Papara's words surprised Ai Lan, and at the same time she was also slightly shocked.
The impact of Long Kuang Mystic Lock was far greater than he imagined.
He looked at this half-elf who looked like a useless person, and for a moment he didn't know how to comfort him.
Papara seemed to feel something and raised her head to look at him with great despair.
"Do you have a mission to look at the warehouse? If not, you can look at the gate."
"This guy has been completely ruined." Ai Lan looked at this female drunkard and shook her head helplessly.
It doesn't cost much to raise a disabled person. Seeing that she has completed the task well, let her lie down in the mangrove collar.
At this moment, Ai Lan suddenly thought of something, "By the way, where did you get this news?"
"A caravan from the Traveling Merchant Alliance passed by here a few days ago, and I bought information from them."
Then, Papara told Ai Lan all the movements of the caravan.
"It seems that the situation in the wetlands and swamps cannot be concealed for long."
This place should be lively again soon.
In such a large area, the resources are not too many, but not too few either.
Mainly because there are no competitors, this kind of place is still very comfortable for some small forces.
"Apart from the passing of the caravan, has there been any change in the marsh itself?"
Ai Lan and the others have been away for more than two weeks, and a lot of changes must have taken place here.
"In addition to the wine spring, there is also a mud pool in the swamp, which produces mud monsters."
"There is a rotting corpse pit near that disgusting corpse seam demon tribe, producing rotten zombies."
Papara has recruited all those sludge monsters.
As for the rotting zombies, they were so disgusting that she didn't touch any of them.
This kind of undead garbage unit was really useless to Ai Lan, so he simply ignored it.
While he was asking about the situation, Gray Crow had already arrived at the gold mine, took over all the stationed soldiers, and began to transport them to the mangrove territory.
After receiving the news, Ai Lan confirmed the number of soldiers and nodded with satisfaction.
"Let's go, Papara, I'll take you back to the territory."
This guy can just lie down if he wants. It's not like he can't afford to be a useless person.
Ai Lan took her back to the mangrove collar and built a one-story mushroom house for her.
"You can live here from now on. By the way, do you want to sell the white dove necklace?"
Papara glanced at her hut, took off the necklace from her neck, and threw it to Ai Lan.
"This necklace is of no use to me anymore." After saying that, she walked into her house without looking back.
"My temper is quite small."
After dealing with Papara's matter, he immediately took Yalkiman and began to plunder the wetlands and swamps.
The supplies and soldiers collected by Papara are being transported back to the territory quickly by Gray Crow and Ren.
When everything in the wetland swamp was on track, Ai Lan began to study the technology of micro magic nets.
To build a miniature magic network, the difficulty is not much lower than building a mage tower.
With Aphra's current ability, it is still impossible to build it.
Even with the assistance of Arkiman, it was still difficult for them to establish a miniature magic network.
Ai Lan placed her hope on the academic mage of the Spiritual Enlightenment School.
An academic mage is what the Red Tree Territory is in urgent need of right now.
Theoretical knowledge may seem inconspicuous at ordinary times, but when you need to use it, you will immediately know how important it is.
Although they cannot complete the work of building a micro magic network independently, they can prepare some preparatory work in advance.
Before constructing the magic net, you first need to determine the area covered by the magic net.
The range that the micro-magic net can cover is not large. Ai Lan calculated that with the lord's mansion as the core, the micro-magic net can only cover about one-fifth of the territory.
The mangrove has some special features and it is not easy to use the mage tower as the core.
After many discussions between Ai Lan and Arkiman, they finally positioned the core of the micro magic network at the center of the Lord's Mansion.
The Micro Magic Network has a total of more than 3,600 nodes, requiring one core node and 36 branch nodes.
Since there is only one core node, the stability of the Micro Magic Network is actually very poor.
In addition to the most basic ones, spells that amplify one's own spell-casting units within the range.
Micro-magic nets can only suppress the use of enemy first-level spells within the coverage area.
However, micro-magic nets are the precursor to all magic nets and are one of the essential studies.
After determining the core nodes, their next work is actually very simple.
With Yalkiman's assistance, Ai Lan only needs to determine the thirty-six branch nodes one by one.
Then follow this rule to locate all the small nodes.
Among them, the Mage Tower is definitely a very important branch node.
The mana required to use the Micro Magic Network is extremely staggering. The more powerful the ability, the higher the mana it consumes.
There is a magic pool under the mage tower, which is a good addition.
The work of locating nodes is very easy, but it takes a long time and a lot of patience.
Since some nodes are underground, you need to use perspective eyes to observe them when positioning them.
These are just preliminary preparations. If you really want to build the magic network, you still need to arrange a large magic circle.
Ai Lan can't do this job, it must be done by a professional mage.
In fact, the research looted from Huangyi Town has saved him an unknown amount of effort.
Otherwise, just pointing out the micro magic network would cost him a lot of time and resources.
In this busy period, two days passed quietly.
Tomorrow is the third week of the second month after the server is launched. All buildings will be refreshed, and the mangrove leader’s military strength will see a huge surge.
In two days, the gold mines in the swamps had been plundered.
Now, mangrove collars are plundering lumber camps.
At this moment, the news that Ai Lan had been waiting for finally came.
"Xiao Ai Lan, I've almost found the person you want."
As soon as the voice on the magic ring rang, Ai Lan couldn't wait to reply, "That's great."
The power of the legal system in the mangrove territory is really too weak.
Ai Lan's desire for the mage needs no words.
In most worlds, legal professions are the most precious and rare professions.
Explore all things, study the laws of the world, and find the essence of things.
Mage is a profession with a pitifully low lower limit but an almost endless upper limit.
This path can actually be described in one sentence: knowledge is power.
"I've asked everywhere for the magic teacher you want, but no one is willing to come." Fastan first told him the bad news.
Magic teachers are usually around level 10, truly elite mages.
A mage of this level cannot be recruited just by talking nonsense.
Ai Lan expressed great regret for this. Fastan's channels could not find a mage willing to come to the Mangrove Territory, so there was no need to think about other channels.
But Fastan also had good news to tell him that, except for the magic teacher, all the other personnel he needed had been found.
The first is the alchemist, a dwarf with a strange name, Jin Bang.
This is a level 2 mage who works part-time as a level 5 alchemist.
According to Fastan, this guy owed a large sum of money to the Spiritual Enlightenment School and had to sell himself to the school.
As a level 5 alchemist, what else can Ai Lan say?
In addition to thanking him, all he can do is give him as much reward as possible.
"Ai Lan and Jin Bang signed a contract with the Lingyu School for 15 years."
"He will only work for you for 15 years, and after 15 years he will be free."
How much money did this guy owe in 15 years?
But after such a long time, it was actually no different from selling myself to him.
"Thank you so much, ma'am."
This contract will eventually be handed over to Ai Lan, and he does not need to worry about Jin Bang's loyalty at all.
"Then there's the scholar you want."
"Most of the scholars with higher grades are older and don't like to run around."
"But I still helped you find a young guy. When he heard that you were going to the New World, he immediately agreed to join the mangrove collar."
This is an unexpected surprise. Academic scholars are what Ai Lan is in urgent need of right now.
"The last one is the magic apprentice you want."
The apprentices trained by the Lingyu School are not enough for themselves, so of course they cannot sell them to Ai Lan.
However, due to the Dragon Madness Mysterious Lock incident, many small forces on each continent perished.
This group of apprentices came from a natural force that was destroyed by the dragon.
A large number of mage apprentices are one of the necessary prerequisites for building a mage group.
In order to get these twenty apprentices, Fastan really spent a lot of effort.
"This group of forest elves are born with some natural spells. Later, they studied in the mage tower for a period of time, and they all officially became mage."
Needless to say, their templates are all urban residents, and they are legal forces carefully cultivated by a force for themselves.
If it hadn't been for the natural disaster, it would have been impossible for these twenty forest elves to get Ai Lan's turn.
If these forest spirits were put up for sale, they would probably fetch a sky-high price.
After Fastan reported the person, Ai Lan did not ask her for the specific price.
He was already prepared and would let Fastan speak for himself later. He would never bargain for less than 500,000 yuan.
"Yes, ma'am."
"I also want to buy some soldiers from the Spiritual Enlightenment School."
The soldiers of the legal system are a good thing, so if you have the chance, you will naturally want to buy some.
"Ai Lan, a soldier of the Lingyu School is not very suitable for you."
He is a nature type mage, and if he brings too many spiritual weapon type mage, his route will be distorted.
You may not see any abnormalities in the early stage, but when these mages reach a high level, all kinds of troubles will pop up.
It's not that Fastan doesn't want to sell soldiers. With her authority, she can sell him a few sixth-level soldiers.
But she doesn't want to see a promising junior go too far on the wrong path.
"Well, let me recommend a unit to you."
Ai Lan naturally had his own understanding of the Lord's route, and he quickly understood the meaning of Fastan's words.
"Ma'am, whatever you recommend is what I want."
"A magician of the spiritual weapon system is really not very suitable for me."
"As long as you understand."
Fastan nodded and recommended Lingyu School's signature unit to him.
Spiritual Oracle [Level 5 Combat Unit]: Level 5 unit of the spiritual weapon system, skills: Witch Bloodline, Spiritual Vision, Spiritual Prophecy, Eyeless, Psychic Shield.
"This unit has little combat effectiveness. You must not lead them into battle."
The usefulness of the oracle prophets is very obvious, they are like a group of witches that have been weakened many times.
Prophecy is their greatest role.
Ai Lan's men didn't have any prophetic power at all, and Fastan's recommendation just made up for one of his shortcomings.
"So how much should I buy?"
It's not a combat unit, and buying too many of them will be useless. He still needs to ask Fastan for advice in this regard.
"Just buy four, and I will match them with crystal balls, which are enough for you to use."
"Then it's up to you, ma'am."
"correct."
As soon as Fastan mentioned the crystal ball, Ai Lan remembered that she still had a crystal ball lost by the witch in her hand.
There is obviously a deep connection between Fastan and the witch.
Now that it's mentioned, let's ask her.
"Madam, do you know a witch who lost her crystal ball?"
"I got one by chance. I don't know who to give it to."
In addition to the crystal ball, Wren also has a badge of truth on his body, which is also the witch's lost item.
"The lost crystal ball?" Upon hearing Ai Lan's question, Fastan was suddenly confused.
"Wait a minute, I'll come over and take a look."
"You should leave the territory first, I can't locate you now."
"OK, wait."
The confusing maze disrupted the mage's positioning, making it impossible to determine Ai Lan's current location.
Ai Lan is quite satisfied with the effect of this special building.
He called Aphra and Renn, walked out of the territory with them, came to an open space and waited patiently.
Not long after, a dimensional crack suddenly opened above Ai Lan's head.
A familiar figure led a group of mages into the mangrove territory.
"Madam, we meet again." Ai Lan gave a mage salute to Fastan. This female mage was of great help to him.
If you have the chance, you must repay this kindness properly.
"Is your territory already at level 2?"
Fastan still remembers that it seemed like less than a month had passed since this little guy got the heart of the city.
A person fighting alone can develop like this. Fastan couldn't help but look at Ai Langao a few times.
"You are overly complimentary." Ai Lan said with rare humility, "This is the crystal ball I got."
Ai Lan took out the crystal ball from his bag and said, "Ren, take out your badge of truth too."
"This badge is also a lost item of the witch. I have had it for a long time and I still don't know who to give it to."
Fastan took the two treasures and examined them carefully for a while, "Why do these things appear in your hands?"
Ai Lan told her the process of obtaining these two treasures.
"I understand, you did a good job." Fastan returned the badge of truth to Ren, "This badge belongs to a dead witch, just take it."
"It's this crystal ball." Fastan seemed to have thought of something bad, and his brows slowly wrinkled.
"Xiao Ai Lan, I want to take this crystal ball back to the school for investigation."
"No problem, just take it."
It was just a crystal ball. How could Ai Lan ruin his relationship with the female mage because of it?
