Zong Shen returned to the room, took off his armor and equipment and fell asleep.
As for the two gold diggers, their mouths were gagged and hung under the elemental arrow tower, whimpering continuously.
But no one paid any attention to them. The soldiers continued to rest when they needed to, and continued to patrol when they needed to. No one cared about these gold diggers at all.
Strictly speaking, Zong Shen's territory was fought out of blood and fire, and several of these Tianguang-level monsters were wiped out by them.
The little gold digger was nothing in comparison. It was not surprising that he would end up like this if he dared to be so disrespectful to the lord. Everyone seemed very calm about it and had nothing to worry about.
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After a good night's sleep, Zong Shen woke up at around 6 a.m. the next morning.
As his physical fitness increases, his need for sleep becomes lower and lower.
The first thing Zong Shen did when he got up was to take off the bandage and check the wound under his ribs.
Now, the wounds on his ribs and back have scabbed over, and the wounds heal frighteningly fast.
Zong Shen re-applied some Luna Spring water on the wound and replaced it with a new bandage.
After taking care of the wound, he got up and got out of bed and put on his equipment.
Today he is not traveling far, he is going to take care of things in the territory and build some useful architectural drawings on hand.
Then organize a hunting team and take the initiative to sweep away the crypt monsters around the territory.
In fact, there are not many lords today who are as leisurely as Zong Shen. Even if most lords can rely on their territory, terrain and defensive buildings to resist, the battles are extremely fierce, almost non-stop fighting day and night, and occasionally they can
Take a nap.
Where can I be like Zong Shen, who can not only go out and explore, but also sleep leisurely in the lord's small building?
But there is one thing to say, the battle pressure Zong Shen faced was not comparable to that of ordinary lords.
On the one hand, it is because he directly completed a crypt with a single brush, and on the other hand, it is also related to the size of the territory. The larger the territory and the larger the population, the greater the attraction to crypt monsters.
The overall situation is still in a relatively balanced state. As long as you go all out, you will definitely gain something after the crisis. The strong will gain from the strong, and the weak will also gain from the weak. At least the overall trend is a steady progress, as if there is a pair of
The invisible hand is constantly promoting the progress of the lords.
Zong Shen washed himself a little, and with his permission, the mages took turns entering the [Magic Palace] to meditate and practice. Everyone else also went to their places.
The kobolds, led by Dutra, collected stones near the territory. More than two hundred kobolds were distributed around the territory. These kobolds were more powerful than the farmers and had a certain fighting capacity. Although they could not compete with the clan, they were more powerful than the farmers.
Compared with the professional soldiers under Shen, they are much stronger than those farmers.
Facing monsters wandering from various caves, they were even able to launch a counterattack under the leadership of Dutra, killing many cave monsters while collecting.
So far, except for the third-level elemental arrow tower in the lord's courtyard, all defense towers have been completed. The territory's defense capabilities have been greatly improved. Even those captain-level gargoyles can be easily dealt with.
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For the increasing pressure of crypt challenges, the best way to deal with it is to specifically improve the territory's defense capabilities and the number of soldiers.
Zong Shen twisted his neck and moved his body, remembering that he had not yet checked some of the architectural drawings he had obtained in the mine.
There is also a complete building of [Level 4 Giant Turret] that can be built, which is a rare-level special defense building. Although the attack requires the consumption of mana, it can cause effective damage to large-scale enemies, and it can also provide 3500
The bird's-eye view within a meter range is an absolute weapon for territorial defense.
Zong Shen turned over his hands and took out six drawings, five of which were architectural drawings and one was a manufacturing drawing.
He clapped his hands and mastered all five drawings first, and then began to check the properties of these drawings one by one. With the development of the territory, the demand for some functional buildings has become increasingly strong.
For example, bathhouses, canteens, medical centers, and even buildings for exercise and relaxation all have potential needs, and these need to be gradually improved and solved.
The few architectural drawings I just mastered can meet some of the functional requirements.
[First-level training ground construction drawings]
[Quality: Ordinary (white)]
[Requirements: wood x600, stone x380, hemp rope x22, iron x120, mithril x30, primary element crystal x10]
[Construction time: 12 hours and 46 minutes]
[A first-level training ground with certain training facilities can accommodate a certain number of soldiers or farmers for training. 100 experience points will be obtained every hour. The training time is limited to 8 hours per person per day. The hunger and satiety consumption will be accelerated during training.
, easy to enter a state of hunger]
[Area: 1,000 square meters]
[Sturdiness value: 1200]
[Building Armor: 20]
(A low-level training ground can provide basic training to soldiers and farmers. As long as you spend time training, you can gain a certain amount of experience without fighting)
[Medium-sized bathhouse construction drawings (green)]
[Quality: Excellent (green)]
[Requirements: wood x300, stone x400, hemp rope x30, iron x100, primary water rune x5, primary fire rune x2]
[Construction time: 9 hours and 26 minutes]
[A bathhouse that can provide clean hot and cold water for washing. It has two large soaking pools and forty independent shower rooms. The interior of the bathhouse is divided into two parts for men and women, which are isolated from each other]
[Area: 800 square meters]
[Sturdiness value: 1500]
[Building Armor: 25]
(Medium-sized bathhouses can meet the washing needs of the residents, maintain physical hygiene and cleanliness, reduce the spread of diseases, and increase the happiness of the residents)
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[Quality: Excellent (Special) Human Architecture]
[Requirements: Stone x100, wood x80, iron x80, copper x35, mithril x15, primary ice gem x1, primary water rune x2, primary magic core x1]
[Construction time: 5 hours and 16 minutes]
[Use the magic energy core to activate the energy of ice gems, maintain the low temperature inside the building, and store food, meat, and other perishable items, which require continuous consumption of magic energy]
[Area: 100 square meters]
[Height: 5 meters]
[Magic energy: 0/3000]
[Mana consumption per second: 0.01]
[Sturdiness value: 1000]
[Building Armor: 35]
(Magic technology buildings require continuous consumption of magic energy, which can greatly extend the shelf life of food and ingredients)
[1st level city gate construction drawings]
[Quality: Ordinary (white)]
[Requirements: wood x150, hemp rope x10]
[Construction time: 2 hours and 24 minutes]
[Occupation: 4 meters high x 20 meters long x 20 centimeters wide]
[Sturdiness value: 1300]
[Armor value: 18]
[The basic wooden city gate has certain defensive capabilities and is a necessary basic building for the second-level city gate]
(Congratulations, your city wall defense line is finally complete)
[Deep water well construction drawings]
[Quality: Ordinary (white)]
[Requirements: Stone x120, hemp rope x3, wooden barrel x1, primary water rune x1]
[Construction time: 8 hours and 27 minutes]
[Deep wells can obtain deep underground living water]
[Depth: 10 meters ~ 105 meters]
[Sturdiness value: 500]
[Building Armor: 10]
(Underground water sources are often cleaner than surface water sources. Building deep wells can increase the water supply in the territory)
The five construction drawings are all very practical buildings, whether they are bathhouses, training grounds or cold storages. They are of great use. Unfortunately, the primary water runes and fire runes Zong Shen has on hand are not enough, and they still need to be collected.
The only things he can afford to build now are the first-level training ground and the first-level city gate.
In addition to these architectural drawings, Zong Shen also has a manufacturing drawing on hand.
[Requirements: Iron x60, Copper x15, Mithril x8, Primary Element Crystal x10, Primary Water Rune x1]
[Manufacturing time: 1 hour and 36 minutes]
[Water purification device can purify water quality and remove impurities and poisons in the water. Water runes need to be replaced regularly]
[Elementary water rune purification life: 120 hours]
(The security of water resources needs to be taken seriously, especially in times of war. Crazy opponents often attack the water sources of the territory)
This thing is a water purification device that can filter water resources and ensure the safety of water quality.
However, it won't be used in a short period of time. When the runes are rich, you can create one to filter the territory's water.
Among these drawings, the only ones Zong Shen can build currently are training grounds and city gates. The bathhouse requires water runes and fire runes, the cold storage requires ice magic gems and water runes, and even water wells and water purifiers require water.
Runes, the gaps in this rune thing are really too big.
Zong Shen called Sanpang through the communication crystal and brought a few farmers with him, and first came to the south of the lord's courtyard.
Place the fourth-level giant turret next to the guard tower.
As long as it is not charged, the giant turret will not automatically activate, and it will be shut down at ordinary times, because the explosion damage does not distinguish between friend and foe, and automatic attacks are likely to damage the territory.
There is still a large open space to the south of the courtyard that can be used, just in time to house some new buildings.
Anyway, this is the internal planning around the small courtyard for the time being. When the crypt challenge is over, Zong Shen will start to expand the territory, plan for a large area at the same time, and finally lay out and build a large city wall to form the prototype of a large territory and city.
Zong Shen placed a [Level 1 Training Ground] in the open space to the south and asked a farmer to start construction on the spot. Then he went to the residential area and upgraded 9 of the 35 newly built huts to Level 2
houses, so there are a total of 30 second-level houses in the territory.
Several rows of houses are neatly arranged in the territory, which makes it somewhat popular.
Then he came to the farmland and placed 2 more primary fertile fields next to the original 8 primary fertile fields. This was also a blueprint created in the mine.
There are now 10 primary fertile fields. The wheat, potatoes and tomatoes planted before have all grown. In the primary farmland with the growth bonus effect, the crops grow much faster than on the earth.
I believe that in the next few months we will be able to eat food, vegetables and fruits grown in the territory.
After taking care of the farmland, Zong Shen went to the gap in the four city walls, removed the roadblocks, and began to build the city gate.
Four city gates were placed in the originally reserved gaps, and all the roadblocks were moved out to block both sides of the city gates.
The fifth round of construction frenzy has officially begun, and each round of construction can make the territory more perfect.
It has gradually transformed from an isolated and dilapidated small courtyard into a complete territory with city walls, arrow towers, houses, pastures, farmland and other buildings. Now the territory finally has some appearance.
He still has three [blood-eating piranha seeds] in his hand, and he plans to plant one next to the city gate in the north, and the other two at the gate of the lord's courtyard.
At this moment, Colby suddenly ran over from the east side of the territory riding a giant prairie wolf.
"Sir, there is a carriage heading towards our territory from east to west. Do you want to guide it or intercept it?
He reported a situation to Zong Shen.
"The carriage? It should be Mariel."
"I'll go take a look with you!"
Zong Shen waved his hand and asked Colby to lead the way. He himself followed the giant wolf on foot and ran all the way without falling behind. His agility and [running] allowed him to rival the giant wolf in a short period of time.
Arriving to the west of the territory, you can see a carriage approaching at a constant speed. It was not attacked by cave monsters along the way, so it must be an aboriginal force.
About seven or eight minutes later, the carriage arrived at the city gate and stopped.
The car door opened, and the potbellied Mr. Mars got out first, then turned around and helped Mariel out of the carriage. He saw a smile on Zong Shen's face, and he was also looking at the territory in front of him.
The crypt challenge is arranged by the lord system. The natives cannot see the crypt monsters and will not be attacked by the crypt monsters. The two are as if they are in two parallel worlds.
Therefore, it is simply impossible to rely on indigenous forces to resist the cave monsters.
Of course, if you are willing to abandon the territory and hide among the indigenous forces, you can indeed save your life, but the territory will also be completely destroyed.
In particular, the lord's courtyard will be completely destroyed, and the lord's authority will be lost forever, and he will become a free citizen.
Freemen would lose the privileges and conveniences of their lords.
But it is not a dead end. There is still a chance to develop one's own power among the indigenous people, but this time period may become very long.
Although freemen are not as good as lords, they are much better than death.
Now there are a very small number of free people among the lords whose territories have been destroyed. In the future, these people can only be active between the indigenous people and the lords.
However, Zong Shen didn't understand or care about this. Being a lord was still very satisfying, especially when he established and developed the territory step by step. This sense of accomplishment was overwhelming.
After Mariel got off the carriage, Zong Shen quickly greeted her.
He first shook Master Mars's hand, and then gently shook Mariel's hand.
However, he saw that Mariel's body was trembling slightly, and her eyes looked behind her with some fear at the cave monsters wandering outside the range of the arrow tower.
She had joined Zong Shen's territory before, so she could see these monsters.
Although she was not attacked by monsters along the way, she was still a little frightened.
Hero-level characters do not occupy the command value and are independent heroic-level units.
Zong Shen patted her shoulder comfortingly.
"Don't be afraid, our territory is safe."
"Master Mars welcomes you to my territory!"
He greeted them politely and then led them through the unfinished city wall, into the territory, and all the way through the pasture to the lord's courtyard.
The coachman who came with him was waiting outside with the carriage.
When Mr. Mars passed by the pasture and saw the more than a hundred prairie cattle and dozens of prairie sheep, an awkward yet polite smile appeared on his face.
"There are many cattle and sheep in your territory and pasture!"
he said suddenly.
Zong Shen nodded as usual.
"Okay, these are all trophies obtained from the gangster Carlisle."
"These cattle and sheep are all stolen property of the gangster Carlisle, so I brought them back and raised them myself."
He said it seriously, but Mr. Mars was really a little unreasonable when he heard it.
Although he knew clearly that these cattle and sheep were robbed from his pasture by the gangster Carlisle, he really didn't know what to say.
After what happened to Carlisle, the cattle and sheep really had no direct relationship with Mars. They were the stolen goods of a gangster.
What's more, now that his daughter has joined in, he naturally won't say any more unflattering words.
Zong Shen took Mars and Mariel to the lord's small building and sat down at the long table in the hall on the first floor.
He took out the [Finely Brewed Highland Wine] and placed the already cleaned crystal wine glasses. Each person poured a glass of wine, which was regarded as a treat.
After the three of them took a sip of wine, Mariel's fear eased a lot.
Mars put down his glass, looking hesitant about speaking.
"Just say whatever Mr. Mars wants to say."
"There are no outsiders here."
Zong Shen smiled and said calmly.
After hearing this, Mr. Mars spoke slowly.
"Sir, your territory seems to have just been established. There is not much permanent population, and there is no large-scale farming or commerce."
"In addition, you have not obtained the certification from Bangcheng. If this kind of illegal settlement is discovered by Bangcheng, it will be easily cleared by the National Knights."
"There are many people who have established such settlements recently, but none of them are as large as your territory."
Mr. Mars expressed his opinion and also revealed an important piece of information.
That is, the indigenous forces have begun to notice the emergence of the lords. This situation is consistent with the rule adjustment in the previous official period. However, due to the geographical isolation caused by the vast area, the reaction of the indigenous people will not be reflected so quickly.
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There is another piece of information, that is, as long as you obtain the certification from Bangcheng, you can become a neutral and legal force. If you want to avoid trouble, you still have to go to Bosibon.
Zong Shen thought for a moment and then nodded calmly.
"Indeed, but this place will soon develop into a village. At present, the territory can only be regarded as an armed settlement."
"There are not many permanent farmers and working people, but there are more soldiers."
He said frankly that as a former down-and-out nobleman, Mr. Mars was now a large rancher and businessman, so he still had certain vision and connections.
Zong Shen's original intention was to take advantage of the situation and use the power of the indigenous people to rapidly develop the territory.
Upon hearing this, Mr. Mars nodded, looked directly at Zong Shen, stretched out a five-pointed star-shaped magic token.
Sir, "I will send people to build a large ranch in your territory in a week. At the same time, I will also introduce some traveling businessmen here."
"I believe that your territory will be able to develop, so Mariel will ask you to take good care of it."
"In addition, I have a personal request. If you go to Bosbon in the future, please come to Evans's manor. That manor originally belonged to my father's generation, but it was occupied by Evans's father's generation."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "In the wine cellar of the manor, behind the last row of wine cabinets against the wall, the rune secret door can be opened by using this magic token, which contains the treasures left by my father's generation.
A portion of his wealth and a Knight’s Trial Badge of Avalon.”
"You have space magic items with you. As long as I can bring them back, I am willing to give you half of this wealth."
A task prompt actually appeared in front of Zong Shen.
[Villager of Sitano Village: Mars, sends you a mission invitation]
【Accept】【Reject】
Zong Shen heard that there was a mission and decisively chose to accept it.
[Mission: Retrieve father’s inheritance]
[Requirement: Enter the magic secret room in the manor’s wine cellar and retrieve the wealth left by Mr. Mars’ father’s generation]
[Reward: [Avalon Knight Trial Badge x1], half of this wealth]
The rewards are pretty good, and with the system as a guarantee for the task, Zong Shen can execute it with confidence.
His expression became serious, he took the five-pointed star-shaped magic token and nodded firmly.
"Don't worry, I will make Mariel become a strong woman who can stand alone."
"When I go to Bosbon, I will look for an opportunity to take possession of Evans' manor and check out the situation."
After receiving Zong Shen's approval, Mars breathed a sigh of relief, hugged Mariel again with some reluctance, and then said goodbye in a hurry.
Zong Shen took Mariel to put Mars on the carriage himself, and watched the carriage go away. Mariel didn't say anything more, but her eyes were a little moist and her expression was a little downcast.
The little girl's heroic dream is always so reckless and brave. She joined Zong Shen's territory alone and became the youngest and most immature hero in the territory.
Seeing her depressed look, Zong Shen put one hand behind his back and took out something.
The other hand gently poked her arm.
"Don't be sad, I have a little gift for you."
After hearing Zong Shen's words, Mariel raised her head, with a look of expectation on her face, and said a little embarrassedly.
"Brother... no... Lord, do you still have any gifts for me?"
"But Mariel hasn't done anything yet..."
Zong Shen grinned when he heard this and stretched out his other hand in front of Mariel.
Opening his palm, he revealed the necklace with a green leaf pendant hanging in it.
It is exactly the previous [Necklace of Nature Affinity], this necklace has a very small and fresh appearance.
Mariel looked at the necklace in a daze. It was an excellent piece of equipment, incomparable to ordinary jewelry. The difference could be seen with the naked eye.
"Hurry and take it."
"Do you want me to put it on for you personally?"
Zong Shen urged with a smile, and Malil blushed and quickly took it.
Holding the necklace tightly in his hand, he saluted Zong Shen.
"thank you…"
"Mariel will not let you down!"
Zong Shen nodded with some relief and led Mariel into the territory again.