In the vast grassland surrounding Wilkes City in the White Forest plane, the winter is quite short. The vegetation here is all white, and it feels like spring all year round.
—Thorn Mountains—
It is precisely these high mountains rising into the sky that block the cold wind blowing from the north that allow the Bailin Plane to have such vast pastures.
Once across the Thorny Mountains, the temperature dropped significantly.
There are large areas of hills and mountains in the east area on the north side of the Thorny Mountains, and when you reach the west of Nantu Town, you will see a large wetland. The peaks of the Thorny Mountains are covered with white snow, which melts every midsummer. The snow-capped mountains and waters form a vast expanse of land to the west of Nantu Town.
of wetlands.
There are a large number of boreal trees growing in the Invercargill Monster Forest, and even tall firs are very common in the forest.
I heard that the hill dwarves in the dwarf country don't like to live in the furnace city built near the crater. They like to dig tree holes in hundreds of years of fir trees to build integrated tree houses...
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According to the "Four-Four-Three Allocation Decree" by the Green Empire nobles to open up territory, if Surdak wants to open up territory in the Invercargill Warcraft Forest, he must divide the opened territory into a portion of the land according to the ratio of Four-Four-Three.
It was handed over to the Green Empire, part of the land was handed over to the Bena Province, and the remaining 40% of the land belonged to you.
When nobles develop land in unoccupied areas of the plane, they want to fully develop this land.
For example, clearing out the local indigenous tribes around this area, hunting monsters in this forest, sending private troops to maintain security in this territory, and even opening up a road to the nearest town and developing in the center of the unoccupied area
Get out of a campsite.
This campsite is not as simple as it sounds. A more accurate description of the campsite is that it is more like a supply station.
This newly developed occupied area is very close to unexplored areas, so it is a favorite place for many adventure groups and mercenary groups to gather. They enter unexplored areas to hunt, and then take their harvests to the campsite.
Rest and resupply properly, and sometimes you can sell some things that are inconvenient to carry and don’t want to be thrown away.
If Suldak wants this copper mine, he must occupy a larger area of the Invercargill Warcraft Forest and hand over the land in other places to the Green Empire and the Bena Province in order to complete the legal territorial procedures.
Get it done.
What Surdak didn't expect was that the veins here were much larger than he had imagined, and he didn't know what the conditions were like in the open-pit iron mines deeper...
This copper mine stretches for nearly a hundred kilometers, and the mountain is covered with lush trees. If you want to calculate the area of this vein in terms of hectares, it must be at least thousands of hectares.
Of course, you don’t have to occupy this land.
According to the annotation of the 443 Land Law: As long as you do not apply for this area to be your own territory, you do not need to develop other unoccupied areas.
In fact, mining can be done here as well.
It's just that other nobles also have the right to develop mineral deposits in this mountain forest.
And once other noble lords determine that this land is worthy of investing large sums of money and want to develop it, they cannot stand up to stop it.
The worst thing is to give up a copper mine for nothing.
As long as this place does not become their own territory, other nobles can also apply to Bena City to develop or purchase territory. Once the application is successful and the land here is converted into their territory, then they will be expelled from here.
Therefore, as you are close to an unoccupied area, preliminary preparations are very important.
Fortunately, Surdak belongs to the Luther Legion, so it is relatively easy for the military to make these official applications.
Moreover, Surdak wants to connect this place with Dodan Town, and the vast forest in the middle needs to be controlled by the imperial cavalry.
Otherwise, once the surrounding area is occupied by the monsters in Invercargill Forest and is surrounded by the monsters, it will fall into a more passive situation.
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The cavalry battalion and the Thunder Rhino team moved so slowly along the way. In fact, in addition to searching for the remaining high-level monsters in the forest along the way, they also opened up a forest road for the Thunder Rhino to travel in parallel.
The current Invercargill Monster Forest is like a virgin land. Most of the vegetation has been eaten clean by ghost-striped red ants, and the monsters have also been driven out of the forest.
You can see big trees everywhere with only a few leaves left on the treetops. As long as these trees are cut down, a mountain road can be formed for horses and thunder rhinos to walk, but vehicles cannot yet pass on such roads.
, but for Surdak's army, having such a road is enough.
Expanding it into a road that can allow horse-drawn carriages to pass is something that will happen in the future.
At night, piles of bonfires were lit in the unbuilt camp, and nearly 1,500 soldiers gathered on the hillside, which looked very spectacular.
Andrew and Samira have explored the surrounding area and found that there are no large-scale ant colonies nearby, and the scattered ghost-striped red ants are not something to be afraid of at all.
Many wooden frames have been set up in the camp. As long as felt and leather are covered around these wooden frames, the temporary shelter will be successfully built.
The rainy season has just passed in the Invercargill Monster Forest in June. As long as the roots of the trees in the forest are not dug out from the soil, it is impossible for the trees to die. Various beasts and monsters in the forest are eaten by ghost-striped red ants.
, the mosquitoes here have no natural enemies of those small beasts, so they are overrun in this forest.
In the evening, mosquitoes swarm out everywhere.
They were flying back and forth around the bonfire, and from time to time there was a popping sound in the bonfire, which meant that a mosquito was drawn into the fire.
The cavalry built temporary wooden houses and surrounded them with felts, just to protect against the overwhelming mosquitoes here.
When the Thunder Rhinoceros team returned, in addition to carrying some ghost-striped red ants, they also had some new harvests. Samira used 'Sky Strike' to hunt an agate beast in the forest.
This feline monster is a bit like a black panther, but it is twice as big as a black panther. Moreover, it is the evolved form of the glass beast, and its whole body is filled with light like agate.
The most important thing is that the fur of this agate beast is very well preserved. This kind of monster can survive in the beast tide, mainly because of its own natural abilities of 'stealth' and 'swiftness'. Once it hides, it is considered to have
'Beast Tracking' Beastmaster Hunters also have a hard time finding them.
To take a step back, even if they are discovered, as long as the agate beasts want to escape in this complex terrain of jungles and mountains, few people can catch them.
The arrow penetrated the back of the agate beast's skull, leaving almost no other injuries.
Unfortunately, the life magic pattern on this agate beast is not complete, and the agile life magic pattern cannot be peeled off.
However, this kind of leather is very popular among the upper-class nobles of the Green Empire, and its price on the market is already ten times its true value...
The Agate Beast is an agility-oriented third-level early-stage Warcraft. This kind of Warcraft leather is superior to all second-level Warcraft leather. As long as a professional inscriptionist draws a 'stealth' magic pattern array on it, the leather armor produced will have a concealing effect.
Many senior thieves and assassins in the thieves guild hope to own a set of tight-fitting leather armor made of agate animal skin.
Top-level second-level Warcraft leather, such as salamander skin, spiny tail crystal lion skin, white rock rhinoceros skin, petrified lizard skin, two-headed snake lizard skin, etc. The market price of these leathers is probably calculated based on quality and completeness.
, the most luxurious thorn tail crystal lion skin, one piece of leather is worth about 20-30 magic crystals.
I met a leatherworking master who was good at streamlining and saving, and could barely make tight-fitting leather armor upper and lower garments.
However, the leather of this kind of agate beast costs at least fifty magic crystals in the market. If it is a complete leather of a ghost-patterned ant queen, it costs at least one hundred magic crystals.
When Lance and his magician friends took the queen ant leather from Surdak, each of them only got half of it, and it was divided into two halves after Surdak peeled off the life magic pattern on his head.
In order to exchange for such half a queen ant leather, Lance and his friends each accumulated a total of 30,000 merits in the garrison camp. If converted into magic crystals, they could exchange them for about 45 pieces.
"Wait until I bring this leather back to Hellanza, and find someone there to make you a set of light leather armor. When Lance returns to Hellanza City, he will introduce me to the inscription master of Hellanza. When the time comes,
Let him make a set of agility-type magic patterns. I heard that the best agility-oriented primary magic pattern is the 'Devil's Fang'." Surdak sat in front of the bonfire, holding a magic pattern in his hand.
An iron vat with boiling hot tea in it.
"Yeah!" Samira became even less talkative after she was promoted to the second level.
Under the firelight, her light red eyes became even brighter. Holding a green fruit in her hand, she said to Suldak:
"The Agate Beast also has four fangs, which can be made into armor-piercing arrows. I'll keep them."
Suldak nodded.
Gulitem, who had been waiting a little impatiently for a long time, finally couldn't bear it anymore, stretched out his finger and poked Samira's shoulder, and asked:
"What about the agate beast? I heard that the meat of this kind of monster is sour..."
Samira rolled her eyes at Gulitem and ordered the two indigenous archers next to her: "Bring over the skinned agate beast! Just give it to him..."
Following Samira's instructions, the two archers carried over a skinned agate beast and threw it to Gulitem.
The ogre brothers immediately began to discuss cooking methods. Since the birth of Brain Flower, this highly intelligent ogre magician made his good brother Gulitem realize that a natural foodie cannot do without excellent cooking skills.
And when it comes to stewing meat, Selina masters the most traditional cooking method of Helensa, and Surdak can make stews that are sweet and salty, both of which are the taste that ogres like.
The Invercargill Warcraft Forest gradually fell into silence in the night. Andrew looked up at the rolling mountain forests and asked Suldak:
"How can we occupy such a large forest?"
Surdak put down the hot teapot in his hand and said:
"First, we need to clean up the potential dangers in the forest, including monsters and red ants."
In fact, these ghost-striped red ants just failed to cross the Thorny Mountains. In the past two months, a large number of red ants, led by the queen, marched along the north slope of the Thorny Mountains toward the east and west sides. Some ghost-striped red ants
The ants have entered the unexplored territory of the plane.
As for the Invercargill Warcraft Forest, all the leaves on the trees and the forest beasts were devoured by the ants.
So there aren't many red ants staying here at the moment.
Surdak added:
"While the vegetation here has not fully recovered, we need to open up a forest road wide enough around the mineral veins."
Surdak felt that only by repairing the road would it be more convenient for the cavalry to patrol this territory.
"In addition, we also need to visit the indigenous tribes living in this area. Although they are currently living in the area, if we can coexist peacefully with them, it will be of great benefit to us in managing this forest."
Andrew held a wooden stick with half a scone on the other end. He stretched the stick to the side of the campfire.
The searing heat will brown the scones instantly.
"Whether you drive away or hunt those monsters in the forest, even if you drive them away or kill them, there will still be new high-level monsters appearing," Andrew said.
Surdak waved his hand and said: "Don't worry about this. I have prepared a good thing that can very effectively scare these monsters, but I guess it needs to be dried out a little more..."
Andrew took a bite of the crispy toasted wheat cake and asked Suldak:
"Boss, do you still want to buy some kobold slaves to mine in the mine here? Or are you planning to transport the kobold slaves from the deserted land here?"
Surdak thought for a moment before saying: "I have no such plan yet. I plan to hire some aborigines in the town first, and maybe recruit some people from the surrounding aboriginal tribes."
The Thunder Rhinoceros not far away let out a deep roar, giving the mountains a wild flavor.
Probably because of the light and roar here, the ghost-striped red ants scattered around instinctively gathered towards the camp.
The people currently on night duty are people from the Archer Camp. Most of them are aborigines and aborigines. After joining the Archer Camp, I discovered that the merits accumulated in daily life can buy a lot of things.
These young natives are probably used to poverty. They are probably the most hardworking people in the camp, and all young natives have endless energy to waste.
Just like night watch, it seems to be a popular job in the Archer Camp.
When they were in the tribe, they used hardwood bows, and the arrows on the hardwood arrow shafts were also of inferior quality. Of course, it would not be easy to shoot through the hard armor of the ghostly patterned soldier ants.
But now these indigenous archers have replaced them with powerful alloy bows, which are very lethal to ordinary ghost-marked soldier ants.
Outside the camp, the sound of arrows piercing the air could be heard from time to time.
This kind of tender meat from ghost-striped soldier ants is almost the staple food of these indigenous people.
Red ant meat is a World of Warcraft ingredient. Eating it regularly has the effect of strengthening the body. Moreover, every young native has a strong stomach like an ogre. After eating and drinking these days, the body is getting stronger day by day, as if it has experienced
The second development...
The young indigenous archers stood beside the armed Thunder Rhinoceros, shooting down the ghostly patterned soldier ants that emerged from the darkness.
Even if two fish that slipped through the net occasionally rushed up, these young natives would pounce on them very bravely.