"My lord, let me answer your second question first. As a tower spirit, I have been bound to the rune crystal of the No. 7 Alchemy Tower, I am the No. 7 Alchemy Tower, and the No. 7 Alchemy Tower is me. Assuming that there are really the ruins of the Alchemy Pagoda in the Dark Forest, and you bring me there, it is equivalent to moving the No. 7 Alchemy Pagoda from the Centaur Hill to the Dark Forest, and it will not be able to change the function of the No. 7 Alchemy Pagoda. After saying this, the king added: "My lord, do you really think that combat units are more important than logistics units, and the resources required to build combat units may bankrupt you, and I can create an empire for you." ”

The king's tone was as flat as ever, but the grievances and unwillingness in it were overflowing, which made Victor both disappointed and uncontrollable. Victor doesn't know what kind of life form the king is, whether there is such a thing as emotions, but judging from the program activated by the tower, it is created based on the memory of the master, and serving the master is the meaning of the towering's existence. Victor showed a hint of disgust for the No. 7 Alchemy Pagoda, and the king immediately told Victor that it was more useful than other alchemy pagodas, and perhaps it was the instinct of life to maintain the value of its own existence.

Victor admits that the king has a point, as long as the alchemist humans are left in the wild, without management or supplies, they can continue to convert resources into wealth at a staggering rate. Victor didn't know how much wealth he had accumulated now, he only knew that the alchemy humans had created thousands of sets of equipment for elite soldiers, which consisted of fine iron chain mail, rattan skin inner armor, fine iron one-handed spear, round shield, fine iron one-handed sword, helmet, combat boots, and rattan skin gauntlets. For the same set, the Sassan Empire is willing to buy it for 45 fat cows, which is equivalent to 80 Kinsol. And the equipment created by the alchemy militia is the best of the best, and the value will be increased by 5%. This is only a drop in the bucket of Victor's wealth, the alchemy creatures control 400 kilometers of mountains and Randall's territory, and have discovered a mythril mine, an iron mine, two iron ore mines, three silver mines, and countless wood, animals, and herbs, these resources are at Victor's disposal. Victor is sitting on a huge fortune but can't make a statement, and the lack of high-end force is his flaw.

According to common sense, production and construction capacity determines military capability, but this world is not the earth, and high-end military force determines military capability.

How strong the peak knight is, Victor does not have an intuitive understanding. Sylvia tells him that theoretically there is no upper limit to the strength of a peak knight, but in practice it is limited by the physical condition of humans. In terms of combat power, the Pinnacle Knight is on par with the Ogre Overseer or the Centaur Commander, and may be slightly weaker. In the war between human lords, a castle below forty meters cannot stop the peak knights, and the peak knights have nothing to do with the giant fortress. In fact, the Peak Knight could not let go of the slaughter of ordinary soldiers, which in the eyes of the Church was no different from a brutal wizard and must be suppressed. Anyway, since Sylvia was promoted to the pinnacle, she hasn't killed anyone with her own hands, because she doesn't need it at all.

In the human realm, the influence of the peak knight is far more terrifying than his force. No matter how strong or weak a family is, as long as a peak knight is born, it is a noble and wealthy family, the church gives appeasement and convenience, the nobles rush to marry and form alliances, and other knights have taken refuge, and a powerful force is immediately formed, and the people are naturally flocking to it. There is a dispute between the peak knight family and the ordinary family, there is no need to go to war, only external pressure can make the opponent submit, trade is cut off, the people flee, the allies remain neutral, the church will only favor the other party, and then there is internal disagreement, what can be done but compromise?

Although Victor enjoys his intimate relationship with Sylvia, he can't change the fact that he is subordinate to each other, and Victor can't share the secrets of the Alchemy Tower with anyone, so he can only develop secretly. In addition, the Mithril trade is also a time bomb, and if the Grand Knight of the York family learns of this, then Victor will be eating inside and out. Victor didn't know how Sylvia would react, but it was inevitable that she would take the eastern territories. At that time, Randall's territory will be surrounded by the territory of the York family, and Victor's every move is under the noses of the York family, which is no different from being blocked. Breaking with the Yorks?Does Victor play alone with alchemy creatures?

Victor rushed to the hill camp as soon as he received the letterhead from the bull, and he was heartened by the description of a type of weapon on the letterhead. The Alchemy Empire does not have the concept of gold, silver and bronze, but it can be seen from the division of material levels, the armor of the Ant-Man leader is a second-class material, and the first type of material is almost the gold level. Alchemy creatures that can use a class of weapons, at least at the gold level. If there were gold-level alchemy creatures, Victor would not be so constrained.

Of course, if Alchemy Pagoda No. 7 can recreate the Alchemy Empire, Victor does not need to replace the Alchemy Pagoda. However, the main function of Alchemy Tower 7 is to collect and rough, and it cannot replicate the core alchemy of the Nairel Empire. But Victor found that the techniques mastered by alchemy humans can also be learned by ordinary people. In fact, Victor had ordered the alchemical auxiliaries to transcribe knowledge, techniques, and various designs on the scrolls in Chinese characters. Victor did this in order to escape with the rune crystal first in a last resort. This also means that even if Victor replaces the Alchemy Tower, the loss will not be large. Unfortunately, this is no longer possible.

Victor decided to settle for the next best thing: "It's always okay to fix the production function of the alchemy dragon lizard, right?"

"My lord, I can repair the specified function according to your requirements, and the degree of repair depends on the completeness of the rune crystal. The premise is that there are indeed inactive rune crystals in the Dark Forest. The king responded.

"You have to go and see it. King, report on the remaining funds and soul fire of the Alchemy Tower. Victor commanded.

"My lord, the remaining soul fire is 796, and the remaining funds 118075 Jinsol. ”

"The king produced 40 alchemy crows, 20 alchemy mastiffs, 10 barberry militia, and 20 spirit monkey militia. ”

"The production task has been established, which consumes 230 soul fires and 54,000 gold soles, which will take 500 hours. ”

The corners of Victor's mouth twitched, and he kept comforting himself in his heart: This money is nothing, I am very rich now!

Without stopping at the hill camp, Victor returned straight to the manor.

Hearing that Victor had arrived at the manor, Lilia hurried back. As soon as the two met, before Lilia could speak, Victor hugged the little maid, kissed her on the small mouth first, and said with a smile: "I'll talk about the territory later, go and call Barol, Dean, Old Hamm and Buts, I have something to explain." ”

Lilia smiled sweetly, hugged Victor lightly, and went to make arrangements.

It didn't take long for Barol to sit respectfully across from Victor.

"Not long ago, our caravan was wanted by Baron Murphy, and we fought the sheriff in the town of Cassan. I don't even know who Baron Murphy is? Where is the town of Cassan? The map you bought is also wrong! Of course, all of this is to be expected, but it turns out that the caravan that no one takes in is blind and deaf, and it is very dangerous. The caravan behind us can't maintain a lineup as strong as the Warhammer Mercenaries. Therefore, it was necessary to unfold the outer line of mercury as soon as possible to provide cover for the caravan. What advice do you have for that?" asked Victor lightly, knocking on the table.

Balor wiped the cold sweat from his head and said, "My lord, if you want to expand the outer line, you must first build the inner line. I have ordered Mercury to change its strategy, from infiltration to training new people, in order to ensure the loyalty of the insider, new people can only be selected from orphans, so the speed of Mercury's development is still too slow. Seeing that Victor was noncommittal, Barol gritted his teeth and continued: "My lord, adopting orphans is the main way to train family spies, I will first let Mercury come back with the newly recruited orphans, and let them train new Mercury members. In addition, I plan to make a personal trip along the path of the hammer, gather some available manpower, and expand the outer line of this trade route by the way. ”

Victor thought Barrol's suggestion was good. Adopted orphans are naturally loyal to their families, but they take too long for the Free Folk caravanserais. Only by frequenting those hillfolk strongholds can the caravan deepen its influence and control over the mountainmen, otherwise the Warhammer Mercenaries will be ruined in their ice-breaking journey. Barol is an experienced spy who has the ability to see who is a peer and who is an ordinary person. Thus, Balor could pick the right people among the freedmen to join the mercury, just as he raised monkeys.

"In this case, let little Paul come back with those orphans, and the monkeys will follow you, and I will give you two more men, one bright and one dark, to ensure your safety. The required fee you apply to Lilia. However, there are a few questions that I would like to address. ”

"Your Excellency, please command. ”

Victor pondered for a moment and said, "At present, the monkeys cannot be let know about the relationship between Mercury and the family, and the same is true for the new recruits. Second, focus on investigating the town of Kasan, and it is best to lay out the available manpower in the town of Kasan. Third, remember that when you are in danger, flee into the wilderness, and there will be people outside to meet you. ”

"My lord, I remember!" said Balor solemnly.

"By the way, who's responsible for smuggling snow sugar and coffee to Pinewood?" asked Victor.

"It's my old subordinate, Sasha. My lord, is there anything wrong with him?" asked Barroll, apprehensively.

"Nothing is a problem. I have a batch of potions to stop bleeding and heal wounds, and you ask Sasha to ask the people of Pinewood if they would like to take over. ”

Victor is in dire need of Jinsol, the reserves of the Alchemy Tower are running out, and the construction of mercury is even more bottomless, and he still has a large amount of annuity to pay. If there are indeed the ruins of the Alchemy Tower in the dark forest, Victor will need to make a trip to the town of Kassan. As a lord, Victor can't disappear inexplicably, the pomp and circumstance on the road are indispensable, and all of these cost money.

Victor's Mithril trade was carried out under the cover of snow sugar and coffee, and the York family always thought that Victor was exchanging materials with the Chebman family with snow sugar and coffee, but in fact, Mithril was exchanged for pure gold, grain, livestock and all kinds of materials, and the profits of snow sugar and coffee were taken up by the Chebman family, and the Chebman family's reason was that they were very poor and needed to use the profits of snow sugar and coffee to purchase the food of other lords, and Victor was helpless about this.

As for the silver ore, Victor couldn't move at all. According to the laws of the kingdom, the gold and silver mines are jointly owned by the royal family and the lord, mined by the lord, and supervised by officials sent by the royal family, and the royal family accounts for 9% of the gold mines and 7% of the silver mines. No kingdom will compromise on the issue of minting money.

Of course, Victor could follow the lord's usual practice and cast silver into silverware and smuggle it out secretly, provided that he had access to it. If Victor had a channel, why smuggle silver, his military supplies were piling up, but the only thing he could do at the moment was potions.

After Balor left, Victor sat there frowning, and he found that his trade channels were rather narrow. Now, the House of York is eager to break one Kinsol into two, and the Chebmans are by no means good trading partners, but Victor is not willing to deal with these misers if he has the choice.

Perhaps, you should contact Sophia. Victor shook his head, extinguishing the thought. It was this woman who gave Victor as a gift to Sylvia in the first place, and trading military funds with her was tantamount to exposing Sylvia.

"Your Excellency, will you summon me?" Dean knocked on the open wooden door at the door.

Victor put away his messy thoughts, nodded and said, "Come in, sit down and talk." ”

As soon as Dean sat down, Victor said, "I'm going to leave the brick kiln village in your hands. You prepare, recruit 400 people among the freedmen, and then take over the brick kiln village. You negotiate with Lilia about the freedman's commission, and she agrees. ”

"Yes, sir. Dean stood up in surprise and said hesitantly, "My lord, can you leave those manpower in the brick kiln village to me?" The newly recruited freedmen have never done brick-making work, and I am afraid that you will be delayed." ”

"No! go and call in Old Hamm and Butz. Victor ordered with a cold face, he asked Dean to return to charge of the Brick Kiln Village to transfer more than a hundred alchemy militia, how could it be possible to keep people for Dean.

Dean walked away in embarrassment, and in a few moments, the dog trainers Hamm Sr. and Butz walked in.

After the two saluted, Victor said kindly: "I have a small territory in the north of the Centaur Hill, which is a real pioneer territory, close to the mountains, monsters are rampant, there is no land to be cultivated but cattle, sheep and wild boars, and the nearby lords and I are still mortal enemies. Carving out that territory is hard and dangerous, are you willing to defend it for me?"

Victor looked at the two men quietly, but heard them say in unison, "I want to serve my lord." ”

Victor nodded with satisfaction, Old Hamm is an old man of the War Bear Mercenaries, born in the grasslands, good at domesticating dogs, grazing cattle and sheep, Butz presided over the mountain camp, and there was a group of mountain people under him, and both of them knew that Victor had a powerful force in his hands, as long as they cooperated with each other to control the situation there.

"Buts, take all your mountain people with you, recruit another 300 free people, build a village there, and I will appoint you as the village chief. Old Hamm, I will give you 10 guards and 60 elite militiamen, and appoint you as the garrison officer. In addition, I have placed a group of people in the mountains, and they are ready to support you. ”

"You didn't let me down, and I promise you won't!"