Mountain and Forest Kingdom

In the early morning, Lawrence was woken up by Sariel.

Pushing the woman away from him with some difficulty, Lawrence sat up in the darkness and reached out to touch the table next to him.

Soon I touched a cylindrical wooden tube.

Lawrence opened it slightly, revealing a faint spark.

There was special fire fuel under the bed. Lawrence quickly lit the brazier and walked to the lampstand in the room to light a second brazier.

After completing this, Lawrence carried the brazier and walked into the hall. The flames here had been extinguished, leaving only many burning sparks.

There are air outlets and air inlets in the cave.

There is a hole the size of a fist in Lawrence's room, which allows you to see the light from the hall, and there is also a small slanted hole in the hall, which can bring in the sunlight at seven o'clock every day.

After the sun rises at seven o'clock every day, the light will be angled into this hole, and there is also a hole specifically corresponding to this light angle in the room of Lawrence and several others.

However, no matter how ingenious the design is, it will be useless on cloudy days.

Illuminating beads won't be available until next year at the earliest. The only lighting beads now are used for the lighthouse. The only lighting tool in the cave is a flame.

Lawrence was thinking about how to solve the lighting problem and timing problem. Otherwise, he would never know when or where, which would feel very bad.

Not long after, Emma came out with a brazier and walked over gently after seeing Lawrence sitting quietly in the living room.

"Master, you're awake. It should be morning now. I just heard the rooster crow in the kitchen."

Lawrence didn't hear the rooster crow, maybe Salil did.

"Well, let's go cook. Salil and I are going out today. There are only a few of you at home. You can rest a little longer at noon. We may not come back until evening, or we may not come back until noon tomorrow."

"Yes." Emma agreed and asked again: "Are you going to Dumu Port?"

Lawrence said: "Go to Uge Village and check it out. You can go ahead."

"Yes, Master." Emma quickly went over to cook.

The other maids got up one after another and started working. The first thing was to light all the braziers in the cave.

The lighting problem is very serious. The cave is only suitable as a shelter and warehouse, not suitable for long-term living.

Maybe dark elves fit the milieu, but Lawrence is a normal human.

Several witches soon got up one after another. After eating a hearty breakfast, Lawrence and others prepared tents, clothes and food for the night, and then set off on their sheep.

Also with him were Reglo and another Ug woman, as well as two Clodagh warriors.

Each person has one sheep, leaving five free sheep to carry their luggage.

Everyone set out at around eight o'clock in the morning and arrived under the big oak tree at around eleven o'clock in the afternoon.

As soon as she got close to here, Sophia looked up at the big oak tree and then looked at the ground nearby.

"Master, I feel like there are a lot of weapons and gold coins buried here."

Khalan said: "Do the Agama people have the custom of burying treasures under oak trees?"

Lawrence said: "I don't know much about the rules in the Agama Mountains, but the Kingdom of Luofen has this habit."

Regloo on the side also had the right to speak, "The Ice Sea people like to bury treasures underground and kill one or more people to bury them together as guards."

Count Valkyrie is this kind of person. He has no descendants or heirs, and he doesn't want to give his treasure to others.

Nobles like him like to dig more holes at night and prepare more things to take with them after they die.

Lawrence said: "The people of Binghai are all buried in the water, and our treasures are buried in the soil. Can we really be together after death?"

Reglo thought seriously for a few seconds and quickly said: "It must be an act of deception. The legends of the Ice Sea are all false. Fortunately, we believe in the great Lord of the Stars!"

Lawrence quickly ignored the topic, looked at the huge oak tree in front of him and said, "Mother, is this big oak tree rare?"

Lathander had been looking at this huge oak tree. "It must be more than a thousand years ago. I need to take a closer look at it."

Lawrence said to the others: "Leave a few people here for protection, while the rest go out to explore and come back to gather in ten minutes."

"yes!"

Everyone began to explore outside, and Kharan asked Lawrence: "Where is the crow wizard buried before?"

"This way." Lawrence buried the wizard he had killed under the hillside.

At that time, I felt that wizards were strange beings. In order to prevent contamination of the land after death, I buried them farther away.

Furthermore, I was worried that others would find the body and come to seek revenge, so I placed it in the inaccessible village of Uge.

Kehalan walked near the mound where the wizard's body was buried. There were no weeds growing here, only some black vines like earthworms were spreading in all directions.

Lawrence felt dangerous, "What are these?"

Kehalan said: "It's the corpse-eating vine. This is what will grow on the body of a wizard who often eats people after he dies."

Lawrence looked at these earthworm-like plants and soon discovered that these things seemed to be alive and would wriggle themselves into the soil instead of simply expanding outwards.

"What's the use of this corpse-eating vine?"

"It's useless." Kharan said directly: "Only hot water can burn them to death. Even if ordinary weapons cut them off, these things will regenerate quickly."

Lawrence asked: "What will happen if it is burned?"

Kharan said: "It is difficult to burn to death. It takes a long time to burn. These things will emit black blood and produce poisonous smoke after burning."

"Can it be sold?" Lawrence looked at these strange things. "Pick them and preserve them. Can they be sold?"

Kahalan smiled and said: "You can't, and it will lead to vendetta. Wizards don't like this kind of thing, and they hate it even more when someone desecrates the soul of the dead like this."

Lawrence was a great listener.

"We just happened to have brought fuel and a pot. Let's boil a pot of hot water and send these disgusting things on their way."

Lawrence asked again: "Does this thing appear in the body of a normal wizard after death?"

Kehalan explained: "No, only people with multiple wizards' flesh and blood in their bodies will have this kind of thing. Normal wizards will release long-term witchcraft according to their own abilities after death."

"For example, my mother, after she died, water kept coming out of the land around her because she was a water witch."

"If I die and lie underground, the trees around me will grow and decay quickly, just like Mount Talim."

"In Derren's words, the land should turn into soft and hard quicksand."

"As for Lathander, the land is prone to burning."

Lawrence nodded and suddenly asked curiously: "You have a child, right?"

Khalan's past is not only the years in Mount Talim, but also the life experiences that preceded it.

Lawrence was not her first man. Khalan also had a daughter who was older than Lawrence.

Kehalan showed a look of reminiscence, "Yes, I gave her to other witches to raise, and she is still alive now. I can feel her presence."

"But I don't know what abilities she has. She was still a child when I left and she didn't show any extraordinary talents."

Lawrence liked Kohalan very much. Kohalan had helped a lot since joining and was obedient and reliable.

"How about we send someone to take your daughter over and live there?"

Kehalan looked at Lawrence in confusion, "What to do? Kill her?"

Lawrence said quickly: "No, no, no, I don't have that idea. I just think we can take in more people here, such as your relatives."

Kehalan shook his head, "Let's talk about it in a few years. If we contact her now, we will have to negotiate with that group of wizards, which will be very troublesome."

Lawrence felt that Kehalan was more reliable, "Let's talk about it in a few years. After I make the territory stronger, I will be able to do many things more freely!"

Kehalan thought about the situation here and found that five witches were indeed too few.