Chapter 404: Territory
The whirring wind blew, with a hint of coolness.
Thunderlin rode on his horse and looked at the scenery on both sides, a large number of fields were joined together, and dense farmers were cultivating on them.
On both sides of the road, you can see purification towers everywhere.
This is specifically designed to eliminate the unintentional radiation contamination from wizards, allowing ordinary people and wizards to survive unharmed.
Robin finally agreed to Leylin's request, and sent another warlock to take Leylin to his domain.
"Lord Marquis, your nobility recognition and territorial certificate have come down, and in the future, your title can even be recognized in the entire Central Continent! And the plains east of the Kurosawa Mountains are all within your territory, and ordinary people living here will automatically become your subjects!"
A gray-haired second-level warlock said.
"Bring the map!" Leylin dismounted, and Gubler on the side immediately pulled out a yellowed map and unfolded it.
The outline of the territory is clearer with the map, and it is not only a vast area, including a few fertile plains, but also a coastline and several excellent ports.
The marquis of the Central Continent naturally has a much higher gold content than on the south coast, and the scope of the territory can even be compared to a large kingdom on the south coast.
Of course, for Lei Lin, who has ruled the entire Dark Polar Domain and has a population of 50 million, it is not something too amazing, and it is not worth moving.
On the other hand, Gubler and the second-level warlock on the side had a look of envy on their faces.
With such a wide range of territory land, even if it is converted into wizard resources, it is also a huge source of wealth for ordinary third-level warlocks.
"Gubler, go find some specialized management personnel and set up the ruling structure here, oh! and, my noble badge. Let's use the arcane mark as a pattern!" Lei Lin casually ordered.
Gubler, on the other hand, bowed his head respectfully in understanding.
Seeing this, the white-haired old man warlock on the side looked at Gubler. A look of envy flashed in his eyes.
In his mind, Leylin was a Komoyin serpent. He also worshiped under the Morning Star Wizard, with unlimited potential, Gubler was his first vassal, and he was deeply trusted, and his status naturally rose.
And with Robin, even if he climbs all his life, he can only enter the inner circle.
The comparison between the two made him even more envious and jealous.
"Master, as a marquis, you also need a castle as the core of power!" Gubler duly reminded.
"Well, buy some slaves. And pay for food and money, recruit a group of my lords to build! The location is here!" Lei Lin casually pointed on the map.
It's a plain location closer to the coastline, and further out is the harbor.
"Yes, merciful master!" said Gubler.
In fact, after the Ouroboros Ring gave all this place to Thunderlin, he had the power to live and die any creature in this land, and even allowed to set up an army and establish a kingdom.
In the Central Continent, the lords even had to bring their own dry food every year to unconditionally respond to the lord's call, and undertake a certain amount of labor and war logistics.
Now that Lei Lin is still paying his salary, he is naturally extremely merciful.
"The castle was named 'Black Castle'. You go and gather a bunch of scholars and craftsmen first, and then show them to me when the blueprints are finished!"
Lei Lin didn't care about this kind of trivial matter, and directly let his power go.
What he really cares about. Still below: "And next to the Black Castle, I'm going to build a wizard's tower!"
"Wizard Tower!" the two men next to him immediately let out an exclamation, which meant a lot of resource expenditure.
"Yes, by the best standards!" In Leylin's eyes, the Black Castle was just a mere mortal center of power, and this wizarding tower was his true residence after that.
"Why not build it at the headquarters, where not only can it be supported by resources, but it can also be jointly guarded?" Gubler suggested.
"No!" Lei Lin shook his head categorically and refused, although it was established at the headquarters, it could still obtain certain technical and resource support. But the fact that the Wizard Tower Core needs to be incorporated into the joint defense system alone cannot be tolerated!
He has so many secrets, how can he show it to others?
And a wizard's tower. It was also a necessary prerequisite for conducting the Astral Gate experiment, so Lei Lin made a big decision. It must be built independently on its own territory.
"In that case, the blueprints and the cost ......" Guebler thought about it for a moment, and he was a little dizzy.
"I'll do the design by myself, and you don't have to worry about the cost!" said with a light smile.
He had probably looted an entire Dark Polar Domain, although it was far less wealthy than the Central Continent, but it was still very terrifying to concentrate on one person.
Even, even the magic stone, he was filled with a space ring, and all kinds of precious resources were also a lot, enough for the cost of a wizard tower, and it was still the kind of wizard tower that was all built according to the highest standards!
How can an ordinary wizard tower carry Leylin's ambitions?
In addition, the high-level wizard tower has a certain effect on promoting the strength of the wizard itself, and it is also a necessary environment for many experiments! Therefore, many high-level wizards will plan to build their own wizard tower.
But it is very rare to be able to build it by himself like Lei Lin, and it is not difficult to build it by himself, and others often need hundreds of years of accumulation to have a little hope, or is it the kind of general standard, as for the top-level configuration? They only dare to think about it in their dreams.
"As a reserve for the construction of castles and wizard towers, I need a large number of male slaves and stonemasons and the like, do you have the means there?"
Leylin looked at the old warlock man.
"Of course!" the old man bowed, "in fact, my master has several special channels for orcs, goblins, dwarves, and adult human slaves......"
"Well, I'll leave this side to you, I need at least 10,000 people! As for the payment method, use magic stones!"
As soon as Lei Lin's words fell, he saw a flash of joy in the eyes of this old warlock.
The Central Continent also uses gold and silver as currency to circulate, while magic stones are more advanced currencies, with a high exchange rate in the black market, and if he does this, some oil and water will definitely come out.
Of course, these small interests have long been out of Lei Lin's eyes, and if they can make this old man try his best, he will naturally go with him.
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The Plains of Blackcastle, whatever it was previously called, was automatically renamed the Plains of Blackcastle after Leylin's decision, and would also become the center of power in this new territory.
Groups of adult slaves, urged by the whips and clubs of the overseers, toiled to transport huge granite stones.
The rocks were carved into a uniform size in another quarry and then transported here to form a huge castle.
Leylin's Black Fort was defended by a two-tiered wall, with the outer walls slightly lower than the inner walls, and a large number of arrow towers and attics on top of it.
On the periphery of the Black Castle, ditches are dug to create an extremely wide moat.
The entire main body of the building is made of granite bricks, and in the later stage, a wizard who is proficient in the use of earth elemental energy particles will be invited to reinforce it, so that the stone cracks will be bridged to form a huge whole. And then there will be some famous carving masters who will come to work on it.
When it is actually built, its luxury is probably not inferior to that of a mortal lord's castle.
In order to complete the Black Castle, a large number of slaves and the lords recruited by Leylin worked day and night on the construction site.
For these people, Leylin was provided with decent food, including brown bread and fish soup, which were very rare for slaves and poor farmers, so they mostly worked hard.
"Master, 10,000 male slaves, all have arrived, now some are in the quarry, and the rest are all here!"
Gubler followed Leylin like a calculating butler.
Because Lei Lin used magic stones to pay the bills, he was very wealthy and didn't care much about the source, he was the best customer of those big slave traders, and the old man before was also very hard-working, and 10,000 slaves were quickly purchased.
This is not a small amount, and it also gives Lei Lin a deeper understanding of the power that Robin controls.
"These slaves should also be used properly, and they should also be divided into classes, and those who work hard and actively move closer to us can get a small piece of land after the castle is built, and become my farmers or soldiers, as for those who are lazy or resistant, they will be directly slaves and die or simply killed!"
Lei Lin said lightly, he had experienced so much and had rich management experience, and the words he said made Gubler nod again and again.
"Also, tell me about the progress of the project!"
"Lord, according to this progress, your castle will be able to be completed next spring, and the total cost will be about one and a half million gold coins......"
Gubler only looked down a little, and reported a few numbers that would have made ordinary kings and the like faint.
"Hmmm!"
These are just small things, even if Lei Lin listens to it, even, the construction of this black castle is a small head, and the real horror is still on the drawings in his hand.
Gubler looked at the drawings in Leylin's hand with some trepidation.
It was a wizarding tower structure designed by Leylin himself.
The entire Wizard Tower will be made of man blue metal, a sturdy wizard alloy, and will have a total of three floors underground, namely the laboratory, summoning, and binding chambers, and the bottom level will be a huge negative energy reaction pool.
On the ground, the first floor is the living room, the second floor is the master's bedroom and library, the third floor is the witchcraft garden and ecological laboratory, the fourth floor is the storage room, and the top floor has a positive energy reaction pool corresponding to the negative energy pool underground.
Almost all energy particles have positive and negative attributes, and this energy pool is an expensive energy harvesting structure formed by encompassing most of the energy particle pool. (To be continued)