The Ocean Lord Is Unusually Powerful

The day after Ji Chen finished his three-day leveling exercise, the fleet returning from Maplewood Port slowly arrived at the port. However, they were all shocked by the ruins and construction sites of Ocean Crown.

Especially those steel battleships with fierce firepower made fellow dwarf Tomodo's eyes widen.

"Good boys, how did you manage to write a few good ships?"

As soon as he got off the boat, he ran over on his short legs and asked anxiously.

"This was seized from the Kingdom of Bath..." Ji Chen didn't explain much, "Let's go back first and tell you what happened in the past few days on the way."

"Okay." Tomodo looked at the ruins that had not yet been cleaned up, but were obviously destroyed by explosives. He vaguely guessed something and nodded.

After some explanations, Tomodo finally understood the grievances between the Crown of the Ocean, the Kingdom of Bath and the Principality of Reinhardt, as well as what happened a few days ago, "So, you are against the Kingdom of Bath. Are you on board? Is it possible that they will send more fleets over in the future?"

Ji Chen nodded and couldn't deny it.

"Yes, the raid this time was certainly due to the lack of defense, but it also exposed the lack of adequate defense facilities in Ocean Crown."

"Sir Tomodo, maybe I need to ask you for this."

Tomodo patted his chest and said, "Leave this matter to me. I will not be idle on the way back. I have prepared several defensive facilities suitable for your use here."

Ji Chen said with some gratitude: "Then thank you first. Oh, by the way, I wonder if this information will be helpful to you?"

As he spoke, he took out a stack of drawings with a lot of letters and numbers on them - this was another piece of support sent by the Reinhardt Principality's task force. According to the young general, this was Three pieces of military alchemy technology information can be produced according to the above data.

This is not a common architectural drawing that can be constructed or generated with one click, which means that it requires someone who understands them to create it.

Obviously, as a legendary dwarf blacksmith, Tomodo, who is highly accomplished in alchemy and forging techniques, is the best candidate.

Tomodo took it and looked at it, and soon had a clear answer, "No problem, I completely understand this level of technology, and I will be able to complete it for you soon."

"But you have to give me a group of apprentices to help me, otherwise it will be too slow to rely on me alone."

Ji Chen said cheerfully: "No problem, I'll let Velus select fifty apprentices."

"If you need anything, just tell him directly and I will try my best to meet your needs."

Tomodo was very satisfied with Ji Chen's attitude towards him. It was precisely because of this that he felt this was a good place.

"Boy, you have gained the favor of the great legendary dwarf blacksmith Tomodo!"

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The return of the fleet brought nearly three thousand refugees who were willing to come to the Crown of the Ocean. Like the previous residents who also came here, they felt strange and uneasy about this land.

Ji Chen gave them a speech as usual to initially appease their emotions, and then asked Velus to arrange for them to move into the house and assign work.

After so many population imports, Ocean Crown already has a lot of experience in appeasing the refugees.

Allocate housing, provide food and clothing, put into work, hold regular banquets, concentrate on studying and listening to lectures, etc.

These are good means of appeasement, which can not only eliminate their uneasiness and integrate them into the life of the territory, but also put them into work as soon as possible and transform the population into a labor force.

In the lord's castle.

Ji Chen stood by the window, looking at the undulating sea in the distance with a worried look on his face.

When he returned from the northern continent, he asked Benboerba to take some dragon blood murlocs to explore the secret door in the ocean.

But now seven or eight days have passed, and they haven't come back yet, which makes him wonder if there was an accident on the road.

But when he opened the territory panel, it showed that Benbo Erba was not dead. Otherwise, he would have already set off for the secret door.

"Wait for two more days. If Ben Bo'er Ba hasn't come back yet, we'll leave immediately."

Ji Chen thought secretly.

The return of the fleet did not bring too many waves to Ocean Crown, because except for a small number of indigenous residents who were born and raised, most of the residents of Ocean Crown came here from the outside world, that is, as refugees.

Since everyone comes from outside, there is nothing to exclude, so most residents welcome new people who join the territory.

Therefore, this group of refugees, equivalent to the number of original residents, integrated into Ocean Crown very quickly, providing great assistance to post-war reconstruction.

In less than a week, brand new houses have been erected, and roads damaged by artillery fire have been repaired and even widened.

Bodies and shipwrecks floating offshore were collected, and the messy port resumed normal operations.

Under Ji Chen's order, based on the cemetery where the orc warriors were originally buried, a large cemetery was divided around it specifically for the burial of fallen soldiers - the Heroic Spirit Cemetery.

Ji Chen felt that this was an excellent means to provide territorial cohesion.

After all, in addition to recruiting battalion troops, Ocean Crown also has lizardmen, kobolds, and orcs. These non-human races have all made indelible contributions to the territory, and he cannot ignore them.

In addition, a cemetery has been set aside next to it for the burial of ordinary residents.

When the news spread from the Lord's Castle, which symbolizes the highest governing body of the Ocean Crown, to the entire territory.

All the residents were in disbelief.

The lord said that a special cemetery should be set up for residents and dead warriors! ?

is this real?

When the news was spoken by the top internal affairs officer Velus, all the residents and soldiers were boiling.

Such an approach was unheard of to them.

According to the common practice of the nobles on the mainland, ordinary residents can only be buried far away from the settlements after death. The burial cemeteries agreed upon by everyone - most of them are mass graves with no fixed boundaries and no long-term protection, which means There is a possibility that wandering wild monsters will open the tomb and expose the body to the wilderness.

Some landowners or businessmen with strong family wealth can only build a small cemetery in the wild and maintain it according to the prosperity of the family.

The dead soldiers were even more straightforward. If they had time to collect their bodies, they would take them back to their families. If they couldn't take them back, they would be burned directly in a fire, and their ashes would fly in the wind.

Only those nobles who were born and raised in the city can repair the cemetery in the city where land is extremely valuable. Not only does it occupy an extremely vast area, the repaired area is more luxurious than where living people live, but there are also dedicated soldiers to patrol and guard the tomb.

Therefore, for these residents who had become refugees earlier, the biggest expectation was that they would not be dug up after death. There was no expectation at all that there would be a cemetery to bury them.

So when the news came out, most people's first reaction was not to believe it.

Until someone took advantage of their free time to visit the cemetery.

"What the lord said is true, someone has already started building a wall in that place!"

"That's right, my former friends from the mine were assigned to build the cemetery. This cannot be faked."

"Long live the lord!!"

The foreign warriors were also quite excited about this.

Especially the lizard people, they almost knelt on the ground to thank the Lord for his kindness.

Due to the special terrain of the underground lizard people's world, most of the underground is rock and magma. The soil is very limited and is used to grow various crops. Most lizard people are thrown directly into the magma river after death. Save time and effort.

Therefore, anyone who can be buried in the soil is a lizard man who has made great contributions.

The lord said that they can be buried in the soil after death. Doesn't it mean that what they have done has been recognized?

Unknowingly.

Whether they are human residents, or alien residents and warriors, their sense of belonging and identification with the Crown of the Ocean is slowly increasing.

This is exactly what he wants to achieve.

"Ding~ Due to your policies and actions, public support has increased by 4 points, and the current public support is 91 points."

"The territory's public sentiment is higher than 91 points, the territory's people's work efficiency is greatly improved, their learning speed is improved, and the probability of hero output increases."

When the system prompt came, Ji Chen was stunned for a moment and then smiled.

Good guy, public support has finally risen to over 90.

In the past, no matter how much he renovated luxurious houses and provided delicious food, the people's popularity was always stuck between 87 and 89, which made him once think that it was impossible for the people's popularity to reach 90 points and above.

But now it seems that it is not impossible to achieve, but requires special methods.

The benefits brought by the improvement of public sentiment are also very significant. Not only the work efficiency is greatly improved, but the speed of learning is also increased.

The former is beneficial to the reconstruction work, while the latter is of great benefit to the ongoing "Ocean Crown Resident Technology Learning Plan", which can be said to be timely.

The most eye-catching thing is to increase the probability of hero output. This effect is very exciting.

Heroes, there is no such thing as too much. Combat-type heroes, life-type heroes, domestic affairs-type heroes, especially the latter two, Ocean Crown, are extremely scarce.

If we can cultivate a few heroes like Lysa who know how to brew, or heroes like Tomodo who know how to forge, then we can make a lot of money.

A hero is someone who is above ordinary people and possesses superhuman talents and abilities.

Another day passed.

Just when Ji Chen was thinking about leading his troops to go on an expedition, news came that Ben Bo'er Ba had returned.

After getting the news, he immediately changed his clothes and came to the port, where he saw Benbo'erba and the dragon-blood murloc at a glance. They were covered with bruises and more or less wounds.

Benbo'erba's injuries were even more serious. The scales that were originally arranged neatly on his body seemed to have been sliced ​​by dozens of steel knives. They were broken in all directions, exposing the flesh and blood underneath. The trident in his hand was broken off.

Apparently they encountered a fierce attack from the enemy. Although many were seriously injured, luckily none of them were killed.

"My lord, I."

Benboerba limped forward with a trident in his hand, a look of panic on his face.

The master asked him to lead a group of dragon blood murlocs to explore the door to the secret realm. What could only be done in five days was now almost delayed to ten days, which made him feel a little panicked.

Ji Chen waved his hand and interrupted its words.

"Let's not talk about this for now. Drink the potion to recover first. Your safety is the most important thing."

Benbo'erba's eyes flashed with emotion, and he nodded gently.

After taking the healing potion handed over by Ilona and drinking it in one gulp, his face looked obviously better and his breath was no longer so weak.

Seeing this, Ji Chen asked him to start telling what happened on the road.

"At that time, I followed your order to go to the secret door to investigate, and we arrived at that place very smoothly."

"There is indeed a secret door there. The types and numbers of wild monsters outside the door are roughly the same as what you said. We observed from a distance and after confirming that it was correct, we left quietly without disturbing them."

"Then why are you like this? Did you encounter a powerful enemy on the way back?" Ji Chen said with a frown.

Although Benboerba is not too outstanding among many heroes, it is only compared to top heroes such as Alice, Anina, and Verena.

Its purple rare-level strength, coupled with the hundreds of dragon-blooded murlocs who share the same mind, means its combat power cannot be underestimated.

Besides, if they can't be beaten, why can't they use their strong mobility and speed to escape?

Benboerba smiled bitterly and said: "We did meet the enemy, but the enemy is a little weird."

"Weird?"

"Yeah, that's an extremely weird ship."

Ji Chen's expression condensed, and there was some interest in his eyes, "Continue talking."

"Yes, we set off and returned immediately after exploring the door to the secret realm, but not long after we found a thick fog on the sea, and a very dilapidated wooden warship suddenly appeared in the thick fog."

"Originally, my subordinates thought it was a pirate ship or something like that. Because they were eager to return, they ignored it and continued on their way. But the strange thing is that this ship seemed to be tracking it. No matter how we deflected the direction and dived into the sea, we could not get rid of it. it"

"Considering that such an unknown ship cannot be brought back, all subordinates made an unauthorized decision to deal with it before returning."

"But when we boarded the ship, we found that there were no living creatures on it. Just when we were thinking about leaving, a large group of transparent soldiers suddenly appeared, attacking us with the same transparent weapons, but our counterattack came directly from them. The past cannot do any harm."

"I had no choice but to escape with my clan members. Fortunately, I dived deeply into the sea this time, and after I surfaced, the ship didn't follow me again."

Ji Chen's eyebrows were deeply squeezed together.

This sounds so much like the ghost story about the ocean on Blue Star, the ghost ship! ?

Is there something similar in this world?

But then I thought about it, this is a fantasy world, and it’s not unusual at all to find things like gods and ghosts.

But the question is, why did this ghost ship target his hero?