Starting as an Island Lord – Chapter 148

Chapter 148: What a Treasure!

‘Woo~~~’

The latest improved electric carriage traveled peacefully on the mountain road.

This carriage was very similar to the cars on Earth, using an offset steering wheel, pneumatic wheels, and spring suspension. There were four seats inside the car, two in the front and two in the back.

The driver was, of course, Battle Master Alia, the co-pilot was a young female intelligence assistant from the island’s Forest Sprite tribe, and in the back seat sat Rosen and his captive, the Queen of Kao.

When they first left the secret aeronautics research institute, there was only one electric carriage on the mountain road.

When the carriage merged from the intersection onto a wider road, the road became lively, and they would encounter cargo trucks coming and going from time to time.

These cargo trucks were bulky, with a smoking chimney next to the front cab and a huge trailer full of goods in the back.

Compared to the electric carriage Rosen was riding in, the trucks were not fast, only traveling at 30 kilometers per hour. The absolute speed was not much faster than a real carriage, but the cargo capacity was greatly increased, generally above 10 tons.

In the back seat, the Queen of Kao had been tense, silent, and her upper body had remained motionless, not even moving her eyes.

Rosen was lying lazily on the soft and thick suede recliner, his hands clasped behind his head, his legs crossed: “Alia, drive steadily, we have a distinguished guest today.”

Alia reluctantly eased up on the accelerator pedal: “Yes, Master.”

Stonard changed his address to Master, and after she found out, she immediately followed suit, because she also felt that calling him Lord was awkward.

Rosen looked at the Queen of Kao sitting beside him: “Madam, relax, I’m getting tired for you.”

He planned to adopt a soft-hearted strategy of being strict on the inside and relaxed on the outside towards this Queen, so as to avoid triggering too strong a sense of resistance.

The Queen of Kao did feel a little sore in her lower back. She glanced at Rosen and finally lay back on the leather chair like him.

After lying in silence for a while, she suddenly said: “This is not a blackstone steam carriage.”

Silvermoon City already had a lot of blackstone steam carriages. They were not as stable, nor as quiet, and the smell was much stronger than this carriage, often billowing black smoke.

Rosen took out nuts from a snack box beside him and handed them to the Queen of Kao. The latter shook her head and refused, so he grabbed a handful of nut kernels and put them in the snack box on the front seat, because Alia and the female assistant were both foodies.

“It’s probably the difference in the magic circuits. Kao is crowded and attaches great importance to cost, and doesn’t care much about comfort.”

“On the contrary, we islanders have higher requirements for the user experience of magical creations.”

The Queen still shook her head: “No, you’ve avoided the point. There should be a very precise power component in your blackstone carriage.”

This naturally referred to lightning-related structures, such as motors and batteries.

But this was the island’s most core secret, and Rosen didn’t want to leak it until an absolute technological advantage was formed.

He chuckled, turned his head to look at the sky. It was getting dark, and it would be dinner time in a while.

So he skipped the topic: “Madam, my castle is rather simple, please bear with me.”

After a pause, he added: “Also, please explain the situation of the psychic meteorite to me during dinner.”

The Queen was very familiar with this kind of topic-changing speaking technique, and she continued to speak her mind.

“There is a huge delay in your signal line. Although your puppet looks realistic, it does not have a forged soul aura. It’s fine for a short time, but after a while, it will greatly reduce my control over the political situation!”

Once the Queen’s control over Kao weakened, her effectiveness as a hostage would decrease. If her position was replaced, she would become an abandoned pawn, and even become an excuse for Kao to sanction White Sturgeon Island.

Of course, Rosen knew this: “I will establish a delay-free communication connection within a month, and at the same time create a more realistic magic puppet.”

His current knowledge of magic had advanced a lot compared to when he built Akali.

Thanks to Frostbringer Lafonge, his understanding of alien human anatomy was also far superior to before.

This understanding did not come from the immature secret technique for breaking through the circle wall, but because when he secretly went back to blow up the ship later, he also went to the Siren laboratory again and recorded all the relevant human research data.

Admittedly, the source of this data was very evil, but it was indeed very valuable.

In short, Rosen was now able to create magic puppets that could completely conceal the perception of a fourth-circle Magic Master.

The Queen didn’t believe it: “The distance between the two places is more than 3,000 kilometers, how can communication be without delay?”

Rosen laughed: “Strictly speaking, there is a delay, but it’s no more than 0.2 seconds.”

“I don’t believe it!”

“We’ll see.”

At this time, the carriage drove into Crescent City.

The city had expanded a lot, and the original city walls were completely useless. Especially on the west side of Crescent City, the newly built buildings were almost connected to White Sturgeon Port.

And as night fell, many buildings lit up with rune lightning lamps. The steel-hardened clay buildings that looked square during the day became very gorgeous at night under the embellishment of lights.

The Queen looked at all this through the car window, a trace of surprise in her eyes. She felt it carefully: “The Baron seems to have a very deep research on lightning power.”

She had never seen such a gorgeous night scene in other cities on the Witte Continent.

Putting aside all kinds of prejudices brought about by personal positions, in terms of magic alone, the Queen admired Rosen very much.

She felt that this person should be one of the mages with the highest achievements in the magic world of the Nature Alliance.

If used well, he was a strategic mage who could change the fate of a country.

She took a fancy to this, so she took the risk to capture him, but unfortunately she still failed, and even got herself involved.

Rosen could naturally feel the Queen’s emotions. He smiled and said with Mind Whisper:

“Thank you for your compliment, Your Majesty, but you don’t have to be too disappointed. I will be very cautious in using Kao’s power.”

“I hope so.”

At this time, the carriage drove into the castle and stopped in front of the retro-style Lord’s Longhouse.

It was dinner time, and Rosen had already informed the kitchen that a distinguished guest would be coming, so the dinner would be a little richer than usual. In addition to the usual standard of seven dishes for dinner, three more dishes were added.

Soon, Rosen took the Queen to the dining room. Four people were already sitting at the dining table, Rosen’s family and mentor Anna.

Rosen was not worried that the Queen would be unfavorable to his family, because everyone was wearing a powerful Ice Ward Amulet, and the Queen did not have any magical artifacts on her.

This arrangement also had an effect. The Queen’s nervous mind relaxed a lot, and her vigilance towards Rosen also dissipated a lot.

Her impression of him also changed from a cold-blooded and ruthless Baron to a normal person with flesh and blood.

After sitting down, Rosen began to introduce: “This is Madam Nana, a distinguished guest on the island. If nothing unexpected happens, she will live on the island for a long time.”

The four women were all surprised, not understanding why Rosen said that.

But Madam Saxon and Evelyn were just simply surprised, while Serena and Anna, the two Magic Masters, were also shocked.

Not only because of the Queen’s extraordinary grace, but also because of her extremely powerful mana.

Serena hurriedly asked: “What is this lady’s background?”

After finishing speaking, she felt rude: “Madam Nana, I was being presumptuous, I apologize to you.”

The Queen stared at Serena’s bulging belly, also with a surprised look: “I don’t understand, how come it’s so fast?”

According to the information she got, the Baron and the Princess of Dawn should have been together for less than half a year, how could they have a child so quickly?

She couldn’t help but suspect that these two had been secretly together for several years.

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Serena smiled and said: “It’s the blessing of Mother Nature.”

Rosen also smiled: “The food is getting cold, let’s eat first, we’ll talk after we finish eating.”

Since that’s the case, everyone stopped talking, eating and drinking.

After dinner, Rosen, Serena, Anna, the three mages, and the Queen of Kao came to the former magic center in the backyard of the castle.

After the spacious new magic center was established, this place was naturally vacated, but it was not idle. It is currently Rosen’s personal magic laboratory.

The psychic meteorite captured was placed in the middle of the basement.

Here, Rosen first activated a Silent Crystal Wall, and then formally introduced: “This is the Queen of Kao, her full name is…”

“Nana Silger. I was born a commoner, with no surname, so I took my husband’s surname.”

The Queen’s tone was very calm, but it shocked the two women.

They couldn’t figure out how the Queen of Kao came to White Sturgeon Island.

Rosen didn’t want to talk about the specific process, so as to avoid arousing the hostility of the two women.

“This is the psychic meteorite, a supreme treasure specially sent by Your Majesty, which can convert lightning power into zero-circle psychic power.”

These words made the Queen of Kao smile wryly, and also attracted the attention of the two women.

Because this was the conversion of base energy to noble energy, even if it was only zero-circle, it was still noble energy.

Rosen looked at the Queen: “Your Majesty, please explain how to use this thing?”

The Queen pointed to the round platform under the meteorite: “This is a super-capacity lightning lattice array, the strength is not high, only three circles, but it can hold a full three hundred standard master mana.”

Rosen understood immediately: “When you need to use it, just pour all this lightning power into the meteorite, and it can be converted into a massive amount of psychic power.”

“Yes, this is also the conversion upper limit of this meteorite, it’s useless to add more. Of course, this upper limit is already very high.”

“It’s indeed amazingly high!”

Standard master mana was a newly proposed measurement standard, which was already popular on the Witte Continent, but not yet common in Virland.

It represented the total amount of mana of a fourth-circle Magic Master named ‘Clark’ when he just stepped into the fourth circle.

This Clark also had another identity, he was the former minister of Kao’s Black Rose Magic Department.

He created a method to accurately measure the total amount of magic.

And his total amount of magic was about half of the top Magic Master.

Using this standard, Serena, who had just entered the fourth circle, had about 1.8 standard master mana, while Anna had 1.7, which was considered very good.

Serena asked curiously: “Then what is the conversion efficiency?”

The Queen smiled and said: “Princess, your question is difficult to answer, because there is currently no benchmark for comparing base energy to noble energy conversion.”

“But according to our measurement method, it’s 50%.”

After a pause, she explained in detail: “This is compared to directly exchanging mana for psychic power.”

“One mana can be converted into one psychic power, but after going through this meteorite, only 0.5 is left.”

A very clear explanation.

In other words, one burst was equivalent to one hundred and fifty standard Magic Masters using all their mana to cast zero-circle Sleep spells together.

Rosen suddenly realized: “No wonder the effect is so amazing, but it’s difficult to target a single target, right?”

The Queen nodded: “The power is too great, it can only target a vague area. The more targets in the area, the more the attack power is dispersed.”

These words made Rosen secretly relieved.

Fortunately, he called three high-circle mages, plus hundreds of people from the research bureau to share it with him. If it was all poured into one person, he would definitely faint without a sound.

Rosen came to the meteorite again, reached out and touched the strange cyan stone: “Can it be split and used?”

“I don’t know, because it’s very tough. Besides, no one dares to split it easily for fear of breaking it.”

Such a treasure, indeed no one dared to mess with it easily.

But without research, it would always have this ability, very strong, but it could never be improved.

After careful observation, Rosen came to a conclusion: “It should be separable, and it will be effective after separation. Because there are burn marks and cracks on the meteorite.”

As he spoke, he tried to separate a piece with Lightning Disintegration.

‘Buzz~~’

A fist-sized piece was successfully separated from the cyan stone, and at the same time a circle of scattered psychic power fainted, making the four people around feel a slight panic.

The three women subconsciously took a step back, but Rosen took a step forward, his face full of strong interest.

“Good stuff~ It’s really good stuff. As long as it’s lightning power, it can be naturally converted into psychic power!”

“Moreover, the converted psychic power still retains the information on the lightning power!”

The latter point was very useful, and Rosen immediately came up with several application ideas.

Then he used Transformation Alchemy to analyze its composition, and quickly came to a conclusion.

“The composition is not complicated, it’s just very rare.”

It was a mixture of oxides of various rare earth elements and metals, somewhat similar to the superconducting oxides of his previous life.

The good news was that this could be artificially synthesized!

But the bad news was that the elements were very rare, and although the relevant raw materials could be found, they were all very expensive.

If he wanted to synthesize and use it in large quantities, he had to find the corresponding rare earth mine first.

But since it could be synthesized, large-scale application was only a matter of time.

He laughed loudly: “Your Majesty Nana, you really came at the right time~~~ Ahahaha~~”

Originally, he was still thinking about what kind of weapons to install on the airplane to achieve the greatest deterrence while achieving the least loss.

Now, the Queen directly sent him the best weapon for civil war, or rather, the most merciful weapon!

As for the specific conversion principle, Rosen was also very curious, because only by understanding the principle could he go further.

It’s a pity that he didn’t have time to study it for the time being.

But it didn’t matter, because there was a genius mage named Cavendish on the island who specialized in converting base energy to noble energy.

If he gave this thing to him, he would be so happy that he would faint.