Red Dragon Emperor

In the second year, in autumn, it was the annual harvest season.

In the early morning, the sun has just emerged from the top of the mountain in the east, and there are still crystal clear dewdrops hanging on the tips of the leaves.

In the broad-leaved forest of Moduo Peak Forest, a team of nearly a hundred people lined up and walked through the forest.

This team has a complex composition, including goblins, jackals, centaurs, and most of them are kobolds. Among them, there are men and women, old and young. They are the collection team from the Bloodtooth Mine.

In addition to the ordinary monsters performing collection tasks, the team is also equipped with five well-armed and well-trained soldiers to prevent accidents.

Hey! Hey! Little devil! Keep up! Don't fall behind! Kobold guard - Tal tapped his shield with his spear, calling out to the little kobolds looking around behind the team.

He guessed that this little kobold was participating in a collection mission for the first time, and he was full of curiosity about everything outside. Such a little guy would occasionally cause some trouble.

What a happy trouble.

Don't know what the other guards think, or at least Tal thinks so, happy troubles.

If in the past, the little dog-headed man couldn't even eat enough to eat, then he would be curious about this and that.

Praise the great master!

Tal muttered a sentence to himself, and continued walking while guarding his surroundings, guarding against wild beasts in the woods.

In fact, the master's advisor, Master Anna, has communicated with the extraordinary beasts around the Bloodtooth Mine. Normally, there will be no incidents of extraordinary beasts attacking people, but ordinary beasts still need to be on guard.

All the way without incident, the collection team came to the target area, a mountain peak halfway up, and a large pine forest grew above the mountainside, with heavy pine towers hanging on the trees.

It is this thing that looks like a general's scale armor, which made the blood-toothed kobold tribe spend an unprecedented warm winter last winter. Not only the blood-toothed kobolds, but other kobold tribes, goblins, and jackals, There are even a few wandering ogres who have had a fantastic winter.

Start collecting! Don't leave our sight! After speaking to the collecting teammates, the leading captain turned to the four soldiers: Tal, Turk, you two go ahead, Shure...

After assigning the task, the captain sat down on a rock and looked at the busy monsters.

And Tal and his companions walked up the mountain according to the task assigned by the captain, and they had to go ahead to explore the way.

The process of exploring the road went smoothly. They did not encounter wild animals and turned back to the collection area.

Before they got close, they saw people busy in the forest from a distance. The kobolds climbed up the tree and took off the pine cones and threw them down.

In order to avoid hitting people, it is only after the kobolds have picked a tree that other people come to pick up the pine cones that fell on the ground.

Report to the captain, there is no danger ahead.

Chicken leopard eats whale steps (continue to be vigilant), the kobold captain couldn't speak clearly because he was chewing something in his mouth.

Seeing the two subordinates looking at him expectantly, the kobold captain took out the cloth bag that he carried with his cuff, and took out two pieces of dried meat stained with chili from the cloth bag and handed them to them.

Hahaha, thank you, Captain, Tal and his companion happily took it, and chewed it in their mouths. The aroma and salty taste slowly diffused in the mouth, the taste buds were stimulated, and the saliva flowed out unconsciously.

On the side, a little kobold saw this scene, and his saliva dripped to the ground.

Now, all the monsters under the Red Dragon's command are no longer hungry, but meat is still a luxury, and only a small group of people can often eat it, and the kobold captain belongs to this small group of people, and he is a formal professional.

It's just that, if ordinary people save half a month's worth of dragon coins, they can taste the meat even if they bite their teeth.

Hmm...it's reindeer meat. The meat is fine and chewy after being dried, Tal said as he chewed, generally giving his own judgment.

wrong,

It's yak meat...

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, the kobold captain on the side smiled and said: Stop arguing, you are both right, I have two different kinds of jerky in this bag.

So that's how it is, Tal said suddenly.

Last autumn, the kobolds tried their best to hunt and collect cubs, but because the cubs they collected were too diverse and the numbers were scarce, animal husbandry failed to develop.

However, at the beginning of winter, the gray-tailed centaur died and was exterminated, and their cattle and sheep became trophies.

From then on, meat began to enter the sight of ordinary monsters.

In the cold winter, things changed again. The icefield reindeer and northern yaks that originally lived in the bitter cold area in the north of the prairie went south for the winter and came to the Triangle Plain.

It's a godsend!

The red dragon was so happy that he collected all the gifts himself. Finally, under the persuasion of the druid consultant, he gave away half of them for the sake of ecological balance. .

As a result, the animal husbandry industry has been thoroughly developed, greatly enriching the recipes of the monsters.

After half a day passed, the collection of pine cones in the mission area was completed, and everyone set off on their way home.

At this time, the centaurs who have been playing the role of soy sauce have become the main force of transportation. They are tall and strong, and they can transport pine cones seven or eight times that of ordinary monsters.

All the way back to the Bloodtooth Mine, the captain led the crowd to send the collected pine cones to the designated weighing place.

After weighing, the manager who received the pine cones gave the captain a large amount of copper coins according to the weight of the pine cones. Unlike the general round coins, these coins are square, so they are called square coins, and because the dragon head emblem is printed on the front , Also known as Dragon Coin.

Red Dragon designed the coin as a square, not on a whim, but to distinguish the dragon coin from ordinary currency, because the dragon coin is a special currency for purchasing food.

With Dragon Coins, you can buy food at any food exchange point in Moduo Peak Forest. Generally speaking, two Dragon Coins can buy a daily ration for a family of eight, and ten Dragon Coins can be exchanged for a catty of the cheapest beef. up.

Come, come, come! We've paid you!

Everyone gathered around immediately. According to the division of tasks and workload, the coins distributed to each person were different. For example, the salary of climbing trees was higher than that of picking them up, and the salary of centaurs who transported the most weight was higher than that of kobolds.

This avoids a big pot of rice and ensures the enthusiasm of the monsters to the greatest extent.

The five kobold guards are also paid, and their reward for dispatching is fixed. Ordinary kobold soldiers pay five dragon coins at a time, while the leader of the official warrior level gets ten dragon coins.

However, as an official soldier, what Kobold Captain valued the most was not currency, but the points earned from completing tasks.

This point has only one purpose, and that is to promote the clan level.

At the beginning of spring, the Red Dragon announced a far-reaching policy to divide all monster tribes into six levels, first level, second level, third level, fourth level, fifth level, and low level.

The low class is the lowest class. They have to work voluntarily for four months every year and cannot refuse. At present, only the survivors of the gray-tailed centaur are the low class.

For the monster tribes that take the initiative to seek refuge, level five is the starting point, and most tribes are level five, and they work voluntarily for two months a year.

Level 4 and above do not need to participate in voluntary labor. Currently, only the Bloodtooth Tribe, Blood Claw Tribe, and Mosskin Gnoll Tribe are Level 4.

There are many benefits of promotion, and the only way for tribes to advance is points.