The effect of spiritual crystals has skyrocketed, and the value of spiritual crystal mines has also increased.
Gavin had already wanted to use the Spirit Crystal Mine, but due to the limited number of kobold miners, he was unable to tap the potential of the Spirit Crystal Mine for the time being, so he kept putting it off.
This incident directly helped him make up his mind.
Such an important strategic material is safest if it is in your own hands, even if the output will temporarily decrease.
Cutting off food is naturally the first step.
All that's left is to wait for the Spirit Crystal Mine to empty out its previous food reserves and cause internal chaos.
The third day after Gavin finished dealing with Clay.
The leader of the caravan, Bede Sage, hurriedly appeared outside the Black Well tribe. This time he did not come with the caravan, but only brought two guards.
As soon as they met, Bede asked directly: "Is Clay dead?"
"Yes." Gavin was not prepared to hide this matter at all.
This matter not only needs to be known to the caravans, but also to be widely publicized. Words of warning are not enough, naked blood is also needed.
"Where are the four heavily armored guards he brought? Have you killed them all?" Bede asked anxiously.
"That's not true. I know they are mercenaries and have no enmity with them. I just detained them." Gavin pretended not to know and asked, "What's wrong? Do they have a strong background?"
"It has a great origin." Hearing that they were still alive, Bede breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "Have you heard of the Red Crow Mercenary Group? Have you heard of Leyana Rose of Flame Dance?"
"No." Gavin pretended to be ignorant and asked for knowledge and advice.
Although he knew about the Red Crow Mercenary Group, he really didn't know much information.
"The Red Crow Mercenary Group is the largest mercenary group around Yandi. Let's put it this way, among all the caravans that set off from the valley and pass through Yandi, there will definitely be mercenaries from the Red Crow Mercenary Group. They regard Yandi as their rearguard.
Garden." Bede explained patiently, "Their leader Leyana is a powerful warrior who is only one step away from being a legend. We are definitely not someone we can afford to offend."
"What do you mean, uncle, Clay's action this time is not a private action, but an act of cowardice with the Red Crow Mercenary Group? Did they promote this?" Gavin's heart couldn't help but sink. If this is the case, the nature of the whole thing will be different.
That has changed, his conflict with the Red Crow Mercenary Group will be brought forward.
Bede was stunned and couldn't help but shook his head and said: "Brother Gavin, you are thinking too much. The Red Crow Mercenary Group's behavior is not so bottomless. This time, Clay was purely blinded by greed and secretly
The operation only hired mercenaries from the Red Crow Mercenary Group. They probably wanted to use the name of the Red Crow Mercenary Group to save their lives after the incident. Unexpectedly, Brother Gavin had never heard of the Red Crow Mercenary Group.
The name of the Corps is also, after all, you have just arrived in the rocky area and have had too little contact with the outside world."
"That's it." Gavin breathed a long sigh of relief and said with a bit of embarrassment on his face, "Uncle Bede, what should we do next?"
"Now you know how to ask for my opinion? Why didn't you ask for my opinion when you were killing Clay?" There was a trace of dissatisfaction in Bede's words.
Obviously, he had no objections to Gavin's killing of Clay. After all, he was a partner in a group, so he still had some feelings for him.
"The nature is different." Gavin said seriously, "If I really hand Clay over to Uncle Bede, it will be even more difficult for you. When the time comes, will you kill him or not?"
If you kill him, your prestige in the caravan will be seriously affected.
If we don't kill, it will directly destroy the basic bottom line of our cooperation. When the time comes, everyone will want to interfere randomly for their own interests, and we will fall into endless internal fighting, and there will be no talk of win-win cooperation at all.
As for the Red Crow Mercenary Group, they are outsiders, so of course we must deal with them unanimously."
"You alone have said the good and the bad, so what else do you want me to say?" Bede couldn't help but sighed again, "Being decisive in killing is sometimes a good thing, sometimes not necessarily. You are like this
It offends people so much. It blocks one of his own roads and makes a group of people hold grudges. Clay is not alone. There is a big family behind him."
"So, you are businessmen, I'm just a miner." Gavin looked indifferent. If he were to do anything like Bede, he would be as forward-looking and prepared as possible. He wouldn't have to do anything.
Bede thought about it seriously and said: "This is also the reason. If you do everything, there will be nothing for us. Let me take away the four mercenaries from the Red Crow Mercenary Group. The rest will
, let me handle it."
"Then I'll trouble Uncle Bede." Gavin happily threw the four hot potatoes out. Although it was inevitable to deal with the Red Crow Mercenary Group in the future, it was not now. At least according to the current strength, he didn't want to deal with it.
Contact this behemoth head-on - because there is nothing to gain.
Gavin pondered for a moment and then said: "Uncle Bede, our business is now open. It's not an option for you to always be so scattered. I suggest that you'd better set up a chamber of commerce to decide how much money to invest."
In this way, we will carry out shareholding dividends. When the time comes, the business with Heijing will be handed over to specialized people. You will not have to go there one by one in person. When the time comes, you can completely leave your body and do other things.
Business."
"You think I don't have any ideas in this regard?" Bede couldn't help but sighed again, "Ten people have twelve hearts. One is afraid of making less, and the other is afraid that others will make more than him, and wants to take them away.
It’s really difficult to twist them into a rope.”
"It has to be done even if it's difficult, otherwise, you will always be a group of people who just run away from home." Gavin said with a hint of arrogance on his face, "I'm not bragging, at your current pace of development, it won't be long before you can't keep up with me.
The pace is up, don’t blame me for not waiting for you when the time comes.”
The speaker has no intention, the listener has intention.
Bede showed a solemn expression. This is where Gavin's development speed lies.
Everything is difficult at the beginning.
The hardest part was that he was able to cross it so easily at the beginning.
Not to mention that with the current solid foundation, I believe that the future development speed will be faster and faster.
Judging from the current situation, no matter in terms of ideas or pace, there is a real possibility that one day they will not be able to catch up.
Bede believes that this day will not be too far away.
When the time comes, once Gavin cooperates with other large chambers of commerce, even if Gavin misses his old friendship, those large chambers of commerce will not be polite to them and will squeeze them out bit by bit for the sake of profit.
no.
He would never allow this to happen. This was the gold mine they had finally dug out, how could it be given to others so easily?
No matter what, we have to integrate those scattered business owners together and we can no longer let them play their part.
Not only Gavin is worried about the emergence of a second Clay, Bede is also worried.
Clay's behavior was not only prying at Gavin's wall, but also at the same time prying at the entire caravan.
"Brother Gavin has said a lot. I will consider this matter carefully. Just wait for my good news." Bede held Gavin's hand and solemnly promised.
"Okay." Gavin just mentioned it casually. He didn't pay much attention to this matter.
I had previously cooperated with Bede and the others because I had no channels, so I had no choice but to do it with nothing.
Now that he has real goods and has become a seller, supply and demand have changed, and merchants will gradually come to his door.
Bede left quickly as he came.
After talking to Gavin about the matter, he left in a hurry with four heavily armed guards from the Red Crow Mercenary Group.
Although he coveted the heavy equipment of the four heavy-armed guards, Gavin had no choice but to give up in order not to offend the Red Crow Mercenary Group.
As soon as Bede left, Gavin got into the alchemy laboratory that Heijing had just established.
He is working with the kobold alchemist in the Eagle Cliff Cave to find ways to improve the shock bomb.
To be more precise, Gavin thought of a way, and the kobold alchemist cooperated to improve it.
The five dirt lumps that knocked the Goblin Wolf Cavalry and Clay Caravan over before were the flutter bombs that are a specialty of the Kobolds.
In Gavin's opinion, the instability of this kind of bomb is too high.
Not only is the use unstable, but also the power is unstable.
It's about as likely as a half-ogre's fart as a fireball.
There are three types of flutter bombs produced by kobolds - weak, strong and dragon.
The production cost of a weak flutter bomb is about one hundred gold coins, and it weighs about half a kilogram.
The lethality is very unsatisfactory, just like a strong acid bottle. It only causes 1D5 points of strong acid damage (1-5 points, depending on the degree of splash) to all creatures within a three-meter range.
Gavin doesn't even produce this kind of flutter bomb.
The production cost of a strong flutter bomb is about three hundred gold coins, and it also weighs about half a kilogram.
The killing range and lethality have improved, with a splash radius of three meters, but the stability is too poor. It will cause 1D4*1D6 acid damage to creatures within the explosion radius.
This was the first time that Gavin had seen such a weird identification technique. It is estimated that only kobolds, that is, those equally unreliable goblins, could come up with such weird things.
What this means is that you roll 1d4 and 1d6 and multiply the results together to determine the damage it does when it explodes.
Therefore, a Tremor Bomb is just as likely to do 1 damage as it is to do 24 damage (but is most likely to do somewhere around 9).
The situation of the dragon flutter bomb is similar to that of the strong flutter bomb, except that the production cost reaches one thousand gold coins and the weight exceeds one kilogram.
The killing radius reached about five meters, and the damage became 1D6*1D8, which is between 1-48.
The kobold alchemist obviously had no sense of confidentiality and didn't mind Gavin watching him make flutter bombs, because he didn't think Gavin could learn this craft at all.
This is also true, Gavin really can't learn it, because not only physical materials are used, but magic is also required to neutralize and prepare it.
When it comes to magic, forget about using one sentence or two to explain it clearly.
Gavin didn't know the preparation process, but he still knew some of the basic principles of explosion.
Shock bombs, apparently use two different substances that are shaken together to create a chemical reaction that explodes and sprays acid.
It must be that the more fully the two substances are mixed, the more powerful the explosion will be, and vice versa.
Gavin is working on this to see if he can find a way to make it more stable and more fully mixed.
Once you smooth out your ideas, the method is not difficult to find.
Because he not only has physical and chemical means, but also magic means.
You only need to add a small magic wheel to the texture of the tremor bomb. When using it, activate it and let it spin wildly to drive the mixing of the two substances.
At that point, there is no need to even shake it, just throw it out after a few seconds.
With the power of the flutter bomb of the rotating wheel, the stability skyrockets.
The improved strong flutter bomb's damage is finally normal and reaches 4D6 (between 4-24). This damage is completely based on the degree of strong acid splash. It is not the previous one, which is a dumb bomb.
Improved dragon flutter bomb, the lethality has been changed to 6D8 (between 6-48).
But there is a new flaw, that is, the requirements for using flutter bombs have been increased, and you must have the ability to mobilize magic power to activate the wheel.
Fortunately, the Black Well tribe now has a dragon-seeking ritual, and there are not a few kobolds who have activated spell-like abilities, which only makes the use of flutter bombs more professional.
In Gavin's eyes, this is just a temporary alternative, and the flutter bomb still has a lot of room for improvement.
After Gavin came out of the alchemy laboratory, he turned around and went into Anna's chapel.
Like Gavin's residence, these are two stone caves. The one inside is Anna's living quarters, and the one outside is a small church. In addition to a small statue of Ilmat, there are rows of stone chairs.
Simple is fine.
This church has now become a temporary prison, where the special prisoner, the dog demon Andrew, is imprisoned.
In addition to using physical means to limit his possibility of using magic to escape, Anna also needs to give him a healing spell from time to time to weaken his energy as much as possible.
"Mr. Andrew, how are you thinking?" Gavin started to show some impatience, "You know, I can't hold you for a long time. If you don't hand over your real name, I will have to send you on your way.
"
"Come on, I'll be waiting." The dog demon has already regarded death as a kind of relief. Anyway, he will not really die. He just needs to return to that damn Shura field. The current life here is worse than
The Shura Field is also terrifying.
Gavin sighed helplessly. He had too few means now, especially one that could threaten a devil. When the other party regarded death as hopeless, he really had no choice.
"It's impossible to give you my real name." A hint of cunning flashed through the dog demon's orange eyes, "But there is a compromise. I know a binding circle that allows you to sign a master-servant contract with me.
While you are alive, I will regard you as my master and obey all your orders."
"Hey..." Gavin sneered, "Do you think I'm stupid? Let me believe in a devil's binding circle. I don't know if you regard me as your master during my lifetime. My soul after death will definitely be
It's yours, it's a good plan."
"Just take care of things in life, why bother about what happens after death?" The dog demon neither admitted nor denied, "Since you understand our race, you should know how high our growth potential and how fast our growth rate is.
Quick, as long as you provide me with enough powerful corpses, I will soon become your most powerful helper, and I will help you clear all obstacles."
"You think too highly of yourself." Gavin sneered, "I admit, I'm optimistic about your potential, especially your nibbling. It's very useful against those who want them to shut up completely and disappear.
All obstacles, even if you upgrade to the top level, are still not qualified, but God Slaughter, can you do it?"
Gavin's last question was a half-truth.
The dog demon's orange eyes couldn't help but jump. "God of Slaughter, you dare to say it out loud. If a god is so easy to kill, is he still a god?"
Gavin continued to use words to push the dog demon to the limit for a while, but after finding that he had nothing more to gain, he could only leave in frustration.
Tonight, I will dig through my memory for the last time to see if I have the ability to use this devil for myself. If not, I will have no choice but to send him on his way.
When it comes to killing demons and devils, Gavin has extremely rich experience in his previous life. Regardless of whether it is in the material plane or in the abyss of hell, not one thousand but eight hundred demons have died in his hands.
However, the experience in controlling demons, especially demons known for their cunning, is almost zero.
As soon as Gavin came out of the church, Anna sneakily followed him out.
"What's the matter?" Gavin looked at the young priest who was hesitant to speak in a funny way.
As usual, her expressions are all written on her face, which is a little complicated.
From above, Gavin could see the little excitement of touching a taboo, but also a strong sense of guilt, and an expression that said, "I really want to tell you, but I can't."
"This...that...it's okay...it's..." The young priest's snow-white slender fingers were about to turn into twists.
"If you don't tell me, I'll leave." Gavin raised his feet to leave.
"Wait...wait a minute..." Anna stamped her feet, emotion overcoming reason and said, "Mr. Gavin, do you still remember the prayer book I brought out from the church?"
"Remember? What's wrong?" Of course Gavin knew the girl pastor's prayer book. It was always like a treasure. If it wasn't too heavy, he would have wanted to carry it with him.
"That prayer book is actually a book for subduing demons. It records a lot of knowledge about demons and demons." The young priest said a little embarrassedly, "A lot of the knowledge in it is taboo."
"Oh? What taboo?" Gavin suddenly became very interested. Taboos are often linked to power, especially the knowledge tabooed by the church. Most of them are related to demons and devils. Considering that he just had a conversation with the dog demon, he might have something to do with it.
It's relevant.
"This..." The young priest's eyes were a little evasive again, as if she didn't know what was going to happen next. Should she tell Gavin or not? After all, this was a matter of signing a contract with the devil. It was not something she, a priest of Ilmat, should tell.
someone else’s.
Gavin said seriously: "We have been together for a while, Anna, what do you think of me as a person?"
"(⊙o⊙)..." The young priest, who was struggling, was a little confused by Gavin's sudden question. Her eyes couldn't help but fall on Gavin's face and meet his eyes.
Anna, who was as shy as a deer, could not be the opponent of the cunning and cunning Gavin. The gaze only lasted for a few seconds. The young priest's eyes immediately escaped in panic, and her round face immediately turned red, like a ripe heart.