Arcane Lord

The corpse seemed to have been baptized by positive energy and had not rotted yet. Xia Duo only glanced at it and didn't take it to heart. He turned to ask Leiden, "I remember there is a carpenter among the slaves, right?"

"Yes, my lord."

"The construction of the first phase of housing in Linshui Village can begin. Pick a group of people for him and let him start in the area north of the altar and south of the camp." Sha Duo ordered.

Now there are nearly a hundred people in the territory. When Xia Duo came back, he noticed that except for the formal citizens who had some wooden houses similar to Datongpu, the slaves still only lived in thatched huts.

It's just a conical hut with a few branches and some hay hanging on it. It's very simple and has almost no rainproof ability if it rains.

As the saying goes, "Those who have no permanent property have no perseverance." Xia Duo expects these people to work with peace of mind, so he must have the necessary material incentives.

"By the way, let's build a few rows of cabins now so that they can be lived in for a long time." Xia Duo added.

Layton looked north, thought for a moment, and said, "Sir, it takes almost seven days to build a wooden house. If you ask to build a few more rows, it may take a long time."

The wooden houses on the territory now are only temporary structures, and they also use a lot of materials transported from Savile. Leiden feels that the initial development of the territory spends a lot of time on housing, which is not worthwhile.

"Priest Leiden, the citizens who came here with me cannot live without basic housing. This is the decision. And not only the current residents, but also the future residents will also be allocated housing."

Xia Duo understands the importance of a house too well. It is not only a shelter from wind and rain, but also a home where one can feel at ease.

Although there are future promises hanging in front of them, these people are still very motivated now, but they cannot satisfy their hunger by always drawing cakes.

In need of some short-term incentives, all Xia Duo could think of was houses. After all, the residents built them themselves, and he was just doing a distribution job.

"Yes, sir." In front of Sha Duo, Leiden took out a scroll from his waist and wrote down Sha Duo's request in a few strokes.

…

After patrolling around the altar, Xia Duo discovered another problem.

On the eastern development line, there were several large fires burning blazingly, and from time to time locals or slaves would add fuel to them.

Xia Duo didn't care before, but now he suddenly realized that these fires were actually burning money!

Those who travel through [Biquge www.biqugex.biz] have several magic weapons to crush the indigenous people: paper, sugar, glass, and maybe add "salt".

Seeing the hay and wood that were burned in vain, Xia Duo thought of making paper.

Although Netheril also has paper made from grass and trees, it is not widely circulated because it cannot carry spells and is more expensive than the cheapest parchment.

But Xia Duo knows the potential of this kind of paper. Even earth, stone, and metal can carry magic. There is no reason that grass, wood, paper cannot carry magic.

What's more, Xia Duo knows very well that the key to truly carrying the spell lies in ink, or the material that can connect the magic network.

He believed that in the future there would be grass-wood paper that could be used to make magic scrolls.

In addition, grass paper does not require bio-leather like parchment paper (which is expensive). Grass and trees are everywhere. Once the technology matures and the cost drops, it can explode rapidly.

This is a great weapon for spreading knowledge.

There is no harm in spreading knowledge to Xia Duo, as long as key technologies are blocked. The popularization of knowledge will promote communication and lead to an explosion of ideas and theories.

Shado was really fed up with Netheril's conservative style, and being able to lead an ideological revolution was something he was very willing to do.

As for whether it will make other people stronger, that is actually not in Sha Duo's consideration, unless they are enemies. His goal has always been himself. As long as he keeps making progress, there is nothing to worry about!

Think big, start small, maybe now you can try the ancestral papermaking technique.

But when it comes to specifics, Xia Duo can't actually do much. He just keeps papermaking in mind and will try it whenever he gets the chance.

Now, he could only try not to look at the fires where "money" was burned. Fortunately, only some hay and pruned branches of trees were burned.

The trunk wood is still there!

"Priest Leiden, go ahead and do your work. I'll look eastward."

"yes."

…

The positions that territorial soldiers need to defend now are mainly in the east, with the altar in the south, the river in the west, and the fence and [Magic Alert] in the north.

However, Xia Duo is worried that going too far east will affect the mysterious lock. In actual planning, it only needs to be cleared to about 100 meters away from the river.

After that, you can set up a fence and open up to the south.

"The key is still the lack of people!"

Crossing the eastern development line, Xia Duo continued to move forward and walked nearly a hundred meters before he saw the simple "defense line" deployed by Qiao Qi's team——

A thin line runs through the forest from south to north, using branches less than half a meter high as stakes, and hanging a small bell every 20 or so.

Not seeing anyone from Qiao Qi's team, Xia Duo deliberately stirred as he walked by, and the small bell closest to him rang immediately.

Immediately after the thin thread was pulled, a clear bell sounded along the line, and soon Xia Duo heard an angry roar from the east:

"Node 3 is triggered. Are you lazy, Hard? Come back and have a look!"

Having been away from the territory for a while, Xia Duo was a little unfamiliar with this voice, but it was not difficult to guess who it was. If nothing else, it was Qiao Qi.

Such a loud voice sounded so loud even from a distance in the forest!

Soon, Xia Duo saw Harder running all the way from the east carrying a sword and shield. Harder seemed stunned when he suddenly saw the lord who had disappeared for more than ten days.

"That - Lord Lord!"

At this moment, Qiaoqi's voice came out again, "Had, Hud, you kid, say something back!"

Only then did Harder react and shouted toward the southeast: "Captain, it's the lord! The lord is back!"

After shouting, Harder looked at Xia Duo with some embarrassment, hesitating whether to return to the guard position or stay and wait for the captain.

Xia Duo looked at the thin bell warning line with interest. The effect of this warning line should be good for ordinary beasts, but it was a bit far away from the camp.

It would be better if people in the camp could also hear it, so that the camp could also be alerted in advance.

Soon, Qiao Qi also rushed over, also carrying a sword and shield, trotting all the way to Xia Duo, and said seriously: "Sir! Qiao Qi is here to report!"

Xia Duo nodded and pointed in the direction he came from, "Let's go, talk as we go."

"Yes, sir."

Qiao Qi sent Harder away and walked ahead to lead Sha Duo, while reporting on the recent situation, "Sir, in the past ten days, we have pushed the cordon here, outside the bell line during the day, and inside the bell line at night. "

"Are there many collisions with the cordon?" Xia Duo asked.

"There were a lot of them at first, but after clearing out the two nearby goblin settlements, there were a lot less."

"Goblin settlement?"

Xia Duo thought of the goblin settlement he had solved when he first arrived here. There was also a bugbear in it. He quickly asked: "Have you found any bugbears?"

"Nothing was found, but Captain Gibb judged that there were traces of bugbears living there."