Before ascending to God, be a good lord

Chapter 249. 247. Beyond the Iron Mine
The iron ore mine is the eastward branch of the central mountain range. The highest point does not exceed 1000 meters. It is not a high mountain in the inland area. Most of the mountains are densely covered with dense vegetation. Only the red rocks attached to the mine cave are exposed, and some bare rocks can be seen on the mine cave. of mountains.Outside the mining camp there is a wall more than ten meters high, which is made of rammed earth and logs.

Rand looked at the hillside opposite the iron mine for a long time, trying to find signs of human activity in the mine with his naked eyes, but failed. The entire camp seemed to be completely still, and no one could be seen on the mountain or the earthen wall.

In the evening, Karl Billy, the human mage in Neil's sky, came and met Rand.

"My lord, I know that you want to take over the entire iron mine. I'm here to express to you that the people in the iron mine are willing to fully support you. Once you take the iron mine, we are willing to pledge our allegiance to you." Carl Billy entered Rand's tent began to show his loyalty, which surprised Rand.

"What I want to know is what happened in the iron mine now, how many human races and how many barbarian races are there, and what is your relationship with the barbarian races?" Rand asked the question he was concerned about, and Karl Billy also tried his best possible answer.

"The relationship between the human race and the brown bear barbarians in our iron mine is more complicated. The human race has two parts. One part was captured by the brown bear earlier, and the second part was sent together a few years ago. Currently, the human race has two parts in the iron mine. There are 3 high-level knights, 7 middle-level knights, less than 30 low-level knights, 3 middle-level mages, and 12 junior mages including me. In addition to cavalry, the barbarians also have 1 high priest and 4 priests." Karl first counted After learning about the main combat forces in the iron mine, he introduced their relationship with the barbarians to Rand.

"As I said just now, most of the human races in the iron mine were dispatched a few years ago, including all knights above the intermediate level and magicians above the apprentice level. Since then, the human race in the iron mine has been in a semi-autonomous state. 4 high-level knights, 8 mid-level knights, 1 archmage, 4 mid-level mages and 12 junior mages formed a parliament-like organization to manage the human race in the entire iron mine." Carl paused casually, looking at Rand "You can also hear it, I said earlier that there is a gap between the remaining numbers of the human race and the numbers that formed the parliament just now, and these missing people are the reason why I am here now."

According to Karl, the leader of the brown bear suddenly increased his strength in September last year. He made a sudden move in a conflict between the barbarians and the human race in the mine and defeated the joint attack of two senior knights, showing his high-level strength.Afterwards, the entire brown bear tribe continued to publicize that their leader would be a new generation of barbarian gods, demanding that the human race and barbarians in the iron mine pay tribute to him.

However, the later developments were beyond their expectations. At the end of the year, the leader of the brown bear became mentally abnormal. The barbarian priests began to ask human mages to perform hypnotism for him. The barbarian tribes even captured the leaders of some surrounding tribes as sacrifices.

"I don't know if my lord has heard of a very primitive way of breakthrough: swallowing," Carl's eyes showed fear, and he gestured with his hands "simple and literal swallowing, swallowing the just dead... directly, not only Warcraft, magic plants, and all kinds of sacrifices you can think of, and then the brown bear leader is really crazy!"

By January of this year, both the barbarians and humans in the iron mine had realized the danger of the situation, because once the brown bear leader went crazy, he would attack and devour the creatures around him indiscriminately, and it would subconsciously attack the strongest nearby. Cavalry, human mid-level knights, barbarian mid-level priests, high-level knights to high-level mages, both barbarians and humans are not immune.

"Right now, the entire camp is in dire straits, and everyone stays behind closed doors. The priests and magicians are constantly hypnotizing in the brown bear leader's room.

"Haven't you tried to attack him?" Rand asked.

"After the senior mage Berkles was killed, the higher-ups of the human race didn't dare to take it lightly," Carl shook his head. "After all, that monster picks the most powerful one first."

After the production in the iron mine was completely stagnated, Carl Billy, as a representative of the human race, began to frequently contact the tribes and human races outside the mine, hoping to get strong foreign aid to solve the brown bear leader. Finally, a few months ago, Neil army.After Neil roughly understood the situation, he also began to provide food and other materials to the mine.

Karl Billy didn't stay for too long. After he agreed with Rand on the attack time, he hurried back to the iron mine. The top leaders of the human race were still waiting for his news.After he left, Lante, Tanya, Dugan and others fell into silence.

"I can understand that the Dianqian Division wants to do things in the iron mine, but I can't understand why, as an institution of the empire, it should give the barbarians a path to devour them. What exactly are they planning?" Lante knew that the move in front of him must be the Dianqian Division's work. A masterpiece, but don't understand the mystery of it.

"My lord, the Dianqian Division is also a complicated organization," Dugan smiled. "Their nature is similar to that of the Yantie Division, but the things they do are more annoying."

"What they do is not what we should care about," Tanya said, "You should figure out how to eat the iron ore, this is the most important thing, the high-level strength on the opposite side is gone, and you still It may not be able to deal with it.”

"To deal with such a target, a large-scale cavalry charge is meaningless. I'm afraid I have to fight him." Lante looked at the magic goblin and said with a smile, "But the good thing is that even if you do it yourself, it is estimated that the iron mine No one cares whether the duel is fair. The only question is, will the monster try to devour you?"

"I'm an elemental creature, how could he devour me?" Tanya rolled her eyes, but she was still very satisfied with Rand's concern, "But according to your plan, I'm afraid you are the most dangerous person."

Several people began to formulate a battle plan in detail, including how to build momentum, how to confront monsters, and various possibilities such as monsters being killed or difficult to kill.In the most difficult plan, Rand couldn't trap the monster, and Tania couldn't kill it, so the knights could only go forward to keep distracting the monster, and at the same time divide the troops to escort Tanya to the iron mine. In the magic furnace room, use the energy of the earth's veins as much as possible to help her break through to become the fairy queen.

"Don't be under psychological pressure. If you can break through, break through. If you can't break through, let those goblins break through." Lante looked at Tania and said with a smile, "Don't hesitate just because you care about me."

"Don't worry," Tanya knew that for Rand, the best choice would be to let the two rock and earth goblins break through first, but she was still willing to give priority to her, so as a thank you, she swore with Yuyue Weili that if she If you can't break through, let the rock goblin break through and make sure the new big goblin stays with Rand.

(End of this chapter)