novel-bin Chapter 225: Training the Army.
Chapter 225: Training the Army.
What does Admiral Gluttony want to do? Those ancient sects are gradually becoming active in the world, but they are still hidden under the undercurrents between cities and are unknown to the public.
Arden is now troubled by another matter.
The city of Benati was stable, but problems arose elsewhere.
pirate!
Now, the entire city of Benati is connected to the trade routes of various important regions.
There were large numbers of rampant pirates everywhere, attacking merchant ships with impunity.
This is completely different from the pirates' usual behavior. Those pirates would only plunder merchant ships passing by, "under the euphemism of collecting protection fees."
These newly emerged pirates don't listen to reason at all and just kill people directly.
A large number of merchant ships sank into the icy sea.
It's not just the city of Benati.
Now the entire archipelago is in chaos.
There appeared various pirates of unknown origin, more radical than the local pirate forces.
There were also large numbers of merchant ships that were burned, killed and looted on various important shipping routes, causing turmoil and unrest.
As a result, the tax revenue and wealth of all the chambers of commerce that relied on trade for their fortunes, as well as the various kingdoms throughout the Chaos Islands, declined.
It is said that the appearance of these pirates was due to the sudden news of a secret treasure that had been circulating on the ocean for a long time.
That is the Golden Island, one of the five treasures lost at sea.
This island covered with gold is said to have disappeared for more than a thousand years.
There are rumors that it is near the Chaos Islands.
Black Dragon Pirate.
Among the large number of pirates roaming throughout the southern part of the Chaos Islands.
Many kingdoms were relentlessly pursuing the city of Benati where Arden was located, including the surrounding areas, and wantonly chasing pirates of any ships that appeared on the sea.
Now it's also giving Arden a headache.
It is said that behind this pirate there is the shadow of a black dragon.
The best evidence is that all the members of this pirate group of more than 300 people are professionals, and all of them have reached at least the intermediate level of bloodline cultivation.
They were all rare dragonborn! They had the unique smell of swamp and decay that only black dragons could smell.
Of course, there is another possibility. That is, a certain powerful force killed a black dragon and produced a large number of dragon-brand potions, which it forcibly transformed into its own black gloves.
No matter what the reason is, now this group of rampant Black Dragon pirates.
The time has come when we have to wipe them out.
Arden had no intention of taking matters into her own hands.
Firstly, this group of pirates lives entirely on the sea and relies on ships. They have no specific and fixed place to stay and their traces cannot be found.
Secondly, the most powerful among these pirates are only a few dragon men who have reached the master level.
If he does everything himself, then what is the point of having power?
During this time, Arden also had another activity while peacefully farming.
Training!
Because he had officially entered the adolescent dragon stage and reached the legendary level, no matter how much blood he lost, as long as he had the nourishment of the tree of wisdom, it would not affect his growth.
Therefore, Arden extremely rarely had all of his tens of thousands of men baptized with dragon blood.
Tens of thousands of creatures whose blood had been reborn in an instant were training with the sound of gongs and drums.
If all goes well, then Arden will have an army that is powerful enough to sweep across a kingdom with a population of tens of millions!
The quality of soldiers is more important than their quantity.
In the extraordinary world, all rules and order are based on power and violence.
In ancient times, or in some more distant times, there were not as many empires as there are today.
There are even some powerful forces that have achieved a very terrifying achievement.
The standard for formal enlistment is to reach the legendary level!
This terrifying standard has left modern historians dumbfounded and marveling at the glory of the ancient times due to the long history and large historical gaps.
In that era when the gods had not yet defined the rules for the entire multiverse, and even though their kingdoms were outside the crystal walls, they would occasionally descend in person.
The one who can do this is also an absolute overlord.
With this standard, Arden has set a lofty dream!
Although he wants to achieve this standard now, it is undoubtedly a fantasy for his forces to be able to create an army built by a legendary strongman.
But if a person has no goals, what is the difference between him and a salted fish?
In order to achieve this goal, Arden gritted his teeth and once again took out a large sum of wealth from the ocean of gold that had accumulated under him during this period of time and had not expanded much.
He was determined to exchange the blueprints for a batch of top-notch equipment from the Mechanical Insect King Milos, whom he had already confirmed contact with.
Wool comes from sheep.
This is the only way Arden could comfort himself.
Once again I came to the ancient god's altar that was so familiar that it couldn't be more familiar. Although I had been promoted to a legend, I could have a clearer and more thorough understanding of the original palace.
But it was still like looking at flowers from across the river. There was still a thick layer of fog in front of my eyes, preventing me from clearly perceiving the palace.
Arden still had a serious heart, as if after arriving at this grand place, all distracting thoughts in his mind were wiped out by the ethereal and pure starlight.
After a fierce verbal battle, the dimensional rift between the two was opened again.
Because of the many transactions with Arden, he has gradually become dependent on him for legendary metal. And as Milos's experiments have been fruitful, he now needs more legendary metal.
The two sides reached a deal.
From now on, any mechanical creations produced by Milos in his laboratory or his own mechanical factory can be discounted to Arden at a price 20% lower than the normal price of the same level if he wants to buy them.
As a condition, Arden exchanged 100 units of legendary metal for a large number of equipment covered with magic patterns, which were definitely equivalent to 10 pieces of active equipment of the empire's second-rate army at the same level.
In addition, there are also manufacturing technologies for various equipment, drawings and facilities used by the empire's official legions in daily warfare and training.
Milos cut a huge price for a bunch of special technologies that Arden had never heard of, and sold them to others in a package at a low price.
Even if all of this is added together, it still cannot match Arden’s legendary metal.
Because it has no effect on the improvement of the strongest, but it can effectively make up for the foundation of ordinary forces and those relatively powerful forces that have accumulated for tens of thousands of years.
You can't get fat in one bite, but at least the alchemy institute created by Arden can save hundreds of years of research and failure.
No matter what, technology must be under control.
Arden has been enduring losses and working hard on research and development of this core technology, and this technology can at least help the institute's technology to be further improved.
After finishing a very pleasant conversation, Arden shifted his attention to another place.
As usual, he tried to talk to Kazn who was far away in the Magnetic Cloud Storm Plane.
Get from him a batch of rare and legendary metals that he had promised in advance.
Arden was surprised to find that as he opened the plane crack through the altar again, several powerful beings appeared in the metal laboratory belonging to Kazan.
"What happened?"