Lord of Arcane

Chapter 234 Slave Altar
And when he saw a few familiar figures standing at the bow, Xia Duo's face was full of smiles, except for the Layton priest who had agreed to come over a long time ago, the director Arman of the Liaden Chamber of Commerce, and the horse of the Slavin Chamber of Commerce. Chairman Sa is here.

Soon, the "Lucky Owen" slowly approached the landing point, and with a click, the gangway was lowered, and Xia Duo stepped onto the boat, just in time to see the old Owen coming from the stern.

Several people saluted together, "My lord!"

Xia Duo agreed, and then said: "Captain Owen has worked hard all the way, go and rest first; Priest Layton, you arrange people to disembark first, and the unloading cargo is unloaded."

"Yes." The two took the order and left.

Only Yarman and Massa were left, and Xia Duo did not neglect, "Two, the territory can't accommodate you for the time being when the territory was first established, so let's talk on this boat."

"My lord, you're welcome, I hope you don't blame us for coming here uninvited."

"It's okay, the Great Xia leader welcomes the two of you at any time, as well as Mrs. Patty, President Hans, and President Flake to check on the progress."

In the contract between Xia Duo and them, there is an agreement on the development progress, but it is not very precise. Xia Duo has already prepared for them to come.

It's just that Xia Duo didn't expect that in less than ten days, the prototype of the first phase of the project did not appear, and they all came.

After exchanging a few casual greetings, watching the citizens get off the boat one by one, Xia Duo didn't have much desire to talk anymore. The expansion of the territory made him feel happy.

He roughly counted. This time, in addition to the more than 40 people who had not brought before, there were more than 20 people in ragged clothes. Most of them had obvious traces of chains on their wrists. Not very stable.

At first glance, it looks like a slave I got from nowhere!
Xia Duo randomly ordered a few people, and said with some dissatisfaction: "Look, can these people still work? President Massa, what do you say!"

"My lord, these are runaway slaves from the mainland. We are lucky if we didn't die, and this batch of slaves only needs this number!" President Massa narrowed his eyes and stretched out two fingers to compare.

Xia Duo didn't like his small eyes, and deliberately said an exaggerated number, "Two gold coins?"

"My lord was joking, it's twenty gold coins each. Don't look at them so thin now, but as long as you feed them for a while, they will recover soon!"

Massa's expression that you made a lot of money made Xia Duo speechless, but he didn't refute. He knew that the price of a normal human slave was about [-] gold coins, and the price of aliens or those with special talents would be more expensive.

The slaves provided by Massa this time looked lifeless and emaciated, but they were indeed as he said, as long as they had a good rest for a period of time, they could recover, and 20 gold coins were not expensive.

Just sending these here is kind of inappropriate.

"President Massa, next time there are such slaves, they will be restored in Savile Town before sending them over."

"My lord, this was arranged by Priest Leiden." Massa said aggrievedly, in fact, he himself was willing to raise these slaves for a while.

How much food is worth, the price of raising it to sell it can fully make up for it, and there is much more!But who told his ship to be unloaded at the port today, and he was discovered by the priest of Leiden!
"Priest of Leiden?" Xia Duo hadn't thought of the possibility of a price increase for the time being, but thought that the suffering people would be more likely to accept the new order, and they would give up some sweets. The clergy should know better about this.

"Since that's the case, next time I'll send it over directly!"

"Yes." Massa grimaced.

Seeing the appearance of Massa's dead father, Xia Duo immediately realized that there is definitely a real interest in it.

After thinking about it for a while, Xia Duo knew what the other party was paying attention to, and just ignored it.

……

Soon, all the personnel and materials were disembarked, because there were more people transported this time, and there were fewer materials, all of which were food and a few tools.

And now that the Owen has arrived, Xia Duo's itinerary can probably be confirmed. After asking Owen about the recent wind direction, Xia Duo made an agreement with Niya with the help of a communication magic weapon to go to the Mage Tower to answer questions in two days.

Over the past few days, Xia Duo has accumulated a sack of questions and wants to ask Niya. During this period, he figured out some questions by himself, but the questions of new students are always endless.

Sometimes Xia Duo thinks, how nice it would be to have a grandfather with him!

In the afternoon, with the newly joined residents, a simple wooden house quickly took shape, with branches and trunks as bones, dry grass and soil as walls, and branches and dry grass on the top.

When there are more people, there will be more work that can be done. Xia Duo feels that the progress of development has been raised immediately.

In the evening, Priest Leiden came to Xiaduo's small tent alone, "My lord, there are nearly 100 people in the territory now, but I am going to build an altar."

"Holy altar?" Xia Duo asked in confusion, he suddenly realized that he didn't even know the function of the holy altar.
The altar he knew was almost a village-level temple, but Xia Duo had never even entered the temple, let alone the altar. The only knowledge he had was books and word of mouth in Savile Town.

"My lord, building an altar can soothe people's hearts."

The concept of pacifying people's hearts is very broad. Even his lord showing his face or performing a spell can soothe people's hearts, but what about more specific?

Xia Duo asked again: "Except for this? Be specific."

Layton quickly understood Xia Duo's thoughts, "The altar can store holy water."

That's right, if there is no practical effect, why bother to build the altar? Xia Duo has no prejudice on whether to build the altar, but only needs to consider the actual effect.

"What is needed to build the altar? Can the current territory be satisfied?"

"My lord, the Lord of Radiance is not the Lord of Severity or Vanity, but the Lord of Mercy. It doesn't matter what the carrier of the altar is, the key is regulation and holy power. At this stage, wood can be used."

Since it was not complicated, Xia Duo directly assigned two leaders to Priest Leiden to build the altar.

Speaking of the altar, Xia Duo also had something to ask Leiden, "Have you ever touched those slaves? Can they be transformed into citizens?"

"My lord, I don't recommend turning them into citizens immediately." Layton said seriously, "These people are runaway slaves, rebellious and unruly, they must be educated first!"

"..."

Xia Duo really wanted to ask Layton, those people's eyes are numb, where did you see them being rebellious.Xia Duo immediately realized that there were still some differences in the three views between himself and Layton.

However, he didn't want to convert these slaves into citizens right away. He meant to ask about the background of these slaves, and whether there would be any hidden dangers.

Knowing the true meaning of Xia Duo's words, Leiden was not ambiguous, and immediately told the situation he had inquired on the ship one by one.

These slaves were originally ordinary civilians in the north. They were expropriated by the lords to dig mines. They tried their best to escape and were captured again. Then they became slaves, and they were the lowest slaves. They were tortured in the mines.
There were originally two villages, but now there are only more than 20 left. Somehow, they were bought by the Slavin Chamber of Commerce and sent to Xia Duo.

(End of this chapter)