[Monster Chronicles: Griffins of the Gray Valley]: An omnivorous monster with a hawk head and a lion body, which haunts the land and sea, and every time it appears, it will be accompanied by a fishy sea breeze.

The strong abdominal cavity needs to swallow rocks to crush food, and the mouth spits out a violent hurricane mixed with broken rocks, capable of easily destroying an ordinary human village.

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The fuel used to light the furnace was grease and aged charcoal from the tail of the siren, and the bronze ore the size of a human head shrank rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the liquid dissolved flowed out of the gourd-shaped central mouth.

Due to the lower temperature at the top, impurities such as rocks are melted into juice the fastest, falling quickly and flowing out of a small mouth.

The real bronze minerals, on the other hand, are not completely dissolved, but bubble down as thick solids, separating from the impurities such as rocks, and then falling to the highest temperature zone at the bottom.

Until it was dark, a fiery glow could be seen from the tribe in the gravel mountains.

It was only then that the bronze minerals were completely melted into a liquid, which Accra expertly introduced into a mold that had been prepared long ago.

Once the bronze liquid had solidified into the shape of the mold, Accra had to take it out and put it back on top of the furnace for repeated calcination.

This tempering process took three days and three nights, and finally, under the hedge of cold water, a thick mist rose up, and a bronze long sword that emitted a cold light appeared in Accra's hand.

The bronze longsword is about the length of an adult's arm, and the handle is slightly thick, and even the palm of a hand can barely hold it.

Wang Kui felt a sinking in his hand, the weight of this bronze sword was heavier than he had imagined, and he could even feel the burning temperature in his palm from within.

Holding the heavy long sword in his hand, Wang Kui couldn't help but feel excited in his heart, the cells of his whole body were active at this moment, he gathered all his strength and the excited emotions in his hands, and slashed towards the hard rock mountain wall with a roar.

Bang!

With a crisp loud sound, countless gravel dust splashed, and most of the long sword in Wang Kui's hand actually submerged into the rocky mountain wall, and there was a huge gap around the long sword, and the power of this sword even shattered the rock next to it.

Wang Kui was shocked by the power of this sword, although the humans and creatures in this world have unimaginable magic, but the productivity is extremely backward, in Wang Kui's imagination, the so-called bronze weapons are only slightly stronger than bone or stone weapons, not at all comparable to the steel weapons of his previous life.

But now that he really experienced it, Wang Kui realized how foolish his idea was, and the bronze sword in his hand was obviously beyond the weight of ordinary bronze, and its strength was even more than he imagined.

Even Wang Kui believed that under his full slash, even the oncoming Ermantos boar would be able to split in half directly with the ram.

A few days after the sword-forging ended, a howling cold wind began to blow in the north, and there was a noticeable coolness in the wind, and all the Spartans invariably put down their work.

The Spartan men took up their weapons and polished them with rough whetstones. The Spartan women, on the other hand, prepared sufficient rations and fur clothing for them.

In order to ensure that the tribe had enough food, every three people in each family had to send one Spartan warrior to join the hunting procession. They will go on group hunts for months and carry only one day's rations.

After losing the main able-bodied adults, the remnants of the tribe are mostly women, young and old, who will share all the food stored during the winter.

The chief warrior of the tribe, Querio, has not participated in the patrol for the second year, which is very strange for the Spartan warriors in the prime of life, but to everyone's relief, Querio's son, Kratos, will take the place of his father in this year's patrol.

The procession had been on its way for three days, and a total of thirty-one true Spartan warriors, led by Accra, would set out from the foot of the gravel mountains where the tribe was located, bypass the Spartan borders into the Argos, go north along the Ionian Sea, cross the Peloponnese, and finally return to Sparta through the passes in the Taietos Mountains.

Wang Kui followed the group as he looked down at his feet from time to time, and Accra, who was running in front of him, seemed to have expected it, and said to him without looking back: "I was like this the first time, but in the outside world we have to do it, in Sparta only the black Laus are barefoot, and of course they have to be shackled." ”

Wang Kui's heart moved, and he immediately reacted: "Is Hei Laoshi a slave?"

"That's right, they are the Helots, who once lived together in peace, whose ancestors even fought with our ancestors for life, but now they are the Helots of Sparta, who have no freedom, no dignity, and no control over their own lives. ”

Wang Kui keenly captured that Accra mentioned Spartan City many times, but did not mention Spartans at all.

"Spartan is not our common country"

Wang Kui obviously felt that Accra's body in front of him was slightly stagnant, and then he saw Accra turn his head with a complicated look in his eyes.

Accra glanced at Wang Kui meaningfully, then turned his head and said lukewarmly: "We only have one home, which is at the foot of the inconspicuous gravel mountain range. ”

Wang Kui didn't pursue this question with interest, but instead asked other questions about this world.

Obviously, Accra was satisfied with Wang Kui's knowledge, so he also knew everything about Wang Kui's next questions, but unfortunately, even Accra knew very little about this world, and most of his knowledge was hearsay when he went to Sparta City to exchange items.

So in the end, Wang Kui got the information that the Spartan tribe he belonged to seemed to be a hermit tribe, and it was very taboo to associate with the country named after Sparta, even if he occasionally went out to hunt and went into the city to exchange fur and bones for supplies, he had to camouflage accordingly.

The country next to Sparta was Argos, and perhaps because of their proximity, the two countries were often in conflict, and the depth of hatred could not be alleviated.

In the entire Peloponnese, there were at least ten countries similar to Sparta and Argos, and Accra knew Argos, Tirins, and Mycenae by name.

When he heard this familiar name, Wang Kui couldn't help but feel more inexplicable emotion in his heart, the memory of his previous life seemed to have gradually faded, no matter how he recalled, there was only a faint sadness.

The Spartans were already familiar with the road, and they crossed the pass guarded by the soldiers without danger. It is worth mentioning that they almost caused an unnecessary commotion when they passed the level, and that was because Wang Kui carelessly did not hide his bronze longsword well, and the exposed bronze luster unexpectedly attracted the attention of the sentinel.

Bronze swords of this quality were rare even in the military, and were generally only possessed by high-ranking generals or nobles.

And just when the tense atmosphere was almost climbing to the limit, Wang Kui's heart moved, and he took out the last fist-sized piece of jerky from his leather package, and then quietly stuffed it into the hands of the soldier in charge of guarding the pass, and the latter was also stunned by Wang Kui's sudden move, and after hesitating for a long time, he didn't even check the others behind, so he waved his hand directly and let him go.

When everyone passed without danger, there was a look of surprise in Wang Kui's eyes, and Accra said with a strange expression: "It seems that you have the potential to inherit Elder Abu. ”

Although he didn't know what the inevitable connection between his whim bribery behavior and the old immortal Abu was, Wang Kui still wisely chose not to explain and continued to follow the team.

After crossing the border of Sparta, there is an endless Gobi, with occasional wisps of green on the desolate sandy and gravel ground.

Since it was a buffer zone between Sparta and Argos, it was possible to occasionally see merchants travelling between the two countries, either in groups or walking alone.

A group of Spartans disguised themselves as hunters, a popular profession in this world, and the legendary dragon hunter was one of the hunters. Such men traveled to all corners of the world, taking pride in the hunt of ferocious beasts, and their deeds were sung among the travelers, so that such a group of burly and powerful Spartans walked from one place to another in the Peloponnese, without arousing the suspicion of others.

In the Gobi, the Spartans were lucky enough to catch two sons of the Minotaur, a kind of minotaur that stood up in the shape of a human, although their names had the prefix of the monster Minotaur, but they had nothing to do with the monster, even two or three ordinary human soldiers could easily deal with it.

In this world where the gods have descended, there are all kinds of monsters in addition to humans and gods who look down on the ocean and the earth.

Monsters possess stronger bodies than beasts, and also possess at least one magical power, some of which are feared even by the gods, such as the most notorious Gordon Medusa, Minotaur, Kolchas Dragon, Hydra Shdra, etc.

The two sons of the Minotaur greatly alleviated the food problem, and after dismembering and dividing them on the spot, the Spartans, led by Accra, quickly crossed the Gobi and followed the edge of the Argos border to the Ionian Sea.

On the edge of a steep cliff in the Ionian Sea, Wang Kui met a special group of people. Dozens of soldiers in armor and weapons at their waists were clustered around a young man in a smooth silk robe.