With the development of the Northern Town, Su Lun was preparing to establish a principality. A duchy was the smallest country in the world, and the king was usually called a grand duke.
Above the duchy were the kingdoms, empires, and of course, there was also the city-state alliance, such as the city-state alliance in the south of the Kingdom of Florence.
It was a loose alliance formed by more than 20 prosperous free cities or noble territories. There was no subordinate relationship between the city-states, and each was in a state of autonomy. However, if you underestimated this alliance, you would suffer a great loss.
Although this city-state alliance only had one-fifth of the land of the Kingdom of Florence, its population was one-third of the Kingdom of Florence. No matter how you looked at it, the Kingdom of Florence could suppress this city-state alliance. However, the reality was that the Kingdom of Florence was beaten by them.
In the few conflicts between the Kingdom of Florence and the Romavia City-State Alliance in history, it was always the Kingdom of Florence that was defeated. Not only the Kingdom of Florence, but even the surrounding countries were no match for the Romavia City-State Alliance.
It could be said that the Rolanvia City-State Alliance was a little overlord in the surrounding areas. If it were not for the fact that they were not keen on invading, the surrounding kingdoms and duchies would have been unified by them.
The reason why this city-state alliance was so powerful was that the wizard civilization here was prosperous. It had the largest wizard academy on the continent. Even the Rolanvia City-State Alliance was said to be formed by the Starry Sky Council. The number of wizards they had was more than the number of wizards in the surrounding countries combined.
At the same time, the Rolanvia City-State Alliance was also one of the most developed areas in commercial activities.
Suhlen wanted to establish a duchy, but it was still a little lacking. After all, although it now had a population of 120,000, it only had one city. In this case, it was still possible to establish a free city-state, but establishing a duchy was a little small.
Fortunately, with the continuous construction of the Northern Citadel, other cities were also rapidly building. It would not take long for the Northern Citadel to have four cities. By then, it would be easy for other forces to recognize the establishment of a duchy.
For the construction of the city, the Northern Citadel once again began to go to the wilderness to capture slaves. Now that the Northern Citadel had enough military force, it was better to let them go through actual combat than training.
After Suhlen had finished dealing with some important matters, he began to build a training camp for the Shooting Camp. This training camp was also placed in the outer city, right next to the Formation Breaker. Suhlen specially mobilized a construction team and used three days to build this camp.
After the construction of the camp was completed, Su Lun began to gather all the archers who had been upgraded to the level of Marksman. There were a total of four Archers who had reached the level of Sharpshooter, one more than the last time he checked.
Two of the four archers were war spirits. After all, the earliest archers under his command were war spirits. If they wanted to be promoted to a soldier of the Sound Shooting Battalion, they had to go through a cruel training. After completing the training, they had to merge with the light ball of the soldiers of the Sound Shooting Battalion. Only then could they be considered to have successfully advanced.
Because of his experience in the [Capture Barracks], Suhlen also had some experience in training the archery camp. After the camp was established, he let these master archers enter for training. Suhlen had not been paying attention to them because in addition to the Sound Shooting Battalion, the continuous battle with the orcs had allowed some long spears to advance to the Spear Guard.
Naturally, Suhlen did not waste time. He directly gathered these newly advanced Spear Guard. This time, there were eleven Spear Guards who participated in the advancement. Among them, five were war spirits, and the rest were ordinary humans.
After such a long time, the first batch of war spirits that Suhlen had summoned, except for these, had all died in battle. The war spirits that were recruited after that were still of low levels.
Eleven Spear Guards participated in the trial of the Formation Breaker. Suhlen could not help but feel nervous now. This time, he did not know how many of the two elite soldiers would be able to successfully advance.
The trial of the Formation Breaker and the Sound Shooting Battalion lasted for a week. Suhlen arranged for people to continuously supply these two camps. Then, in addition to coming here every day to treat the injured soldiers, he would check the progress of the secret realm's repair and the wizard tower's construction.
The progress of the restoration of these two places was very slow, especially the Wizard Tower. In this era, building a 120-meter-tall tower was an impossible task if one did not have supernatural powers.
Because of the war, the trade routes were not smooth. The price of obsidian had risen, and the supply had decreased a lot. In order to obtain enough obsidian, Suhlen began to send the grey dwarfs to find obsidian veins in the underground world.
According to the wizard's research, the formation of obsidian was related to the activity of magma. There were no volcanoes in the northern wilderness, so there were very few obsidian reserves. The underground world was rich in mineral resources, but the amount of obsidian was also limited. The grey dwarfs found some scattered obsidian veins.
The production of obsidian was very low, and some of the obsidian's quality was poor. Suhlen also needed to use spells to remove the impurities. There were not many obsidian, but some iron ore, crystal, and copper ores were found.
Suhlen drew a mineral map of these discovered veins in the underground world. When there were enough people, they would slowly excavate them.
"Lord." Just as Suhlen finished his daily training and returned from the Formation Breaker and Sniper Camp, a servant hurried to him.
"What's the hurry?" Suhlen glanced at him and asked.
"The grey dwarves in Orlando City have just sent word that they have found an obsidian vein," the attendant said respectfully.
"Great, tell them to hurry up and excavate!" Suhlen said happily.
"The grey dwarfs are ready to excavate, but …"
"But what?"
"The obsidian vein is in the territory of the taurens. The grey dwarfs wanted to excavate the vein, but the taurens refused. They also captured some grey dwarfs, "the servant said quickly.
"Taurens? Who gave them the courage to capture my people? "Suhlen's eyes flashed coldly, and the temperature in the room dropped a few degrees.
"Do you have information about the taurens? How many of them are there? How strong are they? "After a while, Suhlen continued to ask.
"According to the grey dwarfs, this tauren tribe has at least 200 people. The specific strength is not clear, but the grey dwarfs found that there is a tauren shaman among them!"
The taurens were not a widespread race on the continent. They were large humanoid monsters, and in fact, they were called Minotaurs. Minotaurs were strong and usually very warlike creatures. These creatures had high Physique and Strength. Usually, an adult tauren's Strength could reach twice that of a human.
They were stronger than ogres, and more intelligent. Furthermore, they were proficient in forging. Although they could only forge their own axes, armor, and shields, they were much stronger than ogres.
A qualified tauren warrior was at the level of a Grand Knight. These three-meter-tall, muscular monsters had very strong destructive power. As for the berserk taurens, their strength was at the level of a Knight Commander.
Although the Minotaurs had limited intelligence, they were very talented in some aspects. For example, they wouldn't get lost in a maze, and their sense of smell allowed them to track their enemies through smell. These various aspects made the Minotaurs famous in the underground world for being difficult to deal with.
The taurens believed in the Tauren King, Buffett. Although they were both dark creatures, the taurens and gnolls often fought because the Tauren King, Buffett, and the Gnoll King, Yeenoghu, were mortal enemies.
Two hundred Minotaurs were not something that the Duergar of Orlando could deal with. At this time, a scene of a duergar fighting with a Minotaur suddenly appeared in Su Lun's mind. The three-meter-tall Minotaur was tall and mighty, while the Duergar, who was only 1.5 meters tall at most, looked like a child standing next to them.
The difference in height was so obvious. How could they fight? Jump up and hit their knees? At this thought, Suhlen wanted to laugh.
Soon, Su Lun came back to his senses. These Minotaurs were definitely going to attack them. Regardless of whether they attacked the Grey Dwarf or not, he still understood the principle of allowing others to sleep soundly beside him.
This underground world had been regarded by Suhlen as his territory. These taurens were going to fight sooner or later, but now it was a little earlier. However, there was not enough information about these taurens. Suhlen was going to send the drows to investigate.
He asked Ayton to send people to collect information, and Suhlen began to gather soldiers. Two hundred taurens with the strength of at least a Knight were not easy to deal with, especially in an area with a complicated environment like the underground world. Without full confidence, Suhlen would not act rashly.
They were different from all the enemies Suhlen had encountered before. These taurens knew how to forge armor and weapons, so their equipment was very good. In addition to their strength and physical strength, they were very difficult to deal with.
In addition to the soldiers in the northern city, Suhlen also sent people to invite Alex. This battle also required the help of the Harpies. Although these taurens were wearing heavy armor and the effect of throwing stones was limited, the damage of throwing kerosene would not be reduced.
Su Lun was worried that if the place where these Minotaurs lived was a maze, it would be a headache. In a maze, it would be difficult to use human wave tactics, and the environment of the maze was not friendly to the Harpies.
After giving the orders, Suhlen continued to check on the training of the Formation Breaker and the Sniper Battalion while waiting for information.
A week passed quickly. After a week of training, the eleven Spear Guards and the four Sharpshooters completed all the training. Looking at these energetic soldiers, Suhlen was very happy.
Suhlen brought these soldiers to a quiet room for their advancement. He took out fifteen small light orbs and chose to fuse them. The light orbs entered the bodies of these soldiers, and a progress bar appeared on the images of these soldiers. The fusion had begun.
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