Lord of Hyranza

On the cliff of the magma waterfall, a 'Z'-shaped climbing ladder was built with these timbers. This climbing ladder turned thirteen turns from bottom to top.

The wooden frame was built along the vertical mountain of the rock wall, and immediately became the only way for the kobold slaves to climb to the upper reaches of the lava river.

Suldak came out of the void gate, just in time to see a group of kobold slaves carrying sulfur ore, slowly walking down the ladder, a long line of kobolds climbing up and down the wooden stairs, looking like the lava The reserves of sulfur mines in the upper reaches of the river are very good, and those sulfur mines in the upper reaches are also easy to mine, otherwise there would never be such kobold slaves moving ore every day.

Now Luke started to lead a group of kobold slaves again, and began to build a concrete road from here to the central pass of the Great Rift Valley. The last time Suldak saw him was a week ago.

Aphrodite was lying on a flat volcanic rock, covered with a layer of soft fur, with a bottle of wine next to it, holding a magic book and reading it intently. It seemed that she had a good life here. very comfortable.

Suldak walked over and sat opposite Aphrodite, with a lazy and tired look on her beautiful brows. In the recent period, Aphrodite has used the summoning magic circle many times, That's why Suldak moved such a huge amount of supplies to the sulfur mine camp.

"Didn't you say you wanted to take a look in the lava mine with me last time?" Suldak was going to feed the red dragon Iser and teach him No.30 No. 33 rune, which was the last rune. Wen, when the red dragon Iser has learned all [-] runes, he will learn the simple language of runes.

A few times ago, when Suldak entered the lava mine, he was in a hurry. He didn't have time to show Aphrodite the red dragon chamber. Now that the war is over, Suldak thinks he can take Aphrodite Rudy went to visit the secret room.

He was really looking forward to what kind of expression Aphrodite would have when she saw Iser.

Aphrodite raised her delicate eyebrows, and said indifferently: "What's so interesting, could it be that there are other secrets in that lava cave besides red crystals and salamanders?"

Hearing what she said, I knew that I must have been to a lava mine recently, and I also discovered a group of salamanders deep in the mine.

"Don't you know if you go in and walk around?" Suldak smiled and said to Aphrodite.

Aphrodite put down the magic book in her hand, sat up from the rock, looked at Suldak curiously, and asked after hesitation: "You didn't come here this time at night, and you didn't rush to carry supplies... ...Does this mean that this trip to the desert is over?"

"Yeah." Suldak nodded and admitted.

Aphrodite's eyes lit up, her brows stretched, and she said excitedly, "So I don't have to stay here all the time?"

Suldak hesitated for a moment, and said to Aphrodite: "Oh, you have to hold on for another two days. If you want to leave here, you have to come back here instead. Are you tired of living here? Come back as soon as possible." In a week, I'll be back from the desert."

Aphrodite was wearing a long black dress. She sat on the stone slab with her arms around her knees. She turned her head to look at the magma waterfall not far away and the winding lava river at the foot of the mountain, but she didn't show any impatience. Sulda Ke knew that she was a succubus yearning for freedom and liked the outside world. If he hadn't wanted to lead the team into the desert, he probably wouldn't have let her stay here.

Aphrodite shook her head at Suldak, and she habitually shook her shoulders vigorously... This is probably a habit developed when she had meat wings. Feeling a little stiff, I really want to shake my wings and stretch my muscles and bones.

Then Aphrodite withdrew her gaze and said on Suldak's face, "Fortunately, the environment here is similar to the flame hell. The sky is covered with gray dark clouds, and there are volcanoes and lava everywhere. If there were no kobold slaves , I’m afraid this is an inaccessible place of death! Compared to the Flame Hell, there are no meteorites or fissions, so it’s much safer than that.”

Seeing Suldak's embarrassed face, Aphrodite showed a nostalgic look, and said to Suldak: "If I say that I am a little homesick, will you believe me?"

As she spoke, she stood up from the volcanic rock, raised her finger and pointed to the halfway up the pustule mountain, and introduced to Surdak:

"My house is on the mountainside on the north slope of a volcano, where our succubi clan built a small town with volcanic rocks. Although the volcano is always erupting uninterruptedly, almost all the magma erupted from the crater flows to the south of the mountain. , and formed a magma lake over there, there are many fire monsters living in that lake, the hunters in our town mainly hunt the low-level monsters in that magma lake."

She opened her hands, looked up at the sky where the volcanic ash was falling, and continued:

"Every time volcanic ash falls from the sky, it's like a heavy snowfall in a barren place, except that the snow is gray, just like the volcanic ash here, except that the volcanic ash is hot, and it will burn the body when it falls sense."

Suldak raised his hand, and received a fluttering drop of volcanic ash. The volcanic ash touched Suldak's palm and instantly collapsed into very fine ash.

I can't feel the burning sensation that Aphrodite mentioned in the palm of my hand. It seems that the volcanic ash here is still very different from the volcanic ash in the flaming hell.

Seeing Suldak's stupid look, Aphrodite smiled and said, "Meteorites fall from the sky every month near our town, so everyone often needs to repair their houses, and occasionally the mountains under their feet will crack. The land here is very barren, and only some drought-resistant yemeiluo can be planted. The succubus family always has more boys and girls, and each family is very large. My father has 23 wives and nearly two hundred concubines. One of the concubines, she has lived her whole life cautiously, without any freedom at all, and it seems that she has never left that volcano in her whole life."

Suldak was a little surprised, he didn't expect that the males of the succubus clan lived like emperors.Can't help asking: "Is there such a disparity in the ratio of men and women in the Succubus family?"

Aphrodite explained: "The disparity in the ratio of men to women is due to our traditions. The road to adulthood for every male of the Succubus family is extremely difficult. Many people will die on that road of practice. Only the strongest and the luckiest Only good warriors can come out of purgatory. Only the best male succubus has the right to choose a mate, and he has the absolute right to choose. As long as the female succubus who is favored by these succubus warriors has no right to refuse The elders of the succubus clan believe that only the descendants of these warriors can give birth to more powerful succubus."

Suldak asked a little bit dumbfounded: "What kind of strength will a succubus walk out of purgatory have?"

"If calculated by the level of monsters, they can almost reach the level of monsters at the peak of the fourth level. If calculated by the combat power of the imperial people, each of them is a second-rank powerhouse." Aphrodite said.

"That's why you want to go out for a walk?" Suldak asked.

Aphrodite shook her head slightly, and said, "All succubi want to leave hell, but I chose a completely different path, and I'm the luckiest one among those succubi."

She sat down again, facing the slowly flowing river of lava, with a look of infinite nostalgia on her face, and said with emotion: "I have been out for so long, and I have never felt anything. After I came here, I saw the gray clouds in the sky. And rivers of lava all over the mountains, only to realize that I, too, would be homesick."

"You don't want to leave here and return to the flame hell?" Suldak asked a little dumbfounded.

Aphrodite rolled her eyes at Suldak like she was looking at an idiot, reached out and patted her shoulder blade, and said depressingly: "These wings have been cut off, how can I go back, besides If you go back to hell, you also need to connect to the channel, and it doesn't mean that you can go back if you go back!"

Although there was no expression on Suldak's face, he was relieved in his heart.

……

At the entrance of the lava mine, Aphrodite asked the kobold slaves to build a very unique stone house with volcanic rocks. The roof was covered with a wooden tripod, and there was even a wooden roof on it, just inside the entrance of the mine.

Since the wind in the lava mine is blown out of the cave, there is no volcanic ash flying in at the entrance of the cave.

Aphrodite did not follow Suldak into the lava mine, but chose to continue reading outside.

When Suldak rushed to the secret room of the treasure, the red dragon Iser was already waiting impatiently in the secret room. Seeing Suldak hurried in, he opened his mouth wide at Suldak, neck The lower part of the dragon's belly let out a dull roar: "Suldak, I'm hungry..."

This is the most common sentence among the few everyday expressions that Iser has learned.

With this loud roar, Suldak felt a hurricane blowing head-on, and Iser sprayed his face with smokey saliva, feeling that this guy might have just eaten some monster meat, and the flesh and blood residue was still between his teeth ...

"How are you doing recently? What's new?" Suldak walked to Iser's side and greeted him cordially.

There are many things that Red Dragon Iser can't say, but it doesn't mean he can't understand.

"I ate a big bird..." The red dragon Iser seemed a little proud. Every time he was proud, he would raise his chin so high that his head almost touched the roof of the treasure chamber.

"This bird is very powerful?" Suldak said as he walked to the dragon egg to get the magic crystal inside.

Iser could only nod his head continuously. It didn't know how to describe the big bird in Imperial language yet, so he just said very simply: "...it's very big!"

With a series of low growls, it seemed that he was describing the big bird to Suldak, but unfortunately Suldak couldn't understand Iser's language.

After a brief exchange, Iser still let Surdak understand that the bird he ate can fly very high, even above all clouds, and the most important thing is that the bird can actually control lightning , a bird that is good at manipulating lightning and has a huge body. In Suldak's impression, only Thunderbird has such strength.

'Boom'

The red dragon Iser put his head on the high platform of the secret room, staring at Suldak curiously with a pair of eyes.

Suldak grabbed a magic crystal and said to the red dragon Iser: "I guess what you ate may be a thunderbird. It is said that each thunderbird has three feathers that inherit the power of thunder and lightning. You won't eat it too, will you?"

Iser shook his head in confusion.

"Today I may have to learn the language of runes. Let's start with the simple ones, but I haven't figured it out yet, so I need to explore a little bit!" Suldak said frankly.

Suldak shook the magic crystal in his hand again and said: "These may be real dragon language magic, but when you learn, you must restrain yourself and don't destroy this place!"

Iser's head moved closer, his eyes widened, staring at Suldak...

Chapter 681 Triumph

Suldak led the cavalry battalion back into the barren land full of gravel, and a familiar scene appeared in front of his eyes. The veterans of the cavalry battalion left the team one after another and charged into the barren land on horseback.

It is no longer necessary to sink half of your legs into the yellow sand every time you take a step, and it is much easier to walk all of a sudden.

A group of knights galloped joyously on the hard ground on ancient Bolai horses.

A few veterans were a little too excited, and rushed directly to the cliff of a fault mountain, crawled on the brown-red rock mass, and put their faces on the rock below them in spite of the cold north wind. Only their love for the land can express their inexplicable joy at getting out of the desert alive.

A month ago, this group of veterans joined the cavalry battalion from various villages in the barren land. After only three days of training in Wall Village, they followed Suldak into the desert. Suldak still clearly remembered when they left Wall Village on horseback. distressed look.

Their horsemanship is also learned along the way.

Before entering the desert, these veterans were just able to sit firmly on the saddle and march quickly. They suffered a lot when marching in the desert. The sand bandits were skilled in horsemanship. They went around in circles with the veterans of the cavalry battalion in the desert. Only Bing and Viru can pose a threat to those Sand Bandits on horseback.

But it was just such a group of cavalry battalion veterans who personally drove the sand bandits into the depths of the desert, making them look like bereaved dogs.

Before setting off, these veterans probably never imagined that after chasing sand robbers in the desert for nearly two months, they could actually step into the barren land again.

These veterans brought back many spoils, including thick leather armor and some precious metal ornaments on their bodies.

They seemed eager to go home and tell their loved ones how many sand robbers they had killed on the battlefield this time.

For the villagers in the barren land, the sand bandits are like a pack of wolves, they can wreak havoc on the barren land at will.But now, in the eyes of the veterans of the cavalry battalion, these sand bandits were no longer scary.

Suldak rode his horse and stood in front of a group of reserve knights.

As their immediate superior, Suldak was dissatisfied with the performance of the young reserve knights on the battlefield this time. They did not show the professionalism acquired after studying and training in the Knight Academy. Besides, there isn't even anything commendable about it.

This trip to the desert has taught the fifty guard battalion reserve knights a lot. At least they have the ability to march alone, know how to set up tents in the wild, cook marching rations, arrange sentry posts at night, and other basic marching knowledge...

The reserve knights raised their long swords and light shields in their hands, and cheered loudly to return to the barren land. For them, coming back alive is a victory.

They didn't expect that the campaign to clear up the sand bandits would last for nearly fifty days. Almost every reserve knight's skin was roughened by the cold north wind and the yellow sand all over the sky, and a thick layer of calluses appeared on his hands and thighs. No matter how poorly they performed on the battlefield, among the fifty reserve knights, there was not a single deserter who fled the battle.

This field experience may be regarded as a real experience trip for their graduation season.

I don’t know how many people are hiding in the tent in such a difficult environment, listening to the ghosts and wolves howling outside, crying and weeping bitterly. I don’t know how many people are armed with crossbows. They all vomited out, and I don’t know how many people have adapted to sitting around the fire with the corpse of the sand robber, roasting wheat cakes and drinking broth.

No matter what, he finally walked out of the desert where there was nothing. This was the biggest victory for the reserve knights.

……

Entering the barren land means that the mission of the sea giant mercenary group has been successfully completed.

Captain Gabriel Gerry is not going to return to Wall Village with Suldak's army. In order to make a good impression on the patron, Baron Suldak, he plans to separate from the army led by Baron Suldak. Detour from the east and west sides of the Great Rift Valley, so that you can search for a small group of sand robbers in the barren land along the way.

If you encounter it, Captain Gabriel doesn't mind helping to clean it up.

Captain Gabriel was thinking in his mind that this time the sea giant mercenary group earned almost 1 gold coins from Suldak. According to the current exchange ratio of gold coins to magic crystals 7:430, they can probably exchange for [-] magic crystals. Crystal, with such a sum of magic crystals, the sea giant mercenary group can not only comfortably cultivate for a period of time, but also add two sets of magic pattern structures to the mercenary group.

After buying two sets of magic pattern structures, the life of the sea giant mercenary group will be much easier in the future.

He stretched out his hand to grab the reins of the war horse, stopped and waited for Suldak, who was behind the team, to come up on his horse.

A group of mercenaries rode horses and lined up behind Captain Gabriel, and a group of warriors whose power had reached the first turn stood together, and the momentum could still cause a lot of pressure.

If each of them was given a set of magic pattern construction, it would be a construction team of 30 people.

But at this moment in this mercenary group, there are only a few fighters with a few high-level combatants who have a few magic pattern construction parts. For them, replacing some more practical magic equipment, the mercenary group The combat effectiveness will also be greatly improved.

Suldak rode up to Captain Gabriel, and before he could speak, he heard Captain Gabriel Gerry say:

"Baron Suldak, let's end this employment mission here. Our mercenary group intends to detour from the west side of the Great Rift Valley to Pagros Pass, and then return to Hailansa City through Oak Ridge. A taste of winter in the Badlands."

Even if Captain Gabriel doesn't do this, Suldak intends to let Andrew lead a team of cavalry battalion veterans to detour and go to the villages along the way to check if there are any traces of sand robbers nearby. Suldak also knew that it was only based on the happy cooperation between the two parties.

Although the sea giant mercenary group's commission is a bit higher than other mercenary groups, it is worth the money now.

But looking at a large group of horses and nearly a hundred camels followed by the team, one knew that Suldak had also made a lot of money in the desert.

In fact, Suldak didn't expect that the problem of buying war horses that troubled him could be solved from Sand Pirates.

Suldak said to the head of the sea giant mercenary group: "Captain Gabriel, this time the sea giant mercenary group has shown a strong combat power in the desert. If there is a chance in the future, I hope we can continue to cooperate and take care along the way!"

Saying that, he raised his hand and made a knight salute in front of his chest.

Captain Gabriel quickly straightened his body, politely returned the salute and said solemnly: "If necessary, come to the Mercenary Union to find us at any time! Baron Suldak."

Speaking of which, the performance of the sea giant mercenary group in the desert this time is still remarkable. They almost completely undertook the scouting and scouting during the march, and they were on duty at night. During the battle, they were used as an attacking force to penetrate the sand bandit group from the center...

Not only the veterans of the cavalry battalion and the reserve knights learned a lot from these mercenaries, even Suldak and Andrew felt that they had benefited a lot this time.

Suldak felt that this good relationship with the sea giant mercenary group should be maintained. It has to be said that war is a profiteering industry, and the winner can control everything on the battlefield. Suldak thought for a while and shouted Andrew came and asked him to pull out thirty war horses from the horse herd behind and give them to Captain Gabriel.

When the mercenaries of the sea giant mercenary group left, each mercenary was riding a Gu Bolai horse, and was leading another horse behind.

……

As soon as the brigade led by Suldak appeared in the barren land, they were discovered by the villagers in the northern part of the barren land.

250 cavalry plus more than 600 female captives, nearly a thousand horses and more than a hundred camels, no matter where they pass by, they will trample the ground until there are bursts of thunder. At this moment, the barren land is already the tail of winter. When the north wind blows, the snow on the sunny slope to the south of the ridge has already begun to melt slowly.

This time also means that the dry season in the Badlands is coming.

Several villages near the edge of the desert in the barren land looked even more dilapidated. As Suldak led his team towards Wall Village, the villagers along the way spontaneously organized themselves, bringing their few belongings and At the back of the team, they migrated south together.

Suldak knew the plans of these villagers. Whether they won or lost in the desert, the result would be the same for the villages on the barren land near the edge of the desert. Facing the ensuing retaliation by the sand bandits, no village can stop the sand bandits' revenge, so after suffering for two full months, the villagers here are preparing to migrate south when the weather gets warmer.

Until the large army of Suldak appeared, the villagers saw that Baron Suldak had brought back hundreds of women, hundreds of horses and a large amount of supplies from the desert, and heard that Baron Suldak had burned all the nearby The desert oasis, you know that the barren land has a deadly feud with the sand bandits.

It doesn't matter whether there is a green valley in the southern foothills of the barren land that can be settled, he gritted his teeth and brought all his belongings, and joined Baron Suldak's return to Wall Village.

Of course, Suldak did not ignore these villagers, and immediately mobilized the horses in the team to help these villagers carry all their belongings, and sent people to ride back to Wall Village on fast horses, and transferred out the idlers from the village. A convoy of unused four-wheeled carriages came out from the village of Wall.

Along the way, Suldak's team continued to grow like a snowball. By the time Suldak led the team back to Wall Village, the team had expanded to 1500 people, and these populations were almost the same as the current population of Wall Village. Ten times the amount...

Two hundred veterans of the cavalry battalion, fifty reserve knights of the guard battalion, more than 600 women brought out from the desert, and more than 600 villagers who migrated from the northern part of the barren land, these people can only be resettled at the entrance of Wall Village for the time being. On the flat tidal flats of the outer river bay.

Fortunately, Suldak entered the desert this time and seized a large number of felt tents. Even if these villagers could not find a house to live in, they would not blow the north wind in the open space.

Hundreds of felt tents were quickly erected along the banks of the artificial canal. Seeing that Suldak brought back one-third of the population of the barren land at once, the female captives wearing all kinds of clothes almost frowned. Almost screwed together.

So many people... relying on the current land in Wall Village alone cannot support them.

Standing under the dead tree at the entrance of the village, the old village chief looked at the black horses and camels in front of him, and then turned his head to look at the livestock pen beside the river in the village. He couldn't hold the group of war horses, so he glanced at the solitary stack of wheat next to the sheepfold. The straw might not be enough for these war horses to chew for half a month.

Such a sudden battle completely stunned the old village chief.

"Dark, you brought back so many people, so many big animals, how are we going to place them (them), Wall Village is such a big place, no matter what, it can't hold so many people..." the old village chief Brett rubbed his head. Rubbing his hands, he raised his head and asked Suldak on the horseback.