My Magic Age

Pushing open the door of the lounge, I couldn't believe my eyes. Bernd, a dwarf warrior who was originally very unpopular, stood in front of a map of the distribution of underground caves, pointing at the caves above with a wooden stick. After branching out, Kalancuo sat aside and supported his chin with one hand, and listened with great interest.

The orc warriors on both sides of the wooden table listened very carefully to the dwarf Bernd's explanation of the battle plan.

I clearly remember that the last time I came here, the dwarf Bernd still looked like a drunkard, lying on the oak barrel and sleeping soundly. Bernd was privately despised by the orc warriors, and some even wanted to beat the dwarf Bernd while he was awake.

How could he not see each other for a few days? How did his relationship with these orc warriors become so harmonious?

Seeing me coming, the dwarf warrior Bernd stopped. The orcs turned their heads and looked at me in surprise. They seemed to think that it was incredible that I appeared in the underground cave at this time. Kalancso bowed slightly and waved to me. He waved, and there were more than forty orc warriors crowded into the not-so-large lounge, including five young orc female warriors.

I could only go over and sit next to Kalantso in full view of everyone.

(Even if the lounge is so crowded, no orc dares to sit next to Kalantso, and no one dares to sit on the bench next to her.)

"Mr. Bernd, you can continue!" Kalancso reminded from the side.

The dwarf Bernd coughed twice, then painted a main cave road in red, drew a big red circle on it, and said: "I lead the first team to be responsible for this area. This cave is about 100 meters away from the underground. The storage room is too close. My initial plan is to drive all the goblins living within ten kilometers around the altar deep into the cave. This cleaning work is expected to last a long time, so I need twenty people who are used to the underground. Orc warriors living in caves.”

Hearing what the dwarf Bernd said, some young orc warriors immediately raised their hands and expressed that they had completely adapted to underground life and were very adaptable to the fighting style in underground caves.

The dwarf Bernd said quickly: "We will divide into groups later, let me assign the tasks first!"

"Chief Kalantso is responsible for leading the second team to open up the passage between the altar and the underground entrance. There are dozens of large and small natural caves along this tunnel. There are many forked roads and the terrain is very complex. I suggest that it be smooth all the way. Push it over and use fire phosphorus bombs to destroy all the goblin tribes with more than 500 people. Block all the large and small cave branches that can be blocked. If the branches are too large, clean them along the inside. " The dwarf Bernd said to Kalantso.

Kalantso sat next to me and nodded, and said seriously: "Do you need any prisoners?"

Bernd said categorically: "No, we don't have food to feed these useless low-level creatures. We must kill them all to let them know that this area belongs to us and drive them into deeper caves. This There are no mineral deposits in the nearby mountains. Only by migrating deeper underground can the remaining value of these goblins be squeezed out. "

His tone was decisive, without any hesitation.

Bernd continued: "These guys are like gophers. Female goblins will keep reproducing, one nest after another, and their reproductive ability is super strong. This goblin group is too large and is a threat to us. , so regardless of whether they are hostile to us, our first priority now is to suppress their population. "

After saying this, the dwarf Bernd glanced at me and breathed a sigh of relief when I nodded to him in agreement.

Looking at the countless large and small cave branches on the wall like a spider web, I realized that my previous thinking was a bit too simplistic. It can be said that here, the goblins occupy an absolute advantage in the terrain. There are many small stone crevices and tunnels. Strong orcs cannot pass through these narrow caves. Therefore, it is often necessary to block some branch tunnels. .

Bernd then began to introduce the method of blocking the branches of the cave:

In fact, one of the most labor-saving methods is to look for places with a large amount of limestone in the rock formations, and directly use fire phosphorus bombs to collapse the caves. However, the disadvantage of this method is that if you do not run fast enough and find the detonation point well enough, you may destroy the cave. He was also buried alive. And it will damage the structural strength of the main road to a great extent.

Another method is to block it with stones, which is obviously not very good. Those goblins are not fools. As long as they are willing to spend some time, they can naturally clean up the stones in those tunnels.

Another method is to set up traps in the tunnel and hang the corpses of some goblins in the tunnel to scare them. Under normal circumstances, these cowardly goblins would not dare to continue walking this way.

Bernd carefully explained the character traits and living habits of the goblins. Only in this way can we know ourselves and our enemies.

Finally, he talked about how to prevent the goblins' blowdarts with paralyzing poison. Of course, the best way is to wear a hard leather armor. Most of the goblins' poisonous needles are made from the fruit of a cranesbill soaked in venom. Made of this kind of thin and sharp fruit, it is very suitable for making blow darts, but its only drawback is that it cannot break armor.

But even if you are wearing full armor, some joints and seams cannot protect you from blow darts, so antidote is also a must-have medicine for marching.

In this regard, the old orc witch doctor Zewang is good at preparing antidote potions. Xinliu Valley is not short of various magical herbs. It is very simple to prepare some orc-style antidote potions. I have been prepared for this, but the orc warriors don’t think those blowguns are so terrible. Instead, after Bernd said this, the orcs listened very seriously.

After the dwarf Bernd arranged the battle plan, he began to divide the groups.

Bernd personally led a team of orc warriors to clean up the goblin tribes in the area around the altar.

Kalancuo led a team of orc warriors to open up the connecting passage to the underground entrance.

I thought the orc warriors would not be willing to be assigned to Bernd’s group, but I didn’t expect that on the contrary, almost all the young orcs were eager to try and were willing to join Bernd’s combat team.

This made me very confused. I secretly asked Kalancuo and then I understood the reason for this situation:

Three days ago, there was a fierce fight in the storage room. A team of goblin robbers actually opened a 300-meter-long tunnel from under our feet, sneaked into the warehouse, and poisoned four orc warriors guarding with poison arrows. Two orc warriors had their throats cut on the spot. (It was the time when Kalancuo was brought to the imperial capital by me)

The young orc warriors had no combat experience and were completely stunned by this sudden change. Those goblin robbers always got into the gap of the oak barrel before the orcs came, and then got back into the dug hole, so that these orc warriors had no way to deal with them, leaving only a few goblin corpses.

At this time, the dwarf warrior Bernd stepped forward. After he used his musket to steadily kill several goblin bandits, some orc warriors followed his footsteps and began to kill goblins together. However, at this time, the goblins saw that they could not conquer the storage room and fled along the excavated tunnel.

The orc warriors wanted to pursue the victory, and at this time, they needed a captain with rich combat experience. The dwarf Bernd stepped forward without hesitation and led the orc warriors to chase the fleeing goblins. His means of treating the goblins were extremely cruel, and this move was deeply supported by the orcs who wanted revenge.

Then, he used the steel pipes inserted into the stone wall for early warning to chase along the cave and finally caught up with the fleeing goblins. The goblins hid in the narrow cracks in the stone. Bernd asked the orcs to bring a bucket of corpse fire oil, then covered the feather arrows with grease, and shot them into the cracks after lighting them.

The corpse fire oil burned the cracks in the stone wall, and hundreds of goblins were directly scalded to death by the hot and cracked fragments.

According to Kalancuo, the cracks in the stone were covered with corpse fire oil. The fire in some places has not been extinguished yet. It has been attached to the rocks and has been burning for two days and two nights.

Through this battle, Bernd quickly established prestige in the hearts of these young orc warriors.

Moreover, Bernd's style of doing things is extremely cruel to the enemy, which is more in line with the appetite of young orcs, so the young orcs unanimously believe that joining Bernd's combat team will make them more relaxed in battle.

On the contrary, the orc warriors are both respectful and fearful of the leader Kalancuo, especially for the younger generation of orcs. Kalancuo's prestige is far higher than that of the old orc Zewang, which makes these orc warriors unable to let go.

When grouping this time, the young orc warriors chose to follow the dwarf Bernd, while those adult orc warriors with some combat experience chose to protect Kalancuo.

Because of my unexpected appearance, the strength of Kalancuo's combat team was virtually strengthened.

…

This time, Kalancuo mobilized all the combat power of the entire orc village to participate in the operation to wipe out the goblin tribe.

There are more than 100 orcs in the orc village. Excluding the elderly, children and some orc girls who cannot participate in the battle, there are less than 80 orcs who can serve as warriors. Of course, more than a dozen people were left in the quarry in the circular valley to guard hundreds of barbarian slaves. Although those barbarians have not mutinied for a long time, it is impossible to leave no orc guards.

So there are only 65 orc warriors who actually entered the underground cave, but in the end, there are still 20 warriors guarding the large warehouse, altar, and blood pool of demon blood.

So there are only 45 orc warriors who can really be mobilized, and these orc warriors are divided into two groups.

The appearance of me and the tauren Luka strengthened the strength of Kalancuo's team, so the orc warriors of the dwarf Bernd's combat team were expanded to 25 people, while Kalancuo's combat team only had 20 people, and there were five female orc warriors.

Outside the grain warehouse, the orc warriors lined up in a long line. Each person could receive four washbasin-sized baked wheat cakes and ten kilograms of salted cooked beef. These were the combat rations for the next week. The goblin bandits actually came for the food and salted cooked beef in the underground warehouse. Unfortunately, they did not get even a cake or a piece of meat. Instead, they were completely destroyed in the cracks of the rocks two kilometers away.

Each orc warrior needs to receive a strong crossbow and two pots of short feather crossbow arrows, ten flying spears, an ironwood shield and a one-handed axe.

Now no one resists those crossbow arrows. This kind of five-shot crossbow arrows is like a harvester when facing the tide of goblin bandits.

Two days ago, the orc warriors captured a young goblin outside the warehouse. The goblin called himself Jijilu and came to deliver news to us (there is a group of five hundred goblin bandits who want to loot the underground warehouse. In fact The day before, this group of goblin bandits had been completely annihilated by the dwarf Bernd and his orc warriors).

Regarding the young goblin captive, Bernd and Kalantso held two different opinions:

Bernd thought that it would be enough to just kill this young goblin. Maybe this goblin was a scout investigating the reality of the underground warehouse, because the news it brought was in the past tense, which meant that he did not provide any useful information. Value news.

Kalantso knew Jijilu and thought he could be imprisoned and interrogated strictly. After all, Jijiru was our largest supplier of magical copper before, and he once led us to annihilate some goblin tribes.

After all, Kalantso was the leader of the orcs and had absolute say, so the young goblin survived. However, his life was not easy these days.

…

The young goblin Jijiru was locked in a small animal cage that was only two feet high. He could only curl up his body, hold his knees with his hands, and squat in pain. Outside the iron cage, there were some finely chopped wheat cake residue and an iron pot with a little water in it. The water in the iron pot looked very turbid, and there were even some tiny fish and insects rolling around inside.

No wonder Jijiru would rather hold back his hunger and thirst than touch the sewage in the iron pot. If he really drank the sewage, it might not take long before his stomach would be filled with those horrible parasites. Occupy, maybe it will become worse by then. It is an adult goblin with rich life experience and has seen many companions die because of it. At this time, it is naturally unwilling to interact with those turbid waters.

He didn't close his eyes for two days and two nights. In such a cold iron cage, sleepiness came in waves like a tide, but before he could fall asleep, his head or arms would touch those barbed ones. The railings were pricked with blood by those iron thorns.

Jijiru was tortured in the iron cage, his eye sockets were sunken deeply, and his dirty eyes were filled with bloodshot eyes.

There is a small raised platform on the wall of the dark cave, and an oil lamp with a weak flame is placed on it. The oil is boiled from animal fat. It is put into an iron bowl, and then a cotton wick is placed in it. Go in, expose only a little cotton wick on the edge of the bowl, and ignite it. This way, an earthen oil lamp can burn continuously for a week without adding oil. Of course, this requires controlling the flame to a minimum.

There is no wind in the cave, so there is no need to worry about the fire being blown out.

When it saw me walking out of the darkness, its eyes widened with excitement. Ignoring the iron spikes on the railings of the iron cage, it grabbed the railings with both hands and shook the cage vigorously, crying loudly to me in unfamiliar Imperial dialect. Shouting: "Thank you Goddess Celine, Lord Jijia, you have finally appeared. I am Jijiru from the Pandawang goblin tribe, your goblin friend Jijiru!"

"Jijiru, why are you here?" I stood in front of the iron cage and looked at the exhausted goblin Jijiru who had been tortured. I still vaguely remembered what he looked like when he was young three years ago. Three years have actually made his body strong and strong. He is wearing very decent linen clothes. It seems that he must have lived a comfortable life during this period.

Jijiru's Imperial English was very poor. Before it could reply, I frowned and said to it, "You don't know that the relationship between us has been very tense recently, and we don't seem to have any business dealings recently. I have had a lot of problems." Haven’t collected it for a long time Where have you been in Ke Lai? The leftover food is roasted and the badger mother is pouring it on.

In fact, a misunderstanding has been caused, and if it can't come up with something valuable, it will be difficult for me to let it go in front of these orc warriors.

Jijiru cried bitterly and said: "All the red copper and copper ore in our tribe have been exchanged for food. The tribesmen in the tribe are currently looking for new mineral veins deep in the cave. Before finding the new mineral vein, I There’s really no copper left at all.”

The credibility of what these cunning and greedy goblins say is not high!

Then Jijilu said to me: "Your orc warriors must have misunderstood me. I came here this time not to trade copper, but to report to you!"

"Actually, your information is not useful. The five hundred goblin bandits caused some trouble for me the day before. They have all been turned into barbecue. Now they are likely to become delicacies in the mouths of cave spiders. "I said to Jijilu. In this underground cave, we gradually discovered that the goblins also have some natural enemies, such as those cave spiders hiding in the cracks of the rocks...

When Jijiru heard what I said, he finally collapsed and cried loudly. Regardless of the blood on his hands, he knelt in the iron cage and begged me: "Master Jijia, please release me from the cage quickly. "If I stay in this cage, I might die. Those orc warriors are very rude and they won't listen to any of my explanations."

Then he accused the orc warriors who abused him and said: "How could they treat a great goblin leader of the Pandawan tribe like this?"

Perhaps it realized that it would die if it had no value, so it added: "No one is more familiar with the situation in the underground cave than me. I am willing to lead the way for you and work with your warriors to wipe out those goblin tribes that are hostile to you. You can get any wealth in those tribes. I know where they bury their treasures."

He blinked at me again. Even in such a situation, the Pandawang goblin chief Jijilu still did not forget his greedy nature: "You can send those goblins who don't resist to me, and I can let these goblin slaves dig deeper in the cave!"

I smiled and said to Jijilu: "Okay, let's do as you say. All the goblins who survived the battle will be given to you as slaves!"

Jijilu cried loudly in the iron cage, "You are really a devil!"

...

The cracks in the damp and cold cave walls were full of light brown moss. I followed this orc team into the depths of the underground cave.

Crossing a small puddle in the cave, an orc warrior walked in front, holding a pine torch in his hand, but this torch was slightly improved by me. I soaked some corpse fire oil on the linen cloth covered with pine oil, which extended the burning time of this torch for more than two hours.