Basically, other than the 'self-cultivation' stage, which belonged to the World Tree, one of the steps of 'land governance' was a continent-level transformation project, and 'establishing the world' was a social transformation plan. Neither of them could be carried out easily. And the part that was agreed upon was just a rough plan. It would be another long and arduous journey to carry out the detailed planning of the details.
So not only was Lin not in a hurry, but even the plants were also patient. They had waited for thousands of years, so a little more time was not a big deal. Besides, having a direction now was better than having no direction in the past.
After ending the discussion with the World Tree, Lin returned to his original routine. Other than the addition of running to the high seat meeting every day, his life to the outside world was still ordinary.
After breakfast in the morning, he disappeared from the Holy City and headed to the high seat meeting. He came back for lunch at noon, took a short break in the afternoon, and taught his own apprentices.
Hallumi and Kaya had been left alone for a long time, but as a teacher, Lin still had to care about the newly joined Leonardo, whether he was interested in magic or not. But this kid always asked about things unrelated to magic, and Lin just answered him as usual.
Lin also planned to raise the education of Ezio and Vana's children, Kish, as well as the two chubby boys. Kish was sure to be six years old. After all, he had a mother. Ezio's exact age was unknown, but he should be around the same age as Kish.
If these two lawless scourges didn't do anything about it, the whole family would be turned upside down. Not to mention other things, the cats were often destroyed by their vicious hands. With the black dragon Augustus as their backer, the gray cat Hardy had nowhere to vent its anger. Not to mention these two were still human cubs, so Hardy really could not get angry.
But to Lin, they were other people's children. Lin planned to replicate the training that Halumi and Kaya had gone through when they first came to his side. At least when he used it on the two girls, although there was a slight deviation, he did not go astray. It could be considered a successful experience.
As for the training standards that a certain person planned to set, there was no standard. After all, with Fen, an existence that surpassed the Lich level, not to mention a broken arm or leg, even if they died, they could still be revived.
Therefore, Lin planned to make these two lawless fat boys thoroughly understand the principle of 'sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in wartime'. This was definitely not revenge. It had nothing to do with his favorite cup being smashed.
Speaking of which, back in the Orange Eaton Academy in the Xijia district in the southwest of the bewildering lands, Lin had a similar attitude when teaching students. This kind of bad taste was part of his twisted personality. Now, it seemed that he was planning to repeat the same mistake. He just didn't know how things would turn out this time.
After he finished instructing the apprentices and worrying about the two fat kids, it was time for Kabamba Academy's mathematics class. He was also in a state of not doing proper work, and he had long deviated from the path of pure mathematics. Lin was too lazy to correct these people. In any case, he would still take the teaching fees and provide them with the knowledge they wanted to know. Everyone would be happy.
Then, he had dinner, chatted with the people at home, watched the stars, and slept. Just like that, the day passed. No one could imagine that he was now discussing with the high officials of the Turtledove Alliance something that could overturn the status quo in the bewildering lands.
Only a small number of Mages who were proficient in earth magic, astrology, and prophecy could see some clues from the subtle signs, if they paid attention. For most people, whether it was the high officials of the Turtledove Alliance or the World Tree, they were all unfathomable and were quite far away from ordinary people.
People would care about the movements of such existences, but they couldn't pay attention to the details of their daily lives. It was just like how people would care about the emperor of the empire today and give the order to mobilize the power of the empire to invade in which direction, but they couldn't know how many times the emperor had brushed his teeth today or what he had for breakfast.
It was just that they couldn't do it. It wasn't that people didn't want to know. Since there was gossip to be read, the onlookers were still happy to see it.
However, the high officials of the Turtledove Alliance suggested that each of them split up a clone and gather at someone's house in the Holy City, Estali, so that it would be convenient to discuss things at any time. Someone strongly objected to such a stupid suggestion.
If he agreed and brought the work home, it would be like turning an eight-hour job into a twenty-four-hour job on the spot. He wouldn't stop until he was overworked. Not to mention that he was working on the World Tree now, which was less than four hours a day. If he really let these big shots keep an eye on him all the time, he wouldn't be able to live.
It had to be known that this was a group of plants. They could work continuously for a month without eating, drinking, or sleeping. What was even more terrifying was that they didn't have a liver! What an appalling creature.
And the only person who could help with the work related to the World Tree was Fen, the former Demon King. The two girls could be his assistants, but they couldn't take on the responsibility alone. It was just that recently, the Lich had been busy with his own matters and often couldn't be seen. Of course, he couldn't catch the work.
On the contrary, for the sake of the garment commission of Mage Saint Mahathab, a certain someone was caught by the Lich who suddenly appeared and squeezed until he solved the program used for the jacquard machine. Only then did he regain his freedom. A certain someone could only watch the Lich leave with a stomach full of resentment, bitterly biting the handkerchief that couldn't be torn …
Year 732 of the Aran calendar, autumn, a certain day.
On this day, Lin didn't run to the high-level meeting early in the morning, which was rare. Instead, he stayed at home to prepare to receive a guest — Grand Duke Ricardo Carvey of the Guevana Empire. They met again after more than seven months.
As for the reason … He didn't know. He said he was coming, so he came. How could such a domineering big shot care about the thoughts of a little Mage? The other party was a financial backer, and Lin also wanted to take a breather while modifying hell from the core of the World Tree, so he decided to ask for leave from those high-level officials and come to meet this old man who wouldn't come for no reason.
In fact, the Grand Duke and his party had already entered the car manufacturing and research center yesterday. If they really wanted to put on airs, they could just send a messenger to "invite" a certain Mage to the center.
However, he still made an appointment this morning to visit in person, which was enough respect. Fortunately, it was a prior agreement. Otherwise, according to a certain someone's habit, he would flash away after breakfast, and they might not necessarily meet at the last minute.
Perhaps it was because the old man had nothing to do, so he went to bed late and got up early. In short, after a certain someone got up and finished breakfast, Grand Duke Carvey's convoy arrived in a grandiose manner. The duke's guard, which had been completely motorized, almost filled a certain someone's courtyard and the streets outside with vehicles of all kinds of functions.
It was said that this old man's duke's guard still retained the cavalry that was specially used for charging. However, horses were also carried by vehicles to preserve the stamina for charging on the battlefield.
And what was unusually conspicuous was that among the uniformly green vehicles of all sizes, there was a rather ornately decorated carriage that seemed to have quite an impressive defensive ability. The horse pulling the carriage was wearing a silver helmet, and there was a tuft of blue hair on the top of the vest helmet. It looked very … mighty? Or ridiculous? In short, the aesthetic standards of nobles were quite different from a certain someone's.
He didn't know if this old man was here to show off, or if he was really so particular about ostentation. Fortunately, in the end, only two squads of guard knights got off, and not everyone got off, filling up the place that was already full of vehicles with people again.
It was just that among the two squads of guards, only one of them looked like the duke's guard that he had seen before. The other squad was a squad of guard knights wearing black robes and black silk veils.
This was a specialty of the Guevana Empire, a squad of knights composed of noble women. According to their customs, noble women, whether unmarried or married, could not appear in public in front of men who were not family members.
But one must not underestimate these knight squads composed of noble women. Because their attire was too secretive, no one knew what was hidden under the veil and robes. Perhaps it was a set of magic armor, or perhaps it was a crossbow. Their noble background meant that their family was well-off, so naturally, their weapons and equipment were very different from ordinary soldiers.
And such a squad of noble female knights was not something that anyone could use. They only served female upper-class nobles, and even underage men could not have such a squad. The only exception was the emperor of the empire, but he was only the commander-in-chief in name, because the female knights only protected the concubines and guarded the emperor's harem in place of the men.
A certain someone had only heard rumors of such a group of women before, but had never really seen them. But since he saw such a squad here, it also meant that there was a rather important noble woman in Duke Carvey's convoy.
Sure enough, besides Grand Duke Carvey, there was also a shorter woman who walked down from the only carriage. Of course, the loose robe couldn't see what her figure was like, but Lin could still use his detection methods to obtain various data on the other party's physical appearance, and even further simulate the other party's appearance.
But the follow-up actions had to be carried out by a certain someone. If Lin didn't do anything, the detection program he had engraved on the Dream Magic Tower would only passively accumulate data without further processing, so as to avoid using up too much computing power.
But even without doing that, just from the simple environmental detection information, Lin could conclude that the woman in front of him was Duke Carvey's granddaughter. Because her figure parameters were similar to the driver parameters provided by the Grand Duke when he was designing Car No. 1. And the person who was scheduled to drive Car No. 1 was the Grand Duke's granddaughter, the girl who had lost her parents at a young age.
In order to welcome this great noble, Lin personally led his three apprentices and stood at the door of the main house to wait. This was a lineup of the highest standard. The seemingly candid old man stepped forward with a hearty laugh and gave Lin a big hug.
"Hahahaha, long time no see, Little Guy." Like Warlock Saint Baruch Abnahan, this old man was a natural socializer and used an affectionate address. He looked Lin up and down and said with a strange expression, "Your current appearance should be considered very bad." As he spoke, he rudely rubbed the sleeves of Lin Sheng's black tortoise robe with his fingers. "At least you've made it. Finally, you have some clothes that suit your background."
Patting his cheeks that were so thin that they were no different from a skull, Lin chuckled. "There are mages, no matter how strange-looking they are, not to mention those who are originally dead. I'm not the worst here, am I? "
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