Duke of Grief

"Gregory, what are you thinking about?"

Gregory glanced at Calvin, who was sitting next to him, and then turned his attention to the round table.

"I'm thinking." He answered lightly.

"Think?" Calvin raised an eyebrow. "Related to today's meeting? But also, Your Majesty has only held three round table meetings for so many years. This is the fourth time. If it is not too serious this time, neither As for this point..."

At the round table were sitting the nobles from all over the empire, or the "princes", the prime ministers had already arrived, and the chiefs of the major armies had already been impatient. If the huge clock hanging on a wall was telling them the time, they might I got up long ago to find His Majesty the Emperor.

Time passed by one minute and one second, the waiting process was very boring, the big nobles whispered, and the chiefs of the major armies were also talking to each other.

The only new nobles beside this round table are him, Gregory, and Lille. In addition, other'new nobles' are temporarily not eligible to sit here. They have no choice but to wait until the meeting is over to inquire about the meeting. Case.

Each round table will be held for a long period of time, maybe two or three days, maybe four or five days, or even more than ten days.

If the problem is not resolved, the round table will not end. This is the rule set by the empire at the beginning of the founding of the nation, and any large nobleman must abide by it.

In the original round table, only the emperor and the major nobles gradually evolved into the current model. The rest of the small and medium-sized nobles no longer have discussion seats. The heads of the major armies and the ministers get the discussion seats, and discuss and resolve with the nobles and emperors 'Problem' solution.

"No, it's thinking about why such a thing happened." Gregory shook his head, a sharp flash in his right eye. "If it's a magical environment, outside the'crystal wall', the magic element can almost fill the multiverse. , Then why did the monsters living in the astral world not produce wisdom, but the monsters in the Black Forest produced wisdom. I suspect that behind this, there may be someone who is making trouble..."

"Are you saying ‘Eyes of omniscience’ or ‘Dragon Hunting Order’?” Calvin was startled, and it was indeed possible to think so.

"Not only these two organizations, but also'Cloud City' is suspect." It's hard to imagine that Gregorian actually said this in a very plain tone.

Calvin frowned, and asked in a deep voice, "Why?"

"Under Runor Luces's direction, Charlemagne Gleason filed a claim against'Cloud City'. Isn't this a strange thing in itself?" Gregory sneered. "'City of Clouds' has always been a holy place for mages, and the Kurkut empire has become the'world's second' precisely because of the magic technology, even if they want to consider the mood of the mages in the country, they should not do so However, they did so... We have discussed this issue before, and we all think there are many doubts in it. Now I think so-'Yunzhong City' is likely to be'deteriorated'! "

"This..." Calvin opened his mouth, thinking for a moment, and also nodded in agreement. "It's not without this possibility."

With the development of the times, they have gradually forgotten the matter of'Cloud City was once a mage's holy land', not only because the floating city has been dissociated from society, but also because the magic technology on the mainland has begun to speed up. With the development, many unprecedented technologies have appeared in this world. Compared with these advanced technologies, the "Cloud City" that has inherited only a small part of the wealth of the Arcane Empire may have lagged behind the times.

Even when designing the "Internet", they did not have any contact with "Cloud City", and no one disputed it, because they all subconsciously thought that "Cloud City" would not participate in this plan. .

"But this is just a guess..." Gregory closed his eyes and took a breath. "It may also be because organisms in the crystal wall are more likely to generate wisdom. After all, we have not thoroughly studied the "world". For the time being, it is unclear what the facts are."

Calvin chuckled, "but I think your guess is close to the facts..."

"Zhongqing, are you ready?"

At this moment, a low voice sounded on the throne, and Gregory and Calvin looked in surprise and found that Caesar XIII had already achieved his position somehow.

The minute hand of the clock has just pointed to the position of '45 minutes', but the emperor has already appeared at the meeting.

And listening to what he said just now, it seems that he wanted to start this round of ‘round table’ earlier.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The two of them agreed with the others. Although their minds were full of doubts and puzzles, since His Majesty chose to start the meeting in advance, they should also support His Majesty's choice.

Looking at the eyes of everyone present, Caesar XIII nodded, not only the chiefs of the major armies, but even the nobles could not sit still.

Nowadays, empire affairs are busy. It is no longer necessary for everyone to manage their own territory as they used to. Now they are managing everything in the whole empire, which is a burden for them, but it is also a This kind of wonderful, uncomfortable feeling.

This fatigue can satisfy their desire to control, hidden in their hearts, flowers representing the desire for power are gradually blooming.

But this also means that this round table cannot last too long, and now the empire cannot leave the existence of any of them-as long as they are still sitting in their present positions!

Once they leave for too long, affairs will continue to accumulate, which will eventually lead to what kind of things, which nobody wants to see.

"Then start this roundtable, Kegel Qing!"

Caesar XIII called the name of the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister also picked up the document on the table, pushed his eyes, cleared his throat, and then said: "This meeting has two main agendas, one is For the treatment method of the emergence of a large number of magical monsters in the Black Forest; the other is the future technological trend of the empire, now we will discuss the latter one first."

Even though the commanders of the major legions were very anxious now, they did not stop.

Because they all know that the latter agenda is obviously simpler and easier to discuss. Only when this item is dealt with first will they be able to devote more time and energy to the previous issue.

As soon as the Prime Minister's voice fell, Caesar XIII raised his finger to Calvin, "Calvin Qing!"

Hearing the emperor's call, Calvin took a deep breath, then Huo Ran got up, supported the table with both hands, and looked around the audience.

"Your Majesty, as well as the distinguished ministers, I think you should already know that under the guidance of the maidservant, Sloane Mendes has now begun to enter the'Magic Age.' The mobile phone you have is the best evidence of the advent of this era!"

Calvin paused a bit~www.NovelMTL.com~ After considering the wording, he continued: "If nothing goes wrong, in the next period of time, our empire will only be able to follow in the footsteps of others. , Because of the relatively more mature magic system, our'mechanics' and magical energy technology are far behind the times, maybe in the'mechanics' we have more advantages than other countries, but want to really develop, It will take some time. At this time, I want to propose-vigorously develop magic technology and mechanics, and at the same time open up the imperial restrictions on magic!"

"impossible!"

As soon as Calvin's voice fell, three large nobles objected.

There is no disgust in their eyes, and some are just indifferent.

In fact, they do not hate ‘magic’ because they are using the product of ‘magic energy’ themselves.

What they opposed was just ‘opening up restrictions on magic’—they did not want civilians to master the power of magic!

Even if they have become'state ministers', but their thoughts are still in the old era, they still think that'knowledge' needs to be controlled!