Chapter 28 Preparations
The door was suddenly slammed open, and the excitement in the room came to an abrupt end.
The long-faced man had originally arranged for two people to guard the door, but Arthur took out food and weapons one after another, and the two gathered around to eat and take blades, and he had long forgotten about guarding the door.
It was one of the men who was in charge of cooking in the morning, and looking at the food and weapons in the hands of the full house, the man was also stunned, and froze at the door for a while.
Arthur's reaction was the fastest, bounced off the ground in an instant, knocked away the people around him, and the hunting knife in his hand stabbed the man in the throat.
"Don't!" the long-faced man suddenly stopped with a voice.
Arthur's hunting knife stopped under the man's throat, frightening the man to move.
"Don't kill him, the orcs will be in trouble tomorrow if they find him gone. The long-faced man explained.
Arthur grabbed the man by the collar and pulled him forward, dragging him into the house and falling to the ground, the blade resting on his throat again, looking back at the long-faced man, "What are you going to do with him?"
The man looked at the long-faced man in horror, "Buck, who is he and what the hell is going on?"
"Captain Silas, he's the Arthur Squadron Leader of the Blizzard Legion's front army, Captain Arthur's troops have arrived outside the canyon, and he's here to save us. If we're going to let you go, are you going to go out and tell the orcs or do you want to kill them with us?"
"Buck, you bastard, I, Silas, was also a dignified captain back then, who would be a slave to the orcs if I had the opportunity to kill them?"
Buck nodded at Arthur, and Arthur removed the hunting knife from Silas' neck.
Silas stood up and grabbed Arthur's hand, looking equally excited, "Brother, we finally have our own people here, how many of you are here, and when are you going to do it?"
Arthur had no choice but to briefly describe the previous plan with Buck and the others.
"We are fully cooperative with you when we are out and about, and we will help you bring news and food to the various cabins, which will be safer than if you were outside on your own. ”
"Can they be trusted other than you?" said Arthur, hesitatingly.
"Brother Arthur, don't worry about this, a few of us are also forced to survive, no one will really take refuge in the orcs, and we haven't done a single thing to be sorry for our own people, if you don't believe it, you can ask Buck them. Silas anxiously explained to Arthur that he knew that he must have a bad impression in Arthur's mind because of his service to the orcs.
Arthur patted Silas on the shoulder, "No need to explain, I trust you, because I was also a slave in an orc camp. ”
Silas and Buck were stunned for a moment, and then looked at Arthur and looked even closer, because they had a common experience, and this is empathy.
"Okay, let's carefully plan the details of the operation, there are a few questions I want to know first?"
"Brother Arthur, you ask, I basically know about the situation of the orcs in the canyon. Silas said, patting his chest.
"How many troops do the orcs have in the canyon, and what is the strength of the leading orcs?"
"There are one hundred and fifty orc warriors in the canyon who are responsible for guarding the slaves and guarding the mouth of the valley, and there are also fifty wolf cavalry. ”
Arthur nodded slightly, the total strength of three hundred and fifty men was not much different from his previous estimate.
Silas continued: "The orc commander in the canyon is a sixth-level lion warrior, and there are three orc hundred-man captains, all of whom are fourth- and fifth-level orc warriors. ”
"How could someone from the Golden Lion clan be here?" said Arthur.
Although the Golden Lion Family is one of the three major orc tribes, its own lion people have always been not prosperous, and it is rare to see lion people outside the orc royal court.
"This mineral resource is the wealth that directly belongs to the Golden Lion family, so they will send their own people to personally supervise it. ”
No wonder the food and equipment of the orc guards in the canyon are significantly stronger than the orc warriors Arthur had encountered before, and if it was a direct warrior of the Golden Lion family, everything would make sense.
Arthur is now curious about what kind of resources this deposit produces that make the Golden Lion Family so important, and there are even dwarves who refine ore specifically for them.
Silas saw the doubts in Arthur's heart and took the initiative to explain: "This canyon produces spirit mother stones, and because I was worried that the orcs would clumsily break the spirit mother, I specially captured us human captives to mine them. ”
"What? You said you were mining the Spiritual Motherstone!" Arthur couldn't hide the surprise on his face.
Spiritual stone is an extremely rare mineral resource, and its value is far higher than that of gold.
The weapons and equipment levels of each clan are divided into excellent, rare, and excellent, and above that, there are legendary equipment. Although there is only one level difference between the third-level fine and fourth-level rare level equipment, the difference is not that the forging process is more exquisite, but that a special mineral is added to the rare-level equipment, the Spirit Mother.
The peculiarity of the spirit mother stone is that each spirit mother stone is an independent individual, and if you break it, the spirit will be lost, and the whole piece will be wasted. After the initial refining and removal of surface impurities, the addition of the equipment is also a whole piece. In this way, it is still a whole in the equipment, as if a whole system like the human meridians is embedded in a piece of equipment.
The equipment with the addition of the Spirit Mother is like the extension of the meridians of the human body, in which the fighting energy flows unimpeded, and the power is multiplied, so as to improve the quality of the equipment.
There are also several Spirit Mother Stone mines in the territory of the Terrans, but the fixed annual output is very small, which directly limits the number of rare-grade equipment on the market each year.
"How many mined spirit stones are there in the canyon?"
"The Golden Lion Family will send someone to transport away the refined spirit mother stones in the canyon once a month, and now there are more than twenty days of spirit mother stones in the canyon, as long as we can rush out smoothly this time, we must take all these spirit mother stones away. Silas' eyes lit up with excitement, and he knew better the value of this wealth.
Arthur didn't expect to save the Terran slaves while making a shocking fortune by the way, which was a surprise.
"Who is that dwarf?" asked Arthur one last question.
"He is also a slave captured by the orcs, because only he can do the work of refining the spirit mother stone, so the orcs are almost providing for him, as long as he doesn't run, the orcs can meet almost any request from him. ”
Arthur nodded, knowing what was going on in the entire canyon.
"Captain Arthur, when are we going to act?" Buck asked impatiently.
"It's easy to leak the news if it drags on for a long time, so I'll give you a day or two to recover, and we'll start early the day after tomorrow. ”
Arthur took out a large pile of food and gave it to Silas to divide among the slaves in the cabins. As for the armament, in order to avoid the orcs detecting it in advance, Arthur prepared to divide it on the last night before the operation.
Silas was about to leave with the food, and Arthur suddenly remembered something, "Wait, there's one more thing you need to do." ”
Arthur said as he took out a small paper bag from his bracelet, "You are responsible for cooking for the orcs, and find an opportunity to add these pills to the orcs for tomorrow's dinner." ”
Because Arthur followed Tony back then, he actually had all kinds of yin damage drug formulas for orcs in his hands, but he never had the opportunity to use them on orcs. On the way to the Blizzard Legion this time, he specially prepared a few copies, but he didn't expect to finally have the opportunity to try it today.
Silas hesitated slightly when he took it.
"Don't worry, it's not an immediate poison, they won't find out, it will only weaken the orcs. Arthur smirked.