Chapter 227 Conditions (1/2)
Lin Jie was stumped completely—become the Overlord of Saint Malo Town?
What the heck—this was just outright bullying!
Yes, it's bullying, definitely bullying! Just look at this ruined, lifeless town—it was like an undeveloped wasteland! Although owning a town was way more useful than owning territories like guild bases, this nearly 99% ruined town would probably require at least a few hundred thousand gold coins to rebuild it!
Lin Jie was certain that Qiu Yuan was unable to fork out such a great sum of money.
However, as an Overlord, if one could not refurnish their own territory, they would be deemed as super irresponsible, and hence their reputation would be reduced!
This NPC was simply such a bully!
Qiu Yuan had not recovered from the 'surprise' she received. After all, the ranks of a town were much better than territories like villages and guild bases. Under normal conditions, one would be able to make lots of money by owning a town!
”See this? See this?” Qiu Yuan stood akimbo and announced proudly, ”You said that this mission was not worthy? Ha, me here had already foreseen that the rewards for this mission would be very high!”
Lin Jie let out a bitter smile and did not know what to say.
The Engineering Grandmaster Nordilus Saint Malo brushed his beard smilingly, and couldn't help but strike up his thumb at Qiu Yuan's words. Wasn't this such a cute girl—she was still busy helping her seller to count the money from selling her! He spoke in a relieved and trusting tone, ”Then, I shall hand Saint Malo Town to you. I hope that it will revive to its prime under your hands!”
Qiu Yuan put on a serious expression, ”I promise!”
”I shall make a move first! I will appear again when you run into any trouble.” Nordilus laughed merrily and made gestures to leave.
”Wait!” cried Lin Jie as he stopped him. ”Well, Qiu Yuan has gotten her reward, what about us?”
Nordilus brushed his beard and smiled benevolently. ”Young adventurer, what do you want?”
Lin Jie threw a look at Zheng Ziliang, who understood his meaning and took out the Azure Heart. He addressed Nordilus respectfully, ”I want to create a Mechanical Lifeform, and I hope Master can help me with this!”
”Oh? The Azure Heart?” Nordilus looked at the item in surprise, then shook his head.
”One requires the Law of Life to create a Mechanical Lifeform. You are just a mid-level Engineer, and it is not befitting of you to own a Mechanical Lifeform. However, I promise you, I will help you with this when you are strong enough!”
If other players had heard this, they might be fooled by this NPC's words, and really think that they had activated some hidden mission. They might save up the Azure Heart and wait for the day when this NPC returned and helped them create some magnificent machinery. Only Lin Jie knew that this fellow was just bluffing people!
Nordilus•Saint Malo was the son of Saint Malo Town's mayor. In the whole of Saint Malo Town where everyone made their living through farming, only the mayor's son was literate, practiced swordsmanship, and learned magic. The whole Saint Malo Town was like an aboriginal tribe clan, where only the clan leader had the far sight to allow his son to learn such things.
As the town mayor's only son, Nordilus was naturally loved by the whole town. This genius was also the townsfolk' pride—within 10 years, he had studied all the books within the town's library, such as ”The Chronicles of The New Age's Civilizations,” ”Sword and Man,” ”Analysis of Magical Elements” etc. When he reached adulthood, he was already an Advanced Warrior, Middle-level Mage, Middle-level Bandit, and he was famous within the Guild of Light!
However, Nordilus was not spared from the chunnibyou characteristics of being a genius. When carrying out a mission, he had seen an extinct technological product—the Half-god Titan! This Engineering product, which made use of Magical Strength and all sorts of precious materials, completely subverted his perception of the world. He gave up his study of swordsmanship and magic and eventually converted to become an Engineer.
Though it pained the mayor to see his son going down the 'wrong' path, he still supported Nordilus's choice and bought all sorts of machinery from the open markets to let his son experiment with them. In fact, the whole Saint Malo Town was turned into his laboratory—during that time, human-sized metallic gargoyles could be seen in the town every few steps.
These gargoyles had absolute power, unbeatable bodies, and good battling skills, but the only thing they lacked was… life! However advanced, no technology would be able to give those gargoyles life—unless he could get certain ”law” to work for them. Hence Nordilus was deeply troubled by this fact.
As a player, one could never imagine how deeply loved the genius Nordilus was within the whole town of Saint Malo. They always greet him with kind smiles whenever they saw this young lad running around the town, knowing that he would, at days go without eating or sleeping for the sake of doing his beloved research.
One fine day, when Nordilus exploded a patch of land in Saint Malo Town for his 384th experiment, he found a book which taught him how to absorb 'moonlight' and transform it into the Powers of Life. The overjoyed Nordilus immediately sneaked out from his house that night and experimented with this—it was lucky that the moon was especially bright that fateful night.
The next day, Nordilus announced excitedly that no enemy would be able to invade Saint Malo Town ever again! He proudly displayed the Mechanical Lifeforms which he created for the purposes of protecting the town——Sub Legendary Warrior Machinery, Sub Legendary Mage Turrets, Sub Legendary Priest Robots…
Within the next 10 years, Saint Malo Town became the most secure town in The New Age! However, this did not last for long. Nordilus was met with a bottleneck soon enough: he wanted to create a Heroic, and even Immortal level gargoyle. After leaving large amounts of protection gargoyles to protect his hometown, he bade goodbye to his family, friends, and left the town.