Faced with Doragon's angry rebuke, Xuan Weizi spread his palms and said: "Anyway, this is the condition I proposed. Your Excellency Doragon can consider it slowly. By the way, Qianshi City is still facing an attack by the orcs, so I won't waste your time.
It’s time. Please help yourself.”
Doragon stared at Xuan Weizi, nodded slowly and meaningfully, said goodbye to Ms. Vera, and strode out of the palace courtyard, summoning the local mages before leaving.
"Isn't this a bit extreme?" Sir Weston asked: "You should know that Doragon's current situation is far from a life-or-death situation."
"Keep playing music, keep dancing." Xuan Weizi waved to the dancing girl on the pond, then yawned and said: "It was obviously Doragon who sent the letter asking for help. I don't care what he has in mind. Since it is asking for help.
, then there must be a price, and normal trade cannot be like in the past. I did not take the opportunity to raise the price of grain exports from the Mutual Protection Alliance, and I was already supporting him."
"But the price you offered is too high." Sir Weston said: "You have also seen Doragon's arrogance. He will not abandon his dignity to bargain with you. Once the negotiation fails, it will be very difficult in the future.
There is little room for negotiation.”
Xuan Weizi was leaning on the cushion, seeming a little tired: "Of course I understand, I just don't intend to get involved in the war with the orcs so soon. The queen had met with Shadovan some time ago, and the two sides agreed to temporarily reduce the head-on conflict.
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But there is obviously assistance from the Eye of Arcana behind the orcs. This is related to the factional struggle within the Eye of Arcana, which is difficult for us outsiders to intervene. It would be wrong to rashly get involved too deeply, or even invest a lot of resources and manpower in supporting foreign wars.
Irrational."
Sir Weston was silent for a moment and had to admit: "That's right. Doragon should have countermeasures. He just wants to drag us into the war. Coupled with his attitude towards Ms. Vera, it should be the end of the relationship."
Become a grand alliance against the Eye of Mystery."
The Elf Grand Mystic next to him took a sip of ice-cold sweet wine and said to Xuan Weizi: "I hope Sir Olanso understands that we also have our own positions and attitudes."
Xuan Weizi replied: "Of course, we will not interfere with the choices of the elves. Whether the Mutual Protection Alliance supports Doragon will not affect our trade cooperation with you. But I am very curious. Ms. Vera seems to have
Are you familiar with dragon language?"
"Our Alessa family has not only formed an alliance with the dragon clan in history, but also concluded contracts with some ancient dragons." Ms. Vera said: "The dragon clan is not as good as the ancient giants in making...magic items. Even the dragon clan's body and magic are comparable.
They are powerful, but ancient giants are by no means ordinary."
Xuan Weizi said: "I understand, the Dragon Clan hired your Alesha family to create magic items for them. The conclusion of the contract... does it refer to the magicians? Or the dragon fire warlocks in the dragon kingdom today?"
Ms. Vera replied: "Absolutely, the Dragon Clan will not hastily enter into contracts with other races, because this will consume part of their life force. And the Dragon Clan...according to you humans, are relatively stingy."
Xuan Weizi guessed: "In other words, after signing a contract with the Dragon Clan, the contracting party will be affected by the Dragon Clan's magic power and master some knowledge and abilities related to the Dragon Clan?"
"That's right." Ms. Vera said: "But after the 'Ascending Ladder' was activated, all the real dragons died, and the contract with vitality as the medium was also suspended. Now there are no dragon contracting parties in Alessa's family.
Only part of the dragon knowledge has been passed down, including dragon language."
"Then do you plan to renew the contract with the dragon clan?" Xuan Weizi asked: "I heard that Doragon has a secret technique that can transform ordinary people into dragon fire warlocks."
"We will have our own considerations on this matter." Ms. Vera had no intention of going into the discussion further.
Xuan Weizi didn't understand that in ancient times, the elves and the dragons formed an alliance. The real situation was probably that the elves were vassals of the dragons, and they were nothing more than slaves who were not as primitive and backward as humans.
The power of the ancient dragon race can be seen by looking at the Titan creations of ancient giants and semi-giants. It is not a race that threatens the ancient giants, nor will there be long confrontations and wars. Today's Nahasa Wasteland is full of ancient giants
As a result of mutual attacks with the dragon clan, the elves faced the ancient giants and were plundered by the other party.
However, after a long time, even if Doragon established the dragon kingdom, it would still be far from the dragon-filled sky of the past. The elves have quite detailed and sufficient historical records. Seeing the current dragon kingdom, they probably would not be reduced to vassals and servants.
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"So you took the initiative to come to the Nahasa Chiefdom to study the dragon?" Sir Weston asked: "It's just that you are too direct. You asked to use other people's wives for research."
"What?!" Xuan Weizi was surprised: "That silver dragon...is Doragon's wife?"
"That's right." Sir Weston said: "True dragons are magical creatures with high intelligence. The spellcasting ability of Doragon's silver dragon is comparable to that of a legendary mage... It can also be regarded as a legendary warlock. And the silver dragon can transform into
A normal human woman, the queen and I even met her in person."
"But I heard that this silver dragon is the product of Doragon's magic experiment. It is the evolutionary result of purifying the bloodline of dragon-veined creatures." Xuan Weizi said: "I originally thought it was an ordinary magical transformation. It looks like,
Does Doragon really intend to re-cultivate the entire dragon clan?"
"Did you also see the pair of vertical pupils of Doragon just now?" Sir Weston reminded: "I suspect that his bloodline is also constantly being refined, transforming from dragon vein to real dragon. Maybe it has been completed!"
Xuan Weizi suddenly became interested, thinking that he really came to the right place this time. Although I once transformed into a dragon in the Twilight King's Court, transcending all living things, but that dragon form is the realm of Taoist cultivation.
It is not the dragon clan of this world, but more like a transitional form before complete transformation.
Nowadays, there are not many magic skills that can be seen in Xuan Weizi's eyes, but the transformation from dragon veins to real dragons is what Xuan Weizi really wants to know. Doragon's skill does not rely on transformation spells to temporarily transform.
To become a dragon, but to completely transform one's own species. This is more advanced than reborn, swallowing one's form and transforming into a dragon.
"Then what should we do now?" Sir Weston saw that Xuan Weizi had no intention of leaving.
Xuan Weizi tapped the Photo Hanguangjian in his hand: "I am prophesying and detecting the situation in the entire Nahasa Wasteland, and watching the war in Thousand Stone City from a distance. I am not in a hurry about Doragon. If he has the ability,
, just drive the orcs away by yourself. He will not come to us again until the situation becomes extremely critical."
"But Doragon is right. The Nahasa Wasteland is huge, and he has plenty of room to slowly deal with the orcs." Sir Weston said: "What he needs is our Mutual Protection Alliance and the Elf Mission.
To use this to show his influence to the outside world, so that the Eye of Mystery will retreat when faced with difficulties."
"No, the Eye of Mystery will not give in. Sha Dowan can't suppress it," Xuan Weizi said.
"Is it because of the associated crystallized minerals?"
Xuan Weizi shook his head: "It's Gushim. I guess the Eye of Mystery is trying to force the orcs to continue summoning Gushim. It's best to drag the orc god's body into the main material plane."
"Is it to make arcane energy cores again?" Sir Weston said helplessly: "Nazareth will still have a great influence on the Eye of Mystery even if he doesn't show up."
Xuan Weizi said: "Nazarui's approach is originally in line with the pursuit of interests of many mages within the Eye of Mystery. You are right, the associated crystal mines are also needed by the mages of the Eye of Mystery, so they will definitely
Continuously push and stimulate the orcs' attack.
Correspondingly, Doragon also had to spend more energy to deal with the orcs. The fiercer Doragon's resistance, the more the orcs needed to summon Gushim. Maybe Doragon launched a large-scale counterattack here, and the mysterious force over there
Eye's support for the orcs will be tightened immediately, forcing them to spend a lot of money to summon Gushim."
"What's the price...?"
"The simplest thing is nothing more than the life and soul of an orc. After all, Gushim also came in the form of an orc." Xuan Weizi said.
Sir Weston nodded and said: "There is indeed a practice among the orcs to sacrifice the old, weak, sick and disabled. They worship the strong and despise the weak. In the defeated orc tribe, the males either died in battle or were sacrificed, and then the females were annexed by other tribes.
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In fact, Xuan Weizi estimated that Nazarui's motivation to push the orcs to summon Gushim many times and drag this immortal existence into the main material plane was no longer just for the purpose of making arcane energy cores and floating cities. But there are specific details:
Xuan Weizi didn't have a clear idea of what the purpose was.
"Let's sit back and watch their war for now. I'm also curious as to how much money Nazarui is willing to spend to support the orcs?" Xuan Weizi held the magic mirror in his hand, as if he was in a fugue.
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There were no surprises in the battle in Thousand Stone City. The raiding force mobilized by the orcs was less than two thousand, and they lacked large-scale siege equipment.
Although the orcs, under the cover of harpies and hobgoblins, once broke through the city wall defenses and invaded Thousand Stone City, they were quickly annihilated by the local garrison mages and the reinforcement mages teleported. After leaving behind hundreds of
After the bodies were found, the orc coalition retreated in disgrace.
However, after the post-war investigation, it was discovered that the orcs actually emerged from the ground. I don’t know when this group of orcs had tamed several kinds of burrowing monsters in the desert, and applied the "avoid detection" spell to them.
He worked tirelessly to dig out passages under the desert ground and solidified them by "turning mud into stone."
The orc army uses these underground passages to not only secretly and quickly mobilize elites to launch raids on towns and villages in the Nahasa Wasteland, but some of the underground passages even lead to the veins of associated crystal mines, driving goblins and slaves of other races to mine
Mining ore.
Orcs basically don't know much about production and management. Herding is already a "high-end industry" among the orcs. The various profit and loss calculations in commercial trade are even more disgusting to the orcs. Only a handful of half-orcs have such a mind.
, but commercial profit-making itself is not respected by orcs. They only have very pure "killing, fucking, and eating" in their minds.
Obviously, the orcs drive slaves to mine in order to obtain resource wealth from the occupied areas as quickly as possible in exchange for weapons, equipment, and magic items needed to continue the war. In addition, the food produced in the Nahasa Wasteland is scarce, and the orc army is full of carnivorous monsters.
There must be a steady stream of logistical supplies.
In fact, many slaves who died under the whipping of orcs, whether they were humans, goblins or lizardmen, were directly made into dried meat, their furs were made into crude armor, and their bones and marrow were not wasted, and were fed to those with low intelligence.
Ride the beast.
It can be said that once a town or village falls under the control of orcs, the humans inside are best to commit suicide quickly, otherwise the end will be extremely tragic. Men, young and old, who dare to resist will be executed immediately. In fact, if they do not resist, a group of them will be executed as a deterrent.
The remaining ones were thrown alive to mine. Human women were the tools for the orcs to vent their sexual desires. The women who were spoiled would simply break their necks, dismember them and throw them into pots for cooking. There were even orcs who liked to chew the living people alive.
In short, wherever the orc army passed by, it was a hellish scene where humans were reduced to two-legged sheep. The remaining humans huddled behind the city walls told of the orcs' slaughtering practices. Even if the chiefs and dignitaries everywhere strictly prohibited the spread of false news, they could not stop it.
The atmosphere of terror swept through the Nahasa chiefdom like a sandstorm.
The Nahasa Chiefdom itself is a loose alliance that lacks strong military strength. It does not even have a regular army. It only has the personal guards of the chiefs and dignitaries. At best, it spends a lot of money to hire mercenaries from other places. Its combat power is sparse and its morale has deteriorated several times.
After the defeat, he hit rock bottom.
Although there are mages' colleges and associations in the local area, none of them combined are as large as the Eye of Mystery. Relying on city walls for defense is fine, but don't expect them to launch a counterattack and regain lost ground.
So when Doragon established the Dragon Nation, he soon became the suzerain of the Nahasa Chiefdom. The group of mages headed by Doragon and the Dragon Vein Army were the main military force here.
After all, Doragon is a legendary mage, and he has a group of mages who followed him out of the Eye of Mystery, and their overall strength is quite high. They rely on prophecy spells to lock in the main assembly areas of the orc army, and use highly mobile teleportation spells to launch surprise attacks.
The flying dragon army pursued and intercepted him.
After more than three months of fighting, the orc army on the ground was wiped out.
But then a problem occurred, that is, the orc army of more than 30,000 people actually abandoned the habit of fighting head-on, went underground, and was broken into pieces. Relying on the previously dug network of underground passages, they fought against Doragon's men.
guerrilla warfare!
As for the Nahasa Wasteland, which is rich in associated crystal minerals, its underground environment will still disrupt prophecies and teleportation spells, which poses a great obstacle to the positioning of the orc army.
As for mages who have given up teleportation and flying, drilling into narrow tunnels is a very risky and unwise act in itself. Doragon had no choice but to send out a large number of lizardmen who are also good at digging holes, intending to use the human sea tactic to fill the complex underground
aisle.
But the combat effectiveness of the lizardmen is only comparable to that of the goblins. Even Doragon himself is not willing to admit that this creature has dragon blood. Even if tens of thousands of lizardmen pour into the underground, the result will be a small group of orcs.
You can set up an ambush to kill hundreds of lizardmen, and also provide meat for the orcs underground. It's not worth the loss.