Lord of Hyranza

Chapter 495 Moonlight

A group of villagers stared at the thousands of kobold slaves by the reed pond, their eyes filled with amazement.

Several dogs in the village barked crazily at the kobold slaves, but after barking for a while, the barking gradually weakened.

The kobold slaves dried their fluff on the bonfire and ate a meal of raw cassava before Andrew drove them into the dry reed pond. They pulled out the reeds with their hands and carried them out in bundles Well, these thousands of kobold slaves probably suffered a lot under the whip of the slave trader. The Nanai indigenous warriors stood on the bank with a whip and let these kobold slaves work obediently.

The reeds were piled up, and these villagers also began to be brave enough to sit on the open space by the reed pond. They first stripped the leaves of these dry reeds, and then pressed them with stone rollers to flatten the reeds. The villagers weaving reed mats began to demonstrate to everyone.

According to the request of the old village chief, these mats don't need to be more exquisite, it doesn't matter if they are rough, but they must be strong.

As if by magic, the reed mats under the villagers gradually grew longer, and more and more villagers joined the ranks of weaving the mats.

In Woer Village, basically every villager knows how to weave reed mats, it's just that some people are skilled and some are a little rough.Of course, it doesn’t matter even if it’s a little bit worse, because these mats were prepared by the old village head for these kobold slaves. Woven matting surrounds the frame, and soon a row of makeshift sheds is erected.

In the early spring, the night wind in the barren land was very cold. The old village chief thought that even if these kobolds were slaves, they should live in houses that could shelter them from the wind and rain, especially when he saw that among the kobold slaves were old and Young, although he didn't say anything, he disagreed with Suldak's practice of buying slaves.

After the low work shed was built, the old village chief put these kobold slaves in. He originally wanted to build a fence around the shed, but the wood in the carpenter workshop in the village was very limited, and if he wanted to make a fence, he had to go to Oak Ridge Just pick up some branches in the woods.

Hailansa has a large area of ​​oak trees. These oak forests belong to the territory of some nobles in the city of Hailansa. The ownership of the output belongs to these nobles, but as long as the acorns produced are not stolen, they are not casually hunted in the oak forest , just simply picking up some dead branches, mushrooms and chestnuts, the noble lord will not care about these poor villagers.

A group of women in the village are squatting at the entrance of the village, dealing with the piles of cassava. Old Sheila is sitting under the dead tree at the entrance of the village with little Peter and other children, quietly watching the women clean the cassava. This kind of cassava is very convenient Storage, in a cool place, will not rot for weeks.

The women in the village are no strangers to cassava. In times of famine, the villagers would eat some cassava.

Suldak called Andrew, a native of the Nanai tribe, Gullite the ogre, the half-elf archer, and Aphrodite the succubus, and introduced them to the old village chief and the young people in the village.

Andrew was wearing a full metal armor with two large axes on his back. He was full of murderous looks. He looked like a ferocious warrior who had come down from the battlefield. When the young people in the village faced Andrew, they even breathed consciously. Lightened up a bit.

Samira, the half-elf archer, was wearing salamander leather armor. This set of tight-fitting leather armor set off Samira's slender figure extremely gracefully.

Although the half-elf archer didn't lift the hood on his head, a group of young people in the village still stared straight at him. , shot and killed more than fifty hellhounds with the forest bow in his hand, and the young people in the village looked at Samira with shrinking eyes.

The succubus Aphrodite did not take off the black veil on her face. Even if she did not use the 'charm', that beautiful face was fatally attractive to the villagers. In addition, Suldak introduced the succubus Aphrodite When it came to the origin, it was a little vague. It just said that it was a homeless alien who was rescued on the battlefield. The villagers thought that the succubus Aphrodite was also an aborigine on the Maca plane just like Andrew. Moreover, the custom of this indigenous group is to wear a veil, and no one thought that she would be a succubus.

Everyone is afraid to get close to the ogre Gullitum. The ogre Gullitum sits on the slope beside the reed pond, looking like a mountain of meat. In order to eliminate the fear in the hearts of the villagers, Gullit Temu took the initiative to try to smile at the villagers, and immediately frightened a group of older children who were standing not far away to watch the fun and ran away. .

There is no way, the title of ogre brings great fear to the villagers.

Rita brought a large wooden barrel of multigrain porridge in front of the ogre. She wore an apron and held a spoon in the other hand. Standing in front of the ogre, she waved her red little Facing the ogre, he said, "Your name is Gullitum?"

The name of the ogre was mentioned by Suldak.

The ogre nodded honestly, his eyes fell on the wooden barrel, and the saliva was about to flow from the corners of his mouth.

"These are for you. I didn't expect you to be so strong. I only have so much chestnut rice porridge." Rita lifted the wooden bucket vigorously and handed it to the ogre.

"Thank you!" the ogre Gulitam said in a low voice.

After speaking, he took the wooden barrel with one hand, held the bottom of the wooden barrel, opened his big mouth, poured a bucket of chestnut rice porridge into his mouth, and drank it without even chewing carefully. The chestnut rice porridge entered the ogre's stomach in an instant, and the ogre licked its lips eagerly, feeling the sweetness conveyed into its mind from the taste buds on the tip of its tongue. The bucket was returned to Rita.

Rita looked at Suldak who had completed the task, and then she held the hem of the sarong with one hand and walked back to the village entrance with an empty wooden barrel, squeezed beside Natasha, and dealt with the village wives together. Cassava at the entrance of the village.

Selena pulled little Signa out of the village, but she didn't go to Suldak's side. Selena is the assistant of the old village chief and is currently in charge of managing the accounts of the village. She sewed a linen cloth for herself Her messenger bag contained a parchment account book, which she carried with her wherever she went, and now she was counting the cassava at the entrance of the village.

Signa was still hiding under Selena's long dress, only occasionally sticking her head out cautiously.

Unable to get away, Suldak waved to the two of them. In the bleak cold wind, Selena's face bloomed with a smile as bright as a tulip.

Seeing Suldak, Signa dared to get out of Selena's skirt.

She first looked at Andrew and Samira, then at the ogre lying on the slope of withered grass with its head resting on its arms, and finally landed on the succubus Aphrodite, with some guard in her eyes, the succubus Aphrodite Rudy also noticed the little girl, but before she could take a second look, Suldak picked up little Signa.

I took out a bag of candy from the magic pouch and stuffed it for Signa. Seeing that her head was braided with a bunch of thin braids, her fair little face was flushed, and she was no longer as thin and disheveled as before, so she stretched out her hand and shaved her. With a small nose, he asked her, "How have you been recently?"

Signa pushed Suldak's hand away very dissatisfied, then gave Suldak a sweet smile, and said solemnly: "Fortunately, Selena is always reluctant to give me meat , You have to help me tell her about this, she listens to you. The other big fish tastes great, you can bring us more next time."

"Okay, let me talk to Selena when I get some time!" Suldak put Signa down and asked Samira beside him: "Our little Signa wants to eat fish, Samy Lah, do you still have smoked fish..."

As a half-elf, Samira prefers the habits of elves in terms of diet, and likes to eat fish and fruits. Now Samira's wallet is gradually bulging, and she always carries some apples and smoked fish with her.

However, the half-elf archer showed his disdain unabashedly for Suldak taking her rations to coax the little girl.

……

At night, the kobolds finally lived in a shed surrounded by reed mats.

This kind of work shed leaks everywhere, but it is much better than sleeping on the wasteland by the reed pond outside. The work shed is very simple, and the door is only blocked by a reed mat, and there is no intention of locking it at all. The person in charge of night watch is There are two young people in the village, but they are only guarding the yellow sheep pen at the entrance of the village from a distance. Judging from what they mean, they seem to be worried that these kobold slaves will steal the yellow sheep in the village at night.

The kobold slaves' dinner was cassava porridge cooked by the women in the village. The cassava was soaked in water for an afternoon and then boiled to make the paralysis less toxic.

Suldak's house is not too big, he gave up his house to Samira and the succubus Aphrodite, Andrew could only pitch a tent in the yard, the ogre wanted to live with Suldak The cow at home squeezed in the cowshed, and was directly driven to the yard by Suldak. As a non-staff member of the guard battalion, the ogre now also has a set of large marching tents, which are set up in the yard. It takes up almost half of the yard.

Rita and little Peter slept in old Sheila's room.

This is the first time Suldak has entered Natasha and Rita's room. There are two wooden beds on the left and right sides of the room, covered with cotton sheets, which look soft and clean, except for the two beds. Besides, there was only a wooden table and a cabinet in the room, and the furnishings in the room were very simple. He sat on the chair beside the table, and the room was filled with a faint fragrance.

The door was pushed open, and Natasha walked in with a steaming wooden basin filled with hot water. She placed the wooden basin in front of Suldak's feet, and first carefully wiped it with a hot towel. Suldak wiped his face and hands, and then squatted down to untie the rope buckle on the leather boots for Suldak, took off the boots, and let him dip his feet into the warm water basin.

A candle was lit on the wooden table. Under the dim light, Natasha lowered her head and carefully washed Surdak's feet. She was only wearing a thin pajamas, with a large area of ​​fair skin exposed at the neckline, and her hair was still a little wet Yes, it looks like he just took a shower, and his body exudes a faint scent of soap locust.

Looking at her fair and clean face, Suldak bent down and grabbed Natasha's hand. Natasha's face turned red all of a sudden, and neither of them spoke.

Suldak hugged her sideways and put her on the bed, stared at her wet lips, and kissed her gently...

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The succubus Aphrodite turned over a little annoyed, only to find that Samira on the opposite side was not asleep either.

In the dark room, the half-elf archer's eyes were slightly red, staring silently at Aphrodite. Aphrodite smiled faintly at the half-elf with sharp eyes like arrows. Unmoved, Samira changed to a more comfortable position, but the wooden bed was too hard, so she pulled the blanket covering her body with her hands.

"...For so long, people can't sleep because of the noise!" Aphrodite complained in a low voice.

Even when Samira was sleeping, she looked like a raccoon cat crouching in the dark. She curled her body and slowly closed her light red eyes.

But the succubus Aphrodite didn't, and she asked Samira in a low voice: "Hey, Samira, are you a little disappointed?"

Moonlight shone into the room through the window, Samira opened her eyes again, and asked suspiciously:

"what?"

The succubus Aphrodite hugged the blanket and sat up from the bed. Her long black hair hung down like a waterfall, and her body hidden under the pajamas was undulating. With a narrow smile on her slightly gray face, she pointed at the moon outside the window. On the slightly desolate ridge under the sky, he said to Samira:

"Here, in this desolate land, I didn't expect the captain's house to be so dilapidated. You don't need to look at it to know that the captain should have little money."

She turned her head to stare at Samira's light red eyes, her sexy lips raised slightly, and said to Samira again:

"I heard that you followed him because he gave a large sum of money to the orphanage in Wojmara City? Now, do you regret your decision..."

Samira turned over and faced the ceiling, her eyes fell on the dark roof, and she said in a nonchalant tone: "Five years of salary is over, what is there to be disappointed about? Now I am just fulfilling my promise." , Andrew is probably in the same situation as me, besides, do you think the life of the captain will always be so embarrassing?"

"Hehe, of course not!" The succubus felt that Samira's eyes became sharper and fell on her body, making her feel as if the skin on her face had been cut by a knife.

"Then what else is there to say?" Samira closed her eyes again, and the magic pattern clothing on the bandaged arm hidden in the blanket gradually returned to calm, and said to Aphrodite, "In addition, you will It's best not to confuse people in front of me, lest one day when you are in a bad mood, you can't help but shoot you to death with an arrow..."

"You can tell me that, it means you won't do that." After Aphrodite finished speaking, she still couldn't help but glance at the forest bow leaning against the wall.

The room was quiet again, and the moonlight was like water.

Chapter 496 Returning to the Territory

The wind was a bit cold at night, so Suldak got up and closed the windows tightly, so that the thunder-like snoring of ogres in the yard would be quieter.

Is there old Sheila coughing from next door...

Natasha was lying on the bed like a lazy cat, her face flushed with lust, and Suldak lay back beside Natasha, thinking about what to do tomorrow without feeling sleepy.

"Aren't you worried about those kobold slaves running away?" Natasha pressed her pointed chin against Suldak's solid chest and asked him softly.

Suldak inserted five fingers into her loose hair and said with a smile:

"It's okay to run away. I didn't want to buy so many back. I was worried that I couldn't afford so many kobold slaves. I only planned to buy [-] kobold slaves at first. It was a complete accident to bring back so many kobold slaves! "

"Are you still going into the mountains tomorrow?" Natasha asked again.

This was what Suldak was thinking about. After all, more than a thousand kobolds could not all stay in Wall Village, but the stone hammers and chisels in the village were not well prepared. At best, only two kobold slaves could start mining. work, Suldak said: "Well, I'm going to send some dog heads to the rocky area of ​​Pustout Mountain. I can't keep them in the village for nothing. I bought them back to let them mine and work. They They are all good at mining, I am going to let Luke and Andrew take people with them."

"Andrew is the warrior with the ax on his back?" Natasha asked curiously. Although she was so sleepy that her eyelids were clenched, she still suppressed her drowsiness and wanted to chat with Suldak a little more.

"En." Suldak agreed with a nasal voice, putting his hands on her smooth, brocade-like back.

"You guys are really special, the one with the black veil..." Natasha said vaguely.

She spoke too vaguely, Suldak couldn't hear clearly, and then asked, "What?"

Natasha quickly closed her eyes, laying her pillow on his chest, feeling his strong heartbeat, and whispered: "It's nothing, it's late, I have to get up early tomorrow, let's sleep for a while... "

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The next morning, Selina followed the old village chief to the kobold slave shed at the entrance of the village early, and found that these kobolds were lying on straw mats and sleeping soundly. The old village chief and Selina carefully counted Twice, it was found that none of these kobold slaves escaped.

Not long after, the village woman who rushed over to make breakfast for these kobold slaves hurried over with wooden basins and cauldrons.

The old village head Brett stood at the entrance of the village, scolding these lazy women. It was obviously a bit late to make breakfast at this time.

Suldak brought Andrew and others to the entrance of the village. Andrew went into the shed himself, selected two hundred stronger kobolds from the group of kobold slaves, and let them line up alone.

Two hundred kobolds lined up in a long line and boarded four carriages parked at the entrance of the village.

In this trip to Pustule Mountain, in addition to all the members of the Suldak security team, Luke also brought five young villagers. Luke and the five villagers will stay in the rocky area of ​​Pustule Mountain and serve as the heads of [-] dogs. Overseer of human slaves.

After this winter, these young people have learned to ride horses, so even if the kobold slaves in the rocky area mutiny, as long as they have enough safety awareness, they can ride horses and evacuate in time, Suldak repeatedly emphasized to Luke, These kobold slaves are fine no matter what, the five villagers brought to the rocky area must return safely.

These overseers will be rotated every month, as will the kobold slave miners.

In addition to these kobold slaves, there were also two large carts of cassava. After all, they did not wait for the late breakfast. A group of six four-wheeled carriages, Suldak took Andrew, Samira and Afro Di, six villagers including Luke rode ten horses, and left Wall Village facing the morning sun, heading towards Bump Mountain along the barren land. Slowly follow behind the team.

When you enter the depths of the barren land and see the bare gravel and rocky Gobi on the ground, you can really feel the desolation here.

Aphrodite looked at the surrounding scenery with her veil on, riding on horseback, squinting her eyes to feel the warm sunshine.

Suldak introduced this barren mountain to Andrew and Samira. Speaking of this is the area under the jurisdiction of their security team, Andrew couldn't help complaining: "This is in the hinterland of the empire, and the only people who can appear here are Some bandit gangs of small powers probably don’t want to set foot in such a desolate place, and our security team’s future tasks are really free!”

"Last summer, a small group of robbers entered this barren land. Our security team was established precisely to deal with the robbers last summer." Suldak explained to Andrew.

When passing through a mess of rocks, Samira suddenly grabbed the forest bow from the saddle. She didn't see how she drew the hunting bow, nor did she see the arrows on the bowstring. With a buzzing sound, a white wind blade wrapped in a feathered arrow flew out from the center of the hunting bow, and the arrow pierced into a piece of limestone with a bang, and the loose limestone immediately burst.

A gray iguana secretly basking under the rock was pierced by a feathered arrow, and the arrow got stuck in the crevice of the rock, where the two-foot-long gray iguana kept twisting its body.

The ogre let out a cheer, ran up with strides, picked up the gray iguana, and pulled it from the arrow. He grabbed the plump gray iguana in his hand, and opened his mouth without thinking. The iguana's head was bitten with a big mouth, and the iguana's head was torn off, and the bite was creaking.

Then the ogre showed a very exciting expression on his face, waved his hands and feet at the headless gray rock iguana at Surdak, and shouted indistinctly: "Captain, this big guy The taste is really good...”

Suldak rested his forehead with one hand, and said to the ogre very speechlessly: "I said you should bake it before eating!"

The ogre's expression was also very exciting. He laughed foolishly and said, "I forgot when I got excited. Fortunately, I didn't eat much. There's still time to bake it..."

After speaking, he pulled out the arrow from the gray rock iguana, rubbed the blood on the arrow on his thigh, and handed the arrow to the half-elf archer: "Samila, your arrow..."

Samira looked at the bloody arrow in the ogre's hand with disgust, turned her face away, and didn't reach out to take it, but said lightly: "I'll send you off!"

"it is good!"

The ogre Gullitum withdrew his hand happily, and used the feathered arrow to string up the limp gray rock iguana again...

Three days later, the team successfully arrived at the rocky area at the foot of the Pustule Mountain. There were still several stone houses built by the villagers of Wall Village last year. Except for the volcanic ash, everything else remained unchanged. Obviously, almost no one came here. .

Luke only needs to cover these few stone houses without roofs with thatch later, even if he has built a simple stone house.

The kobold slaves looked at the pustule mountain that was billowing smoke not far away, and some brilliance finally came out of their eyes. Some kobold slaves even jumped out of the four-wheeled carriage and couldn't help but jumped into the volcanic ash to beat a few Roll away, covered in volcanic ash in the fur of his body.

Chapter 497

This time, Suldak led the team into the pustule mountain. In addition to carrying a large amount of cassava, the carriage also had some reed mats, sunshade cloth and other materials.

Luke led several young villagers to put reed mats on the low wall surrounded by stones, which became the simplest work shed, and covered it with a layer of black sunshade cloth to block the flying volcanic ash from the work shed. Besides, it's just that if the lungs inhale a large amount of volcanic ash, they will get a lung disease that is difficult to cure.

At the beginning, the villagers who mined sulfur mines in the rocky area wore scarves. Later, when Selina came to the sulfur mine in the rocky area, she saw that the villagers had to wear scarves even when they were sleeping. Suggested to the old village chief to cover the tent with a layer of sunshade cloth that can block the volcanic ash, so that at least you don't have to cover your face when you sleep at night.

Later, the mining villagers built several roofless work sheds with stones, and those low tents gradually became useless.

Suldak led two hundred kobold slaves into the mine in the rocky area. These sheds can be used after a little tidying up, and this time they also brought reed mats to spread in the sheds. The living conditions are much better than last autumn. much better.

The scariest thing on the pustule mountain side is water, but since the magic scroll of water gathering has been obtained, this problem has been solved easily.

The most difficult thing is the natural environment here. The volcanic ash flying all over the sky, the river of lava flowing wantonly, and occasionally encountering fire monsters such as salamanders make this place full of dangers. Only local people like Luke know that the pustule The flames of the crater have been burning for nearly a hundred years, but they have never erupted, except for occasional rivers of lava flowing from the top of the mountain.

The kobold slaves sat obediently in the shed. These kobolds had fluffy hair and had little communication with each other. They sat silently on the reed mat. Only when they drank water would they walk to the bucket at the door of the shed. Will sit back in place.

Seeing that the mining area had settled down, he was worried that Luke and the five villagers would not be able to suppress the two hundred kobold slaves, so Suldak asked Andrew to stay.

What the sulfur mine lacks the most is not food, but water.Suldak gave Luke a magic rune board of the water gathering technique. This kind of metal magic rune board consumes magic crystal fragments when it is running. As long as it is replaced in time after the mana of the magic crystal fragments is exhausted, this A magic rune tablet can be used continuously.In addition, Suldak also gave Luke two water-gathering magic scrolls for emergencies.