Traveling through the second dimension, the joy system encourages me to laugh heartily!

Relying on the S-level skill [Real Manifestation] would definitely not work. Otherwise, in a few days, his mountainside manor would become a moon manor...

No, if a few more moons are added every day, this planet might not be able to bear it. Landslides and cracks in the ground are just minor issues. Continental plates will collapse in a matter of minutes, and the planet may even disintegrate and reconstruct...

He is trying to steal the business of the Demon King and the Hero and destroy the world!

By then, the goddess who maintains the order of this world will definitely arrange for a reincarnated being to assassinate him. If pushed to the limit, she might even descend in person to obliterate him...

Therefore, for the sake of the people of the world and to live a stable life, [Real Manifestation] will definitely not be able to be fully exerted in the future, and naturally there is no way to use it to exhaust magic power.

As for the other S-level skill [Teleportation], it gradually feels like a small horse pulling a big cart.

Even if Chen Ming brought people with him, he would have to teleport many times before he could barely use up his magic power.

The most important thing is that during the process of teleportation, his magic power is also restored at a certain ratio.

It takes 259 seconds to fully restore the mana, which is equivalent to 0.39% recovery per second!

As the total amount of mana continues to increase, the amount of mana restored per second will also increase - for example, with a total mana of 1 points, 39 points will be restored per second; with a total mana of 10 points, 390 points will be restored per second...

One day, the speed at which magic power is restored will exceed the speed at which [Teleport] consumes it.

By then, it will be very difficult to continue to increase the total amount of magic power!

Moreover, it is impossible for Chen Ming to be in the teleportation state all the time. He also needs to stop and carry out his daily life. He cannot use [teleportation] when charging, sleeping, eating, going to the toilet...

Therefore, Chen Ming estimated that there was a limit to the increase in the total amount of magic power!

But it’s still far from the limit...

In addition to the establishment of the Sky Eye monitoring network and the increase in the total amount of magic power, Chen Ming also obtained 33880 points of joy power from Ai Lixi in three years.

Adding the original 6120 points, the total amount of joy power now reaches 40000 points!

Chen Ming has taken another big step towards exchanging 10 points of joy power for the [Elixir of Life] as planned.

And Alisi's favorability had reached 99 points a year ago. If nothing unexpected happens, it should be able to increase to the full favorability of 100 points in the next two days!

By then, the joyful power that Chen Ming and she gained from charging will increase tenfold!

[Elixir of Life] is just around the corner!

……

The above is all that Chen Ming has gained in the past three years. He has been steadily improving his strength and climbing up the technological ladder step by step.

Everything in the Half Mountain Manor was developing in an orderly manner under the care of [Crimson] and the maids, and he didn't need to worry about it at all.

Now the oldest maid, Mejia, is 16 years old, and the other maids are between 9 and 14 years old.

They are fully capable of doing the job of maids.

So Alpha retired early so that he could focus on taking care of his daughter and have more time to serve Chen Ming...

That day, Chen Ming, who was happily playing with Alpha and Elise, suddenly received a message from [Crimson]:

[Master, there are enemies approaching the targets you want to monitor, Maya and Mari???]

[Should we activate the emergency plan to completely annihilate the enemy?]

If it was a ping, [Crimson] would definitely be holographically projected directly to Chen Ming to report.

But after years of adjustment and education, [Crimson] now understands some principles of life - for example, when her master and her lover are being intimate, she cannot just watch, let alone suddenly show up to disturb them.

That's why she chose to send a message reminder.

Chen Ming knew that [Crimson] would not disturb his enjoyment unless something serious happened. Even though the phone was charging, he still reached out and took a look.

Only then did I realize that the fish had finally taken the bait!!!

He has been waiting for four years since he set the nest and baited the fish!

Four years... four years... do you know how he spent these four years?

Chen Ming excitedly opened the monitoring app on his mobile phone and clicked to watch the high-definition monitoring images of the Tianyan satellite.

The caravan of the [Mary Chamber of Commerce] was seen advancing slowly along the road. Maya and Mary were sitting in the middle carriage, while the carriages in front and behind were filled with various goods. The Chamber of Commerce guards were on horseback protecting them.

Although these guards are ordinary people, they are strong and can barely deal with ordinary thieves.

But unfortunately, the four teams that were surrounding them from four directions in the distance all had people with magical powers!

This is how the world is. If you don't have a magic enhancer of the same level to protect you, you will easily be targeted by bad guys.

Maya was blinded by profit, and his business grew bigger and bigger, but he still had a lucky mentality - this was the cause of his death in the original book, and it was also the reason why he was ambushed now!

"Continue monitoring, wait for the enemy to strike first, then use laser weapons to annihilate them!"

Chen Ming gave this order to [Crimson].

Chapter 93: Fatal Crisis

Because the enemy was still quite far away from the caravan—although they looked quite close on the satellite map, they were actually over ten kilometers away! [Crimson] deduced their hostility from their formation and route, and warned Chen Ming in advance.

So Chen Ming asked her to wait a while before taking action.

If the space fortress were to be deployed to annihilate the enemy now, Maya and Mary would have no idea that they had experienced a crisis.

There is no way to show Chen Ming's kindness.

He is not an unknown hero who does good things without leaving a name!

Besides, it will take some time for Chen Ming to arrive at the scene.

How can you repay a favor if the person is not there?

After giving the order to [Crimson], Chen Ming patted Elise, who was resting on him and recovering her strength, and said:

"Charging paused... I need to go out and play the hero and save a few people..."

Ai Lixi nodded and said curiously: "Okay, Ming! I want to go and see it too, okay? Hiss~ha..."

As she spoke, she stood up with difficulty.

"Of course I can," Chen Ming asked with some concern, "but are you okay?"

"Of course, don't worry, I'm just a little tired. I have magic to strengthen my body, unlike Alpha, who has too little physical strength. Look how soundly she sleeps..."

While putting on her clothes, Alisi did not forget to point at Alpha, but her beautiful white silk legs kept shaking.

When she was putting on her shoes, her legs suddenly went weak and she stumbled. Fortunately, Chen Ming was quick to support her and prevented her from falling.

Alpha, who was standing next to her, twitched her closed eyelids a few times, as if she wanted to struggle to open her eyes and explain herself, but exhaustion and sleepiness still defeated her, and she did not wake up and continued to sleep.

Chen Ming covered Alpha with a blanket, carried the unsteady Ai Lixi in his arms, and boarded the Kun fighter jet driven fully automatically by [Crimson].

The Kun fighter from Panda is essentially a fully upgraded version of the vertical takeoff and landing fighter from Blue Star. It features a turbine engine on each side, allowing for vertical takeoff and landing, hovering, and balance control. Two jet engines are located on the upper rear portion of the fuselage. While the turbines are a vulnerable point, the fuselage's bottom section can be opened, and it is fully equipped with weapons.

Because Chen Ming had never been to the place where Maya and Mary were, he could only take a fighter plane to get there, otherwise he could get there with a [teleportation].

……

Just as Chen Ming got on the Kun fighter, four teams were slowly approaching the caravan of [Mary Chamber of Commerce].

These four teams all came from the commercial city of Murdor, but they belonged to four different chambers of commerce: [Mithril Star Track Chamber of Commerce], [Red Flame and Rose Chamber of Commerce], [Eternal Night Emerald Chamber of Commerce], and [Trade Coin Chamber of Commerce]!

Although the names of these chambers of commerce sound scary, they are actually just the white gloves of certain nobles.

The guards of these chambers of commerce are all knights sent by nobles to protect their property, so there are people with magical powers among them.

If the profit is high enough, these knights will occasionally join a gang of thieves and engage in highway robbery.

For example, today, they planned to rob.

As for why [Mary Chamber of Commerce] was chosen as the target, the main reason was that this emerging chamber of commerce possessed a large amount of wealth.

And after an in-depth investigation, it was found that the [Mary Chamber of Commerce] had neither aristocratic backing nor anyone with magical powers in charge.

Isn't this just playing the ostrich?

Think you're safe by burying your head in the sand?

Or do they look down on the knights raised by their nobles?

To the nobles, the fabulously wealthy Pingmin Chamber of Commerce was like a gluttonous feast with widespread invitations. It would be a shame not to grab a piece of it!

Unfortunately, four nobles noticed the existence of Mary Chamber of Commerce at the same time. They all wanted to swallow it up, but were unwilling to go to war with each other and suffer losses.

In the end, they just sat down to put aside the dispute and jointly develop the project - after all, if it drags on for too long, it may attract more people's covetousness, which will not benefit anyone.

Before they even started, they had already divided the spoils.

For example, goods, working capital, shop properties, and even the large number of little girls that the [Mary Chamber of Commerce] had previously taken away from the commercial city of Murdor...all of these were brought to the negotiation table and divided up by them.

Recently, the commercial city of Murdor is holding a charity event to help orphans.

The lord's wife has been encouraged to start promoting social welfare and invest Murdor's excess tax revenue into it.

In view of the high welfare benefits, these nobles also plan to arrange for white gloves to open orphanages - in order to ensure that there are enough orphans to raise, these welfare fraud orphanages have even begun to disregard human lives and actively create orphans!

Four years ago, when there were no welfare benefits, the Mary Chamber of Commerce took orphans away from the commercial city of Murdor, and no one cared.

But now the situation has changed, and every orphan is very valuable.

Not only can they receive a large amount of welfare money every month, but they can also use it to entertain customers when they grow up. If there are beautiful ones, they can enjoy them themselves or give them to other nobles as a favor...

Maho in the original novel encountered this situation, but she was saved by the male protagonist in the end.

Other orphans were not so lucky. Some little girls were treated horribly by the guests, so they scratched their faces with knives to prevent the guests from approaching them.

Let’s get back to the point. After distributing the spoils, the four nobles ordered their White Glove Chamber of Commerce to send guards disguised as a group of thieves to rob people on the road!

Maya and Mary knew nothing about this and were still slowly leading the caravan back to the town.

The two of them sat in the middle carriage, surrounded by the crisp sound of horseshoes hitting gravel, which was particularly harsh in the silent forest.

When the nineteenth jackdaw flew across the sky without making a cry, Mary suddenly felt something was wrong!

I have to say, sometimes women's sixth sense is terrifyingly accurate.

"Honey, don't you think it's too quiet around here? It makes me feel a little uneasy..." Mary's voice was like a taut string.

Her light purple pupils swept across the dense fir forests on both sides of the road. The treetops that should have been swaying in the wind were now frozen like iron paintings, and even the most slender branches did not move.

Maya's Adam's apple rolled, and she nodded in agreement, "Now that you mention it, I do have a bad feeling..."

As the helmsman of the [Mary Chamber of Commerce], he had traveled through the White Wolf Valley in a blizzard, but he had never witnessed such an eerie silence.

So he immediately got out of the carriage, stood beside the coachman and raised his hand to signal the caravan to stop. The sound of the bronze ring colliding with the iron flagpole startled the sparrows that were napping on the shaft.

"Pass the word down. Strike your crossbows, unbuckle your scabbards, and maintain vigilance."

His deliberately lowered voice was transmitted one after another among the team of thirty carriages. The sound of metal friction was like a poisonous snake shedding its scales.

However, just as Maya finished her words, the neighing of frightened horses suddenly came from the front row of trucks.

Old Tom the driver's pipe rolled into the mud, and the sparks flickered on the wet moss.

"Gods be upon you!"

The veteran businessman, who had been doing business for twenty years, said in a trembling voice, "When I passed by yesterday, the traffic was clear!"

Maya looked up and saw five spruce trees, so big that two people could hug them, lying in a jagged pattern across the middle of the road. The fresh stumps at the roots were still oozing with resin.

"Retreat! Everyone turn around!"

Maya's roar awakened the stunned crowd.

This is a very common robbery method used by bandits. If there are huge trees blocking the road, there must be robbers.

If they had discovered it early and run away quickly, perhaps a battle could have been avoided - although the guards of the [Mary Chamber of Commerce] were also capable of fighting, every battle would result in casualties, and the subsequent pension would be no small amount.

Therefore, Maya's command style has always been to run away, which is the most cost-effective way to play.

Ordinary bandits might not outnumber the caravan's guards, and they would usually hide in the woods, attacking while the guards were moving the huge trees blocking the road. If the caravan simply turned and left, they might not dare to chase out of the woods.

Unfortunately, the attackers this time were not ordinary bandits, but noble knights who had been planning this for a long time.

Almost at the same time Maya ordered a retreat, commotion was heard at the rear of the team.

A guard rode over hurriedly and said in a panic, "President Maya, a lot of people appeared on the road behind us, and they are approaching step by step!"

"It's over... it's all over!"

Maye's face turned pale immediately - there were wolves in front and tigers behind, the other party was well prepared and was obviously coming for him!

This is going to eat him up!

"We are willing to hand over all our belongings, just to spare our lives. What do you think?"