Again.

The unique drop of the red dragon Phoglos, the shoulders in the shape of dragon wings: Ferglos Scales unfortunately did not fall again.

The red dragon's mournful roar did not attract Lin Ling's attention. His attention was focused on a scroll of artifact-crafting skills presented by the werewolf druid Balon.

In addition to the Red Dragon Essence that will inevitably drop and some gold and silver quality scale armor pieces that are about level 25, Red Dragon Phoglos also generously contributed a rare and strange artifact crafting skill recipe "Blueprint: Ring of Fire".

Blueprint: Ring of Flames;

Requirements: high-level curiosity production;

Use: Teaches you how to craft a Ring of Fire;

Strange Things: Ring of Flame;

When equipped, your hair burns like a flame.

Effect: Permanently adds 100 Fire Magic Damage to a piece of Head Equipment, increasing the chance of Fire Magic Bash by 5%. Once enchanted, the piece will be bound to you;

Note: After using the Ring of Fire, your hair will burn like a flame.

Crafting Requirements: Mana Thistle (20), Elemental Core (5), Molotov (5), Pure Red Dragon's Blood (3), Red Dragon Essence (1).

Lin Ling left the Land of Ghosts and returned to Canyon Village.

In terms of practicality, the Ring of Flames is much better than the shoulder guards that simply increase the stats of the Constitution. On top of that, the materials used to craft the Ring of Flames may seem complicated, but they are actually not rare.

Needless to say, the first material, Mana Thistle, can make 20 of them with his eyes closed.

And the most common crafting material dropped by various elemental creatures wandering in the lightning wilderness is the elemental core, and the love-hate entanglement has a lot of elemental cores on hand ready to contribute to the drunken and drunken forging skills, and it shouldn't be a problem for him to borrow a few to use.

The third ingredient, Molotov, is a cocktail, and the Tavern's unique cocktail recipe was automatically added to his Curiosity crafting skill slot when he acquired the Tavern.

Most of Molotov's crafting materials are also commonplace, the only difficult one is "Rivendell Butter", which requires a relationship with Riardell to reach the "Reverence" level before it can be purchased from NPCs, and another way to get started is to exchange Guild Contribution and Connoisseur Guild for the recipe for Rivendell Butter.

Rivendell butter seems to be butter, a type of ingredient. In fact, it is not the cooking skills that can play its role the most, but the leather-making skills.

The only trouble is the pure red dragon blood, and in order to refine the pure red dragon blood from the red dragon blood, you must prepare four additional materials to send to the NPC in charge of the purification process.

In other words, in order to refine 3 parts of pure Red Dragon Blood, Lin Ling had to give at least 12 parts of Red Dragon Blood.

Even if he deliberately dug a dirt pit to contain the dragon blood of the red dragon Phoglos, the red dragon blood that Lin Ling had in his hands was only about 120 copies, and the land of the ghost land was inseparable from the blood of the red dragon that contained life energy. This time it was a tenth of his stock, and of course he would feel a pain in his flesh.

As for the Red Dragon Essence, the last thing Lin Ling lacked was the Red Dragon Essence.

"Bean." Before returning to Rhine City to trigger the second-order mandatory quest and learn advanced artifact crafting skills, Lin Ling found the leader of the Walking Harvester team, the former Swan Castle Senior Technician Big Bean, and promoted to level 30 NPC by killing Swan Castle tablets.

"I heard you have something to do with me?" He received the visiting Big Bean in the antechamber of the Goffrey Manor. According to the pre-war agreement he made with the Shadow Priest Toba and others, the Gofrey Manor already belonged to his name, and as long as the recruited steward was in place, he was free to change the style of the Gofrey Manor according to his own preferences.

It can be said that this is his first land in the true sense of the word.

"Toba says you're looking for a butler." Big Bean slurred, "Well, I don't know if you'd be willing to hire someone who isn't very competent......"

"Absolutely."

Lin Ling thought that the big Bean was recommending himself, so he agreed without waiting for him to finish.

Big Bean hurriedly shook his hand and said, "No, no, honorable Arcane Mage, I don't mean I want to be your butler, I don't have the ability, it's Sarah, Miss Sarah, she doesn't want to leave Canyon Village, and she doesn't want to give up the opportunity to work for you." ”

Winemaker Sara?

Lin Ling originally wanted to take the brewer Sara to his brewing workshop in Rhine City to be responsible for the production of mustard butterbeer, but he didn't expect that the brewer Sara's local concept was even more serious than he imagined.

In fashionable terms, this should be an otaku, right?

"Yes, too." Lin Ling nodded, there was a ready-made winemaking workshop in the High Frey Manor, and the facilities were more complete than the one he had purchased at No. 17 Mining and Metallurgy Lane, and the venue was not a problem. After the candidate for the steward is decided, he only needs to move the production line in the Rhine City with his hands.

The NPC Butler will be responsible for all day-to-day expenses of his estate. Their references are said to be derived from the average prices of auction houses, the black market, and the main city of their faction, and sometimes they will make a fixed investment in a certain area according to the orders of their masters.

"Great." Big Bean handed Lin Ling an ID card, "She'll appear in front of you soon." ”

Lin Ling took the card, and the system immediately prompted him that there was a new attendant: the winemaker Sara.

Identity cards, like NPC employment agreements, are symbols of NPC ownership.

However, NPC employment agreements can be transferred, but unique ID cards are tied to the character's account and cannot be traded, destroyed, discarded, or transferred.

Another advantage of having an ID card is that you don't have to pay NPCs. You must know that in the cost of production, the wages paid to NPCs also occupy a significant share.

"Master."

After accepting the identity card, the winemaker Sara, no, the female NPC who should be called the butler Sara really appeared in front of Lin Ling wearing a white shirt, black breeches and a light-colored vest that the NPC butler loved to wear. It's just that Sara's clothes are one size smaller than the size she should be wearing, not only her breasts are tight, but even her wrists, navel and bare feet are exposed, which is very sexy and seductive.

System Tip: The High Frey Estate has become your property.

Big Bian walked away playfully.

"By changing the name of this place to Blue Castle and preparing to hire apprentices, I'm going to move the brewery to Canyon Village." Lin Ling didn't talk nonsense with Salado, who had turned into a housekeeper, he believed that the system would pour all of his own information into her logical intelligence, "Besides, how much land is available for cultivation in Blue Castle?" ”

Blue Castle is Lin Ling's new name for the High Frey Manor.

"50 acres of medium-sized land, Sir GoldFrey is not good at farming." Sarah, the butler, named the agricultural land under the jurisdiction of the Blue Castle.

There are four types of land in "Eternity": good, good, medium, and poor. According to Lin Ling's memory, even when the land was the cheapest, the purchase price per mu of the land in the inferior inferior fields was about 10 gold coins, and the purchase price of the medium fields was about 50 gold coins.

50 acres, that's 2,500 gold coins.

"How many wheat field golems are there?" Lin Ling continued to ask while looking at the system data. If the conditioning is good, the medium field may not be upgraded to a good field, or an excellent field.

"Pastor Toba gave us 150 wheat field golems, Mr. Bean gave us 25 walking harvesters, and 12 homeless militiamen were willing to come to work in Blue Castle and they could turn into farmers." Butler Sara said the human resources that Lin Ling could call on at the moment.

"25 acres are planted with flame mushrooms, and the remaining 25 acres are kept, and I will provide you with mana thistles to plant. By the way, I said to Toba that I want the ownership of the Thumb Mill, and all the land between the Thumb Mill and the Blue Castle will also be in the name of the Blue Castle. Lin Ling issued the first business order to the housekeeper Sara, "Find someone to explore the mountains behind the Blue Castle to see if there are any fluorescent stone veins, and I will build a mine there." ”

The Thumb Mill and Blue Castle were originally built outside the walls of the old Canyon Village, and there were two mills in Canyon Village, one in the Ash Manor, where the current Canyon Village Town Council is located, and the other in the Thumb Mill.

The land around Thumb Mill is owned by the miller, but the miller's Thumb has long since burped during the Battle of Canyon Village, and the land under his name has become terra nullius.

For a small fee, anyone can buy this land.

"That's up to the Canyons Village Council." Sarah, the butler, faithfully stated the difficulties in the specific operation.

Lin Ling snorted clearly, buying land is not a problem, what matters is the approval of mining opening.

The Golden Needle Mountains behind the Blue Castle are lush and rich in products, and were once the territory of the hunters of the canyon village, once the mine is built, it is bound to destroy the original ecological environment, so that the prey will flee one after another. He asked Sara to do this, and he liked Sara's status as the leader of the militia marksman.

As long as Sara is convinced, the matter is done.

"The land needs to be cleared, the manor is expanded, and the rebuilding of Canyon Village needs to be done by hand, and all of this can be done in the rear of our manor, as long as the militia shooters are hired." Lin Ling spoke his mind, building a lumberyard, clearing the land between the Thumb Mill and the Blue Castle, and expanding the Blue Castle would all require manpower, and the idle Canyon Village Militia might be a good place to hire, but he would rather use militia archers.

There is an irreconcilable natural contradiction between the militia of Canyon Village and the local residents of Canyon Village, and Lin Ling knows which side he should help even if he thinks with his ass.

"Also, the directions of Echo Canyon and Golden Needle Canyon need to be monitored, and I guess the New Council will not be satisfied with the confines of a village." Lin Ling looked at his butler, although Sara was not a member of the council, her father was a member of the local squire, a member of the new council, "I think Canyon Village should be expanded into a town. ”

"I will convey your opinion to the council." Sarah, the butler, said respectfully. The most common role of an NPC steward is to assist players in contacting NPCs and cultivating various channels.

"Last but not least, I want to rebuild the tavern and turn it into a caravanserais, along with the Red Valley Abbey, the Golden Valley, the White Rock District, the abandoned mine camp and the Rhine City, as well as the three fishing ports under my name." Lin Ling smiled and asked the butler Sara, "What do you think of the name mustard butter?" ”

"Mustard butter?"

Sarah's logical intelligence suddenly came to a moment's pause, like drinking a large glass of mustard butterbeer.