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Chapter 63 Buying Slaves
After the two left the main castle, Roland breathed a sigh of relief.

The required tasks are basically completed, so tomorrow I will order some slaves.

"My sincerest thanks to you, Baron Leon."

Roland solemnly saluted Baron Leon.

He would never have met the Duke of Osborne if Baron Leon had not set him up.Of course he can come in through the city gate, but don't think about the gate of the main castle.

After seeing that Roland did not develop the certificate, the sergeant guarding the gate had no intention of suing the Duke.As for him not leaving, it was because he was still trying to convince the sergeant.

Roland was 'tempted' by the armor at the same time when he was playing high in the North Wind Fortress last time.It happened to be challenged by Baron Leon, and he was quite optimistic about Roland.

At that time, Roland hadn't realized the huge gap between them. After this unsatisfactory competition, Roland discovered that Baron Leon hadn't shown his full strength last time.

This time he came to the northern capital, but he was still no match for Baron Leon. This was evident from the fact that he gave Roland instructions and Roland gained 20 points of skill proficiency.

This is a real top kendo master!

What is even more unexpected is that Baron Leon is actually the commander of the Wind Legion and a legendary warrior in the north.

He also met him at the city gate and helped him connect with Duke Osborne.

During the conversation with Duke Osborne, Roland benefited a lot from the one sentence he only said in the audience.

I have to say, it's really fate.

Baron Leon, who had been a transparent person for a long time, was finally remembered, he was no longer a transparent person!

Baron Leon patted Roland on the shoulder, "You are not bad, it seems that the Duke is quite optimistic about you."

After taking two steps, he continued to ask: "How dare you say that, let's see how you can create an army of 5000 people in a year.

Could it be that you are going to hire a mercenary army? "

Although Roland did not need to find mercenaries at all, he still nodded and said: "Even if we rent mercenaries, I will make up for the 5000 troops."

Baron Leon nodded understandingly when he heard this. In his opinion, Roland needs to buy too many supplies, and he can only support [-] civilians in the early stage.

According to the general military-civilian ratio, ten to one is a reasonable number. It may be difficult for Roland to gather so many soldiers in this year.

What's more, it is necessary to prepare equipment and armor for 5000 people. The money is just enough to meet the equipment of these people, not to mention the salary and loss of training.

Of course, this will be a full-armored army. You must know that a full-body armor can weigh 20-25 pounds, which varies from person to person.

He has to consider the follow-up development, and recruit soldiers at a ratio of five to one at most. Even if this is the case, there will be huge financial problems for them.

Just to recruit so many civilians, the money that needs to be spent is not a small amount.

He could still understand Roland recruiting mercenaries to fill the gap.

The two returned to Baron Leon's mansion all the way, completed all the goals of the trip, and relaxed their tense nerves. It didn't take long for Roland to fall into a deep sleep.

Early the next morning, Roland took Baron Leon to exchange a thousand gold coins, and then went to the slave market.

There are not many slaves here, they are all displayed in cages, and most of them are some alien slaves unique to the Northland.

Orcs with blue faces and fangs, trolls with hunched backs, kobolds with hideous faces, and ogres with two heads
There is no elf slave that Roland has been waiting for for a long time, and there are no species such as dwarves.

Seeing Roland carrying a small box, the boss greeted him immediately with a smile on his face.

After asking the boss, I learned that elves are hardly seen here. They only exist in the southernmost Kingdom of Hastings, and they are rare.

Similar to forest trolls, elves are rich in rangers and sword dancers. Elves generally live in trees, and they are the best hunters in the forest.

Although there are not many in number, they can even leap quickly between trees, and their arrows can go directly through the gaps in the faces of soldiers to kill the enemy.

Such elves are almost invincible in the woods, but because of the nobles' pursuit of the appearance of elves, many people who are not afraid of death form groups and enter the realm of elves.

And most of them have no life left to earn money, which makes the price of elves go up all the way, and each elf is sold for hundreds of gold coins.

Roland was extremely speechless when he heard this. He called him a good guy. People will die for money and birds will die for food. This is not just talk.

As for dwarves, although they are not as popular as elves, because dwarves like to create characters, they are also characters that will be sold as soon as they show up. There are very few dwarves that can be transported to Rhodes Kingdom.

The boss also quietly told Roland a piece of news, "I heard that many ladies like dwarves, they"

Roland can only say 'the city can play'.

If it weren't for the fact that Roland was brought here by Baron Leon, the boss wouldn't have said so many words to him. After all, the Storm Legion still had to give him face.

When he learned that Roland was here to buy dog ​​heads, the boss immediately said that he could get as many as he wanted, even if you wanted [-] kobolds.

Roland expressed doubts about this, where did they catch so many kobolds.

The boss said that because kobolds are cowardly and bullying creatures, as long as they are captured, they will not resist their masters, and at most they will run away.

And the reason why they like mining, sell them to the mine, and they will be happy if you give them a bite, and there will be no rebellion at all.

The minerals in the human world are basically mined by kobolds, and of course there are others, such as digging stones.

Because kobolds reproduce very quickly, many nobles will buy some kobolds to a certain extent to do some coolie work.

However, if they want to do things other than mining, they need to send soldiers to supervise them, because they are likely to choose to escape because they can't dig the mines and are not happy enough.

The boss himself runs a farm with tens of thousands of kobolds. Yes, you heard it right, they are raised like pigs.

He said that as long as you find a place and throw the kobolds in, they will feed themselves and just catch them when needed.

Roland said that he needs to buy about a thousand kobolds to assist the prospecting team. If mineral deposits are found, he will definitely increase the number of purchases.

From Baron Leon, I learned that Roland was a pioneer lord with a large area of ​​unexplored land in his hands, as well as a professional prospecting team sent by Duke Osborne.

The slave trader named Rich Wayne immediately patted his chest and said that as long as Roland received a letter, he would definitely send someone to bring the kobold slaves to it.

As for the thousand kobold slaves, they were sold to Roland at a price of 4 silver. He claimed that this was definitely the lowest price, mainly because he wanted a future nobleman.

And claimed that if the kobolds were not able to support themselves, it would be absolutely impossible to sell it at such a low price, because the land occupied by those kobolds can also produce wealth.

Of course, this is only the price that Roland brought back. If he wanted to give it away, the price would have to be doubled.

For this price, Roland felt it was a bit expensive, because he only needed 2 silver coins to recruit an empire recruit.

Considering that there is not enough manpower and moving quickly, he decided to choose the 'consignment' service.

(End of this chapter)