An infinite journey that begins at Hogwarts

After passing through the strait between the southern island chain and the mainland, the Dawn Goddess finally arrived at the end of the voyage, Pastor Port.

Although this is the most developed port in the southern island chain countries, it is not as prosperous as expected, not even comparable to the elves' inland port of Calanto.

The main reasons are two. First, the countries on the southern island chain are not developed themselves. Although they are not as uncivilized as the barbarians, their productivity is far inferior to the countries in the Flanaess region.

The second is that ocean trade was not the mainstream of world trade in the past. Especially the moodiness of the Ocean Goddess and the Storm Lord made ocean trade extremely dangerous. The huge risks made merchants reluctant to give up this kind of higher profits and consumption. A shorter way to trade.

But now everything has changed.

After arriving at the end of the voyage, this ocean trade was half completed, and Cedric, Woking and Ambry all received huge feedback.

They no longer cover the changes on the River of Destiny. The three saints stood on the River of Destiny in the posture of descending gods and announced at the same time.

"I, Embry, Vol'jin, and Cedric will together be the patrons of the sea trade."

The turbulent river of destiny is connected to the Great Source. Although it does not cause personal feedback from the will of the world like Cedric created the Flame Clan and the You Clan, the priesthood of ocean trade still condenses from the Great Source and is divided into three. fell into the hands of three people.

Cedric merged this incomplete priesthood with his own wealth priesthood. He suddenly felt that he was one step closer to becoming a god. He could even hold the ceremony of becoming a god with the faith he had now condensed. If there was no external interference, he would Will easily become an eternal true god.

However, it is impossible without external interference. Neither the Destiny Twins nor Gruumsh will allow him to successfully become a god, so his own god-like ceremony needs to be prepared separately.

Cedric smiled and said to the two goddesses, "Now that the plan has been carried out smoothly, I will leave it to you."

Both of them knew that Cedric had other things to be busy with, so they understood his departure. Wojin nodded, "You give us such a good opportunity, we can only ask for it."

It is undoubtedly the best time to form a faith after condensing the priesthood, and Cedric leaving at this time is obviously giving up this part of the cake. To a certain extent, the three of them are also competitors with each other.

However, their competitive relationship is not like mortal enemies holding the same priesthood, but an alliance holding common interests.

The main reason is that maritime trade is not the main priesthood of the three, but an expansion of their authority, and this priesthood will become incomplete without the assistance of any party.

After greeting the two goddesses, Cedric found Dolan in an excited state again. He is now not only the saint of the goddess of wealth, but also the most important financial officer in Dawn City.

Dolan excitedly reported to Cedric, "If this voyage returns smoothly, we will make a profit of tens of millions of gold coins at a time."

In this era, ocean trade is a hugely profitable industry. At the same time, the route that connects the three most prosperous trading cities of Dawn City, Calanto and Pastor Port is undoubtedly the biggest profit among huge profits.

The rich raw materials on the southern island chain, the exquisite elven products of Caranto, and the huge market of Dawn City relying on the Flanaess formed an excellent complement to each other.

Cedric gave Dolan instructions, "In addition to this route, you can prepare some new routes, such as starting from the Emerald City and following the direction of the storm currents, opening up a route that bypasses the Flanaess trade coast, or even We can open up a route across the Sea of ​​Chaos to the Eastern Continent.”

"Perhaps you will become the first businessman to connect to the planet Os in the future."

Hearing Cedric's words, even the ambitious Dolan fell into sluggishness. If he could really become the first businessman to connect to the planet Os, he would probably be promoted to a god by the goddess immediately, right?

Of course, it’s not bad to be a god to His Highness in front of you.

The goddess of wealth doesn't mind if her followers believe in other gods, especially since she and Cedric are still in the honeymoon period.

"Of course." Cedric drew the pie. How to stimulate subjective initiative is the most important thing for leaders to do. You must know that the power of these businessmen is no less than that of the army.

The strength of the southern island chain countries is not strong. Even Cedric's current Dawn Goddess fleet can completely separate a huge island and establish a country. However, this is not the best plan, because Dawn City does not lack land. What is still lacking are the citizens who agree with the concept of Dawn City.

In Cedric's view, the concept of nationality is even more important than land. Only an empire with a unified cultural identity and a highly concentrated sense of identity can last long.

Even if it falls into a historical trough, it is possible to rise again. This was undoubtedly the case in the Eastern Land in the previous life, and the opposite example is the ancient Roman Empire.

Although this was a country that was powerful and famous in history, its citizens did not have a high degree of recognition of the common culture. This made this powerful giant fall quickly in a short period of time and never stood up again. .

The economic and cultural invasion was Cedric's first step in expanding Dawn City's sphere of influence to the southern island chain. This was far more useful than conquering a group of slaves by force.

After Cedric explained his philosophy to Dolan for a night, he left the Dawn Goddess fleet the next day, but he did not return to Dawn City, but went to the underground world.

As a full-scale war with the orcs approaches, Cedric must quickly accumulate his own strength.

Although on the surface, Dawn City has gained an overall upper hand in the battle with the orcs, this is nothing more than a flower in the mirror and a moon in the water.

In this autumn hunting operation, the orcs dispatched only 2 safari troops from small tribes. Even because of the floating city, the 10 elite troops and servant troops of the three major orc tribes did not officially enter the battlefield at all.

But next year's war will not be so simple. First of all, these 2 elite troops and 10 servants, after a year of integrated training, will become the vanguard of the orcs, pointing directly at Dawn City.

At the same time, the orc empire under the same orc king can assemble at least millions of troops. Although in order to prevent the main force of elves and humans from stealing their homes, the orcs must set aside a large number of troops.

However, the number of elite troops attacking Dawn City is very likely to reach more than . This is almost a military force that can destroy a powerful human kingdom, and now Dawn City needs to face it on its own.

Not to mention the true gods of the orc pantheon and the evil gods peering at Dawn City behind this army.

Although Dawn City now has the great weapon of the Floating City, the total strength of Dawn City is less than , but it is actually in danger. All prosperity now must be based on completely resisting the attack of the orcs next year.

So Cedric not only did not relax, but became even more urgent.

Of course, his first priority is to improve his own strength. After all, the true god is the primary productive force in this world. If he can really defeat Gruumsh head-on, there will probably be no Dawn City War.