Chapter 60: The Cruel Wilderness

The wilderness is a dark world outside of humans and other intelligent races, including the vast wastelands, mountains, canyons and other landforms of the outer regions and the inner and outer continents.

If you really want to count, the wilderness occupies a staggering 71% of Prometheus's territory.

Far from the human world, far away from civilization, everything in the wilderness is full of darkness, barbarism, ignorance and danger.

From the point where you leave Hearthstone and head west, you can count as the boundary between the civilized world and the wild world.

Truth be told, each of the 50 people has more or less experience in wilderness travel.

But every time you enter the wilderness, it still makes everyone feel terrified.

For nearly a thousand years, the Godslayer Alliance's exploitation of the wilderness has been alarmingly low.

For a long time, it was still in a regressive phase, and many city-states were snuffed out by powerful monsters from the wilderness, and fell back into savage darkness.

God knows how many monsters there are in the wilderness!

In addition to dragons, there are also many adventurers who swear that they have met the mythical creature Cyclops.

Many people don't believe it, but the night knows that the wilderness of Prometheus connects to the Outlands.

Many creatures from different planes have entered the wilderness, killing, conquering, and dominating the wilderness.

Mythical creatures like the Cyclops remember that there was indeed such a lair of great monsters in the depths of the wilderness, and the name seemed to be the Thunder Mountains.

In "Annio", an epic semi-independent challenge dungeon "King of Thunder" has been opened up.

Everyone looked at each other warily, and this vigilance existed from the moment they left the safe zone.

In the wilderness, in addition to monsters, people around you also need to be wary, even if they are on the same team.

Cang Ye noticed the gaze of the three people around him, and he wished for it.

So he lightly dropped the sentence "Let's go their separate ways" and stepped across the dividing line and took the lead in running towards the wilderness.

……

Near the demarcation line is a kobold tribe of more than two thousand people.

Rat-people, kobolds, and gnolls are creatures that are very reproductive.

Females have three breeding periods a year, and they can give birth to a large litter at a time, and if it weren't for the limitations of resources and strength, maybe the owner of Prometheus would be this group of guys.

Half a month ago, this kobold tribe migrated somewhere.

All that remains of the original site are leftover creature bones and traces of a fire.

The large kobold tribes of thousands, rarely migrated.

At least they won't leave until the ecosystem is completely ruined by them.

The Kobold tribe has a range of up to 50 miles.

In this area, the night saw herds of wild horses, wild goats, and cows.

There are quite a lot of hares in the jungle and everything.

According to superbrain calculations, this environment is enough to support the kobold tribe for more than 200 years or the number of kobolds exceeds 5,000 before they migrate.

And, judging by the traces left by the tribal ruins, they migrated in a hurry, one could even say forced.

In addition to the dense number of small footprints on the ground, there are also some huge footprints.

In the night, the footprints were more than two or three times larger than those he stepped on.

In less than a moment, the night deduced the reason.

The Ogre has expanded its territory to this area, and has conquered the surrounding biomes and hunted slaves on a large scale.

That's right, it's slaves, not food.

According to the available information, an ogre tribe led by a two-headed ogre mage tends to have the spark of civilization.

No longer surviving for the sake of survival, knowing how to conquer, enslave, and capture slaves to improve their lives, the wisdom of the two-headed cannibal mage is terrifying.

In fact, the wisdom of those who can become spellcasters is generally much higher than that of ordinary people.

Cangye was very patient, and it took two or three days to advance less than 30 miles of territory.

He carefully groped for every piece of land, and the instantaneous processing ability of large-scale data of the superbrain brought a lot of convenience to Cangye.

In my mind, a map of the wilderness came to mind. Each biome, river distribution, mountain range...... All sides are marked in detail.

Over the next five days, the map more than doubled.

But then, the night began to notice that something was wrong.

There are a lot of wild beasts in the nearby environment of seventy or eighty miles, and there are also many fruit trees.

However, up to now, a total of thirteen sites have been found where the nezumi, goblins, kobolds, and other biomes live.

It's all migration, and there's the footprints of ogres.

This is a very bad sign, how strong must an ogre tribe have to be to enslave thousands of slaves in their service.

At the same time, this also reflects the number of this group of ogres is more than 400.

……

On the tenth day, Nightshade spotted a sign on a site 150 kilometers from the demarcation line.

A plate made from the bones of an unknown creature, topped with three skulls depicted in a circle of blood.

This is the work of the ogre, intended to deter other intelligent beings, and this is the ogre's territory.

The scope of existence cannot be violated, this is the concept that the major races have infiltrated the soul.

Once the night is entered, it means that the ogre's right to live in this territory is being provoked, and the result can only be washed away with blood.

Cangye walked in, and I have to say that the two-headed cannibal mage is indeed smart.

They occupy a large plain, with three rivers intersecting in different directions to form a lake

The surrounding land irrigated by rivers is good arable land.

It was from here that the night finally found traces of the activities of intelligent creatures.

"After a long period of exploration, your [Search] skill has been improved, and your points are +1."

A low hill is home to a group of gnolls.

It is a humanoid creature that walks on two legs with anti-joints and stands upright, with a height close to that of an adult human.

The appearance is somewhat similar to that of a werewolf, but the face is more ugly and hideous, saying that it is a wolf but the head is more similar to that of a dog.

Gnolls also act as family units, a family usually has 3~5 adult males, females and juveniles are about 10, in addition to a family of gnolls will also domesticate 7 or 8 jackals to assist in hunting.

A family of gnolls with a B+ level of challenge difficulty among supernatural creatures.

The night has no intention of fighting them.

The gnolls all had branded scars on their bodies.

This is the mark of slavery, and all the creatures that live in this area are slaves and food for ogres.

Passing through the gnoll camp, the night found a large group of goblins, kobolds, and a large number of nezumi.

This rickety humanoid is similar in appearance to a rat and is only the size of a normal hound.

But the combat effectiveness is really unsatisfactory, and an adult man who has not undergone systematic training can kill two or three with his bare hands.

The only role of the Nezumi in the Ogre Territory is to collect food.

Tens of thousands of rat men carried all kinds of food to the center from all directions.

Cangye followed quietly.

The nezumi destination is a lake formed by the confluence of three rivers, and on the shores of the lake, the night sees a shocking scene.