Chapter 283: King Kong Castle
The sky is like a wash, and the two fiery red dragons are flying at low altitude.
Wren looked down at the mountains on the plateau, the cold wind blowing on his face, but it could not obstruct his vision in the slightest, even his hair was blowing like a steel wire, only the blood-colored cloak hunted behind him.
Last night spent the night in the wilderness, and now it's the second day.
This is not far from Astarte, just over a hundred miles.
In the minds of the Makulag people, the 300-mile area around the city of Astarte, including most of the Makulag Mountains and the plateau at its feet, and the Otramu region, is the territory of the tribe.
After consulting with Marius, Wren decided to build the base in Otlam.
Marius also recommended several locations.
Wren looked at the map and found that it was too close to Astarte, so he made an excuse to refuse.
This base is extremely important for its future development, and there must be a lot of secrets, so you can't get too close to Astarte.
Although the two sides are allies, there is still a need to keep their distance.
Of course, it can't be too far away, so that the Ultramarines can easily support Astarte's battle.
Cronouan was very familiar with Otramu and took Wren to see several places, more or less with one or two shortcomings, which could not satisfy Wren.
His requirements for the base are, first of all, to be concealed, secondly, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and finally large enough space to accommodate at least thousands of training activities.
It's not easy to meet three conditions.
The two wyverns continued to fly northwest, farther and farther away from Astarte, galloping along the border between the plateau and the World Mountains.
It took three days, more than a dozen places, and barely found a few candidate positions.
But Wren didn't really like it.
"Boss. ”
Kronouan controlled his wyvern to get closer, and said loudly: "In front of us is Vajra Peak, the northernmost mountain of the Makulag Mountains, after Vajra Peak and fly north for half a day, we will leave Otramu and enter the territory of the Logos tribe." ”
Wren looked ahead, and a mountain with a not-so-unusual appearance stood on the horizon.
Around it, there are several slightly lower peaks, which gradually decrease in height from south to north, forming the end of the mountain range.
When camping last night, Cronouan introduced King Kong Peak.
The mountain is the third highest mountain range in the Makulag Mountains, which is not particularly high, and it is not comparable to the giant peaks of the world's mountain ranges, and it is unknown beyond the plateau.
Kongo Peak is named because of the abundance of diamond rock.
Diamondite is a very hard rock with a lot of mining value, and it is an excellent building material, and if at least a hundred quarries can be developed in the empire.
But on the Saine plateau it is almost worthless.
"Let's take a look around the Peak of Kongo, and if there's no suitable place, we'll turn back. Wren nodded.
This is more than two hundred miles from Astarte, and it can't be far.
Moments later, the Wyvern entered the perimeter of King Kong Peak.
Wren sent the dragon around the mountain, observing the terrain below.
The peak is indeed unremarkable, the only thing that can be praised is that it is relatively steep, the mountain and the strata are made of a large number of rocks, the canyons between several peaks are criss-crossed, it is difficult to climb, and there are a large number of wild beasts in the mountains within a radius of more than ten miles.
Wren has excellent eyesight and can see very far away.
He took pictures as he observed, putting them together into a complete map on his phone.
Looking at this detailed topographic map, Wren's eyes suddenly lit up.
The main peak of the mountain range is the main peak of the mountain range, and it is connected with three or four peaks to the east that are only half as high as it, forming a treacherous deep ravine, with many complex valleys.
One of these valleys is long, about three or four thousand meters, and the bottom of the valley is so deep that it is difficult to see the bottom even if you look down from the sky at the wrong angle.
The bottom of the canyon is flat as a whole, with the narrowest point being just over 200 meters and the widest being less than a kilometer.
At one end of the canyon there is a small lake that is clear and clear.
The melting snow water on Kongo Peak formed a waterfall and poured down, but no overflow was seen, apparently leading to an underground river.
The entire canyon is completely enclosed, there is no exit, and the shortest cliff is more than 200 meters high, and the terrain is steep and difficult to climb.
However, if you climb over the cliffs, you can leave the mountains and enter the plateau.
Wren immediately pointed in the direction of the canyon and said, "Let's go down and have a look." ”
As the Wyvern approached the canyon, Cronouan and the other three Ultramarines were also in good spirits, and the canyon had almost all the requirements to build a base.
Hidden, safe and with plenty of space.
The fiery dragon flew into the canyon and landed on the edge of the lake, its power startling the nearby beasts and birds.
Wren jumped down and looked up to observe the canyon's surroundings.
The afternoon sun shines into the deep valley, only a small part of the space is brighter, most of the place is dark, the temperature is cold, the air is humid, like most of the deep valleys in the world, inaccessible and quiet, only the sound of the waterfall echoes in the valley.
The canyon at one end of the lake has a relatively open view of the summit of Mt. Kongo, while the other side is even narrower and darker, with vines and trees on the top, making it difficult for sunlight to shine in.
Wren walked around the canyon twice and decided that this was the place on the spot.
He even had a preliminary idea of the layout of the base.
The surrounding rock walls are rugged enough to be carved into caves to serve as a lair for dragons, the camp fortress is built at the inner end of the dark canyon to carve out space in the mountains, and the teleportation circle is placed in the deepest part, and the bright end of the canyon serves as a training shooting range for the extreme warriors.
Be sure to set up a secret watchtower on top of the canyon wall.
In the future, if you have enough financial resources, you can arrange a large rune magic circle to cover up the entire canyon, and you won't even be able to make a sound.
"Look no further, this canyon will be our base in the future. ”
Wren announced.
"Okay, boss. The ultramarines were also very pleased, Cronouan took out a homemade simple map, marked the location of the canyon on it, and asked with a smile: "Boss, this canyon has no name, do you want to give it one?"
Wren glanced up at the steep mountain range, thought for a moment and said, "Since the base is at the foot of King Kong Peak, let's call it 'King Kong Fort'." ”
"We just took the right materials and built our training fortress out of the diamond rock here. ”
He explained.
Cronouan whispered "Fort Kong" twice, feeling that the name was decent, and there were many places in the empire called Fort Kong, and there was nothing out of the ordinary.
Since it was the boss's idea, it was decided.
One of the Ultramarines asked, "Shall we go back to Astarte to bring the materials for the teleportation array?"
"There's no rush for now. Wren shook his head, "The materials are very heavy and a lot, the two fiery dragons have to be transported many times, we will go and tame a few flying dragons, and when Sicarius and them return to Astarte, they will be transported in one trip, and they will not have to toss back and forth." ”
Hearing about taming the wyvern, the eyes of the three extreme warriors without mounts lit up.
They came out with Wren to capture the Wyvern.
In the past few days, I have been patronizing the site selection of the base, and I haven't gone out of my way to find the lair of the flying dragon, but now the opportunity has finally come.
"Boss, I've seen two wyverns in the mountains of the world to the west before, and it's likely that they have a lair. An extreme warrior hurriedly said.
Wren jumped on the fire dragon and smiled, "Okay, you show the way." ”
It only took half a day to get to the place where the Ultramariner met the Wyvern, but Wren searched several times in the vicinity, but found no trace of the Wyvern.
In fact, there are quite a few wyverns on the Saine plateau.
But the plateau is too big, and the area is almost as big as half an empire, and it is still not easy to find the flying dragon in such a vast area.
And different wyverns, their habits are also different.
Some wyverns build nests and form groups of three or five, such as the Fire Dragon, while others live alone and have no fixed territory and are difficult to meet when wandering around, such as the Ice Wind Dragon, and some Wyverns are highly intelligent and vigilant, like the most seasoned hunters lurking and rarely appear, such as the Silver Frost Dragon.
After two days of searching, Wren found only two venom dragons.
This is a wyvern couple, their strength is far inferior to that of the fire dragon, barely a high-level wyvern, and the most important thing is that the venom wyvern has no affinity elements.
They do not grant spellcasting potential to Ultramarines, using soul guns.
In Wren's expectations, the Fire Dragon was certainly the most suitable mount. If you don't have a fire dragon, you can also have other wyverns with affinity elements, after all, wyverns are hard to find, and it's better than nothing.
But Venom Wyvern is the only one.
Wren wanted to let them go, but the two low-intelligence wyverns took the initiative to attack and couldn't get rid of them, so Wren killed them and extracted their demon souls.
The demon souls of two high-level flying dragons can also be sold for 3,000 gold shields.
In addition to the Wyvern, Wren also spotted some powerful birds, such as the Dragon Eagle.
The dragon eagle is also a kind of dragon descendant with many branches, but the dragon blood is thinner, and it is eventually divided into birds, from the beginner to the high level, and the flight speed of the high-level dragon eagle is faster, and sometimes the fire dragon can't catch up.
There are also all kinds of different griffins, split cloud eagles, pegasus, and many magical beasts on the ground, and there are countless of them.
Many of these are pretty good mounts, but they're either too small to carry an Ultramarine, or they don't have affinity to provide casting potential.
Unless it is a vicious and brutal active attack, Wren will kill and extract the demon soul.
Usually he just let these birds and beasts live.
Before they knew it, Wren and the four Ultramarines had already left the Otramu region, getting farther and farther away, and finally found a lair on the outskirts of the world's mountain range, which happened to be the Fire Dragon.
There were four dragons in the nest, and Wren took advantage of their hunting to attack them.
It only took half a day to tame them all.
The extreme warriors who came out together, everyone was assigned a mount, and there was still one left. Wren appointed them as trainers for the fire dragons, and soon became familiar with their wyverns and mastered the art of controlling flight.
"Boss, we've been out for five days, do you want to go back?" Cronouan counted the days, and Sicarius and they should also return to Astarte.
Wren nodded.
It's hard to find a suitable Wyvern, and it's good luck to be able to tame four fiery dragons, and if you want to assign Wyvern mounts to all sixty extreme warriors, you may not be able to complete it in a year and a half.
He was just about to decide to return when he turned his head to the west and looked into the distance.
The Soul Eye opened to the limit, and through the transparent and bright sky, I vaguely saw the outline of an extremely large and majestic mountain standing on the horizon, even if it was thousands of miles away, I could feel its majesty and steepness.
"The second highest peak in the world, Karl Peak. ”
Wren opened his personal library to search for materials, and many of the books had illustrations of Karl Peak, exactly like the outline of the mountain in front of him.
"It's so far. ”
Karl Peak is not close to Astarte, at least more than 3,000 miles.
Wren's mind moved, and he remembered the news that he had bought it from Habu the Minotaur with five hundred gold shields, and that the whereabouts of the Storm Giant had appeared near Karl Peak.
He had already planned to find the Storm Giant, and maybe he could get the Thunderbolt Affinity.
"It's coming. Wren thought to himself, "Why don't you take a trip to Karl Peak and save yourself the next flight." ”