Chapter 148: In full swing
A week later, the Blind Brotherhood's fleet of supplies finally reached the waters off the coast of Misty Island, and before that, Peterley had brought a new batch of supplies to Lear and taken all the sulfur ore that had been mined in Misty Island for some time.
The exchange of goods took place directly on the open sea, with Landrig taking the loaded ship out to the open sea, then exchanging ships with Peterley's men and driving the other party's cargo ship back.
Although they are still in an alliance, Lear does not want to give Peterley a gap between his reality and reality.
Credibility is something that is built on equal strength, and Lear is well aware that he is at an absolute disadvantage for the time being until his new battleship is built and launched.
A large amount of iron and copper ore poured into Spartacus, making up for the shortage of materials in the town's infrastructure, and many projects that had been stalled due to lack of materials were started again at high speed, including the Magic Guild and the Cavalry Training Ground.
With the help of the brilliant craftsmen brought by the Blind Brotherhood, the dwarven craftsmen finally raised a huge steel furnace, into which various metal minerals were fed, and then a steady stream of molten iron flowed out of the furnace every day.
Not long ago, little Luna finally awakened her talent for fire magic, and all kinds of fire magic came to her hands without any bottlenecks and difficulties at all.
Especially in the control of the Flame Demon Wall, although she has not yet achieved the terrifying killing effect of Lear, the precise control of the fire element is no longer under Lear.
All she needed was an accumulation of magical power, and Lear sent her to the Dwarven Refinery, which was called training, but in fact it was a blatant exploitation of child labor.
Adela had questioned this, because little Luna looked exhausted and fell asleep every day when she returned to her residence, and even her head was like a chicken pecking rice during a culture class, but Lear fooled him by snoring.
The angry female mage hadn't spoken to him for a week.
Lear himself was not idle.
The construction of ships and towns requires a lot of metal, and if you don't want to use sulfur as fuel every day, and if you want to keep the furnace in a stable high temperature environment, then the help of a mage is essential.
In fact, Luna only undertakes a very small part of the smelting work, and most of the flame support is provided by Lear himself, and even he himself is in a state of excessive mana consumption every day, not to mention little Luna.
At the end of each day's work, he would instruct Luna to meditate with him, and in the process, both of them would grow at a terrifying rate.
According to Lear's estimate, Little Luna is now at least close to the level of a third-level magician, and as for himself, only God knows.
In addition to two or three hours of sleep a day, Lear even took care of the town in the mines, but fortunately Valenque helped him with most of the chores, and he didn't need to worry too much about guidance except for some particularly important decisions.
Mrak and Haag had approached him a few times to ask the fighters about their training, but Lear said that they had let go of their hands and toss, and that he didn't have the time to care about it now.
Looking at Lear's scorched and sallow face, which was smoked by the mineral impurities of the fireworks, everyone rarely bothered him.
Half a month later, when the last iron ore had also turned into hot molten iron in the steel furnace, and the dwarves and craftsmen had begun to forge various parts from the molds they had made earlier, Lear finally ended his long career of hard labor.
He left the mine and took a quick shower, then met with Raymond, who had been waiting for a long time, in the council hall.
Yes, everything is ready, and now is the time to start the most ambitious project.
The Blind Brotherhood again sent five hundred craftsmen, who had thought that such a sacred work had to be done by their craftsmen's own hands, and that the hands of shallow believers and unbaptized unbelievers would taint Asha's spirit.
But Lear rebuffed them mercilessly.
Not to mention that they were too small to wait for Lear, he also told Raymond that there were no shallow believers in Misty Island, and that everyone worshipped Yasha as devout as they were.
This is not something Lear is boasting about, as everyone has enthusiastically supported Lear after hearing that he was going to suspend all construction in the town and prioritize the creation of the statue of Asha.
But then again, the most ungodly person on this island is probably Lear himself.
He ordered the dwarves to create a small statue of Asha, made of obsidian and bloodstone that had been left behind after the destruction of the Golem of Ogas.
Naturally, it is impossible for all the thousands of meters of Asha to be made of gemstones, and even if Lear were sold, he would not be able to afford it.
The main material is still stone, anyway, this kind of thing is everywhere on the island, and the key parts can be dotted with gemstones, mercury, sulfur and crystal.
Even such embellishments have almost exhausted all of Lear's savings, but there is no way, and there is always a price to pay before getting it.
With his character, there is no such thing as losing money, and the current efforts will be earned back from Yasha in the future.
Eventually, Raymond relented, and although he was an elder of the Blind Brotherhood, he was nothing compared to Lear, who had the status of a dragon god.
The other good news was that representatives of the Sisters of Silence had finally found Spartacus.
They arrive through the portal of the Blind Brotherhood, and after determining Lear's identity and what he will do, they also show strong support.
Sister Melan, the representative of the elders of the Sisters of Silence, said on the spot that they would contribute 100,000 gold coins, 1,000 pounds each of crystal sulfur gemstones, and mercury, which would leave as soon as she returned.
Later, a large number of nuns will be stationed in Spartacus to assist in the construction of the dragon statue.
These nuns are incapable of fighting, but their prayers of light have a very healing effect.
When applied to a craftsman, an exhausted person can become alive and well in no time without any after-effects.
It is simply a necessary magic skill for battlefield rescue and longevity, and of course, if it is used for some special purposes, the effect must be immediate.
After all, the Sisters of Silence worship the side of Asha's life, and the process of life naturally needs not be repeated.
However, this evil thought flashed through Lear's mind, and he was more concerned about when the supplies promised by the Sisters of Silence would arrive.
In the past, he still underestimated the energy of these two organizations a little, and his reputation was not obvious, but he didn't blink his eyes when he took out such a huge amount of resources.
It seems that we need to get to know each other more deeply.
Thinking about it like this, Lear had some new ideas in his heart, as far as he knew, although there were not many organizations in this world that directly worshipped Asha, there were quite a few organizations that worshipped the six elemental dragons.
Wind, fire, water, earth, light and darkness, these six elemental dragons were all directly created by Yasha to help her maintain this world, if you can find their organization in this world, wouldn't you be able to make a lot of money again?
Thinking of this, Lear felt that his money addiction was about to attack.
But the top priority now is to quickly build the statue of Yasha's life-size god, which is also what Yasha requested.
Otherwise, although he knew that Yasha had no ill will towards him for the time being, Lear always felt very uncomfortable tying his soul to the will of the god of this world all the time.
There's a feeling of being snooped at all times.
After the idol is built, Asha's will can be separated from his soul and settled in the idol, and Asha's ontological will can be more easily projected from the moon, without consuming each other's soul power every time they communicate.
To be reasonable, every time Lear communicates with Yasha with the strength of his current mental strength, the feeling is not much better than taking a stick and stirring it in his mind.
It's just too bad.
And the reason why he fought so hard was also because Lear had a premonition in his heart that something was happening on the distant continent he had left.
As he grew up, his enemies were not idle, and there wasn't much time left for him to farm steadily.
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