Chapter 284: Expansion of Power (Part II)

[Wordy, of course the protagonist won't open up the wasteland after he returns. There will definitely be new episodes. This kind of constructive text, I will try to compress it as much as possible, mainly writing adventure, battle]

Some of the warriors behind Ge Yi are familiar to Salin, and some are relatively unfamiliar. Ge Yi said enthusiastically: "My lord, the mages want to pick you up, I'm afraid that something will happen to the temple, so I'm here......"

"You're doing a good job. Geyi, you're working hard, I'll send you to Rex to study when I get back. ”

Ge Yixi, you can learn swordsmanship here in Salin, but you have to go to Rex to command the army and learn politics. There's no talent here in Saleen. When Saleen said this, he was ready to promote him.

"My lord!" the mages greeted him, and Salin looked at the familiar faces one by one, and his heart was also a little excited. Cridian, Frans, Basta are all there. What made him happiest was that counting Passatro and Kornuco, these mages were all level five, and there were actually two level four magicians who had advanced!

There are more and more people around me who can use it, but it's a pity that there are no magicians. There was already a large team behind Salin, all the way to the temple.

The new entrants, including the four demons and the demons, were all intimidated by the temple's momentum.

The temple was completely built, with a six-story scale and a width of 800 meters. In Salin's eyes, the temple had been rebuilt, with each floor twelve meters high, and the sixth floor being seventy-two meters. This height has already exceeded the ninth-level magic tower.

The ninth-level magic tower is only fifty-four meters, and there are special buildings that will be superimposed on this temple in the future, Jason has the blueprints of the sky city in his hand, although it cannot be copied, but it can build a small building - the floating tower!

Unable to hide the joy in his heart, Salin led everyone into the temple.

Sure enough, the temple has been remodeled, and on the inside of the gate, there are mezzanine floors on both sides, and inside the mezzanine are the soldiers stationed there. The entire floor was also opened, and in the center was a six-meter high platform, surrounded by more than sixty huge pillars. The columns are hollow, and inside are a spiral staircase that leads to the second floor.

The outside of the pillar is carved in stone. With just one glance, Saleen knew what had been carved. It turned out to be some legends and stories that have been handed down. The war between the gods and the gods of the year!

Walking up the stone steps to the high platform, when you look up, you can see that the top of the high platform is empty, and it is a patio that leads to the highest level of the temple.

At this time, the four corners of the patio hung down a telescopic metal staircase, and everyone walked up the staircase to the second floor. Daniel said: "The second floor is where the soldiers are stationed, and the conference hall is on the third floor. ”

"Don't have a meeting yet, everyone is tired. Salin said.

"It's okay, it's built now and it's well equipped. As he spoke, he had already reached the third floor, and Daniel led everyone through the corridor to the conference hall, and then said: "My lord, there is a lounge here, you can take a bath, and if you want to eat, you can also be in the conference hall." ”

"No, there's a restaurant here, right?"

"Yes. This floor is a place for adults to discuss and can receive thousands of people. However, I don't have any servants, so adults can consider using some puppets. ”

Salin nodded, after all, this temple is hiding some secrets, and in the future, people from Sleeper Island will live here, and outsiders cannot be used. When you're short on manpower, it's good to use a puppet.

There are soldiers who take Elenor and others to wash and rest, those soldiers are also swordsmen brought out of Shreig Island, the sailors at sea have been trained a lot, the port defense facilities have been built, and the two warships are cruising outside, using pirates and some newcomers, Daniel has recruited these reassuring people to the temple, which can be regarded as cautious.

Salin doesn't need to take a bath, there is a cleansing technique, and a magician bath is nothing more than a pleasure. Elenor also stayed, leaving the swordsmen to serve her, and she felt uncomfortable.

Daniel and Diabinas led Salin, Eleno, and Neris to a room that wasn't too large, it was a small conference room, and the large conference hall could accommodate thousands of people, so there was no need to open it. They were followed by the mages of Shreig Island.

Everyone sat down before Salin asked, "Daniel, tell me what happened after I left." ”

That's when Daniel got to the point. As soon as Salin and the others left, a large number of nobles had already taken refuge, including those from Phoenix and Carudan. It turned out that when Rex went to the Caucasus, he recruited a group of Carlouran nobles by the way.

The Grand Duke of Garudan was killed in battle. These nobles lost their support and land, and many of them poured into Qinyin, and some fled to the Rhine principality.

Daniel, following precedent, sold some houses and land to these nobles. All the habits of the principality attached to Qin Yin were similar to Qin Yin, and when these nobles fled, they did not forget to bring the craftsmen under their leadership. A large number of soldiers, artisans, slaves, livestock, magicians, grain, gold coins, and so on were swept in from Garulan by these nobles.

Those who are willing to come here are people with far-sighted vision. Although it is remote, it is definitely not threatened by war for the time being. When Rex invited them, he had already made a promise that he would give them new land, a new title. When these nobles arrived, they were led out of the city in search of a territory to cultivate.

Speaking of which, among the four major empires, only Qin Yin's nobles were not bad to the peasants, so there were many peasants who followed. These are not serfs. Rather, it was the peasants who had property, and even some peasants whose wealth was comparable to that of the lowest aristocratic barons.

Now in the north of Metatrin, there has been a large area of land divided to these nobles, and many of the wealth of these nobles are stored in the Imperial Bank, and they can't take it out, so in the form of loans, Daniel is in charge first, helping to build a large number of castles.

There is not much else in Metatrin City, but stone and wood are inexhaustible. There were a large number of slaves, and the work was relatively easy. When these nobles came to Metatrin City, they were almost all very satisfied. Although the conditions of the loan are somewhat harsh. But their new castles are all planned by magicians.

Daniel is also very smart, and the nobles' castles are not too far away, so it seems that they are watching over each other, but in fact, they are unable to continue to expand their influence.

Although the fleeing nobles did not lose much wealth, they were very poor in cash and could not support too many soldiers, and many private soldiers were absorbed by Daniel.

Now that Salin has more than 20,000 soldiers, and with Rex's swordsman battalion, the city's defense has finally become a bit of an eyebrow. The Three Kings summoned a large army of the undead, and if they were to add up, they could barely hold the walls.

The city of Metatrin was built several times, and the three walls were six miles long, and it was indeed difficult to defend without tens of thousands of soldiers.

Aini and Elaine also bought a large amount of grain through their own channels, and in the entire north, Phoenix's grain was almost never sold to Qin Yin again, and was basically purchased to Metatrin City.

Salin's more than 20,000 soldiers, 8,000 of whom were new Caucasians. There were more than 4,000 barbarians, and the remaining 10,000 or so soldiers escaped from Garulan. Rex's men helped train them, broke them all up, reorganized them, and formed two swordsman battalions.

The Roland family and the Tiffany's family also extended their tentacles to Metatrin, buying properties and opening shops in the east of the city. Now Metatrin City already has Qin Yin's four major families, and the energy of these four business families cannot be underestimated. Half of Metatrin's business is supported by the abilities of these four families.

During this period, a battle also broke out, and the battleships of Lianyun City once came to Metatling, apparently with the intention of occupying the shipping route, but three battleships were sunk.

The new Grand Duke of Lianyun City was defeated and forced to redeem his warriors with gold coins, as well as the damaged ships. Since then, the sea route has been safe for the time being. Because Grand Duke Lianyun couldn't come up with so much money to redeem his warriors, he had to use slaves to settle the account. There were probably more than 4,000 captured soldiers, and each soldier could be exchanged for five slaves, and Daniel got more than 20,000 slaves without spending any money. Most of it was sent to the north for mining.

This temptation was apparently acquiesced in by the Holy Rock City, and after the victory of Metatrin City, there was no news from the Holy Rock City, and several armies and war puppets fell to the western border to guard against the Tangulas Empire.

"So, I'm going to have another city again?" Salin rejoiced when he heard that a new city was being built west of Metatrin City, and with this buffer, Metatrin City was able to have a barrier.

"Yes, outside the pass, less than two hundred miles from Metatrin. The foundations of the city were laid, but the stone transportation was too slow, and the lanes were built, but we didn't have so many vehicles, and it would be too expensive to hire them. ”

Speaking of this, Daniel secretly hated that the Tiffany's family was asking for too much, so he would rather build the new city more slowly than hire a fleet to transport the stone. The walls of the new city must be made of white stone from the side of Metatrin City, and the local stone is a little soft, so it can only be used to build buildings in the city.

"The weapons sold by the Roland family are cheap, my lord, I think it's almost the cost price, if you count the freight, they even lose money. ”

"Oh, who's in charge of the Roland family?"

"Baroness Quaint, my lordship, she wants the arms business here, and has promised that all the weapons sold to us in the future will be at this price. ”

"Did you say yes?"

"Of course not, you have to talk to her about it yourself. ”

"It's impossible to give her all the weapons business, I'll bring in all the people from the four major families and let them bid on their own, you don't have to worry about it, let me think about it. ”

Seeing that everything in his city had gained scale, Salin rejoiced in his heart and asked, "How many castles are there now?"

"There are two medium-sized castles, and one hundred and seventy-two small ones, on the west and east sides. But it's all our own that guards the lane. Seeing that winter is coming, it is impossible to continue construction, and it will be next year to exceed 300 castles. If it is not repaired, it is too far away. ”

"So many! How can there be enough soldiers?"

"Rex's people came up with the idea, that is, the baron, and we are also responsible for building a castle for him, anyway, it is only a small castle for one or two hundred people, and when their money is returned, it will be returned to us. We have explored a distance of 1,500 miles to the north, and there is a lot of land suitable for farming, but we need puppets, otherwise the ploughing cattle will be taken away by the demon wolf. ”

Speaking of this, Daniel laughed. Rex's people are very insidious, those nobles want to survive, they must rely on Metatrin City in the future. Without the help of magicians, it would be almost impossible to reclaim this northern land.