Arcane Lord

When he saw a few familiar figures standing on the bow of the ship, Shado's face was full of smiles. Except for the Leiden priest who had promised to come over a long time ago, Director Alman from the Liaton Chamber of Commerce, and Ma from the Slavin Chamber of Commerce. President Sa is here.

Soon, the "Lucky Owen" slowly approached the landing point, and with a click, the springboard was placed. Chateau walked onto the ship, just in time to see Old Owen walking from the stern of the ship.

Several people came together and said, "Lord!"

Chateau agreed, and then said: "Captain Owen has worked hard all the way, go and rest first; Priest Leiden, please arrange for people to disembark first, and the cargo that should be unloaded will be unloaded."

"Yes." The two took the order and left.

Only Arman and Massa were left, and Shado did not neglect, "You two, the territory has just been established and we can't accommodate you two at the moment. Let's talk on this boat."

"Lord, you're welcome. I hope you won't be surprised if we come uninvited."

"It's okay. The Great Xia leader welcomes you two, as well as Mrs. Patty, President Hans, and President Fleck to check the progress at any time."

The contract between Xia Duo and them contained an agreement on the progress of the development, but it was not very precise. Xia Duo had already prepared for them to come. After all, they were investing real money, and they had to see it with their own eyes to feel at ease.

But Xia Duo didn't expect that in less than ten days, the prototype of the first phase of the project had not appeared, and they all came.

After exchanging casual greetings and watching the citizens disembarking from the boat one by one, Xia Duo no longer had much desire to talk. The growth of his territory made him happy.

He roughly counted and found that this time, in addition to the more than forty people who had not been brought before, there were also more than twenty people in ragged clothes. Most of them had obvious traces of chains on their wrists, with sallow faces and thin eyes. The walking is not very stable.

At first glance, it looks like a slave that he got from nowhere!

Xia Duo randomly named a few people and said with some dissatisfaction: "Look, can these people still work? President Massa, what do you say!"

"Lord, these are all escaped slaves from the mainland. They are very lucky to be alive, and this batch of slaves only has this number!" President Massa narrowed his eyes and stretched out two fingers to compare.

Xia Duo didn't like his little look and deliberately said an exaggerated number, "Two gold coins?"

"My lord, you are joking. It's twenty gold coins each. Sir, don't look at how thin they are now, but as long as you feed them for a while, they will recover soon!"

Massa's expression of "You have made a lot of money" made Xia Duo very speechless, but he did not refute. He knew that the price of a normal human slave was about one hundred gold coins, and those of alien races or those with special talents would be more expensive.

Although the slave Massa provided this time looked lifeless and thin, it was indeed as he said. He could recover as long as he took a good rest for a period of time, and 20 gold coins was not expensive.

It just seems inappropriate to send these here.

"President Massa, next time there is a slave like this, let him recover in Savile Town first and then send him back."

"Sir, this is arranged by Priest Leiden." Massa said aggrievedly. In fact, he himself was willing to raise these slaves for a while.

How much food is worth? The price of selling it to strengthen your body can completely make up for it, and there is much more! But who asked his ship to be discovered by the Leiden priest just as it arrived at the port today to unload its cargo?

"Priest Leiden?" Chateau hasn't thought about the possibility of price increases for the time being. He just thinks that the suffering people are more likely to accept the new order, and will give up their hearts if they are given some sweetness. The clergy should know better in this regard.

"In this case, I'd better send it directly next time!"

"Yes." Massa looked bitter.

Seeing Massa's dead-father look, Xia Duo immediately realized that there were definitely real interests involved.

After thinking about it for a moment, Xia Duo knew what the other party was paying attention to and ignored it.

…

Soon, all the people and supplies had disembarked. Because there were more people transported on this trip, there were fewer supplies. They were all food and a small number of tools.

And now that the Owen has arrived, Sha Duo's itinerary can be roughly confirmed. After asking Owen about the recent weather, Sha Duo used the communication tool to make an agreement with Niya to go to the Mage Tower to answer questions in two days.

Over the past few days, Xia had accumulated a bag of questions that he wanted to ask Niya. During this period, he had figured out some of the questions himself, but there was always an endless stream of questions from the new students.

Sometimes Xia Duo thinks about how great it would be if he had a grandfather with him!

In the afternoon, with the newly added residents, a simple wooden house quickly took shape. Branches and trunks were used as bones, hay and soil were mixed to make walls, and the top was covered with branches and hay.

With more people, more work can be done, and Xia Duo feels that the progress of development has been accelerated at once.

In the evening, Priest Leiden came to Chateau's small camp alone and said, "Sir, there are nearly a hundred people in the territory now, but I am planning to build an altar."

"Altar?" Xia Duo asked doubtfully. He suddenly realized that he didn't even know the function of the altar.

The altars he knew were almost village-level temples, but Chateau had never even been inside a temple, let alone an altar. His only knowledge was limited to books and word of mouth in Savile Town.

"My lord, building an altar can soothe people's hearts."

The concept of appeasing people's hearts is very broad, and even him, the lord, showing his face or showing a spell can appease people's hearts, but what about more specific things?

Xia Duo asked again: "What about this? Be specific."

Leiden quickly understood Shado's idea, "The altar can store holy water."

That's right, if it has no practical effect, then why bother to specifically build an altar? Xia Duo has no bias on whether to build an altar, but only needs to consider the actual effect.

"What will be needed to build the altar? Can the current territory be sufficient?"

"Sir, the Lord of Glory is not the Lord of harshness or vanity, but the Lord of Mercy. It doesn't matter what the carrier of the altar is. The key is regulation and holy power. At this stage, wood will suffice."

Since it was not complicated, Chateau directly allocated two territorial citizens to the Leiden priest specifically for the construction of the altar.

After talking about the altar, Shado also wanted to ask Leiden something, "Have you come into contact with those slaves? Can they be converted into territorial citizens?"

"Sir, I do not recommend turning them into subjects immediately." Leiden said seriously, "These people are runaway slaves, rebellious and must be civilized first!"

"..."

Xia Duo really wanted to ask Leiden, those people's numb eyes, where did you see the unruly people? Sha Duo immediately realized that there were some differences between his and Leiden's views.

However, he did not want to convert these slaves into subjects immediately. He wanted to ask about the background of these slaves and whether there were any hidden dangers.

After understanding the true meaning of Sha Duo's words, Leiden was not ambiguous and immediately told everything he had heard about on the ship.

These slaves were originally just ordinary civilians in the north. They were requisitioned by the lords to mine. Later, they tried their best to escape and were captured again. Then they became slaves, and they were the lowest slaves. They were tortured in the mines.

There were originally two villages, but now there are only more than 20 people left. Somehow they were purchased by the Slavin Chamber of Commerce and sent to Shado.