Chapter 8
After arriving at the castle Arthur rested for the night and woke up early for his routine, once the weakened beasts who were in a frenzy were killed Arthur decided to check his status remembering that he managed to gain a lot of exp during the battle at the dungeon.
[Player status]
Name: Arthur Pendragon (system-issued name)
Title: Ruler of Dragons
Affiliation: True Neutral
Region: Beleth
Level: 4
Exp: 3,100/2,500 (can level up)
STR: 40
DEF: 45
AGT: 45
MID: 120
MAG: 90
MAGD: 70
Skills: Lord's share, Sacrificial growth
Equipment: Naga steel sword, Naga steel armour, Naga steel dagger.
[End]
"Level up," said Arthur
[Leveling up]
-Congratulations Arthur Pendragon you've leveled up to level 5. All base stats have increased by 100 points,
- Your Dragon factor has strengthened slightly
- You've gained 1,000 gold
- You've learned the skill Dragon's Aura
- You've gained Dragon senses.
[ End]
"Well, this is promising," Muttered Arthur with a smile on his face he also noticed that other than himself the other units were also ready to level up. Including Morgan.
He gave the command for them to do so, before moving on to reinforcing his castle and castle town. Which now spanned 3 kilometres. Of course most were now outside the first wall.
Inside the first wall was the castle itself, surrounded by the forges and other crafting facilities, and the residence of the dragon-sworn crafters and soldiers.
Then on the outside wall were houses made of stone and wood. As the houses increased the skill of the crafters increased allowing for better housing to be made. This of course, led to the first few houses being upgraded every other day.
Arthur could feel the durability of the settlement increase every day through some unknown connection.
After that he decided that he would wait for the radius to be 5 kilometres then he would build another wall and upgrade the one around the castle, then plant the illusion mist tower in 4 locations so that their ranges intersect leaving no blind spots.
Then he'd continue after.
After planning all of that he decided to put all the unused food into the market, doubling the amount, because he already had enough in storage. He also sold the food that was about to rot at a third of the normal price.
It was an hour later that he received all the money from the exchange. He looked at the amount he'd amassed this time, 46750 gold, and that is excluding the amount he gained during the past 4 days, which amounted to 204000 gold.
With this he waited for the next time he would summon units. He opened his shop looking for suitable things to buy.
'I have decent weapons but while this is called Naga steel, it's nothing more than iron coated with melted Naga materials. But thanks to the items out digging in the mountain has increased in pace and we can find an ore mine if we are lucky.'
"Now my destination?" Arthur asked himself while looking to the mountain and then the forest.
He was about to decide and head to the mountains when a telepathic message reached him.
|Sire, there is an interesting development in the forest.|
.OoO. Forest few minutes ago .oOo.
Galion was making his way through the forest ending the lived of many of his opponents along the way, and behind him were blood-sworn soldiers and dragon-kin.
They were ending the lives of many of the treants and wood Lamia they encountered, even the other beasts like wooden bears and many more.
Along with gathering the bodies, and materials.
After a few hours of this they came across a large clearing surrounded by massive treats and Lamia all of them far stronger than what he was used to.
Passed that was a settlement, from what Galion could see it was a nymph settlement. Wood nymphs a special race that boosted the power of nature-based units and offered many other benefits.
"If we can take that settlement and have its residents move to our kingdom, we can finally start growing our own crops after all these trees will not provide for us forever." Thought Galion while looking at the settlements.
"Lord Galion, should we inform the master?" Asked one dragon sworn soldier.
"Yes, I'll contact the lord and inform him," said Galion before connecting to Arthur via the telepathy net connecting the entire group.
He relayed the situation to Arthur.
[ I see, before doing anything I want you to scout the surroundings of the settlement, take care of any monsters you see. We have to make sure that we don't get surrounded when we approach.] Replied Arthur.
Galion relayed the situation to the surrounding units.
.oOo.
Nymph settlement within the middle of the lush green settlement. wood nymphs were busy performing their routine tasks of infusing energy to tree saplings, bears, wolves and many other animals transforming them into their wooden counterparts.
In the middle of it all was a larger nymph being 6meters tall. It was female with green skin lined with vines and leaves. This was the nymph queen.
Next to it was an even taller creature being a wood Lamia of measuring a massive 20 Meters and was also female. This was the Lamia princess.
Then finally a giant tree warrior of about 13 Meters in height. This being the treant chieftain. All of these were elite monsters, who took command of this region.
They spoke among each other,
"More soldiers have been defeated. Those damnable creatures are approaching rapidly." Spoke the Nymph queen.
"We cannot let them reach this settlement, it is a vital base, when the violet moon ascends it will act as our forward base to press the castle lord's forces, while other troops come from our respective bases," spoke the treant.
"Should we request stronger forces to act as a buffer to fend off the castle lord's forces? They are dragons but currently in their infancy, our elite troops can take them out." Spoke the Lamia.
"That is viable, but we have to divide and conquer, facing them while they are grouped together would be unwise," responded the Lamia.
"We could use you forestation ritual to control the battlefield." Spoke the Treant while looking at the queen.
"However, should they survive well they not be prepared when the violet moon ascends?" asked the Nymph.
"That might show our hand when the time comes," agreed the Lamia.
"The best we can do is stop them from growing stronger. With every opponent, they defeat the dragon's grow stronger, if they manage to defeat the elite soldier's we'll unleash, they might grow stronger and too much to handle." Spoke the Queen.
"That is a big risk to our major objective, for now, the best thing we can do is throw weaker soldiers at them and keep them at a distance until the time comes. The stronger opponents they face, the stronger become, so if we throw weaklings in smaller numbers we can limit their growth to an extent," continued the queen.
"What if they attack us?" asked the Treant.
"While this base is important it could also serve as a trap for our opponents, bring elite soldiers here, to ambush our foes should they attack us. If they don't They'll act as the vanguard when the time comes." Spoke the queen,
"I understand," spoke the Treant chieftain.
"Breed weak soldiers to limit the growth of our opponent, bring elites to act as guards should our foes appear, and vanguard should they not attack." Spoke the Lamia Princess.
"That is the plan!" spoke Queen calmly.
While they were scheming on the other side Arthur was preparing himself as well.
.oOo. end of chapter .OoO.
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