The Great Arcanist Who Traveled Through the World of American Variety Shows.

Chapter 541 Initial Scale
After hearing Mia's words, the druid felt like a deflated ball.

If even these nature spirits cannot contact the gods, then it is obvious that the gods really no longer respond to their believers.

Richard shook his head slightly. The gods were now in a difficult situation, and the creator of the monotheistic religion was just about to nail the lid of the coffin for the polytheistic gods.

"How many people do you have now?" Richard asked directly.

"Who are you?" After hearing Richard's words, the druid priest looked at Mia and said.

"He is Richard, a hero who is here to help us!" Mia said directly.

In Greek and Roman mythology, nature spirits often seek out the chosen one, the hero, according to fate's arrangement.

After hearing Mia's words, the druid in front of him was slightly stunned, and then a glimmer of hope rose in his heart. After looking at Richard carefully, he said this.

"There are only one hundred and thirteen of us left."

Richard said directly: "You have nowhere to go now, are you willing to work with me?"

"Although you are a hero recognized by the spirits of nature, I still want to see for myself, otherwise I won't be able to convince them to follow you." said the druid priest.

Richard nodded, then said, "Of course."

"You can take action now."

Seeing that Richard was so carefree and didn't take out any weapons and didn't even wear armor, the druid priest's face became very solemn.

He knew that every hero recognized by the spirits of nature was a strong man, such as Hercules, Odysseus, Perseus and so on.

The druid drew out his one-handed hammer and picked up his shield, and rushed forward with his burly body like a bull. This druid was not only the priest of these people, but also the strongest among them.

Their strength far exceeds that of the Roman regular army soldiers. These Celts and Druids had held out for many years under the attacks of the Roman heavy infantry legions.

Bang!

Although Richard did not use magic, with his physical fitness that surpassed that of a dragon, it was easy for him to control a druid.

Richard was extremely fast. He moved forward quickly and kicked the druid priest, sending him flying back at an even faster speed.

The people around only saw a flash before their eyes, and then they saw the High Priest flying backwards several meters. Several people around hurried forward to help him.

The crowd watching was stunned.

Richard's personal tower spirit system rated the druid as level two, which was equivalent to a level 7 fighter.

There is still some natural power left in his body, which should be the power bestowed by the gods. Unfortunately, there is not much left now. Richard estimated that his strength at his peak should be able to reach level 10.

Having lost the power of nature, he is now just a pure level 2 blank warrior.

"I'm fine." The druid priest got up and said to everyone. Based on the force just now, he thought that at least a few ribs would be broken, but when he got up, he found that he was actually unharmed, just with some dust on his body.

The Druid priest immediately understood that Richard was holding back. After personally experiencing Richard's power, the Druid priest was very excited.

He pushed aside the tribesmen who were supporting him, walked forward quickly, and then knelt down directly in front of Richard and said: "Great hero Richard, I, Drenos, pledge my loyalty to you. I swear to follow your footsteps forever, and I will never regret it until I die, until the end of the world!"

Seeing the actions of the High Priest, the Celts around him knelt down and surrendered to Richard.

Richard stepped forward and took the initiative to pull Dranos up.

"Very good, since you are willing to follow me, then I can guarantee that after defeating Monotheism, I will grant you a piece of land so that you can live freely!"

"Next, you need to reorganize and train. In the forest across the mountain ridge, I have already subdued some warriors. They are accumulating strength and training. We need to gather more forces to overthrow this cruel and dark society!"

Next, Richard got to know these Celts. There were only about a hundred people in the camp, including a dozen children, half of whom were women and the remaining half were men.

These Celts were poorly trained, probably only at the level of Roman Empire militia, and were poorly equipped, with only some leather armor or even no armor.

Without reorganization, they have basically no combat effectiveness, but fortunately, many of these people are hunters and also farm the land, so they can barely be self-sufficient.

Richard gave them some salt and tools and asked them to continue training here.

Arming these people requires a lot of equipment. Richard had never prepared weapons or armor before. In the era of floating cities, ordinary weapons and armor have long been eliminated. As for those puppet golems, they are also supernatural forces in this world. If they are used, they will be discovered by the world consciousness.

He doesn't want to be discovered by the world consciousness now. Building high walls, storing up food, and slowly becoming king is the right path. Those who stand out quickly will inevitably be hit hard.

Although the Roman Empire was in decline, it still had the power to deal with these people. Then Richard successfully recaptured two exile camps in the same way, and the population under his control exceeded one thousand.

Of course, there are only more than 300 people who can actually fight, and there are less than 100 people who have the combat effectiveness of a normal army.

Richard dispersed these people in three surrounding camps, and then began to train and integrate these soldiers. While Richard was integrating these people, a dozen or so people began to come to him from the mountains and forests every day.

These people included bankrupt farmers, deserters, and some pagans who were unwilling to believe in monotheism.

In just half a month, the population of Richard's camp reached two thousand people.

"My fame has spread so widely now?" Richard was a little surprised.

These days, more and more people have been coming to seek refuge, which makes Richard realize that something seems to be wrong.

After Richard inquired, he found out that it was the work of the druid priest he had subdued. Dranos was a druid priest, although he was now a refugee hiding from place to place.

However, polytheism still has some foundation. Although monotheism has gained the upper hand, polytheism has not been completely wiped out.

After all, just a few decades ago, polytheism had joined forces to fight back, and the emperor who supported polytheism almost succeeded.

After deciding to follow Richard, Dranos began to contact the remnants of the former polytheism.

The Holy See has monastic temples, and polytheism naturally has similar organizations. Although this organization was almost destroyed after the attack, some people still survived.

In addition to these people, some polytheistic priests also survived, some of whom hid in the mountains, some as merchants, and some even among the nobles.

Dranos still had connections with these people, so under his propaganda, these polytheistic priests began to spread Richard's reputation.

As a result, there was an endless stream of people coming to join him. From this point of view, the benefits of conquering Drenos were still huge.

In just over half a month, his name had spread throughout Gaul and to the province of Frankfurt.

It was not enough to just have enough manpower, he also needed enough weapons and equipment. Most of the people who came to him had some simple weapons, not to mention the imperial standard armor and weapons.

It would take a lot of weapons and equipment to arm these people.

In this era, the buying and selling of weapons and equipment is also prohibited, and it is not easy to purchase them.

Richard thought about it and decided that he could only rely on himself now. Although he couldn't use high-level magic now, he could still use some low-level magic.

In addition, there is sufficient iron smelting technical information. As long as the iron ore is found, it can be mined to make a batch of weapons and armor.

So Richard began to look for iron ore and coal mines in the mountains. After deciding to mine the iron ore and smelt iron himself, Richard began to prepare to gather a large population.

Both mining and iron smelting require a large number of manpower.

Even though he now has more than a thousand people under his command, if such a small population is really put into mining, not much minerals can be mined.

Fortunately, what is least lacking in this era is manpower.

As Richard's reputation continued to spread, large numbers of exiles began to gather around him in the mountains and forests of Gaul.

Next, Richard found an iron mine in the mountains that was easy to mine. He then ordered people to mine the iron ore and build a furnace to smelt iron.

Richard did not teach these people overly advanced technology. What he taught was basically the same as the current iron smelting technology of the Roman Empire, and he made some improvements to some details.

Then they began to dig mines in the mountains and forests and build blacksmith workshops.

Most of the more than 2,000 people participated in the construction. Fortunately, Richard had enough food to sustain the high-intensity labor of these people. If someone else came, even if he had the iron smelting technology, it would be impossible to build an ironworks here.

The abundant food boosted the morale of the exiles, and the ironworks was built very quickly. The mine on the other side had also been dug, and the tools used to mine the ore were made by Richard himself.

If he doesn't take action, it will become more difficult to mine the ore.

Fortunately, there are some craftsmen among the more than 2,000 exiles. Although the skills of these craftsmen are very ordinary, it is better than starting from scratch.

About a month later, the blacksmith shop finally succeeded in producing an iron sword.

Richard took the iron sword and tested it, and found that the quality of the iron sword was so-so, barely comparable to Roman standard weapons. However, after becoming more proficient in it, the quality should be improved.

Richard did not ask the blacksmiths to make a large number of long swords, but chose to make spears and iron armor. It was most cost-effective to train these people under him to become popular.

(End of this chapter)