The Lord of Another World: All Wasted at the Beginning, and He Made His Fortune by Taking in the Fem

Due to the lack of reliable intelligence sources, Aarons has received almost no useful information recently.

He had no idea what was happening on Klia's side, and he could only rely on the third prince Loran to help him get some information about the movements of Cardia and the internal forces of the empire.

A few days ago, Mo Qianyun suddenly brought back a strange thing - since Yalu hated that thing very much, Jiangyue immediately took it to study.

Although Aarons didn't understand magic, what puzzled him was why someone would deliberately use magic to hide this thing?

[Brother-in-law, I have something urgent to tell you...My father has urgently summoned me back to the palace for an audience.]

"An audience? At this time?"

[I don't know what's going on either... This news was sent to me by Lord Wushen through a secret line. I felt it was a bit strange, so I used the secret line of Yumenhuahao to inform you.]

Although confidential telephone conversations are difficult to eavesdrop on, they require the use of an external one-time encryption module, so the conversation time is not very long.

Because Kuran had given Aarons an encryption module before, Aarons still knew this knowledge.

"His Excellency the God of War personally notified you through a secret line? That doesn't seem right... Could something have happened to His Majesty?"

This matter was indeed a bit strange, so Aarons subconsciously thought of the worst outcome - and after connecting it to a series of strange things recently, he suddenly felt that his premonition might be true.

[That shouldn't be the case, right? Father has always been in good health. He is also a level 4 warrior. It is impossible for ordinary people to hurt him in the imperial city.]

"Don't say so much, just leave now... Also, don't tell anyone else about your return to the imperial capital, no matter if it's a minister or a noble. Don't tell anyone."

[Okay... then take care of yourself, brother-in-law. We'll contact you again when my sister comes back.]

After hanging up the encrypted message, Aarons immediately found a map of the empire and began to study it.

The territories of Duke Scott and the nobles of related forces occupied the entire northwest of the empire, while Duke Booker occupied the area from the south to the southeast.

Since the Dukedom of Ophir was squeezed into the northeastern corner, the young duke planned to open a breakthrough in trade...so he was actually the person most likely to betray the empire.

But Aarons didn't think he would betray him - because the man with a cold appearance actually had a very hot fire burning in his heart.

The reason he came to see me that time was not because he really wanted to discuss any cooperation with me... but to visit Claire.

"So who is it? Who wants to subvert the existing rules and order of the empire?"

Although Aarons himself wanted to kill all these nobles, he would not seek help from outsiders.

However, this hidden traitor is colluding with foreign countries and wants to push the empire's nobles and people into the abyss.

——Why does this person hate the Empire so much?

"Marquis, are you free now?"

While Aarons was thinking hard, Jiang Yue, who had been staying in the laboratory, suddenly came to the Prison Flower.

The beautiful sage with dragon horns on his head looked extremely serious at this moment.

"Teacher Jiangyue, I don't have anything to do."

"I have just finished analyzing what Qianyun brought back...it's disgusting."

Jiangyue would never use such adjectives normally, so Aarons immediately became serious.

At this time, any details may be clues to identify the culprit, so this matter should also be very important.

"Before I explain what that thing is, you need to know something common in the magic world... About two hundred years ago, someone in the Magicians' Guild proposed a rather peculiar theory."

"Is it the period when Magic Source Stone began to be used on a large scale?"

"That's right. At that time, the entire continent was exploring for the veins of magic source stone, so someone specifically studied the distribution of all the veins on the continent and eventually drew a detailed distribution map."

Jiang Yue casually flipped through the bookshelf in the captain's room, and then took out a fairly complete map of the continent.

"In the center of this continent is an active volcano named Kliatis...which means "Eye of the Star"."

"I think I heard from Zhu Ying that... I heard that the volcano doesn't contain lava, but is actually a highly active carbon-uranium fluid."

"At that time, no one knew what carbon uranium was, so that person was just studying the distribution of magic source stones at the beginning. But he soon discovered that the magic source stone veins on the continent seemed to extend from Kliatis."

The veins of the magic source stone are like a huge spider web, extending from the volcano to every corner of the continent.

However, humans at that time did not know that the substance in the volcano was the variant of the magic source stone, so they did not connect the two at all.

"Although this is indeed a great discovery, it has no practical value. Humans were busy making all kinds of magical machines at the time and had no time to think about where the magic source stone came from."

"and then?"

"This person finally came up with a fairly complete theory - all magic source stones are produced by volcanic lava flowing deep in the continent. After being squeezed to the surface and cooled and solidified, they became the magic source stones we have today."

The various conjectures in this theory actually have an 80% accuracy rate, but humans at that time did not care about where the magic source stone originated from, so this research soon fell into disuse.

"And he finally put forward a key conjecture - the magic source stone veins on the continent are actually the flow routes of the planet's energy... in short, the earth veins."

"Leylines? Does this thing really have any meaning?"

"I used to think that this was just the path of lava flow, but after I completed my awakening... I could definitely feel the existence of the ley lines."

As the incarnation of a natural spirit, Jiang Yue could certainly sense the flow of energy in the earth - and this theory, which had originally been shelved, was personally confirmed by her hundreds of years later.

"Warcraft is usually born on the ley lines close to the surface, and many large cities built since ancient times are actually built on large convergence points of the ley lines."

It is precisely because of the energy of the planet secretly nourishing them that these ancient settlements are so prosperous.

The key nodes of these earth veins usually produce abundant food and water sources, and after humans have obtained sufficient resources for survival, they will establish a stable civilization circle nearby.

"You should have understood the basics by now, right? Then I'll get to the point... The thing Qianyun brought back before was used to interfere with the earth veins."

"What?! If the ley lines are disturbed...what will happen?"

"Problems don't explode on the surface all at once. But after a period of time, various disasters will definitely appear on the surface."

Decreased food production, sudden climate change, frequent disasters - land that has lost the nourishment of the earth's veins will eventually become a barren wasteland, no matter how prosperous it once was.

"The most disgusting thing is the thing inside the metal ball... There is actually a man-made magical beast inside it. Although it looks like a piece of rotten meat, it can absorb various energies in nature like ordinary magical beasts and then release specific magic power."

The artificial meat blocks installed at the weak points of the earth veins can not only use the energy of the earth veins to hide their own existence, but also use magic power to quietly block the earth veins, causing the land on the subsequent path to slowly lose the nourishment of the planet's energy.

And this is why Jiangyue described this thing as "disgusting".

"According to my judgment, this thing was only made in the last few months... If this thing is really installed in large quantities on the ley lines of various places, famine will most likely begin to occur in the empire in a year or two."

After learning of this horrific result, Aarons immediately realized another more serious problem.

"Who...why would he do such a thing?! Is that guy planning to completely destroy the empire from beginning to end?!"

This is no longer a simple struggle for interests... the hidden enemy is planning to destroy the true foundation of the empire.

Who on earth could do such a heinous and inhumane thing?