Chapter 194: Territory Tour

Avalon Castle was built on the rising valley mountain, surrounded by a solid stone wall and towering towers.

The lower city of the fortress is a street composed of dozens of three-story buildings arranged neatly in a criss-cross pattern. The elevated aqueduct bridge is suspended in the air, and the water pipes in the arch bridge columns connect the various reservoirs and water points in the lower city.

The middle city, which is higher than the lower city, is the passage hub connecting the upper and lower areas.

There are several middle corridor stairs in different directions, wide and gentle slopes, decorative flower beds that have not yet been restored, rows of ancient sculptures, and scattered duplex houses.

On the east side of the middle city, there is a spire fortress slightly smaller than the square main fort, with a suspension bridge connected to the city wall. The fortress is surrounded by an arena and a parade ground. This is a barracks and also part of the city defense system.

The protruding area on the west side of the middle city is a workshop building that has been abandoned for many years.

After the military craftsmen of the Thorn Flower Family moved in, they only activated a few obvious furnaces in the workshop.

Many strange facilities whose names were unknown were either damaged or had no known functions or uses.

It was not until the nine short bearded men who were settled down rudely squeezed past the positions of the Thorn Flower Family craftsmen and asked Leon for a lot of expensive materials and greases that the few lightly damaged forging machines began to clang again in the workshop.

Going up from the middle city area, there is the Avalon Main Castle in the northeast corner, the fountain square in the northwest, and the upper city area where the top-level wizard tower is located.

Leon was lying on the fence of the upper city platform at this moment, looking out at the entire Avalon City.

Overlooking the town's low houses, farmland, and windmills under construction outside the city wall.

Watching the garrison troops of the Thorn Flower and the soldiers of Avalon patrolling back and forth, and the people coming and going on the streets, a unique sense of security came to him.

He remembered that Olivia had asked him what kind of future he wanted.

Looking at the territory under his rule today, it seems that most of that expectation has been realized.

The fortress full of security, surrounded by friends and family around him, and the territory under his rule is also thriving and flourishing.

Unfortunately, the world has always been a tree that wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop.

Order is a luxury. Without a strong force to guarantee safety and to keep the disaster of war out of the territory, the pastoral idyll in front of us can turn into a hell of floating corpses overnight.

The memories of the original owner flashed through his mind, and the cruel scenes made Leon wake up from his feelings and turn around and walk back to the central city along the stairs.

The founding ceremony of the organization was delayed for ten more days before it was finally held yesterday.

It wasn't that something went wrong, but the operation of Lohak and Knight Larian leading the soldiers to clean up the mine took a lot longer than expected, and they finally led the army back.

According to their report, most of the branch tunnels in the underground mine were dead ends at the end, and the wild goblins remaining inside had nowhere to escape, so they were blocked underground by the soldiers.

But in addition to the main tunnel and the ventilation air holes on the top of the platform, this mine still has two over-dug tunnels connecting to the surface.

One is the entrance near the tributary of the earth vein that Leon found.

And the other, the ranger knight who tracked the traces of the wild goblins found that it actually extended all the way to the border of Mamor County in the east.

This was only after Larian crossed the long mine tunnel, explored a long way in the wilderness on the surface, found a human village and asked the locals, and then figured out the direction.

After hearing this news from Larian, Leon immediately decided to send people to the end as soon as possible to seal the tunnel leading to Mamor.

If the underground mineral resources of Nightmare Forest are discovered by other lords occupying the western part of Mamor, who knows how much they will covet.

As for the dwarves who returned to the mines.

After going deep into the main mine tunnel and finding that the interior had collapsed over the past thousand years, they were disappointed and embarked on a long journey home.

According to the current map, the dwarves will first go north until they cross the border of "Braden Territory" and go deep into the northern mountains.

That is the city of Heraen, which is closest to Orland in their memory.

If they can't find their fellow tribesmen there, they will continue to go east along the mountains, even if they cross the "Wound of Omros" and reach the mountains and wastelands of the eastern continent, they will search for the traces of their compatriots.

This journey can be said to be thousands of miles away in the literal sense. Leon couldn't help but sigh at the stubbornness of the dwarves. Just listening to the route planning given by Hem, he felt sweat on his forehead and could only wish him good luck.

After seeing the dwarves off, the ceremony for the establishment of the Knights' Order held afterwards did not encounter any accidents.

In addition to the four sworn knights of the thorn flower, Leon also granted knighthood to the six guards who were selected for the earliest rounds of battle.

They each had their own surnames and coats of arms from then on.

Hawke chose the horseshoe as his symbol, Zabron used the battle axe pattern, Brunan's coat of arms was maple leaves, Pavel was probably used to the trumpet, and used the horn, Boz was the oak, and Dardanelle's coat of arms was three upright spears.

In addition to these six people, Uncle Brian also accepted the canonization.

Although the other party was originally a knight canonized by Olivia's biological father, he had been hiding his identity for many years. After all, he was a commoner in the eyes of outsiders and could not use the name of the first half of his life.

In order to enable him to lead the army better in the future, Leon still discussed with him and gave his father-in-law a super double and crowned him with a knight title.

Since Brian could not use the family crest of the past, he simply used a plain gray background with a red broken sword as a commemoration of his past identity.

In this way, Canis, who is a card spirit, and Larian and his followers, who are advisors, are not counted.

The Knights of Avalon currently have all sixteen knight members, twelve knight followers, twelve guards, a total of forty heavy cavalry, and more than one hundred professional sergeants.

One hundred and forty elite warriors can not only ensure the safety of the barony at present, but also respond to the call of the feudal lord to go to war quickly.

If a large-scale territory invasion is encountered, it can be used as a branch to recruit enough conscripts to form an army of a thousand people to resist the invasion.

Of course, Leon hopes that there will be no more wars in the short term, at least not before he collects taxes from the territory this year.

Walking down the stairs, passing by a duplex house with a backyard in the central city, Leon saw Veresa in front of the yard, counting the brand-new furniture that the carriage had brought from outside the town. She arranged for the laborers to move the wooden tables and chairs into the house.

Leon walked over, greeted the busy Ms. Veresa, and walked into the building.

Many old furniture in the house were emptied and moved away. On the second floor, Miss Sally was directing the servants to put the wooden tables and chairs in the right place.

The bright sunshine shone in from the window where the damaged curtains were removed. The rows of tables and chairs in the room could not help but awaken Leon's past life memories that made him headache and nostalgic.

Obviously, this is a student classroom, and on the first floor, there is even a student cafeteria that is still being arranged in the back.

Not far away in the lower city, a large house was also arranged as a dormitory for future students.

This is an educational institution in the territory that is being prepared. It is only in the early stage, and at most it teaches some cultural basics such as Feru and Uriah language, writing, and arithmetic.

He has few people who can take time to serve as teachers. At present, there are only Miss Sally and Ms. Veresa who can really devote themselves to education for a long time.

However, education is not something that can be achieved overnight. When there is extra financial resources in the future, teachers can be recruited and gradually improved.

When Sally saw the lord coming, she hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "Hello, Lord Leon, I'm sorry, it's still a mess here, we are not ready yet."

"Don't worry, I just came to take a look. Do you have anything urgent?" Leon looked down at her and asked.

"The other supplies are ready, but the wax board and stylus are far from enough. Of course, real paper and pen are also needed. In addition, if we want to accommodate dozens of children to eat here in the future, the kitchen will need more manpower.

The dormitory also needs adults to look after the children. Sister Veresa and I can still take care of the good children in your family, but if there are so many children to take care of in the future, I am afraid that we two women will not have enough deterrence." Sai Li looked up at the tall lord in front of her, and her little face was a little worried about the difficulties.

Leon nodded and promised: "There is still some time. I will make up for the teaching utensils as soon as possible, and the staff for management of miscellaneous matters will also be sent over. If there is anything missing in the future, remember to submit an application to Elena."

Looking around this classroom, his move is not only to cultivate young talents who are literate and numerate for the future Avalon Territory, but it will be of great use in the near future, and it is directly related to the future control of the Baron Territory over the towns and villages of Kantadar. Without disturbing the busy Sally and others, Leon left the academy that was being prepared and continued to the workshop building on the west side of the central city.

During this period, Leon tried his best to meet the needs of several resident dwarf craftsmen, and did not hesitate to spend money to send people around the territory to purchase the materials needed by the short men to repair the workshop.

According to Laura, it was originally built by the dwarf craftsmen under Aphrodite to serve the mage lord.

The time and space of the cursed land are chaotic, but it does not mean that time has not passed inside. In the past thousand years, this place has been eroded for a long time. Due to lack of maintenance and repair, most of the equipment in the workshop has been seriously damaged.

According to the report given by the Helan people after the inspection, some key materials that are unavailable in this era and even unheard of are missing, which basically declares that most of the facilities cannot be repaired and can be dismantled and returned to the furnace for iron smelting.

Fortunately, Leon's requirements are not high. Even if the furnace golem and the molten fire gun were placed a thousand years ago, they would require high-end goods of the complete Helan workshop industry. He never expected it.

At present, he has made a profit by letting several furnace technicians hand-make a batch of high-quality cold weapons and equipment for him.

Not long ago, he asked the dwarves to help repair several Silver Mountain crossbows that were damaged during training.

When Leon told them that it was said that this was the craftsmanship that the craftsmen of Silver Mountain City learned from the Helan people, the short uncles were very angry.

According to them, if a Helan person makes such garbage, it is best to stay away from steel furnaces and anvils for life to avoid angering the spirit of Omros.

The dwarves obviously disdained to make such artifacts that they thought were insulting to their skills, and angrily rejected the technology of copying the Silver Mountain crossbow. Instead, they recommended to Leon the revolving crossbow that was a hundred times stronger than this.

But Leon asked realistically about the materials and cost of that thing, and the result temporarily made him put aside his unrealistic ideas.

However, at least the design of spears, halberds, swords and armor in the current era is not particularly different from that of a thousand years ago. It is nothing more than the difference in craftsmanship and materials. The dwarves do not have any psychological burden that hurts their self-esteem when making them.

Leon then transferred the order for the kingdom's armorer to tailor-make armor for Olivia and Corvis to the dwarf technician.

Not only the armor for the two of them, but Leon also ordered a new set of armor from the dwarves to replace the serpentine plate armor on his body.

His height had grown several centimeters in four months, and he was over 1.9 meters tall.

With his increasingly sturdy and sturdy body, Leon gradually felt that the armor of the Dosen was no longer suitable.

Although the redundant design of the armor was not that he could not continue to wear it, it was still restricted in movement. Lohak's trouble was probably more serious than his.

Now that there were dwarf craftsmen, they all wanted to take this opportunity to change to a better set of armor.

Arriving at the clanging dwarf workshop area, Leon looked at the remains of the three-legged puppets transported back to Avalon from the mine.

Next to the hill of gold and copper, there are many refurbished prospectors neatly stacked after rust removal, polishing, joint lubrication, disassembly and replacement of parts.

They folded and retracted their three legs and arms, in a lifeless state of silence.

It is not difficult for the dwarves to repair the limbs, skeletons and shells of the ancient mining puppets.

But the energy problem is really unsolvable. The previous unexpected battle destroyed the alchemical synthetic stones under the bodies of these gold and copper puppets, which the dwarves called "the center of the earth".

After searching the mine, everyone did not recover a few spare centers of the earth in the past, and Leon was not good at robbing the dwarves of their almost non-renewable property.

As for the two prospectors that were seized at the end and still preserved the intact center of the earth, Leon asked the dwarves to replace them with steel spear arms as weapons, thicken the breastplates, and place them in the treasure house of the main castle to act as self-disciplined guards to save the remaining little energy.

The "center of the earth" needs matching dwarven equipment to process the corresponding mineral materials and produce them.

He asked, Lola can replace that set of synthesis equipment, but there is no raw material for producing that kind of alchemical synthesis stone, even the king of magic can't do anything without rice.

Leon expressed his understanding, Miss Lola is not really an omnipotent god, otherwise she would have helped him wholesale Neti brand materials long ago.

He came to the dwarf craftsman this time, not to see those machines that he didn't know whether they would be useful in the future.

Walking into the huge workshop, Leon listened to the roar of steel in full swing, and soon found the shirtless technician leader among several busy dwarves, with his body full of rock-like angular muscles, holding a large piece of steel strip with tongs and forging it under the reciprocating hammer.

To be rude, he can't tell the gender of some dwarves now.

Those with big noses are definitely male dwarves.

Some of the noses that are similar to humans should be female dwarves.

But if the nose is not too big or too small, ordinary people can't tell it apart.

This bearded dwarf technician belongs to this kind of not too big or too small range.

Don't look at his naked upper body, dwarves don't "throw heads", and being naked has no practical meaning for them.

According to the previous life, Leon couldn't assume the other person's gender at all, well, in another sense different from Corvis.

According to the book, the dwarves have always been very happy that foreigners have mistaken all the Helan people as males, and sometimes they will deliberately deepen this impression.

Because they think that this will protect the strong, heroic, beautifully bearded and high-pitched female Helan people from being stolen by foreigners who peek at their beauty.

Hey, the possessiveness is quite strong.

But Leon doesn't understand, isn't it that no human has explained it to them clearly, with the huge gap in aesthetics, is this really a bit too much?

"Master Adya, I heard that the armor and saddle you made for my griffin partner are finished? So fast?" Leon tried his best to raise his voice and walked up to ask loudly.

This is the purpose of his coming. The efficiency of the dwarf craftsmen in making armor for the death claws is unexpectedly fast.

You know, Olivia and Corvis's plate armors took more than a month to make, but the war beast armor, which was so much larger, only took one-third of the time, which was really counterintuitive.

The senior furnace technician named Adya, upon hearing the voice of the human lord, temporarily put down his work, turned back and shook his beard, and glared: ". Ulfgard's eggs, is this fast? With your little request, in my era, more than three days in my hands would be considered making black money."

There is no mechanism for joint rotation, and a few large chain-bound armors are essentially just a few pieces of curved steel plates that fit well. Adya shrugged and turned to lead the way for the human lord.

Entering the warehouse on the side, Leon saw the huge war beast armor piled on the blanket, which was tailor-made for Death Claw.

The surface of the unpainted steel armor glowed silver.

The eagle-headed helmet covering the skull, with a domineering unicorn spike standing on the forehead.

Four pairs of exquisite large arm armor and shoulder armor stacked together.

Around the raised high saddle of the mount, there are buckles and chains that can fix the rider.

The largest arc-shaped war beast breastplate extending in a Y shape is printed with the iconic sword wing pattern. In the ribbon carving below the sword wing emblem, the bloody word "Death Claw" is engraved in Feru characters.

Leon imagined what the Death Claw would look like after wearing it, and his head instantly became excited.

The griffin is the advanced embodiment of the word "adding wings to a tiger".

And with such a set of armor.

If he hadn't been busy setting off tomorrow to inspect the territory in Glade County, he would have immediately put on this new suit for Deathclaw to try it out.

Just bear with it, after the craftsman finishes painting the armor, it will definitely look more domineering. He reluctantly withdrew his gaze.