Marching Mountains, 'Jenissa' lair'.

At this point in time, except for those combatants who have missions, it is the busiest time.

Even children as old as Maria often have to help adults do whatever work they can.

For example, searching for bark, mineral salts, etc. to prepare tanning liquid for leather tanning, going to a metal products workshop to collect waste materials for reuse, and helping to open the shells of mussels from the Karin River to extract pearls. Compared with these arduous tasks,

It is actually a relatively easy job to collect mulberry leaves in the mountains and come back to feed the silkworms.

Most of the slaves that can command a premium are those with some skills. It is precisely because of the selfless dedication of these liberated labor forces over the years that Jenny Sal can barely survive until now.

Just like those start-up companies in Blue Star, before external financing comes, first, you must survive.

But today is a little bit different.

When they watched the three hundred knights wearing their "Jenissar" bloody battle skirts heading away towards the boundless Karin Desert in the early morning, many people were not very optimistic about their action this time.

Because the vast majority of ordinary people cannot judge the rough combat power range of professionals through some details. This is a skill that only some experienced warriors, adventurers and professionals can master.

In the simple understanding of most civilians, the victory or defeat of a battle is often judged based on the number of people. Even when they, 'Jennesar', were in action, they won with local absolute superiority in force.

There were thousands of people escorted by Ponte Exchange, and it didn't look like they could save just 300 people.

So some people can't help but have some dark thoughts:

If they never come back, then the gorgeous knight plate armor and the moving metal cart they left here will become the property of their Jenny Sal.

Especially the metal cabinet that looked like a coffin also aroused many people's speculation.

However, when someone tried to touch the armor left in the stone hall, he was captured by the patrolling half-elf ranger, who was paraded on the spot and given ten lashes as punishment.

As a result, no one dared to touch the property left by these northern knights.

In the evening, when the knights who had put on blood-stained linen robes returned to the Marching Mountains with their massive slaves, everyone was shocked by the scene in front of them.

They counted the number of knights. When they left, there were 300 knights, but when they came back, there were only 100 knights left. However, they brought back nearly 6,000 knights.

'Presumably...these knights must have experienced a arduous and bloody battle...'

People couldn't help but think about it, and then looked at these victorious knights from the North, their eyes filled with respect from the bottom of their hearts.

The little Maria burst out crying on the spot when she saw that the knight brother who had returned suddenly lost so much and that everyone was injured.

Koni, who came back from watching this, was dumbfounded and didn't know how to explain it. In her opinion, Li Wei's mission should be classified as confidential, and she was worried about what impact it would have on them if she leaked it in advance.

It was Chapter Captain Pantos who noticed in time that something was not right about the atmosphere and took the initiative to explain it to the half-elf ranger lady with reddish eyes, so that he did not make a joke about erecting a cenotaph for a group of colleagues who were still alive and kicking at night.

That night, as agreed with Levi, Jenny Sal announced that the entire organization had entered a hibernation stage to accommodate and digest the slaves rescued from the Ponte Exchange.

Except for the 300 slaves who served in the army and the 600 young men specially selected, most of these slaves were women, teenagers and children, and there were no elderly people.

In Calinshan, the old, the sick, and the disabled are not even worth being slaves.

And as long as slaves are as tall as a wheel, they can be a labor force.

That night, when Jenny Sal was having a headache about how to arrange the slaves and how to allocate and utilize the limited food, Pantos directly ordered someone to open a container of frozen meat, paired with mushrooms special to the Marching Mountains, and let everyone drink it.

Had an unforgettable bowl of mushroom broth.

Those slaves who were still worried at first spent the night lying in the cave holding the furs distributed by 'Jennie Sal'. Their stomachs were warm, but they did not feel too cold.

As for the wounded like XIII and others, a strong man who called himself a field doctor came to give them some medicinal herbs.

It was night, and XIII, who had been separated, looked at the dome of the cave and felt that his fate after being captured seemed a little different from what he imagined.

Early the next morning, XIII and his companions were woken up and each was given a tool and work tasks.

XIII was handed a mining chisel and a basket to mine some white stones. It was said to be the order of the group of soldiers who beat them all up yesterday.

'Working after eating seems to be no different from before.'

Just as XIII returned to the valley carrying gravel as high as himself, he saw a metal monster emitting a stream of white steam, stretching out its long 'claws' and falling on the ground amidst the cheers of the onlookers.

A big hole was thrown up.

Maybe just one claw is enough to carry them back and forth seven or eight times.

Just when XIII was looking at the metal monster in a daze, he saw a little half-elf girl in front of him waving to him:

"Here, here, pour all the gravel in here, dolomite and volcanic ash."

XIII pursed his lips and walked over with his head lowered. Like the people in front of him, he poured the basket of stones on his back into the big pit with some difficulty. However, he was only halfway through when he found that his hands were a little lighter.

He was shocked to see that the half-elf actually raised his hand for him, and then said to him with wide eyes:

"Oh, why are you carrying so much in one basket? You won't be able to do it for long if you carry it this way, and you might even hurt your waist. We may have to do this job for a while."

XIII opened his mouth, not daring to look directly at the other party, and whispered:

"It's okay, I...I'm used to it."

Yes, for slaves like them, it is normal to work overloaded every day under the whip of the slave master.

"No, you have to get used to the pace of work here as soon as possible. You have to remember that you are no longer a slave. My name is Maria. What about you?"

"XIII."

"Kermit?"

Maria didn't hear it clearly, but the pronunciation was very similar to this, and this pronunciation means ocelot in the Elvish language, a very cute but fierce carnivorous animal, and she immediately started laughing to herself.

Before XIII could correct herself, Maria excitedly pointed at the large tunnel in front of her:

"Kermit, do you know what we are doing now?"

Kermit shook his head blankly, but thought the half-elf in front of him had a nice smile.

"We're doing an alchemical ritual!"

Maria said with a serious expression and a hint of excitement.

"Alchemy ritual?"

Kermit couldn't help but widen his eyes. In his limited knowledge, wasn't the alchemy ritual something that only mages could be involved in?

Could it be that this small-looking half-elf in front of me is actually a mage?

Maria raised her hands with excitement and said:

"Yes! Uncle Pantos told me this. He said that this was an idea proposed by their lord. As long as the dolomite is crushed and mixed with a certain proportion of volcanic ash and water, it will turn into a gray mud called.

..Cement, yes, that’s it. Cement can be used to build houses and city walls. When it dries, it can become as strong as stone! As long as we refine enough cement, we can build the entire Marching Mountain Range.

It will become a castle! By then, people in Calinshan will be able to have a home."

Listening to the other party's beautiful nonsense, Kermit knew that this could never be some kind of alchemy ceremony, but if it could really become as hard as a stone after solidification, that would be awesome.

Just to repair the city wall every year in Carlin City, countless slaves have to die from exhaustion.

And he couldn't bear to break the other person's beautiful fantasy.

Not good at words, he could only bite the bullet and ask:

"Then are we going to use these alchemy materials to build a house or a city wall?"

Maria shook her head, as if she thought of something dreamlike, her eyes were shining and she said:

"No, what we are working on now is not a house or a city wall. The current cave is enough for everyone to shelter and live.

"What we are building now is a school."

"School?"

Kermit was a little confused, as if he didn't understand what this unfamiliar word meant at all.

"Yes, school."

Maria said with longing:

"When it is built, you, me, and many, many children who like to learn will be able to learn the knowledge they want to learn, and maybe even play a game called 'Hot Blooded Football' together."

When she thought that one day she would be able to kick the ball away even with the children, Maria felt a little excited.

Then she raised her index finger to Kermit and said with a smile:

"By the way, it also has a nice name.

"It's called...

"Calinshan Dawn Elementary School."

...

While the infrastructure construction project in Pentos on the Marching Mountains was in full swing, Li Wei and his crew's journey on the sea was going smoothly.

It's just that this time they didn't go through the Elsevier Strait, because that thoroughfare would inevitably hit the Luskan patrol ship.

In order to minimize unnecessary trouble before landing on the south coast of the Moon Shadow Islands, they almost stuck to Lantan Island and crossed the Traceless Sea at the risk of encountering a storm.

Anyway, this time they seemed to have brought in more than ten broken ships acquired from Karin Port, but in fact, except for the people on the Dauntless, the other two-masted boats used to hide others were filled with slimes who were not afraid of drowning.

Salted fish.

Moreover, this time Levi also brought more than two hundred sets of amphibious suits based on Miss Frost Giant's "Sea King Suit", and put a layer of film on everyone's equipment.
To be continued...