Chapter 135: Ivan_1
Translator: 549690339
Windbreak belts were planted outside the whole ika plain, which could also act as guardrails. Tall and straight birch trees were mostly planted in the windbreak belt. Thorny vines and Bramble grass were also planted between the big trees.
Thorny vines and Bramble grass were very common on the continent. Many villages were afraid of being attacked by magic beasts and would plant some thorny vines and Bramble grass outside the village. Although these things were not very useful to some high-level magic beasts, they were still very good for protection against some low-level magic beasts.
It was said that the whole of ika Plains had over a million acres of land. How many trees would be needed to surround such a large piece of land? it was clear how much money the Versailles family had spent.
There was another feature in ika plain, which could not be found in other places except for ika plain. There was no civilian or small noble here. Besides the Army of Versailles clan, there was only one kind of people living in ika plain-slaves.
That’s right, there were no civilians in the ika Plains. Everyone was a slave, a slave of the Versailles family. The ika Plains was so large that it would take at least hundreds of thousands of people to till all the land here. Some of these hundreds of thousands of slaves had already settled down here. Now, there were millions of people living in the entire ika Plains, millions of slaves! What kind of concept was that?
On the ark continent, a medium-sized city would have a population of a few million. A smaller city would have a population of about a million. A small city would have a population of only a few hundred thousand. In other words, the Versailles family had a slave population of a medium-sized city.
This was a huge sum of money, definitely a huge sum of money. Just based on this amount of money, the Versailles family could be considered one of the few large families in the aclaw Empire. It was no wonder that they would hit him when he was down.
The old king of the Arkas Empire wanted to deal with the big families, and the Versailles family was one of them. The Buda family was a knife in the hands of the old king of Arkas Empire. It could be said that the engagement between the Buda family and the Versailles family would not have happened if it was not for the pressure of the old king of Arkas Empire.
Even though evovan fancier was close to ya Guang’s father and could be considered a good friend, as the head of a large family, he could not make too many decisions. Even if he was the head of the family, there were still many things that he could not control.
Ivan was a good person. When he was young, he met Adam’s father when he went out to train. They had a good conversation and became good friends.
When Ivan became the Grand Duke of the Duchy of Versailles, he wanted to help the Buda family. However, when he was in a position of power, he realized that there were many things that he could not make the decisions for.
Sitting in that position, he had to bear the responsibility of the entire Duchy of Versailles, and he also had to protect the interests of the old nobles. So when he became the Grand Duke of the Duchy of Versailles, he was already on the opposite side of the Buda family.
In addition to the patriarch, there was also an Elder Council in the Versailles family. This Council was formed by the elders of the family’s direct or branch family. These elders used all kinds of benefits to weave a large net, trapping Ivan in the middle, preventing him from moving.
Then, the old king suddenly passed away, the new king took over the throne in a bloody manner, and the Buda family was in great trouble. Ivan wanted to help but he had no choice. In the end, he could only use his own strength to save Adam’s life. It could be said that if it was not for Ivan’s Secret help, green and Merlin would not have been able to save Adam.
However, the elder Council had found out that he had secretly helped the Buda family. Those elders had United to put pressure on him, and his power as the patriarch had been greatly weakened.
Ivan also felt like a puppet, but what could he do? he was still a member of the Versailles family, and the blood of the Versailles family ran through his veins. The seal of the Versailles family was branded on his bones, and he could not leave the family.
In the eyes of outsiders, he was the Grand Duke of Versailles, but Ivan knew that he was just a decoration, a decoration to the elders.
Although Ryan Versailles was Ivan’s daughter, he didn’t get along with her. Ryan’s mother was the daughter of an elder with a different surname in the family Council. She married Ivan so that she could better control him.
It was for this reason that Ryan was not close to his father, Ivan. On the contrary, he looked down on Ivan and was very close to his grandfather.
The Versailles family had allowed Ryan to get engaged to Adam because of the pressure from the old king. Now that the Buda family had fallen, the Versailles family naturally wanted to break off the engagement, but they couldn’t let go of their pride, so the matter was dragged on.
However, Ryan was chasing her too closely. In addition, her grandfather really doted on her, so she sent people to the black soil wasteland to check if the Buda family was dead. If they were not dead, they could go and kill them. However, they didn’t expect that Zhao Hai would be so angry that he thought of releasing the insects.
Zhao Hai and green had already reached the outskirts of the area. There were many small villages around the area, and the villagers were all civilians. Many of them originally lived on the ika Plains, but were eventually driven out by the Versailles family. A large piece of fertile land was given to the Versailles family, and now they could only make a living on the barren hills around the ika Plains.
These people could not enter the ika Plains, firstly because the Versailles family’s Army was watching over them, and secondly because of the windbreak zones outside the ika Plains.
Zhao Hai and green were standing outside the windbreak. Looking at the windbreak that was at least 100 meters wide, Zhao Hai could not help but sigh, ” “What a large sum of money. This Versailles clan is truly formidable. Just planting these trees alone requires so much manpower.”
Grimm nodded and said, ” this is the strength of a thousand-year-old family. I heard that the Versailles family had spent fifty years to build this windbreak tree. The manpower and resources used were uncountable. Just the construction of this forest alone had exhausted countless slaves to death. Some people say that the number of trees in this forest is the number of slaves that died. &Quot;
Zhao Hai let out a cold sigh as he looked at the dense forest. His heart was numb. Although he knew that green was exaggerating, he was sure that many people had died in order to build this forest.
In the dark night, the trees rustled in the wind, as if there were countless shadows moving in the forest. He looked at Zhao Hai and felt his hair stand on end. After a while, he sighed and said, &Quot; why bother? if we had that many people, I’d let them all return to being civilians. Slavery won’t last long. &Quot;
Green did not say anything. He just felt that Zhao Hai was wrong. Slavery had existed on the continent for tens of thousands of years, but it was still fine now. He did not understand why Zhao Hai said that slavery would not last long.
Zhao Hai didn’t say much. He turned to green and said,”Grandpa Green, it’s getting late. Let’s rest here for a while. We’ll go to the plains tomorrow night.”
Grimm didn’t object. The sun would rise in about three hours. There was nothing much to do in these three hours. It was better to have a good rest here.
The two of them returned to Rocky Mountain from the realm. Everything was normal there. No one came to cause trouble. However, a few days ago, Laura sent someone to deliver a batch of wooden barrels. This batch of wooden barrels could hold 200000 catties of oil. It was enough for Zhao Hai and the others to use for a while.
It only took about five days from Casa City to ika plain, during which the oil press in Iron Mountain castle had officially started. All the workers were undead creatures. Even the animal pulling the oil press was transformed from scaled wildebeest.
However, the scaled horned horse didn’t turn into a skeleton. Instead, it turned into another type of undead, a zombie.
A zombie was an undead creature of a higher level than a skeleton. A level 1 skeleton had weak combat power, but a level 1 Zombie had at least the strength of a level 2 warrior. However, to turn a corpse into a zombie, the magic power required was about ten times more than that of a skeleton. Therefore, ordinary people would not turn corpses into zombies.
Although the combat power of zombies was very strong, their speed wasn’t fast. A zombie couldn’t beat ten skeletons. It was more difficult for zombies to level up than skeletons, so an average Black Mage wouldn’t turn corpses into zombies.
However, the combat power of zombies was not weak. Take the lowest level one green-iron zombie as an example. This kind of zombie was very strong, and the defensive ability of its skin was also very strong. It was not worse than the ordinary leather armor. If it was not too slow, it could deal with an Ordinary Grade 3 warrior. However, because of its slow speed, even if it encountered a Grade 1 Warrior, it could not do anything. However, a Grade 1 Warrior should not be hit by a zombie either. As long as they were hit by a zombie, they would be seriously injured even if they did not die.
A level 2 Blacksteel Zombie’s speed was almost the same as an ordinary skeleton, no slower than a level 3 warrior. It was a kind of undead creature that was more difficult to deal with.
A level 3 zombie was called a green-bronze zombie, which had the strength of a level 4 warrior. A level 4 zombie was called a poisonous zombie, which could use its own corpse poison to attack people. A level 5 zombie was called a silver zombie, which had stronger defense, greater strength, faster speed, and corpse poison attack.
Level six was the official silver zombie, Level Seven was the sub-gold zombie, level eight was the gold zombie, and level nine was the zombie Emperor of the true heavens.
However, there was no mage on the continent who could create a zombie above grade-4. It was even more difficult to create a zombie above grade-4 than a high-level skeleton. Even a common mage could not create a grade-3 zombie.