The formation of the city’s governing institutions and bureaucracy.”

"Well done. You are indeed the best apprentice I have taught in all my studies." Vanessa praised with satisfaction.

"I'm not worthy of it. I have studied magic for twelve years, but now I am only a level 7 mage. But I am a little strange, why did you and Master Jeffrey suddenly interfere in the affairs of the Nelanser Islands?"

The young man asked with a confused look.

"Haha, it's very simple. Researching advanced magical knowledge and skills requires a lot of money. And controlling this place is equivalent to controlling the most important maritime trade route in the southern part of the west coast. If everything goes well, Jeffrey and I will not have to pay for research in the future.

I'm worried about funds." Vanessa explained half-truthfully.

Although he really wanted to tell this most beloved disciple the truth and then invite him to join the organization and become a core member.

But considering that transforming a lich requires a minimum casting level of LV11, we still have to give up temporarily.

What's more, since the other party is still so young, it is very likely that he will refuse because of his greed for worldly desires.

But it doesn’t matter.

After a few decades, the young and strong body begins to slowly age, and the whole person gradually loses energy, and then you will be able to feel the benefits of becoming a lich.

"That's it!" The young man nodded thoughtfully. "By the way, I have another news to report to you. It is said that recently, someone saw a ghost ship in the area where the last sea battle took place."

"Ghost ship?" Vanessa frowned subconsciously.

As a necromancer, he is very aware that the legends about ghost ships in most sea areas are just stories made up by drunken sailors to scare people.

But despite these false information, some ghost ships are real.

Some of them are captains and sailors who are unwilling to die. They are transformed into skeletons or zombies with bodies in places where negative energy gathers. Others are transformed into incorporeal undead creatures such as ghosts and wraiths.

The former is not bad, as long as a few fireballs hit it and sink it, the ghost ship will naturally disappear.

But if it is the latter, it will become very troublesome.

The reason is simple!

When the souls are attached to the hull, they will use various things to repair the damaged ship, giving it extremely terrifying destructive power.

Some powerful enough banshees can even simulate the nine-ring [Banshee's Wail].

With one voice, you can kill a large number of living creatures around you in an instant.

The young man responded with a serious expression: "Yes, it is a ghost ship. I personally went to investigate the waters and found that there is negative energy remaining. In other words, if nothing else, this ghost ship is real."
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"Okay, I understand. Here, this is your reward for completing this mission."

As she spoke, Vanessa threw several scrolls and a book to her apprentice.

"Thank you very much!"

The young man quickly caught it and turned away happily.

Since you can get contribution points by completing the corresponding tasks, and then choose what you need from the reward list to redeem them, the apprentices who were sent here were very motivated.

After all, compared with having the instructor decide what to learn, this "clearly priced" change is obviously more in line with young people's appetite.

Similarly, the lichs have also discovered that through this simple and easy-to-understand motivation method, they only need to pay very little to improve their apprentices' enthusiasm for work and study.

As a result, they expanded their recruitment scope, and even some "wild mages" were attracted and unknowingly became peripheral members of the organization.

However, Vanessa didn't pay too much attention to the news about the ghost ship.

His most important task at this stage is to make the Dukes of Baldur's Gate who publicly humiliated Zuo Si pay a heavy price for this.

The economic blow is just the beginning, and there will be a whole set of combination punches to follow.

With Vanessa's character of revenge, if she cannot completely destroy the development potential of Baldur's Gate, then this revenge will not be complete.

……

At the same time, far away in the underground of the Ashkatra Mage Tower in the capital of Amn.

Thousands of goblins who have transformed into werewolves are wielding picks, shovels and hoes to dig out caves and tunnels in places that have been dug by ground worms.

Three hobgoblins who also transformed into werewolves kept taking turns whipping those who tried to be lazy and slippery.

After a long period of excavation, an intricate maze structure has been formed underground in Zuo Si’s mage tower.

In some relatively large areas, a large number of mushrooms and moss have been planted.

Torches with everlasting flames hung on the ceiling above their heads can provide the latter with a small amount of light necessary for growth.

In addition, they also raise some creatures that are special to the underdark region - Los beasts, which are actually a type of cattle that can survive in dark environments.

How can the milk of this creature be made into cheese? The meat can be eaten, and the bones, leather and hair also have their own uses. They are the most commonly raised livestock by various intelligent races in the Underdark.

Through the secret channel provided by the shadow thieves, the Mage Tower spent money to purchase a batch of milk, and used the milk they produced as one of the means to supplement nutrition and calcium for the goblins.

In particular, those goblins who have been manually screened for high obedience and their descendants can get a cup of fresh milk every day.

After a period of time, you can clearly see that the latter's height and body shape have become much larger than similar ones.

They no longer engage in heavy physical labor with a very high casualty rate, but are trained to become warriors, assisting the hobgoblins in strictly managing this large goblin community.

Every day, almost a dozen goblins with the lowest work efficiency are selected, and their brains are eaten by strange objects first, and then the bodies are thrown into the deep pits dug by ground diggers in public, so that other goblins can watch them being killed alive.

of torn into pieces.

As for those who die from overwork or accidents, they will be directly resurrected as zombies, controlled through the [Scroll of Control of the Undead], and continue to engage in tasks they did not complete during their lifetime.

Currently, the number of goblin zombies is almost the same as that of goblins.

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So there is no need to worry that the latter will riot because they can't stand it anymore.

If they dare to do this, the result will only be a brutal massacre.

More dead goblins will be transformed into low-level zombies, that's all.

Seeing the busy scene of these little monsters, Wilmes couldn't help but smile and commented: "I have to admit that when it comes to ruling and squeezing slaves, Soth does have talents that others cannot match. He always knows how to make the most of them.

The resources on hand can continue to create value even after the slave dies."

"No, you are wrong. In the eyes of the owner, creatures such as goblins, orcs and kobolds are not human beings at all, so they are treated with another standard. Strictly speaking, goblins cannot be classified as human beings.

Instead of being classified as slaves, they should be classified as domestic animals and tools." Qiwu corrected through the spiritual connection.

"Tools?"

Wilmes showed a surprised expression on his face.

Qiwu responded without thinking: "That's right. It's a tool. A living tool.

The owner will not intentionally abuse or torture them, but he will also not have any emotions towards them.

The workload of each goblin is arranged according to the upper limit of his physical strength.

This is a precise calculation in a state of absolute sanity.

As for those who failed to hold on, it is like tools that will wear out after being used for a long time, and eventually break down."

"What if there are priests or shamans among them? Goblins have their own pantheon." Wilmes asked with interest.

You must know that in Faerûn, enslaving a certain race in large quantities for a long time will have certain risks.

Because their desperate prayers will be heard by God.

God will grant those with priest qualifications magical powers and encourage them to take the lead in resistance.

But the strange thing said in a tone full of contempt: "Goblin gods? The precautions and suspicions among them are exactly the same as those of the chaotic goblins. Moreover, the incarnation of the main god Magnubiya has been attacked by adventurers more than once.

He has been killed before, and he is afraid of leaving his territory from the bottom of his heart. I don’t think he dares to provoke his master for a mere group of goblins.”

"Hahahaha! That's right! Their gods are timid and cowardly, and there is nothing to fear." Wilmes laughed and made naked mockery.

Although the level of divine power is one of the important criteria to measure whether a god is powerful or not.

But the battle between gods is very complicated.

The combat effectiveness of many gods with weak divine powers is no less than that of those with powerful divine powers.

The most typical example is Tiamat and Bahamut, the pair of dragon gods who oppose good and evil.

They all have weak divine power, and their influence on the material world is also very weak, but no god with medium or strong divine power dares to boast that he can defeat two dragon gods in a one-on-one duel.

In the same way, although the Goblin Lord Magnubier is a powerful god, the power and ability of his incarnation are really not worth mentioning.

In Faerûn alone, the number of recorded kills exceeds hundreds.

Even many high-level spellcasters and warriors have killed the incarnation of this god.

Many adventurers who defeated or even killed the incarnation of Magnubia might not have known that they had inadvertently destroyed the incarnation of a god, but mistaken it for a mutated and powerful goblin-like creature.

It’s like losing “God” all over the place.

Therefore, Magnubiya rarely chooses to incarnate in the material world.

Otherwise, with the current defense power and remaining personnel of the mage tower, his incarnation can be killed more than a dozen times every minute.

It can even be said that among the many incarnations of gods that have come, none are weaker than the goblin gods.
To be continued...