Warlord: King of All Clans

Leo's trip was to assemble a shipbuilding team for the Olenik Shipyard.

Throughout the Northern Territory, besides the coastal Kurolov family with a complete shipbuilding base, the rest are inland territories, possessing docks that can at most build inland river vessels or repair sea ships.

Although Olenik also has a shipyard, after the Blood Moon incident, the shipbuilding personnel were wiped out. Even if a small number of people were rescued after the war, they couldn't organize a complete production line.

As for Riverrun's own shipyard, the skilled craftsmen lack experience and are not yet capable of manufacturing large seagoing vessels.

Leo, however, looked down on the Northern Territory's inland river sailing boats, which were still in the classical period. He even somewhat despised the Southern Territory's sailing warships, setting his sights on the goblin shipyards, which were reputed to be the most advanced on the entire continent.

The Goblin Free Islands, ruled by goblins, consist of hundreds of islands of various sizes. These islands have the best giant trees for shipbuilding, and the goblins have thousands of years of shipbuilding heritage.

Therefore, the Goblin Free Islands have been the shipbuilding center of the continent since ancient times. All the famous large ships are manufactured here.

In the past few hundred years, they have even developed alchemical airships that can float in the air, establishing two aerial routes in the Southern Territory's capital and the Western Territory's seaport.

Originally, the Southern Territory's royal family also owned a luxurious alchemical airship, opening a route from the capital to Olenik.

Unfortunately, Empress Lola was assassinated seven years ago, and the alchemical airship also crashed.

As a master craftsman, the goblin Virgil has a high status in Asky Harbor, after all, there are only three goblin masters in the entire Goblin Free Islands who can build airships.

With his introduction, Leo quickly met Master Spring, the president and chief craftsman of the Shipbuilding Association.

When Spring heard Leo's intention, the first thing he said was, "Shipbuilding? Go to the Northern Territory? What kind of ships can you build in that frozen wasteland?"

Leo was prepared. He took out a piece of wood from his magic cloak and handed it to Master Spring, "This is a unique wood from the Northern Territory. Please take a look, Master."

The goblin master Spring took the wood, smelled it, licked it, and roasted it over the fire. He said in surprise, "Good wood, excellent shipbuilding wood, not inferior to our island teak."

Then he said regretfully, "Such wood must be very rare, right?"

The best marine timber on the entire continent is the island teak of the Goblin Free Islands. It is resistant to seawater corrosion, insect infestation, temperature changes, and can withstand violent impacts.

Unfortunately, after so many years, thousand-year-old teak on the island is rare. Now the shipyards of the Goblin Free Islands use only hundred-year-old second-class teak.

The wood that Leo brought was much better than the new hundred-year-old teak and was enough to build alchemical airships.

Leo laughed, "This is Northern Blood Pine. The mountains of the Northern Territory are full of it, especially on the northern snowfields. No one wants it even for firewood."

"Give me a shipbuilding team of five hundred craftsmen, and I can provide your harbor with ten top-quality marine timbers every year. Of course, the shipwrights who go to the Northern Territory will have their salaries doubled."

Spring knew that the other party was boasting. If such rare wood was everywhere in the Northern Territory, it would have been discovered long ago by goblin explorers searching the world for shipbuilding wood.

But if Leo could provide ten ships of wood regularly and with such high salaries, this deal was not impossible.

Virgil also assisted Leo from the side, "Earl Riverrun has restarted Midgard and mastered a lot of blood clan knowledge. The blood clan empire also had complete shipbuilding technology, which can be exchanged and learned with us."

This deal was not small, and Spring found it difficult to refuse. "Then wait a moment, I'll ask around in the Shipbuilding Association to see which shipyard is willing to go with you."

The goblin craftsmen were all science-oriented and unwilling to be polite to Leo. After the matter was discussed, they directly sent him away.

Taking advantage of the waiting time, Leo took his friends to play in the seaport, admiring the exotic customs and seeing the tropical beaches that everyone had never seen before.

The little kobold Six has never seen the sea and went crazy playing on the beach.

Gwen and Sia acted like nannies, following behind her and Freya.

At this time, a towering green beam of light lit up on the lighthouse of Asky Harbor, and the ships coming and going on the sea dispersed, giving way to the huge sea surface.

Gwen put her hand on her forehead and looked into the distance, then said excitedly, "The Great Whales are entering the port!"

"The Great Whales enter the port once every ten years!"

With her voice, the entire Asky Harbor was in an uproar, and countless residents flocked to the beach.

At the same time, large and small waterspouts began to spout on the surface of the bay.

Huge whales slowly appeared before everyone's eyes.

The largest of these whales was hundreds of meters long, larger than blue whales, like a mountain emerging from the water.

They swam into the harbor, approached the beach, and then stopped moving.

Their huge bodies squeezed the waves, which rolled like a tsunami, sweeping the waterline from dozens of meters away to Leo's feet.

Countless small sampans were put into the water, carrying goblins closer to the whales. Some goblins simply jumped into the water and swam towards the whales.

Leo was also very curious, "What are they doing?"

Gwen explained, "They are seeking help. Every ten years, the Great Whales from the depths of the endless sea come to the Goblin Free Islands to seek the help of the goblins."

When the tide receded, Leo saw that the whales were covered with all kinds of barnacles, and the goblins, like kobold miners, were frantically collecting the barnacles.

"These barnacles are magical creatures from the deep sea. Their shell composition is the same as magic stones, which is equivalent to living magic stone mines. The meat of the barnacles is not only delicious, but also an alchemical material."

Leo also became interested and said to his friends, "Let's go help!"

Freya responded first, transforming directly into a large groundhog, took a breath, plunged into the water, and then floated on the surface, "Come on up!"

"No, can you be a boat?"

After a few people jumped on her back, Freya quickly moved her limbs, turning into fast paddles, and her tail spun quickly, turning into a propeller.

Soon, she swam to the side of a whale.

Looking at the barnacles on the whale from a distance can cause a strong sense of trypophobia, but when you get close, you find that it's actually okay. These barnacles are all the size of a fist, and some are even the size of a head, densely packed, like rock layers.

Underneath the barnacles, there are huge bone barbs that are firmly fixed on the whale.

Heavy barnacles are the natural enemy of whales. If too many accumulate, the whales will be unable to bear the weight and gradually sink to the bottom of the sea.

Therefore, every ten years, these whales will travel from the deep sea to the Goblin Free Islands to have the goblins on the island help them clean the barnacles.

Although prying out the barnacles will inevitably hurt the whales, all the whales remain motionless, allowing the faint blood to flow into the sea.