Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 141: Chapter 82: The Dwarves Propel the Territory’s Soaring Growth

Su Li had a positive attitude towards the arrival of more than a thousand Dwarves. He saw it not just as a pressure, but more as an opportunity for his territory to soar.

It was as if his territory was getting an early taste of a ten thousand population development speed. This experience card could last for at least one cycle.

The Dwarves, like Ogres, have much greater endurance than humans, capable of working for several hours without rest. The construction ability of these over a thousand strong Dwarf warriors might be equivalent to seven or eight thousand humans.

The first thing they constructed was the blacksmith workshop of the Hesse Territory.

On the night they arrived, after eating and drinking to their fill, some honest and straightforward Dwarves, with their red, wine-stained noses, expressed that they couldn’t just eat their big friends’ food for free. (Mainly because they did eat too much! Dwarves, who usually only ate bread mixed with gravel, devoured four to five pounds of venison in the Black Forest, expanding the girth of their bellies and waistlines.)

With not much wealth to repay their friends, these Dwarves slapped their thighs and decided they could only forge equipment, so they offered to craft a few sets of gear for their big friends as a thank you for their grand hospitality.

Thus, some powerful Dwarves directly drove the Dwarf apprentices out of the Black Forest blacksmith workshop, took over the furnace, and personally helped the Hesse Territory forge more exquisite Dwarf armor.

In just one night, these Dwarves worked through the night and produced thirteen sets of armor.

According to the current prices in Marle Castle, this is almost equivalent to 800 Golden Crowns!

However, their hot tempers soon turned their good intentions into a disaster, causing many people to bear shame and lose their reputation. As a result, six Ogre Butchers emerged on the spot.

Too many thought of this method, and in their struggle to snatch the furnace, they tore down the blacksmith workshop within the castle.

At that time, Su Li was practicing Knight training with the cold and beautiful Witch Ingrid, assaulting city after city, causing this aloof Witch to lose her composure, her defenses collapsing bit by bit. The sounds of violent explosions distracted Ingrid momentarily, allowing Su Li to succeed and completely possess her icy body.

However, this Witch was somewhat reserved and mysterious, and Su Li had only succeeded in two places, still a little short of unlocking three times the training speed.

But having already engaged in Knight’s training and fully capturing her mind and body, it was only a matter of time.

Su Li was in a great mood and did not mind the losses caused by the Dwarves.

This made the Dwarves even more grateful and apologetic.

So, the next day, the Dwarves decided to help Su Li build a few blacksmith workshops as compensation, and they could also have more people to forge gear and return the favor.

The efficiency of the Dwarf Engineers was indeed unparalleled!

In just two days, the territory had four new blacksmith workshops, and with the existing blacksmith workshop, the territory now had a total of five workshops, all larger in scale and more equipped than before!

This truly gave Su Li a feeling of being capable of claiming the throne.

In the days of the Wild Boar Hide, with only thirteen sets of armor, he thrived, expanded the blacksmith workshops in Liaodong, spanning over five miles, and thus established a heavy-armored infantry.

Su Li was only slightly weaker at the moment, but he also had five blacksmith workshops. If he could indeed have a thousand Dwarves permanently stationed in the territory, he could easily forge a heavily armored cavalry.

Not only could this enhance his military might, but it could also rapidly advance the industrial strength of the Hesse Territory, and in the future, simply by selling armor externally, he could amass considerable wealth.

The key point is that the assistance provided by these Dwarves was not limited to industrial forging and armor production.

Dwarves are renowned for their powerful forging and engineering abilities, with Dwarf Engineering Masters known throughout the Empire.

In almost every territory, Dwarf Engineering Masters assist their big friends in constructing municipal projects, leading development.

The Dwarves that came to the Black Forest also showcased unparalleled infrastructure capabilities.

First, they helped their kin construct a Dwarf Community in the southeastern area of Hesse Town. Under their command, the efficiency of the Ogre construction team greatly increased.

This area rose with six to seventy buildings at a visible speed, including Dwarf ordinary homes and city-colored townhouses.

These four-story apartment buildings made of tall logs and stones, resembling a faded grand painting, possess a tall and magnificent style, with spacious rooms that can be rented to a large populace of Free People.

Within the Empire, in many populous and prosperous territories, these townhouses gather people from all walks of life and are favored by Sado followers as places to operate businesses.

But this is also a necessary building for a territory’s prosperity, allowing for a greater population, and developing more sects and believers.

In contrast to these prosperous residences, the community also established four to five commercial buildings, including a bakery, a cheese room, a branch of the Dwarf Jewelry Guild, commercial company shops, a general store, and a large warehouse, among others.

In the warehouse here are stored hundreds of sets of Star Iron Armor of the dwarves, hundreds of pieces of jewelry, and some strange things dug out by dwarves from the ruins of lost civilizations.

There are lucky ones who have bought some interesting items, for example, a formal Knight bought a [Black Eagle Statue], not merely a simple statue, but a part of the massive structure of the deceased Divine Titan, carved by dwarves into the likeness of the desert nation’s Death God Statue in the distant southern land of Arabi, capable of guiding the deceased citizens of the kingdom into the Netherworld.

Due to their naturally Absolute Demon Resistance, dwarves could not feel the surge of divine power above.

But the human Knight could feel the divine grace; this formal Knight felt the dreams from Mole in the night, transforming the statue into a shrine and placing it beside the path outside the village, thus smoothly transitioning into a devout Mole Black Knight, upgrading to an Elite Level Black Guard Knight. He received divine magic from Mole, which allows blessed corpses to be permanently immune to necromancy.

This event made the dwarf community famous for a while, after all, the deceased Divine Titan itself is legendary. According to the archaeological deductions of Empire scholars, the existence of Titans perhaps dates back to the creation of this world.

At that time, Titans were the rulers of this world, residing on the Celestial Mountain of the Edge Mountain Range, which is now the location of the Ogre kingdom.

Everyone is convinced that the rise of the Ogre kingdom was due to the fall of the Titans.

During the long heavenly war, Ogres invaded one isolated Titan after another on the Celestial Mountain, eating them alive.

Although the weapons and magic of the Sky Titans destroyed numerous Ogres, even so, the number of Ogres was still a hundred times greater than that of the Titans, and each time they invaded a Celestial Mountain peak, their numbers would multiply.

Finally, the Ogres successfully completed the first ethnic extinction war in this world.

However, some say the Titans did not completely fall; those giants taller than small mountains are the defective offspring of Titans, created as weapons to combat Ogres.

Regardless of whether this legend is reliable, it proves the Titans were eliminated by the era, as the Ogres occupied their lands, enslaved their children, nearly devouring all their domesticated mammoths.

Now, various legends about Divine Titans can only be found in buried ancient ruins.

These powerful artifacts and occasionally appearing powerful magical weapons prove the glorious history of the Divine Titans.

And constantly remind humanity that the crisis of civilization extinction is not distant; if various threats cannot be properly addressed, the Empire might also be completely extinguished like the Divine Titans and become a part of the ruins after tens of thousands of years.

Besides engaging in vast infrastructure in cities, dwarves didn’t neglect castles and rural areas.

Their most famous aspect is their water management capabilities.

Within the Empire’s central region, there was once a dispute between an Elector’s Territory and dwarves over water source distribution, the Dwarf King ordered the construction of numerous water facilities on the mountain, leading to a significant reduction in downstream water flow, severely impacting agriculture within the Elector’s Territory that year.

The Elector had to humble his proud head, sending his most trusted, high-ranking High-level Steward to the mountain to amicably negotiate with the dwarves to resolve the problem.

Since then, the Empire’s citizens clearly understood not to offend these stubborn dwarves in the mountains.

Of course, relations between humans and dwarves are generally friendly, even Mountain Dwarves hold goodwill towards human visits.

Dwarves within the Empire are even more eager to assist the Empire’s nobility with the construction of water facilities within territories.

The first rural municipal building constructed by the dwarves of Redbeard Castle in Hesse Territory was the water gate of Balan Village.

From the vast Central Plain, rising up to the Bloody Highlands and the Gray Mountain Range, the Black Water River passes through several water gates.

The first of these water gates is located in the serene Balan Village, the first territory purchased by old Half-Elf Hartskline.

Hartskline, like her kin, enjoys a simple and joyful life of ease;

She prefers sitting beside her house, smoking her pipe watching the canal flow by, or tending to her exquisite garden.

Her responsibility is to oversee the water gate built by the Dwarf Engineer, which serves as the first checkpoint for territory taxation and security.

Besides Hartskline’s modest two-story private house, there’s also a small watchtower. The upper floor of the house comprises her living room, kitchen, and bedroom, decreasing in size respectively. The lower floor includes a small office, a warmly decorated living room, a storeroom, and a storage room for tolls.

There’s also a sturdy cell, for River Guards to temporarily detain prisoners when needed: a feature most water gate guard houses have.

Inside it usually holds slaves wanting to escape, smugglers intruding, and certain cultists possibly wandering through.

The construction of this water gate has undeniably augmented the territory’s defense and taxation capabilities significantly.

River Giants, smugglers, and the Goblin Tribe and Beastman roaming outside the territory can no longer easily intrude into the territory.