Volume 2 Spread Wings Chapter 201 Construction and Development
In the next two days, Levi did not stray too far from Bitao Village, but was busy building and developing this village that truly belonged to him.
First, the Lilith Temple agreed to the idea of adding the refugees to the Bitao Village. After carrying out several escort missions, although there were occasional minor casualties along the way, the number of villagers in the village was successfully more than doubled.
Although these villagers are basically ordinary farmers and there are few special talents with other skills, they have greatly supplemented the village's vitality.
Now, except for buildings such as taverns and grocery stores that require professionals, other buildings such as logging sites and open-pit mines have been operating at full speed, and resources are continuously flowing into the warehouse every day.
But it has almost reached its limit now, because there are not so many destroyed villages nearby, and although demons are still pouring out of the abyss rifts, except for the center of the battle between the two sides - the Black Castle, the threat posed by the demons in other places has not increased, but has gradually decreased.
There are several main reasons for this.
First, many heroes chosen by the high elves gradually came to reinforce. Although their average strength was not high and they could not fight against large-scale demons, after all, their numbers, potential, and wisdom were there, so they also eliminated many demons.
Then reinforcements arrived from the colonies of other nearby High Elf Kingdoms. In addition to providing the God-chosen heroes with more ample opportunities to recruit soldiers, the addition of these regular troops also began to gradually move into various villages, which gradually strengthened the defense capabilities of each village.
Finally, it was because of the existence of Tyrandor Doomstar and the large number of wood elves under his command.
According to Lilith's priest, after dealing with the group of demons who were trying to do evil and sending the sealed object to an unknown place, they did not leave. Instead, they joined the battle again and showed their prowess on the battlefield near the Black Castle, killing a considerable number of demons and even taking the lead in attacking the interior of the Black Castle several times.
It's just a pity that the demons obviously intended to use it as an important stronghold for their invasion of the main world. Therefore, after occupying it, they built a large number of fortifications, deployed a large amount of protective magic, and stockpiled a large number of demon armies.
More importantly, just as Levi had worried before, they really desecrated the dragon cemetery and created two powerful undead creatures: bone dragons and ghost dragons.
Although except for a few special creatures such as liches, the strength of most creatures will be reduced to varying degrees after becoming undead, according to intelligence, bone dragons and ghost dragons are also likely to be level 6 or even level 7 troops, and except for the Dragon Prince himself, no one knows how many dragon corpses are left in the dragon cemetery.
Coupled with the large number of demons, at least a dozen demon heroes, and the demons' sacrifice rituals, even if they are temporarily at a disadvantage, it is difficult to truly break through.
Even though the Star of Destruction was a legendary hero holding a semi-artifact, he could not destroy the city alone and could only hope for more reinforcements.
It can also be expected that as more and more reinforcements arrive, the battle between the two sides over the Black Castle will become more and more intense.
However, Levi felt that if he wanted to truly and thoroughly resolve this war, he would probably have to wait for the arrival of the legendary wizard Tigris.
Because if the abyss rift is not completely closed, the demons will have a steady stream of reinforcements, and mortals will never be able to compete with the demons in terms of numbers. Moreover, no matter which side has casualties, they will become part of the sacrificial ceremony, which is really disgusting.
After the villagers had settled down, several buildings were officially completed one after another.
The temple of Shahanni Moonbow occupies the largest area, with three floors above ground and one floor underground, which is probably more than 3,000 square meters in total. In addition, two ancient guardians were planted at the gate of the temple, which attracted a lot of attention from the villagers.
But it also brought Levi many benefits. First of all, with this temple, when encountering foreign invasion, all the staff of the temple will participate in the war.
There are about a dozen priests and a total of more than 50 night elf hunters and archers, which is considered a good combat force at this stage.
In normal times, priests can also help purify the evil forces of the undead and demons, and occasionally provide free treatment to villagers who are injured in accidents. They can also make holy water, some low-level consumable scrolls, etc.
Whether it is sold directly to Levi or put in the store, it can enrich the village's output to a certain extent.
As for the price Levi had to pay, it was insignificant. He just allowed them to spread their faith in the village.
For gods and their priests, this is a very important matter, because it is related to the divine power they possess. It can be said that except for the elemental gods, most gods attach great importance to this, because they are gods who live on faith.
Moreover, for a divine power as weak as that of Shahanni Moonbow, the number of her believers is estimated to be only about 80,000 at most, or even less. If she could convert the 700 to 800 people in this village into her devout believers, it would definitely be a great tonic for her.
There was no way. Although the main world was large, the competition was also very fierce. There were dozens of elven gods alone, and the total number of gods from different human factions was already in the three digits. It was difficult for a small god like her, whose duties were only prophecies and illusions and were of little use, to compete with other gods.
Although she has now become the patron saint of the night elves, one of the elven subspecies, the size of the night elves is still very small at present, with not many in total, and because of the different fighting habits of the members, they are divided into several different factions.
Some believe in Hoth, the god of knowledge and wisdom; some believe in Kurnos, the god of hunting; and some believe in Solonor Shanlandre, the god of bows and arrows.
Among these three gods, even the weakest God of Bows and Archers has medium power, with a godhood level of 11, which is far beyond the reach of her weak godhood level of 3.
Therefore, it is understandable that they attach great importance to the Bitao Village. The priests even hinted to Levi that if he and his subordinates were willing to choose to believe in the goddess, the goddess's followers might send more night elves to help.
Of course Levi would not agree so easily. After all, judging from the situation shown by the other party, excluding those seeds, the strongest among them was only level 3, which was far from worth his life.
And even if she really risked her life, there was a better choice in front of her. Lilith seemed to be much more generous than her, and she had great power. It was almost certain that she was the one who got Bitao Village. After all, her identity and background were there.
At the same time, Levi also quickly understood through indirect questions why the other party seemed so impatient and even revealed his cards so early.
Because just a few days ago, a temple of Sehanne Moonbow located in the redwood forest and a nearby village that believed in her were destroyed by a passing demon army.
This was not considered a major loss for a god with weak divine power, but it was definitely not a wound that could be completely ignored. Her priests naturally wanted to make up for the loss of their gods as quickly as possible.
It would have been fine if she hadn't said it. Once she said it, Levi had to think about it more seriously. For a goddess in such a situation, it's not wrong to say that she is a pauper among the gods, right? If he ran over, wouldn't he be severely exploited?
But the good thing is that if her divine item is really good and I have enough power to allow her divine power to be further improved, the rewards will surely be quite generous.
After all, this is a task directly received from God, and providing timely assistance is much better than adding icing on the cake.
But that is a matter for the future. If you don't count heroes, the strongest enemy he has ever killed was only level 5. Matters concerning God are far beyond his current ability to get involved.
Next was the ferocious ostrich farm. Li Wei first tried to recruit a few of them and let them fight with the bloodthirsty jackals in the arena. Then he found that these big guys, who were more than 2.5 meters tall and had ferocious temperaments, were much more powerful than the war geese of the same level.
Both the huge claws and the equally huge and sharp beak have high attack power and a slight armor-piercing effect. This resulted in a total of three competitions, all of which ended with the ferocious ostrich winning.
This result not only surprised and shocked Levi and others, but even the witch Tiwa was a little confused.
As a gnoll, she certainly knew the fighting power of the bloodthirsty jackals. They were relatively outstanding among the same level, but she never expected that these ferocious ostriches would be even better.
This result also made Levi decide to focus on training them. No matter whether they can become mounts after advancement, it will definitely not be a loss.
Currently, he can recruit 18 ferocious ostriches every week. Although the number is not as many as bloodthirsty jackals, it is not a small number either.
The only pity is that as terrestrial birds, their wings have completely degenerated. They can only flap their wings occasionally to help them run, but there is no hope of flying.
Then there are the buildings of Guang Yakong and the Gaidingtian clan. Unlike ordinary buildings, they are all light gates and occupy a very small area. Levi feels that if the Ferocious Ostrich Park is a kind of God-given building, then these light gates are essentially just teleportation portals.
And one thing is different from other normally recruited subordinates, Guang Yakong and the Gaidingtian people came with conditions.
First of all, they are only willing to fight within a radius of ten miles centered on the village, and will not launch active attacks on targets of the lawful good and lawful neutral camps.
After understanding the situation, Donna felt very angry. How could these people be considered subordinates? They were clearly garrisons sent by friendly forces to assist in the defense!
In fact, Levi also thinks so, because not only are their recruitment costs very cheap, but they also do not require maintenance fees. They only need to provide daily accommodation and supplies for free. At the same time, all the proceeds from the battles will be handed over to Levi and the village. Isn't this an auxiliary defense army?
However, unlike the very angry Donna, he appeared to be very happy, not only because they were really cheap, but also because the village happened to need reliable garrison troops.
What's more, a radius of ten miles is not small. It can fully take care of the valleys, river beaches and woods in the north.
Even part of the threat from the undead in the south can be dealt with by them. Where can ordinary God-chosen heroes find such a good thing?
Of course, the most important point was revealed by the Wolf Patrolman who was most familiar to him and had the most generous personality. The reason why there were these conditions now was entirely because they were afraid of entrusting the wrong person.
Because in the past there were some mages who pretended to be good people in front of them at first and deceived them, but soon used them to do evil and discredited the Gaiding clan.
Therefore, in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes, the Gaiding people became much more cautious after that. Whether it was summoning or recruiting, they needed to take into account the opponent's camp and even faction and race.
Of course, the Wolf Patrol himself highly recognized Levi. He had participated in many battles against evil forces with Levi. He also believed in Levi's character and would never do such a thing.
After listening to this, Levi felt that this was because his reputation level was not high enough. What kind of problem was this? If he killed more demons and other enemies every day, he would probably change his attitude towards him again soon.
So Levi comforted Donna and accepted these conditions with great joy, which made many of the more honest Mastiff-headed Yakongs feel embarrassed.
In comparison, Shui Yakong and others were not so serious. They were truly recruited by Levi, and they had no objection to anyone being killed.
Among them, the Light Sub-Kongs and Water Sub-Kongs of level 2 can recruit 10 people each week, and the Level 3s, like the Wolf Patrols and Mastiff-Headed Sub-Kongs, can recruit 6 people each week. They are highly consistent in this regard.
With the drawings provided by Diva, Levi can now recruit hundreds of subordinates from the village every week.
The other Yakong and Gaidin people probably haven't had enough contact with Levi, or haven't fought alongside him many times. Since he hasn't been given the authority to do so for the time being, Levi doesn't care too much about it. It's just a matter of time.
At the same time, he also began to explore the situation around the village.
There were no surprises in the valley. The open-pit mine there was only a few shallow layers. It was estimated that if the villagers worked with all their might, they could completely dig it out in less than a month.
But Levi felt that only after that would the true value of this valley gradually become apparent, because he could use some magic such as turning fossils into mud to change the terrain of the valley, and then build some buildings in it to develop it into another safer garrison location.
Bitao Village is some distance away from the valley, river and forest, and there is almost no strategic location to defend, making it the most suitable place to be a commercial village. In the future, he can put the real core buildings in the valley.
As long as we guard the only entrance, it will be difficult to capture even if the enemy has several times more troops.
The only thing you need to be wary of is probably the enemy's air force directly attacking you. This is really difficult to resolve. In addition to using the air force for defense or suppressing with rain of arrows, Levi has only found out about three other best solutions.
The first is to set up a large-scale no-fly barrier. It is said that the top-level barrier can even force dragons to fight on foot, greatly reducing their threat.
Of course, this thing is basically the same as the legend. There was no Black Castle before its fall. The Dragon Prince couldn't get it, or was reluctant to build it. It is almost impossible for him now.
The second method is relatively easier, which is to directly seal the city or village with protective magic. Unless the defense is broken, it is naturally impossible to fly in.
Unfortunately, this is only relatively easy. Not to mention how much money it would cost, Levi is not yet extravagant enough to use them in a small village.
The last one seems to be the most feasible, which is to recruit some wind-attribute magicians.
They have a magic called Sky Turbulence that can directly disrupt the air, making it difficult for flying troops to maintain balance, and they may even fall headfirst to the ground and become sitting ducks.
Levi has already asked the Sun Knights and Lightforgers for help, but there is little hope in the short term.
Since many mage God-chosen heroes have demonstrated their powerful combat effectiveness, the God-chosen heroes of other professions have also paid more and more attention to mages, and it is not so easy to recruit them.
Compared to the valley, the river beach on the west is much richer. After the pearl oyster farm was built, the fishermen quickly and smoothly started working and harvested a lot every day.
In addition to ordinary white pearls, there are occasionally very few black pearls and red pearls. Although the river is mostly filled with clams, probably because it leads directly to the sea, some rare species will occasionally come in, but the quantity cannot be guaranteed.
Levi compared the information he had collected, and was very pleased to find that under this situation, he could earn at least several gold coins every day just by selling pearls.
Then the fishermen occasionally went fishing or something, but Levi didn't pay much attention to these. Except for a part of it that was supplied to him, Donna, Tiwa's direct troops and the group of wild beasts, the rest was directly distributed to the villagers to win their hearts.
Although the system did not give any prompts about this, he could still feel a very obvious change in the villagers' attitudes and expressions towards him, which was indeed useful.
Although they have hardly ever left the village for more than a few miles in their entire lives and have no cultural knowledge, they are not fools after all.
Then there is a wooden bridge connecting to the other side of the river. There are several small villages within ten miles there. The original village chief is usually willing to do some small business with them, such as barter.
When Levi discovered those villages , his first thought was to recruit soldiers.
Even if his strength was not enough, he had to increase the numbers, so he directly pulled out nearly two hundred level 0 militiamen, thugs, gangsters, etc. from several villages.
At this stage, other God-chosen heroes look down on them, but with the blessing of battle attributes and magic, they can definitely be used whether they are just for show, fighting low-level undead in the south, or being pure cannon fodder. Anyway, they are cheap enough!
He originally wanted to try to trick some villagers or other miners, lumberjacks, etc. into coming over, but he was not successful for the time being because most villagers were unwilling to leave their homes.
He could only decide to go back and study the special welfare policies to further enhance the attractiveness to refugees, farmers or traveling merchants.
Although it is impossible to exempt all taxes directly because all villages and towns in the colony have to pay a 5% basic tax to the Dragon Prince, it is still very attractive compared to other villages.
And as a hero chosen by God, he can think of more roundabout ways.
For example, policies such as giving houses to people who move into the village, or providing soldiers as guards to merchants, are expected to play a significant role.
Then Levi also roughly figured out the role of the village garrison. Simply put, as long as they are classified as the village garrison, there is no need to worry about leadership issues. They will obey the orders of the village chief, deputy village chief and garrison officers to fight when necessary, and the maintenance costs will also be slightly discounted.
The only thing is that the combat range is not that high. With the current level of the village, the combat radius is a minimum of 5 miles, and after that it depends on the abilities of each commander.
From this perspective, the 10-mile range of Guang Yakong and the Gaiding Celestial Clan is actually even better.
However, what bothered him a little was that the fishmen in the river were so annoying. Although these guys were weak, they were quite cunning. Moreover, because they were very good at swimming, they would often sneak attack fishermen who were collecting pearls or fishing.
But fortunately, the problem is not particularly serious at the moment. The water sub-airs are naturally good at water battles. Although their strength is not strong, it is enough to deal with ordinary fish people who are at most level 1 on average.
Then the Spartans sent another 30 people. Although Levi no longer thought highly of them because their defense was too poor and they could basically not withstand a tough battle, but when they cooperated with the water archons, they were enough to ensure the safety of the fishermen.
At the same time, Levi also found out that the Spartans' recent situation was unexpectedly good.
This was probably mainly because many people around knew about their recruitment mission, so several demon attacks were coincidentally helped by the chosen heroes, and the village itself suffered almost no damage.
But Levi thinks that this is only a temporary glory, because the chosen heroes will always complete the recruitment mission and leave. By then, the strength of your village will be reduced due to the recruitment of some members. If the demons take the opportunity to attack again, won’t the outcome be even worse?
But he was too lazy to talk about these things. Besides being proud, the Spartans were also extremely stubborn. It would be a waste of time for him to talk about it. On the contrary, it might cause dissatisfaction on the other side. It would not be too late for him to make a decision after something really happened. Besides, the Sun Knight also had people watching over there.
There is nothing much to say about the woods in the north, they are just ordinary groves. You can get some timber by cutting down the trees there, but Levi is not planning to sell it. Instead, he piles them in the warehouse and keeps them for building other new buildings in the future.
On the other side of the woods, there are two villages under the rule of other indigenous lords, but they are not rich either and are struggling to survive under the invasion of demons.
What he is really interested in is the South.
For most of the indigenous people, the ancient battlefield where low-level undead often revive is undoubtedly a dangerous place, but for the God-chosen heroes, it is a blessed land because they can constantly kill monsters and level up there!
Then not only Levi, but even Diva ran over excitedly with a group of newly recruited werewolves, wanting to see what kind of threat there was.
Then they discovered that this was not just a blessed land, but a truly valuable leveling holy land, at least for low-level troops and fledgling God-chosen heroes.
Because after two days of careful observation, they found that in this narrow area of a hundred miles, there were a large number of low-level undead, and most of them were skeletons and zombies that were very easy to deal with. Even if there were occasionally a few ghosts, they were just low-level cannon fodder that could be dealt with by half a bottle of holy water.
As for the stronger ghouls and graveyard warriors, it's not that they don't exist at all, but they are indeed very few. They only encountered about seventy or eighty of them in two days.
This led to the fact that under the leadership of Levi and Donna, the original low-level militiamen quickly transformed into stronger volunteers, militia captains, spearmen, robbers, bandits, etc. Although they were still very weak in Levi's opinion, at least in front of the skeleton soldiers, they already had basic self-protection capabilities.
This was a much smoother process than when he first brought the animal trainer with him.
At the same time, they also verified the power of their new combat skills through actual combat. Levi's mystical arts improved the endurance of the troops to a considerable extent, and Donna's archery skills also began to show their prowess.
Its basic improvement value is 2, and it can provide additional attack power based on campaign attributes. At present, it should be calculated as a percentage, which is now 7%. Although the current improvement is not too high, the later bonus will definitely be terrifying.
Unfortunately, Levi doesn't have any battle treasures that can enhance attack, so he can't be sure whether this skill is only effective for Donna's own battle attributes, or also for equipment bonuses. But in any case, this battle skill has very high potential. After all, it is only at the beginner level now!
Diva also took the group of animals out to conduct reconnaissance in another direction. As a hero with a lot of combat experience, she could handle it on her own as long as there were enough troops.
With the help of the protective stone skin, she advanced , turning them into level 2 ferocious ostriches and mutated bloodthirsty jackals. Their strength was greatly improved, and the other jackals also made many gains.
At the same time, the witch Tiwa also congratulated Levi very happily. The level 2 ferocious ostriches can already be used as mounts, and just think about it, you will know that their value is definitely much higher than those ordinary donkeys in the village.
Even if each head costs 2 gold coins, the village can recruit 18 heads per week. If Diva spends 2 days to bring them to level 2 and then sell them, she can easily earn more than 30 gold coins.
And it is conceivable that if she is given more time, it is not impossible to upgrade all of them to level 3. The protective stone skin is too restraining for low-level enemies who can only use ordinary physical attacks.
As for higher levels, it will probably be difficult in a short period of time, because once the strength gap between the two sides is large, there will be a certain amount of experience value penalty.
But it is not a big problem, because Lilith's priest had reminded Levi before that as the abyss rifts continue to exist, the ancient battlefield may also be affected, thus producing more powerful undead. After all, these abyss rifts were opened by Orcus, the powerful demon who is known as the king of undead creatures.
At that time, once the level of the undead is raised, Diva can lead her troops there again to practice and level up. If the abyss rift is strong enough, maybe Levi and Donna will join in.
The only problem now is that the location and time of appearance of these undead are uncertain, and they may appear in groups of three or five, or hundreds of them may appear at once, or they may suddenly emerge from under some corpses.
Although they are truly low-level undead without brains and will not set up ambushes or anything like that, at most they can only give them a little scare, but they are still a potential threat to some extent.
But Levi believes that as long as he observes more times, he will definitely discover a pattern.
In addition, Levi also discovered some miniature resource points, such as bushes producing herbs, fruit trees producing wild fruits, some animal nests, and several gathering places of goblins and ogres. They cannot be said to be completely worthless, but they are better than nothing.
There are also three ownerless God-given buildings of wild dogs and gray wolves. Although their combat effectiveness is also very weak, Levi still occupied them as soon as possible. Whether they are given to the witch Tiva or the upcoming tamer, they will surely play a certain value.
After another round of inspection, Levi was very satisfied to find that although it had only been two days, under his command, the village had quickly gotten back on track. Thanks to the extremely low tax rate he promised and the material incentives for some outstanding villagers, they were now working very hard.
After asking Leonidas about the number and quality of the murlocs killed today, Levi and Donna looked at each other and smiled slightly.
Just as he expected, the number of high elf garrisons on the many overseas islands was decreasing, and they had no time to encircle and suppress the surrounding enemies, but the number of invading fishmen was decreasing rapidly.
Fishermen would occasionally find some broken bodies of murlocs in the river. They usually died in a very tragic way, as if they were torn to pieces by some ferocious beasts with sharp claws and fangs, and there was rarely any blood flowing.
Such obvious information, combined with the news from the fishman Fei Shi, Levi can be completely sure of one thing, the "fish" has been hooked!
Fortunately, he did not just wait there. In addition to sending an urging message to the Sun Knight, he also sent Risadiran back to Ashridge Town to ask Reiner for help.
I believe that whether it is out of Lisadilan's gratitude to me or for the sake of the Flame War Goose I gave him, he will do his best.
Coupled with the respect Reiner had shown for himself before, as well as the importance of the matter itself, it can be said that unless Ashridge Town is under siege, reinforcements will definitely arrive. Now it depends on when the fish will really take the bait.
At this moment, he suddenly noticed a cloud of dust rising in the distance, and then hundreds of guys in red clothes riding skinny horses galloped over. He immediately knew that another piece of his plan was completed.
He immediately laughed: "Let's go and meet our friends!"
