Chapter 449: The Ring Island Alliance and the Market
Countdown to regional resource integration is 20 days.
The main island of the Ring Island Alliance, the Type 5 Sky Island.
The Ring Island Alliance actually controls a circle of circular islands outside the Super Type 5 Sky Island. With the help of the power of the lords, they have broken down and gnawed other Sky Island bit by bit. Due to the insufficient number of elite troops, they have not landed on the Central Main Island.
Having enough death tolerance is the advantage of the lords.
After the weapons and equipment are dropped, they will not be recycled to the lords with the soldiers, so they have a brilliant idea.
Then they only issue weapons but not armor, and even only issue the lowest-level clothes. Wouldn't this solve the problem perfectly?
Recruit the third-time lords, let them take their low-tech troops and use their own high-cost-effective weapons to pile up the sky island with human lives.
Until the opponent's life times this month are consumed, and then the next batch is rotated, picking up the weapons on the battlefield and continuing to charge.
Real weapons are more expensive than human lives.
Because the monster infantry can also be recycled by the system, this unit has sufficient combat power. In the third period, the priority of recruiting monster infantry is even higher than that of the early lords in the fourth period.
As for why the lords of the third period will also open up, it is because the system delegated the right to open up to the third period at the beginning of the second year, with the purpose of allowing some backward lords to catch up with the times... or let them see the development situation.
But in the final analysis, it is still dissatisfied with the current data of the lords in the fourth period, and it can only choose to stimulate their initiative.
The prosperity of the main base of the Ring Island Alliance is even comparable to that of most lords' cities. This main base built by a large number of lords has only two industries.
Commerce and service industry.
Due to cost reasons, the manufacturing industry is completely scattered in the territories of various lords, and the base at this time only serves to quickly exchange resources.
There is a basic common sense in the industry: the larger the scale, the more intensive, the higher the efficiency and the lower the cost.
Let's get back to the topic.
"That's the commercial street... Of course, before you join us, the monthly limit is 1,000 units of gold consumption. This is the service industry street... the service industry street"
Li Yan followed Huang Hao and listened to the other party's self-promotional description of their efforts to build the base.
Looking at the two completely different streets, one side is full of lights and wine, and the other side is a clean and bright market area.
They are all based on pure white marble, with bricks and tiles and wooden beams to build beautiful and atmospheric functional buildings. They build a different otherworldly landscape in a bright century style.
Bright century.
If it weren't for the elves and human girls in revealing clothes standing in front of the brothel, Li Yan wouldn't even think it was an erotic place.
Why did the Ring Island Alliance build these places so sacred....
The only difference from normal cities is that most people on the streets here bring their own followers, with bright and beautiful followers - and also wear their own weapons.
As long as they belong to the lord's unit, they will not die if they are killed here, and the managers of the Ring Island Alliance don't care whether they carry weapons or not.
"How many lords are there here?"
Li Yan looked at the prosperous long street with some emotion.
Thinking that these guys are only wearing rune armor and plate armor...Tree people have no problem dealing with them.
The effect of numerical advantage in front of tree people is not good.
"Many are multi-lords, and there should be about a hundred lords who have joined the Ring Island Alliance. There are two to three hundred active in our market, and single lords don't like to participate in this kind of activities."
Huang Hao shrugged and looked at the other party's puzzled eyes. He knew that the other party was asking why there were only one to two hundred people, but there seemed to be a crowd of people here.
"Ha, do you think there are only three multi-lords? You must have never seen a multi-lord with fifteen people in a camp. Many of our multi-lords have more than five people..."
In addition to the followers they brought, plus some people sent here by the alliance members.
This central area of the island alliance is not short of mobile people.
Li Yan looked at the people passing by, and some lords occasionally stopped to nod and greet them.
It seems that they all know Huang Hao, the person in charge of receiving the lords.
"Is there anything special about the commercial street here compared to the market in the system?"
Huang Hao pointed to the store on the side, and under Li Yan's gaze, he turned to a stand with a close-barreled musket.
That weapon is no longer the common cylindrical structure of the musket in the fourth century, but a flintlock with the prototype of the modern rifle.
Muscle weapons in the late 16th century.
"That's right, the arms trade here is not subject to time restrictions."
It seems that he has found a flaw in the system, which makes him feel a little proud when he says it. The free market they set up in the open world will not be regulated by the system.
Li Yan nodded slightly. He had already known this news, but he didn't expect that it could be used in this way.
A 120-meter wooden ship slowly passed over their heads. The thick whale-like hull made it look extremely defensive. The light purple light flashing at the bottom indicated that the floating stone engine was running at full power.
Although they don't have as advanced aerial stone engines as Ji Lin, they still rely on the most basic rune aerial stone engine technology to build their own air force.
Since it is impossible to miniaturize the engine, then go to manufacturing and use a large engine to make up for the lack of technology.
Build a super ship.
The 120-meter-long ship can deliver thousands of troops and a large number of monster infantry at a time, transport materials between islands, and carry a large number of crossbow turrets for long-distance output.
There are no other disadvantages besides being slow.
"How about it, is it enough? When you become more powerful, you can have a ship like this."
Huang Hao patted Li Yan on the shoulder and actively placed the ship's data in front of him.
Showing one's own strength is the best, and he also shows the other party more of the alliance's strength.
Recruit a tree lord, and you're not far away from promotion and salary increase!
"These guys are made by imitating the blueprints of sailing ships drawn by people on the forum. They are built with high-quality wood and steel. Many lords are responsible for the work... We have Hundreds of these guys..."
Li Yan looked at the skyships docked at the port in the distance. They were connected to each other by iron chains like a piece of wood-brown land, and his eyes finally showed a hint of surprise.
'Sky Ship'
‘Length: 120 meters, width 45 meters, three floors. ’
‘Speed: 3km/h’
‘A long-distance transport ship that consumes a large amount of resources to build and can be used directly as a building surface. However, the oversized hull and backward engine not only allow it to resist the attacks of cloud-dwelling insects, but also make it move slowly and have poor flexibility. ’
'Mobile platform: These strong and stable transport ships can bear a large amount of weight and use their own mass to offset the possible recoil effects when firing. Its wide enough deck can even directly build defensive buildings. ’
‘You can treat it as a fixed land platform and build buildings directly on it. ’
‘Ballista (300 meters), trebuchet (450 meters), early artillery (350 meters), early arcane energy launcher (200 meters). ’
‘Spellcasting Tower: Battle mages can use the internal energy of the skyship to cast spells, cast spells more frequently and enhance their spellcasting abilities. The advanced engine gives it enough redundancy. ’
‘Spell energy recovery is increased by 75%, spell casting distance is increased by 30%, and spell casting accuracy is increased by 10%’
‘A very nice boat! Has extremely high structural value and won't sink if you don't destroy the engine! ’
(Happy New Year anyway!)
