Houdini's shock was well-founded.
No matter how powerful a country is, it has to face the most basic food problem. The foundation of economic development is to have enough food for people. As a high-ranking official in the Rahiman Kingdom, Houdini naturally understands the efforts made by the mages to increase food production all the time. Among them, artificial rainfall has always been a project that seems to be the best solution, but has not actually made a breakthrough so far.
This is also related to the climate of the Rahiman Kingdom. Because of the drought and lack of rain, irrigation is much more difficult than that of the Karen Kingdom, which is full of rivers. The floating tower consumes a lot of energy, although some people put forward the concept of "using the floating tower to artificially rain" , and it has been successfully tested in a small area, but because the cost of energy consumption is too high, it cannot be extended to the whole country.
However, such a difficult problem was solved in a "magic barren land"? Houdini's first reaction was disbelief, but after he confirmed the truth through prophecy spells, his old face almost wrinkled into a bun.
"Elson...Elson...who is its lord?"
Inexplicably, he thought of the line of writing that Merlinsera reflected in front of his eyes, and his originally decided mind was gradually shaken.
And the lord of Elsen City who he was talking about was sitting at his desk thinking hard at this time, not at all proud of the city's dazzling magical buildings—or, he still doesn't know the actual situation of the Rahiman Kingdom at all. The situation, and even Ambassador Rahiman's name is not clear.
Luo Di was staring at the "city construction column" in front of him, thinking about the future strategic steps.
The city level of Elson City is composed of a blue "level 9" and a gray "level 17" side by side, which means that the city used to be level 17, but the current construction level can only be considered level 9—a few months ago When Rody first became the city lord, the city was a deserted level 4, but now it has risen to level 9 at a rocket-like speed, which can already be said to be a miracle.
But Roddy was not satisfied.
He didn't think the development was too slow, but when he stood in the position of "city lord", he had already seen the "limit" of the city one step ahead of others.
The city of Elson was built as a fortress city with military purposes at the beginning. Although it is much stronger than the current single-purpose "castle fortresses" of the Kingdom of London, the basic structure has already determined the room for future growth of the city: Even if Elson City is upgraded to level 17 in its heyday, it still cannot meet the needs of Roddy's next strategic goals.
To stand firm in the kingdom, what Rody needs is a highly developed and well-planned "main city"—that is, a "super city" that maximizes the use of resources and can become the heart of the kingdom.
Elson can't do this. Although its core technology leads the entire kingdom, more than half of the buildings in the city are related to the military - if it enters a truce period in the future, sufficient funds will not be used to operate these military factories, military camps, etc. Building, then the city will obviously fall into an embarrassing tasteless position.
At this stage, there is nothing wrong with vigorously developing military technology. But what about after this turbulent period? When facing the economic war, the original military buildings will become the "shackles" that imprison the development.
Of course, it's a bit early to think about this when facing the triple attack of orcs, undead, and Karen's domestic royal family, but now Rody is no longer a ranger who "eats enough for one person and the whole family is not hungry". The so-called seeking his own government in his position, the title of the Prime Minister of the Cabinet and the Lord of Elson City is not just a title for showing off, but also represents that he wants to control the future destiny of countless people.
"What a big head..."
Roddy deeply understands that a person's ability is too limited. Even if he has the advantage of being reborn, he still feels deeply powerless when faced with such a large-scale and multi-faceted plan. There are already enough things, and there is no time to discuss these now, so Roddy finally understands why those commanders in the past had a "staff team" and a business group had a "think tank". There will also be a group of "secretary teams".
In battle, Roddy can find the best option as quickly as possible. But in terms of complex construction, one person can't do it at all.
"The biggest problem right now is the lack of people..."
Roddy sighed involuntarily, and lay down in the armchair a little tiredly.
Although I have built and trained many talents by myself, such as Sodlornata, Akasha, Irwin and today's "Dragonlance Knights", this can only be regarded as the smallest group in the Raid team. According to Roddy's vision, in the future, dungeons or areas that need to be led by the team will require a team of at least 30 to 40 people-this kind of "team" is not enough to just recruit the Knights to gather the number of people. In the face of those extremely dangerous or weird Roddy needs all kinds of professional players to help him...
Assassinated Rogue, Bloodline Warlock, Holy Light Knight, Prophet, Druid, etc. Various professional titles are circling in Roddy's mind - each profession in "Cracking Earth" has its unique characteristics. Properly, a standard RAID team of 30 people can completely make Rody invincible on the road of "opening up wasteland" - those ancient underground cities that no one cares about, the rare treasures left by ancient civilizations, and the priceless expensive mines all rely on Such a team to explore and discover.
Roddy's established strategy is to rapidly increase the wealth and technology of the territory by means of "treasure-discovery" RAID activities, and at the same time consolidate the existing advantages of Elson City horizontally, and lay the foundation for a stable economy in the future step by step.
So regardless of the crisis we are facing now, the matter of attracting outstanding talents must also be done in advance. Rody sat up, rubbed his temples, and began to carefully recall the powerful NCs he had seen in various places, and began to write down the areas where they lived, their appearance, and their names...
"'Tree of Life' Fantney, he should be in the Silent Forest at this time, he probably hasn't become a mentor yet."
"'Blaster' Alostez, forget it, this guy has a problem with his brain, and he will be a disaster even if he comes..."
"'Shadow Step' Renault? Tsk tsk, it is quite difficult to find him."
After all, the advantages of rebirth are beyond the reach of ordinary people. Many of the characters who will have extremely high achievements in the future are still in a state of obscurity. After all, large-scale wars have not yet broken out, and these "gold" have not yet been tested and shine. And now that Roddy has sufficient funds and power, soliciting such a low-investment and high-return business in advance is really a waste of money.
After writing down a few people's names, the floodgates of memory seemed to be completely opened. Rody not only wrote down the names of the people needed by the RAID team, but also wrote down a large number of famous blacksmiths, leatherworkers, enchanters, rune makers, Construction machinery manufacturers, spell material vendors, etc. made a long list...
Rody was so engrossed in thinking about these things that he didn't even notice a series of subtle footsteps behind him—when the familiar light fragrance filled the surroundings, Rody realized that she had been standing beside her for more than ten seconds.
"You don't say anything when you come here, what are you looking at secretly?"
Luo Di rubbed his bloodshot eyes due to fatigue, stretched his waist and put down the pen. He wanted to continue to say something, but found that Nai Fei's face was not very good-looking, so he asked: "What? Who bullied you? Or is there Who made you unhappy?"
Naifei didn't speak, but raised her hand silently. Sitting like this, Luo Di was a little curious about what this eccentric little girl was going to do, but Nai Fei actually helped Luo Di massage her temples, and said in a low voice: "Someone is bullying me, and they keep bullying me. "
"Ah? Who is it? Tell me, I'll clean him up!"
Luo Di was in a daze because of what he had written before, but when he heard Naifei say this, he didn't suspect him for a while.
"Well, that guy stays in the study until very late every day before taking a break, and sometimes he doesn't even take a break, but he is strict with me, even if he goes to bed a second late, he will call my mother to kill me...you go and help me clean him up Is it a good meal?"
Rody didn't know who she was talking about when he heard this. Although he was speechless, he felt warm in his heart. After all, Naifei obviously used this protesting tone to express his concern for him. After figuring this out, Rody tore off the parchment that had already been written on several sheets and said, "I don't want to exhaust myself, so I'm going to find some people to help me."
Naifei was obviously a little surprised. She actually came here today to "recommend herself" - she can already do a lot of things for Rody, so why do she have to do boring spell training every day? But seeing what Rody said, she couldn't help wondering what was written on the parchment. She took it over and flipped through it. The densely packed names, regions, and appearances immediately surprised Naifei.
Rody also didn't realize for a while how complicated the distribution of the guys on the list was, there were all kinds of corners in the deep mountains and wild forests, and even one-third of the place names in Naifei had never been heard of. The list is enough for the little girl to realize the gap in "experience"...
So she looked at Luo Di differently.
"Brother Luo Di, these people...have you seen them all?"
"Uh, no, most of them just heard about them. I knew some of their deeds when I passed by those places, so I hope to invite these guys to Elson to help me. Of course, it's not bad if half of the list is in the end." .”
Naifei didn't say anything more, but her eyes stayed on the names of the suspected women on the list for a while, her sly eyes narrowed, she snorted, and put the list back—now she has recovered Seeing the weird elf look in the past, Rody felt relieved when she saw her like this, and patted Naifei's hand: "Okay, okay, it's much more comfortable after rubbing it, you can sit down and rest for a while."
After finishing the words, Nefei squeezed into the armchair and sat side by side with him abruptly. Luo Di knew that Naifei was prone to jumpiness, but he had always been indulgent and let her mess around, so he didn't stand up and move his place at this time, but leaned as far as possible, and asked, "Why do you suddenly want to ask me these things?" gone?"
"Brother Luo Di, I heard that those people in the city are discussing the war. Is the war coming soon?"
"War..."
Rody nodded meaningfully, and said in a low voice, "Actually, it has already started."
The whistling wind brushed over Nata's cheeks, and the spread wings of the pintail sand cone left a shadow on the vast grassland—when the Kingdom of Rahiman and Charles II were arguing with each other, and the magical buildings in Elson City were activated one by one , the wood elf ranger has been flying over the Nehemiah steppe for ten days.
In the field of vision, the flat and open prairie can be seen at a glance, and the orc base camp is more conspicuous like black sores.
Every war is not just a "decisive battle". Everything, such as reconnaissance, supplies, transportation, etc., may affect the outcome of a battle. Therefore, when everyone's eyes are on the Karen Kingdom, as a Nata, the number one ranger under Roddy's command, had already started her mission.
Nata hovered unscrupulously in the sky by virtue of the air supremacy, without any worry that she would be discovered. After three days of uninterrupted observation, she has confirmed the composition of the opponent's troops, roughly calculated the amount of luggage, and even sorted out the proportion of members of each tribe...
In other words, this is the advantage brought about by information inequality. When the orcs didn't know where the warlord troops that suddenly disappeared went, Rody had a panoramic view of all their movements.
After completing the last inspection mission, Nata hid the map that was still perfected last night close to her body, and then slowly pulled the rein, causing the pintail to change the direction of flight—however, her front was not the way back, but the majestic and stretching The Gondola Mountains, and the gloomy and depressing black forest beyond...
There... is the silent and pale land of the dead, Tasman.