Time is passing, and the game has been in public beta for half a year.
William plundered unimaginable wealth from the treasury of the Iron Duchy.
The amount of money that can be spent directly is as much as 2.41 million gold coins.
20,000 sets of basic blue equipment.
Intermediate blue equipment, 12,000 sets.
Intermediate silver equipment, 3,000 sets.
There are thousands of sets of various trebuchet materials, heavy crossbow materials, various iron essences, iron ores, mithril, gold essences, grains, and so on.
Almost.
City of Dawn built several more super-large warehouses for this purpose before it could afford to put them down.
But that's the limit.
William could only plunder the treasury of the Principality of Steel. He did not intend to plunder the wealth of other nobles, or even the many supplies of the Principality of Black Rock, at least not yet.
Even so.
After winning the war, some of the great nobles of the Black Rock Principality were reluctant because they did not receive enough spoils.
But the 'Second Prince' officially ascended the throne and became the king, with 300 personal guards in his hands like wolves and tigers, and each one of them was a master among masters.
Renekton, the former commander of the Royal Guards, died in battle, and the 'Second Prince' easily controlled the remaining Royal Guards and even many legions. This also caused the nobles in the country to be unwilling to be too presumptuous.
In particular, Marquis Chris has given his full support to His Majesty.
The newly promoted Marquis Curry also brought a group of newly promoted nobles to fully support him, which prevented the Black Rock Principality from falling into civil strife.
After all, in many ways, what the nobles want more is land!
Once you have land and fertile farmland, you won’t have to worry about money constantly entering your pocket.
As for the former commander-in-chief of Black Rock, the Marquis of Salz died in depression a few days ago. Fortunately, the title is still there and has been officially passed on to his eldest son.
But his 'retainer' Diavolo, the legendary BOSS who holds the title of earl but has no family, is nowhere to be found.
The eldest son of the Marquis of Salz had no way of keeping him.
Diavolo can be loyal to the Marquis of Salz, which is because he is grateful, but it does not mean that he will always be like this.
As for Kyle Nott, the commander-in-chief of the Iron Principality, and Wells, the earth legend.
They all chose to surrender and pledge allegiance to the Black Rock Principality.
Black Rock retained their title and land.
And this is normal operation.
In the aristocratic era, nobles often received good treatment if they surrendered during a war of conquest.
After the Black Rock Principality unified the southeastern corner, many commoners of Steel were demoted to slaves, but slaves are still slaves...
And sold it to the City of Dawn at a 'high price'.
At least for now.
Black Rock is making a profit, because judging from the leaked news, the selling price is very high. Due to the lack of population, the City of Dawn is completely trying to make a fool of itself, and it has to swallow these people...
And Black Rock is also expanding its army aggressively, so the money and equipment required are simply not too much.
But no one knows.
What kind of backroom operation is going on between the two
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Players are gradually getting used to the current state of the game.
The main missions in other continents have just entered the Gaohu Dynasty period, but the players in the Legendary Continent have already completed their missions and started various guild wars.
In the grassland between the City of Dawn and the Principality of Black Rock.
That’s where players fight.
There are good resources here, including small murlocs, goblins, orcs, and even mid- and low-level monsters, which are the resources that players now prefer.
And with their current level, they can only hang out here...
Among them, the City of Dawn and the Principality of Black Rock have issued some capture-the-flag missions.
That is to occupy the grassland and erect the flag of his camp on some commanding heights.
This gives players a feeling that the two forces are about to go to war, so in addition to fighting little monsters and doing home tasks every day, players gather on the grassland battlefield and engage in back-and-forth battles.
As for the slave trade between the two
It has not yet been taken seriously by players.
Because throughout history, there are not many people between the two countries who are fighting and doing dirty PY transactions at the same time.
As for whether any players will say that Black Rock's approach is to support the enemy, but such voices often fail to make any waves.
One sentence.
Each takes what he needs.
In a short period of time.
The City of Dawn has become a large city with a population of 350,000.
Coupled with the opening of the slave trade, the population is still increasing, and the entire city is getting bigger and bigger, expanding towards the mountains, giving people the feeling of rising from the ground.
at the same time.
There are more and more magicians in the city.
Many of the earth and metal magicians were hung on ropes all day long on the edge of the cliff, constantly enchanting the cliff to increase the strength of the cliff wall.
This kind of operation.
Many players looked a little suffocated.
Because that tall cliff with no visible edge, if it were all enchanted, there is no telling how many earth and metal magicians would be needed to complete such a huge siege.
In fact, William originally planned to use copper juice and iron juice to pour on the cliff wall, but he felt that the consumption was a bit too much and he couldn't afford it for the time being, so he gave up this cool operation that might bring down the territory.
"It's enough to enchant for the time being. Take your time. Anyway, try your best to prevent dark creatures from climbing up the wall." William is also paying attention to the cliffs. After the second version appeared, many more naughty ones Dark creatures can insert their claws into the wall and climb up.
Siege ladder
Feel sorry.
We dark creatures don't need that.
This is the key reason why he wants to enchant.
The cliff is 80 meters high, and it is impossible to enchant all of it, so a certain section was enchanted to be extremely strong, allowing dark creatures to climb up. Even halfway up, they suddenly discovered that Wang Defa couldn't climb up
"As for those steep mountain roads, that's where you have to defend."
"This cliff that separates the Black Leaf Forest from human forces seems to have been created by a certain saint from the Elf Era." William couldn't help but feel admiration when he thought of the infinite power that could destroy the world and change the terrain.
Legends and saints.
The two are worlds apart…
Saint.
That is an existence that can kill gods...
There are a total of 13 steep mountain paths in the southeast corner area that can be used to climb up the cliff.
Among them, the three mountain roads near the City of Dawn are the easiest to walk on. The other 10 mountain roads, even for professionals, are in danger of falling to death.
"But when darkness invades, most of the mountain roads must be destroyed. It is best to leave only 5 mountain roads!" William narrowed his eyes. He wanted to block the dark creatures and beat them, not allow them to fully invade.
If all mountain roads are cut off, it will only allow dark creatures to attack in all directions.
It is far inferior to blocking the dark creatures in 5 roads and being able to defend them with all their strength.
Otherwise, if the battle line is stretched too long, even if the City of Dawn has too many troops, it will be too weak to face the dark creatures. The defensive front will definitely be breached by then, and the cliff will not be used as a defense line, but the city wall...