Chapter 26 Changning Fjord Expansion Plan
Chapter 26 Changning Fjord Expansion Plan
Aaron stood at the front of the crowd, slowly chanting the slogans while leading the people in practicing them a second time.
"Follow me, do some stretching exercises! One, two, three, four; two, two, three, four... Pay attention to your breathing rhythm!"
A few of the faster learners in the guard were also recruited by Aaron to serve as laborers, standing at the front to lead the training.
Men, women, and children lined up in a square formation according to their height, their eyes fixed on the movements of the person at the front.
Their clumsy imitations reminded Su Lan of her student days in her previous life.
He forced a smile to his lips, observed for a while, and, finding no major problems, prepared to leave.
"Tia, let's go... Hmm? Where is everyone?"
Su Lan turned around and suddenly realized that her little follower was gone.
What did that guy do?
He looked around and finally found a figure dressed in a black robe in the corner of the group.
The man in black robes was dancing with great vigor, following Aaron's rhythm.
Having locked onto her target, Su Lan circled around from behind and slapped Tia on the head: "What are you doing?"
Tia quickly pulled her hood down and lowered her voice, "Su Lan, I'm studying hard. You've mistaken a mink for someone else!"
"Still putting on an act! You're the only one in the whole territory who calls me that." Su Lan was amused.
"You're a magician, practicing this is useless for you. If you want to learn, I'll go back and teach you. Now come with me to Changning Fjord and help me figure out how to plan it out."
"I think it's possible to cultivate both magic and martial arts," Tia muttered, obediently stopping her movements and following behind Su Lan.
After reading her last will and testament last night, Su Lan put the construction of Changning Fjord on the agenda.
After a night, he had already made a preliminary plan.
I invited Tia along this time to get her opinion.
After all, Tia is familiar with Hecate, so she must know his preferences!
Recalling the bombshell revelations in her suicide note, Su Lan couldn't help but scratch her head.
The ritual was half found in an ancient book, and the other half was made up. I won't go into the trivialities like how success meant good luck.
However, the Holy Sun Church's Inquisition, which believed in the true God, was largely infiltrated by followers of evil gods, and it even lost the prefix "Holy Sun," almost having to be renamed "Radiant Moon"...
Is this reasonable?
Even if the true god Azema has been missing for some years, it shouldn't be like this, right?
The letter specifically mentioned that the Church of the Moon Goddess seemed to be secretly setting up some kind of ritual.
One of the known altars is located east of Viscount Shawn's territory, near the sea.
The letter also instructed him, as the "successor," to be extremely careful and to stay as far away as possible if he encountered such a situation...
Su Lan was speechless. Wasn't this the one from the forest farm?
He not only crawled inside, but he also dug up the floorboards...
The territory is right next door; you can run away from the monk, but you can't run away from the temple. How can you get away from it?
However, Su Lan wouldn't just passively wait.
He can't move his home, but he can open up "extension mines"!
Changning Fjord is an excellent location.
Su Lan plans to establish a Yin-Yang territory, building it into a developed port suitable for monster girls to live in, while ordinary citizens will reside here, thus feigning weakness to the enemy.
The idea was brilliant, but how to accomplish it without revealing his identity was a bit of a headache for him.
……
Samir has left Su Lan's territory.
Since arriving at Black Reef Fjord, he had sensed that Su Lan had a secret.
Out of caution, Samir did not invade Su Lan's mind, nor did he participate in the arrangement of the ritual, but left everything to Kahn.
As he had predicted, the conversion ritual failed. Kahn's body was intact, but not a single wisp of his soul returned.
That's very interesting.
They either fell into a trap and were killed while trapped, or they were killed in one blow, leaving not even their soul behind.
Samir leans more towards the former, suspecting it was the work of the "conservatives".
"This is fine, the scenery is not bad." He put down the coffin on his back and sighed.
"Old buddy, you've had a tough time. Now that you're dead, let's just forget about the insults you gave me before."
Samir didn't use magic. He took a shovel from the coffin and started digging a hole while talking to himself, as if he were talking to an old friend.
"You think I brought you here to intimidate you and make you a scapegoat... Kahn, Kahn, your vision is always so short-sighted."
He shook his head, his shoveling motions meticulous.
"Measuring the abyss always requires throwing stones, and for someone as mediocre as you, this is a shortcut to the truth. You should feel honored."
Samir stopped what he was doing, looked up at the red moon in the sky, and his eyes held a barely perceptible fervor.
"Those fools who weep over their broken doctrines are still desperately searching for their holy sun..."
Samir chuckled softly, then bent down and filled the pit with the last shovelful of soil, covering Kahn's empty shell.
"They simply don't understand that when the holy sun burns to its extreme, the embers will naturally condense into that deep red color."
He casually dusted himself off and picked up the coffin again.
Black Reef Fjord is not an irreplaceable point, and Su Lan does not necessarily have to control it.
Now that Su Lan has proven there is a way to counter him, we can leave this place for the time being.
Continuing onward, Samir soon arrived at an altar.
The red mist around the altar parted on its own, creating a passage, and he entered the core area.
"Sean, how's the preparation going?"
Sean turned around: "Lord Samir, as you instructed, the curse, resentment, and corruption are all prepared and the ritual can begin at any time."
"Where are your people?" Samir asked.
"They've already migrated westward," Sean answered truthfully.
Sean didn't really understand why Samir was so concerned about the lives of the serfs, but Samir's eccentricities were already well-known in the church, so he didn't dare to ask any more questions.
"Let's do it now." Samir didn't make any move, and the magic in the altar suddenly surged.
Crimson runes lit up one after another, and a complex magic circle suddenly appeared on the ground.
A beam of light shot into the sky, illuminating the night.
Immediately afterwards, cracks began to appear in the air, densely packed like a spider web.
"Let's leave." Samir's tone was unusually urgent.
Sean was already prepared. Upon hearing this, he didn't say a word, had the guards grab him, and ran away.
Behind him, the cracks had coalesced into a black hole, slowly expanding as if to devour everything.
An alien world has descended!
……
In her sleep, Su Lan felt a sudden pang of heart palpitation for no apparent reason.
He suddenly woke up and looked out the window, only to see the night sky a deep red.
Su Lan got up and had just reached the balcony door, intending to check on things, when Tia, clutching her tail, darted over from next door, panting heavily.
"Su Lan, something terrible has happened! From the west... from the west, an aura from another realm has descended, right near where we were picking flowers!"
Is it from another land... or is it man-made?
In the middle of the night, someone set off fireworks in front of his house?
Just as Su Lan was about to ask further, a message suddenly appeared in her mind.
[At the crossroads of the future, the relic box opens.]
Please check your will and estate, and fulfill your last wishes.
Having experienced the dream incident, Su Lan didn't hide it from Tia this time; instead, she directly pulled out a few pages of the will in front of her.
"Wait a minute, let me take a look first."
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