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However, after the battle of life and death, Richard's magic power finally advanced to the eleventh level, and according to the standards of the Faro plane, he can already be called a great magician. In addition to him, two ogres also made the cut. The newly acquired special unit, Crimson, is only level 1, but has all the abilities of stealth, dodge assault, and assassination, and the blade in his left hand is one of the two blades of Sinclair, so his combat power is at least equal to that of an elite warrior at level 5 or 6. If she succeeds in sneaking up and assassinating her, then anyone below level 10 may be seriously injured.
In any case, after removing the great enemy of Sinclair, and reaching a preliminary cooperation intention with the Duke of Greywolf, Richard felt that the sky above his head suddenly opened up.
Richard didn't leave in a hurry, but stayed in the Duke's castle for a few more days, borrowed the chief mage's real yàn room, and selected ten of the most dilapidated structures recovered from the Bear Knight, with a strength increase of between 10% and 15%, all of which required an active construct inspired by a magic crystal, which was fundamentally different from the passive construct for the duke.
These pieces were all sold by Richard to the duke, and the overall price was set at 200,000 gold coins, of which Richard received the equivalent of 50,000 gold coins of gold and jewelry, and the rest were replaced with magical materials and equipment capable of arming two hundred knights.
Richard didn't care how to use these structures when they got into the hands of the duke, whether they were given to his subordinates or sold for a profit.
The price of the build Richard carefully considered, and the price of selling it in the Blood Lands was 25,000 gold coins each, although Richard knew that the two builds could be twice as profitable as long as they changed hands. But the point is that this price is affordable for any level 15 or above and level 11 level great mage, and it doesn't need to be too difficult. Although the Builds, which Richard transferred to the Duke, had a slight gap in terms of increase, they made up for it in other qualities, such as the longer duration after activation, or the slower consumption rate of Mana Crystals, or the longer lifespan that the Builds could use, and so on.
Any construct will be lost as the magic power of the magic array solidifies, and it will expire within a year or three years. Noland's magic technology has long solved the problem of the loss of magic power from the magic array. But hundreds of years ago, when the Demonic Pattern Construct was just beginning to develop rapidly, it was a problem for every Builder. Only the genius of the Holy Constructor, who passes by like a comet, can naturally overcome this problem, thus keeping their work fresh for a long time. Therefore, although the number of ancient costumes handed down from history is small, all of them are high-quality.
This is also the intention of Richard to use the Duke as a stable bulk distribution channel after careful consideration. On the one hand, he continued to hide as much as possible the information that came from his own hands, and at the same time gave the Duke corresponding benefits, adding weight to the stability of the alliance. On the other hand, the construction of these products, which are completely defective under the Norland standard, does not consume too much time and energy for him, and he can produce two or three paintings in a day. The cost of materials consumed was reduced to more than 1,000 gold coins. As long as there is a stable channel to sell, then the wealth will roll in.
Gold coins are just a symbol, but the channels of steady dìng will turn these symbols into magical materials, into equipment, into war horses, and even into qiē things that can be used for public trading. So gold is power.
After completing the initial transaction, Richard set off with his retinue to his own territory. He ordered a group of builders and some metal materials that were not produced in the nearby area with 20,000 gold coins, and prepared to build a new castle on the territory.
The castle was chosen at the confluence of the mountain and the river, not far from the original village of Bran, near the Bloodstained Lands. This position can keep out horse bandits from the Bloodstained Lands and protect the fertile land on both sides of the river. As long as the horse bandits and monsters are blocked, there is no one to open up these natural fertile fields.
The Faro Plane has a pleasant climate and is much more vibrant than the Norland continent, so it is rich in products, and only two-thirds of the land is needed to produce more food than Norland. As a result, famines rarely occur in the Faro plane, and the vast majority of population losses are due to continuous wars. However, after humans gradually occupied the main body of the continent and increasingly oppressed alien races to the edge of the continent, and even to large islands in the sea, the number of people lost due to war gradually decreased. But even so, as long as a large amount of idle wasteland is reclaimed one by one, there may not be a famine for hundreds of years.
With food, there was a population, there was labor, there was wine and meat, and the luxury of the upper class. This is the basic truth that Richard knew.
In the vicinity of the site where the castle was to be built, the early arrival of the sandmen and barbarian warriors had carved out a barely passable road and built a simple barracks and stables. A surviving knight is negotiating with the new Baron Fontaine, seeking to hire workers and buy basic building materials such as stone and wood. The material is inexpensive, bulky and bulky, and used in very large quantities and can only be sourced locally.
When Richard arrived at the castle site, he was surprised to see that it was only an outline of a construction site, and that there were no more hired workers except for more than a hundred people from nearby villages. These people are Richard's own subjects, and according to the current situation of the territory, they are already the largest number that can be recruited. How long will it take for more than 100 people to build a castle?
And Richard walked around the construction site and found that most of the men were working with stone and wood. The stones are mined directly from the nearby mountains. Barbarians, who are naturally powerful, break the stone out of the mountain and cut and polish it by the common people. The wood is also a log from the nearby forest, which is made by a complete process of cutting branches and peeling, drying and cutting boards.
This is still that the knight who was ordained had the experience of building castles, so he had knowledge of both stonemason and carpenter skills, so he could organize such a preliminary processing process, and ordinary lords would not be able to work with this kind of technology.
Not only was there a shortage of labor, but if even the stone and wood had to be made from scratch, the construction of the castle might have to be delayed for three to five years.
Now Richard is not the kind of country knight who can only rely on the income of the territory to slowly accumulate wealth, he has a large number of gold coins in his hand, which can be turned into materials and labor, and it is not difficult to build a small castle of small scale. The problem is that he has given the knight five thousand gold coins, but he has not seen the corresponding labor and building materials.
After only a turn, Richard's face was already a little gloomy, and he immediately had the knight in charge of the castle construction called over and asked what was going on.
This is one of the only two knights left under Richard, who is in his early thirties, and his strength and age match very well. In other words, there is not much room for further progress in the future. They had also fought a lot with Richard and were familiar with the management of the noble realms, so it was only fitting that they would build a castle.
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