Durin's Diary

Chapter 646 The Grand Duke

The Grand Duchy of Zaporizhia, Vasilievka and Melitopol was finally placed on Durin's head.

"My dear, I believe you will be the worst enemy in the eyes of the young people called at the dinner party roll call."

Anta was deployed to the city of Melitopol as a support force for the Mage Tower - the combat mage system is now increasingly recognized by the military of various countries.

Compared to the powerful but small number of dragon species, combat mages only need mages who have the ability to fly and are not afraid of heights. The weapon bay made by Durin can carry various weapons and even can carry twenty-four 500-kilogram bombs.

A single attack could severely damage a Green Orc offensive - in Zaporizhia, the Green Orcs' pontoon bridge offensive suffered heavy losses and failed again and again under the fire of the battle mages.

Du Lin just smiled at this and put his arm around her: "You too, dear."

"Yes, it's all because of you. Now when young wizards see me, they put my legendary wizard identity behind the Duchess." Anta snuggled on Durin's shoulder.

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South of Melitopol, the green-skinned orcs came up with a plan - they wanted to use a fleet full of soldiers to bypass the defense line and attack the rear, but then they were attacked by battle mages led by Anta.

This time, Durin personally took charge and used the power of Zhulong to drive away the greenskin flying units.

So the battle mages attacked the enemy ships again and again as if they were training. Only one or two 500-kilogram bombs were enough to send an entire ship of greenskins into the sea.

In this battle, tens of thousands of greenskins were sent into the sea, which dealt a heavy blow to the greenskins' foundation. They were unable to organize an offensive for a week.

However, in the black market of Melitopol, the price has risen due to the temporary shortage of strong men's heads.

Du Lin didn't mind, because there were new products ready to be put on the market on the defense line further north - now all the strong men in the Great Forest had chosen the black market in Melitopol City for their brain transactions.

Because it is safe, there is no possibility of black-on-black, and no possibility of murder and robbery. Du Lin personally guarantees the safety of the lives of both buyers and sellers, which is very important in the black market.

As for the 20% tax, usually the buyer and seller each pay 10%, which is acceptable to everyone.

And now even the lowest-ranking soldiers knew that every penny of tax collected by Grand Duke Durin on the black market would eventually turn into the yellow bullets in their ammunition bags. This brought the morale of the entire defense line to a peak - before today, no duke had ever been able to do what Durin did.

But Du Lin did it today. The soldiers' bullet bags had never been so full, and the greedy quartermaster had never been so obedient.

So this Grand Duke of Durin is really useful - Durin deprived those nobles who abandoned their land and fled of their territory and noble status, and they still had to say that Durin was merciful and did not issue a wanted list to find people to hunt them down.

It’s not that Du Lin doesn’t want to kill them, but if he has to spend money to kill them... Du Lin is really heartbroken, but he doesn’t have the time to do it himself.

After all, this long line of defense requires Du Lin to run all day long.

There is also the Orekhov Fortress, which has now held out in the greenskin-occupied area for a month. Dulin even brought a group of reporters from the Western Civilization World in yesterday. They said they would spend a month collecting materials in the fortress, so they selected veterans who had received training in Dulin's training camp.

In his previous life, Dulin had never seen so many tough men go to hell together, so he hoped that every one of them would return home alive. As for the reclaimed land, Dulin unified it and began to build a giant farm. Spring plowing was about to begin, and since the defense line was strong, the farming could not stop. Although Dulin was a mixed-race child in his previous life, he had lived in southern Thailand all his life, and the desire for farming was deep in his bones.

Du Lin's actions were also greatly pleased by the Twin Mother Goddesses. Mechanized farming is nothing new nowadays. Although it is still quite novel in the Great Woods, at this stage, when even fourteen or fifteen-year-old children are packing supplies in the warehouse, mechanized planting can really free the hands of the few remaining old farmers and protect their lives.

Of course, in order to prevent them from having nothing to do, Dulin also reserved some hilly land for them to grow potatoes.

If the weather in the big forest was not too cold, Dulin would definitely plant sweet potatoes - the sweet potatoes came from Changtang and were brought by the fleet. Others didn't know, but Dulin knew - the taste of roasted sweet potatoes was absolutely a sweet delicacy for the soldiers of this era.

But it’s okay. It can’t be planted in the big forest. It’s warm in the south of the wilderness, and some have already been planted on the hillsides sheltered from the wind and facing the sun. Du Lin even arranged a greenhouse - as long as the temperature is high enough, the mass production of this thing can definitely feed many people.

The only drawback is that Du Lin will have to wait some time before he can eat the roasted sweet potatoes.

Because Dulin's focus has recently shifted to the defense, his girls have also begun to appear in large numbers on the defense.

As a sage, Alyssa's battlefield is not her strong point, but she taught herself battlefield first aid, and now she is performing battlefield surgery on the wounded on the front line with the surgical team of the God of Suffering.

This surgical team is composed of noble ladies and young ladies from all over the country. They have all learned first aid, and their parents and lovers are mostly in the east, so their surgical team has received a lot of praise.

Dulin even met Alyssa when the surgical team came to Melitopol. The little lamb in Dulin's memory who was wearing gold and silver changed into a white bulky doctor's gown. Her pure and simple appearance made Dulin feel love and pity.

Of course, Du Lin also taught them a few tricks, hoping that they could help more people.

Tanya now guards Zaporizhia together with Yara. The red-haired beauty wears her ancestral armor, with a flaming long sword in one hand and an automatic rifle in the other, and she and Yara never share the spoils of war - their share will always be given to the families of the soldiers who died in the battle.

They did not encourage everyone to follow their example, so as not to offend anyone and to make the defenders of Zaporizhia more trusting of Grand Duke Durin and his two legendary wives - in fact, Tanya was not a legend, but the power of her bloodline allowed her arcane knights to always show more powerful strength than they actually were.

And Yara, this little tigress is only one step away from becoming a legend - she is indeed pursuing the power of legend. With the full set of equipment made for her by Durin, there is no green-skinned warrior she cannot deal with. She even hunted down a warmaster alone in a one-on-one duel on the battlefield. She used the gloves made for her by Durin to smash the warmaster's head.

It is well known that the greenskin's head is the hardest part of their body.

So when the news came, the biggest gossip among the Tiger cubs was who was the weaker party when Lord Durin fought with the tigress.

This question was easy to answer. Du Lin took some time off and went to Zaporizhia, holding Yara's hand to inspect the entire defense line, and awarded military medals to those who reported their meritorious service.

Yara, who was born with supernatural powers and was the most ferocious and evil tigress in the eyes of the Tigers, accompanied Durin throughout the whole process and was as obedient as a Nicola kitten.

So the story that Lord Durin was born with even greater powers than those of a natural god quickly spread throughout the Great Forest.

In the story, Du Lin was strolling in the garden with the most ferocious and evil tigress. Judging from this, Lord Du Lin must be like this in all aspects and lives a very free and easy life.

Du Lin always shrugged off this - isn't this nonsense?

(End of this chapter)