Chapter 62: An Eventful Season
White Horse City.
From Amber City to White Horse again, Sauron took less than a day.
This once thriving trade route has been completely deserted, Deciduous City has been shattered by the Orc Raid, and the handicrafts from the Elven Realm and the Half-Elves have been completely unmarketable. The roads of White Horse City are blocked by the ancient red dragon, and the impact on this area under the double blow is quite terrifying. In particular, the chaos formed by the migration of various monsters has led to the relocation of many villages and towns with insufficient defense capabilities.
Although human beings have a huge number, they do not have an absolute advantage in the natural world.
The current productive forces simply cannot support the explosion of population, and only in the vicinity of suitable arable land can human villages be formed, because in those uncultivated wilderness areas, there are still many other species entrenched. Food is the key to restricting the mass reproduction of any living organism, and with the transportation capacity of this era, the vast majority of food can only rely on self-production, and the proportion of external transportation loss alone is quite large, and it may be attacked by other species.
Unless there is a huge force that has completed a huge project similar to Caoyun.
For now.
This is almost unlikely, so Sauron sees many abandoned villages along the way, and these villages have migrated in large part because of frequent attacks by wild creatures, and the decline in population and increasing danger have made it impossible for them to farm in peace. In the absence of sufficient self-preservation, many small and medium-sized villages and towns began to move or merge.
Jinxi Township.
This is a town that has skyrocketed in turbulent times.
Sauron passed through the town on his way to White Horse, where he and Vivien had traveled with Golia's caravan.
And, here he also met the Juggernaut for the first time.
Today, the town of Jinxi has tripled in size, with thick reinforced wooden walls on the outside, and its population has at least several times larger than in the past, and it already looks like a small city.
All of this changed due to outside pressure, and the threat of wild life caused other nearby villages and towns to move here. Massive numbers of humans began to build fortifications and form armies to protect civilians. The town of Jinxi was already very geographically advantageous and human, and in this case, it quickly became one of the most important human settlements in the vicinity.
Sauron stopped here for a moment.
Two watchtowers stood in front of the heavy gates, there were defensive guards on the walls, and even Sauron saw the Rangers, who were tasked with spotting the movements of the wilderness creatures.
It was heavily garrisoned, and the proportion of militia reached one-fifth.
Sauron saw several barracks where militia were being trained, and he felt the smell of war, and the blacksmith shop was busy, and the shelves were full of weapons forged by military workers. This scenario is not only to prevent the attack of wild creatures, but also to regain the lost land. No living thing wants to give up the land so easily. Human beings are forced to remove, and when they regroup, they naturally want to take back those lands.
A sharp gaze.
Sauron suddenly felt someone watching him, and when he turned around, he was surprised to see a somewhat familiar young man.
A Juggernaut.
A high-level sword master with a straight-edged sword on his back, wearing a plain cloth robe, and still stained with blood on his body.
Officially, the man Sauron had seen.
The momentum on his body has become more and more fierce, and the whole person is like a sharp sword with a sharp edge, and the murderous aura on the other party's body is very heavy, I am afraid that this current monster rampant environment is related,
The Sword Master met Sauron's gaze and was stunned for a moment, as if he sensed his strength somewhat. He nodded slightly and left.
A high-level hunter.
It was his judgment, and it was the ability that Sauron demonstrated.
Many Juggernauts are relatively taciturn people, and they are sometimes willing to use their swords to express themselves rather than say too much nonsense.
Sauron noticed the respectful gaze on him.
It seems that this young Juggernaut has gained people's respect and recognition with his strength during this time. The Sword Master is an advanced profession that attaches great importance to actual combat, and the other party has entered the ranks of high-level professionals at this age, if he is not distracted in the future, Jinxi Town may give birth to a legendary-level Sword Saint in the future.
There's a good chance the town will become more prosperous because of him!
Sauron didn't stay long. He quickly left the town and continued on to Whitehorse City, a road that had been abandoned and overgrown with weeds.
After advancing about twenty kilometers.
A sign appeared in Sauron's sight. It reads the phrase "Beware of danger!" There are burrowing bugs here!! (Skull Marker) ......"
Burgers?!
A faint smile appeared on the corner of Sauron's mouth, and he continued on his way, about five kilometers or so, when he noticed that there were other people on the ground, as if they had come from another road.
"Be careful!"
"There's another one running out of your back!"
There was an exclamation from a middle-aged man, followed by a chaotic battle, and there seemed to be a lot of people listening to the voices, and Sauron also heard the sizzling sound of the somewhat familiar digging worm.
Druid!
Sauron's figure soared into the air, leaping between the trunks of the trees, instantly pulling out afterimages, he quickly saw the target, but the most eye-catching was a druid, who was now a black bear, but the words that came out of his mouth were very authentic elves.
Wild Druid.
They are shapeshifters in the druids, proficient in various 'transfigurations', and the way of fighting is often done by transformation.
A priest.
Dressed in a slightly shabby priest's robe, with scars on his face, he is fighting with a priest's staff in his hand. On his body Sauron saw a special emblem with 'pale hands bound with red ropes', the priest of the God of Suffering, a deity who held the priesthood of Patience, Suffering, Martyrdom and Perseverance. He was also known as the 'Weeping God', and his followers included the crippled, the oppressed, the poor, the warriors, the holy warriors, slaves and serfs, among others.
The reason why Sauron was so familiar with this god was because he had recently carefully recalled the other party's information.
【God of Suffering】-Yilmat!
He blessed the victims, and Marat, the god of bloody hunting, was one of the great enemies of the god.
There are a lot of burrowing bugs.
In addition to the professionals who could fight, there were also a large number of civilians in front of him, and these civilians completely relied on them to stop them, so they were not eaten up by the digging insects.
The strongest fighter in the crowd was a warrior monk.
It is not an oriental warrior monk, but a warrior monk trained by the local people, and there is an independent warrior monk group in the church of the [God of Suffering] - Yilmat. The name of this group is called "theBrokenOnes", and it is a group of warrior monks who believe in the weeping gods, and their members are responsible for protecting all believers and shrines, as well as punishing those who cruelly harm others
Evil deeds. These warrior monks can work as part-time priests, or they can advance to arcane cultists, saint warriors, divine power believers, divine power seekers, and saints without being punished for leaving their profession.
This is the product of the fusion of divine power and warrior monk training, and the Shatterer warrior monk is a very powerful advanced professional.
The battle became more and more intense.
However, the situation has not collapsed for the time being, because the priests of the 'God of Suffering' are very good at healing, and it has to do with their teachings.
While many misunderstand (and even mock the teachings of the Weeping God), the church in Yilmat has many believing followers across the continent. In this harsh reality, many of the victims, the sick, and the poor depend on the Church of Yilmat for their livelihoods. People in many areas revere the Church of the Weeping God, and His pastors often receive generous assistance when they practice free medicine everywhere.
This middle-aged pastor in front of him.
It is one of the few members of the Order in the current physical plane who will provide healing to others completely free of charge, and the object of this treatment is whether it is the poor, commoners, slaves, serfs, etc. Priests of the God of Suffering are not very common, they are too active in their own parish, and because of some kind of 'conversion ritual' led before death, all the priests of the God of Crying have more than 1.5 times the healing power of other priests. (To be continued......)