The epic story of green monsters

Chapter 1122 Promotion
"…The oases within a 50769-mile radius have been identified, and the snake people living in them have been cleared out by our army. A total of snake people have been captured."

"…At the same time, we roughly surveyed the map within the 300-mile range, combined with the intelligence obtained from the snake people who joined our tribe, and marked and scouted the major valuable areas."

When Alan came out of quarantine, Terrence came forward to report on their work progress, and handed over several large volumes of organized materials to Alan.

"...About 100 miles southwest of the canyon, there is a mountain range where agate can be mined. The quality of agate is good enough to be used as a magical material. 57 miles to the north, there is a shallow oil well with huge reserves of black oil, which can be used as a war reserve resource..."

The desert seems to have nothing, but surprisingly, there are many treasures hidden inside. It’s just that the snake people who occupied them before were closed and introverted, unwilling to communicate with the outside world, causing these resources to be buried.

Now that the Green Tribe has extended its tentacles here, these dusty treasures have finally found their place of use. Alan has gradually become optimistic about the future prospects of this desert.

"...But there are many dangers in the Takhan Desert, especially the constantly migrating Quicksand River. From the outside, it doesn't look any different from an ordinary desert, but if you don't have a profession with instantaneous jump skills and fall into the Quicksand River, there is basically no chance of survival."

"There was a group of 12 soldiers from my army who encountered this quicksand river while on patrol. In the end, no one survived and even their bodies were not found."

"Moreover, more than 150 miles to the east of the canyon is another dangerous place among the five most dangerous places in the wilderness - the Yangyan Mountains. The scouts we sent out have no way of getting close to that place."

Terrence glanced around and found no other eyes or ears. Then he lowered his voice and reported to Alan a big secret they had discovered: "The scouts who explored the underground crystal veins also found that the crystal vein tunnels became wider and wider as they went east, and the crystal quality was better. The crystal tunnels in other directions were narrower and the quality was lower."

"In addition, in the eastern tunnel, there are not only mutant creatures such as crystal scorpions and crystal ants, as well as earth elemental creatures, but also many fire elemental creatures. The temperature of the space is also rising, exceeding the limit that ordinary creatures can withstand."

"The origin of the mineral veins here is probably closely related to the Yangyan Mountains."

After hearing the information given by Terrence, Alan instantly recalled the secrets of Mansa that he had heard from Oscar and Figueras. Comparing the two, he confirmed the conclusions of Terrence and others.

The name of the five dangerous places in the Mansa Wilderness is widely circulated, but not many adventurers have actually encountered these five dangerous places. Except for the Misty Forest, which is not far from Mansa City and is less dangerous, most adventurers probably don't even know where the remaining four dangerous places are.

Alan roughly knew that the Takkan Desert was a natural barrier between the elves and the wilderness. Not only was its harsh environment very challenging for ordinary adventurers to cross, let alone a large-scale army, but there were also two major dangerous areas in the desert that made people reluctant to cross.

But in fact, Alan had never actually set foot in these two dangerous places, let alone knew their locations.

As the most dangerous existence in the desert, the Quicksand River itself is constantly flowing like a stream of water. Apart from the snake people who have lived here for a long time and have figured out its general range through the lives of their tribesmen, no other rules about it are known.

Rumor has it that the Quicksand River is formed from the stomach organs of the fallen goddess Mansa. Anything swallowed by it will be digested and decomposed into natural energy, except for the desert itself and the magical creatures that have adapted to the Quicksand River.

As for the Yangyan Mountains, they were transformed from the source of the Goddess' power - the heart. They were spewing out huge amounts of flames every moment. Combined with the fact that they were located in the desert, the flames burned the sand to form balls of glass liquid, which accumulated in the crater and were finally sprayed to the surroundings by the occasional eruptions of flames, forming an amber-like group of towering mountains around the volcano.

Creatures that can survive in such a harsh environment are naturally not weak. Ordinary adventurers cannot deal with them at all. Strong adventurers often feel that the risks outweigh the rewards. In addition, this is the territory of the snake people, so unless there is a special mission that requires these creatures or explores dangerous places, few adventurers go to these two places.

I didn't expect that the Sleeping Canyon is so close to the two dangerous places. Then it seems understandable that the Hydra chose this place as her hibernation place.

Perhaps Xudela was eyeing the goddess's last legacy, the huge amount of energy remaining in the Yangyan Mountains. She used the underground crystal veins as a transmission channel to continuously absorb the energy contained in the mountains to restore her body.

These so-called crystal veins and their tunnels must have evolved from the main blood vessels connecting the goddess' heart and various organs, and they just happened to be the medium for Hydra to steal the goddess's remaining energy.

After thinking this through, Alan took it for granted that the crystal veins and their tunnels existed, as well as the magic circle that Hydra used to build the palace and gather energy.

He was somewhat impressed by the giant snake for being able to find such a secret place suitable for its recuperation. However, all these benefits were now taken by Alan and would eventually become the cornerstone for the future development of the Green Clan.

“Is there much land available for reclamation in the canyon?”

With so many favorable factors, it would not be in Allen's character not to develop this desert. Even though this place is more than 2,000 miles away from the Green Plains, it cannot dissuade Allen from deciding to make great efforts to develop this place.

Since they had decided to develop and operate this place, the first thing to solve was the problem of food supply. Allen asked about the relevant information with concern. "Originally, the land and water resources here were enough to support a tribe of 200,000 people. However, in the previous battle, you, the chief, showed your might and cut off half of the cliff with your sword, causing the canyon cliff to collapse. A large amount of sand and soil poured in, destroying most of the farmland and fruit trees."

"In order to restore them, in addition to investing a large amount of manpower, a certain number of druids are needed to change the soil quality of the sand. This will take at least five years."

In response to Allen's question, Terrence was well prepared and responded calmly.

"We can ask our headquarters to raise the necessary manpower and resources. Don't we have a large number of flesh and blood corpses ready? Send someone back to inform our headquarters first, and then directly activate the flesh and blood altar to transport the necessary materials to save time."

"Notify the headquarters to prepare supplies for at least ten years for 200,000 people in the Sleeping Snake Valley, and ship them over in batches."

“Also, have Elder Kohl come to the canyon and help deal with the remaining legendary warriors in the snake people. If we can subdue them, that’s the best. If we can’t, just kill them directly!!”

Allen pondered for a moment, then continued, "You will hand over the position of the head of the Death Scythe Legion later, and from now on you will focus on the management of the Sleeping Snake Valley as the first city lord of the Snake Valley."

"My mission for you is to ensure that the desert snake people obey the rule of the Snake Valley by any means. I allow you to issue corresponding decrees in the Snake Valley on your own, recruit snake people to establish an army, and at the same time, you can mine desert resources other than the underground crystal veins, and you can keep half of the tax revenue as operating expenses."

"I want to see the original population of this place restored within ten years, and I also want to see a regular army of no less than 10,000 people."

“Are you confident you can do it?”

After observing Terrence for some time, Allen recognized his abilities. In addition, the merits accumulated by the bear goblin leader in this mission made it worthy of his promotion on the spot.

"I swear in the name of the God of Food: If I fail to fulfill the clan leader's request within ten years, I will chop off my head and offer it as a sacrifice to the great God of Food!!!"

Terence was overjoyed and immediately patted his chest and made a vow to Allen.

You have to know that after the legendary warriors of the Green Wilderness Tribe are promoted, there are two paths they can take in the tribe. One is to join the army and become a high-level commander like Terrence and his friends are doing now. However, whether such commanders are qualified to lead the army and hold real power still requires professional learning and training, and finally they can reach Terrence's position after passing the assessment.

Even if he becomes a powerful commander like Terrence, a legendary commander cannot stay in the same position for more than fifteen years. If he does not gain enough merit to make further progress within fifteen years, he can only rotate to other legions to hold the same position.

In the Northern Alliance, there are now a total of ten legions equivalent to the Death Scythe. The legion commander and deputy commander are considered middle and high-level leaders in the army, which means that there are at least 20 generals of the same status.

Not to mention that under these ten regular legions, there are seven or eight garrison legions. The soldiers of these legions only gather for exercises and training during the slack season every year. Usually, they have their own jobs in the various tribes in the northern border. Only the legion commanders are permanent. The status of such legion commanders is the same as that of the chief and deputy commanders of the ten regular legions, so the legendary commanders may still be arranged to be the chiefs of these legions.

Another way is to automatically be promoted to a tribal elder and enjoy the corresponding benefits of the tribe, such as borrowing inheritance crystals a certain number of times each year, receiving a considerable amount of materials and money every year, and at the same time, his family can also obtain 5-10 places in the elite classes of various colleges without examination, etc.

The elders enjoy tribal welfare and are provided for, but it is very difficult for them to actually obtain a position of real power in the tribe. Apart from Elder Albad who formulated the corresponding rules, the other three legendary elders including Elder Koll have not had much real power in the tribe.

When formulating special regulations for legendary strongmen, Elder Albade stated the reason very frankly: this is to prevent legendary strongmen with long lifespans from taking power and then doing nothing, or forming cliques for personal gain.

The Green Tribe has not been very friendly to the ruling class over the past few hundred years, because every one or two hundred years there will be a major purge from top to bottom. Any family with too much influence in the tribe or too deep corruption and faction will suffer heavy losses in such a campaign. As an important strategic force of the tribe, the legendary strongmen with long lifespans and the families behind them have been restricted to a certain extent through the power of rules early on, which can ultimately avoid tribal turmoil during the purge.

Allen and Albade both believed that the presence of a strong person without relevant abilities in an inappropriate position would often have a profound impact on the tribe.

Therefore, the Green Tribe would rather spend huge costs and provide high benefits to support these legendary strongmen, and do not want them to easily get involved in power positions and become trouble in the subsequent development of the tribe.

Now, Allen's words have allowed Terrence to cross the most difficult threshold of power. Since he took the initiative to join the army as a commander, it shows that he is eager for power. The current result is exactly what Terrence has dreamed of.

After explaining everything to Terence, Alan took the engraved sheepskin map and traveled around the valuable areas. It was not until the administrative reinforcements from the Green Field headquarters arrived that he returned to the Namur Fortress with a lot of spoils.