Struggle in the Steam Age

After more than half an hour of educating the little puppet Nora, Lawrence still gave up helplessly, because Nora is completely obedient and obedient. But regarding good and evil, she still firmly believes that it is enough to follow Lawrence's will. What he likes is good, and what he dislikes is evil.

Nora can have such an idea, on the one hand, because when she builds her self-awareness, Lawrence is fully involved in the whole process, and even uses Lawrence's own magical core as the basis for her own construction. Therefore, it is natural to bear the imprint of Lawrence from the origin, and will subconsciously adopt Lawrence's various ideas when judgment is needed.

On the other hand, almost all of her knowledge now comes from Lawrence, which makes her think like a time traveler. And this also caused the little puppet Nora to feel that only Lawrence and herself are of the same kind in this world, while the others are at most NPCs.

Well, since you said you can control this plane, just briefly introduce the situation of this astral plane to me. Lawrence, who gave up his persuasion plan, turned the topic to another aspect. He felt that he was relying solely on his words. It probably won't have much effect, but if this little puppet is exposed to the world more, maybe it can slowly change her way of thinking and three views.

Under Lawrence's questioning, Nora could say she knew everything. Soon, Lawrence got the specific situation of this astral plane from Nora.

As the core astral plane mastered by the most important gods in the top Nile civilization in ancient times, it is also an astral plane that can be self-sufficient and has a complete internal circulation system. Lawrence guessed from the very beginning that this plane would definitely not be small, but after Nora told the specific area of ​​this plane, he realized that his guess was still too conservative.

Because the surface area of ​​this planet is more than eight times that of the Earth in Lawrence's previous life, the area of ​​each country is also much larger. For example, the White Eagle Federation is the largest country east of the Great Mountain Range in the northern part of the New World, with an area of ​​more than 68 million square kilometers. Although at least 2/3 of such a large area does not belong to the actual control area, it looks so large on the map.

Now, the astral plane space actually controlled by Lawrence is 260,000 square kilometers, which is equivalent to the size of a relatively small state in the White Eagle Federation. It's just that this plane is not a common circle or square, but a long strip plane with a width of 100 kilometers and a length of 2600 kilometers centered on a wide river.

Fortunately, the positioning on the key he obtained before was relatively accurate, and his intuition was strong enough after adding that Lawrence himself had the blessing of the Bai Ze bloodline. It allowed him to go straight to the destination without taking many detours in such a large space and find the core pyramid in a short time.

This is too exaggerated. While feeling grateful, Lawrence was also extremely shocked by the size of this astral plane. Because according to the information he received before, the largest plane owned by the Church of the God of Knowledge is close to 2 million square kilometers.

If you consider the continuous advancement of human beings' search, positioning, and use of technology for thousands of years on the astral plane. Lawrence felt that in the era of the ancient Nile civilization, the plane he was in now definitely belonged to the top part,

However, because of the transformation of God Habi before, the development direction of this plane is livable and sustainable. Therefore, almost all the energy absorbed by this astral plane in the astral plane is used for expanding the area of ​​the plane and transforming the plane.

According to the information that Nora obtained after merging the core of the plane, this plane was only half of its current size after being captured by God Harpy at the beginning. At the same time, it was a wasteland, and only a very small number of creatures could survive in it. But at that time, the concentration of magic power in this plane was very high, and many precious magic materials were produced.

But as those precious magic materials were exhausted, God Harbi began to transform this plane, and the result of the transformation was the vibrant plane that Lawrence saw now.

But in the astral plane, it takes a lot of energy to maintain an ecological circle that can support the survival of ordinary people, especially in a huge area like this astral plane, it is necessary to maintain an ecological circle that is extremely suitable for human survival. So after counting, the list of plane outputs that Nora took out seemed very ineffective.

You can get 300,000 tons of grain, 50 tons of copper ingots, 100,000 rolls of linen, 1 ton of lapis lazuli, and 1 ton of chalcedony every year— Lawrence frowned after looking at the statistics list that Nora summoned in front of him. When passing by several settlements before, I have seen the overall technical level of the local jackals. To be honest, that thing can only be described as slash-and-burn farming, so it is normal that these outputs are very rare, but I did not expect Productivity here is lower than he thought.

Fortunately, the only supernatural resources sorted out in the end are not too few, at least they are definitely enough for Lawrence and a few close friends to use. For example, 150 scrolls of golden papyrus can be provided to Lawrence every year, which can be used for many important records of magical knowledge and the production of certain magic props or scrolls.

In addition, there are 100 jars of petals and lotus seeds pickled with the nectar of the golden lotus that is also planted in the temple. Each jar weighs 500 grams, and the solid content is not less than 70%. These things are mild tonics in a broad sense, and they can also be added to many healing potions to improve their effects. Belonging to something that is very popular in the extraordinary world.

Obviously, Nora didn't know that Lawrence was satisfied at this time, and instead misunderstood the reason for his frown, so she explained to Lawrence: There are about 570,000 jackals in the entire plane, because the gods wanted to keep themselves. Because of the purity of their beliefs, they cannot leave this astral plane. The wealth we can obtain now is the resources we can obtain after counting the materials they donate to the temple every year.

I don't know how the harpy god was trained back then. These jackals are indeed devout enough. Except for the supplies needed to maintain their own lives, they donated everything to the temple. That is to say, these things are already hoarse The werewolves have almost all their supplies.

Of course, I also know that this number is too small from the perspective of an astral plane. But if too much is collected, the population of jackals will drop significantly, which is not conducive to long-term acquisition of resources.

Speaking of this, the doll Nora showed a slightly cruel smile: Of course, if you need sufficient supernatural resources, I can use the power of the plane I have to destroy the defenses around the plane and make this world completely Annihilation in chaos.

If you do this, the destruction of a large number of lives along with the astral plane will definitely produce a lot of precious extraordinary resources. Of course, you don't have to worry about me, because I devoured the core of the astral plane instead of merging, so the astral plane The destruction of the plane will only cause me a little damage, and it will be able to make up for it in the future—

That's not what I mean. Lawrence quickly shook his head. He felt that he really couldn't be as decisive as the protagonist in the novel he read in his previous life, and dared to do such a thing that destroyed everything for his own benefit.

What I mean is, let's take less of those ordinary things now. If possible, it's better to distribute them to those jackals. Anyway, it's useless for me to take hundreds of thousands of tons of food for the time being, let alone these looking Linen that is as rough as gauze, and copper that is as rough as it seems to be mixed with at least 1/5 of impurities, or papyrus that has been completely eliminated now. Lawrence stared at the little doll Nora seriously and said.

Okay, I understand. Nora nodded, and then showed a thoughtful expression. I seem to feel that someone in the temple in front of the pyramid is calling me. What's going on?