Heart of the Castle

Chapter 65 Changes in the Heart of the Castle
The old magician smiled, and did not answer Li Wei's question right away, but waved his hand at the little devil Scott and said, "Very well, Scott, I am very satisfied that you are not lazy. Now, you go back to At the devil's crucible, prepare to let the first batch of abyss larvae undergo transformation."

The little devil's eyes rolled, and when he was about to say something, the old magician didn't give it this chance. He raised his right hand, and the crystal light circled around, sending the little devil back to the depths of the river of flames.

"Little guy, I know you have a lot of problems now, but the environment here is bad, and it's not convenient to say anything. Let's go back and talk about it." After sending the little devil back, the old magician said to Li Wei.Li Wei nodded, he didn't want to stay here any longer, and then saw the old magician push forward with both hands, and suddenly opened a door with colorful lights from the void.

Behind the gate is the familiar scenery of grasslands and snow-capped mountains. Li Wei tentatively took a step towards the gate.By the time his vision returned to normal, his feet had already stepped on the lush green grassland.

Li Wei took a deep breath, and the fresh and dry air poured into his chest, which lifted his spirits.Immediately afterwards, the old magician also stepped out of the colorful gate, and the gate closed afterward, turning into dots of light and dissipating.

As soon as the portal disappeared, Li Wei asked the old magician impatiently.

"Mr. Dish, how did these people and houses come here? What happened to the burning volcano we came to just now? What is the devil's crucible that Scott talked about?"

"Oh, oh, little guy, you have a lot of questions." The old magician smiled and popped out a few silver light spots, and a silver table with a strange luster appeared on the empty grass. Fruit and a wooden basin with a lid, and two chairs of the same material appear next to the table, one on the left and one on the right.

"Sit down and eat something first, this is a good thing produced after the Castle Heart advanced." The old magician said, first picked up a fruit and took a bite.This fruit looks a bit like an apple, but its aroma is much stronger than ordinary apples. Li Wei smelled the aroma, and suddenly felt a gurgle in his stomach.

To be honest, the last time he ate was last night. One-third of a piece of black bread was nothing to a half-grown boy who was growing and had been digested long ago.Li Wei hurriedly grabbed a fruit, opened his mouth and bit it.

This fruit felt a bit hard when biting it, but after the crisp sound, the sweet juice filled the mouth immediately, Li Wei felt this wonderful and peculiar taste, swallowed it hard, and then continued to eat in big mouthfuls.

Viscount Ryan's territory does not produce delicious fruits, and ordinary people in the territory can only eat some sour wild fruits such as wild strawberries, wild apples, and raspberries.Only the viscount himself and a few noble lords in the castle would spend a lot of money to buy some from outside the territory, and they would put them out to enjoy when they were entertaining people who also had noble status.Even if an orphan like Li Wei becomes an apprentice servant, he can only take a look at him from a distance outside the door.However, Li Wei swears that even those fruits on the nobleman's table are far inferior to the one in his hand now. He has never even thought about that kind of extremely sweet juice.

The old magician ate a few mouthfuls, put the remaining half of the fruit on the table, pointed to the covered wooden basin and said: "Little guy, the fruit still can't fill your stomach, come and taste this. "

"Hmm, um..." Li Wei hastily swallowed the pulp in his mouth. The whole fruit just now had already entered his stomach, even the small core was chewed and swallowed by him.The old magician couldn't help smiling, tapped his fingers on the table, and the lid on the wooden basin automatically slid aside, and an aroma mixed with eggs, oatmeal and milk came out immediately.

There are four or five golden balls in the wooden basin, and the fragrance is emitted from here. Li Wei was stunned for a moment, and stretched out his hand to gently grab one, and felt a soft and warm feeling from his fingertips.

"Mr. Dish, is this... a cake?"

Seeing the old magician smiling and nodding, Li Wei couldn't help swallowing.Cake is not something like black bread, you can eat it casually. In Li Wei's 15 years of memory, it seems that he has tasted the delicacy of cake no more than three times.

Even in Viscount Lane's mansion, it is not every day that one can smell the aroma of cakes.

"Mr. Dish, would you like one?" Resisting the saliva that kept overflowing from his mouth, Levi handed the first cake to the old magician. The old magician looked very pleased and shook his head slightly. Said: "Little guy, thank you for your kindness, the elderly are not suitable for eating too much sweet things, these are for you."

Now that Mr. Dish said so, Levi stopped being polite. He picked up a cake in one hand, stuffed it into his mouth in two bites, and then picked up the second one.

While Li Wei was eating the cake, the old magician brushed his hands over the table again. This time, a delicate silver tea set appeared. The silver teapot was half full of orange-yellow tea, with a refreshing tea fragrance. The steaming heat rises.

The old magician poured himself a cup of tea, then poured another cup and put it in front of Li Wei. Li Wei hurriedly wanted to thank him, but he only opened his mouth to make a sound of "ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ability to speak.

After pouring a cup of tea, Li Wei finally swallowed the cake in his mouth. He smiled a little embarrassedly, and then his face changed color slightly.

"Mr. Dish, this tea is bitter. Didn't you add milk?"

"Milk? No, no, little guy, the habits of magicians and nobles are different. The tea we drink will not add anything. This kind of bitterness with a sweet aftertaste is what magicians need. It makes the mind clearer and is also good for the spiritual power." The old magician shook his head, picked up the silver cup and took a sip, and after putting down the tea cup, his expression became serious.

"Little guy, as the crystallization of the highest achievement of alchemy, the heart of the castle is much greater than you imagine. If you only regard it as a private half-plane, you are wrong. Although the half-plane is quite It is a great alchemy item, but it is far from comparable to the heart of the castle. The biggest feature of the heart of the castle is that it has almost unlimited advanced capabilities, and can simulate the space that adapts to the life of any creature. The sea of ​​​​flames you saw just now, It is the projection of the simulated abyss plane analyzed from the little devil Scott, simply put, it is a half-plane with all the characteristics of the abyss."

"Mr. Dish, what you mean to say is that our current location is the most suitable space for human survival, so it is a scene of a lush grassland; the place we saw just now is the most suitable space for demons to live in, so It's a scene of hellish flames." Li Wei thought for a while, and slowly expressed his understanding.

"Your thinking is quite sharp, little guy." There was some undisguised surprise in the eyes of the old magician.He stroked his long white beard and continued.

"The heart of the castle has now completed its first advancement. As I said before, the primary resource building has been opened, and the farmland and farmhouses have been automatically built. From now on, every 24 hours, you can provide A few produced resources. Among them are emerald fruit and oats produced on the cultivated land, as well as milk and eggs produced in the farmhouse. If you need alchemy items, although the alchemy laboratory has not yet been built, I can use energy to create them out of thin air. Some elementary items are enough to meet your needs at this stage."

"Great, Mr. Dish, this is really good news." Levi clenched his fist, with an excited look on his face.

In fact, from the time when Village Chief Huck and his cronies were driven away, Li Wei felt an inexplicable tension in his heart. After he took a rough look around the refugee camp, he fully understood his situation source of tension.

Surrounding the refugee camp with more than 400 people, no arable land was reclaimed, and no crops were planted. The more than 400 mouths were actually supported by a small amount of arable land inside the wooden wall and stored food.It's no wonder that when the demons attacked, many young and middle-aged male villagers appeared weak and weak, and many people actually hid and waited to die.

The supplies that the Heart of the Castle can supply will definitely not be too much, but the quality is quite high. Whether it is eggs or milk, they are enough to play a leading role on the dining table of the nobles now that the disaster is coming.

"In addition, the number of demons you have killed this time has far exceeded the upper limit required for the advancement of the Castle Heart, and the remaining energy has been stored as wealth for building buildings and recruiting alchemy fighters."

"Wealth? Mr. Dish, are you saying that the wealth needed to build buildings and recruit soldiers in the heart of the castle is not real gold and silver coins?" Levi's heart moved. He thought he would try to get some I want to grant gold coins, so that the buildings that can be built in the heart of the castle can be built as soon as possible. Unexpectedly, the wealth that the old magician said refers to the energy generated by killing demons.

"Hehehe, little guy, where did you go? The heart of the castle is something made by alchemy. How can you need gold, a precious metal that is not very useful? As for silver, there is still some demand, but for the time being. No need." The old magician explained with a smile, and then pointed to the hard-working farmers on the farmland in the distance.

"These people are the alchemy souls created by the heart of the castle. They can also be used as the most basic alchemy fighters, but their combat power is no different from that of an ordinary strong farmer. The alchemy fighters you want to recruit use these alchemy souls. After joining the battle template, it is made with energy wealth. Now the heart of the castle can create 10 such alchemy souls every week, that is to say, you can currently recruit from various recruitment buildings in the heart of the castle, at most 10 alchemy fighters have been recruited. If you need more alchemy fighters, you must wait until next week, or find a way to advance the Castle Heart again."

(End of this chapter)