Seeing that it wasn't a scroll-style sword and armor talisman, Duke breathed a sigh of relief.

Just looking at the five ordinary black boxes, Duke's relieved heart hung again, and he was a little afraid that he would directly become an African chief and pull out five pieces of garbage.

However, after he carefully examined the item's attributes, he realized that his previous worries were a little ridiculous.

What was opened this time can not only be said to be very European, but also has a huge effect on his next actions.

These five boxes contain round objects called [Magic Bombs], each of which is only a normal man's fist, but each of them contains very amazing power.

Although it was contained in five large boxes, each box actually contained only eight magic bombs, and Duke only got forty of them this time.

The effect of the magic bomb is very similar to Duke's impression, but it is not filled with gunpowder but a variety of magic materials, after spinning out an object similar to a safety ring, as long as a relatively violent impact can detonate a large area, the killing effect is very outstanding.

With these five boxes of magic bombs, Duke has some confidence in the entire rescue operation, and it is estimated that if these dozens of bombs go down, Old Man Simon's old bones will also have to be explained here!

At that time, each soldier will have some in his hand, and when he fights against the enemy, he will concentrate all his firepower when he encounters the high-level combat power on the opposite side, so that even if the soldiers generally do not have extraordinary abilities, they can still rely on the advantage of equipment to turn the situation a little bit.

Thinking like this in his heart, Duke's mind turned to the new task re-issued by the system this time, he just glanced at it and didn't understand it clearly, but this time he looked carefully again and felt that this task was a bit clueless.

The Dukedom of the North, which now owns Duke, has two major territories, the Northern Fort and the Connaughton region, with a population of only about 30,000, which is far from meeting Duke's requirements.

He ordered Joseph to pay attention to the local slave market whenever he went out to trade, and to take the opportunity to buy slaves who were healthy or had whole families to increase the labor force and population. And

In his development plan, there is no option to continue to expand the territory in the short term.

Mainly because although most of the land in the north belonged to Duke's family in law a long time ago, it has only been a hundred years since then, and these former lands have long been washed, shuffled and distributed, and have become the legitimate territories of those new nobles.

In Duke's opinion, this result is not good for him, it is better to continue to shrink in the corner and develop slowly, and then push all the way through after enough technology and products are exposed.

"How many nobles are there on the border with our territory now, what is the strength?"

Having made up his mind, he still wanted to find out first, so he turned his head and asked about the situation around Lenia's own territory that was following behind.

"There are now three of them, and the most powerful of them all, Viscount Stearns, has thousands of men under his command and is very well equipped. The other two are just ordinary baronies, and their strength is not even as good as the previous Baron of Rhine. ”

Although she was a little puzzled about the purpose of her lord's question, Lenia spoke fluently as she knew everything.

When it came to Baron Rhein, Duke vaguely noticed that Tiger, who was walking in front, shook very slightly and was quickly pressed down.

The information he received from Lenia was not much different from what Duke had thought, and Viscount Stearns was the biggest obstacle he would ever have to break free from the far corners of the North, and it was very likely that there would be fierce friction in the cement business in the future.

However, now Duke felt that he was not strong enough to challenge the hole cards that Viscount Stern had, or that he would have to pay a more painful price to win narrowly, which he did not want to see.

Therefore, in his plan, the two sides can still slow down, and there should not be contradictions or even wars so quickly, thus losing this precious period of development time.

"Lord, what's going on?"

Seeing her lord fall into a strange silence after a brief inquiry, Lenia was a little confused, so she hurried forward and asked.

"No, nothing, I just want to find out. ”

Duke replied with a smile and was about to close his mouth and rethink, but Tiger, who was walking in front, turned around and interjected: "Speaking of which, Viscount Stern has had a lot of conflicts with the church in business recently, and the church has a lot of opinions about him." ”

"Oh? Duke listened to the news with some surprise, but he didn't expect that Viscount Stern, who had always been a stable supplier to the church, would actually have a conflict with a major customer, which seemed to leave a back door for his caravan to develop the cement business.

At this time, he didn't know that Joseph had already seized the opportunity to sign a long-term cooperation contract with the church agent in Itas, so when he heard the news, his heart was still happy, and even with his senses for Tiger, he also paid a little bit.

"Merchants are born with a disgusting greed, and it is only a matter of time before they come into conflict with us. Tiger frowned and said with some disgust, not having any good feelings for Stern, who was a viscount.

Although the Church of Light does not have a precept of the Seven Deadly Sins, all positive sects have a natural aversion to the evil aspects of human nature.

It's just that Duke is noncommittal about his statement, judging from some of the things he has learned about the church's affairs so far, it may not be just one side of greed, but there is no need for him to have a dispute with Tiger on this matter at this time, so he smiled and nodded in agreement with his point of view, and walked to the other side to continue the question just now.

The newly issued tasks of the system are also strange in terms of rewards, and they are actually the display style of [???], so it is the first time that an unknown reward has appeared.

He was a little suspicious that the reward level of this mission might be determined according to the degree of completion of his pioneering mission, so it would be in an unknown state, but this was only his preliminary speculation and needed to wait for future verification.

"My lord, it's not early, how about we set up camp in front tonight?"

After thinking for a while, Tiger had returned from inspecting the predetermined camp and asked Duke for advice.

Looking up at the sky obscured by layers of leaves, Duke nodded in agreement, "Set up camp!"