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“A month’s time?”

Richard calculated.

Under the ravages of the locust plague and the outbreak of famine, it wouldn’t take long for bandits and robbers to emerge everywhere.

Fortunately, the news came relatively early, giving them some buffer time.

In addition, the city wall has been repaired, although it’s only six meters high, but six meters is not low. It’s equivalent to the height of two city towers.

“It needs to be raised a bit more.”

Richard planned to take this opportunity to raise the city wall a bit more, even if it couldn’t accommodate people standing on top.

If someone used a ladder to climb up, they wouldn’t be able to come down once they got up. Moreover, ordinary bandits wouldn’t have such tall ladders.

Although there’s a crisis, for Richard, it’s also an opportunity. That is, maybe he can use this opportunity to increase the population of the territory!

The population of the territory is still too small, with only about two thousand people. With so few people, it’s not convenient to form an army.

These days, Richard has been continuously expanding the territory’s army, and he has just managed to expand the army to over a hundred.

In Richard’s opinion, this is still too few.

Out of over a hundred people, only about a dozen have the talent for archery. Richard gave them bows and asked them to practice archery.

Then Richard selected about thirty people and gave them crossbows.

Although crossbows are labor-saving, they cannot replace bows. The simplest reason is that bows can shoot long-distance, while crossbows are not as effective for long-distance shooting.

For example, when defending a city and closing the city gates, bows can be aimed at the sky outside the city gates to shoot at people rushing over. Using a crossbow for projectile shooting would not be as effective.

Crossbows are more suitable for direct shooting!

This has to do with the arrows. Bow arrows are long, while crossbow arrows are relatively short.

However, if crossbow arrows are made too long, their power will be affected. Similarly, if bow arrows are made too short, it won’t work!

During this famine, there will probably be many refugees. Richard can take this opportunity to gather many refugees and increase the population.

Only when the population of the territory increases can it prosper more.

However, there are also crises.

Once it’s known that Richard has food, there will definitely be large groups of bandits eyeing him.

‘We need to accelerate the progress of repairing the city walls, and we must also expand the army again.’ Richard thought.

While he was pondering, Mia and Dorothy were still chatting.

Dorothy insisted on going back to her tribe. Because of the locust plague, the reduction in food production in the beast kingdom would lead to significant chaos.

War between tribes is bound to happen!

When some tribes run out of food, they will definitely go to other tribes to raid. Dorothy was preparing to go back to her tribe to take charge.

Seeing that Dorothy was determined, Mia stopped persuading her.

“Mia, take care. When I go back, I’ll say that you’ve died!”

After Dorothy finished speaking, she prepared to leave.

“Wait.”

Richard stopped her.

Dorothy turned around and looked at him.

Richard took out a short sword he bought for over two thousand yuan from the online marketplace and said, “This sword is sharper. I’ll give it to you. Also, if you encounter difficulties in the future, you can come to me.”

Dorothy’s attention was immediately drawn to the short sword Richard took out.

In fact, Mia, who was beside her, was also attracted.

These days, Mia has been recuperating, and Richard hasn’t replaced her weapon yet.

They are both excellent warriors, and with their understanding of weapons, they naturally saw that the short sword Richard took out was much sharper than what they had used before.

Fox-eared Dorothy took the short sword and slashed it against her own sword.

The two swords clashed.

It was seen that her original sword was directly chipped, while the sword Richard gave remained unscathed.

“So sharp!” Dorothy’s eyes narrowed.

“Lord Richard, this sword is too precious…”

She felt it was too valuable.

“Just take the one I gave you, and here, take these few bags of potato chips too.” Richard interrupted her and took out a few bags of potato chips.

Dorothy’s eyes were instantly drawn to the bags of chips.

Indeed, she has the potential to be a foodie.

In the end, Dorothy accepted Richard’s sword and potato chips, then bowed deeply to him and left the castle.

Miwei watched Dorothy’s figure going away and said, “It’s too dangerous for her to go back.”

Mia said, “She’s very stubborn, but with her skills and getting master’s sword, she should be fine. After this locust plague passes, I’ll persuade her again. The teacher sent her out and didn’t intend for her to go back. If she goes back, the teacher will have to punish her.”

Curiously, Richard asked, “Who is your teacher? She seems to be a decent person from what you’ve said.”

Mia said, “I’m not sure. Since childhood, our teacher has always worn a mask, she’s very mysterious.”