Chapter 10: Bright Silver Mine
Time flies, and nearly a month has passed in the blink of an eye.
Early in the morning, Alan stood on a high ground outside the village of Tru, looking at the people of the territory working in the fields, and couldn't help but smile. This month, the development of Teru Village can be described as rapid.
The migration of the three nearby villages to the village has long since ended, and with the addition of the villagers from these three villages, the area of the village has expanded nearly three times compared to before. Everywhere around the village, you can see the newly cultivated fields, which have been sown and will provide a large amount of food for the village by next spring.
Of course, with the development of the territory, the gold coins on Allen's body have also been spent, and the 2,900 gold coins that used to be on his body are now only more than 500. Fortunately, all this money was used for the construction of the territory, and it was completely worth the money, so Alan was not distressed at all.
The expansion of Tru Village inevitably attracted the attention of some nearby bandit groups, and two thieves saw that Tru Village was so rich, so they started the idea of Tru Village, but the result was that 68 free laborers were provided for Tru Village for nothing, and the thieves were captured. At this point, with the addition of the original 27 thieves captives, there are already 95 thieves captives in the territory. This is almost the limit of the thief captives that the territory can accommodate, and if there are more, I am afraid that the current strength of the territory will not be able to control it.
Alan organized these 95 thief slaves into a unit, an auxiliary army. As the name suggests, the auxiliary army is the coolie in the territory in non-war times, and acts as an auxiliary to the regular army in wartime, assisting the regular army in battle. When the auxiliary army was formed, Alan had promised them in person that as long as they were loyal to the territory, they could be allowed to leave freely after making meritorious contributions, and those who were willing to stay in the territory could become residents of the territory.
After watching for a while, Alan immersed himself in the most lord system in his mind, today is September 1st, and the second lottery can be held!
Here is a brief description of the seasons of the Eastern Continent, which is similar to that of the earth, and the year is divided into twelve months, with thirty days in each month. However, the seasons are slightly different, with January to March being spring, April to June being summer, July to September being autumn, and October to December being winter. The spring harvest and spring planting season is in February, and the autumn harvest and autumn planting season is in August.
After entering the system, Alan first glanced at the territory attributes.
Territory Name: Tru Village (Large Village)
Population of the territory: 433
Territory Buildings: Residential (98), Miscellaneous Goods (1), Low-level Blacksmith (1), Low-level Carpenter (1)
Territory Army: Lord's Guard (1st Rank, 21 troops), Auxiliary Army (Tier 0 Rank, 95 troops)
People's satisfaction: High, the people are willing to do anything for the lord without endangering the life and dignity of the individual.
Territory Specialty: None
Other attributes are not yet enabled!
The attributes of the territory have changed drastically compared to before, and there is a blacksmith shop and a carpenter shop on the building. Blacksmiths and carpenters are all immigrants from other villages, and they can't make big things, so it's still okay to help the villagers make small things or repair farm tools.
After reading the territory attributes, Alan entered the lottery page for the construction of the main element territory with satisfaction, and the number of draws was written with a big "one".
The same lottery disc is also divided into six grids, but the contents of the grid are slightly different from the last time.
Two wooden boxes, two drawings, a silver hill, a square building. Alan guessed that there should still be food and other resources in the wooden box, and as for the others, they had to be pulled out to know.
Without much hesitation, Alan chose to start the draw, and the hands on the draw disc began to spin wildly. As the hands slowed down, they finally stopped on top of the silver hill. This time it was no bad luck to draw the wooden box.
"Congratulations to the host for acquiring a 'Small Bright Silver Mine'. ”
Bright Silver Mine?Allen's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly checked the properties of this "small bright silver mine".
Small Bright Silver Mine: After use, you can create a small Bright Silver Mine within a hundred miles of your territory and territory, and the Bright Silver Mine can be moved once a month.
Yield: 3000g (per month)
Workers needed: 10 (if the number of people is insufficient, the output will be reduced, and the number of people will not be increased if the number exceeds the standard)
Note: Bright Silver Ore will disappear after ten months of mining.
The system is too generous this time! After reading the attributes of the "Small Bright Silver Mine", Allen was overjoyed. Unlike the silver used to make silver coins on the mainland, Bright Silver is a precious metal that is favored by the nobles of the Eastern and Western continents. Crafts made of bright silver were one of the indispensable collections of the aristocracy. In fact, as early as the Source Continent period more than 2,000 years ago, Bright Silver was very popular among the nobles.
Even if the bright silver has not undergone any processing, the price of 1 gram in the market is as high as 1 gold coin! A small bright silver mine can mine 3,000 grams of bright silver every month, which is 3,000 gold coins when converted into gold coins, which is definitely a huge income for the current Allen. Originally, the development of the territory had begun to slow down due to the lack of gold, but with an income of 3,000 gold coins per month, Eren could continue to show his skills.
On the high ground outside the village, Alan slowly opened his eyes and walked happily towards the village. Since you have drawn such a good treasure as the "Small Bright Silver Mine", you naturally have to find a place to use it immediately. Keeping the Bright Silver Mine in the village is naturally the safest, but how to explain to the villagers that this Bright Silver Mine suddenly appeared? However, it should not be placed too far away from the village to protect it.
After much thought, Alan decided to place the 'small bright silver mine' at the very edge of the wilderness area. The edge of the wilderness area is inaccessible, and even thieves will not approach it, let alone ordinary villagers, which explains why the bright silver mine has only now been discovered. Moreover, the monsters in the wilderness area rarely come to the edge areas, and there is a certain guarantee of safety, and occasionally a few beasts come to the side, but only for the sake of meat.
Arriving in the village, Alan found Galen and Lux and asked them to accompany him to the edge of the wilderness. The three of them came to the very edge of the wilderness area and stopped, Alan took out the "small bright silver mine" from the system space, and a palm-sized silver glittering hill appeared in Alan's hand, Alan chose to use it, and the hill flew out of Alan's palm, slowly grew larger, and then fell to the ground.
The enlarged hill no longer glitters with silver, but has changed to the color of ordinary rocks, and if you want to mine bright silver ore, you have to dig it with your own tools.
"My lord, I want to be stationed here with Lux. Galen said suddenly.
"Why?" said Allen, looking at Galen suspiciously.
"If you rely on cultivation alone, your strength will increase too slowly," Galen explained, "I want to be stationed at the edge of this wilderness area with Lux, first, to protect this bright silver mine, and secondly, when there is time, Lux and I can enter the wilderness area to kill monsters and improve our strength." ”
"You know, the monsters in the wilderness are dangerous. Allen said. Although Galen and Lux were both summoned by him and absolutely obeyed his orders, if he refused, Galen and Lux could only obediently stay in the village with him, but he was still willing to respect Galen and Lux's own choice.
"It might be dangerous for me to be alone," Galen scratched his head, "but with Lux, even if we encounter an invincible monster, we can get away with it." ”
Lux also nodded, and said in a pleasant voice: "Don't worry, Lord Lord, I'm very strong!"
Only then did Alan think of Lux's skills, which was good at light magic, and the few skills she brought with her were even more life-saving skills.
Binding of Light, which can bind enemies in place with a ball of light, and the binding time depends on the difference in strength between the two sides.
A curved light barrier that can help you and your teammates add a layer of light shield to negate the enemy's damage to you.
A translucent singularity that distorts the light in an area to slow down the movement of enemies in the area, and Lux can detonate the light in the area, dealing damage to enemies.
With these three life-saving skills, Galen and Lux themselves are not bad, I believe that the two of them can escape safely in case of any danger, thinking of this, Alan agreed to Galen's request.
"Well, I'll arrange for enough people to build houses when I get back to the village, and you can live here with the workers who mine the bright silver mines. ”
When the three of them returned to the village, Eren approached Chief Jill and told him and Galen that Lux had just gone to the edge of the wilderness and found a bright silver mine. After hearing this, the village chief of Jill was overjoyed, and immediately began to arrange for people to build houses near the bright silver mine and mine the mining source.
In the end, in addition to arranging for Galen, Lux and the miners of the ten auxiliary armies to go to the bright silver mine, Alan also sent four guards to be stationed near the bright silver mine in order to protect the bright silver mine and monitor the miners of the auxiliary army in Galen and Lux's absence.
After arranging the matter of the Bright Silver Mine, Alan immediately began to prepare for another matter, to establish a new military force in the territory.
Now the military forces in the territory, Galen and Lux went to the wilderness area to train, the auxiliary army is not of great use, and the only one who has combat effectiveness is the twenty-one guards. In addition, Alan sent four more guards to the Bright Silver Mine to garrison, and now there are only seventeen guards in the village, including Alex, which is still relatively weak.
Although two bandit groups attacked the village a few days ago and failed miserably, and now the strength of the village has deterred the nearby thieves, no one can say whether there will be any accidents. In case of a real big battle, in the case that Galen and Lux can't return in time to help, these guards in the territory are a little insufficient!
"Go on, Alex, get it for me. Alan said to the auxiliary soldiers who were standing guard beside him. After all, the number of guards is limited, and now some of the daily patrols, orders, and standing guard in the village are all in charge of the soldiers of the auxiliary army.
Of course, after the formation of the new army, they will not be needed.