Chapter 155 (1/2)

A team walked slowly from the angloda mountains to the Viscount shaov of the former dabion kingdom. The speed of the team was not fast, but they did not detour. Instead, they chose to cross the whole black reef grassland and enter the black swan castle in the northwest corner of viscount shaov's kingdom.

The ancient castle is located in the southwest of the angorda mountains. It is built at an altitude of about 500 meters. The castle is built close to the mountain. There are six layers in total. The bottom two layers are built after the mountain is hollowed out. In order to make the foundation of the castle more solid, the hollowed out mountain is covered with special materials called black asphalt and mountain god ash. The castle on the mountain uses large pieces of black steel rock.

Because the castle is built on the mountain, the fourth floor of the castle is connected with a lake in the angloda mountains, which is about hundreds of square meters wide. It is said that since a long time ago, a large number of black swans will rest here every autumn in this lake, so this ancient castle is also named Black Swan Castle. Only when the war between Athena and the kingdom of dabion began, there were no black swans in the ancient castle.

When tonis fortress was built, yasna lived in the ancient castle. In fact, she came to watch the black swan, but it was a pity that she couldn't see it. Yasna knew later that the black swan hadn't visited here for a long time. The kingdom of dabion claims that these black swans are the dependents of the gods. The war launched by Athena angered the gods, so the black swans will not visit here.

Of course, Athena ignored the claims of the defeated. Only after she was annoyed and anxious, she replied, ”in the name of the gods, let's fight another war to see who is favored by the gods and who will be abandoned by the gods”. In the face of yasna's arrogant declaration, the whole country of the kingdom of dabion fell into silence for an instant, and never mentioned the Black Swan Castle again.

And Athena never paid any attention to the black swan castle, and the two sides seemed to have reached a tacit understanding.

It wasn't until Sean mentioned the castle again that Athena remembered such a thing. Of course, Asina will give the castle directly to Sean so readily. In fact, it is not because she failed to see the black swan before. Otherwise, Asina will not send the black swan castle, a rare castle in the miracle continent that can integrate fortification and beauty.

Team, go straight ahead and stop in front of the castle.

Black Swan Castle, one of the five most famous castles in the south of the whole continent, has been abandoned for many years. Now, the walls of the castle are mottled and the cracks are crisscrossed in depth. Even you can vaguely see many collapse marks left during the siege. Green plants spread all over the outer walls of more than half of the castle, with weeds. These plants with extremely strong vitality even pierced their roots into the walls, destroying many basic structures of the castle.

When she lived here for a short time, she never wanted to repair the castle.

However, Cecilia and William can also understand this. After all, the black swan castle is not just an ornamental castle. Its location also has a certain degree of strategic value - to the south is the wilderness, to the East is the kingdom of dabion, and to the north is the fortress of tonis. If we do not completely occupy the castle, taking the castle as a stronghold, any army led by shaov will be attacked or even completely cut off.

However, if yasna invested in the maintenance and use of the castle after the war, it must consume more funds. Later, thousands of troops need to be sent to defend the castle, which is a great burden for yasna. Therefore, it is understandable that Athena gave up the ancient castle and let it be completely abandoned - in other words, those who know it will only feel sorry, and no one will accuse Athena of doing wrong.

”Did you know this would happen?” When William and Cecilia saw the dilapidated castle, William finally couldn't help asking.

Sean has made a big deal in the trade capital. If he doesn't pursue the quality of armaments and materials and only configures the troops with ordinary quality equipment, he can even arm a cavalry force of 3000 people. Although it is only a light cavalry force, the value of such an army is definitely higher than that of a steel wing. If William chooses, he will let the steel wing carry out farming, and then reconfigure and train a light cavalry force.

But after seeing the black swan castle, William finally knew why Sean insisted on keeping the money.

A castle as like as two peas and a series of maintenance functions, which is a great expense, especially if the castle like the black swan castle is the same. If William wants to refurbish it to the same extent as before, does he think that the two million gold coins are not enough?

”It's much worse than I thought.” Sean smiled bitterly.

For the black swan castle, he only heard others mention it in the game, and the most impressive thing is that the renovation of the whole castle has invested about 2 million pan continental gold coins. Because of this, Sean didn't dare to spend money freely until he sold the devil's book. However, according to the current situation, the renovation cost of the black swan castle is definitely more than that.

Of course, this refers to the money needed for the complete renovation and perfection of the black swan castle.

But in Sean's mind, he can't put all his money here, because he still has more than 7000 northern barbarians and more than 1000 white wing mercenaries to settle. Although the black swan castle can accommodate nearly 500 soldiers, it is impossible for him to put all the soldiers in the castle. Who knows if there will be any accident, so it means that he needs to build at least another stronghold or directly build a new town, which means more expenses.

Two million gold coins. What should I do first?

This multiple-choice question is really difficult.

Sean thought in some distress, ”let's go inside the castle first.”