For Capellan, this is a rare and extremely painful banquet in his goblin life.
For the goblins of the Kezan Islands, the saying that business has no borders is extremely true. Kapellan’s idol is Mogul Razdon, the president of the venture capital company headquartered in the capital of Kezan, Undermine, and the trading magnate
gram.
Originally a venture capital company whose main business was mining and logging, its main activities were located in Stranglethorn Valley in the Eastern Kingdom. However, with the opening of the Dark Portal, the orcs from another world launched World War II, and Mogu
Lars Dunk intended to move the company's business to a safer area.
As a result, the continent of Kalimdor ushered in a new round of development boom by venture capital companies. In the north of the Barrens, the company discovered an oil field. In order to maintain and build this new source of profit for the company, Capellan served as
The deputy director of the Kalimdor Division of the Venture Capital Company was sent to the nearby Stonetalon Mountains to start cutting down timber.
Since the ancient war between the night elves and the Burning Legion ended 10,000 years ago, the elves, who were in desperate need of recuperation, had to shrink their territory, and the Stonetalon Mountains once again returned to an ownerless state.
So Kapellan brought a large group of hired workers from all races in the Eastern Kingdom. There were humans who were tired of wars, dwarves who liked to wander around the world digging, and jackals who were as good as their mothers if they were rich. They carried cutting tools and went on a mighty tour.
Entering the Windy Valley in the southeastern part of the Stonetalon Mountains.
Since the nearest intelligent creature force in the Stonetalon Mountains is an observation station established by the sparse night elves in the northernmost part, the goblins naturally regard this valley as their own property.
At the company's internal auction, Gazruin, a goblin businessman and Kapellan's old friend, contracted the mineral exploration and mining rights in the mountains around the Gale Valley at a large price. Gazruin's behavior attracted many goblin businessmen, and at the same time
It is also the ridicule of leaders within venture capital firms.
Gazruin has a goblin's natural business sense and ability to make money, but he is sometimes too generous and forthright, so Gazruin is able to make money and is also very good at spending money, which results in his personal finances always being in balance.
On the edge of balance, it has been on the verge of bankruptcy several times.
After all, not every goblin merchant will be so kind to his own kind or even his employees.
In fact, the venture capital company once made great efforts to unite the dwarves who are the best at mining in the world to conduct a large-scale, time-consuming and labor-intensive mineral exploration activity on the continent of Kalimdor, but the final harvest was very little.
The Stonetalon Mountains are known to all knowledgeable goblin merchants. They may be rich in minerals, but the shrinking of elven power has led to harpies, kobolds, and even wild boars running rampant here. There are also people in the forest.
Dangerous flying dragons, poisonous spiders, lurking poisonous snakes, and occasionally centaurs wandering from the Desolate Land and tauren who were chased by centaurs and fled.
The chaotic environment makes goblin businessmen reluctant to invest. They would rather wait and see again. After all, it is too dangerous here.
Therefore, after Gazruin won the exploration and mining rights, he attracted the ridicule of many businessmen. What surprised the merchants even more was that Gazruin actually went to the center of the Stonetalon Mountains through the tauren shaman in Desolation.
He made contact with the Gogo kobolds there and hired dozens of families of kobolds.
Then he personally led the team to follow, and together with the exploration team of less than 400 kobolds, they traveled all over the mountains around the Gale Valley in half a year, and actually discovered a rich iron ore.
This is why Capellan is extremely jealous of his old friend. He feels that Gazruin always has good luck. If he could pay more attention to his personal finances like himself, he might have climbed to the top of the company long ago.
Therefore, Kapellan had a complicated attitude towards Gazrouin that was both envious and "hateful". This attitude reached a critical point after he proposed to visit the mine and successfully completed the visit.
So Kapellan took the excuse that it was too late, took his guards, and left in a hurry in the convoy. In fact, he took a small team of elite guards, including four races, from wizards, warriors to shooters, with complete professions, but not completely
It's Capellan showing off, but the forest is too dangerous.
Capellan's visit is not of great significance to the newly excavated and named Gale Mine.
The kobolds are still busy. This race is accustomed to the dark world underground, and has a resistance to the surface world that is not annoying, but they also yearn for light, so the candles above their heads have become the most conspicuous and important symbol of this intelligent race.
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The newly born kobold named "Preel" did not cause much trouble in this mining area. For Gazruin, his business needs the support of the kobolds, and he also needs to pass the card.
Perrin allocated various supplies for the Gale Wind Mine to pay for the kobolds' daily needs, as well as the originally negotiated remuneration.
This is also the reason why Gazruin and Capellan asked to watch and name the new kobolds. For no other reason, it was just that the goblins were planning for money, hoping to consolidate the trade ties between them.
Time flies so fast, and five years have passed in the blink of an eye. During these five years, Gaspar had another 32 children, and his wife gave him sextuplets at once, which is incredible.
It is relatively common in the history of human reproduction.
Although the kobolds, as an intelligent race, have their own rough language and their own stubborn lifestyle, their social structure system is very simple.
Because their reproductive ability is too strong, kobolds generally live in families. Generally, after a family has 20 to 40 members, it will be divided again to form a new family, with blood relations as the bond between them.
The reason why Gaspar was able to become "Lefita" is because as one of the 15 families that Gazrouin originally hired, he was the boss of all the family parents. In other words, in the current Gale Mine, all the heads of the family
Everyone is his brother, sister, son, daughter, nephew, niece, nephew, and niece.
Kobolds do not have special records of blood relationships among family members, but they can always avoid incest marriages and reproduction. This is one of the reasons why kobolds are recognized as an intelligent race in the entire world of Azeroth.
Five years, for humans or goblins, may still be in the infancy of life, but for kobolds, this age means adulthood.
The theoretical lifespan of a kobold is 60 years, but the actual lifespan is generally around 45 years, and the average lifespan does not even reach 30 years. The extremely high reproductive capacity is precisely because the entire race is extremely fragile and has to evolve in this way to continue the existence of the race.
Sad choice.
The newborn baby, now the adult kobold Prell, is sitting in the forest outside the Gale Mine. He is lazily leaning against a big tree, holding a piece of foxtail in his mouth, with a look of anger on his face.
Loveless.
"This is really fucking..." He spat angrily, stretched out his hands like mouse paws, looked at them with his small yellow eyes, and clenched his fists until the light yellow skin blood vessels were exposed.
, he let go of his hand in despair.
The palms of his hands had been scratched by sharp nails. Prell looked up at the sky. The tree scars on the big branches behind his head, as well as the entire world in his eyes, made him realize that all of this was a real existence.
Unquestionable truth.
This reality made him extremely disgusted. He spread out his bloody hands, spit into his palms, and wiped them on his light green coat.
"Damn it, why did I turn into a kobold when I traveled through time?" Prell was extremely sad and angry. Five years ago, he excitedly returned to the classic server of "World of Warcraft" and became a human male bald paladin.
Just because after the North Gate event of the Dire Maul dungeon, in order to open the flight point of Ashenvale, he rode through the Stonetalon Mountains, accidentally entered the kobold mine, and killed a kobold mage without eyes.
As a result, when he woke up, he became a new kobold.
Prell opened his mouth and cursed loudly, spewing out all kinds of strange curse words. After cursing for a long time, he finally got tired of scolding, so he sat down again feebly.
"Brother Prell, have you finished defecating?" A short kobold came out of the grass not far away.
Prell was immediately discouraged. He stood up weakly, shouldered his weapon, a pickaxe, and said, "I'm done. Let's go, Belga."
Initially, Gazruin hired 15 families with a total of 372 kobolds of both sexes in the Gogo Mine. After five years of rapid reproduction, this group has now grown into a huge group of 737 members.
In fact, if the mining industry itself was not full of dangers, coupled with the limited life span of the kobolds and the loss of life caused by various dangers in the forest, this group could have exceeded a thousand people.
But Gazrouin, the owner of the mine, is a kind-hearted person. He has always been very generous to his subordinates and his employees. With sufficient supply of food and even medicinal materials, without these strong guarantees, the kobold group would
Maybe there won't be more than 600 people.
But Gazrouin's generosity this time did not make him earn a penny less. Because under Gaspar's supervision, the kobold miners discovered a gold vein deep in the mine.
Although it is not a rich mine, it is enough for Gazrouin to make a lot of money.
Five years of cooperation allowed Gazrouin to truly understand the kobold race. Kobolds are born with a sensitive sense of smell for mineral veins. This is a true sense of smell. They rely on their noses to "smell" where there are mineral veins.
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Moreover, as natural miners, kobolds have both good organizational and executive abilities. They are born with a sense of obedience and do not even need Gazrouin to intervene too much. Gaspar and his brothers are just a family.
The fathers had done all the work in advance.
Every new kobold will be assigned two jobs when they reach adulthood: miner and guard. Prell was lucky, he was randomly assigned by his father to become a miner who wanders outside the mine all day long.
Guard.
In the eyes of his other brothers, Prell was somewhat unlucky, because being a guard meant being away from the kobolds' favorite excavation work.
As for the newly born female kobolds, they have no human rights at all. Like their brothers, they are wildly raised by their parents, and after they reach adulthood, they follow their mothers, aunts, and sisters to wash and cook for the men.
, and also need to be escorted by male kobolds to go deep into the forest to collect wild fruits, vegetables and weeds, or engage in simple fishing work.
Berga was three months younger than Prel. Strictly speaking, he was the sixteenth child of Gaspar's seventh brother, including the child who died in infancy. So Berga was Prel's cousin.
Belga was lucky. He was the first twin born to this ethnic group after the division and migration. Therefore, he awakened to become a spell caster when he reached adulthood. Unlike his brothers, Belga was a shaman. Currently, Belga is a shaman.
Mastered Lightning Bolt, a shaman's unique natural magic skill.
Compared with other adult kobolds, Prell is just slightly taller, stronger, and has a whiter complexion. However, these are meaningless. In every aspect, he is an extremely ordinary kobold.
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Although he is a very rare first-born kobold, Prell has not awakened any spellcasting skills, so Gaspar gave up after paying attention to it for a while. After all, he had too many children to worry about, as well as the entire mine.
He needs to coordinate the work of the cave.
So Prell became a guard in the Gale Mine, positioned as a warrior, and his partner was Belga. Prell learned a little bit of fighting skills from one of his uncles, as well as some survival skills, including face-to-face
How to die honorably against a dangerous enemy.
As for how to judge whether an enemy is dangerous, the only criterion is size. Anyone who is larger than a kobold is considered a dangerous enemy. Then Prell sadly discovered that for kobolds, even goblins may be considered dangerous enemies.