When the delicacies were served, the goblin leader Lumba's eyes gleamed as he ate them.
Narant didn't realize that he was actually a foodie.
And this is indeed the case. At this moment, the Goblin leader was exclaiming in his heart while eating.
"The food of the human race is so delicious. Although my father was the leader before, he could only eat giant loaches and wild vegetables in the death swamp!"
"Furthermore, even after I became the leader, the food has not changed. Occasionally, I can eat the meat of monsters hunted by the one-eyed troll."
"But the cooks from my tribe also make terrible food."
"But the human nobles can eat so many delicious foods, especially that cream cake and this wine. There are such delicacies in the world!"
"How is it, Chief Lumba, are you satisfied with the food I provided?"
Narant took in the rumba's eating scene and asked calmly.
"Well, it's delicious. My dear sir, these delicacies are so delicious!" Goblin Lumba was unprepared and immediately nodded in affirmation.
"It's delicious. I hope you can let me see your abilities next!" Nalant nodded in confusion.
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Time flies and it's midnight.
When Nalant had just finished his training, Big Stone came to report that the goblin chief craftsman had completed the construction of the crossbow.
"Is it so fast?"
Narant was a little surprised. He originally thought that this matter would have to wait until tomorrow.
"Let's go and have a look!"
Immediately, Narante stopped talking.
Speaking of which, he really looked forward to it.
If the Goblin's craftsmanship was really that good, wouldn't it mean that he would have a large number of skilled craftsmen?
In addition, you can also complete the tasks issued by the system, and there is no need to entrust those caravans to go to the six empires to recruit people.
When Nalant came to the gentle slope of the castle, he saw a ballista placed there.
There were more than ten goblins standing next to him.
"Dear Sir, our goblin chief craftsman has completed your test!"
As soon as Nalant approached, the goblin leader Lumba immediately stepped forward and spoke.
It was as if he had built this crossbow bed.
"Yeah!" However, Nalant now wanted to keep the goblin honest and needed to rely on him for the time being, so he let it go.
He nodded and immediately came to the bed crossbow.
Not to mention, from the outside, there is nothing wrong with this crossbow. It is exactly the same as the crossbow cart built by Nalant's own craftsmen.
Of course, appearance does not mean power.
Therefore, Nalant directly ordered Dashitou and several people to start the test firing.
The chief goblin craftsman was very confident and did not say a word during the process.
Buzz!
Snapped!
With a buzzing sound, the long and thick crossbow arrows were shot instantly.
With Zhuang Kang's eyesight, he could clearly see the slight left-right distortion of the long and thick crossbow arrow as it passed through the air.
Immediately, a loud bang was heard, and a large tree in the distance that a person was hugging was shot directly through. The crossbow arrow had already been inserted into the mud behind the tree, and it had not penetrated even half of it.
"Huh!"
When Nalant saw this scene, he immediately screamed in surprise.
Because, he felt that the power of the crossbow arrows had improved somewhat this time.
In fact, we can see some clues from the swing amplitude of the crossbow in the air just after it was launched.
After the arrow is fired, it is not actually straight when it is in the air because it undergoes huge inertia.
Instead, it twists and oscillates slightly due to pressure.
The swing of the crossbow just now was obviously much larger than before.
And now, after shooting through the tree, Nalant's idea was also verified.
"Chief Goblin Craftsman, have you made any changes to the crossbow?" Nalant felt that there might be some reason for this that he had not discovered.
"Yes, human nobles, when I was making this bed crossbow you call it, I found that the length of the crossbow wall was actually incorrect!"
"So, I followed my correct method and slightly extended it by ten centimeters, so the current bed crossbow is the most powerful!"
The chief goblin craftsman responded immediately.
"Really! Is the extended crossbow arm reliable? Will it be scrapped after a few uses?"
Narant asked immediately.
Although he originally provided the drawings for this crossbow.
But the specific performance and debugging in all aspects still need to be verified by the craftsmen themselves.
Narant vaguely remembered that the carpenter mentioned it to him at that time.
This crossbow arm is somewhat difficult to construct.
If it is too long, the crossbow arm will be easily broken.
But if it is too short, the power cannot be fully exerted.
In this way, Narant asked them to find a compromise size, focusing on stability as much as possible.
After all, when he didn't want to fight the enemy, the crossbow arm suddenly broke while he was shooting.
"Human noble, although my combat power is the weakest among the Goblins, my craftsmanship is the best!"
"I can assure you that this bed crossbow will not cause any problems even if it is fired three hundred times. It is no different from your previous bed crossbows!"
"Okay!" Narant liked this kind of talent.
"May I have your name?"
"Human noble, my name is Humba!"
"Humph?" Nalant was speechless. It was really easy to name these goblins.
What about Lumba, Luba and this Humba? I wonder if there are Gaba and Kengba!
"Humph, since you are so confident in your craftsmanship, then from now on you will be the chief craftsman of the Storm Territory!"
"Also, Chief Lumba, you said this morning that your Goblin tribe still has many outstanding craftsmen. Now go and help me recruit them!"
"Okay, Your Excellency!" The Goblin leader responded immediately after hearing this.
After a pause, he immediately looked at Hengba, "Hengba, I have decided to join the Storm Leader and become a subordinate who respects you!"
"So, from now on, your noble lord's orders will be my orders, Lumba!"
Before leaving, the leader of Luba explained to Humba again.
Humba was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Nalant, "Thank you, distinguished sir!"
Soon, the Lombard leader summoned all the craftsmen he thought were outstanding.
With so many people, Nalant couldn't test the authenticity of their craftsmanship one by one.
Moreover, the chief craftsman had proven that Goblins were indeed talented in making, so he simply asked these Goblins directly what they were good at.
Soon, Nalant got the answer from these goblins, that is, the main direction of these goblins was to build buildings or carpentry.
They also know a little bit about smelting wrought iron, but due to their size, they definitely can't compare with dwarves.
In this way, they forged iron only to assist in the construction of various equipment parts.
"Very good. Now, I will form a group of craftsmen with 535 of you. From now on, you will enjoy the status of craftsmen in the Storm Territory!"
“Not only will you get a salary, but you will also be assigned a comfortable and beautiful cabin!”
Narant directly recruited him.
"Thank you, distinguished sir!" Before the other goblins could react, the leader of Lomba spoke up immediately.
After thanking him, he saw that the other goblin craftsmen were still confused, so the leader of Lumba asked again: "What are you still doing?"
"From now on, we Death Swamp Goblins will be your noble lord's subordinates. Why don't you thank your esteemed sir quickly!"
"Thank you, my lord!"
When the other goblins heard this, they naturally didn't have the moral integrity to rather die than surrender, otherwise they wouldn't have knelt down so simply when they were captured by Nalant a few days ago.
In this way, the more than 500 goblin craftsmen immediately shouted.
"Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the branch task of recruiting 500 craftsmen. The system rewards have been distributed!"
And when these goblin craftsmen finished speaking, a system prompt sounded in Nalant's mind.
"This is really a double blessing!" Narant smiled.
Immediately, Mario was immediately found and asked to take most of the craftsmen to the base of the city wall construction.
Only the chief craftsman, Hengba, was left to go to the wooden workshop to rebuild the bed crossbow.
As for other ordinary goblins, Nalant also sent them to the city wall construction site.
After all, Narant cannot support idle people.
According to the leader of Lomba himself, although these ordinary goblins are not as skilled as other craftsmen.
But in fact, it is no worse than the average craftsman apprentice.
What's more important is that many of these goblins have strength comparable to that of junior bronze knights.
In this way, with their addition, the speed of building the city wall can definitely be accelerated.
After Nalant finished arranging the goblin affairs, he called Shirley and gave some instructions before returning to the study.
As for what he ordered Shirley to do, it was to ask her to send out bees to monitor the goblins.
The focus is on Chief Narumba.
Although this guy also said his loyalty, how could Nalant be careless?
"Hey, it's the affinity fruit and the spiritual power fruit!"
When Narant opened the system panel, he was immediately shocked by the new variety of kiwi fruits (small) that the system rewarded this time!
This fruit is actually the affinity fruit and spiritual power fruit that even Zhuang Kang himself has longed for.
"Weakened version of the Affinity Fruit: Its effectiveness is only one-fifth of the Affinity Fruit, and it can be used only by subordinates who are absolutely loyal to the host!"
"You can spend one energy point to exchange for five pieces. (Note: Only subordinates who are absolutely loyal to the host can eat it. Otherwise, they may be slightly poisoned, or they may die suddenly on the spot!)"
"Weakened version of the Spiritual Power Fruit: Its effectiveness is only one-fifth of the genuine Spiritual Power Fruit, and it can only be consumed by subordinates who are absolutely loyal to the host."
"You can spend one energy point to exchange for five pieces. (Note: Only subordinates who are absolutely loyal to the host can eat it. Otherwise, they may be slightly poisoned, or they may die suddenly on the spot!)"
The functions of these two fruits are obvious, and they are simply created specifically for magicians.
Affinity fruit makes it easier to absorb various elements.
The spiritual power fruit can increase one's spiritual power, which is also the basis for practicing magic.
"Is this an instruction from the God of Glory? You think my strength is too weak, so let me add another trump card to protect myself!"
Nalant murmured and then looked at his energy points.
I finally saved fifty points.
"The system will exchange for me fifty weakened versions of affinity fruits and fifty weakened versions of spiritual power fruits!"
Since the system is so powerful, Naranti will certainly not let it down.
To be honest, since coming to the Holy Continent, he has also thought about forming a magician army.
But the cultivation of magicians is really difficult.
After all, every magician can be said to be unique.
Both talent and understanding must be possessed.
Without both, even if Nalant puts the meditation method and magic book in front of everyone, they can only be blinded.
But now, with the affinity fruit and spiritual power fruit, it is obvious that this difficulty can no longer stump Nalant.
After spending twenty energy points to exchange two kinds of kiwi fruit (small) for fifty, Nalant sent someone to inform Mario.
Let Mario choose fifty young serfs who are around fifteen years old and are obedient and reliable.
Although nowadays, as long as they are the serfs from the Glory Continent of the Storm Territory, they all support Nalant.
But this weakened version of the fruit requires absolute loyalty.
So, he still needs to let Mario screen it a little bit.
Don't let the serf lose his life because of this, and he will also lose two strange fruits.
Mario was very fast, and after about an hour, he came over with fifty young male and female serfs.
"Sir, do you think these serfs meet your requirements? Their oldest age cannot be more than sixteen years old, and their youngest age cannot be less than fourteen years old!"
Because he was not sure why his lord was looking for such a serf, Civil Affairs Officer Mario acted very cautiously.
Not only is the age stuck at what the adults say, but the ratio of men to women is also 50/50.
Of course, the only thing these young serfs have in common is that they all come from serf families who are absolutely loyal to Nalant.
"Can!"
Nalant nodded and had no other requirements.
Nalant is planning to train these serfs as magicians, so as long as they are loyal, it doesn't make much difference whether they are male or female.
In addition, the age at which people generally start learning magic in the Holy Continent is basically around ten years old.
The reason why Nalant did not choose younger serfs was because he wanted these serfs to grow up as soon as possible and then be able to participate in the battle.
If you are too young, you may not be suitable to face the battlefield.
As for whether it is a little late to learn magic at this age.
With the weakened version of kiwi, these are not problems.
"Do you know why I asked the civil affairs officer to summon you here?"
"Lord, you guys don't know!" A group of boys and girls said in fear.
"Well, don't be afraid, sir, I'm going to reorganize a special guard team!"
"And you who are selected will be the first batch of members of this special guard team!"
"Of course, I can give you a chance to choose now."
"If you are willing to join, then stay!"
"If you don't want to, then I'll ask you, an adult, to let you go back without any punishment!"
"Now, I'll give you one minute to make a decision!"
To be sure, Nalant spoke again.
"Sir, we are willing to swear allegiance to you to the death!"
But it is obvious that these boys and girls have no dissatisfaction or resistance to Narant.
And given how popular the identity of a guard was, everyone was excited.
Even the girls expressed their willingness to become guards without hesitation.
"Very good, now, you all line up and come forward to receive the items from the adults!"
"Mario, prepare to register your name!"
Nalant was very satisfied and immediately took out the weakened versions of the Affinity Fruit and the Spiritual Power Fruit.