Having dealt with the underwater watcher, Roland returned to Rapid City. As he munched on some black bread, he suddenly felt uneasy when he thought of the fishing nets and galleons that had been shattered by the underwater watcher. The already difficult black bread to swallow became even less appetizing.
"It's so hard for me..." Roland complained weakly about the damn winter, and then opened the territory page in the system.
The lonely Rapid City was suspended on the page. After Roland directed his consciousness towards it, he immediately obtained the current information of Rapid City.
River Rapids:
Area: One kilometer in radius.
Building units: ruined lord's castle*1, dilapidated houses*82, not very solid houses*18, dilapidated stone walls that have been in disrepair for a long time (under repair), stone wells, and blacksmith shops.
Troops: 303
Population: 104 (Trainable civilians: 31)
Comment: The lonely king led the remaining people back to their homeland. This ruin, barely enough to provide shelter, brought them some comfort. However, darkness still threatened the new king. The town had no productive capacity besides fishing, and its strong military might was perhaps its only commendable feature. Note: The town had no war potential; a single devastating defeat could extinguish it.
Abilities: As the only territory of the Kingdom of Lagrang in Middle-earth, it attracts the remnants of Lagrang. The system will guide a wave of wandering Lagrang civilians to arrive every day, hoping that the lord can properly accommodate them.
Allows the recruitment of local civilians to train Flood Infantry.
"Outrageous!" Roland casually waved away the system's light screen. After all this time, he realized his population only had 104, with only 31 male citizens suitable for military service. The most outrageous thing was that apart from fishing, he had no production capacity...
Roland is now extremely conflicted. The town has no production capacity. Apart from fishing, the only thing it can do is blacksmithing... Although it has a lava forge, without an alchemist, it can only be used for blacksmithing. And when it comes to blacksmithing, aren't the dwarves in Lonely Mountain much better than Roland's half-baked men?
It was winter, and Roland couldn't possibly let his people leave the city to open up wasteland. If they went hunting, he was afraid of encountering orcs... Now he was essentially feeding over a hundred mouths for nothing. Their only use was to help the soldiers build the city...
Roland, who was passing by the blacksmith shop, saw Ren Xiaoqiang hammering around the magic forge. After a while, a fine steel sword was reforged in the forge. This made Roland feel relieved. After all, the equipment of his soldiers really needed repairing. The iron armor was still okay...but the leather inner armor could not be replaced at all. As a result, most of the knights who used to wear three layers of armor only had two layers of steel armor left. Except for the outermost layer of plate armor and the built-in chain mail, the leather armor lining had been worn out and lost its original effect.
Roland just wanted to say that this wasn't like the game... In the game, you could just pay the gold coins for equipment damage to replenish its durability, but in real life—you had to replace it! Roland finally understood why the Knights were so good, but they had so few people to support them. They couldn't afford it! After the intense battle on Lonely Mountain, Roland's knights had been living worse and worse. The loss of a large amount of equipment couldn't be replaced, which greatly reduced the Knights' strength. And that wasn't even considering the loss of warhorse equipment...
"Oh God, please give me all the infantry... I'm obedient! I won't play knight anymore..." Roland said with despair.
"A leather workshop must be built first..." Roland began to plan in his mind. After all, leather armor, a strategic material, requires a complete leather workshop for mass production. Although ordinary household tanned leather can also be made into leather armor, the efficiency is too low.
"Let's go shopping in the mall. Maybe I can find something useful." Roland thought for a moment and decided to try his luck in the mall.
"Um, Lagrang City Guards? Not necessary!"
"Knight Lagrande...get away! I can't afford you."
"High-level Fire Staff? What use do I have for it?"
"Oh my god! Artifact! The Ring of Glory!" Roland suddenly rubbed his eyes in disbelief. The Ring of Glory was also a Mythical item in the Lord of the Rings game, higher in rank than Legendary items. As the first of the Knight's Nine Sacred Rings, it possessed a special versatility that enhanced the Knight's initial skill (Glory), rivaling Gandalf's Ring of Fire.
The Nine Holy Rings are the opposite of the Nine Demonic Rings worn by the nine Black Knights of the Nazgûl level. The nine Holy Rings correspond to nine different skills of the knight, representing the best side of the knight. They are the First Ring of Glory: it can enhance the knight's skills (glory) and make the knights he commands more powerful.
The second Ring of Mercy: Its ability is to strengthen the knight's skills (mercy). The damage suffered by the knight with the Ring of Mercy when using mercy will be halved.
The third Ring of Justice: can enhance the knight's skills (justice). After the knight wearing this ring uses justice, the damage to evil creatures will be doubled on the basis of the original damage.
The fourth ring of loyalty: can enhance the knight's skills (loyalty). The knight wearing this ring will ignore any mental attacks when using loyalty.
The fifth ring of fraternity: can enhance the knight's skill (fraternity). When the knight wearing this ring uses fraternity, the dual resistance enhancement effect within the range of the fraternity skill will be doubled.
The sixth ring of protection: can enhance the knight's skills (protection). When the knight wearing this ring uses protection, the target will be invincible while the protection effect exists.
The seventh ring of bravery: can enhance the knight's skills (bravery). When the knight wearing this ring uses bravery, he will ignore any control effects.
The eighth ring of humility: can enhance the knight's skills (humility). The knight wearing this ring will receive double the benefits when using humility.
The ninth ring: Ring of Sacrifice: can enhance the knight's skills (sacrifice). The knight wearing this ring can be resurrected when he dies after using sacrifice. The resurrection effect has a cooling time of 1 year.
The most powerful of these is undoubtedly the Ring of Sacrifice. After all, Sacrifice, as the Knight's final ultimate move, comes at the cost of igniting life and soul in exchange for exponentially increased strength. It can be said that a Knight can only use Sacrifice once in his lifetime. When the light of sacrifice blooms, it is both the Knight's most brilliant moment and the moment of his withering. The Ring of Sacrifice gives a Knight the ability to use Sacrifice dozens of times in his lifetime. It has to be said that it is a very perverted artifact. For the Knight profession, there is really no profession that can defeat the Knight during the apprenticeship period, because the apprentice Knight's skill slot is also bottomless. Have you seen any profession that has 9 skills upon awakening? The Knight is so ruthless. In addition to the glory skill that gives them the Knights, the other 8 skills are various status skills and auxiliary skills. At the same time, they also establish the Knight's position as the main force on the battlefield. These 9 skills are not only the skills of the Knight but also represent the spirit of chivalry, which is a spiritual pursuit similar to Assassin's Creed.
"500,000 wealth points? So cheap?" Roland said in disbelief after seeing the price tag on the back.
"Uh...that's right...after all, the Ring of Glory is about the same price..." Roland sighed with a frown. The Ring of Glory should be the worst among them...after all, it is not as good as other rings in terms of individual bonus, and not as good as the Ring of Fraternity in terms of group bonus. Apart from increasing the overall strength of the Knights, it has no other function, and the bonus is not that strong. The reason why it is among the artifacts is that it can enhance the number of knights. As long as you use the Glory skill together under the command of the ring owner, you can get an all-round enhancement. Imagine what it would be like if you had 100,000 knights and used this thing...even if a real dragon knight group came, they would be able to scatter their ashes for you.
"Wow... It's like going back to the pre-liberation era overnight. I bought it." Roland paid 500,000 wealth points to buy the Ring of Glory with a heartache. Oh! It hurt! I had looted Thorin and got a million wealth points to buy a few items, and now it had shrunk by more than half... Then he put the ring firmly on the index finger of his right hand.