my age of magic

Chapter 182 Chapter 182

Drowning Park, this is the easternmost area of ​​the Death Swamp. The reason why it is called Drowning Park by the orc werewolves is because there are swamps here, and there are natural traps under many unknown grasses. Orcs with experience in swamp life cannot survive here at all, because as long as they take a wrong step, they will sink deep into the swamp and be swallowed by those fundamentally dark mires.This is the place where the most drowned orcs are, so it is called Drowned Park.

Although this is not a dead swamp, the aquatic plants and vegetation here are all affected by the dead swamp. The plants here are all plants that like to grow in places with water.For a long time, the wasteland on the Pai Plateau is only suitable for the growth of weeds. The whole wasteland looks extremely desolate. However, on the Pai Plateau, only two places, the Death Swamp and Yelian Mountain, are actually not desolate. Many people like The orc tribes who lived in comfort chose to live on the edge of the death swamp. If there were no dead bodies here, it would be a very livable place, because there is no shortage of food here.

After nearly half a month of hunting by the members of the Windchaser Adventure Group, there was finally not a single wandering swamp zombie in the entire Drowned Park, and the occasional temptation at night became the soul of Viru's arrow.More experienced and more proficient.Viru, a demon hunter, began to be familiar with the breath of those death scythes. For him, those ghosts were his prey.After his day and night hunting, the entire drowned swamp zombies had retreated to the edge of the death swamp.

When we rushed over with a large group of Raitu tribesmen, the entire drowned swamp was peaceful, and occasionally, we could see those headless swamp zombies casually lying in the swamp. rot.But the orc overseers who followed in the team gradually developed a habit, that is, no matter where they went, they saw fallen swamp zombies on the ground, and they were ordered by the gray dwarf slaves to pick them up and carry them away together.When camping at night, set up a large iron pot and pour all the swamp zombies collected during the day into the iron pot to refine corpse fire oil.

The reason why the orc overseers are so keen on refining corpse oil is because Kurz promised that for every barrel of corpse oil refined, the orc overseers will be rewarded with a silver coin. Recently, Tia has been bragging to the orc overseers The prosperity of Gludin also said that as long as there is money, there will never be the danger of starving to death there.How much black bread can be exchanged for a piece of silver, Tia's answer is 25 black bread with a big face.

So during this journey, the gray dwarf slaves became very hard again. They must always be ready to carry zombies.

The orcs of the Raitu tribe almost all know how to avoid the traps hidden under the grass. The orc girl who is familiar with this place led our whole team through a swamp. I lay on the back of the Yagui beast, Asked Geril on the side: "You all have such wet swamps here? Is your tribe built in swamps?"

Maybe it was because I was about to get home, Gerila even began to hum the orc tribe songs beside me, with a sweet smile on her wheat-colored face, she looked up at me, and then said: "Our home In the valley not too far ahead, between the two hills, there is a relatively high place, which is very dry, and there will be no stagnant water even in the summer rainy season. Before being captured by zombies, We've been living there forever!"

Gerile pointed to the gray area between two huge mounds in the distance, and I looked in the direction of her finger. It was a ring-shaped depression, and the surrounding area of ​​the depression was barely enough to be called a mountain. This huge mound looks like a "concave" when viewed from a height.

The Raitu tribe has always built the tribe on the southern slope of the most central area of ​​the "Au" character. It can avoid the cold north wind blowing directly in winter, and the slopes do not have the worry of waterlogging. It is indeed a very livable place.Our team slowly walked into the Raitu tribe, and we could still vaguely see the broken wooden fence of the tribe. Muddy water, the color has faded so that the original color cannot be seen.

Most of the crossbars on the wall have been broken, and the two giant wooden gates at the gate of the tribe have been trampled to pieces. At this time, those broken logs have been deeply embedded in the loess road. If Gerile hadn’t told me that those logs were originally The gate of the Raitu tribe, I would never have thought that these logs that looked like they were deliberately laid under the roadbed turned out to be two huge wooden doors.

The windchaser team was at the forefront. They will explore this mountain again. They don't know where the swamp zombies went. It seems that all the swamp zombies disappeared overnight.The entire dilapidated tribe was full of lifelessness, with white bones and some broken bricks and tiles scattered everywhere. After repeated looting by the swamp zombies, the square wooden houses built of stone and wood have almost collapsed.

The beast female warriors of the Raitu tribe walked into their original homeland again, with heavy hearts for all of you. For the first time in these days, they were all silent collectively. Just when the team entered the ruins of the Raitu tribe, The beast girls spontaneously organized and began to clean up the messy streets, carefully picked up the corpses that had turned into white bones, put them together and wrapped them in a piece of leather.

Some female beast warriors and children walked into the tribe, and when they saw the miserable and desolate tribe, they couldn't help crying. The deepest sorrow buried in their hearts broke out without warning at this moment.This home has been completely destroyed. Almost all the buildings have been destroyed. The roofs of many stone houses have collapsed. Exactly how the human-thick hardwood pillars were broken may be made by the swamp zombies after they expelled the orcs of the Raitu tribe.

In order to expel the orcs from the swamp, they even learned to demolish the houses where the orcs lived. The solid columns supporting the roof seemed to have been broken by the zombies.

In the orc tribe, the house is very important to the orcs, and for the orcs, building a house is a big deal. Generally speaking, it is difficult for the orcs to build a decent house in their entire life. On the Yi Plateau, there are fewer and fewer huge logs that are old enough to build a house. If you want to get some main beams and columns now, you may have to go to the mountains to find them, but Those huge logs in the deep mountains are difficult to carry.

The houses in the werewolf tribe of the orcs have solid stone foundations. These stones also need to be excavated in the distant mountains. In order to build a decent house, some young orcs sometimes go into the mountains alone with dry food on their backs. Just a few months.

Finally, after gathering enough wood and stone, we need to gather enough meat and food to entertain other orcs in the tribe who helped build houses. Usually, whoever builds a house in the tribe, other orcs will come to help. And there will be no remuneration, but one thing is that the owner of the house must provide three meals a day for free to the orcs who help build the house.

So building a house is very difficult for the orcs.Gerile also squatted at the door of her house with a sad face, looking at the collapsed wall of the house with tears on her face. It was a three-room stone-based cabin, and the entire roof collapsed, but it seemed that the stone foundation was still intact. It is fine, but the main beam and column are broken.

Kurz stood behind Gerile, bent down and patted her on the back, and comforted her softly in her ear: "Don't be sad, we can build better houses in the future, when we completely wipe out the zombies here I rushed back to the Death Swamp, and I will take everyone to log in the depths of Yelian Mountain, and go to Stone Mountain to quarry stones. Before autumn comes, we will definitely rebuild these houses!"

Gerile's eyes were red, and he wiped away the tears from his eyes with embarrassment, and ran away with his big braid.

Kuz didn't seem to understand why Gerile didn't even bother to cry, so he ran away in a panic. This cheerful orc girl is rarely so embarrassed. So he turned his head to ask for help, looked at me eagerly, I blinked my eyes, and said to him: "You will be going to the coming-of-age ceremony in a month or so, maybe after the coming-of-age ceremony, you should marry your wife soon, she Is it because of this? Or you said that we will build a house together until autumn, and she can't wait!"

Kurz couldn't hear my jokes, so he thought about it seriously for a long time, then raised his head and said uncertainly: "It should be shy!"

The love concept of the werewolves of the orc race is very simple. It is probably the instinct of survival to find a mate and reproduce.Or the poor orcs don't have any concept of love at all. As long as the orc werewolves work harder and dare to go hunting in the wilderness with other people in the tribe, they will always gain something when they return. A bag of jerky will bring you an orc wife. Such an orc girl may not be very beautiful, but she will definitely be able to bear children for that orc.

The lives of the werewolf aristocrats of the orc clan are simpler. As long as they wave gently, there will be a large number of orc girls willing to sacrifice themselves.

I have always thought that a beast girl like Gerile should be like the moon, hanging high in the night sky, and countless beast werewolves are willing to act as stars around her, pursuing her, admiring her, and every night, beastmen will write to her Some love poems, some small gifts, she should be held in the palm of the hand and cared for.

But in the Raitu tribe, apart from the orc overseers and some old orcs, there were almost no male orcs here, so Gerile couldn't feel this.Even in order to get a little favor from Kurtz, she has to sing happily around Kurtz like a lark every day.

Seeing Kuz's carelessness, I can't help but advise Kuz: "Be nicer to Geryl in the future!"

At this time, Kurtz always scratched his head and nodded to me with a silly smile.Sometimes I can't understand the relationship between Kurz and me. I even think we are a pair of twin brothers. I don't need to say what he thinks, but I know it. What I think, he also understands in his heart.

Up to now, Kurtz and I have begun to secretly feel grateful that it is really wise to be able to buy so many gray dwarf slaves in the quarry.As long as the gray dwarves can eat two full meals a day, they are like a group of mules, working hard, even if they occasionally eat two meals of boiled sweet potatoes, they have no complaints.

Almost all the heavy cleaning work was done by these more than 1000 gray dwarf slaves.After the Windchaser team collected the surrounding areas of the Raitu tribe, they confirmed that there were no traces of the swamp zombies, and then began to expand their hunting targets to the edge of the Death Swamp. Every day, Viru brought Sister Guoguo and the others Go out and hunt zombies.

They even made a big sledge out of discarded wood, and a few argali galloped in the swamp dragging the big sledge, and they rode Gubolai horses to follow behind. Every evening, they would wear sunset clothes Yu Hui, rushing back from the edge of the dead swamp, every time the sledge was full of ordinary swamp zombies, of course there were also some swamp zombie kings.

Viru brought these swamp zombies back to us to refine corpse fire oil, and now the second batch of oil drums is almost full.

Horsens, the owner of the quarry, is rushing to make oil drums day and night, and the blacksmith workshop in the quarry is already operating at full capacity. When he sent him sweet potatoes last time, he also gave him some corpses of swamp zombies as a gift.Those clever orc overseers in the quarry put the corpse dregs soaked in corpse fire oil into bags. The arms, thighs and thighs of the swamp zombies are more convenient for storage and shipment, so they will collect them little by little. When mining the field, it was brought to the Horsens field owner.

It is precisely because of these fuels with a higher ignition temperature that the blacksmith workshop in the quarry will be restarted. Now it is very difficult to transport wood back from Yelian Mountain. The animals in the quarry have been starved. The orcs ate it, and without those big animals, it was difficult for Horsens to transport the wood back from the deep mountains. It was the corpse dregs soaked in the fire oil that made the blacksmith workshop in the quarry resume operation.

The message brought by Horsens, in a few days, he will personally escort a batch of new oil barrels and come to drown in person.

I guessed that this keen-eyed, active-minded werewolf owner must have had a new idea, so he rushed over to discuss with Kurz in person.Maybe it's the next order of oil drums, maybe the sample of the oil stove has been manufactured, maybe he wants to discuss with us to buy some corpse residue, maybe buy some more sweet potatoes.

The orc female warriors of the Raitu tribe have dropped their short spears and shields these days and are digging sweet potatoes in the swamp behind the col.The swamp is very fertile. When you walk in, you can see vines with heart-shaped leaves growing in this field. When you lift these withered, crisp and tender sweet potato branches and leaves, you will reveal a large black area underneath. The silt, the sticky black ooze where the bunches of sweet potato grow.

This kind of silt is not like the red soil of the windmill hills. The sweet potato can be easily dug out from the soil with a pickaxe or a shovel. The black silt is very soft and sticky and cannot be dug out at all.These female beast warriors used to be in the Raitu tribe, and they would come here every autumn to collect enough sweet potatoes for the winter, so they were very experienced in picking sweet potatoes.

For me, this black ooze swamp is deadly enough.I don't know how deep the soft black mud is. After I step in, the soft mud will slowly wrap my legs from the top of my feet. The more I panic and struggle, the faster I sink , Of course, even if I stand still, my body keeps sinking.This is the edge of the so-called terrifying death swamp.

But these mires happen to be the best growing environment for sweet potatoes, and there are a lot of sweet potatoes in these black silts.

Later, it was Geril who solved my confusion. Those Raitu tribe beast women who shuttled freely in the mud like loach, before they entered the swamp, their bodies would be coated with slippery and sticky vine juice , so that they will turn into slippery loaches, and any clothes made of linen, wool, silk, or leather will hinder their body flexibility, so those orc girls covered in black mud all over their bodies They are naked, and relying on their strong waist and legs, they can swing differently in the mud of the swamp, and they can break free from the shackles of the black mud, and every time they can hold some sweet potatoes out of the mud and swim up.

This kind of work can only be done by young beast girls who are well-proportioned. Their body flexibility, flexibility and physical fitness are at their peak. Only such beast girls can maintain sufficient physical strength in the mud, otherwise , once a certain beast girl reluctantly enters the mud, cramps in it or exhausts her energy and cannot swim up, then no one can save her. In the mud, she can't even make a sound, she can only quietly sank to the bottom of the mud.

So the old orcs were waiting on the shore. Every time a female orc came out of the mud, they would quickly pick up the sweet potatoes and put them in the water basin to wash away the mud.They will also silently remember the number of times the beast girls in the mud have dived. Whenever a beast girl reaches enough times, and she doesn't feel that she has reached the limit of her physical fitness, there will be an old lady at this time. The orc reminded them to crawl on the edge of the swamp, eat some dried meat and drink some water to rest.

Those collected sweet potatoes will soon be transported away by the orc children of the Raitu tribe.

The whole process of making vermicelli is kept secret even from Viru and the orc supervisors, and only the orc girls of the original Raitu tribe hold this secret.When making vermicelli, it is often carried out in the curtain far away from the camp.Grind these sweet potatoes into a slurry, and after the filter residue settles, the sediment is the so-called starch. The starch slurry leaks down from the mesh of the funnel, and falls into the boiling water to form vermicelli. These vermicelli are dried in the sun. After that, it can be preserved for a long time.

This is the new secret of the people of the Yitu tribe. In order to protect this secret, every beast girl of the Raitu tribe who participated in the production of vermicelli has been strictly selected, and they are also asked to swear to the beast god that they will never share this secret. The secret is out, and this craft will become a means of livelihood for the Raitu tribe in the future.

I still hide in the tent every day and draw as many magic scrolls as possible. I never thought that Qige left me with so much magic ink. I only used half of it, and the magic parchment I brought over has been consumed. Empty.

These days, a large amount of vermicelli is slowly made, and after drying, Kurz and I will take them to Gludin and sell them to Master Luipas to fulfill our promise.

The ruins in the Raitu tribe were cleaned up by the gray dwarf slaves. This matter needs to wait for Kuz’s order, and someone needs to go to the depths of Yelian Mountain to cut firewood before they can rebuild these wooden houses. However, the monsters in Yelian Mountain and There are more ferocious beasts, now that Drowning Park has just stabilized, how could Kurz send someone to the depths of Yelian Mountain to die.

The food in the tribe is almost running out, and I have to eat those vermicelli or sweet potatoes if I can’t think of a way, so Kurz and I are planning a hunting event. It is said that there are crocodiles in these swamps...

(End of this chapter)