Bloodclaw Chief Hogg's "reconnaissance" was very fruitful. He not only found out the specific situation of the Plague Town in the Filthy Swamp, but also obtained enemy information to help Murphy advance the "design and development" of the next raid.
It's on the agenda.
He even got himself a very generous harvest by relying on his boldness and shamelessness.
Although the ten command scepters all carry the poison exerted by the lame claw, considering that the madman only needs the vampire heart to help Hogg detoxify, the current situation is not particularly bad.
On the one hand, although the blood vulture vampire is definitely not the drug that Hogg uses to "save himself", isn't there still so many wolfsbane cubs in the Cato area adjacent to the Smuggler's Woodland?
As long as you are lucky, you can finish the job in one day and still have a round trip.
Secondly, Chief Hogg, who is already well versed in "dealing" with players, now doesn't even need to do it himself.
At nearly midnight, Hogg, with his adjutants and barbarian soldiers, returned to the large den in the Smuggler's Woodland with more than a thousand elite skeleton troops in a mighty manner as a "street cleaning tiger".
I happened to meet its "dog-headed military counselor" playing games with a group of stupid little jackals in front of the beast's den.
Hogg shouted happily:
"Xiao Ashina! This way! I have something good for you."
"ah?"
Xiao Ashina, who took a break from her busy schedule to come to the Smuggler's Grove to "inspect the work", was stunned for a moment, then grabbed a handful of candies and threw them to the little jackals surrounding her, letting them play by themselves, while she herself flapped her wings and approached.
Hog and his majestic warg.
Ashina is not the only one who likes to play with little jackals, many young players have a strange fondness for these little cubs who have not grown up.
It's not that these guys have the tendency to be hateful "furry control", the main reason is that the immature jackals are furry and have big eyes, coupled with the wild faces that have not yet grown into a ferocious posture, they look very much like a
A walking plush toy.
But the jackals are very careful about their cubs.
They are not very willing to allow careless little players to approach their children casually. There have been terrible scenes in the past where many little players were overflowing with love and wanted to feed them, but were driven away and beaten by ferocious female jackals.
At this stage, the level of the little players wandering in the Smuggler's Wood is not very high, and their behavior of protecting their babies is out of motherhood, so even if they are beaten, the little players can only say bad luck.
After all, they have received nine years of compulsory education. Beating someone's mother in front of their children is something that even a beast would not do, but little players really can't do it.
But Xiaowei Ming and his gang are an exception.
Because they helped found the Bloodclaw Clan, Hogg gave them the freedom to move freely in all of the Clan's territories.
Other players who want to get a hunting horn that can summon nearby gnoll warriors to assist in the battle still need to complete arduous tasks to gain reputation, but the members of the Silver Moon Pride Group now have one.
It was a private gift given to them by Hogg in his capacity as chief.
This is only superficial benefit.
The hidden benefit is that when the Blood Claw Clan is officially established, the reputation of these female players in the Gnoll Clan has been fixed at "Admiration".
As long as Hogg remains the chief for one day, Smuggler's Grove will be equivalent to the "player base" of the Silver Moon Pride. They can even suggest the development direction of the clan to Hogg and participate in the management of the Bloodclaw clan. However, currently, the girls
We don't intend to do this.
There are only a few of them, and they cannot allocate dedicated people to assist Hogg in management like other teams. At most, they can only give advice to the chief.
And their "privilege" in the Bloodclaw clan has even been recognized by the game development team.
For example, in the current registration information of the Scarlet Castle Administrative Office, the Bloodclaw clan does not exist as an independent force. This group of gnolls is labeled as "Warrior Retinue", more specifically, their "spokesmen" in the Scarlet Castle.
They are a few girl players from the Silver Moon Pride Group.
This is equivalent to deeply binding the Blood Claw Clan and the girls together from a plot perspective. In the future, whenever the Gnoll Clan appears in the plot, the Silver Moon Group will be indispensable.
Of course, considering the issue of scale, the ascendant Bloodclaw clan cannot yet play a special role in promoting the big plot of Transia, and the benefits it can provide feedback to the Silver Moon Group are also quite effective, but even so, personally supporting a plot force
The potential revenue that can be obtained still makes other teams jealous.
Players can all see that as the power of the Scarlet Castle further expands to the entire Transia, the Blood Claw clan will inevitably continue to expand along with this expansion.
As long as they exist long enough, they will continue to bring subsequent benefits to the Silver Moon Pride Group.
This is equivalent to raising a hen that lays golden eggs.
The success of the girl group has also inspired other player groups. At least the student party has now begun to look for individuals like Hogg in the Cato area.
Happy Stick's team also has an advantage in this regard, because Melia Korando, the "blood descendant" Happy Stick has just acquired, is obviously a similar "plot character." Bang brother guesses that as long as Meliya's plot continues to advance, he and his
The team may be able to start a reconstruction mission of the "Grey Claw Faction" in the future.
At that time, they will be able to have their own plot power just like the Pride of the Silver Moon.
Let’s talk about whether it’s profitable or not. Isn’t this just enough material for bragging on the forum?
Other games require you to take the initiative to lick NPCs. In our game, you first train the NPCs and then lick them. Thinking about it this way, you don’t seem to be looking forward to it that much.
"What kind of good thing is it? It's mysterious."
Little Ashina flew over and threw a piece of candy into his mouth, and then saw Hogg taking out the psychic bag he carried and opening it in front of Little Ashina.
A total of ten command staffs, more than thirty uncontrolled staffs and an equal number of inferior staffs gathered together to form a spiritual glow that made the little dwarf's eyes widen.
She is a veteran among young gamers and has seen a lot of things in the market. Just by looking at the things in front of her, she can tell that they are definitely extraordinary.
She glanced again at the scepter hanging on Hogg's waist that could command more than two hundred skeleton troops, and finally looked at the more than a thousand elite skeleton troops who were advancing in an orderly manner behind the forest.
Xiao Weiming understood immediately, she hung in the air and patted Hogg's shoulder, and said carelessly:
"Hey, you've gone to buy some goods! Are you going to sell these things to us?"
"It's not selling, it's giving!"
A mysterious smile appeared on Hogg's shoehorned face, and he whispered like a fox who had stolen a chicken:
"I have learned the rules and traditions of Scarlet Keep. These treasures belonging to the Blood Claw clan can only be given to those warriors who have made outstanding contributions to the clan's cause.
How can such a treasure be tarnished with vulgar money? Besides, we are jackals, and the money we want has no use other than to look good.
Apart from you, no bold businessman would dare to come and do business with us."
As he spoke, Hogg carefully picked up one of the best quality ones and handed it to Xiao Ashina, but when the latter was about to get it, it reminded him:
"This thing is poisonous and will be poisoned if you come into contact with it. The person who gave me these treasures was a crazy jackal warlock. He asked me to bring him three vampire hearts before he could detoxify us."
"Huh? One scepter and three vampire hearts? That's a bit expensive."
Xiao Ashina scratched his head and took the good thing from Hogg "filial piety" without caring about the poison on the scepter. Then he frowned and glanced at the seven-day countdown of "Lame Claw Poison" that popped up on his character interface.
She waved her staff and said:
"But it's not a big problem, just wait here in the beast's den.
Tomorrow I will go to the Cato area with Pomegranate and Lumina. It is said that because we went too far in searching for refugees there, we have provoked Wolfsbane vampires to send out hunters. A few days ago, several rookies were accidentally ambushed.
The army was wiped out, and we just went to avenge them."
"Well"
Hogg originally wanted to explain to his "dog-headed strategist" that it was not a scepter for three vampire hearts, but a total of three.
But then I thought about it, the warriors didn't know the true price of this thing anyway, and the lunatic Lame Claw wouldn't take the initiative to explain it to them. He should be a "second-rate dealer" and charge some handling fees.
After all, I took the risk and went to Plague Town to get the goods. If I didn't take some advantage in the process, I would be sorry for my efforts.
And since Lame Claw needs the heart of a vampire so much, he can naturally get more good things from it after receiving enough materials.
Anyway, these warriors were given the advantage in the end, so I guess they wouldn’t have any objections to this, right?
So, it’s such a happy decision!
Hogg once again showed a satisfied expression like a fox who stole a chicken.
It watched little Ashina waving the command staff to select their servants from the skeleton army who were queuing up to enter the hibernation at the bottom of the big beast's den. It said in its heart that although its human friend was friendly and brave, sometimes she always felt that she was too careless.
, her character of not taking anything to heart makes her look so lively.
Despite this little slander, Hogg is just a grateful jackal.
It knows very well that if the Silver Moon Pride Group hadn't helped it when it was at its weakest, it would probably have become meat cooked in the pots of other jackals, and how could it have such a majestic status now?
?
Ah, I will never be able to repay the kindness of Xiaowei Ming and the others.
What's more, the interests of both parties are now deeply bound. Appropriately pleasing some of your "noble people" will not bring too much pressure to yourself.
"Nash! Hurry and draw the map in your mind. People will be coming over there soon. I will assign Knight No. 6 to you as a guard and give you a scepter.
Damn it, don’t be a fool anymore and protect yourself.
It is not easy for this chief to find a suitable and intelligent lieutenant."
Hogg rode on his majestic warg, turned around and gave instructions to the adjutant who was following him, and threw a command amulet to Nash.
"Hey, thanks Chief!"
Nash got excited when he got the amulet and the scepter of command.
It was born the same as Hogg and was as thin. It has basically never tasted strength and power since birth, and it only improved after following Hogg.
But now with these two things, it can walk sideways in Transia!
really!
Following Mr. Hogg, not only can you have food to eat, but you can also get respect and preferential treatment that you can't get from other forces. This is great!
Speaking of the Talisman of Command, this little thing made of bones and the Scepter of Command are spiritual creations under the same system, which allows the holder to issue orders to the silent and cold Knights of the Underworld.
However, this thing is not the phylactery of the Necromancer Knights after all, and the orders it can give are not mandatory. The Hades Knights have the right to refuse orders, but with the indifferent attitude of their dead, they are unlikely to refuse to execute orders.
From this point of view, that bitch Lame Claw is also quite treacherous. Not giving Hogg the phylacteries of these knights means that Hogg can only "rent" them.
Once the cooperation between the two parties breaks down, the lame claw holding the phylactery in his hand only needs an order, and the seven knights of Hades can rebel on the spot and chop off Hogg's dog head.
This is equivalent to the crazy jackal also showing off a wave of "white wolf with empty gloves".
The seven Knights of Hades who followed Hogg and his party back to Smuggler's Grove were as cold as wood when they didn't receive orders, but they did look good.
They were dressed in black and covered in thick armor. They were carrying heavy weapons such as cold necromantic swords or battle axes and hammers. Judging from their postures, they should all be human beings. There were no gnolls made into knights of the underworld.
Maybe it's because this advanced necromancy spell doesn't work on gnolls due to racial differences?
After all, according to Grand Duke Tris, the necromancy techniques used by the Warlocks of the Plague Clan all come from the Moon Priests of the Songhai people in the distant Sand Empire.
Although the Songhai people are very different from humans in all aspects, academic circles generally believe that the Songhai people are a subspecies of humans, and the connection between the two races is definitely much closer than the connection between humans and jackals.
"No. 7, come with me."
Hogg ordered the other five Knights of Hades to each lead 30 skeleton cavalry to patrol near the large beast's den, and gave instructions to the particularly tall Knight No. 7.
The silent female Knight of Hades did not respond and just rode her armored skeleton horse and followed Hogg out of the den.
They moved quickly under the night and arrived at a hidden place on the border of Smuggler's Wood half an hour later.
When they arrived here, there were already two figures waiting for them in front.
"Lady Adele! Fortunately, you have lived up to your destiny!"
Hogg shouted from a distance:
"I brought your relatives back."
"Keep your voice down"
Adele scolded and handed the bag containing Ken Porter's dried head to Hogg. This was a "fair trade" as agreed.
But Bella, the corpse witch beside her, could no longer hold back the feelings in her heart that did not belong to the dead, and staggered forward a few steps, while the female knight of the underworld, who had never had any mood swings like ice cubes, finally experienced it for the first time.
There was an action that was inconsistent with the state of the deceased.
She jumped off the skeleton war horse and quickly stepped forward to hug the corpse witch in her arms.
The two dead people just stayed quietly in the night and hugged each other without making any other movements. However, this feeling of being inseparable even in death made even a cold-natured jackal like Hogg feel a unique atmosphere.
It held Ken Porter's head in its hand and tilted its head to look at the two undead souls who were "spreading dog food". Well, this is probably the "love" that humans have always talked about?
Neither it nor Adele bothered the meeting of the miserable couple in front of them.
It wasn't until a few minutes later that Bella, the Corpse Witch, brought Bernice, the Knight of Hades, to Adele's side. Knight Bernice took off her heavy helmet, revealing a body that was as dry as Bella's and as terrifying as a mummy.
face.
But the vague expression on the face that still had scars made the spiritual fire in her eyes beat even more violently when she looked at Adele:
"My Lord Avalon, little Adele, why did you become the cursed person under midnight?"
Bernice said in a dry voice:
"Your mother will be heartbroken by this."
"I would call it a midnight blessing, Aunt Bernice, and now is not the time to discuss my mother."
Mrs. Adele did not intend to say anything more on this topic. She said in a cold tone:
"I must take you back to the Scarlet Castle now, and Grand Duke Tris will check your situation in person. Uncle Bella, can you confirm that there are no eavesdropping spells left on Aunt Bernice?"
"No, I just confirmed it."
Corpse witch Bella said with certainty:
"Bernice and I are high-level units even in Plague Town, and any application of psychic powers to us must be approved by Flesh Tear.
Although the Mad Crip Claw is highly regarded, it does not have that authority. What's more, Crip Claw is just a corpse constructor and is not very good at detecting spells.
But to be on the safe side, I still have to ask Grand Duke Tris to check Bernice over."
"Um."
Adele nodded, then turned to Hogg and said:
"You did a great job, Pangolin, not only because you completed the task ordered by Master Murphy, but you also received my personal thanks.
Tell me what you want, and I will try my best to satisfy you."
"I"
Hogg hesitated for a moment, but knowing that the opportunity was rare, he gritted his teeth and said:
"I want dominion over Smuggler's Grove!
Not only the current bestowal model, I hope that the Smuggler's Grove ruled by the Bloodclaw clan can truly enter the territory of Transia, instead of the current cooperation that can only be hidden under the surface.
I know this is outrageous, but Mrs. Adele, please understand
The black disaster is coming!
When the time comes, not only the Transian army will be here, but armies from other places will also come. I believe that Lord Murphy and his warriors will not harm me and my people, but others
I have seen how they kill their fellow men, and I have no hope of their character.
We long for real protection!”
"This is not something I can decide, Hogg."
Adele shook her head and said:
"I can only promise that I will convey your thoughts to Master Murphy and do my best to convince him. You must understand that the main body of Transia is human beings, and we must also take their feelings into consideration.
But I can guarantee it!
As long as I am the Dark Baroness, your territory will not be disturbed."
