The age of great voyages

Chapter 290 Preparations Before Plane Development

Re-recruited a group of farmers to continue farming, found an open space on the west side of the small river, dug a big pit, threw all the corpses into it, and burned them all. The recruited creatures could not convert anything. I was afraid that something would happen, so I simply burned it up.

Shovel up all the dead and yellow weeds, cut down all the trees, sprinkle the burned ash as fertilizer, and exchange a large number of seeds from the crystal simulator for replanting.

Fortunately, the land is not damaged and can be replanted. If the land is also damaged, there is no other way.

Becoming a Red Dragon Dragon Vein Warlock and directly reaching the second level, Lin Chen’s previous plans have to be adjusted now. He sits on a stone and opens the trading interface, where he enters food for stone materials, and soon a message comes in and asks:
"One thousand units of stones are exchanged for nine thousand five hundred food, do you want it?"

Lin Chen immediately replied:

"Nine thousand, I can exchange two thousand stones for you."

Trading between trialists is definitely cheaper than exchanging directly from the crystal simulator. The general price is between [-]% and [-]% of the official price, unless the allies are equivalent to free gifts.

The other side hesitated for a moment and agreed. The 6-odd food stockpile was suddenly reduced by 450, but there were 46000 more stones. After this, Lin Chen now has a total of 22240 gold, 2000 units of food, 20 wood, and [-] stones. The iron is still [-] units untouched.

This thing disappeared from the official exchange list after all the trainees were promoted to the second level. That is to say, it can only be exchanged between gold, food, wood and stone, and can no longer be exchanged for iron. This is simply cheating.

When it was possible to exchange it, everyone had neither money nor attention, but when needed, they were unable to exchange it. Now only a very small number of trialists who have iron ore in the initial plane are selling small quantities, and each time they only sell dozens or dozens of units. The price is very high, comparable to gold, that is, one unit of iron ore is directly exchanged for one unit of gold, which is terrifyingly expensive.

And this thing is indispensable in the future, how can the planes fight without weapons.

In exchange for stone materials, he immediately recruited a group of masons, who are also a kind of farmers, who only know how to build houses. Of course, they also need to recruit a real architect who is ready to build a tower.

It's just that the tower is not a mage tower, it doesn't have any special effects, it's just tall and hard, the mage tower can't be built now, it consumes a lot of money, and it can't be built without millions of gold.

If it develops in the future, it may be possible to move the headquarters to other larger plane fragments and build a mage tower there.

It was not difficult to build the basic tower. It only took a little more than a month to build it. He also ordered his subordinates to continue building a small castle and a wall around the tower, and he moved in himself.

There are only three floors in the tower, and there are two basements below. The bottom floor is the largest and strongest. Even the ceiling is separated by hard stones one meter thick. Make it into magic ink and engrave the summoning circle on it.

Now that he is already a second-level dragon vein warlock, Lin Chen must of course give full play to the advantages of this profession. He plans to build a summoning circle here, and summon some not very powerful monsters to get flesh and blood, but also to obtain various magic materials. , to prepare for the next construction.

The summoning circle doesn't need to be too advanced for the time being, the basic ones can't summon too strong beings, he can handle it, if the advanced summoning circle is used, there is a very small chance of summoning a powerful being by mistake, if he can't deal with it, the territory will be lost immediately .

After the magic circle was finished, he rubbed his hands impatiently, stood on the edge of the magic circle and began to chant complex incantations.

As the incantation continued, the magic circle began to light up red, with faint flames flickering, and an invisible force gathered, his consciousness penetrated into the magic circle, and instantly sensed dozens of chaotic wills responding to his call , he randomly picked one of the weakest ones to start summoning.

Powerful magic power poured into the magic circle, and the sense of response became clearer and clearer. Soon, a small dot appeared on the magic circle in front of him, which quickly swelled and turned into a summoning door, and a sharp but not loud hiss came from it. Then, two spikes protruded from the portal and squeezed its body in with great effort. Only then did it become clear that it was a human-faced spider the size of a round table.

Lin Chen was a little disappointed, because this spider was just an ordinary creature, but it looked a little big. When he was summoned, he was hit by a faint dragon's power, and his eight legs limp on the ground. This thing is basically worthless. What is useful are the eight thin and hard legs, which can be used to make spears, which are no worse than iron spears.

A fire as thick as an arm spurted out from his mouth, roasting the spider's head. He knocked on the small gong on the side, and immediately two militiamen came in and removed the spider's body.

After a break, he called again.

According to the previous experience, the target he chose this time was much stronger than the last time. What he summoned was a bull covered in flames, with a length of four meters from head to tail, and its strength had reached the late stage of the first order.

Lin Chen thought about it, and decided to kill it to get the materials. The blood of this thing is a good magic material, which can make better magic ink. The two burning horns are also good magic materials. Not only does it contain magic power, but it is also extremely hard. It can carry the most basic structure.

Even this cowhide rich in flame elements is a good thing, it can be used to make leather armor, and it has extremely strong fire resistance.

Bull's eyes, a vital heart, a strong and powerful beef, these are all good things.

With his incomparable strength, he forced the violent flaming cow down, cracked the cow's head with one punch, and beat it to death with two punches. He called his men to carry it out. This time he wanted to deal with it himself.

Demonic beast meat is the best food to replenish blood. The descendants of rich families eat magical beast meat every day. Over time, the gap between them and ordinary people is quickly widened. This is also where the descendants of nobles are better than ordinary people. They are all the same people , all babies are born, and the difference is resources.

But Lin Chen can't use this stuff now, he eats more meat than ordinary meat at most, it can no longer nourish him, he now needs to eat more meat from more powerful monsters to strengthen.

Therefore, for such a big cow, nearly [-] catties of beef and offal were cut out, and he took out [-] catties and hung it on the trading website, one gold per catty, and the price of the well-treated heart alone was [-] gold.

This price must be very expensive now, but he is confident to sell it. If so much meat of the flame cow is eaten by one person, if it is a close combat route, it will definitely allow people to reach the third-level warrior apprentice, or It is definitely a huge temptation for the practitioners to approach the stage of promotion. As long as they have the ability, they will buy it even if they lose their fortune.

Plane development is all about absolute strength. If you don't have the strength, go home and play in the mud and die.

Not long after I put it on the trading network, I immediately received a bunch of inquiries. Lin Chen refused all of them without even looking at them. He set up strangers to refuse to accept, but there were still many inquiries. They were from trialists who had traded before, and Several other cousins ​​in the family.

He looked at it, clicked on one casually, and immediately heard a nice female voice:

"Gu Chen, have you started to expand the plane?"

"No."

He sat at the table and ate meat, and answered casually.

Of course so much meat had to be cooked in one pot to eat. A whole pot of hundreds of catties was cooked together with a few big beef bones. The rich aroma came out, making Lin Chen, who hadn't eaten anything good for more than a year, twitch his index finger. , The saliva flowed out involuntarily.

The tough beef was chewed into pieces when he rubbed his teeth in his mouth, no matter if it was beef tendon or anything else, it would be rotten in one bite, even the beef bones could be easily chewed into powder and swallowed under the row of dragon teeth in his mouth. The soup is refreshing in the throat.

"Then where did you get the flame beef?"

"I summoned it."

"call?"

Gu Shenlan immediately reacted, and raised his voice involuntarily:

"Have you been promoted to an official mage?"

Lin Chen gulped down the ox bone, sucking the marrow from the big bone, and the sound of eating undisguisedly spread to the opposite side, and Gu Shenlan couldn't help swallowing his saliva.

"Of course, otherwise, where would I get the flame cow?"

The other side fell silent immediately, Gu Shenlan seemed to want to say something, but didn't know what to say for a moment, and at this moment Lin Chen finished chewing the beef bone in one go, swallowed a mouthful of small bone fragments mixed with a mouthful of boiling hot soup, and swallowed it. Take a breath and say:

"It's so refreshing and delicious. Sister Lan, if you want to eat it, I'll give you a hundred catties."

Gu Shenlan didn't expect him to be so straightforward. After thinking about it for a while, she didn't hesitate, and said:

"Sister Lan really needs this right now, so you're welcome. I'll treat you to something delicious after the trial is over."

Lin Chen laughed and said:

"Then I will definitely not be polite."

After speaking, he traded one hundred catties of monster meat, and the other party paid one gold.

Even if it is a trading network, no matter how small it is, something must be traded. One gold coin, one piece of food, or one piece of wood will do. One party must not pay and the other party will get nothing.

Afterwards, he contacted fellow clansmen one after another, and he didn't favor one over another, each had a share, but other clansmen didn't have a hundred catties, but only fifty catties, and in his eyes, beautiful women still had an advantage.

Three thousand catties of beef plus offal and heart were sold out in just one day, and a total of 3000 and two hundred gold was harvested, making him rich again.

Lin Chen immediately started to build the castle and started recruiting to form an army.

The second-level authority basically unlocks all basic and advanced arms. The basic arms include light infantry, spearmen, light shield soldiers, archers, light cavalry, etc., and the advanced arms are heavy infantry, halberds, and heavy soldiers. Cavalry, sharpshooter, heavy crossbowman and other arms, and you can choose the race at will, as long as you have money, you can build it.

These arms are basically divided into two parts, one part is the basic arms, and the other is the advanced arms. Whether it is the recruitment price or the equipment price, there are two worlds.

Among them, the basic arms are recruited with their own basic weapons, while the advanced arms do not bring them, so they come out alone, with the basic experience and physical fitness of the basic arms and advanced arms. As long as the prepared weapons are in hand, they can immediately fight.

To put it simply, the basic units can be recruited to fight, but you don't need to expect too much combat power. They are basically cannon fodder.

As the main force, the advanced arms are strong, but they need to be cultivated by themselves.

Lin Chen thought about it and decided to take the elite route.

The recruitment price of basic arms is mostly between 50 gold and 2 gold, [-] food, [-] food per day, and their own weapons and armor. For example, archers generally wear leather armor, light infantry wear light armor, and so on.

The recruitment price of advanced arms is mostly more than 200 gold, more than 100 food, and consumes 4 food per day, only professional skills and experience, without any weapons and armor.

After a little thought, he chose to recruit ten heavy infantry, five sharpshooters, and two light cavalry as scouts, consuming a total of 3000 two hundred gold and [-] units of food, exactly equivalent to the price of a flame cow.

This is the limit that the territory can support now. It cannot support any more. For this reason, he also promoted all seven militiamen to light infantry and became full-time full-time soldiers. He also recruited three light infantrymen to form a ten-man team. , specially used for patrolling and guarding.

This money is so hard to earn, but it is so wasteful, no wonder they are given ten years of preparation time.

The main reason Lin Chen was recruited so early was to prepare in advance, and by the way, use the magic circle to summon various monsters for them to deal with and accumulate combat experience.

The recruited creatures are different from nest creatures, or equivalent to special nest creatures, which can be promoted by accumulating experience through continuous fighting.

He specially recruited a few dwarf blacksmiths, built a blacksmith's shop behind the castle, and then spent gold to purchase the iron anchors directly on the platform. As long as there was an immediate purchase, it took half a month to gather enough iron anchors. Open the furnace to forge armor and weapons for them.

Before that, he had summoned several times in succession. Most of the targets he chose were at the level of the flame cow. He placed the summoning site in front of the castle, closed the gate, and a group of subordinates surrounded the edge of the summoning circle, waiting for him When they were summoned, they swarmed up and besieged. Lin Chen watched from the sidelines, regardless of the injuries, but he only rescued soldiers who were seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness.

Relying on summoning this big killer weapon, he could raise more than 20 retired soldiers, and this was almost reaching the limit, because the food produced in the territory was limited, and even three hundred acres of land could hardly support it.

You must know that both farmers and soldiers consume food every day. Farmers consume one unit a day, militiamen consume two units a day, basic troops consume two units a day, but advanced troops consume four units a day, and heavy cavalry consumes up to six units a day, because The horses also want to eat.

Calculated in this way, there are 115 farmers, 10 light infantry, 10 heavy infantry, 5 sharpshooters, and 2 light cavalry scouts in Lin Chen's territory. They consume a total of 203 units of food every day, and the food produced by the territory is averaged over two months. It's 250 units, and there are only 47 units left. He doesn't dare to sell food at will now, and all the excess has to be stored for backup.

According to his vision, less than ten soldiers will be added one after another in the coming days, and the number of full-time soldiers will reach more than forty.

(End of this chapter)