Outside the window, the moon was getting lower and lower, and when I looked out of the window to the east of the sea, a faint red light had appeared where the water and the sky met, and three or five merchant ships were lining up from the harbor waiting for the Harpy to be guided, loaded with Jutland and Schleswig products, which would be transported to Scandinavia and the Celtic Isles further afield, and from there they would be exchanged for cheap raw materials and shipped back, because Alice and the North Sea Overlord Francis Drake had reached an agreement, they could sail on the North Sea with peace of mind and not worry about pirate raidsOf course, the necessary bribes are essential, but even this is much better than being plundered and left with both money and money. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Because of this, many sailors at sea worshipped Alice as the patron saint of the sea, and Alice also pushed the boat, so that all the owners of merchant ships departing from Jutland voluntarily placed small statues of gods for prayer in their ships.

In addition to merchant ships, there are also some fishing boats waiting to go to sea, those are small fishing boats, because the Baltic Sea is beginning to freeze, the waves in the North Sea are too strong, these small fishing boats that can only carry more than ten people can carry out fishing operations in the offshore waters, they must catch enough fish to survive this winter before the sea is completely frozen, after all, Alice needs to develop her power, not open a welfare home, will not always provide enough and free food to the residents of the city, if you want to survive in this prosperous and comfortable city, you still need to rely on your own hands to get everything you survive, or rent fishing boats from JutlandWhether it's a farm in the forest outside the city, or a grazing in Schleswig, Alice offers them a variety of ways to survive and get food.

Compared with other cities in the main plane, this Jutland can already be called the kingdom of God on earth, because of Semiramis's superb internal affairs skills, there are no irreconcilable contradictions in the city, and because Alice is running around outside and working hard, the fire of destruction has not burned to this land, especially after the remnants of the vampire defeated generals were also wiped out in the last attack, there is no need to worry about anything, Attila's army is now far away in Karelia on the northern continent, and across the sea in Scandinavia, where the humans living there have become de facto allies of Jutland。

And it is precisely because of the peace and tranquility that countless people who have been plagued by war have dragged their families to this land, in addition, there are also Alice who keep buying slaves from goblins to supplement the population, orcs, centaurs, rhinoceros and other races suitable for fighting, which were bought back by Alice in large quantities, and this is also the largest financial expenditure in the entire Jutland.

After seeing several large-scale battles, Alice also found that it was difficult to resist the enemy's attack on the frontal battlefield with only the current number of troops, so the expansion of the army was also put on the agenda early, in addition to the centaurs who had settled in Schleswig were formed into a team of centaur spearmen, and those who had migrated from other places and purchased back to fight were gathered for training, education in thought and faith, they would receive the best food and the best treatment, correspondingly, their training was also extremely cruel, and those who performed well were able to get rid of slaveryIf Alice hadn't arranged for the vampire maid to treat them with magic on the training ground, and also provided them with plenty of potions, there would have been training deaths every day.

However, even so, the combat effectiveness of these newly recruited troops still makes Alice very worried, judging by her experience and knowledge, let alone encountering the gnoll troops led by Hogg, even if they encounter a group of stragglers in the field, they will cause a lot of damage to the entire team, after all, no matter how harsh the training, as long as they have not really been on the battlefield and seen those cruel battlefields full of blood and death, these recruits will not be able to become qualified soldiers for a day.

But Alice was not in the mood to think about those questions now, she was now wandering in the corridor outside the door, the bright candlelight illuminating the whole corridor as bright as day, and several times she raised her hand to knock on the closed door, but she gave up.

When this castle was built, the problems of sound insulation and safety were considered, and the walls of the door were painted with expensive magic materials to make sound insulation and defensive magic arrays, so that Alice now has no way to listen to the news inside without alarming the people inside.

This night was extraordinarily long for Alice, because the weather suddenly became cold, Alice's face was extremely pale after standing anxiously in the corridor outside the room, the white breath exhaled from her mouth quickly dissipated in the air, and her pure black pupils looked at the wooden door full of uneasy worry, she was not afraid that Skaha and Semiramis would have a fierce conflict, nor was she worried that the two would eventually turn into a fierce battle, but she was just worried, even she didn't know what she was worried about now。

The vampire maid had been here many times, with supper and warm clothes, but she was waved away by Alice, and now she was full of worries, even the sweets she usually liked could not arouse her appetite, pacing back and forth, and the precious blanket was stepped on by her in different shades.

After a long time, even when the sun rose to almost the same level as the window, Alice still couldn't bear the anxiety in her heart, and pushed open the closed door with force, with the sound of the wooden door rubbing against the ground, what caught her eye was the two girls sitting next to the small round table talking happily, the female warrior usually had a calm and serious face but was full of smiles at this time, there was still half of the food in front of her, and she was holding a knife in one hand to gesture something in the air, while Semiramis put one hand on her abdomen, and the other hand held a delicate teacup and gently twisted the black tea insideWith a smile on the corner of her mouth, she listened intently to what Skaha had to say like a noblewoman.

Feeling the third person entering the room and the familiar breath coming from the tip of their noses, the two of them stopped their movements in unison, the teacup and the wooden table collided with a crisp sound, and Skaha also gently placed the knife in his hand in the middle of the plate, and the two pairs of eyes were fixed on Alice's figure.

"Poof"

Suddenly, Semiramis covered her mouth with her little hand and laughed secretly, her eyes narrowed together, as beautiful as a crescent moon hanging high in the sky.

"What, Alice, are you worried about us, are you worried that we're going to fight, we're going to fight?"

Skaha added lightly, her tone full of shifting, she certainly didn't think that Alice would be like those vulgar nobles, but that didn't prevent her from using this as a joke to ease the awkwardness in the atmosphere.

"No, how could I worry about these things. ”

Saying this, Alice stepped into the room with graceful steps, and the moment she saw the two of them, the worry in her heart had already disappeared, and she pulled out the empty chair, sat down, and did not care about the half-eaten food in front of Skaha, and ate as if no one was around.

"Now you should both be able to accept each other, and the fact that Skaha is one of us, right?"

"Skaha, since you have returned to Jutland with me from Karelia, you have already made up your mind, right?"

The two girls glanced at each other, and they both saw a familiar look in each other's eyes, and the corners of their mouths were slightly curved, which was the incomparably doting love for Alice.

"Of course, I had already thought about it when I didn't save Beowulf from death. ”

Skaha spoke, nodding her head, expressing the firmness of her heart.

"So, let's get started, and there's still a lot of development on the plans that we need to make next. ”

"We don't have anyone who is good at training armies, so Skaha, I'll leave it to you to train the armies in the realm. ”

Skaha nodded, for Skaha, this is a very simple job, when she was in Ulster, she was a teacher of soldiers and even heroes, to teach them martial arts to fight, even Fergus, in the end, it grew from her hands.

"Semiramis, have you ever been there since you became a legend? ”

Looking in the direction of Alice's fingertips, outside the window, countless ships were coming and going in and out of the bustling harbor, countless ant-like porters were unloading the goods from the ships in an orderly manner, and then transporting new goods to them, due to the scarcity of spellcasters and the cost of the problem, whether it was goblins or other merchants, they all chose this most primitive way of transportation.

Semiramis knew, of course, that Alice was not referring to merchant ships, nor to porters, but to the deeper seas, the plans that had been discussed for the development and development of the seas.

"No, when we discussed the plan before, we still undercounted something. ”

"What?"

"Both sealers and whale people have a hard time adjusting to life inshore, especially near the harbor. ”

"What do you mean?"

Alice's brow furrowed slightly, and she motioned for Semiramis to continue explaining.

"The development of the city, every day produces a lot of wastewater, the bigger the city, the more sewage is generated, Jutland development now, the sewage discharged into the sea every day has polluted the nearby seas, not to mention the races in the ocean, even the rats in the sewers are difficult to adapt to such waters. ”

"And, Alice, the small islands near Jutland are inhabited by tribes who believe in the god Odin, who have migrated from Phien, from Sealand, and we have no way to expel them. ”

Before she completely turns against the Scandinavian powers, Alice still has to maintain a superficial friendship with them, at least until the problem of Brunhilde and Alice is resolved, and Alice intends to continue to play the role of a good ally.

“…… The islands have nothing to do with our expansion under the seabed, right? They're just human beings, and they can't influence the situation on the seabed, and they can't influence our ocean development plans, right?"

"They don't affect the development of our tribes under the sea, but they affect our connections with those tribes, and if we don't want our plans to be exposed, then we have to find a secret route to maintain our ties with those tribes under the sea. ”

“……”

This is indeed a problem, in the case of those marine races who can't get close to the coast because of pollution, it is inevitable that Semiramis often needs to leave Jutland to go to the deep sea to contact them and manage them, but the operation of Jutland and Schleswig is also inseparable from the management of Semiramis, not to mention that such frequent visits will be very easy for people to take advantage of, such as the last invasion of the vampire remnants, it was Semiramis's carelessness.

"Portals are an option, but they're too expensive and hard to maintain for a long time. ”

The establishment of the portal, in fact, is not unaffordable, but the main problem is still easy to expose, if Alice does not take the initiative to expose at this time, then no one will believe that Scandinavia's solid ally against Attila will actually be the culprit of Beowulf, and a portal connecting Jutland at the bottom of the sea will expose Alice's ambitions and intentions, and at that time Alice's hard work to build trust will also collapse.

"[Mirror Image]"

It took a long time for Alice to come up with a feasible solution to this problem, which was originally planned, but was pushed back again and again because Semiramis became a legend and was busy with the construction of Jutland.

"You have become a legend, and the [Mirror Technique] is not difficult for you, just put those things aside during this time, learn this thing first, and take advantage of their rare balance now, we must seize every minute and every second of time to strengthen our own strength. ”

"Before the gods return, we must be ready. ”

That's right, after discovering the loophole in the agreement of the gods, and after experiments, Alice can already predict that the day when the gods will return is not far away, no matter how much the main plane resists, no matter how much those god kings restrain themselves for their own foundation, they can't stop all the gods...... Because the gods are capricious and difficult to restrain themselves.

Even if it was the first time she had dealt with the gods, Alice had learned this deeply.