Transcendent Noble

Victor's motorcade was galloping on the road led by Randal. Through the car window, he saw the lush hills stained with golden.

Unconsciously, the season of wind has come quietly.

Flatlake Town is more than 400 kilometers away from Black Castle Town of the York family, and the fastest round trip of the fleet takes 30 days. Victor departed from the season of fire in April and came back in January in the season of wind. The whole journey took 35 days, and he and Sylvia only got together for one day and two nights before hurried back to the territory.

Randal has a lot of affairs waiting for Victor to handle.

Sylvia did not retain Victor. The Randal collar has become a port for Centaur Hills to connect the south central region and the two major powers in the south. It is an important part of the development strategy of the York family. Sylvia knew that Victor had been traveling for a few months, and the Randal Family lacked a steward, and territorial affairs were piled up like a mountain. If Victor did not go back to sit in town, she was not at ease.

It's not that the York family doesn't want to lead an intubation in Randal and help Victor handle government affairs. They really can't spare any manpower.

When the ant plague was suppressed, the vassal class of the York family was hit hard, and more than 2,000 vassals were killed and injured. Today, the total population of Centaur Hills has broken through 150,000. The York family also organized 50,000 young and famous laborers to build two fortresses and also take care of the reconstruction of the territory. Fortunately, the York family has a deep heritage, with more than 60,000 people in the book, and a mature education system. They quickly recalled the family children who were studying in Baita, and promoted many young servants, maids and second sons of vassals to serve as managers. Only then did the territorial affairs be managed in an orderly manner. Even so, the staff of the York family was still very tight, and even Sylvia began to handle government affairs personally.

In the environment of large-scale production and construction, everyone from the lord to the common people is busy.

Victor and Sylvia used a day's time to finalize many things.

The York family doubled the ratio of green wheat and iron materials for purple cane wine in three years. In return, Victor planted kidney beans to share the supply of 15,000 laborers until the completion of the Southern Fortress.

In addition, the York family has obtained the Eskry Baron leader, where they will build a small town, directly participate in the trade of Wild Willow City, and recruit refugees.

This is a logical thing, and Victor doesn't resist it. Sylvia is close to him, it is the interests of the Guan Family. She is impossible to sit back and watch Randal take all the benefits, not to mention that the York family has contributed to the neutral status of the Beria family.

Sylvia also told Victor that she will go to Feniksi Baron with Bishop Pierot and Baita scholar in two months to host the ceremony of the first reservoir. Sylvia asked Victor to take this matter seriously.

When he learned of this, Victor first startedled, and then he was relieved. The church’s priest has participated in the construction of the reservoir throughout the entire process, and since it is hidden from the outside world, it is better to inform the world openly. The most important thing is that Peak Knight attaches great importance to fame. King Naville's killing of an ogre warlord will also be publicized in the Knight circle. Moreover, water conservancy projects are unprecedented feats in human history. How can Sylvia be restrained?

If Peak Knight is indifferent to fame and fortune, without desire and desire, he would have been assimilated by the sea of ​​elements. It is their universal pursuit to become the object of epic singing, and reputation helps to enhance the cohesion and influence of the family, which has practical significance. Therefore, it has become common practice for nobles to pay attention to fame.

Victor doesn't care about fame, it's just that the aristocracy is like this, and he doesn't want to be different.

Interpersonal communication and promotion of fame are after all a trivial matter. Victor still has many important things to do, but he urgently needs a trip to the mountain fortress.

It has been 40 days since the restoration of Alchemy Tower. According to Victor’s departure, the two Golden Dragon lizards produced by the king should be in the mountain fortress. Victor can’t wait to see the new one. Alchemy unit.

The bell outside the car wall made a pleasant sound, the carriage stopped, and Victor stepped out of the carriage to the guard Captain instructed: "Gru, you go back and tell Mrs. Lilia that I will be back in Flatlake Town tomorrow. Renault , Shak led a team of guards to follow me. Gru, you and the others will go back first."

"Yes, my lord."

A guard team of forty people divided into two, when Gru drove the carriage and disappeared from sight, Victor turned his horse and ran west, a group of alchemy militias followed him closely.

In the middle of the night, Victor rushed to the mountain fortress. The first sentence he saw Buso said was, "Where are my Golden Dragon lizards?"

"My lord, they are here Blacksmith's shop. Please come with me."

Passing around the col, Victor saw two huge monsters at a glance.

These are two rare beasts of azure black, with a back height of 2.1 meters, a body length of 4 meters, and a tail of 5.5 meters. When they also found Victor, they stirred their nasal cavity and made a "snoring, snoring" sound, and they were extremely happy, but they remained in place and did not pounce like the alchemy war mastiff.

Victor stepped forward, and giant beast immediately got down and put his head in front of him docilely. The intimacy derived from deep in one's heart made Victor understand that these two giant beasts are his Golden Dragon lizards.

Refining a Golden Dragon lizard, physique 25 points, spirituality 12 points, perception 20 points, 5 life points, using lifespan for 20 years, and manufacturing cost 50,000 goldsore. Refining the Golden Dragon lizard comes with four skills, namely, omnivorous, freedom of movement, elemental resistance and extraordinary regeneration. It is the alchemy unit with the highest attribute, the longest lifespan, and the highest manufacturing cost among alchemy creatures.

Victor originally thought that the golden dragon lizard would grow similar to a large lizard, but now he discovered that its shape is quite different from that of a lizard, but it is a bit like the lizard on Earth.

The shape of the golden dragon lizard’s head is similar to that of a Velociraptor. The skull is 60 cm long, and its wide mouth is full of sharp teeth. Its nasal cavity is large and can be closed. Obviously it is to adapt to various It is a kind of environment, and has a keen sense of smell. The limbs of the Golden Dragon Lizard are sturdy and powerful, extending from the abdomen, which is different from the feature that the limbs of the lizard protrude from the sides of the body. This body structure gives the Golden Dragon lizard an amazing running speed and excellent jumping ability, which is by no means comparable to a crawling lizard. What surprised Victor the most was that the joints of these two guys are very flexible. They can stretch their limbs and lie flat on the ground like humans. If they lie on the water like this, they look like a small boat with a 1.5-meter tail. It is the boat oar. The claws of Golden Dragon Lizards are powerful and curved like hooks. They are powerful weapons, they can also dig pits and climb cliffs. They have semi-webbed toes, which means that they are not only good swimmers, but can also travel through the desert freely. And swamp terrain. The whole body of the golden dragon lizard is wrapped in black horny scale armor, and it feels tenacious and thick when it touches the hand. This strong hard skin, coupled with the two innate talents of extraordinary regeneration and elemental resistance, makes the defensive power and recovery ability of the Golden Dragon lizard extremely powerful.

Victor asked: "Buso, how do you generally use Golden Dragon lizards?"

Buso died once, but every time Victor came to the mountain fortress, he would personally train him. Now, Buso’s intelligence has been greatly improved, and he can fluently answer the owner’s questions, "My lord, train the Golden Dragon lizard. It adapts to various environments and can move underwater for 12 hours. It has intelligence, vision, smell and hearing. It is more than the alchemy war mastiff, can identify 8 types of underground minerals and rare medicine ingredient, has a strong excavation ability, can find and dig underground veins and medicine ingredient resources, and even collect underwater minerals."

"The Golden Dragon lizard has great strength, excellent physical strength and weight-bearing ability. It has a top speed of 100 kilometers per hour and can run continuously for 1 hour. It carries a weight of 6000 pounds, moves freely, and can walk continuously at a speed of 27 kilometers per hour. For 72 hours, you can run for 5 hours at a speed of 65 kilometers per hour."

"Usually, 10 golden Crow crows, 2 war mastiffs, and 1 golden dragon lizard carry 3 alchemy militias. , Form a working group to conduct a 10-day collection operation with a radius of 800 kilometers. When the collected resources exceed 2000 pounds, the working group can return."

"If large rare mineral veins are found, we generally Temporary camps will be built in the vicinity for intensive mining, smelting and processing. Golden Dragon lizards will be made to carry the largest load of transportation."

A picture immediately popped up in Victor’s mind, making Golden Crow in Reconnaissance in the sky, war mastiffs are scattered around to perform security tasks, and three alchemy militias ride dragons and lizards to search for treasured resources in a radius of 800 kilometers. Once the dragon lizard smells the resources buried in the ground, it starts to dig. The militiamen are responsible for collecting and processing. The collection efficiency of this combination is much stronger than that of a single militia. However, Victor is more concerned about another issue.

"How is the battle strength of the Golden Dragon lizard?"

"Sir, the Golden Dragon lizard is a gathering and transportation unit."

"Uh... I know."

Buso’s old problem is committed again, and Victor has to ask: "How does the golden dragon lizard compare to the battle strength of the ordinary dragon lizard?"

"My lord, The golden dragon lizard is made with dragon lizard as the biological template. It has the advantages of marsh dragon lizard and mountain earth dragon lizard. Its physique, perception, intelligence, strength, explosive power, endurance and adaptability are much stronger than ordinary dragon lizards. The Golden Dragon lizard strengthens the two innate talents of extraordinary regeneration and elemental resistance. Its skull and cervical spine are extremely tenacious, with one main and two auxiliary three hearts. It is almost impossible to be a critical strike by a wild beast of the same size. However, it has no ordinary. The keen intuition of the dragon lizard does not have the bloodthirsty innate talent of the marsh dragon lizard, but it has high intelligence, equivalent to human children around 8 years old. If encountered in the wild, any dragon lizard is not an opponent of golden dragon lizards. ."

"What about the boss of Ogre?"

"Ogre seldom acts alone. The Golden Dragon lizard will choose to escape. It carries a weight of 3000 pounds, and the leader of Ogre is also Can’t catch up with it."

"Can’t run away? One-on-one, who will win?"

"Unable to determine the result of the battle. The physical attributes of the two are similar, and Golden Dragon is refined. The perception genus of lizards is higher than that of ogre, but the ogre with violent innate talent is enough to cut off the head of the golden dragon lizard, and the golden dragon lizard has the ability to kill the opponent."

"I see."

Victor nodded, muttered to himself: "It is always necessary to test to determine the ability to refine the Golden Dragon lizard."

The alchemy militia puts the built vehicle on the dragon lizard. . The vehicle has two levels up and down. The upper level has four positions for riding four people, and the lower level is on the left and right sides of the dragon lizard for placing supplies. When necessary, the upper floor can be increased to six positions, and can also be disassembled to allow the dragon lizard to load more goods.

Victor and the two alchemy militiamen boarded their vehicles separately, and the dragon lizard hissed, stood up and ran to the furthest thorium pit.

The wind whizzed in my ears, and the scenery on both sides quickly flew backwards. The Golden Dragon lizard leaped and sprinted on the hills. The low and dense bushes were torn apart by eight giant claws. Victor found that the dragon lizard always chooses a relatively smooth route, and the thorny bush is not as high as its back. It does not have much impact on the rider on its back. Although there are some bumps, soldiers who are proficient in martial skills can fully bear it.

49 minutes later, Victor arrived at Thorium Mine.

The straight-line distance between Thorium Mine and the mountain fortress is 34 kilometers, but the hills here are endless, staggered and undulating. The hills are densely shrubs and the terrain is complex. Even the alchemy militias often choose to go around the cols Row. Calculated in this way, it is more than 70 kilometers from the hill camp to the mine pit.

Such a long journey, with the physical strength of an ordinary person, can not be completed in a day. Elite soldiers need to trek for more than 5 hours regardless of physical strength, while alchemy militias need at least 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Two Golden Dragon lizards carrying 4 people, ignoring the restrictions of the terrain, shortened the journey to 42 kilometers, which took 49 minutes, and the average speed was 51 kilometers per hour. I did not try my best!

"Start the next test. Full of ore, see how long it will take them to return to the smithy?"

Victor and Buso and the others jump download tools, Renault Quickly greet the alchemy militia in the mine to load cargo for the dragon lizard.

In a short while, the alchemy militia filled the vehicle with heavy thorium ore, and tied it up, and the dragon lizard stood up with a mountain-like cargo on its back. Victor asked with a startled heart: "How heavy is this? Will it crush my Golden Dragon lizard to death?"

"About 6,800 pounds." Buso replied, "My lord, rest assured. It's just The maximum load of the vehicle. The maximum transport load of Golden Dragon lizards on flat ground is 10,000 pounds, and the maximum transport load of hilly terrain is 8,800 pounds."

"That's it." Victor relaxed, and asked: " What is the load of the Concealed Ox militiamen to transport minerals? How long does it take to get to the smithy? How many times can they be transported every day?"

"The wheelbarrow has a maximum load of 1,100 pounds. The Concealed Ox militiamen are pushing the cart for 72 kilometers. , A three-and-a-half hour round trip, four times a day, transporting 4,400 pounds of minerals.” Buso replied.

Victor nodded, jumped onto another dragon lizard, instructed: "Let’s get started."

The dragon lizard loaded with minerals took steps effortlessly, because there were no passengers on his back, It chose a shorter route, and when Victor returned to the smithy, it was within reach. Time 61 minutes.

Victor patted trained the head of the Golden Dragon lizard and asked with satisfaction: "One trip per hour, how many times can this guy make a day?"

"The most reasonable plan is, The dragon lizard has a full meal every two days, deep sleeps for 3 hours, and can work uninterrupted for 40 hours. In two days, it can run at least 20 back and forth." Buso replied.

"haha. Good! 100,000 goldsor is worth it!" Victor laughed.

The manufacturing cost of refining the Golden Dragon lizard is 50,000 gold Thor, which is the most valuable alchemy unit in the No. 7 Alchemy Tower. In order to make two dragon lizards, Victor added another 10,000 gold thor to the king, and now Alchemy Tower has no money.

If you don’t consider the need for privacy, 50,000 Jinsor can recruit thousands of people, open up a road connecting the veins and mountain fortresses, and set up a mining and transportation team of thousands of people, and the transportation efficiency It is far above the two dragon lizards.

However, the logistical supply of the foreign world has always been difficult. In order to maintain the living needs of thousands of miners in the mountainous areas, it is necessary to organize two thousand people to engage in material supply work. In ten years at most, 100,000 gold Thor will be wasted, and the cost of mining will be at least several times over.

The food intake of Golden Dragon lizards is not as large as 3000 mouths, and they have omnivorous innate talent, leaves, grass roots, bush berries, blood-eating carrion, what to eat, and the efficiency of food utilization. It's amazingly high, so you don't have to worry about supplies at all. Refining Golden Dragon lizards using lifespan for 20 years, only saves more than 50,000 gold sols in supply costs.

This is still static. From a dynamic point of view, the transportation volume of the Golden Dragon lizards is more than that of the Concealed Ox militia in one day. Two Golden Dragon lizards can be used for transportation. Liberated 53 Concealed Ox militias. These people are engaged in mining, medicine, leather making, armament manufacturing, and production of rock bricks. How much wealth can they create?

The mountain range on the west side of Centaur Hills stretches for thousands of kilometers. Victor controls 600 kilometers of mountainous areas. The proven mineral veins include two thorium, four iron essence and a copper mine. There are countless plant resources. For example, the hemostatic medicine produced by the alchemy militia can sell 2 silver sols for each one based on the existing trade channels. If it is smuggled, at least 8 silver sols can be sold. As for the top fuel wood, purple spruce, the main material for long bows, the black fruit tree, which is the raw material for coffee, as well as various animal skins and tendons, there are too many to count the specific value.

Limited by the problems of supply and transportation, the lords tend to adopt a laissez-faire policy for mountain resources. They are tasteless and abandon them. They often adopt a laissez-faire policy. Anyway, the mountain range will not run, and it is the same for future generations to develop. . And No. 7 Alchemy Tower specializes in collecting wild resources. Victor impossible sits and watches countless wealth in vain in the mountains. Homunculus is what it does. However, Victor actually mines only one iron essence and one thorium mine, which is only concentrated within a range of 85 kilometers.

Victor has 183 auxiliary soldiers and 995 militiamen, a total of 1178 homunculus types. Among them, 60 auxiliary soldiers, 210 militiamen in Randal, 10 auxiliary soldiers and 80 militiamen in the northern Raven Town, and the remaining 818 in the mountain fortress. Among these people, 285 are engaged in transportation and 226 are responsible for collecting food. The total number of logistics personnel has reached 511, and the total number of production personnel is only 307. Due to the shortage of manpower engaged in production, the production of rock bricks came to a halt, not to mention the collection of resources from other areas.

After investing in Golden Dragon lizards, Victor can liberate 53 Concealed Ox militias and 18 monkey militias who provide them with food. These people can not only strengthen the control of the northern mountains, but also form more freedmen mercenary groups. Victor's situation is immediately revitalized!

On the other hand, Golden Dragon is a non-combat transport unit of Alchemy Empire, but Victor will not ignore its battle strength. He has always used alchemy creatures as martial power.

Refined Golden Dragon lizard skin is rough, flesh is thick, physique 25 points, perception 20 points, body length 4 meters, height 2.1 meters, a properly large and violent animal, its power is far more than silver Knight. The dragon lizard has elemental resistance and extraordinary regeneration innate talent, and then it is equipped with heavy armor, and it immediately transforms into an excellent meat shield and melee main force. The leader of Ogre is really not its opponent.

Furthermore, the Golden Dragon lizard has the ability to pass through all terrains. It has fast speed, strong endurance, and low supply pressure. It can carry 6 fully armed alchemy militias at a time and carry thousands of pounds of supplies. It can run thousands of kilometers within 24 hours, and has very strong raid and support capabilities.

Thousands of miles of raids, rapid support, the ability to fight when you come, and the ability to win in battle, this is the value of the Dragon Knight group.

King Gambis once said that wherever the Dragon Knight regiment goes, it is my territory. The strategic value of refining the Golden Dragon lizard is no less than that of the Xun Dragon Knight group.

Of course, Victor does not have the strength to bring out the grandeur of Golden Dragon, but the emergence of Golden Dragon makes up for his lack of high-end martial power and makes his tactics more versatile. , More flexible. Now, the northern mountain range and lizard swamp of Raven Town have become targets that can be attacked.

"Take care of them and don't let them die. These guys are too expensive!"

Victor repeatedly told Buso that there is no money in Alchemy Tower, and he has no pockets Money out.

Buso nodded, he asked again: "My lord, Jack caught a pair of wizard father and daughter when he was on the investigation mission. Would you like to interrogate them?"

"It's getting dark soon I'll see him tomorrow." Victor looked up at the dim sky and said, "Buso, you first report on the results of the mountain fortress during this time."