Aside from the southernmost mountains and the Far North Glacial Plains, the Land of Hope may be the last light of civilization in the 'Western Pocles'.

After the 'people of Maya' left the forgotten realm, this surviving classical civilization is a repository of information that the night cannot let go, and the living history may have more information about the 'children of fear'.

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Sneaking into the city, you will be greeted by rows of neatly arranged low-rise buildings.

With stone and wood as the main materials, and the shell covered with a layer of burnt yellow mud as additional protection, looking at the traces of various sword chops and arrow designs on the shell, the night knows what the purpose of building a fortress city and all the defensive design styles is for.

There are very few buildings with more than two floors, or at least, most of them are half-buried under the soil, and the superbrain looks beyond the thick layer of soil to see the intricate crypt space and the twists and turns of the underground passages.

There were few people on the empty streets, and a large number of life reactions were transmitted from under their feet.

Soon, the night of a huge city has turned in a circle, in addition to a fully loaded city defense distribution map and urban design map, there are also statistics on water sources, food, medicine, equipment, mineral resources, and the most important data is the population.

A city of more than 45,000 square meters has less than 100,000 people living inside, but the number of troops supported by this number is close to 10,000.

10 to 1, this is a ratio that people living in peacetime cannot imagine, but in reality, this is only the ratio of the total population to the standing army, and if it is a general mobilization, the strength of the army will be three or four times higher.

It can be said that this number of military populations has already affected productivity, but this is a last resort choice made in order to maintain the maximum combat effectiveness of the army.

At the expense of the economy, the population growth rate has remained sluggish for many years, so in exchange for an army that has always maintained a strong combat effectiveness, I wonder if this kind of effort is worth it?

All science and technology are climbing unscrupulously in the military direction, so that they have developed to a serious deformity.

However, as a result, the Monsutters possessed an army large enough to reach the fighting power of the Middle Ages.

Under the special circumstances, each fortress city was a militarily independent state, maintaining a delicate state between vigilance and war, but this attitude of facing a great enemy was enough to make the night sure that the Monsutes were not only guarding against their own people, but also against something more terrifying.

Listening to the conversations of a few Monsutters, Cangye recorded the Monsutter language as quickly as possible, and then it was able to be used in real life in a short time.

"The dry season is just around the corner, and the lackeys of Wumas are about to move again."

"Su Meng God is above, this group of shameless lackeys will return in vain!"

"The lackeys are not something to worry about, this is the seventh dry season, and the witches may appear, they have not hunted for a long time."

"Either way, in order to continue the seeding, we have to be the final winner in the big hunting season!"

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Some intelligence worth paying attention to.

The pronunciation of the Monsut language is different, and the semantics of 'Wumas' can be understood to be fearful and frightening, and by extension, 'Wumas' probably refers to 'children of fear'.

And for the so-called dry season, it is a simple division of the weather seasons by the people living in desertified areas.

Judging by the flow of rivers, the flood season is the flood season when the flow is high, and the dry season is the dry season when the flow is low, and each lasts for half a year, but due to the harsh environment of the Land of Hope, this season should be extended to eight months.

They can still survive in such a harsh environment, and after such a hellish trial, the Monsutes are all good seeds to become elite warriors, and with a little training, they may not be able to become a powerful force against the black orcs.

Night's mind was already calculating how to conquer this tribe.

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After several days of observation, Cangye was patient, carefully documenting the social structure of the Monsutters in the city.

As with all early forms of civilization, patriarchal power reigns supreme, women are in a dominant position, and in order to maximize reproduction, a woman will have more than one spouse in her lifetime, and any male in the city will be qualified to be her spouse, so that the position of women will be completely trampled down.

At the same time, the unscrupulous social structure for the sake of reproduction is also doomed to the indifference of blood kinship, and all the children born will be uniformly arranged, uniformly named, and uniformly trained, until the age of 13 after the coming-of-age ceremony, the official history will accept the work assignment of the state.

The operation of the government is maintained by the hands of the royal family and the temple, and the relationship between the two sides is cooperative.

Below this were the commoners, who were sent by the royal family and the temple, and were mostly peasants, craftsmen, and soldiers, who swore an oath to serve the upper classes unconditionally.

Below the civilian class were slaves, who were made up of prisoners of war and criminals, whose numbers were kept within a certain number, and who were to be sent into battle as cannon fodder when necessary.

The royal family oversees the military and political power, is responsible for the internal management of the city-state, and maintains the normal function, and also dominates foreign wars; The temple spends most of its time communicating with the gods, acting with the army at the outbreak of war, and being active on the battlefield as a physician, sometimes unleashing all kinds of wonderful spells to help the enemy retreat.

Each temple sacrifice is supreme, the chief priest has the same status as the king, and at the same time, he will exist as a vehicle for the Sumeng god to descend to the earth.

Sure enough, this is a classical city-state, with a powerful military, a well-developed political and legal system, a completely deformed economic and production system, and a population that is maintained at a certain number all year round, and the painful balance may one day explode completely, destroying these city-states born for war.

The city-state of Monsut, nestled in this oasis of the waning moon, is shrouded in a trembling shadow, and every citizen has the courage to go crazy to survive, but underneath this touching courage is a deep numbness and fear.

The night was patient, he waited for the dry season to come, for the emergence of the forces known as the 'lackeys of the witches'.

And this day, the 23rd day after sneaking into the oasis in the night, began.

From the northwest, the city-state of Monsut, at the very edge of the oasis, began to erupt.

Almost without warning, the city-state launched a fierce attack on the neighboring city-state, and the tacit cavalry and infantry worked together to cover the sniping of the large siege engines, and everything was prepared.

And on the same day, the entire oasis was plunged into the flames of war, into the flames of fratricidal warfare.