Chapter 115 Preliminary exploration of the dark area(1/2)
Five years later.
Triangular plain.
On the endless plain, a city rose from the ground, with thorns spreading on the four or five-story high city walls. On the city tower were giant crossbows to deal with large biological air strikes, and fat and strong wild boar soldiers guarded the city tower with full arms.
This is the expanded Thorn City!
Five years ago, after the war ended, the Modo Peak Forest digested and absorbed the fruits of victory, and the territory developed rapidly.
As a major transportation route and commercial center, Thorn City has developed rapidly, attracting a large number of chambers of commerce from the Odyssey Kingdom, Yangfan Port and Dana Kingdom to settle in.
The prosperous business trade contributed considerable taxes and attracted a large number of grassland natives to make a living.
Nowadays, Thorn City is a medium-sized civilized city with a permanent population of more than 50,000. If the migrant population is added, it will have a population of more than 100,000, reaching the standards of large cities.
As the city grows, various institutions are also settled in, such as the Adventurers Guild.
Bang ~.
With a dull sound, a wanted warrant with a portrait painted by a dagger and nailed to the taskbar.
"Yo~! Wanted order!"
"There is a new mission!"
"Look! It's the one who is not afraid of death!"
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In the guild, adventurers who drank, chatted and bragged immediately surrounded the taskbars full of task lists.
Fortunately, the designer of the taskbar has already considered a similar situation and hangs the taskbar on the wall so that even the people behind can see it clearly.
"Ted Leslie, leader of the Tooth Robbers."
"Strength: Advanced Warrior."
“Borrow: 500 gold coins.”
"Task certificate: head or other proof."
"Mission Introduction: Ted Leslie was the son of the nobles of the Dana Kingdom. He defected to the prairie five years ago and established a gang of poisonous robbers. He repeatedly robbed the chamber of commerce and often appeared in the Dumahe River, 80 kilometers east of Jingthorn Town. He escaped smoothly after each success, and was suspected to have connections with the surrounding barbarian tribes."
After reading the reward information, the solitary adventurers shook their heads and returned to their seats. They were adventurers, not seeking the dead.
The leader of the robber group must have many younger brothers around. If there is no reliable team, ordinary adventurers will not take on such tasks.
"What kind of world is there? There is a wanted man in the monster city," a young human with a long sword couldn't help but mutter after reading the wanted man.
In Thorn Town, there are naturally not only human adventurers in the guild, there are many human-like monsters, such as orcs, boars, gnolls, etc.
The humanoid monster heard the young man's muttering and suddenly glared at him. A irritable orc even made his knuckles snap and stepped forward.
On the side, the middle-aged man with a bearded face knew that something was going to be bad when he heard the muttering of his companion, and kicked the young man in the butt.
"Ouch! Captain! Why are you kicking me..." When he noticed the malicious orc beside him, the young man immediately reacted, his voice getting smaller and smaller.
The middle-aged man apologized to the orc, turned around and slapped the young man on the head, and whispered: "Idiot, you!"
Back in the seat, everyone continued to chat, but the discussion about the gang of gangsters continued.
"A few of you have just come to Thorn City but haven't found a mission. Are you interested in doing something big?" A big barbarian came to the young and his group.
The bearded man was alert: "Are you?"
"Mdah Frost Spear! Our adventure team wanted to take the bounty of the gangsters, but they were not strong enough, so they wanted to find you to cooperate with them."
The young young man said curiously: "How do you know that we just came to Thorn City without a mission?"
The barbarian man smiled and said, "If you were a rookie in Thorn City for two days, you would not have said what you said just now. Thorn City is not an ordinary city."
As he said that, the barbarian nodded his mouth to the portrait on the wall beside him.
Everyone also looked at the wall. They were three paintings specially framed with wood borders. They were not common great men, or even humans, but three five-colored dragons.
Red, green, and white three dragons.
As time goes by, the names of the three dragons are also well known to everyone, Red Dragon: Jose, Green Dragon: Olivia, White Dragon: Cassi.
When the human adventurers saw the portrait of the Three Dragons, they felt a little uncomfortable.
The five-colored dragon should have been wanted and rewarded, but here they are the kings who rule everything, which gives everyone the feeling of a tiger sitting in the office while humans are preying on the wild.
Although it feels weird, no one thinks there is anything wrong.
Over the years, in order to develop its territory, Honglong has sent troops to encircle and suppress grassland robbers many times, built commercial roads, and built stations to serve merchants.
All this made the merchants much safer, and more merchants were willing to come to the Triangle Plain.
With more competition, the prices of commodities also fell. Among the many commodities, the decline in food was the largest, which benefited countless indigenous tribes in the central prairie.
This also caused the grassland natives to change their attitude towards the red dragon, from being forced to accept, fear, to actively support and awe.
The series of actions of the Red Dragon also made organizations like the Adventurer Guild define it as a neutral and orderly camp, resulting in a series of events such as the Adventurer Guild's entry into Thorn City, and the current scene also emerged.
The young man had no intention of participating in the cooperative discussion between the captain and the barbarians, and looked at the taskbar.
At the top of the taskbar is a row of wanted warrants nailed with daggers. The weakest of them are mid-level pros, while the strongest are three masters, an extremely fat wild boar man, a broken arm centaur, and a barbarian with scars on his face.
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Modo Pedicle Forest.
In the heart of the molten fire deep underground, Jose lay on a mountain of gold that was much higher, listening to the news reported by his family below.
"Master, in March, Thorn City pays 4,851 gold coins, Jinsha City..."
While Ergou was reporting, a group of strong dog-headed men pushed the cart into the heart of the smelting, and placed the wooden box on the cart in front of the mountains of the heart of the smelting.
Two other dog-headed relatives opened the lid of the wooden box and poured out the gold coins in the box like flowing water. The newly imported gold coins hit the gold mountain, making a tinging sound, further enriching the treasure of the red dragon.
On the mountain of gold, Jose yawned as he listened to the report.
"This is the case in finance. In terms of external threats, there are only some sporadic bands of robbers. According to the latest news, the Centaurus Centaurus is still alive."
Jose raised his energy a little, a little annoyed: "That guy is so life-threatening, where did he escape?"
"Escape to the junction of the great glaciers in the north, Chief Graeme has rushed over."
"The bitter and cold tundra outside the big glacier is indeed a good place," Jose seemed to reply to his family, and seemed to murmur to himself.
The Great Glacier in the extreme north of Tedanoer - the Great Glacier, wind, snow and ice are the eternal themes there, and they are called the forbidden zone of life by mortals.
For mortals, the large glacier is indeed a forbidden zone of life. It has a temperature of less than zero every year and lacks food and water. Only extraordinary ice species and semi-elemental creatures can adapt to harsh environments.
The junction between the large glaciers and the prairie is a tundra, called the bitter cold tundra, and the environment there is quite a bit better, at least some ice field reindeer and northern yaks survive.
The chief of the stinger centaur hid in the bitter cold tundra, which was vast and sparsely populated, and there were winter wolves that could threaten the legendary powerhouses. It was very dangerous, but the prairie that was relatively everywhere was a good place to go.
Ergou spoke: "It is possible to force the enemy to the bitter cold tundra, which shows that our method is correct."
"The method is correct, I'm a little worried that he will break it and then establish it."
In the novel, the protagonist goes to a dangerous place to experience breakthroughs and goes out to step on his former enemies. There are many such scenes.
Jose shook his paws: "I won't mention him anymore. Is there any news about the dead fat pig?"
Ergou shook his head. Bethasha had never appeared again since five years ago.
"Maybe you have escaped from the prairie or you have successfully lost weight."
"It's possible, forget it, no matter what, the two lone wolf strong men do not pose much threat to us. As long as we don't have any problems ourselves, so what if they break through the legend."
Now, Jose is indeed qualified to say this.
Five years ago, after the news of the Red Dragon seizing the legendary equipment - [Dana Shield] was passed on, it attracted a wild legend to come to the Triangle Plain and planned to kill dragons and treasures.
As a result, the legendary warrior was introduced into the underground passage of the Modo Peak Forest and was surrounded by a large army of 100,000 monsters. He closed the door and beat the dogs. He had no way to heaven and had no way to the ground, and was finally killed by random knives.
When the legendary powerful man's head appeared on the city tower of Jingthorn Town, no one dared to have the idea of Modofeng Forest again.
In the face of a large-scale army, even legendary powerful people have to retreat.
Thanks to the legendary warrior's "appearance" of the legendary warrior, more than half of the people who peeked at the Three Dragons suddenly lost their patience and left, and the development plan went smoothly from then on.
Today, a medium-sized city with a permanent population of over 50,000 has been established on the Triangle Plain - Thorn City, a small city with a permanent population of more than 10,000 - Sands City, and eight towns, as well as countless indigenous villages.
In the Modo Peak Forest, Jose's underground kingdom has expanded a lot, more than twice as large as before, and has also accommodated many more monsters.
By population alone, the monster subjects under the Red Dragon have exceeded 500,000, reaching the level of establishing a principality.
Of course, a population of 500,000 is just the passing line for the Principality.
According to the mainland's practice, the population of the principality is between 500,000 and 5 million, and more than 5 million is a kingdom. As for the empire, it must have at least 100 million.
At present, only the Pompei Empire and the Orc Empire meet the conditions for the empire. As for the elves, the population of elves in the Mist Forest is absolutely not 100 million, so the conditions for becoming an emperor are not met.
However, with the number of strong elves, their strength is definitely not much weaker than that of the two empires.
After sending Ergou away, Jose has calmed down again.
Once a person is idle, he will be bored. Once a dragon is idle, he wants to find something to do.
The red dragon lay on the golden mountain and fell into deep thought.
To be continued...