Chapter 517: R&D Costs
And through the observation of most of the year, as well as the map of the empire brought back by Doric, their location is located in the middle of the Leices Mountains and the Emerald Hills, with endless snowy fields to the north, and further east is the Aveli Plains and the famous Dark Forest and the Faka Necropolis, although there is no shortage of opportunities for development, but it is also dangerous.
If a territory wants to develop rapidly, it is impossible to achieve it without a complete internal and financial system, and the development risk of relying on war alone is too large, once a mistake is a complete failure, and the most basic and important food source in this cannot be guaranteed, how can it continue to develop.
After determining the time for the formation of the caravan, Li Ran chatted with Zhou Xun and the others for a while before they went back to rest.
Early the next morning, when the first round of the sun in the Third World slowly rose, Li Ran sent away the material convoy led by Zhou Xun, and in addition to Zhang Debiao and Zhang Juan, Doric, Burrena, and Borken, the leader of the leopard people, who were important personnel of the territory, were also in the convoy.
Although the convoy on this trip was all on the official road, for the sake of safety, in addition to the 400 Terran cavalry and some elves and barbarian troops brought by Zhou Xun and the others, Li Ran also asked them to bring two Cyr Clan Shadow Warriors and 100 three-star Niusgute warriors.
Seeing the continuous convoy gradually disappearing into the mist in the distance, Li Ran turned around and returned to the territory, and after chatting with the old village chief Morga for a while, he called Cai Chang and walked towards the Mage Tower.
In fact, it was not mentioned in the previous meeting, but this time, in addition to the captives and supplies, they also obtained a lot of rare materials from the dead unicorns and green dragons. Unicorns are most famous for their syruped thread-shaped horns with magical effects on their heads. And the most legendary class, the green dragon, its whole body is full of treasures. The most well-known of these are their dragon teeth, dragon blood, dragon leather, rare liquid poison sacs, and legendary crystals.
And whether it's a unicorn or a green dragon, these are undoubtedly very high-grade magic materials. There were also a lot of gains in this battle, there were three adult green dragons alone, two corpses of underage green dragons, and more than two hundred unicorn corpses were collected.
The acquisition of these top-level magic materials was naturally a pleasure for some people in the mage tower, and when the convoy pulling these corpses had just returned to the territory, the archmages of Nopro, Walzen and Prague all approached Li Ran and asked for these materials in a begging way, just when Li Ran was a little hesitant. The tower masters, Kunai Soyd and Master Lieshi, who got the news, also ran over, and the former gritted his teeth and simply handed over half of the materials to them.
Seeing the arrival of the lord at this time, the archmages naturally behaved more respectfully than before, and stepped forward to express their gratitude, and after greeting them, under the sight of the tower master Kunesod, the group simply came to the lounge located at the top of the tower.
After chatting for a while, Li Ran asked about some things before, but Li Ran didn't say a word about those top-level magic materials. He knew in his heart that with the existing abilities of the Mage Tower, those materials would definitely only be used for research in the hands of these archmages, and it was impossible to make any weapons and magic scrolls with very strong effects in a short period of time, so asking them would only increase their psychological negativeness.
See the lord so. These ordinary archmages who have entered the middle and elderly are naturally aware of it, and in addition to being moved, in addition to being more respectful. The answer to Li Ran's question was even more detailed, and Archmage Gilda even took out dozens of high-level magic scrolls made by himself at one time. In the name of contributing to the territory, it was handed over to Li Ran.
For these magic scrolls, Li Ran did not refuse. After some thanks, Cai Chang put away the scroll, and when it came to the production of the golem, Master Prague said that the production process of a fifth-order elite-level spirit sent by Li Ran last time was very powerful, and he helped him make many small and precise parts in the research and development of the twelfth-order ghost silver golem, so that the research and development progress of the ghost silver golem has been greatly improved, and I believe that he should be able to complete the first step of the physical test if he is given another month or two. At the same time, he also took this opportunity to make a request to Li Ran to change the name of the Ghost Silver Golem to the Ghost Face Golem.
In the face of Master Prague's request, Li Ran asked curiously about the reason, Master Prague thought for a while and said his reasons, in addition to wanting to leave his mark on the highest-level golem produced so far, he also made some changes of his own on the drawings of the original Ghost Silver Golem, causing the face of the existing research and development of the Golem to be very weird, so he hoped to change its name to the Ghost Face Golem.
Li Ran naturally had no opinion on this, and after nodding his head to agree to Master Prague's request, he even said that if he needed, the fifth-order elite-level spirit obtained from the world map could follow him for a long time, which made the latter even happier, and it would be more convenient for him to study other golems in the future with the help of a person who was proficient in manufacturing fine components.
Next, Li Ran looked at Master Sanchez again, and asked about the results of his contact with the Naga side, although in the past two or three months, the other party has stopped just fooling them with the weaker male Naga, but the quality of the Naga warriors recruited as a whole is not high, and some of them have even just advanced to the twelfth rank, which makes Li Ran a little dissatisfied.
Hearing the lord's inquiry, Master Sánchez, who was sitting on the chair, got up and made a mage salute and said, "Honorable lord, I have already contacted them, and I have also made a personal trip with Master Noartes, but you also know the characteristics of the Naga clan, before we showed their admiration, their attitude was very arrogant, and they only said that they would consider it at their discretion, and did not receive a specific reply."
While Li Ran motioned for the other party to sit down, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought, through the recruitment of the past few months, the existing Naga warriors in the territory have reached nearly a thousand, originally according to his idea, except for special circumstances, he wanted to wait for their number to reach two thousand or find other sources of recruitment before entering the battlefield, now looking at the situation, if they are not allowed to enter the battlefield early, they really can't recruit better warriors from this Naga recruitment point.
While secretly deciding in his heart that the next time there is a war to bring these Naga warriors, Li Ran nodded to Master Sanchez and said: "Thank you for not being able to recruit the two recruitment points of the Niusgut and the Naga Clan, and I have troubled you again for this matter during this time, I hereby solemnly express my gratitude to you and Master Noartes, and at the same time, in order to express my gratitude, I hereby reward two sharp horns of ten unicorns" (to be continued.) )