Chapter 784 Arrival at destination

"Whether you are originally from Tethyr, Amn, or the Dragon Coast, from now on, we will have a common identity, the Vale people who have newly migrated to the valley.

This is not to ask you to abandon your original traditions, country and city, but to give you a new identity. Please follow me to reaffirm the ancient and sacred valley contract.

I will abide by the covenant with nature, cultivate the forest glades, plan felling and hunting, and maintain the balance and development of the forest..."

"I will keep my covenant with nature..."

"I will comply..."

"I will……"

Led by Gavin, the entire army of conquerors recited the Valley Pact.

When this ancient contract echoed over the Kosoman Forest with the voices of more than 40,000 people, the trees cheered, the forest wind howled, and various forest creatures howled one after another. It is filled with a unique rhythm that seems to echo the oath of the conqueror's army.

This is not an illusion, this is actually happening.

"I bear witness to your oath today. As long as you abide by your oath, the forest will always protect you and be your friend."

A huge figure that perfectly blended wildness and kindness appeared in mid-air, and a soft voice appeared in everyone's ears.

Everyone couldn't help but bow to her, because the other party was the incarnation of a true god - the ranger and forest goddess Melikai.

As she finished speaking, a huge beam of light shot up into the sky from several kilometers away, where the standing stone was, intertwined with the rising light of the conqueror's army.

At that moment, everyone in the conqueror's army felt that they had established a certain connection with the forest, and had a cordial and familiar feeling from the heart, as if they were in their own hometown.

The Valley Contract is of extremely important significance to this goddess.

Before the Valley Contract was signed, her teachings were biased towards the forest and wild nature.

After the Valley Contract was signed, she began to focus on the balanced development between the forest and intelligent life.

To put it bluntly, many of her current teachings were influenced by the Valley Contract.

The relationship between man and God is never one-sided.

God will influence people, but human development will in turn affect God.

The ranger and the forest goddess only appeared as witnesses of the oath. When the oath was established, her divine incarnation naturally dispersed in the world, and even part of it was integrated into the oath.

"With the blessing of the lady of the forest, the lady recognized their vows! This situation only happened on the day when the stone was established, and we were lucky enough to witness it with our own eyes."

"From now on, they are no longer immigrants but part of the valley."

"It's incredible, it's incredible. I didn't expect that I could witness this sacred scene."

"This is a harbinger, a harbinger that our Battle Valley will become great again, and that our valley will rise again."

Compared to the army of conquerors, those people in the valley who witnessed this scene were more excited. Many of them were believers in rangers and forest goddesses. Their own goddesses came as witnesses, directly covering the army of conquerors. Divine radiance.

A testimony of God's blessing is more trustworthy and binding than a simple oath.

Gavin was used to this situation.

Mielikki's blessing was not based on the past relationship between the two parties, but because their actions were indeed consistent with her divine ministry.

Before everyone could recover from the shock, Lord Ilmet announced another news that shocked everyone, "From today on, I appoint Gavin Nott as the acting Valley Master of the Battle Valley. I have full authority over the political affairs of the Battle Valley, and I will lead five hundred lord warriors deep into the Cormanthor Forest to comprehensively inspect the rising evil inside and ensure that they do not pose any threat to us."

"Lord Ilmet actually gave up his position as lord."

"The Lord's ideological realm is incomparable to us."

"The lord is indeed as disinterested in rights as the legend says."

Everyone was full of praise for Lord Ilmet, especially those in the Battle Valley who couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief.

Because of this, a civil war in Battle Valley was effectively avoided.

Everyone knows that the acting lord is just an excuse, a transition. As long as Gavin doesn't do anything that makes people and gods angry, he will become the real lord of Battle Valley in a few years.

"Thank you Lord, I will never let down Lord Lord's trust. I will treat all Valley residents equally and lead them to create a new Battle Valley." Gavin did not decline politely and directly accepted the appointment.

"It is because I believe you have this ability that I will appoint you as acting lord. I believe you are more qualified than me and can do better than me." Lord Ilmet praised, "Regina will fully assist you. , she knows many things about Battle Valley better than I do, and I look forward to your performance.”

"Thank you Lord for your trust." Gavin sincerely thanked him again.

"After talking about the internal affairs of our Battle Valley, let's talk about the big things that involve the entire valley." Lord Ilmet said again, "The management of the Asaba River is not a matter of one city and one valley. It is an issue of countless people throughout the entire valley." People have a common wish, and since you are willing to provoke the main force, I believe many people are willing to join in. "

"That's right, this matter counts as our part of Deep Forest Valley." Lord Serlemen of Deep Forest Valley took the lead in expressing his opinion.

"We are also willing to join in the Feather Valley and do our best to help the Lord to promote this matter." Several representatives of the people in Feather Valley also reached a consensus.

"We will try to persuade more people in Taser Valley to join." said Grand Inquisitor Valon of the Holy Light Hammer Monastery.

Although he has a very high reputation in Taser Valley, he is not a lord after all and cannot make some substantive decisions.

"Thank you all for your trust. With your help, I am more confident about this matter." Gavin said with a smile, "This matter does require a lot of cooperation from local residents. Why don't we sit down and talk in detail?"

"I wish for it."

"Okay."

Everyone responded.

Governing the Asaba River is definitely a good move. It can not only plan for the future, but also gather the power of other sub-valleys to use for themselves, and their enthusiasm is also high enough.

Especially the four valleys of Deep Forest Valley, Taser Valley, Battle Valley and Feather Valley, they are either located at the confluence of three rivers or at the lower reaches of the Asaba River, and are greatly affected by this river.

Especially the first three, when the rainy season comes in Komanso, a large amount of river water converges in the Yewen Pond, which will cause the water level here to surge by more than ten meters in a short period of time, flooding many areas, especially Deep Forest Valley.

However, judging from the reaction of Lord Selemmen, they do not object to raising the water level of the Yewen Pond, which shows that this matter has more advantages than disadvantages for them.

With the addition of new members, they have entered into more in-depth consultations on the governance of the Asaba River. Those sub-valleys that are more affected can start personnel diversion and preliminary preparations.

And the governance of the Asaba River is just an opportunity. They have a lot of things to discuss. The cooperation project that Gavin previously negotiated in the Misty Valley is also applicable to other valleys, but the focus is different.

For example, the Deep Forest Valley, which is separated by three rivers and two lakes, has very little arable land, and the residents here mainly rely on fishing and hunting.

The Feather Valley is a large-scale economic crop planting, and the high-quality cotton they produce is famous throughout the valley.

The former is very interested in Stark shrub planting and the cultivation of explosive crayfish, while the latter has a strong demand to join the agricultural association.

Gavin naturally has no reason to refuse. The more people join and the wider the promotion scope, the stronger the ability to resist risks.

In silence, with the Battle Valley as the center, a new valley economic alliance is being established. Under the bondage of interests, they are more closely connected than other sub-valleys and are more likely to advance and retreat together.

After the Conqueror Army entered the Battle Valley, it was another mode of action.

After coming out of the Great Forest of Komanso, they began to walk all the way and take root all the way.

The abandoned ghost castles, ghost manors and villages in the Battle Valley naturally became the first choice.

Since humans once lived here, it means that the basic elements of human survival are necessary here and have their own value-otherwise, no one would spend time and effort to open up the wasteland here.

But it was abandoned because of irresistible factors, at least for ordinary people, it is irresistible.

This factor is more diverse.

There are places like Vizeme Manor that are really haunted, where evil and powerful ghosts roam.

For such places, Gavin likes them the most, because they are professional.

No matter if you are a ghost or a shadow, Gavin does not need to go out in person. He only needs those shadow wings with shadows to drag them into Vizeme Manor in minutes and turn them into free ghost laborers here.

Gavin has proved that the most professional and easiest way to solve the undead incidents is not the priests or paladins of the gods of light, but the priests of the gods related to death, especially the undead goddess of vengeance who is in charge of the undead priesthood.

But unfortunately, this dead lady followed the old path of the dark gods, using fear and dread to create more undead beings and collect faith for herself.

Her believers will not only not help intelligent creatures solve the troubles caused by the undead, but on the contrary, they will actively promote this matter, create undead creatures everywhere, and spread death everywhere.

Gavin, who does not have a strong need for the undead priesthood, has no such concerns.

For him, the Vizeme Manor with the undead godhood is a convenient tool for his rapid development, and he can use it in any convenient way.

It can be used as a unique prison to imprison his enemies and turn those imprisoned creatures into part of his power.

It can also be used as a convenient means of transportation for large-scale material transportation.

Now it is used to purify the undead, which is the most basic way to use it.

Ironically, the undead goddess of vengeance who is obsessed with pursuing power is now extremely weak, and even her own consciousness cannot be kept awake, falling into unprecedented weakness.

Gavin, who does not have much demand in this regard, has grown wildly all the way, not only giving birth to the spark of undead godhood, but also the number of undead godhood is as high as more than 40 points.

Among these ghost castles, less than one in ten are abandoned because of ghosts.

Most of them are because of inconvenient transportation, powerful monsters or bandits around, and this place has become a nest of monsters and bandits.

These problems are not a problem for the conqueror army either.

The idea of ​​building roads first to get rich has been with them all the way and has been thoroughly ingrained in everyone's heart.

No matter where they settle down in the future, this must be the core and focus of their future development.

They had previously helped widen and renovate the rural roads in Misty Valley. When they arrived at their new home, how could they not build roads like crazy?

They not only knew how to build roads, but also built roads on a large scale.

Not only did they want to open up the road from Rosaville Road to the Three Rivers, but also the roads leading to various ghost castles along the way.

From the latest surveyed map, the newly opened Three Rivers Highway is like a branch full of fruits, with straight village roads connecting abandoned manors, castles and villages that have been reactivated.

Residents are dispatched based on the value shown by these reactivated castles and manors - their own scale, the abundance of surrounding resources, whether they are easy to cultivate, their own value to the entire Battle Valley, etc.

There are hundreds of people at the least and thousands of people at the most, all of whom are left in a hundred-man team.

When the conqueror army started on the road, there was a possibility that the composition of these hundred-man teams and the captains were unqualified.

However, after 3,500 kilometers of adjustment, they have already achieved both offensive and defensive capabilities, reasonable layout, and can perform various diversified tasks. Any one of them has good combat effectiveness.

It is unlikely that they can deal with the same number of regular troops. With the support of the car array, they can deal with ordinary wilderness monsters that are several times their own. With the restoration and activation of those ghost castles, the main force will gradually add some city defense facilities for them to further improve their safety index.

They all believe that this is just the beginning. With the development and growth of their lords, their villages and towns will not only have more people, but also further improve their city defense facilities. It is not an unattainable dream to have their own city defense mist barrier.

There are also a very small number of ghost castles that even the conqueror army has to treat with caution. Not only did they not send people to settle in, but they directly isolated them and set up observation and supervision posts to garrison and observe them for a long time.

These places have one common feature, that is, they were abandoned because of the epidemic.

Even in a world with magic, the lethality of the plague is quite terrifying, especially for ordinary people.

Those virulent plagues often knock people down in large numbers before people react.

Before investigating clearly what plague those places were abandoned due to, and whether the plague still exists, it is the wisest choice to stay away from them.

Anyway, the Battle Valley is large enough, even the Conqueror Army is only sparse, and barely activated the ghost castle within ten kilometers around Anwei New Road (Anka Manor-Vizeme Manor).

To fully develop the Battle Valley, these populations are not enough.

When the Conqueror Army arrived at Vizeme New Village, the population was reduced by half, leaving only 21,000 people, but its own capabilities were not reduced too much.

The Conqueror Army's terrifying construction capabilities and the huge population base of ordinary people only played a small role in it.

If it is just relying on manpower, let alone 50,000 people, even a million people cannot build a 3,500-kilometer road in three months, not to mention building cities and fighting wars along the way.

The dominant factor here is the use of a large number of free spell-like abilities, multi-racial cooperation and magic.

Don't forget that there are still 20,000 Dragon Oak Territory Kobolds in Vizeme New Village. The proportion of dragon veins among them is as high as one-quarter, and half of them have opened professions. They are the core team of Gavin Dragon Oak Territory.

These Kobolds arrived in the valley before the conqueror army set out on the journey. After they arrived here, they only did one thing from beginning to end - building cities.

Their city-building speed increased in a step-by-step manner.

In the first month, they barely completed the laying of the sewer project in Vizeme New Village.

In the second month, they only built three five-story buildings.

In the third month, they not only built fifteen five-story buildings, but also expanded the sewer project outward by two times.

In the fourth month, more than 20 five-story buildings rose from the ground.

The number of kobolds working on the project did not increase, but the quality has changed dramatically. When they first came to the valley, the data was less than one-tenth of what it is now.

This is due to the mutual assistance of the Shanobaron dogs and the new city. During the construction process, they accumulated rich professional experience to strengthen themselves. Although this life experience made them open professions that were mostly experts and technicians in life, the help was real. Gavin positioned them as construction assistants.

The conquerors who arrived at their destination were shocked again. They did not expect that Gavin's promise was not just bragging, but that there was really a brand new, modern city waiting for them. Many things here once again broke their cognition.

The water that can be directly delivered to the top floor is not a collective tap water pipeline, but each building has its own water tank on the roof. The magic of constant water making can continuously produce the purest water source. The water source produced by each water tank is enough for the daily use of the entire building.

Excrement can be disposed of directly in the building and flushed away with water.

Each building has its own canteen, where collective cooking and food supply are provided - in the short term, their food will be collectively supplied.

The whole city is warm in winter and cool in summer, thanks to Huifengzhu. The temperature here is kept constant at the most comfortable temperature for humanoids.

The only flaw is that there are too few buildings and too many people. If all the people move in, an average of more than 20 people will be squeezed into a room of only 80 or 90 square meters.

Even so, everyone is satisfied, at least it is much better than sleeping in the wild, and everyone knows that the current situation is only temporary. As long as their lords are given some time, similar buildings will spring up like bamboo shoots after rain. At that time, even one household will not be an unattainable dream.