Chapter 3 The Bone Castle
Under the guidance of Wright and other undead mages, two thousand skeletons occupied a tomb one by one. After entering, they found that there was a protrusion in the tomb at the hip, which could just hold the hip. In this way, the lower body did not need to carry the weight of the entire body, although the skeletons were not too heavy.
Seeing these small details, one of the necromancers couldn't help but sigh: "It's worthy of being a steel-boned collar, it's professional."
"Haha, praise me, this is my king's wise move, and all honors are supreme." As he said, Mobak turned around and bowed to the south.
Flatter! Everyone couldn't help but complain.
After settling down the skeletons, a group of necromancers walked down the hillside, a carriage drove over, and the trailer was two strong bone horses.
"Please get in the car, dear guests." Mobak invited him.
Wright and others looked embarrassed. Why didn't they ride in a carriage all the way? Can't the wizard tower afford to raise horses? Of course not, but because there is no road and no skeletons are comfortable to carry.
There is no road outside, and you can imagine the road with a steel bone collar. Don’t you step out by skeletons one by one. Wouldn’t you have to push their shit out when you ride a carriage? Why does a carriage without a road even have a steel bone collar?
Seeing the hesitation on their faces, Mobak smiled and said, "Don't worry, VIPs, don't worry. Since last year, the steel bone collar has been building roads. The road leading to the Bones Fort has been repaired in one month, and the road conditions are very good."
A necromancer called out subconsciously: "Impossible, it's repaired in one month? It's 200 kilometers from the Bones Castle here? Unless it's a small path that you step on."
The person who carried his shoulders and hand picked up his hands wanted to build a road that could open a carriage for 200 kilometers. Unless dozens of earth-type magicians keep going day and night, it is impossible to build it within one month. Can there be dozens of earth-type magicians in the steel bone collar?
The Undead Magician may be able to come up with it, but other systems are absolutely impossible.
Faced with the doubts, Mobak was not angry, and opened the window and said, "Dear VIPs, you can take a look. It is not a small path that we stepped on. Our steel bone collar has one billion skeletons. It is too simple to build a road. My king has an order to connect to every corner of the steel bone collar."
The group got on the carriage, opened the window and poked their heads out, only a series of small steps of horse hooves were heard, and the carriage slowly started.
The carriage was not fast, but it was extremely stable. Wright stuck his head out and saw a row of curved iron sheets supported between the wheels and the carriage, which constantly deformed as the carriage fluctuated, offsetting the ups and downs and making the carriage smoother.
"Is this a shock absorber?" Wright saw the effect of these iron plates at a glance, and was even more shocked, because there are so many carriage manufacturers on the mainland, with luxurious, practical, simple and all kinds of luxury, practical, and simple, but no one has ever thought of using shock absorber to increase the comfort of the carriage.
Where can I buy a steel-collared carriage? What are the advanced concepts and technologies?
"Yes, this is also the great invention of our king. There was no shock absorption device before, and the carriage transported a cart of skeletons to the point where it was shattered. Now, it's better, it's hard to find a dislocated person. My king is wise and glory is the highest." Mobak said proudly.
Wright almost choked by his saliva: "This...is His Majesty the King of Cyborgs' invention? Did you produce this carriage?"
Isn't this a steel collar? Can the undead creatures still produce carriages? Is there such an industrial foundation here?
Although the carriage does not have any mechanical structure, it is not easy to produce it at all. If you want to produce a carriage, you need at least a steel or iron main frame and wheels. If you don’t need load bearing, you can use a wooden main frame and wooden wheels, but even if you use wood, you need at least a tree, right?
There is no grass growing in the steel collar, and even if there are trees, they have been cut off long ago. Where can I get the materials to make the carriages and wheels?
Even if you get materials from other places, you need skilled craftsmen to create spokes. Are there creatures like craftsmen in the steel collar?
Then Wright thought of another question: "Can steel collar produce steel?"
Hearing this question, Mobak was naturally full of pride: "Of course, under the leadership of our king, our steel collar has successfully refined steel."
Mobak is indeed very proud. What was the case with the steel collar in the past? Barren land, barren land, dead land, nothing can survive here except for undead creatures. Not to mention steel, even a grain of rice cannot grow.
Since His Majesty woke up from his sleep a year ago, everything has changed a lot. Now he can produce steel. Although Mobak doesn't know what steel is useful to the undead, His Majesty's expectations are the goal they strive for.
However, when he thought of His Majesty's expectations, Mobak couldn't help but feel a little sad. His Majesty hoped that the territory would become lively, but in the past year, there was not a single living person in the territory. How could it be lively with these pure and desireless Lich undead?
Fortunately, Wright and others came, and the territory was finally lively.
Mobak's words made Wright and others suspicious. There was less shock, more suspicious. A necromancer asked: "How do you solve the fuel problem?"
Wright and others are necromancers who can't smelify iron, but they also know that smelting iron requires fuel. There is not a single tree in the steel collar. How can I burn carbon? How can I smelify iron without carbon?
"My king, wise, he found a burning stone. This stone is better for smelting iron than wood and carbon." Mobak smiled.
"Stone? A burning stone?" Wright and others looked at each other, which was beyond their understanding, and the questioning could not continue immediately.
However, at this moment, other things attracted their attention. The carriage had turned onto a spacious stone road. This stone road could pass four carriages side by side. The surface was grayish-white, like rocks, but it was unusually flat. The carriage was galloping on it, and there was no feeling of bumpiness.
"This...this...this...this is the road you took a month to build?" Wright's half of his body was about to get out of the car window, staring at the stone road that stretched to the end of the horizon in a daze, and asked in a trembling tone.
Wright has been to other countries before, but he has never seen such a spacious and flat stone road. Even the imperial road carefully tidied by the earth-type magician in front of the palace is definitely not so flat, and it will be bumpy after a long time of use.
The other necromancers also had a look of haunting expression. If there was such a way, it would be so comfortable for them to come over all the way.
Everyone's expressions greatly satisfy Mobak's vanity, and he boasted in a low-key manner: "This is nothing. After all, our steel bone collar has one billion skeletons, so it's not a big deal to build a road. My king meant that three vertical and three horizontal roads were built in the steel bone collar, running through the main road throughout the territory. This road leads directly to the Skeleton Fort and was named Skeleton Avenue by my king."
The undead mages opened their mouths wide, not knowing what to say. The steel-boned collar is not a small place. It is thousands of kilometers north and south, and eight or nine hundred kilometers east and west. Six stone roads worth thousands of kilometers are needed. Even the most powerful empires on the continent dare not have such dreams.
But when I think about it again, there are billion skeletons under the command of King of Steel Bone, which seems to be something that cannot be done. When Mobak mentioned billion skeletons for the first time, everyone still felt that he was boasting, but now, they really feel the weight of this number.
Chapter completed!