"Master Avery, are you willing to work with me repeatedly?" asked Merlin suddenly.

There's a reason Cambein sent Avery here, mages spend most of their time outside of battles and expeditions studying, so they have a lot of chores that need to be handled by specialists—it's hard to imagine a full-fledged mage with his books, driving ox carts to tenants to collect grain, or going from shop to shop to collect rent, when the time comes, the mage can basically say goodbye to his beloved profession.

And Avery is similar to the one hired by Merlin in Canaan, his future is basically non-existent, and the purpose of his life is to maintain the family's power, and to train a formal magician for the family as much as possible, so that the family can pass it on.

"Lord Marquis, Avery is here to help. Avery was overjoyed, this time he had gone the way of the Marquis of Cambein, in order to become the head of Merlin, which meant a lot to him and the family behind him.

"Very good. ”

Merlin nodded in satisfaction, "Avery I'm in need of some specialized people to set up the administration of the territory. Well, there's one more thing, my noble badge, just use the pattern of the arcane seal!"

- Her arcane sigil is a phoenix pattern.

"Yes, Lord Marquis. Avery bowed his head respectfully.

In his opinion, Merlin is a third-level magician, young and with great potential, as long as she doesn't die halfway, the future must be extremely bright.

"Your Excellency, as an Earl, you also need a castle as the core of power!" Avery reminded duly.

"Well, buy some slaves. And pay for food and money, recruit a group of my lords to build! The location is here!" Lei Lin casually pointed on the map.

It is the Tberius River, the largest river relatively close to the wilderness plains, and it is not too far away, there is an inland port, and transportation is very convenient.

"Yes, merciful sir!" said Avery.

In fact, after the Wilderness Forest gave it all to Merlin, she had the power to live and die over any creature in the land, and even allowed to set up an army and establish a kingdom.

In the territory, the people even had to bring their own dry food every year to unconditionally respond to the lord's call, and undertake a certain amount of labor and war logistics.

Now that Merlin has paid her salary, she is naturally very merciful.

"The castle was named 'The Bunker'. You go and gather a bunch of scholars and craftsmen first, and then show them to me when the blueprints are finished!"

Merlin didn't care about such a trivial matter, and directly let go of power.

She's afraid of what she really cares about. Still below: "And next to the bunker, I'm going to build a mage tower!"

"Mage Tower!" the two people next to him immediately exclaimed, which meant a lot of resource expenditure.

"Yes, by the best standards!" In Merlin's eyes, the bunker was just a mere center of power for mortals, and this mage tower was her true residence in the future.

"Why not build it at HQ, where not only can we get resources, but we can also work together to protect it?" suggested Avery.

"No!" Mei Lin shook her head categorically and refused, although it was established at the headquarters, it could still get some technical and resource support. But the fact that the core of the Mage Tower needs to be incorporated into the joint defense system alone cannot be tolerated!

She is afraid of too many secrets, how can she show them to others?

And a mage tower. It was a necessary prerequisite for some experiments, so Merlin made up her mind. It must be built independently on its own territory.

"In that case!!!......!

"I'll do the design myself, and you don't have to worry about the cost!" Merlin said with a light smile.

She has been drawing a lot over the years, and the wealth on her body is already extremely terrifying, in addition to a large number of magic stones, there are also a large number of magic crystals, and all kinds of precious resources are also a lot, enough for the cost of a mage tower, and it is still the kind of mage tower that is all built according to the highest standards!

How can an ordinary mage tower carry Merlin's ambitions?

The high-level mage tower has a certain effect on promoting the strength of the mage (wizard) master himself, and it is a necessary environment for many experiments! Therefore, many high-level magic (wizard) masters will plan to build their own mage tower.

But it is very rare to be able to build it by herself like Mei Lin, who does not feel that it is difficult, and others often need hundreds of years of accumulation to have a little hope, or is it the kind of general standard, as for the top-level configuration?

"It seems that during her time as a wandering mage, she did a lot of dirty work. Avery muttered to himself, looking more respectful.

"As a preliminary reserve for the construction of castles and mage towers, I need a large number of male ** subordinates and stonemasons and the like, do you have channels there?"

Merlene asked, looking at Avery Avenue.

"Absolutely!"

Avery replied in the affirmative, "In fact, there are special bazaars in the wilderness that offer slaves of different races......"

"Well, I'll leave this side to you, I need at least 10,000 people! As for the payment method, use magic stones!"

As Merlin's words fell, she saw a gleam of joy in Avery eyes.

Naturally, the chaotic city-state also uses gold as currency to circulate, while magic stones and magic crystals are more advanced currencies, and the exchange ratio in the black market is very high.

Of course, these small interests have long been out of Merlin's eyes, and if they can make Avery try his best, he will naturally go with him.

......

The Bunker Plains, whatever it was previously called, but Merlin's decision was made to automatically change its name to the Bunker Plains, and it would also become the center of power in the fledgling realm.

Groups of adult slaves, urged by the whips and clubs of the overseers, toiled to transport huge granite stones.

The rocks were carved into a uniform size in another quarry and then transported here to form a huge castle.

Merlin's bunker was defended by a two-tiered wall, with the outer walls slightly lower than the inner walls, and a large number of arrow towers and attics.

On the periphery of the bunker, ditches are dug to create an extremely wide moat.

The entire main body of the building is made of granite bricks, and in the later stage, hill mages who are proficient in earth magic will be invited to reinforce it, so that the stone cracks will be bridged to form a huge whole. And then there will be some famous carving masters who will come to work on it.

When it is actually built, its luxury is probably not inferior to that of a mortal lord's castle.