Forest of Chaos Chapter 8 Mountain of the Gods
After entering the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce, the name of the unicorn mercenary group will be revoked, and all personnel will go through half a year of training, and then select the appropriate "dandelion", and the remaining personnel who are not selected will also be arranged in other positions suitable for them.
This was a condition of incorporation offered by Oss, and Barber gladly accepted.
Then the two of them announced this decision to all the members of the Unicorn Mercenary Group in Hope Town, and they also gave all the team members a chance to choose for themselves, if anyone is unwilling to go to the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce, they will also get a settling-in fee, with which they can go anywhere they want.
In the end, a total of twenty-six people chose to leave, but Oss and Barber did not stop them, but fulfilled their promise, and distributed thirty gold coins for the settlement fee.
After the Ten Prayers, in the depths of the Forest of Chaos.
During the time of the ancient gods, it was a forbidden area for humans. At that time, the Forest of Chaos was not called the Forest of Chaos, and people called it the Tomb of the Gods.
In an even more distant time that could not be explored, there were only the tombs of the gods and their grave keepers, dwarves and elves.
In the ancient legends of the bards, everything changed in the earth-shattering battle of the gods. The war lasted for more than a hundred prayer years, and the final result was the fall of the gods and the withering of all races.
The blood of the gods turned into lakes, the bodies of the gods turned into mountains and rivers, and the divine power nourished the earth, raising hordes of demonic beasts, and towering forests with a depth of more than 100,000 miles.
After the war of the gods, it was the rise of the two races, orcs and humans, until now. It was also from that period that the half-orcs who were not treated well by the orcs, and the outcasts who could not continue to survive in the major empires, began to migrate to this forest en masse.
Then a peculiar profession was born in this forest, mercenaries. So it became a land of lawlessness, a chaotic area, and the name of the Forest of Chaos began to be called at that time.
Between the mountains and dense forests, Oss led the remaining members of the unicorn mercenary group, bypassing the hordes of demonic beasts, passing through dozens of towns that had joined the Dandelion Project, and finally reached the foot of a towering mountain.
As for the location of the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce, Barber had imagined that it should be a large town, or a village composed of several medium-sized towns.
But when he arrived, he found that he was wrong, and he was very wrong.
There is nothing surprising about a large field of fertile wheat with no end in sight, and the verdant wheat is growing tender fruits, although the size of the wheat field is really amazing.
Behind the wheat field is a tall wall that can be described as magnificent. The entire city wall is made of huge stones and super sticky clay, and the height is definitely more than ten meters, and the dozens of arrow towers built on the city wall also clearly show that the width of the city wall is definitely more than five meters.
Behind the walls was a large, unseen flat area on which Barber guessed should have been built with buildings.
Because the whole city was built on a mountain, and on the mountain that could be seen, there were countless houses and castles. Since the complex of buildings on the hill is already so dense, there will only be more buildings on more suitable flat ground.
"Captain Os, has the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce developed so rapidly?" Ba Bo Muran turned his head to look at Oss beside him, and asked a little distractedly.
A city of this size, without millions of manpower, would never have been built in two prayer years, which is why Barber asked Oth. You must know that after years of development, the mercenary city has not been on such a large scale.
Oss smiled dumbly, "How is that possible. At present, in addition to the more than 400 towns that have been included in the Dandelion Project, the remaining personnel of the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce are only 100,000 people, including some orcs. ”
Seeing that Bobble looked a little disbelieving, Oss said again: "Captain Bobble, look at the highest point of this mountain, is it a little familiar. ”
After being reminded by Oss, Barber set his sights on the highest part of the mountain.
As far as the eye can see, there are dozens of statues as small as the size of a palm. Because the distance was a bit far, Bobble could barely see through with his eyes narrowed. But at this sight, the startled Barber almost fell off his horse.
"Mountain of the Gods, this is the Mountain of the Gods!"
After the fall of the gods, the dwarves and elves remained, carving statues of ancient gods into a high mountain and using them as tombs to continue their duty of keeping spirits. And that high mountain is called the mountain of the gods.
"Yes, this is the Mountain of the Gods, and it is also the residence of the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce. ”
Oth's affirmative answer confirmed Bobble's conjecture, but it shocked Bobble even more. Although the Forest of Chaos is no longer a forbidden area for humans, the Mountain of the Gods, which is rumored to be guarded by the dwarves and elves for thousands of years, is still a forbidden area.
The resting place of the gods, outsiders set foot and kill. This is the declaration of the dwarves and elves to the outside world, and it is also the oath that the two races have defended with their blood and lives for generations.
"For reasons I can't say, I've become someone that the dwarves and elves can trust. Of course, this was just the basics, and at first they refused to allow anyone but me to enter. But as long as it's a living being, there will be weaknesses, and I happened to discover their weaknesses. ”
Oss said slowly, his right hand couldn't help touching his left chest, and a powerful and clear beating sensation was transmitted to his hand.
Feeling the sensation of his heart beating, Oss frowned, and a strange expression appeared on his face. It's like fear, it's like pain, and it's like a tremor from the depths of the soul.
But he didn't see this expression, Barber was now looking intently at the distant mountaintop, looking at the solemn statues on the top of the mountain.
"Liquor and cigarettes, these two things are the best weapons to open the city in front of you. I didn't expect things to go so smoothly at first, but when I gave them liquor and cigarettes for the first time, the two races put aside their arrogance and lowered their noble heads. ”
"They're addicted, and they're crazy. So I got the right to set up the chamber of commerce in the city of the Mountain of the Gods on the grounds of opening a production base nearby, and in the subsequent exchanges, the dwarves and elves gradually got used to living in the same city as us, and they lived quite happily. ”
Oss told the story, and Barber also felt the luck and ..... A little crying and laughing. It turned out that the dwarves and elves had held their faith for tens of thousands of years, and they had become so worthless in the face of liquor and cigarettes.
Perhaps it was due to the influence of Bobble, or perhaps it was because he remembered the funny scene when he saw the dwarves and elves let go of their arrogance at the beginning, and Oss became happy, so he said half-jokingly, half-conclusively.
"The dwarves are good wine, the elves are good at smoking, they are full of tobacco and wine, and the gods turn away. ”
The team moved on, aiming for the city at the foot of the mountain. The city called the "Divine Domain", which is famous in the Forest of Chaos, and even famous in the Epic Continent, but which no one has ever actually entered before.
On the way, Bobble saw an endless stream of convoys, some of them transporting goods to God's Domain City like them, and some of them going in the opposite direction, which were teams transporting goods to sell around the world.
"At present, there are no foreign caravans and mercenary groups that can find them here, and the teams you see are our Chamber of Commerce's own teams. And the teams that trade with us can find the towns on our periphery at most, and they're trading there. ”
Oss explained to Bobble, who nodded in understanding. If it was him, he would not have thought that the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce's residence would be in the Mountains of the Gods, not Oss leading the way, and after his search was fruitless, he would also find a peripheral town with sufficient supplies, and then sell grain, buy tobacco and alcohol goods, and then return to Kumaranka.
As he moved forward, Bobble observed the ranks of the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce entering and leaving, and he saw in the faces of those personnel the expressions he had never seen on the faces of any mercenaries before, calm, confident and satisfied. It's a feeling of happiness that you've found your purpose in life and are trying to achieve it.
Among those personnel, Bobble also saw quite a few familiar faces. Some of them were members of a mercenary group he knew before, some were residents of a town he knew before, and three of them turned out to be his teammates when he was a personal guard of the mercenary king Abby.
All three former teammates smiled enthusiastically at Bobble, but didn't stop to talk to him. Barber was glad to have met them here, and he noticed a hint of meaning in the smiles of the three former teammates, a look of "there's going to be a big surprise waiting for you kid".
Bobble is a little inexplicable, he has felt enough surprises and shocks recently, there are so many that he is numb, and now he is about to enter the so-called "Realm of the Gods, the Forbidden Zone of Humans" to get the Divine Domain City, is there anything more shocking and surprising than this?
Passing through the tall gates and into the city, Oss led the party to an area of the city. Then Oss pointed to a row of stone houses and a clearing in front of them, and said.
"You guys stay here for now, and someone will arrange the rest of the matter soon. ”
"The space on the flat ground in the city is the residence of our Huaxia Chamber of Commerce, which is divided into four districts: southeast, south, and north, and the east and north districts are temporarily forbidden for you to enter. The area on the hillside is home to dwellings of dwarves and elves, which are also off-limits. ”
"The place we are in now is the western side of the city, you can move freely, the southern area is the residence of those guards and caravans you just saw, you can also visit the door when you have time, of course I suggest that you don't run around today, it will be easy to get lost. ”
When he was done, Oss left with Ares, he had other things to do. Of course, when he finally left, Oss also told Barber that he would come over tomorrow to show him around the city and introduce him to the president of the Chamber of Commerce.
As he said this, Oss looked like Bobble's three former teammates.
Barber, an uncle who is over forty years old, was completely helpless by the mystery they made, and finally had to roll his eyes with great "charm".
It made Oss laugh.