I am the son of the traveler

Chapter 64 System Mall
"I think we'll have enough material soon, Hephaestion."

Antigonus's words were so abrupt that neither Hephaestion nor Cronus could react.

"What do you mean, Your Majesty?" Hephaestion asked after gathering his composure.

"You heard me right, Hephaestion, we will have enough materials soon." Antigonus smiled slightly and stood up. Just now, the system in his mind suddenly told him that he could use real Drachmas buy ready-made stones, and the purchase price is not high. A square meter of stones only costs five drachmas.Considering that the expansion needs a lot of stone materials, he purchased 1000 square meters of stone materials at one time.

As a result, in just a few seconds, [-] drachmas disappeared out of thin air from Antigonus's treasury. Fortunately, no one saw this scene, otherwise they would have been shocked - of course, Antigonus Ko also wanted to tell Hephaestion about it, the disappearance of ten thousand drachmas was a big case.

In addition to buying stones, Antigonus also discovered another function of the system, that is, the so-called mall function (he always thought it was just an ordinary total warfare system), this mall only recognized his drachma, Although there were not many types of items for sale inside, some of them caught Antigon's attention.

System mall (refreshed from time to time):
Building materials (one unit is one square meter): wood (8 drachmas), stone (10 drachmas), lime (5 drachmas), cement (12 drachmas)

Raw materials (one unit is one talent): pig iron (100 drachmas), leather (50 drachmas), bronze (80 drachmas)

食物类商品（一单位为一塔兰特）：肉类（40德拉克马）、谷物（25德拉克马）、橄榄（20德拉克马）、葡萄（20德拉克马）、蔬菜（20德拉克马）

Weapons (one unit is one piece): Spanish short sword (2 drachma), Persian composite bow (3 drachma), Greek ballista (100 drachma), Greek trebuchet (150 drachma horse)

Armor type (one unit is one piece): Persian scale armor (20 drachmas), chain mail (5 drachmas), Roman ring armor (20 drachmas)

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Greek ballistae and Greek trebuchets are two good things. Antigonus knew very well that these two heavy instruments were used to siege cities and rarely appeared in field battles. However, if they did appear in field battles, It can bring a devastating blow to the enemy.

Ballistas and trebuchets are inconvenient to march with the army because of their bulkiness, so they are usually dismantled before marching to take away key components, and the heavy wood that makes up the equipment can be easily obtained in the nearby woods.

Considering that the system store would be refreshed from time to time, Antico gritted his teeth and decided to buy these two heavy equipment.

[Purchased 10 Greek ballistas, costing 1000 drachmas]

[Purchased 10 Greek trebuchets at a cost of 1500 drachmas]

Buying [-] at a time, Antico doesn't have to worry about being wiped out in the future, and he has no place to buy them.After buying these two heavy equipment, he looked at the column of building materials and food products. After thinking about it, he waved his hand and bought a pile of cement and food.

After the purchase was finished, Antigonus looked at his treasury again. After excluding the income from the slave trade that had not been put into the treasury, there were still 268570 drachmas. Some of this wealth was captured from the previous defeat of the barbarians, and some of it was left over by Daddy Cheap Yes, even copied from the opponent's home after taking power, and if you add the 30 to [-] drachmas obtained from the slave trade, the storage in the treasury will approach [-].

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After closing the mall, Antico took Hephaestion and others to the delivery point outside the barracks to take over the key parts of the batch of materials and heavy equipment. It may be that the system considered that those heavy equipment were difficult to move, so it gave Antico Ke's key parts were removed, but what surprised Antiko even more was that in addition to these things, the system also arranged twenty ballista operators for him.

After bringing the materials and people back, Antigonus ordered the construction to begin. Thanks to the fact that all the nearby barbarian threats were wiped out, Antigonus could safely let the soldiers of the army take off their armor and temporarily act as construction workers. Work with slaves and immigrants.

In this way, it lasted until the return of the army escorting the slaves in late June. The construction of the original Tantonon stronghold has made great progress. A small Temple of Zeus and the Governor's Palace have been erected, and many buildings still remain. During the construction, the stone purchased by Antigonus at his own expense played a very important role in the construction of this new town.Although Hephaestion asked more than once where the batch of building materials came from, Antigonus never gave a positive answer, and he could only bury his doubts in his heart.

On June 6, after leaving behind 25 conscripted hoplites, Antigonus led the army to set off officially, and marched towards the Mariki Plain in the south along the road left by the spies of the Outer Barbarian Battalion.

During the period when they were busy building the Tantonon stronghold, the spies did not rest. They sneaked into the Mariki Plain to inquire about the situation there, and brought new information to Antigonus: In the past ten days, Mali The Saloans and Malikis on the Ki Plain were scrambling to mobilize all the troops they could, and asked for help from their neighbors, the Orcs, but the latter was annoyed that they had wiped out all the soldiers they had sent, not only Instead of accepting the request for help, they sent troops to attack the former, intending to annex and plunder their tribes and strengthen their own strength.

By this time, the Salois and Maliki had regretted their past, but they had forgotten that the Orcs had always been known for their dishonesty, so that now they not only had to fight the Macedonians, but also dealt with the Orcs who were close at hand. .All the tribes on the Maliki Plain cried loudly, the chiefs kept cursing the despicableness of the Orcs, and the women and children cried bitterly that their male relatives would go nowhere again, as if the end was coming.

(End of this chapter)