After rounding the Piatila Mountains, we continue west along a river known as Farah.Nathaniel told me that if we found the Farah River, we were sure that we were not too far from the ancient ruins, and that the last time the expedition had walked along the Farah River for about half a month, this valley was lined with lush plants, and some very rare vampire trees and man-eating flowers grew in the woods, these plant-based monsters were extremely rare species even in the wild swamps.Walking along the river, although you will frequently encounter large animals rushing to drink water, you can avoid the territory of some intermediate magical beasts.We spent the day in the forest at the edge of the valley before entering the Farrah Valley.I also took this opportunity to quietly return to the imperial capital, transported all the rune plates of the Xinliu Valley Magic Seal Workshop to the warehouse of the imperial capital, and transported nearly 200,000 rune plate base materials, 500,000 giant crossbow arrowheads, and nearly 100 barrels of red copper metal solution from the warehouse.Now the imperial capital's red bronze magic rune plate has covered all the first-level magic, but my magic seal workshop is still mainly making fire gathering magic, miniature tornado, continuous frost, shimmer illumination and lava surge, these five kinds of life magic rune plates, as for the giant crossbow arrows, they are divided into two kinds: holy silver crossbow arrows and ordinary magic crossbow arrows, and the initial accumulation has been completed, and now the barbarian heavy crossbow group has all been equipped with dual-attribute giant crossbow arrows, and some of the arrow shafts are also equipped with wind resistance rune magic rings.These kinds of runic plates have a market share of about 90% on the imperial capital's side, and other types of magic rune boards have sprung up from magic shops.As a result, the Babington family's plan to enter the low-end rune board market announced at the beginning of the year is completely bankrupt.The Magic Seal Workshop has completed the transformation project of 900 sets of Nakma full-covered black iron heavy armor, and the next workshop is preparing to print the Empire standard armor Magic Pattern Construct in batches, once this standard metal armor is made into a simplified version of the Magic Pattern Structure, it will greatly reduce the manufacturing cost of the lowest-end Magic Pattern Structure.However, the primary Demonic Pattern Construct has not yet been widely available in the Grimm Empire, and the Glove Province of the Grimm Empire alone has millions of first-turn warriors.The Grimm Empire has a total of ninety-seven provinces, and among such a large base of first-turn warriors, each province has only a small proportion of the constructed knights, even in the Sloit province with the powerful North Wind Legion, the total number of constructed warriors is less than 50,000.There is still a huge gap in the magic market of the Grimm Empire, and the main reason for this phenomenon is the low production capacity of the magic pattern construction, each set of magic pattern construction is the work carefully produced by the imperial inscriptions, although the difficulty of making these magic pattern structures is between art and handicrafts, but the value of a set of magic pattern construction is to make many small nobles sigh.I have to say that the magic pattern structure is too expensive, and some of the magic pattern structures are in the hands of the nobles, and a large amount of inheritance can be passed on to future generations.The two Dwarven Artisans, Harrison and Morgan, crouched on the barrel in front of the Magic Seal Workshop, squinting at the female dwarves as they spewed their pipes out of the workshop, and the tested ones were greased and packed into chests, and the failed ones were re-smelted into iron ingots.The first batch of simplified versions of the Devil's Pattern Formation, if nothing else, it should be equipped to the South Wind Legion, Count Conrad's side I have already said hello in advance, and two heavy armored cavalry regiments should be equipped in the early stage, and those heavy armor knights in the South Wind Legion actually have many first-turn knights, as long as they wear the Magic Pattern Formation, their strength will be greatly improved.Next, maybe I will support Zach and Ernestine, they will probably launch an expedition on the Hierro plane next spring, and if there are not enough Constructed Knights participating in the expedition, I will temporarily help him get two Constructed Knights out.Of course, it may also be supported by Duke Jingyue of the North Wind Legion, in short, the lords will never be too much at any time, but the lords who can eat the entire Knights Formation Demonic Pattern Formation at one time are not too many even in the imperial capital.Returning to the wild swamp south of Qiyan Province overnight, he happened to see Justus with a barbarian slave squad carrying a petrified lizard nearly ten meters long from the jungle back to the camp.Since the last time there was a war between the lizard tribes, I sent two hundred barbarian slaves to follow our team through the rainforest, although these barbarian slaves are not adapted to the climate here, but it is better than being stuffed in an underground cave, with each barbarian warrior carrying a huge heavy crossbow behind him.Because the weather was so hot, I didn't demand that they wear the full Nakma armor, but that they wear at least their breastplates and trousers.This group of barbarians is a group of foodies by nature, and even in such a hot and unbearable weather, they actually rush to the jungle to hunt.Of course, I knew that there were many monsters in the wild swamp, but I didn't expect that there would be so many of them everywhere, and Justus just took this group of barbarian slaves around the river valley and met the petrified lizards hunting by the river.It just so happened that this adult petrified lizard, which weighed more than two tons and was more than ten meters long, like a ceratosaurus, had hunted a white-striped antelope by the river, and was enjoying a delicious lunch when it was shot into a sieve by a group of barbarian slaves with a heavy crossbow, and a piece of fine high-grade leather became tattered.However, the flesh of this petrified lizard is very delicious, and it is said that the flesh of the petrified lizard contains a large amount of earth-based magic elements, and the petrified lizard meat is a high-end ingredient that is often prepared in high-end restaurants in the imperial capital.The orc warriors snatched five terrestrial monitor lizards in the lizard tribe, and the lizard slaves were familiar with the temperament of these terrestrial monitor lizards and knew how to domesticate them, so I arranged for ten lizard slaves to take care of these five terrestrial monitor lizards, which were a very important means of transportation in the wild swamp.The five land monitor lizards in our team did not need to carry heavy supplies along the way, so the natives of Hierro put the pergola on the backs of the land travel monitor lizards, and the women in the team sat in the pergola, this land travel monitor lizard can walk very smoothly even in the swamp, no matter what the harsh swamp environment, it is like walking on the ground for them.Along the way, we saw a vampire tree with the bones of various beasts hanging on its branches, it was a fourth-level vampire tree, and there was also a strange bird on the tree called the blood crow, according to Nathaniel, this kind of blood crow can suck the soul of people, they live on the vampire tree, and they are also the guardians of the vampire tree, in the wild swamp, even the lizards do not want to trespass into the territory of the vampire tree that has become the climate.We've also seen countless sharp-toothed piranhas fighting a few rough-skinned crocodiles in the waters of the Farah River, and it's said that the valley monsters often fight bloody battles to defend their territory.We crossed the Farrah River without any danger.After leaving the valley, he turned directly to the west and walked for a week, and a narrow ridge appeared again in the dense rainforest, and the ridge first appeared in the sight of a pitch-black line, and when he saw this ridge, Nathaniel breathed a sigh of relief, saying that although the road he took was slightly different from the original road, it was correct in the general direction.As the saying goes, the mountain runs a dead horse, and it took us four days from the time we saw the ridge in the distance until we reached the foot of the mountain.This road is not a straight line, because the swampy jungle here is full of some lizard tribes, although the war between the lizard tribes is all over the wild swamp, but the lizard tribe in this area does not seem to be affected.So much so that we had to be extra careful when we walked through these lizard-man territories.Even if you encounter a small group of lizard-man travelers, you don't dare to swallow them easily, for fear that the destruction of a lizard-man traveler team will lead to the pursuit of the entire lizard-man tribe, this is different from the edge of the savage swamp, even if you destroy a lizard-man tribe, it will not make much of a scene.Located in the heart of a wild swamp, the lizard-people tribes here are somewhat involved with each other, and we don't want to make a fuss.Nathaniel led the way, looking for a buffer zone between the territory of the lizard tribe, and the journey was quite smooth.Mount Eramokus is located in the northern part of the Savage Marsh territory, and is like two parallel lines to the Piatilla Mountains, running through the northwestern part of the Savage Marsh.There are large tropical rainforests, river valleys, and swamps between the two mountain ranges, and there are many intermediate-level magical beasts living here, and there are a total of five relatively large lizard tribes here, in addition to the Muniji tribe that occupies the entire Wangtian forest area met earlier, there is also the Guzahr tribe on the side of the Elamokus Mountain, and the other three large tribes are located in the swampy land between the two mountain ranges and valleys, but the location of these tribes is more westward, they are the Laksha tribe, the Calicut tribe and the Lamindi tribe.The guide, Nathaniel, stood on the back of the land traveling monitor lizard, pointed to the simple fortifications built up in front of the mountain pass, and said to me: "In front is the Elamokus Pass, this canyon is controlled by the Guzahr tribe, the last time we passed here, it was through the relationship of the elder of the Guzahel tribe, Inzaghi, and paid twenty-five gold coins to the lizard tribe to get the passage permit, but now that the war has broken out among the lizard tribes, it may not be so easy to pass through the Elamokus Mountain." ”I sat on a chair on the monitor lizard's back platform and looked across the mountain range in front of me, and over this ridge, we could look for the mysterious ancient ruins in the swamps south of Mount Eramokus.Thinking of this, I couldn't wait to cross the mountain, and I waved my hand at Nathaniel and said, "If it can be settled with gold coins, then it won't be a problem for me, can I visit this Elder Inzaghi and ask him to help us get the pass?"
”Hearing my readily agree, Nathaniel said with some hesitation, "I can't guarantee it for the time being, but I'll go and visit Elder Inzaghi first to see if this is possible." ”I glanced at Nathaniel and asked him, "Oh, what kind of gifts do you need me to prepare, I mean, what do I like with Elder Inzaghi, as long as I have it here, you can bring some with you." ”Nathaniel already had the answer in his heart, and he replied without thinking about it: "Tobacco and gold coins, the western region of the Green Empire is rich in a spicy tobacco, those lizard elders are very fond of swallowing clouds and spitting mist, and the traveling merchants here in Qiyan City always like to sell this spicy tobacco to the lizard tribe, but now I'm afraid that no merchant is willing to enter the wild swamp." ”I raised my hand and snapped my fingers, and then told him, "We'll stay here for the night, and tomorrow morning when you go to visit Elder Inzaghi, you can come and get it." ”Nathaniel didn't expect me to say that, and asked me with wide eyes, "Aren't you even prepared for tobacco?"
”I could only laugh dryly, and then I replied, "Of course, there is an old saying.Be prepared!
”Actually, where would I prepare it, and I don't have a smoking addiction, but I could run back to the imperial capital at night to buy Nathaniel, and just as I was about to leave, I called him back and asked him, "We have brought lizard slaves with us, will we get into trouble through the stronghold where the lizardmen are stationed?"
”Nathaniel thought for a moment before he said to me, "Not really, there is not much contact between the lizard-people tribes, they tend to exploit the lizard-people outside their own tribe more than us, and in the lizard-people tribe, the lizard-man slave is also a common thing. ”"Oh, that's fine."
I nodded and waved his hand to signal that he could go down and rest.The next morning, Nathaniel carried some tobacco gifts and two orc warriors to the Guzahr tribe.We waited in the camp for almost two days, and just when we were worried about whether something would happen to Nathaniel, Nathaniel miraculously returned safely, and brought two lizard warriors, one of whom was actually the young lizard nobleman, who walked into our camp and looked around like a curious baby.I didn't expect to meet the young lizard nobleman again, he saw me standing on the back of the land lizard from a distance, the narrow lizard had a happy expression on his face, and kept waving to me, and kept shouting to me: "Paku, Paku" I could only stubbornly stand up from the monitor lizard's back and nod to the young lizard nobleman.But then I thought again, Nathaniel had clearly gone to the Guzahir tribe, and if I could meet this young nobleman, it meant that this young nobleman had some kind of relationship with the Guzahr tribe, and I let a smile squeeze out of my somewhat stiff face.