My Magic Age

After bypassing the Piatila Mountains, we continued westward along a river called the Fara River.

Nathaniel told me that finding the Fara River would confirm that we were not too far from the ancient ruins. The last time the adventure group walked along the Fara River for about half a month, there were lush plants growing on both sides of the river valley, and some very rare blood-sucking trees and man-eating flowers grew in the woods. These plant-based monsters were extremely rare species even in the wild swamp.

Going along the river, although we would frequently encounter large animals rushing to drink water, we could avoid the territories of some intermediate monsters.

Before entering the Fara River Valley, we rested in the forest on the edge of the valley for a day.

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I also took this opportunity to quietly return to the imperial capital and transported all the rune plates of the Xinliu Valley Magic Seal Workshop to the warehouse of the imperial capital, and moved nearly 200,000 rune plate base materials, 500,000 giant crossbow arrows, and nearly 100 barrels of red copper metal solution from the warehouse.

Nowadays, the copper magic rune plates in the imperial capital have covered all the first-level magic, but my magic seal workshop still mainly produces five types of life magic rune plates: Fire Gathering, Miniature Tornado, Continuous Frost, Twilight Illumination and Lava Surge. As for the giant crossbow arrows, they are divided into two types: Holy Silver Crossbow Arrows and Ordinary Magic Crossbow Arrows. In addition, the initial accumulation has been completed. Now the Barbarian Heavy Crossbow Group has been equipped with dual-attribute giant crossbow arrows, and some of the arrow shafts are also equipped with Wind Control Rune Magic Rings.

These rune plates have a market share of about 90% in the imperial capital, and other types of magic rune plates have sprung up from magic shops.

In this way, the plan announced by the Babington family at the beginning of the year to enter the low-end rune plate market has completely failed.

The Magic Seal Workshop has completed the magic pattern transformation project of 900 sets of Nakma people's full-cover black iron heavy armor. Next, the workshop is preparing to mass-print the Empire standard armor magic pattern structure. Once this standard metal armor is made into a simplified version of the magic pattern structure, it will greatly reduce the manufacturing cost of the lowest-end magic pattern structure.

However, the primary magic pattern structure has not been widely popularized in the Green Empire. The Green Empire's Shiluit Province alone has millions of first-turn warriors.

The Green Empire has a total of 97 provinces. Among such a large number of first-turn warriors, each province has only a small number of constructed knights. Even in the powerful North Wind Legion's Shiluit Province, the total number of constructed warriors is less than 50,000.

There is still a huge gap in the magic market of the Green Empire for primary magic rune structures. The main reason for this phenomenon is the low production capacity of magic rune structures. Each set of magic rune structures is a work carefully made by the imperial inscription masters. Although the difficulty of making these magic rune structures is between that of artworks and handicrafts, the value of a set of magic rune structures makes many small nobles sigh.

It must be said that magic rune structures are too expensive. Some magic rune structures in the hands of nobles are considered a considerable inheritance that can be passed on to future generations.

Two dwarf craftsmen, Harrison and Morgan, squatted on the wine barrel at the door of the magic seal workshop. They held their pipes and puffed out smoke while squinting their eyes and watching the female dwarves move sets of magic rune structure armor out of the workshop. The magic rune structures that passed the test will be coated with grease and put into boxes, and those that failed to engrave will be returned to the furnace and re-smelted into iron ingots.

The first batch of simplified magic pattern constructs should be equipped to the South Wind Legion if nothing unexpected happens. I have already made arrangements with Earl Conrad in advance. Two heavy armored cavalry regiments should be equipped in advance. There are actually many first-level knights among the heavy armored knights in the South Wind Legion. As long as they wear magic pattern constructs, their strength will be greatly improved.

Next, I may support Zach and Ernestine. They will probably launch an expedition in the Yello plane next spring. If there are not enough construct knight regiments participating in the expedition, I will inevitably help him to temporarily put together two construct knight regiments.

Of course, I may also support Duke Jingyue of the North Wind Legion. In short, the magic pattern constructs are something that lords will never think too much of at any time, but there are not many lords who can take up the magic pattern constructs of a whole construct knight regiment at one time, even in the imperial capital.

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We returned to the wild swamp south of Qiyan Province overnight, and just happened to see Justus leading a team of barbarian slaves carrying a petrified lizard nearly ten meters long from the jungle back to the camp.

Since the last war between the lizard tribes, I sent two hundred barbarian slaves who stayed in Xinliu Valley to follow our team through the rainforest. Although these barbarian slaves are not used to the climate conditions here, it is better than being stuck in the underground cave. Each barbarian warrior carries a huge heavy crossbow on his back.

Because the weather is too hot, I did not strictly require them to wear a full set of Nakma construct armor, but required them to at least wear the breastplate and trouser armor.

These barbarians are born to be a group of foodies. Even in such hot weather, they actually ran to the jungle to hunt.

Of course I knew there were many monsters in the Savage Swamp, but I didn't expect there were so many of them that they could be seen everywhere. Justus only took this group of barbarian slaves for a walk along the river valley, and they met a petrified lizard hunting by the river.

It happened that this adult basilisk weighed more than two tons and was more than ten meters long. It was like a horned dragon. It hunted a white-striped antelope by the river. While enjoying a delicious lunch, it was shot by a group of barbarian slaves with a heavy crossbow. It became a sieve, and a piece of fine high-grade leather became tattered.

However, the meat of this kind of petrified lizard is very delicious. It is said that the flesh and blood of petrified lizards contains a large amount of earth magic elements. In the imperial capital, petrified lizard meat is a high-end ingredient commonly stocked in high-end restaurants.

The orc warriors robbed five land giant lizards from the lizard tribe. The lizard slaves were familiar with the temperament of these land giant lizards and knew how to tame them, so I arranged for ten lizard slaves to take care of these five land giant lizards. , these land-dwelling monitor lizards are a very important means of transportation in the wild swamps.

The five land monitor lizards in our team did not need to carry heavy supplies along the way, so the Hiero natives put a pergola on the backs of the land monitor lizards, and the women in the team all sat in the pergola. This kind of land-dwelling monitor lizard can walk very smoothly even in swamps. No matter what harsh swamp environment it is, it is like walking on flat ground for them.

Along the way, we saw a vampire tree with branches covered with the skeletons of various beasts. It was a fourth-level vampire tree. There was also a strange bird called a blood raven living on the tree. According to Nathaniel Introducing this kind of blood crows that can suck people's souls. They live on the blood-sucking trees and are also the guardians of the blood-sucking trees. In the wild swamp, even the lizards are not willing to trespass into the territory of the blood-sucking trees that have become the climate.

We also saw countless sharp-toothed piranhas fighting with several rough-skinned giant crocodiles in the river. It is said that the monsters in the valley often defend their territory through bloody battles.

We crossed the Farah River without any danger.

After leaving the river valley, he turned directly to the west and walked for a week. A long and narrow ridge appeared again in the dense rain forest. The ridge first appeared as a dark line in his sight. After seeing this ridge, Nathaniel relaxed. He took a breath and said that although the path he took was slightly deviated from the original path, the general direction was correct.

As the saying goes, it took us four days from the time we saw the ridge in the distance until we reached the foot of the mountain.

This road is not a straight line, because there are some lizard tribes all over the swamp jungle here. Although the war between the lizard tribes spreads throughout the wild swamp, the lizard tribes in this area seem to have not been affected.

So much so that we had to be extra careful when passing through these lizard man territories.

Even if they encounter a small group of lizard hunters, they don't dare to swallow them easily. They are worried that the destruction of a small group of lizard hunters will lead to the pursuit of the entire lizard tribe. This place is different from the edge of the wild swamp. Even if a lizard tribe is wiped out, it won't cause much trouble.

Located in the hinterland of a wild swamp, the lizard tribes here will be somewhat involved with each other, and we don't want to cause trouble. Nathaniel led the way to find the buffer zone between the lizard tribe's territories, and the journey turned out to be quite smooth.

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Mount Eramokus is located in the northern part of the Wild Swamp territory, and the Piatilla Mountains are like two parallel lines, traversing the northwest of the Wild Swamp.

There are large areas of tropical rainforest, river valleys, and swamps between the two mountain ranges. Many intermediate-level monsters live here. There are five relatively large lizard tribes here. In addition to the Muniji tribe that we encountered earlier, they occupy the entire Wangtian Forest Area. In addition, there is also the ancient Zaheer tribe on the side of Eramokus Mountain. The other three large tribes are located in the swamps between the two mountains and canyons. However, the locations of these tribes are relatively west. They are respectively They are the Lakshadweep tribe, the Calicut tribe and the Ramindi tribe.

The guide Nathaniel stood on the back of the land monitor lizard, pointed to the simple fortifications built on the mountain pass in front of him, and said to me: "Ahead is the Airamokus Pass. This canyon was formed by the ancient Zaheer tribe. The last time we passed through this place, it was through the relationship between Inzaghi, the elder of the ancient Zaher tribe, and we paid twenty-five gold coins to the Lizard Tribe to obtain the passage permit. But now a war broke out among the Lizard Tribe. It’s probably not that easy to pass Mount Eramocus.”

I was sitting on the couch on the platform on the back of the giant lizard, looking at the mountain range in front of me. Probably over this ridge, we can look for the mysterious ancient land in the swamps south of Mount Erramokus. Remains.

Thinking of this, I couldn't wait to cross the mountain. I waved my hand to Nathaniel and said, "If it can be settled with gold coins, then it is not a problem for me. Can I visit this Inza?" Elder Ji, let him help us get the pass? "

When Nathaniel heard that I agreed so readily, he said with some hesitation: "I can't guarantee it for the time being, but I will first visit Elder Inzaghi to see if this matter is feasible."

I glanced at Nathaniel and asked him: "Oh, so what kind of gifts do you need me to prepare? What I mean is that if I, Elder Inzaghi, like anything, as long as I have it here, you can bring some over."

Nathaniel already had the answer in his mind. He answered without thinking: "Tobacco and gold coins. The western region of the Green Empire is rich in a spicy tobacco. Those lizard elders like to smoke it very much. The traveling merchants here in Qiyan City always like to sell this spicy tobacco to the Lizard Tribe, but now I’m afraid no merchants are willing to enter the wild swamp.”

I raised my hand and snapped my fingers, then told him: "We will stay here for one night. Tomorrow morning, when you visit Elder Inzaghi, you can come and get it."

Nathaniel didn't expect me to say that at all. He asked me with wide eyes: "You didn't even prepare tobacco, did you?"

I could only force myself to laugh dryly, and then answered: "Of course, there is an old saying that goes, it's better to be prepared!"

In fact, how could I prepare that thing? I don't have a smoking addiction, but I can run back to the imperial capital to buy it at night...

Just as Nathaniel was about to leave, I called him back and asked him: "We brought lizard slaves here. Will it cause trouble to pass through the fortress where lizards are stationed?"

Nathaniel thought about it seriously, and then said to me: "That won't happen. There are not many connections between lizard tribes. They often exploit lizards outside their tribe more than us. In the lizard tribe, lizard slaves are also common."

"Oh, that's good." I nodded and waved my hand to indicate that he could go down and rest.

...

The next morning, Nathaniel took some tobacco gifts and two orc warriors and went to the Guzaher tribe alone.

We waited in the camp for almost two days. Just when we were worried that Nathaniel might have an accident, Nathaniel miraculously returned safely and brought two lizard warriors. One of the lizards was the young lizard noble. He walked into our camp and looked around like a curious baby.

I didn't expect to meet the young lizard noble again. He saw me standing on the back of the land giant lizard from a distance. He showed a happy expression on his narrow lizard face and kept waving at me, shouting to me: "Paku, Paku..."

I could only bite the bullet, stand up from the back of the giant lizard, and nod to the young lizard noble.

But then I thought again, Nathaniel clearly went to the Guzaher tribe. If he could meet this young noble, it means that this young noble has some relationship with the Guzaher tribe...

Thinking of this, I squeezed a smile on my stiff face.