Gam Shatterfin's face was cold.

Although as a fish-man, most of the time its face is always cold - if you want to live in the sea, a hot face doesn't do much!

But now it's not happy.

Because the little ones said to it, "The hairless two-legged monkeys who don't know how to lift are here again!"

"Quack! It's all your doing! As the chief of the Shatterfinned Fishmen, Gam Shatterfinned screamed loudly at his brother.

Ga Bang Shatterfin, the younger brother of the chieftain of the Shatterfinned Fishmen, a well-known cultural person within the Shatterfinfins, and even a mage.

Rattling sharp teeth grinded, and the voice was sharp and unhappy: "I didn't expect that. How could they be! Humans, humans, these humans are very unfriendly! ”

Gam Shatterfin: "I said it a long time ago. These humans are never friendly! See, you tell us not to disturb them. But they don't want to stay in the cave, they're going to drive us all away! Drive away! ”

"My Fault ......"

Quack Broken Fin chirps in the language of the Fish-Man: "I thought humans were like her......"

"Ha~" Gam Shatterfins said. "They will only kill us, rob us of our pearls, drive us to the sea! Quack, if you don't know how to chill the arrows. I threw you on land to feed the spiders! ”

"Get rid of them." Quacked and whined. "Get rid of them! There are not many of them, only a few dozen. We have many, many fish people, and we are not afraid of them! ”

"I'm doing it!" Gam Shatterfins muttered.

Then it wielded its spear made of the bones of an unknown sea beast, and quacked:

"Little folks of the Shatterfins, Gam is calling you! Come with me and chase away those land creatures! The beach is ours, it's ours! ”

In response, there was a whoosh whoa, and behind it and its brother next door, Shatterfin, were thousands of Shatterfinned Fishmen.

"Go, get rid of them!" Gam Shatterfin's high-spirited and majestic leader the fishmen towards land.

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Hillsbrad Hills.

To the southwest, a valley emerges abruptly in a plain.

Dozens of human miners shivered together, looking at the foreman who was surrounded in the middle.

"What's there to be afraid of? It's just some fish-people! On land, we can kill two of us! Afraid of what?! Jack, the foreman, shouted.

"Jack! I'm just here to mine, not to fight! That's a fish-man, those monsters eat people! ”

"That's right! Jack, you tricked us into trying to feed those fishmen! ”

"The Light is above! I can already smell the fish stench! Holy Light, those monsters aren't already coming! ”

"I'm going back! I'm going back to my house, no more silver! I'd rather go mining in the cold Alterac Mountains than be eaten by those fish-people here! ”

“……”

The shouts and screams made Jack, the foreman who was entrusted by someone, angry.

Jack is a native of the Kingdom of Alterac, and he is a foreman, the foreman of the miners.

In the past, he served the nobles of the Alterac Kingdom, mining in the cold Alterac Mountains.

A few years ago, he received a big deal.

He was hired by nobles and merchants to lead a group of miners south to the safety of the human race.

Dig a newly discovered mine in the valley southwest of the treacherous Hillsbrad Hills.

The location of the mine is not friendly.

Although it is close to the main road, it takes three days to walk to the nearest human village.

It also takes a day and a half to use a horse-drawn carriage.

It took almost a day for the cavalry to arrive.

The point is not that it is too far from civilization, but that near that valley, wild beasts are very prosperous.

All kinds of giant mountain bears, spiders the size of houses, terrifying wolves, and even more terrifying hill lynx.

These beasts are everywhere.

And the valley is too close to the coastline, and directly in front of it is the location of a large number of fish-man tribes, and the distance in a straight line is too close.

So close that even at the speed of a fishman traveling on land, it only takes an hour to reach the valley.

The great nobles and merchants wanted to mine in the caves between the valleys.

The reason for this was that a venerable mage was passing by and found some deposits and gems in the valley.

Truth be told, Jack thinks in his heart that this is very dangerous work.

At first, he was simply reluctant to work in such wilderness areas.

However......

They give so much!

Not only was the reward rich, but the great nobleman he had served even promised to do so once it was done.

will give him a small noble status and become a minor nobleman under the big noble.

Nobles!

Even the lowliest knights can have their own territories and minions. Although the territory may be only a village, the number of people in the territory is only one or two hundred grams.

However, for most human commoners, the attraction of nobility even exceeds the attraction of 1000 gold coins.

The risks are not considered at all.

Jack didn't hesitate to take the job.

He took with him dozens of miners recruited by the investors, under the protection of a dozen aristocratic private armies.

All the way south, taking great risks, to come to this place where beasts are everywhere and there is a terrifying fish-man monster threat.

They set out to work, taking risks for the nobles and merchants, exploring the valley's mineral deposits and searching for caves worth investing in.

At first, the work of the human foremen and miners went well.

They numbered more than 50 people, and there was also a certain amount of armed forces.

In addition to the huge number of wolves, the beasts in the vicinity will not consider these humans for food.

They came to the vicinity, quickly found a mine, and tried to start digging.

It turned out that the nobles and merchants had a good eye.

Jack and the miners actually found a deposit here - gold and brass together, as well as a large amount of emeralds and rubies.

What's even more eye-catching is that the mine is extremely prolific, with dozens of miners digging out minerals every day.

It's worth even more than the mine where Jack worked when he was in the Alterac Valley, and the output of hundreds of miners every day.

Intelligence and information were quickly transmitted back to the nobles, and Jack excitedly led the miners to work hard.

Everything was going well.

However, bad things eventually happen.

Among the dozen or so nobles, a few of them were bored when they had no tasks, and ran to the beach not far away.

At first they may just want to go swimming, or just want to see the sea.

There, they discovered the giant fish-man tribe.

It's nothing.

Fish-people, though savage, do not like to go inland.

The valley where the minerals are located is neither far nor close to the coastline.

It won't be so far that the fish-people are completely incapable of reaching it, and it won't be so close that the fish-people can come if they want to.

Originally, even if the two sides knew about each other's existence, it was okay to be wary of each other at this stage.

But when the elite of these aristocratic private armies saw these fishmen on the seashore digging out a lot of pearls from many shells......

The situation has changed.

Those elite human warriors attacked the nearest fish-man village and looted a lot of pearls.

The news reached back to the mines, and the miners and the remaining noble private armies were excited.

Pearls are hard currency in the human realm, and they are even called "gold coins traded by nobles".

So......

The fish-man village by the sea was quickly devastated, and five or six villages were destroyed in a row, eventually leading to the Shatterfins tribe.

The tribe sends an elite human-speaking Quack Shatterfin, with a dozen low-level fishman mages from the Fish-Man Tribe, to the mines to threaten humans.

Strangely enough for humans, this fish-man who speaks the lingua franca of humanity is surprisingly easy to talk and reasonable.

It just asks them to give an explanation, hand over the humans who killed the fishmen, and the other humans should continue to do what they want.

Forced by the magic power of the fish-man mage, there are also a large number of fish-people behind it.

The human side immediately succumbed, and Jack relented on behalf of the humans, saying that he would immediately investigate and give an explanation to the fish-man.

The result turned back, after the fish-man evacuated.

A dozen noble privates immediately left the miners behind, and they fled on their own.

Seeing that the fish-man is about to come looking for trouble, Jack's side can't hand over the murderer at all, so the miners will be in a hurry like this.