My Magic Age

On the way through the valley, we encountered three groups of barbarians ambushing on the top of the fault mountain. Fortunately, Deborah was there. No matter how secretly the barbarians were hiding, they would still be visible from the air. Deborah gave us After providing detailed information, we set up traps for these barbarian teams and trapped these barbarians in the valley.

There is a barbarian team with more than 80 people. Such a large barbarian team is rarely seen near El City.

I took Kalantso and Katarina to climb up the cliff in person and went to the hiding place of the barbarian team on the top of the cliff to check it out. The scene I saw was a bit shocking to me.

The barbarian team set up camp in the shelter next to the huge rock on the top of the mountain. There was a bonfire in the middle of the barbarian camp. The charcoal ash piled on the bonfire had been covered by some residual snow. The bonfire was supported by a simple wooden frame and a wooden stick. Wearing a rib, this rib looks a bit like a hyena and a bit like a human.

There are piles of skeletons in the corner of the camp, covered with traces of smoke and fire. Some are the skeletons of beasts, but most of them are human skeletons. There are still residual tendons on the bones. These are a group of cannibals. Barbarians, and it seems that they have been staying in the Fault Mountain area for several days.

There are also some human leather armors, weapons and packages scattered nearby. It seems that the barbarians intercepted and killed more than one Falcon team here. Among the leather goods scattered on the ground, there are also some fragments of standard leather armor, which should be It was the scout team that intercepted the Beifeng Legion.

There were no survivors in the barbarian camp, and there were no human slaves to bring back to the ice and snow tundra for mining. The barbarians on the fault mountain had eaten everything they could eat, and it seemed that they had no intention of leaving.

The behavior of this group of barbarians is somewhat incomprehensible to me. I wonder what the barbarians want to do in Fault Mountain?

Could it be that they were guarding the Fault Valley Road just to kill some Falcons and Knights of the North Wind Legion?

It has never happened before that this group of barbarians set up an ambush in the fault valley road in such an organized and planned way.

This can't help but make me shudder. So many barbarians gathered together, obviously not to capture the imperial residents living in the fault mountain area. They were waiting on the top of the fault mountain to target the Beifeng Legion's Constructed Knight Scout Team and Falcon Team, and they did hunt down some Falcon Teams and Imperial Troops.

The barbarians intercepted them layer by layer on the valley roads of Fault Mountain. This unusual approach gave me some bad premonitions.

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Noah complained that I was too cruel to the barbarian captives.

Every time he killed a prisoner, Noah had to escape with Shirley and Yingli, or go back to the sled or the tent.

Noah's doing this saved me a lot of trouble.

A total of nearly one hundred and fifty barbarians were captured during the three hunts in the valley.

Among these barbarian captives, forty-six barbarian slaves were successfully subdued. These barbarian slaves were all sent back to Xinliu Valley. They had to dig stones obediently in the quarry for a few years and polish their clothes. wild.

While at the fishing lake, he captured sixteen lone barbarian warriors and successfully persuaded three barbarians to sign a slave contract.

The success rate of signing slave contracts here on the Fault Valley Road is so high entirely because we are better at handling barbarian captives. The tomb is excavated, the gun is pressed, the gun is pressed, the gun is pressed, the gun is pressed, the gun is pressed, the gun is pressed, and the tomb is broken. Jie owes chasing boy Хlong

Therefore, the number of barbarian slaves subdued is slightly larger.

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Two barbarian slaves pulled a sled on the fault valley road for two full days. We arrived at Hamamatsu Castle, a small town at the other end of the valley road.

Walking out of the valley road of Fault Mountain, I saw the devastated Hamamatsu Castle. A plume of black smoke was still rising from the broken wall gate. The flag on the castle gate tower had long been broken. The body of a guard was still hanging on the wall. His feet He was entangled in a rope and hung upside down outside the city wall. His body was already stiff and would sway constantly when the wind blew occasionally.

My guess on the Fault Valley Road was finally verified here:

A large number of barbarians bypassed El City and entered the territory of Nato City through the fault valley road.

The barbarians were probably worried that the falcons from El City would come here after hearing the news. At the same time, in order to prevent the people from Nato City from going to El City for help, they arranged three barbarian squadrons on the fault valley road. The barbarians' approach of setting up an ambush did play a certain role. The people in El City probably didn't know what was happening here.

Hamamatsu Castle is just the northernmost town of Nato City. This town is located at the junction of El City and Nato City. It is one of the satellite towns of Nato City and has also become a new round of barbarians. A new starting point for killing and plundering slaves.

These barbarians could not benefit from the northern part of Sloit Province and entered the southern region in large numbers.

It turned out that although the small towns in the southern part of Sloit Province were on guard against barbarians, they were not as fortified and clear as the northern border cities.

Hamamatsu Castle Town is built on a gentle slope. The entire town is connected into one, covering an area of ​​about one square kilometer. It is considered a medium-sized town.

A ten-meter-high wall was built around the castle. In one corner of the wall stood an arrow tower more than twenty meters high. There were gates on all four sides of the wall. The gates were not very high. Some broken city defense equipment was scattered on the top of the city. Three sections of the front wall had completely collapsed.

In my mind, there was a scene of barbarians breaking through the wall and rushing into the town.

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A winding road led directly to the castle gate. A large area of ​​chestnut trees was planted on the earth slope. The forest was covered with a thick layer of snow, and the battlefield was also covered by heavy snow.

There was a dead silence inside Hamamatsu Castle.

The minotaur Luka, wearing a fine full-cover armor, kicked open half of the broken gate. The gate made of hard oak had been burnt to a crisp. The gate collapsed and broke into several pieces on the ground. Luka stepped on the gate planks and walked into Hamamatsu Castle. Some broken weapons were scattered on the dilapidated streets.

A magic caravan overturned at the gate of the city, but the Gubolai horse pulling the car was nowhere to be seen. Only the remaining bloodstains could be seen on the ground. Those bloodstains had turned black and purple. It seemed that the battle had been going on for many days. The gate hole covered the snow, which made these bloodstains exposed outside.

The sled had no way to drive in, so it had to stay outside the city. We entered Hamamatsu Castle to look for survivors here.

Walking on the streets of Hamamatsu Castle, the streets were covered with a thick layer of snow. The castle still retained the appearance when the barbarians rushed into the city. The doors of many shops were open, and some items were scattered on the ground and covered by heavy snow.

It seemed that the residents here had hurriedly fled Hamamatsu Castle at that time. They left in a hurry and didn't even have time to take away the valuables in their homes.

There were traces of fighting everywhere on the street. Some wooden poles and feather arrows were inserted into the walls of the street, and some broken short flying spears were inserted into the stone slabs.

The orc warriors dug up the snowpack and found a cold young woman's body lying under the snow. She should be a resident of Hamamatsu Castle. Her body was frozen hard like a stone. Her chest was sunken, as if it had been hit by a heavy object. Her face was distorted and a thin layer of ice condensed on her body. Because of the cold weather, the woman's appearance before death was well preserved.

When we saw this scene, we noticed that there seemed to be many such snowpacks on the street.

Noah, Shirley Newman, Ying Li and others ran out. They dug up the thick snow and found corpses in front of us.

The men in the town should have been taken away by the barbarians as slaves. Most of these corpses were old people and women. The town was full of broken traces left by the barbarians after the capture. The barbarians used blunt tools to break the walls of the houses in the city, lifted the roofs, and carefully searched every building for imperial people.

Deborah was driven by Kalancuo to the air for reconnaissance. She first hovered over Hamamatsu Castle. After finding no abnormal situation, she expanded the scope of reconnaissance. It seems that the barbarians have already left Hamamatsu Castle.

Catalina stood high on the broken wall, observing the architectural layout of Hamamatsu Castle.

We are about to build the town of Trum on the Yerro plane, so Catalina will carefully observe the architectural layout here every time she arrives at a town. The defense system of Hamamatsu Castle looks very complete, but the barbarians who attacked the city are too powerful. In the face of absolute power, Hamamatsu Castle could not hold on.

Kalancuo, probably because Stone was used to this kind of scene, did not change her face. She calmly ordered ten orc construct warriors to divide into five groups and explore Hamamatsu Castle in different directions. When Catalina was not with me, Kalancuo would guard me.

The Tauren warrior tried to find a few survivors among the corpses on the street, which made the kind and honest Tauren very frustrated. He began to try to explore some well-preserved houses and search for survivors there.

Seeing the cold corpses lying on the stone street, Noah looked at the wall and sat on the snow. There was a faint sadness in his eyes. After a moment of silence, Noah raised his head and asked me: "Ji Jia, how could this happen?"

"The war between the northerners and the barbarians has always been like this. You die and I die. There is nothing to say." I said to Noah.

In the town of Mas, I once encountered the same miserable scene.

At that time, I was just hunting in the suburbs with an old falcon team. When the same thing happened twice in a row, this scene seemed less shocking.

There must be someone who survived in this town, but just didn't want to come out.

Compared with the survivors in the town, I am more concerned about where the barbarians who broke through Hamamatsu Castle have gone.

I don't think this way because I'm cold-blooded. This is what most people in the Northern Province think.

Yes, everyone thinks so.

In the North, the connection between cities is not that close. After all, it is a matter of life and death. When the city of El was besieged by the Storm Bear Tribe, I recognized this fact: only the El people can save the city of El.

We came to the town square. There were obvious traces of fighting here. The group sculpture in the center of the square has been destroyed beyond recognition.

Kalancuo came up and sat on the broken bench next to the stone steps beside the fountain. Looking at the bell tower on the roof of the town council hall, he pondered for a while before saying: "... It seems that Hamamatsu Castle is just a starting point. After these barbarians captured a large number of human slaves, they did not return north along the fault valley road. This means that they drove the human slaves to the next town to rob. Should we chase them?"

I said without thinking: "Of course I want to chase!"

This group of barbarians who plundered Hamamatsu Castle must have become very bloated after capturing a group of Imperials. With our current strength, we are qualified to follow their team and eat away at these barbarians bit by bit. Man is like the wind wolf following the one-horned bison in the wilderness.

Then I knocked on my head and said to Kalantso: "I thought this winter would be quieter, but I didn't expect that it would just be a little calmer in El City. These barbarians transformed the hunting grounds into Sloit Province." The south is really a headache!”

Shirley Newman stood aside at this time and asked me with some confusion: "Aren't the South Wind Army and the North Wind Army known as the two most powerful armies in the empire?"

Seeing me looking at her, Shirley Newman continued: "At this time, the North Wind Legion is needed. Where are the Knights of the North Wind Legion? Where are they?"

I said: "After all, the territory of Sloit Province is too large. Many towns have to rely on their own defense power to resist the barbarians."

Deborah returned from the air at this time and told Kalantso and I that we had discovered the barbarian team about 20 kilometers southwest of Hamamatsu Fort.

I took out the map of Sloit Province and saw that the area was a large mountain forest. After crossing the mountain forest, I could reach the town of Klee, another town in Tona City. I asked Deborah: Where did the group of barbarians come from the town of Klee? This way, or that way to Clayton?

But Deborah hesitated for a long time, but she still couldn't tell the reason. She didn't speak Imperial Language that fluently, and her words were unclear in many places, so I couldn't figure out what she wanted to say.

Because we discovered the enemy's traces, we did not stop at Hamamatsu Castle and pursued directly to the southwest of Hamamatsu Castle.

When we were riding forward, Catalina and I were walking side by side. I saw that she looked worried, so I asked her: "Katrina, what's wrong with you?"

Catalina turned to look at me and said to me: "You see, the wall of Hamamatsu Castle is quite high, but it still did not stop the barbarian. We will also build Trum in the Hierro plane next." Small town, Jijia, what kind of town do you think we should build to be able to resist those Niburu spider warriors?”

"The best way is to drive those Nibru spiders out of the Black Forest. However, it seems that the Duke of Samoyed has not done this! In any case, let's take a look at the situation over there first. After all, even if It’s the spider-man warlord who leads the attack on the city, and we are not without the strength to fight!” I said to Katarina.