The weather was bright and sunny on March 25th, and the earth was getting warmer. Although you still needed to wear thick furs before the sun was shining, you could already wear lighter clothes after noon to afternoon.
The main trunk of the Benma River has been unsealed, and only some tributaries have some ice. The ground has also turned green, and various small animals can be seen on the grassland.
At East No. 1 Station, about 40 kilometers east of Yeqi City, all the residents have been mobilized to collect all the gravel, sand, and soft rocks from the river bed that can be found nearby, and pile them into the center of the camp.
As early as 5 days ago, all the inns received direct orders from the lords, requiring all the people in the territory to pile up a mound of soil in the center of the camp. They could dig trenches or quarry soft rocks. In short, they could pile as big a pile as they could.
No citizen knows the reason for this order, but no one dares to question it, but some stations will execute it meticulously, while others will make trouble.
Jim is the son of the steward of the East No. 1 Station. His father, Jim, was once a butler of the Knights. He was appointed as the Demon-Free Butler of the East No. 1 Station a month ago.
Old Jim is old, so all the orders received by the inn are carried out by his son Jim. They both do not understand the meaning of the orders, but little Jim guesses that these mounds are used to build a house for the inn.
After realizing that it was for the inn, Jim naturally worked very hard. He personally urged the residents to dig trenches for five days in a row and piled the soil from the trenches in the center of the site.
Today is even more different for Jim, because there is a huge black carriage parked just outside the inn. It is the carriage of Lord Viscount Lant. The Viscount has been in the carriage since he arrived outside the inn last night.
"Father, why do you think the Viscount only asked us for some naan and raw meat? He didn't need us to cook or give up the tent?" Jim, who was not supervising the work, ran to his father's side and asked in a low voice.
"What do you know? Lord Viscount's car is much more comfortable than a tent." Old Jim looked at his son with some confusion, then remembered that his son was just a follower of a certain baron when he was a child, and had never seen a knight's luxurious carriage.
"Then why did so many people go to the salt mines a few days ago?" The post station has received and sent many urgent deliveries in the past few days, one of which requested a transport team of no less than 70 beasts of burden to go to the camp.
"This is the official business of the territory, and it is not something you can discuss! Shut your mouth quickly, adults can hear you!" Old Jim reprimanded his son in a low voice, but his eyes glanced at the carriage from time to time, for fear that the lord would ask him to go over.
When it was almost noon, Old Jim and the demon-lovers in the territory were called to the carriage and accepted by Lant.
"You all did a good job." In the eyes of old Jim, the Lord got off the carriage. He was tall and handsome.
"Before lunch, all the demon-loving ones will help me hunt there, and those without demons will go pick some potato seedlings." The lord pointed his hand casually, and everyone in the inn was sent 4 or 500 meters away.
Since it was the lord's request, everyone must fulfill it. Old Jim squatted on the ground and picked the tender potato seedlings carefully, but he heard his son's whisper.
"We had just moved sand and gravel all morning, and we didn't even have a bite to eat, so we were sent here to pick leaves." The son squatted next to Old Jim, so that his voice could only be heard by his father.
"If you have the energy to pick more leaves, we will probably go back soon." Old Jim's words were as careless as his actions. Having been the steward of the territory for more than ten years, Old Jim knew the selfishness of the lord, and this kind of manipulation Minzhi's behavior showed that the viscount had some kind of magic equipment and wanted to use it but didn't want anyone to see it.
"Do you know something?" Jim looked at his father's slow movements and kept guessing.
"Rumble!" Before Old Jim could speak, there were bursts of noises from the direction of the camp. The sound was so loud that all the demon-free people and demon-embracing ones looked over.
"That...that is" Jim saw that the earth and rocks they had piled up 500 meters away were being swept up by a whirlwind.
During the "rumbling", the black soil, yellow fine sand and cyan stones were rolled together and continuously gathered and squeezed in the whirlwind, first forming several pillars, then a wall, and even Saw stairs and floor slabs.
"My God Emperor..." Old Jim's eyes were no longer as bright as they were when he was young, but he could still feel the power of magic from the shadow of the mold lake. He rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand that didn't have much clay. But I didn't want more tears to flow out.
. . . At the edge of the inn camp, Lant, Wendy and Lili were all sitting in the carriage, watching Tenia perform the stunt of building the castle in one hour.
While in the salt mine camp, Tenia spent two days building a fortress comparable to Lot Castle, as well as a salt mining workshop, a coal mining workshop, and repaired some dormitories in the coal mine caves.
Of course, Tenia did not all rely on his own magic power. There is still abundant energy in the earth's veins to cover all of this.
Starting from the 22nd, Rand took Tenia on a daily 80-kilometer journey, hardening the road surface and building a building for each station.
Compared with the magic goblin, the big goblin is a qualitative leap. If the magic goblin less than 1 meter long builds an earth wall, it will still be somewhat similar.
"Wall", the building built by the big goblin is like the laser additives in Lant's previous life, with foundations, columns, walls, beams, boards, and even window holes in the end, a four-story main building and a six-story auxiliary building. , with a 50-meter watchtower outside, a small fortress with a ring of about 10 meters of city walls and 4 turrets.
"Print" is finished. Such a building is equipped with stone-like floors, stairs, sewers, fireplaces, fire pits and flues, and a small basement.
"I can't do it, I can't do it. I didn't feel it yesterday. Why are I so tired today?" Tenia, who had completed 6 such buildings in 3 days, was already exhausted. As soon as he finished the building, he complained to Rand. .
"That's because I was able to return to the salt mine yesterday morning and the day before yesterday, but I can't today." Lant immediately greeted Tenia and helped the magic goblin into the carriage.
"Let's go directly to the New Industrial Zone,"
"Ah, why are you still going to work? I'm going to rest on the leyline of Yeqi City." Taniya continued to express his dissatisfaction with the squeezer, but the magic elements around him had begun to rotate, an invisible whirlwind The road under the carriage is gradually being hardened.
As early as three days ago, Lant designed a standardized inn castle based on the salt mine castle. On the one hand, the current territorial residents can move in, and on the other hand, these castles can be entrusted to subordinates as baronies in the future.
Considering that Tenia would be stationed in Yeqi City in the future, Lant simply decided to make the station castle the size of a baron's castle in one step, so that it could be directly divided and used in the future.
In fact, according to Tenia's magic power, it is impossible to complete the construction of two station castles in one day. It was possible to do it in the first two days because after each construction, Lant directly rode on the fire and took her back to the salt mine, using ley lines to replenish it. Magic, until yesterday after building the second castle, I rode in the carriage with Wendy and Lili.
"Sir? You have already given them land and you want to build a castle for them?" Wendy and Lili were surprised when they heard Lant's plan for the castle.
"Instead of building a castle for them, let them defend my watchtower!" Lant looked at the tower and said,
"A watchtower equipped with observation runes can observe a range of at least 30 kilometers away, and the two towers can communicate with each other through observation equipment." Lant continued to improve his ideas.
"But the distance between the two towers is 40 kilometers?" Lili found a blind spot.
"..." Lant glanced at Lili
"I asked you to do more math problems. A lookout distance of 30 kilometers means you can see the ground 30 kilometers away. You also have a 50-meter tower here. I also gave them telescopes with runes!"
"It's such a coincidence that we can see the tower 40 kilometers away." Lili pouted, very unconvinced.
"Besides, even if both parties can see each other, how can two people communicate when they are so far apart?"
"Of course it's the password." Lant said proudly, with a smile on his lips. . . . After the Rand carriage left, the residents of East No. 1 finally knew why the lord had allowed them to pile up sand and gravel for five days and not let them leave just now.
"My God Emperor, what on earth was that just now?" Jim squirmed.
"I told you that you shouldn't ask questions, don't ask blind questions," Old Jim said, staring at the castle for a long time and refusing to leave.
Because there was no order from the lord, neither the demon-wielding ones nor the demon-free ones dared to enter the building. They could only bury pots and cook in the open space between the two buildings until the express delivery passed by in the afternoon. Two orders from the lord.
1. Request all residents in the inn to move into the annex building. 2. Reward Old Jim, the devil-free butler of the No. 1 East Inn.
