"It seems that I will rob some orcs in the future if I have the opportunity. With such a strong body, it would be a pity not to carry bricks!"
The more Narant thought about it, the more he thought it was a good idea.
With the orcs' arms capable of running a horse, moving bricks is their best way out.
Of course, because orcs have simple minds, they can only do these simplest tasks.
"By the way, sir, now that the orcs have joined us, we have enough manpower to build the city wall for the time being, but we are in very short supply of stonemasons and carpenters!"
"If there are enough craftsmen, we can build the city faster!"
Mario said something to Nalant at this time.
Building a city is not like building a wooden house or a stone house. Nothing can be careless.
Otherwise, even if there is a problem with a section of the city wall, the city's defense will be in vain.
In this world, the only people who know how to build cities are technical talents like carpenters and stonemasons.
However, Nalant's original territory was so large that carpenters and masons were in very short supply.
"Carpenters and masons, Mario, have you tried hiring them?"
"My lord, I have also tried. A few days ago, I sent people to other noble territories in the Black Rock Plain to recruit, but in the end I couldn't find even a single craftsman."
"Oh? What's the reason?" Nalant was slightly surprised.
The reason for the lack of craftsmen in my own territory is that it is developing too fast and the foundation has not kept up.
There should be no shortage of craftsmen for other nobles in the Glory Continent.
"Sir, during this time, apart from us in the Storm Territory who are building a lot of construction projects, other nobles are also building various buildings!"
"So, the craftsmen in their territories have long been recruited by their respective lords!" Mario answered truthfully.
"That's true. I paid less attention during this period!"
Nalant nodded and immediately responded.
He Narante left his hometown, and other nobles also left their hometown.
Moreover, many of their nobles were even worse off than Nalant.
At least Nalant was lucky enough to get a noble castle, but other nobles did not.
Not to mention the castle, there are few stone houses in the noble territory. It was originally just a village.
Therefore, as the nobles have completely stabilized, the construction of the territory will naturally be put on the agenda.
Not to mention helping the serfs build houses, at least the noble master's own manor or castle must start construction first.
So, at this stage, it is simply impossible to find idle craftsmen on the Black Rock Plain.
"Ding! The territory is developing, but the lack of craftsmen has slowed down the development. As the lord, you must find a way to solve it!"
"New mission in the system branch: Recruit more than 500 skilled craftsmen!"
"Task reward: "Exchangeable kiwi fruit varieties (small) increased!"
"Hey, have you issued a mission? But these five hundred skilled craftsmen are too many, right?"
As the long-lost jingle sounded, Nalant once again received a new side mission.
However, this line of work is a bit tricky. Five hundred skilled craftsmen, even a duke, may only have this number!
I don’t know if apprenticeship counts. If so, it would be better to say something.
However, having said that, the reward piqued Nalant's interest.
It actually adds kiwi fruit varieties that can be directly exchanged.
Of course, there is a (small) at the end of this kiwi fruit, which means that this kiwi fruit is for Nalant's subordinates.
Although it was not for himself, Nalant did not dislike it either.
It is he, the lord, who ultimately benefits from the strength of his subordinates.
After thinking for a moment, Nalant felt that if he wanted to complete this task, he would probably have to turn his attention to those empires and principalities.
These principalities and empires have large populations, and there is certainly no shortage of craftsmen.
Each empire recruits a hundred craftsmen, which is actually just a drop in the bucket for them.
Thinking of this, Nalant immediately said to Mario: "Mario, I will find a way to deal with the craftsmen. If the progress is slower now, just slow it down. Don't worry!"
"Yes, sir!"
After inspecting the construction site of the city wall, Nalant returned directly to the castle.
Just as he came to the vestibule, he happened to run into Winnie.
It turns out that the bloodline fruit that was planted in the backyard two days ago has matured again.
There are ten bloodline qi fruits obtained this time.
After two days of refining, seventy bloodline qi fruit potions have been prepared.
"Thank you for your hard work, Winnie!" Nalant also smiled happily after taking the seventy potions.
Seventy bloodline fruit potions, which means that he will obtain seventy extraordinary knights again in one month.
In addition, at the beginning of this month, he got more than 40 pieces of Magical Beast Fruit potion, and he has already given it to the captured ordinary wolves, but it will take some time for these ordinary wolves to transform.
"Sir, I'm very happy to be able to help you, Winnie. It's not hard at all!" Winnie replied shyly.
"Well, I know you are the most well-behaved. Winnie, go find Chef Rose and ask her to make a big cake for you!" Nalant was very satisfied.
The serf girls in this world are really simple. As long as you treat them well, they will repay you twice as much.
And these lucky girls like myself are role models. They are not only well-behaved and obedient, but also have extraordinary abilities.
"Yes, sir!" Winnie nodded obediently, and then headed towards the inner castle.
After Winnie left, Nalant simply left the castle again, and then found Quick and asked him to start selecting a new round of Storm Riders reserve soldiers.
These Storm Knight reserve soldiers are still selected first from the ordinary guards.
If there are not enough ordinary guards selected, then they will be selected from the descendants of the meritorious ministers.
For example, in the past, families of soldiers who died in battles would be hired on a limited basis as long as they met the conditions.
The selection of reserve soldiers for the Storm Riders does not require Nalant's personal supervision.
Quick completed the selection just two days later.
After personally accepting the allegiance of these new Storm Riders reserve soldiers, Nalant personally distributed the potion to each of them.
Immediately, he watched all the soldiers take the medicine on the spot.
The recruitment of new Storm Riders was over, and Nalant was free again for the next few days.
Taking advantage of this gap, Nalant learned several more magic spells.
Two of the most interesting are illusion and deafness.
Of course, what Nalant learned was all intermediate magic, such as group illusion and blinding.
Every time he used the recharged grenade, Nalant had tasted the benefits.
His magic practice has gradually gone astray.
In addition to the space magic, he will still focus on the other pyrotechnics, fireballs, etc. He decided to spend less experience on them.
Because Nalant has fighting spirit in him, when he uses magic like this, he will either face a large number of enemies, or enemies who are stronger than himself.
Facing these enemies, confronting them head-on is definitely the most unreliable approach.
However, using spells such as illusion or deafness can catch the enemy by surprise.
And then combined with Nalant's fighting spirit, it can definitely produce 300% effectiveness.
…
A few days passed by.
At noon that day, Nalant walked out of the gate of the inner castle and prepared to go to Lucky Town.
Several imperial caravans have arrived in the town in the past two days, and Nalant plans to entrust these caravans to publicize his high-paying recruitment of craftsmen.
But just as Nalant walked into the vestibule, little girl Shirley ran towards him in a hurry.
"My lord, my lord!"
"Shirley, what's wrong?"
Familiar opening words, Narant knew, trouble was coming again.
It had only been more than a month since the orcs had been surrounded and annihilated by him. Could it be that they were invading again?
However, Nalant soon knew that this time was not an invasion by orcs, but a race that he was familiar with in his previous life but had never seen after time travel, that is, goblins.
Goblin, a thin figure with green skin and pointed ears, was also called a goblin in previous life novels.
These guys are often unpopular characters in fantasy worlds.
For example, nouns such as dirty, despicable, and robbers can be blessed on them.
It's just that Nalant didn't expect that one day these guys would invade his territory.
"Shirley, how far are these little guys from the territory?"
"Sir, because they came out of the Death Swamp, they were not on the patrol route of the Swift Eagles beforehand."
"By the time Swift Eagle finds them, they will only be thirty miles away from our Storm Territory!"
"Thirty miles..." Nalant nodded.
Because he was wary of orcs, Narant asked Shirley to send Swift Eagles to patrol the west of all areas within a hundred miles outside the Storm Territory.
Of course, because the area is too wide, the farther the distance, the number of patrolling Swift Eagles also decreases accordingly.
The closer you get to the edge of the Storm Territory, the number and frequency of Swift Eagle patrols will also increase greatly.
Thirty miles away, this is Nalant's last cordon, so if the enemy is discovered now, he will not be caught off guard.
"By the way, sir, Swift Eagle said, there are many tall men among those little people, as big as a tauren!"
"In addition, they also have many weapons, such as at least dozens of trebuchets!"
Shirley continued to speak at this time.
"Well, Shirley, my lord knows, you go ahead and inform your sister Vivian and the others to meet outside the castle later!"
"Yes, sir!"
Immediately, the little Loli immediately headed towards the back garden of the castle.
"There is actually a trebuchet. Is this the poor guy who only knows how to call Oke Oke described in the novels of his previous life?" Nalant shook his head in confusion.
However, he didn't want to worry about it because he couldn't figure it out, because it wouldn't be long before he could see these guys.
There were a lot of goblins attacking this time. According to Swift Eagle's estimate, there were at least more than 10,000.
Among these more than 10,000 goblins, there are also thousands of races whose species cannot be determined at the moment.
In this way, although he felt that it was not as oppressive as the orc attack, Nalant did not dare to really despise it.
Immediately, Nalant asked the guards to ring the alarm bell of the castle, and he went down the gentle slope outside the castle.
In just ten minutes, all of Nalant's subordinates had gathered.
"Just now, Swift Eagle reported that a Goblin army appeared thirty miles away!"
"Although I don't know why this Goblin army came out of their swamp, one thing is certain, that is, these Goblins are coming in the direction of our Storm Territory."
"And they also brought all kinds of combat weapons, so the enemies this time came with bad intentions."
"Now, everyone has fifteen minutes to prepare, prepare weapons and equipment immediately, and then follow me!"
"Yes, sir!"
Following Nalant's instructions, all his subordinates immediately began to get busy.
"Vivian, there are dozens of trebuchets in the enemy team this time, so our prepared long-range attack guards will also be used this time, and they will be under your command at that time!"
"Yes, sir!"
The so-called prepared long-range attack guards are actually serfs who are not full-time guards on weekdays, but are occasionally recruited to learn how to fight.
These serfs were composed of barbarians, and their main job was to fire trebuchets.
Because the trebuchet, besides aiming, to be honest, there are really no other skills.
In this way, when a battle actually breaks out and a large number of catapults are needed, the original long-range team guard members will be assigned.
Each official member of the long-range attack team can lead a catapult and become the captain of the catapult, responsible for commanding.
The main reason why Nalant did this was that there were too few people in his territory, but there were a lot of weapons and equipment.
In addition, the enemies he encountered were often several times or dozens of times stronger than himself.
In this way, many times the number of enemies was very large, but Narante's soldiers were very few.
Units such as the long-range attack team are the best weapons to restrain enemies with large numbers but poor quality.
Soon, all of Nalant's subordinates were ready.
The long-range attack team has increased from the original fifty to five hundred.
Among them, there are thirty crossbows and seventy catapults.
Each vehicle has only one full-time guard.
"Set off!"
Nalant didn't hesitate. After the team was assembled, he gave an order and then led his subordinates straight to the edge of the Storm Territory.
When Nalant and his subordinates passed by Lucky Town, they were immediately noticed by the townspeople and caravans from various countries.
"Hey, what are Baron Narante planning to do?"
"Is there another orc invasion?"
"It seems true. Didn't you see that Baron Nalant's Warcraft Legion and Elite Knights are among them?"
"Then should we evacuate first?"
"Why are you evacuating? Your Excellency, have you not been to the Storm Territory last month?"
"Well, how do you know that your Excellency was led by other nobles last time? This time, due to changes in the family, I came to purchase dwarven weapons for our principality!"
"That's right, last time more than 20,000 orcs came to invade, Baron Nalant completely surrounded and annihilated them, and captured thousands of orcs."
"So, the Storm Territory has such a powerful fighting force, why are we running away!"
"Well, I also heard about Baron Nalant's feats last month, but when I think about it being an orc, I can't help but feel a little worried!"
"Haha, this still shows that you have no experience. Later, you will equip your caravan with two of the best war horses and ask them to go to the edge of the Storm Territory to inquire for information!"
"If there is really any danger, ask them to return and report immediately. Then we can leave calmly. Isn't this the same thing?"
"Hey, what you said makes sense!"
"That's right. We did it this way last time, but I think no matter what the enemy is, it's probably impossible to defeat Baron Nalant."
"You must know that Baron Nalant now has the title of the most powerful man in the league!"
"The number one macho man? Isn't he the number one warrior?"
"The First Warrior is a title also used by the Orcs, so many people think that Baron Nalant should be called the First Strong Man!"
"Okay, then from now on Baron Nalant will be the strongest man in the league!"