92. Enter the Savage Lands
The ancient ruins area is the last resting place before the slave catchers leave the Gorge Rift, and it is also the first resting place after entering the Gorge Rift.
In the morning light, a team left this most reluctant resting place.
Sean, in the end, still couldn't wait for the dozen or so missing soldiers.
Five bearmen, five Northland barbarians, and two slave catchers brought out by Andre.
Even if the Evil Thoughts Gathering is solved, it is obvious that the Ancient Ruins District is not a safe place, after all, no one knows how many ghouls and ghost fires are still hidden in this area. It takes more than just time and a lot of patience to clean up this place.
And Sean doesn't have the mind and time to spend all of his time on this.
Out of the Gorge Rift, it can be regarded as a real entry into the wilderness.
This vast land, in fact, strictly speaking, can not be regarded as a wilderness, although there are few here is indeed not very suitable for planting, but because of the introduction of foreign merchants, this land now has a set of its own breeding methods, in the provision of meat can play a self-sufficient result. And the closer you get to the center of the area, the larger the area of the oasis.
Almost every one of the truly powerful tribes has an oasis that can be described as a vast oasis. Owning such an area, not to mention grazing and breeding, and even the situation that is not suitable for cultivation can be improved, so any large tribe can be regarded as a kingdom, even if the surrounding countries near the wilderness regard this area as their own slave farm, they will not easily approach these places.
In recent years, because the orcs and elves in the west of the continent have begun to become united and cautious, and the north is not a particularly suitable place to catch slaves, the slave hunting team has to start to develop towards the wild land. That's why. Therefore, in recent years, almost none of the outermost tribes in the Wild Lands have survived, and in order to survive, they have to choose to merge with other tribes, or simply belong to those more powerful tribes.
In fact, each tribe, regardless of size, has its own ancestral lineage, so it is a very shameful thing for these tribes to merge or submit to other tribes. Therefore, there is a reason why the tribes and slave hunters in the wilderness have completely irreconcilable contradictions and disputes with each other, and even those merchants who use this area to hurry up have little affection.
"My lord, now because of the wanton capture of slaves by various slave hunting teams. Now, if you don't go more than 1,000 miles deeper, it's impossible to find any tribal population. Andre opened his mouth and said to Sean, "Those small tribes on the periphery have almost been wiped out in the past few years of slave hunting, and only a few people can survive by luck, and they can no longer be called tribes." To do this, they had to retreat deeper to join other tribes. β
"Aren't tribes very xenophobic?" Sean asked modestly.
Although Sean knows the future development direction of Dao, he also knows and knows many secrets. But that doesn't mean he's really omnipotent. Cognition of the world's view of the world and the racial view of this world. It's completely stuck in the original game background introduction, and he hasn't had the patience to read it, but he just has a general understanding of the races in this world and the main reasons for their conflicts and contradictions.
The word "tribe" was first used to refer specifically to the orcs and elves.
It was only later that it was applied to the inhabitants of the Savage Lands. However, there is no objection to this, after all, the inhabitants of the Savage Lands are not only orcs. And the elves, even from other races, are not ordinarily fierce - even the goblins, considered the most wasteful by humans, must not be underestimated in the wilderness.
And the Horde. The orc tribes, in particular, are very xenophobic.
The most obvious feature of this xenophobia is the expression of hostility towards other tribal peoples. So under normal circumstances, the survivors of other tribes, if they don't kill each other as food, even if they are very kind, how can they still accept them to join their own tribe?
"My lord, the tribes that are obviously xenophobic are the orcs of the West, and this rule does not apply here in the Wild Lands." Andre was a little apprehensive about Sean's modesty performance, which was really very different from the lords in his impression, "Here in the wilderness, wars are very frequent, so the population is declining very quickly, especially those small tribes, often even if they can win the attack of those slave catchers in a battle, usually few people can survive, so in order to survive, there is no possibility of xenophobia here." β
Sean nodded, indicating that he had understood, and then said with a serious face: "You have rich experience in survival in the wilderness, so we will all obey your command on how to act." You don't have to think I'm a lord and don't dare to say anything, here you are the commander, and I, including Cecilia and Tiny, will act on your orders. β
"Yes!" Andre was not hypocritical, he simply nodded and agreed, "Then our first stop next, let's go to the Wind Chasing Tribe first." β
After hearing Andre's words, the werewolves and gray elves in the slave hunting team immediately dispersed, and they will serve as scouts for the entire army as they march, responsible for guarding the surrounding environment and movements, and ensuring that they are not touched by the enemy.
In the wilderness, it is not only other tribesmen who may be out hunting that need to be careful, but also other peers.
However, Andre knew that he was lucky to keep up with a good lord who seemed to be pretty good so far. Not counting the veterans who have followed him for several years, only the thirty-five remaining Northland barbarians and thirty-five bears are definitely an extremely fierce fighting force - if outsiders simply think that this force is nothing and want to fight with the charge of cavalry, then the other party will soon find that they have encountered not butter, but a reef that has been slapped countless times by the waves; And if you want to win by long-range means, this is even more wishful thinking, the tower shield and half-body shield are enough to resist any arrows except the enchanted armor-piercing arrows, and the counterattack of these Northland barbarians is by no means vegetarian, it is definitely a hundred shots within three hundred meters, not to mention that almost every Northland barbarian on this trip is equipped with an enchanted armor-piercing arrow.
It's too elite to be any more elite.
Andre silently observed the team, he really couldn't figure out why the Northland barbarians, a race that had never been highly evaluated, could be trained to such an elite level? In his memory, the Northland barbarians were the most worthless slaves, if it weren't for the compulsion or those who had just debuted as slave hunters and wanted to find a training target, no one would capture the Northland barbarians at all, because many times the Northland barbarians couldn't sell them, and the daily food expenses were really not low, which was easy to lose all their money.
Moreover, most of the nobles who bought the barbarians in the Northland would not buy so much in one go, just buy a small number of people to go back and take care of the planting problems of their own estates or territories. But some time ago, when he stayed in the barracks, he had seen too many Northland barbarians, and these Northland barbarians were not used for farming, but a group of real soldiers, and they had almost exactly the same aura as the armies that AndrΓ© had seen before, which made him feel extremely unbelievable.
He knew very well that if they fought alone, then each of their group of slave catchers would be able to easily win the other party, but if it was a ten-person confrontation, then they would be very difficult, and if the number was equal, then although they would not lose, it would be difficult for them to win. And this is still because there are several high-ranking silver masters in his team, you must know that the army known as the steel wings of Lu Dao is just a group of northerners with lower bronze strength, and a few have the strength of upper bronze.
But such an army is a well-deserved first legion under the command of Lord Sean, and it can even be said to be the main force of the entire territory.
It is said that the last army that the Kingdom of Dabion wants to encounter today has the banner of this army.
And now, the thirty-five Northland barbarians who accompanied him were said to be the most elite soldiers of the Iron Wings army, which made Andre feel a little safer in his heart. Of course, he was actually quite unimpressed at first, but with the raid that broke out in the Gap Rift and his performance along the way, he had to convince that these Northland barbarians were no different from real elite soldiers.
Of course, Andre didn't know what to do, but Sean was still a little dissatisfied.
Because the Iron Wings are still only a third-level army, although this is a regular army in the military system, it is only to the extent that it can "fight". But what Sean really wants is a fourth-level "elite" that can produce deterrence, or even a fifth-level "ace" level.
It's a pity that the only fourth-level army in Panda's leadership is the army that does not listen to the command of Cecilia's Guard, which makes Sean a headache.
The first goal of the team's trip is the Wind Chasing Tribe.
Although it is a tribe, it is actually no longer a tribe in the wilderness. This tribe has been destroyed a few years ago, and later the slave hunters saw that the tribe was in a good position, so they established a resting place similar to the tribe here, and later with the influx of more and more slave hunters, this tribe gradually became an important fulcrum of the peripheral trade routes of the wild land, and later as the slave hunters began to be injured and could not leave the wild land and chose to settle on the fulcrum of the trade routes of the wild land, the wind chasing tribe can be regarded as a real development.
Today, it is said that the inhabitants of the Savage Lands tribes occasionally come to these trade fulcrums to purchase daily necessities.
Sean's goal in coming to the Wild Lands was not to capture slaves, so it was only natural that a trade fulcrum like this would need to be seen to see how it worked, and what level of goods were. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )