Moreover, at Lu Kuan's suggestion, a fortified guard post was added to the city wall at intervals - not the kind of small guard tower built with a few random wooden stakes, but a stone barricade, and the top was divided into two tiers, each with an area of no less than 20 square meters.

The lower level was used for the sentries on duty to rest overnight, while on the outside of the upper level were seven or eight stone holes, each containing a medium-sized heavy crossbow made by the dwarves, each of which had a range of more than 300 meters at this altitude.

Under the watchtower, on the stone walls on both sides, there is a catapult, as a weapon to defend the city, these things are extremely valuable, and ordinary means cannot be bought.

At the beginning, Lu Kuan followed Mongo and the caravan to other cities, tried to buy them in several cities, but ran into a wall, and finally found the half-orc Pythasos of Iron Boots City, and spent more than 100,000 gold coins to ask him to help find a half-scrapped catapult.

Pulling the catapult back to Runeterra, the dwarven craftsmen studied day and night for two weeks before finally drawing the drawings of these weapons to defend the city, and now they see a total of twenty-eight catapults, all of which were made by the dwarves themselves.

“…… My lord, we have tried the burst rune that Mr. Will has studied three times, and we are almost ready to put it into practice,"

Medu stood by the city wall, next to a tall catapult, and respectfully introduced to Lu Kuan: "It's just that the cost of that thing is a bit expensive, a big stone with a burst rune costs more than 1,000 gold coins, this is purely to use money to smash people......"

Seeing the distressed expression on the old goblin's face, Lu Kuan said with a smile: "As long as the killing effect is good enough, what is it to spend more money, besides, now is the beginning of research and development, and when the technology matures, the cost will be reduced." ”

"Yes, or are you thoughtful." The old goblin hit the snake with the stick, and immediately slapped a small sycophant.

Wu smiled on the side, and was a little surprised: "Is it so expensive?" ”

Although it has been a short time to come to Rune City, in terms of city construction, Wu Xiaoxiao and a few people can't intervene, just watching the city change day by day, becoming complete and prosperous day by day, and never thought that the investment in this is so large.

"No way, starting from scratch, the cost of starting must be more,"

Lu Kuan shrugged his shoulders with a smile and said with a smile: "But now it's okay, all the trade in the city is on the right track, and the landlord's family has surplus grain~haha~"

Looking at Lu Kuan's way of laughing loudly, Wu Xiaoxiao's eyes were focused, and he understood in his heart that from the beginning to the present, he has carried the revival of the city alone, how much pressure does this young man of the same age have in secret?

Lu Kuan didn't stay long, and quickly led the two of them to the interior of the outpost, and looked at the environment where the guards lived: the doors and windows were tight, clean and tidy, and there was a small fireplace in the corner of the house, half of which was hidden underground, which was quite exquisitely made.

This is a firewall structure that Lu Kuan personally drew and used by craftsmen in all new buildings, and it will come in handy in winter.

The winter in the Northern Empire is quite cold, because in terms of setting, the entire continent of the gods is in the north of the planet, and most places do not see the scene of spring all year round.

Leaving the outpost, Lu Kuan and Wu Xiaoxiao walked on the city wall for a while, Lu Kuan was very satisfied with the transformation of the city wall, although it could not be compared with a big city like Rapidsport, but it was already better than the city wall of Lava Castle.

Standing on the city wall and looking into the city, with Wolf Soul Street as the center, a distance of 100 meters to the left and right, the street is bustling with players.

Since the opening of the teleportation circle, the number of players who have ventured into Runetera has increased exponentially, and now Medo has begun to build the city's fourth tavern.

In front of the right side of the field of vision, there is a large open space that has just been reclaimed, and Lu Kuan has already planted the water bamboo that zebras like to eat, and it won't be long before the zebras can lie down and sleep in the bamboo forest.

"By the way, is the recruitment of the brave in the tavern going well?" Lu Kuan remembered something and asked at Medu.

To rebuild RuneCity, in addition to constantly recalling the lost Rune Dwarves and selecting fighters with combat qualifications, it is also a good option to recruit NPCs from the tavern.

Because Rune's popularity far exceeds that of Dark Heaven's station, and the size of the city is placed here, the tavern is upgraded at a rapid rate, far from being comparable to the speed at which Heaven Eternal Darkness recruits an NPC a week.

The Jumping Goat Tavern, which was built in the earliest time, has long been upgraded to level 3, and now it can recruit up to level 30 NPCs.

"Uh...... There are quite a few people who come to sign up,"

When Maedu heard this, he immediately opened the thick notebook he was carrying, quickly turned to a certain page, and said, "So far, after our testing, the people who have temporarily been classified into Rune City have added up to ...... 93, of which 31 have specialized skills, including blacksmiths, jewellers and tailors, and the rest are combatants......"

Hearing this, Lu Kuan turned his head to look at Medu: "You also saw the matter of the envoy of Isa City just now." ”

"See, those miscellaneous crumbs have always been this kind of virtue, and they want to mix in wherever they see the benefits,"

Mei Du snorted coldly, his face full of disdain, but he quickly reacted to Lu Kuan's meaning, and immediately said: "My lord is worried that the other party will send someone to pretend to come to Rune City to apply?" ”

This is certainly a possibility.

Now Lu Kuan is not the real master of Rune City, he is still a little short of the position of dominating the overall situation, and he can't see it in many parts of the city, such as these newly recruited NPCs, the loyalty column is the word "unknown", and even the wood bird guy, the loyalty has been changing irregularly between 60, 70 and unknown.

At this time, Lu Kuan had to take precautions.

"Then you want to suspend recruitment?" Medu asked tentatively.

"No, let's go as usual, don't let them influence,"

Lu Kuan said directly: "Anyway, the newly recruited people will also be placed in unimportant positions, just let people pay more attention, the dwarves in the entire Rune City are our eyes, if the other party has ghost thoughts, they can't hide it." ”

This is the advantage of Rune City, all Rune Dwarves have a loyalty of 100 to Rune City, and whoever wants to play tricks under the noses of the masses will be discovered immediately.

If it doesn't work, as long as Lu Kuan takes control of Rune City, all NPCs with questionable loyalty will have nothing to hide, so Lu Kuan is not in a hurry.

Maedu immediately wrote down Lu Kuan's words, and after a while, he had to give orders as soon as possible.

Lu Kuan exhaled out of the city panel and looked at his prestige value, which was currently 65%.

These days, there are constantly wandering rune dwarves returning to their hometowns, coupled with the vigorous development of trade routes in all directions, the speed of prestige growth is changing day by day, and the progress is much faster than Lu Kuan expected before.

If this continues, the day will not be far away.

"Lu Kuan, is there a fire over there?" Wu Xiaoxiao seemed to have discovered something, and pointed to the south and said in a hurry.

Lu Kuan looked up when he heard the sound, and then smiled: "It's okay, that's the burning forest and pioneering over there, by the way, I built a small cabin over there, let's go and have a look?" ”