Chapter 36: Heading Towards The Blue Moon Lake
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Not only were the occupation halls for the future players, but they were also for the current NPCs.
The teachers working there were all Elves under his command.
There were many professionals in William’s town, most of which were normal professionals.
As for the teachers he was missing, he wasn’t in a rush to get them. He would only recruit those teachers he really wanted.
After all, it was the same for most NPCs and players.
The teachers’ levels only needed to be a little higher than theirs. They didn’t want their teachers to be too strong.
Just those skills and secret books were enough to make people feel embarra.s.sed about their collection…
“My Lord, 30 knights, 20 warriors, 20 witch bladers and 30 rangers are ready!”
William nodded at Nox before he turned towards Odom, who was sending him off and said, “I’ll hand the town expansion missions to you for the next few days. Lautner and I will be back soon. If we can develop a trade route, we will be able to trade secret iron with consistent time periods in the future.”
“Please be rest a.s.sured, your Honor. I will use my life to protect the territory!” Odom Heavyhammer had fled for so many years that now he finally had a stable life, he would definitely cherish it.
Also, because William got his soldiers to save them, there definitely wouldn’t be a mutiny.
As for handing him the town expansion missions?
The corners of Odom’s lips couldn’t help but twitch. When did this Lord ever take charge?
“I’ll be depending on you then!” William nodded shamelessly before he jumped onto a white horse and left with his party.
The majority of the Blackleaf Forest was still in its most natural form, so there were barely any wide paths. Even if someone made a mountainous road, if no one walked on it for a long time, it would slowly be covered with plants and return to how it originally looked.
However, there was something that was fortunate…
As the Lord, William could watch his men hold onto their knives to clear the path in front of him, while he rode his horse and drank fruit alcohol, following behind slowly…
As the Executor and also William’s greatest bodyguard, Lautner was following behind quietly as well. He needed to preserve his energy, instead of doing the hard work.
However, as he watched William, who was immensely enjoying the process, he felt as if William seemed to have used his power as the Lord to its best.
Such as when they were building the city, William had thought of a lot of entertainment facilities that many towns didn’t have.
For example, there were 3 casinos. Why would such a small town need so many casinos? Apart from gambling money, they could even gamble their equipment, how many id*ots would do such a thing?
However, he heard that William planned to get some good equipment and get Odom to make a piece of Epic level equipment for the casinos.
Even Lautner wanted to try his luck there.
There were 5 bars… Was this too many for a town. Lautner didn’t think so.
As for brothels, William even secretly built 3…
Lautner could not help but think if their Lord had matured too early and was in his mating period?
After all, Elves needed to be at least 30 years old to be s.e.xually mature.
Even if Lautner hadn’t used one, he still knew how they worked. He wouldn’t underestimate the business of brothels. In the slightly larger human towns, a brothel’s profits were even higher than two bars combined!
However, the prerequisite was that William didn’t force women.
William glanced at Lautner silently. He kept feeling that this man was judging him silently, so he said, “This isn’t the way to go either. We need to make a road between the town and the Blue Moon lake. If not, how many boxes of gold coins would we require from selling the secret iron?
“There isn’t a smooth road, so do we need to get our men to carry those boxes back? Of course, we have to use horse carriages.
“Also, the longer it takes, the more danger we will be in. Although we are trading with Elves, they aren’t the only ones living in the Blackleaf Forest.”
“I understand. Your Honor doesn’t have to explain to me.” Lautner naturally understood. However, he couldn’t understand one thing, why his Lord suddenly seemed to think so highly of him.
“Hm, it’s good that you understand. The key part about this journey still depends on you, Uncle Lautner!” William smiled kindly…
“Are you calling me Uncle again?” Lautner turned around and murmured. Every time William called him Uncle, he had the feeling that he would have to do something again.
Such as…
That fight with the pale Orc…
Such as…
The previous time he gave William the Watchman of Dawn inheritance scroll…
There was no other way.
William was such a truthful person. Since he was still young and weak, he really needed a strong and capable man to defend him and take blows for him on such a dangerous, wild journey.
A hundred kilometers didn’t seem too far.
However, they were in a natural forest and needed to clear a new path, so it wasn’t that easy.
Even if the professionals used their battle energy to clear the paths, they would require three to five days too.
He had too few mages and the mages under his command were mostly in the middle-levels. Clearing a path would be a lot simpler if he got some earth elemental mages or wood elemental mages.
The return trip would be a lot faster. As long as nothing happened during the journey, they would be able to return to his territory within half a day.
The size of the Black Lava nation was about the same as the Heilongjiang province in China.
The nation’s capital was named the Black Lava city.
All of the buildings were made with a type of black lava stone that had pretty lines. At night, if they didn’t light up the streets with magical lamps, they really wouldn’t be able to see anything…
However, black lava stones like this were extremely strong and worked rather well with a certain level of magic. As long as a mage worked on it for an entire night, they would be able to strengthen the defense level of the stones. And this was the main reason they chose the stone as their building material.
On the wide main street, Curry was wearing a luxurious outfit, looking a lot better than the terrible state he was in a few days ago.
It was very clear that he really was a n.o.bility. He was a n.o.bility in the Black Lava nation.
Although he was already of-age, he didn’t have a territory.
Because the Black Lava nation had limited land and there were so many n.o.bilities, there wasn’t any land left for him now. Unless the nation conquered new land. However, how many n.o.bilities would do such a tiring thing?
Now, the only benefits Curry could get were his father’s Duke t.i.tle and territory.
However, he had an older brother…
According to the inheritance rules in the Legendary Continent, if there wasn’t too much of a problem, a t.i.tle would usually be pa.s.sed on to the eldest son. He didn’t have a good relationship with his brother, so the results were predictable.
That was why, Curry, who had understood his fate early on, got the inheritance his mother gave him before she pa.s.sed away and set up a merchant team. After experiencing eight years of near-death experiences, his merchant team had expanded a lot. Apart from his own team, there were five smaller teams. He would be able to earn a significant amount of gold coins every year.
And he used these gold coins to recruit several professionals into his team, planning to use the time his older brother goes to the Blackleaf Forest to hunt to get rid of him easily!
“Hunting in Blackleaf Forest.” Curry made many turns along the route in the Black Lava City before he finally entered a dark alley.
However..
Only a short time had pa.s.sed when he walked out with a dark expression.
“The price the Dark a.s.sa.s.sins asked for… they’re really dark-hearted!” Curry liked to be properly prepared, especially when it was for his future, so it would be fine to be over-prepared.
However, as the top a.s.sa.s.sin group in the Legendary continent, the price the Dark a.s.sa.s.sins asked for was usually too high.
“However, since he’ll be hunting in the Blackleaf Forest, then… Can I go talk to that Prince? After all, the hunting day will be in ten days’ time and it won’t be too far away from his territory.”
Curry really didn’t have that much money. He was only a small peasant. With the high price the Dark a.s.sa.s.sins were asking for, he wouldn’t be able to give his men lip-service fee after he paid the Dark a.s.sa.s.sins.
It was precisely because of this that he thought about that arrogant, but greedy Lord of the Border Town!
“You like slaves? Then I’ll bring more to you.” Curry raised an eyebrow, having made his decision.