Transcendent Noble

The morning color is cold and the dark clouds are faintly heralding the approaching freezing rain.

Imerson pushed open the wooden door of the shed and exhaled a puff of white mist. Then his lungs were filled with icy, humid mist, and he shuddered. He was frowned, with a black sheepskin cloak wrapped tightly around him, stepped down the wooden ladder and walked towards the slaughterhouse on the west side of the camp.

"What a big guy... I said, it's still dark before you get up and work again, right? Uh...it must be! It's like this every day..." Imerson put his hand in front of the brazier, Yuki The burning flames dissipated the sticky and cold fog everywhere. Several butchers ignored the wizard's approach, they were busy breaking down their prey.

A swamp six-legged crocodile more than 4 meters long was hung on a dark red wooden frame. Several purple-golden horned knives walked along the folds of the belly skin. After a while, the belly skin of ash-gray was peeled off, revealing the bright red flesh. The cross-shaped slit slid out and fell into the wooden barrel below. The pungent bloody stench exploded, and the butchers continued to work unconsciously. They looked attentively, cooperated in tacit understanding, and their skilled movements had the beauty of flowing water. It didn't take long for this huge monster to be broken down into a pile of meat, bones and a complete scaly skin.

Imerson rubbed his hands and babblingly asked: "Guys, is this the 27th hexapod that you killed? Or the 28th...or 31? I want to see, we are here. I stayed in this camp for 51 days and caught 27 hexapod crocodiles, 6 giant anacondas, 76 capybaras, 11 shadow spiders, and maybe more... You always get up and do it when I don’t get up. Live... What do I say you want the juice of the shadow spider for? I am most annoyed by this kind of brainless Insect, not obedient at all."

"It's going to rain...I tell you, The rainy season of Great Swamp is the hardest. The lake is soaring, the big island becomes smaller, the small island is flooded, and the air is cold and humid... If the fire goes out, it will be miserable... In the first year of the water season, Bell and I I ate raw food for a whole month."

"By the way, when did the adults come here?"

The only response to him was the beating tongue of fire and the sound of a sharp knife cutting meat. Imerson didn’t Mindful of it, since separating from Bell, he has become accustomed to talking to himself.

There are more than 100 people, more than 20 ferocious wolves, and three domesticated dragon lizards in the camp. These people can stay silent all day, except for work. If they can eat, drink, and sleep, Imerson even suspects that this is a group of circus puppets. It's not that Imerson has never seen stupid stupid people, only fools who work, but living with so many fools still makes him feel lonely and depressed. Although he has lived in the deserted Great Swamp for more than ten years, he still has at least one lively and lovely daughter beside him. Imerson missed Bell very much now, but he didn't resent the adult who took Bell, but was grateful.

In any case, I have to let Bell live a normal life! Imerson secretly swears.

Several ferocious wolves suddenly lifted their blood-stained heads from the barrel, they turned their ears, and then ran towards the camp gate. With a move of Imerson's heart, he saw a dragon lizard passing through the gate, and the ferocious wolf in the camp was shaking its head and wagging its tail.

"Stupid dog, don't come here! Sit all right, the blood on your head and face will go to me..."

Several silhouettes jumped from the back of the dragon lizard Down. Imerson rubbed his eyes and yelled in disbelief, "Bell! Bertina?" The youngest silhouette is not Bertina. She heard the daddy's shout and ran over. Imerson hugged the baby girl he missed every day, and tears couldn't help falling.

"Father, don't cry, it's impolite." Bertina finally broke her head from Imerson's arms, said in deadly earnest.

It's still so heartless...

Imerson looked at his little face that had gained weight twice, full of joy. As long as there is something to eat and someone to play, Bell will never cry. Then the boss with his eyes widened, he gaped in his mouth and asked: "Bao...baby, you...you can talk?"

"Yes." Bell touched Imerson's chin, "Old Daddy's beard is gone." Tilted his head, thought for a while, and said: "It's still not as smooth as the master." Imerson still cares about this, and in ecstasy, he repeatedly said: "Praise the Supreme Lord! Praise the Supreme Lord!" My Bell can speak! Bell can speak!"

"Baby, why did you speak?"

"Um... it was Miller grandfather who asked me to speak Yes, he is the servant of the Supreme Lord." After speaking, Bertina said mysteriously again: "Father, the priest grandfather also said that Bell can grow up, but it is a bit slow... Eat more delicious things to grow fast Click."

Imerson's heart tightened, and he lowered his voice and asked, "Mi...what else did Father Miller say?"

"Father Miller said Bell is cute... You don’t have to worry about your identity implicating Bell." Victor walked over silently, looked up and down the wizard a few times, said with a smile: "Imerson, you are younger."

The lord is wearing A piece of sleek, exquisitely shaped armor, with a hazy and dim silver-gray luster, as if it had blended into the cold mist of Great Swamp. Imerson was taken aback, and quickly put down Bell, and said dryly, "My lord, good day. I shave off my beard. No! It's all your favor. I eat well here, sleep soundly, and naturally I am young. "

Victor faintly smiled, touched Bell’s little head, and said: "It’s very cold outside. You and Bell haven’t seen each other for a long time. Let’s take her into the house and talk. I'll talk about it later."

"Many thanks, my lord!" Imerson bowed deeply and took Bell's little hand to the wood house. Bell asked as he walked: "Daddy, is there anything delicious in the house?"

"There are snake meat and mushroom soup, grilled hexapod crocodile tenderloin, and slate mud shrimp."

"I want to add salt!"

"Guaranteed to have salt!"

After leaving the Imerson father and daughter, Victor turned to Jack instructed: "Take me around and introduce me by the way Your achievements"

The elite militiaman Jack said with his jaws: "My lord, please come with me."

"There are 50 auxiliary soldiers in the camp, 80 monkey militiamen, 40 A Concealed Ox militia, 25 war mastiffs, and 3 Golden Dragon lizards. We built 20 wooden buildings and 6 arrow towers. The terrain here is relatively high. Even if the lake surges during the rainy season, the camp will not be submerged."

The lower floor of the wooden building built by the alchemy and auxiliary soldiers is empty on all sides, and the upper floor is home to storage. It is similar to the bamboo buildings in the south of China. It is very suitable for the humid marsh environment, but the load-bearing capacity is a little bit worse, and there is not much material to store. Victor looked around the buildings in the camp and thought that if the lizardmen trade went well, he could rebuild the camp with rock bricks.

Jack continued to be introduced: "These days, we captured 34 hexapod crocodiles, 11 giant anacondas, and the resulting scales can be used to make 41 sets of three types of leather armor. Capture 14 shadow spiders and collect various medicines. The ingredient is 119 pounds, which can be used to make 3.3 pounds of color-changing dye."

"We also collected 62 purified crystals, 17 pounds of a kind of blue yam and more than 3,600 pounds of Qianqu reed seeds."

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The three types of vine leather armor made of hexapod crocodile skin and giant anaconda skin, defensive can be comparable to iron essence scale armor, but its weight and flexibility are equivalent to ordinary leather armor. Once the fast bird light cavalry is equipped with this kind of leather armor, its melee ability will be effectively improved. As for the color-changing dye, Victor has personally experienced its effects. The thorium leather armor on his body can now be integrated into the environment by the color-changing dye. Although it is not as perfect as the shadow spider's perfect concealment, it at least gets rid of it. The drawbacks of silver armor reflecting light. However, the color-changing dye has the greatest effect on leather, and Victor is preparing to make some color-changing cloaks, which will greatly enhance the latent ability of scouts and shooters. Purification crystal is not only used to make snow sugar, but also a good thing to purify water. Victor tasted the blue yam, a kind of food highly respected by alchemists, once in a mountain fortress. The taste was weird. Even Bertina, a snack product, didn’t like it.

These natural resources are quite precious, but Victor values ​​the ordinary Qianquwei.

Qianquwei is a common moss plant. Its rhizomes and seeds are the main food for capybara and fish. Qianqu reed seeds are similar to the sorghum on Earth, with an average yield of about 240 pounds per mu. Although its yield is not high, it is widely distributed, with two crops a year. The most important thing is that it can be stored for three years.

Food reserves are related to the basis of governance. Once food is good for storage, it has strategic value. Although Randal is leading the development of water conservancy projects and promoting new agriculture and animal husbandry, dried sweet potatoes can only be stored for six to eight months. Kidney beans are similar to vegetables. They only have a shelf life of about ten days for trifling, and the yield of one-cooked wheat per mu is also high. It is very limited. If the wheat planting area is expanded, it will inevitably affect the forest resources and the development of animal husbandry in Randal, as well as the precious purple cane forest.

The vast and boundless lizard swamp is a natural granary. The proven area of ​​alchemy organisms is 24,000 square kilometers, of which 15 million acres of wetlands are expected to grow Qianqu reeds. As long as Victor occupies a small part of it, the industrial structure of Randal can be optimized.

In layman's terms, Qianquwei is good for feeding pigs.

Now, the obstacle to Victor's development of Great Swamp is the manpower problem. The ordinary person cannot be counted on for the time being. Although there is an endless source of alchemy creatures, they only have more than two thousand hands at most. The only labor that Victor can think of is the half-dragon human.

Whether it is trade or slavery, Victor must win a half-dragon human tribe, and wizard Imerson is the key! In fact, as long as Imerson is firmly in control, Victor can even enslave a group of goblins to assist half-dragon humans in mining swamp resources.

After visiting the outpost camp, Victor walked into the largest wooden building and instructed Jack: "Go and call Imerson."

It didn’t take long for Imerson to take Berti. Na appeared in front of Victor.

"My lord, will you summon me?" Imerson bowed with a smile on his face. Victor nodded, beckoning Bell to come closer, "Bertina, Imerson and I have something to talk about, you should go out and play with Jack and the others." Wiping off the oil stains on Bell's face, Victor put down the towel and said in a pleasant tone. Seeing this scene, Imerson was completely relieved. Bell had just told him that the master was kind to her, the lady was kind to her, the little servants were very kind to her, and Father Miller was very kind to her. However, hearing it with my ears is completely different from seeing it with my own eyes. At this moment, the last big rock in Imerson's heart is put down.

"Master, the people outside are not fun at all, they won't play with Bell." The little girl blinked her eyes, with a very aggrieved appearance. She knew by nature that those creatures could get close. Those creatures need to stay away, but these people and animals in the camp are like flowers and trees in Bell's eyes. Just look at them and don't have to talk to them.

"These guys are really boring." Victor nodded, Imerson looked bitter and worried. Victor said again: "Imerson, as long as you are loyal to me and work hard, I will arrange for you to live in Flatlake Town."

"Many thanks, my lord! I swear, I will never betray you!" Imerson was overjoyed. Living with these workaholics every day, he is going to be insane. Bell raised his face and asked happily: "Master, can I live with father?"

"No!" Imerson said sharply: "Bertina, how do I live with father? You said? You are an orphan without parents!"

"There is nothing wrong." Victor indifferently said: "I promoted you to become Randal Family hunting chief. You can not only adopt Bell, but also marry a wife. Give birth to children."

"My lord, can I really be your hunting master? I...I'm a..." Imerson's mood was agitated, his lips quivered, and he didn't want to use the word "wizard" after all. Speak out.

Isn’t he just a mutant with superpowers? Victor curled one's lip disapprovingly, and said: "I am not the first nobleman to raise the wizard, nor will I be the last. As long as you stay safe, you can naturally live well, but..." Victor chuckled lightly. , And said: "I might as well tell you that once your relationship with me is revealed, I will be exiled to the Eastern Alliance at best, and you can't escape the fate of being purified, and Bell may also be implicated."

Imerson's heart was chilled, and he quickly said: "I never dare to drag the adults...I only hope that adults can shelter Bell."

"I will try my best to shelter Bertina." Victor solemnly agreed to Imerson's Request, and said: "Now, talk about your work."

"Bell, you go out first." Imerson winked at his daughter, but Bertina didn't sell his account, and pouted. Mouth said: "I don't! You are not my master, only the master can order the maid."

Victor didn't know whether to cry or laugh, and said, "Forget it, Bell doesn't know what ? Even if she accidentally misses her mouth, who can believe the child? As long as you don’t use witchcraft in front of others."

"That said, Bell still has many lizardmen friends." Imerson was dumb. Laughing, he suddenly discovered that he and the young lord had a secret in common. Thinking of this, his tone became more cordial, as if he was regarded as Victor's confidant. "Honorable master, Lord Jack found a group of half-dragon humans five days ago. I will negotiate with them according to your requirements. These half-dragons respect me..."

"It's done? Victor asked happily.

"Uh...something went wrong." Imerson said panic: "I found out that this group of lizardmen came from three tribes, and their original tribes were..." Imerson gritted his teeth. , Said the truth: "Under the attack of Philip, it has disintegrated. Philip is the different Dragon Transformation lizard that I previously controlled. Lizardmen worshipped it as a Totem giant beast and called it Itugos. Last year, when I was casting a spell I was knocked out by Master Jack, and since then lost control of Philip. It is now a real alienated monster, bloodthirsty, cruel and merciless. The Lizardmen tribe was attacked by it, and the surviving members formed a single body. The new tribe, they are going to leave Philip’s territory."

Victor brows tightly frowns, asked: "You just let them go?"

"No, no." Imerson repeatedly Waved his hand and said, "The lizardmen know that Philip is my pet. They beg me not to let Philip eat them up. They are willing to provide blood for the Totem giant beast in accordance with the tradition of the half-dragon human tribe. I pretended to agree, and hold on for the time being. They."

"Half-dragon human believe you?"

"These dirty orcs have no choice." Imerson said disdainfully, "The freezing rain is coming. After losing their territory, they can only move westward and fight bloody battles with other half-dragon human tribes, otherwise they will starve to death. But this group of half-dragon humans are originally weak and they are not rivals of other tribes at all. To walk is to die, and to not walk is also to die. Death, being able to stay now is their only vitality."

Victor asked Jack: "where are these half-dragon humans? How many people are there? What is their strength?"

" Northwest, 274 kilometers, 897 half-dragon humans, 39 snake monsters, 27 ferocious half-dragon humans, and most of the other ordinary members are females and cubs." Jack replied.

Victor thought for a while, said solemnly: "Jack, you go to the mountain fortress immediately, mobilize 150 elite shooters, 60 elite warriors, 50 ferocious wolves, equipped with heavy crossbows, and then put all the dragons Bring all the lizards."

"Let’s go and meet these half-dragon humans for a while!"