Chapter 782: Strategic Development (End of the Volume)
Vizeme Estate.
This once haunted manor uses its actual situation to interpret what it means to be the opposite.
When there was no immortal divinity, the place was shrouded in black fog, and it looked full of ghosts.
Now he has more than forty immortal divinities, and ordinary people can't feel a trace of this, as if there is no difference from ordinary manors.
Only those who step into the extraordinary power can feel the difference here, every brick and stone, every grass and tree here is soaked in a powerful force, even if it is an inconspicuous shadow, there is also power.
As long as the owner of this place wants to, in a single thought, this place can escape into another world and become a place even more terrifying than ghosts.
Back to basics.
This adjective can be used not only on people, but also on things.
This is the case in the Vizeme Manor now, which means that it has a super control over its own power, and negative energy will not easily overflow.
There are no outsiders here, including the paladins of the Hammer of Light.
As it grew, some businesses were abandoned by Gavin, and the first one was the haunted house business at Vizeme Manor.
Although the fear power collected in this process has the ability to strengthen the Shadow Servants of the Vizeme Manor, the speed of effect is too slow, where is it more convenient to have a high-quality servant brought by a war? How could it be that in the process of creating value, those Shadow Servants gained class level experience more quickly?
As a prison for the souls of enemies, the importance of Vizeme Manor is constantly increasing, and allowing a large number of strangers to enter and exit will leave an opportunity for their enemies to take advantage of.
This situation is not an exception, with the future development, it will inevitably encounter countless wrong roads, forks in the road, and it is necessary to waste a certain amount of energy on it, and then adjust the direction of progress.
So, even when the army of conquerors arrived in the Land of the Three Rivers, it was still cold, and the lively village of Vizeme, five kilometers away, was lively, but Gavin chose to spend most of his time here.
He didn't become unusually busy because he became the acting lord of the Battle Valley, on the contrary, he was much more relaxed than when the conqueror's army was on the road, and he only needed to spare one or two hours a day to concentrate on various government affairs and put forward his own opinions.
A journey of 3,500 kilometers can change a lot of things.
It confers on immigrants a number of good qualities – perseverance, mastery of collaboration, sharpening combat skills, and so on.
It is also an excellent way to select talents, those who do nothing, or mediocre people who talk on paper, have no way to deal with various emergencies along the way, and have been eliminated early, and those who have ability, even in ordinary positions, will bloom their brilliance, and it will not take long to be promoted.
If you say that before arriving in the City of Faith, the most basic screening is carried out.
Then the period from the City of Faith to the Valley of Battles is the best of the best.
Those more mediocre middle and low-level officers, many of them have been left in the ghost castles that have been restarted along the way, becoming the lord of a village or the ruler of a castle, which is the limit of their ability, if there is no magical opportunity, they will stop here in this life, and they will step into the process of knightly nobility.
If there are people with a certain foundation on Tesser's side, they will take some of their relatives over and establish their own families, while those who do not have roots will form families on the spot, and slowly develop their own families based on their current villages and towns.
This is the consistent development of humanity in the wilderness, even the army of conquerors led by Gavin is not immune.
Gavin was not prepared to engage in any democratic elections, republics, etc., and was prepared to use the same aristocratic rule system of the Tesser and Cormier kingdoms.
In many cases, what kind of government to follow is determined by the general environment, rather than the result of a person's pat on the head.
The whole environment of Faeron is ruled by the aristocracy, and it is nothing more than this aristocratic class, or the knight class, or the rich merchants, or the slave owners.
The main force of immigrants brought by the army of conquerors from Tesser, ruled by the monarchical canonization system for nearly a thousand years, and was highly recognized by the knightly nobility.
Taking advantage of the trend is naturally the most time-saving and labor-saving, as for the progress of civilization and the like, it is not in the scope of Gavin's consideration for the time being, it is a problem that needs to be considered after eating and supporting.
Of course, he will not copy the ruling model of the Tesseres or Cormier kingdoms, and there will definitely be many things of his own that will be incorporated into it, which will be more convenient for him to centralize power and concentrate a lot of forces on big projects like building the road of the conqueror.
This part was completed by the part he brought back to the new village of Vizeme, as can be seen from the large number of buildings that Gavin had prepared in the new village of Vizeme.
At least more than half of these migrants will be out of production – buildings that are never for the peasants, but for the workers who are not farming.
In a short period of time, the food supply of Vizemei New Village was procured from well-related valleys such as the Misty Valley, the Deep Forest Valley, and the Lingyu Valley.
After two to three years, the output of those restarted ghost villages and towns will be enough to supply a city of 100,000 people.
Those mid- and low-level officers who were selected among the best were promoted one after another, and after Gavin became the acting lord of Battle Valley, they formed a new ruling class in Battle Valley.
The Law Department, composed of Judge Darnell of the Hammer of Light, is the Judge, and they will refer to the laws of the Tesser, Cormir Kingdoms, and some of the established customs and traditions of the Vale, and draft the laws of their Battle Valley.
This is one of the main reasons for the friction and disagreement between the valleys, although they are all part of the valley, but the forms of government are very different, neither customs nor laws, many valleys have not even had their own laws, the battle valley is one of them, they all resolve differences through some ancient traditions.
Many ancient traditions, not to mention fairness and justice, are even very absurd and ignorant, and many evils are born from these ancient traditions (such as burning witches) and then launching crazy and bloody revenge on the villagers of the past.
The paladins of the Monastery of the Hammer of Justice knew this the most and could effectively avoid it.
Presiding Judge Darnell, of course, would not refuse, because it was something they could not ask for.
As devout followers of Tyre, the god of justice, their greatest task is to spread the idea of fairness and justice to the world, and is there a better tool in this world than law?
With the shackles of the law, many unfairness and injustice will be strangled in the cradle.
In fact, many of Tyre's dogmas can be used as laws.
The monks of Tyre were instructed to do the following, "Thou shalt uncover the truth, punish the offenders, and correct wrongs, and thy deeds shall always be truthful and just." ”
Tyr and his followers are committed to a righteous cause, to correct wrongs, and to carry out righteous judgments of vengeance.
This path is not necessarily as equal or fair as some people have for this god, but the key lies in the revelation of the truth and the punishment of sinners.
The clergy of Tyre vowed to uphold the law wherever they went, to punish those wronged by the law, and to preserve their rulings, contracts, and decisions.
There are also some Tyr Paladins who are very extreme, adhering to the concept of black and white.
For such holy warriors, not to mention those evil, gray people who are terrified when they see them, even many good people are not interested in them, because they will kill because of some small things that are not crimes.
Although the Hammers of Justice at the Hammer of Justice are not of this type, at least most of them are not, Gavin will not be unguarded, and the Battle Valley law drafted by them is only a draft, and before it is implemented, it will be repeatedly discussed and revised by the People's Assembly before it is implemented.
As for the people's assembly, it is going to be elected by all the people of the Battle Valley, and strive to achieve that the immigrants and the original residents of the Battle Valley will be evenly divided, starting with at least 100 people, including elites from all walks of life, and strive to listen to the opinions of the greatest extent.
In terms of internal affairs, it is handed over to Villanica, who selects suitable people to preside over various government affairs.
Of course, this candidate has Gavin's deep meaning, not only to show his identity as a strategist lady voter, but also to represent that in a short period of time, the military government in Battle Valley is very colorful, and all development revolves around the military.
The reason is also very strong, that is, to defend against the cloud giants in the Thundering Peak Mountain Range to attack again.
Earlier, at the meeting of the Dogu Witnesses in the town of Essebla, Gavin and the others showed the lords and councilors the grim spectacle of the cloud giants leading hundreds of flying cavalry and their last retaliatory bombardment of the conqueror's army.
It not only obtained their understanding, but also sounded the alarm bell for them.
Such a terrifying number of flying cavalry would not be limited by the terrain, not only would the Misty Valley be within their attack range, but even the Feather Valley separated by several valleys would not be able to guarantee its own safety.
Not to mention pouring out, even if the other party only sent a flying cavalry squad to attack and disturb, it was not something they could fight alone.
But if they want to build a flying cavalry that can fight against them, they can neither afford it, nor can they do it in a short time.
And the fact that the conqueror's army repelled them with such small casualties shows that they have very strong air defense capabilities, and it is natural to add an offensive and defensive alliance while establishing an alliance of interests.
Especially in the case of the common enemy of the Kingdom of Sambia, some interests coincide.
On the military side, the sword master Eldan is the general.
Although the believers of the strategy lady can be civil and martial, they can govern the country in peace, and they can charge into battle.
But now the position of the god of war is still Tampass, and in a short period of time, his position is unshakable, and the strategy lady is just a small strategist who has just risen under his account.
When it comes to charging into battle, the believers in Tampas are the experts.
Many times, they don't have to do anything, just showing up on the battlefield makes the morale of those soldiers high, which means that the god of war is with them.
What Gavin values most is the combat experience and combat skills of these Tampas believers, different from the combat skills he honed in his adventures, the Tampas believers are more inclined to the military formation, and the soldiers who have been trained by their hands will greatly improve their abilities in this regard.
Eldan's main task is to train his troops.
Gavin also fulfilled his original promise, not only dispatching thousands of people to repair and renovate the Sword Monastery, but also opening a special road to this place, and setting up the military camp of 4,000 goblin wolf cavalry in the surrounding area.
This will be the future military center of the Battle Valley, not only those middle and low-level officers need to go here for further training, but also those ordinary soldiers will be rotated one after another, who will let their family have this condition?
In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regina is in charge, she is not only a professional counterpart, but she has a wide range of contacts in the valley that is not comparable to others, and in the past ten years, the external affairs of the Battle Valley have basically been handled by her.
She has roots in this area of her own, and now she is just getting a steady and massive injection of capital to make it more professional.
In order to facilitate management and development, Gavin and they further systematically divided the Battle Valley.
Combined with the original way of dividing the battle valley and its own geographical characteristics, they divided it into three areas, namely the Sanhe District, the Lingu District and the Zhanling District.
The Trois-Rivières district is the original land of the Three Rivers, bounded by the Upper Al Shaba River to the west, the Lower Al Shaba River to the south, the Comanso Forest to the north, the Yebon Pass and the Tooth of Good Luck Mountains to the east, including the Yavon Forest.
The Ringu area is the original belt, mainly along the Rosavile Way, west to the Yevon Pass, east and north to the Comanso Forest, and south to the Tooth of Good Luck mountain range.
The Battle Ridge area is the Tooth of Good Luck Mountain Range and the surrounding 50 kilometers, all of which belong to this area.
The distribution of personnel and geographical location of these three districts are destined to be treated with different policies in the future.
The Three Rivers District belongs to the resettlement area, 80% of the conqueror army brought by Gavin is distributed here, not only does it belong to the reclamation area, but at the same time, the sense of identity with Gavin as the acting lord is not comparable to other districts, some innovative industries, initiatives, etc., it will be easier to carry out pilot promotion here, and this must be the key area for Gavin's development in the Battle Valley.
Ringk is home to at least 70 percent of the original population of Battle Valley, more than half of whom are located on the Rosavile Way.
The area itself has a relatively well-established structure and has formed a relatively fixed way of life, mainly family farming and small traders.
Although their style of action is not conservative, their ability to accept new things is still relatively limited, and the development here should follow the principle of gradual progress, driven by the radiation of the Three Rivers District.
In a short period of time, this place will develop into the main grain producing area of the Battle Valley, and Gavin will appropriately increase his support for agriculture here.
The Battle Ridge is the land gateway to Sambia in the Battle Valley, and in the event of a war, it will bear the brunt of the battle, and the Abbey of the Sword is located at the junction of this area and the Ringu District, and will be the main garrison site in the Battle Valley in the future.
When the conqueror's army arrived at the Valley of Battles, it was already the end of November, and it was already winter.
Unlike Tester, which is located in the subtropical climate zone, the valley is located in the most obvious temperate monsoon climate zone, where the four seasons are incomparably distinct, and the time is equal in size.
The days are hot and long in summer, and cold and short in winter.
The autumn season, which was relatively comfortable, was also tossed by the wet and cold rainy season in Comanso.
The only thing left to be relatively comfortable is spring.
The new village of Vizemei, shrouded in Huifeng beads, does not feel the obvious climate change, and the temperature and humidity here are constantly in the most comfortable range for humanoids - neither too cold nor too hot, and sleeping in thin clothes is just right.
This kind of equipment that directly adjusts the weather is better than central air conditioning, after all, it has a five-kilometer enveloping range, as long as it is manufactured, there is no subsequent consumption.
There is no need to say more about the benefits, at least the firewood and quilts used for heating in the winter are saved, and there is no way to save the cold cotton clothes, after all, Huifengzhu only has a radius of five kilometers.
It is impossible for the conqueror's army to be in the new village of Vizeme in Maodong, and their pace of construction will not be slowed down in the slightest because of the cold winter.
After all, the construction method they rely on is not affected by temperature, even if biocement occupies the main force of construction in the future, it will not be affected.
Biocement is only named because of some of the properties it exhibits, like the cement that Gavin knows.
In fact, there is a huge difference between the two, especially with the intervention of auxiliary magic, and the various properties of bio-cement are beginning to surpass those of cement made by purely physical methods.
The practicality of Huifeng beads itself far exceeds its own value, and it has a huge demand in the market.
Typically, there is no market.
Even if Gavin opened the purchase price to 300,000 gold coins, he has not been able to buy a second one except for the one captured from the young red dragon's nest.
Because this kind of magic equipment is not ordinary magic equipment, but dragon equipment.
They weren't deliberately refined, but were condensed over years by powerful dragons (at least over adult) who used their innate natural abilities to blend in with a special environment for a long time.
Depending on the age of the dragon that condenses the dragon's equipment, their abilities are different, mainly reflected in the enveloping range.
The Huifeng Bead in Gavin's hand was at least a silver dragon or bronze dragon from the ancient dragon stage.
The weather beads condensed by different dragons are also different.
For example, the red dragon condenses the flame beads, and the area shrouded by its harmony will be in a state of high temperature that ordinary creatures cannot bear, and the most central area will condense magma pools of different sizes.
Another example is that the white dragon condenses into cold ice beads, and the area that is in harmony with it will be frozen below zero all year round, and the most central area will automatically condense the ice layer that does not melt all year round.
The dragon equipment was not intended for humans in the first place, but for the dragon's own supplies.
The first is to facilitate the establishment of a temporary dragon's nest, turning the environment that is not suitable for oneself into the most suitable for one's own survival, such as the red dragon that goes deep into the supreme glacier or the great glacier, if it carries a flame bead with it, it will be spared great suffering.
The second is to give to those young dragons who are deeply favored by themselves, and help them settle down in places that are not suitable for their survival.
This situation mostly occurs between metal dragons, even if it is a mother and child, and the colored dragons do not have such a harmonious relationship, either stealing directly from the mother dragon or spending a lot of money to buy it from their own parents.
Because this equipment is usually found in those dragon nests, it is also called dragon nest equipment.
Only a very small number of dragons like silver dragons and bronze dragons, whose living environment is extremely similar to ordinary people, are condensed into Huifeng Beads, which are also suitable for humanoid creatures.
Since it is a giant dragon equipment, and the giant dragon has existed in the Faeron Continent for hundreds of thousands of years, it stands to reason that this kind of equipment should not be very rare.
This involves a universal law of magical equipment.
Magical equipment is not permanent, at least most of them are not, they have a cycle of magic exhaustion, which will weaken over time, changes in the elements of the environment, etc., until it is reduced to ordinary equipment with no magical power.
The reason why the calamity caused by the Arcane Catastrophe is so terrifying is that a large number of magical equipment crafted with the assistance of the magic net exploded at the moment of the collapse of the magic web, especially the consumable and less stable magic items such as wands and scrolls.
Countless spellcasters were killed on the spot, and many magic treasures were blown up into the sky, especially the mage kingdom Harua and the red-robed mage kingdom Ser, who were founded on magic, were particularly badly affected.
The latter was slightly better, and the magical equipment they made was mainly for sale, and a lot of it was hoarded in the concessions around Ferron.
The former suffered from the mage's hoarding habits, and their massive explosion was said to have been heard by Waterdeep thousands of kilometers away, and the entire kingdom was razed to the ground, causing an earthquake and tsunami that swept half the continent.
Of course, if it is just a simple time exhaustion, this cycle is very long, the short is hundreds of years, the long can be thousands of years, or even tens of thousands of years, and some of them directly resist time exhaustion, such as artifacts, not to mention time, even if it is human, it is difficult to destroy them.
Some special methods can also stop this exhaustion, such as the previous Mineral Vein Sealing Technique under Statue City, which does not take effect on magical equipment.
Even for the current army of conquerors, the application of magic is still mainly in construction, and the popularity of daily life is relatively low, which can only be icing on the cake, and many things will slowly return to normal.
At least for a short time, it must return to normal.
This also represents a shift in Gavin's development focus, and a large part of the magical power has been withdrawn from the Battle Valley.
As for where to go, it is the front line of the war in full swing - the Desperate Eastern Regions.
The invasion of the Tucan nomads has become a major event that has attracted the attention of the whole of Faerun, and the eyes of all the great powers are focused on this place.
Because of this, the merchants of Sambia did not have the energy to pay attention to the army of conquerors.
These mercenary merchants, like jackals, flocked to Sesk, where they hoarded supplies, inflated prices, and frantically looted wealth from the desperate countries of the Eastern Regions.
And that's exactly what Gavin needs, and they need a relatively peaceful environment to put down roots.
Without the Sambia Kingdom taking the lead in front, even if the Bow Valley and Taser Valley had different opinions on the large-scale migration of the Battle Valley, they would not dare to show it.
The most tense relationship is the Storm King in the Cape Storm Mountains.
He was unwilling to accept his setback in the Tivanton Rift, and launched several retaliatory attacks in the future, this time not only using flying troops, but also sending a lot of ground monster troops, using the mode of skirmishers, to carry out multi-line attacks.
As a result, as soon as they came out of the Cape of Storm Mountains, they lost their troops.
Because of the existence of teleportation, it is difficult for small-scale multi-line attacks to take effect, and with the cooperation of more than a dozen transcendent spellcasters, hundreds of transcendent elites can instantly appear in the surrounding towns.
Gavin was right, the other party couldn't make his flying class fly faster than the Half Moon Pony in a short period of time, and every time he attacked, he aimed at their flying class for a key attack, and from beginning to end, he didn't dispatch the Wyvern mount.
This is naturally a sign of weakness to the enemy.
If the Cloud Giant knew that the flying troops in Gavin's hands were not inferior to them, how could he send the flying troops out again to give him a chance? Loot more flying classes from his hands for your own use?
The cloud giant is not an easy person, every time he sends troops, he has his own strategic intentions, and he is not simply harassing and harassing - he is luring the snake out of the hole.
Gavin and his elite warband were the ones he was trying to exterminate.
It's a pity that every time I make a bad move, I was cracked by Gavin's reserved back move.
tried three times in a row, but not only did he not get any of it, but most of the bait he threw out was eaten.
The Cloud Giant had no choice but to die down, and the turtle retreated into the depths of the Thundering Peak Mountain Range and no longer attacked easily.
Gavin also tried to go to the Thundering Peak Mountains to poach the other party's orc dragoons and rebel against the Earth Crystal people.
But it's a pity that the cloud giant has long been guarding against him, whether it is the Flying Dragon Tribe of the orcs or the crystal cliff tribe of the Earth Crystal people, they are all shrouded in the powerful mist enchantment, and they don't give outsiders a chance to enter at all.
As soon as he was alerted, the Cloud Giant immediately poured out of the nest with the Grey Serpent Dragon and the Drow Elf Priestess.
Going around and around, in fact, it is still back to the top-level legendary confrontation, if there is no way to defeat the opponent at this level, it is difficult to take too much advantage from the opponent.
The two sides are now evenly matched, and in a short period of time, neither can eat the other.
The previous confrontation was also a process of testing each other.
Until they have the strength to defeat the opponent's legendary power, the two sides will not start the battle lightly.
Because the deterrent power of legendary power to ordinary people is too great, let alone those legendary spellcasters, even if they are legendary warriors, it is easy to slaughter the town and destroy the village.
Those legendary professionals who have lost their territory and have no restraint are the most terrifying, they can retaliate against their enemies without scruples, especially those with evil temperaments, and will not hesitate to pour out this anger on those ordinary people.
There are only a thousand days to be a thief, and there is no thousand days to prevent thieves.
This is the so-called legendary deterrence tactic.
Therefore, in Faerun, few forces began to collapse from the bottom, and most of them began to lose their legendary power.
This is also the reason why the Demon Dragon Tribulation is regarded as the most serious crisis in the history of the Cormier Kingdom, because their top three legendary powerhouses all died in just a few years.
Both internal and external enemies have lost their greatest deterrence, and they are naturally ready to move.
The defeat of the Lesserman Kingdom against the Tucan army also began with the defeat of the legendary confrontation.
Among the Lesserman witches, there is no top powerhouse like Sazas, who can resist the ravages of Yamen Khan's killing power, coupled with the absolute military power possessed by the other party, they can only retreat again and again, using absolute natural danger to make up for their own shortcomings.
(End of chapter)