Chapter 14: Pirates
The camp is a building that increases the population of the human templars, and the elves don't call it this, they call it the Divine Guide Tree Tower. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but the effect is almost the same, they are all used to attract the population.
Obviously, it would be too slow to increase the population by natural reproduction. It takes more than fifteen years for humans to grow into a qualified labor force or soldier, elves need nearly a hundred years, and the shortest orcs need ten years.
How can this wait? Dain doesn't have the time to grow the population on a time base of decades.
However, buildings such as the Camp and the Divine Guide Tree Tower can solve this problem very well.
Human construction camp camps, as the name suggests, can attract homeless people to enter the territory and act as a population. The name of the Divine Guide Tree Tower seems to be much taller, but in fact it has a similar effect, except that the homeless people attract human outcasts, while the Divine Guide Tree Tower attracts elves 'outcasts' - of course, they are not called outcasts, they are called travelers.
In this way, Dane basically determined his plan of action after arriving on Komyrya Island. First, clear a safe area, let your subordinates set up a fixed camp, and then find a suitable place, first unfold the Tree of Life, then build the Divine Guide Tree Tower, attract elven travelers, and then build the Moon Well and the Fountain of Life, and then reclaim the transformed land from humans and recruited elves. In this way, the shelves of the entire territory can basically be erected.
After deciding on the plan, Dane couldn't wait to establish his own territory, and he couldn't wait for the Longsail to be able to reach Komyrya Island in the next moment.
But before he can really start implementing his plan, an unexpected trouble arises. It was the sixth day of sailing, and about a day's distance from the island of Komya, the shadow of a black ship appeared on the horizon.
At first, Dane was very strange, how could there be a ship in this hellish place? You know, the route they are sailing now is not a normal route. Most of the ships sailing from the Sand Sea go west along the coastline, where is the prosperous human world, the port of Tarens in the Duchy of Florence, the heart of the Kingdom of Bhudeli, and further west is the Golden Sea, where the mighty Federation of Ivette and the three empires are located.
If you don't go west, you have to go east. The sea of sand sails eastward, and is the territory of the orcs. Although the orc tribe is not rich in products, there are many specialties that are not found in the human world, and they are also quite good trade products.
Not to the east, not to the west, there is another way to run to the southeast. Although the charr is far away from the continent of Orodic, the halflings and gnomes gathered in the charr also have a fairly developed civilization. Halflings are the best foodies, and many of their products are high-value luxury goods sought after by human society. Gnomes also have well-developed mechanical technology, and many products are also extremely useful.
But only will it not go deep into the sea in the south-west direction, because, in this direction, except for the deserted island of Komya, there is only a vast sea, which is worthless, and no one will be idle and idle to drive the ship in this direction.
In this way, Dane can basically judge that this is definitely not a merchant ship. He called the captain, a halfling water veteran named Hel who had accepted his hire.
"Hull, can you tell what kind of ship it is?"
The halfling, who was only up to Dane's waist, was lying on the side of the ship, squinting his eyes and looking at the black ship in the distance, and said in a shrill voice: "Yes, don't underestimate the eyes of the halfling!" It was a fast sailing ship, and it looked like it was about the size of our longsail......
"Twin masts, sails hold up big......"
"The hull is long and narrow, and the cargo capacity is not too large, but the streamlined hull will be very fast......"
"It's rare to see a ship that does this, except ...... Hell, that's a pirate ship! ”
The last sentence, Hull almost screamed. He seemed very flustered, and people who have been drifting on the sea all the year round are most afraid of three things in their lives - irresistible wind and waves, unpredictable giant sea monsters, and terrifying pirates.
There are a lot of legends about pirates, but there's no doubt that it's a bunch of murderous guys. Like hungry wolves at sea, they gather in packs, and when they see valuable ships, they will decisively rush up and grab food.
Maybe he ran into a pirate, and Dane's mood was terrible. Unexpectedly, on the last day of the voyage, I actually encountered such a big trouble!
Hull was heard screaming to order the ship to change direction and flee, but was stopped by Dane.
I only heard him scold: "You all know that people are capsizing quickly, the cargo capacity is light and fast, just our ship, and it is full of so many goods, can it run away?" ”
"Or else?" Hull was stunned.
Dane sneered, "Otherwise? Hmph, kill those bunnies! When the pirate robbery hit me on the head, I was looking for death! Don't think that we are terrible on land, and when we get on the boat, we are all good hands! ”
He was right, they weren't ordinary merchant ships. There are more than 200 people in the dreaded mercenary group, all of whom are warriors who have seen blood. When the pirates collide headlong, it's uncertain who will win or lose. Anyway, you can't run and can't run away, so it's better to fight and pull down!
In a short time, he took his men and sorted out his equipment. At the same time, the Longsail also stopped in place, waiting for the pirate ship in front of it to approach.
However, as the flag-flagged pirate ship got closer and closer, Dane's face became more and more strange, from the stern at the beginning, to the inexplicable smile on his face now.
The pirate ship was getting closer and closer, and the pirates on board, whose heads were wrapped in filthy white cloths, were all standing on deck, waiting for the battle to follow. Fortunately, there is no such thing as artillery on this pirate ship, otherwise it would be more troublesome.
"We can fire." Dane's current lieutenant, the human warrior Delin, came to his side and said.
Dane shook his head and said, "Not yet." ”
"Closer?"
"Yes." He nodded, the smile on his face getting stranger.
When the pirate ship got closer, Dane took a deep breath and yelled, "Todoro, you stinky boy, the robbery hit me?" Get out of here and call Brother Sheng! ”
When the words fell, the pirates on the pirate ship were stunned. Todora, that's their boss. Listening to the meaning of Dane's words, it seems that the two know each other?
After a while, a stout young man appeared on the deck of the pirate ship. He looked carefully at Dane's face and couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Dane? Haha, why are you here? ”