Chapter 110: There Are Actually Pirates?

【Ding, the Daily Information System has refreshed...】

【Information One: The merfolk who made an agreement with you to trade have prepared their supplies, including thirty night-glow pearl oysters, three sea corals, two hundred jin of sea lobsters, five hundred jin of ordinary sea clams and conchs, and fifteen hundred jin of sea fish.

The merfolk will arrive at the coast in the afternoon, and the trade goods they look forward to most are beer.】

【Information Two: In the reef area ten li east of Volcano Island, a sea beast corpse will drift in today.

This is a fourth-tier sea beast named the Explosive Flame Blue-Scaled Beast; its body length has reached a terrifying hundred meters.

It is worth mentioning that although it is an extraordinary creature, all its mana is concentrated in its scales, so the flesh contains no mana and cannot nourish the human body like demon beast meat; instead, it differs little from ordinary sea fish meat.】

【Information Three: Along the coastline of Viscount Kenneth's territory, a dilapidated sea ship flying a skull flag has been wandering the sea for the past few days.

This is a group of pirates called the Skull Gang, who were defeated by other pirates and had their territory seized.

The Skull Gang could only flee southward; with nowhere else to go, they arrived at Viscount Kenneth's coastline and wanted to find a new stronghold in this remote southern area.

After wandering for several days, they accidentally discovered that Refugee Island and decided to launch an attack.

Facing over a hundred vicious pirates, the refugees had no ability to resist; ultimately, Refugee Island will be occupied by the Skull Pirates!】

【Information Four: On the edge of the Death Mountain Range in the southern part of Storm Territory, there exists a hill called Ice Bear Mountain.

There is a pitch-black cave there where a bone-chilling, biting cold wind howls all year round.

Once, some bold serfs entered the cave to explore, only to slip into an ice pit with a drop of ten meters, from which they could never climb out again.

Later, this led the few subjects who knew of the cave's existence to call it the Demon God Ice Cave.

Because people believed that a terrifying ice demon beast must dwell within.

However, it is actually not the lair of any terrifying demon beast, but rather a cold spring gushing forth from the earth's veins.

Although the cold spring contains no mana, its temperature is extremely low, causing the cave to remain frozen year-round; even in summer, there is frost that never melts!】

【Information Five: After half a month of irrigation, the Dragon Blood Grass in the Southern Canyon is growing more and more vigorously.

Because of its fatal attraction to dragon-blood creatures, an entire wild Fire Stallion herd, lured by this, will enter Storm Territory this morning and arrive at the canyon.

This Fire Stallion herd numbers over forty, including mares and foals.】

【Information Six: The tribal attacks on the kingdom's southwestern border are intensifying; the situation has indeed reached an uncontrollable state.

Currently, noble territories seized by tribal natives have reached fifteen, including eight Knight territories, five Baron territories, and two Viscount territories!

In these captured territories, except for two noble lords who fled in advance, all other nobles were killed.

The tribes' barbaric and cruel actions shocked the entire nation; the King finally agreed to issue the kingdom's first conscription order of the year.

The conscription order has now reached the southern region's major stronghold, Eagle City, and will be personally arranged for distribution by Duke Edward, the Governor of the Southern Region!

The targets of this conscription are all noble lords of the Southern Region and some of the kingdom's border legions!

The conscription order will reach the various noble territories no later than next week!】

Time flies; another week and more has passed since Old Man Andrew left.

During this week and more, thanks to abundant supplies, Gervas accelerated the construction of his territory once again.

Not only did he start building a blacksmith's forge in the small town, but he also prepared to construct public facilities such as a mill and granaries.

Of course, another very important project has also begun planning.

That is the stone wall of Wheat Town.

In a place like Storm Territory, the wooden wall of Wheat Town can only be described as good to look at but useless in practice!

Therefore, with abundant supplies, the planning and construction of the stone wall can now proceed.

After all, building a complete, sturdy stone wall is not something that can be finished in a day or two; it usually takes several months or even years.

Especially since Gervas has great ambitions; with the Information System, he is confident he can turn his Storm Territory into a prosperous and powerful domain.

Thus, the stone wall planning cannot be based on the scale of a small town, but must follow the scale and layout of a city.

At that time, the first phase of the stone wall construction can serve as the inner wall of the city.

Once the territory develops further in the future, an even more expansive outer city wall can be built.

One can imagine that many years later, a magnificent city will also be established on this kingdom's border.

Of course, that is all for the future; currently, work has merely just begun.

Without mentioning money and supplies, just the manpower required is something Gervas cannot currently invest much of.

In short, start with the foundation; things will only get better from here.

Ding-ling-ling!

The Information System broadcast finished; Gervas could no longer sit still.

Today's information is truly heavyweight.

Not only does an entire Fire Stallion herd appear.

But pirates are also going to appear.

It was said that the oceans of this world are full of danger and that few minor nobles possess any sailing ability; how could pirates appear then?

However, on second thought, since even refugees are in the sea, it is natural for pirates to exist as well.

As for how they got their sea ship?

It is nothing more than methods like robbing noble merchant ships.

In his previous life, didn't many similar plots involve becoming bandits?

However, overall, the appearance of these pirates this time might not necessarily be a bad thing.

They are not attacking Storm Territory, but rather that Refugee Island.

Actually, after Old Man Andrew and the others left, Gervas later took the Storm Ship to the waters of that Refugee Island.

On this second trip, Gervas specially prepared a small wooden raft with a sail made of linen cloth.

He placed a basket of black bread and an envelope on the raft, letting the wind carry it drifting to the island.

The purpose of doing this was to inform them of his identity, release goodwill, and indicate that he only wished to recruit them as serfs.

But unexpectedly, in response to Lord Gervas's goodwill,

the refugees' reply was a hail of arrows, whooshing and whistling.

If we rule out the possibility that they are illiterate, it means they are dead set on refusing recruitment.

Regarding this, Gervas has already considered taking the Refugee Island by force these past few days.

He began training the guards in island assault operations.

Once the training is complete, at the latest before next week, he will land on the Refugee Island by force.

And now, since pirates have appeared, perhaps it will be even simpler.

He, Gervas, can play the oriole waiting in the rear.

Maid Caroline gracefully carried fresh water into the bedroom and attended to Gervas as he washed and brushed his teeth.

Afterwards, as per custom, the daily punishment was carried out; after admiring the churning waves, Gervas, savoring the slippery feel, made his way to the dining hall.

Upon arriving at the dining hall, Old John immediately reported some good news: Blacksmith Luca had finally finished forging the Iron Meteorite Mithril Sword.