Heart of Empire Chapter 14: Pirates

The refugee camp is a building to increase the population of the human temple forces. The elves don't call it this, they call it the divine guide tree tower. But the effect is almost the same, and they are all used to attract people.

Obviously, it is too slow to increase the population by natural reproduction. A generation of ten years, a newborn population, to grow into a qualified labor force or soldier, humans need more than fifteen years, elves need nearly a hundred years, and the shortest orcs need ten years.

How can this wait? Dane didn't have the time to develop the population on a time base of decades.

However, buildings such as the refugee camp and the divine guide tree tower can solve this problem very well.

Human construction refugee camp, as the name suggests, can attract homeless refugees to enter the territory and serve as population. The name of the Divine Guidance Tree Tower looks much taller, but in fact it has a similar function, except that the refugee camp attracts human refugees, while the Divine Guide Tree Tower attracts elf 'refugees' - of course, elves are not called refugees , called Traveler.

So generally, Dane has basically determined his own action plan after arriving on Comilla Island. First, clear out a safe area, let your subordinates set up a fixed camp, and then find a suitable place, first unfold the tree of life, then build a divine tree tower to attract elf travelers, and then build a moon well and The fountain of life, and then humans and recruited elves will reclaim the transformed land. In this way, the shelf of the entire territory can basically be built.

After confirming the plan, Dane couldn't wait to establish his own territory. He wished that the Long Sail could increase its power, and it would be best to reach Comilla Island in the next instant.

But before he really started to implement his plan, an unexpected trouble appeared. This was the sixth day of the voyage, and when it was only about a day away from Comilla Island, the shadow of a black ship appeared on the horizon.

At first, Dane was very strange, how could there be a boat in this ghost place? You know, the route they are sailing now is not a normal route. Most of the ships sailing from the Sand Sea go westward along the coastline, where is the bustling human world, the Port of Tarens in the Principality of Florence, the heartwater port of the Kingdom of Budley, and further west is Gold Sea, where the powerful Evert Federation and the Three Great Empires are located.

If you don't go west, you have to go east. Sailing eastwards, the Sea of ​​Sand is the territory of the orcs. Although the orc tribes are not rich in products, they have many special products that are not available in the human world, and they are also quite good trade products.

If you don't go east or west, there is another way to go southeast. Although Shire is far away from the Orodic continent, the halflings and dwarves gathered in Shire also have a fairly developed civilization. Halflings are the best gourmets, and many of their products are high-value luxuries sought after by human society. Gnomes also have developed mechanical technology, and many products are also extremely useful.

But it will only go to the southwest to go deep into the sea, because in this direction, except for the deserted Comilla Island, there is only the vast sea, which is worthless. Come in this direction.

In this way, Dane can basically judge that this is absolutely impossible to be a merchant ship. He called for the captain, a halfling seaman named Hale who had accepted his hire.

"Hull, can you tell what kind of ship that is?"

The halfling, who was only as tall as Dane's waist, lay half of his body on the ship's side, squinted his eyes and looked at the black ship in the distance, and said in a thin voice: "Yes, don't underestimate the halfling. The eyes! That is a fast sailing ship, and it seems to be about the same size as our Long Sail...

"Two masts, the sails are very big..."

"The hull is narrow and long, and the cargo capacity will not be too large, but the streamlined hull will be very fast..."

"It's rare to see a ship that does this, except... hell, that's a pirate ship!"

Hull almost screamed out the last sentence. He seemed very flustered. People who have been drifting at sea all year round are most afraid of three things in their life - irresistible wind and waves, unpredictable giant sea monsters, and terrifying pirates.

There are many legends about pirates, but there is no doubt that they are a group of brutal guys. They are like hungry wolves on the sea, in groups, and when they see valuable ships, they will decisively swarm up and **** up the food.

Maybe he ran into a pirate, and Dane was in a bad mood. Unexpectedly, on the last day of the voyage, they encountered such a big trouble!

Hear screaming to order the ship to change direction and flee, but Dane stopped him.

Just listen to him cursing: "You all know that people capsize quickly, and the cargo is light and fast. Our ship is full of so much cargo, can it escape?"

"Otherwise?" Hull was taken aback.

Dane grinned and said: "Otherwise? Hmph, kill those bastards! When the pirates robbed me and hit me on the head, I'm really looking for death! Don't think that our horrors are powerful on land, so we boarded the boat , are all masters!"

What he said is correct, they are not ordinary merchant ships. There are more than 200 members of the Horror Mercenary Corps ~IndoMTL.com~ all of them are warriors who have seen blood. When the group of pirates bumped into each other head-on, it was uncertain who would win. Anyway, if you can't run away from others, it's better to fight to bring them down!

Not long after, he took his men and arranged the equipment. At the same time, the Long Sail also stopped in place, waiting for the approach of the pirate ship ahead.

However, when the pirate ship with the flag was flying closer and closer, Dane's face became more and more strange. From the seriousness at the beginning, now there is an inexplicable smile on his face meaning.

The pirate ship was getting closer and closer, and the pirates on the ship with their heads wrapped in dirty white cloths also stood on the deck one after another, waiting for the battle later. Fortunately, there is no such thing as artillery on this pirate ship, otherwise, it would be even more troublesome.

"We can fire now." Dane's current adjutant, the human warrior Delin, came to his side and said.

Dane shook his head and said, "Not for now."

"Come closer?"

"En." He nodded, and the smile on his face became even weirder.

When the pirate ship was one step closer, Dane took a deep breath, and then shouted: "Dodoro, you brat, did you hit me with a robbery? Come out and call Brother Sheng!"

After the words fell, the pirates on the pirate ship were all taken aback. Tatara, that's their boss. Judging from the meaning of Dane's words, it seems that the two know each other?

Not long after, a burly young man appeared on the deck of the pirate ship. He looked carefully at Dane's face, and couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Dain? Haha, why are you here~IndoMTL.com~Welcome all book lovers to visit and read, the latest, fastest and hottest serial works are all here. Read it at ~IndoMTL.com~ for mobile users.