Chapter 821： New Network Project (1/2)

The flickering runes faded one by one, the buzzing crystal device began to enter the cooling process, and Rosetta Augustus, sitting on a special seat, opened his eyes, from somewhere between real and illusory. Between the mental state sober.

He breathed a sigh of relief, feeling his spirit relaxed for a long time, and then left the magic device relentlessly.

"If you feel exhausted, you can take a break from it," Ms. Windsor Mapel said next. "It won't heal the curse, at least it will make you easier."

"Although the use of soul anesthesia to reduce stress is effective, long-term use can weaken people's will," Rosetta said lightly. "That's all right. Ms. Mapel, how is it?"

Windsor Mapel stared at Rosetta quietly, and nodded gently: "I tried to induce your soul and consciousness. The spiritual pollution situation has indeed returned to normal levels, but no external interference has been found. Signs can basically rule out the possibility of someone tampering with your spiritual world. "

"... Isn't it because of myself ..." Rosetta groaned slightly. "Ma'am, what do you think of this?"

"As a scholar, I will not make judgments in the absence of evidence, but I can talk about my thoughts. The curse suffered by the Augustus family is related to the spiritual pollution left by the gods. Beyond time and space, confuse reality, and hardly be affected by ordinary forces-the curse of your body has fluctuated abnormally in recent days, and the reason has nothing to do with your own mental state, it means that the source of the curse has been disturbed, What can disturb it must be the same or similar force ... "

"Similar or similar power ..." Rosetta frowned slightly. "The churches in all places have not been abnormal recently, and there has been no direct drop of gods in this world for a long time. Even the Church of the Light of Cecil Empire has undergone a great change. , Has not affected Tifeng ... "

As he said, he suddenly looked up: "Ms. Mapel, have you heard anything from you recently?"

"The magical communication towers in various places have not reported anomalies-but the coverage of the communication towers is limited, and the mages on the bottom may not be able to accurately identify the extraordinary phenomena related to the gods. Therefore, many intelligences are delayed and it will take a long time to reach the capital. "Windsor Mapel shook his head." I will follow the intelligence in this regard and I will report to you as soon as possible. "

"Um ..." Rosetta nodded slightly, then frowned, "The messaging tower ... if there were more messaging towers or their coverage would be wider."

"The cost problem is really difficult to solve, and there are not so many mages to maintain those large facilities," Windsor Mapel said helplessly. "In fact, after completing the Empire Avenue project, especially after obtaining the magic train, the remote areas and the Imperial City The communication efficiency between them has been much higher than before. It used to take nearly a month to send the information from the west to the emperor that the information tower could not be used because it was not important enough. Now it only takes a few days. It is a very big improvement. "

"Still not enough-remember the warning given by the Ministry of Industry's advisory group? The factory's throughput cycle is calculated in days or even hours. If raw material fluctuations in remote areas are not timely reported to the city, it can cause an avalanche-like phenomenon within a few days. Loss, and the flow of funds behind it requires timely information transmission-machines speed everything up, Aldernan's ability to respond and control the southern and western regions is far from enough. "

"Those factory owners ..." Windsor Mapel frowned subconsciously, with a bit of scorn in his tone. "Your Majesty, IMHO, they overstated the facts and tried to highlight them with 'professional words.' It ’s important, but in fact they just want you to let go of some of the tower ’s permissions, and you want to divert a small amount of messaging quota from the Royal Mage Association. ”

"I can see it," Rosetta said calmly, "but at least part of what they say is true-especially with Cecil's rise, our shortcomings are becoming lethal."

Cecil ...

Hearing this word appearing more and more frequently in the Empire newspaper and various internal sources recently, Windsor Mapel couldn't help but look serious.

She is a senior mage, but she is also an adviser to the emperor. She is one of the "national key members" who will frequently come into contact with empire affairs. Of course, she will not know anything about the situation of the country. She knows Rosetta was worrying, and he knew it was justified.

Without a fast-growing Cecil, there are a lot of things that Tiefon people don't need to worry about at all, and no one will even realize that certain things are worth worrying about-just like the short board of a messaging tower, every Tiefon People would think that the number of empires with sufficient mages and the communication towers in various important provinces are sufficient, and after the newly renovated main roads and new means of transportation in the empire are used, the efficiency of information transmission is improved with one It is more than enough to cope with the current state of the empire. No one will feel that they are inefficient, and even many people will feel that they are sufficiently advanced that there is no need for improvement in a century.

But there is a rapidly rising Cecil next to it-this fast-growing "neighbor" has brought many "new things" to Tifeng people, such as magic guidance technology, such as competitive pressure.

Intelligence personnel risked and sent a lot of useful things, a considerable part of which was a description of Cecil's cutting-edge technology, and these descriptions made Rosetta and the more discerning lawmakers aware of some shortcomings of the empire in advance. board.

This is probably the pressure of comparison.

"Their magic-net communication has developed rapidly. Although they are all based on long-distance fast communication technology based on messaging, they obviously solve the problems of cost and labor occupation. This is the consistent advantage of magic-guide technology. "We have taken full advantage of it," said Windsor Mapel slowly. "We have always been proud of a professional and large number of mage teams, but it is clear that the Cecil's method of replacing these mage with machines is more efficient. , At least in communication technology. "