Chapter 728: Drow Camp
By the time Lucy and Tempest arrived at the camp of the Drow Elven city-states on the outskirts of Malatha, it was already the tenth day since they had said goodbye to Sarahhel.
In the revolt war in which Dante Mills overthrew the rule of Queen Spider, the ancient city of the Dark Elves, which was also the city of Morsoblay in order to show off her glory and divine might, was finally destroyed in the war. Liberated after the war, the Drow elves decided to rebuild their new capital, named Marasa, on the ruins of the city. This is to commemorate the ancient leader of Drow who led his people to resist the "oppression" of the Fanya elves and migrated to the dark region with everyone. Of course, this figure, who can almost be regarded as the mother of the Drow Elves' founding, died at the hands of Queen Rose soon after, and the Drow Elves entered the darkest and most brutal period in history.
Of course, this is the "Age of Open Civilization" of the Drow Elves, and the city of Malassa has gradually developed into the largest city in the Dark Regions, although it is still completely incomparable to the surface, and the total population is only more than 100,000 people, but this number is not counted by the large slave and vassal races. In fact, the crypts, rock walls and gorges surrounding the city of Malassa are scattered with communities and towns of all sizes and ethnicities. Theoretically, the indigenous races of these dark regions were the private property of the noble drow nobles of Malaça, not nobles and freemen, but they were not qualified to live in the city of Malaça. There's no way, compared to humans, they pay more attention to the superiority and humility, and the drow elves of the "order camp", no matter how they progress and how enlightened. is such a class solidified to a society that maybe even the third brother can't reach.
The city of Malassa is made up of countless castles and houses surrounded by stone pillars, all of which are so large that they are like mountains, connecting the "sky" and "earth" of the dark region like heavenly pillars. The light of the lights and the moss of the night twinkles in the gaps between the stone pillars and stalagmites. It adds a few fairytale-like beauty to the hazy and vague outline of the city.
In contrast, the army camp that was gathering in a hill valley on the outskirts of Malassa had the same size as a city, but it was mostly a sabre-rattling slaughter. By the time Lu Xi and Hurricane arrived, there had been more than 30,000 elite troops of Drow Elves from various cities and families. and four times as many servant soldiers of each vassal race. In terms of the population of the Dark Regions, this is nearly half of the army that the city-states of Malassa can mobilize together. Even if this army has any strengths and weaknesses, they will be powerless to resist the invasion of the Crypt Lords for a long time.
Vicious minotaur soldiers gathered in the fields beyond the valley. An iron furnace has been built, and weapons and armor are being built in ping-pong. There are also a large number of dwarven blacksmiths who move from one place to another, directing the work from place to place, and even doing it themselves. This was in the era of the reign of Rose after the spider. This is a harmonious thing that can never happen. In a dark, damp dark area. Except for some high-quality materials that are carefully processed and refined, metal weapons are difficult to maintain for a long time, so before each major war, it is the busiest period for blacksmiths.
They are all the same clan of Lu Xi's Hu Cong Bull, although they are a strong fighting people, and they also have a certain ability to smelt iron and engineering, but for a long time they were just slaves and cannon fodder for the Drow. To this day, they are still the cannon fodder of the Drows. But most of them are at least freemen who cannot be taken by the aristocracy. It has to be said that the effect of this reform brought about by Dante Mills is amazing. The minotaurs who have obtained the "identity" are often more fierce than the elves when they fight against the crypt lords, and they are also merciless in the face of those "scum of the same race" who have taken refuge in the demon gods.
Cavemen, goblins, Koutao fishmen, and many other dwarf races that Lu Xi didn't even recognize, under the leadership of the Minotaur overseers, did the monotonous but arduous work of building strongholds and carrying goods. These creatures with weak strength, poor intelligence, and outstanding reproductive ability are the largest aborigines in the Dark Regions, and as for whether the master is a drow elf or a crypt lord big bug, this is not a matter of too much concern to them. is really going to the battlefield, except for being able to create a vast number of advantages and friendship to stand on the street, basically there is no use for anything. And the strength approved by the Drow masters and mothers has never included only the same clan and the minotaurs, even if they have some expectations for foreign mercenaries, they will never count on these slaves who are not even cannon fodder.
Speaking of foreign mercenaries, there is really a camp tent in the wilderness dedicated to housing them, and the number of people gathered is already quite a lot, and there are thousands of people in the field, from all countries and nationalities. Lu Xi even saw a lot of people dressed up in travel robes, maybe many of them were travel mages from the "science class" of the Academic Alliance.
The combat effectiveness of mercenaries can be expected in any era, but it is also a headache in any era. In addition, elves are very different from patriarchal societies such as humans, dwarves, and orcs, and some of them in the army are young and beautiful...... Well, at least the appearance is a young and beautiful female officer and soldier, and the adult Drow elf sister paper is mostly a group of meat and vegetarian meat-eating products. If you look at the mercenaries with the blood and strength, it doesn't matter if something nice happens, but there are countless sequelae that have a great impact on the morale of the army.
The main camp of the mercenaries and the main forces of the drow must be a little far apart, and there is a group of diligent and loyal minotaurs in the middle, I have to say, this is a very ingenious arrangement.
So, the two humans, Lu Xi and Hurricane, surrounded by several drow elves, swaggered in front of the mercenary camp, and passed through the "open-air factory" of the minotaurs as if no one was around, and Shi Shiran directly entered the main camp of Drow, which is actually a very noticeable thing.
Wind's "good best friend" who obviously has a friendship with her above**, although the elf lady Sarah Hel is a straight girl with advanced cancer who has no need to rescue at all, but when she gets down to business, she is still reliable. After Lu Xi fulfilled his promise perfectly, Sharahl not only wrote a letter to his mother and the priest he knew. gave himself a token of passage through the military restricted area, and also called a few cold-blooded cavalry to serve as guides and guards for the two.
Of course, with the strength of Lu Xi and Hurricane. In fact, it is not the turn of these handsome drow guys riding big lizards to protect themselves, not so much as guards, but some kind of necessary pomp. In a society with a fixed class, there will always be such rules that make people laugh and cry, and smart people must learn to follow the local customs.
"That's amazing!" Lu Xi and the "Guardian Leader" of the Wind, the Drow Elven Knight riding on the back of the Speed Dragon, looked at the temporary stables that had been repaired on the side of the valley, and let out a sigh of admiration mixed with excitement and excitement. That feeling. It's as if aviation fans saw the scene and saw the black ribbon test flight, cold weapon fans got handmade Damascus knives with a unit price of more than 10,000 US dollars, and gentlemen got the goddess's small ...... Belch. This metaphor may destroy the world, so let's bear with it.
There was a natural wilderness in the clearing on the side of the valley entrance on the side, and it was seen that at least three or four thousand horsemen had been gathered, and ten thousand beasts roared, and the sound shook the sky. It's a sight to behold.
"No other family can domesticate so many cold-blooded cavalry. Only by taking all the signs of cavalry under everyone's command and reorganizing it can we form such a scale. The Drow said, "Only Her Highness Kyleliana has such influence." Well, but this way, the cavalry can exert the maximum impact when charging together, which is a great feat! ”
Lu Xi suddenly felt a strong sympathy, not only for the excited Drow Knight, but also for the famous black-skinned old woman. In this kind of class-solidified semi-feudal and semi-slave system, it must be a very life-threatening thing to be the nominal supreme head of a city-state in a matriarchal society with theocracy, right? But then again. Gather high-end troops like cavalry and use them in Lu Xi's hometown. As long as it is centralized, even a slave country knows that it should do this, right?
…… Well, but then again, the Gallic chickens were still doing the feat of distributing tanks evenly among infantry units until World War II. As a result, it is clear that the number of tanks far exceeds that of the Führer, and they are all kinds of hanging. So, no matter what era, any world, any race, greatness is naturally all kinds of greatness, but stupidity is the same stupidity.
"This sentence is really philosophical, and it can be used as my epitaph in the future." Lu Xi muttered to himself, and then said, "Anyway, I really want to thank you all the way, Mr. Trihit, what are your plans after that?" Rush back to Saeuls City to standby? ”
This paladin, a rare among the Drow Elves, showed a shy smile that was even rarer among the Drow Elves, but his tone was sincere and moving: "You are so polite, Lord Lu Xi, you and Lord Storm are the benefactors of the tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Morayal City, and even the benefactors of Saurs City, it is actually the greatest honor of my generation to be able to serve you." ”
His expression was so sincere, with an expression that if you gave the order or even willing to die immediately, even a person like Lu Xi, whose skin was as thick as the city wall, was a little restless.
"It's not easy to be a hero, isn't it?" Hurricane laughed at Lu Xi with a psychic link.
"It's okay, at least I'm more experienced than you in terms of it." Lu Xi replied without changing his face.
"According to Lord Sharahel's orders, I and my subordinates will be your faithful guards and servants while you and Lord Tempest are still in the Dark Regions.
This drow elf, who made Lu Xi feel very immediate, both in name and style, certainly had reason to be grateful to Lu Xi. Because it was under the leadership of this person that they only used five hundred people to complete the harassment and blocking of the mighty monster army of twenty or thirty thousand people. The valley path that led to Moraya City had collapsed into rubble, in which the corpses of thousands of monsters were buried, including the massive insect bodies of the two Crypt Lords.
What made this drow elf paladin even more unbelievable was that in the big battle, when he accompanied Lu Xi to kill the enemy at the end, he even broke through his own boundaries inexplicably, and his strength suddenly skyrocketed. At that moment of boiling blood, he even felt as if he had received the divine favor of Elune, the daughter of life, in the dark.
Regardless of the above situation, it is not a delusion, but at least, it is true that the army formed by the combined forces of several Crypt Lords has been inexplicably damaged, and it is also true that the passage of the enemy's advance was destroyed and it would take several weeks to rebuild it, and it is also true that the soldiers and civilians of the Morayal Fortress retreated safely to the city of Saeuls. This alone is enough for Tricht to be respectful to Lu Xi and Tempest.
"Anyway, with your best friend's handwriting, let's go pay a visit to her mother, Lady Sylvona. Let's hope she'll introduce us to Her Highness Kyleliana. Hurricane, you've seen this lady before, right? ”
"I guess we had a relationship. The black market trade between Saurs and Neosfia was largely the responsibility of Sarah Hel himself. Blastwind said, "In my image, it should be a ...... Well, it's a very bold typical Shadow Lord, and if you don't know her, it's really hard to imagine that lady and Sarah will be mother and daughter. ”
The so-called "typical" Shadow Priests? In Lu Xi's experience, the former is easy to say, but the latter is in big trouble, usually menopausal elm heads who can't communicate and reason, illogical essence disease with wrong views, snake essence disease in the late stage to the point where there is no need to rescue and should be used for humane destruction. Of course, if the other party is a young girl, Lu Xi still has a way to make up the other party's brain into a tsundere-type cute thing, but it is an elderly Obasan......
"Don't tell the truth in front of people, otherwise you will be dragged out to serve as military food for the bullheads, and I won't be able to save you." Isn't Lu Xi's best at seeing people and talking about people, and talking about ghosts? It's just a cold aunt, say a few good words seriously, make good use of your beautiful face that captivates the country and the city, smile and sell cuteness, and then ...... Perfect! Swift laughed and shook his index finger.
"Speak as if my smile is worthless." Lu Xi said that he should use it to provide the healing smile of the sister paper as a cheap public relations product, which is really sad? So, when he saw the Drow Elf Beauty Royal Sister who was led by Tricht and looked seven or eight points similar to Sarah, but her temperament and demeanor were much more mature and charming, he immediately used her best healing smile without hesitation and greeted her directly.
"You're Miss Sylvona, aren't you? I'm Lu Xi? It is my greatest pleasure to see you in your glory. Hehe, if you hadn't known beforehand, you'd have thought you'd be just Lady Sharah's sister......"
"Cheap and uncreative compliments, male." The patriarch of the Light-Tolls family, one of the most powerful shadow mothers of the Drow elves, showed a mocking sneer: "Although your stunning appearance and sweet voice can add a little bit to you, but you think that this can impress me, is it too naïve?" Funny human male. ”
Oops, it's actually a hard and not soft, that is, a shake S type? But what is the saying? Oh, by the way, S's must be an M, which definitely makes sense...... But even so, is there any use for eggs? In order not to destroy the world, I can't just beat and imprison people and find a place to write a 10,000-word mew (meow) teaching, right?
"If I had done the same thing, I would have thrown a flamboyant little guy like you to feed the lizards, but you're lucky......" She looked Lu Xi up and down with a scrutinizing gaze, and then greeted the wind behind her with her eyes: "Your Highness Kyleliana wants to see you." Especially you, Lu Xi? Belencaster. ”
"Black-skinned old woman...... Ah no, Her Highness Kyleriana knows we're coming? ”
"Your Highness, what is so strange about this?" Sarah's mother said such unscientific things in a natural tone. (To be continued......)