Northwest Territory of the Vyas Commercial Federation, Longshan Territory.

The territory of the Yongsan family, which was once taken over by the Vyas Commercial Federation, has now been revitalized. Since the Earl of Longshan returned to this ancestral territory with a huge amount of wealth and a large number of people, the huge amount of money invested and the abundant manpower have quickly made the place change every day.

New villages and towns were being built, new barriers and walls were growing taller every day, countless homeless people were attracted to it, and the total population of the Longshan Territory was constantly increasing. According to the latest statistics, the total population of a county in the Longshan Territorial District is only equivalent to the area of half an ordinary province of the Gallic Empire, and has exceeded the 30 million mark.

With an endless supply of gold and silver coins to rely on, the Longshan family's newly formed private army quickly swelled to three legions. The Longshan family hired more experienced mercenaries to train new recruits, and a large number of high-quality armor and weapons in the armor workshops built by the Longshan family continued to arm the three newly formed private army corps, and the abundant food and meat supply made the soldiers' combat effectiveness improve rapidly.

In particular, the Longshan family's ordnance workshop actually had a dwarven grandmaster in charge, and they improved the three-shot armor-piercing heavy crossbow that was popular in the Western Continent, from three consecutive shots to the terrifying Cheng dù with ten crossbow arrows. Moreover, the new heavy crossbow is lighter and easier to wind, but the crossbow arrows with new materials and new shapes have a longer range, stronger armor-piercing power, and are more than three times more lethal than the original heavy crossbow.

And such a heavy crossbow, with the support of the Longshan family, Jinshan Yinhai. Fifty thousand bodies were quickly armed!

According to purely theoretical calculations, 50,000 soldiers armed with new heavy crossbows formed a phalanx, and they could throw 500,000 alloy crossbow arrows in an instant. Based on the probability of killing and wounding one person with an average of five crossbow arrows on the battlefield, if the opponent has enough soldiers for them to kill. They are theoretically capable of taking out 100,000 enemies at a time!

Of course, this is a purely theoretical calculation, but it can be seen from this what a terrible army the Yongsan family is armed.

To paraphrase the private gossip of a veteran mercenary -- this is a war there? It's just a gold coin! Every crossbow shot is money, and it costs astronomical gold to make these heavy crossbows!

In the face of such discussions, our Earl of Longshan just laughed three times out loud - "Isn't it just money? What is money? Gold coins? To the great Longshan family, gold coins are lumps of dirt in the ground, and they are nothing at all!"

50,000 heavy crossbowmen. 50,000 longbowmen, 100,000 heavily armored pikemen, 50,000 sword and shield soldiers, and finally 50,000 light armored cavalry, this is the private army that the Longshan family has spent a lot of money to build up in the past few months. Their armament and armor are incomparably sophisticated, even better than the equipment of the main battle corps of the Gallic Empire, which is known as the largest power on the mainland.

Such a large army of private soldiers brought a huge material need. And the Longshan family had enough gold and silver coins to spend, so the commercial activities in the Longshan family's territory were like weeds on a spring night, suddenly flooding vigorously.

Rice shops, oil shops, mills, wineries, inns, hotels. Even the brothels of Qinglou and other chaotic shops have blossomed all over the territory of Longshan in just a few months. Even the Thieves' Guild and the Assassins' Guild had opened offices in the Longshan Territory, and if it weren't for the Longshan family's violent intimidation of the members of these two major unions, the law and order in the Longshan Territory would have been chaotic long ago.

With the construction of the core city of Longshan Territory, the main city of the family named 'Dragon Castle', the development of Longshan Territory is even more prosperous, giving people the impression that old trees are sprouting new and out of control.

With the investment of huge gold coins, the construction of Dragon Castle has begun to take shape. Most of the city wall with a length of 20 miles and a width of 20 miles has been built, and the main streets of the city, which are six horizontal and six vertical, have also been paved, and the large and small auxiliary roads that are neatly laid like a chessboard are being laid intensively.

And the core location of the city. The castle of the Longshan family was completed two months ago thanks to the efforts of many magicians. It is a large fortress with a length of two miles and a width of two miles, with extremely strong defenses, and it is the residence of the core members of the future Longshan family, all the houses are built to perfection, and the interior furnishings are extremely luxurious.

The ordinary people of Longshan did not dare to approach this castle indiscriminately. Because the people stationed in this castle were not the private soldiers of the Longshan family, which were composed of human soldiers, who were familiar to them. From time to time there were guards wandering around the walls of the castle, large groups of mountain dwarves who were stronger and darker than ordinary dwarves.

The short-tempered mountain dwarves who are much more powerful than the average dwarf are not easy to talk to, and the only thing that offends them is to have their heads smashed with their sledgehammers.

In addition to the mountain dwarves, tall figures of several meters can be seen on the castle walls from time to time. This is the Alpine Titans who are accustomed to being neighbors with the Alpine Dwarves, and this is the only Titan alien race that humans can grudgingly accept their existence. These Alpine Titans are tall and brute-forced, and possess terrifying destructive power in close combat.

In addition to these alpine dwarves and alpine titans who don't know where they came from, a group of bipedal wyverns will rise in the sky from time to time above the core castle of the Longshan family, carrying flying dragoons wearing black armor to patrol in all directions. These wyverns were draped in red dragon scales all over their bodies, and they were huge, at least half the size of ordinary wyverns. They have hideous faces and more than twice as much strength as ordinary wyverns, and no one knows where these strangely born wyverns come from.

When the thunder caused by Hami Gardi tore through the dark clouds in the sky, shot from the direction of the Holy Mountain, and flew over the Dragon Mountain Territory, Alda, who was lying on the bed enjoying the meticulous caress of Lady Green Fen, was frightened and jumped violently.

The thunder tore through the sky, and Arda felt an extremely terrifying wave of power.

The strong, the strongest that has never been seen before, the strong man who is countless times stronger than those fanatic elders who are guarding the Black Abyss Divine Prison. Ignoring Madame Greenfin's pink arms, Alda hurriedly put on a pair of trousers, and ran to the terrace of the room, looking blankly towards the mountains to the northeast.

To the north of the Vyas Commercial Federation, in the middle of the vast mountains, is the sacred mountain, the headquarters of the Church.

The distance between Longshan and the Holy Mountain, just a straight line, is only a few hundred miles. The thunder that destroyed 10,000 Wyvern Knights of the Temple of Punishment with a single blow from Hami Gardi tore open a crack in the sky thousands of miles long, and Arda stood on the terrace, watching in amazement as the golden sunlight erupted from the crack of the dark clouds in the sky.

"How dare anyone go to the Holy Mountain to make trouble? What a great guy, is he the Demon King of the Abyss? Who is so kind?"

Alda wiped her forehead covered with cold sweat with her hand and looked in horror at the rolling clouds in the sky. The wind blew the dark clouds, and they tried their best to repair the crack, but a magical power was stored in the crack, and the golden crack always stubbornly appeared in the sky despite the roar of the wind and the rolling of the dark clouds.

Mrs. Lufen wore a thin long skirt and walked out in a hurry.

Just after a chaotic battle with Alda, Lady Greenfen died and came back to life several times, and her soul flew into the sky. She didn't even hear the loud thunder until Alda ran out onto the terrace and she came back to her senses and walked out after him.

Looking at the incredibly sunny crack in the sky in amazement, Lady Lufen stammered to herself, "That's the direction of the Holy Mountain! Who dares to go to the Holy Mountain to make trouble? I have never heard of someone who can leave alive after going to the Holy Mountain to make a living!"

Alda squinted and shook her head gently: "I know no less than twenty people who can leave alive after going to the Holy Mountain to live. It's just that their names can't appear on any records, so ...... But it's so kind!"

After wrenching his fingers and thinking for a while, Alda grinned: "The alien races of the five islands, the nomads of the Continental Bridge, it seems that they have joined forces. Now it's supposed to be their men who have broken into the Holy Mountain! What do they want to do? Another religious war?"

Lady Greenfen looked at Alda in horror: "Dear Earl, my dearest Earl, Religious Wars?

Alda rubbed his hands excitedly, and he said in a low voice: "What they want to do, I don't know! But religious wars, I have a very wonderful idea! War, war, this is an opportunity to make a fortune, this is an opportunity to expand my territory, this is an opportunity to expand my power! Oh, my great father, and, my great ......"

The glow flickered in her eyes, and Lady Greenfen suddenly saw the swirling glow in Arda's deep eyes, her pupils froze, and her body fell to the ground limply and fell asleep.

"Also, my great and terrifying master, you have had a great time in the Fourth Abyss, but don't forget that we still have such a large territory in the surface world......! Make this damn world a little more wonderful!, for example, if the terrestrial world doesn't have a church, it's a paradise on earth!"

Shaking her head, Alda shrugged her shoulders: "Of course, of course, if all the goddamn believers of the gods are killed...... No, the male believers are all killed, and the female believers are sent to my bed, this is the most perfect world!"

'Quack' laughed a few times, and Arda rushed out of his bedroom with his hands in his hands, and went straight to the underground secret room where the magic communication array was built.

Poor Mrs. Lufen was left on the terrace by him, and lay there stunned.