Age of Adepts Chapter 1372: New city
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Crimson Wing is a newly emerging giant city with a population of two million terrorists.
In a magical world where traffic and resources are not so abundant, this is already rare.
We must know that Adept World defines cities as: small-type cities with a population of 10,000 to 20,000, medium cities with 50,000 to 50,000, large-type cities with 50,000 to 90,000, and mega cities with more than 90,000. ...
Naturally, there are deep-seated reasons for this standard of definition, that is, restrictions on traffic, food, and water!
In high grade plane like Adept World, don't look at the Adept . They are flying soaring. However, in the lower levels of society and in the mortal world, the more primitive lifestyles of farming, fishing, hunting, and animal husbandry are still upheld.
The lives of Adept s and mortals are almost heaven and earth, and the differences are simply unimaginable. Adept would rather spend huge resources to breed some sweet fruits and vegetables, rather than spend a little bit of time thinking about improving the yield of rice and grain for mortals.
This means that a large amount of grain from farmland and arable land is simply not enough to feed too many people. The ordinary farmer's coarse tea and light rice, busy working all year long, just talk about the fruit. If you want to eat meat and lay a tooth offering, in addition to raising some livestock yourself, you can only venture to hunt in the forest.
As a result, the lack of grain output also makes it impossible to have too dense a population in the region, otherwise food problems can cause headaches for the governors.
Local food is inadequate, so can it be imported from outside?
I have to mention the terrible roads and transportation of the magic world.
Most of the roads in Adept World are rough and rough dirt roads, that is, ordinary dirt Path. There are more travelers and business groups walking, and the simple roads that are trampled out are crushed. Such roads are impassable in rainy days. Even if the weather is fine, potholes and rocks everywhere can make a trip a disaster.
Most of the cargo transfer here is by a carriage, a special wagon pulled by a wooden carriage. It is characterized by a small load, fragile and slow ...
This kind of road, this kind of transportation method, can even cope with short-distance transportation of things. It is a joke to want to continuously input basic living materials such as food, drinking water, and carbon from hundreds of miles away.
It is this series of backwardness and primitiveness that have restricted the emergence of giant cities!
Even the famous Fourth Grade main towns of Continent Central have a permanent population of only one or two million. They are not gathering more people, but they cannot afford the resource disaster caused by the huge population.
By contrast, the giant city of Wings of Crimson gathers a population of about two million, and the profound meaning in it makes many top-level Adept s who come far away secretly understand.
Does the Crimson family have enough resources to benefit the level of ordinary citizen? But isn't it a huge waste to consume resources on these lowly and ignoble mortals?
You know, these mortals do not have any Adept talent. Their only value is probably to enrich the territory, and they are desperately born, using the overall huge amount to pile up a certain proportion of Apprentice Adept.
Only those Apprentice Adept have training value, it is worth Adept Family to pour resources on them. The mortal without any talent, in the eyes of many Adept , is just like a steed livestock, just a tool to maintain the necessary population!
So, they never bother to spend time and energy on these useless people, let alone solve their problems and improve their lives.
However, the wings of this huge Adept city Crimson are clearly different!
This is a strange city that integrates Witchcraft into society and life.
Neat and uniform streets, clean and flat stone hardened pavements, rows of businesses and shops, consistent styles of living area, business districts and entertainment districts ... and on the streets, except for pedestrians rubbing shoulders The most amazing thing is the numerous cargo Magical Machine and metal sports cars.
The wings of Crimson have already abandoned the slow and inefficient load carriages, and the metal cargo Magical Machine driven by magic energy battery is the main freight vehicle. Mercedes-Benz is on all the roads, no longer a slow-moving horse-drawn truck, but a strange all-metal Magical Machine.
Small cargoes are transported by landline Magical Machine, while the real bulk cargoes rely on a strange goblin airship.
After changing to magic energy, these goblin airships will no longer have the horrible steam-filled sight of where they used to go, nor the huge noise of the propeller hoaring. They quietly shuttled through the sky, and suddenly followed certain flight trajectories, and they had a flourishing taste of Magical Machine civilization!
Since the Crimson family has obtained a stable Quillas alloy from Melting Fire City, the construction of Magic Engine Furnace has never stopped. In this way, magic energy is no longer a so-called problem that plagues the Crimson family.
Crimson has opened a number of goblin shops in the city of Wings. It has openly sold unarmed Magical Machine and provided magic energy battery recharge for free. And this behavior undoubtedly provides the greatest convenience for the promotion of Magical Machine.
A landless Magical Machine capable of continuous running hundreds of miles without sleep is even more cost-effective than maintaining a whole caravan. Therefore, in the entire wing of Crimson, the ancient and primitive horse-riding caravans can hardly be seen anymore.
Instead, there are running FF6FF flying fast, lightning fast overland Magical Machine.
Just for pedestrian safety, all land travelling Magical Machine entering the wings of Crimson can only be at a minimum speed of running, and must also drive on a dedicated petrifaction road.
The large-scale promotion and application of Magical Machine, the landing and fruition of the Witchcraft civilization, also gave birth to many strange professions outside the Crimson wing. Like Magical Machine technician, Magical Machine repairman, airship pilot, monster researcher, cleaner, city law enforcement team ...
I have to say that this is a new world completely different from other Adept cities in Adept World! The energy and vitality it impregnates even the top Adept , such as Monash Gaia, are somewhat incomprehensible, invisible, and indistinct.
"That Grim was full enough to make these new gadgets?" Monash Gaia lowered the curtain, his face was incredible: "What good is he to serve these humans so well? When the enemy comes, they fart It can't be used even if it is not as good as Apprentice Adept can throw small fireball! "
"You don't need to worry about this ..." The Melting Fire City Lord Alfred sitting opposite smiled and stroked his moustache and whispered, "You said, the residents of this city are going to be happy or not?"
"Happy happiness is a fart, what waste of resources and energy can bring to them? Can they help us lay a secondary plane?" Monash Gaia is obviously a classic bloodline supremacy and Adept supremacy The staunch supporters are not interested in these gaudy things in front of them: "On their fragile small body, I am afraid that as soon as they arrive in the different plane, they will die half before waiting for the other to kill ..."
Melting Fire City Lord shook his head and smiled, instead of arguing with it, the topic changed.
"You have seen the changes of this Crimson wing, don't you notice that it is different from other Adept cities?"
"You mean magic energy?"
"Nice! You should also feel that this city is full of magic energy, almost a bustling city supported by magic energy. Then you are not curious, where did their magic energy come from? Do n’t tell me from those Adept Tower , They cannot support such a huge demand ... "
"What do you mean ... the Crimson family has some kind of endless energy? What is it, a treasure or some kind of sorcerer array, or some special Other World means?"
"I have already investigated, it is a special device called Magic Engine Furnace, which can continuously extract violent magical energy from the void world and reconcile and domesticate it ..."
"Isn't that exactly the same as the Elemental Altar!"
"It's not the same. At least elemental altars need to choose fixed earth vein nodes to build, and the construction cost is surprisingly high. But this kind of Magic Engine Furnace they created is a energy source that can be moved at will and can be mounted on any Magical Machine "" Alfred squinted and said with infinite emotion.
"It is no wonder that the Crimson family can use metal Magical Machine on a large scale. It turned out to be these endless magical energy! Any civilization or force wants to grow and develop, the minimum demand is nothing more than energy and resources. They do not have energy. It ’s lacking. As long as you continue to open up and usurp the necessary resources of different plane, it is not difficult to build a huge power ... ”Monash Gaia also sighed sadly:“ No wonder that Grim can ignite the flames everywhere, and it can be stronger and stronger, It turns out that this is the real reason for their strength! "
"Don't think about it that much. This time Grim summoned us all, it must be to discuss how to deal with the upcoming magic wave. My attitude to Clara is clear, everything is based on your brother's head. If that Grim If the request is not too excessive, we will be reluctant to approve it. If he extortion is too harsh, I hope that you can fight according to reason and not let him do too much for what he wants ... "
Hearing here, the face of the golden family Patriarch Monash Gaia showed a smile-like expression, and said indifferently, "This is your attitude with Clara?"
"Alisa and Roderick ... now in Central Adept , you are the only one who can beat your wrist with that Grim. So ..."
"So you push me out and bake on the fire?" A sneer smile appeared on Monash Gaia's face.
"It's not against the Grim, it's just" striving for reason "!" Alfred also couldn't help laughing.
Strength stands for status.
Without strength, even the group of Fourth Grade Adept is a bit weak and weak.