Duodan Town is located between the canyons in the middle of the Thorny Mountains. The glaciers on the top of the Spiny Mountains have melted, and clear rivers are constantly flowing down. The source of the Duodan River is to the west of Nantu Town, and it will continue to run eastward through Duodan Town, flowing into
After the Three Rivers Gorge it joins the Torrens River.
The weather in early August is not very hot. The Dodan River is quiet and magnificent at night, and the sound of the river flowing is like the most beautiful music in nature.
A faint mist evaporates from the river, forming a wall of fog that completely separates the north and south banks.
Surdak sat on the platform of the riverside wooden house extending into the river, crossing his legs and silently feeling the sacred aura in his body. All the nodes in his upper body were lit up by the sacred aura, and it felt like countless stars dotting the night sky.
, and each node extends outwards with countless thin lines and is connected to other nodes.
...like a star map.
A steady stream of sacred breath was bred from these nodes, nourishing his body.
And his lower body is a different scene. When the perception is extended, he will enter an endless void where there is nothing. This huge dark star is born in the void, and this dark star has endless
The suction power seems to be able to swallow everything that breaks into this space.
Feeling that his perception and mental power were being stripped away by the dark star, Surdak decisively cut off the exploration.
How to get rid of this dark star? Suldak has been thinking about this problem recently. Celia Cooper has never seen this situation and can't give any suggestions.
Nika and Xigna were also sitting on the wooden platform.
Signa sat on the edge of the wooden platform and stretched a pair of white lotus-like feet into the river.
Nika was sitting opposite Surdak, taking the opportunity to ask Surdak for advice on how to guide and use the power of the Holy Light. Recently, in addition to leading the medical team to take care of injured soldiers in the military camp, she spent almost all the rest of her time studying.
The power in the body.
The power she possesses is completely different from that of Surdak. Surdak's power of holy light naturally has healing and restorative effects, but the power of light contained in the magic pool in Nika's body has no healing effect.
It can emit the purest beam of light from the light elements in the body, just like a lighthouse beacon in the dark night.
Knowing that the light she emitted had no healing power made Nika depressed for many days.
Suldak came back from Wilkes City and brought her to the platform to try various things. She had already been able to condense light.
This time, under the guidance of Surdak, he turned the flame in his hand into a beam of light. This beam of light was able to penetrate the fog on the Dodan River and slant into the night sky.
The river surged, and Selina flipped in the water like a silver carp, emerging from the river. The clear river water flowed down the top of her head, and her long silky hair clung tightly to her body.
, she supported Suldak's thighs with both arms, tilted her chin slightly, and said to everyone: "The river is still very warm, aren't you ready to come down and swim for a while?"
Suldak stretched out his hands, held Selena's wet face, lowered his head and kissed her on the forehead, and said:
"The water temperature of this river will drop in a while. Be careful of catching a cold. Come up quickly..."
Selena pushed her hands on the wooden platform, leaning up like a sea otter, and kept stirring the water with her hands, and swam away again.
Surdak didn't expect her to be so good in water. Watching her swimming in the river, he couldn't help but think of the Janna mermaid he met in the river in Wilkes City. She must have escaped from Wilkes.
When Selena swam back again, she stretched out her arms to Suldak.
Suldak pulled her up and put a towel on her body. After not seeing each other for nearly a month, Suldak felt that a fire was almost ignited in his heart.
Selena took the opportunity to sit between Nika and Signa, and stretched out her hands to twist her wet long hair.
"I didn't know you were so good at water!" Suldak said.
Selena's plump body was wrapped in a towel, and the lantern hanging on the wooden pole emitted soft warm light. The water droplets on her fair face and chest looked particularly crystal clear.
"As long as I have the blessing of the goddess at night, I will not only be good at water..." Selena said ambiguously.
"Selena, can you cast a dark magic on Nika that won't hurt her? I want to verify my guess." Suldak said.
Selena glanced at Nika and then said: "Okay!"
Now she can cast primary dark magic very skillfully, such as 'pain'.
She developed some followers of the Dark Goddess in Dodan Town, and the most direct benefit was that she mastered more dark magic. She closed her eyes, silently recited the jerky curse in her mouth, and stretched out her green-white index finger to draw on the wooden board.
A black magic pattern. The moment the magic pattern was successfully drawn, traces of dark power continued to gather on Selena's head, and an eyeball the size of a football appeared out of thin air.
'Hypnosis'
The moment his eyeballs opened their eyelids, a black line was shot towards Nika. Nika almost didn't react at all. His body was frozen at the previous second, his eyes slowly closed, his body lost the strength to support him, and he fell to the platform.
Falling into a deep sleep.
Selina's fingers didn't stop and drew another magic pattern on the wooden board of the platform.
'Nightmare'
A dark and void smoke rushed towards Nika's body like a running beast.
But a beam of light actually fell from the unconscious Nika, and the little beast made of black smoke dissipated immediately under the light of the beam.
Selina raised her head in surprise and glanced at Nika.
At this time, Nika also woke up from her dream and looked around in panic.
This time it was tried, and the light in Nika's body actually had natural restraint against dark magic.
Suldak slapped his forehead in embarrassment. Although he had known that light and darkness restrained each other for a long time, he never thought that they would be so targeted. But now Nika still lives with Selena and Signa...
"This beam has the effect of dispersing and purifying, and can restrain dark magic to some extent."
Selina made a comment, glanced at Suldak lightly, and said nothing more.
Nika, who was lying on the wooden platform, had woken up. She opened her eyes in a daze and looked around cautiously.
"Did you just have a nightmare?"
Surdak lowered his head and asked her.
Nika nodded with some palpitations and whispered: "I dreamed that I was floating in the cold river, unable to move or breathe... Then I prayed silently in my heart, and a beam of light fell from above my head, and then
I woke up."
Hearing 'prayer', Suldak moved slightly and asked her: "What happened recently that is different from before?"
Nika thought for a while and said seriously: "I always have the same dream every night recently. A beautiful sister comes to me every night. She says she is the goddess of the morning and asks me to be her apostle..."
Only then did Suldak realize...it seemed like this matter was getting serious.
He looked at Selina beside him and asked with a wry smile:
"Selena, do you think it was because of the temple we built that... we attracted this goddess?"
Selena frowned slightly and said, "I can try to communicate with the goddess Celine to see what kind of god she is."
Suldak nodded and asked Nika again: "Nika, what are your plans?"
"Master, I want to promise her that I want to be like Xigna... and become a saint in the Temple of Dawn, is that okay?" Nika asked Suldak with wide eyes and expectant look on her face.
What else could Surdak say?
The water in the Dodan River at night had not yet cooled down, so Suldak dipped his hand into the river water and wiped his face...
…
There is only one quarry on the outskirts of Duodan Town. Recently, terraced buildings have been built in the town, and the main streets in the town have been renovated. A large number of slates and strip foundation stones have been purchased here, allowing the quarry owner to make a lot of money.
Made a fortune.
This time Surdak came to the quarry in person, mainly to customize boundary markers for the Invercargill Warcraft Forest. This is what a noble lord must do after opening up the territory.
Only the boundary monument indicates that this is the territory of the Green Empire.
After everything was settled, the owner of the quarry personally sent Suldak out of the gate.
Then he stood at the gate of the quarry for a long time, until Suldak's horseback riding figure disappeared on the mountain road, and then he turned around and returned to the quarry.
…
Suldak obtained the rights to develop the Invercargill Warcraft Forest.
In fact, from the day the ant colony dissipated, there was nothing left to explore in this Warcraft forest.
The returning group of monsters in the forest could not stop Andrew and his cavalry battalion. Many monsters were hunted by Andrew and Samira in turns, and some were forced to flee the Invercargill Forest.
The peace contract signed by Surdak and the thirty-seven indigenous tribes here.
Currently, he already owns the Invercargill Warcraft Forest.
The indigenous tribes who signed the contract are actually the subjects of other viscountries.
They live in this territory, and according to the laws of the Green Empire, they have to pay taxes to Surdak.
However, the contract signed by Surdak not only did not require these indigenous tribes to pay taxes, but also required him to allocate thirty-seven territories from the part of the territory he received for these indigenous tribes to operate.
According to the contents of the contract, these indigenous tribes are completely autonomous. They only send the young people from the tribe to serve in Lord Surdak's private army every year.
And Surdak also made a written promise: 'Each tribal young man only needs to serve for four years to obtain imperial citizenship, and gaining merit in the army will be a very considerable fortune.'
This time, in addition to building a copper mine in the Invercargill Monster Forest, Surdak also wants to bury many boundary markers at the borders of the Invercargill Monster Forest.
This strip of forest called 'Invercargill' stretches for more than 600 kilometers, starting from the Three Rivers Rift Valley in the east and ending at Anyar Swamp in the west. Although the depth from north to south is slightly narrower, it is still more than 300 kilometers long.
To include this area, Surdak needs to bury a boundary monument every 500 meters on the boundary line.
Based on this calculation, at least more than 2,600 boundary markers are needed to line the forest border of nearly 1,300 kilometers.
It would probably take at least half a year for Surdak's own cavalry battalion to lay these boundary markers alone.
Of course, this is also the largest single engraving stone tablet business that the Duodan Town Quarry has received in the past few years, and each stone tablet has an independent number.
Eighteen thunder rhinoceroses carrying 2,600 boundary monuments set off from the town of Dodan, passing through the Dodan Gorge, hilly highlands, and entering the Invercargill Monster Forest where new leaves are growing. The indigenous tribes currently settled in the hills and mountains.
There are twenty-three tribes in total, and the remaining fourteen indigenous tribes are distributed in the dense forests in the middle of the Invercargill Warcraft Forest.
This time, Surdak used the Thunder Rhinoceros to deliver these stone monuments to the border of the Invercargill Warcraft Forest. The task of burying these boundary monuments was going to be handed over to these fourteen indigenous tribes.
Of course, this is not a free service for these indigenous tribes.
Surdak has prepared a large amount of wheat flour, and for every boundary monument buried, the natives will receive a bag of whole wheat flour.
This time Surdak brought eighteen thunder rhinos into the Invercargill Forest. In addition to delivering the boundary markers to the indigenous tribes, he also asked the chiefs of each indigenous tribe to determine the land they needed to manage.
He wanted to expand the fertile land of Invercargill Forest and exclude the poor and poor areas into public territory.
It's just that this fragmented and fragmented territorial division has brought considerable trouble to Suldak in dividing the territory in Invercargill Forest.
Excluding the territories occupied by the thirty-seven indigenous tribes, there are not too many territories that Surdak can choose for himself. Except for the two most important copper and iron mines and the dense forest where ironwood is buried, the remaining territories are
The territory is basically designed to connect the lands occupied by these thirty-seven indigenous tribes and splice them into one large piece as much as possible.
Just on demarcating territory and setting up boundary markers, Suldak was busy in Invercargill Forest for more than a month.
The hills and mountains almost completely extend into the territory, while the Invercargill Forest is fragmented, and the territory distributed on the map is a bit like the patterns on the black and white cows.
He ate and slept in the forest, and his whole body lost weight twice. His skin color also turned into a wheat color, but he looked more energetic.
During this period, he also took time to live in the copper mine for a few days. The copper mine has not officially started mining yet. It has only built a large work shed in the south of the mining area, and only a few tribesmen have tried to dig some.
Ore was piled scatteredly in the open space in front of the work shed.
Surdak plans to return to Bena Province to hire a manager who is proficient in mining to help him manage the mining area here.
As for the iron ore veins, Suldak only enclosed the land, and the iron ore area could not be further developed until the copper mining area was in normal operation.
As for the precious ironwood buried on the edge of the Dark Worm Valley, Surdak happened to pass by there when transporting the boundary monument this time.
Surdak reluctantly selected a broken section of the ironwood tree crown, sawed it open, and transported it back to Dodan Town with eighteen Thunder Rhinoceros.