"What, the elf guards went to the north with Sivana, really?" Sun Ran asked in surprise. In front of him was Alan, who had just returned from the trade in the elf village.
Allen nodded: "Really, I asked around and heard that the elves are fighting with people in a place called Gray Pine Forest in the north."
"Who are you fighting with?" Sun Ran asked.
"It seems to be some kind of giant... Well, it should be some kind of black-skinned giant!" Allen carefully thought about what he heard. It was not that he couldn't remember it, but that the Elvish language was too difficult to understand.
Sun Ran was even more delighted and corrected: "I know, they must be the fallen black giants. They are the vanguard army of Hades, the King of Darkness in the North... Ah, since the collapse of the World Tree, Hades has been trying to go south,
Now the elf is in trouble!"
These outside news were heard by Sun Ran in the Elf Castle, so it was not surprising to say them.
Allen didn't understand. He stood quietly and listened, feeling that the leader's vision and knowledge were very broad.
Sun Ran thought carefully: 'The elven soldiers are following Sivana to the north. This forest is our Highland Village's domain. We can develop with confidence. The transaction with the elves will still continue, but we can do more things.
...This is the best opportunity that the game company has given me as a human race to rise!"
Thinking of this, Sun Ran said: "Alan, go and call Monsa and Eddie. I have something to tell you."
Allen nodded and went out to call someone.
Sun Ran's three confidants arrived, and Sun Ran began to arrange the core route for the development of Highland Village.
After he finished speaking, Mengsa asked: "Chief, if you do this, when the elf soldiers come back from the victorious battle, I'm afraid..."
"No, even the victory in this battle between the elves is temporary, and the final result can only be defeat!" Sun Ran concluded.
"Why?" All three of them were puzzled.
"Because the Eternal King Odin, the master of the elves, has fallen, and the elves are facing Hades, the dark king of the north. That is the fourteenth-level eternal king! Do you think the elves can defeat Hades?
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The three of them looked at each other and said they didn't understand.
Allen asked: "How powerful is the Eternal God King at the fourteenth level?"
Sun Ran pointed to his feet and said: "I heard that in a highland village like ours, when the Eternal God King sneezes, the wind from his mouth can blow it away."
"..." The three of them were extremely shocked, and then nodded together: "That elf must not be defeated!"
"Okay, so we don't have to worry too much about what the elves think. Now, we are already the masters of this forest, and we will always be the masters in the future." Sun Ran said with a smile.
Allen is still worried: "Chief, will Hades, the eternal god king, keep fighting?"
"It's impossible to say. That's why we must speed up development and gain stronger strength. Even if we have to move to the south for refuge in the future, we will have more places to go." Sun Ran had a trace of worry on his face.
But he is not worried, because the south is the territory of Zeus. The situation in the world of gods is that Zeus and Hades are confronting each other. If Hades's army is going south, Zeus will definitely take action to deal with it. This is only a matter of time.
question.
Hearing what Sun Ran said, the three of them felt that the situation was urgent and became anxious.
Eddie said: "How about we simply rob the elves' belongings, occupy their villages and farmland, and make those despicable guys our slaves?"
"This is not good. The leader's plan just now is safe. If the elves come back with a small victory in the middle, we will suffer." Allen denied.
Mengsa also nodded: "I also think it's best not to do anything wrong until the situation is completely clear."
Among the three, Mensa and Allen are moderates, while Eddie is a radical. They have their own strengths and weaknesses, but they all wholeheartedly hope that the human race will become stronger.
"Okay, just do as I say. Eddie, it's not that I won't grab it, it's just that the time hasn't come yet." Sun Ran said with a smile.
"Yes, chief!" Eddie nodded.
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In the days that followed, Highland Village completely relaxed its grip and began to make great strides forward.
A year later, the first batch of seeds was harvested, and a large number of new seeds were obtained. At the same time, nearly three miles of forest under the high ground was cut down, and a large amount of farmland was obtained.
The seeds have been sown, the weather is good, and the weather is good, waiting for next year's harvest.
After experiencing more than a dozen failures and even an explosion accident, the old craftsman's furnace finally succeeded and started official operation, and obtained pig iron blocks of stable quality.
The people of Highland Village gained many unique iron-making techniques through hard exploration.
This year, all developments have a solid foundation.
In the second year, high-rise buildings began to be built on the foundation.
With the large-scale reclamation of farmland, there were more blacksmith shops one after another, and they began to try to make armor and weapons.
The farmland has received a bumper harvest, enough to feed two thousand people for a year. However, more and more people are coming to the Highland Village. The population has reached more than three thousand, and there is still not enough food, so the food trade with the elves is still going on.
This year, Highland Village is no longer a Highland Village, but they are all proud to call themselves Highlanders.
Under the guidance of Sun Ran, the highlanders had a clear social division of labor, including farmers, craftsmen, merchants, and warriors, in order.
The first group of highlanders were hunters, and they became the top warrior class. Later, a small number of those who defected became craftsmen, a small number became merchants, and the vast majority became farmers.
Because of the example of the elves, Sun Ran simply guided them. The primitive human race, which used to eat in a big pot and sleep in a big quilt, and had no concept of family, began to have independent families.
Every highlander is working for his own small family, and at the same time he has the dream of a stronger human race in his heart, and the social survival rate has skyrocketed.
Highland Village became Highland Town, and real prosperity emerged.
The third year.
The population of the highlands exceeded 10,000. The warriors who never gave up exploring the forest discovered the secret flint, and the quality of the steel produced by the blacksmith shop was greatly improved.
The fourth year.
Another great harvest of food. The more people defected, the more trade there was with the elves.
More technologies flowed from the elven villages into the highland villages. Such as spinning clothes, steel alloy smelting, light armor making technology, etc.
Because of the elves' awareness of secrecy, these technologies were incomplete when they entered the human race. However, due to the human race's unafraid of exploratory attempts, they were quickly reproduced and had their own characteristics.
This year, a craftsman invented a sharp weapon unique to the human race: the repeating crossbow.
Sun Ran was overjoyed and spared no effort to improve it, and finally it became a terrifying weapon that could fire nine rounds in a row and penetrate steel armor within 80 meters: a rapid-fire steel crossbow!
The technology of this steel crossbow has become a strategic secret of the highland humans, and it is equipped with the highlander army. However, any crossbow is strictly prohibited among the people, so that the elves do not know that the human race possesses this extremely terrifying weapon.
The elves still maintained their arrogance. Even if they saw the steel crossbow, they were just a little curious. Under their inertial thinking, the human race has always been clumsy. This thing looked strange and weird, and it was definitely not a good thing. They didn't know it at all.
I will explore the specific function of this thing, let alone the power of the steel crossbow.
The fifth year.
The population of Highland Village exploded. It exceeded 200,000 at once, greatly surpassing the elves.
A very small number of them are newly born children, and most of them are adults who have come from all over the forest to seek refuge.
There was no longer enough space to live in the highlands, and people began to build a large number of new villages around the highlands based on the highland village model.
A new type of human society emerged, somewhat like elves. But it also had more of its own unique culture.
Five summers later, Sun Ran stood on the edge of the cliff next to Highland Town, looking at the rapidly expanding human village below, looking at the extending farmland and the ever-receding forest, and sighed with satisfaction.
Now, he is wearing a linen robe woven by the humans themselves, and a light leather mail armor made by the humans themselves. Although it is far less beautiful and exquisite than the elves, it is very durable. In fact, the protective effect is not much worse than that of the elves. Waist
The sword and the crossbow on his back are also made by the human race.
At this time, Sun Ran, after five years of training, as well as some pure magic potions obtained from some secret transactions with the dwarf Nomos, his magic power has improved by leaps and bounds, and he has become a powerful fourth-level warrior.
Behind him were a dozen high-ranking warriors, including Mengsa, Allen, and Eddie. Their attire was similar to Sun Ran's.
The power of each one has also skyrocketed. The most powerful Mensa, Allen, and Eddie all have third-level magic power, and the others also have second-level magic power. Together with the martial arts taught by Sun Ran, they all have
Became an extremely powerful warrior.
These are also the result of the pure magic potion brought by the dwarf Nomos. The distribution of this precious potion is still based on the ranking of contribution value, and there is also a condition. Only those who enter the high-level people of Highland Village have the opportunity to know about this potion.
exist.
"It's been five years, time flies so fast." Sun Ran said with a smile.
Things in this world are most afraid of seriousness. Now, the entire human race has been developing seriously for five years, which is truly an earth-shaking change.
Now, the only thing that the human race is controlled by is magic power. Sun Ran is always thinking about how to pry out the secret of fire from Nomos. Unfortunately, that guy is extremely shrewd and will never be vague or ambiguous on this matter.
He refused to let go and made no compromise, which made Sun Ran's teeth itch with hatred.
"The elf soldiers... never came back." Allen said.
"Even if they come back, we don't have to be afraid. We have a thousand hard-trained and well-equipped magic warriors, nearly ten thousand simply trained militiamen, and this killing weapon, which is enough to make those elves deeply aware of our power.
"Eddie is full of confidence.
He gently touched his steel crossbow. This weapon was so sharp that no matter how powerful a warrior faced it, he would be capsized in the gutter. He loved and feared it at the same time.
At this moment, a soldier ran up and handed a message to Monsa, the manager of Highland Village.
Mengsa took a look and reported with some hesitation: "Chief, the elf village chief of Chenlu Village, Ino, came to the door."
"Oh, what's wrong?" Sun Ran asked.
"It's not clear yet, but the elf village chief is very, very angry."
"Then let's go meet this proud elf together." Sun Ran said with a smile.
