Chapter 426: Catalyst
Ji Chen's proposal to support and hire the Glory Lord to participate in the battle of the Southern Continent was unanimously agreed by the Elven Empress Ladifa, the Elven High Priestess Hurry, a large number of elven nobles, and the other Northern Continent order-keeping camps.
Now that the situation has changed drastically, mobilizing a large number of Glory Lords has become a choice that has to be made.
The nations and powers immediately began to dispatch troop carriers in large numbers, and bounties were given to transport the Glory Lords and their armies across the sea to the Southern Continent.
In the meantime, they will be used as transit points on Kongo Island, Star Islands, Crescent Islands and other islands, and the Glory Lords of the Northern Continent will be put into the frontline battlefield of the Southern Continent after resting and recuperating.
This is also one of Ji Chen's proposals, the Crescent Islands could not accommodate such a large number of troops, so they had to be diverted to other islands, so that they could also enjoy the dividends brought by the huge flow of people.
However, in addition to the Crescent Islands, the Star Islands and King Kong Island are more or less related to Ji Chen, and the former is its economic annex and is almost completely controlled.
And King Kong Island is the King Kong Island Guild, this guild has an extremely deep friendship with Ji Chen, and it can almost be regarded as his Dog Licking Players Guild, and it also provided a lot of help in the first wave of the Crown of the Ocean to resist the Dreaded Demon King, so it is okay to let them drink soup too.
I believe that when the player's vital force joins the battle, the decline of the Southern Continent should be more or less recoverable.
But with the reply to the proposal came another piece of shocking news.
The White Tower Kingdom, the Duchy of Ferdinand, and the Kingdom of Guluo betrayed the Order-keeping camp, threw themselves into the arms of the demons, and mobilized the domestic army to attack the Elven Empire overnight!
These three kingdoms, without exception, are all vassal states of the Elven Empire!
The seven vassal states of the Elven Empire were originally independent countries, but in history, for various reasons, they gradually tended to be elves, and gradually became vassals of their economy and politics.
For example, the Halfling Kingdom of Laman, which is not strong in strength but has good forging skills, has a lot of attainments in rune machinery, but because of the rise of the Elven Empire a thousand years ago, it lost part of its land and several important super giant ore veins, and its development slowed down without resources.
Subsequently, in a hundred years, the elves gradually controlled the lifeblood of the country through trade deficits and cultural exports, and finally became a vassal state of the elven empire.
The other kingdoms and principalities are basically gradually reduced to vassal states because of a certain node in history, and they are respected by the Elven Empire.
The other countries of the Northern Continent are well aware of this, the stronger the Elven Empire, the more vigilant they are, secretly resisting the invasion of the Elves from various fields, but they are helpless to be oppressed in all fields, at least in the cultural field.
Those vassal countries have been sucked by the elven empire in various ways, and have accumulated a lot of complaints.
Perhaps it was for this reason that several vassal states were bewitched by the demons, and finally the White Tower Kingdom, the Duchy of Ferdinand, and the Kingdom of Guluo chose to raise the banner of resistance to the oppression of the elves and began to blow themselves up.
From this, it can be seen that the demon has obviously done a lot of research on the various countries and forces in the orderly camp, and knows how to make a breakthrough from this direction.
In any case, the sudden rebellion of the three vassal states on the edge of the Elven Empire will definitely bring great trouble to the Elves, thus affecting the war in the Eastern and Western Continents and the Southern Continent.
This is also bad news for the orderly faction.
This is good news for the demons, as they will be able to reduce the pressure from the elven army, allowing them to advance faster and gain a greater advantage.
However, things didn't go as the demon had imagined, and the player's force suddenly joined the battlefield, quickly closing the gap that had arisen in the Elven Empire's busy dealing with rebellious subjects.
Unexpectedly, on the Southern Continent, the performance of these strangers who usually looked at Hang'er Langdang not only surprised the demons, but also stunned the orderly camp.
When players see a murderous demon, their first reaction is not fear and cringe, but excitement.
In their eyes, this is all war merit and money!
Although the elves like to use their noses to see more people, they are really generous, and they are really not stingy in terms of bounty.
Just if you are willing to come to the Southern Continent, you will be given a resource in vain, and you will be given a small objective reward for every demon ten-person team that is destroyed, and if you kill a high-level demon or demon hero, you can get a rich bounty.
The low-level low-level demons like the Unicorn Demon are the least valuable, from the Cannon Fodder Demon like the Unicorn Demon and the Roaring Demon, to the backbone demons like the Rock Demon, to the War Demon, the Winged Demon and other high-level demons or flying demons.
Each level, different types of demons are different bounty ladders, some players have roughly calculated, if Ji Chen can receive the bounty for killing the demon king, then it will be an astronomical amount, enough to buy the land of the five kingdoms.
At first, the demons couldn't help but be stunned when they saw the Glory Lord army that was not afraid but excitedly killed them, thinking to themselves that this group of humans was so brave.
After killing a large number of their armies of uneven rank as soon as they made a move, the demon couldn't help but laugh shamefully, these human armies were too weak, and they were really scared before.
But a week later, twice as many Glory Lords' armies returned, catching them off guard.
The demon spent some money to get rid of them all, thinking that this time he would finally be able to stop.
However, in another week, these disorganized armies not only did not decrease, but attacked again in an exponential size, and they were more afraid of death than they did.
The demon is confused, a little crazy, aren't these human armies afraid of death?!
"Yesterday, I stole a team of 100 Winged Demons, and went to the elves to exchange a large amount of resources, which is enough to make up for the lost troops and make a fortune, which is also very cool!"
"The elves look annoying, but the shot is still generous, it would be good to let us go earlier, why wait until so many legions to wake up."
"I can only say that it is very much in line with the image of the elves in the Western Fantasy."
"We are simply quacking and killing, such a demon invasion, the development speed of the territory will increase at least ten times!"
Thanks to the chat channel in the cross-domain space, players can communicate with zero delay regardless of distance, just like looking for someone to fight the boss, once they find a lone demon somewhere, they can use the channel to call friends, and in a very short time, they can pull ten times the enemy's army.
Every time, it was righteous to fight more and less, and almost didn't beat the greedy army.
How did these armies gather so many armies in such a short period of time?
Not only that, but the tactics used by these armies are also extremely dirty, every time they fight and run, without dragging their feet, and they are not afraid of death when fighting, and they want to tear a piece of flesh off them even if they die to the last.
And I don't know if it's their delusion, I always feel that these armies are getting stronger and stronger every time, and each time I fight them, it becomes more and more tricky, and the casualties are getting bigger and bigger.
In the past, it only took one Demon Hundred team to easily kill ten times as many enemies, but now it takes at least five hundred teams to be able to deal with a thousand people, and more than half of their own casualties.
The rear is producing demons at a rapid pace, but there are some who can't afford such rapid consumption!
The mysterious-like growth rate shocked both the demons and the orderly camp.
Today's Crescent Islands have become more lively after a large number of players, and the neatly planned streets are full of these players wearing bells and whistles, completely unmatched equipment, and taking steps that they don't recognize.
Although they were a little arrogant, they didn't dare to go wild here in the crown of the ocean, after all, this was the territory of the ruthless man who killed the two demon kings, the lonely islander.
Ten of them don't dare to do anything here.
In addition to the players, the Crescent Islands also have many elves, humans from the Northern Continent, messengers of various racial forces, merchants, and transit soldiers.
But neither the country nor the race, even the elves dared to be presumptuous here, and they all acted boldly.
They have seen elf soldiers who relied on their elf identities and came out to make trouble after drinking, but they were directly killed on the spot by the Ocean Champion team, and they didn't save any face for the elf empire.
The Elven Empire didn't dare to say anything, but sternly warned the elves who arrived on the Crescent Islands, whether merchants or soldiers, not to make trouble in the crown of the sea, otherwise they would be directly deprived of their citizenship and personally interrogated and sentenced by a special elf supervisor.
There are elves taking the lead, and the others are also trembling and doing things, not daring to have any different intentions.
I also felt sincere admiration and awe for Ji Chen in my heart, and even the elves who have always been rampant and domineering are not too annoying, what kind of majesty is this?
The player shouted even more, in the eyes of outsiders, an epic level can deter the entire elf from messing around, this is what they imagined, the lord who came to the other world!
The western part of the main island of the Crescent archipelago is a large area of seawater rice fields, which have been improved by the legendary druid Maritino to produce almost twice as much as the native species.
In addition to planting by the sea, after consulting Ji Chen, Willus expanded the seawater rice fields to the surface of the sea, that is, to make a large number of floating farmlands similar to floating rafts, connected by chains, and planted a large amount of seawater rice in them.
Due to the protection of the Crown of the Ocean Territory and the talent of Lord Ji Chen, the sea around the Crescent Islands is very calm, and the waves are not violent, which can fully accommodate these floating rafts.
Rafts are connected to each other, filling a large area of the offshore sea west of the main island, and producing a very impressive amount of seawater rice, which is filled with grain storage warehouses that can easily supply the entire crown of the ocean.
Excessive food accumulation will only be wasted, so this food is also exported on a large scale to supply the elves and other forces soldiers who fight in the southern continent, adding a channel of income for the crown of the sea.
And there are no less.
It would be a lot of loss to transport grain from the Elven Empire, but if it was purchased directly from the crown of the sea, it would be just enough to catch a tailwind ship to the Southern Continent, and it would save a considerable amount of money back and forth.
The shrewd elven nobles quickly agreed and gave their full support.
Not only food, but also the powerful industrial production capacity of the crown of the sea also produces a large number of weapons and equipment, war equipment and even artillery every day.
This led to the strange phenomenon that the soldiers did not even have a bag of food, a set of qualified armor, or a weapon at hand before boarding the ship on the Northern Continent.
But after passing through the crown of the ocean, all these things are all in place at once.
He has a set of dwarven armor, a steel weapon in his hand, a strong bow made of precious woods on his back, and even a set of portable mobile field guns or three mobile ballistas for each hundred-man team.
It's all in one.
The more fierce the battle, the more vigorously the products of the crown of the sea were sold, and sometimes even 30,000 or 40,000 weapons and equipment could be sold in a day.
In the past, shipyards, shipyards, hotels, restaurants, etc., which were used to complement the territorial industry, have now become industries that make money every day, and they can earn a lot of gold coins every week.
And Ji Chen did not keep these gold coins, and bought them as various rare resources and raw materials on the spot, purchased cargo ships, and put them into production again, forming a virtuous circle.
The workshops of the underground lizardman world are increasing at a rate of one per week, and the abundant molten resources and ore resources in the underground world provide a steady stream of raw materials for the workshop production.
The industrial railway has covered most of the underground world, and the roaring locomotives connect the various ore veins, workshops, and entrances and exits, making the production efficiency further improved.
From the ore that is still in the vein to the piece of weapon that can be exported, the whole production time is less than a day, and even the weapon is still at the temperature of forging when it is packed.
In the midst of the tension of war and the rapid development of the war, the giant tortoise returned to the crown of the ocean with a dozen ships full of dwarven remnants, adding fuel to the high-speed machine of the crown of the ocean.
The first group of dwarven remnants, numbering around 8,000, arrived with a significant number of qualified dwarven craftsmen, skilled in forging more skilled than lizardmen and humans.
Ji Chen sheltered them, and they also had to pay corresponding labor in return for this protection.
These dwarven craftsmen are not responsible for forging, but are responsible for researching more technical and difficult projects such as machine tools, mold making, assembly lines, etc.
Low-end weapons and equipment are produced by assembly lines, while high-end customization is built by manpower, and production is supported up and down, and industrialization is the trend of future development, and the importance of this point does not need to be talked about.
Construction is also underway on the Crescent Islands' second large port, which will greatly increase the capacity of the crown of the sea to receive ships.
Dramatically, the war was the catalyst that accelerated the development of the crown of the ocean and the crescent islands, and everything was changing rapidly.
(End of chapter)