Volume 1: The Rise of Elanhill Chapter 0052 Civilized and barbaric methods
"When this Magic Ball of Knowledge was created, it was used to store magical books from ancient times..." Franzberg explained as he watched the Magic Ball of Knowledge emitting light.
A breeze gathered around the magic ball of knowledge and began to help the magic ball turn the pages of the junior high school physics book printed with beautiful fonts. It was a new textbook published by Chris, a basic textbook that every school had to explain repeatedly.
The words on each page were reflected on the crystal clear magic ball of knowledge, and each word was shining brightly. Chris looked at the magical scene in front of him. This was the first time he saw something magical that was beyond his knowledge and understanding.
In the past, he had only heard Des talk about dragons, and all he could think about was how to defeat the dragons and overthrow those tyrannical magic empires. Now he had a new understanding of his enemies, and he knew that those distant magic civilizations were not all disgustingly decadent and degenerate.
Soon, in less than half an hour, all the knowledge in the book was reflected in the magic ball of knowledge. Then, Chris, who was no longer on guard, walked to the bookshelf, took out another basic physics book, and handed it to Frunzberg.
The guards who were originally nervous and pointed their pistols at the assassins now put down their guns. They curiously watched the magician perform miracles in front of them. After all, this was a miracle that they had never been able to see in their entire lives.
When the light of the magic ball of knowledge in his hand began to dim, Franzberg stopped accepting the books Chris handed over. He shook his head and said, "My magic power is insufficient. I guess I can't put in a whole book... You can try."
He handed the magic ball of knowledge to Chris, who no longer worried about any danger and directly reached out to take the magic ball of knowledge that no longer looked transparent: "Find a junior high school student who has the courage to experiment with this! Explain clearly that it is voluntary!"
After he finished speaking, he looked at Frundsberg, pointed at the magic reserve liquid and asked, "What are these liquids?"
"Pure magical aura!" Frunzberg began to introduce: "What's inside is the purest magical aura. This is the magical aura we usually accumulate, and it's very safe!"
At this point, he pointed at himself and said, "A magician's magic is not infinite. We are like bottles that store magic power. The only difference is the amount of magic we can hold."
"When magic is used up, the only way to replenish it is through meditation or using magic reserve liquid." He smiled bitterly and said as he looked at the magic reserve liquid, "We can't meditate here. Once the reserve liquid is used up, we won't be able to use magic anymore."
Chris patted Frunzberg's shoulder a little embarrassedly and said to him comfortingly, "Don't be too negative. Look at it more positively. Maybe... you can still return to the Holy Demon Empire."
When he said this, what he was thinking about was commanding a million troops to attack the Holy Demon Empire - by that time, Franzberg would also be a meritorious general under his command, and it would not be difficult for him to return to live in a place with abundant magic.
They kept chatting like this, all ignoring the guards standing in the study. Chris pretended to forget the existence of these soldiers, and Frundsberg also chose to lose his memory and go blind.
When the two of them started talking about the Dragon Knight, Desair, Gurlo, and even Wagron came over, along with two young children. They all volunteered to come and experiment with the Knowledge Magic Ball.
Many people saw a magician for the first time, and even the well-informed Dess saw a truly powerful magician for the first time. In the past, those magic apprentices who came to the mortal territory to trade were actually the most hopeless magic apprentices.
Soon, the first experiment began. A magic ball of knowledge shone its last light in front of the boy who participated in the experiment. Then the entire magic ball became turbid, and people lost all interest after just one look.
The boy in front of him started to vomit violently, lying on the ground as if he had eaten something bad. Countless things suddenly appeared in his mind, and these changes made him feel as if he was on a roller coaster. The boy kept vomiting, but he couldn't faint. After a long while, he stopped, but his tears still couldn't stop flowing.
Soon...well, not very soon actually, the side effects passed and the volunteer, who had just started junior high school, finally returned to normal and crawled up from the ground in a panic.
Then he proved that he had indeed been indoctrinated with a lot of knowledge: he memorized the textbooks by heart and understood many of the knowledge points he had touched upon.
Much better than the nerds he had imagined, Chris knew that his experiment was successful. As long as he popularized this magic ball of knowledge, he could immediately gain a group of high-quality citizens.
With a mass base, his industrialization would become faster and easier. He would also get more soldiers for military expansion and preparation for war - all the problems that stood in his way seemed to no longer be problems.
Then, Chris used the dozens of knowledge magic balls brought by Frundsberg to forcibly create dozens of nerds. These created modern people received orders to start integrating this knowledge after returning, and then start to explain scientific knowledge on behalf of Chris.
Because there was not enough material, Franzberg and William were unable to muster more magic power to mass-produce this convenient and fast knowledge magic ball, so the work of popularizing higher education came to a temporary halt.
The next thing Chris thought about was how to make the two magicians return to their hearts. So he took Frundsberg and William to visit his barracks and showed them a unique military exercise.
When he saw the heavy machine gun easily penetrate the densely packed targets 500 meters away and witnessed the shocking scene of anti-aircraft guns firing, Frundsberg was completely fascinated by the various innovations of modern industrial civilization. He was obsessed with studying those machines that seemed to be highly automated, and was quite stubborn and willing to die for them.
William was young after all, and he liked all kinds of weapons. Looking at those cannons that could instantly blow up a mountain a few kilometers away, his traditional cognition was crumbling. In his opinion, the one-sided military suppression of the Holy Demon Empire over the Mortal Empire would soon cease to exist - at that time, what the world would become was something he was very interested in.
Therefore, the two magicians seemed not to intend to leave. They stayed by Chris' side, giving advice to Ireland Hill, and even gave up their own meditation, devoting themselves to the development of the forbidden magic area.
In the blink of an eye, a winter passed magically, and when Des walked into Chris's study again, he brought a piece of news that surprised Chris: the Longtate family had expelled Des.
Because of his unconditional support for Chris's expansion and industrialization, Des almost took out all the cash he could get from his family and invested it in the construction of Ireland Hill.
Although Dessel had made a lot of profits in the past year and a half, all of these profits were invested into the bottomless pit of Ireland Hill's industrial development.
As one of the core members of the Longtate family, Desair took away a large amount of family funds in the past year or so, but did not bring any profit to the Longtate family. Therefore, the family was very angry and directly deprived Desair of his status as a member of the Longtate family.
What surprised Chris even more was that the messenger from the Longtate family who came with the letter depriving the Longtate family of their identity actually had two other tasks.
The first task was to escort Desail back to Longtate Castle to be punished, and the second task was to liquidate all of Desail's investments in Ireland Hill and bring all the gold coins back to the Longtate family.
"How did your family get to where it is today?" Chris felt like he was about to burst out laughing after hearing what Des said. The other party actually sent such an idiot to Ceris to take Des away from here?
"What I want to ask you now is, should we deal with this matter in a civilized way or in a barbaric way?" After Chris had laughed enough, he looked at Des, who had an embarrassed face, and asked.
"Civilized way? Barbaric way? Tell me more carefully, what exactly do you mean?" Des asked in confusion. He was already in a bad mood because of the news of being expelled from the family , so how could he have the leisure to play dumb with Chris?
"A more civilized way is for you to treat the great magician Frunzberg to a good meal, and then let our great magician go to meet the messenger of your family." Chris suppressed his laughter and said, "Then tell him to...get lost..."
"Uh..." Des didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He was choked by Chris's method. After a long while, he asked, "Now I'm curious, what is the barbaric method you mentioned...?"
"Hang this man up and use him as a target to test the shooting accuracy of our latest 105mm caliber howitzer." Chris restrained his smile: "Then we will send someone to deliver a letter to the steward of the Longtate family and ask him to change his surname - there only needs to be one Longtate family in the world, the Longtate family of Ailan Hill!"
