This huge Count's Mansion was the work of Natasha and Gloria. Of course, Chapman had also 'invited' a few famous architects from the Northern Continent.
With the help of excellent architects, the design of the town and the pier was rather unique.
The town was about a hundred meters behind the pier, and there was a wall around the town that was similar to the outer walls of the Count's Mansion.
In the middle of the wall facing the pier was a wide canal that led to the strait. This canal was thirty meters wide and went through the wall into the town.
This canal led to about a hundred meters away from the main entrance of the Count's Mansion. There was a huge inner pier here that was five hundred meters wide and five hundred meters long.
This inner pier was actually built by the architects based on a small bay that already existed.
To prevent enemies from entering the town through the canal, the architects built two walls parallel to the river on both sides of the canal. There were many cannons on the walls.
To prevent the murlocs and other intelligent aquatic creatures from sneaking in, the architects also designed underwater sentry posts. These posts were below the walls and connected to the canal. There were green dragons stationed inside, and they would enter the river to search for magical creatures the moment they sounded the alarm.
On both sides of the mouth where the canal connected to the strait were two artillery fortresses. Dozens of large alchemy cannons were placed on these four-story reinforced concrete fortresses.
The outer pier was at the shoreline on both sides of the canal. This pier extended about two hundred meters to both sides of the shoreline.
On the outer pier, there was a slightly smaller artillery fortress every hundred meters. Many of the cannons were pointed at the bay.
Even beyond the pier, these fortresses did not disappear. They had only become slightly more sparse. These fortresses extended along the shoreline until a few kilometers away, where a wide coastal road connected these fortresses.
In the narrow strait in front of the outer pier, there were many small magic speedboats loaded with green dragon sailors and equipped with alchemy cannons cruising on the surface of the sea.
This archipelago was not a paradise. Due to the lack of powerful civilised creatures, this place was simply a paradise for wild creatures.
Many murlocs, sharkmen, nagas, sea giants, intelligent squids, and other magical creatures lived in the shallow waters around Pedro Island.
On Pedro Island, there were quite a number of wild Green Dragonmen, Black Dragonmen, Jackalans, Lizardmen, Dogmen, Wyverns, Ground Dragons, various magical beasts, and ferocious beasts...
In order to defend against these wild and magical creatures, Feng Chou had no choice but to build dozens of small fortresses along the coastline. Together with dozens of small magical patrol boats, they defended the straits.
In the direction of the land, Feng Chou had built a semi-circular defensive wall about ten kilometers behind the town with the center of the town as the center.
The two ends of the city wall extended all the way to the seaside, connecting with the two outermost medium-sized coastal fortresses.
The wall was 15 meters tall and 30 kilometers long. Every five kilometers, there would be a castle or a medium-sized fortress. Every 500 meters, there would be a small fortress.
With so many castles and fortresses, the current population of New Pedro Island simply couldn't defend them all.
Fortunately, Feng Chou didn't have many other things, but he had plenty of skeletal golems. He distributed dozens of them to each castle and a dozen to each small fortress.
With these skeletal golems in charge of close combat and the alchemy cannons in each castle or fortress, it was enough to defend the city wall.
With the Green Dragonmen patrolling the sea and the golems and alchemy cannons on land, the entire town and port were impregnable.
Feng Chou and Chapman landed in front of the fountain in the count's mansion.
When the two were in the air, the guards on the city wall had already noticed them and sounded the alarm. When they landed, many fully armed knights rushed out from the watchtowers and the two guardhouses on the left and right of the main building.
The guardhouse of the main building was the closest to the fountain, and the knights there were the first to approach Feng Chou and Chapman.
The guardhouse was where the lord's personal knights were on duty. It was usually located somewhere on the first floor of the main building of the mansion, or in multiple places.
The personal knights who served as guards were all personally selected by Feng Chou. Of course, they recognized their lord.
After recognizing their lord, the leading knight first sent someone into the main building to report. Then, he ran to Feng Chou's side with two squads of knights to guard him.
The news soon spread in the main building.
Gliss rushed out of the building first, followed by Natasha, Chorre, Owen, Anrik, Morsock …
Gliss excitedly rushed to Feng Chou. Suddenly, she seemed to have remembered something. She hurriedly stopped and curtsied to Feng Chou. Gliss was so excited that she almost forgot her etiquette.
It was no wonder that Gliss was so excited. In the past two years, Feng Chou had not been to New Pedro Island for more than a year because of the urgent situation. In order to prevent the expected attack and being tracked, Feng Chou had not been to New Pedro Island for more than a year.
Natasha, Joel and Owen followed behind Glise. When the three of them arrived in front of Feng Chou, Natasha and Owen clenched their left fists and placed them on their right chests before nodding deeply towards Feng Chou. This was a common knight salute in this world. Joel took off his half-top hat with his right hand and placed it in front of his chest before slightly bowing towards Feng Chou. This was a common salute for lower nobles to upper nobles.
Compared to the formality of the four people in front of them, Anrik and Morsock seemed a little perfunctory.
Anrik only bowed slightly, and Morsock only nodded slightly.
Before Feng Chou could say anything, Morsock impatiently asked, "Sir, my experiment has been interrupted for three years. When can I have a new laboratory?"
Anrik also looked at Feng Chou with a questioning gaze.
Feng Chou smiled and said, "Very soon. In a month at the latest, we will start building a new Magus Tower."
Hearing Feng Chou's words, Morsock became excited. Anrik's eyes also lit up.
For alchemists, it was definitely a dream to be able to participate in the construction of a Magus Tower.
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In the next few days, Feng Chou, accompanied by Gliss and Natasha, toured his entire territory under the guidance of the earl's honor guard.
In the past, Feng Chou came and left in a hurry every time. Although he participated in the design of the territory, he did not participate in the construction for a single day.
This time, he used three days to tour his new territory on horseback.