my age of magic

Chapter 186 Chapter 186
Horsens' original idea was very simple. His purpose of coming here was to exchange iron ore for corpse dregs, and iron ingots for corpse kerosene.The blacksmith workshop in the quarry needs a lot of coke and wood, but more than half a month ago, Horsens discovered that his orc overseers had brought back a fuel called corpse residue from outside. It is very resistant to burning, and can reach a higher temperature than coke.According to the orc overseers who returned from the Raitu tribe, these materials extracted from the swamp zombies were thrown everywhere in the Raitu tribe, just like the poor iron ore in the quarry. It can only be discarded on the side of the road as garbage.

After getting the news, Horsens couldn't calm down immediately. With the new fuel, the logging team that went to the depths of Yelian Mountain can be withdrawn, and this can be a very cost-effective business. Horsens knows that Rajtu After the tribe returns to their homeland, they will definitely rebuild their homeland. Since there is nothing left to do, there must be business opportunities.

After these thoughts came into his mind, he was ready to come to the Raitu tribe to have a look, and then he came!

...beautiful dividing line...

Unexpectedly, the deal between us and Horsens was concluded by sitting at the door of the corpse fire oil warehouse, boiling water on the burning oil stove. His plan of exchanging iron ingots for corpse fire oil was not planned It came true as he wished, but in the end he also fulfilled his original idea, which was to find a market for his piles of iron ore and iron ingots. Obviously, it is a win-win thing to cooperate with us.

After Horsens left, Kurtz said: "Jia, why did Horsens take such a small business? Why do you use corpses to exchange those poor iron ores that don't exist? We have to smelt iron by ourselves , shouldn’t it be replaced with rich iron ore! And aren’t you going to buy iron ingots?”

I calculated with him with my fingers and said: "The business of oil stove must be tied with corpse fire oil to sell well. This business is not small. We have stored nearly 2000 barrels of corpse fire oil now, which can be filled There are more than [-] sets of oil stoves. How long have we been refining these corpse fire oils? If these corpse fire oils alone are sold together with oil stoves, we will earn [-] gold coins this month. This thing can definitely be done for a long time. Although these corpse fire oils are not worth more than those magic cores, if the money is exchanged for black flour, it is enough for everyone in our tribe to eat for four months, including the gray dwarf slaves."

"Besides, these corpses are not easy to transport, so you can't be allowed to run back and forth between Drowning Park and Gludin. After more than a month, it will be your coming-of-age ceremony, and then you will officially become the edge of the death swamp. Great lords of this generation, you can’t always run these small businesses. In the future, you only need to bring those well-equipped female beast warriors to the Dead Swamp to hunt those swamp zombies on a regular basis every month, and drag them back to make corpse fire oil. Alright, let Horsens do the other things, he is a shrewd businessman who knows how to make money, it’s just that his luck is not very good in this catastrophe.” I leaned close to Kurtz and said in a low voice he said.

"Let's live some days, don't we still have to sell those vermicelli to Steward Leipas. Az, you must remember to keep the vermicelli a secret. There are not many things we can sell to the Green Empire. We orcs They can't always exchange rare magic ores and rare magic herbs for their products, so that over time, the foundation of the orc people will be emptied little by little. Now there are vermicelli, and there may be meat floss in the future, maybe when the beast After the tribe and the Grimm Empire re-sign a peace agreement, we can still sell them the corpse oil!" I whispered to Kurtz.

I dragged Kutz up the dirt road, and climbed up from the valley to the top of the slope along the east side of the dirt slope. In fact, it was not too far. Standing on the top of the slope nearly 200 meters high, looking down, the whole Rye The col where the Tu tribe is located looks like a bitten doughnut from a distance, and the village of the Raitu tribe is in the center of the doughnut.It can also be imagined as a giant stretching out his hands, holding the Raitu tribe like a baby in his arms.

But the only fly in the ointment is that the terrain is not as steep as imagined, and the soil around it is very gentle.Under the scorching sun, we stood foolishly on the top of the bare slope, and we could still see the bottom of the hill from a distance. Maid Asakusa was still looking at us worriedly, and Gerile was already bouncing around. After choosing the path up the mountain, he was climbing up quickly.

Looking to the south, you can see the death swamp in the mist more than ten kilometers away, where water mist is constantly flying into the sky with the wind, like a beautiful fairyland on earth, those thick fog in the south Under the blowing of the wind, it showed various wonderful gestures, sometimes it looked like thousands of horses galloping, sometimes it looked like hundreds of beautiful elves flying in the air, and sometimes it looked like raging flames were burning. It is unspeakably beautiful.

The further south you go, the more continuous puddles you will see. In those swamps overgrown with weeds, there are a large number of sweet potatoes buried. The black mud was covered, like flexible loaches, flipping up and down in the mud pond, trying to get out the sweet potatoes inside and sending them to the shore.

Only the orc girls who live on the edge of the swamp all year round have the ability to swim in the mud. I envy this, because I think they don't worry about stepping on the ground and sinking in when they walk in the swamp. The trouble, the big deal is getting out from another exit. .

I pointed to the entire huge mountain depression with a distance of five or six kilometers in a straight line, and this bare soil slope that looked like a bagel, and said to Kurtz: "Drowning Moor is the east gateway of the entire edge of the Death Swamp. , it is sandwiched between the Death Swamp and the fault zone, and at the same time blocked by the Yelian Mountain branch. If the orcs of other tribes want to enter the Death Swamp, there are only two ways, one is to enter through the swamp in front of Drowning Park, The other way is to pass through the pass of the Night Wolf Cliff, cross the Cursed Desert and enter the Death Swamp. If..."

"I mean, if you become the lord of the edge of the Death Swamp in the future, as long as you guard this area and build a fortress at the night wolf cliff pass, then the entire cursed desert, Qinghai Lake, and Death Swamp will be yours Among them, although these things belong to you in name, you still can't control them now. Only after slowly accumulating your own strength, those powerful orc tribes will submit to you, otherwise, it will only be a sham. , your warrant is just empty talk, if they don't listen to your order, it will damage your prestige!"

"So my idea is to build a mountain city here, a real castle, nailed here like a wedge! Az, look..."

I pointed to the entire mountain depression and drew a huge circle in the air. The light blue magic power condensed into blue light in the air. Those lines were quickly drawn by me into an ancient castle built of huge stones. The entire ancient castle towered into the sky. The city wall of this ancient castle was built on a circular soil slope, and the gap happened to be the huge gate of the city wall.

This castle, under my plan, was even bigger than the town of Yemen.Especially this ring-shaped huge stone city wall on the slope is more than 30 meters high, and the bottom foundation is more than ten meters wide, and the entire city wall is made of stone blocks.This is a very common little trick of drawing illusions with magic power, but I have thought about it for a long time for this castle. Kurz stood beside me and was completely dumbfounded.

If someone else saw the castle I drew, they would definitely think I was crazy. For a young orc like Kurz who has no family background and has not even issued the lord's handbook, how can he build such a century-old castle? Fort?I have roughly calculated how many gold coins are used to build this ancient castle. It is a huge astronomical figure. Even though Kurtz has more than 100 magic crystals in his pocket, after throwing them into this castle, It will only be a drop in the ocean.

"Jia, you want me to build a city here? This city is so big!" Kuz said, staring blankly at the castle I drew.

"So! Az, you still have to work hard to make money. One day you will build this castle. At the beginning, we can start with this huge circular city wall. With such a city wall, how can we build it?" Don’t be afraid of the tide of corpses in the swamp! Don’t be discouraged, don’t forget that we have vermicelli, meat floss, fine salt, corpse fire oil, we have so many ways to make money, I’ve already thought of it for you..."

"I think in a few days, when this place settles down, we will return to Gludin. The number of female beast warriors in our tribe can now be expanded to about 400 people. We are going to buy some magic antelope horns. Now the spring hunting is in full swing." To end, the supplies in the depths of the wasteland are about to be transported back to Gludin. We need to prepare as many magic antelope horn short spears as possible for the beast female warriors. Only the short spears made of magic antelope horns can penetrate The skins of those swamp zombies."

"As long as we build the mountain city, the entire Death Swamp will be your back garden. At that time, we will lead the female beast warriors to hunt and kill the swamp zombies in the Death Swamp. The swamp zombies have a lot of valuable things, such as magic cores and corpse fire oil. ..."

Before I finished speaking, Kurz's originally excited face slowly collapsed. He looked down at his leather boots in despondency and whispered, "Jia, can't you stay and help me? Without your scroll, I can't deal with those swamp corpse kings at all! If you don't tell me the location of those death scythes, those orc female warriors and I can't find those death scythes in the dark."

I let out a long breath and looked into the sky against the scorching sun at noon. The clouds on the Pai Plateau were very low, as if I could reach them with my hands. In the blue sky, an eagle was flying. It was searching for Rats in the wilderness.I pointed to the eagle and said to Kurtz: "Az, look! Everyone has their own sky. The sky and the earth are as big as their heart is, just like the rooster flying freely in the sky. Like an eagle, I really want to see the outside world, I want to see the Grimm Empire, I want to see the magic academy there!"

I patted him on the shoulder and smiled and said to him: "Maybe one day, I feel that there is nothing I want over there. I will come back to find you, and hunt with you in the wilderness, um! And explore."

Kurtz smiled weakly.

I wanted to change the topic to a lighter one. I took out a mace dagger from my pocket and bent down to draw two long, long parallel lines on the top of the slope. Then I stood up straight and said to Kurtz, "Look, this is us. The walls to be built in the mountain city must be tall and thick, and they must be made of stones. Only such strong walls can withstand the large-scale tide of corpses. Well, having said that, these walls really need a lot of stones, Stones are a real problem."

Kuz's thoughts immediately followed mine. He scratched his head, frowned and pondered for a long time before he said: "Then I will take the people from the tribe to collect stones in Yelian Mountain, and then use argali to crush the stones. Camel back!"

"If you do that, even if it takes 100 years to repair the city wall under my feet!" I said with a dark face.

"Then what should we do?" Kurz was a little embarrassed, looking very naive.

I winked at him, patted the purse on his belt, and said, "Use this!"

Kuz looked down and asked me dumbly, "Magic Crystal?"

"We must learn to make good use of the advantages in our hands!" I felt that I didn't express what I wanted to express, so I continued to explain to Kurtz: "This year is a catastrophe year. There is no food in the entire Western Wilderness. I don’t know how many hungry poor orcs there are! The chiefs of many tribes must have racked their brains just like Horsens, in order to fill the stomachs of their people. If this is normal, maybe a spring hunt, everyone The famine would be wiped out by the piles of dried antelope meat, but this year is different, because last year there was a war between the gray dwarves and the orcs. Not only did many gray dwarves and robbers die, but the young orc warriors also died. A lot of people died, there must be many tribes in the same predicament as the Raitu tribe, even if there are countless raw meat injected into the entire orc tribe, they still can't afford it at all."

I think it is necessary to break things apart and tell Kurz carefully: "It's like they can't afford black bread. After the spring hunting is over, those tribes who can't hunt still can't afford black bread! But we don't Similarly, the magic crystals in our hands are hard currency. These magic crystals are not only liked by magicians, they can only be used to buy magic items. I believe those Gludin merchants also like them. We can exchange them with magic crystals. A large amount of food, the cheapest black flour, wheat bran, rice bran, etc. will do, as long as they are transported back to Drowning Park, the more the better!"

"Then, just gather up those vagrant tribes who wander around in the wilderness and can't eat enough to eat all day long. Ah! Yes! Let them carry stones, and we will exchange black bread for those stones, and maybe we can have the same horses as Horsens." The owner of the big mine is also facing a dilemma, we hire dwarf slaves with them, those gray dwarf slaves are natural craftsmen, they should be very good at building walls!"

I stared into Kuz's eyes and asked him: "But having said that, Az, old Kuru has been pulling your ears to make you learn mathematics, so I'm asking you now, do you really know what is on your belt? How much black flour can this bag of magic crystals be exchanged for?"

Kurz looked a little embarrassed and said: "Should be able to buy a lot!"

I pressed my forehead in some distress, and now I can finally understand why the old Kuru always frowned so deeply when he talked about things that Kurz was unwilling to learn. As a lord, he doesn't have some knowledge of arithmetic, so Certainly not.I tentatively asked him: "How many gold coins can one magic crystal exchange for?"

Kuz glared at me dissatisfied, lowered his voice and said bitterly, "Jia, I'm just not good at math, but I'm not an idiot!"

I was speechless for a moment, and smiled awkwardly at him.The two of us were not talking, sitting back to back on the grass on the top of the slope, facing the humid wind blowing from the south, looking at the whole village, we already had our own thoughts in our hearts, maybe we have grown up gradually.

(End of this chapter)