The clearing in the forest is like an oasis in the desert, and the warm sunlight shines directly on the woodland, and many low plants can flourish. Bright sunlight and clear streams weave together weeds, shrubs, colorful flowers, and fluttering butterflies, making this glade a fairyland, attracting many small animals to frolic and feed.

The Warhammer Mercenaries stood in the glade, enjoying the long-lost sunshine, and after more than ten days of trekking in the damp and gloomy forest, mushrooms were about to grow on their bodies.

Hammer looked up at the clouds in the sky, and there was always a feeling of unreality.

This glade is not a natural formation, but the work of a goblin tribe. Goblins and kobolds cut down trees around streams, digging out their roots, and moving the wood to shady places where they can rot slowly. Worms and termites from rotten wood are the snacks of the goblin tribes, and the glades become traps for goblins to hunt small beasts.

In addition to this glade, the goblins built a sizable camp with habitation pits, rudimentary ironsmith workshops, mushroom farms, storage rooms, and spiked traps and nooses. The goblin camp can be said to have all kinds of production, living, and defense facilities. After they saw the hammer, they had a new understanding of the monster like goblins.

However, in just three days, the goblin clan was finished, and the process was unbelievably simple.

Hammer believes that with the strength of the Warhammer mercenary group, it is not impossible to defeat this goblin tribe, but there will definitely be casualties. Hammer asks the bull for his opinion, but the bull tells Hammer that he has a way to get the goblin clan to kill each other, but needs to do some preparation.

The Warhammer Mercenaries stopped on the outskirts of the Goblin Clan, and five elite soldiers left the group, returning to the camp two days later with lots of herbs. It took another day to make many fist-sized medicine balls from these herbs supplemented with honey and jaggery.

During the night, several spirit monkey militiamen hid in the shadows and shot the medicine balls into the goblin camp with a specially made throwing bow. Suddenly attacked by an unknown attack, the goblins were taken aback, and the goblin leader sent many goblins and kobolds to search for hidden enemies, but found nothing. The goblins soon discovered that the "weapons" thrown by the enemy were delicious food, and they scrambled for them, and by the time the goblin leader reacted, many of the "weapons" had already entered the stomachs of ordinary goblins and kobolds. The goblin leader gathered the rest of the "weapons", but did not eat them.

During the day the next day, the goblin leader found that the goblins who had eaten the "weapons" had nothing to do, and finally ate these delicious "weapons" with confidence, and gave a lot of them to the bear goblins. After eating these delicacies, the bear goblin quickly fell into a frenzy. The frenzied bear goblins frantically attacked all the moving objects around them, killing the goblin leader first, and then fighting each other, while the ordinary goblins and kobold miners scattered and soon disappeared without a trace. When the Alchemy Militia killed the scarred bear goblins one by one, there were no living goblins in the goblin camp anymore.

Eventually, Hammer and his team rested in the glade carved out by the goblins, while the Alchemy militia cleaned up the goblin camp and searched for loot. Until now, the hammer was somewhat inexplicable.

"Hammer, I can't believe it! I can't imagine that goblins have such a good thing. ”

Fermi ran over excitedly and quietly handed the hammer a white crystal.

"How many white crystals?" Hammer asked in a low voice.

Priests often use white crystals to perform healing magic, and no one knows how they work, but white crystals are undoubtedly important strategic materials. If white crystal mines are found in the territory, the church pays the lord the mining fee at the price of 1 silver sol per crystal, and almost all the white crystal mines in the human kingdom are in the hands of the church.

The church has a clear rule that healing magic can only be used on armies and paladins who fight monsters, whether it is a commoner or a nobleman who wants to receive divine healing, they must provide white crystals to the clergy, and the church also sells white crystals for 400 gold soles each. Therefore, the price of white crystal is 400 gold soles.

"13 on two chairs...... Maybe it's the throne? Who knows, it's ugly anyway. Fermi smacked his lips and continued, "There are a lot of iron ingots, maybe they can be called iron ingots....... There are all kinds of shapes, but unfortunately there are too many of them, and we can't take them with us. ”

Iron Hammer didn't hear Fermi's words, he was still calculating how much 13 white crystals could be worth? After calculating for a long time, he didn't figure out the result, and then thought of another question.

"There's a white crystal mine here?"

Fermi nodded and said, "The kobold dug two large pits, Kidd led people to explore, and the bull and I took some loot for Wei Qi to identify." ”

The merchants rummaged through the loot, sometimes sighing in amazement, sometimes shaking their heads in disdain, and the goods were either worthless, or the valuable ones were ruined by the goblins.

Fat Wech saw a lumpy rhizome stained with dirt, his eyes lit up, he quickly pulled it over, looked at it carefully for a moment, and exclaimed, "Fil Delin sunflower root!"

"I'll see!

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze! Show me first. ”

"Hmph, do you understand? Boss Weiqi, give me an identification!"

A freeman merchant specializing in herbs stretched out his hand to Fat Wech, but Fat Wech hugged the mud-stained rhizome tightly, and the hammer pushed the crowd away, asking, "What's the matter?"

"This is Fertolin Egg! I saw it once when I was a kid, and I can't admit it!" exclaimed Wedge.

The hammer snatched the inconspicuous sunflower root, shook it, and asked, "What is this thing for?

"I heard that sunflower root is a specialty of the Dusk Forest, but I didn't expect it to be found in the Dark Forest. I don't know what the use of the root is for the nobles, but I know that the nobleman will buy the root for a lot of money, and the purchase price in the eastern provinces is 3 gold soles per ounce! This piece is almost 20 ounces, and it is worth 60 gold soles. After Wei Qi finished explaining, he asked urgently, "How many sunflower roots did you find?"

Fermi touched the back of his head and said, "There are a lot of them, I don't count them." ”

"That arrow was not in vain, earned, earned. ”

Wedge muttered to himself, and the merchant Dodge shouted, "There must be more nearby! We should stay here and dig up all the sunflower roots before leaving!"

Hammer and Fermi were greatly impressed, and although Aoi Root was valuable, it was not as good as White Crystal. Since there is white crystal in the goblin camp, there must be a white crystal mine nearby, and it would be best if you could dig some more. The hammer pulled the bull aside and asked quietly, "Bull, is it dangerous for us to stay here?"

"Yes!"

"What's at stake?"

"It won't be long before the goblins return, and there are too many of them for us to protect everyone. The bull said honestly.

Iron Hammer suddenly became nervous, and hurriedly asked, "Haven't the big goblins and bear goblins been killed?"

The Brute Bull replied, "The goblins and bear goblins have been killed, but the goblin tribe has not died out, and new goblins and bear goblins will soon appear among those ordinary goblins." ”

"Why?" Hammer asked curiously.

"As long as ordinary goblins have plenty of food, no matter how much they keep thinking, they will evolve into big goblins. The goblins will recruit a group of strong goblins as bodyguards. These bodyguard goblins have plenty of food, and without thinking, as long as they fight, they will soon turn into bear goblins. ”

Iron Hammer was stunned for a long time before he said, "That's how the big goblins and bear goblins came from. He asked unwillingly: "Isn't it okay to use that method again to make the bear goblin crazy?"

"No, I can't. The goblins are smart, and the goblins of this tribe will not be fooled again. The bull shook his head.

Hammer shook his head regretfully and said, "I know, when the brother who surveyed the mine returns, we will set off on the road." ”

Unbeknownst to the Iron Hammer, neither the Aoi Root nor the White Crystal were important to the Alchemy Militia. Deep in the jungle, three alchemy militiamen are burying a piece of metal deep underground. The piece of metal was black with runes on it, and was a fragment of a giant sword. The goblin leader also dug up the fragment and used it as a spear point on a stick, which led to his death.

After the alchemy militia buried the fragments, they took out a thin linen letterhead and wrote in Chinese characters: In the northwest corner of the dark forest, thirteen kilometers away, a fragment of the Empire's first-class standard weapon, the one-handed rune giant sword of Salonr steel, was found. Then, the alchemy militia wrote down briefly what they had experienced during this time.

The letterhead was tied around the neck of the alchemy crow. The alchemy crow flapped its wings, circled in the air, and flew straight in the direction of the alchemy tower.

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Lilia walked along the wide, uncluttered roads of the village, followed by several guards and maids. Everywhere she went, the villagers saluted her, and Lilia's gaze swept faintly. Who would have thought that this beautiful and elegant lady was a lively and pretty mercenary girl a year ago.

Looking at the neat and beautiful houses of Hekou Village and the heartfelt smiles of the villagers, Lilia was in a trance.

Before you know it, it has reached the second month of the fire season, and the wheat seedlings in the fields are growing very vigorously, and the potato vines are also connected, green and very gratifying. From the smiles on the faces of the villagers, it can be seen that there will be a bumper harvest this year.

So far, Randall's population is over 5,000. Fences have been torn down and houses have been expanded, and the village of Hekou is almost the size of a small town, but it is still struggling to accommodate the growing population. Not long ago, Lilia had just given the order to build a fourth village.

Randall led more people, the villagers were happy, the farm work became easier, and the bachelor found a partner. The leaders of the villagers are very happy, and it will not be long before they all become veritable village chiefs. Nelson was delighted that the convoy had expanded from 150 to 240 men. Linda was also very happy that the construction of the Lordship was changing day by day, building a village, a lumber yard, planting 5,000 acres of potatoes, and raising 800 baby wild boars. Everyone was happy, except Lilia.

The villagers' shelters are easy to solve, and Lilia is worried about the villagers' food rations. According to Victor's plan, the wheat produced by Randall's territory in the next two years will be used as seeds and cannot be eaten, and if the population continues to grow, there will always be people poaching. Every twenty days, however, a convoy of grain, led from Chebman, arrives at Hekou Village, which is enough to fill the stomachs of the villagers, even though it is stale grain that cannot be planted.

Lilia knew that there were many things that Victor hadn't told her. For example, the secret trade between Randall's and Chebman's territory, and Victor's ban on anyone near the hill camp. Lilia didn't ask Victor for confirmation, and she learned a lesson in the Rose Manor: a lord can't leave everything to one person. Lilia had only secretly decided that she was going to expand her potato planting, which was what she was supposed to do.

A beautiful chapel was built in the square of the village of Kawaguta, and there was no presiding priest in the village of Kawaguchi, which was built by Victor for Father Miller. Lilia had met Father Miller, who was in his fifties, with a wrinkled face, calluses on his hands, and a way of speaking and doing things that would have thought Father Miller was an honest farmer if it weren't for his priest's uniform. Victor personally invited Father Miller to preach in the village of Hekou every once in a while, and built a chapel for him, donating five large wild boars to Father Miller every month for alms.

Although Father Miller did not have the grandeur of a priest, he was kind and treated the villagers free of charge. Once, when a villager accidentally broke his spine while repairing his house, Father Miller cured him on the spot. Since then, the populace of Randall's Territory has been in awe of Father Miller. Lilia also had a great change in her opinion of the unremarkable old priest.

Lilia was unhappy that Victor had rarely returned to the manor in the past two months, and he spent most of his time in Nicole's domain. Although she knew that Victor was busy building an artificial reservoir, Lilia still pouted every time she thought about it.

At this time, Victor did not stay with Nicole, but in the alchemy tower of the hill camp.

Victor took the letterhead brought back by the alchemy crow and sent a message to the king: "King, I have consulted the alchemy auxiliaries, the Satsuma Steel one-handed rune giant sword is a standard weapon used by alchemy units, and the alchemy auxiliaries can only create sword embryos, and the later process must be completed by the alchemist." Although I don't know why there are fragments of Alchemy Empire's weapons in the Dark Forest, I will definitely send someone to search the ruins of the Alchemy Tower. Now, I have two questions for you. ”

"My lord, I would like to ask. The king responded.

"First, suppose there is a rune crystal from the Alchemy Tower, after I get it back, can I complete the production function of the Alchemy Dragon Lizard?"

"Second, let's say there's an alchemy tower that produces combat units, can I activate it with you?"