Lord of Hyranza

The magic metal rune plate and the magic scroll were bought in the magic shop in Bena City before he went to the Maca plane, and the plane war ended in the Maca plane without a few times.

After dealing with these matters, Suldak left the sulfur mine in the rocky area with Samira, Gulitham, and Aphrodite.

Looking at the volcano towering like a black chimney, the top of the mountain is covered with gray clouds and thick smoke billows. Rivers of dark red lava flow down from the mountain, but when they reach the mountainside, the surface slowly cools down, forming layers of ash. Rock crust and lava undercurrent.

The surface of this underground lava river is covered with a layer of black shiny stone shell, which looks very hard, but the hard shell in some places has just formed, and it will easily collapse and shatter when stepping in, causing your feet to fall into the lava. , very dangerous.

Standing next to a dark lava river, it is the sulfur mine in a large rocky area of ​​this diverted lava dark river.

"Captain, did you choose the knight leader here?" The elf archer asked Suldak with a thick scarf on his face.

"Well, although the land here is barren, there is a large area of ​​open-pit sulfur mines here. As long as these sulfur mines are transported out of here, the lives of the whole village will be changed." Suldak led the horse and walked forward for a few minutes. Stepping forward, he pointed to the rocky area that suddenly appeared in front of him, and said to Samira and the others.

Aphrodite stood on a raised black rock, she gently lifted the black veil on her face, and smiled at Suldak:

"If it wasn't for hiking, I would have thought I was back in hell."

Surdak put his hands on his forehead and said to his subordinates: "This place is actually not as bad as it looks. These rivers of lava can flow into the abandoned land with a little guidance. Only the volcanic ash here is more troublesome to deal with." ..."

Suldak led the members of the security team to leave the sulfur mine in the rocky area, and spent nearly a week following the area marked on the sheepskin map, and set up 29 boundary markers on the edge of the knight's collar. These markers were basically taken from the local area , Find some eye-catching giant rocks, draw eye-catching arrows on them with white sap and lime powder, and write the words 'Suldak Knights' collar' under the huge rocks.

The northern part of the Pustule Mountain is connected to the Pagros Mountains, and a part of the area passes through the peak of the volcano, and there is no boundary marker there yet.

But no matter what, the boundary markers of the knights' collar have been erected, and all the land within the boundary markers is the land of Suldak. The canonization of knights is not hereditary, which means that during Suldak's lifetime, this place belongs to Suldak .

Due to the barren land, Suldak's knight collar was much larger than ordinary knight collars. After the boundary marker was erected, he suddenly found that he had such a large piece of land, and Suldak's heart was full of mixed feelings.

"Let's go, let's go back to the rocky mountain mining area!" Suerdak said to his subordinates.

"Captain, are we going to patrol here in the future to maintain law and order?" On the way back to the sulfur mine in the rocky area, the ogre Gulitum asked a little uneasily.

Sulda grabbed the reins of the horse and stopped. The volcanic ash in this area was almost a foot thick. Whether it was an ogre or a Gubolai horse, it was very difficult to walk on it.He even considered whether to buy a few camels.

Suldak thought for a while and said: "Most of the time, we won't. We are mainly responsible for more than a dozen natural villages near Wall Village, preventing robbers from plundering and attacking the villagers there. As for my knight leader , I don’t think there will be any bandits who can’t think of coming here!”

The ogre Gulitum breathed a sigh of relief when he heard what Suldak said, and patted his chest and said, "Oh, that's good, the environment here is really terrible!"

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When returning to the sulfur mine again, the second batch of materials from Wall Village just arrived at the mine. Luke was standing in the compartment of a truck, directing dozens of kobold slaves to carry cassava, scones and some Dried vegetables, this group of kobold slaves is obviously in much better condition than a week ago, maybe because they are full, the fluff all over their bodies looks very smooth, although their movements are slower, but no one is lazy.

"Unload the last cart of cassava before you can rest..." Luke shouted loudly, "Whoever moves the most will be rewarded with a wheat bran pancake for dinner!"

The kobold slaves came out of the rocky area one after another with rattan baskets on their backs, and recorded the quantity of sulfur mines delivered at the temporary warehouse. Then they put down the rattan baskets and joined the army of unloading trucks. Ke stipulates that these kobold slaves must dig out a certain amount of sulfur mines to be eligible for dinner. Obviously these kobold slaves have rich mining experience and can complete their daily tasks on time.Even where the villagers have dug, kobold slaves will re-excavate some sulfur mines.

"Dark, I found out that this group of kobolds are born to be a group of miners. It won't be long before we can completely hollow out this area." Luke said to Suldak excitedly.

He took Surdak to see the harvest of the last week. A large pile of sulfur mines was piled up outside Luke's residence, just like a hill.

The four-wheeled trucks that had finished unloading supplies gathered here. A group of kobold slaves were loading sulfur mines into the trucks. They looked much more efficient, and every kobold slave looked good, at least their numb and empty gazes were restored. A glimmer of brilliance was restored.

"When I return to Wall Village, I will return to Hailansa City to complete the rest of my studies. The kobolds here will be managed by you. Be careful. If there is anything wrong, you must give up here decisively. I will talk about everything when I come back. Don't try to be brave." Suldak glanced at the majestic Pustules Mountain, and he was a little worried about the salamanders that might come out of the mountain at any time.

Luke didn't care much, and said to Suldak confidently: "Got it, I will manage this group of kobolds well, Dak."

When it was time for dinner, Luke and his party became cooks again. Two villagers carried a large pot and poured the boiled cassava porridge into a large wooden barrel. Luke held a spoon in his hand and stood Behind the big wooden barrel, the group of kobold slaves lined up in a long line. Each kobold slave had a big wooden bowl in his hand. Luke put a spoonful of cassava porridge into the bowl, and another villager He actually grabbed a piece of salted radish from another big wooden basin and distributed it to these kobolds.

At this time, Andrew walked to Suldak's side, and Suldak asked him: "These kobolds have been so honest these days?"

"It's been like this for a while recently." Andrew wore a thick scarf around his neck, and didn't wear any armor on his upper body. He was naked with a bronze-colored upper body and a pair of trousers. His outfit was as unique as it could be.

Suldak patted Andrew on the shoulder and said, "Tomorrow we will return to Wall Village. You, Samira, and Gulitum will return to Hailansa City with me. We have to report back to the guard camp."

"Then here...?" Andrew asked a little worriedly.

"Leave it to Luke for the time being." Suldak said firmly.

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Early the next morning, Suldak took the members of the security team and left with the four-wheeled carriage full of sulfur mines, returning to Wall Village.

When passing the Beigou Grassland, a large piece of 'thirsty not dying' has grown on the bank where the last bit of water is temporarily stored at the bottom of the ditch. This is the most common weed in this barren land. Except for gazelle, other animals are Don't eat this kind of weeds that are full of thorns and have few leaves.

Sure enough, on the side of Beigou Grassland, Suerdak found a group of gazelles in the village, and a half-grown child was lying on the sunny slope with his eyes closed, basking in the sun.

Aphrodite looked at the pasture with great interest, and since she stepped out of the range of Pustules Mountain, her mood became better again.

At the lower reaches of the river bend, a large group of kobold slaves are digging a river in full swing. According to Suldak's idea, if he wants to control the large tidal flats in the lower reaches of the river bend, he must dig an artificial canal next to the tidal flats. In the rainy season, the abundant rainwater gathered here from both sides of the valley is diverted away, so that the large tidal flats here can become fertile land.

At the end of this artificial canal is a large natural crack. It is more than ten miles away from Wall Village, and two sloping fields have to be dug in the middle. It is not that the old village head Brett did not think about treating this tidal flat. However, the amount of work was already huge and they were halfway through. Now Suldak suddenly brought back more than a thousand kobold slaves. Except for [-] kobold slaves who were sent to the sulfur mine at the foot of Bump Mountain, the rest of the kobold slaves were all taken by the old man. The village head decisively invested in the project of digging artificial canals.

When Suldak and his party returned to Wall Village, eight hundred kobolds had dug nearly two kilometers of artificial canals in the river bend. This section was the easiest section to dig because of the accumulation of a lot of silt and sand. It will be more difficult in the back, especially the two sloping lands passing in the middle, where the feet are almost covered with limestone layers. I am afraid that it will take chisels and hammers to dig out bit by bit.

In fact, Suldak had some other ideas. He was wondering whether to make black powder, and he still knew the basic knowledge of mononitrate, disulfide, and charcoal.

It is said that an alchemy potion similar to black powder appeared in the era of Hex technology, but with the demise of the goblin era, black powder has not been passed down. If this thing is used to blow up the river, it is estimated that opening the river will be much easier.

However, although the Green Empire does not have black powder, there is another substitute - the fire scale bomb. When Suldak was guarding the city of Wojmara, Suldak had also seen the power of this fire scale bomb. Like a Molotov cocktail filled with gasoline, it was lit and thrown out, and then exploded with a 'bang', splashing a huge spark, and everything touched by the fire scale bomb would burn.

Whether it is the fire scale bomb or the development of black powder, Suldak feels that this kind of professional work should be done by professionals. After returning to Hailansa City, he will find a chance to meet Ferdinand scholar. Maybe he I will give myself some good suggestions, maybe I will be inspired by myself and develop black powder directly...

'It's better to keep the recipe of this big killer in your own hands. ' Suldak thought.

The entrance of Wall Village has become a bustling market. The four-wheeled trucks of some horse-drawn carriages have brought a lot of cassava, which has greatly exceeded Suldak’s expectations. Now the old village head has built five stalls at the entrance of the village. Big warehouses, each big warehouse is almost full of cassava, which is probably enough for these kobold slaves to eat for two or three months.

However, there are still some four-wheeled carriages loaded with cassava at the mountain pass, and they continue to drive over from Hailansa City, bringing a large amount of cassava.

The old village head, Brett, was sitting on a chair with a sad face, surrounded by a group of businessmen, and a dozen or so carriages were piled up with cassava. Selina was standing behind the old village head, holding an account book , it seems that the atmosphere of the negotiation is not very good...

Chapter 498 Potions or Alchemy

There are many mountains around the city of Hailansa, and stretches of oak forests produce gold and silver acorns, but the oak forests are also mixed with chestnut trees, cassava trees, wild autumn pear trees and some hard miscellaneous trees. Rice is one of the most important winter grains for the villagers in the nearby mountainous areas in autumn. When the yield of many wheat fields is reduced, the mountain people near the barren land will go to the mountains in autumn to collect a large number of wild chestnuts to survive the long winter. .

The main reason why cassava is not accepted by the mountain people is that it has certain toxicity. Even if the cassava is cut into small pieces and soaked in water, it is difficult to completely remove the paralyzing toxin. After eating, not only the mouth is swollen , can also cause abdominal pain and other conditions.

Suldak brought more than a thousand kobold slaves from Bena City. These kobold slaves need to eat at least [-] pounds of cassava every day. Therefore, when the coachmen brought the first batch of cassava, Suldak Just let them continue to purchase cassava in the free market in Hailansa City and transport it to Daowal Village. Suldak promised that the purchase price of each cart of cassava should not be less than twenty silver.

This is a big deal for a coach shop whose transportation business is sluggish in the spring.

Of course, the twelve coachmen would not let go of this good opportunity to make money. On the second day after returning to Hailansa City, the coachmen arrived at Wall Village with twelve carts full of cassava. Li Cun had a sum of money, which was saved from several sulfur mine transactions with the White Elephant Trading Company in the winter, and it happened to be used by him to pay the settlement commission for purchasing cassava.

When Suldak returned to Wall Village, two weeks had passed since the kobold slaves came to Wall Village. In just two weeks, twelve four-wheeled carriages passed between Hailansa City and Wall Village. Back and forth five times, the cassava brought by these twelve four-wheeled carriages alone made the old village head Brett build three large warehouses at the entrance of the village.

But after the third batch of cassava was transported to Wall Village, other coachmen in Hailansa City learned of the news, and they also bought cassava in the free market in the city and shipped them to Wall Village until Suldak returned to Wall Village. As far as Er Village, the old village head has built five large warehouses at the entrance of the village. Although the old village head has sent a message to the carriage dealers to suspend the purchase of cassava, there are still a steady stream of four-wheeled carriages full of cassava arriving in Er Village. .

Seeing these piles of cassava, the old village head Brett was a little dumbfounded and wanted to reject the cassava, but the group of coachmen pleaded with the old village head. It was not easy to arrive at Wall Village with a full load of cassava. Would rather trade in and want to keep the tapioca here.

The old village head, Brett, was wondering whether to collect the cassava. He felt someone secretly tugged at the hem of his clothes. He turned his head and glanced at Selina behind him. There was a fiery light in his eyes, and the old village chief followed Selina's gaze, and saw a convoy slowly approaching Wall Village, and the knight walking in the front was surprisingly Suldak. Pulling the reins of the horse, he waved at the old village chief.

In the twilight, the old village head stood up holding a chair, with a relieved smile on his wrinkled old face.

"Dark, you're back!" the old village head shouted loudly to Surdak.

Suldak jumped off the horse, and the Gubolai horse neighed for a long time, leading the Gubolai horse, Suldak walked quickly towards the old village chief.

The ogre Gulitam followed Suldak like a mountain of meat, attracting the attention of many villagers and coachmen, while Aphrodite and Samira behind the team were ignored by everyone.

Seeing many carriages stranded here, Suldak stepped forward and asked the old village chief, "Uncle Brett, why are there so many carriages here?"

The old village chief Brett told Surdak the whole story.

Then the old village chief said: "There is nothing else, but now that so much cassava has been purchased at once, and there are so many carriages full of cassava waiting here, I am worried that those kobold slaves will not be able to eat it all. It’s all over the mountain, I don’t think we need to waste buying so much, Dak, or we charge less, and let them take all the rest back?”

Suldak looked at the four-wheeled carriages lined up at the entrance of the village, and immediately said to the old village head Brett: "Take it, Uncle Brett, we will take all these cassava!"

The head of Brett wiped his forehead with a handkerchief, and shouted to the young villagers standing next to the big warehouse: "Val, come over here, and continue to weigh these cassavas. Weigh all these cassavas, Celine Na, you are responsible for counting the weight of these cassava and how many silver coins we will spend!"

"Okay, Uncle Brett!" several young villagers shouted.

The carriage drivers at the entrance of the village originally thought that they wanted to bring the cassava back to Hailansa City intact, and they gathered together to discuss countermeasures. Seeing that the old village chief finally let go and agreed to continue the purchase, they hurried back to the village. Your own magic caravan, lined up for the weigh-in.

Taking advantage of the old village chief's turning around, Suldak blinked at Selina who was standing behind the old village chief, and greeted him quietly.

Selena was standing there holding the sheepskin account book, with a delicate and pretty face. When she turned around, she avoided the old village chief and gave Suldak a supercilious look, with an extremely charming expression.

The old village head, Brett, approached Suerdak, lowered his voice, and asked mysteriously, "Dak, I know you have some ideas. Tell me, what can I do for you?"

Suldak pressed his forehead with his hands. He actually thought of a method to remove the toxicity of cassava, but he didn't know whether this method would work, so he said to the old village chief Brett: "I just have some ideas. I still don't know if it will work..."

"This matter really requires you, Uncle Brett, to come forward. I need some water tanks and wooden barrels. I can just move them to the laundry sink in the village."

"Oh! By the way, ask some village women to help."

Village Chief Brett's character is also swift and decisive. Hearing what Suldak said, he immediately agreed, "I'll do it now."

After speaking, he turned around and walked towards the village.

"Okay! Uncle Brett." Suldak followed behind and walked into the village together.

Taking advantage of the old village chief's inattention, Selina leaned over and whispered to Suldak, "What are you doing?"

"Just wait and see." Suldak said to Selena with a slight smile.

At this time, the young villager who was in charge of carrying the cassava yelled at Selena with a blank look: "Selena, one thousand and fifty-seven pounds, hurry up and make a record!"

Selena glanced at Suldak, and holding the hem of the long fur skirt, she turned around and walked back resentfully.

Aphrodite looked curiously at Selena's back as she turned and left, with a faint smile on her face.

Suldak turned his head and told the ogre behind him, "Gulitum, help me get some cassava from here..."

There were several large boxes next to the cassava pile, and the ogre carried a wooden box of cassava on his shoulders, followed Suldak who was walking to the village, and asked him naively: "Captain, What shall we have for dinner tonight?"

He simply didn't want to eat the cassava in the box.

Suldak saw the group of yellow sheep being driven back from the Beigou pasture by two and a half children, so he smiled at the ogre and said, "I'll let you taste the sheep soup from our Woer village tonight..."

"Oh... mutton soup, Gullitum likes to drink mutton soup." The ogre immediately grinned happily when he heard that he was not eating these mouth-numbing cassava.

On the bank of the creek not far from the wood workshop, there is a natural pool, where the women of the village usually wash their clothes, and the children of the village also bathe in this pool in summer. Slate, even if the river has stopped flowing, there is still a pool of clear water here.

Suldak asked the ogre Gullitum to put the large wooden cassava box by the pool first.

Several women in the village were chatting and squatting by the pool to wash clothes. Suddenly they saw an ogre walking from the village carrying a large wooden box. look back……

Samira and Aphrodite looked at the poor village curiously.

Suldak pointed to the uppermost part of the village, and said, "Let's go, I'll take you up there to see!"

The village's reservoir project has resumed work, and the river has completely stopped flowing. Carriages are loaded with volcanic ash and are driving along the village's main road towards the upper reaches of the village. Surdak takes members of the security team Go to the cistern in the village.

With the completion of the primary reservoir and the construction of the sluice gate, the horse-drawn carts in the village successively pulled the volcanic ash and lime powder to the construction site, and the shape of the secondary reservoir was completely around the primary reservoir. It has been expanded by ten meters, and the terrain here is obviously lower than the first-level reservoir by nearly two meters. More than [-] bricklayers are using cement to smooth the ground. The foundation of the embankment of the second-level reservoir has been completed. Once the ground is done, the laying begins.

At this time Rita, Natasha and several women in the village were cooking dinner for the bricklayers on the construction site.

Suldak stood on the embankment of the first-level reservoir, pointed to a large area of ​​land downstream of the reservoir, and introduced to Andrew, Samira, Aphrodite, and Gulitum: "Here's the next step. Three more stepped reservoirs will be built to increase the water storage capacity on the upstream side. Hailansa City is affected by climate and monsoons. Spring is dry and rainy, but in midsummer, abundant rainfall is easy to form. Waterlogging, so we built a reservoir here, and the water in the reservoir can irrigate some wheat fields in the lower reaches of the village to cope with this dry season."

Half-elf archer Samira asked Suldak a little strangely: "Since there is abundant rainfall in summer, why is this place so barren?"

Suldak pondered for a while before saying: "The geological feature of this barren land is that it is covered with limestone rock formations that are extremely permeable, and rainwater can easily seep into the ground. In addition, there is a lack of fertile soil for plant growth, and the dry season happens to be in the middle of everything. In late spring and early summer, many plants cannot survive in this land. Only some thorn grass and thirsty grass can survive. Only some valleys with water sources can show a trace of vitality, except for Wall Village. In addition, there are more than a dozen villages around here that are almost like this."

"Except for being on the main plane of Roland Continent, nothing else can compare to Wojmara." Andrew muttered to the side.

"But this is precisely the most important thing." Aphrodite stood beside Andrew and countered.

The native warrior's lips moved, but in the end he couldn't think of any suitable words to fight back.

At this time, a young man ran up the embankment panting, and shouted to Surdak: "Dak, Uncle Brett is ready..."

"I'll go right away..." Suldak waved at the young man.

He did not take the members of the security team directly back to the pool in the village, but instead walked to the stone roller in the village's threshing ground, and asked the ogre Gulitum to directly lift the base of the stone roller, and Andrew carried it Ground roller, and then returned to the pool.

Under the surprised eyes of the villagers, the ogre placed the nearly thousand-pound stone roller base by the pool, and helped Andrew straighten the stone roller again.

The old village head, Brett, has already moved eight large water tanks, and collected dozens of wooden barrels. These wooden barrels almost filled the stone platform by the pool. A group of women in the village saw the ogre and frightened Dedu's face was pale, his legs were weak, and after being scolded by the old village chief Brett, his mood stabilized.

"Dark, what are we going to do?" The old village chief Brett walked up and asked Surdak.

"Uncle Brett, this process is not difficult, you just need to watch us do it..." Suldak said to the old village chief.

After finishing speaking, Suldak asked Andrew to place the cassava in the box on the stone roller, and the ogre Gulitum pushed the stone roller, crushing the crispy radish-like cassava into pieces, making them look like mud. The milky white cassava juice flowed into the wooden barrel along the stone trough, and soon filled a wooden barrel. Then Surdak spread a piece of coarse linen on a water tank, and then poured the white juice into the barrel. Enter the water tank, and add two buckets of clean water to the water tank.

In this way, Gulitum and Andrew ground a wooden box of cassava into white pulp, filtered the white pulp, mixed it with a lot of water, put it in a water tank and let it stand.

The old village chief led a group of women in the village to watch silently. Everyone couldn't understand what Suerdak was doing to squeeze the cassava juice.

Soon the water in the first water tank became clear and transparent, and Suldak asked Samira to scoop out the clear water in the water tank until there was only a thick layer of white pulp at the bottom of the water tank, and then Refilling two buckets of water vigorously stirred the white pulp, and then waited for the slurry in the tank to become clear. After repeating it three times, Suldak collected the paste-like white pulp in a wooden barrel .

The old village chief walked up with a frown, looked at the two barrels of white pulp that had been settled after consuming a whole large wooden box of cassava, and asked Surdak, "Dak, is this potion science or alchemy? This thing what is it call?"

Suldak rubbed his temples vigorously, and introduced to the old village chief Brett: "Now... we can call them 'water starch', after they are dried, they will be starch. This thing not only removes cassava The toxicity in it, but also quite delicious to eat, I also know how to cook this kind of food, people there call this kind of food 'braised sub'..."

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