Chapter 525: High-grade fertile land and forged iron hammer [5K]
Everything that needs to be dealt with has already been dealt with.
Even the wind while driving was scalding hot.
The five or six minute journey made Zong Shen sweat all over.
An additional three-level cellar and several water cellars were built in the central area.
The newly built cellar is an ice cellar.
This is what Zong Shen specifically explained to Mariel before.
After half of the water is filled inside, let the frost raven breathe out the cold air.
All that water was frozen into solid ice.
Then we made hundreds of wooden barrels, filled them with water and then froze them again and again.
Make buckets of ice and pour them into the cellar.
It didn't stop until the entire cellar was filled with only a quarter of the space left.
This will serve as a place to cool down in case of emergency.
In addition, the long-backlogged [low-temperature cold storage] was built in the territory.
It can also be used as an alternative summer resort.
Half of the territory's current food reserves have also been put into cold storage.
In case the artificial ice cellar overturns, there is also a cold storage that can be used as a backup method.
In short, these preparations are to cope with the challenges of the next heat wave.
It's funny to say that before, Zong Shen hated snow and cold.
Now we are actively preparing for cooling down.
Pouting his lips, Zong Shen put away the loader mecha and walked into the lord's courtyard.
It was still quiet in the lord's small building.
Due to the rising temperature outside, the room began to get hotter and muggier.
Under this situation, Zong Shen somehow remembered the days when he hid in a small building to keep warm in the cold winter.
"This Diao Lord system really loves to torment people!"
Zong Shen's back was already wet.
This sticky hot feeling made him a little irritable.
He simply took off his armor and threw it on the chair.
He took out the communication crystal and contacted Vereesa directly and asked her to bring the frost raven over.
He needs that guy to blow out cold air to cool down.
Don't tell me that the official challenge hasn't started yet.
Even after the start of the heat wave challenge, frost magic and water magic have been weakened and will not be completely ineffective. Take advantage of now to let the frost raven spray the cold air.
It can be cool for a while.
In the previous exploration of the ruins, he got two treasure chests, one bronze and one silver, from the cave with the [Unknown Teleportation Array].
A total of four treasure chests were found in the caves of the ruins.
Three silver and one gold.
But there is one silver trap.
As for the Riptide Tribe, he harvested a total of seven items.
There are three treasure chests, two black iron and one silver.
After eliminating the trap treasure chests, Zong Shen had seven unopened treasure chests in his hand.
Two are black iron, one is bronze, four are silver, and one is gold.
This is all the treasure chests I harvested in the past few days.
He stacked all the treasure boxes one by one.
He looked at the trap treasure box first.
【Silver Treasure Chest】
[An unknown silver treasure chest, no one knows what can be found]
(This treasure chest is a trap. Once opened, it will activate the third-level hypnotic magic, which can make you sleep solidly for 24 hours)
Another general has been added to the reserve of the trap treasure chest.
Zong Shen will deliberately collect any trap treasure chest.
The trap spells contained in these treasure chests may come in handy at certain times.
Zong Shen also chose not to open the remaining two black iron treasure chests for the time being.
The reason is also very simple, because the items in the black iron treasure chest are no longer attractive to him.
In addition, Zong Shen also thought about using the treasure chest to make a special shield car.
Worse still, these two treasure chests can be awarded to legion members with outstanding performance to win over people's hearts.
Anyway, the black iron treasure chest can only yield sophisticated items at most.
It doesn't mean much to Zong Shen.
But it's different for other lords.
Even the black iron treasure chest is a temptation they can't resist.
After all, other lords are not like him, opening boxes until they vomit.
The corresponding vision and expectations have become very high.
Ordinary lords are not qualified to be picky.
Their mentality towards the treasure chest now is similar to Zong Shen's half a month ago.
Put the two black iron treasure chests and the trapped silver treasure chest aside.
Zong Shen came to the bronze treasure box.
With a flick of his hand, he chose to open the treasure chest.
Five balls of light of different colors emerged.
[Opened the bronze treasure chest successfully]
[Garrison Square Shield (Blue) x1]
[Wolf Cavalry Recruitment Volume x2]
【Pumpkin bread x5】
[Kerosene (green) x2]
【Dark beer x1】
Five things are ordinary.
The best thing is an excellent quality shield.
It can be replaced by the four sergeants Rodok.
Previously in the Riptide tribe, the shields of sergeants Rhodok had been smashed.
There's not much durability left.
As a fourth-level heavy infantry, the importance of shields is self-evident.
The attributes of their standard shields range from excellent to rare.
This excellent shield is not as good as their standard shield.
But it's not too different.
At least the shapes and sizes are similar.
You can make do when you have no choice.
And that [kerosene] is a flammable liquid that can be used to make [Molotov Molotov cocktail].
It can also be lit directly.
Two portions were opened from the treasure chest, each portion was approximately one liter.
Packed in a completely sealed wooden barrel.
All that's left is the third party, recruitment coupons, food and drinks.
Zong Shen put them all aside in categories.
Then it's time to open the three silver treasure chests.
In order to save time, he moved both hands together and selected them all at the same time.
The three lids open at the same time.
Balls of light emerged like fountains.
This time he was pretty lucky, one of the treasure chests revealed two purple light balls.
A total of seventeen items were found in the three treasure chests.
Among them, there are four rare ones.
[Silver treasure chest opened successfully]
…
Zong Shen slightly integrated the items released.
Throw those whiteboard items aside.
Including some equipment and food.
Whiteboard level represents common items of ordinary quality, which may still be in demand in the early stages of implementation.
It is basically of no great use to Zong Shen now.
[Advanced Fertile Farm Construction Plan (Purple) x1]
[Level 4 giant turret construction drawing (purple) x1]
[Intermediate fertile land construction drawings (blue) x1]
Leaving aside the recruitment rolls and the like, Zong Shen stored them together and placed them.
Among the remaining items, he has little interest in equipment that is lower than rare level.
This time I got two construction drawings of fertile fields.
One is mid-level and the other is high-level. I don’t know if there is any difference compared with the original [junior farmland].
Thinking of this, he took out both drawings and mastered them in one go.
Then I started to check it out.
[Intermediate fertile land construction drawings (blue)]
[Quality: Excellent]
[A complete building can be built without spending materials, please choose an area to place it]
[Size: 30 meters x 30 meters]
[Occupied area: 900 square meters]
[Construction time: 8 minutes]
[A piece of intermediate fertile land can shorten crop growth time by 45% and increase crop yield by 10%]
(Farming makes you happy)
[Advanced farmland construction drawings (purple)]
[Quality: Rare]
[A complete building can be built without spending materials, please choose an area to place it]
[Size: 50 meters x 50 meters]
[Occupied area: 2500 square meters]
[A piece of high-grade fertile land can shorten crop growth time by 60% and increase crop yield by 15%]
(Bigger area, more gain, double your happiness)
Ignoring the joking remarks in the strategy module, Zong Shendi was quite satisfied with the two farmland drawings.
The previous [primary fertile farmland] had no other pitfalls, except that it was a huge pit in terms of area.
A [Basic Fertile Farm] drawing can only build 100 square meters of fertile farmland.
Regardless of the gain effect, even if all of this 100 square meters is planted with grain, there will not be much harvest.
One acre of land on Earth is equal to 666.67 square meters.
In other words, a piece of primary fertile land is only one-sixth or seventh of the size of an acre.
Fifteen acres are equal to one hectare.
Zong Shen's current territorial population, including the kobolds, is as many as 1,340.
These are mouths that need to eat.
Currently, most of the territory's food consumption comes from nearby villages.
After all, Zong had nothing else, but he still had a lot of dinars.
But this is by no means a long-term solution.
Due to challenges, most of the lords' farming plans have been shelved.
This is especially true for those Chinese lords.
Farming and infrastructure construction are instinctive in our blood.
After not farming for a day, I felt very restless.
Jiang Yi also started farming very early.
But now all kinds of challenges are coming one after another, and no one can farm with peace of mind in this situation.
Food consumption in the territory basically needs to be met through hunting and village purchases.
From the time of arrival to the present, the number of wild beasts on the grassland has decreased significantly.
I still remember that when I first landed, Zong was attacked by a lone prairie wolf cub.
From time to time when going out, we encounter wild beasts such as prairie bulls, furbolgs, and blood-toothed wild boars.
It's been a long time since I've seen him.
Most of them have become the prey of the lords in the area.
Taking into account Bajie's body shape, if you hunt a blood-tusked wild boar, after skinning, removing the bones and bleeding it, you will have at least 600 to 700 kilograms of meat.
After all, the size is there, comparable to the body of a small light truck.
This amount of meat is enough to feed a small or medium-sized territory with less than a hundred citizens for five or six days.
In addition to hunting, many lords will also look for nearby indigenous forces to exchange or purchase food.
Those animal skins are worth some money, so it won't be a problem to exchange them for some dry food.
There were even lords looking for job opportunities among the Aboriginal people.
Undertake some martial arts jobs such as escorting and hunting.
These are actually not long-term solutions.
At least Zong Shen already knew that food prices in Xitano Village and Dinan Village had soared by 30%.
Don't underestimate this 30%.
Food is the bottom demand and the basic need.
The impact of changes in its selling price is far-reaching.
Normally prices should tend to be stable.
But now that it has skyrocketed by 30%, it illustrates one point.
That's the imbalance of supply and demand.
Take the village of Citano as an example.
There are large pastures and fertile fields outside the village.
In addition, the situation has been good these past few years.
Bosbon, where I belong, is also very peaceful.
Although bandits occasionally raid, those guys don't destroy farmland.
Therefore, there is really no shortage of food.
But no matter how short it is, there is a limit.
The permanent population of Citano Village is just over 3,000.
The bumper harvest plus the surplus grain accumulated over the years, minus the purchases from traveling merchants.
The remaining food reserves were insufficient to sustain nearby lords for long.
Of course, the entire area covers 40,000 square kilometers.
Has more than one village.
But it is still difficult to meet all the needs of nearby lords.
This is also one of the conflicts between the lords and the indigenous people.
So farming is imperative.
If you want to farm safely, you must at least wait until the challenge month is over.
There is amazing natural magic in this world.
There are also various magical buildings with the effects of increasing yields and accelerating growth.
and props such as agricultural fertilizer.
It is conceivable that the farming cycle of the lords must be much shorter than that on earth.
I thought about the farming plan silently in my mind for a while.
Zong Shen was very satisfied with these two farmland drawings.
The high-end ones are 2,500 square meters, and the intermediate ones are 900 square meters.
This is truly an increase in volume without a price increase.
As long as it is within its area, all fertile land will have the characteristics of high yield.
After studying the two drawings, he focused on those rare props.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Of course, there is no need to say more about the [Fourth-order giant turret architectural drawings].
There is already one in the territory.
This is also a complete building and can be built directly.
A new giant turret is added to guard the territory, which is enough to once again enhance the territory's group attack capability.
At the end of the Crypt Challenge, the giant turret was really powerful.
Each shot can blow up a large area of crypt monsters.
However, this thing can't tell the difference between friend and foe, so it is a bit passive when fighting at close range.
Fortunately, it has a [gunner mode] that can be manually controlled and fired.
There is nothing wrong with it except that it consumes magic energy.
I can grasp the drawings with my hands first and then talk about it.
Anyway, Marier was in charge of the construction part, so Zong Shen felt at ease.
There is still one trap manufacturing blueprint and one equipment item left.
Zong Shen also checked in turn.
[Level 4 Frost Trap Production Drawing (Purple)]
[Quality: rare grade]
[Level 4 manufacturing technology drawings, after learning them, you can build a level 4 frost trap by consuming certain resources]
[Effect: Build a frost trap, covering an area of 10 meters x 5 meters, which can cause 120 points of frost damage to passing enemies and freeze them for 3 to 10 seconds]
[A frost trap can take effect up to 50 times]
【(Click to learn)】
(The fourth-level frost trap is a good defensive trap that can enhance the defense capability of the territory. Setting it in key areas when necessary will have unexpected magical effects.
Trap-type buildings have their own levels of stealth and concealment effects)
This is the second trap blueprint that Zong Shen obtained after the [First-Level Spike Trap Technology Blueprint].
No matter whether you use it now or not, there is nothing wrong with saving it first.
These can be used as defense supplements for the territory in the future.
The fourth method besides city walls, towers, and arrow towers.
After mastering the trap manufacturing blueprints.
Now there is only one thing left.
This is a long-handled blacksmith's hammer.
The total length is about 80 centimeters, and the head of the hammer is equivalent to making a fist with both hands together, making it very heavy and heavy.
[Forged Iron Hammer (Purple)]
【Hands】
[Quality: rare grade]
[Blunt damage: 65~68]
[Attack range: 80]
[Attack speed:-12%]
[Durability: 500]
[Strength required: 38]
[Skill: Repair (can be used once every 168 hours, the repair level does not exceed 60 points of durability of rare equipment)
Fire hammer whirlwind vl0 (the hammer's hair is red and flaming, and the hammer is spinning, lasting for 10 seconds, causing 1.3 times bludgeoning damage and 20 points of fire damage to enemies within the range every second, cooling time is 4 hours)
Passive skill: Forging iron (when forging rough metal, the forging efficiency will be increased by 25%)】
(The dwarf uncle will like this gift very much)
This piece of equipment is actually a forging hammer commonly found in blacksmith shops.
A long-handled hammer with added force.
The dwarf uncle himself has a small hammer with a short handle.
The blacksmith shop is also equipped with whiteboard quality long hammers.
No matter how you compare it from any angle, it cannot compare with this rare forged iron hammer.
"This is quite suitable for the dwarf uncle to use!"
Zong Shen hammered the forged iron on the ground.
The stone floor suddenly made a dull sound.
He nodded frequently, this was indeed a piece of equipment that was very suitable for the dwarf uncle.
It can be used as a blunt trauma weapon or as a daily forging iron tool.
The durability of 500 is enough to last a long time.
And it also comes with the [Forged Iron] passive, which can improve production efficiency.
There is also a repair skill that can be used once a week.
As long as the equipment items are of a grade not exceeding rare level, they can be used.
Finally, it also has a combat skill.
It's a pretty well-rounded hammer.
Zong Shen put the hammer aside and had no intention of putting it away.
All silver treasure chests are now open.
There is only one gold treasure chest left, plus five other gadgets from the Riptide tribe.
Zong Shen pushed the empty box aside, and later he went to the blacksmith shop himself.
In addition to giving the empty treasure chest to the dwarf uncle for smelting.
By the way, bring him the [Forged Iron Hammer] as well.
And if Zong Shen remembered correctly, the [Jet Breeding Equipment] that he had previously given to the dwarf uncle for modification should have been completed long ago.
When the time comes, add the eagle sauce on the spot.
In this operation, Zong Shen planned to rope in gryphons and manticores to take turns.
Let's start with the Griffin team in the first game.
In the second game, I will call Manticore Tiger again.
Anyway, they all have long-range means, which can definitely provide assistance when attacking the Balrog Boss.
Just when Zong Shen thought of this, the door of the lord's small building was pushed open.
Vereesa walked in slowly, holding an arm-thick iron chain.
There was a large shadow at the door blocking the sunlight.
She stood at the door and bowed slightly to Zong Shen.