Lord Highlander

A group of people rode ghost pattern soldier ants into the depths of the cave, and they encountered more and more caves storing fraternal eggs, and some ghost pattern worker ants were taking care of these fraternal eggs in the caves.

Suldak found that even these fraternal eggs also have this sequence level. The scattered crypts around them are all small and light-colored fraternal eggs without many patterns. When they are in some large crypts deep in the crypt, they are placed It is full of fraternal eggs as tall as adults, and the lines on these fraternal eggs become extremely regular. Surdak can clearly see the shadows of red ants curled up on some fraternal eggs that are about to hatch. The outriggers together look a little tingling.

Suldak could even tell that it was a ghost-striped soldier ant. He didn't expect these soldier ants to be much bigger than adult ghost-striped worker ants from the moment they were born.

Although the burrow here is not stuffy, the sour and rancid smell inside the ant nest has become very strong.

The team still did not stop, and continued to walk inward along the wide cave. Many large cave walls were basically remodeled by ghost-striped red ants in the later stage. It is much smoother. In order to increase the utilization rate of space, many fraternal eggs are hung on the roof of the cave.

In this dark crypt, you can still see some whitish umbrella-shaped mushrooms, which are translucent in color.

When Elder Druid Bai Jide saw this kind of mushroom, he was so excited that he jumped off the back of the soldier ant. After falling several times in the cave, he finally climbed to the place where the white mushroom grew. There were actually two ghost pattern soldier ants guarding Mushroom's place, but they were forced to take a few steps back only when they saw Elder Bai Jide walking past.

It's just that the pair of heads that looked like they were wearing red eyepatch were still staring at Elder Bai Jide, and the fangs protruding from his mouth kept opening and closing.

However, this tribal elder was not polite to the red ants. When Suldak rushed over, he actually picked the whole mushroom plant and rebuilt the rotten soil after picking the mushrooms, and smiled at Surdak. Duck said: "After a while, this kind of ghost mushroom will grow here again. This kind of mushroom is dried and ground into powder, which can be used to make invisibility potion. I haven't seen ghost mushroom for a long time!"

"Is this the ghost mushroom?" Suldak asked in surprise after taking the two mushrooms that were bigger than the washbasin handed over by Elder Bai Jide.

He had heard of the name Ghost Mushroom before. When the lord army opened up the Sanhe Plain, they found some magic herbs. The caravans that specialize in buying magic herbs are usually more heroic, and the prices they offer are usually very beautiful. Suldak had seen the name of the ghost mushroom on a price list of magic herbs.

He was able to remember this name because it sounded very special, and it gave people a feeling: this must be a poisonous mushroom.

Elder Bai Jide wrapped his share of ghost mushrooms with a piece of linen, nodded and admitted: "There is nothing wrong with this. Although the environment in which this mushroom grows is relatively harsh, it is very easy to identify."

Suldak never expected that an elder from an indigenous tribe could not only speak the Imperial language fluently, but also be very knowledgeable.

"Elder Baijide, when did you learn the Imperial language? It's really good..."

Suldak took out a magic sealing box, put the ghost mushroom in it, and asked Elder Bai Jide at the same time.

"This kind of ghost mushroom is not easy to preserve. Since you have a magic sealing box, let me give you these too!"

Seeing that Suldak was carrying a magic sealing box, Elder Baijide decisively handed his pack of ghost mushrooms to Suldak, and then said: "As for my imperial language, I have learned it for a long time. In the tribe, it is not uncommon to know a few words of Grimm Empire..."

"Then store it with me first, and when we take these ghost mushrooms out, what are you going to do with them? Do you want to make medicinal powder?" Suldak put the magic sealing box into the storage space of the magic belt, and then Ask Elder Bai Jide.

Elder Bai Jide laughed, and said cheerfully:

"Why is it so troublesome now? There are so many merchant groups behind your army. They provided so many supplies to the aborigines of our tribe along the way. We just hope that we can think about them when we get monster materials and magic herbs. I will sell these ghost mushrooms to business groups, so many people followed me to the Invercargill Forest, and I also need to raise some supplies to house them."

Suldak patted the magic belt and said to Elder Bai Jide:

"Then let me help you deal with these ghost mushrooms, and you will definitely not suffer any losses."

After finishing speaking, Suldak re-boarded the ghost pattern soldier ant waiting at the side, sat on its back, and asked again:

"By the way, Elder Baijide, will these tribes of yours move to the Dark Worm Valley?"

Elder Bai Jide responded immediately:

"Of course, we must guard the Son of Nature, Lord Suldak, will this be your territory in the future? Can our tribe settle down on your territory?"

It could be seen that there was a trace of worry revealed in Elder Bai Jide's eyes, so Suldak said:

"I will apply to Wilkes City, even if the land in the Three Rivers Plain is replaced, the area of ​​the Dark Insect Valley must be included in my territory."

Then he said: "You go ahead and live here! I promise that in my territory, all the Aboriginal tribes will be completely self-governing, as the Aboriginal tribes in the Invercargill Forest can attest to, I will not interfere with the internal affairs of the aboriginal tribe for any reason, and the aboriginal tribe does not have to worry about the impact of imperial laws on the tribe."

Perhaps Suldak has a good reputation among these aborigines, so Elder Baijide asked seriously:

"I heard that there is a system of recruiting soldiers from the whole people in the decrees of the Green Empire?"

He was probably worried that all the men in the tribe would be forcibly recruited by draft orders, which would be a devastating disaster for any tribe.

Suldak waved his hand and said bluntly: "The decree of the empire does not currently include aboriginal tribes, but having said that, half of my lord's army is tribal aborigines, but this is not because of the compulsory recruitment of all people. Yes, but the tribes took the initiative to apply to join the lord's army, and you will gradually understand some things in the future."

"And I don't plan to open the Dark Worm Valley to the outside for the time being. After all, the World Tree needs a certain growth space, and this place will become a closed area."

"And I don't need to worry about your livelihood. As long as the ghost-striped red ants here are continuously exported as commodities, the economic benefits generated will probably be enough to feed everyone."

After Suldak finished speaking, he saw Elder Bai Jide obviously heaving a sigh of relief.

Only then did Suldak know that Elder Bai Jide had probably been worrying about this all along the way...

Now I heard myself say the promise myself, and it is completely consistent with the message that World Tree passed on to him.

The great elder of the tribe seemed much more relaxed, and even smiled more freely.

Then the two talked a lot about the system and laws of the Green Empire, and the current situation of the empire is not optimistic.

Hearing that all the priests and priests of the Temple of Liberty had left the empire, the elder Baijid even told Surdak that there are many young people in his tribe who are good at some healing methods related to herbs. If Su If Erdak needs it, he can let these young people from the tribe join Suldak's lord army.

Suldak asked Elder Baijid: "Can those young druids come?"

Elder Baijide nodded and replied, "Yes, there will be some druids joining your army."

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The team entered a huge cave, and Surdak felt that it was more like a closed stadium. The huge space inside could accommodate at least 100,000 people.

Suldak felt that this place should be the deepest part of the ant nest, because from the entrance, he saw through the darkness a huge belly like a train lying in the middle of the cave. Mi's huge belly is like more than 20 Thunder Rhinoceros connected at the end, and it exists in the form of a section.

Although the abdomen of this insect is dark red in color, there are very regular white spots on both sides of the abdomen, emitting a glistening white light in the cave.

Thousands of ghost pattern worker ants are busy in this cave. There are at least dozens of exits in this stone room. A group of worker ants carrying orange fraternal eggs are lined up in the cave, and leave here quickly.

What made Suldak feel horrified was that although the worm belly had no front half, it could still produce fraternal eggs normally.

And after the dying ant queen arrived here, it seemed like she was alive...