After we walked around the Piatilla Mountains, we continued westward along a river called Fara.

Nathaniel told me that by finding the Fara River, we can confirm that we are not too far from the ancient ruins. Last adventure group also walked along the Fara River for about half a month. There were lush plants on both sides of the valley, and some very rare blood-sucking trees and man-eating flowers grew in the woods. These plant-based monsters are extremely rare species even in wild swamps.

Walking along the river, although you will frequently encounter large animals coming to drink water, you can avoid the territory of some intermediate monsters.

Before entering the Farah Valley, we made a day in the forest on the edge of the valley.

...

I also took this opportunity to quietly return to the imperial capital and transported all the rune boards from the Xinliu Valley Magic Seal Workshop to the warehouse of the imperial capital. I also transported nearly 200,000 rune board base materials, 500,000 giant crossbow arrows, and nearly 100 barrels of red copper metal solution from the warehouse.

Now the red copper magic pattern rune board in the imperial capital has covered all first-level magic, but my magic seal workshop still mainly produces five life-like magic rune boards, namely fire gathering techniques, miniature tornadoes, continuous frost, glimmer illumination techniques and lava surging. As for the giant crossbow arrows, they are divided into holy silver crossbow arrows and ordinary magic crossbow arrows. In addition, the initial accumulation has been completed. Now the barbarian heavy crossbow group is equipped with dual-attribute giant crossbow arrows, and some of the arrow shafts are also equipped with wind-controlling rune magic magic rings.

These rune boards have a market share of about 90% in the imperial capital. Other types of magic pattern rune boards sprung up from magic stores like mushrooms after a rain.

In this way, the Babington family's plan to enter the low-end rune board market at the beginning of the year was completely bankrupt.

The Magic Seal Workshop has completed the magic pattern transformation project of 900 sets of Nakma people's full-coverage black iron heavy armor. Next, the workshop is preparing to batch print the imperial armor magic pattern structure. Once this standard metal armor is made into a simplified version of the magic pattern structure, it will greatly reduce the manufacturing cost of the lowest-end magic pattern structure.

However, the primary magic pattern structure cannot be widely popularized in the Green Empire. The Sloyd Province of the Green Empire alone has millions of single-transfer warriors.

The Green Empire has a total of 97 provinces. Among such a large base of warriors, each province has only a small part of the construction knights. Even if it has the powerful North Wind Legion, the total number of construction warriors is less than 50,000.

There is still a huge gap in the magic market of the Green Empire. The main reason for this phenomenon is that the production capacity of the magic pattern assembly is low. Each set of magic pattern assembly is a work carefully produced by the imperial inscription masters. Although the difficulty of making these magic pattern assembly is between artworks and handicrafts, the value of a magic pattern assembly makes many little nobles sigh.

I have to say that the magic pattern structure is too expensive. Some magic pattern structures are in the hands of the nobles. A considerable inheritance can be passed on to descendants.

Two dwarf craftsmen, Harleyson and Morgan, squatted on the wine barrel at the door of the Magic Seal Workshop. They held pipes and sucked the clouds and mists there, while squinting their eyes as the female dwarfs moved out of the workshop a set of magic pattern armor. The tested magic pattern structures will be coated with grease and put into the box, and the magic pattern structures that failed to be engraved will be re-melted into iron ingots.

The first batch of simplified versions of the magic pattern structure should be equipped for the South Wind Legion if nothing unexpected happens. I have already greeted Count Connord in advance and should be equipped with two heavy armored cavalry regiments in advance. The heavy armored knights in the South Wind Legion actually have many first-hand knights. As long as they wear the magic pattern structure, their strength will be greatly improved.

Next, I may support Zach and Ernestine. They will probably launch an expedition in the Jero plane in the spring of the next year. If there are not enough Knights in the Expedition, I will help him temporarily collect two Knights.

Of course, it may also be supported by Duke Jingyue of the North Wind Legion. In short, the lords will never think that there are too many magic pattern constructions, but there are not many lords who can eat a whole Knights' magic pattern construction at one time, even in the imperial capital.

...

After returning to the wild swamp south of Qiyan Province overnight, he happened to see Justus returning to the camp from the jungle with a squad of barbarian slaves carrying a petrified lizard nearly ten meters long.

Since the last time I encountered a war between the lizard tribes, I have sent 200 barbarian slaves who stayed in Xinliu Valley to stand by and follow our team through the rainforest. Although these barbarian slaves are not adapted to the climate conditions here, it is better than being stuck in underground caves. Each barbarian warrior carries a huge heavy crossbow behind him.

Because the weather was too hot, I did not harshly ask them to wear a complete set of Nakma armor, but asked them to wear at least breastplate and pants nails on them.

These barbarians were born to be a group of foodies. Even in such a hot and hard weather, they even rushed to the jungle to hunt.

Of course I knew that there were many monsters in the wild swamp, but I didn't expect that there were so many that they could be seen everywhere. Justus just took these savage slaves to walk around the valley and met the petrified lizards who were hunting by the river.

The adult petrified lizard, which weighs more than two tons and is more than ten meters long, was hunting a white antelope by the river. While enjoying a delicious lunch, it was shot into a sieve by a group of barbarian slaves with heavy crossbows. A good piece of high-end leather became ragged.

However, the flesh of this petrified lizard is very delicious. It is said that the flesh and blood of petrified lizards contain a large amount of earth magic elements. Perified lizard meat is a high-end ingredient commonly found in high-end restaurants in the imperial capital.

Orc warriors robbed five traversing giant lizards from the lizard tribe. Lizard slaves were familiar with the temperament of these traversing giant lizards and knew how to tame them. So I arranged ten lizard slaves to take care of these five traversing giant lizards. These traversing giant lizards are a very important means of transportation in the wild swamp.

The five hiking lizards in our team did not need to carry heavy supplies along the way, so the Jero natives put the pergola on the back of the hiking lizards, and the women in the team sat in the pergola. This hiking lizard can walk very smoothly even in the swamp. No matter what the harsh swamp environment is, it is like walking on flat ground for them.

Along the way, we saw a blood-sucking tree with various beast bones hanging on the branches. It was a level 4 blood-sucking tree. There was also a strange bird called a blood-crawl. According to Nathaniel, this blood-crawl can suck human souls. They are born on the blood-sucking tree and are also the guardians of the blood-sucking tree. In the wild swamp, even the lizards are unwilling to enter the territory of the blood-sucking tree that has become a climate.

We also saw countless sharp-toothed piranhas fighting in the river water with several thick-skinned giant crocodiles. It is said that the river valley monsters often defend the ownership of their territory through bloody battles.

We crossed the Farah River without any danger.

After leaving the valley, he turned around and walked west for a week. A narrow ridge appeared again in the dense rainforest. The mountain first appeared in a dark line in sight. When he saw this mountain, Nathaniel breathed a sigh of relief and said that although the road he was taking was slightly deviant from the original road, the general direction was correct.

As the saying goes, when we look at the mountain, we will die from the distance to the mountain. It took us four days to see the ridge from afar until we reach the foot of the mountain.

This is not a straight line, because there are some lizard tribes everywhere in the swamp jungle here. Although the war between the lizard tribes is spread throughout the wild swamps, the lizard tribes in this area seem to have not been affected yet.

So much so that we had to be extra careful when we passed through these lizard-men territories.

Even if you meet a small group of lizard hunters, you dare not swallow them easily, worrying that the destruction of a team of lizard hunters will lead to the pursuit of the entire lizard tribe. This place is different from the edge of the wild swamp. Even if you destroy a lizard tribe, you will not have much scene.

Located in the heart of the wild swamp, there are some connections between the lizard tribes here, and we don’t want to have any trouble. So Nathaniel led the way to find a buffer zone between the lizard tribe territory. It was a very smooth journey.

...

Mount Ellamokus is located in the north of the Wilderness and Swamp territory, and is like two parallel lines to the Piatilla Mountains, traversing the northwest of the Wilderness and Swamp.

There are large tropical rainforests, river valleys, and swamps between the two mountains. There are many intermediate monsters living here. There are five larger lizard tribes here. In addition to meeting the Munigi tribe that occupies the entire Wangtian forest area, there is also the Guzaheer tribe on Mount Alamokus, and the other three large tribes are located in the swamp land between the two mountain valleys. However, the location of these tribes is relatively west-facing, namely the Laksha tribe, the Kalikat tribe and the Lamindi tribe.

Guide Nathaniel stood on the back of the hiking giant lizard, pointed to the simple fortifications built up in the mountain pass in front, and said to me: "There is the Alamokus Pass in front. This canyon is controlled by the Guzahel tribe. The last time we passed by, we were through the relationship of Inzaghi, the elder of the Guzahel tribe, and paid twenty-five gold coins to the Lizard tribe before obtaining the pass. But now the war broke out in the Lizard tribe, and it is probably not that easy to pass through Mount Alamokus."

I sat on the chair on the back platform of the giant lizard, looking at the mountain range that was crossing in front of me, probably over this ridge, and we can look for the mysterious ancient ruins in the swamp land in the south of Mount Alamokus.

Thinking of this, I couldn't wait to cross the mountain. I waved to Nathaniel and said, "If it can be settled with gold coins, it won't be a problem for me. Can I visit this elder Inzaji and let it help us get the pass?"

When Nathaniel heard my readily agree, he said hesitantly: "I can't guarantee it for the time being, but I will visit Elder Inzaji first to see if this matter is feasible."

I glanced at Nathaniel and asked him, "Oh, what kind of gifts do I need to prepare? I mean what Elder Inzaji likes. As long as I have it here, you can take some."

Nathaniel had an answer in his heart. He replied without thinking: "Tobacco and gold coins, the western part of the Green Empire is rich in a spicy tobacco. Those lizard elders like to swallow clouds and mists very much. Travelers in Qiyan City always like to sell this spicy tobacco to the lizard tribe, but now there are probably no merchants who are willing to enter the wild swamp."

I raised my hand and pointed it, and told him, "We'll stay here for the whole night now. When you go to visit Elder Inzaji tomorrow morning, come and get it."

Nathaniel had never expected that I would say this, and widened his eyes and asked me: "You shouldn't even prepare tobacco."

I could only grit my teeth and laugh dryly before answering: "Of course, how can I say the old saying? Be prepared for any trouble!"

In fact, where can I prepare that thing? I am not addicted to smoking, but I can run back to the imperial capital to buy it at night...

Just as Nathaniel was about to leave, I called him back and asked him: "We have brought lizard slaves here. Will it cause trouble for the fortresses stationed by the lizard men?"

Nathaniel thought about it carefully before saying to me: "This is not true. There is not much connection between the lizard tribes. They often exploit lizard people outside their tribes more powerful than us. In the lizard tribes, lizard slaves are also common."

"Oh, that's fine." I nodded and waved his hand to signal that he could go down and rest.

...

The next morning, Nathaniel took some tobacco gifts and took two orc warriors to the Guzahel tribe alone.

We waited in the camp for almost two days. Just when we were worried that Nathaniel would have any accidents, we didn't expect that Nathaniel would return miraculously and brought two lizard warriors, one of which was the young lizard nobleman. He walked into our camp and looked around like a curious baby.

I had no idea that I would meet the young lizard noble again. He saw me standing on the back of the hiking giant lizard from afar. The narrow lizard showed a pleasant expression on its face, and kept waving to me, shouting to me: "Pakku, Paku..."

I could only bite my teeth, stand up from the back of the giant lizard, and nodded to the young lizard nobleman.

But then I thought of it again that Nathaniel clearly went to the Guzaheer tribe. If he could meet this young noble, it means that the young noble has some relationship with the Guzaheer tribe...

Thinking of this, I squeezed a smile out of my stiff face.
Chapter completed!