My Magic Age

Guludin Town is located at the westernmost end of the Pai Plateau. It is the first fortress guarding the western gate of the Pai Plateau.

This place is very different from Yemen Town. The Yemen Fortress guards the northern gate of the Pai Plateau. Because there is a natural road of death there, even a powerful army will lower its proud head when facing the road of death. It is a passage to hell. The mountain road between the mountains on the west side is not much shorter than the road of death, but it is not difficult to walk. Several tributaries of the Urutu River also pass through the mountains. Travelers can find water sources that can be used in the mountains at will. For thousands of years, the wars between humans and orcs have always shed blood on this long road. Therefore, this trade route from Guludin Town on the western foot of the Pai Plateau to the largest city of Sloyt City in the Sloyt Province of the Human Green Empire is called the Blood Road.

Over the past few hundred years, as the magic age slowly came, the magic controlled by the elves slowly spread to every corner of the world. With their stronger learning ability, the human race quickly mastered the essence of magic power. In just a few hundred years, dozens of powerful fourth-level great magicians appeared, which allowed the human race to completely occupy the most fertile land on the Roland continent. In the northwest corner of this land is the Green Empire, which has a powerful fire magic civilization that dominates the entire continent.

Eighty years ago, Grand Duke Xiatun.Aili of the northern province of Sloyt in the Green Empire drove the orcs back to the Pai Plateau and led the North Wind Legion to the town of Guludin along the Blood Road. In order to prevent human invasion, the orcs built a large number of fortifications along the Guludin Town. At that time, the young Archpriest Kulepaolos led the strong men of the Blood Wolf Clan to keep humans out of Guludin Town. At the last moment, he realized the most powerful magic of the shaman witch doctor, "The Gift of the Soul Walker", and brought the four elements totem to protect the shaman, and finally drove the North Wind Legion out of the Pai Plateau.

Now, the highest executive officer of the northern province, Grand Duke Xiatun.Aili, has passed away fifty years ago, but the great priest Kuleboros, who became famous in the battle, and the spiritual leader of the blood wolf tribe has become the most powerful elder of the orc elders council, and Guluding Town has become a large town that can accommodate tens of thousands of people. Over the years, the relationship between humans and orcs has gradually eased, and private merchants have begun to travel between the two places. Guluding Town has become the most important trading town in the western plateau. Trade has brought huge wealth to Guluding and made the blood wolf tribe continue to grow stronger. It seems that it has become the largest tribe in the western wilderness. No wonder Kuz always walks with his head held high when he is in Yemen Town, and even when he enters the auction venue, he keeps his back straight.

The small tribe of Laitu, which has no name, is a vassal tribe of the Blood Wolf Clan. As long as they pay some symbolic local specialties and report the population of the tribe to the Elders Council of Guludin Town every year, they will have a contract approved by the Elders Council to live on the edge of the Death Swamp and have a piece of land of their own. This is not available to every small tribe in the Orcs. Most small tribes still live a nomadic life. This is one of the reasons why the old witch doctor Gribaschin does not want to seek help from the Elders Council of Guludin. Once the Elders Council determines that their tribe does not have the strength to live on the edge of the Death Swamp, other nomadic tribes will rush to squeeze in.

After we followed Chief Laitu out of the valley of Yelian Mountain, we saw more orcs digging edible grass roots in the wilderness along the way. There were also stronger hunter teams trying to cross the mountain range and reach the hinterland of the northern foothills to hunt unicorns. When those pale and thin orcs saw us coming out of Yelian Mountain, they couldn't help but stare at the bulging breasts and even more exaggerated luggage bags of the female orcs.

About a few hundred meters away, those hungry orcs could smell the aroma of cooked beef emanating from the tribal women.

At first, Miss Qi would sit on the high medicinal material mountain, and her willow-like waist would sway with the Yagui beasts as they moved forward. Whenever she saw a thin orc child in some teams, she would take out a brick-sized piece of dried meat from her backpack, call out to the child in poor orc language, and then throw the whole piece of dried meat to him.

"Crab! Crab!"

Then there will be constant voices of thanks. The transliteration of thank you in the orc language is almost "crab".

Whether it is the surprised orc children or the strong orcs walking silently on the road, they will thank Qi Ge who is sitting on the pile of medicinal herbs.

But gradually, as the number of hungry orcs on the road continues to increase, Miss Qi's food bag is also quickly empty.

On the side of the road, you can see several orc children sitting in a row. They are skinny and stare at the adults in the wilderness digging the roots of various wild vegetables with bone tools. There are also various wild vegetables and roots in front of them. Katarina and I walked on the side of the road and saw those children staring at the roots of vegetables and swallowing their saliva. When they really couldn't help it, they took out the water bag from their arms, drank a big mouthful of water, and continued to stare at the adults digging wild vegetables deep in the grassland.

"This will destroy the pasture too much. If there is less rain this year, the alfalfa will not be able to grow in the pasture. When the soil freezes in winter, the fertile soil will be blown away layer by layer by the north wind in winter. Hey! Drink poison to quench thirst!" The old orc Gribaschin always sighed like this every time he encountered such a scene. His feelings for the grassland were too deep to be expressed in words.

I complained in my heart, haven’t you dug up grass roots in the Beilu Wasteland? If you didn’t dig up grass roots, what would they eat?

"I'm afraid it's hard to see hares, pheasants and the like in the large land north of Yelian Mountain. I'm afraid the yellow sheep have also migrated to distant places. This grassland can be cultivated for a whole summer. It doesn't matter." An old orc. Walking slowly from the west side on crutches, He was wearing a white linen robe. He came to the orc children, squatted down with difficulty, stretched out his withered arms and kept looking through the pile of wild vegetable roots. His movements were so slow and laborious, and his eyes were filled with tears. With a touch of sadness.

The group of orc children hurriedly gathered around. The leading eldest child wanted to stop, but he didn't say it anyway. He just thought about it, picked out as many fresh vegetables as possible from the pile of wild vegetables, pushed them to the old orc and said : "You must be a long time You haven’t eaten yet. My grandma picked this. You can try it! This purslane is very tender and tastes better when cooked into soup. But it’s hard to find firewood here because all the bison in the wilderness have moved away. Well, I haven’t been able to pick up cow dung or anything lately.”

"Is this your share?" The old orc raised his head and looked at the orc child with kind eyes.

The orc child lowered his head and said nothing. After a while, he raised his head and said, "I only have the right to give you my share."

He pointed at the other skinny orc children and said, "They haven't eaten anything since last night! We walked a long way overnight to get here. I didn't expect that it's hard to find wild vegetables here!"

"Haha! I seem to smell the aroma of cooked beef. It seems that in addition to salt, spices are added. It tastes so delicious! It seems that we don't have to eat these bland wild vegetables, haha! Since you invited me to eat yours Wild vegetables, then I’ll treat you to their beef !" While the old orc was speaking, he had already gone through the wild vegetables in the pile one by one, and quickly put the various wild vegetables together in different categories. Then he said to the surprised orc boy on the side: "Look carefully, I only want these. Teach you once."

When the old orc was talking, it was when Qige was passing by on the Yagui beast. She was just watching with the mentality of watching the fun. She had no choice but to feel pity for these hungry children. She felt the bottom of it. In his backpack, the last meat brick was thrown to the last orc child. He could only retract his hand with regret and silently listened to the conversation between the old orc and the older child.

Gribasin also stood there thinking about the old orc's words, and it was obvious that he had some insights.

"It looks like a wild radish, but there are knots on the rhizome and few roots. You can see that its leaves grow in the shape of a palm. This thing is not a wild radish. It is a herb. It tastes a little bitter and is easy to produce. Virtual fire, this thing is called Kudzu, a plant as big as this is worth at least twenty coppers when sold to a human merchant in Gurudin Town." The old orc clenched his withered hands into fists, compared them in front of the older child, and said to him, "Yes. In exchange for such a big piece of beef.”

Then he pointed to the ground and picked out a pile of kudzu from a large pile of wild vegetables and said to the orc eldest child: "These are all!"

They didn't expect that pulpy wild vegetables could be exchanged for beef. The children didn't believe what the old orc said, but they could hear the clear sound of swallowing saliva. The eldest child looked at the pile of kudzu on the ground with his eyes wide open, and said with some surprise: "Originally, my father said that he could take me to the wilderness this year to learn how to collect herbs and hunt, but there was not enough food stored in the winter. He and I The other adults in the village went to look for the magic antelope herd. We were very hungry in the village, so we went out with the grandmothers to dig wild vegetables to eat. I don’t know them very well. Is this really kudzu? "

Qi Ge sat on the medicine bag and saw this scene clearly. Not only was it the pile of kudzu root, but there were also three Ningshen grass and a small pile of styptic grass, all of which were neatly arranged by the old orc. , exclaimed in surprise: "Oh! Why didn't I think of that!"

With that said, Qige, who was wearing light armor of magic antelope skin, slid down from the back of the Yagui beast. When this leather armor was worn on Catalina before, it was so sexy and beautiful, but now when she wore it on Qige After wearing it, it turned out to be dignified and gorgeous. It was light and protected Qige's whole body very well. With a wide belt on, she actually looked very heroic.

Qige wore long buckskin boots and walked briskly past me. She skillfully took out a square brick of meat floss from my bag. We didn’t have too many of these. Beating the meat into fiber is a very hard job. Just pounding into the meat floss is not enough. This thing is not easy to carry. You also have to put the finished meat floss into a wooden box and compact it with a wooden pole. Only in this way is it convenient. carry.

Only Kuz had the patience to do this. These floss were still in stock when we were in the salt water pond, and we ate them all along the way.

The old orc pointed at Qi Ge and smiled at the older child and said, "Look, the meat delivery guy is here!"

Then I saw Qige carrying the square brick of meat floss, placing it on the ground and saying to the older child: "Can you exchange this piece of dried meat for these herbs?"