"Artemo, what did he do with the letter?"

Barr took the letter casually. Although this Viscount Artimo is of the same clan as him, and looks harmless to humans and animals, he is actually cunning and treacherous, and Baal is not very comfortable with him.

"By the way, Old Tang, the two ships we went to sea are still docked on the desert island in the southeast, and the sailors on board don't know that we have returned, so you can send someone to inform them." Barr looked up.

"Don't worry, my lord, I sent people out last night." Donald Road.

After hearing this, Barr was relieved, these sailors who were still staying on the desert island, if they couldn't wait for Barr's news, they might not know what was going to go wrong.

"Lilith, how are the preparations for what I ordered yesterday?" Barr took a sip of tea and asked casually.

"Your Excellency, you're all ready." Lilith said, "I've removed four squads from the guard, twenty-five people each, ready to go at any time. ”

"Yes." Barr bowed slightly, "Explain to them, I don't care what kind of means they use, but there is one point, don't hurt anyone." ”

The population of Hailan Village is now more than 2,000, but there is still some way to go before it is upgraded to a town, and Barr immediately took the attention of the refugee camp.

There are many large and small refugee camps scattered around the black wind mouth, ranging from a few hundred to thousands of people.

For Baal, this is the best way to gain a large population in the short term, and now the guards in the village have been upgraded to level 30, and the equipment has also been replaced with savage suits, and the strength has been greatly improved. It's just that if they are operating in the outlying areas of the Blackstone Mountains, they are still safe, and it's time to send them out.

"Nothing else, let's all disperse."

After everyone had left, Barr took out the letter sent by Viscount Artimo and opened it.

"Imperial Conscription Order?" Barr looked closely.

The first half of this letter is all inconsequential words, nothing more than to care about the situation of Baal's territory, by the way, congratulations to Baal's territory for upgrading, and ask him for help if you are in trouble. However, the latter part is more important.

The letter mentioned that after the territory is promoted to the third level, the lord can recruit the third-order troops, which is considered to have a certain strength, and then it will enter the vision of the upper echelons of the empire, and will be officially incorporated into the imperial bureaucratic system by the empire.

At this point, the lord is required to regularly complete the tasks assigned to him by the Empire.

Depending on the level of the territory, the difficulty of the mission also varies, such as spying on the Empire's intelligence, chasing the Empire's most wanted criminals, etc., and after the task is completed, you will get a certain number of points, with which you can exchange for various items in the Imperial Treasure Vault, and if you have enough points, even legendary items can be exchanged.

"Legendary-level items, worthy of a thousand-year-old empire, with a deep heritage." Barr couldn't help but smack his tongue, he hadn't heard of anyone getting this level of item in his previous life for two years.

Of course, in addition to the tasks that must be completed, the lord can also choose to accept various tasks issued by the empire, and will also be rewarded with points. Successful missions will gain a certain degree of credibility, and there is no penalty for failure, but it will reduce your own credibility, and if your credibility is too low, you will lose your qualification to take the task.

With the current strength of Hailan Village, these are nothing.

But then a message is very important.

Lords of third-level realms were required to be drafted by the Empire to serve as junior officers in the army, although only in name, but in wartime they had to draw a required number of soldiers into the Imperial army.

Barr frowned, then looked down.

"So that's it?"

According to the letter, there are two ways to join the army.

One is to obey the arrangement of the empire and join the troops designated by the empire, and after joining, the empire will give very rich rewards.

If it's an ordinary race, you don't have a choice, but for a high-ranking race like the Minotaurs, there is actually another way, and that is to refuse the invitation of the Empire and directly join the Minotaur legion.

In this way, in wartime, there is no need to accept the Imperial call-up, but directly obey the deployment of the Minotaur Legion. On the northeastern border of the empire, the Minotaur are powerful, and many lords of the Minotaur clan have disobeyed the order and directly joined the Minotaur Legion, and the top of the empire is helpless, but this is bound to make enemies with the Lion and Tiger clans.

"Sure enough, it's still a big fist that has the final say." Barr smiled.

After reading this letter, Barr decided to join the Minotaur Legion without even thinking about it.

In his previous life, he spent more than two years in the world of Rand, and Baal also had a deep understanding of the situation within the empire. On the one hand, the Minotaur are powerful and both want to take it for themselves, and on the other hand, they are afraid that the Minotaur will become bigger and threaten their dominance.

If you follow the arrangements of the Empire, if you are assigned to the troops of these two tribes, life will not be easy.

Those who reward or something are not eye-catching, and it is not a big deal for the two tribes to fight each other, the Minotaur clan is already inseparable from the lion and tiger clans, and no matter how bad the relationship is, it will be like this, as a Minotaur, even if the relationship with them is good, it is impossible to be reused.

Judging by the meaning of Artimo's letter, the envoy of the empire will come at this time, and Baal must also prepare early.

Blacksmith's shop.

Joseph was carefully tapping a hemispherical metal plate on the workbench.

"Here, and here, pay attention to the thickness must be uniform, these points I marked need to be punched, and the size must meet the requirements on the drawing." An elderly werewolf next to him held a charcoal pen in his right hand, marking some places on the metal plate from time to time.

"Big head, busy." Barr walked in the doorway.

"Barr, you're here, come and see how my craft is." Joseph happily put down the hammer in his hand, "This drawing has too high requirements for size and material, and I have to waste a lot of effort to do it." ”

"Your Excellency." The elderly werewolf next to him saluted respectfully.

"No need to be polite, thank you for your hard work." Barr smiled and walked over.

The two of them built the M-200 magic guide turret that Barr and the others had obtained from the ruins. Although there is no alchemy laboratory in the village now, fortunately, there is a high-level alchemy apprentice in the werewolf, and this old-fashioned magic turret is relatively simple in structure, so Baal let the two of them give it a try.

"How's it going, is there any hope?" Barr looked at the metal casing on the workbench, Joseph had a good talent and had been promoted to senior blacksmith during this time.

"It's difficult, but it's not hopeless, but it takes a lot of time to make a magic machine like this by hand." The old werewolf thought for a moment.

"It doesn't matter, as long as it can be made, it's already a big success." Baal also understands that it is indeed time-consuming and laborious to build this magic machine by hand, but if it is successfully built, the territory's defenses will also be greatly strengthened.

"Well, this is the shortbread I brought you two." Barr took out a paper bag and handed it over, "You two shouldn't have breakfast yet, so let's try it." ”

"Master Xie."

"Barr, this thing is expensive, isn't it? In the future, it will be good for us to eat potatoes, and potatoes will save more money. Joseph picked up a shortbread and threw it into his mouth, and said indistinctly, in the world of Rand, productivity is not high, and everything that is related to sugar is a luxury, and shortbread is one of them.

"Big head, I'm also the head of a village now, do you still need to save me?" Barr laughed and scolded.

.....

In a blink of an eye, more than ten days have passed.

During this time, the development of the village was very stable.

After eliminating the human slave hunter team last time, Baal obtained a training book for the third-order elite class, which he has already used, and obtained the recruitment qualification of the third-order elite class: the arcane mage, who can use one of the water or fire spells, has a group attack skill, and has a strong attack power.

Baal has recruited a total of twenty in the past few days, including eight water mages and twelve fire mages, which is also a large combat force.

After the market was upgraded to the third level, the scope continued to expand, it has exceeded 400 kilometers, covering nearly 20 villages and towns, and the procurement of materials has become relatively easy.

Most of the buildings in the village have been upgraded to the third level, and only a few buildings such as the fence and the fishing ground remain, because the wood and stone required have not yet been upgraded, especially to upgrade the wall to a low city wall, the stone required is very amazing, and the growing village population also needs more houses to live in, and there is still a big gap in wood and stone.

Hailan Village is still in the accumulation period of strength, and is not in a hurry to upgrade the town, and now upgrading to the town will not bring any substantial benefits to Baal except for being in the limelight.

Council Chamber.

"My lord, the team sent out has returned, and it seems that it has brought back a lot of people." Lilith ran in with a beaming face.

"Let's go, go out and have a look." Barr stood up.