Demon Lord

The reason is cost.

The first issue of the Karen Times newspaper is very limited, because all newspapers are printed on parchment, which is expensive. If the orcs did not attack Efta and left too many sheep flocks for logistics, it is estimated that Roddy would not be able to find them. Get enough raw materials to put in.

Therefore, the first issue of the newspaper that Milnor saw was bought by the housekeeper from other places, because there were only thirty or forty copies in the whole city.

This newspaper made Milnor furious. He realized that he could not be so passive, so he found someone to publish a similar newspaper in the same way a week ago, called: Royal Weekly.

The above content basically refuted the content of the first issue of Karen Era, and at the same time praised the great achievements of Charles II, which naturally pleased the emperor and received many awards.

But Mirno also spent nearly 1,000 gold coins for the issuance of the 2,000 pieces of parchment and the remuneration for selecting a large number of people to copy the contents of the newspaper is not a small sum. You must know that it may be easy to find strong labor in this era Writing is a rare thing. Hiring a group of noble boys to copy newspapers is definitely not cheap work...

However, what he didn't expect was that the material of the second issue of Karen Era changed. This kind of newspaper, which feels thin to the touch and has a uniform color, can be seen from literate residents and nobles as long as the housekeeper goes out for a walk.

In contrast, the second issue of Royal Weekly has just produced 500 copies due to the difficulty of transcribing, which is not an order of magnitude compared to the other party's circulation of more than 5,000 copies...

And within three days, when the third issue of Karen Era was announced ahead of schedule, the butler finally realized...something seemed to have changed from a quantitative change to a qualitative change.

Almost everyone in the street is holding a brand new Karen Times, although most of them use it to wipe their butts, but it cannot be denied that the popularity of this newspaper has far exceeded everyone's expectations!

The number of newspapers that can be seen in the Bergen territory alone exceeds 10,000. This has not counted other regions of the kingdom, but according to previous experience, its total circulation of more than 30,000 is a certainty.

Milnor paid for the issue of Royal Weekly from the beginning to the end, in order to minimize the influence of this kind of newspaper on the nobility. It's that he simply doesn't have the resources to produce so many newspapers.

But now? Newspapers from Efta were dumped in various territories of the kingdom as if they didn’t need money, and the effect was that even if you shit in the cowshed, you could hear the farmers talking about how high the walls of Efta were, how the soldiers How thick is the armor...

Milnor had the absurd feeling that thousands of gold coins were all in vain, and what he couldn't accept the most was,

It is the gap in the content of the newspaper.

Although the Royal Weekly wrote as many articles as possible to whitewash the peace, the content is really colorful and the dry goods are scarce. At a glance, there are densely packed words, and the really useful content adds up to less than three sentences. And most of the other articles are bragging for the emperor, there are no dry goods at all, only adjectives are left.

On the other hand, Karen Times, each issue and each article has a distinct point of view and theme, accompanied by data that looks authentic and even indicates the source, even if you are not interested in the article, you can get it from a simple glance A lot of information that I didn't know.

And half a month has passed, the influence of Karen Era among the people has been initially revealed, and more than seven nobles in Mirno's team have chosen to withdraw, which makes him, who was originally insufficient in strength, almost become a naked man commander!

You must know that he announced five days ago that he would let the team set off, but the other nobles in the team delayed for various reasons... After delaying until today, there were signs of an early collapse!

Why isn't Mirno angry? How could he have imagined that such a newspaper full of words would have such a great influence...

At least Viper's Cross is still on my side...

He tried his best to breathe steadily, and said to the housekeeper: Prepare my luggage and bring all the soldiers that can be brought with me. It seems that I won't appear in front of them. These guys don't plan to move a step at all.

Milnor didn't realize how stupid his behavior as a layman in war was, he just continued to ask casually: The war has been defined as a 'war of conquest', and the magister will naturally have the obligation to fight, I will contact you When will those mages be in place?

This question made the butler pause. He lowered his head and said in a low voice, Master...I contacted all the magisters, but they...couldn't fight.

Mirno frowned and turned back: They don't have to come if they have something to do, but wouldn't it be okay to send a dozen apprentices to help?

My lord, what they mean... all mages will not participate in this war. I asked them why, and they said that they had just signed an agreement with Efta, and they must abide by it

Fucking shit!

Mirno slammed the door away, and with a livid face, he directly ordered the carriage to go to the imperial city. He couldn't believe it. How could this kind of shit mage who signed an agreement with the enemy just before the battle have the right to refuse to serve the country!

*****

Quick! Record the data!

The magister Kron didn't have his usual serious expression at this time. He fixed his eyes on the ice crystals emitting white smoke on the magic circle in front of him, and gave instructions to the laboratory assistants around him while casting spells.

A magician who concentrates can't care about the passage of time. His experiment has been going on for eighteen hours, and from the beginning to the end, he just drank a few sips of water and stuffed two mouthfuls of bread. Naturally, this sleepless night is because of the current progress of the experiment. So fast, so smooth that he didn't even think of it...

The reason for this is that the biggest contributors are naturally those charged spars that have just been transported from Efta.

Mentor, the record is complete!

Verda, who looked tired but didn't dare to slack off in the slightest, responded aloud, and Kroen finally let out a satisfied breath:

Huh... well, the experiment went well, everyone, let's take a rest today.

Kron turned his head and glanced out the window, only to realize that it was already midnight, so he waved his hand: We're all going to the restaurant for extra meals, you've worked hard today.

Amid the suppressed cheers, Kron came to the front of the magic circle cautiously, took out the charging spar on it that had not exhausted its energy, looked at it a few times and put it back into the box gently middle.

Mentor, the spar still has energy? According to the standard processing procedure, shouldn't these be discarded...

An assistant next to him asked a strange question, but Kron glared at him: Abandoned?! Do you know how much it cost me to get these crystals...