Chapter 48 - 48 The City Wall and War
48 The City Wall and War
Hearing Ning Shi’s words, Amy took over and said, “My Lord, I have already paid the deposit for the magical beasts. The mammoths and wind wolves have already been transported to the temporary barracks in the north of the city. The soldiers of the Army should be familiarizing themselves with their magical beasts by now.”
Ning Shi and Snow Fog were both shocked, and Amy quickly explained, “Lord Snow Fog mentioned to me about using magical beasts as mounts before. I thought of what you said, Lord Ning Shi, that the situation was urgent and everything had to be done quickly, so I made the decision to buy the magical beasts.”
Ning Shi wasn’t angry at Amy’s decision.
Amy was his contracted servant, so her loyalty was not a problem. But it was related to the army, so Ning Shi still instructed her.
“There are some things you can decide on, but when it comes to something as important as the military, you should ask me first, understand?”
Amy agreed in fear and trepidation.
Ning Shi asked Amy.
“How’s the situation with the grain purchase?”
Duohuang was essentially a commercial city, and there were no people in the field of food farming.
Although the soil of the deserted north plains was not fertile, as long as one was willing to cultivate it, they could still grow a lot of food.
However, the people living here were all gnomes, barbarians, barbarians, beastmen and other races that did not know how to farm. The vast land of the deserted north plains had not been developed.
There were many magical beasts in the deserted north plains, and human farmers would be attacked by magical beasts if they farmed here. As such, no human was willing to move here to farm.
That was why Duohuang did not produce its own grain.
In the past, the major powers of Duohuang didn’t have much to worry about. Duohuang was rich, and the food production in the game world was very high, so the food price was very cheap.
He could easily keep buying and buying with the gold coins.
But Ning Shi was very concerned about food.
If he were to unify the entire Duohuang and Anjelo, the Elven Empire and the Ole Empire would probably take the opportunity to send their troops. War was approaching, so he needed sufficient food.
Developing the deserted north plains and achieving self-sufficiency in food was a long term plan.
He had to make the best use of his time to stock up on enough food.
Amy replied, “The Elven Empire and the Ole Empire have already banned the sale of food to us. Fortunately, His Highness Alesia mediated, and the grain merchants of the Brad Empire were still willing to sell food to us.”
“According to your request, I have paid for the urgent transportation. Several grain merchants have used airships to transport the grain here. The three granaries are already full.”
“Based on the standard food intake of two meals a day, this amount of food is enough to feed more than 500000 people in Duohuang for half a year.”
Ning Shi nodded in satisfaction.
“Amy, you did well! I’ve asked Elon to set up a magic core workshop. How is he doing?”
Amy was excited to be praised by Ning Shi. She tried to hide her joy.
“The magic core workshop has already been set up. All of the best magic core smiths in the entire wasteland have been conscripted. The workshop is completely closed off and is heavily guarded. The smiths have already started to follow the magic core cannon blueprints and produce them.”
The magic core smith was a profession unique to the game world. It mainly created various tools and weapons related to magic cores.
For example, the airships flying in the sky were powered by the magic propellers made of magic core. Other tools included magic crystal lamps, bloodline weapons, magic trucks, and so on.
Even the magic teleportation arrays that only existed in major cities were the work of magic core smiths.
In the game world, magic cores were used as a driving force, and a brilliant magic core civilization was hence developed.
The magic core smiths were simply big shots in scientific research in the real world.
It was just that in this transcendent world, magic core smiths did not have very high combat power, so the profession’s status was not very high.
After Ning Shi had taken over the first street, he had already prepared to set up his own magic core workshop.
Now that the workshop was finally completed, he asked Amy, “Have you selected suitable gnomes to be smith’s assistants?”
“Yes, my Lord. We have selected from tens of thousands of gnomes. We have more than 3000 gnomes for the first batch of assistants. We hope that they can appreciate your kindness and grasp this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
“There were millions of gnomes in the deserted north plains, so many gnomes came to Duohuang City for work as well.
Gnomes were short and weak. They were often bullied in DUohuang, and all they did was do the dirty work of washing dishes and wiping the floor. Old Harper, who Ning Shi had met when he was buying slaves, was already one of the most powerful gnomes.
Ning Shi was also a person who had played a variety of games and knew the advantages of gnomes. In order to prevent the game world from having special settings for gnomes, he also used his insight technique to check the information of a gnome.
Although its physique was weak and only had 5 points, his spiritual power had reached 12 points.
The gnomes had three talents: the blue talent for learning, the blue talent for flexibility, and the gold talent for precision.
[Flexibility (blue): Increases body coordination and flexibility to a certain extent.]
[Precision (gold): Greatly increases the precise control of the brain over the limbs, granting extremely precise control over the hands.]
With the addition of the three talents, gnomes were born to be magic core smiths.
Gnomes lived in caves and weren’t hygienic, so they were usually dirty and smelly. In addition, they had weak bodies and cunning personalities, so humans were full of discrimination against goblins.
Nobody even bothered to look at the gnome race’s natural talent.
This instead helped Ning Shi.
It wouldn’t be long before tens of thousands of gnome smiths appeared in Duohuang, leading the trend of magic core tools in the entire world.
The magic core workshop had already been established, and the magic core cannons would soon be ready. All that was left was the city walls.
A hint of hesitance appeared on Amy’s face at the mention of the city walls.
“My Lord, we have 110000 slaves. We have enough labor to build the city walls, but we lack raw materials. We do not have enough rocks.”
“If we’re not in a hurry, we can transport the rocks from afar to Duohuang.”
“However, you have requested for the construction of the four walls surrounding Duohuang within a week. It will be difficult to complete without the local rocks.”
Ning Shi was speechless. There were no mountains in the deserted north plains, so there were no rocks.
In the past, the streets of Duohuang had been repaired with stones transported from other places.
However, this was not a problem for Ning Shi. Although there were no stones here, there was a lot of soil.
He logged out of the game and returned to reality. He went online to search up the entire process of making mud and bricks.
Then, he returned to the game and wrote down the brick-making process to Amy.
“According to the method on the paper, we can turn the soil into rocks. Quickly send people to make it. My requirements are not high. It is enough as long as the city wall is three meters high and can be equipped with magic core cannons.”
The reason why they hurried to build the city walls was because according to the game system’s prompt, the magic core cannons had to be fixed on the city walls to be used. The city walls were just a tool.
For now, they only needed to build a short city wall. When the war was over, they would have plenty of time to slowly complete the city wall.
“After the magic core cannons for the city defense are completed, we can let the magic core smiths do some more research and see if they can invent a mobile magic core cannon.”
As Ning Shi was thinking, the head of the intelligence department, the cat-man Sonya, hurriedly walked in.
“My Lord, the Dark Moon Vanguards of the Moon Elves’ New Moon Army have appeared 300 miles away from Duohuang at the Wangnan River. They have a total of 50000 people and is preparing to cross the river.”
“With the speed of the Dark Moon Vanguards, they will reach Duohuang city in about five hours.”
Snow Fog, who had been silent for a long time, immediately said, “Boss, we have to think of a good strategy. The moon elves were extremely powerful. They had a total of three legions, and a total of one million people.”
“The three legions are the New Moon Army with a total of 400000 soldiers, the Full Moon Army with a total of 500000 soldiers, and the most powerful Mood God Army with 100000 soldiers.”
“Moon elves are born with powerful bloodlines. An adult moon elf’s combat power is comparable to a human bloodline warrior of Level 10. So, even though moon elves only have one million people, they can battle and army of ten million at any time if they want to.”
The star elves had almost been exterminated by the moon elves, and Snow Fog had a deep understanding of how powerful the moon elves were.”
Ning Shi was not surprised by this.
The total population of the elves was less than 80 million, but they could compete with the humans, whose total population had already reached 1 billion.
Even though it was sandwiched between the two human empires, the Elven Empire was not afraid at all. Its powerful combat power was evident.
“We’ll deal with whatever comes our way. It’s just a mere 50000 vanguards. There’s nothing to be afraid of. Snow Fog, what are the types of soldiers in the vanguards?”
Seeing that the moon elves had sent vanguards, Ning Shi wasn’t afraid. Instead, he was very excited.
They were all experience points!
In his eyes, the group of vanguards was just an experience bag.
“Boss, the Dark Moon Vanguards are one of the Trump cards of the New Moon Army. The vanguards are all mounted on low level beginner magic beasts, moon wolves. The moon wolves could use moonlight magic. Their speed for short-distance sprints was not the best, but their endurance for long-distance sprints was very strong.”
“In terms of troops, it will be made up of 10000 bear druids, 20000 moon knights, and 20000 night rangers, taking into account close combat, guerrilla, and long-range attacks.”
Ning Shi looked at the time. It was five in the afternoon.
“The Dark Moon Vanguard’s timing is very accurate. By the time they arrive, it would be 10 o’clock at night, and the moon would be high in the sky.”
Snow Fog nodded. “This is a common strategy of the moon elves. Their priests can accurately predict the weather. The night sky will definitely be clear tonight and the moonlight will shine on the earth.”
“After bathing in the moonlight, the Dark Moon Vanguard’s speed and damage would be greatly enhanced.”
“They chose to set off at 5 o’clock, so they must have calculated that around 10 o’clock tonight is the time when the moon is the brightest. They will arrive at that time and launch a lightning attack on us.”
Ning Shi laughed and stood up. Passive defense was not his style.
Furthermore, there were no city walls in Duohuang at the moment. The city was built on a plain, so there was no place to defend.
“We’ll take the initiative to attack! Go to the path of the Dark Moon Vanguards and fight them head-on!”
If they set off now, the two armies would meet at around eight in the evening. The moon was not at its brightest, and the boost to the Dark Moon Vanguard would not be at its maximum.
“Snow Fog, let’s go. I’ll let you collect some interest tonight!”
“Follow me, kill!”
Snow Fog’s exquisite face flushed red with the desire for revenge. She replied loudly.
“Kill!”