Lord Highlander

   Chapter 522 521. Magic Crystal

   All kinds of discomfort caused by traveling through the void quickly disappeared on Suldak.

  Standing on the bank of the lava river, Suldak packed his luggage and put all the precious magic materials on the Salamander into his magic pocket.

Charlie called a four-wheeled carriage from the foot of the mountain, loaded all the meat of the four salamanders into the carriage, and prepared to transport them back to Wall Village. Selling for a very good price.

   Although they can swim in the hot lava river when they are alive, but after they die, marinate the salamander meat, skewer it and burn it on the fire, it can still be roasted sizzling.

   This river of lava continues to the top of the mountain.

  Because Wall Village was attacked by rebel knights, Suldak's team gave up their plan to continue exploring to the top of Bump Mountain.

Charlie and the other two young men had already learned from Suldak that the village was attacked by rebel knights. They were eager to know what was going on in the village and at home. Charlie heard that his father was seriously injured and wished he could rush back to the village immediately. .

  Suldak hurriedly returned to the temporary camp in the lower reaches of the lava river. Luke had already led the kobold slaves to build a new camp at the foot of the mountain.

At the foot of Bump Mountain, there is a kind of shale suitable for building houses. This kind of shale can be seen everywhere nearby. The kobold slaves brought a large amount of shale and built three houses without roofs beside a cliff. The roof of the shed was covered with a layer of reed mats, and then covered with dustproof cloth. In just half a day, a minimalist temporary camp for a sulfur mine was built.

Luke installed the water-gathering rune plate on a shady rock wall. A stone trough for collecting water was placed under the rune plate. A magic spar was inlaid on the gem base in the center of the rune plate. Fragments, under the flow of magic power, this water-gathering rune board continuously gathers water droplets into the stone trough. At this moment, less than half of the clear water has been stored in the stone trough.

  The mine camp is located in the lower reaches of the river of lava, which is full of dark rivers of lava.

  The so-called dark river of lava looks like a black rock field from the surface, and occasionally there will be green smoke full of smell in some places, but these black rocks are like blood vessels, hiding rivers of lava. If you accidentally step on these black rock shells, you may fall into the hot magma, so it is very dangerous here.

Of course, the lava underground river also provides convenience for people. The biggest advantage of this kind of underground river is that you don’t need to start a fire to cook. You just need to find a gas hole emitting green smoke on the nearby black rock ground, and smash the gas hole with a hammer. , you can see the magma flowing a foot below. You only need to sit a large iron pot firmly on the hole, and you can boil water and cook rice and soup.

  The kobold slaves seem to be very peaceful. In fact, as long as they are willing to give them food, this group of kobolds don't mind digging sulfur mines here.

Hearing that something happened in Wall Village, Luke also wanted to return to Wall Village immediately, but the newly built mining camp needs someone to stay behind. Hearing that Village Chief Brett was seriously injured, he asked Charlie to return to Wall Village. Choose to stay in camp.

   Then Suerdak and his party rushed back to Wall Village overnight.

  …

  A rain washed away the blood on the square in the village, although some traces left after the battle are still vivid.

The slave camp sheds and the children's home at the entrance of the village have completely collapsed. A group of kobold slaves who had nowhere to escape had a big circle in the rain and chose to return to Wall Village. Now they are all sitting quietly in the slave camp sheds On the ruins, the rebel knights killed a few kobold slaves, as if they didn't have much impact on them.

The rebel knights destroyed many earthen walls in the village, pushed away some roofs, and trampled many wheat fields by the stream. Even the dead tree at the entrance of the village was not spared. There was a broken knight spear stuck in the trunk. The wooden plaque in Er Village was also smashed to pieces.

Villagers from other villages picked up the children from the children's home one after another. With the arrival of the rainy season, the hard days of the villagers will come to an end. Someone will go hungry again.

  The children's home in the village suddenly became much deserted, and even the children in the village came to eat a lot less every day.

Selena moved the children's home to the carpenter's workshop next to the square in the village, where she built a simpler awning, hung a wooden board outside the earth wall, and wrote some imperial characters on it with charcoal to teach The children in the village are learning Mandarin.

  The injured villagers finally waited for Suerdak and his party to return to the village.

Everyone looked expectantly at Suldak, who was riding a horse with wind and dust rushing to the village. Suldak waved to the villagers, jumped off his horse, and then performed the holy light spell for the villagers in the village square. Healing the wounds, Andrew, as Suldak's assistant, was responsible for re-bandaging the wounds and correcting the broken bones. From time to time, one or two heart-piercing screams came from the central square of the village.

   Andrew, who has rich experience in bone setting, came to know that if the bone is broken and crooked, even if it heals in the future, it will cause disability. It is better to reconnect it before the bone seam heals.

   With Andrew's help, Suldak is much more relaxed. He only needs to concentrate on using the 'Holy Light' to heal the injured villagers.

  Charlie hurried home all the way, opened the door and saw the old village headman with his upper body covered in bandages sitting on a recliner, and Aunt Brett was holding a spoon to feed him broth. Can't help but stand at the door with a look of astonishment.

  The old village head recovered quickly from his injuries, and under the protection of the 'Divine Blessing Body', he was able to get out of bed by himself on the third day. This speed of recovery frightened the family members, but they found that there was nothing abnormal about his body other than the super fast healing of his injuries, so the family members gradually put their hearts back into their stomachs.

  It has been two days since Samira left Wall Village, and there has been no news.

   Only 34 of the horses left by the rebel knights survived, and 16 of the horses were divided into horse meat, and each villager was given a large piece of horse meat.

Suldak didn't agree with eating these war horses at first. As a knight, these war horses are their closest companions. Many cavalry battalions have unwritten rules not to eat horse meat. Even if they starve to death, they will not eat it. Companion, this is the basic character that a knight needs to possess.

However, the villagers in Wall Village have no taboos in this regard. The days that Wall Village can eat meat can be counted on both hands throughout the year. It is almost impossible for the villagers to give up eating horse meat. eat.

  In the past two days, even the big iron pot over the kobold slave camp was boiling large chunks of bone soup.

   For these war horses, kobold slaves don’t have any psychological burden. Like other sub-races, they prefer to eat animal offal, thinking that offal is richer in fat and more tender in quality.

Not many gold coins were found from these rebel knights. The most valuable thing on them is this set of hard leather armor. Apart from the hard leather armor, the weapons of the rebel knights are also considered good, whether it is knight spears, long swords, The light shields of the knights were very good. As for the corpses of the rebel knights, they were hung on the crosses at the Pagros Pass by the angry villagers to expose them to the sun.

   resulted in hundreds of carrion vultures hovering over Paglos Pass.

The tidal flats have been reclaimed from the river bends outside the village. Under the nourishment of this rain, all the land is full of water. Of course, the hardworking Wall villagers will not miss such a rare opportunity to sow seeds. Suerdak from Hailansa The seeds brought back from the city were all planted on the newly reclaimed land.

  The rainwater that flows and gathers from various hillsides pours into this drainage channel with a width of fifteen meters, and then it will be discharged into the underground river ten kilometers away.

  In previous years, only one rain was needed, and this place became a vast swamp.

  Now this drainage channel blocks a large amount of rainwater on the hillside from the tidal flat, and this large tidal flat has become hundreds of acres of fertile land.

  The sudden rain stopped the construction site of the reservoir upstream of the village, and the construction site was in a mess. The volcanic ash brought back from the depths of the barren land was soaked by the rain and turned into lumps of limestone.

  This limestone hard block needs to be calcined and ground again before it can be turned back into pozzolan cement.

  With the current conditions in Wall Village, it is of course impossible to build a kiln for calcining cement, so the volcanic ash that was transported back from the depths of the barren land is completely useless and becomes worthless.

  The bricklayers on the construction site left Wall Village one after another. After the first rain fell, they had to rush back to the village for farming. Otherwise, they would not be able to sow in time, and the autumn harvest would be affected.

  The land in the barren land is barren, so the villagers will not miss this optimal planting opportunity.

The main body of the security station built on the edge of the rocky cliff in the upper reaches of the village has been completely completed. As long as the main beam is erected on the roof, rafters can be laid on the tripod. Suldak is not going to lay the roof with thick red thatch. On the upper floor of blue tiles, a terrace with a view to the distance should be built outside the skylight of the attic. This kind of square blue tiles in the shape of fish scales can be bought in the workshops of Hailansa City. Most buildings in Hailansa City are Paved with this kind of blue tiles.

   The business of purchasing blue tiles was handed over to the carriage dealer in Hailansa City to Suerdak.

The news of Wall Village being attacked by the rebels quickly spread to Hailansa City. The Hailansa Guard Battalion and the Magic Union Law Enforcement Team both sent people to find out the details. Suldak was in charge of investigating this matter. My friend, as long as it is an issue of public security outside the city, the guard camp can't get around Karl Casement.

  As for the Law Enforcement Team of the Magic Union, the Lance magician was sent again this time, so the matter quickly subsided, and the spoils seized by Wall Village were preserved to the greatest extent.

Of course, most of the personal belongings of the electric magician Gordon were taken away by Lance. The magic union will not let such a personal belongings whose strength is infinitely close to that of the great magician be left outside. As for the magic union The specific compensation will not be determined until the specific value of these personal items is appraised.

  Suldak heard from Karl that this group of rebels also attacked a noble manor in the city of Bena. As for how they sneaked into the city of Hailansa, they don't know.

  …

  Suldak sat on a chair by the window, staring helplessly at the succubus Aphrodite across the square table.

  Aphrodite squeezed a charming smile at him, seeing that Suldak was unmoved, her charming face suddenly collapsed, and her head lowered was a child who had done something wrong.

There is a magic crystal in the shape of a key on the desk. This magic crystal was obtained from Magician Kirdon and was secretly kept by the succubus Aphrodite. Now Suldak is sure that the magic union's Those magicians should be looking for this magic crystal.

Just now, the succubus Aphrodite injected mana into the magic crystal, and saw a phantom cast by the magic crystal, like a broken corner of a three-dimensional map, although Suldak didn't know Where is this, but no matter how stupid he is, he can guess that there are some secrets hidden in this magic crystal.

The Magicians of Golden belonged to the magic organization 'Dark Moon Gate'. If they knew that this magic crystal was still in their hands, they would definitely do everything possible to get it back. Mage who is good at space magic thinks about it.

Recently, rebels who came to the northern border appeared one after another in various parts of Bena Province, and they probably came for this thing. They ventured into Bena Province and made the intelligence agency personnel in Bena City rush around all day, busy Desperate, Suldak certainly did not want this group of rebel knights to attack Wall Village again.

   This magic crystal actually fell into his hand, and Suldak rubbed his forehead with his hands.

   "Why don't we hand over this magic crystal to the Law Enforcement Team of Hailansa Magic Union?" Andrew sat at the door and suggested to Suldak.

  He also knew that this matter was a bit troublesome. The rebel knights who attacked the village in Wall Village a few days ago probably had something to do with it.

   "Well, I will personally send this magic crystal to the Magic Union. In short, this trouble cannot be left in our hands." Suldak nodded and said firmly.

  Aphrodite heard that Suldak wanted to hand over the magic crystal to the magic union, and hurriedly covered it with her hands.

   "Remember when you asked me to interrogate the two rebels?" Aphrodite said to Suldak.

   "..."

   Of course Suldak remembered.

   But not long after that, the two rebels died on the way back to Hailansa City. He was busy building Wall Village, so he didn't ask about it.

The succubus Aphrodite blinked and said: "I used hypnotism on the two rebels at the time, and they told me that the reason why they entered Mount Pagolos through the barren land was because the rebel organization wanted to Looking for a hidden place in Mount Pagolos, I think the answer may lie in this magic crystal."

   This trouble seems to be bigger than expected...

   "No, I will leave immediately, this magic crystal cannot stay with us!"

As he said that, Suldak was about to pick up the magic crystal from the table. Aphrodite was a little bit reluctant, so she held down the magic crystal with her hands. The two of them each held one end of the magic crystal. A magical crystal that looked a bit old was actually cracked...

  (end of this chapter)