Chapter 368
The magic is revived, and the world has entered an extraordinary age.
Citadel failed to try to build a world without magic. In order not to be eliminated by the times, and for ordinary persons to control their own destiny, they were persuaded by Arthur to open their knowledge and inheritance to everyone.
Choose to sacrifice like this.
Lian Academician and other Academician and Maester unexpectedly discovered a turning point-science!
Researching science, creating muskets and artillery, ordinary person finally gained hope of fighting against transcender!
However.
The formidable power of muskets and artillery is not enough now, can threaten the transcender, but can't make them truly jealous and fearful.
So.
Lean Academician and the others who came to Mill from Tylosi.
I am very dissatisfied with the prince's indulging in magic!
"His Royal Highness, our control of Mill is not thorough. Many nobles and wealthy merchants have escaped. They continue to organize the Mills to resist and create chaos. How can you leave important affairs behind? Caused the people’s livelihood, public security and other issues to be resolved slowly?"
"Uh...this..."
The temporary magic research room in Governor Mill’s Mansion was disturbed Arthur's face was embarrassed, and Antonio stopped to explain in a bit of amazement.
Jaina's eyes turned: "Your Majesty, you should go to deal with affairs."
Ambrosius knows how these Academicians and Maester hate magic, and they are there. Magic research can never go on.
"Yes, your lord, you shouldn't be lazy here."
Looking at Ambrosius and Jaina who were about to drive him away, Arthur was very speechless, but Mill's affairs have accumulated a lot, and he really needs to deal with it: "Uh...well."
Leave the temporary research room.
Arthur quickly walked into the conference hall.
Lean Academician took out a white stone from the burlap bag and said: "His Royal Highness, we found this ore according to your description, and see if it is saltpetre."
"Yes!"
After making the dungpit soil for so long, Arthur dreamed of saltpeter. Seeing this white stone, he had made ice in his previous life, and he jumped up with joy when he had made ice cream.
"We can finally try to make a breech gun!"
Lean Academician: "Your Majesty, although the breech gun is easy to load, we still cannot guarantee the airtightness, you The described sniper rifles, submachine guns, and re-machine guns cannot be made."
hearing this Arthur smiling shook the head: "No hurry, let's control Mill first and talk about this."
"Have I completed everything I ordered?"
Annie, who helped the prince handle affairs in the Conference Hall, said: "With experience in Telosi, will our speed be slow? What you ordered It’s all done."
"Many merchants expressed dissatisfaction with the blockades of Chengdong, Chengnan and Northern Part of City. They want to know when you will open."
"Disputes There is news from the land that Mill’s remnant forces and Taloxi’s remnant forces have formed an alliance, are recruiting transcenders, and are still contacting Pentos, Rees and Braavos to unite them to drive us away."
"How is the recruitment and training of soldiers like Gawain, Lancelot, Lan Mallok, and Trista?" Arthur asked.
Annie: "The recruits in the gun regiment master the use of guns and grenades. They are practicing bayonet, and the progress of learning basic knowledge has not fallen."
"Basics of gunners Complete the training."
"The sailors and seamen of Lanmarok are progressing slowly, and those people are expected to take two months to pass."
"Selena and Tristan The recruited mercenaries have been reorganized into the number one city guards, and the auxiliary regiment has also completed the recruitment, but the training of the archer is a bit horrible in my opinion. Tristan is a divine archer but not a good instructor."
Hearing the report, Arthur fell silent and thought about countermeasures.
Lean Academician opened the mouth and said: "Miss Namelia and the others caught a few spies in the city today. I have reservations about opening the city gate."
"Since there are still spies blocking the road to Mill, what's wrong with opening the city gate to increase business activities?" Arthur frowned.
"I'm afraid they will continue to create chaos in the city." Lean Academician said.
"It's really troublesome."
The ratio of free men to slaves in Mill is one to three!
Liberating the slave and gaining the support of all the new free people, Arthur basically controlled Mill, without any major chaos, and was able to spread the stalls for development.
However, Mill is on the Essos continent, and we cannot say that the roads extend in all directions. It is not too difficult for the locals to get in and out of the city. Failure to catch all the nobles and wealthy merchants in Mill has caused many hidden dangers and ran out from time to time. It is very annoying for the rebels to make trouble and jump out to steal secret spies.
Military, civil, economic and other issues can all be dealt with.
With the construction of factories, the production technology of various commodities, as well as steelmaking technology and gun casting technology, must face all kinds of peeping.
Good to say, it's just a loss of money.
If the gunpowder depot is blown up by a spy, and the gun and artillery technology is stolen...
Arthur sighed: "Stop opening the blockade and send someone to the steel plant , Foundries and chemical plants are strictly guarded, and the rest will wait for me to solve the problems of people’s livelihood, public security, maritime trade and so on."
With the help of Academician and Maester.
Mill City’s internal affairs, people’s livelihood, trade, public security and other issues were immediately handled several times faster.
The sun sets in a blink of an eye, letting the night fall, and the moon and stars appear on the scene. Busy Arthur needs to deal with the accumulated government affairs even at dinner.
The candlelight in the Conference Hall flickers, and it hurts the eyes if it is not bright enough.
Even if he became a transcender, Arthur's eyes would still feel tired after reading documents for too long.
"His Royal Highness, I have prepared water."
At this time, a maid came over with a water tray, wet the face towel and handed it to the prince, "If you feel tired, wash your face. "
"en?"
The maids in the Governor's Mansion are all brought by Namelia, Treney, and Natalie. Arthur knows them all, this The woman looks familiar, but she is not a maid in the house, and she is used to doing everything herself.
I was tired of reading the documents and put on the face towel. He never asked the maid to put down the drip tray and towel and leave.
"Who are you?"
"No, you are Vanessa?!"
Looking at the familiar, pretty face of a mixed-race woman*|Beautiful face, Arthur She immediately recognized her as her only maid.
"His Royal Highness, long time no see."
Seeing that the prince recognized herself all at once, Vanessa smiled like a flower, opened her hands and embraced him excitedly.
Patting the excited maid on the back, Arthur gently pushed her away: "Where have you been in the past few years?"
"I thought you had an accident."
hearing this Vanessa shook the head, then stared affectionately into his eyes, and whispered: "When Princess Maria was attacked in Braavos, I met the Faceless, and Taken away by them..."
"The Faceless?" Arthur frowned.
Vanessa immediately raised her neck and turned her face to the prince to check: "I am Vanessa of Your Highness, not a faceless person wearing a human skin mask."
"I believe in you."
Master holy light and magic, and get the blessing of nature. Under the careful perception of Arthur, he can distinguish the unique vitality of each person.
"But..." Vanessa let go of her arms around the prince, "I was trained to be a faceless person, to be their killer."
"His Royal Highness, Will you still trust me as before?"
When he heard this, Arthur couldn't help being silent.
After a moment, he pondered and asked: "Can you tell me about the experience of these years?"
"I will tell you all the things I have experienced in the past few years, as long as your Highness Willing to listen." Vanessa, who was hearing this, immediately smiled, and then naturally sat down on Arthur's leg to appeal and say what happened after she met the Faceless.
The former little maid has now grown into a big beauty. She was sitting on her lap. Arthur was a little uncomfortable, but his attention soon followed Vanessa’s narration and was faceless. Attracted by the student’s training.
After listening to her, Arthur brows tightly frowns.
"So...you have been performing assassination missions in the Nine Free Cities for the past few years, because the faceless leader has no chance to leave because of the surveillance of the leader?"
Looking at the prince nodded: "Yes, the leader of the faceless is very strong. I am not an opponent at all in a head-on fight. It is difficult to kill him unless he is unexpected."
Arthur asked again: "You heard about me Occupied Tylosi, so I received a mission to go back to Westeros some time ago. When I was about to kill Daenerys, I took the opportunity to kill the leader of the faceless who had been watching you, so I could get out and come to me?"
" In order to leave the Faceless, I prepared for a long time." Vanessa said, "Moreover, I heard that Queen Daenerys has become the fiancee of Her Royal Highness."
I can perceive the life force of people.
Although Vanessa in front of her is very happy, Arthur is still keenly aware that there is something wrong with her state.
"Are you injured?"
The killer maid who regained her freedom didn't care: "It's worth the injury to help Your Highness and leave the Faceless."
"Where is the injury?" Arthur, "I will ask the doctor to come over and see for you."
Vanessa shook her head: "It's okay, it will be better in a few days. "
Arthur: "No, how can the injury not be treated?"
"But..." Vanessa sighed, "My injury is not a normal injury, see a doctor. Nothing."
"What's the matter?"
Vanessa explained with a wry smile: "It was another head of the Faceless Man who used a weird rapier to inflict the wound. After nursing, it healed naturally in three days, but now I still feel pain from time to time, and I have been tested for no poisoning."
Being able to return to the prince, she cherishes every minute and every second, and doesn’t want to say too much. More broken things in the past.
"So, it should be fine in a few days."
"No!"
Mastering magic, Arthur knows very well that the world of magical recovery has A lot of weirdness cannot be ignored.
"Your injury must be healed!"
Vanessa was stunned, and it took a while to nodded with a smile.
Arthur: "Where is the injury, can I see it?"
Vanessa, who was hearing this, did not hesitate to untie her clothes and pointed to the left The position of the ribs above the chest and above the abdomen said: "It's the wound here, but I can't see it at all."
The wound did heal as she said.
It was healed very well, as if he had never been injured, but when he released the spirit strength, he immediately discovered the weirdness of eroding vitality.
"What energy is this?"
"That's not right..."
"This is a curse!"
After contacting the bloodfiend method provided by the Lakhlo Church, Arthur carefully perceives a few times and confirms the situation of the little maid.
Release the holy light to try to purify the curse, Vanessa immediately felt extreme pain, tight*|brow beaded with sweat, but because she was afraid to disturb the serious prince in front of her, she endured the pain and hummed. There was no hum.
"Who are you?"
At this time, Annie and Natalie, who came over with the papers and prepared to have a meal with the prince, saw Arthur sitting on Arthur's lap being holy light The woman treated immediately asked.
Natalie also cautiously asked: "His Royal Highness?"
"I don't seem to have seen this maid."
While purifying, Arthur will While explaining: "Annie, she is Vanessa."
"What? Vanessa?"
Hearing this, the female knight immediately thought of the assassinated friend and Princess Maria thought she might be a faceless assassin and held a sword.
"How to prove?"
"She didn't wear a human skin mask." said Arthur, who was doing two things at the same time, and also told Annie about the maid's experience.
"She is the maid of your Royal Highness?"
Natalie browses tightly frowns, "but became the faceless killer...can we still trust?...Your Highness Why not keep a distance with her and let us investigate?"
Annie was silent, her eyes kept looking at Vanessa, who was being purified by holy light.
The curse is not that tricky.
holy light can purify even the evil energy of the ancient Ability God, and this weird curse can't help Arthur, golden light eliminates the maid*|'s negative energy in her body, and repairs her injured body in a blink of an eye.
The pain receded, Vanessa came back to his senses, and she smiled reluctantly at Annie who hadn’t seen her for a long time: "Sister Annie......"
But then Before he spoke, his body fainted.
Seeing this, Annie ran over quickly: "His Royal Highness, Vanessa... how is she...?"
Arthur: "Don't worry, her injury has healed, but her I resisted the pain for a period of time, relying on my body to support against the curse, my body reached its limit and fainted. I rested for a night and recuperated for a few days."
"His Royal Highness...to Vanessa What do you think of your experience?" Annie asked.
Arthur: "I believe in her."
Annie nodded, all the princes, she also chose to trust and leave for a long time, becoming the maid of the faceless killer.
As a beauty who has several jobs next to the prince, Natalie is a little depressed when she sees this, shook the head, sits down at the table, puts the papers and prepares to have dinner.
Up to now, she and Annie have not eaten dinner yet.
Arthur asked someone to take Vanessa down to rest, and then continue to talk about work with the two girls at the meal.
The night is as usual, and the day will come soon.
Wake up from the unfamiliar room, Vanessa was shocked, and then immediately got dressed and went out to find her prince.
The sun is high and it's noon.
But Arthur was still in the Conference Hall, so there was no time to move to the restaurant for lunch.
Vanesha found the prince, the servant went in with the tableware, and then heard Annie report that Namelia had caught several spies trying to detect the secrets of the factory.
hearing this, becoming the maid of the Faceless, immediately found a new job and new goal for himself.
Seeing the killer maid appearing in the Conference Hall, Annie was stunned: "Vanessa is awake?"
Arthur said: "Come and eat something?"
Vanessa smiled: "Okay."
...to be continued...