From Baron to Lord

But now, the system's species interface shows that a dragon costs a full million gold coins!

"A million gold coins is simply an astronomical figure to me!"

Allen was slightly speechless, but he felt that this was already an extremely low price!

Dragons in this world cannot be measured by money at all!

Each of them is priceless!

If others knew that he could buy a dragon for a million gold coins, the whole world would go crazy!

"Even a Count probably doesn't have a million gold coins; only Duke Ryan has that much money, right?"

Allen sighed. It seemed impossible to buy a dragon in the short term.

Duke Ryan was the master of the entire Duchy, a powerful Dragon Knight, and the most powerful and wealthy person in the entire country.

However, this doesn't mean that this species function is useless. On the contrary, this function is extremely useful!

A glint flashed in Allen's eyes. He already had a plan in mind. This species function could completely allow his territory to have a more powerful army!

"Perhaps my army can use powerful magical beasts as mounts, or flying creatures, or sea beasts. In that case, I can develop in the sea, land, and air."

Allen became more and more excited as he thought about it: "I heard that some powerful kingdoms have griffon legions! That's a powerful army that the entire Duchy doesn't have…"

"Putting aside other things, the Thistle Flower family also has its own warriors. The Thistle Flower Knight Order's combat power is also good, especially their horses, which are excellent breeds carefully selected!"

"For a knight, having an excellent mount is extremely important. Let's not talk about griffons for now; I estimate that griffons aren't cheap either. Let's create a legion that's more powerful than the Count's Thistle Flower Knight Order first!"

Allen set his goal. As a lord, in addition to developing crops to ensure the territory's living standards and the people's food and clothing, the most important thing is to have powerful military force!

As long as you have a strong military force, the territory can be expanded bit by bit. As everyone knows, the fastest way to get rich is not to develop the territory but to plunder through war!

On this continent, the one thing that is never lacking is war!

ps: It's not deliberately trying to gain sympathy, but it's really too miserable. New books need support. Asking for flowers, evaluation votes, monthly tickets, and collections. Asking for everything, alas… Asking for all kinds of data. I hope everyone will support me. Thank you.

Chapter 9: Building Rose Town! Side Quest (4 Asking for flowers, evaluation votes, and collections!)

It is temporarily impossible to expose the young dragon, but the Spirit of Nature, Amy, can be.

After all, he is the son of a Count, and owning a Spirit of Nature is not enough to attract too much attention, even if it is a wild elf.

Allen played with the young dragon Saffi for a while, and then began to have his butler, Edward, take out some of the crop seeds he had obtained from the Count.

Although Count Albert was utterly disappointed in Allen, he was, after all, his offspring. The Count still prepared a lot of things for Allen.

Wheat seeds, cotton seeds, pea seeds, some fruit seeds, and various crops were taken out.

Allen had the butler take the servants to distribute the seeds to the townspeople, asking them to cultivate some unused land and plant these crops.

"May the gods forever bless the respected and noble lord! We will never forget your generosity!"

After the townspeople learned that Allen was actually going to take the initiative to distribute the crop seeds to them for planting, they were all completely grateful to Allen.

Crop seeds are treasures, and the prices are very expensive, especially the seeds of advanced crops such as wheat and peas, which are extremely rare.

Before Allen arrived, Rose Town had no wheat fields at all, only barley fields, and not many of those.

Coarse and extremely unpalatable barley was basically the staple food here. In the Count's territory, it was food for livestock.

But here, it is the staple food of the townspeople, which shows how barren this place is.

The townspeople were too poor, which led to them not daring to buy and cultivate expensive crops.

After all, the townspeople felt that crops such as wheat and peas had long cultivation cycles and were extremely precious and fragile, with the risk of withering if they were not taken care of properly.

Compared with barley, the planting method was too cumbersome.

Of course, the main reason was that they were poor.

Now, Allen's distribution of crops directly solved the most fundamental problem. They only needed to take good care of the crops.

It was late spring and not yet summer. Rose Town, which was close to the sea, had a good climate, perfect for sowing seeds.

Allen had inspected it before, and there was still a lot of land here that could be sown, and there was sufficient labor!

Of course, Allen would not give away the seeds for free.

These seeds and fields belonged to Allen. He was just letting the townspeople sow the seeds. After the harvest, 60% of it needed to be handed over to Allen.

The townspeople had no objection to this. They even felt that Allen was taking too little. It was common for other lords to demand 80%.

Allen said that he didn't need too much food for the time being; enough was enough.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the mission!"

"Gained 100 experience points, issuing a new mission!"

"Mission: Construction. The dilapidated town no longer has any decent buildings, and even the roads are incredibly muddy. Please rebuild the town!"

"Mission Reward: 1000 experience points, a Wheat Spirit of Nature!"

A new mission immediately appeared in Allen's mind.

Rebuild the town? Another Spirit of Nature?!

Allen nodded slightly. This was also something he wanted to do.

"Grandpa Edward, help me find some craftsmen and some young townspeople to come here. I have something to say."

Allen didn't hesitate and directly spoke to the old butler.

Edward nodded upon hearing this: "As you wish, I will arrange it immediately."

Allen's miracle before, coupled with his generous sharing of expensive crops, had completely made the townspeople of Rose Town submit to Allen.

Now, upon hearing that he needed craftsmen and some young lads, many townspeople rushed over.

After a careful selection, Edward brought the town's craftsmen and thirty young lads outside Allen's castle.

"Greetings, Lord. It is an honor to be able to serve you."

The townspeople saw Allen outside the castle and immediately knelt on the ground to show their respect.

"Don't be too nervous. I won't eat people."

Allen said in a gentle tone, looking into the distance at the town.

"I've gathered you here today to talk about the issue of rebuilding the town. You've all seen…"

Allen expressed his idea of rebuilding the town, which immediately surprised everyone present.

"Respected Lord, thank you for paying so much attention to our lives, but building the town requires enough wood, but if we want wood here, we must go to those mountains to cut it down."

"But Lord, there are some wild beasts in those mountains, which are very scary and cannot be approached!"

The only craftsman in the town was a burly man with a rugged face, tense muscles, and a tall, sturdy build.

Behind him were three young apprentices.

"Oh? Wild beasts?"

Allen raised his eyebrows slightly: "No wonder the houses in the village are so dilapidated. You don't rebuild them; it turns out there are wild beasts entrenched in the mountains."

Allen smiled: "Don't worry, I will send people into the mountains to exterminate them once, and then I will also send people to protect you while you are logging."

"Of course, we also need to quarry stones to pave the roads in the town. This is a very difficult but glorious task, and I will give you enough rewards in the name of the lord."

After Allen finished speaking, a trace of joy flashed in the eyes of the townspeople.

Being able to work for the lord was an unparalleled honor for them, and at the same time, it was for the construction of the town, which made them even happier.

Who wouldn't want to live in a good house? Who wouldn't want to walk on a smooth road?

Soon, under Allen's arrangement, Marco led ten warriors towards the nearest mountain range.

They were going to kill the beasts.

Looking at Marco's departing back, a smile flashed in Allen's eyes.

Just before, the system prompt sound in his mind rang.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for triggering a side quest: Slay the beasts. Rose Town has been harassed by beasts, and the townspeople have been suffering unspeakably. As the lord, you should deal with these damn hairy beasts!"

"Mission Reward: 1000 experience points!"

Chapter 10: Side Quest, Familiar Buyer (Asking for flowers, evaluation votes, and collections!)

Allen didn't expect that the system could actually trigger side quests, which surprised him a bit. After all, it was 1000 experience points, enough for him to level up again.

You should know that he had only leveled up once. Leveling up again would make him a Level 2 Knight.

And his elder brother, the eldest son of the Thistle Flower family, Elon Thistle Flower, the future Count, and the current Viscount, was only a Level 3 Knight at the moment, heading towards Level 4.

You should know that he has the entire Thistle Flower family as his backing, while Allen has nothing.

At this rate of leveling up, would he be able to reach the Saint Realm before long?

Would he play around with building a country by then?

Allen thought comfortably.

Over the next week, Allen only had Amy constantly catalyzing magic plants. The rose garden behind the castle had completely bloomed.

Roses with magic power can be exported as the main material for magic potions or directly mixed with other magic plants to concoct magic potions.

In any case, that was a big business. If all else failed, he could also take them out to cultivate the power of his subordinates. As for himself, Allen felt that he probably wouldn't need magic potions.

After all, magic potions weren't as fast as his grinding experience.

However, in the early stages, Allen didn't have enough manpower to train his warriors, and even if he wanted to concoct magic potions, he would need an apothecary.

So, after thinking about it, Allen decided to make money and develop the territory first, and then slowly build a warrior team later.

So, three days ago, he sent the financial officer Sparrow out, asking him to go to the Count's territory to find people willing to buy magic roses.

Calculating the time, it should be about the same. Sparrow should be able to come back in the next two days.

"Lord, Marco and the others have completely cleared the surrounding beasts. The surrounding forest is enough for us to rebuild the town once."

Old Master Edward walked to Allen, who was deep in thought, and said respectfully.

Allen's eyes lit up immediately, and at the same time, he received the system prompt sound in his mind.

"Ding, complete the side quest!"