Cooperating with them were 467 ogres, all of whom were residents of the Half-Elf Autonomous Region.
With the return of the Half-Elf trading caravan, Su Li successfully garnered a profit of 800 Golden Crowns, as well as Yurik's U-shaped Scepter. This is the symbol of the Yurik Church.
Worshippers of Yurik use the "U" shaped salute. It involves using the thumb to support the middle and ring fingers, placing them on the palm, with the index and little fingers pointing upward. This salute is used before battle and to greet other Yurik believers. Conversely, doing it the other way around is a grave insult to opponents of the sect.
Upon obtaining this scepter, Su Li imdiately allocated it to the champion-level captain of the Hesse Guard Knight, the Beast Slayer, Jerald.
Apart from this scepter, the Half-Elves, as Su Li expected, brought back a considerable amount of magical artifacts and witchcraft items.
Su Li received a portion of the profits, which included 4 magic traps, consisting of two Wells of Souls and two Petrifying Gazes.
The effect of the Well of Souls is imnsely powerful; it is a concealed trap underground. Once soone steps into this area, they feel their life force rapidly drained, with their strength and will gradually weakening.
This type of trap is usually set up in ancient tombs or ruins to protect the peace of the deceased from disturbance.
However, when the enemies are drawn to the predetermined battlefield by the Knights of the Sun Goddess Church, they would be covered by this trap, and those weakened opponents would suffer heavy losses when faced by the aggressive charge of the Heavy Armored Knight.
The Petrifying Gaze, on the other hand, is especially concealed. This trap is usually hidden in the eyes of statues or murals, and when a creature looks directly at these eyes, they are petrified. Such traps are used to protect secrets that wish not to be discovered, or as a punishnt for greedy explorers.
The roads around Hesse Territory are not lacking in statues or shrines. If this trap is hidden among them, monsters would be caught off guard.
Aside from magic traps, other magical and rune items included a Rune Sword, a Dragon Blood Warhorse, and a powerful Frenzy Potion.
One caravan trip yielded 800 Golden Crowns plus so many rune items, which is indeed an extrely lucrative return.
If a caravan like this ca every month, Su Li would not have to do anything else. Investing in one caravan a month would yield an annual inco of ten thousand Golden Crowns.
But evidently, wealth is not so easily obtained. When the Half-Elf Baggins ca to Su Li a second ti for investnt, Su Li, with the assistance of the Daily Intelligence System, directly refused the investnt request. Because the next trip would hardly yield any profit.
Su Li was still more interested in buying the rune items obtained from this trip, considering that what he received was only a third of the entire haul.
This Half-Elf also understood that before the great war, it was precisely the ti to make a fortune, so he sold all the items he gathered within the territory to knights intending to achieve fa and success.
War indeed can to so extent promote the prosperity of a force, boosting production, consumption, and various aspects of the territory.
Everyone in Hesse Territory understands that the battle with the Green Dragon concerns the life and death of the territory, as well as the glory and wealth of every individual.
Therefore, from the territory's lord, Su Li, to the various knight clans, farm owners, down to the ordinary Ard Attendants, Free People, and even slaves, all are doing their utmost to enhance their strength.
As long as they survive, gold, silver, jewels, wealth, and land could be enjoyed endlessly. But if defeated, all they have now would be but epheral illusions.
So most people are acquiring all kinds of weapons and equipnt. In addition to fortress construction, the dwarves have also organized a Dwarf Guard Corps composed of brave warriors from the Dwarf Community. While not the most elite warriors, they are extrely wealthy, and everyone bought a Thunderous Firearm, quite pricey even inside Redbeard Castle.
This squadron of Thunderous Musketeers, given the right shooting range on the battlefield, could potentially unleash power not inferior to an elite Knight Order.
Aside from the dwarves, devotees of the Sun Goddess Church have also begun assembling a Free People's Corps, with Lord Rong'en leading the Hesse Guard in restructuring these determined warriors to defend their holand.
Most of them exhausted their fortunes to equip themselves with a primary weapon and a set of chain armor. At the very least, they ensured they had a suit of Leather Armor and an Iron Sword.
Their demand is so urgent that the demand for weapons and armor from over a thousand people at once directly overwheld the territory's market.
In the short term, the territory simply cannot et their armant needs.
Su Li urgently allocated 300 Long Lances, 200 steel Longswords, 200 bows, and 100 sets of chain armor into the market, but facing such huge demand, it was rely a drop in the bucket.
There are still large numbers of people in the Free People's Corps clothed in leather, wielding large sticks or manure forks as weapons.
It's not that Su Li was reluctant to distribute more weapons to these motley crews, but his armory indeed had no excess weapons left.
Even the equipnt urgently allocated was collected by scraping together from his treasury.
There's no other choice; his main equipnt was used to arm knights and Ard Attendants.
After all, as the number of the Free People's Corps increased, the scale of his professional army was also rapidly expanding.
Not to ntion, his newly established three Directly Affiliated Attendant Corps have consud a large amount of armor, weapons, and equipnt.
The equipnt forged by the territory's dwarves in a month, aside from supplenting the army's losses, also had to et the needs of expansion, naturally leaving little else.
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