Emperor of Arcane

October 15th.

Bay collar.

clear.

Large numbers of Oriental red mulberry seedlings were planted outside various farm locations.

The new round of expansion of the farm stronghold began to proceed in an orderly manner as a large number of adventurers and bay leader patrols cleared away dangerous creatures in the wilderness.

Groups of reserve staff, under the leadership of the new village chief, received the transferred pioneers.

Next, they will repeat the work of clearing wasteland, planting trees, digging ponds, raising silkworms, and making wine in other farm bases.

With the experience summarized by other forerunners, they will get started faster and see results.

Following them were engineering teams.

They worked very quickly, first laying out the railway tracks and magic passages.

They also transported construction machinery and construction golems.

Wilderness was bulldozed.

Turning mud into stone, it covers a large construction area.

Lay the foundation.

Just waiting for the construction materials to arrive, row after row of residential buildings were quickly built.

The entire construction process only takes 3 days in total.

The rest of the repair work is usually handed over to the pioneers who are free.

The seriousness and meticulousness of the work will measure whether the pioneer can obtain the title of "excellence".

Even with the development of machinery and golem technology, the most important thing in the Gulf Territory is still the cultivation of talents.

Everything starts from small things and considers the details.

It is foreseeable that more and more farm strongholds will be established, opening up more farmland and fertile fields.

"By the end of the year, another 80 farm strongholds will be established in the Gulf Territory Wilderness. Counting the original 20, the number will reach 100."

"Each farm can develop 500,000 acres of farmland, and 50 million acres of farmland will be developed by the middle of next year."

"Such an astonishing speed can be said to be unprecedented."

"By then, the developed area of ​​the wasteland in the Gulf Territory will reach 2/3."

“The remaining ones are expected to be fully developed by the end of next year.”

"It is expected that by around August next year, the main development direction can be placed on the Silver Moon River Plain in the east."

"The developable area there is larger, and it is estimated that about 100 million acres of farmland can be developed..."

Butler Ralph tapped the collected data, looking particularly excited, and was reporting to Matthew quickly.

In just one and a half years, the Gulf Territory has opened up more than 10 million acres of farmland, which is more farmland than the Seer family controls. How can this not surprise people?

The Gulf Territory is growing at an ever-increasing pace and has no intention of stopping.

A bright future always makes people happy.

Matthew, who was reading the arcane newspaper, nodded while listening, feeling happy about the development of the territory.

As for Ralph the Butler's beautiful vision, Matthew knows that it will not be achieved easily.

Frequent disasters and struggles in the future will be obstacles to the development of the Gulf Territory.

Putting down the Arcane Newspaper in his hand, Matthew pointed to the "Bay Territory Recruitment Plan" which was still on the first page, and half-jokingly said to Butler Ralph:

"It can be seen that the editor of Arcane News is really short of money, and he has arranged such a good position for us."

Thinking back to the exchange with the editor, Butler Ralph picked up the Arcane Newspaper, looked at another message that cost 100,000 gold coins to get on, glanced at his lord and asked:

"The Kingkiller is approaching, will it have any impact on us?"

Recalling the scene of the "Crazy Dragon's Disaster", Matthew looked through the recent achievements of adventurers and replied without raising his head:

"According to previous information records, it will lead to riots of dragon-blooded creatures."

Looking through the detailed information of "King Killer" carefully, Butler Ralph looked at the picture of the dragon blood creature riot and said hesitantly:

"It's better to clean them up to avoid causing casualties and affecting the development of the territory."

Matthew did not tell Butler Ralph how terrible the turmoil this "dragon disaster" would cause.

Anyway, saying it will not help. It will only increase worries and cause panic. It is better to prepare in advance.

Matthew calculated that there were still four months until the "Crazy Dragon Disaster". As long as preparations were made well enough, its impact on the territory could be weakened to the greatest extent.

It's even possible to go further!

Thinking about possible follow-up plans, Matthew whispered to Butler Ralph:

"Continue to strengthen ties with the nobles of the Karl Plain and strengthen the construction of temporary strongholds in the north and east."

North and east?

Butler Ralph vaguely guessed something, nodded with a smile as if he had realized something, smacked his lips and said:

"Understood, I'll make arrangements right away."

"However, since the dragon-blooded creatures in the territory will be affected, what will happen to those dragon-born ones?"

Matthew understood Butler Ralph’s careful reminder and told him the arrangements he had made in advance:

"Ordinary kobolds, jackals, and fishmen will not be affected. The transformed dragonborn will arrange for them to enter the underground world."

As for Yaya, there is no need to worry at all.

Yaya, who controls the power of time, can easily adjust his own state and is immune to the will judgments of the "Crazy Dragon Mystery Lock".

Butler Ralph, who felt everything was safe, nodded solemnly, turned around and left, preparing to arrange specific matters.

Matthew looked at other developments in Bay Territory.

With the supplement of population and funds, all developments are proceeding very smoothly, and most of them are exceeding the planned progress.

In the race against time, Mathieu and the Bay Leader have temporarily gained a slight upper hand.

However, the "Crazy Dragon Disaster" was not far away, and Matthew decided to prepare in advance.

In the past, he only thought about resisting, but now his "ambition" is even greater.

In the military factory.

Many newly joined dwarf craftsmen are discussing with their bay collar apprentices.

The dwarf craftsmen originally thought that it would be difficult for these bay collar apprentices who did not have solid basic skills to give guidance and communicate.

After all, blacksmithing requires years of experience as support to gradually develop brilliant skills.

Who knew that these bay collar apprentices were not only very studious and serious, but their theoretical knowledge was beyond their expectations.

Sometimes, the technical opinions expressed by Bayland apprentices deeply inspire the dwarf craftsmen.

After their inquiries, the blacksmiths learned about the Gulf Territory's public forging technology and information.

The dwarf craftsmen were greatly shocked. After tentative application, they actually got the permission to browse some knowledge and technology.

After intense study, the dwarven craftsmen found much of the knowledge to be very useful.

The excited dwarf craftsmen naturally want to learn the following knowledge and techniques.

Then they discovered that it was not difficult to do this, they just needed to reach 1,000 merit points.

For an ordinary adventurer, it would take nearly half a year to obtain 1,000 achievements.

But for the dwarf craftsmen, it only takes a few minutes for them to do this.

Submit part of the forging skills and metal smelting recipes, and you can get the merit of browsing other knowledge.

This boundary set by the Bay Territory is interesting.

As long as the dwarf craftsmen provide one or two technologies of the same level, they can gain access to browse dozens or hundreds of technologies.

Most of the dwarf craftsmen agreed.

Many of the technologies they “brought” became knowledge for others to learn.

Seeing this situation, Wildhammer felt a little uncomfortable at first.

Immediately, Wildhammer learned from Matthew that the technologies and knowledge collected by the Gulf Territory could also be shared by the Dwarf Kingdom, and he immediately started learning happily.

At the same time, he simply contributed all the skills and experience of his dwarf master craftsman.

Because of this system, the forging technology and knowledge of the Gulf Territory, with the joint efforts of tens of thousands of craftsmen and dwarf craftsmen, have developed rapidly at an astonishing speed.

Many of these technologies have won rewards at the level of 100,000 gold coins.

Such exciting motivation set off an upsurge of study and research.

The Gulf Territory has also benefited greatly from the acquisition and breakthrough of these technologies, producing various steels and metals with better materials.

Don’t underestimate the progress of these technologies. The improvements in various machines and models have all achieved breakthroughs because of these better-quality metals.

The fusion and collision of technology and wisdom bloomed into a brilliant fire.

With this trend, Matthew established a number of research institutes, including but not limited to research in forging, metals, weapons research and development, machinery and many other fields.

The 10 million gold coins invested are being transformed into the accumulation of various technical experiences at an astonishing speed.

Then it became the first update of major factories in the Gulf Territory.

Soon, the first batch of high-end weapons and equipment belonging to the Gulf Territory were produced.

Reasonable design, exquisite forging skills, and high-quality materials make their quality outstanding.

This is not the end.

The enchantment factory, which received massive financial support, was quickly built with the help of Mordenkainen and his team.

They took over the task of enchanting and strengthening this batch of high-end equipment and showed very excellent abilities.

In just two days, these high-end weapons and equipment were enchanted, and they were also matched with high-end enchantments.

This move alone made Matthew very satisfied.

Not only because the Gulf Territory was finally able to manufacture the best high-end weapons and equipment.

At the same time, it was also because the Gulf Territory was able to make a "secret weapon" to fight against the scourge of the mad dragon.

Dragon hunting crossbow!

This is a killing weapon specially created for hunting dragon blood creatures.

They are paired with special crossbow arrows that can penetrate the tough scales of dragon-blooded creatures, tear apart strong muscles, and damage soft internal organs.

Its crucial advantage is that after causing damage to dragon-blooded creatures, it can weaken their strength and recovery ability to a certain extent.

To put it simply.

The dragon-hunting crossbow is a large weapon that can kill and weaken dragon-blooded creatures.

Having such a weapon does not mean that you can kill dragon-blooded creatures in all directions.

It's just that he has a certain ability to fight back.

The dragon-blooded creatures that can really pose a threat are at least groups of elites, and quite a few are elites with superior strength.

There are even many terrifying existences at the leadership level that can bring disasters and dangers.

Matthew's response was simple.

One or two dragon-hunting crossbows can only serve as a deterrent and add a bit of confidence to Bay Town's defense.

However, it cannot defend against the monsters on all sides of the entire Gulf Territory.

So, just run production at full capacity. As long as the quantity is large enough, it won't be a problem.

However, in order to cultivate the research capabilities of everyone in the institute, Matthew did not publish the dragon-hunting crossbow drawings he knew to them.

He just made a request and offered a design reward of 100,000 gold coins.

"It is required to be able to shoot through armor with +10 defense within a range of 300 meters."

"Requires Enchantment-Advanced Debility-Advanced Suppression-Advanced Slowness."

"It is required that the fired crossbow arrows have connected high-strength ropes and can be connected to heavy objects to enable rapid transfer."

"The final requirement is that the cost must be kept below 50,000 gold coins, and the production success rate must exceed 40%."

For this request made by Matthew.

Several research institutes are interested, and 500,000 gold coins is not a small amount.

It requires a farmer to work hard to cultivate 30 acres of land and ensure harvests despite droughts and floods for 50,000 years before he can earn it.

It is also the annual income of an ordinary viscounty.

It can equip a high-level professional with a full set of high-level enchanted weapons and equipment.

Equipped with a full set of weapons and equipment for a regiment in the Gulf Territory.

It can also allow 100,000 farmers to live quite comfortably for a year.

The members of the institute are at least senior professionals. Even if a small number of well-talented intermediate reserve personnel are included, the number does not exceed 100.

Everyone who participates in this research can get at least hundreds or thousands of gold coins!

It’s exciting!

But soon, they were dumbfounded.

The many problems that go into building a dragon-hunting crossbow cannot be solved by a single research institute.

Tried it for about 3 days.

Still unable to lower the manufacturing price to less than 50,000 gold coins, various research institutes immediately started thinking about other things.

Since we can’t fight alone, we can join forces!

As a result, several major research institutes came together to overcome some of the technical difficulties.

On the 6th day, the design drawings were handed over to Matthew.

"Dragon-hunting crossbow, large crossbow, high-end peak quality."

"Attack power 30~40, range 1200 meters, enchantment: precision +3, crush +2, strong attack +1."

"Armor-piercing crossbow, attack power 15-20, enchantment: armor-piercing +8, sharpness +5, advanced-suppression, advanced-weakness, advanced-slowness."

"The production materials, the statistical cost is 50,000 gold coins: 20 grams of fine gold, 10 grams of thorium, special high-grade bow strings, 20 kilograms of black iron wood..."

"The production cost is 5,000 gold coins, and the production success rate is 45%."

Matthew looked at the heads of several research institutes, nodded with satisfaction, and then spent another 500,000 gold coins:

"Improve the production method and increase the production success rate to 80%!"

After receiving the gold coins, every researcher was not satisfied and continued to invest more energy in research.

The gold coins are hanging in front.

For these researchers, the generosity of the lords and bay lords soon made it a pleasure.

They spent another week perfecting the production technology of the dragon hunting crossbow.

Matthew happily scattered the gold coins and continued to put forward higher design and production requirements for the dragon hunting crossbow.

The researchers who were vaguely aware of the Lord's purpose were willing to immerse themselves in it and continue to study various technologies.

Various attributes and production techniques of the Dragon Hunting Crossbow.

Continuously improve through improvement after improvement.

What was invisibly promoted was the improvement of the entire Gulf Territory's ability to produce high-end weapons and equipment.

At the same time, hundreds of lookout posts are being built across the Gulf Territory's borders.

More and more residents of the Gulf Territory are meeting the requirements to become soldiers as they continue to grow and exercise.

The number of soldiers in the Gulf Territory is constantly increasing.

The momentum of adventurers hunting dragon-blooded creatures has also become more and more powerful.

Many people have already speculated that with the arrival of King Killer, the influence of the Mad Dragon Mystery Chain will once again come to the main material plane.

All dragon-blooded creatures affected by the Mad Dragon's Mystery Lock will suffer the impact of "Crazy Will".

The vast majority of ordinary dragon blood creatures will not be affected by crazy will.

Only those individuals with the power of dragon blood showing up will experience a rapid decline in their sanity if they cannot resist the impact of "crazy will".

In the impact of will every 10 days, once the defense line of "will" is breached and the sanity is gradually cleared, it will become a beast that only knows killing.

It is said that this terrifying force, like a natural disaster, was released by the elves tens of thousands of years ago.

As a result, most of the true dragons in the main material plane fell into eternal madness.

They have completely lost their minds.

Become like a wild beast, killing any living creature that can move around you.

Created a catastrophe that affected the entire material plane.

The timing of the appearance of Mad Dragon Mystery Lock is very clever.

The real dragons had just spent a huge price to defeat the giants who ruled the continent.

Before they could be driven out to death, the real dragons suffered such heavy losses. It was difficult to say that there was no other force behind this.

The effect of Dragon Mystery Lock on real dragons is real.

As a result, the latter's power suffered huge and irreversible losses.

Even if tens of thousands of years have passed, the real dragons have not been able to recover.

Occasionally there is information about real dragons, but they are just rumors with scaly claws.

After all, Kingkiller Planet will approach the main plane every few hundred years, causing "catastrophes" again and again.

It was because of the decrease in dragon-blooded creatures that their impact was getting lower and lower, that led to the rise of humans and orcs.

However, Matthew doubts the elf's strength.

Although the Cole elves are powerful, they also behave badly in the face of natural disasters.

If they were really the masterminds behind this, they would have already embarked on a journey to rule the entire northern continent.

Wherever it will be like now, it has not been able to form a complete and unified political power.

Now, Matthew is naturally willing to cause trouble to the Cole Elf Kingdom.

"With me and the Gulf Territory here, you can't even think about annexing the El Elves."

I have taken a fancy to the wealth of El Elf!

Especially when the other party has just paid a "protection fee".

"Time is a little tight, we need to increase our efforts in development..."

Matthew made sure that the progress of the dragon-hunting crossbow could keep up, and other preparation plans were also progressing rapidly.

He wanted to prepare for another crucial explanation of "Dragon Slaying Compendium".

No matter how good the weapon is, it still needs a good manual.

Know yourself and the enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles without danger.

When the "Crazy Dragon Disaster" occurs, most real dragons will not be affected.

They are either hiding in other planes, or retreating into specially made lairs, or they are able to ignore the influence of the Dragon Mystery Lock.

Therefore, even the next "crazy dragon disaster" will reach a scale unprecedented in thousands of years.

But the only ones that can really have an impact on the Gulf Territory are those dragon beasts.

Although the strength of those dragon beasts may reach the legendary level! !

Matthew called Shang Yaya and came to the underground laboratory.

The densely packed kobolds and engineering golems are still busy.

The newly expanded underground experimental area will be very broad in the future, at least as big as more than 10 football fields.

On the right is the experimental subject area, with dragon-blooded creatures captured by adventurers and hunting teams imprisoned in huge cages.

Wearing thick armor, an earth-moving dragon looks like a huge, fat crocodile.

Spreading its wings, it can reach a length of 20 meters.

Like a hill, 4 dragon turtles with their heads and tails curled up in it.

There are also flying dragons who provided Matthew with extraordinary expertise - commander, are all imprisoned here.

Matthew ignored the vague power on them and carefully browsed their properties.

These monsters, which were extremely wild when they were first captured, are now very obediently lying in the iron cage, not daring to move at all.

The reason is simple. Yaya, who thought they were noisy, came over to have a heart-to-heart talk with them when they were first captured.

Yaya, whose strength has grown rapidly, can easily bully these dragon beasts, pseudo-dragons and dragon-blooded creatures.

Yaya, who is still in his infancy, has begun to fully demonstrate the powerful fighting ability of the real dragon.

The size, strength, defense, and fighting skills all grew rapidly in the process of bullying these guys.

If you obey, you'll get beaten less often!

If he doesn't obey, he will be beaten until he obeys.

Yaya has already begun to make plans to train these younger brothers with low IQs.

Even if you can't use it as a thug in the future, keeping it as a pet is still a good choice.

Therefore, when Yaya appeared, even the Earthly Dragon with the lowest IQ became extremely well-behaved.

A large number of researchers followed Matthew closely, watching him carefully as he recited the Bible:

"There are a few special precautions when dealing with dragon blood creatures."

"You can't stand up, you can't be left behind."

"No one can withstand the dragon's fangs and breath. The sweep of the tail is also very deadly."

"Even though they are big, they are actually quite flexible..."

If it wasn't obvious enough, Matthew motioned to open the Earthly Dragon's cage.

The cheerful Yaya stepped on the back of the Earthly Dragon.

Under the "horrifying" gaze of the researchers, the ferocious earth dragon opened its mouth and raised its tail very obediently.

Just this operation made the big guy stunned.

Matthew walked over as if nothing had happened, first used two cleaning techniques on the open mouth of the ground dragon, and explained it to everyone carefully:

"Did you see it? In addition to the sharp and serrated fangs, the muscles on both sides are also very developed, proving that it has an amazing bite force..."

"Did you see the small hole hidden in the throat? Those are the glands used by the Earthly Dragon to store acid, and are also the raw materials for its breath."

"Let's get some acid and study the corrosion strength..."

"Check the strength of the scales all over its body. The back can reach at least +8 level, the abdomen is weakened by 2 levels, and the magic resistance is quite good..."

"Record its running speed and calculate the minimum and maximum values..."

"It's not enough to record the speed, the speed of body turning and launching attacks also needs to be..."

"..."

A full hour or so.

The "well-behaved and sensible" Di Xinglong showed everything in front of everyone.

Matthew finished the introduction, and under the "gloomy" gaze of the earth-walking dragon, he coughed and said:

"Give it a pig."

The fat pig that had just been slaughtered fell from the feeding port above the cage.

The overjoyed Dixinglong bit it in one bite and easily bit it into two pieces.

The crisp sound of "crunching" made everyone's scalp tingle.

They stared at the Lord and Yaya with great awe, and looked at their nonchalant expressions, feeling unparalleled reverence in their hearts.

You can't worship, the lord said it's "superstition".

Matthew walked up to the most powerful flying dragon, Yaya flashed his white and tender fists, and had the urge to show off his skills.

Fei Long lowered his head obediently, and his originally ferocious face immediately became very "peaceful", and his vertical-pupil-shaped eyes became filled with tears.

"If anything happens, just say it!"

Seeing that it was so obedient, Yaya patted its head and said seriously:

"Be good, I'll give you something delicious later!"

The researchers felt the powerful aura emanating from the flying dragon, suppressed their inner fears, and continued to record.

Weird painting style, in the underground laboratory, one day passes.

After collecting enough data and information, Matthew waved to the others and said:

"To deal with other dragon-blooded creatures, everyone must also consider many aspects."

"Don't care about the level of strength, but understand the reason why they are strong..."

"Look for their weak point, it doesn't have to be a fatal flaw. If there was, they wouldn't survive now."

"In addition to individuals, we also need to understand the situation of their groups..."

After Matthew's "guidance", researchers in the underground laboratory began a more in-depth study of dragon-blooded creatures.

Gradually, the researchers forgot about the gap in strength and invested huge energy and enthusiasm in various dragon-blooded creatures.

With their help, Matthew saved a lot of time and was able to master all the information about dragon-blooded creatures more easily.

For now, these researchers can only scratch the surface.

In the future, they will all embark on a new path.

Through research on dragon blood creatures and combining several advanced and super expertise collected, Matthew finally perfected the transformation goal of the fifth surgery!

Matthew decided to focus on the supernatural healing power of trolls.

Create a supernatural ability that has stronger healing ability and can resist and weaken magic damage and destruction!

Normally, extraordinary feats are very powerful.

Even if it is a single type, as long as it is developed and tempered to the extreme, it can show extremely powerful effects.

This also means that the emergence and transformation of extraordinary abilities is very difficult.

Blank drawings are easy to draw on.

When carrying out large-scale renovations on a skyscraper, the entire building may collapse accidentally.

This time, the experimental subject chosen by Matthew became a troll experimental subject.

Who makes their self-healing ability so good?

At the beginning, Matthew will teach the trolls to learn similar expertise based on the special magic resistance of dragon-blooded creatures.

Then, Matthew will use some less powerful magic to stimulate these trolls.

The first batch that I tried was undoubtedly a failure.

Matthew had already made preparations and used the power of destiny calmly.

Soon, several special trolls were found by Matthew.

They have strong magic resistance.

After "obtaining" the magic resistance expertise of dragon-blooded creatures, he was able to recover quickly from damage caused by some magic.

Of course, this rapid recovery will also be accompanied by rapid consumption of physical strength and nutrients.

However, when Matthew gradually increased the power of damaging magic, these trolls could no longer bear it.

Matthew did not rush to increase the power of magic. Instead, he stuck at this node and experimented again and again.

Analyze the effects caused by different magics.

Record the recovery time of different magics.

See the process of different magical destructions.

In a pile of seemingly similar data, Matthew silently searched for various patterns.

Numerous experimental data and increasingly clear experimental principles allowed Matthew to move forward slowly but firmly.

The troll's strength is constantly "increasing", and its healing magic ability is gradually strengthened.

Catalyzed by the power of 1 million fates every day, the collection and analysis of experimental data are quickly shortened.

On the 8th day, Matthew went through more than 5,000 experiments.

Finally, he "created" extraordinary expertise that he was satisfied with on several experimental subjects of extraordinary trolls.

"Extraordinary healing LV1, extraordinary expertise, upper limit of life +50, constitution +4, health recovery +5, rapid healing of all injuries except fatal injuries, recovery speed increased by 10 times."

"Learning conditions: Constitution 20, Strength 18, Agility 15."

With such exaggerated learning prerequisites, Matthew felt that except for the reformed warriors in the Gulf Territory, almost no one could meet such conditions.

Creating this extraordinary expertise is only the first step in completing the fifth surgical research.

Matthew was obsessed with the process of research.

Under the leadership of Yaya, the researchers who have achieved fruitful research results have completed the most important part of the "Dragon Slaying Outline".

Types of dragon blood creatures.

Habits of dragon blood creatures.

Attacks from dragon-blooded creatures.

The weakness of dragon-blooded creatures.

Hunt dragon blood creatures!

Matthew, who took time out to perfect "Dragon Slaying Compendium", made a very interesting decision.

It took a lot of manpower, material resources, and dragon power to compile this "Dragon Slaying Compendium."

It will be open to all adventurers in the territory who have a merit of 2,000 or more.

Of course, being open does not mean that they can leak secrets. Before browsing this level of permission information, they must sign a magic contract.

Therefore, as soon as the "Dragon Slaying Outline" came out, it caused an uproar among the adventurers of Bay Ridge.

The reason is really simple.

With the "Dragon Slaying Compendium" in hand, as long as the weapons and equipment are in place and paired with combatants who are not afraid of death, there is a 50% chance of killing dragons!

This is a crazy way to make money!

What the adventurers didn't expect the most was that what appeared along with the "Dragon Slaying Compendium" were the various weapons described in the above records.

"Dragon Hunting Crossbow: 50,000 gold coins!"

"Dragon-killing Spear: 1,000 gold coins."

"Dragon-slaying potion: 2,000 gold coins!"

"Dragon-slaying knife: 300 gold coins!"

“The goods are genuine and fair!”

Now, all everyone is thinking about is finding a dragon to kill!

8,000 today

Asking for a monthly ticket.

rush!