Chapter 193: Storm Territory Flourishes Prosperously!

【Intelligence Two: One o'clock direction from the Dragonblood Grass Canyon, one hundred li forward, within the Death Mountain Range lies a lush Shanfeng.

At the summit of this Shanfeng stands a natural weathered rock shaped like a majestic eagle; it can be aptly named Eagle Mountain.

And atop this Eagle Mountain, a precious Heart of the Elements has ripened; consuming it will greatly increase one's affinity for elemental battle qi.

One becomes the legendary Elemental Body.

Although it is merely the lowest tier of Elemental Body, the benefit is that even unconsciously, one can absorb trace amounts of elemental battle qi anytime, anywhere.】

【Intelligence Three: This afternoon, a man wearing tattered mage robes will wander into Wheat Town.

His name is Wood; he is a novice mage and also a mage with very good magical talent.

However, a mage who has made such a mess of his profession is rare even throughout the kingdom.

The reason he has fallen to this state is that he possesses a hobby extremely detrimental to a mage of exceptional talent.

That is an obsession with alchemy.

Alchemy, for a mage of extremely strong talent, is simply taboo.

Because it consumes too much time and effort.

Thus, it is generally only mages with no hope of advancement who wish to improve their lives that switch careers to pursue such research.

Of course, if it were ordinary research, it certainly would not have led to this.

More critically, Wood's research into alchemy seems to have taken a strange and peculiar path.

For instance, he wanted to develop a magical artifact capable of releasing continuous hurricanes, so that sea ships would never worry about lacking wind and could roam the oceans freely.

Although he did ultimately succeed in creating it, the energy consumption of that hurricane magical artifact was beyond imagination; it consumed one fifth-tier wind-attribute crystal every mere minute.

Such costs made all the nobles who heard of it tremble with fear.

For another example, he created a magical artifact capable of releasing vast quantities of freezing cold air.

Originally, he intended to sell it to desert nations to cool down desert cities, thereby allowing the desert people to live happy and comfortable lives.

In the end, this creation also succeeded.

But the only problem remained the enormous consumption.

Even running it for just one hour required consuming one fifth-tier water-attribute crystal.

Thus, the already impoverished desert nations simply could not afford to purchase such a magical artifact.

And these successive peculiar inventions finally caused him to go completely bankrupt and incur massive debts.

To evade his debts, he was forced to flee to distant lands, arriving at the kingdom's border.

Confused, he is now considering whether to truly hide in the Chaotic Wasteland to avoid his creditors finding him.】

【Intelligence Four: Your iron mine has been excavated for ten days; although due to manpower issues, the excavation scale remains very small.

Yet in these ten-plus days, over a thousand jin of iron ore have been excavated daily.

The daily profit generated is expected to reach two gold coins.

And such a bustling scene was finally discovered by Viscount Patrick, who had been closely monitoring the iron mine's movements.

He originally feared you would discover the iron mine was forged, but unexpectedly, the mine has been producing continuously.

This left him full of doubt and suspicion, so he immediately sent people to investigate secretly.

Upon learning the iron mine likely has not been exhausted, he has had second thoughts and will lead his men to the iron mine this afternoon!

Using the excuse of missing personnel, he plans to seize the iron mine!】

【Intelligence Five: Catherine refused Duke Hernandes's plea to stay; escorted by members of the Hernandes family, she has already returned to the Violet Family's territory.】

【Intelligence Six: Among those responsible for escorting Catherine was the Duke Hernandes's second son... Count Finier, who is Catherine's uncle.

After bidding farewell to Catherine, this uncle did not immediately begin his return journey.

Instead, he traveled south all the way, heading toward Storm Territory.

His purpose is simple: to warn you, you pauper, to stay away from Catherine, because a minor noble like you is unworthy of the Hernandes family bloodline!】

Good heavens! Gervas exclaimed, "Good heavens!"

Another day of sleeping until naturally waking up.

Gervas sat up beautifully from the goose-down bed, but before he could think much further, the ding-ding sound entered his ears.

Hearing the first half, he originally thought it was all good news.

But who knew the subsequent messages would take such a sharp downward turn.

Of course, regarding the last two not-so-great messages, Gervas had already had a psychological expectation.

For instance, Viscount Patrick noticing the iron mine had not been exhausted was inevitable.

He is not blind; transporting large items like iron ore simply cannot be hidden.

Therefore, exposure was bound to happen eventually.

And now, the situation is far better than he had imagined.

After all, he is already a viscount, and his strength is not too weak.

As for Catherine, Gervas had previously thought: if she truly became a bloodline offspring of the Hernandes family, would she distance herself from him, this minor noble?

After all, in the eyes of great nobles, minor nobles are actually not much different from commoners.

In the current situation, Catherine herself has passed the test; she is truly a woman of integrity, matching her inner and outer selves.

But the Hernandes family, bypassing her, has helped to look down on him.

"Meet soldiers with generals, meet water with earth! Nothing is more important than my Element Spirit and the Heart of the Elements!"

Of course, Gervas did not dwell on it.

Although he is still only a second-rank noble, as a transmigrator with a golden finger, psychologically, he is the one who despises all natives of this world!

Slap, slap, slap!

Waves churned; after managing and training his small female servant, Gervas went to the dining hall to enjoy breakfast beautifully.】

While eating breakfast, he listened to the work reports from Old John, Thomas, and others.

First, the harvest of Lightning Silver Fish was finally nearing its end.

Over these nearly ten days, the first week saw yields of around three thousand jin.

Subsequently, it dropped to over one thousand jin, until currently standing at just over a hundred jin.

But in total, Gervas still harvested nearly twenty thousand jin of Lightning Silver Fish.

This quantity fully satisfied the annual consumption of Gervas and his subordinates, with even some surplus remaining.

Next, construction of the shipyard had begun, with over a hundred people mobilized to participate, striving for completion within one month.

Afterwards, there were reports on the sale of seafood, the progress of arable land expansion, and so on.

In short, all reports boiled down to one sentence: Storm Domain is flourishing!

"Set sail, depart!"

After finishing breakfast, Gervas led his subordinates straight to the seashore without delay.

The Elemental Spirit was on its last breath, so Gervas dared not delay any further.

The sails of the Black Dragon ship billowed in the wind.

Amidst the splashing roar of waves, the dark hull cut through wind and waves, advancing toward the endless ocean.

Gervas first arrived at Sugarcane Island to inspect the results of the sugar refining by the serfs there.

Only after confirming that the refined white sugar produced by the serfs was flawless did he leave with satisfaction.

Gervas was, after all, a lord; it was impossible for him to personally handle even something like sugar refining just to maintain secrecy.

Thus, Gao Xin had carefully selected several trustworthy families to come to the island, specifically responsible for the sugar refining matters.

And Gervas had already told them that they would not be able to set foot on land again for at least five years.

With these five years, Gervas felt he had ample time to develop.

"My lord, a protruding island has appeared to the due east, though its area should be very small; I do not know if it is the target you seek!"

In the azure ocean, the lookout on the mast suddenly shouted out.

"Is that so? Let us go over and take a look first!"

Gervas immediately perked up, looking expectantly toward the east!