Chapter 453: Finely Forged Long Sword, Great Wall of Despair
He first asked Mariel to refill the large furnace with fuel.
It is still a layered addition mode of wood plus [pine oil blocks].
This can extend the burning time and heat release as much as possible.
Then Zong Shen selected four more [first-level thatched sheds] and continued to build them in the empty space.
In addition, two straw sheds in the pasture were vacated, and a set of medium-sized heaters were placed in each.
Stand the exhaust pipe and elbow out of the straw shed.
Together he and Mariel began to build the new hayloft.
With the blessing of [Engineering] and [Craftsman's Will], it only takes more than ten minutes to build a straw shed. If two people work together, each person is responsible for two sheds, it can be completed in less than half an hour.
After building these huts, they set up two newly installed medium-sized heaters.
A total of three heaters, one out of two, provide heat for the pasture. More straw sheds mean more shelter. Zong Shen hopes that this can increase the survival rate of cattle and sheep.
These cattle and sheep are livestock, not crops, so the [Farm Tower] is of no use.
After doing this, the rest is left to fate.
Just the [turpentine] burned in these furnaces and the cost of building thatched sheds and city walls can buy several cattle and sheep.
After the construction was completed, Zong Shen breathed a sigh of relief. The boring work of banging the construction hammer was really a task that tested his patience. By the time the additional layout of the pasture area was completed, it was almost eleven o'clock in the morning.
Zong Shen went to the [Blacksmith Shop] and [Tailor Shop] again.
I brought back 377 pieces of [sewn sheepskin jackets] from the [tailor shop]. So far, there are more than a thousand sheepskin jackets left.
He asked Alanna to stop making sheepskin jackets, and the winter challenge was about to end in less than 25 hours.
I'm afraid it will be difficult to sell the sheepskin jackets I make next.
How many of the batch originally listed for sale will ultimately be sold is unknown.
Zong Shen can only place his hopes on the purchasing power of retail investors now, which is why he wants to lower the price. Compared with the [market], his previous selling price is not too expensive, so he has lowered it by 20%.
price, which can improve part of the competitiveness and attractiveness.
The level of the [Tailor Shop] in the territory was not high, and the limited facilities limited the production process. Zong Shen did not let her make other equipment and clothes, but only asked her to teach the current few tailor apprentices.
As for the dwarf uncle, he has gained something new. Since upgrading to the third level [Blacksmith Shop], the dwarf uncle has tried to forge excellent weapons.
However, most of the materials that the territory can provide are basic materials. It takes at least 4 to 6 hours to forge an excellent weapon. There is a certain probability of failure depending on the materials.
This is because the dwarf uncle has advanced blacksmith professional skills. Under normal circumstances, if you want to forge excellent weapons, you need at least some excellent quality materials.
After all, weapons of this level are already standard equipment for Tier 3 to Tier 4 warriors.
In order to save the medium and high-level materials in the limited territory, the dwarf uncle only added a small amount of blue materials to each forging.
In this way, blue excellent-level items can be forged, which clearly shows the technical skills of the dwarf uncle.
However, the attributes of weapons and equipment are very different even if they are of the same level.
There are differences in forging techniques, as well as in the materials used and the runes engraved on them.
Zong Shen was holding a long sword forged by a dwarf uncle in his hand.
[Finely forged long sword (blue)]
【One hand】
[Quality: Excellent]
[Chopping damage: 35]
[Piercing damage: 28]
[Attack range: 80]
[Attack speed: 8%]
[Durability: 350]
[Strength required: 18]
[Passive skill: Sharp lv3 (with an additional 8 points of armor penetration effect)]
(A finely forged iron sword forged by Bronze Beard and Wine and Fire, with good damage capability)
This long sword is the first excellent weapon produced by the territory [Blacksmith Shop].
The attributes in all aspects are pretty good, but the accompanying skills are relatively simple.
Compare it to the first blue long sword that Zong Shen got [Avalon Guards Sword].
Its damage value is slightly lower, but its durability is 50 points higher.
By the standards of an excellent weapon, its overall attributes can only be considered average.
However, its production cost is very low. In order to ensure its sturdiness, the dwarf uncle incorporated a small amount of fine gold and a blue-quality carapace obtained from the spider web monster prophet.
The main material used is common iron ingots. After repeated smelting in wind furnaces and high-circuit furnaces, many forgings, quenchings, and some rudimentary runes were engraved, it was only then that less materials were used.
, forged this long sword.
In terms of material cost and time cost alone, the dwarf uncle's forging skills are priceless.
The forging time required is actually not too long.
Those kingdoms all have large forging workshops, and there are even a few special blacksmiths in them.
There are also a large number of senior blacksmiths, intermediate blacksmiths, junior blacksmiths and blacksmith apprentices, so that large-scale smelting and forging of weapons and equipment can be achieved, and suitable standard equipment can be mass-produced.
In addition, the cost of materials is also huge. Although the aboriginal nobles and the kingdom seem to be very rich, the expenses and costs involved in supporting such a large army are not a small amount.
A well-developed state city like Bosbon often has seven to eight thousand or even tens of thousands of state troops, most of which are second-level soldiers, and a few are third-level and fourth-level soldiers.
Annual military expenditures, logistics maintenance, equipment loss and replacement are not a small amount.
Not to mention giant cities. Large giant cities even have a population of tens of millions, which is almost comparable to a small country on the earth. Not counting the state army and non-state knights within its jurisdiction. Under normal circumstances, a giant city has a population of tens of millions.
There are four to five million standing troops.
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Because this world is very abnormal in terms of region, population, city size, and wealth level.
In addition to those objective crises, there are also many internal crises.
The low productivity of the substructure corresponded to the extravagance of the nobles and the huge number of armies.
The level of fragmentation is like a bottomless abyss. If it hadn't been suppressed inexplicably, huge chaos would have erupted long ago.
Rebels and rebels will spring up like mushrooms in various places, and nobles will establish themselves as kings and plunder wealth in the form of barbaric wars.
The human forces in the entire continent are about to be reshuffled. This is the second act that Chen Rui mentioned, and it is also the situation that Zong Shen has been secretly guarding against.
The next opportunity for the lords to rise rapidly is hidden in the chaos of the aboriginal people.
Zong Shen grabbed the finely forged sword and admired the silver-gray sword body.
The blades on both sides are ground very sharp and polished, making the sword very bright.
This long sword is of great significance. It is the first excellent weapon forged independently in the territory.
It is also a beginning, proving that the future is promising.
As an important part of the talent collection plan, the dwarves of the Bronzebeard Tribe and Black Iron Tribe are also one of Zong Shen's recruitment targets.
Taking advantage of Zong Shen's rare opportunity to visit, the dwarf uncle stopped what he was doing and began to tell Zong Shen some about the dwarf habitat and the situation in the northern part of the continent.
The area where dwarves are active is in the northern part of the Kingdom of Nord, adjacent to the Northern Highlands.
There are countless high mountains, valleys, and mountain streams. Not far from each other, there is a towering super Hengduan Mountains spanning nearly 10,000 kilometers called the Sundaya Mountains.
This mountain range contains many deadly mountains with an altitude of over 10,000 meters, as well as some penetrating caves and rugged mountain roads.
Because of the altitude, the climate in the mountains is very extreme. Different altitudes and locations often have different climates, such as mountain wind gusts or high mountain snowstorms, and there is also the risk of hypoxia.
Even in areas with such a harsh environment, there are still indigenous peoples.
Inhabited by some alpine barbarians with a low degree of civilization.
This super Hengduan Mountains is a natural chasm in the north. It blocks the cold wind from the north at the other end. In addition, there are many ancient ice-covered ruins in this mountain range.
There were even rumors that in the large ice valley on the north side, some people had seen white dragons and fanged mammoths frozen in ice. When the expedition team went there, all these disappeared.
Therefore, this is a very mysterious place, also known as the strong wall of the gods.
Such exaggerated terrain undulations not only hinder the ground, but also hinder the air.
From time to time, violent air currents will occur in the sky. These air currents gather the cold northern air together, forming strong winds with astonishing speeds. Some flying monsters or airships may fall when encountering such air currents.
It is inaccessible for most of the year, except for certain months.
Those tenacious traveling merchants, relying on experienced mountain tribe guides, carried out trade between the north and the south during certain months of the year.
Of course, the Sundaya Mountains are not the only direction from the northern ice sheet to the south. There are many other places to travel from east to west.
The northern part of the entire continent is a high-altitude ice sheet zone. There is only one human kingdom here, and it is also the largest kingdom, named Vigia.
This kingdom occupies most of the northern ice sheet. The land here is relatively barren and the environment is very harsh. Due to the climate, the food they grow can only be harvested once a year.
The main crop is a cereal crop belonging to the barley species called highland barley.
There are also potato crops that have been improved by natural magic.
Because there is not much arable land in the entire ice sheet, it can even be called poor.
The local giant cities and state cities have used natural magic to open up farming areas.
As for animal husbandry, plateau yaks, mountain sheep, ice elephants, giant ostriches, and Geweir deer are all tamed plateau animals.
The Kingdom of Vaegia occupies the southern part of the northern ice sheet.
Another third of the territory is unexplored permafrost and boreal woodland.
Here, the Kingdom of Vaegia built a desperate Great Wall that dominates the entire northern zone.
This Great Wall is two to three hundred meters high and has a thickness of seventy or eighty meters.
It was built tens of thousands of years ago before the Kingdom of Vaegia was founded.
A large number of peasant laborers, earth mages and various magic equipment were used.
In fact, this desperate Great Wall was built by gathering the strength of almost all kingdoms.
Battlefield fortresses and war fortresses were also built at certain distances.
Even the Titans and the Hundred-Handed Giants looked at the wall and sighed when they came here.
This is also known as the Black Ribbon of the North.
There are many towns near the Great Wall where adventurers gather.
This is the most exaggerated defense line built by the human race on the entire continent in the new era.
This line of defense is in addition to isolating the permafrost and the frosty and cold northern woodlands.
It also isolates the ice ocean in the northern part of the continent.
The reason why the Great Wall of Despair was built is because there are some terrible monsters living in the northern part of the continent.
These monsters are called White Walkers!
The White Walkers are tall and gaunt, with pale skin and eyes as blue and deep as ice.
Their skin can change color as they move, and they hold long swords made of extremely frozen ice crystals, which can instantly freeze creatures they touch, turning them into ice sculptures and then crushing them into ice slag. Almost no one can survive the attacks of the White Walkers.
survived.
In addition, the White Walkers can also turn dead corpses into ghouls. These ghouls also have blue eyes and are the cannon fodder power they control.
When the Era War ended tens of thousands of years ago, the old era ended and the new era began.
When people were reclaiming wasteland and reproducing in the north, the first White Walker awakened from the frozen cave in the permafrost and started a horrific killing spree.
At that time, most of the human kingdoms had not yet been established, and the continent was in an era of divided nations.
At the worst time, almost half of the entire Northern Territory was lost. Finally, all human forces marched to the Northern Territory at the same time, gathering hundreds of thousands of mages to form a super corps. With the assistance of the first-generation knights and armed forces from various places, they gradually advanced.
Finally, the resurrected ghosts and corpses were driven back to the tundra.
And together they spent hundreds of years and countless manpower and material resources to build the Great Wall of Despair.
No one dares to enter the permafrost for fear of awakening more White Walkers.
Not only are these guys terrifyingly powerful individually, they are no less powerful than those epic top-level creatures.
The most terrifying thing is that these guys have no subjective motives and are unwilling to communicate.
Killing is the only thing they are passionate about after waking up.
He seems to have no intelligence, but he possesses basic tactical literacy.
Those brutal evil dragons and even undead monsters, as long as they are intelligent, at least have the possibility of negotiation and communication.
The aliens, on the other hand, are truly born to kill and refuse to communicate or communicate.
Either they beat others to death, or they are beaten to death by others.
It's a completely do-or-die situation.
The indigenous forces across the entire continent are very afraid of this.
Fortunately, the White Walkers have not awakened for thousands of years.
But they still remain in the folk songs, legends and stories of the mainland.