my age of magic

Chapter 1619 168. The War Between the Lizard Man Tribes 3
After rounding the Piatilla Mountains, we continued west along a river known as the Farah.

Nathaniel told me that we can be sure that we are not too far away from the ancient ruins when we find the Fara River. The last time the adventure group walked along the Fara River for about half a month, the sides of this river valley grow With luxuriant plants, there are some very rare blood-sucking trees and piranhas growing in the woods. These plant-based monsters are extremely rare species even in the wild swamp.

Walking along the river, although you will frequently encounter large animals that come to drink water, you can avoid the territory of some intermediate monsters.

Before entering the Farah Valley, we spent a day in the forest on the edge of the valley.

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I also took this opportunity to quietly return to the imperial capital, and transported all the rune plates from the Xinliu Valley Magic Seal Workshop to the warehouse of the imperial capital, and moved nearly 20 rune plate base materials and 50 giant crossbow bolts from the warehouse head, and nearly a hundred barrels of red copper metal solution.

Now the red copper magic rune board in the imperial capital has covered all the first-level magic, but my magic seal workshop still mainly produces the five magic spells of Gathering Fire, Miniature Tornado, Continuous Frost, Twilight Lighting and Lava Surge. A life-like magic rune board, as for the giant crossbow arrows, there are two types: holy silver crossbow bolts and ordinary magic crossbow bolts, and the initial accumulation has been completed. The shaft of the arrow is also equipped with the magic ring of the wind control rune.

These types of rune boards have a market share of about 90.00% in the imperial capital, and other types of rune boards have sprung up from magic shops.

As a result, the plan announced by the Babington family at the beginning of the year to enter the low-end rune board market was completely bankrupt.

The magic seal workshop has completed the transformation project of [-] sets of Nacoma's full-cover black iron heavy armor. Next, the workshop is going to print the magic pattern structure of the imperial standard armor in batches. This standard metal Once the armor is made into a simplified version of the magic pattern structure, it will greatly reduce the manufacturing cost of the lowest-end magic pattern structure.

However, the basic magic pattern structure has not been widely popularized in the Grimm Empire, and the Sluit Province of the Grimm Empire alone has millions of first-rank fighters.

The Grimm Empire has a total of 97 provinces. Among such a large base of first-rank fighters, the constructed knights in each province only account for a small part. In Leutte Province, the total number of constructed fighters is less than 5.

There is still a huge gap in the primary magic pattern structure in the magic market of the Grimm Empire. The main reason for this phenomenon is the low production capacity of the magic pattern structure. Each set of magic pattern structure is carefully crafted by the imperial inscription masters. Although the difficulty of making these magic pattern structures is between artworks and handicrafts, the value of a set of magic pattern structures makes many small nobles sigh.

It has to be said that the magic pattern construction is really too expensive, some magic pattern constructions are in the hands of the nobles, which can be regarded as a considerable amount of inheritance and can be passed on to future generations.

The two dwarf craftsmen, Harrelson and Morgan, squatted on the wine barrel at the entrance of the magic seal workshop. Moved out of the workshop, the magic pattern structures that have passed the test will be coated with grease and put into boxes, and those magic pattern structures that fail to be engraved will be returned to the furnace to be smelted into iron ingots.

The first batch of simplified magic-weave constructions should be equipped to the South Wind Legion if there is no accident. I have already said hello to Earl Connard in advance. They should be equipped with two heavy armored cavalry regiments in the early stage. Those heavy armored knights in the legion actually have many first-rank knights. As long as they put on the magic pattern structure, their strength will be greatly improved.

In the future, I may support Zach and Ernestine. They will probably launch an expedition in the plane of Hierro next spring. If there are not enough Construct Knights participating in the expedition, I will help him to gather two temporarily. Come out with knights.

Of course, it may also be supported by Duke Jingyue of the Northern Wind Legion. In short, the magic pattern structure is something that the lords will never have too much at any time, but they can eat the entire magic pattern of the Knights at once. There are not many lords with textures, even in the imperial capital.

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Returning overnight to the wild swamp south of Qiyan Province, just in time to see Justus leading a team of barbarian slaves carrying a petrified lizard nearly ten meters long back to the camp from the jungle.

Since the last time I encountered a war between the lizard tribes, I have sent [-] barbarian slaves who stayed on standby in Xinliu Valley to follow our team through the rainforest, although these barbarian slaves are very uncomfortable with the climatic conditions here. , but it's better than being bored in an underground cave. Every barbarian warrior carries a huge heavy crossbow behind his back.

Due to the hot weather, I didn't strictly require them to wear a full set of Nacoma armor, but I asked them to at least wear breastplate and trouser armor.

These savages are a group of foodies by nature, even in such a hot and unbearable weather, they actually rushed to the jungle to hunt.

Of course I know that there are many monsters in the wild swamp, but I didn't expect them to be so numerous that they can be seen everywhere. Justus just led the group of barbarian slaves around the river valley, and met them by the river. Hunting basilisks.

It just so happened that this adult petrified lizard, which weighed more than two tons and was more than ten meters long, was hunting a white antelope by the river. While enjoying a delicious lunch, it was shot by a group of barbarian slaves with heavy crossbows. It becomes a sieve, and a piece of fine high-grade leather becomes tattered like this.

However, the meat of this petrified lizard is very delicious. It is said that the flesh of the petrified lizard contains a lot of earth magic elements. In the imperial capital, petrified lizard meat is often a high-end ingredient in high-end restaurants.

The orc warriors snatched five monitor lizards from the lizard tribe. The lizard slaves are familiar with the temperament of these monitor lizards and know how to domesticate them, so I arranged ten lizard slaves to take care of the five monitor lizards , these land monitor lizards are a very important means of transportation in the wild swamp.

The five monitor lizards in our team don’t need to carry heavy supplies on the way, so the Hierro natives set up a pergola on the monitor lizard’s back, and all the women in the team sat in the pergola, This kind of land monitor lizard can walk very smoothly even in the swamp, no matter what kind of harsh swamp environment, it is as smooth as walking on the ground for them.

Along the way, we saw a blood-sucking tree with the bones of various beasts hanging on its branches. It was a fourth-level blood-sucking tree, and a strange bird called a blood crow lived on the tree. According to Nathaniel It is introduced that this kind of blood crow can suck the soul of people. They live on the blood-sucking tree and are also the guardian of the blood-sucking tree. In the wild swamp, even the lizardmen are unwilling to trespass into the territory of the blood-sucking tree that has become a climate.

We also saw countless sharp-toothed piranhas fighting with several rough-skinned and thick-skinned giant crocodiles by the Fara River. It is said that bloody battles between the river valley monsters often defend the ownership of the territory.

We crossed the Fara River without any risk.

After leaving the river valley, he turned directly to the west and walked for a week. A narrow and long ridge appeared again in the dense rainforest. He breathed a sigh of relief and said that although the path he took was slightly deviated from the original path, the general direction was correct.

As the saying goes, looking at the mountain runs dead horses. From the time we saw the ridge in the distance until we came to the foot of the mountain, it took us four days.

This road is not a straight line, because there are some lizard tribes in the swamp forest here. Although the war between the lizard tribes spreads all over the wild swamp, the lizard tribes in this area seem to have not been affected.

So much so that we had to be extra careful when we passed through these lizardman territories.

Even if they met a small group of lizard hunters, they didn't dare to swallow them easily. They were worried that the destruction of a small group of lizard hunters would lead to the pursuit of the entire lizard tribe. This place is different from the edge of the wild swamp. Even if they wiped out a tribe of lizardmen, it wouldn't cause much trouble.

Located in the hinterland of the wild swamp, the lizardmen tribes here will be somewhat involved, and we don't want to create extra problems.Nathaniel led the way, looking for the buffer zone between the territories of the lizard tribes, and the journey went smoothly.

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Mount Alamocus is located in the northern part of the Wild Swamp territory, like two parallel lines with the Piatilla Mountains, traversing the northwest of the Wild Swamp.

There are large tropical rain forests, river valleys, and swamps between the two mountain ranges. There are many intermediate-level monsters living here. There are five relatively large lizard tribes here, except for the Muniji tribe that occupies the entire Wangtian forest area. In addition, there is the Guzaher tribe on the side of Mount Alamocus, and the other three big tribes are located in the swampy land between the two mountains and valleys, but these tribes are relatively westward, and they are It is the Raksha tribe, the Calicut tribe and the Lamindi tribe.

The guide Nathaniel stood on the back of the monitor lizard, pointed to the simple fortifications built in front of the mountain pass, and said to me: "Ahead is the Alamocus Pass, this canyon was established by the Guzaher tribe. The last time we passed through here, it was through the relationship of Inzaghi, the elder of the Guzaher tribe, and paid 25 gold coins to the lizard tribe to obtain the permission to pass, but now a war broke out among the lizard tribe. I'm afraid it won't be that easy to get through Mount Alamocus."

I sat on the cool chair on the monitor lizard’s back platform and looked at the mountain range in front of me. After crossing this ridge, we can look for the mysterious ancient land in the swamp south of Alamocus Mountain. relics.

Thinking of this, I couldn't wait to cross the mountain. I waved my hand to Nathaniel and said, "If it can be settled with gold coins, it's not a problem for me. Can I visit this Inza?" Elder Ji, let it help us get a pass?"

Hearing my quick promise, Nathaniel said with some hesitation: "I can't guarantee it for the time being, but I'll visit Elder Inzaghi first to see if it's feasible."

I glanced at Nathaniel and asked him, "Oh, so what kind of gifts do I need to prepare? I mean, what Elder Inzaghi likes, as long as I have it here, you can take some over there."

Nathaniel already had the answer in his mind, and he replied without thinking: "Tobacco and gold coins, a kind of pungent tobacco is abundant in the western region of the Grimm Empire, and those lizard elders like to smoke, The traveling merchants here in Strange Rock City always like to sell this pungent tobacco to the lizard tribe, but now I am afraid that no merchant is willing to enter the wild swamp."

I raised my hand and snapped my fingers, and then told him: "We are staying here for one night. When you visit Elder Inzaghi tomorrow morning, you can come and get it."

Nathaniel didn't expect me to say this at all, and asked me with his eyes wide open: "You don't even have tobacco, do you?"

I could only force myself to laugh dryly, and then replied: "Of course, how about an old saying? Be prepared!"

In fact, where do I know how to prepare that thing, and I don’t have a cigarette addiction, but I can go back to the Imperial Capital to buy it at night...

Just as Nathaniel was about to leave, I called him back and asked him, "We have brought lizard slaves here, will passing through the fortress garrisoned by the lizards cause trouble?"

Nathaniel thought about it seriously, and then said to me: "That's not true, there is not much connection between the lizardmen tribes, and they often exploit the lizardmen outside their own tribe even more than us. In the lizard tribe, lizard slaves are also common."

"Oh, that's good." I nodded and waved my hand to signal that he could go down and rest.

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The next morning, Nathaniel took some tobacco gifts and took two orc warriors to the Guzaher tribe alone.

We waited in the camp for almost two days. When we were worried that something might happen to Nathaniel, we did not expect that Nathaniel miraculously returned safely. They brought two lizardmen warriors, and one of them turned out to be the young lizardman aristocrat. He walked into our camp and looked around like a curious baby.

I never thought that I would meet that young lizard nobleman again. He saw me standing on the back of the monitor lizard from a distance, with a happy expression on his long and narrow lizard face, and he kept waving to me , kept shouting to me: "Paku, Paku..."

I can only bite the bullet, stand up from the monitor lizard's back, and nod to the young lizard nobleman.

But then I thought of it again. Nathaniel clearly went to the Guzahr tribe. If he could meet this young nobleman, it means that this young nobleman has some kind of relationship with the Guzahr tribe...

Thinking of this, I forced a smile on my stiff face.

(End of this chapter)