White snow covers the earth, and the branches are hung with beautiful rime. Little bears hide in the snow, and everything begins to hibernate. But soon, the warm spring breeze blows on the earth again, melts the ice and snow, penetrates into the earth, and small trees begin to emerge.
New buds and flowers bloom and wither, and the year passes quickly.
During this year, Ronan's career developed steadily. Because Kress's underground arms trade attracted too much attention, Ronan stopped selling it long ago and turned it into a large amount of his own hoarding, which he hid in caravans from time to time.
To Gaoling.
After the rise of the auction house, in order to maintain competitiveness, Ronan persuaded Queen Serena to take a stake and added the royal prefix to the auction house. He successfully overwhelmed a large number of competitors and now has branches covering almost half of Sinte.
Land of Lan is here.
The silver mines in the Senluo Absolute Territory have successfully accounted for one-third of Ronan's total income. Ronan hires craftsmen to polish the refined silver into various exquisite jewelry. Ronan's design has the information storm and aesthetic impact of his previous life.
The jewelry produced has been unanimously sought after by Hinterland ladies and young ladies.
Ronan has also recruited two heroes in the past two years. One is the excellent-level "Land Shark" Raven Luck. This pirate-turned-hero has now completely taken over Aldridge's merchant ship mission, and
With Ronan's funding, a sizable fleet has been established.
In addition to his main business mission, he also sent out his trusted troops to disguise themselves as pirates. At this time, he had gathered many followers and became one of the most powerful pirate groups in this area. This was also one of Ronan's plans.
, if he could completely control this sea area, just collecting the tolls from the caravans would be enough for him to raise a large army.
Another hero is the epic-level "Night Fury" Meluses, a tall black man who was born as a slave. He later successfully led his people to escape from the cruel oppression of the slave owners. Meluses was also a taciturn man.
Ronan made him and the ten chieftains' iron guards attached to him his personal bodyguards.
As for Aldridge, Ronan asked him to go to Gaoling with a hundred Swadian cavalry and 80 other soldiers of various types as well as a lot of funds to serve Ronan long after he got out of his caravan duties.
Laying out an intelligence network and accumulating strength.
Ronan also gained a lot of reputation and honor points with the author's famous novel, which is now a bestseller in the Hinterlands. Coupled with Ronan's two newly recruited heroes, all of Ronan's system soldiers now add to
There are already more than 700 people together, no
Except for the necessary number needed for the assets of the Hinterland, most of the other soldiers were sent to Gaoling by Ronan to work under Aldridge to pave the way for his next plan. Ronan left about a hundred soldiers.
The vacancies are not being recruited to prepare for emergencies.
Ronan is still a little regretful that he did not recruit an intelligent hero, but it does not matter. His strength in the dark side cannot be underestimated, although on the surface he is still a man with only 180 men.
knight.
Ronan's sparrow plan is also progressing very well. Those trained wanderers can wander in most places without being noticed. Under the leadership of Enoch, they have become Ronan's sparrows scattered around.
It successfully provided Ronan with a lot of information, but after all, the time was still short. Ronan's intelligence network had only spread to a small part of the Hinterlands, but Gaoling's intelligence network had already been expanded under Aldridge's management.
Must be capable.
With the income from various industries, Ronan successfully completed the task of net profit of 100,000 gold coins and the cumulative transaction amount of 200,000 in this year. The level was also raised to 25 with the accumulation of weekly tasks.
Level is still the main charm point. After all, command skills can effectively reduce the cost of troops and increase the number of troops.
"I finally got this last small bag of diamonds. If I couldn't get it again, I couldn't help but use my honor points to buy it!" Ronan muttered in his heart, and exchanged the three small bags of diamonds for dragon blood gems, and then added
Used two dragon blood gems to exchange for dragon blood potion.
Five hundred and ten honor points disappeared instantly, and Ronan gritted his teeth in distress. Although he didn't want to be as poor as before, honor points were still an urgent resource, and Ronan had to accumulate honor points now. After all,
This is related to a more important part of his future plans.
Before taking the potion, Ronan first chose the expertise selection opportunity he obtained at level 25. After careful consideration and comparison, Ronan decided to choose the high-level majestic expertise that would help "convince" others. This expertise can effectively improve Ronan
The momentum makes it easier to convince people in negotiations and other communications.
"Huh!" After taking a deep breath and spitting it out, to calm down, Ronan pinched his nose and tilted his head to pour the whole dragon blood potion into his mouth. Ronan chose the dragon that can increase the charm attribute.
Blood potion, after all, there will be fewer and fewer situations where Ronan needs to take action personally in the future, unless his hands are itchy.
Hot! Hot! This was Ronan's only feeling at this time. The tasteless dragon's blood potion slid through Ronan's throat like hot lava, leaving a string of hot pain that was difficult to eliminate, and then even more after entering his stomach.
It made Ronan's stomach feel like it was on fire.
This feeling soon spread all over Ronan's body.
"Ah!!!" Ronan couldn't help but scream in pain, veins popped up all over his body, his muscles swelled and burst through his clothes, his eyes widened and gradually turned into golden vertical pupils, and some fine lines appeared on the skin on his body.
It has scale-like textures and its skin is as red as a cooked prawn.
About ten minutes later, just when Ronan was almost unable to hold on anymore, the effect of the medicine finally faded away, the scales disappeared, the muscles returned to their normal appearance, the skin became as fair as before, and the pupils returned to their original color.
"Hahaha!"
Ronan, who was sweating profusely, panted heavily and opened the system panel to check out several new abilities.
Feats:Dragonborn
You are not a holder of dragon bloodline, but you use strange potions to give your soul the characteristics of a dragon. You will be more favored by dragons. Yalongs and other beasts whose level is not higher than a true dragon will be afraid of you.
, and even obey your orders.
Feat: Natural Armor
Thanks to your dragonborn trait, your skin and muscles are tougher and harder to damage with ordinary weapons.
Skill: Indomitable Strength
Fus Ro Dah activates the dragon-like characteristics in the soul to emit a dragon's roar. This dragon's roar can be used separately or in combination. The power will change. The weakest can destabilize the enemy's combat power, and the strongest can push
Fly everything in a fan-shaped area in front of you, even knocking down houses or killing some weaker targets. Other dragon roars can be unlocked by absorbing new dragon blood gems.
Skill: Dragon Eye
Reveal dragon vision, gain three-dimensional vision, spiritual vision, and night vision, which greatly enhances motion capture capabilities. People who look at you will feel oppressed.
Everything is ready, all we need is the east wind. The next step is to ask the queen for leave and go to Gaoling. This time Ronan will bring the maid Caroline, the chef Covington and the captain of the guard Meluses. As for Kress
, Yatan, and Ravenluck will continue to stay in the Hinterlands to manage the estate left by Ronan.