Lord of Hyranza

The villagers of Wall Village are naturally good at growing vegetables. Some veterans in the cavalry battalion came out of Wall Village.

Selena approached them and asked them to guide these aborigines to plant in the canyon outside the northern city wall...

Although Selina was called an ominous woman by the villagers in Wall Village before, and no one dared to approach her, but now she is the woman who sleeps with Viscount Suldak every night, and she also controls the army in the garrison camp. No one in the garrison camp dared to offend her for her performance statistics and material allocation.

Isn't it just to let them teach these aborigines how to grow vegetables? What's the difficulty?

At this time, Suldak had also led the Thunder Rhino Corps into the Invercargill Forest, looking for mineral veins according to the map of Marquis Luther.

Chapter 863 Copper Mine

Today, the ghost pattern red ant colonies can no longer be seen everywhere in the hilly and mountainous areas.

But occasionally, some red ants will come out of inexplicable places, causing a lot of trouble to people in the hills and mountains.

And these small groups of ghost-striped red ants lurking in the hills and mountains happen to be the hunting targets of many mercenary groups and adventure groups. There are often only a few soldier ants in their teams, and their combat effectiveness is not that strong. It is not difficult to kill these ghost pattern soldier ants.

At least half of the adventure group in Wilkes City are now hunting in the hills and mountains north of the Thorn Mountains.

Suldak led [-] cavalry and [-] Thunder Rhinoceros into the Invercargill Warcraft Forest. Although the forest was full of ghost-striped red ants, they couldn't form an aggressive beast horde.

Perhaps it was because there was no unified command of the ghost pattern ant queen, the ghost pattern red ants in the World of Warcraft Forest were more like a mess of loose sand.

Although there were many ghost-striped red ants in the forest, some desperate ghost-striped red ants often rushed up, either being hacked to death by the cavalry with their swords, or shot to death by the bows on both sides of Thunder Rhino.

On the way the army approached the Demonic Beast Forest, they were cleaning up these scattered ghost-striped red ants.

The speed of travel has become very slow...

This forest has been ransacked by red ants, and almost all the green leaves of the trees have been eaten by red ants.

From a distance, the entire woodland has become bare.

The scenery among the mountains and forests...it seems to have entered a severe winter without snow.

The Bailin plane is like spring all year round. The calendar here is also calculated according to the time of the Grimm Empire on the Roland Continent. It is now June in the Grimm Empire. The withered and yellow trees all over the mountains and plains make people feel that this place is very depressed.

Although many trees have taken out tender green shoots, some dead trees have died completely.

The entire Invercargill Warcraft Forest is waiting for the red ants to recede completely, and then the Warcraft Forest will slowly recover, the vegetation here will grow again, and some fleeing herds will return here.

Invercargill Forest is almost empty and the conditions are very harsh.

Some high-level monsters that survived the beast horde are hiding in hidden corners of the forest. Their ability to survive the impact of the ant colony is enough to show that they have extraordinary power.

These high-level monsters used to be the overlords in this forest, with a strong sense of territory...

They have a strong sense of attack against trespassers, but this time they have to face Suldak's cavalry battalion and archer battalion.

Suldak took the map given to him by Marquis Luther, carefully identified the surrounding reference objects, and chose the direction to go.

The cavalry battalion passed through an empty valley with ease, and then turned over a barren mountain range. On the mountain range, he found a copper ore vein in the distance. The bare mountain range was not covered by vegetation, and he could see the blue marks...

Unexpectedly, it was so easy to find the location of the first mine. Surdak seemed very excited. The wealth buried here will belong to him in the future.

But before that, Suldak needs to open up the mountains here, at least to include them in the land territory of the Bailin Plane.

"That's it..."

Surdak was riding on horseback, holding the rein with one hand, looking at the mountains in the distance.

Andrew narrowed his eyes, followed Suldak's gaze, and asked him:

"Boss, are we now going to completely incorporate this mountain into the territory of the Grimm Empire?"

Suldak nodded and said: "That's it. We must occupy this place. Now the entire Invercargill Warcraft Forest is empty. It is the best time for us to expand our territory. I want the entire ore vein in the forest." ..."

"Let's go, let's see how long this vein is..."

After speaking, Suldak rushed to the foot of the mine vein with his cavalry.

Looking at the past from the mountains, it is not too far away.

But when I actually walked over, I realized that this distance was not ordinary.

After leaving for another half day, seeing that the sky had already darkened, the cavalry battalion finally arrived at the southernmost end of the mine vein.

At this time, Andrew was completely dumbfounded. He only looked at the above-ground part of the mine vein, which stretched for several kilometers to the northwest, and then, like a giant beast dormant in the forest, it inserted its head into the forest.

"Boss, are we going to dig up the whole mountain here?" Andrew asked beside Suldak.

He doesn't know much about ore mining.

Suldak shook his head, took out a cloth bag, jumped off his horse, found two random stones on the hillside, and put them in.

"I still need to bring back some ore to refine it to see the quality of the ore in this vein. Many ores with low ore content may not be of much use." Surdak replied.

The cavalry battalion stopped on the open ground at the northern end of the mine lode. Surdak had already seen a lot of verdant gravel along the way. It could be seen that there were indeed a lot of copper-bearing ore here, and there were many exposed just outside the surface.

The cavalry did not sit idle after arriving at their destination. They started logging on the hillside, preparing to build some wooden houses near the mine and set up camp.

Surdak rode a horse around here and found that this is the only place nearby that is suitable for building wooden houses.

Invercargill Warcraft Forest has rich timber resources, and the wooden houses are built very quickly...

Samira led Lei Tingxi to move forward. She was in charge of the surrounding security. In order to avoid high-level monsters lurking in the surrounding mountains, she personally took the archer group and checked around the camp to see if there was any situation.

The bed crossbow on Thunder Rhino has a very good suppressing power against the monsters in Invercargill Forest.

Now there are not many monsters in this forest of monsters. Of course, there is no problem if Suldak wants to open up here. It is not troublesome to open up the territory in advance. He is worried about how to maintain the territory after the return of the monsters.

You must know that this is the hinterland of the Warcraft Forest.

A ghost pattern soldier ant suddenly jumped out from the weeds and directly bit the leg of Suldak's war horse.

The soldiers standing on the side reacted quickly, holding the spears in their hands, and blocked the ghost-striped soldier ant. Andrew rushed forward and chopped off the ghost-striped soldier ant's head.

Andrew looked at the mountain at his feet, and asked Suldak, "Boss, if copper mines are really dug out from here in the future, how do we transport these ores out?"

"I will use these thunder rhinos for the time being. There shouldn't be any problem with this kind of big guys transporting ore..." Suldak said to Andrew.

"If possible, maybe we will build an alchemy workshop here in the future. The copper ore dug out here will be directly smelted into copper ingots, and then transported to Dodan Town." Suldak said standing beside Andrew.

Chapter 864 Mineral Veins

In the vast grasslands around Wilkes City on the Bailin plane, the winter is quite short. The vegetation here is all white, and it is like spring all year round.

—Mountain of Thorns—

It is this lofty mountain rising from the sky that blocks the cold wind blowing from the north, so that the Bailin plane has such a vast grassland.

Once the Thorn Mountain Range was crossed, the temperature dropped significantly.

There are a large area of ​​hills and mountains in the eastern part of the north side of the Thorny Mountains, and a large wetland will be seen in the west of Nantu Town. The peaks of the Thorny Mountains are covered with white snow, which melts in midsummer. of wetlands.

There are a large number of cold zone trees growing in the Invercargill Warcraft Forest, and even tall firs are very common in the forest.

I heard that the hill dwarves in the dwarf kingdom don't like to live in the furnace city built near the crater. They like to open tree holes in fir trees that are hundreds of years old to build one-piece tree houses...

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According to the "Four Four Three Allocation Act" by the nobles of the Green Empire, if Suldak wants to open up territory in the Invercargill Warcraft Forest, he must divide the opened territory according to the ratio of four, four, and three. Part of the land It was handed over to the Green Empire, part of the land was handed over to the Bena Province, and the remaining [-]% of the land belonged to him.

The aristocrats opened up the land in the unoccupied area of ​​the plane, and they wanted to expand this land for comprehensive development.

For example, clean up the local indigenous tribes around this area, hunt the monsters in this forest, send private troops to maintain the law and order of this territory, and even open up a road to the nearest town, and develop in the center of the unoccupied area. Get out of a campsite.

This campsite is not as simple as it sounds. A more accurate description of the campsite is more like a supply station.

This newly developed occupied area, because it is very close to the unexplored area, is the favorite place for many adventure groups and mercenary groups to gather. They enter to hunt for the unexplored area, and then bring their own harvest to the campsite. Take a rest, and then make appropriate supplies, and sometimes you can sell some things that are inconvenient to carry and don't want to throw away.

If Suldak wants this copper mine, he must occupy a larger area of ​​the Invercargill Warcraft Forest and pay the land in other places to the Green Empire and the Bena Province in order to formalize the legal territory. Do it.

What Surdak didn't expect was that the ore veins here were much bigger than he imagined, and he didn't know how the open-pit iron mine was farther down...

This copper mine stretches for nearly [-] kilometers, and the mountain is covered by lush trees. If the area of ​​this mine vein is to be calculated in hectares, it must be at least a thousand hectares.

Of course, it is also possible not to occupy this piece of land.

According to the notes on the [-] Land Law: As long as you don't apply for this place as your own territory, you don't need to develop other land in unoccupied areas.

In fact, mining can also be done here.

It's just that other nobles also have the right to develop mineral deposits in this forest.

And once other noble lords determine that this land is worth investing a lot of money to develop here, they can't stand up and stop it.

The worst thing is to give up a copper mine for nothing.

As long as this place does not become their own territory, other nobles can also apply to Bena City to develop or purchase territory. Once the application is successful and the land here is converted into their territory, then they will be expelled from here.

Therefore, it is very close to an unoccupied area, and the preparatory work is very important.

Fortunately, Suldak belongs to the Luthor Legion, so it is relatively easy for the military to make these official applications.

Moreover, Suldak wanted to connect this place with the town of Dodan, and the vast forest in the middle also needed to be controlled by the imperial cavalry.

Otherwise, once the surrounding area is occupied by the monsters in the Invercargill Forest and surrounded by them, it will fall into a more passive situation.

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The cavalry battalion and Thunder Rhino team moved so slowly along the way, in fact, apart from searching for the remaining high-level monsters in the forest along the way, they also opened up a forest road for Thunder Rhino to walk side by side.

The current Invercargill Forest of Warcraft is like a piece of virgin land, most of the vegetation has been eaten away by ghost-striped red ants, and the monsters have also been driven out of the forest.

You can see the big trees with only a few leaves on the tops of the trees everywhere. As long as these trees are cut down, a mountain road can be formed for horses and thunder rhinos to walk on, but vehicles cannot pass on such roads. , but for Suldak's army, such a road is enough.

Expanding it into a road that can allow carriages to pass is a matter for the future.

At night, piles of bonfires were lit in the unbuilt camp, and nearly [-] soldiers gathered on the hillside, which also looked very spectacular.

Andrew and Samira have checked the surrounding area, and there is no large-scale ant colony nearby, and the scattered ghost-striped red ants are not to be feared at all.

Many wooden frames have been built in the camp. As long as felt and leather are covered around these wooden frames, the temporary shelter will be built successfully.

In June, the Invercargill World of Warcraft Forest has just passed the rainy season. As long as the roots of the trees in the forest are not dug out of the soil, it is impossible for them to die. All kinds of wild animals and monsters in the forest are eaten by ghost-striped red ants , the mosquitoes here do not have the natural enemies of those small animals, so they are overrun in this forest.

In the evening, the mosquitoes came out overwhelmingly.

They danced back and forth by the bonfire, and from time to time there was a bang in the bonfire, that is, a mosquito was caught in the fire.

The cavalry built temporary wooden houses and covered them with felts, just to resist the overwhelming mosquitoes here.

When the Thunder Rhinoceros team returned, they had some new harvests besides carrying some ghost-striped red ants. Samira used 'Sky Strike' to hunt down an agate beast in the forest.

This feline monster is a bit like a black panther, but it is twice the size of a black panther, and it is an evolutionary form of a glazed beast, and its whole body is full of streamers like agate.

The most important thing is that the fur of this agate beast is very well preserved. This kind of monster can survive the beast horde mainly because of its natural abilities of 'hidden' and 'swift'. Once it hides, it is regarded as possessing Beastmaster hunters in 'Beast Tracking' have a hard time finding them, too.

Taking a step back, even if they are found, as long as the agate beasts want to escape in this complex jungle and mountains, few people will be able to catch up with them.

The arrow pierced through the back of the agate beast, and there were almost no other scars.

It's a pity that the life magic pattern on this agate beast is not complete, and the agile life magic pattern cannot be stripped out.

However, this kind of leather is very sought after by the upper-class nobles of the Green Empire, and the price in the market is already ten times its true value...

Onyx beasts belong to the agility-oriented third-level early-stage monsters. This kind of monster leather is superior to all second-level monster leathers. As long as a professional inscriber draws a "stealth" magic circle on it, the leather armor made will have a concealment effect.

Many senior thieves and assassins in the thieves' guild hope to have a set of tight leather armor made of agate hide.

The top-level second-level Warcraft leather, such as salamander skin, thorn-tailed crystal lion skin, white rock rhino skin, petrified lizard skin, double-headed snake skin, etc., the market price of these leathers is probably calculated according to the quality and integrity , the most gorgeous thorn tail crystal lion skin, a piece of leather is probably worth about 20-30 magic spar.

I met a master leathermaker who is good at streamlining and saving, and I can barely make the upper and lower underwear of tight leather armor.

But the price of this kind of agate beast leather in the market is at least fifty magic crystals, and if it is a complete leather of the ghost-print ant queen, it will cost at least one hundred magic crystals.

At the beginning, Lance and his magician friends took only half of the ant queen leather from Suldak, and it was divided into two halves after Suldak stripped off the life magic pattern on his head. In order to exchange for this half piece of ant queen leather, Lance and his friends have accumulated a total of 45 merits in the garrison camp. If converted into magic crystals, they can be exchanged for about [-] pieces.

"When I bring this leather back to Hailansa, I will find someone to make you a set of light leather armor there. When Lance returns to Hailansa city, he will introduce me to Hailansa's inscriber. Let him make a set of agility-type magicweave builds, I heard that the best agility-level magicweave build is 'Magic Serpent's Fang'." Suldak sat in front of the campfire, holding a An iron vat with boiling hot tea in it.

"Hmm!" Samira became even less talkative after being promoted to the second rank.

Under the firelight, her light red eyes became brighter, holding a blue fruit in her hand, she said to Suldak:

"The Onyx Beast also has four animal teeth, which can be made into armor-piercing arrows. I keep them."

Surdak nodded.

Gullitum, who had been waiting aside for a long time, was impatient, and finally couldn't bear it anymore. He stretched out his finger and poked Samira's shoulder, and asked:

"What about the agate beast? I heard that the meat of this kind of monster is sour..."

Samira gave Gulitmu a blank look, and said to the two indigenous archers next to him, "Bring that skinned agate beast over here! Just give it to him..."