The world has never been warm, so Merlin has never been stingy with guessing malice from all around. In Adrianople's indifference to Stilicco, Merlin was able to deal with it calmly. However, in Ashfurnace Village, the thought of having to endure Viking robbery after the autumn harvest still makes Merlin feel uncomfortable.

"Do the Vikings come to Ashfurnace Village every year?"

"They don't come every year, and the Viking boats have a hard time going up the stream to reach the village, but they like the wine from Ashoven Village, and they come every once in a while to ask for a little. Lance's face turned pale, as if remembering the winter when the Vikings had knocked over the roof and shivered in the cold wind.

"Do you think the Vikings will come after the autumn harvest this year?" Merlin asked, staring into the knight's eyes.

"Yes," Lance shuddered suddenly, and although he was in the middle of summer, he couldn't help but feel chills all over his body, "as long as it is a good harvest village, they will be swept over." ”

"Then build an ashhearth!"

Merlin erected a large boxy stone under the tree, with a piece of papyrus pasted on the stone, on which an abstract painting was drawn.

"What's the painting on the rock?" said a couple of half-grown children with snot in front of the big rock.

"Ashburgh. "The orc maid's task is to stand in front of Merlin's plan and explain to those who come and go what it means.

In fact, the best person to stand here is Sula, but the tone of the water is very resolute, "Don't go, this kind of thing is only willing to be done by the undead." ”

Will you still chat, Merlin couldn't help but complain, this is a discussion that is not even discussed.

"If you don't work, you won't have anything to eat, and Ash Furnace Village doesn't raise idlers. ”

"If you don't eat, you won't eat, it just so happened that the princess ate a little bit a few days ago. ”

"What kind of princess are you?" Merlin didn't believe.

"Of course, if she's so beautiful, isn't she a princess a witch?"

Recently, Augustine had brought back a pile of knights and princesses from Hippo, and Sulla and Raj were a little fascinated by them. Now I have changed my name when I speak. At every turn, Merlin said that Merlin was an evil lord, and put the two princesses under house arrest in the remote Ashfurnace Village. Now ready to build a castle on the captured princess locked up.

Witches and princesses are the same for Merlin, and what Ashfurnace Village needs now is manpower, people to do the work. It is almost impossible to build a castle after the autumn harvest and before winter.

"I need craftsmen and slaves, the more the better. "Merlin had once again come to the convent site, and now he had no one to bully except Augustine. It is said that every time he sees the elders of the Arians Academy taking a deflated look, Merlin can't help but feel secretly happy in his heart.

"This is impossible, and there is now a shortage of manpower on the monastery site. "Augustine was in a hurry. "The Saints hope that the monastery will be built before the autumn rains come. ”

Merlin looked at the construction site where the foundation had been built, and said with a smile, "If the Vikings ransack the Ashfurnace Village, I, the lord, will be very sad, and you also know that people can't copy it properly when they are sad, and when the handwriting is different from before, you don't have to be sad." ”

Merlin turned to leave.

"No, Your Highness, you can't do that. Augustine was anxious with beads of sweat on his forehead, "Wait, I'm going back to Hippo, and I'll discuss such matters with the saints." ”

Merlin didn't know what his copy of the Last Judgment meant to the Arians, but it was certainly no less valuable than a monastery. But when it comes to the thought of the Vikings wreaking havoc from village to village, these powerful knights stay out of the way. The so-called mercy also depends on the mood of the superior, it seems that the Holy Father of this world is even more depraved.

There are two ash golems sent by Augustine. Old Bill had only prepared the quarry, and when the two grey golems joined the quarry, the stone was shipped out in a steady stream.

This is indeed not the Middle Ages that Merlin is familiar with, because the way the Grey Golem mined stone completely turned Merlin's perception upside down. The tall gray golems stood in front of the smooth stone wall, opened their huge mouths, bit down a gap the size of a human head into the stone wall, and ate the stone one bite at a time. Immediately from behind their bodies, a long stone block was pulled out.

The size of the stones is exactly the same, and there is no difference in the slightest. It is absolutely impossible for manpower to reach such a level.

This is a power beyond nature, a way that Merlin completely cannot comprehend.

"This is an alchemical item left behind by a dwarf, almost comparable to real life," Augustine was a little too low-key, but his tone made Merlin feel a kind of low-key show-off, "These things are treasured by the saints, and their combat effectiveness is almost zero, but they are used to mine stone and build castles is a good helper." ”

"Are they mine?" Merlin asked tentatively.

"Of course, the Grey Golem has little combat power other than to mine stone. The Saint felt that the inheritance of the Bumblebee Knight was a little wronged by His Highness Merlin, so he wanted to make some amends to His Highness. ”

With these two gray puppets, Merlin's plan is possible, but it's only possible. Building a castle that could withstand the Vikings in less than three months was an almost impossible task for the people of Ashhearth.

Building a brand new castle isn't like tearing open a scroll and a fountain will appear inside the stone. First of all, you need to have enough people to do the work. Of course, the most important thing is that you have someone who knows how to build a castle. Fortunately, one of the twenty men Merlin had selected from Adrianople was a stonemason, and he was the master craftsman who had participated in the construction of the castle in the first place.

Such a person, who is a valuable asset wherever he goes, was actually picked by Merlin. However, it is not that Walter is tired of life in Adrianople and wants a change of environment.

Walter was not the only one who wanted to leave Adrianople, such as Old Bill, who resolutely decided to leave with Merlin when he was about to go to his fiefdom.

The big housekeeper of Adrianople didn't do it, and ran to the remote ashfurnace village. Merlin knows very well who is good to him, and the stubbornness and persistence of an old goth is difficult to understand, and perhaps only Merlin can understand such a mood when he is the age of old Bill.

Old Bill's training plan was not shaken, except for the village chief of Ashfurnace Village, the other eight knights were killed by the lust of his training every day.