Chapter 8: The Cost of the Army

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Immediately after, a mountain range on the icy plateau under his eyes suddenly erupted with a loud bang, and a prominent peak on the mountain suddenly exploded several sparks from the inside of the mountain, and the snow on the peak instantly melted into pulp, and the part of the peak quickly sank into a hot crater.

The scene of Elbuck Volcano's evolution into the Gates of Hell in the Third Age is about to be recreated in the contract world of the Sword of Fire, but the common sense in the contract world is different from the real world, so instead of erupting, the lava in the crater began to dry up rapidly, replaced by a giant tower of iron and black steel draped in dazzling firelight, like the sun gradually rising from the hot magma.

The upper part of the black tower soon rose completely out of the crater's surface, and dozens of stump-thick chains were shot out of several square holes on the surface of the tower, nailing into the mountain with dozens of stump-thick chains, leaving the upper part of the tower exposed, and the lower half suspended above the magma.

The special building [Molten Iron Tower] has been completed.

The process of the rise of this iron-black tower from the crater is by no means the real history that happened on the Mooncold Plateau, but when this fantastical picture is expressed in a contract world with a unique set of operating laws, even Finn, who has seen many large scenes, cannot deny that the moment the giant tower rises from the crater is full of shocking artistic colors.

At that moment, it was like the rising sun, which was so beautiful.

The building function of the Molten Iron Tower is similar to the information that the game system tells Finn during the prompt, which can be used as a level 4 [Blacksmith Shop], and can also train elite soldiers in the contract world into [Tower Guard] troops unique to the dwarven race. If you have a mount creature called the White Wolf, these Tower Guards will step on the back of the wolf and further transform into the Plateau Iron Rider, which has left a great name in the history of the Third Age.

Finn paid 100,000 XP to build the Molten Iron Tower, with the aim of owning a highland cavalry under his command.

Anyway, his original recruitment plan was to take the quality route, since the number of the Heroic Spirit Army is limited, then what he wants is the elite, the kind of super elite that a thousand people can rush ten thousand people.

Those Iron Knights who have shone countless glories on the Mooncold Plateau are just what he wants!

But then again, the Plateau Riders are very formidable, but if you really want to train the Heroic Soldiers of the Dwarven race to eventually become the Plateau Knights, you have to do more than just build molten iron towers.

In the rules of the contract world, although the construction of a contract building only greatly consumes the experience points of the contractor, the training of elite soldiers does not require additional experience points, but requires the contractor to collect enough [resources] in the contract world.

Resources are a new concept in the rules of the contract world.

To put it simply, contract buildings can be classified according to their respective functions, and contract buildings can be roughly divided into three categories: basic, production, and resource-based.

Basic buildings, such as taverns, can be used without any need to do anything to create the building functions they have.

Productive buildings such as Barracks and Blacksmith Shops can recruit soldiers but require population, while others can craft equipment but require materials - and population and materials are so-called resources.

Resource-based buildings, as the name suggests, are all contract buildings that are specifically designed to obtain resources in the contract world, such as the [Residential Quarter] that Finn has built with 10,000 XP points before, and the [Gathering Field] and [Taming Farm] that he is about to build.

Gathering and Taming Farms are a bit cheaper than residential areas, and each can be built with only 5,000 XP.

The resources needed to train the Plateau Iron Riders are the [Population] to replenish the number of Tower Guards, the [Metal] to be sent to the blacksmith to craft armor and weapons, and the most important bio-type resource [White Wolf].

The 2,500 units provided by the Tier 1 housing complex were enough for Finn's current population at first, so in order to obtain enough metal, Finn immediately paid another 5,000 XP points without blinking an eye, and knocked on a gathering field in a space at the foot of a hill near the molten iron tower.

The appearance of the Gathering Yard's buildings changes depending on nearby resources. The mining yard that Fein had built at the foot of the mountain was close to a mine hidden in the mountain, so it quickly completed the construction process in the form of a mine, and as soon as Fein picked out a group of idle people from the residential area to become miners, it would be operational, and at regular intervals a certain amount of metal resources would be produced from it.

With both the problems of population and metal resources solved, the molten iron tower itself has the architectural function of a level 4 blacksmith shop, and Finn no longer has to spend effort building a new blacksmith shop on the plateau after solving the problem of metal resources.

"So, the last remaining step is to find the white wolf." Immediately, he tapped his forehead to himself, and then moved his gaze from the foot of the mountain to the white plateau snow from the foot of the collecting field to the white snowy plateau, looking at the cedar forest that existed in that direction.

The strongest and cunning white wolf in the wolf pack was once and still the beast king of the Mooncold Plateau, but these beautiful and warlike beasts were extinct in the era of the Fourth Age, and human scholars can only speculate through limited historical data that the white wolf group likes to live in groups in the cedar forests on the plateau, and it is known that they are more hardy than the snow wolves that infest the northern border of the Violet Kingdom, the color of their body hair is as pure white as snow, and the adult male wolf can grow to the size of a pony, with a long and prominent muzzle and a strong legs and feet, The head proportions to the body are naturally much larger than those of the average wolf.

The cedar forest in the contract world is home to white wolves that have been extinct in the real world, and Finn noticed that one or two young wolves that had just learned to run would pop out of it from time to time before he built the molten tower, and then be chased back by the she-wolf who chased them out of the forest.

He looked at the woods that grew on the snowy plateau, smiled slightly, and then paid 5000 experience points to place a taming farm on a vacant snow field next to the woodland, and then mobilized 500 residents from the residential area to settle in the taming field to become professional animal trainers, and temporarily planned to wait for the population of the residential area to fully gather 2500 units, and then transfer 500 people from it to the mining field as miners, and 500 people as craftsmen into the molten iron tower, In the end, the remaining 1,000 people were arranged to become soldiers in the barracks.

In this way, the cost of training the highland iron rider is all collected, and all that remains to do is to wait quietly.

After all this in the contract world, Finn finally nodded with satisfaction, and finally glanced at the prototype of the city that he had initially built on the white ice and snow plateau, and then guided his consciousness to retreat from the contract world, and after closing and opening his eyes again, the scene in front of him changed back to the loft of the Lord's manor, which was messed up by Lilith. (To be continued.) )