Chapter 857 The Lord of the Plateau

Unify the Sain Plateau?

Renn looked at Captain Marius and did not answer immediately.

During the Third Era, when Gilman was not seriously injured and asleep, the Makurag tribe did not unify the plateau at its peak, occupying a quarter of the entire plateau, but that was already the most brilliant glory of Astarte.

Since the new era, the Sain Plateau has always been a mess.

Dozens of barbarians of different branches, hundreds of tribes of all sizes, as well as the same number of trolls, ogres and many primitive and backward intelligent races, were scattered on the vast plateau, and no real overlords had ever appeared.

This situation has a lot to do with the Empire. The Empire does not allow the Sain Plateau to be unified and then poses a threat to the Empire.

However, the Sain Plateau was not the territory of the empire.

Renn asked with thoughtful thought, "Captain Marius, do you know why the Empire has not incorporated the Sain Plateau into the territory?"

"Because it's not worth it." Marius replied immediately.

Renn nodded.

Yes, not worth it!

The area of ​​the Sain Plateau is too large, almost equivalent to half an empire. Although it has not been accurately surveyed and mapped, it is estimated that it is 40% of the empire's area.

However, there are not many valuable resources in such a large territory, but there are only a small number, with steep terrain and extremely high altitude, and it is difficult to transport and export even if there is resources, and the freight cost exceeds the resource itself.

The environment of the Sain Plateau is also very harsh, with a huge temperature difference between day and night, lack of oxygen, hurricanes, extremely cold weather, etc., making it unsuitable for ordinary people to live. Only naturally strong and tenacious races like barbarians, ogres and giants can adapt, but they are also uncomfortable and can only survive.

The wisdom races living on the plateau may be less than 20 million.

You should know that Congatero, which is only one-twentieth of the Sain Plateau, has a natural environment that is even worse and has a population of 30 million.

Moreover, the tribes on the Sain Plateau are very scattered.

The resources are barren and the land is vast and sparsely populated. These two factors make the Sain Plateau almost worth conquering. Since the establishment of the empire, no one has ever thought of unifying it.

Further west is the difficult-to-cross the world mountains, which together with the Sain Plateau forms a natural barrier to the west of the empire. There will be no enemy invading the empire from here and there is no need to conquer. The Sain Plateau is also the sphere of influence of the empire, but it is just a name.

"Since Captain Marius knows the difficulties of unifying the plateau, why do you still have this idea?" Renn asked strangely.

The Makurag tribe has developed rapidly in recent years and has followed itself to become an extreme warrior, but the total population is still less than 10,000.

Without the ultimate warriors, it would be difficult to even save Astat, let alone unify the Sain Plateau.

There is no such obligation in the covenant signed by Glamorgan and Astart.

Marius looked at the Lei Zhu Tianbing in the mechanical alchemy room, with a little scruple on his face. He didn't know that Lei Zhu Tianbing was a clone, and Ren was unwilling to explain and opened a portal.

"Come with me."

Renn took him through the portal and came to an unmanned meditation room at the base of Fort King Kong.

"Sir, I want to unify the plateau not for myself or for the tribe." Marius's expression was very serious. As if Ming had thought for a long time, he finally decided to tell a major secret and said solemnly: "I am for my Lord Gilliman."

"Oh?" Renne vaguely guessed.

Marius whispered: "My Lord Gilman has been dead for thousands of years. My people thought He was in a deep sleep and could not respond to prayers, but one day He would wake up."

"Isn't that the case?" Renn asked knowingly.

"No!"

Marius shook his head, "My Lord did not die, but was seriously injured. At the end of the last epoch, Gilman was attacked by the Lord of Darkness in the divine war, leaving a terrible wound on the body of the divine body. The Lord of Darkness's divine power eroded my Lord and was difficult to expel it. Gilman could only close the kingdom of God and use all his divine power to heal his injuries, but it has not been completed until now..."

"My Lord concentrates on healing wounds, and there is no extra divine power to bless him, and the believers are gradually lost."

"In the end, even the clergy of 'glory' was taken away, the reputation of my Lord declined, the number of believers decreased, and only we, the Makurags, were still holding on to it."

Marius's expression was heavy.

Speaking of this, he stared at Renne: "In fact, my Lord Gilman has always been able to respond to believers, but in order to save divine power, only the patriarchs of Makurager knew this secret and would communicate every few years."

"The last time I communicated with my Lord was the eve of the Lord coming to Astat."

Renn looked a little surprised, and there was a sudden realization on his face, sighing: "So that's it." He had guessed that Marius's purpose, or Gilleman's purpose.

What the unification of the plateau wants is not territory, but the population of 20 million.

"Gilman wants to redevelop his believers?" Renn asked.

"yes!"

Marius focused his head and said with hope: "My Lord's injuries have gradually improved, but there is no divine power provided by believers. If the barbarians on the plateau can return to the embrace of our Lord and pray to Him, they will be completely healed in just a few years and wake up."

"Is this what Gilman told you, or is it your own speculation?" Renn asked thoughtfully.

"What my Lord said in his own words." Marius said with certainty.

Renn nodded slightly.

The Eye of the Soul confirmed that Marius was telling the truth, and that he had also seen Gilman in the Temple of Astat. His situation matched what Marius said, so there should be no falsehood.

To be honest, he didn't want Gilman to wake up.

Extreme warriors are very important to themselves. Each Extreme warrior is his own symbiotic, but at the same time, they are all believers of Gilleman, pious and firm. Even if they have built them into the most powerful legion in the world, they have not shaken their faith.

The true body of the god of Gilman is in the Temple of Astat, where is His Kingdom of God. When He wakes up, he will definitely rely on the Extreme War Chapter to restore his reputation and regain his "glory" clergy.

At that time, I will inevitably be involved in the struggle between gods.

The clergy of "Glory" now belongs to Vivian, the "Knights and God of Glory", who is usually called "the fairy in the lake", and is located in the north of the empire. The people of the entire kingdom are believers of the fairy in the lake.

Although the fairy in the lake is not the most powerful among the gods, it is second only to a few gods, and is definitely much stronger than the Gilman who almost fell.

Rennes was not willing to be enemies of the fairies in the lake and His kingdom for Gilliman.

The interests of both sides are inconsistent, who should the extreme battle group listen to?

He was not sure that the extreme warriors would give up their faith. More importantly, the power of the entire battle group was based on the super-absolute element of "primary symbiosis", and "primary symbiosis" was given to the Marcusag barbarians by Gilman.

God can give blessings or take them back.

"grown ups!"

Marius seemed to have guessed Renne's thoughts. He thought about this for more than a month, "My Lord specifically told me that the ultimate warriors are not free to unify the plateau. My Lord is willing to give something of equivalent or even higher value as reward."

"What's the reward?" Renn raised his eyebrows, and he was quite interested.

"Please look, sir."

Marius took out a map of animal skins from the dimensional space attached to the power armor. Renn recognized at a glance that this was a map of the Sain Plateau. The production was quite exquisite, but it did not draw the area shape of the plateau, as well as mountains and river trends, and marked a large number of locations.

He noticed dozens of red marks on the map, which were very conspicuous.

"This is the distribution map of the mines on the Sain Plateau." Marius said: "Everyone knows that the resources on the plateau are poor, and overall it is indeed the case. But no matter how barren, there are always some huge mines buried under such a large plateau. The biggest difficulty is how to find the location."

"My lord was the lord of the plateau more than ten thousand years ago. He ruled the mortals here and was familiar with every place on the plateau."

"No one knows where there is a mine, and no one knows better than my Lord."

He pointed to a mark on the map, "For example, here, this is a mitril silver mine with a huge reserve, which is definitely no less than the largest mitril silver mines in the empire. If mined, the annual income can reach tens of millions of gold shields."

“And here.”

"There is a gold mine buried under that mountain. It is of high quality and is not difficult to mine. It is not far from the Osian province on the border of the empire."

Marius pointed to several red marks in succession, and said as if he had known them, there were as many as five gold mines as the other magic metal mines, iron ore, copper mine, coal mine, etc., in total dozens of them.

These mines are distributed on the Pillar Sain Plateau. Some mining and transportation are not difficult, and some are too far away, so the mining cost is very high.

But undoubtedly, the value of this map is immeasurable.

This is not a map, but a treasure map!

If it spreads, the Sain Plateau would attract many madness from the upper classes and nobles of the empire, and in a blink of an eye it has gone from a barren land that no one cares about to become a coveted golden land!

Rennes was immediately moved.

Needless to say, the economic benefits of the mine are its greatest use is to provide materials for building Star Destroyers. In its own plan, Star Destroyers will definitely have more than one or two, or even three or five, and more than ten are possible, and they will be built larger and bigger, and their power will become stronger and stronger.

Each Star Destroyer consumes countless metal materials, and if you buy them all, you will have to pay extremely high procurement costs.

And even if I have so much money, I can't buy enough materials in the market.

Provide raw materials from the Sain Plateau mining site to minimize the cost of manufacturing a star destroyer, and use the excess profit elsewhere, such as purchasing other manufacturing materials, perfectly solving your own shipbuilding plan!

It is also very concealed to build a star destroyer on the Sain Plateau.

When working in mining farms, you can consider working with the mechanical union and then bringing dwarves that can adapt to the plateau climate. Just now the dwarves are in full swing, so you can promise to give them some territory to build new homes and move them out of the world's mountains.

Renne's mind flew around and thought of many plans.

The Sain Plateau must be taken down and become its own base for manufacturing star destroyers!

But he was not blinded by the interests. He looked at the tall Commander Marius and smiled and said, "I haven't agreed yet, just show the mine distribution map. Are you not afraid of my objection?"

“My brothers and I fully believe in your noble character.”

Marius sincerely praised.

Then he said, "My Lord said that this mine distribution map is just one of the rewards. After He wakes up, he will give the Lord a more precious gift."

More precious gift?
To be continued...