Heroes of Invincible Hidden Architect

Chapter 699 Battle for the Throne
Ghost Port City, the most famous port city in Diya.

Due to its proximity to the Phantom Sea, the concentration of undead dead air in Phantom Port City is extremely high.

Excessive dead energy of the undead makes this city very suitable for the survival of spirits without physical bodies.

Therefore, the ghost port is also the second most "Apiao" city in the entire Diya, second only to the capital Tianmu City.

Qige and Hex walked in the ghost port city.

The eerie black stone bricks are dotted with dilapidated tombs, the abodes of ghosts.

If Qige wants to follow Hex back home, he will inevitably pass the tomb. Whenever this happens, the ghosts living in the tomb will fly out and circle around Qige.

Hex looked around in surprise, and said to Qige:
"My lord, these unconscious ghosts seem to like you very much? They are particularly active when they are around you."

Qi Ge took a glance at the appearance of the ghost in the sky, and immediately knew:

"Ah, they're all female ghosts. It's normal. There's no need to panic."

"Is this really normal? They want to get close to you and jump on you, but they are afraid of your strength and dare not get close, so they can only hover.

I feel like these ghosts are going crazy. "

"It's okay, they will give up after a while."

Qige shook his head in his heart.

This is one of the negative effects of too high a charm value. For the unconscious female undead who have no self-control ability, I am like a lighthouse in the dark night, making them unable to resist the desire to get close.

Qige could only silently replace the charm-reducing treasure on her body, so that [Infinite Charm] would not work.

Now, those restless female ghosts finally rested in peace, obediently returning to their spiritual tombs.

The layout of Ghost Harbor is a bit like Venice. The city is divided into a land part and a river part.

In the river part, a large number of dense water networks and river channels have replaced rocky roads. If you want to move between buildings, you can only pass bridges and ghost rafts on the river.

Also, most of the bridges are made of ghost rafts.

These ghost rafts glow faintly on the river surface, flickering on and off, and looking from a distance, they look like twinkling fireflies.

When Qige followed Hex to his home, Qige realized that he had heard correctly.

Hex lives in the mausoleum of the slums in Tianmu City, and he lives in the mausoleum of the slums in Port of Ghosts.

"My lord, we are here. Hey, hey, it looks a little small, don't mind, it will be spacious once you get inside."

Hex smiled awkwardly, looking a little embarrassed.

His mausoleum is the lowest among all mausoleums, only a square cone with a square shape, 3 meters high, 4 meters long, and 4 meters wide. It looks like a large urn.

This type of mausoleum is usually inhabited by the weakest Lich of level 5 and level 1, but any hero would not like to live here, let alone a pseudo-legendary.

Although Hex's residence was dilapidated, Qige did not laugh at it, but respected it instead.

Hex spent so much research funds before, as long as a small part of it is taken out, it is enough to buy a luxurious mage tower, but he still lives here.

This shows that there is a high probability that he is really, as he said, a fanatical researcher who can give up all material comforts for research.

He followed Hex into his tomb.

After Hex took Qige for a visit, Qige became more convinced of his conjecture.

Hex's mausoleum has internal space, a total of five floors, each floor is more than 200 square meters, and the total usable area exceeds [-] square meters.

In such a large area, Hex only set aside less than [-] square meters as his living area and living room, and the rest are all his research equipment.

Qige followed Hex all the way, and there were stone pillars, stone slabs, tombstones and research tables carved with magic runes everywhere.

Pharmacy research area, corpse processing area, magic practice area... The equipment is beyond Qi Ge's imagination.

"My lord, this is my most proud [Trosa Magic Centrifuge], which can decompose living things into the most basic elements, and can help me analyze the basic composition of living things.

This is the latest model released by the Bracada Trosa Chamber of Commerce this year. There are no more than three people in Diya who own this machine.

This machine alone is worth 80 gold coins.

I was able to research the Devil's Son and the Skeleton Three-Headed Dog, thanks to this machine. Of course, it's also because I bought this that I was so poor. "

Qi Ge looked at this machine that looked like a spinning top, and was a little surprised:
"I seem to have seen this machine in my teacher's house, but it's not so small. There is a blue bottle on the left, and a stone slab full of magic circles on the right."

"Ah?! Hmm!!" Hex exclaimed in surprise:
"That's the top version of the magic centrifuge [Advanced Magic Analyzer], the price is three times that of the centrifuge, and the purchase requirements are very high, you must be a Mithril-level VIP of the Trossa Chamber of Commerce.

Your teacher must be an archmage who is more enthusiastic about research than me, right? "

Research? emm...

Does studying forest female archer count?Does studying Queen Medusa count?Does it count to study the flowers of the bunny sisters?
If it counts, then Teacher Argaide is quite fanatical.

I remember that there was a layer of dust on the Magic Analyzer, which was piled up in the corner by Mr. Argaide.

This world is really unreasonable. Hex, who is really passionate about studying biology, has fallen to the point of selling himself for funding.

And the best research machines are left to the ashes of people who have no interest in studying biology.

Qi Ge said with a face full of pain:

"Probably. Another day, I'll ask the teacher if he's using the analyzer. If he's not using it, I'll get it for you."

"Huh?!" Hex was overjoyed:

"Really? My lord, let's make an agreement! If there is an analyzer, my research speed will definitely be doubled several times."

"Then I can still lie to you. Don't worry, I have always been very good to my own people. As long as you work hard, I will let you have everything you want.

At that time, you can make a list of any equipment you need, and I will take care of it for you.

To be honest, I also have connections in Bracada, maybe a little wider than yours. "

Qige patted Hex on the shoulder and said meaningfully:

"Okay, let's get out of the skeleton soldiers, zombies, and ghosts in your mausoleum first, and empty out all the living things. I will pack up your mausoleum later."

"Hey, good!"

Seeing the scene when Dogosos sent Qige away in person, Hex now believes in Qige's words.

Although he hasn't figured out who Qige is, it doesn't prevent him from understanding how powerful Qige is.

As a poor pseudo-legend, Hex is the only intelligent undead in the tomb, and the other undead units are his unwise assistants.

Soon, these ignorant undead all walked out of the mausoleum under the order of Hex.

Qige took a look. In terms of high-level arms, Hex has about 4 Lich npcs above level 5, and he even has two miracle death knights of level [-] who are in charge of guarding the house.

There are still three nails on the broken ship, and the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse.

Poor is poor, but Hex is also a pseudo-legend anyway, and he still has what he should have.

If it's not Qige, it's any other player, and Hex is the one they want to kneel and lick now.

Qige and Hex waited for a while, and the lord of Ghost Port City, a pseudo-legendary ghost hero, arrived at Hex's residence under the leadership of 【Blood Dragon·True Blood Lord】.

"My lord, I am Barrett, the lord of Ghost Port City. May I ask what is your purpose for this visit?"

The Mythical Blood Dragon suddenly came to the door, and Barrett was obviously a little flustered. He was afraid that he would be questioned because he did not do well enough.

Qige comforted:
"My lord, don't be nervous, we are not here to inspect.

I just wanted to ask you to do me a favor by mobilizing the power of the Yasha Ring of Fire and giving me ownership of this tomb. "

"Just, that's it?"

Barrett froze for a moment.

"That's easy."

With True Blood present, Barit didn't ask any questions, and rather cooperatively gave Qi Ge the ownership of the tomb.

After acquiring the ownership, Qi Ge took out the [Hammer of Sequencing].

"eighty!"

Qige yelled, slammed his hammer on the mausoleum with all his might.

With a bang, Hex's mausoleum was smashed and uprooted from the ground, and turned into a small mausoleum model in mid-air, which was collected by Qige into the space backpack.

After reaching a master architect, Qi Ge has a more complete grasp of the [Hammer of Sequence], and is able to exert the power of [Hammer of Sequence].

Now, he can directly package the entire building that belongs to him without dismantling the building into blueprints.

Qige had a hunch that if he reached Legend, he could even pack up the city and take the city away.

Seeing his mausoleum smashed into a model by Qige with a hammer and disappearing, Hex was dumbfounded:
"Here, lord, what about my house? I have a mausoleum so big, so it just disappeared?"

"Don't look, your home is with me. I will help you arrange it when I get to my territory."

"What kind of magic is this? It's incredible, it's incredible."

Qige explained something and expressed his gratitude to Lord True Blood and the city lord of Ghost Port City.

He took Hex, who was still in a trance, to the beach, and took a boat to meet the Silver Spirit in the ocean area.

Afterwards, the Silver Spirit will take Hex back to God's Choice City, and Qige will take advantage of this time to take the ghost ship of Ghost Port City to [South Tomb City].

According to Dogosos' information, the Vampire Red Wedding Dress Group is in [South Tomb City].

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Recently, the situation in Bracada has become more and more delicate.

Bracada's upstart, [Jenova Chamber of Commerce], which is closely cooperating with Seri, is rising strongly.

[Jenova Chamber of Commerce] obtained a large amount of gold coin reserves through various means, and took advantage of Brakada's weak period after the war to buy the high-quality assets of the entire Brakada.

Honey Snow Bingtang spent a large amount of gold coins and turned them into factories, taverns, shops, and mines that can continuously generate income.

These assets will generate predictable returns, that is, these assets have considerable value.

Mixue Bingtang uses the future usufruct rights of these assets as collateral to borrow from the Bracada Treasury.

A gold mine that needs five years to complete mining and can earn 20 gold coins after full mining, Michelle Bingtang can loan out 15 gold coins.

When she bought this mine, she only spent [-] yuan.

As soon as she bought a loan, the cash in Michelle Bingtang's hands changed from fifty thousand to one hundred thousand.

She then used the [-] gold coins to continue to acquire other assets and continue to mortgage them.

In addition to this method, Michelle Bingtang also has many complicated methods of making money, but they remain the same. The core is to rely on loans to take out the gold coins from the Bracada Vault for her own development.

Once the game of money begets money starts to turn, it is like a snowball rolling down the hillside.

Loans are made one by one and interest is accrued every month.

And these interests need to be paid by Michelle Bingtang with the newly borrowed loan.

Once a sum of interest is not paid, the big treasury will freeze the assets of Mixue Bingtang.

But Michelle Bingtang is able to repay all the interest, and can also lend more gold coins and acquire more assets while repaying the interest.

This method of relying on finance instead of self-management to expand is something that the local mages of Bracada have never thought of.

This is a dimensionality reduction blow from another world.

For Bracada's senior executives, although they can't understand the operation of Michelle Bingtang, they can see that one store after another has put up the sign of [Jenova Chamber of Commerce],

They can see the rapid development of the Jenova Chamber of Commerce like a blazing fire,

They can think of the unexpected benefits behind such a rapid development.

As it should be, many people were jealous.

But no matter how jealous they were, they didn't dare to mention the Jenova Chamber of Commerce, because Seri was behind the Jenova Chamber of Commerce.

Seri may not be the strongest legend in Bracada, but he is definitely the hardest legend in the backstage.

In Bracada, all the demigods have a good relationship with Seri. Outside of Bracada, Seri also has good friends all over the world.

She is an old legend independent of any faction and respected by all factions at the same time. She is one of the top dignitaries in Bracada.

I can't beat it, and I'm jealous, so what should I do?join chant!
Seri's friends are all over the world, even those who are jealous, many of them are Seri's friends.

Today, Trossa said hello, and the Trossa Chamber of Commerce bought a share. Tomorrow, the Titan Temple will issue an invitation letter, and the Titan Temple will also buy a stock.

These top dignitaries in Brakada are all investing in gold coins and handing them over to the Jenova Chamber of Commerce to operate, waiting to reap the benefits and earn a lot of dividends.

When Bracada's arms have a surplus of labor, the surplus turns into a beast called capital.

Previously, this beast had been kept in a cage by the Bracada treasury to cultivate the scythe named Titan coin.

But now, this beast was released by Mixue Bingtang.

More and more top dignitaries are participating in Mixue Bingtang's money-making-money snowball game. Everyone wants to earn gold coins, so where do the gold coins come from?

The outside of Brakada has been sealed off by Port City, Sea God Church, and Fortune Church. If gold coins want to produce gold coins, they can only suck blood from inside Brakada.

The top dignitaries naturally drink blood and eat meat, while the low-level goblins have long been poor and have nothing to suck. The bloody ones are of course the middle class in Bracada.

As the Jenova Chamber of Commerce grew bigger and bigger, more and more small factories closed down, more and more small businessmen went bankrupt, and more and more mages were dismissed.

Groups of mage masters who were once infatuated with money have unknowingly discovered that their monthly income and expenditure have started to collapse.

Prices are rising, income is falling, they are gradually unable to make ends meet, and their gold coins continue to flow into the market from their pockets, and then they are swallowed by an invisible gold-swallowing beast.

From frugality to luxury is easy, from luxury to frugality.

Realizing that something was wrong, the middle class launched their counterattack.

They first resisted the acquisition, raised the price of their assets or did not sell them at all, then cut down on food and clothing, gave up some less important enjoyments, and kept the gold coins in their hands as much as possible.

But their behavior, in the face of the snowball that is getting bigger and bigger, is nothing but a mantis' arm.

The general trend of honey snow rock candy has been established, and the resource monopoly in the upper and middle reaches has begun.

The factory does not sell?Then raise the price of the resources you need for production, so that there is no profit in selling your products, and you will lose money instead.

Cutting down on food and clothing?Then launch a public opinion war, conduct hedonic comparisons, and push mages who are not rich enough out of high-level circles, so that they have to continue to maintain their dignity in order to retain power.

Still not surrendering?Well, I have the same factory as yours, and I have the same products as yours. I won’t make any money and sell it at a loss. Do you want to lower the price with me?
I am big, I can withstand it, how long can you last?
The total amount of gold coins is limited, and when the liquid gold coins in the market are sucked dry and all of them are owned by a few people, the Great Depression begins.

Inside Bracada, a strange circle begins to emerge.

More and more factories closed down, and the hot products they produced before - alchemy potions, treasures, war machines, etc., could not find buyers.

The closure of the factory caused many mages to lose their jobs. If the mages were unemployed, they would have no source of income, that is, no gold coins.

Without gold coins for mages, no one would buy the products produced by factories, so more factories closed down and more mages lost their jobs.

The snowball from Michelle Bingtang fell, and the dominoes called destruction were hit.

The avalanche has already begun, and a storm called the financial crisis is constantly brewing over Bracada, and it may fall at any time.

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At this juncture, far away in Krulod, there is another storm brewing.

"Bah! Let me withdraw from the throne competition? Blago is dreaming!"

Among the tattered tents, a tribal leader named Kilgor stood up and cursed at the gorgeously dressed barbarian in front of him:

"What, that coward of Burag, wants to use pressure to force us contenders to participate in the battle for the throne?"

The barbarian glanced at Kherg indifferently and contemptuously. Compared with his gorgeous clothes, Kherg's clothes were too tattered and shabby.

If he wasn't carrying a mission, he couldn't stand the stench in Korg's camp at all.

The Savage pinched his nose and said:

"Kerger, think again.

Our King Balag is a demigod, the most prestigious lord in Krulod, and he deserves his title as great chief.

You, a little guy who has just become a legend, even if you face King Balag, you will die in his hands.

I just came here to persuade you because I couldn't bear the heart of a legend with unlimited potential to die in the internal friction of the battle for the throne. "

"Bah!" Korg was furious:
"Who said that Balag is the most prestigious lord? Who said that he deserves his name as the great chief?

So what about the demigod, in my eyes, he is still just an ignorant ogre! "

The barbarian widened his eyes in surprise, pointed at Korg and said:
"You, you, you! How dare you disrespect King Balag!

Have you forgotten who is protecting you?

Without King Balag, your tribe would have been invaded by Bracada long ago. "

"Invasion? That's because I wanted to hit them, but you stopped me!"

Korg slapped his tomahawk hard on the ground, and there was a loud bang that made the ground tremble.

He looked mockingly at the barbarian in front of him and said:

"Oh. It's ridiculous. What kind of ability does Bragg have?
He will only compromise and back down to Bracada, and will only use low-level behavior as a dog in exchange for development resources.

During the 30 years he was king of the tribe, all of Krulod except his own tribe became poorer.

And what he begged from Bracada, in the end Bracada will take it back ten times and a hundred times from us.

I've had enough of all this.What we barbarians lack, we should kill and rob!
Resources are not enough, we should attack the Chaos Zone to reclaim new land.

The food supply is not enough, we should hunt wild monsters to get the mother god's reward!
Instead of using the tribe as slaves to pray to Bracada. "

"Joke, what do you know? Do you know how much sacrifice you said will bring us Cruelod?
Attacking the Chaos Zone, the number of people who will die is a hundred times that of [people who went to Bracada to help with work]! "

Korg was unwavering:
"So what if there is sacrifice? Only a gold coin full of blood can bring the glory of the barbarian."

The barbarian couldn't bear Korg's shallowness anymore, he cursed:

"You war lunatic, meaningless battles will only kill the troops and heroes that have grown up with great difficulty.

Only by developing commercial trade, opening up the market, and learning advanced civilization from Bracada, can we bring vitality to our backward and poor Krulod.

Do you know how Bracada developed in the first place?Do you know why Bracada is the strongest power? "

Korg snorted:
"Business? Trade? Open markets? Learning like Bracada?
fuck it!How did Bracada develop, it's none of our Krulod's business?
We Cruelods have our own path in Cruelods. "

"you you you you!!"

The savage was so angry that he couldn't speak.

He took several deep breaths before suppressing his anger and asking:

"Kerg, I'm your friend. For the sake of our friendship, I'll advise you one last time to give up your bid for the throne.

Balag is a demigod, and you will die at his hands. "

"Ha! Hahaha!" Korg laughed three times, and slammed the table in front of him with an ax.

He stared at the barbarian opposite, and said word by word:

"Friends? From now on, we are not anymore! Our friendship is torn apart like this table.

So what about demigods, if Borg is really capable, he should have a real fight with me!
Goth, you go back and help me tell Burag.

Unless he can stand before my grave, he can be respected by me!Otherwise, no one wants me to succumb and give up participating in the battle for the throne!
Come and bite me, see off! "

"Humph! Here we come!! Your Majesty Goth, please."

(End of this chapter)