"My lord, you have also seen that this carriage fully meets your requirements, and its performance is also very good, but it is very expensive" Facing Rand's question about the cost of the carriage, the dwarf also shook his head, "Sufficient iron and demonic metal, more than a dozen magic patterns, and the crossbow machine on it needs 3 small magic circles and 5 runes, if it weren't for Sophia's mage, the bare body would cost hundreds of gold coins."

Now that it's all down, the body is about 80 gold coins, and the giant crossbow is about 200 gold coins. But more importantly, even if Sophia and Wendy Mage come over, they can draw 2 cars a day, so they have to stay in the magic workshop for the rest of the day. ”

"Got it," Rand nodded, "I'll figure it out again."

With the ironworks, the dwarven runemasters, and the template from the imperial capital as references, the design of the new carriage and the giant crossbow was not too slow to be finalized, and the production of the frame and carriage of the universal version of the carriage had also entered the stage of small batch trial production, and the first batch of 20 vehicles had been completed; Five of the Giant Crossbows were made for testing; 10 elongated carriages were made, of which 6 were installed as functional carriages.

However, there are too few mages in Rand's hands, and there are too many product lines, all kinds of magic pattern equipment, carriages, and magic pattern breeding tanks, and in the past few days, all the mages have been gathered to develop the hive cultivation area, even if most of the mages above the junior level are currently involved, it is still difficult to deploy.

In the afternoon, Rand received a briefing from all over the territory at the East 1 Station, and he rushed straight north. Yesterday Neil set out with Teresa and Rand at the same time, except that Rand was west and Neil was north.

Originally, Rand planned to send Elsa to the western border first, and then soak in the training circle or the Magister Tower to improve himself with peace of mind, but in the Iowa Pass, Rand knew that some things were best seen and investigated by himself before making a decision. Cardinals can provide information to themselves through the post station and signaling system, but there is no substitute for their own actual investigation.

"Sure enough, once there is a portal, the royal capital and the imperial capital are natural neighbors, and the border of the territory will become a distant border jam" Rand laughed at himself while reflecting that he had spent too much time in the royal capital recently, and he should pay more attention to the news in the territory.

Neil has been pushing north faster than Rand had expected, and he only set out on 11 June, with a few days to go back with Teresa to help build the hive planting area. However, Neil had already completed the North 5 Station 200 kilometers north of Night Qicheng and was continuing north.

When Rand arrived at North 5 Station, he saw only Teresa and the mid-rank knight Nedland Wilson, but Neil and the barbarian cavalry were completely invisible.

"Are you looking for Neil? We separated, they were in charge of scouting and clearing the surrounding tribes, and I was concentrating on building roads with the Netherlands," Teresa introduced when she saw Rand.

In the eastern, northwestern, and northwestern expeditions, only the northbound contingent was dominated by the barbarian cavalry of the Galloping Horse tribe, with plenty of troops, and Neil's expedition was more like a hunt: every morning, nearly 200 cavalry would be divided into five groups, and one group would reconnoiter a range of about 60 kilometers to the north, leaving room for Terissa's road repair and post station. Two teams were dispatched in each direction in the east and west directions for reconnaissance and hunting.

To the north of the Benma River, there is a dense network of small lakes, and after the beginning of spring, some barbarian tribes settled near the lakes to fish and graze. If they don't encounter it, the cavalry will try to fish on the spot.

If they encountered a small tribe, the galloping cavalry would greet them with a friendly greeting, bring them some food, invite them to the various inns, and if it was a larger tribe, Neil would personally go there to communicate, show them force and food, and win the respect and submission of the barbarians.

With sufficient manpower and an effective division of labor, although the northbound team needed to build a large number of bridges, the development efficiency was higher than that of the east and west.

Towards noon, the cavalry who had reconnoitred north reported that they had seen Lake Falling Moon in the north and asked what to do.

"Falling Moon Lake?" Rand was a little strange, "Isn't it almost 400 kilometers away from Night Qi City?" How did you open up 200 kilometers to see Luoyue Lake? ”

"My lord, we are all cavalry from the south of the Galloping Horse River, we have never seen that lake, and now we see a big lake in the north, and the leader said that it is the Falling Moon Lake, and we naturally do not dare to argue."

The cavalry who reported the news told the truth to Rant, and Rand naturally couldn't blame people, so he could only ride on the fire and take Teresa to investigate, and sure enough, after about 40 kilometers to the north, he saw a wide lake, the lake was more than 20 kilometers long from east to west, and about 5 or 6 kilometers wide from north to south.

Rand, however, knew that it was not, for he could see the mountains north of the lake, which was recorded as wide as the sea and could not be seen from the south shore.

Obviously, there is a depth of more than 100 kilometers on the north side of the lake, waiting for Neil's exploration, but Rand thinks that if a large castle is built here, it will be a way to stabilize the border here for the time being.

After communicating with Teresa, Rand decided to use the Great Goblin to connect to the magic web, and this time he wanted to personally participate in the construction of a viscount-level castle.

Rand chose to build on a relatively high hillside, on the north side facing the lake, using the rock mass of the hillside as much as possible as the façade of the castle, and constructing a pier outside the north wall. A number of outbuildings and watchtowers were built on the southern slope of the castle, all of which were designed with slope roofs to facilitate the fall of snow.

The design and construction of the building is not complicated, but it is very interesting to experience how the elves build it for the first time, and it feels like pinching a plasticine with an invisible hand, and it feels like you are building a sandcastle.

After several practices, Rand tried to use consciousness to directly construct complex structures inside rock formations, such as letting a part of the rock layer act as a steel structure to increase the shear resistance of the floor, or adding a porous structure on the wall to achieve a silent effect.

The castle built by Rand has a large underground space for the storage of winter goods and meat, and from the basement it can be accessed into any outbuildings, which take even more time to build than the buildings above ground.

However, the rewards of completing this space by himself are also huge, and even Teresa feels that his operation has reached the level of a magic fairy

When all the buildings were completed, Neil also came looking for him with a cavalry team, and he wondered why Rand had just left Night Kirk City to see him.

"You guys have been looking along the lake for the past two days, and if you can't get around, set up a post station on the south bank, and then send Terisa back to Night Qi City." Rand made arrangements for Neil, and then rode southeast to White Wolf City in the Iowa Pass in the east.

(End of chapter)