Experimental Log of the Crazy Lich Chapter 139

Chapter 139: Hidden Currents

From the very start, we had agreed upon an alliance. After all, without an invitation with sufficient weight behind it, it was impossible for a top brass of another country to visit other countries so casually.

It is also within expectations that I would get the cold shoulder. They had only invited a run-of-the-mill diplomat, yet contrary to their expectations, I ca. This was equal to baiting and preparing to fish for a carp, yet catching a whale instead. Naturally, the fisherman would find the situation hard to process.

Furthermore, if it was just an ordinary diplomatic visit, they wouldn’t make such a big fuss over it. However, the East Mist’s diplomatic party seed to have ambitious dreams of this trip. The first thing they did after entering the city gates was unloading the goods of nearly a hundred carriages at the square, claiming to “thank Sharal Autonomous Region for their many years of help. In return, we are giving additional gifts on top of the ones used to repay their debt, and every resident can claim a complintary gift” and such advertisent, creating a commotion and making everyone in the city aware of their presence.

The complintary gifts that barely numbered three hundred were all snatched clean in less than a day. However, the citizens who ca upon hearing the news had also spread the news, so probably everyone was aware of the fact that the diplomatic party of East Mist was in Sharal right now. Furthermore, the one leading the group was the legendary Prince Roland.

One’s na and history always stays with them. When this legendary figure appeared from out of the epics and paid a visit to them, the Sharal Autonomous Region’s reception unit panicked.

It was common knowledge that soone of equal standing in the country had to receive the diplomats, and the receiving host being of higher standing than the guest was a form of respect towards them as well. For example, the hosting side’s sovereign can personally receive a fief lord of the diplomatic party, and it wouldn’t seem out of place. However, if the king of another country ca, and the hosting side welcod him with a fief lord, that would be disrespectful.

Furthermore, although I had no official authority in East Mist, as the ancestor of the founder of the nation, my standing was significantly higher than that of Queen Reyne. Perhaps, even their sovereign who had the bloodline of Mist flowing in him could only be considered his junior. This was a difficult situation for them.

“If Princess Reyne ca, Lord Gagalol coming to welco her personally would already be a great honor on her part. However, now that it is Heroic Spirit Roland, going by seniority, even Lord Gagalol’s retired father isn’t qualified to welco him.”

Do they really have to dig out the ancestors who founded Sharal Autonomous Region and say, “This is His Highness whom you have always spoken of. You are the only one who is qualified to welco him. Right, he has already said that we will count each other as individual entities, so please don’t treat yourself as his citizen and don’t insist on greeting him as a subordinate.” After all, this was probably the only way they would not be considered as disrespectful.

Not only were those of the foreign affairs departnt distressed about it, even the top brass of Sharal Autonomous Region felt gloomy about this incident. They had only invited a diplomat to negotiate an alliance to counteract the Beastn army, which was likely to invade southwards, so why did this fellow co instead? Not to ntion, he was extrely high profile about it.

All of Sharal probably already knew that East Mist was here to negotiate an alliance by now. Furthermore, given the amiable relationship between the two countries and the massive gifts that we have brought, we created an impression that sothing incredible was about to happen. On the other hand, there was no news from the lord on their side.

In an alliance negotiation, when one party ca prepared while the other party was completely ignorant about what was happening, it was very easy for the unprepared to be disadvantaged. They had already held etings for three days straight to figure out what was going on. On the other hand, I had been dawdling about the embassy before I decided upon carrying forward my next step, swaying public opinion.

At this point, Gagalol finally made his decision. It was impossible for them to co to a conclusion with those doors closed, so they decided to invite over.

The mont I stepped into the Lord’s Residence, just as I was about to prepare a surprise for the other party, I was surprised by them first.

Based on the information I had received, Gagalol Haber was a plump man. However, the toned man before who had his upper half bare and had an eagle tattoo on his chest, which fluttered along with his breathing as though it were alive, definitely wasn’t him.

“Respected Lord Roland, I am Gars, the eldest son of the Chieftain of Eagle Tribe. I represent my father and the tribe in paying respects to the immortal one.”

The passionate handshake of barbarians (if it was in the mountains, it would likely have been a hug) wasn’t that pleasant to accept. In the face of the 2.4m tall giant, I was like a bean sprout. Whether the other party was capable of bearing their passionate welco and innate brute strength was also an important factor barbarians used to evaluate whether the other party was worth making friends with.

“This strength should be around 18 points. Possessing such strength despite being at Silver-rank, how fearso. As expected of a battle tribe whose mbers were all of Bronze Bloodline.”

However, compared to , who had strength exceeding 20 points, it was as though his strength was entirely negligible. No matter how hard he squeezed , his hand would just end up aching.

As expected, Gars released his grip first, shaking it forcefully to get rid of the aching sensation. On the other hand, Gagalol stepped forward with a smile, saving him from this difficult situation.

“Prince Roland, welco to Sharal Autonomous Region. I am the lord here, Gagalol. Our ancestors from 300 years ago should have been your people as well. Your arrival here is an unexpected surprise, as well as an honor. Please be seated, please be seated.”

At this mont, I was trying my best to suppress myself from laughing impolitely. Gagalol’s protruding stomach, stout stature, fish-like ears, and bulging eyes were exactly as what was stated in the intel. He did resemble a standing frog.

In response to the passionate welco of the other party, I chuckled.

“We were a family 300 years ago? Then, are you willing to beco a family with us 300 years later?”

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If creating new armies gave an instantaneous rise to a country’s military prowess, then education was aid at grooming new talents, talents that would bring the country to prosperity.

In this world, “knowledge is strength” weren’t just empty words. Building a high institution to groom the growth of a certain occupation was a reflection of the history, overall strength, and accumulation of a country.

The Mages’ Country was difficult to deal with because of all sorts of established Mages’ institutions around the country. When the Mages, who were known to be difficult to deal with among the battle classes, gathered as one, when the immortal top-tier Mages chose to conduct their research there, no one would be so foolish as to provoke them of their own accord.

Olivia traveled over a thousand miles to Auland to study because Auland was well-known in the world for its alchemy, and its alchemy institutions had grood countless master alchemists. As a result, they had attracted nurous apprentice alchemists to study with them. In turn, this also helped solidify the Auland Empire’s position as the leader in the field of alchemy.

Up until today, other than rebuilding the army barracks, Diffindor had built all kinds of schools, such as the Kindness Faction Garden Art Academy, Diffindor Life dical School, Beast Tar Technical Academy, Nanxiang Law Academy East Mist Branch, and West City Engineer Academy.

TL: The first word for Druid ans kindness (Kindness Faction -> Druid Faction)

If you evaluated them based on their nas and thought that they were ordinary institutions, you couldn’t have been more wrong.

The full na of Kindness Faction Garden Art Academy is Druid Forest Art of War Academy (Garden Art Class—We also teach you how to cultivate plants as well!). All those selected as lecturers were all so kind of leader figure in the Druid Faction. In other words, most of the lecturers were dangerous terrorists wanted all over the continent.

Most human kingdoms were hostile towards Druids. As such, they often lived in mountains and forests, isolated from the rest of the world. However, the various denominations among them had a unique and swift way of communicating with one another. Under Eaglestorm’s guarantee, quite a few outlaws were willing to try out “a life without sinning.”

As for what kinds of students such a dangerous teacher would teach, that was an enigma to as well. At the very least, from the very beginning, I had already been rebuked by those ill-tempered Druids.

“What? Cultivate a new crop that could endure the cold? Do you know why we all beca outlaws? Because we punished those bastards who went against the will of nature. Are you sure you want us to cultivate such aberrations of nature? We will really beat you up!”

As expected, when I brought up my request, I received a blunt and rude response.

Among the raging Druids, at least Eaglestorm’s reply was more pragmatic: “Lord, I doubt that anyone would be able to do so. We can accelerate the rate of maturity of plants, allowing it to mature a year or two earlier. That is the privilege that nature has granted us. However, changing the unique traits of a plant from its core is unnatural, so naturally, we are unable to do so. In theory, there is not a single Druid who is able to do so. We have to obey the rules of nature. These kinds of actions that go against the laws of nature would only be attempted by Dark Druids.”

If Druids were the public enemies of the continent, then the Dark Druids, who had fallen into depravity, were fanatic worshipers of the Chaos. Similar to ordinary Druids, they found anything unnatural a mistake, but Dark Druids behaved much more extre in all aspects.

Without doubt, man-made cities were unnatural. Ordinary Druids would only try to stay away from city life, only retaliating furiously when the forests they lived in were being invaded. On the other hand, Dark Druids would try to create a hurricane or a flood to destroy the city. However, their greatest insanity was that they denied the existence of the Gods. They found the Jurisdiction of Gods unnecessary, and the existence of the various Churches of Gods was a sin by itself. They believed that everyone should return back to the fundantal elents.

Not easy to understand? Let give an example. When they thought that the Sea God was an existence that shouldn’t exist as the conscious controller of the seas, and was a threat to nature, they would grasp every single opportunity to attack the Priests of the Church of the Sea God.

In reality, the Church of the Sea God wasn’t the only victim. Almost every single Church of God was on their blacklist. Thus, the Gods of both factions unanimously gave these extremists the beautiful na of Dark Druids, and these Dark Druids had constant appearances on the wanted lists.

The other Gods could still accept East Mist giving Druids the green light. However, if they were to invite the Dark Druids into their cities, they would imdiately suspect that Wumianzhe had gone mad.

Alright, in the end, I could only give up. However, it was fortunate that Alia’s arrival ant that I wouldn’t have to seek out those dangerous Dark Druids. At the sa ti, the Kindness Faction Forest Art Academy also found themselves a magnificent principal.

“What? You an those little Druids who refuse to co under my command? I didn’t see any of them though. Oh, that day, I pumled all of the teachers. He should be one of them.”

Given how violence-inclined the principal and teachers were, this Garden Academy, which should have been a propagator of harmony and camaraderie, would produce generation after generation of terrorists.

Furthermore, based on what I knew, the Kindness Faction Garden Art Academy was the most normal of the nurous institutions that were about to begin lessons.

The principal of Diffindor Life dical School (I was the one who ca up with the na) was Harloys, nicknad Xiao Hei (still nad by ). Other than imparting recent dical knowledge and techniques, it also focused on all kinds of Necromancy skills. It was probably the one and only formal Necromancer Institution in the world of the living.

TL: Xiao Hei -> Little Black (Xiao Hong -> Little Red)

In fact, I was also a visiting lecturer of the study of Undead Creation of the academy. Of it, its Plague research was probably the top of the world. After all, Kakana and a group of formidable Undead Alchemists were stationed there.

Alright, due to this, the Holy Church had sent us a stern warning. Nurous countries also protested against it and sent letters of censure. Even so, I threw all of those into the trash can without hesitation. In any case, our relationship was already hostile, so I could protest however I wanted to. What about the Anti-Undead Covenant agreed upon by majority of the continent? All along, I had thought of agreents that I never signed as a waste of paper.

As for Nanxiang Law Academy East Mist Branch, there was nothing to be said about it. It was just a surface version of the main school in the Underground World. However, with Krose as its mascot and Xueti as the honorary principal, the number of applicants they received this year exceeded that of other institutions.

As for the West City Engineer Academy, it was divided into two main factions—Goblin Self-destruct Study and Dwarf Suicide Study, and the principals were the self-destruct expert of the Goblin engineers and the suicide expert of the Dwarf engineers. Alright, I confess I gave my biased views about those who were stated previously, but I have always thought that these were the fundantal, unique traits of this institution.

Alright, that’s all for the introduction of the institutions. What? There’s still one more, Beast Tar Technical Academy?

Seems like I was unable to omit it. I will do a brief introduction then—the principal of the technical academy is Beifeng, and what is being taught is “All kinds of techniques to interact with beasts.” There should be nothing else that needed to be said about it.

When I saw this proposal, I almost stuffed Beifeng into the main cannon of the Borealis and blasted him out of Eich. However, this was the reward he demanded after he miraculously managed to accomplish the mission of taming the Winter Wolves. Furthermore, facts had also proven that it was highly possible that we would need Beifeng’s abilities in the Northern Lands filled with Magic Beasts.

In the end, under the seduction of solid power, I compromised helplessly. However, I threw the building to the outskirts of the city to prevent it from being an eyesore. I also arranged their office to be on the dozen story-high clock tower so as to help them train their bodies.

【You want powerful warriors? Sure, train them yourselves, develop them. —You expect soldiers to pop out just by building barracks? The Star Wars next door is beckoning you.】

Fine, since the System had retorted that just building the barracks itself was insufficient for the production of troops, I created a bunch of institutions to train the future core of our military. In any case, for every single person I threw into the institutions, I would receive a powerful soldier in a few years’ ti. There wasn’t much of a difference from this and the unscientific barracks. It was just that the duration required was slightly longer, and the resources required were greater.

At this mont, when I was busy negotiating important matters with Lord Sharal and the barbarian prince, my companions, under my orders, were busy spreading those recruitnt pamphlets all around Sharal Autonomous Region.

They should be traveling through the alleys of the villages and the squares in the cities to bring in new students for their institutions. Of course, it was highly probable for them to fight over them as well.

“The hybrids will be discriminated against? Rest easy, madam. Such a thing has never happened in East Mist, not to ntion that the God of Law’s Forbidden Spell, The Sinless City, had also guaranteed it. There is no need for you to worry about your son being bullied! Right, please accept this pamphlet. There is my serial number on it, and if you take this and sign up at the West City Engineer Academy, you can save five gold coins on the school fee!”

“No, it’s true, I didn’t eat into the discount. I’m not lying... Fine, madam, I give up. Alright, seven gold coins then. However, you must introduce other students to . For every one that you introduce to , I will give you a discount of two gold coins!”

Currently, Goblin Kabala’s performance was the best. He had already developed a multi-level marketing network and at the current mont, he could already sit back and wait for money to roll in.

“Um, is there an academy for alchemists? I would like my daughter to learn alchemy, but we don’t have any good alchemy academies here.”

“We don’t have any alchemy institutions at the mont, but you can consider having your daughter apply for Diffindor Life dical School. Their Anti-plague research’s (the public na for Plague research) Dean Master Kakana is a Legend-rank alchemist. Her two students are also Legend-rank alchemists. Under her tutelage, your daughter will surely beco an outstanding alchemist.”

Alright, a young lady, who had set her goals on being an alchemist, under the coaxing of a student trafficker, had started walking on the path of becoming a Necromancer.

“East Mist’s best Navy Command Academy is recruiting! Do you wish to beco an admiral and possess a harem of countless warships? Welco to the newly established East Mist’s First Royal Naval Academy!”

Alright, no matter how much effort Rina Papa-san put into his advertisent, his recruitnt results were destined to be worse of all. To date, he had only recruited two dark-skinned admirals who refused to admit that their skin tone was dark. In a certain sense, they seed to possess so level of cognitive disorder.

The reason? East Mist Communal Country was a landlocked nation, it had no navy at all. That was the reason why most people thought that he was joking. The crux of the problem was that I didn’t allow him to reveal the fact that East Mist’s Air Fleet was in the midst of construction.

He had already been confird for last place. As for second to last, it would probably be Garden Academy. For those who were unaware, this Garden Art Academy sounded overly inclined towards the aesthetics, and it was unlikely for one to make a living out of it. As for those who had received explanations on what it was—sending their own children out to be grood by outlaws and beco Druids, public enemies of the continent—, it was a little beyond them.

What left others speechless was a certain Dracon who stepped onto the front lines personally. Without preparing any pamphlets for recruitnt, all he did was prepare a feast and a barbecue on the square and chat with those guests who were on the sa frequency as him. Just like that, he sohow took second place in the number of students recruited.

“Hey, you have already recruited so many people. Share two of them with us.”

“Let look at the rankings.... It seems that we have 20 additional students. How about this, one for a hundred gold coins. Take it or leave it.”

It was no wonder that they would strive so hard in this recruitnt drive, to the extent that they had begun selling and purchasing students from one another. After all, I had intended to use the results of their recruitnt to determine the budget for the respective institutions next year, and that was a huge sum of money.

At this instant, this wasn’t just occurring in Sharal. All kinds of recruitnt activities were being carried out all over East Mist. My goal wasn’t a short-term improvent, but for this weak country to change from its very core and grow stronger.

Of course, I had my own reasons for why I was willing to dump so much money into Sharal to motivate the recruiters.

At this very mont, I was looking gleefully at the two dumbfounded top brass of another country.

What caused them panic, let alone bothering about diplomatic etiquettes at this point, were two photos in front of them. One of them was of the sacred lands of the Beastn, Orsolovan Summit. In the photo, the lands had been ravaged by the flas of wars. As for the other photo that was placed right before Gagalol, it was one of Sharal Autonomous Region. There wasn’t any autonomous region of any sort in the photo, just a plot of barren land amidst the forest.

Without my existence, East Mist Communal Country wouldn’t have risen up; without East Mist’s support, the hybrids wouldn’t have been able to survive and reach Sharal; Sharal Autonomous Region wouldn’t have existed.

This kind of logic was comprehensible to . However, in the eyes of the lord of Sharal Autonomous Region, those photos represented a frightening future that could possibly be realized: “Can it be that Sharal has been totally erased, to the point that not a single trace of it remains?”

“These two photos are images that I have foreseen through divination techniques. I can assure you in the na of the Holy Light that these photos are real. Take a good look at what will happen to your people and your land in the future. Think about it before you reply to my suggestion.”

Looking at the two top brass whose faces instantaneously turned pale, I smiled gleefully.