Forget about the dragon-seeking ceremony. No kobold in the entire quarry can enter.
Even in the Dragon-Seeking Meditation, only one-third barely managed to enter, and most of them were relatively close to the place where Goss and Ji Peng died.
The foundation of this group of kobolds is so bad that some things that are taken for granted in the Dragon Oak Territory are very strenuous here, and dragon-seeking meditation is one of them.
Before this, Goss would never believe that there were kobolds who could not enter the dragon-seeking meditation after being guided.
It's no wonder that Gavin simply left these kobolds to his full authority and didn't spend much energy on them.
A low starting point also has the advantage of a low starting point, that is, it is easy to be satisfied.
Only one-third of the kobolds entered the dragon-seeking meditation. Goss was filled with disappointment, but the kobolds in the quarry were all elated, especially those who had finished their short-term dragon-seeking meditation and waved their hands. His arms as thick as toothpicks claimed that they felt the dragon's magic power. After feeling that their bodies became stronger, the kobolds looked at Goss differently.
His heart, which was originally a little lost, was once again filled with a sense of accomplishment.
These kobolds are not hopeless. As long as they keep up with their food and nutrition, rest for a few months, and improve their physical fitness, they should be able to start dragon-seeking meditation one after another.
Just like myself, the overall upper limit is lower, and there are fewer kobolds who can activate dragon blood and dragon transformation.
As long as they are willing to work hard, even ordinary kobolds can create value for the territory, just like themselves. After all, such kobolds are the majority.
Just when Goss was finishing up his ordinary kobold motivational education.
Gavin and the others had arrived above the Garden Forest. They had a clear goal and headed straight for it.
The kobolds who previously defected to the Garden Forest did not really defect. From beginning to end, they were part of Gavin's trap for Ji Peng.
In his last life, he had already suffered enough losses from fighting monsters in their lair.
They are all carefully arranged by the enemy. There, the enemy has a home field advantage and can exert double or even more combat effectiveness.
Ji Peng, a being that the strong men in the Glory City dare not take the initiative to provoke, may have ten times the strength in the lair as he did in Mis Noel's Tower of Rule. surge.
It is the wisest tactic to lure the enemy out, enter your carefully arranged battlefield, and kill them in one fell swoop.
In this matter, Gavin made full use of everyone's preconceived notions.
That is, the kobolds will only be loyal to the dragon, and they can have kobold subordinates purely through slavery.
In addition, differences in concepts between different races are also exploited.
Kobolds are a race that takes pride in their work. Especially after Gavin perfected the dragon oak collar’s kobold reward system, those kobolds are more motivated to work and do not need to be spurred at all. Each one of them is more self-conscious than the other - and each other There will also be supervision during the period.
But in the eyes of humans, Gavin was exploiting these kobolds to the extreme, and defecting was a matter of course.
The reason why Gavin put on a complete show and even deceived the locals in Anfeier Village was because he was afraid that among these people there would be Ji Peng's spies.
This worry is not unnecessary. Ji Peng takes the bait so easily and it has something to do with the mutual verification of the information provided by human informants.
Never treat giant dragons as unintelligent monsters, let alone underestimate human greed.
There are countless cases in Ferundo of colluding with those intelligent monsters for their own benefit, and it is even a means of survival for some intelligent monsters.
The Sambian businessman colluded with the young red dragon to bring disaster to the East Road.
The same is true for Jipeng and some racecourse owners in Amphail Village who colluded with each other to harass their competitors.
The leader, the kobold warlock named Kasar, is a special dragon-shaped kobold.
During the process of transforming into a dragon, he failed to obtain dragon wings.
This was originally a major flaw, but in this particular latent spy mission, it turned into an advantage.
He was not too eye-catching, and he also left a soul imprint on the dragon oak mother tree, which could provide Gavin with positioning coordinates, and he easily found the nest of Ji Peng.
They had been invited in as special guests and prisoners, and the gold coins they brought were sent to Ji Peng's dragon's nest treasure house.
Although Ji Peng does not look like a dragon, he is actually a real giant dragon and has the same hobbies as a giant dragon.
No, to be more precise, in order to prove that he is a dragon, Ji Peng did some things to the extreme, including searching for wealth and building his own dragon's nest treasure house, which he was more enthusiastic about.
Being so close to the Glory City, even though he knew the danger was high, Ji Peng still lingered here. He was not just coveting the inexhaustible food on the racecourse outside.
That was just a cover. The real reason was that there was an abandoned underground castle of the dwarves, and this castle was built on a silver mine that had not yet been completely mined.
Ji Peng's dragon nest was set up in this abandoned dwarf castle.
As he went deeper, Gavin felt more and more that it was a wise choice for him to lure Ji Peng out from here and kill him.
The wild magic area is also divided into levels, some are light and some are heavy, some are small and some are large.
If the wild index is set at 100, the index of the wild magic area covering this place can reach at least 60 or more - 60% of magic will cause problems here, and it will tend to be malignant. .
The closer you get to the Jet Dragon's nest, the more serious this situation becomes.
The influence is mutual. The wild magic area will strengthen Ji Peng's ability to twist spells. In turn, Ji Peng will make the situation here more extreme, forming the so-called lair attributes and lair abilities.
It was difficult for Gavin to determine whether the Immortal Revenge Domain could suppress Ji Peng's twisted spell halo here. After all, both of them were powers of law. The final confrontation was about which one had the higher priority and which one was more powerful.
It didn't take much effort to control the Dragon Nest.
Because the monster servants Ji Peng enslaves are mainly kobolds.
There was a flying roc head clearing the way in front, a young red dragon holding down the formation behind, and a kobold spy playing a drum beside him in the middle.
Not even the shadow of Ji Peng was summoned. Those kobolds who originally belonged to Ji Peng bowed down and were captured by Gavin in minutes.
This is another great characteristic of kobolds. They are only loyal to living and victorious dragons.
This is related to the fact that dragons often fight with each other for property. The losing dragon has nothing, the winning dragon gets all the property, and the kobolds are part of the property.
This characteristic is both an advantage and a disadvantage.
The advantage is naturally when he, as the winner, recruits other dragon and kobolds.
The disadvantage is that this kind of thing may happen to you, especially after losing the battle with those powerful dragons, don't expect these kobolds to fight to the death for you.
Although Gavin has been trying to find ways to correct it, the effect is not particularly good - because many racial characteristics are mixed together, and when denying the disadvantages, the advantageous aspects may also be denied. Sometimes it seems that the gains outweigh the losses. .
It is really difficult to find a way to get the best of both worlds.
Gavin, who was wearing battle armor, was sitting on the dwarf throne that had been abandoned for who knows how long. He had the head of Ji Peng under his feet, and the young red dragon was squatting on his side, looking at him eagerly. Looking at the group of kobolds below, he had an expression on his face that if anyone was disobedient, he would beat him to the teeth as a sacrifice.
In fact, he has already done so.
One is a harpy kobold who is too loyal to Swift Roc, and the other is an ordinary kobold trying to escape.
With the lessons learned from these two kobolds, the rest of the kobolds are all obedient and as honest as they want.
"Which of you is the leader here? Stand up and speak." Gavin glanced back and forth at the harpy kobolds with unique looks.
There are two types of kobolds here, one is ordinary kobolds, and the other is this kind of harpy kobolds.
Strictly speaking, this kind of harpy kobolds are also dragon-shaped kobolds. Since their dragon transformation comes from Ji Peng, both their appearance and abilities will tend to be that of Ji Peng.
For example, they all have higher magic resistance than ordinary kobolds. Spells targeting them have a certain chance of being distorted, but the probability is very low.
But with such a group of kobolds surrounding him, the aura of Ji Peng's twisted spell will definitely be further strengthened.
They must be Jipeng's cronies, and the high-ranking commander can only be among them.
Those harpy and kobolds were hesitant and hesitant, and no one was willing to come out and claim it for a long time.
But Gavin didn't know anything about this place. He turned his head slightly and looked at the kobold spy on the other side, "Kasar."
The kobold spy pointed out his hand and said: "He, we were brought back by him, and the gold coins we brought were also brought to the dragon's lair by him."
Cassar was not sure whether the harpy kobold he was referring to had the most power here, but he who could enter and leave the dragon's lair must be deeply trusted and have great autonomy.
When he was directly named, the harpy kobold had no choice but to step forward, bowed to Gavin and said, "Aka has met the lord, because Lord Arada has never We have never established a leader among us, so I didn’t know how to answer the lord’s question just now.”
Gavin didn't care whether what the kobold said was true or not, he said directly: "It didn't happen before, but now it does. From now on, you will be the leader of the kobolds here, and all the kobolds will have to listen to your deployment. If something goes wrong, Question, I will be the first to accuse you and tell me about the situation here."
The expression on the face of this harpy kobold is not excitement, but bitterness. It is not easy to be a leader of this kind. If you are not careful, you will be regarded as the chicken that kills the chicken to scare the monkeys.
But in this case, he only had the right to accept, not refuse. He bowed and saluted again: "I wonder what your Excellency wants to know?"
"Let's start with the origin of this place and the composition of your personnel. What races are there and how many of them are there?" After all, they are not soldiers trained by himself, so he can't expect their level to be high. Gavin can only squeeze in little by little. toothpaste.
The harpy kobold named Aka still had an online IQ, but he didn’t fully understand Gavin’s behavior. After listening to his first question, he had some direction, and he respectfully replied, “This ancient The dwarf castle has the same name as the forest, called Nankript. It is unknown whether the forest is named after it or whether it is named after the forest.
There is a huge silver mine below, which has been dug through the Sword Mountain Range and can lead directly to the other side.
At present, we have only occupied a small part of the south. The other parts are occupied by other monsters. It is said that there is a powerful beholder inside.
Since we are in a crazy magic area, the beholder and its servants are too restrained, so it never comes.
Lord Arada never provokes them.
As for the number of personnel, we have never made detailed statistics, so we can only give you a rough estimate. "
"I guess the data will be enough." Gavin just wanted to grasp the general situation here, and he would definitely send his own people to settle in for detailed sorting and control.
"There are three hundred dragon guards like me in total. There are more than a thousand kobold silver miners. The number of servants such as hobgoblins and goblins fluctuates greatly. There should be two to three hundred." Harpy kobolds replied.
For a dragon of Ji Peng's strength, the number of servants he has is relatively large.
Because they are the easiest to attract the prying eyes of those dragon slayers. They have certain treasures and their strength is not invincible.
Therefore, they generally do not set up permanent dragon nests and gather too many monster servants. Even if they do, most of them are elite and can move with them at any time.
Ji Peng has so many kobold servants due to a series of comprehensive factors.
One is that this place is shrouded in a wild magic area, and the other is that they need them to dig silver mines for themselves. In other words, these kobolds are the aborigines of South Klipte. After he occupied this place, he brought these kobolds under his command. .
While Gavin combined the information with his common sense, he continued to ask: "How much is the output of the silver mine? What is the valuation of the Dragon's Nest treasure?"
"The average monthly output of coarse silver bricks is about one ton. Even Lord Arada cannot explain the valuation of the Dragon's Nest treasure because it is mainly composed of coarse silver bricks and the quantity is no less than one hundred tons..."
Gavin suddenly sat up straight and said with a serious expression: "Are you sure these are rough silver bricks, not raw silver ore? Are you proficient in the purification and casting process of silver ore?"
Mineral veins with astonishing purity are not unavailable, but they mostly appear on the earth elemental plane.
In the material plane, most mineral veins are a mixture of various minerals that need to be purified.
If the silver content in the ore can reach more than 10%, it is already a rich ore.
This is why Gavin didn't show much excitement when he heard there was a silver mine here.
He has not mastered the silver ore refining technology. Even if it is mined on a large scale, it will only be used to make wedding clothes for others. He can only get a small amount of mining profits. When the time comes, he will have to divide his troops to guard it. In a short period of time, it will be of little value.
But if it turns into a rough silver brick, its properties will be different.
This means that the preliminary smelting and purification has been completed, and there is only the final refining and casting before it can become a silver coin. The silver content in it reaches 60% to 70%. Even those impurities are mostly other useful minerals.
"Yes, they are thick silver bricks." Aka replied, "This dwarf castle itself has an ancient silver smelting production line. We have restarted it, but the production speed is very limited. At most, it can be produced every month. About a ton.”
"Come on, take me to see it." Gavin's interest was completely aroused. He didn't expect that killing a Ji Peng would actually yield a huge amount of cash.
One hundred tons of rough silver bricks, even if calculated at the lowest purity of 60%, is still 60 tons of silver. If purified and made into silver coins, it would be enough to mint two million pure silver coins, with a value equivalent to 200,000 gold coins.
However, silver is not only used as currency. Especially during the purification process of silver, various impurities are produced, including many precious metals belonging to silver associated mines. It is not uncommon to mix gold and diamonds, and the commercial value may be higher.
To put it simply, if one hundred tons of rough silver bricks were transported to Glory City, the market price would be at least 250,000 to 300,000.
"Two adults, please follow me." Aka respectfully led the way.
"How do you usually support your large population?" Gavin asked as he walked.
It is basically a dream to let the dragon take money to buy things. Just listen to the number of rough silver bricks in the dragon's nest. You will know that 80% of the rough silver bricks produced by Ji Peng after occupying this city have been moved in. In his dragon's lair.
"The dwarves once opened a garden farm here, as if they were blessed by the gods. We only cultivated it. The food grown on a small piece of land is enough to meet our daily needs." Aka replied , "Here we are, right here."
As a huge stone door opened, a terrifying heat wave hit us, followed by the clanking sound of forging and the sound of steam gushing. A group of strong kobolds with red scales were standing there. Busy around a huge machine.
A majestic and incredible underground lava silver smelting production line appeared in front of Gavin.
Seeing the situation in front of him, Gavin was not surprised, but showed an expression that was indeed the case.
In Faerûn, there are not only industrialized factories, but they are usually very cutting-edge ones, which are a bit unbelievable from the perspective of the earth.
This kind of industrialization is like magic, with severe faults, because it is not climbed up bit by bit through the overall technology tree, but a magic industry realized through magic.
Among them, the human Netheril Empire is a good example. Back then, they cut off the mountains and built the floating city upside down. It is still talked about by intelligent races across the continent. No one can surpass it, even if they are the only ones in the world. The remaining orthodox continuation of the mage kingdom Halua only retains the construction method of aerospace craft.
(End of chapter)
