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The rain mixed with a little snow fell down, and the sky and the earth were hazy.

This was the first rain of the year, and it seemed that it had rained a lot more than in previous years. Fortunately, the northwest region has never lacked rain. The melting of ice and snow accumulated in winter is enough to provide water, so there is no need to worry about "spring rain is as expensive as oil".

Along with the spring rain, there is also a very surprising news.

Located in the central part of the main plane, the Eagle Kingdom, the oldest human country in world history, has split.

The eastern part of the Eagle Kingdom belongs to the famous Griffin Grand Duke. The first generation of Griffin Grand Duke was a demigod griffin. He formed an unbreakable covenant with the Eagle God and became his most capable subordinate. Later, the Eagle God failed to challenge the Lord of Glory and died under the hammer of the Lord of Glory. The Griffin Grand Duke was severely injured by the Knight God and had to use the secret technique to reincarnate. After reincarnation, he was re-enshrined as the God of State and Diplomacy, also known as the God of Kingship.

The God of Kingship still retains his memory of being the Grand Duke of Griffin, abides by the original oath, and protects the Eagle Kingdom. For a long time afterwards, he, his believers, and the church have always been one of the pillars of the Eagle Kingdom. The successive Grand Dukes of Griffin who inherited his bloodline are also the most reliable helpers of the Eagle Kingdom. They guarded the eastern part of the kingdom, resisted various enemies, and built the Griffin Duchy into an extremely prosperous place, claiming to have one-third of the strength of the entire Griffin Kingdom.

But all this changed 150 years ago. The God of Kingship was killed by a mistress and his priesthood was taken away. Except for the part lost in the collapse, the rest of his church and faith became the property of the new noble god. The noble god did not intend to follow the covenant between the Grand Duke of Griffin and the Eagle God. Under his influence, the Griffin Duchy quickly became alienated from the Eagle Kingdom and soon had the intention of splitting.

In the "Sun Extinguishing Day Battle" last winter, the Eagle Kingdom suffered a heavy blow, and it is conservatively estimated that it will not recover in 20 to 30 years. So the Griffin Duchy, which had suffered little loss in that war, finally put its plan of independence into practice. At the recent sowing ceremony, it announced its independence and established the "Griffin Duchy".

It is not only the original Griffin Duchy that has become independent. The two earls in the central and eastern part of the Eagle Kingdom, close to the Griffin Duchy, have also announced their joining of the Griffin Duchy. In terms of land area, the new Griffin Duchy occupies almost 30% of the territory of the entire Eagle Kingdom. In other words, the current territorial ratio between the Eagle Kingdom and the Griffin Duchy is roughly two to one.

This ratio is not very outrageous. Considering the difference in the prosperity of the two sides and the current predicament of the Eagle Kingdom, it is certain that the Eagle Kingdom will not have the ability to march east to quell the rebellion for a long time in the future. Even, perhaps it will never have it.

Leon, who received this news, was silent for a long time, and finally did not go to his hometown. He thought about it and felt that this kind of thing was actually sooner or later. Even if he could barely stop it once, he could not stop it all the time.

More importantly, even he himself did not have much sense of identity with the Eagle Kingdom.

Time is the most powerful weapon. Thirty years is enough to make the former prince no longer consider himself a member of the kingdom. Even though he still remembers that he has the blood of the eagle, that's all.

If one day, the descendants of the eagle are in crisis, he will most likely help them. But the split that had been foreshadowed did not make him take action.

This made Carissa greatly relieved and happy. She has always been worried that Leon would rush back after getting the news and try to use his force and prestige to stop the split - in that case, Leon would definitely become a thorn in the eyes of many people, and maybe he would encounter other dangers!

As the lord of Gars City and the contemporary Earl Riley, Carissa's interest in the Eagle Kingdom is only that "it is Leon's hometown" and "Leon likes to eat hometown food". She is not interested in anything else!

Well, for her, it would be best if the Eagle Kingdom only had those hometown dishes left. Last time, Leon went to fight against a strong man who even His Majesty the Void Mask was afraid of in order to save the Eagle Kingdom. It was terrible!

"The Duke of Griffin has become independent."

"It was expected."

"In the current situation, it would be strange if he didn't become independent."

Similar statements were circulated in various countries on the continent. No one was surprised. Even the new king of the Eagle Kingdom was silent for a long time after receiving the news, and then sighed deeply and said, "What is coming will come eventually, forget it."

For the residents of Pyroxene Town on the edge of the Ash Forest in the northwest, the division of the Eagle Kingdom can only be regarded as a topic of conversation in their spare time. For them, the most important thing at the moment is the first trial harvest of Mayor Felix's "artificial vein".

Wearing thick protective clothing, Lai Fu and three equally cautious excavators used sickles to cut off the upper half of the gray-black mushrooms that grew at the bottom of Tunnel No. 1 using magic, and put them into a specially made sealed box.

This kind of mushroom can continue to grow as long as the lower half is preserved, and the negative energy it absorbs will be condensed in the umbrella part, so it is quite easy to harvest. All you need is enough protection and sufficient care.

The heavy protective clothing made the originally easy harvesting work much more troublesome. Everyone's movements were a bit clumsy, and the sickle cut their hands more than once. Fortunately, the protective suit is specially thickened and reinforced from the forearms to the hands, and the sickle is not sharp. After a few cuts like this, there is no pain, let alone injury.

After working hard all afternoon, they finally harvested the first batch of mushrooms and filled six large boxes. These boxes were moved out by other workers and transported to the magic school. They will be extracted in a special extraction room and turned into valuable negative energy essence, as well as residue that can be used as mushroom fertilizer.

After finishing his work, Reiff walked out of the tunnel and stood in the purification circle for five minutes as required. Then when he left the circle, he hurriedly took off his stuffy protective clothing.

The raindrops mixed with fine snowflakes fell on his body, which was freezing and cold. For him who was so hot and sweating all over, it couldn't be more comfortable!

But the young magician in charge of supervising the work immediately shouted and ordered him to return to the lounge immediately and put on warm clothes to avoid being cold.

"Are you so anxious to die after you sweat all over your body after exercising strenuously and get cold water?" Pike, the old man in charge of the duty room, said rudely, "You are only thirty years old, and you don't even have a wife or children. It's hard to live a good life." Why can’t you think about your peaceful life so much?”

Reif smiled bitterly. He wanted to tell the other party that he actually had a wife and children.

At least, there was once...

But he didn't say anything after all, and all his memories and thoughts turned into a silent sigh.

It would have been great if I could have met a good person like Mayor Felix back then...

Reiff did not feel depressed for a long time. When the last excavator came out of the tunnel, was purified, took off his protective clothing and came to the newly built lounge next to the duty room, the young magician took out a sound transmission staff, which transmitted The voice of his teacher, Mayor Felix, came.

"Everyone has worked hard during this period. The yield of mushrooms is good and the texture is good. The first phase of the artificial mineral vein can be said to be a great success. I would like to thank everyone for their hard work."

The diggers laughed. Although they had little education and no experience in fighting wits and courage, at least they could hear that the words of thanks were not perfunctory.

Mayor Felix went on to say: "I will give you three days of leave, and your salary will be calculated according to normal standards. Then, you will also be given a bonus!"

Hearing this, the diggers cheered. For those poor people, paid holidays are already very good, and bonuses are even better. In particular, Mayor Felix has never been stingy. Since she said she wanted to give out bonuses, she would never let it go with a few copper coins per person like the previous mine owner did.

"How much bonus will be given?" an impatient man couldn't help but ask.

The young magician shook his head, he didn't know.

"It must be quite a lot anyway!" Another one said with a more steady smile.

"Yes! Maybe there will be five silver coins, maybe even seven, no, eight silver coins..." This is someone who likes to guess.

Reif smiled, wiped off the sweat and rain on his body with a dry cloth, picked up his cup on the wooden stand in the lounge, went to the big wooden barrel to get a cup of hot barley tea, and drank it.

Today's barley tea is slightly spicy and slightly sweet. I guess it contains herbs that can prevent colds and illnesses.

very nice!

He sat on the bench, listening to the excited discussions of his co-workers. He drank the hot tea that warmed his throat to his stomach and then from his stomach to his whole body. He looked at the patter of spring rain outside and endured it. He couldn't help but laugh.

Such a day is really comfortable!

After a while, a patrolman came in despite the rain and distributed the "bonus" the mayor just mentioned to everyone.

Contrary to what we guessed, it was not seven, eight or five per person, but one gold coin per person!

Looking at the golden coins, the miners were stunned.

Although theoretically ten silver coins can be exchanged for one gold coin, in fact, for the vast majority of poor civilians, they may not be able to save a single gold coin throughout the year. Even...before Mayor Felix came, most people here had no chance to touch even a gold coin.

Life is so difficult that just "surviving" is exhausting for them. Saving money? gold? In a dream?

More than one excavator turned the golden coin over and over again, frantically trying to find a place to put it away, but not knowing where to put it, which was extremely embarrassing.

Reiff still held the tea cup firmly with his right hand, and spread out his left hand. The golden treasure lay quietly in his palm, reflecting a reassuring light.

He clenched his left hand, feeling the hard feeling in his palm, raised his neck, and drank the hot tea in one gulp, his eyes full of hope and confidence.

"Our life will definitely get better and better!"

He said this to himself, which attracted everyone's agreement.