The Natural Empire of the Oceanic Dragon

Mentioning the preparation of equal rewards might be because I recently discussed the growth and habits of the Elves with Lulu and Vine Woman, and a very important point was mentioned.

Elves will give you gifts, but you must prepare rewards that the Elves consider equal. If you help the Elves, the Elves will also repay you with help that they consider equal.

Attilan can't tell if Arachne is an Elf or not, maybe Vine Woman should take a look, she has a higher perspective.

“Ivory, did you let Master Jaina see Arachne?”

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Ivory nodded.

“The master has seen Arachne. She only judged that Arachne would not harm me. She is not sure what kind of spider Arachne is, unless she asks the natural gods.”

Vine Woman can't do such a trivial thing to trouble the gods. Of course, she wrote a letter to her family, asking her grandfather to collect information about this kind of spider through the Natural Council.

But nothing was gained.

Vine Woman can only define Arachne as a unique species. In the past few years, she would come to the Black Forest from time to time to see Ivory and observe the changes in Arachne.

Arachne has a relationship with the Elves, but is not an Elf. She is considered a magical beast who has mastered fairy magic. As she grows, there is indeed a possibility of transforming into an Elf.

It's just that she hasn't transformed even when she is eight meters tall, and Vine Woman has decided that she will not change.

After packing up the pottery pot, Attilan was ready to leave.

Ivory quickly picked up two pieces of silk and stuffed them to him, saying:

“Take these away. You need to come and take the rest at any time. As for the meat for exchange, give me a little of each kind of meat. You can arrange how much these silks can be exchanged for.”

Ivory doesn't care whether Attilan will deduct her meat during the exchange. It's just a dozen pieces of silk, she can just weave more if they are gone, they are not valuable items.

Ivory trusts him so much, Attilan will naturally not let her down.

It is indeed not cheap to exchange a piece of silk for thousands of kilograms of meat, but with a piece of silk, he can exchange at least 100,000 kilograms of wheat flour from human nobles.

After all, for human nobles, as long as the farmers are planting the land, the flour will continuously grow out of the land and become taxes in their hands, but silk is different.

This kind of rare treasure that is rarely seen, 100,000 kilograms of wheat flour is not too much at all.

The land of the Northern Human Kingdom is not like the wilderness that Attilan is developing. Attilan has to work hard to develop 100,000 acres of farmland, while in the Human Kingdom, even a slightly larger lord may have so much farmland under his rule.

“I will arrange for a centaur to deliver food to you. I will definitely make you satisfied with the dishes. It's just that there is a lack of a bridge connecting the north and south on the big river. You can only cross the river to get it. If the centaur goes into the water, then the food will be inedible.”

“No problem, I will let the spider watch at the junction of the big river and the lake. I will go to get it immediately when the centaur arrives.”

“Then I will let the centaur deliver it to the junction.”

Taking the two pieces of silk back to Greenscale Town, he asked the old merman to carefully treasure the silk. However, with the quality of Arachne's silk, as long as it is not deliberately damaged, these two pieces of silk will not be damaged.

The problem lies here. The quality of the silk is too good, it is good silk, but not a good commodity!

If the silk clothes never break, how can Attilan sell new silk?

When the linen is woven and the merman tailor's skills are well-trained, he will make the silk into soft armor and reward it to the most meritorious dependents.

He ordered the merman priest to find a centaur who could run fast and steadily, responsible for delivering takeout starting tomorrow, and let the pre-selected merman textile workers also set off to study weaving techniques.

Attilan then found Princess Ophelia, who was treating the wound of a snake-man who was accidentally gored by a wild boar while hunting.

“Ophelia, where did you get the linen you are wearing?”

“These cloths are made by some craftsmen from the Lizardman tribe who are good at weaving, who are partners of the Snake-man tribe. They can use a kind of plant to make thread, and then make cloth.”

“Although the output is not high, it is very popular in the rainforest. If it weren't for the cooperative relationship between our Snake-men and Lizardmen, I wouldn't be able to get this linen clothing.”

For example, her two female guards are wearing clothes made of river mussel shells and vines.

“Only a small number of Lizardmen know how to make linen?”

Ophelia nodded.

“According to my understanding, less than ten Lizardmen have mastered this skill. You must know that Lizardmen are also a large tribe of more than 500 people.”

The number of Snake-men once approached a thousand, but now there are only more than a hundred old, weak, sick and disabled left. Before Ophelia fled the rainforest, the Lizardmen were a large tribe of more than 500 people.

But the Snake-men, the Lizardmen's biggest partner, have been destroyed, so the Lizardmen's days should not be easy either.

If he doesn't recruit Lizardmen quickly, I'm afraid that those Lizardmen weavers who are good at weaving but not good at fighting will be the first to become cannon fodder.

There are Lizardmen who are good at weaving in the rainforest, and there may be other talents who have been overlooked. Attilan asked with some excitement:

“Ophelia, do you know of any other races in the rainforest that have similar skills?”

Ophelia shook her head after thinking for a moment.

“The Lizardmen should be the best at weaving in the rainforest. Other races use tough vines and leaves to make clothes.”

“Not weaving, I mean other similar abilities.”

Ophelia scratched her cheek in confusion.

“Ah? I don't know, what is a similar ability?”

“For example, being good at building houses with wood, making weapons, armor, etc.?”

Ophelia shook her head.

“Everyone uses weapons made of stones and bones, and the houses are also built casually with vines and leaves. It seems that no one has heard of anyone building a house like Greenscale Town.”

Then Attilan was curious about how the Lizardmen learned to weave linen?

“Ophelia, do you know how the Lizardmen learned to weave?”

Ophelia shook her head directly. How could this kind of secret skill be spread?

“Then you continue to treat him.”

The snake-man kept his head down in shame. As a snake-man guard, he was actually gored by a wild boar while hunting. It was indeed embarrassing.

Obviously, he underestimated the strength of the wild boars in the forest. Not only are the vines in the forest more tenacious than those in the rainforest, but even the wild boars are stronger, which injured the snake-man guard who went out to hunt wild boars for the first time today.

Speaking of wild boars, Attilan suddenly remembered the wild boar chariot he borrowed from Old Urchin. He actually forgot to see the results of the chariot race between wild boars, gray rabbits, and mastiffs.

Too bad!

Attilan wanted to find the half-goat to ask about the results of the race, but unfortunately the half-goat had already set off with the caravan to Riverside Town, so he could only ask Yago about the results of the race.

Of course, the work of recruiting Lizardmen needs to be arranged first. When he found the merman priest, he was encouraging the weavers who were going to study tomorrow.

“For the Dragon Lord, you must study hard. Whether the merman can prosper in the future depends on you, do you know!”

“Yes, High Priest!”

Attilan quietly watched the merman priest's performance. He didn't appear until the weavers had dispersed.

“You contact Lister and the centaur leader and ask them to go to the rainforest again to inquire about the situation of a Lizardman tribe that can weave. If they are doing well, wait, if they are not doing well, recruit them.”

The merman priest is obviously aware of how much food Attilan has left.

“Dragon Lord, if a few hundred more big appetites come, we really won't have enough food for everyone, even using pasture as the staple food won't be enough.”

“You don't mind eating pasture either?”

Attilan was a little surprised.

The merman priest said happily:

“The pasture that the Dragon Lord asked us to plant tastes better than the seaweed we used to eat, and it contains more nutrients. With some flour added, the children are growing well.”

Attilan joked with a smile.

“You won't let me recruit Lizardmen, are you afraid that they will weave and take your place?”

“Of course not, the merman will always be loyal to the Dragon Lord. Naturally, the more people who can weave, the better. I've been wearing seaweed skirts for long enough. It's been decades since I've tried wearing linen clothes.”

Indeed, after wearing linen clothes, letting people wear vines, leaves, and seaweed like savages again, no one can stand it.

“Weaving is not something that everyone can learn. If you want to supply all the dependents and have a surplus to sell, the manpower required cannot be done by a dozen people. Naturally, the more textile workers, the better.”

“I still have something to do, so I'll leave first.”

Before leaving, Attilan routinely used a Rain of Grace on the river mussel field.

When he found Yago, Big Horn and Tarzan were also here with him.

“What are you doing here? You're secretly improving without me, right?”

“It's just lightning tempering. The intensity of the lightning we summon can't meet the needs of tempering, so we gathered together to practice more.”

Tarzan said it with some decadence. Obviously he was the first druid to join the Lightning Mutual Aid Society, but his summoned lightning failed, which was too embarrassing.

“Yago, what was the result of the last race? It's a pity that I forgot to watch it. When will the next race be?”

Yago looked at Attilan in confusion.

“The last race didn't happen. Master Carrot had something to leave the forest to deal with urgently. The race can only be held after he comes back. If it weren't for that war to讨伐 the Gnolls, the competition could have been held earlier.”

“But how could I give up fighting the Gnolls for a race?”

Attilan asked with a smile:

“Yago, what do you say if I use the reason of fighting the Gnolls to recruit warriors in the Halfling Town, would any Halflings be willing to come?”

“Of course, I don't need them to really go to the front line to fight. The main work they are responsible for is logistics support such as cooks, musicians, brewers, and planting guidance.”

“You must know that the primary factor in the victory of a war is logistics!”

Yago gave him a white look.

“Are you sure you are recruiting warriors with this requirement?”