Now I understood the inconveniences of a large body, but gradually got used to it. During my conversation with Sean, the lord of the city came. He greeted me respectfully and joined the conversation. We quickly moved on to the political and military issues. Firstly, the enemies outnumber us both in number and quality. Their soldiers are more disciplined. Secondly, we have few magicians. I can teach children with a talent for magic basics, but they will not grow up soon. Thirdly, the union will only help if we can fight off the first wave.

I was thinking about what I could do. To begin with, the problem with food. We have no land for agriculture. Only one fort. We will either buy food from the system, or from the Union and, in extreme cases, by robbing the area. The latter is not recommended if we plan to exploit people. It is not profitable to buy from the system. After all, although the food there is of good quality, it is also expensive. Also, in the long term, it is more profitable for us to buy a book of knowledge on something, for example, medicine, and with the help of them to educate doctors, than to buy medicines all the time. But in urgent situations, the system itself will tell about your illness and its medicine for points. There's even a potion that will almost bring you back from the other world. However, the system is not yet open to my subordinates. Cooking is still going on. System How much time is left before the store opens?

"System: 14 hours 27 minutes 12 seconds left"

It's 6 pm now. It will open at about 8 am. The battle to defend the castle is only a couple of months away.

"Andre, when will the castle be completed? What kind of defensive power will he have? Are you sure we'll make it before the battle starts?"

-I'm sure we'll make it before the battle starts, but as for the strength, it will have the strength of a Rank 7 stone. If we evaluate the castle, then it would be rank 7.

-Andre, you have not forgotten that I will strengthen it with dragon energy. He will have protection from level 5 spells.

"What is this dragon energy?"

-You don't know?- He looked at me with surprise - Ahem, this is the power of the dragon that flows in us, the more it is, the easier we will become stronger. However, this energy is not enough in the blood, and it is produced only in childhood and after that, it will remain for life. We can also use this power to strengthen things. Walls, swords, amulets, everything is possible. They can be made stronger to a certain attribute if they are not divine or demonic attributes. But the wider the range of protection and the larger the object of application, the more requirements. For example, if I spend all my energy, I can make the castle resistant to all spells below level 6. But I can also make a level 12 fire protection amulet using all the dragon energy.

"I see."

"System: Dragon Energy is open to you."

I should ask my subordinates more often. Details

"System: You are constantly generating dragon energy. The stronger you are, the more you produce. This energy is proof of your power. You can spend it to strengthen things or strengthen spells, and your true servants will spend it on evolution. The more of it they have, the stronger they can become. The higher the potential in something your subordinates have, the more they develop in childhood. Now in the store, you and your true servants can restore a certain amount for contribution points.

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At the moment you have: 152 Dragon energies.

You produce 10 energies per day."

Does it boost spells? How much?

"System: Maximum 200%, after 100%, the price of increasing strength by another 100% doubles."

It's useful if I'm fighting with someone of equal standing. A trump card, I didn't expect to get one so quickly, remembering how I barely got it last time, it's even a shame. I got that artifact by a miracle, yet here on a plate. And this one is up to 200 percent. What are the side effects?

"System: There are none. The spell reading time does not increase, and after that, the owner will not experience any complications."

What? It's just divine. Without side effects, I can be calm during the battle and don't have to rush to finish the battle quickly. But I suspect others will have something similar too. This means that they can have their king of dragon energy, but I'll think about it later.

I finally got a plus or minus estimate of the magic levels of my past world and this one

Level 1-5: Basic rank. Mostly blinding light, Flames (just flames from the hands), Soft soil, Lightning, Cold, etc.(Lightning and cold according to the same scheme) This can be said to be household magic, that is, they can help in ordinary life, but they are useless in battle if the conditions are not met.

Level 6-10: Lowest rank. Already more serious fire arrows, stone spears, ice spears, Lightning charge, cat agility, stone skin, the lowest magical shield, and so on. Despite the lower rank in the battle between the great magicians, this magic is mainly used. Great magicians cast this spell faster, almost instantly. So they use it because all they need is to destroy their magic shield. You can't call these battles interesting, because it's not easy to break the shield of the great level with the magic of the lowest. Although this is a problem for both sides. If someone reads a higher spell to break the protection, then the other one will also start reading a higher spell. No one wants to drag out a battle in a war unless there are special conditions.

Level 11-15: Average rank. There are already strong spells like compressed flame, Steel spear, Compressed water, the chain of lightning, Leopard Agility, Steel skin, medium magic shield, etc. These spells are used in the Fight by the Supreme magicians. They cast this spell almost instantly. Alas, no matter how to cast spells, it is impossible to do it instantly, so they move from lower to middle magic in battles among themselves. It can be said that they cast a low- and medium-level spell at about the same time.

16-20: The High Rank. These spells are already more for war. Sea of Flame, Earthquake, Ice Flood, Chain lightning, Elite Agility, Nature Protection, Magic Dome, etc. All these are spells by area. In that world, they said, *A war is not a war without high magicians, without them it is only a battle of the weak between the weak*. In a word, it was used by other higher magicians until they break through. We Great Magicians did not use them, saving mana for people more resistant.

21-25:The rank is Great. These are already powerful spells. Blue Flame, Mithril Mace, Mithril Spear, River Power, Thunder Wrath, Snake Agility, Mithril Armor, Great Magic Shield, etc. These spells are powerful and are used mostly against warriors. Against a magician is as effective as a bow against a machinegun. But under the conditions that the bow is stronger, but in battles where speed is more important.

If you calculate it this way, it turns out that the maximum spell level is 40. Alas, I do not know the spells above. I, like most other Great Magicians, know more about the basics than what is higher. From habit, I still divide them according to the old world system. I questioned my subordinates and found out that the strongest enemy mage has level 19. He's quite close to reaching the Great level, however, I'm sure even if he was at the Great level, he wouldn't know spells of this level.

Putting all thoughs down, I went to sleep on animal fur. The store will open tomorrow for my new servants. The war is almost knocking on our doors.