CHAPTER XV. Preparations for the Territory
"Don't move, or I'll castrate you!"
In the camp, Yacoste sat on the ground like a good baby, still at the mercy of Ling, anyway, it was now the Oriental Dancing Girl who said what he did, and he didn't dare to have any objections.
"Brother, you and Sister Doris are too messy, do you know how worried we are about you?" Lavis also counted Acoste on the side, and everyone already knew the ins and outs of the matter from the little druid, but to Acoste's surprise, no one blamed Doris, but blamed himself vigorously, which made the half-elf very painful.
"Yes, there is such a fierce battle and I am not called, this is not the way dwarves treat brothers." Kogan sat beside him and stroked his hammer and sighed, fighting with the Prayer Joiner, he was a tricky enemy when he heard it, but it was a pity that he slept in the tent while he fought.
"Okay, okay, I know it's wrong, so you just let me go." Acoste grimaced, he finally realized the power of the crowd, and when they froze together, he was completely embarrassed as the leader of the adventuring team.
"I told you not to move, let me see how you are now." Dongfang Dancing Girl slapped the dishonest Acoste again, and then opened the other party's eyelids and looked over.
"Fortunately, it's not serious this time, there is still a little bit of the medicine that Master Yi gave me, you can continue to take it for me."
"What?! You still have that dead old man's medicine here, I said do you understand it or not, don't pretend to understand if you don't understand, I feel that my eyes will be fine in two days, and I don't need that special medicine from Master Yi at all. When Acoste heard that he was going to take the kind of Chinese medicine that made him feel painful last time, he immediately refused solemnly, but this was obviously not of any soft use......
"You have to give me food if you eat, you have to give me food if you don't eat, I tell you that your last night's incident hasn't passed yet, and the old lady will settle accounts with you in the future!"
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Two days passed, and Acoste and the others came to Baldur's Gate again, probably because the Half-Elf Swordmaster had already adapted to the backlash brought about by a weakness insight, and this time it only took half the time last time to recover. Yacoste, who was finally able to see with his eyes, swore to Ling that he would never use this ability again until he had to do so in the future, which finally made Ling's face, which had been dark for the past few days, look a lot better.
After entering Baldur's Gate, Acoste and his party went straight to the Temple of Justice in the Uptown District, and they naturally returned to the old place not to travel and miss, but to have something very important to complete.
Upon reaching the door of the Temple of Tyre, a Templar knight who was on duty at the gate recognized the Acostes, who saluted them and quickly introduced them to the hall.
This is not a surprising thing, Acoste cooperated the most during the Baldur's Gate adventure was the Temple of Justice, from the bishop to the apprentice knight, almost all of them had a relationship with him, which also made Acoste do things twice as effectively with half the effort.
"What, you're going to establish your own territory in Tuk Town?" The regional archbishop Chasim, who was stationed at Baldur's Gate, met with several people in the temple's reception room, and now the regional archbishop looked a little older, but the divine aura that emanated from his body was even more powerful, and he knew how much he had benefited from his own lord god after the Thousand Needles Forest had exterminated those demons.
"It's not impossible if you choose to go there, anyway, the original Baron of Wales who ruled there is nowhere to be found, you can completely open up all his original two towns, and there is Baron Buckley of the Green Tree Territory, he has been arrested by our temple because of his cooperation with the evil red-robed mage, and now his territory is also unattended, if you have the ability, you can also occupy it." Chasm stroked his beard and gave Yacoste an idea, but the archbishop who was too enthusiastic obviously shouted that Yacoste was a little hairy, what does this old man want to do, why don't you look at me in the right eyes, hey, I'm not a rabbit.
"Well, I'm actually just here to ask you to issue a letter of appointment for legal territory, and of course I'll consider your suggestion carefully, Archbishop." But even though his heart was furious, Yacoste still told the purpose of his visit this time under pressure, and Chasim laughed, took out a sheepskin scroll from his bosom and threw it directly to Yacoste.
"I had expected such a day, so I prepared for you in advance, by the way, don't you need other help from the temple? For example, help you recruit people or something? Chasim looked at Acoste meaningfully, and the half-elf decisively shook his head and refused, the so-called means of eating other people's mouths and taking other people's mouths, this old fox must have a ghost in it if he is so enthusiastic, if he will lay a task for himself later, he will have no place to cry.
Acoste, who had obtained the permit, said goodbye to Chasm and turned to the docks without stopping, if you want to know what the most critical part of the territory is, even if you don't ask the lords, they will tell you that the most critical part is the population. And here, there are 2/3 of the population of Baldur's Gate, although most of them are poor, vagabonds, or scoundrels, thieves and rude crews mixed in the streets and taverns, and many of them are actually pirates, but if you want to recruit people quickly, then this is possible......
"Everyone, be quiet, I am the new nobleman of the Temple of Justice, Acoste. Chris, now, I'm going to open up on the other side of the Karst River, the bountiful Tukeling, whoever wants to join us, can come to me and sign up! Yacoste found a densely populated place, climbed a decorative stone pillar and shouted at passers-by on the street, in order to increase the effect, Doris also blessed Yacoste with a sound amplification technique, but although Acoste's words successfully made all the pedestrians stop moving, none of them actually stepped forward to sign up.
"Did you hear that, that nobleman actually said that he was going to open up the Tuke Territory, he didn't have a bad brain..."
"Be quiet, people are aristocrats, you know that if you insult a nobleman on the street and get caught, you will be beheaded."
"Didn't you hear that town above Tuk Territory was destroyed by demons? Who will go back to such a dangerous place..."
There was a sparse exchange from the crowd below, but even if they whispered, as a professional, of course, Acoste listened to it word for word, some worried, some despised, and some abused, Acoste smiled, he didn't have the idea of competing with those poor people, in fact, he had expected this moment, seeing that the current scene was almost hot, Acoste hurriedly used his reserved big move...
"All those who sign up can get one meal and three meals a day plus supper during the construction period, and each adult will be paid two silver coins a day, and finally, all those who participate in the construction of the territory and stick to the end can get the status of a legal domain under my rule!"
"Whoa......
As soon as the half-elf finished speaking, all the people who were still criticizing closed their mouths and let out a sound of surprise. I didn't dream about it, for people like them who have a problem with food and clothing every day, taking care of four full meals is already the work of the gods, and now they still have two silver coins a day, which is really happy!
What are two silver coins equivalent to? Even if you are tired and tired on the dock and do a day's work, you don't have two silver coins... As for the legal identity of the last people, it was automatically ignored by this group of poor people, what the hell is the legal identity? They said they didn't understand and wouldn't care.
"Is what you said true, how can we believe you!" At the bottom, finally a young man couldn't help but shout at Yacoste, but when he finished shouting this sentence, the others next to him quickly pulled away from him, who is this stupid child? Dare to question the aristocracy in the street, he must be impatient, and he must not be mistaken for his accomplice later.
The young man in the coarse linen robe also realized that he had said the wrong thing, and he looked at Acoste in a panic, and knelt down for the half-elf to beg for forgiveness, but before he could open his mouth when a tinkling sound sounded in front of him.
The young man raised his head in confusion, and his expression instantly changed from panic to surprise, and the other poor people did the same, who forgot to breathe at this moment...
Mountains of gold and silver coins were poured to the ground, and everyone was a little flushed by the light of the coins, and their breath was short, how much money must be there, and some of them may not earn a thousandth of these financial reports in their lifetime...
"Get out of here, these treasures now belong to our Seawolf Pirates, and none of you are allowed to rob them from us!" Wealth is moving, it can become the driving force of people, and naturally it will also make some people lose their minds, and sure enough, when they saw so much money, a group of fierce men rushed out, and they took out their weapons while saying to the other onlookers, and they didn't take the people of Acoste in their eyes at all.
"Kogan, your favorite moment has arrived." Acoste snapped his fingers lightly, and the dwarf sprang out of the group, raising his sledgehammer and slamming it at the hapless bastards.
"Ahh "Damn it!" ……
The pirates quickly fell to the ground in pieces, how could a group of low-level professionals, or even people who were not professionals, be the opponents of mid-level dwarven berserkers. Yacoste sneered, the strength is poor and there is no eye, he is lacking something to stand up, this group of people died unjustly.
"Now, if you want to join us in the queue to come here, you only need to answer one question, those who pass stay, and those who don't pass can leave. If anyone can't think of it, I don't mind if there are a few more corpses on the ground......"