From Baron to Lord

This also led to the hunting of cattle and sheep no matter how much they were suppressed.

In the end, walls needed to be built, and a certain number of patrols needed to be stationed to limit the harassment of cattle and sheep by the magical beasts and beastmen of the Aruk Forest.

But even so, it still couldn't be completely prevented.

Duke Shack and the Shack Duchy had never solved this problem.

Now it was Allen's turn to face this problem.

After all, the Allen Duchy now had another problem, which was the lack of troops.

In the past, the Shack Duchy had sufficient troops and heavy guards stationed outside the Aruk Forest, so it was naturally easy to mobilize manpower for patrols and protection.

But now, the Allen Duchy was in a rather awkward situation. Currently, the entire Allen Duchy, not counting Allen's army, only had less than 300,000 troops left over from the previous Allen Duchy.

It's hard to imagine a duchy with only less than 300,000 troops.

In terms of power, the Allen Duchy was currently in a weak period. At this time, it was naturally impossible to spare manpower to patrol the southeast.

And with spring approaching, the cattle and sheep in the pens should also be released to stretch out on the plains.

And at this time, one had to face a problem, and that was how to solve the problem of the Aruk Forest.

Although the Shack Duchy had previously suppressed and purged the Aruk Forest.

At that time, it was only on the periphery, or perhaps, only a little deeper.

The Shack army could not possibly slaughter the entire Aruk Forest clean.

This also meant that those beastmen and magical beasts would return to retaliate against the Shack Duchy.

Of course, now it's called the Allen Duchy.

This was what the official was very worried about.

Not to mention spring, magical beasts were already wandering near the pasture.

If this problem could not be solved, then the loss of cattle and sheep would definitely be huge.

Allen raised an eyebrow upon hearing this. At this moment, the third side quest had already appeared in his system. "Ding, triggered side quest: King of Aruk."

"King of Aruk: Beastmen and magical beasts are appearing in the southeast of the territory. As the lord, what should you do? Conquer them in the name of the King of Stratholme."

"Quest Reward: Experience * 200000, Title: King of Aruk!"

This quest could be said to be the least challenging quest for Allen.

King of Aruk?

Allen chuckled. This quest was simply giving him experience.

"I see, I understand. Old Rome, don't worry, I will solve this problem." Allen's words made the minister in charge of the duchy's animal husbandry slightly happy: "Praise the Duke!"

Old Rome knelt down to Allen.

Allen waved his hand, signaling him to retreat to the side.

After that, he also heard some problems from the Minister of Fisheries, etc. This meeting lasted for most of the day before it ended.

The problems of the duchy were far more than those of the barony.

One meeting consumed most of Allen's day and triggered many side quests at the same time.

However, most of them could be handed over to others to do.

The only two or three things that Allen cared about were.

The first thing was, of course, the King of Aruk quest.

Allen was familiar with this quest. The Stratholme Mountains in the past were just like the Aruk Forest now.

Wasn't it also plagued by magical beasts?

Wasn't it also tamed?

Allen's idea was very simple. Just bring a few behemoths from the Stratholme Mountains, and the Aruk Forest would probably be tamed very quickly.

After the meeting ended, according to the previous rules, Allen took Marco and Sparrow to rest in the space behind the meeting hall.

"Marco, I forgot to ask just now, how is the recruitment of warriors in various places going?"

Allen looked at Marco in front of him and said.

Marco smiled immediately upon hearing this: "Duke, I just checked the progress yesterday."

"Currently, the recruitment efforts in the four marquisates are extremely strong, but because the Allen Duchy is currently in a stage of rejuvenation, not many commoners are willing to accept recruitment, but this is considered normal."

"The number of recruits in the four marquisates has reached about 80,000."

Marco said quickly: "As for the other baronies, well, the progress is slow, probably for two reasons. First, the Gold Knights we sent have only recently taken over the baronies, and most people cannot respond to every call, and we still have more than a dozen baronies without Gold Knights."

"The second reason is that the commoners are afraid of war and are unwilling to join us, so recruitment in various baronies is very difficult."

Marco sighed slightly when he said this. Speaking of which, it seemed that they were the ones who made these commoners afraid.

Before Allen and the others defeated the Shack Duchy, these commoners were very active and enthusiastic.

But after Allen and the others slapped the Shack Duchy hard, all the commoners became honest.

Not only did they become honest, but they also had psychological shadows, and most of them were unwilling to become warriors.

War was too terrible, and millions of people died casually. This idea directly made the commoners lose the courage to become warriors.

ps: Chapter 3, asking for monthly tickets, flowers, evaluation tickets, and self-ordering.

Chapter 284 Selecting Five Thousand Warriors, Ecstatic Mages (4)

"Lost courage?"

Allen frowned slightly. It seemed that the previous war had had a certain impact on these commoners, but in the end, where is there a war without sacrifice?

"Yes, sir, now we can only slowly recruit with time and generous treatment."

Marco sighed and said.

Allen smiled: "That's fine, let's recruit first. There shouldn't be any wars in the short term."

"Accompany me on a trip to the four marquisates tomorrow."

Allen was preparing to cultivate those 80,000 warriors in the four marquisates as soon as possible.

"In addition, select 2,000 warriors from my directly subordinate 150,000 Dragonblood Warriors today."

Allen had been busy building transcendent buildings and dealing with the affairs of the Allen Duchy recently, and he had not had time to use the acceleration card.

Now that the previous batch of Level 6 Silver Knights would soon be able to be promoted to Gold Knights, Allen was preparing to put his first batch of Knights Templar members in.

Cultivate them crazily for a while.

Anyway, since they could be directly cultivated to the Gold Knight realm, Allen was preparing to cultivate his Knights Templar into a Gold Knights Templar first.

Of course, because it could only accommodate 500 people for cultivation at a time, they could only be cultivated in batches.

The first to be cultivated must be the thousand-man Knights Templar who had followed Allen the longest.

As for the new knights that Allen would cultivate with the Knight Training Acceleration Card later, they could only be ranked behind, but Allen felt that there shouldn't be too many problems, after all, there would probably be a long time before the war would be launched after this.

The new king will surely strive to govern and develop the Norton Kingdom, and will not choose war, a costly option, in the short term.

"Oh? Two thousand elite warriors?"

Marco raised his eyebrows slightly, with some anticipation in his eyes at the same time.

"Yes, 2,000 people, Marco, choose carefully, they will be the sharpest spears of the Allen Duchy in the future."

Allen said meaningfully.

Marco immediately understood what Allen meant.

This kind of thing had happened more than once or twice, and he had seen the blessing of the God of War many times.

This great and mysterious duke often received some power from the God of War, which could allow ordinary warriors to quickly grow into knights.

And now, knights could go to that divinely bestowed place to cultivate.

What did this mean?

This meant that a large number of high-level knights, Gold Knights, would appear under Allen's command!

The blessing and grace of the God of War were combined together, and Marco felt his heartbeat accelerate. This... this was completely the power to contend for the continent!

Only a true son of the God of War could obtain such incredible and great power, right?

Marco thought in his heart, and he was already thinking about the list of people to be selected in a while.

"Oh, right, there is one more thing, Marco, select 3,000 more people, um, a total of 5,000 people. r ."

Allen almost forgot that he could also cultivate mages.

The reason why he chose to select 3,000 people from the Dragonblood Warriors to give them good magical talent, instead of directly finding mage apprentices and letting them directly become mages.

It was because now, Allen had obtained the Mage Training Ground.

He had already let Lawrence and other formal mages experience it before.

Just like the Knight Training Ground.

The Mage Training Ground could increase the cultivation speed of elementary mages by twenty times, intermediate mages by ten times, and advanced mages by one time.

This had already made the mages ecstatic. They worshiped, praised, and even wept with gratitude towards Allen.

They had never thought that their decision would give them such a generous reward.

Not to mention the almost inexhaustible high-grade magic stones, now, Allen directly gave them a chance to enter the advanced mage level.

No, not a chance, but a bright road.

As long as they walked on it, even a pig could become an advanced mage.

What a miracle this was.

Yes, only a miracle could describe this incredible phenomenon.

Lawrence was not a country bumpkin either. He had wandered through several kingdoms and had seen a lot.

But he had never heard of anyone, any method that could directly increase the cultivation speed of mages by ten or twenty times.

This was simply incredible.

Not to mention a kingdom, Lawrence felt that even an empire would not have such a miracle.

But Allen did it.