Heart of Empire Chapter 17: Ghost knife port
On the coastline, more than a hundred people were busy under Tommy's command.
Tommy's strength is not very good. As a thief, he is not even qualified for assassination. He is a real thief, petty theft, spying on intelligence, and meddling in underground affairs, gray areas are quite good, but in combat, he is really not proficient.
But people have their own strengths and weaknesses. Dane's men do not lack warriors who are proficient in fighting and killing, but he lacks people who can assist him in handling the affairs of the territory. After carefully thinking about the mercenary group, I have to say that Little Tommy is the most suitable candidate.
He is not like Golobo or Delin, who knows how to fight and kill with his head full, has his own understanding of many things, and his execution ability is not bad. Clerk. As for whether he can become a qualified political official in the end, it depends on his own luck.
But for now, under Tommy's command, the construction of the temporary camp is arranged in an orderly manner. Some people are around, using some wood scraps transported from the ship to build wooden walls. Some people use wood and stone to build houses.
Of course, it will take a certain amount of time to build a fixed stone and wood structure house, and it is estimated that it will not be able to live in it tonight. Therefore, there are some other people who have set up some temporary tents, which can be regarded as their residences for a while.
The coast has become a big construction site. Dane himself did not join in the work, he walked into the stone forest alone, searched around, and found a flat stone.
Grinning, he picked up another small sharp stone from the ground and began to imprint something on the flat stone.
After a while, he stood up. I saw that there were a bunch of words written on the flat surface, and the combined meaning was: the pioneer of Cormyria, the territory of Sir Dane Ghostblade.
He laughed, obviously quite satisfied with his work. The titles written on it are naturally self-proclaimed by him. The pioneers of Cormyria are still true, but Sir Dane Ghostblade is complete nonsense. He was born as an orphan since he was a child, and his pedigree is still so heterogeneous that he doesn't even know his own surname. Ghost Saber is just a nickname for him, and he uses it as his surname. Of course he is not a knight conferred by any country or any lord, but this does not prevent him from giving himself such a title.
In fact, if it wasn't too shocking, he would have wanted to directly add a higher-level noble title to himself. Like the Earl? Duke? Even the emperor?
It's just that the name is not true, he thought about it, and let it go. A jazz, just right. In the future, when his territory is larger and his strength is stronger, he will add a higher-level title to himself. Anyway, no one can control him.
Actually, it's not just that Dane likes the idea of false fame and self-promotion, but it has certain practical significance. Now, Comilla Island is deserted, but in the future, after this territory is established, if you go out to hang out, you must have a name. He gave himself the name of a nobleman, which is of course good for his future development.
As for whether anyone will question his noble status in the future—hehe, after he brings the entire Comilla Island into his sphere of influence and fully unfolds "Dynasty Heart", who would dare to question it? Blast anyone!
He took the slate and returned to the camp. Tommy, who saw him from a distance, came up to meet him and said, "Boss Dane, where have you been?"
Dane was in a good mood, so he didn't hit Tommy on the head this time. He threw the slate in his hand to Tommy, and said, "Find a place to stand this slate, and our place will be called Ghost Knife Port in the future!"
"Oh, good boss!"
After sending away little Tommy, Dane stayed in the camp, helping him occasionally, and devoted himself to the construction of the territory. He didn't dare to go far, you know, he sent Delin, Sacco, and Golobo to investigate the surrounding situation, and he learned from Duodoro that the island was full of dangers, so of course he didn't dare to be careless . He is always paying attention to the surrounding situation and is ready to attack at any time.
It was getting late, and the teams of Delin, Sacco, and Golobo, who were in charge of scouting the surrounding situation, returned one after another.
Dane was very concerned about the information they brought back. He gathered the three guys together and questioned them one by one.
They landed from the north bank, and the three teams went south, west, and east to investigate, but the situation was not ideal.
Golobo, who was heading south, said that he did not encounter any monsters on the road, nor did he find any traces of monsters, but they encountered a monster rising from the ground about 20 kilometers away. Alpine cliffs. They checked both sides of the mountain cliff and found that there was basically no possibility of crossing on foot, so they returned.
Delin, who is heading west, has gained something. Thirty kilometers away, he found a lake, and confirmed that it must be a freshwater lake, which can be used as their freshwater supplement. But he didn't get too close, because in a stone forest near the freshwater lake, he came across a gathering place of about two hundred faceless men. Fortunately, Delin was careful enough not to disturb the group of faceless men, otherwise, it would not be so easy to come back.
The only battle that took place was the westward team led by Shako. They didn't encounter the Faceless, but there were sporadic hairless, black-skinned monsters that looked like hyenas and attacked them. Those black hairless hyenas can be compared to a fully armed mercenary warrior in individual combat power. Fortunately, the number of hairless hyenas they encountered was not many, only seven or eight. With the joint efforts of the more than twenty veterans he brought, although some of them suffered serious injuries, there was no direct reduction in combat personnel.
Now, Dane basically knows the general situation of dozens of kilometers around the 'Ghost Knife Port'. What particularly caught his attention was the group of faceless men near the fresh water lake in the east.
Just now, he has personally fought against a team of faceless men, and he probably understands that these monsters have good fighting abilities. More than 200 faceless people are entrenched at a distance of only 30 kilometers from their current location. This must be a very big trouble.
From the battle just now, he has already observed a piece of news, that is, the faceless ones seem to hold great hostility towards creatures like humans and half-orcs. When those guys see them, they will attack without hesitation. It is not difficult to imagine that if the Faceless Men in the east discover the Ghost Knife Port that humans are building, most of them will launch an attack without hesitation.
There are more than two hundred faceless ones, which can almost be said to be an army of monsters. Once the war breaks out, how much will the Horror Mercenary Corps need to spend to wipe out these faceless men? Dane did some calculations on this question, and came up with a rather pessimistic figure: in a decisive battle, if he wanted to kill these faceless men, he would probably have to pay at least a quarter, or even more, of casualties. .
The result of this estimate made Dane's face quite ugly. Having just set foot on a deserted island, the construction work has only just begun~IndoMTL.com~ is about to face such a huge but almost unavoidable cost of casualties... He has to start worrying about his future.
He gritted his teeth and decided to speed up the pace of construction.
He has no other options for the construction of Ghost Knife Port. Building fences and building fixed camps all cost manpower and time to build. He is not a god, and it is impossible to make Ghost Knife Port from scratch with a single breath. However, in addition to relying on manpower to build the camp, he also has a big killer, which is also the biggest reason why he dared to bring the horror mercenary group to develop Comilla, a desert island that no one dared to develop. : The game system of "Dynasty Heart"!
Dane handed over the crude map in his hand to Sacco, asking him to re-correct the map according to the results of the investigation by the three investigation teams, and then decided to go to the west by himself.
The wandering knight Sacco dissuaded: "Dane, I suggest you not to leave the camp alone. The situation on this island is very unclear. Although the individual level of those hyenas is average, and I have not detected a large number of unidentified animals. There are traces of hairy hyenas, but there is no certainty. If you are alone, it is too dangerous. And it is getting late, no matter what happens, it would be better to take a few people with you until dawn tomorrow. ?”
Dane shook his head and said, "It's okay, are you still worried about me? The three of you are well prepared for tonight, and you have assigned the manpower for the night watch. Don't sleep too hard. I'll be back soon." .Don’t worry about my safety, and I don’t need anyone to follow me. I’m fine by myself. As for what I’m going to do, you don’t have to ask any more questions~IndoMTL.com~Welcome all book friends to visit and read, the latest and fastest , The hottest serial works are all in ~IndoMTL.com~ mobile phone users please go to read.