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After hearing Mia's words, the druid was like a deflated ball.

Even these natural spirits could not contact the gods, so it was obvious that the gods really no longer responded to their believers.

Richard shook his head slightly. The gods were now in trouble, and the creator of the monotheistic religion was just about to nail the coffin of the polytheistic gods with nails.

"How many people do you have now?" Richard asked directly.

"Who are you?" Hearing Richard's words, the druid priest looked at Mia.

"He is Richard, a hero who came to help us!" Mia said directly.

In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, natural spirits often look for the son of destiny, that is, heroes, according to the arrangement of fate.

After hearing Mia's words, the druid in front of him was slightly stunned, and then a glimmer of hope rose in his heart. After carefully looking at Richard, he said this.

"We only have 113 people."

Richard said directly: "You have nowhere to go now, are you willing to work with me?"

"Although you are a hero recognized by the spirit of nature, I still want to see it, otherwise I can't convince them to follow you." The Druid priest said.

Richard nodded, and then said: "Of course."

"You can make a move."

Seeing that Richard was careless and didn't take out any weapons, and didn't even wear armor, the Druid priest's face became very solemn.

He knew that every hero recognized by the spirit of nature was a strong man, such as Hercules, Odysseus, Perseus, etc.

The druid pulled out a one-handed hammer and picked up a shield, and his burly body rushed up like a bull. This druid is not only the priest of these people, but also the strongest among them.

His strength far exceeds that of the warriors of the Roman regular army. At the beginning, these Celts and druids persisted for many years under the attack of the Roman heavy infantry legion.

Clang!

Although Richard did not use magic, with his physical fitness that surpassed that of a dragon, it was easy for him to control a druid.

Richard was extremely fast, and he quickly stepped forward and kicked the druid priest, who flew back at a faster speed.

The people around him only felt a flash in front of their eyes, and saw the priest flying several meters backwards. Several people around him hurried forward to help him.

The onlookers were even more stunned.

Richard's personal tower spirit system rated the druid as level 2, which is equivalent to a level 7 warrior.

There was some natural power left in his body, which should be the power given by the gods at the beginning, but it was a pity that there was not much left now. Richard estimated that his strength at his peak should be able to reach level 10.

Without the power of nature, he is now a pure level 2 blank warrior.

"I'm fine." The druid priest got up directly and said to everyone. According to the force just now, he originally thought that at least a few ribs would be broken, but when he got up, he found that he was actually unharmed, just with some dust on his body.

The Druid priest immediately understood that Richard had held back. After personally feeling Richard's strength, the Druid priest was very excited.

He pushed away the tribesmen who supported him, walked forward quickly, and then knelt down directly in front of Richard and said: "Great hero Richard, I, Drenos, will be loyal to you. I swear to follow your footsteps forever, and I will never regret it until I die, until the end of the world!"

Seeing the actions of the priest, the Celts around him knelt down and surrendered to Richard.

Richard stepped forward and took the initiative to reach out and pull Drenos up.

"Very good, since you are willing to follow me, then I can guarantee that after defeating the monotheism, I will give you a piece of land so that you can live freely!"

"Next, you need to reorganize and train. In the forest across the mountain ridge, I have conquered some warriors. They are accumulating strength and training. We need to gather more forces to overthrow this cruel and dark society!"

Next, Richard learned about these Celts. There are only more than 100 people in this camp, including a dozen children, half of whom are women and the remaining half are men.

These Celts have a low level of training, probably only at the level of Roman Empire militia, and are poorly equipped, with only some leather armor or even no armor.

Without reorganization, there is basically no combat effectiveness, but fortunately, many of these people are hunters and cultivate the land, barely able to be self-sufficient.

Richard gave them some salt and tools and asked them to continue training here.

It takes a lot of equipment to arm these people. Richard had never prepared weapons and armor before. In the era of floating cities, ordinary weapons and armor have long been eliminated. As for those puppet golems, they are also supernatural forces in this world. If they are used, they will be discovered by the world consciousness.

He doesn't want to be discovered by the world consciousness now. Building high walls, storing food, and slowly becoming king is the right way. Those who emerge quickly will inevitably be hit head-on.

Although the current Roman Empire is declining, it still has the power to deal with these people.

Then Richard successfully recaptured two exile camps in the same way, and the population in his hands directly exceeded one thousand people.

Of course, there are only more than three hundred people who can really fight, and there are not even a hundred people with normal military level combat power.

Richard dispersed these people in three surrounding camps, and then began to train and integrate these soldiers. Just as Richard was integrating these people, a dozen people began to come to him every day in the mountains and forests.

These people included bankrupt farmers, deserters, and some pagans who did not want to believe in monotheism.

In just half a month, the population of Richard's camp reached two thousand people.

"My reputation has spread so widely now?" Richard was a little surprised.

These days, people kept coming to him, which made Richard find that something seemed wrong.

After Richard asked, he found out that it was the credit of the druid priest he had conquered. Dranos was a druid priest, although he had now become a refugee hiding from place to place.

But polytheism still had some foundation. Although monotheism had gained the upper hand, polytheism had not been completely wiped out.

After all, just a few decades ago, polytheism had fought back together, and the emperor who supported polytheism was almost successful.

After deciding to follow Richard, Drenos began to contact the remnants of the former polytheism.

The Church has a monastery temple, and polytheism naturally has a similar organization. Although this organization was almost destroyed after the attack, some people still survived.

In addition to these people, some polytheistic priests also survived. Some of these polytheistic priests hid in the mountains, some hid as merchants, and some even hid among the nobles.

Drenos still had contact with these people, so under his propaganda, these polytheistic priests began to spread the reputation of Richard.

So, there were endless people coming to him. From this point of view, the benefits of conquering Drenos were still great.

In just over half a month, his name had spread throughout the Gaul region and spread to the Frankfurt Province.

It was not enough to just have manpower, and sufficient weapons and equipment were needed. Most of those who came to him had some simple weapons, not to mention the imperial standard armor and weapons.

To arm these people, a large number of weapons and equipment are needed.

Weapons and equipment are also prohibited from being bought and sold in this era, and it is not easy to buy them.

Richard thought about it and could only rely on himself now. Although he could not use high-level magic now, some low-level magic was still possible.

In addition, there was sufficient iron smelting technical information. As long as iron ore was found, it could still be mined to make a batch of weapons and armor.

So Richard began to look for iron ore and coal mines in the mountains. After deciding to mine iron ore and smelt iron himself, Richard began to prepare to gather a large number of people.

Both mining and iron smelting require a large number of people.

Don’t look at the fact that he now has more than a thousand people in his hands. If such a small population is really invested in mining, not much minerals can be mined at all.

Fortunately, the most lacking thing in this era is manpower.

As Richard’s reputation continued to spread, a large number of exiles began to gather here in the mountains and forests of Gaul.

Next, Richard found an iron ore that was easy to mine in the mountains, and then ordered people to mine the iron ore, and at the same time, people built a furnace to prepare for iron smelting.

Richard did not teach these people too advanced technology. What he taught was basically the same as the current iron smelting technology of the Roman Empire, and then some details were improved.

Then he began to dig mines in the mountains and forests and build blacksmith workshops.

Most of the more than 2,000 people participated in the construction. Fortunately, Richard had enough food to sustain the high-intensity labor of these people. If someone else came, even if he had iron smelting technology, it would be impossible to build an ironworks here.

The sufficient food boosted the morale of these exiles, and the ironworks were built very quickly. The mines on the other side had also been dug, and these tools for mining ore were made by Richard himself.

If he didn't take action, it would be more difficult to mine ore.

Fortunately, there were some craftsmen among the more than 2,000 exiles. Although the skills of these craftsmen were very ordinary, it was better than starting from scratch.

About a month later, the blacksmith shop finally successfully produced an iron sword.

Richard took the iron sword and tested it, and found that the quality of this iron sword was so-so, barely comparable to the Roman standard weapons. However, once they become proficient, the quality should be improved.

Richard did not ask the blacksmiths to make a large number of long swords, but chose to make spears and iron armor. It was most cost-effective for his men to train them to become popular.