The fisherman druid is in another world

Chapter 368 Ogre Mountain
Sanchakou was originally a post station, but now it has been built into a camp. A guard of Night City is stationed there, and the wooden camp has all the necessary sentry towers, which looks quite decent.

The people in the camp are relatively simple and easy to get along with. Of course there are exceptions.

"You look like a tough guy," said Captain Pedro, the head of the guard.

Pastor Luo smiled and said, "It's more powerful than it looks."

"Well, I like the way you look confident and relaxed." Pedro is good at talking and quickly changed the subject: "Not many people walk along the funeral road over there nowadays."

Pastor Luo said frankly: "There was a big commotion there before dawn, and I was hired to investigate."

"Oh, with the darkness covering the entire area, we can't see any effect here. What's the situation over there? Can you tell me something? If it's inconvenient, forget it." Pedro played a trick of playing hard to get, and the willing ones took the bait.

"It's not inconvenient. Whatever was lurking there, whatever was done before dawn, is now deserted.

The cemetery has now become a lake, and the funeral town has been completely destroyed. It is hard to find any decent evidence. The good news is that the curse that lingered in the funeral town is gone. "Pastor Luo muttered a few words without much interest, exuding a pretentious tone of "Actually, that's nothing."

"That's great indeed. We can let the superhuman bosses worry about the high-level issues. It's great that there are no curses or evil things that could harm us! The situation in this area is already bad enough, and we really can't stand any more trouble."

Pastor Luo acted very 'expert' and said disapprovingly: "Oh! How bad can it be?

How about this, the situation in Funeral Town is not as valuable as I expected. In order to avoid the low pay for this trip, I will take some odd jobs? Do you have any here? For example, kill something."

Pedro smiled, as if to say, I like guys like you: "There is indeed a job, but don't blame me for not reminding you that you have to be as capable as you say to be suitable for this job."

Provoking me, right? I'll take it too. Pastor Luo became even more arrogant and said, "Don't talk to me in this 'I'm doing this for your own good' tone. I know what I'm doing and what I can do. Let's talk about the work. Good work should be worth a good price."...

Not long after, the job came.

It is not far away, opposite the camp, on the north side of Silent Avenue. Follow the T-corner of the three-way intersection, walk diagonally northeast, through the woods and a valley, and you will reach the place.

But it is very dangerous for ordinary adventurers, after all, a group of people were killed not long ago.

To simply summarize this work, it can be understood as a few things about Ogre Mountain.

In fact, it is not a mountain, but a basin of mountains with a mine. It was originally called Kelleburg, a barony. There are fields to plant and mines to dig. It is one of the best places in the Dark Forest area.

But then it was occupied by a group of ogres for several years.

Where the ogres came from is a long story.

Nowadays, these monsters are no longer content to operate in the basin and surrounding areas. Their activity range has expanded to the south of Silent Avenue, and they even tentatively attacked the camp not long ago.

And this became the reason for a team of adventurers to go on a mission.

The specific tasks can be divided into three parts: reconnaissance, reduction, and annihilation.

Pedro did not expect Priest Luo to complete the last section. What Pedro hoped was that Priest Luo could explain the situation in Ogre Mountain clearly, and preferably kill a few more ogres to make them curb their expansionist behavior.

Father Luo knew Pedro's purpose, but for him, any trip must be worth it.

After all, for many things, having the ability to do them and not having the ability to do them have two different processes and outcomes.

When we arrived near Kelleburg, the moon and stars were high in the sky again. It was a pity that the entire Dark Forest was shrouded in haze, otherwise with the density of stars, the night sky would have been bright and charming.

The advantage is that it is a dark and windy night, creating an atmosphere for murder and arson.

The ogres were lying down, dozing, sleeping, and dazed. The flames of the big bonfire jumped and trembled, and the swaying light and shadows roamed over the ogres, making them sometimes clear and sometimes blurry.

This is what firelight is like at night: the places illuminated by it are very bright, while the places not illuminated appear exceptionally dark.

This is actually not conducive to defense, because the closer you are to the fire, the more seriously you will be affected by this trait. You make yourself like a target, you can be seen from a distance, but you feel that there may be trickery in the darkness around you.

Ogres, on the other hand, are more carefree and relaxed.

Father Luo could understand them.

They are just a bunch of barefoot people. Their strength is quite high at the general level. Who would want to target such a poor and powerful group of people?

If wild beasts come, it would be like delivering food to us.

After all, they live in groups. Even if one or two unlucky ones are attacked by wild beasts, the remaining ogres are enough to put the wild beasts on the table.

It's not like no one has tried to enslave them.

Unfortunately, ogres really fit the human society's definition of "born bad", and they are both bad and useless.

First of all, they have a bad temper and are easily angered. They are more pretentious than wild animals and get angry at the slightest provocation, no matter whether they are full or hungry.

Secondly, they are full of bad taste, and enjoy playing all kinds of hellish pranks, torturing and abusing others, just like naughty kids tearing off the legs of ants and the wings of dragonflies, but even more excessive.

Furthermore, they are very mean whether they are rich or poor. When they are poor, they like to rob and rob others. When they are rich, they like to bully and abuse others for fun.

And they are lazy.

In a nutshell, these guys need to be punished.

Concentration camp-style management, after educating several generations, may be able to eliminate the evil tendencies in their bones.

The question is, who has the motivation to train them?

What’s even more interesting is that the IQ of these guys fluctuates greatly.

Like now, they all look stupid, fat, silly, ugly and cute, which shows that they are poor.

Being fat is not because of eating too well, but because of unbalanced nutritional intake, too much junk food to fill the stomach, and insufficient daily exercise to digest, so the calories are converted into fat and accumulate...

Ogres are the ultimate luxury in this regard, as they can even live on soil. Of course, they can't swallow just any soil, but they can absorb nutrients from the soil, so humus soil is more nutritious for them, while the more they eat sand, the hungrier they get.

In short, their good appetite gives them a very good ability to survive. But being able to survive does not mean living well. If they live poorly, are in pain, and are lazy, what can they do? They lose their intelligence.

If you don’t even know what pain is, how can you feel pain?

So they just laughed foolishly all day long like a bunch of idiots.

But this does not mean that they are harmless. They are adaptively evolved from the Gorons, and brutality is written in their genes. They are more than three meters tall and generally weigh six or seven hundred kilograms. If you get too close to them, even if they are just doing some rough daily actions, they may cause injuries to others.

As for what it feels like to be rich, the fat will turn into muscles, and the muscles will be as strong as copper and iron. At the same time, there is a chance to grow a second head, and be smart enough to go a long way on the path of a mage.

So this group of very un-DND ogres are very dangerous, and you have no idea whether they are the Crouching Dragon and the Phoenix Chick, or the Crouching Dragon and the Phoenix Chick.

But Pastor Luo doesn't care. As long as he is strong, he can turn a tiger into a cat. Others come to take risks, but he comes to purchase goods.

What goods are they importing? Cows, horses, and coolies. There are mountains of civil engineering works over there in Xingyue Pure Land, and they are in great need of large animals.

As for the ogres being lazy, mean and bad-tempered, sorry, but Priest Luo knows a little about souls, and in his understanding, there is no such thing as a beast that cannot be disciplined. So what followed was a dull scene, with Priest Luo floating among the ogres like a ghost, and hitting the ogres on the head with his cane, without much force, but the victims were already dizzy, and from then on they were put in a cage of thought, saying goodbye to their past selves.

Deal with the ogres in the ruins of Fort Kelleher, and then the ones in the mines.

The copper mine was transformed into a lair by the ogres in a primitive style.

The Ogre race, at its most glorious moment, even established an empire, punched real dragons, and enslaved Gronn. These two creatures, one was the overlord of the sky, and the other was the overlord of the land, but in the end both could only serve as pack animals and pets for the Ogres. This shows how powerful their power is.

But their era is coming to an end as climate change means that natural food is no longer abundant and nutritious.

It can be understood that breathing freely is the spiritual energy, and picking some fruits at random can turn out to be thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum or ten-thousand-year-old ginseng, and one can start from the Nascent Soul stage without practicing, this is the legendary post-mythological era.

Then, just as the oxygen-rich environment of Earth's tropical rainforests disappeared, leading to the exit of big guys like dinosaurs, the era of ogres was gone forever.

The long-lived species are silent, while the short-lived species are prosperous. This is also a concrete manifestation of the heat death of the universe. The stars are always getting farther and farther away from each other, and matter is always getting more and more scattered, just like exploding fireworks. Stars will also go out like brilliant fireworks. When resources are exhausted, the environment is only suitable for the humble survival of microorganisms, and eventually life will come to an end completely.

Of course, compared with the lifespan of the universe, which is measured in billions of years, even the existence of God seems insignificant. There is no need to be sad about the fate of the universe.

From this perspective, who is not a short-sighted person who only cares about the present?

Pastor Luo does not shy away from this and is proud of his saying of 'living in the present'.

As the saying goes, the happiness of rich people is always plain and boring. Money is a variant of power, and the powerful priest Luo enjoys this simplicity and boredom.

After hammering and banging along the way, the purchase is completed. It is easier than buying some bottles and jars at the antique street and bringing them home to decorate the store.

He was not worried about missing anyone. He was now a pseudo-god clone, and the moon was in the sky, so it was reasonable for him to obtain the effect similar to that of a dedicated military reconnaissance satellite.

Wherever the moonlight shines, you can see everything if you want to.

That ogre gang can be leaked?
Even though there is no moonlight in the cave, Priest Luo's god-level perception is enough to scan them out.

Deep in the cave, Priest Luo met the ogre leader, Paz, who sat on a beast-skin throne like a mountain king.

This is a female. Don't pay attention to the lower body, only look at the upper body. She is no different from a male. She is topless and has fat and droopy breasts. The bra will tighten them to at least a D cup effect.

What’s more rare is that this guy is obviously very poor and fat, but he has two heads.

This is a gift from God, with an extremely good talent. He deserves to be a boss with an extra brain.

Of course, the overlord of the beggar world is still a beggar, and the king of fools is just a fool.

Paz's two heads soon started arguing.

One of them sensed the domineering aura that Priest Luo deliberately revealed and decided to curry favor with him, while the other said that as long as he absorbed Priest Luo, he would be able to move to a higher level.

There is a superstitious belief among the ogre community that if you eat your enemy, their power will belong to you, so the "absorption" mentioned by one of the Paz heads is a very simple method.

"Kneel!" Priest Luo rarely used his psychic powers.

Telekinesis and mental control worked together, crushing Paz from all directions both physically and mentally, causing him to fall to his knees. However, even so, his height was still enough to slightly overlook Pastor Luo.

Then just lie down, prostrating yourself is also a courtesy.

Physical strength and mental power, the two things that Paz was most proud of, were defeated directly without any suspense. In addition to having a high barbarian level, it was also a warlock. As a result, it couldn't even cast spells or stand up. It could only stretch its neck and look up at Father Luo.

"What do you think? Will you cooperate with my transformation, or let me erase your self-consciousness?" Pastor Luo communicated directly through telepathic language, making it easier for Paz to understand accurately.

"Cooperate, I will cooperate!" The two heads gave timely feedback.

"That's right! The survival instinct should take over the high ground of consciousness when needed. You're showing off to me. I'm so domineering, and I can still look like a good man?"

So when the bright moon was high in the sky, Father Luo saw Pedro with sleepy eyes.

Pedro was woken up just as he fell asleep. He was a little grouchy at first, but when he heard that Father Luo had returned with a two-headed ogre, he was no longer sleepy.

Although he lacked knowledge of the current situation of the Kelleburg ogres, he still had some common sense and knew what the two-headed ogre meant.

"So, all that's left for Kelleborg now is to send someone to take it over?" After listening to Pastor Luo's statement, which was as thrilling as always but delivered in a calm and bland manner, Pedro couldn't suppress his inner shock and made a very stupid statement to confirm it.

"Of course, there's no point in telling such a lie that can be easily exposed. I'm going to get some sleep next. As for the reward, I only want things, travel equipment, dry food, etc., and some simple clothes that can make this big guy look decent.

If you think that the time I have to rest is not enough for you to complete the task, then find a way to arrange another important task for me. After all, my time is very valuable. Okay, let's leave it at that for now. Take me to where I'm staying."

Pastor Luo's tone was not harsh, but his wording was a bit harsh, which was consistent with the arrogant temperament of the bigwigs who thought highly of themselves and looked down on everyone.

Pedro was like most people, tolerant to the strong and harsh to the weak. He hurriedly asked his most enthusiastic subordinates to serve Father Luo. The key was not to provoke the irritable ogre.

Turning around, he called on another of his subordinates to go to Night City overnight to report urgent military intelligence.

This is a dangerous practice. The dark forest at night is very unsafe, especially nowadays.

But, the lives of subordinates are meant to be consumed, otherwise what? To be worshipped? Even the pretty girls of this era don't have this kind of treatment.

So when Pastor Luo woke up the next day, he saw Sir Godfrey, the city lord's representative who had rushed over from Night City overnight.

Just looking at Sir Godfrey's face that looked like a rotten peach, Pastor Luo thought of a folk proverb: When you give someone a gift, you must ask for something in return.

He felt good, he liked the feeling of being considered useful by others. It was much better than "standing like a lackey at the age of 18", and it was in line with his current identity and temperament.

Sure enough, Godfrey said that everyone was amazed by Priest Luo's performance in Castle Kelleher, so Godfrey decided to assign another job about Rotten Orchard to Priest Luo on behalf of the Lord of Night City. It was similar to the job at Castle Kelleher, with no specific requirements. He hoped that Priest Luo could exercise his subjective initiative and complete it.

As for the reward, Godfrey said: "Don't worry about it. Night City is not short of money, and there is no problem with supplies."

Pastor Luo laughed and thought to himself, "Showing off your wealth in front of me, we can't really say who has never seen a lot of money..."

Of course, Pastor Luo complained not because the other party's words of showing off his wealth irritated his sensitive heart, but because the other party's style of deceiving people made him feel a strong sense of déjà vu and deeply disgusted.

Fortunately, he did not expect the feudal nobles to really respect the bounty mercenaries. Godfrey's current attitude was just awe of power, not him. A dog that could communicate normally would also be treated with such courtesy by Godfrey if it could show the power he showed.

Well, I will just complain a little bit, otherwise I will be criticized for being honest and straightforward, knowing all the evils in the world but still trying to get involved...

So just after noon that day, Pastor Luo came to the rotten orchard.

The Rotten Orchard is just behind the Sanchakou Campground, to the north of Silent Avenue and west of North-South Avenue. You also need to go through the Black Forest and then climb up the hill to the high ground. At the foot of the more majestic mountains in the north that are like a barrier, you will find the Rotten Orchard.

This place was opened up, and the giant trees were cut down to make room for fruit trees. It is orderly and has reached a certain scale. It is not only the main fruit and vegetable base of Night City, but also the raw material production base of the famous cider.

But now, this place is occupied by a group of werewolves.

"Wow! This common race seems very appealing and approachable right now..."

(End of this chapter)