should be the mystery of the territory beyond the Demon Overlord realm. It is probably the prototype of the [Kingdom of God].
According to Genie, this mobile castle is actually a territory kingdom? Chen Rui thought of Satan's Mountain Seckred, and he vaguely understood a little in his heart. It was just that the so-called "inherited memory" was just a cover for possession. The lamp spirits didn't seem to know this. The Demi-God soul that failed to possess was eventually devoured by Chen Rui instead. Most of its power was still undigested in the [Star Conversion]. In other words, Chen Rui, the inheritor, was unworthy of his name. He could even be said to be the enemy of the entire castle. He didn't know if he could really control the entire castle. There might be danger.
Gremlin servants, crystal beasts, assemble puppets, giant crystal beasts … and this huge and powerful territory kingdom. I have to try it no matter what.
"Genie, take me to the central life crystal now."
"Yes, master."
Genie led Chen Rui all the way to a large palace, which was very similar to the main city palace that Chen Rui had seen in the illusion. Walking into the palace, through layers of spiral stairs, Genie stopped in front of a huge underground room, "Master, before you activate the central life crystal, I can only send you here. Inside is the control center of the main city. "
"You can go down first." Chen Rui nodded, and Genie bowed and retreated.
This huge room didn't have a door, but there was a faint light coming from inside. It looked mysterious. Chen Rui took a deep breath and walked in.
As soon as he approached the entrance of the room, he felt a powerful spirit fluctuation coming. It seemed to have a terrifying aggressiveness. Once there was any change, his entire soul might be destroyed. Chen Rui hesitated a little and continued to walk forward.
The spirit fluctuation became more and more terrifying. It would increase a little with every step forward. Even with Chen Rui's current S + spirit level, he felt his heart tremble as if he was walking step by step towards the abyss of death.
Chen Rui's consciousness began to become blurred under that pressure, and his five senses gradually lost their function. However, his body still moved forward firmly with almost instinctive movements under the support of his will.
He couldn't see or hear what danger was ahead, but he just kept moving forward.
In the process of moving forward, Chen Rui felt that thousands of thoughts wrapped around him and penetrated straight into his soul. The Super System continuously converted them into aura, but the speed and intensity of the penetration were extremely strong. The conversion speed could not keep up with the speed of penetration. If this continued, perhaps his entire soul would be in danger of collapsing.
Is it another f * cking possession? Chen Rui felt that he was fooled. As he was trying to escape, the soul power stored in "Star Conversion" began to fluctuate. Logically, the power in Star Conversion would not change automatically unless Chen Rui absorbed it himself or transferred it to his partner through [Dual Training]. The current situation should be due to external thoughts.
The soul power in Star Conversion fluctuated more and more violently, resonating with the external thoughts. Chen Rui's mind moved, and he penetrated his spirit power into these soul powers. If it was at the time of "inheritance", it would definitely be impossible to do it, but now these soul powers were already in his pocket. It was equivalent to the food in the refrigerator. He could open it and enjoy it at any time, so it was naturally not a problem.
The Demi-God soul power that wrapped Chen Rui's spirit power finally couldn't be suppressed. Under the attraction of the external powerful thoughts, it continued to surge out. Although the soul power stored in Star Conversion was huge, the surging speed still made Chen Rui secretly shocked. Fortunately, the attraction quickly weakened, and the soul power that flowed out miraculously returned to his body. Moreover, there was something more. It seemed to be some kind of spiritual imprint that blended with his own spirit power.
Before Chen Rui could react, the entire room was bright and changed into another appearance.
The entire huge room seemed to be boundless. It seemed to be an independent space. The material of the ground was unknown metal, and there were strange facilities everywhere. In the center was a huge crystal suspended between the 2 golden round tables on the ceiling and the ground. It seemed to connect the sky and the earth. There were various strange symbols flashing around it.
The crystal emitted a soft purple light, and a soft female voice sounded, "The soul power match is 100%. The spiritual imprint has been added. Welcome, my master."
Why does it look like a smart computer system? Chen Rui was taken aback. He thought that he had traveled through time again and came to a sci-fi world.
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