"You mean, you owe that black dragon 2,000 gold coins now? These cavemen only charge you 1,000?" After explaining why she appeared, Elise immediately asked about Buck's whereabouts, but when he heard After saying that Buck accidentally triggered the invitation card and owed the black dragon 2,000 gold coins, he was shocked.
"Yeah." Buck nodded helplessly.
"Do you still have money in your territory? I'll go over and get it for you. Go and return the money quickly. I don't want to fight the black dragon!"
"Bring it to me? It only took more than a day for you to come here. Why don't we just go back together? There are still four or five days left..."
"There are many small cracks on the way I came here. I could get through them only by turning into a bat. You can't get through them at all." Before Buck could finish his words, he was directly interrupted by Elise.
"Small cracks, Ula, can those cracks expand and dig a way out?" Buck asked immediately.
"Sir, it's okay. Ground cracks are cracks caused by earthquakes. They are natural earth textures. Excavation will get twice the result with half the effort." Ulla heard Buck's inquiry and immediately replied.
"Okay, now it's no problem. The thieves' cave is less than a day's journey from my territory. Four days should be enough for us to dig back. Ula, dig the entrance passage first to prevent anything from getting there. Run to Castro and dig to the ground as quickly as possible." After receiving Ula's confirmation, Buck immediately ordered.
Stone men, iron men, and gargoyles are all very ancient constructs. The Mage Alliance has now banned the production of gargoyles and gargoyles, because such constructs that imitate demons require the blood of demons as materials.
Because of the difficulty of obtaining, generally these gargoyles and gargoyles will choose the lowest demons such as small monsters. This kind of demon has a characteristic that it can absorb the target's mana and deny its own master. This is also what those gargoyles will do. The reason for making Buck the main target.
Constructs such as the Stone Man and the Iron Man have been advanced and transformed into more powerful constructs such as the Iron Golem, the Steel Golem, the Magnetic Golem, and the Sandstone Golem. Few people waste materials in making them. Such an ordinary construct.
If Buck's guess is correct, there may be a city of the ancient Demon Empire buried deep in this vein. If he can capture it, it will be equivalent to owning a city of the Tower (Academy) faction, which can train members of that faction. Arms.
Thinking about the power of Titan, Buck wanted to drool, but now that he was not strong enough, he had to seal it away first.
"A caveman who can use the common language of mankind? It seems that your 1,000 gold coins are not too much. It should be able to convey your orders very well and command this group of cavemen." Elise glanced in surprise. Ula, creatures like cavemen are very lazy, and if you don't understand the language, these guys will pretend to be cheating even if they understand what you mean. However, having a fellow creature who can command them will indeed improve a lot. Work efficiency.
Two days later.
"grown ups!"
"My lord is back!"
When Buck stepped into the Thief's Cave, John led a group of people around him.
"Okay John, I'm fine. You take the people back and find a few caravans to come over." Buck nodded to John and gave direct instructions.
"caravan?"
"Yes, use a caravan to bring these new companions back, let them dig a nest for themselves underground, give them enough food, and I will instruct them to dig some tunnels in the territory." Buck said, pointing behind him , Ula came out with a group of cavemen and those giant tunnel rats.
The appearance of the cavemen caused some panic in Buck's territory. However, when they saw that these monsters actually obeyed Buck's words, their admiration for Buck increased again, especially those untrained native people, and their loyalty increased again. A big chunk.
First, he trained a thief using the quota brought by the reconnaissance technique, and then selected 7 people and all the newly trained thieves to be trained as scouts. Buck divided these new scouts into two teams, led by Hossen and Brutz respectively. .
A team began to explore the territory, especially the desolate swamp area, mainly looking for some strange buildings or things that might provide resources.
The other team asked Sim to follow them and enter the northern border to trick the old, weak, sick and disabled who lost their homes due to the war and were not accepted by the local nobles into their territory.
Then Buck returned to his territory, first trained 22 [Farmers] to provide himself with some funds, and then eagerly opened the territory construction page.
After several days of accumulation and spending, Buck now has 5867 gold coins, 29 wood and 59 ore.
He directly spent 1,000 gold coins and 5 wood to build a blacksmith shop, so that he could build a barracks the next day to train formal swordsmen. As for the Interior Department, which can increase gold coin income, Buck said that he had nothing to do because the Interior Department is still gray now. A state that cannot be established because Buck's territory itself is not of a sufficient level, which is why he urgently needs to expand his territory.
Only when the population reaches 500 is it considered a town, and can build an interior hall that provides 1,000 gold coins per day.
Although Buck disappeared for a few days, while John was still leading people to search for Buck, he still left enough people according to Buck's previous request to build a simple barracks, stables, and a simple barracks using stones and wood from the town. A piece of flat land was circled with a wooden fence and used as a training ground for the cavalry. A few old horses were also found and stuffed in.
Although it is a simple version, with the real buildings, Buck's collar bottom panel can be built. After another three days, Buck directly built the barracks, stables and training ground.
These buildings directly spent all Buck's gold coins and wood. If the scout team led by Hossen hadn't discovered something special and allowed Buck to obtain two treasure chests, I'm afraid the money wouldn't have been enough.
But it’s worth it. The barracks and training ground can train swordsmen and knights. Although there are currently no adults in the territory who can train (those who can train have been trained as [peasants] to make money), there are training quotas in the territory. It can be accumulated. As long as you have money and people, you can train at any time.
Buck looked at his attribute panel and nodded with satisfaction.
[Lord: Buck Short (Hero)]
[Strategic Profession: Knight]
[Heroic Characteristics: Collecting Wealth—The acquisition of resources increases by 25% (rounded down, each strategic level increases by 5%.)]
[Strategy Level 3]
[Strategic Skill 1: Counterattack (Elementary) - The basic counterattack lethality of the troops increases by 5%]
[Strategic Skill 2: Offensive Skills (Elementary) - Melee lethality increased by 5%/Special Ability: Tactical Deployment]
[Strategic Skill 3: Wisdom (Elementary) - Can learn level 3 magic]
[Strategic Skill 4: Reconnaissance (Elementary) - Free training of 1 thief every week]
[Level 1 magic: slowing down, earth clairvoyance, exorcism, attack acceleration, ship summoning. 】
[Level 2 magic: blindness, quicksand trap, disguise method, thunder and lightning. 】
[Strategic attributes: Attack 2, Defense 2, Knowledge 2, Magic 3, Morale 0, Luck 0]
[Treasure: Bone Breastplate/Magic Plus 2]
【Territory: 1】
【Population: 304】
[First-level troops: farmers*22, militia captain*149, cavemen*19, tunnel giant rats*24]
[Second level troop strength: Scout*18]
[Level 3 troop strength: Sentinel*1]
[Level 4 troops: Vampire Prince*1]
[Resources: gold coins*27, crystal*3, stone*50, wood*5]
……………………
[Territory: Yorktown]
[Buildings: Village and Town Assembly Hall*1, Farmer’s Shack*1, Blacksmith Shop*1, Barracks*1, Stable*1, Training Ground*1]
【Residents: 304】
