Cooperating with them were 467 ogres, all of whom were residents of the Half-Elf Autonomous Region.

With the return of the Half-Elf trading caravan, Su Li successfully garnered a profit of 800 Golden Crowns, as well as Yurik's U-shaped Scepter. This is the symbol of the Yurik Church.

Worshippers of Yurik use the "U" shaped salute. It involves using the thumb to support the middle and ring fingers, placing them on the palm, with the index and little fingers pointing upward. This salute is used before battle and to greet other Yurik believers. Conversely, doing it the other way around is a grave insult to opponents of the sect.

Upon obtaining this scepter, Su Li immediately allocated it to the champion-level captain of the Hesse Guard Knight, the Beast Slayer, Jerald.

Apart from this scepter, the Half-Elves, as Su Li expected, brought back a considerable amount of magical artifacts and witchcraft items.

Su Li received a portion of the profits, which included 4 magic traps, consisting of two Wells of Souls and two Petrifying Gazes.

The effect of the Well of Souls is immensely powerful; it is a concealed trap underground. Once someone steps into this area, they feel their life force rapidly drained, with their strength and will gradually weakening.

This type of trap is usually set up in ancient tombs or ruins to protect the peace of the deceased from disturbance.

However, when the enemies are drawn to the predetermined battlefield by the Knights of the Sun Goddess Church, they would be covered by this trap, and those weakened opponents would suffer heavy losses when faced by the aggressive charge of the Heavy Armored Knight.

The Petrifying Gaze, on the other hand, is especially concealed. This trap is usually hidden in the eyes of statues or murals, and when a creature looks directly at these eyes, they are petrified. Such traps are used to protect secrets that wish not to be discovered, or as a punishment for greedy explorers.

The roads around Hesse Territory are not lacking in statues or shrines. If this trap is hidden among them, monsters would be caught off guard.

Aside from magic traps, other magical and rune items included a Rune Sword, a Dragon Blood Warhorse, and a powerful Frenzy Potion.

One caravan trip yielded 800 Golden Crowns plus so many rune items, which is indeed an extremely lucrative return.

If a caravan like this came every month, Su Li would not have to do anything else. Investing in one caravan a month would yield an annual income of ten thousand Golden Crowns.

But evidently, wealth is not so easily obtained. When the Half-Elf Baggins came to Su Li a second time for investment, Su Li, with the assistance of the Daily Intelligence System, directly refused the investment request. Because the next trip would hardly yield any profit.

Su Li was still more interested in buying the rune items obtained from this trip, considering that what he received was only a third of the entire haul.

This Half-Elf also understood that before the great war, it was precisely the time to make a fortune, so he sold all the items he gathered within the territory to knights intending to achieve fame and success.

War indeed can to some extent promote the prosperity of a force, boosting production, consumption, and various aspects of the territory.

Everyone in Hesse Territory understands that the battle with the Green Dragon concerns the life and death of the territory, as well as the glory and wealth of every individual.

Therefore, from the territory's lord, Su Li, to the various knight clans, farm owners, down to the ordinary Armed Attendants, Free People, and even slaves, all are doing their utmost to enhance their strength.

As long as they survive, gold, silver, jewels, wealth, and land could be enjoyed endlessly. But if defeated, all they have now would be but ephemeral illusions.

So most people are acquiring all kinds of weapons and equipment. In addition to fortress construction, the dwarves have also organized a Dwarf Guard Corps composed of brave warriors from the Dwarf Community. While not the most elite warriors, they are extremely wealthy, and everyone bought a Thunderous Firearm, quite pricey even inside Redbeard Castle.

This squadron of Thunderous Musketeers, given the right shooting range on the battlefield, could potentially unleash power not inferior to an elite Knight Order.

Aside from the dwarves, devotees of the Sun Goddess Church have also begun assembling a Free People's Corps, with Lord Rong'en leading the Hesse Guard in restructuring these determined warriors to defend their homeland.

Most of them exhausted their fortunes to equip themselves with a primary weapon and a set of chain armor. At the very least, they ensured they had a suit of Leather Armor and an Iron Sword.

Their demand is so urgent that the demand for weapons and armor from over a thousand people at once directly overwhelmed the territory's market.

In the short term, the territory simply cannot meet their armament needs.

Su Li urgently allocated 300 Long Lances, 200 steel Longswords, 200 bows, and 100 sets of chain armor into the market, but facing such huge demand, it was merely a drop in the bucket.

There are still large numbers of people in the Free People's Corps clothed in leather, wielding large sticks or manure forks as weapons.

It's not that Su Li was reluctant to distribute more weapons to these motley crews, but his armory indeed had no excess weapons left.

Even the equipment urgently allocated was collected by scraping together from his treasury.

There's no other choice; his main equipment was used to arm knights and Armed Attendants.

After all, as the number of the Free People's Corps increased, the scale of his professional army was also rapidly expanding.

Not to mention, his newly established three Directly Affiliated Attendant Corps have consumed a large amount of armor, weapons, and equipment.

The equipment forged by the territory's dwarves in a month, aside from supplementing the army's losses, also had to meet the needs of expansion, naturally leaving little else.

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