After a day's rest, Richard returned to his territory with his troops. Reilly arrives at Castle Dusk for a meeting with Fontaine.

"I'm curious, what did Viscount Chim promise you that would make it take Mistress Fontaine to put in this scene?" said Reilly, smiling.

"Give me Richard's domain, and cut a portion of the noble realm of their vassals to make up a viscount. Baron Fontaine spoke frankly about his deal with Chim.

"It's a tempting condition. However, do you think Viscount Chim will really deliver on his promise?" said Reilly, rubbing his chin.

"Of course. Baron Fontaine said proudly, "I took a knight's collar before letting him go." ”

"Aren't you afraid he'll be angry when he finds out the truth?" asked Reilly.

"Why be afraid?" Baron Fontaine smiled and said, "As long as I cooperate, we will soon be able to inflict heavy damage on Viscount Sim and the Count Canglu behind him." By that time, they won't have time to trouble me. ”

"Oh, I see. Reilly suddenly realized, "So you had the idea of stabbing you in the back." I would like to say just four words about this outrageous act. ”

"What are those four words?" asked Baron Fontaine curiously.

"Please, bring, get on me!"

A few days later, five hundred workers and dozens of truckloads of building materials were sent to Richard's territory. In order not to arouse the suspicion of the Count of Canglu, Baron Fontaine counted the supplies in Sim's ransom.

Knowing the strategy of Chim's side, Reilly glanced up at the Viscount's staff. If Baron Fontaine was indeed rebelled, then the connection between Richard and Duke Greywolf would be severed. In this way, it can not only prevent the Duke's camp from intervening quickly, but also block Richard's back road. Tactically, they've done a pretty good job. However, the strategic awareness of those strategists was disappointing. In the war between Chim and Richard, even if the viscount's side wins, it will not gain much, and the consequence of losing is that it will have to pay a large ransom for Chim, and it will also lose a large number of elite soldiers.

Of course, there is also the possibility that those staff members have a sense of strategy, but they cannot be used in the Viscount. In any case, the result now is that Sim has become a prisoner, waiting day and night for the family to pay a ransom to save him, and Baron Fontaine "has to" become Richard's logistics director, providing him with supplies and manpower.

With the personnel and building materials in place, the construction of Richard's castle finally began. Every few days he went to the construction site to check on the progress of the work, and occasionally made some changes to the castle's drawings. In another four months, the prototype of the castle will be built, and the interior will be renovated at that time. In addition, at Reilly's suggestion, Richard also prepared to open a huge moat and place a batch of water elements in it.

Without waiting for the castle to be completed, Richard sent two messengers, ready to use the gold coins in his hand to improve his combat effectiveness.

In addition to wood and stone, the purchase orders issued to Baron Fontaine included large quantities of grain and minerals. Richard put the deal on Viscount Shim's ransom, and the relationship between supply and demand was immediately reversed. Although it was very "difficult", Baron Fontaine could only do his best to meet Richard's request.

On the other hand, Reilly went to the Blue Water Oasis on behalf of Richard and held talks with Amman and other old friends.

"Guys, I brought a batch of equipment today, I don't know if you're interested. First of all, let's take a look at this long sword. With that, Reilly placed an enchanted longsword on the table.

With just one glance, Luo Fu, a strong man who is deeply versed in military affairs, changed his face. Subsequently, Bilier, who specializes in ore trading, was also moved. Obviously, they all saw that this long sword was special.

Soon, the enchanted sword was passed through everyone's hands. When it returned to Reilly, all eyes fell on him.

"A longsword forged from Rafi's fine iron, the enchantment effect is sharpness and armor-piercing. Reilly's words confirmed most people's guesses. Elite weapons with dual enchantment effects are rare, and with the exception of royalty and some noble weapon workshops, few can find a mage to enchant standard equipment. Even if there are occasionally some circulating in the market, they are all small quantities of twenty or thirty.

Tiffman first said: "Such a long sword, each with three thousand five hundred gold coins, as many as you want. "That's a pretty reasonable price, a weapon of the same quality would cost around five thousand gold in the Human Kingdom, but this is a bloodstained land, and Rayleigh has to ship it in large quantities.

"Okay, that's it. I brought five hundred enchanted swords with me today. Reilly's words surprised everyone, and the five hundred swords were quickly divided.

After the goods were sold, Reilly began to purchase. He first used Richard's money to buy a batch of orcs and barbarians, and then used the money from the previous five hundred long swords to order a large amount of ore and magic materials, and in the blink of an eye, he spent all the 1.75 million gold coins he had just received.

A few days later, Reilly brought the news he had heard in the Bluewater Oasis to Richard.

Although several oases were badly damaged by Sinclair's stormy sweep, it was only a loss of manpower, and the land and buildings were still intact. On the other hand, Sinclair was killed in the blink of an eye under the castle of twilight. As soon as she died, the forces that had succumbed to her might immediately regained their true colors and reoccupied the oases. However, the losses of the various forces were not the same, some were almost unscathed, and some were wounded.

As a result, the original equilibrium situation has been broken, and all forces have the need to redivide the pattern of interests. The entire bloodstained land has entered a state of imminent eruption, which may erupt at any time. In addition to this, the various countries bordering the Bloodstained Lands are also eyeing this huge cake.

In this case, the price of war materials such as slaves, weapons, and magic crystals skyrocketed, while the prices of ores, raw materials, and other rare materials decreased. For example, Richard originally wanted to hire a team of horses to guard his territory, only to find that the price of the team was far beyond his budget. The rise in the price of cannon fodder is also an important sign that the war is approaching.

In the past few days, Reilly has made a lot of money. Those 100 enchanted swords not only exchanged for 500 enchanted swords, but also brought him enough magical materials to make fifty first-order constructs, which meant that the next batch of Dawn Knights' constructs were settled.

When Reilly returned to Richard's domain, the messenger of the Duke of Blue Wolf had already arrived.

This time, the messenger sent by the Duke was still the middle-aged Sir Shanton from last time, and he also brought more than a dozen wagons carrying goods.

Upon meeting Richard, Sir Shanton immediately made a request, hoping to meet the imprisoned Viscount Chim. Richard readily agreed, as it was actually the equivalent of Duke Greywolf's statement.

Now that the Duke of Glaswolf recognized the legitimacy of Richard's defense of the territory, the Duke of Glasburg had to settle the matter according to the rules of the Sequoia Kingdom for dealing with internal disputes. For example, if a full ransom is paid for Viscount Sim's invasion, the retaliation between the two sides will be limited to a reasonable range, so as not to trigger a full-scale war between the two dukes.

In principle, the three dukes are not allowed to go to war directly, otherwise, the royal family will intervene.