Rise from the coffin and rebuild the vampire empire

Chapter 28 Recruiting and Leaving the City

Uther's actions attracted many onlookers.

"Wasn't your camp attacked by beastmen?"

Someone asked curiously, the recent "beast man attack incident" can be said to be the hottest news in the entire New World.

Many settlements were destroyed and the colonists became food for the beastmen, which stopped countless people who came to seek opportunities in Stone Forest Port.

There are not many people like Uther who still have such confidence in the future.

"You can go ask at the docks. We just sold some Lizardman scale armor yesterday for fifteen gold dragons! For the weak, a beastman's attack is a disaster, but for the strong, beastmen are just prey!"

Uther stood in the carriage and spoke a lot with great confidence. His words caused a burst of exclamations and people talked about it.

"Fifteen golden dragons?!"

"Lizardman scales are so valuable?!"

"Nonsense! You haven't seen it before. That lizard man can bite off half of your body in one bite!"

"They were able to kill so many lizardmen, their camp must be very powerful!"

Everyone was talking at once, and soon many people chose to join Uther. There were too many people who risked everything to come to the New World in search of opportunities, and they had no way out at all.

Staying in Shilin Port, he couldn't find a job and just lived a life of eating and waiting to die. Finally, he was sold as a slave by traveling merchants and became a tool for others to work.

This is an almost foreseeable future. Instead of this, why not take another gamble? What if the camp of these people is really strong?
None of those who dared to come to the New World at this time were cowards. At least they all came with the idea of making a name for themselves. The attacks of the beastmen did break the psychological defenses of some people, but there were still many people who were unwilling to give up the opportunity.

"Is that guy one of your subordinates?"

Granny Oak drank his wine and looked at the lively scene outside with a curious look on his face.

"Yes, you should go and register too."

Karen nodded and signaled Granny Oak to register as well. Although this guy was a special talent he recruited, he still had to register. At least Uther, who was in charge of management, had to know about this person. This was a basic principle.

"Do I still want to go?"

Granny Oak muttered something, but under Karen's gaze, he squeezed out with his short legs, holding the wooden wine glass.

Uther and his six coachmen and six soldiers were busy at this time, recording the names, races, origins, ages, and jobs that they were good at of those who came to register.

These were all Karen's requests. In fact, Uther was already accustomed to this approach. Lyle also did the same in the camp, conducting a unified investigation, registering everyone's information, and then assigning work according to their abilities.

This method is much more efficient than traditional free-range farming.

Because they didn't expect this kind of thing to happen when they came, Uther was the only one in the group who could write, so he had to be responsible for the registration himself. He couldn't ask Karen to come, right?

The recruitment lasted until noon, and it took the whole morning. Uther recruited nearly three hundred young and strong men, and there were very few old, weak and sick people, probably because they did not escape.

Of course, not all of these three hundred people had fallen victim to the Beastmen attack. Many were new immigrants who had landed at Stone Forest Harbor, observing the situation. To arrive here, only to have to flee in disgrace because of a "Beastmen attack" before doing anything was clearly unacceptable to most. They were willing to follow Uther and give it a try.

"Lord Karen, we've almost reached our limit. If there are any more, we might not be able to manage them, and resource consumption will also be a problem."

During lunch, Uther reported to Karen that it was not that he did not want to continue recruiting, but that the objective conditions did not allow it.

These three hundred people, plus the two boats on Trevor's side, if the boats are full, there will definitely be no problem bringing nearly four hundred people.

Those two three-masted sailing ships were originally designed to carry people, so of course, the living conditions on board were not very good.

Seven hundred people are almost twice the current number of people in the camp. Not only are they more difficult to manage, but the consumption of food reserves is also a huge challenge.

These newly recruited people cannot create value for the camp immediately. They need to settle down in the camp first before they can find a stable source of livelihood.

Whether you are going hunting, logging, fishing, planting or doing other work, you need to settle down in the camp first.

In short, in a short period of time, they only consume without any output, which will exacerbate the depletion of food reserves in the camp.

"Then let's go."

Karen was actually very satisfied with the result. He took Uther's registration form and looked at the information recorded on it. He felt that this trip was not in vain, as there were quite a few talented people among them.

Let me put it this way, those who can escape from the beastmen's attack either have some skills or are not in the camp.

In fact, this is indeed the case. Among this list, there are many hunters, fishermen and other people with professional skills, as well as many craftsmen. It can be said that they have greatly supplemented the shortage of professional talents in the camp. The more people with professional skills, the better.

"We are finally leaving."

Granny Oak wiped his mouth and stroked his beard. Dwarves are indeed sloppy. Granny is a bit dusty and his beard is obviously tangled. This is what happens when you drink too much.

After taking a look at Granny Oak, Uther was skeptical about the dwarf's ability, mainly because the dwarf was too boastful.

When registering just now, Uther almost thought that this guy was deliberately looking for trouble.

However, since they were recruited by Lord Karen himself, Uther couldn't say much. It was impossible to hide whether they had real abilities or not. Once they arrived at the camp and started practicing, their level would be apparent at a glance.

After lunch, Uther called on those who had registered their names to follow the team. The huge team had already cost Uther twenty silver eagles as soon as they left the city.

Uther had just found out that he had to pay a fee to enter the city, and he also had to pay a fee to leave the city!
However, the exit fee will only be charged when there are too many people leaving the city. Teams with more than 50 people will be charged the exit fee.

The more people there are, the more they are charged. A team of more than 300 people is obviously not small.

If he had known that he would have to pay such a high fee to leave the city, Uther would definitely have considered the possibility of splitting up the team and leaving the city in small groups.

But that wouldn't be good for the team's morale. If you boast so much, but can't even afford the fare to leave the city, how can you expect others to have confidence in you? You have to be magnanimous!

Looking at the followers around him who were surprised that they had to pay such a high city exit fee, Uther could only comfort himself in this way.

(End of this chapter)