Struggle in the Steam Age

Nora's return to Shaw Island this time has only one purpose, and that is to complete the important ascension ceremony and begin to learn to master certain powers that only gods possess.

Although there are indeed some guys with bad luck in this world, for example, someone who inexplicably picked up the godhead and directly became a god.

But most existences have encountered very strict tests when crossing this threshold, such as the attacks of certain opponents, or some kind of test from the world.

Therefore, it is very important for these existences to choose a reasonable place when breaking through. Because if the wrong place is chosen, it is likely to be fatally hit at a critical time.

Although Lawrence's house on the island is indeed a building with top defense on the island, it can be said that it is still fragile when faced with this situation.

For Nora who was about to hold her own ascension ceremony, these defenses were not much different from no defense at all. Instead, she would be restrained because the place was too close to a crowded area.

More importantly, these places are all located by the sea, and are easily included in their attack range by enemies who infiltrate from outside the island.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Nora simply chose the Blue Mountains area, which looks defenseless but sparsely populated, with a vast area and complex terrain. This way, it will be easier to deal with anything that happens. .

And the clergy and church staff who sent Nora back to the island can be regarded as familiar with handling such matters.

Because those orthodox churches often have some saints who will hold this kind of ascension ceremony, after Nora entered the Blue Mountain in the center of the island, these priests who knew that the gods they served had recognized the existence of Nora also Then came around the Blue Mountain and began to deploy defenses.

At the beginning, Butler Bayer, who was the general manager of the island, wanted to mobilize the army to help enter the grassland under the Blue Mountain and enter a defensive state, but was persuaded by the members of the church to leave.

Because the members of the church think that if a battle breaks out in these core areas, it will be very fierce. Those ordinary people and even low-level transcendents who are not prepared are not very suitable for being involved in this kind of cruelty, even for mid-level and high-level transcendental in the war.

Therefore, under the persuasion of these church members, the army on Shaw Island did not enter the Blue Mountain Meadow area to deploy defenses, but chose to garrison on multiple coastlines of the island.

According to those experienced church members, in addition to some high-level transcendents who may attack, there are also many low-level monsters who will also attack the island after being attracted. So these ordinary people's armies can go to intercept those low-level enemies.

More importantly, this kind of scattered army will also miss those high-level enemies while blocking the main points to stop most of the low-level enemies

. That way, they wouldn't suffer mass casualties by joining wars that weren't theirs in the first place.

Indeed, the army on the island of Sauer was able to never shrink back before receiving an order when facing a powerful enemy, sticking to their oaths and fighting to the death.

But in this obviously unnecessary situation, everyone didn't want this elite unit to be wasted on the battlefield.

"I didn't expect that little fellow Nora to face such a severe situation." After hearing Lawrence's explanation, Safiel said with a long sigh.

In the previous relationship, she and the little puppet had a very good relationship, so at this time Safiel was naturally a little worried about the little puppet.

"After all, this is an ascension ceremony. Although Nora will not become a god even if she completes this ceremony, she has taken an important step in transforming mortal objects into gods." Lawrence also said with a sigh.

"As far as I know, if this ceremony can be carried out smoothly, Nora's level will be significantly improved. Compared with the benefits after the improvement, it is naturally acceptable to bear the risk of this level."

Soon, the time came to the second day, and I have to say that for most people, interests are the most motivating thing.

Because in just one night, almost all the aristocratic territories around New Sauer Island expressed their willingness to cooperate, and those colonial governors who belonged to territories directly under certain countries also expressed that they would reply after consulting the mainland.

"I've never seen this group of people move so fast." Seeing telegrams being sent one after another, Safiel said to Lawrence with emotion while translating the telegrams.

"It seems like what you said, even the dullest people will act quickly when faced with benefits." She held up a telegram and said.

"You see, this Baron Pierce is a typical example. Last time we hoped to be able to obtain the right to use their port, it took two full weeks to get it done, but now it only took him one night to complete the summary and send us a letter. A statistical list of all products available for sale on the island."

"Isn't that normal?" Lawrence said with a shrug and a smile.

"Don't look at the time when we asked them to do some things before, they always used the excuse that the lord was old and the approval speed was slow. But in a situation like this where more money can be seen, I can guarantee that they will faster than that awesome guy in his twenties."

"It sounds really helpless, but this is life." Saifeier finally concluded, "Although I still don't get used to their approach, but from another perspective, they have also helped us a lot. Do me a favor."

The reason why Safir said this is also very simple, because after these noble lords have counted all the specialties in their territories, the difficulty for Lawrence and the others to plan for the next step is naturally greatly reduced.

Especially with the help of the book charm, they only spent one day summing up all the data and obtained specific data about the production of each territory of New Sauer Island.

It's just that on the next issue of coordinating how much each territory will ship, everyone spent more than three days discussing before they reluctantly reached a temporary basic agreement.

In this agreement, everyone divides the proportion of each person's shipment quantity and content in the next trade according to a series of contents such as strength, quantity and type of items produced in the territory.

Of course, considering that Lawrence was the initiator of this agreement, he also received a lot of remuneration. If the quota of the territory itself is added, he got 1/4 of the market share in this trade.

However, the reason why everyone is willing to give up these shares is that Lawrence himself is the core person in this cross-regional trade. Another important reason is that the products he sells are unique and do not compete with others.

To give the simplest example, Lawrence only has a small amount of food to sell because it needs to supply the surrounding islands. Therefore, the goods he now uses for trade mainly come from the medicines produced by those medicine research centers and hospitals.

Compared with food, these drugs take up very little space and tonnage in transportation, but their value is much higher than that of food.

Therefore, in this case, New Sauer Island can free up more tonnage for people in other territories, and this is why those people are willing to let Lawrence take up more shares.

What's more, medicines can be seen as a core necessity across regions. In addition to making money, selling these drugs that are obviously effective in the market can also leave a very good reputation in this area.