Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 494: The Sacred Artifact at the Bottom of the Box
Perfect did hate socializing, mainly because in the past when she was just a noble lady who failed to inherit the title, those greedy and ulterior motives people always surrounded her, making her feel disgusted.

But this does not mean that an alchemist who can achieve great success in alchemy lacks IQ and EQ.

When she is willing to spend her energy on this, Perfect can completely transform herself into a well-mannered, friendly, and even perfect social expert who is like a model, and can socialize with ease in a venue with a lot of guests.

Of course, at her own seventeenth birthday and coming-of-age party, she was the one who needed everyone's attention, flattery and fawning, so there was no need to engage in any unnecessary socializing with others.

As long as she wanted, she could keep a cold face to everyone the whole time and ensure that no one dared to say a word against her.

Apart from the fact that today is her birthday, what is more important is the power, status, and the bonus brought by her own abilities.

After all, most of the guests who were able to attend her birthday party today came to ask her for something, not to mention that many monarchs of the Old World countries were waiting for her to save their countries.

Under such circumstances, even if Perfect made some excessive demands, the guests would probably have no choice but to accept them.

If it was three years ago, Perfect would probably not pay attention to any of them, and there would not even be such a banquet, because according to Perfect's estimation at that time, she could only save the one million people in the North at most, and the rest would all die.

But now, with the improvement of Perfecto's technology and the increase in the total amount of resources she can mobilize after the announcement of the end of the world, Perfecto's latest estimate is that the total population that the North can accommodate has risen to three million.

More than three times more than she had originally expected.

The most important factor here is not anything else but the technique of making compressed biscuits.

Sounds outrageous? Quite the contrary, it's actually the most crucial factor: food.

According to Perfect's original calculations, the North could only accommodate one million people, based on the assumption that she could only maintain the food production in the greenhouses through energy towers.

After all, in the cold winter of the end of the world, the cold can be solved by relying on coal for heating or living underground.

But we can’t let the people really eat dirt when they are hungry, right? Even if it’s Guanyin dirt, there’s not enough to feed millions of mouths!
Therefore, in Perfectot's original plan, he really only intended to ensure the survival of these one million people in the North, and let the rest of the people fend for themselves.

However, when Perfectoct could use alchemy to produce food almost out of nothing, the determining factor in how many people could survive had become how many energy towers and shelters could be built.

Under such circumstances, Perfect certainly doesn't mind saving more people and allowing more people to survive this doomsday crisis.

Besides, saving more people will only benefit Perfect, except for increasing expenses.

Because the larger the population, the more it can improve and increase the ability of the human race as a whole to fight the doomsday crisis, and at the same time it can increase the possibility of the emergence of talents in the human group. Who can guarantee that among those who have abandoned these plans, there are no people who have a flash of inspiration that can greatly improve the living conditions of humans under the doomsday crisis, or even have the possibility of solving this doomsday crisis?
At least Perfecto himself couldn't guarantee that.

Therefore, when faced with dignitaries, envoys and representatives from various countries who came to him from time to time, tried to get close to him, and put on apologetic smiles in the hope of gaining his help, Perfectcott tried his best to maintain a friendly attitude, listen to their requests, and answer them politely, and expressed that he could provide them with help within an appropriate scope within his ability.

Of course, none of this is free.

Although Perfect is willing to help others, it does not mean that she will help those people for free.

On the one hand, they really cannot afford to help, and on the other hand, it is because of the tendency to be grateful for a little help and resentful for a big help. Any free help will make the person being helped feel that it is their due, and they will think that it is all theirs, and thus ask for more.

In order to avoid something that would make him unhappy or even force him to personally exterminate the people, forces, or countries he had helped, Perfectoct thought it would be better to let them pay a certain price and turn this into a charitable transaction.

And considering the evil cult that Perfectoct had been wary of before, it would definitely be a good idea to establish good relations with the ruling class of these old world countries.

This is a world of magic and mystery. Do you think these seemingly servile rulers of various countries have wealthy ancestors, or do they have some unique skills?
At least when Perfect revealed the information about the evil cult to Queen Victoria, the Queen asked Princess Anne to bring a shield that looked like it was made of a cut tree stump and a knight's sword that looked very old.

These were two magical items powerful enough to be called artifacts in fantasy stories, or, to use the church's terminology, holy vessels.

They originated from a legendary monarch during the founding of Victoria, a knight whose strength reached legendary level.

These two pieces of equipment are the shield and sword of this legendary knight. Although the manufacturing technology seems to be very crude, the mystery of the environment at that time was far greater than it is now, so these two pieces of equipment are still simple, crude and powerful.

After hundreds of years of worship, they are filled with the powerful force of faith, turning them into two pieces of powerful equipment capable of protecting the country.

If Perfect had not said that the evil god might come, the Queen would never have taken out these two treasures that were kept in the royal box.

Of course, we also need to consider the fact that the royal family and the imperial center moved to the north, which required the royal family to bring some of the treasures in the treasury to the north.

Now, these two powerful treasures were installed on the God-killing Armor by Perfect, and without damaging the two holy artifacts, they were strengthened and upgraded to make them more powerful.

After all, there is still a big gap between the magic equipment manufacturing technology during the founding period of Victoria and the current technology of Perfectoct.

(End of this chapter)