my age of magic

Chapter 188 Chapter 188

"This time I invite the owner of Horsens to come here, just to discuss and see if the owner of Horsens can help us repair the stone wall!" I put down the wooden plate in my hand and put the silver table knife aside Son, took another sip of water before saying: "In a few days, Aziz and I are going to return to Gludin. It seems that those swamp zombies have withdrawn to the dead swamp. In the past few days, the hunting team we sent out, The harvest is very small. Only at the edge of the dead swamp can you hunt. It is estimated that the remaining swamp zombies will not come out easily."

Horsens didn't expect us to return to Gludin in such a hurry. Now that the situation has not stabilized at this early stage, Kurtz and I seemed a bit hasty to leave. He pondered for a while before saying: "Oh? Want to go back to Gludin?"

"Well, buy food!" I said, and I looked Horsens in the eyes, and he looked at me curiously.The shrewd owner of the quarry is thinking quickly, wondering what I want to say. He probably didn't understand why there are inexhaustible sweet potatoes in this swamp.When the tide of corpses is completely subsided, there will be gazelle and one-horned bison in the wasteland in the future. We can hunt abundant meat from these large beasts, why do we need to buy food!

I pointed to this village and said: "At the beginning, the walls of the whole village were made of log fences. The swamp zombies pushed these wooden walls. Even if we repaired it again, they would still be pushed down by them one day. At that time, we will be hurt. Those are residents of the Raitu tribe."

"The idea of ​​Aziz and I is to see if there are any tribes with a large population around us, and go to them for a little help. Of course, the help is mutual. We are willing to take out some food and hire some strong labor to help us. The owner of Horsens is more familiar with this area than we are about transporting stones. Aziz’s idea is to borrow some gray dwarf slaves from the surrounding mine owners. They are natural craftsmen, and they may also be very good at building walls! I Food can be exchanged for labor, such as sweet potatoes, black flour, and dried meat.”

At this time, Horsens realized that we were not just talking about war on paper, but wanted to mobilize the power of the surrounding orc tribes and mines to build this village of the Raitu tribe.And this time it was paid. In this time of great famine, this kind of work-for-relief approach is also very feasible.Horsens carefully considered whether to help the two teenagers, he was very hesitant at the moment.

The Raitu tribe has lived in Drowning Pond for decades. It is one of the earliest tribes that moved from the western wilderness to the edge of the swamp. However, in the past ten years, the elders of the tribe have died one after another, and the pillars of those tribes have passed away one by one. The fall of the Raitu tribe has gone from glory to decline.But I have to say that the Raitu tribe occupies the best place for drowning and mooring. The terrain here is very high, it will not be affected by floods, and it is still in a mountain depression. In winter, the earthy mountains on the north slope can block the extremely cold north wind. , the most important thing is that there is the best land in the whole drowned park.

The chiefs of the surrounding orc tribes all know that Drowning Park has a natural geographical advantage.Horsens had heard that the Raitu tribe had moved away a few months ago. He heard from his subordinates that they probably went to the wilderness to seek a living. He thought he would not come back now, and that people from these tribes would die of illness in the wilderness. .But no one expected that just at the end of spring, the Raitu tribe would come back again.

Horsens was very disappointed. This mountain depression that was about to be acquired was like fat meat that was about to be eaten, but was inexplicably snatched away.But so what if they don't help, these two teenagers have exceeded Horsens' expectations time and time again. It seems that the adventure group they invited is very powerful, and they have already frightened the drowned zombies away. Fighting, the swamp zombie suffered a big loss.

When Horsens was hesitating in his heart, he heard me say again: "We still want to go to the wasteland this time. I heard that there are many tribes wandering in the wasteland. If they can bring them back, they are willing to join us." Whether it’s the tribe or those who don’t want to join, as long as they come to work with us, they won’t go hungry anymore. Take a catty of mixed flour for three meals a day, I guess someone will be willing to come!”

It's not just that some people are willing to come, if those old guys around hear that there is such a good thing, it's no wonder they don't rush!Horsens thought to himself.

"This drowned moor is in the southeast corner of the western wilderness of the Pai Plateau. There are not only death swamps, cursed deserts, but also the branches of Yelian Mountain. It is also very cheap to go to the depths of the wilderness from here. There are many mines in the Yelian Mountain branch. There are three mining sites for iron ore alone, and several copper and silver mines. It is estimated that their situation will not be any better than mine! Later, I might as well go for a walk and ask them if they would like to Let those gray dwarf miners come out and exchange for some food! But I haven't figured out one thing, there are a lot of sweet potatoes growing in the swamp where you drowned, why do you want to go far away, wouldn't it be better to use sweet potatoes instead of food?"

I poked my forehead lightly with my finger, and then said: "It's late spring and early summer, I think there should be a lot of orcs who brought back a lot of meat from the depths of the wilderness. Those swamp zombies, there are a lot of sweet potatoes in the swamp here, but this kind of thing grows in the mud in the swamp, we don't want those female warriors in the tribe to get into the mud all day to dig Sweet potato, they will continue to enter the dead swamp to hunt down those swamp zombies."

Horsens was even more confused, the wrinkles on his forehead seemed to be coming together, he asked: "Jia, you mean that the Raitu tribe doesn't have enough manpower to dig sweet potatoes, so they need to go to Gludin buy food?"

Kurz was beside Horsens, gesturing to him a rough outline, and continued: "We must continue to dig the sweet potatoes, and we must buy food. Those sweet potatoes taste a bit raw, and eating them for a few days will make the beast People's stomachs are sour and swollen, but black bread made from black flour is much better and hungrier. We're going to buy food because we're going to find many, many people to build us this high wall, It has been repaired in a circle from there to here, oh! By the way, a city gate that is taller than the Gludin Council Hall will be built, and the gate hole will be very long. Jia, you said that our city gate hole will be repaired for 30 How is the meter length?"

It was only when Kurz drew with his hand that Horsens roughly understood how big the ambitions of the two boys in front of him were. This is not a simple wall against the swamp zombies. Circle it, this is to build a city!Thinking of this, Horsens remembered why I had to ask him where to get enough stones just now. It turned out that the stones needed were really not ordinary.

"It doesn't need to be like that!" I bent down, pulled out my mace dagger and drew a pattern of the urn city on the ground, and then said: "As long as it is repaired like this, the gate doesn't have to be so thick, it looks like this." Even if those swamp zombies break through the city gate, they still cannot enter the city..."

I continued: "Speaking of which, we are going to buy grain. After many considerations, we think it is more convenient to buy some grain. Because at this time, the grain merchants of the Green Empire should have arrived at Gludin one after another. In the catastrophe year, they will definitely take the opportunity to transport a large amount of coarse grains. I am afraid that they have been hoarded in Gluding Town at this time. I think at this time, some tribes solved the food crisis because the tribal warriors brought back a large amount of meat. The tribes are still starving, and the tribes that solve the food crisis have the ability to buy food, because they can exchange dry meat, leather, herbs, etc. for food, but they already have meat, and there is no need for those foods. .The tribes that are starving because they have nothing, the tribes that should not be able to afford food still cannot afford food."

When hearing this, Horsens was also silent for a moment.

I went on to say: "These grains will be stranded in Gludin, and even a large amount of them will be backlogged in the warehouse. These coarse grains will definitely not be too expensive. The real reason why these grains have not been shipped to us is that the surrounding area is still not In the corpse tide disaster, our tribe came all the way from the windmill hills, and this time we brought food back, just to completely solve the corpse problem near the edge of the swamp here."

I pointed to the entire village of the Raitu tribe and said: "Only by driving a nail firmly into the drowning lake can the exit of the death swamp be sealed and the dead bodies near the drowning pool can be completely solved. So Aziz and I will build a solid wall to drive these swamp zombies back into the swamp."

Horsens introduced the surrounding mines, counted their respective populations and their approximate locations, and even He Qiqi, the owner of the mines, would give a brief introduction, which turned out to be very detailed.

"Around the Beigougu mining site, there are a lot of poor iron ore abandoned by the roadside. Those poor iron ore smelt iron and even the cost of charcoal can't be recovered, so all the poor iron ore dug out has been discarded for a long time. I discarded them outside the quarry. These iron ores are actually good building materials, and they are not too big, so they are more convenient to transport. It’s just that it takes nearly a week to walk from the quarry to this place. Far away, even if there are tens of thousands of slaves carrying stones here continuously, it will take several years to build such a city wall!" Horsens said the calculation in his heart.

How could I never have thought of those lean iron ores!It would be great to use those iron ores to build a city. At this time, I came up with a very bold idea in my heart!That is, if the gaps between the stones of this city wall are not piled with compound soil, but poured with molten iron to form a copper wall and iron wall, what will it be like?

I think that Kurtz must do some things. I am a passer-by after all, so I will not say anything about Annai’s stay. I will tell Kurtz these thoughts later. I think maybe I should write them down on a piece of parchment, so as not to worry about them in the future. Forget it, if you think of any new ideas, write them down, which is the best!
As for the matter of transporting those iron ores, if it follows what Horsens said, it will really be moved to the Year of the Monkey. In fact, when I think of mines, I can think of rail mine cars. There is absolutely no shortage of iron ingots in mining sites. , if the rails can be laid all the way from the quarry to here, then it will not be difficult to transport those poor iron ores.

I don't want to show off our wealth, but I think Horsens can't see the strength in our hands, so he will definitely hesitate and suspect in his heart. He will measure whether Kurtz and I have the strength to do this. After all, this matter involves a lot , need to have a huge source of income, after all, this is to build a city wall.

Even if Kutz has enough voice in the Ku family, it doesn't mean anything!So before that, I specially asked Kurtz to select dozens of better-looking magic cores from the magic cores in his hand, and asked a well-known craftsman among the gray dwarf slaves to polish off the hard shell and take out the magic crystals inside.

I don't know that magic crystals can have many colors. They look like gorgeous gemstones, transparent ones like diamonds, white ones like jade, emerald green ones like emeralds, and dark blue ones like sapphires. My eyes were dazzled for a while. .Kurz poured these radiant magic crystals into the palm of his hand, and I could feel the strong magic elemental breath exuding from the magic crystals.It turned out to be so pure, those magical elements completely opened the pores of my body, as if I was immersed in warm sea water.

These are primary magic crystals of good quality. About six to ten gold coins can be sold for each magic crystal. Good or bad directly and seriously affect their prices, so a clever demon hunter like Vilu is very clear about these methods. He even told us this information through Sister Guoguo early on, which means: try to Don't open these magic cores, sell these magic cores directly to merchants, maybe the profit cannot be maximized, but the risk is the smallest.

A total of forty magic crystals, it can be seen that Horsens has fully understood that the two of us do have the capital to commit (death).He has always ignored one thing, that is, when he knows that we have cleared thousands of swamp zombies, and the orc female warriors of the Raitu tribe have even been equipped with bone shields and bone scimitars, then It means that we have killed enough corpse kings and death scythes. Even so, he has never thought about the magic core. Subconsciously, he has always thought that it is precisely because of the existence of the Wind Chaser Adventure Group. We're going to get rid of those swamp zombies.Therefore, these magic cores should be the trophies of those human warriors.

He didn't expect Kurz to hold so many magic cores in his hands, but he didn't know that these magic cores were not even one-third of the total number of magic cores in our hands.The most conservative estimate of these forty magic crystals can also be worth 380 gold coins. In addition, we also store corpse fire oil worth 4000 gold coins in our warehouse. For these [-] gold coins alone, if we only buy those coarse grains, it will be enough for three [-] gold coins. The large tribes of people eat for a whole year, not to mention they can still eat some sweet potatoes and animal meat.

The night was cold and windy, two rounds of cold moons were already hanging high in the sky, the beast girls were about to disperse, and Gerile was already fast asleep by Kurz's side, only the maids Asakusa and Ella led a few The beast girl cleaned up the mess, the bonfire was about to burn out, Asakusa covered the snow-white charcoal with wet soil, splashing sparks.

Horsens was satisfied and left with his orcs. Kurz and I chatted a few more words, and discussed that in a few days, when the last batch of vermicelli was dried, we would use the oil with the vermicelli and the oil filled with corpse kerosene. Furnace to go back to Gludin, maybe the old Kurud has arrived at Gludin at this time, I am not used to seeing him for so many days, I have many things to ask him for advice, such as the four stones on my body As for the drum, only the fire and water type drums can be used, while the other two stone drums belonging to the wind type and the earth type are always indifferent without inputting mana.

And what are the wonders in my spiritual sea, the ice wrapped in lightning in the sea, the green light beams wrapped in wind rings.I don't know what those two elemental seeds on the shoulder blades on my back are. I can only wait for the old Kuru to help me solve the mystery.

Speaking of going back to Gludin, maybe he could see the old Kuru, Kuz also looked excited.

(End of this chapter)