After returning to Shar 'Hera, Tang En, Lola and the others had a small celebration. On the one hand, it was to celebrate the future cooperation, and on the other hand, it was to celebrate the solution to the Demonic Abyss.
Lola, representing Rowling, sat down with Barod to renegotiate. Lola, who had already abdicated, took over the reins, which once again infuriated Rowling. Although Lola was her daughter, her right to speak had been snatched away by Lola time and time again, making her, the Queen in name, have no status to speak of.
Fortunately, Hayley comforted her, and Rowling reluctantly swallowed her anger.
What else could she do? She was still young. She was no match for Gu Xijiu in terms of strength and figure. Gu Xijiu was not as experienced in bed as Gu Xijiu.
But!
Rowling firmly remembered Tang En's words.
A silver-haired legal loli with unlimited potential was an extremely rare treasure!
Although Rowling did not know what a silver-haired legal loli meant, it was definitely true that he liked her very much!
This also meant that in the future, her attractiveness would definitely be stronger than her mother's!
With Tang En's help in the future, would her position as the Queen still be unstable?
Rowling clearly knew how much the Goddess valued Tang En!
Rowling sneered in her heart. When she held the power, she would definitely let her taste the humiliation she had suffered. When that time came, she would let Tang En tie her up and torture her a thousand times!
Lola, who had always been domineering, of course did not know that her daughter was thinking about her. She was now discussing the division of the territory with Barod.
As they had already reached an agreement on the trade with Ellington, there was no need for both sides to continue arguing over those pitiful Mushroom Caverns. Instead, it would be more profitable to continue developing the existing trade resources. Hence, at the end of the negotiation, under Twain's suggestion, Barod and Lola came to a new agreement.
Both sides would divide their territories according to their actual control, and the vicinity of the Black Rock Caves would be a neutral zone.
The competition in the Demonic Abyss that had lasted for hundreds of years would still continue, but in the future, it would only be a communication activity between both sides, and there would no longer be any disputes of interest.
The two sides worked together to develop the mushroom caves and water sources, and the harvested food was distributed according to the proportion of labor. However, Tang En felt that after they tasted the food from the surface world, they would soon hate the mushrooms and lizard meat.
In addition, since both sides had a trade relationship with Ellington, Tang En wanted to build a transit station in the underground world.
The neutral Blackstone Cave was prepared by Tang En for this purpose.
After settling these matters, the warriors of Ellington activated their Return Crystals one by one under Tang En's command and returned to Ellington. The adventurers, dark elves, and dwarves who witnessed all this felt their hearts burn with excitement.
This was because Tang En had just announced that as long as the technology was mature, the Return Crystal would become Ellington's signature export product. At that time, everyone would be able to buy this very useful treasure with some gold coins.
After bidding farewell to Lola and Barod, Tang En also left Shalhera, but he did not directly return to Ellington. Instead, he returned to the Blackstone Cave first.
After the last battle, he had flattened and reinforced this place once, so it was very sturdy and there was no need to worry about it collapsing.
Tang En floated in the air, and after observing the structure of the cave, he began to act.
First, he flattened the uneven ground and the buildings that had been left behind in the cave. The powerful spellcaster's strength allowed him to easily shape and transform the cave according to his wishes.
Soon, the Blackstone Cave was tidied up, and a large number of light crystals were inlaid on the surrounding stone walls, making the whole cave brighter.
"Oh, first, the central area. With the teleportation portal as the center, let's set up a square."
Tang En flew to the center of the cave and looked down at the ground beneath his feet. After thinking for a moment, he slapped his palm downwards, and with a "boom", a few circular ravines appeared on the ground. The area in the center was about a few thousand square meters.
Tang En raised his finger, and the solid rock slowly rose under the influence of magic. Thus, a square platform that was slightly higher than the surrounding area appeared in the Blackstone Cave.
Then, Tang En began to set up a teleportation portal in the center of the square. The scale of this teleportation portal was not small, even bigger than Alinx's. On one hand, it was because this place was going to become the distribution center of the underground world's trade in the future. On the other hand, Tang En planned to build the Tang Magic Military Factory here.
The products produced by the magic military factory would not all be small toys …
The magic military factory would be the most important industrial building in Ellington. It would involve a large number of core competitive technologies. Many of Tang En's imaginative magically modified products would be produced here. In order to ensure Ellington's peaceful image to the outside world, it was necessary to keep this place a secret.
In the future, even the employees here would have to hire the Redstone Dwarves and Dark Elves from the underground world. It just so happened that they had strong magic talents and were very suitable for this job.
In order to ensure the stability and power of the teleportation portal, Tang En finally used the top material he had on hand this time — the Astral Crystal.
As the name suggested, the Astral Crystal was a crystal born in the Astral World. It was a very stable spatial material and was the best material to make spatial equipment or the core of a teleportation portal. This rare material was extremely rare in Prandal. In fact, even Tang En did not have much of it on hand.
"I don't know if I can apply for supplies after the material is used up …"
Tang En muttered as he set up the teleportation portal. If possible, he wanted to apply for supplies from Nisclare and the others.
But he quickly dismissed the idea. Just a conversation with Nisclare had caused the mutation of the Gate of Chaos in the Emerald Forest. If they were to supply him with goods, the impact on Prandal would be even greater.
"Done!"
With no one disturbing him, Tang En was very efficient. Soon, the huge teleportation portal was completed. Then, he carefully corrected the coordinates of the other teleportation portals.
After he confirmed that there was no problem with the teleportation portal, he once again sealed the Blackstone Cave and then stepped on the teleportation portal to return to Ellington.
"Huh?"
As soon as he stepped out of the teleportation portal, Tang En was stunned.
The gloomy sky was low, as if it was about to cover his head. The cold air rolled up white fairies and drilled into Tang En's neck. It was cold.
It was snowing.
There was no change when he came back, but only two days later, the whole of Ellington was covered with a layer of white snow. The footprints of pedestrians, bicycle prints, carriage prints, and horse prints were all mixed together. They were dirty from being trampled, and then quickly covered by the falling snow again.
It was snowing heavily.
In the cold air, pedestrians walked in a hurry. Some were locals who had lived in Ellington for many years, and some were new residents who had recently moved in. In the face of the cold Sleeping Moon, their attitudes were obviously different.
The residents of Ellington had already been blindly trusting of Tang En's leadership in the past few months. Although the cold was unstoppable, their faces were full of positive fighting spirit. Their attitude towards work was still very enthusiastic every day. After stopping the expansion and turning to internal construction, they were closer to work, and their enthusiasm was higher.
However, the newcomers did not have much confidence in Twain, especially now that they were entering the latter part of the Month of Deep Sleep. Once it started snowing, it meant that the trade routes to other towns would be blocked, and it would be extremely difficult to obtain resources and supplies.
Some people even began to worry about whether Ellington would have a famine.
In the Oak Heart Tavern, the cold and snow outside could not stop the heat inside the tavern. Due to the heavy snow, the tavern had recently stopped work early. In the past few months, many people who had received wages and had small savings gathered in Old Tom's tavern. The hot cider and ale he brewed was the only one in Ellington.
A strong man pushed the door open and walked into the tavern with a gust of cold air. He could not help but groan when the warm wind hit him in the face. He walked to the table and slapped out ten copper coins. "Hey! Old Tom, hurry up and give me a cup of hot cider! This damn weather! My nose is about to fall off from the cold! "
Old Tom, who was chatting with a few customers next to him, smiled and put away the copper coins. He then poured a cup of hot cider for him and said casually, "You should be content. If it weren't for the Lord giving you a chance to work, would you be able to pay off your debt and have money to drink?"
A group of people next to him laughed. "That's right. Who would have thought that the laziest drunkard, Henry, could find a job with the Lord? It can only be said that the Lord is still too kind. "
"Hmph! You are all jealous that I found a good job! "
Drunkard Henry snorted and said proudly, "Now I can earn ten gold coins a month at the charcoal factory! What right do you have to laugh at me? "
A few people immediately became embarrassed. Most of them still had a salary of five gold coins a month.
Old Tom knocked on the table and warned, "Don't be too proud. The Lord gave you such a high salary not for you to show off, but for you to live a better life."
"Old Tom is right. If it weren't for the Lord, people would have died when it snowed this winter …"
A man looked at the snow outside the window and could not help but shiver. "Damn it, you remind me of the times when I was hungry in the winter."
Another person shook his head and drank a mouthful of wine. "If it was still the same as before, how would we still have the mood to sit here and drink wine and enjoy the snowy scenery?"
His words resonated with the others. A group of people stared at the snow outside and seemed to think of their dead friends. They sighed and continued to drink.
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