Houdini's shock is well founded.

No matter how strong a country is, it has to face a basic food problem. Having enough to eat is the foundation of economic development, and Houdini, as a high-ranking member of the Rasiman Kingdom, naturally understands the efforts that the mages have been making to increase food production. Among them, artificial rainfall has always been a project that seems to be the best solution, but in fact, there has been no breakthrough so far.

This is also related to the climate of the Rasiman Kingdom, because of the drought and lack of rain, the difficulty of irrigation is much more difficult than that of the Karon Kingdom where rivers are everywhere, and the energy consumed by the floating tower is really huge, although some people have proposed the concept of "using the floating tower to artificial rainfall", and have successfully experimented on a small scale, but because the cost of energy consumption is too large, it cannot be promoted to the whole country.

Houdini's first instinct was disbelief, but when he confirmed the truth through a prophetic spell, his old face was almost wrinkled into a bun.

"Elson... Elson... Who is its lord who is sacred?"

He inexplicably remembered the line of handwriting that Merinthera had mapped in front of his eyes, and his original decision gradually wavered.

And the lord of Elson City, whom he had been talking about, was sitting at his desk meditating, not in the slightest complacency at the dazzling magical architecture of the city—or rather, he didn't even know the actual state of the Rasiman Kingdom, or even what Ambassador Rasiman's name was.

Luo Di was staring at the "urban construction bar" in front of him, thinking about the strategic steps ahead.

Elson's city level consists of a blue "level 9" and a gray "level 17" side by side, which means that the city used to be level 17, and the current level of construction can only be considered level 9 - a few months ago, when Roddy first became the lord of the city, the city was a deserted level 4, and now it has risen to level 9 at the speed of a rocket launch, which can be said to be a miracle.

But Roddy wasn't satisfied.

It's not that he thinks the development is too slow, but when he stands in the position of "city lord", he has already seen the "limit" of the city one step ahead of others.

Elson City was originally built as a fortified city with a military purpose, and although it was much more powerful than the current single-purpose "castle fortresses" of the Karen Kingdom, the infrastructure had already determined the city's future upside: even if Elson City was upgraded to level 17 in its original heyday, it would still not meet the needs of Roddy's next strategic goals.

In order to establish himself in the kingdom, what Rodi needed was a highly developed and well-planned "main city" - a "megacity" that could maximize the use of resources and become the heart of the kingdom.

Elson couldn't do this, and although its core technology was ahead of the entire kingdom, more than half of the buildings in the city were military-related - if there was no sufficient funds to run these military factories, barracks, and other buildings in the future in the truce, the city would obviously fall into an awkward position.

At the present stage, there is nothing wrong with vigorously developing military science and technology. But after surviving this period of turmoil, when we have to face economic warfare, the military buildings that were originally like a tiger with wings will become the "shackles" that restrict development.

Of course, it was a bit early to think about these when facing the triple attack of orcs, undead and Karen domestic royalty, but now Roddy is no longer a ranger who "feeds the whole family without starving". The so-called prime minister and the title of the lord of Elson City are not just titles used to show off, but also represent that he has to control the future fate of countless people.

"It's a big head..."

Luo Di deeply realized that a person's ability is too limited, even if he has the advantage of being reborn, but he still feels deeply powerless in the face of such a huge and multi-faceted plan - the staff member Camilla is responsible for enough things, and now there is no time to discuss these things, so Luo Di finally understands why those commanders in the past must have a "staff team", a business group must have a "think tank", and a group of "secretaries" under the ********.

In battle, Roddy can find the best option as quickly as possible. But in terms of complex construction, one person simply can't do it.

"The biggest problem right now is the lack of people..."

Roddy sighed involuntarily and lay down in the armchair a little tired.

Although he has single-handedly built and cultivated many talents, such as Sodrore, Nata, Akasha, Erwin, and now the "Knights of the Dragonlance", this is only the smallest group of the Raid team. According to Roddy's vision, in the future, the dungeons or areas that need to be developed by the team will need at least thirty or forty people - this kind of "team" is not enough to pull the knights to make up the number of people, and in the face of those extremely dangerous or strange enemies, Roddy needs all kinds of professional experts to help him...

Assassination rogue, bloodline warlock, knight of the Holy Light, prophet, druid, and other various professional titles swirled in Roddy's mind - each class in "Ripp" has its own unique characteristics, if properly grasped, a standard raid team of thirty people can completely make Roddy invincible on the road to "open up the wasteland" - those underground ancient city treasures that no one cares about, rare treasures left over from ancient civilizations, and expensive ore veins that are priceless all rely on such a team to explore and discover.

Roddy's strategy is to rely on "treasure hunting" raid activities to quickly increase the wealth and technology of the territory, while consolidating the existing advantages of Elson City horizontally, and step by step to lay the foundation for a stable economy in the future.

So put aside the crisis we have to face now, and we must do it in advance to attract outstanding talents. Roddy sat up, rubbed his temples, and began to carefully recall the powerful NPCs he had seen in various places, and began to write down the areas they lived, their physical features, and their names...

"'Tree of Life' Fanteny, at this time, he should be in the Silent Forest, and he should not have become a mentor yet. ”

"'Demoman' Arustiz, forget it, this guy has a problem with his brain, and it's a scourge to come..."

"'Shadow Walk' Renaud? tsk, it's more difficult to find him. ”

After all, the advantage of rebirth is difficult for ordinary people to reach, and many of those characters with extremely high achievements in the future are still in a state of obscurity at this time, after all, large-scale wars have not yet broken out, and these "gold" have not yet been tested and shined. And Luo Di now has abundant funds and power, and it is really not in vain to solicit this kind of low-investment and high-return business in advance.

After writing a few names, the floodgates of memory seemed to be completely opened, and Roddy not only wrote down the names of those people needed by the RAID team, but also made a long list of blacksmiths, leather makers, enchanters, rune makers, construction machinery makers, spell material dealers, etc., who would become famous in later generations...

Roddy was so engrossed in these things that he didn't even notice the faint sound of footsteps behind him—and when the familiar fragrance permeated the surroundings, Roddy realized that she had been standing beside her for more than ten seconds.

"If you come, you won't say a word, what are you looking at secretly?"

Roddy rubbed his bloodshot eyes from fatigue, stretched and put the pen down, and wanted to continue to say something, but found that Nefi's face was not very good-looking, so he asked, "What? Who bullied you? Or did someone make you unhappy?"

Nephie didn't speak, just silently raised his hand. Roddy just sat like this, a little curious about what this weird little girl was going to do, but who knew that Ney Fei actually helped Roddy massage his temples and whispered: "Someone bullied me, and he kept bullying me." ”

"Ah, who is it? Tell me, I'll clean him up!"

Roddy was dazed because of what he wrote before, and when he heard Nephie say this, he didn't suspect him for a while.

"Well, that guy stays in the study every day until late to rest, and sometimes he doesn't rest, but he is strict with me, even if he goes to bed a second late, he will call my mother to murder me... Can you help me clean up his meal?"

Roddy didn't know who she was talking about when she heard this, although she was dumbfounded, but she felt warm in her heart, after all, Neffie obviously used this protesting tone to express her concern for him. Thinking of this, Roddy tore through the parchment that had already been written out several and said, "I don't want to exhaust myself to death, so I'm going to find some people to help me." ”

Neffie was obviously a little surprised, she actually came here today to "recommend herself" - she was already able to help Roddy do a lot of things, why did she still have to do boring spell training every day? But seeing Roddy say this, she had to wonder what was written on the parchment, and when she took it over, the dense names of people, regions, and physical characteristics suddenly surprised Nephie.

Luo Di also didn't realize for a while how complicated the distribution of the guys on that list was, there were all kinds of deep mountains and wild forests, and Nai Fei hadn't even heard of a third of the place names, just such a complex list was enough to make the little girl realize the gap in "experience"...

So she looked at Roddy a little differently.

"Brother Roddy, these people... You've seen them all?"

"Well, no, mostly just heard. I knew some of their deeds when I passed through those places, so I hoped to bring these guys to Elson to help me. Of course, in the end, half of this list would be considered good. ”

Neffie didn't say anything more, but his eyes lingered on the names of the suspected women on the list for a while, his sly eyes narrowed, he snorted, and put the list back - now she had returned to her previous weird appearance of elves, and Roddy was relieved when he saw her like this, and patted Nefi's hand: "Okay, okay, it's much more comfortable to rub it, you can sit down and rest for a while." ”

As soon as the words fell, Nefi squeezed into the armchair and sat side by side with him. Roddy knew that Neffie had a bad temperament, but he had always been indulgent and let her mess around, so he didn't stand up and move at this time, but leaned to the side as much as he could, and asked, "Why did you suddenly remember to ask me this?"

"Brother Roddy, I heard that those people in the city are talking about the war, is the war coming?"

"War..."

Luo Di nodded meaningfully and said in a low voice: "Actually, it has already begun." ”

The howling wind swept across Nata's cheeks, and the wings of Pintail Snipe spread out in a shadow across the vast grasslands—the Wood Elf Ranger had been flying in the Nehemian steppes for ten days as the kingdom of Rasiman and Charles II were at each other's throats, and the magical buildings of Elson City were set in motion.

In the field of vision, the flat and open prairie can be seen at a glance, and the orc base camp is as conspicuous as a piece of black disease.

Every war is not just a "decisive battle", reconnaissance, supply, transportation, etc., each of which may affect the outcome of a battle, so when everyone's eyes are focused on the kingdom of Karen, Nata, as the first ranger under Roddy, has already started her mission.

Nata, with her air supremacy, hovered unscrupulously above without the slightest fear that she would be discovered. After three days of non-stop observation, she had confirmed the composition of the opposing troops, roughly calculated the amount of baggage, and even sorted out the proportion of members among the various tribes...

In other words, this is the advantage of information inequality, and when the orcs didn't know where the suddenly missing Overseers had gone, Roddy had a full view of what was going on with them.

Having completed her final patrol mission, Nata hid the map she had been working on last night, and then slowly pulled the reins, causing the Pintail Snipe to change the direction of her flight - but not a return road ahead, but the majestic Gondola Mountains and the gloomy and oppressive black forest beyond...

There... It is the land of the dead in silence and paleness, Tasman.