Chapter 61: The City of Ogres
It is a city in a half-finished state.
In terms of land area and infrastructure, this is a wilderness city with a classic ogre style.
The outermost part is two rows of 20-foot-high walls, made of solid iron stone.
Although the incision is crude, the joints are cemented with black marsh slurry, a glue-binding substance that is as adhesive as cement.
On the periphery of the city walls, there are large groups of kobolds and gnoll patrols.
The sturdy ogre watched the logs and stones enter the inner city.
Looking at the city at night, I found that in addition to a large number of fortifications, there were many houses made of stone and wood.
That size was clearly for ogres.
Seeing this, Cangye knew the seriousness of the matter.
A group of ogres who are ready to build a city-state with their abilities look like they're ready to settle here.
A large ogre tribe needs at least a range of 200~450 miles in diameter.
And in this way, it is bound to threaten the human world, especially Hearthstone!
The night continued to approach, making a circle around the city.
No matter how you look at it, the city is primitive and rudimentary in terms of infrastructure.
In particular, there are quite a few totem poles standing in the city, which means that this is an ogre community that maintains the worship of the original ancestors.
But on the other hand, the city is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and there are large tracts of arable land around it.
Among the communities enslaved by ogres is the community of cave goblins.
These are the few intelligent creatures in the wilderness that know how to farm.
The squeeze of living space between races will inevitably lead to bloody and tragic wars.
It will only stop if one party is completely destroyed or quits the land.
At the same time, Cangye had doubts about the ability of the two-headed cannibal mage.
The Two-Headed Ogre is an extremely intelligent being among his blind and foolish kind, but the wisdom is reflected in the occult rather than in the construction of cities.
It's hard to imagine that such a city could be built by ogres, and races like kobolds running around in front of them wouldn't even think to eat them.
This is a miracle for an ogre with a strong appetite!
Such a change made Cangye wonder at the same time, but also raised vigilance in his heart.
In a lurking posture, Nightnight carefully avoided the kobold and gnoll patrols, and was preparing to blend into the inner city.
Yes!!
A scream was heard in the distance, immediately attracting the attention of the monsters.
The voice was somewhat familiar, and it was supposed to be one of the 50 people who had gone into the wilderness with him.
An ogre overseer roared on the ramparts, wielding his iron whip.
In an instant, a small group of ogres was armed, driving the slaves towards the source of the sound.
Each ogre wears heavy armor.
The extremely rough work is like running around with a bunch of iron lumps. The weapons in his hands are also mainly maces and two-handed giant hammers.
There are not many races in the wilderness that have the ability to forge metal, except for the kobolds, who are known as the "disgrace of the dwarves".
Cangye had no interest in saving people, and with the help of this time, Cangye's body turned around, clinging to the city wall, and plunged into the unfinished stone passage.
Entering the inner city, a foul smell of feces and urine suddenly came.
Even if they have the ability to build a city, the rude ogre doesn't pay much attention to hygiene, and the city is full of excrement, and the stench wafting in the air is disgusting.
Turn off the olfactory system for a while and try to hide yourself as much as possible.
The ogre city in his eyes has been replaced by a large amount of data, and after the sorting has been completed, a detailed layout of the city defense map in his mind is gradually improving.
In addition to the major slave races, there are more than 500 ogres with combat ability, each with more than 15 creature levels.
Among them, there are elite and advanced ogre totem warriors and seven or eight ogre sacrifices.
The night gradually penetrated into the center of the city, turning along the city walls.
I saw a group of gray-fanged trolls looking at me with a cruel smile, as if they were really looking at a big fat pig that was white and fat enough to be slaughtered.
No one hesitated, and Cangye swung his sword.
The grayfang troll led by him was nearly three meters tall, holding two javelins, one long and one short, in each hand, and easily blocked the attack of the night.
This trick is a false trick calculated by Cangye in advance.
The two-handed grip shifted to one-handedness, and the other hand bounced out of the wrist blade, and the scarlet light instantly sank into the troll leader's throat.
The troll leader's expression froze instantly.
But the next moment, his eyes continued to roll, looking at the night, and his eyes were undisguised as violent and cruel.
Trolls are tall humanoids with strong bodies, and their race is born with amazing nerve reflexes and regenerative abilities.
That's right, it's regeneration, and the toughness of up to 20 points has a high chance of being exempted even if it is hit in the throat, heart, etc.
Therefore, as soon as Cangye saw that the other party was exempted from fatal damage, he quickly drew his knife and retreated, no longer entangled.
The Greyfang Trolls are a subspecies of the Troll Race, far larger than their cousins, and can even rival the shorter ones in the ogre;
But on the other hand, it also means that they are not fast.
There were 12 trolls in a team, each of which had a second-order high combat power, and they didn't dare to fight for a long time in the night, so they retreated.
He couldn't figure out how he was discovered.
……
On the outskirts of the city, a five-man scout team is exhausted by an endless stream of goblins and kobolds.
Originally, they wanted to run to the forest, but at the intersection, they very 'coincidentally' encountered a group of gnolls.
In less than 2 or 3 minutes of fighting, the tall and fierce gnolls tore apart the group in an instant.
On the other side of the lake, more than a dozen scouts rushed left and right in a group of hundreds of forest goblins and goblins, and they were forced to join forces under the threat of their lives.
Everyone is a professional in the occult realm, and one person can kill at least seven or eight goblins.
And after this loose sand successfully condensed into a fist, the Goblin United fell into the disadvantage in the blink of an eye.
The cowardly goblins finally broke down in morale after paying less than a fifth of the casualties, screaming and fleeing in all directions.
At the same time, the human scouts also paid the price of two dead and three seriously injured.
Just when everyone thought they had escaped, two kobold teams rushed out again from the northeast and southeast corners.
And due east, three tall cave giants roared into the battle circle.
Nearly five meters tall and wielding a huge mace, this massive man is a natural killing machine.
The two warriors stepped forward to resist, only to be hammered away and fall into the kobold army, where they were torn to shreds in a small scale screaming in the blink of an eye.
The fate of this scout team is settled.
And in the land far away from the ogre city, several human scouts or lone rangers have also been hunted down by ogres, jackals, trolls, ogres...... All kinds of monsters emerge one after another.
In half a day, 47 out of 50 people were caught in it.
And they all find out in despair that no matter where they flee, there will be monsters blocking their way, as if there is always an eye behind them.
……
The rough and desolate sacrificial hall looks like a large house made of wood and animal skins.
However, it is filled with the wealth that the ogre tribe has collected over the centuries, including piles of metal, exotic animal bones, gems, and loot seized from humans.
On the table, a candle stuck in a human skull stands out.
The candlelight flickered out, and next to it, a map of animal skins was spread out, on which the entire terrain distribution of the Ogre City and the nearby land of more than two hundred miles was completely marked, and the red skull chess pieces representing the Ogre forces were placed at random.
But if there were an outstanding military scientist here, he would be shocked to discover—
This is the most classic sand table deduction!
The ogre pieces are placed exactly where their forces are distributed throughout the territory.
Some of the gray pieces are either alone or clustered around them, surrounded by multiple red pieces.
Every once in a while, a giant eagle would fly in and speak slowly in an unknown language.
And according to the description of the giant eagle, the gray chess pieces are constantly decreasing.
There were originally less than 50 of them, and now there are less than 10 left under the siege of the red chess pieces.
A slender white palm rubbed each chess piece, fiddling with it quite casually.
However, the palm of the hand hovered in the middle of the city, and under his cover, a gray chess piece surrounded a number of red chess pieces.
It was a group of grayfang trolls, but as the pieces kept moving, the pieces representing the trolls were decreasing one by one.