79 The Role of The Dwarven Army
The population in Su Wan’s territory had increased a lot. The arrival of dwarves had done a lot to add to the already existing population.
Before the dwarves, the Skeleton Soldiers had the highest population. However, the Skeleton Soldiers also had low intelligence and did not speak. The entire territory had been pretty lifeless because of this reason.
“Cheers to the new Lord!” The dwarves started a bonfire. They drank, cheered, and celebrated. They had started a barbecue with wine. This was heaven for them.
Meanwhile, in the Dark Castle, Su Wan’s face was bitter. “D*mn these guys! They are exhausting all the food of the territory!”
Most of the population before were the Skeleton Soldiers. They didn’t need food. Su Wan hadn’t had to spend anything on food and drinks for her subjects till now. Therefore, there was never the pressure of running out of food resources until now.
The food resources were running out drastically. Su Wan finally realized Xu Yuan’s wisdom in wanting to create Skeleton Soldiers instead of human warriors.
Xu Yuan yawned and woke up. He seemed to have had enough sleep by now. “Now you know the stress of maintaining food resources?” he stretched. “We need to farm. At the very least, we need to be self-sufficient.”
Su Wan’s face turned red. “Scammer Xu, do you want to make the dwarves farm for food?”
“Yes,” said Xu Yuan. “We can start developing fields.”
“I thought you were pretty smart when you came up with the idea to trick the dwarves.” She sneered. “Why are you being stupid now? You expect the dwarves to farm?”
It was impossible for dwarves to farm. They weren’t cut out for that.
“You are right,” said Xu Yuan. “Dwarves can’t farm. Farming requires troops that already know how to do it.”
Su Wan brightened a little. Hers and Xu Yuan’s eyes met. It finally dawned on her. “I get you,” she said. “You want us to use the same trick to lure other soldiers who are good at farming. Then, we can kill them in our territory and make them ours!”
It would take a long time to develop a troop suitable for farming. This was faster, but it also depended on luck.
Xu Yuan wagged his tail in approval and nodded. Their thoughts finally matched.
When Shi Linglong walked into the throne room, she saw Su Wan and Xu Yuan smiling at each other sinisterly once again. Her intuition told her that they must be planning something against her.
“Wanwan, my troops have found someone sneaky loitering around my territory,” said Shi Linglong.
One of Shi Linglong’s troops was a Forest Demon that could communicate with the plants in the forest. Through the forest sprites, Shi Linglong found out that there were some sneaky people wandering around the area.
When Su Wan heard this, she glanced at Xu Yuan. They exchanged a glance. Then, they nodded in tacit understanding. At this point, increasing the population was their only concern to upgrade the Territory Core.
“Same plan,” they said together.
“However, let’s make arrangements for the dwarves first,” said Xu Yuan.
Xu Yuan and Su Wan walked to the Territory Core. All their troops had special abilities that appeared on the panel.
The Skeleton Soldiers did not need food to sustain themselves.
The Dark Goblins had night vision.
The Cerberus was immune to fire.
The dwarves were very efficient in making weapons and armor.
“There should be quite a lot of mineral resources in our territory, right?” asked Xu Yuan. “It’s time to fully arm our troops.”
Su Wan realized that the ultimate goal of Xu Yuan was somehow connected to the dwarves. He did not only intend to convert them to reach the required population to upgrade the Territory Core, but also because the dwarves were good at forging weapons and armor.
Once he obtained the Dwarven Army, he could use them to forge numerous weapons and armor to fully arm the other troops!
“Wow!” said Shi Linglong. “Wanwan, you guys actually had a solid plan.”
However, what Shi Linglong said next made Su Wan extremely glad to have the Dwarven Army as her own troop.
“I read that the dwarves in this dimension used to have a very prosperous civilization of their own,” said Shi Linglong. “They once used their godly forging techniques to create iron chariots that could pulverize the strongest city walls and indestructible iron-armored puppets!”
Su Wan recalled reading that as well. In the cultural class, their teacher had taught them the history of the Overlord Plane. The dwarves used to be glorious in the ancient world. The Dwarven Kingdom, at that time, had dominated the sky, the land, and the sea.
In the blue sky, strange birds with steel wings used to patrol the airspace. The steel chariots dominated the lands. Steel warships were quite common in the seas. All these were built by the dwarves.
‘How good would it be if our dwarves had knowledge of such ancient technology?’ thought Su Wan excitedly. However, the next moment, her heart sank. The Dwarven Kingdom had fallen ages ago. The rulers on earth had changed one after the other. The current dwarves had forgotten about their inheritance.
Su Wan felt sorry for the downfall of such useful techniques. Xu Yuan’s ears twitched. He was also interested in the forging techniques used by the dwarves.
‘Maybe the ancient techniques aren’t entirely lost,’ thought Xu Yuan. ‘It must have been preserved somewhere!’ He had a lot of ideas in his mind regarding this.
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A dwarf ran away from Su Wan’s territory in fear. As he ran, he looked behind him in horror.
When he saw a brightly illuminated ring in front of him, he sighed in relief. ‘I will be able to see the Lord after passing through this dimensional portal!’
This dwarf was the same one who had tried to dissuade others from barging into Su Wan’s territory recklessly. None of the others had listened to him. He had sensed that something was wrong, so he hadn’t followed them. He had sneaked away and waited outside the city walls for his fellow dwarves to return.
He had run away when the fight had broken out.