And just as spring was about to begin, in the city of Defens, 300 kilometers away from the Warcraft Forest in the Supreme Mountains, the adventure guild in the city issued a mission.
Call on people to patrol the outskirts of the Warcraft Forest to check the number of various Warcraft.
See if there are any special changes in the number of monsters after a winter.
The last time a World of Warcraft wave occurred was a long time ago, but we must guard against it.
This is a routine task that does not require entering the depths of the Warcraft forest. As long as the traces of various Warcraft activities are traced, the number of various Warcraft can be roughly estimated to determine whether the Warcraft will expand their territory in the future.
Therefore, an experienced hunter is needed.
Then the range is relatively wide, 300 kilometers vertically and nearly 10,000 kilometers horizontally. It needs to cover nearly 20,000 kilometers, which usually takes 60 days.
All in all, it is a useless task that does not require much strength but is relatively time-consuming.
However, it is very suitable for a wilderness trip as a beginner adventurer, allowing novices to go from yearning for wild life to hating it, and then getting used to it.
During the Empire of Light, this was the coming-of-age tour for the nobles of Diphons City.
But now, after the collapse of the Empire of Light, city-states are busy fighting among themselves for power and enjoying unregulated fun.
The new rich people in Diphons City didn't want to take care of it at all, so the task was put on hold.
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Warcraft Forest.
With the arrival of spring, the magic of the little wind wolves has been honed to the point where they can follow the adult wolves.
There are nearly a hundred wolves together, which looks quite majestic.
It's just that the quantity is large, requiring more than 2 tons of meat every day, and at least 4 medium and large animals similar to reindeer must be killed every day to satisfy everyone.
As a result, the wolf pack's activity range has increased, collisions with other hunters have also occurred, and disappearances and casualties have also followed.
Wherever there were casualties, Shandai would follow them, destroying skill books in the name of revenge.
Yamazaki also followed and drew a simple map.
Advancing all the way to the west, we encountered tigers, leopards, and bears, not to mention tigers, leopards, and bears. However, there was a group of 30 adult lions 200 kilometers away. There was no fight between the two sides after the confrontation.
The boundary to the west is thus determined, and the north is deep in the forest, so there is no way to cross it.
After advancing about 300 kilometers eastward, we encountered no obstacles, so we turned back.
A 300-kilometer forest road is a round trip, which is a round trip for the wolf pack in one day.
Following the mountain stream near the wolf den for more than 100 kilometers to the south, the terrain becomes lower and lower and the trees become more and more sparse.
After leaving the forest, there is an endless grassland with many herbivores among the bushes and shrubs.
Just hunting here will turn into a chase, which is not conducive to the wolves.
But Yamazaki is not going to interfere. There is a lot to eat in the spring, and the wolf will not starve to death.
Yamasaki stood on a small hill and looked out. The feeling of walking out of the forest, suddenly seeing the sky and the vastness of the earth, made people feel comfortable.
But there was Shandai nearby who was yelling like Taishan, which was really noisy.
…
The wolf pack is centered on the wolf den, and its current territory is an irregular fan-shaped area - about 500 kilometers from east to west and about 120 kilometers from south to south.
Most of the ones encountered are first-level monsters like ordinary wind wolves - this type of magic has been trained to 100.
A small number of second-level monsters - with magic power reaching 200, were all hunted down.
The entire territory is generally safe.
…
As spring passes, the summer grasslands become dry and animals move to the forests.
Hunting for wolves has become easier, and a new generation of wolf pups has begun to grow in the belly of the female wolf.
Yamazaki grabbed Shandai and used magic to dig a cellar by the river and make an ice cellar to store meat.
Under the leadership of Shandai, the wolves changed from being satisfied when they were full to hunting in advance.
Rats, rabbits, fish, snakes, deer, horses, sheep, cows, wild boars, etc., all kinds of first-order monsters, and a small number of second-order monsters, are constantly being divided and frozen.
With the complete animal skin, Yamazaki tried to simply tan it with plant ash, used tendons as threads, and bones as cones, and drilled holes and threaded the tendons to make several sets of clothes.
From primitive people wrapped in animal skins to primitive civilized people wearing animal skin clothes.
In autumn, collect the fruits that the monsters can eat, as well as wild wheat and wild rice millet.
Grind it with a stone, blow off the skin, and simmer it slowly in a stone pot. Finally, you can have fruit cereal for a change.
When hundreds of wolf cubs filled the den, the adult male wolf had no choice but to sleep outside, and all of them became agitated.
Yamazaki and Shandai used earth magic and earth magic to create uninterrupted walls, and then used dark magic to corrode and hollow them out, turning them into caves.
An outer room covering an area of about 1,000 square meters was built for the wolf den, which can accommodate nearly a hundred adult wolves.
Although it is simple, it can also provide shelter from wind and rain, so it can be used as it is.
…
The busy life was interrupted by a cold rain, the wind from the north came, and winter was approaching.
Yamazaki calculated that this year's winter seemed to be earlier than last year. He was worried that more monsters would emerge from the depths of the forest, so he took Shandai to set up traps.
Last year's brown bears were only second-level monsters. Fortunately, they were just one family. If a group came, the wolves wouldn't be able to handle it.
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As the traps were completed one after another, heavy snow came unexpectedly.
Shandai was free, but Yamazaki realized something was wrong and changed his job to a shovel officer to solve the hygiene problems of more than 300 wolf cubs in the wolf den to prevent them from excreting in the den and causing the spread of diseases.
Although Shandai has learned a lot of magic, she does not have magic to cure diseases or heal wounds, so she must be careful in everything.
This time, even if the wolves were wearing snow shoes, they could not hunt enough food for 500 wolves, so the frozen meat in the ice cellar came in handy.
However, there are only 2,000 tons of frozen meat. If you don’t eat enough, it will be used up in less than three months, so you still have to hunt every day to survive the four months of winter.
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On the morning of 10 days later, the trap was triggered.
Yamasaki carefully checked and found that it was a tiger with horns that had passed out in the poisonous mud pit.
Judging from the charred black appearance of its body, it must be of the lightning type. After being frightened, it discharged itself and burned itself to death.
In the afternoon, Shandai came back to kill it and exploded a box, which contained thunder magic - chain lightning. After learning the thunder magic, it exceeded 200 points.
Shandai couldn't wait to release one, and a zigzag-shaped lightning swept across the entire field in the blink of an eye, creating an area about 50 meters long and 10 meters wide.
It’s hard to say the damage done to individuals, but the range is quite satisfactory.
Yamazaki thought, "Is there anything else? Tigers are all members of the same family."
"Well, there is another female, let's go take a look." Shandai pointed the direction.
"Do you think they can beat last year's brown bears?"
"Probably not, thunder magic has no advantage over earth magic," Shandai reacted, "Brother, are you saying that there are other powerful monsters?"
"That's what I'm worried about. Magic becomes more destructive as it goes up. Any high-level monster can destroy the entire area instantly with just a single spell. You don't even know when you will suddenly die."
"Brother, you are thinking too much. This is the world of gods. How can high-level monsters come out to harm humans so easily?"