MC's career as foreign lord

If he really relied on the territory's defenses and holed up inside, of course, he wouldn't encounter any problems, but then his territory's construction would be meaningless.

He needed to build something significant with this territory, not just cower within its invincible defenses.

What would be the point of summoning so many mercenaries if they couldn't even get supplies through the territory?

They would be forced onto the plains by the orcs' pressure and siege.

In fact, that's how it was in the beginning: the elves on one side and the orcs on the other, each using their abilities to attract adventurers from across the wasteland and earn huge sums of money.

Otherwise, did you really think the orcs would launch such a massive attack on this barren grassland?

That's impossible; the cost of their attack wouldn't even be recouped.

It's just that now it's an opportunity for them.

The elves have announced to the entire continent that they are withdrawing from this conflict, handing over all authority over the territory to Zhou Ren.

Ordinary people can only see the authority over this wasteland, but those who truly understand the continent's structure can see the deeper things hidden within, such as the right to use the entire wasteland's wealth.

This is what the orcs and elves have been fighting over for centuries.

For the current nearly depleted continental environment, every place that can be seen or grown is a place that all races are willing to fight for.

And now, as long as they defeat this lord, whether they trap him here or take other actions, they can simultaneously occupy these two fertile and wealthy lands.

If you were to say that the orcs have no selfish motives, that would certainly be unbelievable.

He is no longer the newbie who just arrived in this world; he has learned to look at a story from the perspective of the entire grand stage, or rather, the entire race.

The premise of the story, whether it's love or hate, whether it's magnificent or inconspicuous, doesn't really matter.

What matters is whether the story can bring some kind of gain to its protagonist.

Just like him, this territory lord, because the value he brings far exceeds the value brought by those two unexplored places around this wasteland, the elves abandoned it without hesitation and made him a dowry.

Even if there is more value on the continent, how can they compare to someone who will become a god?

Moreover, this young man can not only become a god, but the resources he possesses are enough to make all races envious, even those magical items, even those strange medicines, even just some newly made farm tools, all have special effects.

And the orcs' idea is even more straightforward: since they've offended him, they might as well offend him to the death.

They are not afraid of struggles at the god level at all.

Didn't Corellon fight with the orcish god many times?

As long as the two races are not completely destroyed, their hatred will continue sooner or later.

When you have too many lice, you don't feel itchy; when you have too many debts, you don't worry.

Moreover, these orcs have also tested the defensive strength of this territory, so it is more of a declaration and symbol of power.

If this lord cannot break through the orcs' attacks, then this place is just an isolated island suspended in the air.

Zhou Ren shook his head and didn't even go to check the agricultural buildings or the more extensive underground pipeline network.

Since those two apprentices started researching redstone, there have been no undead figures on the ground of the entire territory.

Even Jim only takes his skeleton legion to mine and organize the underground space, and rarely goes above ground.

All of their undead creatures seem to have tacitly moved to the underground and to the coal mine.

The entire territory's planting and industrial environment are all contracted by various races.

They receive wages from Zhou Ren, spend them in the market, and go to the virtual world in their spare time, which seems to have formed a very good cycle.

This cycle is very interesting because all the resources are provided by Zhou Ren, and the commercial value that his wages can receive is actually very good.

Almost everyone has obtained what they want.

This win-win-win situation has created the very prosperous and lively scene in the territory now.

"How great would it be if such a scene could appear on the entire continent?" Zhou Ren said.

He himself found this matter very funny.

The prosperity and happiness of his territory are built on the premise of abundant resources that are almost impossible to eliminate.

If this could really be promoted on the continent, then it wouldn't be far from him becoming the god of the entire continent.

He continued to walk forward.

In addition to these harmonious races, the overall tone of the entire territory is still tense enough.

The legions from the elves, dwarves, and a portion of humans are ready.

This group of people adds up to no more than 500, which is certainly not enough compared to the tens of thousands of troops stationed outside.

However, no one's eyes showed the slightest disappointment or frustration.

For them, this was surprising because what they were holding in their hands were not various staffs or weapons and shields, but rows of heavy machine guns that had already been manufactured.

Zhou Ren took a workbench and directly used the remaining tools to produce rows of heavy machine gun bullets.

Tens of thousands of boxes of bullets were all placed beside him.

This was the confidence he had to resist the orcs' attack.

Even if he didn't have a weapon module now, didn't he still manage to make it?

The dwarves and elves would be the main users of the guns.

The dwarves were responsible for forging bullets and cooling the guns, while the elves were responsible for controlling the guns' firing accuracy.

As for the humans, they would help at various points, preparing the defenses of various strategic points and the abandonment and blasting offensives of different locations.

Zhou Ren adopted the tactics he used in the Empire Age, extending the city walls directly, not as the main defense point, but as an extension of the attack point.

The advantage of this is that they can accurately strike some distant enemies on the city walls.

The disadvantage, of course, is that once the city walls are cut off, these people will have nowhere to escape.

However, no one thinks this is a big problem.

As long as they are all involved inside the city walls, the durability of the entire city walls will become one.

Before all the city walls are defeated, they will not be attacked in any way inside, and those shooting holes can only extend the guns out, but things outside cannot hit in.

"Very good!" Zhou Ren exclaimed.

He turned around and went back to his room.

Now that the defenses were all done, he had nothing more to say.

Everything was waiting for the end of the strong winds tomorrow.

Raising his head, he looked at the gradually thinning wind, as if he could see even more. No wonder Bahamut would stir up such a great windstorm here, not only hindering everyone's movements but also making the environment here more clear and peaceful. Perhaps in that boundless wilderness, there still lived many dragons who didn't want others to know their origins.

Dragons and gods were the two most fundamental tiers in this world. They represented absolute power and sufficient authority. If he could have a god take a stroll through his territory, wouldn't he obtain even better things?

Zhou Ren was stunned. He suddenly thought of something he had forgotten. After seeing the two gods, he felt as if something had been added to his territory, but he couldn't remember exactly what. Now, he finally remembered.

He clearly had new modules arriving, so why weren't there any notifications? That wasn't very scientific.

Zhou Ren thought that it had been a long time since a new module had arrived. He had already exhausted the possibilities of Tinker's Construct. He wondered if this time it would be about farming, technology, or just a regular combat module?

He suddenly returned to his house, looked at the built-up fireplace, and a bit of powder appeared in his hand. Then, he directly threw it in. The fireplace, which was originally burning with red flames, suddenly turned a ghostly blue.

"Now I can call myself a person of the magical world. After all, who in the magical world wouldn't know magic?" Zhou Ren said. He didn't expect the modules to come so densely this time.

Besides the Pam's HarvestCraft for farming, the relatively successful Forestry for industrialization, and various auxiliary small modules, such as Floo Powder and Lazy Person's Kitchen, plus various special kitchen tools and utensils, he suddenly had many more ways to continue his life.

But now that the Elf Princess wasn't around, it was difficult for him to conduct other experiments. Looking at the ghostly blue flames, he picked up a sign and wrote his family name on it.

Then, he directly sent a message to a certain silver dragon who should still be dozing off. When was the best time to send a message? Anyway, the other party had no concept of day and night when sleeping. Such a good tool, if he didn't use it, then he would be too sorry to himself.

A violent tremor made Anna, who was still sleeping, reluctantly get up. She opened her dragon eyes and looked at the Elven Handbook that had been turned out: "I'm coming to your place to do an experiment!"

She shivered and suddenly climbed up from the pile of gold coins, looking at the message with some surprise. "Oh! The wind is about to end. Are these two guys finally willing to come back from the Elven Kingdom?"

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This little silver dragon princess turned around and transformed back into the tall and proud High Elf appearance. Then, she tidied up her appearance and ran out quickly, not forgetting to pull Liya, who was doing her homework.

This half-dragon, half-elf little girl looked at her aunt with great dissatisfaction, then broke free from the other's hand and ran back to her seat.

"Auntie! Liya wants to finish today's homework. Can you go play by yourself?" Looking at the little girl's expression, the silver dragon shook her head helplessly, then walked to the door of her residence and saw Zhou Ren walking towards her.

This lord was indeed very popular. Everyone was constantly greeting him and receiving his very enthusiastic response.

"Oh! Our lord is willing to come back, huh? Did those beautiful elves not dazzle your eyes?" Anna said.

Although her temper had calmed down a lot, she still had a deep resentment from being alone in the territory, and she stared at Zhou Ren with some indignation.

"Where is going to play? I went to the Elven race, helped them solve the problem of the Tree of Life, went to the Elven Kingdom, and talked with several chief gods for a while. I was so busy!" Zhou Ren said, "Do you have a fireplace in your house?"

As he spoke, he walked into the other party's room. This was a very large house, as it was one of Old Ford's previous sales points, so everything inside was naturally complete.

And the silver dragon's sleeping place was directly below the house, a huge vault filled with various treasures, protected by various magic.

"Of course, there is. We can have lunch in front of the fireplace or do some other homework. Liya is doing her homework there now!"

Anna couldn't stop talking once she started, and she carefully introduced him to Liya's homework situation. "Now that you have the virtual world, even Shia can go everywhere to play. She directly carved all the magic stones into it and let her apprentices go in to learn!"

"Liya!" she said, watching the little girl obediently climb down from the bed, "How many times have I told you, finish the outdoor activities before you can go inside to study. Why do you always want to run into that world?"

"I am contacting them. Everyone is waiting for me to release magic!" the little girl said, climbing back onto the bed again, then closing her eyes. Certain virtual spores on her body vibrated repeatedly, as if she had already entered that world.

"Have you already given this thing to the Dragon race?" Zhou Ren said. He gave some spores and the Tree of Life to the Dragon race, but he didn't expect them to have planted them there. It seemed like they were using them very well.

"Many dragons are addicted to your virtual world. They fight in it every day and don't even sleep!" Anna said, "But they also gave me a lot of strange news. Now, if you go in to see, you might be able to see some secrets from Dragon Island and the gods!"

Zhou Ren sweated, "You better pay attention. If you provoke some gods, I can't save you!"

This silver dragon was getting bolder and bolder. From only daring to broadcast some Twinkle Twinkle Little Star at the beginning, to now daring to broadcast news from various royal families and different gods at will, she was really daring.

"What's there to be afraid of? As long as I stay in your territory, even the Dragon God's punishment can't reach me!" Anna said proudly, then patted Zhou Ren's hand. "Aren't you going to do an experiment? What experiment?"

Zhou Ren reacted, took out the remaining bit of green powder, and threw it directly into the furnace, "A simple special function, a bit like a portal-like Floo Powder, which can be transmitted in a one-way world. As long as you have enough Floo Powder, you can transmit indefinitely!"

"Such a magical thing?" Anna's eyes lit up.