Chapter 22: Discovery
According to the agreement, the Stone Crow Clan must ensure the daily feeding of the black dragon, but during this time, they regretted it like Caesar, and their fear of being dominated was quite severe, and they felt the fear of being dominated, and they wanted to tear up their oath immediately.
Because, this guy is so edible!
According to common sense, dragons eat quite modestly except during the young dragon stage, and do not eat more than half of their body weight every day, and even the "queen" of the red dragon, one of the very few truly morbidly obese dragons known to scholars and adventurers today, will not eat more than twice her body weight every day.
But the dragon, the black dragon with whom they had made an alliance and was named "Caesar Ortorenso Targaryen", the orc warrior in charge of transporting the food was sure that this creature had eaten more than three times its own body weight every time.
In other words, Caesar can now eat four Ergothorns in a day.
(Note: Baismal horned cattle, a herbivore now distributed in the western steppe mountain forests, named after the dwarf Baismarck's first discovery and the huge horn on the top of its head, has a fierce temperament, and feeds on grass leaves, branches, bamboo shoots and bark; Adult horned horns are generally four meters long, can reach a maximum of five meters, and weigh about 1.5 tons. )
Looking at the black dragon devouring in front of him, the already green faces of the several warriors in charge of transporting food became greener, you know, the Bes Hornhorn is not a good animal to hunt, and the wild horned cattle herd is very fierce, and they will run wildly and crash around at every turn.
At first, the orcs thought that this hateful black dragon was deliberately making things difficult for them, but it was not until later that they found out that this guy's appetite was really so large, looking at Caesar, who ate cattle without spitting out bones, and was still unsatisfied, the orcs realized that four Baimez horned oxen might not be enough to make it completely full.
This exaggerated news caused a small panic in the hunting party, and when they reported the news to Sifu, even their clan leader, who was least like orcs and always calm and calm, was startled, felt his teeth sour, and hurried back to his cave to check the information.
Indeed, Caesar's appetite had no small impact on the Crow Clan, and in order to provide the Black Dragon with enough meat, they had to transfer twenty elite warriors from the hunting party to hunt and kill horned oxen.
This was already a heavy burden on the Raven Clan, which had only sixty hunter-gatherers, and in fact, the lack of food had always been a serious problem for orcs. The wilderness is very dangerous, and some high-level monsters are particularly powerful, and every time they hunt, an orc may lose their lives.
Even so, the green-skinned creatures did not complain to anyone, except that Caesar did not look very good when he saw him eating, and did not even mention the stubble to him.
Just as Caesar remembered, the heads of orcs are very iron, and there is a slang saying in this race: "Orcs spit as hard as the skull of a thick-headed dragon", and they do what they say and never break their word; Although the warriors were exhausted from hunting horned oxes, they had to grit their teeth until a better replacement could be found.
However, in order to ensure that the black dragon had enough to eat, the food allocated to the ordinary orcs of the Stone Crow Clan was gradually decreasing, and many female orcs and baby orcs had begun to eat the stored cured meat.
This is a very bad sign.
"It's time to restart trade with humans." After discovering this phenomenon, the leader Sifu had to make a decision.
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"Hmm... Damn the dry season, it's coming again. ”
Caesar lay in the lair on his hind legs, holding an oversized stone wine glass, taking a sip of his homemade drink and sighing.
"I've never tasted anything so delicious, it's even better than the taste of flower dew!"
Xiao Luna also followed his example, taking a sip of a cup that was no bigger than a grain of rice, and her eyes couldn't help but narrow into a slit, like a mouse stealing cheese: "Caesar, you are really a genius, how did you think of tinkering with this thing?" ”
The reason is that when Caesar was watching the orcs hunting, he found a plant that looked very similar to mint, although the branches and leaves were rougher and thicker than mint, but the taste was similar, and it was cooler and sweeter.
At first, Caesar just wanted to change his taste, and he kept eating fresh meat, rotten meat, cooked meat, and all kinds of meat, so he was so greasy that he would chew a few of these grasses and hold them in his mouth like cool candy.
But as the weather got hotter and hotter, he had the idea to get Luna's hands back with a few plants, first boiling them into water with fire, and then freezing them with frost breath.
As a result, the things that came out were not too delicious, so that Xiao Luna now doesn't eat and drink flower dew every day, and will run out early in the morning and come back with a large pile of grass, and work hard to boil it with the fire, and then look at Caesar with a blank eye, waiting for him to do it.
After being in contact with it for a while, Luna is not as afraid of this black dragon as before, because this guy is different from other black dragons, he neither likes to live in the damp and filthy swamp at the bottom of the river, nor does he like to let his body exude that rancid smell, and he has to make the nest neat, he is simply a bewitching slut in the black dragon.
Of course, these are all her belly slanders, and the real reason is because Luna found that this guy has a good personality, not as irritable, vicious and neurotic as the legendary black dragon, except that it will be gloomy enough to make her feel scared when it is serious, but it is still quite easy to get along with at other times, and communication with each other is not a problem.
"Even you don't know what this grass is called?"
Caesar glanced at Luna, who was still snorting and sipping her drink, and her tone was undisguised with disdain, a forest goblin, who couldn't even recognize the plants and trees.
"Oh hoo."
Luna was choked for a moment, and quickly patted her chest, without the slightest sense of self-righteousness: "In Eladia, ordinary plants that are neither dangerous nor satisfying, no one will study and name them, let alone the fairy of the forest, even if you search all over Eladia, no race knows its name." ”
After speaking, she felt that this was not enough to express her indignation, and added angrily: "Even if there is, it must be that guy's temporary casual nonsense." ”
"Is that ......?"
Caesar thought about it, and wanted to learn more about Eladia's customs from Luna, but saw the little guy suddenly jump up and get between his thorns, and his expression became extremely serious: "There is a spellcaster approaching the Stone Crow Clan. ”
Hearing this, Caesar immediately crawled towards the edge of his lair, poked his head out and looked out.
"Humans."
In his sight, a human team that seemed to be a merchant and was not a small number of people slowly approached and stepped into the territory of the Stone Crow Clan.