night.

The underground magic experiment center of Crescent Castle.

Rosen came out of the small door of Queen Kao's secret room and turned to enter another very inconspicuous secret door that was almost integrated with the wall.

After opening the door and entering, there is a spiral staircase leading to the underground. After walking down the stairs for more than ten meters, you will enter a secret room deep underground.

There is always a layer of light blue water film on the four walls of the secret room. This is an improved and enhanced version of the seven-ring "Breathless Crystal Wall".

There is a magic circle that automatically maintains it, and the effect lasts for a month after one charge.

Rosen walked to the center of the secret room, where there was a cylindrical opaque water tank, about two and a half meters long and one meter in diameter.

There are all kinds of runes painted on the walls around the water tank, including pure water runes, nature runes, life runes, etc., densely packed.

There are also various strange and complex magical equipment placed around the water tank, their shapes have a common precision processing style.

Obviously, this was all created by Rosen himself.

The magical equipment emitted various power fluctuations, and all of these fluctuations resonated with the runes on the water tank, conducting precise power communication.

Rosen put on a full-body protective lab suit and protective glasses, then slowly pushed open the hatch of the water tank.

The hatch was filled with a light green transparent liquid, and in this liquid, a man's body was suspended.

This man looked exactly like Rosen, even down to the smallest details.

The most peculiar thing is that this is not due to transfiguration, but is natural.

Although the man was immersed in water, he had obvious life activities. Not only was he breathing all the time, but his hands and feet were also twitching meaninglessly.

This is the stand that Rosen prepared for himself, which functions similarly to the stand for Queen Kaa.

But unlike the queen's stand-in, Rosen's stand-in is a truly perfect stand-in.

Why is it perfect? ​​Because except for not having a brain and needing to be controlled remotely by Rosen at all times, everything else is exactly the same as Rosen, including the genes deepest in every cell of the body.

Because of this, Rosen's magical power can flow freely in his body, and even the closest people cannot detect any abnormality between them.

So where did this body come from? Of course it wasn't cloned, Rosen didn't have such ability yet.

The original technology came from Sea Cliff Laboratory and was called "Bloodline Fusion and Replacement Technique".

The technical details are to obtain a stranger's body, and then use the body as a container to inject one's own blood into it, and then use secret medicines and various secret methods to allow one's own blood to be integrated into the stranger's body little by little.

Then, he would continue to provide power to his own bloodline, allowing it to grow stronger until it completely replaced the stranger's body.

In this process, the stranger's body acts as a 'cultivation container' and 'growth template'.

When the replacement is completely completed, the stranger will completely 'disappear', and what will be left is a body that is exactly the same as your own blood, even more similar than an identical twin.

Such exquisite techniques were discovered bit by bit by Master Levender through various experiments on living beings.

There is no principle of magic that is close to the essence. All of it is the summary of experience after continuous trial and error, and it is quite mature.

He was so mature that Rosen began to doubt that there might be something wrong with the frost messenger Lafengge he met in the Sea Cliff Laboratory that day.

Of course, even if there are problems, Rosen is not afraid.

After obtaining this technology, Rosen made the best possible improvements on this basis, then found a body of a 'living dead' and spent several months cultivating it bit by bit until it grew into its current appearance.

Today is the time for acceptance.

Rosen carefully examined his body again, and after confirming that everything was normal, he felt a slight movement in his heart.

'Laifu, activate telepathy, connect to the perfect puppet, and put it into the background.'

After giving this order, he walked to the chair beside the secret room, sat down and closed his eyes.

However, this original body had its eyes closed, but its vision was still bright, and its perspective was shifted to the water tank.

"Crash~"

The man in the tank sat up.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem~~"

He coughed repeatedly, coughing out the specially oxygenated pure water in his lungs.

"Crash~~"

I climbed out of the water tank, wiped my body clean, and felt it all carefully.

"It feels exactly the same as the original one!"

And indeed they should be exactly the same, because the cell genes of both parties are exactly the same.

But because the basic template is the living dead, the cerebral cortex of this clone is also severely damaged, so it has no soul and can only be remotely controlled by the original body.

But after all, it is a perfect substitute with the same blood, so there is also a unique advantage.

'My pure mana can be transferred to this clone through blood resonance.'

The transfer process is very costly. The main body consumes 10 mana and can only transfer 1.

But because of the special nature of pure mana.

Because as the distance increases, the loss ratio will only decrease slowly.

For 100 kilometers, the loss ratio is ten to one, and for 1,000 kilometers, it is only about 13 to one.

At present, pure mana can only exist in the soul, but the clone has no soul, so the pure mana after transfer must be directly converted into other spell energy.

Then either save it or spend it directly.

But it's enough.

"Haha~ This is really my perfect clone."

The south is pacified, the north is in shock, it's time to take over Weilan.

But the opponents we will face in the future will become stronger and the challenges will become more severe.

With this thing, when the two bodies are separated, the original Laifu's extreme operating ability will be reduced by a little, but it will give him more room for free rotation.

"From now on, this clone will be responsible for government affairs and participate in important political occasions."

As a wizard lord, studying magic is the foundation, and you must not let tedious government affairs take up too much of your time and energy.

But as a lord, he must control the territory, so a perfect substitute that no one can see the flaws in is necessary.

As for the enthusiastic girls, they will naturally be dealt with by the main body.

This is one of the great pleasures in Rosen's life, and he cannot let others do it, not even a clone.

After confirming that everything was perfect with the clone, Rosen controlled the clone to rest in the secret room, and he opened the door and left.

It was already eight o'clock in the evening when we returned to the ground.

Rosen went straight back to the inner courtyard of the lord's longhouse.

Looking at her own children, who were already fast asleep, she teased the mother.

The child's mother was in a depressed mood.

Rosen certainly knew why she was depressed, because during the day, she knew what happened in the south.

He raised his hands and hugged her.

"My dear, no matter how things change in the future, we, our children, and the Adrian family will always enjoy the glory of Weilan."

The so-called glory is maintained by money.

As for the first generation, they will also be given some power to silence others.

For example, Holland and Tewold can be reused.

There aren't many people in the Adrian family, only about forty in total. With an average annual budget of 2,000 Oggs per person, it's already better than their current treatment.

It doesn't cost much in total.

If we also set up a mechanism to limit the number of preferential treatment and to downgrade every other generation, the benefits will be reset to zero after five generations. Then, no matter how many generations pass, there will be no situation where the tail is too big to be removed.

Selena felt much better, because she knew that her husband never made promises easily, but once he made a promise he would never change his mind.

She asked back, "Will you kill my brother?"

Rosen shook his head: "Dear, I will not kill any member of the Adrian family, including your brother."

"You are the Duchess and the matriarch of the Adrian family. It is you who should judge their fate."

Serena thought for a moment and said, "Let him live. He is my brother after all. Let's go to the North Weilan Sea and find a larger, remote island for him to stay in peace."

Rosen laughed and said, "Dear, if you do this, Reid will hate you."

Selena also laughed: "I still hate him, it's a good thing for him to be saved. Oh, don't drink, the child will have nothing to drink later, um~~"

During the lingering, a light laugh came from my ear: "It seems that I came at the wrong time."

Selena was immediately relieved: "No, no, no, Anna, you came at the right time. I can't handle him alone."

No words were spoken that night.

The next morning.

When Rosen was in the government study making preparations for heading south to Dawn City, he suddenly received news from the port.

"My Lord, there is an Aaron ship arriving at the dock. It is King Aaron's hound, Sir Schmidt, who has come personally, and he has brought the former Duke with him."

Rosen was startled, then sighed: "This guy Danger, everyone calls him the Lion King, but I didn't expect he has the ability to bend and stretch."

If he had remained stubborn to the end, he would have been nothing more than a reckless man, but now he is an opponent worthy of attention.

Veran was just Aaron’s puppet and could be easily defeated, but the three kingdoms of the Natural Alliance were real beasts.

Moreover, since they are all members of the Natural Alliance, they cannot fight each other at every turn, which will only waste their internal energy and give an advantage to the Glorious Empire that is eyeing them covetously.

Therefore, the future game strategy needs to be changed.

The war should not be started easily. Once it is started, it must be fought swiftly and decisively, so that the foreign enemy has no chance to take advantage.

"Weilan, with a population of more than 30 million, versus Aaron, with a population of 110 million. A small guy versus a big guy. Wow~~ This is really a challenge."

While thinking, Rosen said, "Let them come over."

He waited patiently.

About half an hour later, Sir Schmidt came over with Ryder himself.

The former still looked somewhat arrogant, but the latter was like a frost-bitten eggplant, with his eyes evasive and his back hunched, as if he couldn't wait to get on the ground and lick Rosen's feet.

Rosen glanced at Sir Schmidt and smiled faintly, "Sir, do you know why His Majesty Danger asked you to send the Duke here?"

Sir Schmidt was startled: "What do you mean, Baron?"

Rosen smiled slightly: "Master Shahram of the Blue Whale Mansion that day is now hanging on the street lamp in Glory Square, enjoying the sea breeze."

"And the magic master who once threatened to treat me like this, shouldn't he imagine his own fate?"

Schmidt was shocked and took a half step back, but then stopped: "Baron, don't go too far. You are the only one in the study, and you are an intermediate magician. I can easily defeat you!"

Rosen narrowed his eyes and smiled, then quietly cast a five-ring fate spell, 'Fate Prophecy', on Schmidt.

"Your Majesty Danger's apology is very sincere, and I am certainly not a harsh person."

"I won't kill you, but I bet you will fall down three times when you leave the study."

"What's the meaning?"

"It's meaningless. Get off my island, hound."

Sir Schmidt didn't stay for a moment and turned and left.

Just as he reached the door, he suddenly tripped and fell with a thump, hitting his mouth hard on the ground.

The impact wasn't strong enough to trigger the defensive weapon, so he fell hard and even his front teeth were knocked out.

He crawled up with blood in his mouth. He didn't realize what happened yet and just felt that he was really unlucky.

Get up and keep walking.

He had just taken two steps when he fell again, hitting his forehead hard on the ground, almost knocking himself unconscious.

He got up dazed, but after taking two steps, he fell again.

He subconsciously supported his arm on the ground, twisted the joint, and with a "crack", it broke.

If he still didn't understand what was going on at this point, he would be a real fool.

He turned around with blood all over his face and looked at the baron in the study with a look of surprise.

The other party just looked at him with a smile, as if he was gloating.

"The prophecy of the wise man!" Schmidt stuttered.

"Arrogance has blinded your eyes, but at least it has not made you blind. Go away! The feud between us is over."

Sir Schmidt got up, holding his broken arm, and ran away in a daze.

Rosen looked at Dawn Duke Reid again.

"Your Excellency the Duke."

"Plop~~"

Reid knelt on the ground and said, "I am not the Duke. You are the Duke. You are the merciful Lord of Weilan. I beg for your mercy and spare my life."

He looked at Rosen pitifully, almost kowtowed.

But he was shocked in his heart. Such a young Five-ring Sage must be a person of great talent. No wonder he failed.

Rosen sighed and shouted to the door, "Alia, go call the lady over."

After a while, Selena arrived.

Ryder immediately took a few steps on his knees towards Serena: "Sister~~Sister~~Brother, I was wrong. I apologize to you. I..."

Serena waved her hand: "Ryder, you are no longer my brother."

"Yes, yes, you are the noble Duchess, and I am just an ordinary person. Please spare my life, Duchess!"

Serena looked at her brother kneeling on the ground, not knowing how to describe her feelings.

"Ryder, write a notice saying that you will pass the throne to my husband, and then you will live on Greystone Island for the rest of your life."

"Greystone Island which Greystone Island?"

"There is an isolated island 150 kilometers away from the land in the North Weiland Sea. It is about 5 kilometers in radius. There is land for growing potatoes and bird droppings for fertilizer. You can grow potatoes to feed yourself."

Reid's face changed drastically: "But I can't do it."

"You can learn. In the first few years, we will give you enough food, but we won't give you food forever. If you don't learn, you will starve to death."

"Oh, and there's this potion, it's a golden blessing, it can keep you healthy and won't let you get sick and die easily."

"Drink it."

Ryder finally couldn't help it and yelled, "Selena, you are a monster!"

Selena used a master-level spell to force Ryder's mouth open and fed him 5 ml of golden blessing: "To deal with the devil, of course you have to use the devil's methods. I will treat my brother the way he treated me."

After saying that, she turned and left the government study.

Rosen looked at Reid and smiled, "My Lord Duke, I will provide you with a detailed manual on growing potatoes and various vegetables, as well as fishing rods, fishing nets, and small fishing boats."

"In short, you will not lack the tools to obtain food."

Reid was completely desperate. After a long silence, he asked, "What will happen to my wife and children?"

"You have two choices. One, go to the lonely island with you, two, stay in Dawn City, and I will ensure a decent life for you."

Reid was silent for a few seconds and then said, "Let them stay in Dawn City."

Rosen smiled and said, "This is probably your last responsibility. For this, I will arrange a few servants for you and build you a nice little manor."

"Thank you~"

Reid thanked him reluctantly, but he had fully recognized the truth.

The fate of the young man in front of me can be determined by just a few words.

This was the power he had always dreamed of, but unfortunately, he never truly obtained it.

"You're welcome, Alia. Arrange for him to leave the island."

"Yes, sir."

After Reid left, the Chief of the Admiralty, Jop, and the Chief of the War Department, Caudrin, arrived together.

"Lord, everything is ready. We can go south to Dawn City at any time."

Rosen was very satisfied with the efficiency: "Then let's set off tomorrow morning!"

Go south to Dawn City and take over Dawn Castle.

When he completely took over the giant island of Weilan with a population of 30 million and an area of ​​520,000 square kilometers, he was no longer a chess piece that could be squeezed and wiped out at will and trembled in fear all day long, but was upgraded to a chess player on the victory chess table.

Although it is only the smallest player in the Natural Alliance, it is a fundamental leap! 　Weilan Giant Island, the southern county is 320,000 square kilometers, and the northern county is 200,000 square kilometers.

PS: I got the chapter title wrong today, and I published it in a hurry. I can’t change it yet, so I ended up with two chapters of 157.

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