Chapter 141: Merchants (II): The Next Steps

The population of Necron was growing each day and they had already hit the limit of what was required to upgrade to a town, however the only thing now holding them back were the resources. There were too many projects currently being carried out by the system, and as quickly as there were resources to be had, the projects gobbled them up quickly, making it a constant stream of harvesting resources and using it, the only thing they had an abundance of was food and this was mainly thanks to the Muriel elves and their device that amplified the power of none combat skills by a whopping 400%.

And if that wasn't enough, they had another device that could raise the particular level of a skill by 5, regardless of what rank said skill was. However, it doesn't seem to have an effect on rank-less skills that were just too powerful to have a rank of their own and just had levels 0 to 10. Those two inventions were the selling point of the Melves, and they were quite good at construction for some reason, especially when it came to technology of any sort. If not for them, indoor plumbing would definitely have been an issue.

Rezar loved walking on the vast plains on the mainland above Necron. The way anyone would see it, the main city itself was built at the bottom of a cliff, the cove that used to serve as the nest of a leviathan was open enough that it would and could be considered a cliff. In simple terms it was as if someone took a scoop out of flat piece of land, making a circular hollow at the edge.

None the less the endless fields of green, the arrow and scout towers in the distance, the fields of wheat, potatoes, corn and vegetables were a sharp contrast that painted a very beautiful picture.

Those field were properly planned and were to the north, Necron was facing the west with its back east to the Kerwood forest and its real entrance north to the sea. The only south was the barracks that he had built. There wasn't much activity, but of those who had joined Necron, be they goblins, Kitsunes or Muriel elves, they were happily training to become Samurai, which unfortunately or fortunately was the only military class the Barracks trained. There was no instructor, just a set of tough exercises and acts, and brief study of a bunch of martial laws and war strategies along with a creed for samurais to follow.

Samurai were basically the knights of the east, so they were actually an elite force capable of fighting in any terrain. At first Rezar felt he needed to have more classes, but then the samurais were actually the most versatile military class he has ever seen or heard of, and Priest confirmed it. They were elites, and could fight mounted, on foot as infantry, ranged as archers, and as skirmishers that would swiftly descend onto a battle and then vanish.

He was literally building one of the best armies in all of Elysium, and there was a possibility a barracks at a higher level would train other variations of the samurai, as long as the people were willing to go through the training. And it was also at that point Rezar found out that Spires didn't give military classes, they were trained. And they had more edge than other classes, but their skills grow faster, and the training also gives a steady increment of stats.

So the samurai would be his main army of the living, and his undead horde that at the moment was a wonderful four thousand and still growing considering the undead themselves were being trained by Screet and Lenore by diving that a dungeon with monsters up to level 200, which was surprising because the highest level anyone has ever lived long enough to achieve assuming they chose to focus on a specific class, was 100. Of course they would show power and abilities way beyond what a level 100 can bring to bear, but they could only go so far before their life comes to an end and everything is reset in a new reincarnation.

Rezar shook his head and focused on the next project, Alistair had gotten a fair amount of blueprints and then proceeded to modify it to fit his needs of a more technologically advanced Necron as opposed to going with the fantasy setting. Of course technology for the, is highly blended with magic, so rather than say Alistair intended to build a technological civilization, it would be better to say that he's aiming for a Techno magical kingdom. Never the less the most major project he had decided to undertake at this moment was roads.

With the inclusion of the goblin Lands, the need for roads to connect all of the important towns and the capital of the goblin lands itself had arose. As fun as it is to take a stroll through a forest, it's completely inconvenient when the need to transport something or march an army through the forest. So proper roads would need to be made, and it would need a lot of stones and magic and metal as Alistair was going all out.

Necron had no shortage of natural resources, the basic idea is that it's not being harvested as fast as the territory would need it to take care of its projects. What they need was an expansion of manpower, they needed more people to be willing to harvest resources, but apart from that they needed money. While there was an abundance of resources, it would take a long time to harvest and some projects demanded immediate action, so in that regard they had to consider getting resources from other powers. And while it could easily be solved by buying it through the system store; since it was basically a hub for all of the powers with access to it, Necron was not rich enough to sustain the cost of such an expenditure as it would be beyond massive.

Which brought about the need of making a connection with the merchants as soon as possible. Alistair can still keep up with his projects, tomorrow Rezar was heading out with his Priest and their Dryad prisoner. He was finally going to be coming face to face with the first people he ever had a conflict with…. the Dustin Crowe Merchant Company.