Chapter 68: Lack of money
A group of skeleton soldiers who don't know pain, only know how to execute orders mechanically, their combat effectiveness may not be very terrifying, and when they encounter a strong person like Xiang Kane, one person is enough to sweep a large area. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
But what if these skeleton soldiers can do magic, as if they were moving forts one by one? When the overwhelming magic is smashed down, I believe that few people are not frightened.
And the discovery at this moment undoubtedly gave William and Sumera a kind of hope: a hope to cultivate a large number of necromancers and undead warriors and sweep the entire undead world!
However, the hope is good, but it is too far away. Even if a large number of necromancers are to be cultivated, it will be a long time later.
At this stage, with the financial resources of the Lester family, it is not enough to support that distant hope. What can be done at this stage is to buy iron ore, smelt and forge weapons and armor, and strengthen some combat power.
Don't underestimate the increase in combat power brought by these equipment. If the skeleton soldier has a sharp blade and protective iron armor, then he can rush out of the bone territory to counter the invasion of the rest of the undead lords and expand their territory!
At the very least, the skeletons, armed with weapons and iron armor, were able to withstand the charge of the Death Knights of Genara on the plains, and the two sides had the possibility of a head-to-head battle.
The first target set by Sumera was the Death Knights led by the Death Knight Henara.
The Bone Territory is not very large, and most of the territory is desolate mountains with undulating mountains. Beyond the Bone Domain, there are flat plains, swampy areas with poisonous miasma, and finally some dark forests of bones......
Passing through these places, there is the endless Black Sea.
Speaking of which, I have to mention the geographical location of the White Bone Territory in the undead realm. The Black Sea of the Undead Realm is extremely vast and vast, just like the Pacific Ocean in William's previous life, vast and immense.
The location of the Bone Territory is located on a small island surrounded by the sea.
Hundreds of years ago, the ancestors of the Nochen family were given the Ring of the Dead in an attempt to cultivate their own power in the undead realm. However, this white island, although desolate and barren, is also full of dangers and should not be underestimated.
The Death Knights led by Henara dominated the entire Plains of Bones, some of the miasma-filled swamps were also occupied by a group of evil undead, and in the dark Bone Forest, there was a terrifying necromancer who could do magic, and he was powerful.
After careful consideration, the ancestors of the Nochen family finally settled on a safe location. This location is now Sumera's Bone Territory.
The white bone territory has many mountains, and the mountains are not flat. Turning this place into the territory of the Nochen family in the undead world can almost be said to be the wisest choice.
First, if the Death Knights led by Henara attacked, they would not be able to exert the charging effect of their Death Knights at all, and their combat power would be greatly reduced, while the skeleton army of the Nuochen family could also defend the mountain.
Second, it's far away from the swamps, the temperature is dry, and no matter how much the evil undead expand their territory, they can't look down on this barren mountain range.
Thirdly, it is far away from the deep forest of white bones, which is very safe. The magician necromancer, despite his strength, prefers to be quiet and rarely wanders around. Even if the necromancer does go out, the possibility of both sides being installed is pitiful.
According to the idea of the ancestor of the Nuoqin family, he wanted to use the White Bone Territory as a starting point, expand the force, gradually expand the territory, and finally occupy the entire White Bone Island, and then build the White Bone Island as a military base for the Nuoqin family.
This idea seems to be very beautiful, but not everyone agrees.
At the very least, Sumera's grandfather generation was one of the unscrupulous conservatives.
Sumela's grandfather and grandmother, after they met and fell in love and gave birth to an heir, their grandmother died, and the grandfather was disheartened, so he wandered around with his swaddling blood, wandering for a living, just wanting to live a dull life.
It can even be said that the artifact Ring of the Dead, coveted by outsiders, has always been an ornament in the hands of Sumela's grandfather, nothing more.
"I think I should be on the radical side. I am unhappy with the miserable state of affairs in my family, I want to lift the curse on my Nochen family, and I want to change the world's perception of our necromancers. ”
After visiting the skeleton soldiers forging weapons, William and the two sat on the White Bone Palace, and Sumera looked up at the gray sky and confided a lot to William.
William listened attentively and did not bother.
Sumera spoke, as if she was tired, and she rested her head on William's shoulder: "Let's stay a little longer, and then go back." ”
William nodded slightly.
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For the next few days, in the undead realm, skeleton soldiers worked day and night to smelt iron ore and forge weapons.
With the joint efforts of hundreds of skeleton soldiers, it took almost three days to successfully create two thousand iron daggers.
It's not that you don't want to build more weapons, but because: you've run out of iron ore!
A whole shipload of iron ore cost William hundreds of thousands of gold coins to create two thousand weapons, and they were short swords.
If it's a long sword, I'm afraid I won't be able to make even a thousand.
But after William tested it, he felt it was worth the money.
The iron ore that Yuris sold to him was of good quality, and the short sword he made was not as sharp as a hairpick, but at the very least, it was much sharper than the inferior weapons circulating in the black market.
One word, value!
No wonder Yuris dares to be so black-hearted, a shipload of iron ore costs hundreds of thousands of gold coins.
Although it felt like it was worth the money, the iron ore was simply not enough.
Sumera's skeleton legion numbered more than 10,000! 2,000 short swords, which seemed like a lot, but it was not enough at all.
And that's just the weapons, if you still need to craft iron armor, then there's even more iron ore to smelt.
What to do when you run out of iron ore?
Buy!
William would also like to buy another dozen or twenty boats. But Crean said to William with a bitter face: "Young Master William, we don't have any extra gold coins on hand. ”
When William heard this, he was stunned.
He did the math.
This time, he came to the imperial capital from Kuwait Province, and brought a total of two million gold coins with him. Among them, more than one million gold coins are Lei Ao's dividends, and William also returned them to others some time ago.
The remaining hundreds of thousands of gold coins were used to buy a shipload of iron ore, and some were used to hire cooks and servants to buy some new furniture, etc......
It's not that I don't know, but I'm shocked.
"Crean, how many gold coins do we have left?" asked William suddenly.
"We ...... Only the last two thousand three hundred gold coins remained. ”
Krian hesitated slightly, "Young Master William, do you want me to go back to Kuwait Province and go to Lord Bazado..."
"You don't have to go home and ask for gold. If he did, my father would have asked questions, and I couldn't explain it. William interrupted.
As he spoke, he rubbed his temples and pondered to see if there was any way to earn a large sum of gold coins as quickly as possible.
At the beginning, he relied on the memories of his previous life to experiment with beer with a very small cost, so that the down-and-out Lester family could rise again, and now the annual profit is more than one million gold coins.
Now, William is also trying to figure out a way to make money.
It's not that there are no solutions, but there are so many that William is even a little hesitant about where to start.