Under such circumstances, the maximum operating cost of mana machines, vehicles and equipment is the mana consumed every minute and every second.

This is one of the reasons why it is difficult to fully promote magic energy equipment.

In addition to the requirements of the process itself and manufacturing costs, magic energy drive is a luxurious drive method.

For most ordinary people, it is far less cost-effective than human and animal power.

Only guys like Zong Shen who really have money at home don't care.

There are not too many mana vehicles and equipment in the current territory, and the collected [mana crystals] can fully meet the consumption.

Even if the size of the territory expands further in the future, he does not have to worry. After all, the potential of the Azshara mine has not been exhausted, and there are still a large number of undeveloped mineral veins.

In addition, due to the invasion of blood-burning demons and the outbreak of the Era War, the mines collapsed, burying part of the ancient mines and veins.

As long as Zong Shen develops all the Azshara ore veins, it will be enough to meet the construction costs of a giant city, and there will even be surplus ores that can be used for trade.

You must know that the reserves there could have allowed the giant city of Azshara to be mined on a scale of tens of thousands of miners for hundreds, thousands of years.

Until the disaster and war broke out, the mine had only been developed for a hundred or two hundred years.

And according to Zong Shen's knowledge, the reserves of Azshara's mineral veins are indeed not small, but looking at the entire Endless Continent, there are many larger mineral veins than this.

Because the Endless Continent is simply too vast.

The vastness of the land and abundant resources are not enough to describe the resource potential of this super giant continent.

Today's aboriginal people in the human kingdom have their own large-scale mining areas that are being exploited. Many giant cities and state cities are built around nodes such as mining areas, inland shipping terminals, and coastal terminals.

Fortunately, for this reason, the Azshara vein has always existed in the mineral geography books of the indigenous people, but no one came to mine it.

The same goes for Baron Bezos, the leader of Boss State who once went to explore the mines when he was young. He also considered the cost of exterminating spider web monsters, kobold tribes, and other burrowers and undead living deep in the mines.

Developing the Azshara mine seems to be a very uneconomical thing in the eyes of the aborigines, which actually makes Zong a little easier.

In any case, these three magic paddle steamers should be put to use soon. Zong Shen already has relevant plans, but the priority is not high.

His principles have always been relatively pragmatic.

I already have a good idea of ​​the arrangements after the defensive challenge is over.

The first priority is naturally the new planning and adjustment of territory construction.

The second is the population acquisition plan, which plunders the indigenous population and development resources from surrounding villages and Seakabang City. At the same time, it carries out the reform of the free people that they want to do, shapes the circular economic system in the territory, and promotes the enthusiasm of the territorial people.

Next is a series of ruins exploration plans near the territory.

After the challenge is over, he can still sit in the territory for ten days, and then he has to rush to the giant city of Lentax to make an appointment with the bard Ingram.

As for the Giant City Athletic Conference and banquet, it will not start until fifteen days after the challenge ends.

In other words, he will arrive at the giant city early and will have four or five days of activities before the start of the competition.

The next step was the plan to open up an inland port for shipping to the giant city of Dagalisini. He planned to hand over this matter to Howie to take charge of it in advance.

Howie had previously proposed the formation of a territorial caravan.

Simply let him go and let him start with inland shipping and build a caravan.

Just wait until the caravan is basically formed and then call him back to the territory.

This move can be regarded as planting a nail in the giant city of Dagalisini in advance.

This giant city is also the closest to his territory besides Lentax, but the two giant cities are in different directions.

The former is to the west of Zong Shen, and the latter is to the east.

In addition, the caravan can also gradually operate, carrying out material trade and procurement along the Longmian River, while expanding its influence and radiating the caravan to all cities upstream and downstream.

They will become a blood transfusion belt for the territory, continuously delivering resources to the territory and bringing back financial profits and news from various places.

You must know that although Zong Shen's strategy module is well aware of the situation in the Endless Continent, it is essentially an information database that requires keyword retrieval.

It is not convenient to ask for information when you lack basic knowledge of other cities.

After all, the Endless Continent is so vast, with numerous states and giant cities, and countless large and small forces and settlements. Setting up a caravan at this time can be a great help in collecting information.

With Zong Shen providing funds and some products with lower manufacturing costs under the lord's privileges, as long as the dispatched Howie is a little more attentive, it will not be difficult to grow bigger and stronger.

Today there are three paddle steamers, and in the future he may have a large river trading group!

Zong Shen smiled silently, then left the cockpit and jumped off the paddle steamer.

His actions and plans are always far ahead of the lords of the same period.

When other lords began to try to rob villages and caravan settlements in groups, he was already thinking about Bangcheng and Giant City.

Now they are even preparing to implement the plan to form a territorial caravan that they had conceived before, which can be regarded as a further tentacle to the outside world.

After putting the [Level 5 Universal Paddle Steamer (Orange)] in front of him into his personal storage compartment, Zong Shen stepped back to where the redemption interface was projected.

In the sub-option of [General Combat Class].

He has completed the redemption of [Magic Scroll], [Buff Potion], [Magic/Rune Alchemy Technology Consumables] and [Magic Machinery].

There is currently one last sub-option left, which is [One-Time Summoning].

Zong Shen is not interested in this type of props and items.

Because even if you only rely on the summoning skills attached to the equipment, you can summon a summoning army of nearly four or five squads.

This [disposable summoning] item is of little use to him, but it can be exchanged for some and given to the heroic talents in the territory.

When necessary, these summoned warriors can serve as cannon fodder or pioneers.

With this thought in mind, he opened this sub-option.

[One-time summon type]

…

[First level summoning type]

[Limited exchange:∞]

(Exchange points: 35)

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[Second level summoning type]

[Limited exchange:∞]

(Exchange points: 80)

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[Third level summoning type]

[Limited redemption: 300]

(Exchange points: 140)

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[Level 4 Summoning]

[Limited exchange: 100]

(Exchange points: 280)

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[Fifth level summoning type]

[Limited redemption: 50]

(Exchange points: 400)

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[Level 6 Summoning]

[Limited redemption: 20]

(Exchange points: 700)

…

Level one and level two are unlimited, and there are different limit standards from level three to level six. Of course, their redemption point prices are also different.

As we all know, the number of summoned warriors that each summoning item can summon generally ranges from 1 to 6, but its existence time is very limited.

So the exchange price here is not cheap at all.

Zong Shen opened the list and compared it carefully.

First, I spent 3500 points to exchange for [First-order Striped Hyena Summoning Fang (White) x100]. Each Summoning Fang can only be used once. After activation, 5 [First-level Striped Hyena (Normal Level)] can be summoned.

, attacks with bleeding and corrosive toxins, good mobility, and large numbers, making them suitable as vanguard cannon fodder.

For the second and third level summoning items, Zong Shen chose to exchange them for [Level 2 Wandering Crossbowman Summoning Seal (Green) x30] and [Level 3 Furbolg Warrior Summoning Skin (Blue) x20], which cost a total of

5200 challenge points.
To be continued...