my age of magic

Chapter 135 135. Kurtz's Choice
A lot of information about our team on the northern foot wasteland will fly to this castle like snowflakes in this afternoon. Every noble person living in this castle needs to know something about us The situation, they will definitely not focus on me, but Chief Kurad's seventh son Kuz, who was taken away by his grandfather Kuru Shaman High Priest since he was a child to travel the continent.

For this orc boy who was born in the same year as Kurtz, I can even imagine that Coolio must have a contemptuous face at this time, telling the surrounding orcs about our "bad deeds" in the wasteland.As for the son of the acting chief Kurt, I can't understand why he is so dandy.Kurz stiffened his neck and wanted to speak, but was quietly pulled back by his mother sitting aside.

Between the cups and cups, the dinner is drawing to a close.The fried cleft hoof beef tastes very delicious. After I ate up the portion on my plate, I took the remaining half of Qige’s fried meat and forked it onto my plate without hesitation. Dickie stomped on me hard under the table.

"I heard that you are a great magician?" The young orc on the opposite side smiled like a blooming sunflower, and asked Qige cautiously, seeing Qige looking up with her big beautiful talking eyes. When he came over, his dark face instantly swelled into a maroon.

Qige nodded very ladylikely, blinked at the young orc with big eyes, and there was a vague smile on her delicate face.

The orc suddenly seemed to have thought of something, and frantically wiped the oily and blood-stained corners of his mouth with the napkin on his chest, showing a naive embarrassment.

Kurt drank the last sip of onion soup from the disc, looked up at Kurtz with sharp eyes like a hawk, and asked, "Xiaoqi, what are your plans for the future?"

The loud voice overwhelmed all the noisy voices in the dining room, and the table became completely silent at this time.Almost everyone in the room wanted to know how Kurt would treat this younger brother who was about to attend the coming-of-age ceremony. Among the generation of blood wolf Ku family, Kurt was undoubtedly the most powerful, but he was not the most favored. One, the most beloved one is Seventh Young Master Kurtz.After Kut became the acting chief of Gludin Town, he used repressive means to drive all five of his younger brothers to the outermost edge of the blood wolf tribe's sphere of influence, and asked them to guard the border of the blood wolf tribe's territory.

At that time, Kurt forcibly suppressed most of the opposing voices. This time, everyone watched from the sidelines. Instead, Kurtz, who had just returned from his travels in the wasteland, was virtually pushed to the forefront. Everyone was watching, watching What will you Kurt do!Will it be inhumane to send the younger brother who has not yet participated in the coming-of-age ceremony to the border area, or stay by his side to watch in person, no matter what the situation is, if it is not done well, it will cause those who oppose Kurt The forces rebounded.But facing the old Kuru who was about to return, no one dared to take the risk of angering the old Kuru and embarrass Kuru at this time.

"When I came back this time, I walked on the northern foot of the wilderness for a month. I experienced many things. I saw many hunters living in the wilderness. I saw that their lives were very hard. There are many who have no ability to protect themselves. Orcs, in order to have a full meal, risked their lives in the wilderness. On the way, we also met a small tribe. All the men in the tribe died in the war with the gray dwarves and bandits last year. , only some old and weak women and children were left behind. When we met them, we saw the beast women in the tribe digging wild vegetables with their children in the wasteland. I couldn’t live in the wasteland anymore. So I took them back to Gludin Town, and they came with me eating wild vegetables along the way, because I promised them that I would take them home.”

After Kurz finished speaking, there was silence in the restaurant.Every werewolf here is not unaware that the orcs in the entire Pai Plateau are suffering from famine, but the nobles in these wolf clans rarely think carefully about the life and death of the orcs in those small tribes. I know that after the spring hunting, I ask them for the magic antelope skin, and when I go to war, I ask them for strong fighters.

Kurz continued: "Brother, the annual coming-of-age ceremony will be held in early summer, and there is still more than a month before here. I want to take those orcs back to their hometown with my friends and help them settle down. Come down, and then attend the coming-of-age ceremony in early summer. Those people in the tribe said that there are endless sweet potatoes in the swamp in their hometown. I want to lead those people to dig out the sweet potatoes there, so that our blood wolf In the land of the clan, there will be no more famine."

At this moment, Kuz's mother, who was sitting by the side, suddenly changed her expression, looked at her son in horror and screamed, "Are you going to the Death Swamp?"

"No, I wouldn't dare to go there!" Kuz looked extremely relaxed, and comforted his mother, saying, "After my grandfather took me out of Gludin Town, I walked eastward along the edge of the Death Swamp. I am no stranger to it, but I still know how dangerous it is. This time I just want to go to the drowned moor on the edge of the swamp, you don’t have to worry about it at all. It’s next to the edge of the swamp of death, my son I will take Lead a group of people to dig some sweet potatoes and bring them back."

"Drowning, where do you want to go?" Kurt looked at Kurtz, who was comforting his mother, with bright eyes.

Speaking of which, the plague of monsters in the drowning area has been going on for a long time. Almost every year, there will be waves of corpses attacking the orc towns on the edge of the swamp. In the past, the solution was very simple. Soldiers, drive those zombies crawling out of the swamp back into the swamp.This year's epidemic made the men in the tribe have no time to take care of these swamp zombies, so that a large wave of corpses formed. This problem had already troubled the senior officials of the Gludin tribe as early as a month ago, and even Several meetings of elders were held to discuss how to deal with the tide of corpses.

The current problem facing the Gludin tribe is the lack of fighters who can resist the swamp zombies. As the west gate of the orc tribe on the Pai Plateau, the Gludin Fortress is the first barrier against the Grimm Empire. Even after so many years of peace, it is still The reason why the orcs did not relax their vigilance was that the Pai Plateau was already the last piece of paradise for the orcs, and there was no way for them to retreat.Therefore, at any time, there will be more than [-] elite fighters stationed in Gludin Fortress.

In the war against gray dwarf bandits a year ago, a large number of werewolves in their prime had been killed, so much so that in the spring hunting this spring, in order to gather enough hunters to hunt the magic antelope population deep in the wilderness, many small tribes only The beast girl and the children were left. In this way, the tribes living on the edge of the swamp did not have enough strength to resist the tide of corpses, so that the tide of corpses formed later, and even the current senior officials of Gludin were helpless for a while.

The hunters who are capable of hunting monsters are all in the depths of the wilderness. If they are transferred back to a team to hunt swamp zombies, it will affect the harvest of the whole spring hunting.Among the many magical beasts in the wasteland, the magic antelope is the lowest existence among the magical beasts, and can barely be classified as a first-class magical beast.The strength of the wind wolves is already regarded as a lower-middle level of monsters, but if groups of wind wolves gather together, their strength will increase exponentially.On the Pai Plateau, the salamander has always been the topmost existence that can be used as a first-level monster.But the monsters with the roughest skin, thickest flesh and highest defense power belong to these swamp zombies in the dead swamp.

Here in Gludin Town, there are still some ordinary orc reserve fighters, but the high-level officials in Gludin Town have not used these forces, because they don't want to let the orc hunters who are not strong enough die in vain.Those feathered arrows shot with iron and wood bows cannot penetrate the hard skin of swamp zombies.In the past, there were human adventure groups staying in Gludin Town, but in the past month, these high-level demon hunting teams have been hired by the human merchants in the town to protect these merchants and go deep into the wilderness to buy magic antelope skins. .

"Can your alloy bow shoot through the hard shell of the swamp zombie?" Kurt asked, frowning slightly, looking at Kurtz.

Kurtz owns an alloy bow with a common top weapon, and the news has already reached Kurt's ears, but he doesn't believe that his younger brother, who has not yet turned fourteen and has participated in the wolf adult ceremony, has passed the hunter's test. Refining, you can shoot skill arrows with armor-piercing properties.

"Not yet, it should be ready soon!" Kurz said confidently instead of shyly hiding it.

Kurt's frown deepened, and he asked in a deep voice: "Then what qualifications do you have to deal with those swamp zombies? Have you ever thought that if you died in battle on the edge of the death swamp, I would spend my whole life because of you?" Carrying the crime of persecuting siblings?"

Kurz puffed up his chest, raised his head high despite his mother's obstruction, and said loudly, "I want to go by myself. It has nothing to do with you, brother. My reason is also very simple. I want to bury you there." Dig out all the sweet potatoes and distribute them to the starving orcs, so that they can live through ****."

I tugged on Kurtz's clothes from below, this guy made me useless.

When Kurz said this, Kurt’s face became even more gloomy. I thought to myself: If I were the great chief, I would think more about what you did to Kuz. What are you doing? What do you want to do? ?Going to the edge of the dead swamp to hunt swamp zombies makes sense. After all, zombies have a high probability of having magic cores. Werewolves, this is a bit ulterior motives, is this buying people's hearts?Or is he challenging the authority of the newly appointed acting chief Kut?
"Az, what are you talking about! Didn't those sweet potatoes agree to be transported back to Gludin Town for sale? The elders of the Presbyterian Church will send you some spare money?" I hurriedly whispered to the side, but the voice was Make sure that most of the orcs at the table can hear it clearly.

Sure enough, when many people looked at me again, there was a kind of contempt for businessmen in their eyes: I am really a profiteer who has plucked the hair of a goose!Kuz scratched his head in a daze, and leaned down quietly to ask me: "Didn't it be agreed to distribute some of the sweet potatoes to the poor and sell the rest?"

The orcs at the dining table were very clear. It turned out that they were really profiteers who wanted to take the last copper in the pockets of those poor orcs by taking advantage of the chaos.

Kurz said such a sentence very honestly. In fact, the second half of the sentence was a bit unclear, but the effect was even better.

In fact, Kurtz originally wanted to say: Are the rest made into vermicelli and then sold to those human merchants?

I blinked at Kurtz. He didn't quite understand what I said. He didn't understand what the orc elders would have to do with those vermicelli that were obviously going to be sold to human merchants, but he wouldn't refute me.

Kurt sat on the chair and asked after a moment of silence: "I know your friend is a magician, and this boy is also Grandpa's apprentice. You may have your own methods to deal with the swamp zombies. But, out of brother's Advice, I want to tell you that in the dead swamp, the most dangerous zombies are definitely not those zombies who can't even run. It doesn't matter how you annoy the zombies, as long as you go back the way you came, those big guys won't hurt you , but you have to have a perfect plan, the red-eyed bat and the death reaper are both speed monsters, they will suck your blood dry or chop them into two pieces the moment they touch you!"

"Since your brother likes that swamp, why don't you just give him the edge of the swamp?" The oldest-looking orc lady sitting on the top suddenly spoke, her face turned towards Ku Special, but the pair of kindly eyes looked sharply at Kurtz's mother.

Although Kurt paused for a moment, he was a little hesitant, but he said after a while: "Yes, mother! I will follow your orders."

At this moment, Kuz's mother was already confused by this sudden change.

"Xiaoqi, let me ask you again, are you sure you want to go to the drowning berth?" Kurt asked Kurtz meaningfully, one of his hands was placed on the wooden table, and his index finger was lightly tapping on the wooden table in a rhythmic manner. , I feel a little conflicted in my heart.Then he added: "Maybe you can think about it carefully, maybe it's a good choice for you to stay in Gludin Town and help me."

As soon as these words were said, the oldest orc lady immediately glared, but Kutz's mother looked at Kurt in surprise, and quickly and secretly tugged on Kurtz's sleeve, trying to make him agree.

In the thoughts of Kuz’s family, the castle in Gludin Town is undoubtedly the safest and most comfortable place. They have been wolf orc nobles for too long, and they have been contaminated by the bad habits of human nobles who enjoy a comfortable and luxurious life. fault.From my point of view, staying anywhere in the Blood Wolf Clan would be better than staying in Gludin Town. Apart from learning intrigue, what else can there be?
Kuz smiled, and looked at his elder brother Kut gratefully. No one here is a fool. Everyone knows that in this era of chaos, there is no place better than Gludin Town. At least stay here and never use it. Worried about starvation, disease, monster invasion and gray dwarves robbers, although those gray dwarves have disappeared, but they left indelible scars on the orcs.

Standing up from the chair, everyone in the restaurant realized that the weak orc child in their own impressions had now turned into a somewhat thin orc boy, with his hands on the dining table, and his eyes fixed on him. All the young werewolves at the table took three deep breaths evenly, and then said: "I like adventure, and I also like hunting. Before I set off from Yemen Town, my idea was just to participate in the coming-of-age ceremony. My friend Ji Jia hunted two magic antelopes on the northern foot wasteland, and then sewed a magic antelope leather light armor for myself. I think wearing such a monster leather armor can make a big splash at the coming-of-age ceremony.”

He looked at me, and then said: "Before the two of us entered the North Foot Wilderness alone, Jijia asked me secretly, and he said: Az, will it be dangerous for the two of us to enter the North Foot Wilderness? I said: It will be a little bit, are you afraid? He shook his head and said to me: I am not afraid, I am just worried that I will become your drag bottle."

At that time, I just wanted to make sure whether it would be dangerous for Kurz and I to enter the wilderness, and I didn't think about anything else.And later, Aziz also made it clear that even if the magic antelope cannot be hunted, there will be absolutely no problem in ensuring the safety of both of us.

Just when I was lost in memory, Kurtz continued: "Our caravan came out of the road of death in the mountains at the northern foot, and we encountered a group of young gray dwarves in the valley passage at the exit. Robber, Jijia and I almost died in that battle, but we both survived, and got the initial sum of money from the duergar bandit, and spent everything on that alloy bow. I remember, when the two of us In order to buy a good bow that can break through the armor of the magic antelope, we really gave up everything. At that time, we even considered selling the only bottle of healing potion in our hands. Later, we walked into the northern foot wasteland together, We completed our original plan and hunted enough magic antelopes, and now I can wear the magic antelope leather armor to participate in the coming-of-age ceremony. However, my friend Ji Jia told me that he will return with her sister in a few days Grimm Empire, I just found out now that I haven’t given Jijia a decent gift. Outside the exit of the valley road in Yelian Mountain, we met the wise man Meyana, who told us that corpse fire oil can be extracted from swamp zombies. These corpse fire oils that can be made into fire phosphorus bombs are very valuable in the Grimm Empire, maybe we can exchange some swamp zombies for him to travel home.”

(End of this chapter)