On the northern border of the Kingdom of Sadari, there is a small mountain range known as Moxi, which straddles the two provinces of the human kingdom and becomes the natural defense line of the northern kingdom of Sadalin. In the eastern part of the mountain range, the gentle terrain gradually converges with rivers that originate in the Mossi Mountains, and over the course of thousands of years, wash away a valley known as the Mosey Valley.

This area of about 4,000 square kilometers of the valley, rivers criss-crossed, shallows dense, thousands of years of accumulation, this land has been covered by gravel from the Mossi Mountains, the original fertile soil has long been gone, so it is not valued by the Sadalin Kingdom, coupled with the freshwater fishmen active in this valley, the Sadalin Kingdom, which is not abundant, has given up the expansion in this direction, and instead invested the power of the kingdom in the Monas Hills, which are not far away.

To the northeast of the Monas Hills is the Hughes Plain, which is distinguished by the Garibel Valley.

As early as the end of the Third Age, dozens of werewolf tribes were defeated in the struggle for dominance of the Manni Wilderness and had to cross the Arathi Heights to the valley and settle there. After hundreds of years of development and annexation, there are less than ten werewolf tribes left here, among which the Ghagt tribe, the Broken Tooth tribe and the Black Mo tribe are the most powerful.

This is also one of the reasons why the Kingdom of Sadalin has been unable to include the Monas Hills for a long time, and hundreds of thousands of werewolves living in the Garibel Valley, led by these three werewolf tribes, have been unwilling to give up the Monas Hills as a hunting ground. In the past hundred years, there have been more than 20 wars between the two, of which there are three with more than 100,000 participants, although most of the cases end with the victory of the Sadalin Kingdom, but the individual strength of the werewolves will cause a lot of casualties to the Sadalin Kingdom every time, which is also the main reason why this kingdom has been in the middle of the twelve kingdoms of mankind since its establishment.

The royal family of the Sadalin Kingdom has also considered giving up the plan to expand to the Monas Hills, but helplessly, if the Monas Hills are abandoned, there are only two directions left for the expansion of the Sadalin Kingdom, one is to cross the Moxi Valley and set foot in the Arathi Heights, and the other is to march south to seize the territory of the Raphinian Kingdom.

The former would spark tensions between the Duchy of Giraldine and the Kingdom of Ashwood, and the two nations, which had long regarded the Hillsbrad Hills and the Silver Pine Forest as their backyards, were clearly reluctant to add another competitor, even if that competitor belonged to the same race as themselves. The latter is even more unlikely, although the population of the Raphinian Kingdom is less than three-quarters of the Sadalin Kingdom, but because the territory is full of mountains and forests, it is very suitable for the survival of griffins, so this kingdom has always been known for its strong air power, and the military strength of a single round is above the Sadalin Kingdom.

As a result, the Sadarian family, who rule this human kingdom, had to throw their strength into the Monas Hills again and again, and the werewolf tribes in the Garibel Valley fought each other in this undulating hills. Therefore, in the Monas Hills, the balance of power between the Sadalin Kingdom and the werewolves has always maintained a relatively balanced state.

But with a series of events, this balance of power gradually changed.

In the past four years, in order to support the expedition launched by the Holy See of Light to the Silver Pine Forest, the Kingdom of Sadalin has not only mobilized a number of regular troops, but also provided logistical support to the expeditionary force for up to three months. Later, due to the Whispering Forest incident caused by Yu Bin, the Elves asked for help, and the Sadalin Kingdom had to dispatch two regular legions deployed at the border of the Monas Hills to enter the Whispering Forest together with the Oberline Kingdom to help the Long Ears clear out the monsters that escaped from the secret realm.

These two military operations alone forced the Sadarian Kingdom, which was not wealthy, to suspend its encroachment plan on the Monas Hills. The ensuing expedition to the Sky City and the crushing defeat of the coalition forces made the situation worse for the Sadalin Kingdom, and the death of nearly 50,000 elite kingdom troops immediately worsened the situation in the Monas Hills.

At the same time, the Ghagt tribe, aided and inspired by the Snake of Eater, attacked the outposts established by the Kingdom of Sadarien on the Monas Hills and expanded their hunting grounds, and the weapons and armor they seized from humans kept the werewolves fully armed. Coupled with the weapons and equipment exported by the Devouring Serpent to the Gagot tribe, the Gagant tribe, whose strength has increased significantly, continues to swallow up those small werewolf tribes that also live in the Garibel Valley, and its strength gradually stands out and becomes the most powerful werewolf tribe in this valley.

Especially in August 342, when the humans were busy dealing with the shock caused by the death of Sawyer, the Body-Eater Serpent successfully helped the Gagont tribe summon the wolf king Nandus by copying the summoning circle left in the Shadow Fang Castle, and with the addition of some shadow werewolves from the Silver Pine Forest, the number of werewolves in the entire tribe exceeded 250,000 for the first time, becoming the most powerful force in the Garibel Valley in one fell swoop, and successfully forcing the Broken Fang Tribe and the Black Mo Tribe to recognize their dominance. A month later, Nandus, the wolf king who had regained his strength to the rank of veteran hero, killed the original chief of the Ghagant tribe in an open challenge, seized the supreme power of the werewolf tribe, and changed the tribe's name to Shado Werewolf. At the same time, the cunning wolf king from the shadow plane realized the strength of the Body-Eater Serpent and the influence behind this mysterious organization, and expressed his willingness to join the chaos faction through them.

The Kingdom of Sadalin, which had to take the defensive due to the lack of troops, did not immediately discover the situation, but the Raphinian Kingdom discovered the movement in the Gariberse Valley during a routine air patrol, and after paying the price of the death of dozens of scouts, Maine Graham finally confirmed the appearance of the Werewolf tribe of Shado, and the news that this werewolf tribe had thrown into the chaos camp. Deeply disturbed by this, Maine Graham persuaded Minuman Sadalin to draw part of the armies of the two countries in an attempt to suppress the Shadot werewolf tribe and restore the situation in the Garibel Valley and the Monas Hills through a limited war.

After many confirmations, this information was finally presented to the Demon Lord Moncaril, who was busy fighting with the new Demon Lord Lekasi, and could only leave the matter to the undead, and finally, under the coordination of the Supreme Council of the Undead, it was decided that the Sa Anlotte Empire would send a second-line army to the Monas Hills to assist the Shaduo tribe in completing the integration of the Garibel Valley.

Just when the Monas Hills were gradually shrouded in the clouds of war, hundreds of kilometers away in the Moxi Valley, Hall Smith had completed the transfer of ownership of the territory, and returned to the Kingdom of Sadalin through the teleportation array with a huge sum of 30,000 gold coins with a smile.

Hall Smith is not a rich man, nor does he have a strong background, this young man who is not yet thirty years old is just the most ordinary player. If there are any characteristics of him, it may only be said that he is lucky.

In one mission, Hall Smith gave up his low-hanging treasure in order to save an aborigine, but unexpectedly, the aboriginal he rescued turned out to be the illegitimate son of a nobleman in the Sadalin Kingdom, in order to repay Hall for saving his life, the other party persuaded his noble father to sell a town core to Hall at a very low price.

At that time, players set off a territory building frenzy, as long as you have a town core in your hand, you can get tens of millions of dollars by selling it, and if you successfully build a territory, even if it is just a village, it is enough to multiply the price several times.

After learning of this situation, Hall, who originally wanted to sell the town core directly, started to think about it, and he finally chose to keep the town core, and in this way, he got a territory of his own, as long as the territory was established, it was enough to make him a freshly baked billionaire.

But it is obviously very difficult for an ordinary player with no background to compete with those wealthy local tyrant players for a suitable territory. After a few failures, Hall set his sights on the Moxie Valley.

There is enough water here, the environment is also good, although there is a little less forest, but as long as the debris on the ground is removed, enough area of farmland can still be reclaimed, plus the nearby Moxi Mountains, mineral resources are also worth looking forward to, so Hall chose to establish his own territory here.

A small village called Hall Village appeared in the middle of the Moxi Valley.

Unfortunately, due to a lack of capital and its own strength, the village was quickly attacked by the fishmen, and after barely resisting it for two days, the improvised wall was broken and hundreds of fishmen stormed the village, ransacking the newly built village.

For those big guilds and investors, such a territory that has almost become a ruin is obviously not satisfactory to them, coupled with the fact that Hall underestimated the treacherous environment of the Moxie Valley, the soil here has long been washed by thousands of years, lost nutrients, and the shallow soil has begun to granulate, which cannot meet the needs of planting, and if you want to become a qualified farmland, you need to invest at least a lot of money to improve the soil quality.

In addition, the greater threat comes from the fish-man tribes living in the Moxie Valley, and the appearance of Hall Village is like a magnet, attracting the hatred of the fish-man tribes throughout the valley, and attacking the village twice in three days. At first, there were some players who wanted to get a piece of the village's development and construction and spontaneously help Hale with his defense, but as the fishmen attacked more and more, they soon realized that it was a complete bargain and immediately abandoned the hapless guy.

By now, the village had less than a hundred inhabitants, and there was not even a single recruiting building, because Hale had no money to buy the corresponding architectural drawings, and all his money was thrown into building walls and watchtowers.

As the wave of investment in the territory slowly subsides, investors no longer blindly pay attention to the size of the territory, but begin to consider the development prospects and potential of the territory, so Hall Village is even more unpopular, and even players are basically not a few.

This also made Hall extremely regretful about his original decision, in his opinion, if he had decisively sold the town core, then he would now be a rich man with tens of millions of dollars, fragrant cars, beautiful mansions, everything. And now? Like a beggar, he went around the miserly investors every day, trying to get even a single gold coin to keep the village afloat, for which he was already in debt of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Just when Hall was disheartened and ready to let this territory go to waste, a turning point suddenly appeared!

A mercenary group named Midier came to the village of Hale not long ago, and the next day asked Hale to buy the village. The other party's reason is that they have taken a fancy to these fishmen in the Moxi Valley, and are planning to transform this village into a training base for the mercenary group, and use these fishmen to train the recruits of the mercenary group.

Fishmen are not much of a worthy target for players. These humanoids, which live in shallow water or near river beaches, are not highly intelligent, and live in tribes, each of which has thousands of fish-people and as few as dozens, but without exception, the fish-people are poor!

There is hardly any part of the fish-man body that can be used, and their daily diet is mainly seagrass or algae, occasionally mixed with some fish, even those fish-man tribes who live by the sea, there is almost no accumulation of property, compared to the sea overlord like Naga, the fish-man is completely at the bottom.

In addition, the individual strength of the fish-man is not strong, even the fish-man priest or fish-man chief who has the leadership position in the fish-man tribe is only about four or five orders of strength, for players at this stage, this kind of monster with neither oil and water nor much experience is really not a good choice for leveling!

Therefore, the Midier mercenary group chose the Moxie Valley as a place to train recruits, and the reason was not good. But Hall didn't have any doubts about the appearance of this group of players, and now he wished that someone could take over this mess, as for whether this group of players came here to find trouble with those fish people, or just to play in the mountains and rivers, he couldn't care about it, and he didn't want to care.

After some bargaining, Hale finally sold the territory for six million dollars, half of which was paid in gold, and after the Midier mercenary group delivered 30,000 gold coins to Hale on the spot, the young man did not hesitate to transfer his lordship, and then happily left the place that disgusted him through the teleportation array!

"Gabry, you take someone to clean up the fishmen around! By the way, arrange someone to pull up the cordon! Sassi Midier, the leader of the Midtier mercenary group, said to the deputy commander Gabri, and the tall human knight patted his chest silently, and immediately walked out of the village with hundreds of well-equipped players, and started to clean up the fishmen who were wandering around.

"Captain, the teleportation array has been temporarily closed!" Dressed in a robe, Mitian nodded at Sassi, who was the exclusive mage of the mercenary group, focusing on teleportation magic and teleportation arrays.

After looking around, Sassi, who had already been mentally prepared, couldn't help frowning at the ruin of this village: "Start upgrading the teleportation array immediately, and after upgrading, link the teleportation array to the network according to the plan!" Also, have someone inform Lord Zorene that preparations for the Moxie Valley are expected to be completed in four days! ”