The progress was so smooth that the group felt a little unreal.
Korra redistributed the plan. Among the fifty sailors who landed in the dragon's lair, two sailors died in the previous dragonborn night attack. She divided the remaining forty-eight sailors into two parts, and one part was responsible for emptying the dragon's lair. , part of the Black Pearl was responsible for transporting the harvested property to the coast. Korra ordered the sailors to weave simple trailers out of long grass on the plains, maximizing the transportation volume in one round trip, at least every round trip. Carry away the belongings accumulated under the first peak.
Moreover, Korra personally guards the safety of the transport team to minimize any accidents that may occur during transportation. Aranza and Chiwu ensure that when the team staying in place reaches out to the dragon's lair, they will not be disturbed by the adjacent buildings. The giant dragon on the peak blocks them. In this way, even if there are troubles that are difficult to control during the whole process of plundering, the group can still be sure to gain something.
This situation lasted for eight full days before the sailors emptied the first cave of the treasures. According to Korra's instructions, one or two unplundered caves were left on each level of the peak as gifts. Some giant dragons on the adjacent peak were looking forward to it.
Young and old dragons are not lacking in arrogance, but they do not have the courage and strength of adult dragons. Therefore, when the predators let go of some caves in front of them and exposed the loopholes unabashedly, they will rely on luck. In the discovered loophole, I held tightly to this unrealistic hope, but inadvertently lost the will to resist.
So, when a group of people started to plunder the second peak, that is, the second group of caves, they were faced with a completely new situation. Alanza and Chiwu no longer had to face the siege of hordes of giant dragons, but had to lead The sailors randomly selected a cave, killed the nervous dragon hiding in it, and pushed their corpses to the corner of the cave, so that the sailors could remove the gold, silver and jewelry from the cave.
Most of the people living in this group of caves are old dragons. There are a lot of treasures. The amount of gold, silver and jewelry is much more than in the first group of caves. The transportation team went back and forth, but finally failed to collect the accumulated wealth. Take them all away.
One day later, only Chiwu was needed to lead the team, while Aranza followed Korra to protect the transport team. In fact, Korra had disassembled an unknown part of the Black Pearl. It was a large wooden board, and she would plunder it. The property that arrived was piled with wooden planks, and the sailors would definitely not be able to carry it, but Aranza's body had been strengthened by the devil's heart and he could carry it effortlessly. Therefore, although he was protecting the transport team, he actually became one of the porters. Members, and even the ancient stone giants later joined the ranks of transporting property, because Korra removed a larger plank from the Black Pearl.
After questioning, Aranza found out that these wooden planks were part of the cabin compartments of the Black Pearl. Since the belongings had been piled up in one warehouse after another, she simply removed the compartments between the warehouses, as long as they did not touch the Black Pearl. The skeleton is no big deal.
Once again, she unloaded rich gold, silver and jewelry into the Black Pearl. On the way back, Aranza said to Korra: "Well, it seems that even if the Black Pearl is full, we won't be able to move all the dragon's stuff."
"There's no need to move them all,"
Cora seemed a little absent-minded and replied: "The things here are enough for you and me to share, and we can also use part of it to reward the sailors."
"Well, haven't they already taken it," Aranza said casually. In fact, both he and Cora could see that the sailors' pockets were much bulgier than before.
"Just consider that a tip,"
Korra frowned and said to Aranza in an enlightening tone: "You have to remember that these sailors risked their lives to follow us into the dragon's lair. Their efforts are worthy of high rewards... Only if you respect and care for your subordinates enough, will they obey your orders, understand?"
Aranza was stunned for a moment before saying, "But, well..."
"You don't think they should take something without permission,"
Cora interrupted Aranza, and before he could nod, she continued to speak, saying: "They will be more motivated to do things if they can secretly get something. I told you before about how to maintain the loyalty of your subordinates. Now I will tell you What you are talking about is how to maximize the efficiency of your subordinates. Although both of them involve money, they must be separated. Do you understand?"
Aranza seemed to realize something. He glanced at the sailors who were taking a short rest below the Black Pearl. Their eyes always kept a light of excitement.
The son of the King of Heroes then turned back to Korra and said, "Well, I seem to understand a little bit,"
At this time, Korra put on an evil smile and said softly: "If you feel that they steal things and make you feel unhappy, when you pay them, you just need to steal what they stole as well." , you will be happy,"
Aranza suddenly felt that Korra's image of a profiteer in his mind had expanded a bit, and she even began to emit a golden light that smelled like gold coins.
"How long have we been here," Korra asked suddenly.
Aranza didn't know why she asked, so she replied: "Well, I didn't remember, but it was at least nine days, why?"
"The longer the time goes, the more variables there will be. Don't forget, the King of the Dragon Clan may come back at any time,"
"You mean..."
"Don't be blinded by the harvest. We have to hurry up. Once the second group of caves is emptied, we will leave here. I have...a little ominous feeling," Korra finally told the reason for her absent-mindedness.
Aranza nodded cautiously.
"roar,,,"
However, as if in response to their conversation, an extremely loud dragon roar suddenly came from the direction of the caves.
This roar is different from the roar of a young dragon or an old dragon. It is powerful and full of majestic momentum. When the roar sounds, the dense leaves in the forest in front of the coast even sway passively. Obviously, this roar must be caused by someone. The mouth of a mighty dragon.
Aranza and Korra looked at each other and saw the uneasiness in each other's eyes.
The two people immediately flew away in the direction of the caves, while the sailors stayed in place and were guarded by the ancient stone giants. The distance seemed much shorter at the extremely fast flight speed. Not long after, the two people arrived at the cave where they were plundering. Under the caves.
Chiwu was repairing in mid-air, looking towards the holy mountain surrounded by caves. The roar came from there. When this roar came out, the giant dragons in the caves seemed to be on stimulants. They were howling, but they still didn't dare to step out of their respective caves.
Aranza and Korra stopped next to Chiwu and glanced at the sailors hiding in a cave. When they saw that they were safe and sound, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.
The son of the King of Heroes then looked at the demon god who had become a mortal, and asked in a slightly stern tone: "Well, what's going on?"
"It seems like it's not our business,"
Before Chiwu could answer, Korra analyzed: "If my guess is correct, Nico Robin should have taken action against the Holy Mountain."
"Yes,"
Only then did Chi Wu find a chance to speak and said: "There was an intermediate-level black dragon from the Holy Domain lurking there. I saw it jump out from under the clouds at the top of the Holy Mountain, circle around the Holy Mountain, and then return to the clouds."
Only then did Aranza and Korra realize that the height of the Holy Mountain had already submerged into the clouds. If there were a high-level dragon hiding in it, they would naturally be unable to differentiate. Even Aranza's soul sensing ability would not be able to extend the sensing range from the ground to Genting.
Aranza gave a wry smile and said, "Well, it seems that Nicole Robin is in a lot of trouble,"
"We're in quite a lot of trouble,"
Korra frowned and said: "I didn't expect... the king of dragons still had one more trick left, an intermediate-level black dragon from the sanctuary. No matter how strong Nico Robin was, it would be impossible to defeat it. Once the black dragon is solved, Nicole Robin, next, it may solve us..."
"what to do,"
Aranza asked. His brain was running rapidly, but he was shocked to find that they were already in an extremely dangerous state. No matter how they chose, the result could not be too good. If they escaped now, although the current crisis would be solved, it would still be a long time ago. However, Nicole Robin, who is responsible for the crime, will undoubtedly die. As a result, without anything more extraordinary to divert the dragon's anger, the group of people can only face the dragon's anger directly; and if they help Nicole Robin, With Chiwu's magical attack immunity and physical attack immunity, they may indeed defeat the black dragon, but they are also involved in this "even more outrageous thing".
"cut,"
He suddenly snorted angrily and said: "Well, Nico Robin probably knew that there would be defenses outside the Dragon Clan... She waited until now to take action, just when we were trapped and there was no way back."
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I'm about to go out again, I'll catch up on the last bit when I come back.
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Winter, year 128 of the Ryan calendar.
At this time, the human land was covered with ice and snow, and even the fierce war could not drive away the chill that was coming towards them. Teams of knights walked forward on the snow, and the bone-chilling chill brought the morale of the people and horses to the lowest point. They Carrying the mission, they headed to the predetermined location, where a bloody battle was about to begin. However, the knights still dragged their tired bodies forward, even though the road ahead was destined to be death.
The snow will freeze their bodies until the surviving comrades use torches to drive away the snow, and then the flames will spread and engulf them.
The war reached its peak this year, and no one even had time to take time off from the sword-to-sword battle to mourn for the dead.
However, the cold winter stopped at the southernmost part of the human land. Further south, there is the land of the orcs. The scorching sun in the west is still baking the soil full of the scent of beasts, making the people who walk on it sweat profusely. , so in the orc calendar, this is the 319th year of the orc calendar, the Fire Moon.
Although the methods of calculating time are different, and the solar terms seem to prove the difference in calculations, even though the cold winter of the human race does not cover the land of the orcs, the war has quietly affected the situation of the orcs, and the warring humans finally have no time to care about the orcs' land. Due to the disputes, some small and large families took the lead in withdrawing from the orc alliance and rushed back to the human land to support the family's battle. Later, some big families also withdrew from the orc land one after another. First, the Anan family and other powerful families family, and later, even the arrogant Lane family withdrew their troops from the orcs, leaving no one or one horse behind.