Capítulo 514: Act 7 Territory (1)
After listening to Furlo’s words, Brand finally put down his work and beca serious, “There are four lumber mills and two quarries near Fir City, how can there be no reserve at all?” He raised his head, the slender figure of the Elf Girl reflected in his light brown eyes, “Even if there is no stock, Golan-Elsen, and even the Jandener Region, are important provinces in Erune producing high-quality timber, and Tonyger is no exception. As far as I know, just the Lengshan Barony alone has as many as seven sawmills. Even if we control the four nearest temporary operations near Fir City, it would be enough to provide the share for repairing and strengthening the city walls within a week…”
He stopped here—In the ga, the basic weekly output unit of a lumber mill was one, plus Tonyger’s production bonus was doubled—but that was in the ga after all, he couldn’t be sure if it was the sa in reality.
“Do you know, my lord?” Furlo asked faintly.
“Of course, I know.” Brand suppressed the doubt in his heart and asked, “So what exactly is going on?”
“Two reasons,” the Elf Girl said with a stern face, “First, the workers in the lumber mills are Gruding’s private property, and they are unwilling to work for us.”
“Why?”
“Because they are afraid of retaliation. In their eyes, it is obvious that you, my Lord, will eventually fail. After all, your enemy is Count Denier, and you, my Lord, are just a fledgling little noble.”
“Understandable,” Brand nodded, “Then dismiss them, no need to make things difficult. Without a sense of security, the people will not follow us. People are just so realistic, no one will believe in hope coming from empty words. But it doesn’t matter, the key turning point to reverse the situation is just around the corner. As long as we get through the first difficult period, our power will stabilize.”
“Then, what about the labor for the lumber mills before that?” The Elf Girl asked in a voice as plain as water.
“Aren’t there still the Senia People?”
“That won’t work either.”
“Why?”
“Because before that, my Lord must first reclaim the lumber mills.”
“What?” Brand asked with a hint of amusent, “Aren’t the lumber mills under our control?” He clearly rembered that the nearest lumber mill to Fir City was just a few miles away. Could it be that the noble private army, which had fled in disarray from Fir City, had already regrouped outside the city? In the young Lord’s impression, the noble private army didn’t have such high combat power and tactical skills.
Furlo shook her head and answered his question. “No, as far as we know, three of the four lumber mills have been occupied by Cave Dwellers. The remaining one was abandoned five years ago—”
“Cave Dwellers?” Brand asked, “Aren’t they the lowest residents of the Underground World? Don’t they live under Jogen Digan? Legend has it that the various tribes of the Underground World are in constant conflict with each other, and they are also fighting with the Demon Lords. When do they have ti to co to the Surface World?”
“There is a fissure in the forest that leads from Jogen Digan to the Surface World,” Furlo paused, “The captain, my Lord, guesses that it might be a tribe that fled here during the war.”
“And Gruding does nothing about it?” Brand felt a bit frustrated, couldn’t help but tap his finger on the table, “That’s his property…” But he suddenly stopped because he saw the Elf Girl looking at him with clear lake-like green eyes—The aning in her eyes was obvious: ‘Who knows what those dirty human nobles are thinking?’ He suddenly found himself at a loss for words; because he suddenly realized that though Gruding’s henchn were rampant within Fir City, their combat power was weak—Even his group of rcenaries could rout them, let alone the Cave Dwellers.
One must know that in the past ga, rcenaries were rely irregular ard forces within the Human World. And although Cave Dwellers were the lowest residents of Jogen Digan, they were also first-level regular units of that underground kingdom, equivalent to the first-level units under the Fla Temple Force of Kruz, the strongest human empire. At least they were light riders or spear infantry, which would also be the core force of a frontline regint in the Erune Kingdom. Gruding relying on his henchn to resist these roving Cave Dwellers could barely manage defense, let alone offense.
Brand couldn’t help but gently pat his forehead, cursing in his heart “incompetent fools.” But this realization also served as a reminder to himself—Although to him, first-level units like Cave Dwellers were hardly worth ntioning, he also had to acknowledge that this was still before the second Black Rose War. At this ti, the highest level of units in various countries was only around level five. This was not after the second chapter of the Amber Sword, “War and Chaos,” was opened, when powerful figures like the Great Alchemist Tama erged, ancient units reappeared, and the unit system rapidly ascended as if it were a rocket. It was because he had experienced that glorious era that his vision had been elevated so high, thus the current war seed to him like child’s play.
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