18th century total war

Chapter 390 The Tyrannical Monocle

"Of course, Your Majesty.

But I have only one way, but I don't have enough money to prolong your Majesty's life. "

Merlin replied respectfully.

Li Wei was not worried that Merlin's words were false, because it was impossible for a person who was enlightened by the administration to deceive him, even though Merlin initially tried to use a puppet to enter the Palace of Versailles, the reason was to provide him with a chance of longevity!

At that time, he used longevity as a bait, but now he said that he did not have enough merits. Obviously, the former Merlin lied, or had bad intentions!
"Be specific.

I remember you said before that you can negotiate in a way that increases my life. "

After hearing this, Merlin immediately knelt down on the ground full of remorse and fear. In order to kneel down conveniently, she had to lift up her loose robe, but the witch didn't wear pants underneath!

Obviously, with Merlin's allegiance, the bottom line began to decline without limit, and incorrect thoughts appeared!

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty the Supreme, I already know how ignorant and naive my original thoughts were, and I'm sorry for the mistakes I made..."

"Wait a minute, I'm not going to judge you. Since you can stand here, it means that I have forgiven your past mistakes. I'm just curious. Since you don't have enough merits to make me live longer, what plan do you have for me to agree with you?" And you?

I order you to explain to me from an objective point of view, without worrying about being punished. "

Merlin let out a long sigh of relief after hearing this, and stood up again at Li Wei's request.

Magic robes were not originally designed for kneeling. In the Arigado Empire, even formal magic apprentices affiliated with the Magic Guild do not need to kneel before the emperor, they only need to bow!
The status of magicians in the empire is even more detached than that of nobles!

It is no exaggeration to say that the Magic Guild left the Arigado Empire, and it is also one of the most powerful forces on the Makabaka Continent. However, the Arigado Empire will have difficulty surviving the attack of powerful races without the Magic Guild.

The reason is simple, the magic guild does not allow official magicians to serve the imperial nobles!
A monopoly on magicians has been achieved!
Every year, the Arigado Empire needs to provide a large amount of resources to the Magic Guild free of charge as a 'protection fee'.

It's just that magicians need to spend a lot of energy and time on researching and practicing magic, so they have no interest in participating in government affairs, which reflects the importance of the imperial family and nobles.

Of course, the Arigado Empire is not without resistance in the face of the Magic Guild. At least the Dragon Knight Legion controlled by the Imperial Royal Family can pose a considerable threat to the Magician Guild.

It is also on the Makabaca continent where the alien race is powerful, the Magic Guild and the Arigado Empire will cooperate sincerely, at least both sides are human races.

"Your Majesty, what I wanted to trade at that time was actually this source of life stone."

While speaking, Merlin took out a small stone without edges and corners exuding soft light out of thin air.

Even if a layman sees this kind of stone with its own luminous effect, it will be collected as a treasure.

Female customers will absolutely empty their pockets for these glowing little stones!

Merlin carefully presented the source of life stone to Li Wei, and reminded: "Your Majesty, please do not let the source of life stone touch water, otherwise it will dissolve quickly.

This is also how the source stone is taken.

In fact, the source of life stone is a magical creation specially extracted from the water of life of the elves through magical means.

One source of life stone can increase the life span of the user by one year, and any human being can restore his body and appearance to his youthful prime by taking only one, and have the effect of eternal youth.

It's a pity that the source of life stone still has a huge defect, or this is the defect of the water of life of the elves who made the source of life stone itself.

After humans take the source of life stone, their lifespan will be locked.

No matter how much lifespan the human being who took the source of life stone had left, from the moment he took the source of life stone, his life span was only one year.

The price of eternal youth is to set a countdown to one's own life. In the few seconds before the end of the countdown, humans who have taken the source of life stone will rapidly age and turn into a pile of dead bones. No spell can restore this withered vitality.

If you want to continue to prolong your life, the only way is to continue to take other life stones and increase the countdown number of years.

Therefore, this source of life stone is more like an inescapable poison for human beings. Once one eats one, one must continue to eat it, otherwise one will die immediately when the time limit is up.

If the quantity is large enough and can be supplied without limit, the source of life stone is naturally a good thing, but the raw material for making the source of life stone is the water of life, and the water of life is a treasure of the elves, so it is impossible to trade it to humans in large quantities.

However, the lifespan of a person is not fixed. Many life-enhancing magics can prolong life, and there are other ways to reduce the loss of life force.

The number of life stones is so small that even in the Arigado Empire on the Makabaka continent, very few magicians choose this kind of thing to prolong their lifespan.

I have already brought all the inventory of the Magic Guild, and I only have five life stones in my hand. "

After Merlin finished speaking, Li Wei already knew the other party's original plan.

It is nothing more than using the source of life stone to lure himself to work for him!

Once he took the source of life stone and didn't know the exact quantity of the source of life stone, in order to survive, what choice did he have besides serving Merlin?

The rapid attenuation of vitality caused by the countdown of the source of life stone has no solution on the Makabaka continent, and naturally there is no solution in the parallel world where Li Wei lives.

The most important thing is that once Li Wei did not control Merlin, after testing the effect of the source of life stone can really rejuvenate, Li Wei is not very sure that he can control himself to try...

After all, for Li Wei now, longevity is his only goal.

Even for this reason, Li Wei did not hesitate to attract visitors from other worlds to invade!

"Merlin, how old are you now?"

"Return to Your Majesty, I am exactly 1001 years old this year."

After hearing this, Li Wei suddenly became confident in his goal of extending his life, and a smile subconsciously appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Merlin immediately continued to explain: "Your Majesty, the fact that I can live for such a long time is naturally not due to taking the source of life stone to prolong my life.

In the Arigado Empire, my hometown, not even ordinary magicians would take the source of life stone. Even if this thing is poison, it was fired at an unimaginably high price by the nobles of the empire.

For those imperial nobles, living an extra year is also a big profit.

This is also the reason why the Magic Guild has been working hard to collect the water of life and create this poisonous source of life stone.

The way I extend my life is the way I recommend to Your Majesty.

There are no sequelae, and the upper limit is extremely high.

On the Makabaka continent, the water of life of the elves is also called the fountain of youth by humans. It is the water of life that the elves rely on to ensure that all the people of the clan can remain young forever and have an extremely long lifespan.

However, if the water of life is not treated, if it enters the body of other races, it will become life poison again.

Even in the Makabaka continent, few people know the secrets inside.

The poison effect in the water of life aimed at non-elven people is actually intentional by the world tree of the elves!

The water of life flows from the springs made by the World Tree, and the springs are connected to the core of the World Tree.

When I was traveling in the mainland, I was lucky enough to get the friendship of the elves, and thus stole the source of the world tree to make the water of life-the sap of the world tree, which is equivalent to the blood that flows in our human body!

Except for the long-lived vampires who rely on sucking blood to provide their own vitality, the only long-lived races on the Makabaka continent are the elves, because the elves are a race created by the world tree.

World Tree can absorb the vitality of the entire planet, so the blood in her body contains unimaginable vitality!

The water of life is nothing but the diluted spring water produced by the World Tree.

In fact, the essence of the water of life is a mixture of excrement from the world tree and ordinary spring water.

However, I who stole this secret and half of the World Tree's heart have also become the sworn enemy of the elves.

Alas, the demise of the Makabaka Continent has an inseparable relationship with me.

After I became a close friend of the elves, I couldn't bear the longing for longevity. I attacked the world tree and got half of the heart of the world tree, thus gaining a lifespan comparable to that of the elves.

The World Tree suffered heavy damage because of this. The World Tree's heart is the source of life for the World Tree. In order to survive, the World Tree lost half of its heart, and began to squeeze the vitality of the entire planet.

As a result, not to mention the rapid decline of the planet's livelihood, it also triggered a rampage of magic power, causing natural and man-made disasters everywhere.

Naturally, this secret elf clan would not release it. Many races believed that the Makabaka continent was facing the doomsday of natural disasters because of the abuse of magical energy caused by years of war.

This is actually caused by the excessive extraction of World Tree.

If it wasn't for my selfishness, World Tree wouldn't use this method of fishing in the marshes to squeeze its own home planet.

After all, our civilization has not yet been able to step into the vast starry sky. Without the mother star, all races will face death.

Of course, now the major races on the Macabaka continent do not need to face the crisis of extinction.

The way I recommend for Your Majesty to prolong life is to get the other half of the World Tree's heart!
Half of the World Tree's heart in my body was completely digested hundreds of years ago, and I cannot contribute it to His Majesty. After all, I am a human being and cannot provide vitality like the World Tree.

In fact, on the Macabaka continent, only World Tree can perfectly plunder and convert life force. Even the vampire clan can only plunder life force by sucking blood. "

"Is this the only way you know of to extend your life?"

"That's not true, but this is the best way.

The extended lifespan is also the longest, measured in hundreds of years!
In other ways, magic is generally used to reduce the consumption of vitality and enter a semi-dormant state.

Or transform into an undead creature like an undead lich. However, after becoming an undead creature, it is easy to be manipulated when encountering a vampire. Especially Queen Lilith, the ancestor of the vampire family, almost no undead can escape her control.

This is also the reason why the magic guild suppresses necromancers vigorously.

The birth of any necromancer is actually adding thugs to Lilith, the ancestor of vampires.

Of course, if there is a great magician who is proficient in healing techniques, he can cure all hidden diseases of the body for His Majesty, which can also be regarded as prolonging life.

However, this method cannot break through the limit of human life in any case.

Even the 150-year-old mark is difficult to break.

On top of that, I'm not good at healing and life extension magic.

This is related to my early experience. After I got half of the World Tree's heart, I didn't need to think about my lifespan, so I didn't spend much energy on researching life magic. I just focused on improving my combat magic attainments.

With nearly a thousand years of research, I have created the most powerful magic on the Makabaka continent, which I call the 'Forbidden Curse'.

I am also the only holy magician who can cast forbidden spells on the Makabaka continent.

Although I was called a rare genius by the Arigado Empire, in fact, I knew very well in my heart that I was able to achieve this achievement only because I lived long enough..."

Merlin laughed to himself.

Perhaps revealing his true feelings made Merlin relax his respect for Levi. He instinctively took out his gold-wired monocle and put it on his left eye.

However, after putting it on, I found that Li Wei's eyes on the opposite side became strange, and he took off the monocle with a look of embarrassment on his face...

There is no way, because I have done too much academic research, and it is difficult to change my habits.

However, Merlin quickly found a way to relieve the embarrassment, and she recommended to Levi: "Your Majesty, this monocle is not a real eyeglass, but a multifunctional magic tool developed by me alone.

It has the ability to explore, analyze and record data, reserve offensive magic and so on.

The operation is very simple, do you want one, Your Majesty? "

Li Wei picked it up curiously, and asked, "Can I just put it on?"

Merlin nodded again and again: "I have unlocked all the functions of the glasses. As long as His Majesty puts them on, the glasses will automatically scan and lock His Majesty's pupils. From now on, only His Majesty can use these glasses, and if they fall into the hands of others, they will not open anything. Function, just a flat monocle.

His Majesty has no mana and cannot use the offensive magic inside, but other functions are still good.

After wearing it, the glasses will automatically capture your Majesty's thinking fluctuations. This is a major breakthrough in my research on human will!

Therefore, His Majesty only needs to use his mind to control the monocle. "

After Li Wei put it on, pieces of text suddenly appeared on the monocle, all of which were translated. When Li Wei chose to explore the function, the clothes worn by Merlin in front of him suddenly became transparent, and the ketone body that made the blood spurt Naked in Li Wei's eyes!

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