King from scratch

Dragon Island.

Ai Zhijin slammed the closed Dragon Island with his human body.

"Your arrival is not unexpected at all." Tuo Er Jin coiled on the highest mountain of Dragon Island, overlooking the weak intelligent creatures from above, and the deafening dragon chant echoed on Dragon Island.

"Is the human king ready to beg us for mercy?"

Compared with the dragon occupying the entire mountain, Du Lei floating in front of Tuo Erjin's eyes was as insignificant as a speck of dust.

"The king of men is ready for war."

The scene suddenly fell silent.

Tuol Jin raised his neck, this action brought violent airflow fluctuations, Du Lei stood in it, motionless.

"Then your arrival surprised me even more." Tuoer Jin looked at the other party: "If you didn't come to surrender for the human king, then why did Ai Zhijin come here?"

Du Lei: "The Dragon Clan violated the agreement."

"Cunning human beings, cunning Aizhijin," Tuo Erjin roared: "You actually have the face to accuse the dragons of breaking the agreement? We got nothing, not even the shadow of the treasure!"

"Ole King broke the agreement at the end of the expedition and issued a declaration of war," Du Lei's tone explained the facts: "The dwarves recognize that the history of the dwarves is their lost treasure. From this point of view, the human king did not violate the contract. .”

"And Ole King violated the contract." Du Lei took out the four copies of the contract from his personal space: "He asked the human king to provide him with treasures and asked for a reward beyond the agreement; after being rejected, he asked The kingdoms of men have declared war."

"As an intermediary, Ai Zhijin has the responsibility to protect the interests of both parties to the contract." Du Lei said, "That's why I'm here."

Tuo Er Jin was stunned for a full two seconds before reacting: "So, you came to Dragon Island to investigate Ao Lei's responsibility for breach of the contract?"

To personally come to Long Island to investigate the responsibility of the Dragon Clan for violating the contract can only be said to be worthy of Ai Zhijin.

"Yes," Du Lei continued under Thor Jin's scrutinizing eyes: "The dragon clan needs to compensate the king for the loss."

The other dragons on the sidelines couldn't stand it anymore, and began to discuss in a low voice.

"Is this guy out of his mind?"

"What is Tuo Er thinking, this guy is so arrogant, won't the problem be solved if he just kills him?"

"This Ai Zhijin has been here several times before, and Tuo Er has a good relationship with him..."

"Really? I can't tell the difference between these humanoid creatures every time. They have two arms and two legs..."

Tuo Er gave a warning to the onlookers one by one with wide eyes, and then glared fiercely at Du Lei, as if he would end the conversation physically if he didn't answer well.

"What price?"

"Protect the kingdom of man."

The flame in Tull Jin's throat was about to move, he slowly opened his mouth and let out a roar: "Don't even think about it, the dragon clan will never be restrained..."

The smell of sulfur became stronger.

Du Lei: "The mine."

"Hiccup" Tuo Er Jin hiccupped and swallowed the flame in his throat: "Mine? What mine?"

Several Dragon Clans stretched their heads over because they heard the key words, and stared at Du Lei with blinking eyes the size of gongs.

Just watching is not enough, they "whisper" the conversation.

"I knew he came prepared! The mine! The treasure! It's mine!"

"What mine! Is it gold! I like gold!"

"I'm going to protect the mine!"

The voice of Ole King's accusation was drowned out by many voices: "The human king deceived me..."

"This is a mineral lode discovered by the human kingdom." Du Lei: "But the Dragon Clan's breach of promise obviously cannot be trusted."

Tuol Jin poked his head forward, stared straight at Du Lei and said, "The human kingdom plans to exchange mineral veins for peace?"

"I don't think you understand what I mean. This is not a manifestation of the human king's fear of war." Du Lei changed the question: "Or are you planning to face the iron-eating ants?"

"That depends on the number of iron-eating ants." Tuoer Jin muttered, demonstrating the wisdom of being a long-lived species: "If the number of iron-eating ants is large enough to scare us, then they will cease to exist first." should be the Kingdom of Man."

"In order to confirm this, Ai Zhijin counted the number of iron-eating ants in the kingdom." Du Lei said calmly: "The kingdom's territory is full of iron-eating ants."

"Gudong" I don't know who swallowed his saliva, it was very conspicuous in the silence.

Tuol Jin glanced left and right, did not find the shameful culprit, and turned his head back resentfully: "Ai Zhijin still has this little credit, but how do you explain that the kingdom is still intact? So many iron-eating ants are not enough. Need to eat?"

"They really don't need to eat if Ole King doesn't wake them up."

Although this has been confirmed, Du Lei will still be sincerely surprised by this when he retells it again—miracles are like flowers in the hands of a king, blooming in full bloom.

"It is a surprising fact that in the absence of food, iron-eating ants choose to feign death to reduce food acquisition." Du Lei: "In other words, in order to prevent the kingdom from being destroyed by them, iron-eating ants choose to evolve .”

Tull King blinked blankly on the spot, sorted out the true meaning of Du Lei's words, and came to the conclusion that it is best not to confront this unknown human kingdom head-on.

With a flick of his tail, he let go of the claws holding the mountain peak, and a huge black shadow floated in the air, covering almost half of Dragon Island, covering the sky and the sun in the true sense.

In the next second, the light shone on everyone again, and the huge black shadow covering the sky disappeared out of thin air, replaced by a human-sized miniature golden dragon.

Tuol Jin put his paw on Du Lei's shoulder, and said affectionately, "Come on, let's talk about this carefully."

With a flap of small wings behind him, a hurricane that didn't match his size swept up, and Du Lei fell into the mountain in an instant.

The young dragons who haven't learned this trick shouted one after another: "The patriarch cheated!"

The caves in the mountains were too narrow for the young dragons to get into.

The adult dragons onlookers smiled, ignored the young dragon's dissatisfaction, and quickly followed Tuol Jin after shrinking in size.

Those mountain peaks that look like toys to the dragons are towering mountains to humans.

Tuo Er Jin dragged Du Lei, and slid towards the mountain peak like a meteor, disappearing among countless peaks.

In fact, on a continent where most of the intelligent creatures chose the human form, it is quite normal for Dragon Island to have a place dedicated to receiving humanoids.

Tuo Er Jin brought Du Lei to the cave in the mountain peak. The golden seats were piled up in a pile without any aesthetic feeling, and there were some gem-studded and golden decorations on the ground. If it wasn't for the dragons who were too lazy to decorate the ground and walls, Presumably this cave will not keep its gray color, but will be replaced by blinding gold.

Tuol Jin took small steps and pulled himself on the chair.

Du Lei sat across from him.

"Just be direct." Tuo Er Jin's golden pupils stared at Du Lei unblinkingly: "What does the king mean?"

"He found a mine vein on the top of the mountains..."

"What kind of mineral lode, this is obviously a treasure on the top of the mountains!" Tuo Erjin interrupted Du Lei: "This is the evidence that the king has deceived us."

Du Lei had to stop and ask the other party: "So you plan to go to war with the human kingdom for this?"

"What I mean is that he should pay us part of the treasure." Tuo Erjin is not stupid, he said confidently: "This is the treasure we share with the human kingdom."

"The king is willing to pay a certain amount of reward as..." Du Lei stopped talking, and glanced at the miniature dragons that were crowded at the entrance of the cave.

Aether waves erupted from Tul Jin, sweeping the dragons out of the cave, and there was a high-pitched wind of heavy objects falling fast.

"Leave them alone, just keep talking."

"As a reward for the dragon clan guarding the mine."

Tor King asked a series of questions: "How much? How? How to make sure he doesn't cheat us again?"

"One-thousandth of a vein."

This number sounded familiar, Tuo Er Jin stared at Du Lei with wide eyes and said: "Cunning human beings! We deserve it!"

"In order to ensure that the Dragon Clan will not backtrack again," Tuoer Jin said, "Ai Zhijin will also act as a middleman..."

Tuo Er Jin quickly reacted: "You guys, if you don't have any profit, don't go early, let you be a lobbyist for him, how much does the king promise to give you?"

"One-thousandth of a vein."

"Then he is too generous." Tuoer Jintulu uttered the truth, and then hurriedly changed his words: "I mean, why do you get the same reward as us?"

He glanced left and right with his big eyes, suddenly lowered his voice, and discussed with Du Lei: "Actually, we can completely ignore the human king and monopolize this mine..."

"Ai Zhijin never breaks the agreement." After Du Lei's righteous statement, he asked Jinlong gently: "You mean to test how long Longdao can last in front of the iron-eating ants?"

Tull King certainly didn't want to make such a meaningless attempt, but that was the mine lode on the top of the mountains, allowing Ai Zhijin to come to the mine lode of Dragon Island for one-thousandth of the profit, no need to think about it, sure Great value.

"Iron-eating ants are creatures that cannot be extinct..." Tuo Er Jin said: "Didn't the dwarf kingdom succeed in the first place?"

"And aren't the iron-eating ants on your high-risk list?" Tuo Er Jin stared at Du Lei and said, "You don't plan to take any action?"

In fact, Tull King not only knew that the iron-eater ants were on the high-risk list of Aizhijin, but also knew exactly which other races were on the high-risk list.

The idea of ​​this high-risk list was originally proposed by Dragon Clan.

Not long after the end of the Dark Ages, the wreckage of the world where Aizhijin lived bordered on the mainland. At that time, all surviving races on the continent were still shrouded in the shadow of the world's imminent destruction. The list was conceived, and its original purpose was to save the world from another dark age.

On the original high-risk list, most of them are extremely dangerous animals, some of which have become extinct in the dark ages.

And as the continent borders other worlds, more and more new civilizations and new races join in, intelligent creatures gradually replace animals and become the main members on this list.

The cooperative relationship between the Dragon Clan and Aizhijin has lasted for nearly 1 years. The Dragon Clan likes wealth, and Aizhijin is good at making wealth; Aizhijin is not strong enough alone, but the Dragon Clan is very powerful; this makes their cooperation last for a long time Step by step.

In the beginning, the Dragon Clan was the best bodyguard and thug for Ai Zhijin, but now, Ai Zhijin is the best middleman for the Dragon Clan.

The Dragon Clan initially relied on their own strength and unreasonableness to seize the wealth on the mainland, but as the peace lasted longer and more and more intelligent creatures accelerated the development of civilization in a peaceful environment, the Dragon Clan gradually gave up on allowing The act of becoming a public enemy, turned to another way to obtain wealth-cooperating with Ai Zhijin.

The commercial tentacles of Aizhijin are everywhere. They trade with all races on the continent (except for extremely xenophobic races), provide these races with all the services that intelligent creatures need, and then earn the due rewards.

This is an imperceptible but undoubted business empire, and cooperation with it has brought considerable income to the Dragon Clan—it just requires a certain amount of physical labor and some restrictions.

Of course, even if the cooperation is so deep, Ai Zhijin will not entrust the task of finding the treasure to the Dragon Clan—use huge wealth to test whether the Dragon Clan is trustworthy?

No sane intelligent being would do that.

"After the iron-eating ants became extinct, it was removed from the list."

Du Lei changed his relaxed posture, turning from business affairs to private conversations.

"We did intend to take steps, but the King warned us."

Tull King turned over and rubbed his back on the back of the golden chair: "The kingdom that can allow you to make concessions... This is much more dangerous than iron-eating ants. When will the new high-risk list be updated? When will it be updated?" Add this human kingdom to it?"

Du Lei changed the subject: "On this point, we have reached a consensus with the human king... Regarding the mine veins, who do you plan to let go?"

Tull King complained: "The topic has changed so suddenly, anyone can see that there is a problem."

He scratched his back with his short front paws, and thought: "A consensus has been reached...so you guys are working together? Ai Zhijin has found a new partner?"

Du Lei spoke softly: "The mainland has been peaceful for so long, and it has exceeded our expectations."

Tuo Erjin knew the sound when he heard the string: "The Neiva Plain is bustling again? The great cause of the unification of the Diman Empire has begun again?"

"The Neiva Plain has always been very lively." Du Lei said calmly, "But this time it's not just the Diman Empire."

"Who else?" Tuoer Jin's attitude towards this was roughly equivalent to that of the melon-eating crowd watching the excitement. Although he was very interested, he was not worried about it.

There are many human kingdoms scattered on the Neiva Plain, among which the Diman Empire is the most famous. It once unified the entire Neiva Plain, but was split due to various reasons.

Due to this historical reason, various conflicts and wars often broke out on the Neiva Plain, and the demise, prosperity, and change of human kingdoms were so frequent in the eyes of the longevity species that they were accustomed to it.

Du Lei thought for two seconds: "An outstanding tribal leader has emerged from the Wilderness of the Beast God."

"This is even more uncommon." Tuo Erjin was not even interested in eating melons for this news.

If wars in the human kingdom are commonplace, then wars in the Beast God Field—no, it should be called tribal conflicts have almost never stopped.

Unlike human beings, the time for the unification of the orc kingdom was very short. In the first era, God the Father created all things, and then the orcs were born. In the ignorant exploration, the orc kingdom was established.In the second era, the orc kingdom was divided, and there was no unity in the long time after that.

Different orc tribes have forged blood feuds for a long time, and the premise that they cannot coexist peacefully at all has led to continuous tribal conflicts in the Beast God Field for years.

Strictly speaking, the orcs are failures created by God the Father, and it is difficult to define whether they belong to beasts or humans.

When they were minors, they existed in the form of beasts, and when they became adults, they freely switched between humans and beasts, but the influence of beast genes on them was obviously far greater than that of human genes, and their animal nature was stronger than human nature.

While other civilizations evolved with the changing times, the Orcs stayed the same, stuck to ancient tribal customs.

They conduct simple trade with the gold of Ai, exchanging fur and meat products for other items.

The race is not strong enough and the system is too backward. As a result, slave traders are very active in the Beast God Field and are keen to capture orcs for sale. Although they are not popular, there are always people who are interested in the prototype of orcs.

Du Lei: "His tribe unified half of the Beast God Field."

Tuo Er said frankly: "Then it is too low-key for you to describe him as outstanding."

What does it mean to unify half of the Beast God Wilderness?It means that he has defeated at least a dozen large tribes, and after defeating them, he can smoothly transition to unify these tribes amidst the blood feud that cannot be resolved.

Going forward a few epochs, there has never been an orc who can do this.

"Because at the same time as him, there is also Diman Karen III of the Diman Empire," Du Lei knew all the forces on the mainland like the back of his hand, "This emperor, who just took office not long ago, carried out a comprehensive campaign against the Diman Empire." Political reforms, border conflicts mediated, dialogue with other countries on the Neiva Plain."

"How long was it not long ago?" Tuo Er Jin recalled: "I remember that I only saw the emperor of the Diman Empire, and they changed again so soon?"

Du Lei recalled: "I remember he became emperor decades ago?"

"Their emperors changed too quickly. The last emperor died within 200 years?" Tuo Er Jin sighed: "The lifespan of human beings is really short."

"Political reform, it seems that this young emperor has finished dealing with other forces within the empire," Tuo Erjin changed the topic back to the point: "The day when he conquered the Neiva Plain is not far away."

Part of the resistance to the Diman Empire's unification of the Neiva Plain comes from the resistance of other kingdoms, and the other part comes from the constraints of different forces within the empire. Most of the time, the turbulent internal forces are the problem that hinders unification.

Tull King agreed with Du Lei's words: "He is indeed very good."

Du Lei: "But at the same time as them, there is also that young human king."

Tull King scratched his head and had to admit one thing: "They can't be compared."

He muttered: "Anyway, that human king is definitely not a human being. Human beings can't create so many miracles. Did Ai Zhijin check? What's his relationship with Father God?"

"This is not something that can be found." Du Lei said calmly: "If Father God recovers, it is impossible for you not to know."

"I remember the demons are on the territory of the human kingdom?"

Tull King didn't listen to him, and said to himself: "Their relationship with the Father God is much closer than our relationship with the Father God..." He looked at Du Lei: "Are you going to ask the devil or should we ask?"

"Ask this question in the human kingdom?" Du Lei said slowly, "Then why not ask the king directly."

"Tsk." Tuol Jin uttered an unintelligible syllable, and changed the subject: "What's the situation with the group of dwarves on the top of the mountains?"

Du Lei: "The information has been priced and supports payment in various currencies."

spend money?That's impossible to spend. Anyway, when Ai Zhijin needs the Dragon Clan to intervene, everyone who should know will know.

Tuol Jin has a lot of experience in this matter, and he turned the topic back: "What kind of mine is that mine found on the top of the mountains? I really want to ask who to go..."

Du Lei: "One pure crystal mine, the associated mine is two silver star mines, the veins have not been fully developed, and I don't know the situation in the depths of the veins..."

Tuol Jin made a decisive decision: "I will personally guard our treasure!"