In the evening, the real estate agent brought the best construction company manager he had found to the hotel to discuss the renovation of Monte Manor with Leo. Before arriving, the construction company had already formulated several renovation plans based on the actual situation of Monte Manor.

Leo and Sylvia choose.

Sylvia quickly selected a renovation plan that seemed to suit her aesthetic slightly, while Leo modified part of the renovation project under the existing plan, leaving room for his future rune layout.

space for the array, and also to avoid renovations that would damage the original layout of the manor.

Originally, according to the estimation of the manager of the construction company, the renovation project of the entire manor would take at least three or four months to complete, but with the help of money, the construction period was compressed to one month. However, after hearing Leo say that every day advanced,

After adding a certain amount of bonus, he immediately said that he would speed up the construction period as much as possible while ensuring quality.

After settling the matter of renovating the manor, Leo and Sylvia had nothing else to do for the time being, so they walked around Beiruk, a city where they might live for a long time in the future, and became familiar with the streets and streets of this city.

urban area.

The political structure of Beluk City is similar to that of emerging cities in the world of Velen. The city government, city council and city court jointly manage the city. There is no hierarchy among the three in terms of status, but there are some gaps in power. Among them

The municipal government has the lowest authority, while the municipal court has the highest authority. From a certain point of view, as long as there are sufficient reasons and evidence, the chief justice of the municipal court has the right to remove any member of the city council, and any member of the city government.

An official, including the highest mayor and speaker.

The reason for this is that most of the people who unified the seven countries to establish the Ot Federation were supporters of the rule of law school from the bottom, and had a natural distrust of the parliament and government officials composed of gentry and nobles.

With reference to the very popular rule of law national system in the New World, they constructed the current Ote Federation's political structure of separation of powers and rule of law. In order to prevent forces such as aristocrats and businessmen from penetrating into the court system, they also established changes in the court system.

There is a set of extremely strict criteria for the selection of officials in China, the lowest criterion of which is poverty.

The people at the beginning had a very good idea, thinking that only the poor could understand the hardships of the poor and speak for the poor. And for a long time after the establishment of this system, it was implemented perfectly, and allowed the Ott Federation to

It quickly stabilized during the war, developed steadily in economy, military and diplomacy, and became one of the few major countries in the New World.

However, no matter how well-conceived the system is, it cannot be implemented perfectly and permanently. The people who originally conceived all this obviously did not expect that the poor would be more greedy and cruel than the rich and powerful after gaining power. In recent years, the judges of all levels of courts have

The continuous emergence of scandals has caused the system headed by the rule of law to begin to shake. The power of the government and parliament has gradually begun to exert its strength, bit by bit destroying the reputation and reputation accumulated by the court over the years, and gradually tightening the power of the court.

Beluk City is located in the center of the Otter Federation. Lake Beluk next to the urban area is the largest lake in the Otter Federation. More than 70% of the rivers converge here. These rivers run from north to south and east to west, connecting all the Otter Federation.

Province, so this is the most important transportation hub city in the Ote Federation. Almost 90% of domestic goods pass through Beiruk City.

It is precisely because the city of Beluk is so important that political forces from all sides regard it as the center of competition for power. The media controlled by these forces speak out for their respective forces, attack political opponents, and then follow various goods and commodities.

Spreading this voice across the country has resulted in more than 3,000 newspaper offices in Beluk, and more than 3,000 newspapers are published every day, and most of them are political newspapers, with only a small number of newspapers

are other types of newspapers.

It is precisely because of this special political atmosphere that the citizens of the entire city of Beiruk like to talk about politics. Even in the pub, the hottest topic is politics.

Leo and Sylvia just walked around the city twice and sat in some pubs, restaurants or public places, and they had already figured out the political structure, system, forces and characters of the entire Otter Federation.

This also saved the two of them a lot of time, allowing them to spend more time in the National Library in Beiruk, reading books from all over the world, and learning about the world's culture, religion, and politics.

, knowledge of history, geography, etc.

Although the city of Beluk is not the federal capital, it is the political center of the Ot Federation, so some institutions that should appear in the capital have also established their headquarters here, such as the National Museum, the National Library, etc.

The National Library is the largest library in the Otter Federation, occupying the entire seventy-story building. No one has counted the number of books here, but a rough estimate suggests that there should be tens of millions of books, and there are still a large number every day

Books from all over the world have gathered. It is said that all the bookshelves in this building are almost full. The city council has begun to discuss converting another 70-story slum apartment building into a new library. The powerful people in the city council

In our eyes, increasing citizens' cultural knowledge is far more important than providing low-cost rental housing to a small group of poor people.

The rich collection of books was a very good thing for Leo and Sylvia. After that, the two of them stayed in the library all day, looking through the collection of books. Compared to Sylvia, she read more books.

Different from focusing on history, religion and geography, Leo does not have a specific category. He is flipping through almost all books, and the flipping speed is very fast. Basically, he can finish a book with more than 400 pages in a few minutes.

books.

At first, the library staff just regarded Leo and Sylvia as some boring dignitaries, because in the past, there had been many extremely boring dignitaries who had bet with their companions that they would do some strange things in the public library.

It is normal for Leo and Sylvia to quickly flip through books like this, or even take off their clothes and do indescribable things to the library bookshelves.

However, it didn't take long for them to discover that things didn't seem to be what they thought. The two of them were just playing a book-turning game, but actually memorized and integrated all the books they had turned over, because the two would let each other go from time to time.

The library staff helped them find some textbooks related to the books they read to judge whether they had fully learned the contents of those books, and then they answered those textbooks completely in front of everyone.

And all are perfect scores.

If all the test questions for junior students were answered correctly at the beginning, it was not something worth paying attention to. Then later, some exam questions for senior scholars from the Federal College were also answered completely correctly, then it would be shocking enough.

It means that the two of them can become senior scholars of the Federal College at any time, especially Leo, who is a scholar in all disciplines.

This incident quickly spread from the library, and naturally attracted the attention of the Beluk City authorities, who planned to investigate the two. However, when they learned that the two were senior customers of the Federal Bank, everyone

The investigation was stopped, as if they had never heard anything about it.

Leo and Sylvia also stopped reading books in the library. This was not because the Commonwealth Bank sent someone to remind them that their behavior was inappropriate, nor was it because they were worried.

Continuing to read like this will cause even greater trouble, but because most of the useful books in the library have been completely recorded by Leo, and the contents of the remaining books are repeated, there is no need to read them anymore, plus

The renovation project of the manor has been completed, and the two of them stopped going to the library to read books.

However, before they stopped reading books, they found the librarian of the library and donated a sum of money to the library. Then they expressed their hope that the librarian would use the convenience of the library to help them collect various religious, folklore and related materials.

Occult books.

Naturally, the director of the library would not refuse this, especially when the price offered by Sylvia was very attractive.

The next day, Leo and Sylvia left the city and returned to their manor in the Great North Point District. On the day of their return, Sylvia asked a hired servant to change the Monte Manor logo on the entrance gate of the manor.

It was taken down and a Belmont Manor sign was put up.

The renovation of the entire manor did not make any changes to the main building and garden design of the manor. The pavilions set up in the dead corners of the manor were also retained. In the garden, only the messy shrubs and leaves were cleaned up, and some flowers and trees were transplanted.

.

As for the main building villa, while retaining the main structure, all the decayed and damaged rooms were completely renovated, all decorations and furniture were replaced with new ones, and they also helped Leo and Sylvia hire

Servants and stewards.

As for the basement, due to Leo's request, no changes were made. Some lighting fixtures were added, a floor was laid, and the dust was cleaned.

After returning to the manor, Sylvia started to prepare to hold a cocktail party in the manor in accordance with the local rules of communication. In addition to the city officials and judges, the guests invited were also the dignitaries living in the Greater North Point area.

In this regard, Leo had no idea of ​​​​intervening and left everything to the experienced Sylvia, while he stayed in the basement, studying the plan for arranging the magic circle, and at the same time studying the origin of the square.

It is different from the first time he came to the basement not long ago. Leo now has mastered a lot of folklore, religion and mysticism in this world. Although the knowledge obtained from the library is considered to be

It is public knowledge of little value, but by analyzing this knowledge that is full of all kinds of conjectures and lies, you can still find a lot of true content that can be hidden or completely unknown to others.

For example, Leo judged from the layout of the manor and the characteristics of the living cube that the Monte family's layout in the manor originated from the New World sect. The Monte family should be believers in the New World sect, and they are believers with high status.

Although there are many types of religions in the world, and there are countless churches. There are thousands of formal churches with records in various countries, and the number of unrecorded churches is several times that number. However, no matter how many religions there are, in the eyes of religious scholars, all religions are the same.

It can only be divided into two major categories, namely the Old World sects and the New World sects.

The difference between the various doctrines of these two sects is not very big, nor is it because the religion was born in the Old World, it is the Old World sect, and the religion that was born in the New World is the New World sect. The core that truly divides the two sects is a religious thought.

The core religious ideas of the Old World sects are to worship the gods, worship the gods, obtain the traction of the gods after death, and finally stand by the gods to gain eternal happiness and joy.

The New World sect believes that gods are only higher-level beings. As long as they master the correct methods, ordinary people can become gods. No matter how bad they are, they can become descendants of gods and obtain higher-level happiness and joy.

The reason why this kind of new and old sectarian thoughts appeared is mainly because after the founding of the New World, a new ideological movement suddenly appeared among the people of the New World. The core of this movement is human supremacy, which believes that human beings are the highest existence in the world.

This trend of thought not only affected the governments of various countries, but also affected religions. It even spread back to the Old Continent and affected people in the Old Continent.

Therefore, after the spread of this new trend of thought, many religions advocating New World sects emerged in the Old World. These religions were also unified into New World sects. In a certain respect, Leo and Sylvia can also be regarded as

Advocate of New World sects.

Although there is no record in any of the books that Leo has read about why the religious war that led to the collapse of the Seven Kingdoms broke out, and there is no detailed record of which sect the churches participating in the war belonged to, some of them are inspiring.

It is not difficult to judge from the morale slogans that the religious war that year probably also involved the battle between the old and new sects.

What is interesting is that the final decisive battle of that religious war took place near the city of Beluk, and after subsequent analysis by scholars, the center location should be the current Lake Beluk.

According to those scholars, Lake Beiluk should have been a plain before the war, but after the war, its ground sunken due to unknown reasons, and the surrounding rivers also changed their courses due to such drastic changes in the landform.

Eventually, the current situation was formed where all the federal rivers converged into Lake Beiluk.

What's even more interesting is that some geologists speculate that there should be many underground rivers at the bottom of Lake Beiluk, because a large number of rivers converge into Lake Bealuk, but there is only one river as an output. Obviously, the amount of water poured into Lake Bealuk

It is much higher than the amount of water flowing out of Lake Baluk. However, the problem is that the water level of Lake Baluk has always been within a floating range, with no abnormal rise. That is why geologists guessed the bottom of Lake Baluk.
Chapter completed!