Gou is a dark elf in Warhammer

Chapter 307 157. I want to sell insurance

Durucci's mighty black ark fleet continued to set off, heading for the next destination. Before leaving, the Lords of Slann even launched a recovery wave on the five moored black arks.

After the Lizardmen's troops disappeared in New Baker Harbor, the armies of Taraxlan, Tarax, and Slanwupek chose to go north to Huta and start Huta's restart work.

Before long, the jungles around the temple city of Huta were trembling with triceratops and ankylosaurs, which brought stones quarried from Sotek's Ridge, while countless monitor lizards worked to restore the temple city to its former glory.The central Great Pyramid in the Temple City will be re-dedicated to the Old Sage Huangqi, and the Great Pyramid's Star Room will become a place of meditation for four generations of Lords of Slamvor Kerr.

With the fall of the Hakkon Empire, the term Vampire Coast disappeared and was replaced by Huta Coast.

Hesiota and Itza's forces will initiate the restart of Astoro.

Originally, Dacius was going to send the Black Ark's labor dispatch to help Huta achieve a great revival, but after discussing with the Slann lords, he decided to let the lizardmen come by themselves.

Although it is now changed to Huta Coast, Huta is not a port city. Huta appears to be very close to the coast on the map, but its actual location is in the jungle, [-] kilometers deep into the coast. The establishment of the lizardman temple city needs to be based on spiritual nodes, not actual functions, such as the sea and ports that the lizardmen do not need.

Among the many temple cities of the Lizardmen, only the temple city of Zhamuda, which was dragged into the seabed by the Great Invasion, and Chapeyuto, which suddenly sank, had the function of a port.

The city of ghosts on the Tarantula Coast, Tarrax?This place is even more outrageous than Huta. In the jungle fifty kilometers from the coast, this temple city is a bit different from other temple cities. It is often haunted after the Great Invasion fell. At certain times, ghostly lizardmen and demons will suddenly appear and get into battle.The temple city seems to remember its own fall, a trauma that will never escape.

Every other century, slann mage-priests perform silent rituals on Tarax.They summoned the ghost defenders of the temple city and poured the wind of magic on the ghost defenders to power them. Tarax has become a place where the air is full of magic winds.

Although Xiakspati was attacked once by the disaster lord, he was still wandering in Kuiza, where there was still a lot of follow-up work to be done, one of which was to find out the tunnel leading to the old world. This work was arranged by Dacius.

Dacius has no interest in using this tunnel to travel to the Old World, but he is interested in pouring seawater into the tunnel.The straight line between two points is the shortest. He has already discussed with the Slann lords to build a big lizardman version of the black ark for the lizardmen on the Giant Turtle Islands to the left of Lustria. It is called the environmental protection ark, the green ark!

At that time, the Green Ark will depart from Chapeiyuto to Zetland, the hidden city in the jungle of the Southland in the old world, which is much more convenient than the tunnel where ants move.

On the outskirts of Sargasso, four plundering ships remained, one of which was commanded by Delasil Bloodscar, and the other three were composed of the captain of the Scourge family and its core force. They were going to perform a secret mission. They would be sent by Mazdamurdi to the underground sea of ​​Spikazuma to find out the route of the underground sea.

"Hmph, today, the whole of Naggaros knows that I have obtained the Yangyan Sword." Malekith came to the bow and said to Dacius who was lying there.

Dacius didn't hear what Malekith was saying. He looked at the smoke and volcanic ash in the distance and fell into deep thought. He wondered if what Hakken had done was a bit hasty. What if the so-called Old Sage was real?Does he kill an Old Sage in disguise?What if that Old One personality was that of the Horned Rat and Sotek?An ancient sage whose personality has been divided into three parts?But it doesn't seem to be... because that personality is planning to smash a Slann magic priest who stole his magic, which means that the Old One may have something to do with magic?
"What are you thinking about?" After a long time, Malekith continued to ask seeing that Dacius hadn't spoken.

"Sell insurance!" Dacius, who had recovered, turned his head and said affirmatively to Malekith.

"Selling insurance? Ulthuan's insurance? This..." Malekith asked with some uncertainty. He was about to criticize something, but swallowed the words when he reached his mouth, and began to think.

Insurance wasn't something Dacwusi thought of on a whim. He knew that there had always been insurance sellers in Azul, and the Azul family, which was engaged in maritime trade, usually insured ships.And he also knows that the premium will be constantly adjusted according to the loss rate of the ship.

Aunt Marlene of the Thai Brothers was born in the Emerald Sea family. She could know from the insurance premiums that there was a cliff-like loss reduction on the route to the north of the vast ocean, so low that the insurance premiums were greatly reduced. The Emerald Sea family earned more gold dragons than at any time in her life, but she was not happy.

Facts proved that Aunt Marlene's judgment was correct. At that time, it was 2299 Imperial Calendar, and immediately after 2300 Imperial Calendar, under the leadership of the Witch King Malekith, Drucci launched a massive offensive against Ulthuan!

Dacius has always believed that statistics are quite Schrödinger, with your parents averaging one gao pill each!It’s a joke, but statistics are necessary as a tool for rulers. Although Durucci’s bureaucratic team can’t accurately count every Durucci and give him a registered residence, it can still be done by selling insurance.

As the saying goes, it’s not too early to make money, and Dacius is going to sell the insurance for the route between Naggaros and Lustria. In his opinion, Sovereign or something is not important.

There are also fleets of ships traveling between cities in the Sea of ​​Grievance on the east coast of Naggaroth. These captains and crew members are usually old, weak, sick, or adventurers who took an arrow in the knee before, or fresh trainees.

As for the old Youzi and the old seals who are active in the plundering business around the world, Dacius wants to let Drucci see the profitability of this route, let the powerful and common people organize spontaneously among the people, and open another channel for the common people.Instead of ordering through him and Malekith, let the dignitaries organize by force.

At that time, Drucci will make a choice, some will carry out surprise raids with uncontrollable risks, and some will participate in the transportation of this drought-flood guaranteed route.

There are many advantages to selling insurance. If Azul discovers this Drucci route and strikes, the ruling class of Durucci will not find out in hindsight.

There are pirates in this world, and Dacius doesn't think that Drucci's pirates will go crazy enough to rob this route on a large scale, but things that kill enemies will still happen.He knew that although Azul's Triton was called Triton, sometimes a group of pirates would join in and attack Drucci's ships in the waterways and coastlines outside Naggaros. Many young Azur dignitaries would also participate in this cause. They were rich, famous, and able to take risks, satisfying the exciting psychology, win-win-win!

Tyrion did this more than once when he was young, and his huge income could support his family's daily needs, but he was soon defeated by his father who was obsessed with repairing Aenarion's dragon armor.

At the same time, it can moisten the rain and gradually change the trend of thought in Durucci’s society. In addition, as a benevolent Durucci, Duckus also thinks about leeks all over the world. With the subsequent launch of the Black Ark, Durucci will definitely set off a large wave of raids.

Leek needs to be raised, who can bear it all the time.

"Yes!" After a while, Malekith, who wanted to understand, affirmed.

"It's time to clean it up properly, just like gardening, the extra things should be pruned instead of letting them grow wantonly." Dacius said coldly, looking at the giant snake Yandao that was already close at hand.

Malekith did not answer Dacius, but let out a cruel laugh.

Delasil, who was steering the wheel, looked enviously and longingly at His Majesty the Witch King and the Hand of the Witch King standing on the bow chatting. This was the closest she was to these two big men.But her attention was quickly diverted. As the captain, she had to organize the docking of the ship, and she had to show her professionalism to the maximum, even if the two big figures she longed for and couldn't reach could not see.

The Duruccis led by Dacius and Malekith and the Red Crown brothers led by Tehenhauin have disembarked one after another on the Cold One. They are going to start a new round of adventures before the Black Ark fleet arrives in Chapeutto.

The Giant Snake Islands is a must, because this place is too important. When Daxus came, he looked at the smoke and volcanic ash in the sky and vaguely guessed something. These scenes that have not changed for thousands of years should provide some kind of sea guidance for Asul’s ships, similar to a lighthouse.

Just as Dacus thought, the Serpent Islands are of extremely important strategic value to Asur, who is entrenched in the Twilight Fortress. It is on the route from Ulthuan to the Twilight Fortress, and the Eagle Ship of the Twilight Fortress will escort the merchant fleet passing the coast of Huta here.

The team first came to the Snakesmoke Island in the north of the Snake Islands. This larger island named after its dormant active volcano was once the place where the Plague Clan was driven out of Lustria for the last battle. This is also the place where Sotek first came to the world. Hissing flames and rock tides fell on the fleeing Plague Clan rodents.

Moreover, this place has naturally become the holy place of Sotek. Before the white-haired Harken came, Tehenhauin would often bring the red-crested skinks to this island to worship Sotek.They will climb to the slopes of the active volcano of Serpent Smoke Island, overcoming the heat and suffocating air, to pay homage to Sotek's place of manifestation.But all this was interrupted with the appearance of the white-haired Harken. The soft-spoken Tehenhauin had no way of persuading the Slann lords to clean up Harken like this. With the destruction of Harken, the ceremony started again.

While observing the ceremony, Dacius also had to thoroughly inspect the two islands. He knew that the two islands were extraordinary, and he might have to deploy some forces on the islands at that time.

After the ceremony, Tehenhauin led the team to the city of the volcano-buried dead, an abandoned temple city that was no longer regularly maintained.

The temple city was not a "living" city when it was founded, but rather a cemetery city, home to the Reptilian veneration of the dead, where Skinks, Kroxigo, and Sauropods would receive funeral honors in the city, but these ceased to exist long, long ago.And Dacius also thinks that there is no need to restart. If the dead are buried, this location is very bad for the current world situation. If careerists, vampires, and necromancers come here, there may be some troubles. Although he did not feel the stone slab, the lizardmen can send some power to dig it later. What makes him feel strange is that when he wanders here, he always feels a mysterious force watching him.

There are many things Dacius doesn't know. For example, the white-haired Harken once paid attention to this place and sent his subordinates to come here, but in the end only one subordinate returned, and he was crazy.White-haired Harken imprisoned the crazy subordinate, trying to understand the crazy nonsense of the subordinate, who was talking about something buried in the ground.

That thing is as vast, cold and silent as the ocean, hidden deep in the endless abyss.That thing slept there, never woke up, never moved, omniscient, omnipotent, dead and immortal, forever lingering in dreams.

However, Haken quickly forgot about this matter, perhaps because he also became a lunatic, or perhaps his Old Sage personality did not want him to know the secrets of this place, otherwise the dead here could provide him with a large number of high-quality soldiers.

Afterwards, the party came to a buried ruin with an entrance leading to a dungeon infested with snakes.This is a stronghold of the Sotek sect, and the murals in the dungeon depict a scene of Sotek fighting the horned rat in a temple city destroyed by a volcano.

This is where Dacius insisted on coming. Fortunately, the murals he wanted to see but didn’t want to see did not appear, such as a giant snake wearing a gray hood holding a bell and horn clock in its mouth, and then a white-haired vampire riding a white-haired vampire on the whole snake.

Soon, his teammates made new discoveries. Dacius found what he was looking for, three open-pit mines, but soon he felt a little noisy, not everything went as he wanted. These mines had to withstand the hot heat from active volcanoes when collecting them. This was the same as DEBUFF, which would lead to a high number of labor dispatch losses. What's more noisy was that the iron ore here was volcanic rock-type iron ore.

It is better to say iron-containing rocks than iron ore. Dacius has changed from ignorant to half-knowledgeable. He knows that steelmaking usually uses iron-rich ores, such as hematite or magnetite. The iron content of volcanic rock-type iron ores is relatively low, and it is also mixed with other components, such as silicon and aluminum.

In a word, it is not suitable for steelmaking. From this point of view, it is not worthwhile to simply collect gemstones in iron ore. Dacius is not a vulgar adventurer. Behind him stands the Slann magic priest who can pull ore veins up from the ground.

"It's tasteless to eat, it's a pity to throw it away, tasteless!" Dacius shook his head in disappointment after going around the mine under the high temperature and muttered.

The team then came to the south of the Giant Beast's Rest Island, a smaller island with a lava flow like a red snake, which is also a sacred place of Sotek.Here I want to say that this breath is not a breath of rest, but a breath of breath. The active volcano on this island will erupt at any time. Compared with the smoke covered by the giant snake smoke island, this place is much exaggerated. The smoke and volcanic ash in the sky are like crimson storm clouds covering the entire sky.

The team turned around and did not find a large mine on the island, but there were obsidian that could be mined with the eruption of the volcano.Many great weapons have been born here. For example, the shield of generations held by the Great White Lizard was forged here with obsidian and a small amount of volcanic iron ore.

There is also a Star Tower on the island that can serve as a stronghold. It should be said that this Star Tower was not built by the elf colonists, but was built by the order of the Old Sage. The Star Tower is just at the spiritual node of the Serpent Islands.

According to the records on the slate, this is half of the smelting center of the Lizardmen. The most exquisite products will be brought here, and then the Skink Priests will guide the power of the Star Tower to endow the products with the power of the sky and mountains. The Lizardmen need to live in a hot environment and have sufficient sunlight, but the high temperature of the volcano is still too strong for the Lizardmen, but the results have proved the value of this approach.

These products do not belong to the series of godly weapons that require manuals and formulas, and are all made by Skinlizard craftsmen based on the needs of the wearers.In other words, after restarting here, it will provide great gains for the core combat power of the lizardmen, such as equipment such as obsidian armor and shields.

After some research, Dacius decided to restart the Star Tower before Azul came, serving as half of the Lizardmen's smelting center and the anchorage for the Drucci plunderer to deal with the possible battle with Azul's navy in this sea area.

Moreover, this place can not only become a smelting center for lizard people, but also can become a smelting center for Drucci's advanced equipment in the future. Dacius took an unconventional path and used industrial stereotypes to take a wild path, but the products in those furnaces can only meet regular needs and are high-quality consumables.

But advanced equipment will not work this way. Take Azul for example. Their advanced equipment usually uses meteorite iron such as Iselama silver. Although Iselama silver sounds nice, it is simply meteorite iron.These good materials will be crafted by the blind Vaal priests in the Vaal Temple where the Vaal Iron Felt is placed in the Caledor Dragon Ridge Mountains.

In the future, Drucci's focus will definitely shift gradually. Maybe someday the Drucci of Naggaroth will run back to Nagareth or move to Lustria. Perhaps Naggaroth will indeed be occupied by the green skins as Dacius thought before, to resist the Yankees going south.Before that, the Giant Serpent's Breathing Island could take on this task, and he had no interest in setting up a similar system in the Blackridge Mountains of Karakarond.

"I suddenly discovered an interesting thing." Standing under the Star Tower, Malekith suddenly smiled at Dacius.

"Oh?" Dacius turned his head and looked at Malekith curiously.

"Don't you feel it?"

"Feel what?" Dacius asked a little confused.

"There is a strange existence in this volcano!" Malekith flicked the scabbard of the Yangyan sword on his waist with his fingers while he was talking, and then he said with a smile, "Wake up...free me...I will provide..." After he finished speaking, he laughed loudly.

"It's time to upgrade your scarlet sword!" Malekith said after laughing, stretching out his hand and looking at Dacius.

"In this way, you won't attack the Destroyer in the future." Malekith said with a smile after receiving the scarlet sword.

The Druccis who heard Malekith's words suddenly came back to their senses. They looked at the pair of monarchs and ministers exchanging weapons with complicated expressions. Some were delighted, some were shocked, some felt incredible, and some felt that it should be taken for granted. Through these words, they obtained a lot of information, such as the iconic Destroyer that the Hand of the Witch King once asked His Majesty the Witch King.

Dacius took off the scabbard of the scarlet sword at his waist, and handed it over. He already guessed what was in the volcano, it was nothing more than the fire element, or would there be a lava dragon?There are only two lava dragons in this world, one is in the volcano in the Badlands of the Old World, and the other he has seen is in the volcano in the Black Ridge Mountains of Naggaros.

The Prince Naggaroth who died on the sinister peaks, called Haskon or Baskon, should have unconsciously activated the power in the sword for nearly 6000 years. Even if it was maintained by the mother of the Anasara clan, the fire element in the scarlet sword was still half dead. He didn't dare to activate the power of the fire element. He was worried that the fire element would suddenly squeak.

The team stayed in the Star Tower under the order of Malekith. After giving the order, he chose to climb the crater alone. Standing in the crater, he saw a strange exotic sanctuary on the edge of the erupting magma below. The voice calling him kept coming into his mind. He judged that the style of the sanctuary was earlier than the arrival of the Old Sage.

Malekith sneered, and then raised the scarlet sword. The fire element in the Yangyan sword is very powerful. Many users who have used the Yangyan sword will not activate the power inside, but the scarlet sword is different. He can feel the dying fire element in the sword.In addition to being a fighter, he is also an excellent warlock. In addition, he has rich experience in blacksmithing, so he knows how to operate.

Drucci from Krakalund looked at the erupting volcano in the distance with a blank expression. They were used to the eruption of the volcano and the shaking of the earth.

This shock was longer than before, and Dacius was worried about whether the active volcano would erupt again in the future.

After a long time, Malekith appeared with both the Yangyan sword and the scarlet sword with flaming blades.

　Tomorrow..., tomorrow and tomorrow...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)