Warlord: King of All Clans

Seeing this, Norin put on a robe and hurried out, "I'll go see what kind of job he has."

Leo pulled a flying horse out of the stable in the big house. Before it could stretch its wings, Noreen jumped on and put her arms around Leo's waist.

This Pegasus had never come into contact with Noreen before, but when it sensed the powerful aura coming from her, it snorted restlessly and stomped on the spot for a while.

There is not much difference between the nature of Pegasus and wild horses. Apart from the Pegasus Knights who have been riding them for a long time, only a few people like Leo can ride them alone. They will be easily frightened if strangers approach them.

While calming Pegasus down, Leo said disdainfully, "What are you doing?"

"I'm supervising you for Olivia!" Noreen made up an excuse. "Who knows what you did when you sneaked out while the mistress was busy."

Leo didn't bother to pay attention to her. He urged his Pegasus to take off and head straight south. He soon passed the river mouth town and arrived at the hot spring villa led by the Knights of Solovy.

Noreen put her arm around Leo's waist, hiding behind his warm bearskin cloak, and sneered, "I knew it. You sneaked over to take a bath while everyone was away!"

Leo slowly controlled the Pegasus to descend and said casually, "What should we do? Let's take a bath together?"

Noreen blushed immediately, but she kept silent, her heart aching for something to happen.

The hot spring villa of the Knights of Solovy is located in the valley on the northern foot of the Buck Mountains. It has been expanded over the past few years and now has a small castle, three manors and a large number of ancillary facilities.

There are hundreds of hot spring pools of all sizes provided to the nobles alone, including large ones for banquets and small ones for private use.

All of them are open and can accommodate a thousand people for bathing and massage every day.

As Isenbol gradually prospered, nobles of all sizes were freed from the oppression of military service and achieved financial freedom, and more and more nobles came here to hold banquets.

In the past, the output of the Corner Flag Knights' territory in the mountains was extremely low, and they had a large family to support.

Add to that a few war horses, a set of armor, two attendants, and a dozen armored soldiers, there was basically no surplus. If they held a casual banquet, they would be in debt.

But now, they have a guaranteed income of 20 gold coins every year, they also have their own properties, and they can get various dividends from the United Knights every year.

Moreover, all this money is disposable income and does not need to be used to maintain troops.

The Petukhov family can earn hundreds of gold coins a month just from this hot spring villa, which is equivalent to the income of all the knights in their names in previous years.

Seeing that the Pegasus was about to land on the square of the hot spring villa, Leo did not continue to land, but flew towards the valley behind, sticking to the roof of the manor.

Norin suddenly became anxious, "Aren't we going to take a bath?"

"What are you thinking! I have to go to work."

When they arrived behind the hot spring villa, Leo found an open space to land, then took out a map and checked the terrain.

When Norin looked at his map, she found that it was covered with dense markings. A relatively straight red line ran from the Solovie Knight Territory across the Buck Mountains to the city of Xingtao on the opposite side of the mountains.

Norin understood immediately, "Are you going to build a road?"

Leo nodded, walked a mile forward according to the map, and saw the markings on the rocks.

After taking over Xingtao City, Hewan's road maintenance team planned to open a road to Xingtao City here, and sent several road exploration teams to go deep into the mountains and explore the terrain with the help of kobold scouts and werewolf warriors.

It was not until the mountain was blocked by heavy snow that the road survey information was gathered at the lord's house. After several days of research, the route was finally determined.

What Leo needs to do is to act as an excavator dragon and use Nighold's sharp teeth and claws to turn the sections of the road that cannot be opened by human power into a thoroughfare.

At Fraser's command, thousands of wild ogres came out of the mountains and gathered in Red Hill Fort, providing a large amount of labor for the early development of the Red Hill Fort mining area.

But the problem that followed was the serious shortage of material supplies.

Olivia of Riverbend, Nairn of Isenbor, Rigolav of Abros, together with Solovy of Startao and Romon of Vidanlan, the five archons worked together to prevent these wild gnolls from freezing to death before the heavy snow.

It's not that the Earldom of Riverbend is so poor that it can't even take care of tens of thousands of kobolds, but that the Buck Mountains do not provide roads for large cargo caravans to pass through.

The supplies from Isenbol had to go around a long way and travel thousands of miles before they could be delivered to the Hongshanbao mining area.

The Red Hill Mine will be the industrial center of the Earldom of Riverbend in the next few years. There will be a steady influx of people, and the miners will not have the spare energy to engage in agricultural production, so their food will need to be imported from other places.

Road construction is the first problem to be solved.

After finding the first construction site, Leo released the Alchemical Black Dragon and said to Norin, "You stay here and don't move. I'll go do some work."

Noreen nodded and said, "Don't worry."

So Leo found a comfortable place to sit down and closed his eyes.

The alchemical black dragon next to it suddenly moved, stretched its neck, and looked around.

Norin couldn't help but laugh when she saw the huge alchemical black dragon's sneaky behavior, "What are you doing?"

Leo said carefully, "Let me see if anyone is watching. How can the great Black Dragon King Nighold, the guardian dragon of the river bay, hide here and dig in the mud?"

Seeing that there was no one around, Leo controlled the black dragon to start breaking ground.

The first construction site is a stone wall on the path. It is located between the valleys, about ten meters high, and is made entirely of rocks as hard as iron.

Behind this valley, there is a canyon several miles long that can be used as a road, but it is blocked by this stone wall. Except for the wild aliens who are willing to cross the mountains, human smugglers are unwilling to cross it.

It would be too costly to open up a mountain ridge and stone wall that is more than ten meters high and more than thirty meters thick into a road, even if there is explosive gunpowder in the river bend.

But there are excavators in Hewan, two of them!

Originally, Leo and Freya did this job together, but now Freya has gone to the West to play, leaving Leo as the only laborer left.

The alchemical black dragon pounced towards the stone wall, scratching it with its sharp front claws, causing a large amount of sparks to pop out immediately. Several cubic meters of rock shattered under its claws and rolled downwards.

Excavator upgrade! Excavator Dragon!

Leo finally understood why Freya loved digging holes so much, because it felt so good!

No man can resist the joy of operating an excavator to dig earth, let alone operating an excavator to dig a stone wall.

Leo dug faster and faster, becoming more and more excited, his tongue flailing and his facial features flying around, like a Husky letting go.

Seeing the Alchemical Black Dragon that was angry with Freya, Norin finally understood why Leo could play with Freya.