Bruce's craftsmanship could only be considered decent. There was still a gap between him and a true master, not to mention the dwarves. However, Suhlen didn't expect him to make a divine weapon for him. He only wanted it to be sturdy and durable.
None of the enemies he'd encountered so far had made him feel threatened.
After a day of forging, Suhlen's new weapon was completed.
Steel Spear: A superior weapon forged with steel as the main material. Sturdy, durable, and sharp. Armor Penetration + 1, Sturdiness + 1, Sharpness + 1
Suhlen shook the spear. The entire spear was made of metal, so it weighed more than 40 kilograms. It was already considered a heavy weapon, and it was more than three meters long. Without great strength, it was impossible to wield this weapon.
After the rain, the Wilderness Plains welcomed the bright and beautiful sun. A group of spotted antelopes were eating grass with their heads lowered. Only the leader of the antelope kept turning its head back and forth, paying attention to any movement in the wind or grass. It seemed that it would immediately warn the herd to flee if it noticed anything wrong.
Suhlen stood downwind and observed the group of antelopes. Antelopes were very alert animals. There would always be a sentinel keeping watch at all times. This was also how they could reproduce and survive in the wilderness.
Antelopes usually lived in groups of a dozen to a few dozen. These antelopes were good at running and were very difficult to catch. At the very least, horses and hunting dogs couldn't catch up to them. Goblins and kobolds couldn't even catch up. The best way to catch an antelope was to ambush and surround it.
At this moment, thirty barbarians had formed an encirclement around the group of antelopes within a one-kilometer radius. Before the group of antelopes noticed, the encirclement started to shrink. The antelopes didn't notice the approaching danger and continued to nibble on the grass. A few three-month-old baby antelopes were playing around their mother.
At this moment, the sentinel's head suddenly stopped moving. Its body seemed to be preparing to leap up. The barbarians hiding in the grass felt their hearts tighten.
"Move!"
With a loud roar, he leapt up from the bushes. The barbarians hidden in the bushes around him leapt out and quickly charged towards the antelope in the middle. The herd of Spotted Antelopes instantly panicked. More than ten Spotted Antelopes ran in all directions in panic, but against the hunter who had already completed his task, their fate was self-evident.
A few minutes later, more than 30 barbarians came to Su Lun's place with their prey in high spirits.
"Boss, we caught them all. Not a single one escaped!"
"Are the females and lambs injured?" Suhlen asked. He planned to try to raise the spotted antelopes in his territory.
"Boss, since you've instructed us, we'll definitely be careful. Those ewe and the little spotted antelope are fine." A barbarian raised the spotted antelope in his hand and said.
"That's good, let's go back to Swords Gate and eat a whole roasted lamb today!" Suhlen said as he led the barbarians back to the campsite.
Next was boiling water, slaughtering the antelope, letting out the blood and skinning it. Suhlen purposely kept the blood for tonight's hotpot. A few barbarians deftly cut open the antelope's stomach and cut it into pieces. They didn't throw away the organs either. These were the real treasures. After washing and skinning them clean, they directly put them into the hotpot to cook.
Suhlen purposely asked Bruce to melt the bronze weapons and make two bronze hotpots. He hadn't had a hotpot for so long in the wilderness. Now that the territory had stabilized, Suhlen couldn't hold back his hunger any longer.
The soup base of the hot pot was boiled with butter, chili pepper and other spices. The soup stock was also boiled with beef bones. Although the conditions were a little simple, the soup boiled with bison bones was too fragrant. The beef bones had been simmered for a day, and the oil in the bone marrow had been stewed out.
Suhlen ate the mutton hotpot to his heart's content. After coming to the Northern Wilderness for so long, he ate potato fish or potato fried fish every day. No matter how delicious the fish soup was, he would throw up if he ate it for one or two months. He almost wanted to look up at the stars.
Now that he had a delicious mutton hotpot, it was simply too blissful.
Because of the food shortage, Suhlen took the barbarians to hunt in the wilderness. Although the wilderness looked barren, there were still many different kinds of animals. After a period of hunting, the hunting team's harvest was very rich. In order to store the prey, Suhlen specially ordered the slaves to build a livestock pen next to the city wall.
Now there were more than 100 different kinds of animals in the pen. There were more than 20 spotted antelopes, and the most were the giant antelopes. These giant antelopes migrated from here some time ago, and he and the barbarian hunters caught hundreds of them. If it wasn't because he was worried that the giant antelopes wouldn't pass through here in the future, Suhlen was ready to cook them with a ladle.
The construction of the territory was still ongoing, but the most important buildings had already been completed. Most of them were civilian houses. The houses he was building this time could house up to a thousand people. Even the five hundred slaves that Zeon and Johnson brought back would have a place to live.
However, Suhlen's own lord's castle was now almost finished. Of course, it was simplified. If it was built according to his ideal, it wouldn't be finished at all in a year and a half.
As for the temple in the territory, Suhlen didn't build it at all. Temples were necessary in the St. Louis Empire. Every city had a temple, and even the villages had a church. After all, the church was an international power, and the power of the church was unprecedentedly strong there.
The Kingdom of Florence was a multi-faith country. There were temples in the cities, but the power of religion was not strong. Even if Suhlen built a temple in this god-forsaken territory, there probably wouldn't be any priests here.
A temple had its advantages. At least the healing divinity of a temple priest was very good. And from the beginning, he didn't plan to build a temple. It was too expensive. The best material to build a temple was marble, but where could he find marble in the northern wilderness?
A temple occupied a large area, and was generally built in the prosperous areas of the city. In such a place where every inch of land was worth gold, Suhlen didn't want to give it to a temple for free. Wouldn't it be better to build a business street or sell it as a shop?
Of course, if his territory developed, there would definitely be churches coming to build temples. At that time, it would depend on the negotiation between the two sides.
After the important buildings in the territory were finished, Suhlen directed the construction of drainage projects in the town, including the public toilets and public baths in the future town.
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