Don't mess with that dragon

Chapter 19 Transformation

There are many colors of copper ore, such as yellow, gold, cyan, green and so on.

What impressed Austin the most was the green copper mine in front of him. This was because in his previous life, he had seen a video on a video of a man who used to make various tools by hand in the wild to refine copper and iron.

Because I admire the video owner so much, Austin has a very deep memory of those steps and refining methods.

At that time, he also fantasized that if one day travels back to the primitive world, this skill may help primitive people enter the Iron Age in advance and dominate the primitive world.

But he didn't expect that life is impermanent, and there are times when he can really use this knowledge, but it's not just to travel back to the original world.

"I didn't expect there to be copper ore here, and it seems that there are quite a lot of reserves."

Austin stared at the copper ore in front of him, his eyes flickered, and his thoughts changed rapidly.

In this wild area far away from the civilized continent, metal objects such as copper and iron are very precious things. Many large tribes with more than a thousand people even stay at the stage of stone tools and bone tools. The only few iron weapons are humans from the civilized continent. It was sold inside, and it was still a defective product.

As it happened, Austin remembered the steps of the great man in his previous life who smelted copper and iron in the wild with his bare hands.

If he can occupy this place and start a large-scale copper and iron industry, then his family will have a copper weapon and wear copper armor, plus a well-trained army, won't it sweep the entire Kawa Forest?

"In this case, then this place cannot be easily given up."

Originally, Austin planned to launch a war to annex this group of wolf man tribes when his subordinates became stronger, but now it seems that this wolf man tribe must be included in the target range as soon as possible.

"I will return!"

The blue young dragon took a deep look at the gnoll tribe in the distance, spread its wings, soared up, and disappeared into the sky, but the wolves who were enjoying the victory of the war at this moment did not notice it at all.
In the Dragon Nest territory.

"His Royal Highness Austin, thanks to you, the invading enemy has been defeated and captured. It is up to you to decide whether to kill or keep these prisoners."

The Kobold Pooh came to Austin and reported everything that happened in the previous territory to Austin, quietly waiting for Austin's reply.

Looking at the respectful Kobold Pooh beside him, Austin felt speechless for a while.

I went out to search so hard, just to increase the population of my subordinates, but found nothing. Although I accidentally discovered copper ore, it was only after running dozens of kilometers in the cold that I found it.

But for these kobolds, a large number of captives will come to the door while eating food at home.

The life of a dragon is difficult, it is really capricious!
"Reform them first, and then absorb this group of orcs."

One lizardman Rodney who was seriously injured and lying dead, one fox-faced man, two strong lizardmen, seven messy kobolds, and ten goblins. There are 21 orcs in total. If you can annex it Absorb, then the strength of Austin's subordinates will triple in one fell swoop!
When these orcs are integrated into the kobold team, Austin will be able to organize an army of nearly thirty orcs, then he will have absolute confidence in dealing with the blood wolves wandering nearby, even the jackal not far away. Austin also has a certain degree of confidence that he can take them down.

"Remodeling?"

Of course, it was impossible for Lan Youlong's mind to be heard by Si Ni, and he was obviously a little confused about the word transformation.

In the past experience, the defeated captives were either directly killed by the victors, or became slaves of the tribal people, but what does this transformation mean?
"That's right, it's transformation."

For Austin, manpower is a very important resource. Naturally, it is impossible to kill and consume casually. As for degrading it to a slave, it is a way of lower production efficiency, which is not acceptable to Austin.

Containment after transformation and integration into the current kobold army system is the most beneficial way for Austin.

It is precisely because of this that under the order of the blue young dragon, the extremely difficult transformation for these captives began.

In the first few days, these captives were organized into three teams according to their race. They could only eat half full every day, and then they were burdened with heavy labor, from morning to night every day, and fell asleep as soon as they were tired until they returned to the shack.

All kinds of work such as felling trees, building huts, grinding wooden spears and so on made the prisoners miserable.

Especially on a certain day, when Austin saw that these new captives made excrement everywhere in the forest not far away, he directly ordered the kobold leader Pooh to build a toilet in the distance. Complaints abound.

In Austin's plan, the family members under him broke through the 30-person mark. With the territory of one kilometer that he can control, if it is still the previous hunting and gathering method, it will not be sustainable at all.

In other words, it is imperative for these orcs to upgrade from the level of hunting and gathering civilization to the level of farming civilization.

In the Kawa Great Forest, which is rich in products, it is not uncommon to see wild rice and wheat, and even these wild grains are the main food that kobolds used to collect for winter.

Given the climate in the Great Kava Forest, if rice seeds can be collected for collective planting, supplemented by collective animal husbandry, then a small-scale territory can produce enough to support the survival of Austin's family members.

After the cold winter, Austin intends to teach the family to slash-and-burn and open up wasteland to support the growing population.

The toilet that is being built is not only for the sake of hygiene, but also an important part of opening up wasteland and farming after the cold winter.

This world has not yet developed a chemical fertilizer industry, and these excrement is the best fertilizer of this era.

It's just that in this cold winter, the soil on the ground is frozen as hard as steel. If you poke it with a wooden stick, even if a stick is gone, it's just a hole the size of a stone pot.

Fortunately, Rodney, the leader of this group of orc tribes, had an iron ax in his hand, which successfully became the trophy of the kobolds. He used it to make more wooden tools, so that the captives would not be able to dig with stones and hands and feet.

It's just that even so, it made the prisoners exhausted after finishing their work every day.

But this is just right, in line with Austin's original purpose of exhausting the strength of these captives, in short, they can't let these captives idle for a moment.

After several days of high-intensity oppression, this group of orcs had exhausted all their energy and willingness to resist. Seeing that the village below the dragon's nest finally took shape, basically all the work had been completed.

Next, the second step of the transformation began.

(End of this chapter)