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The enemy is far away, and the ball is far behind

People who do this business need to endure loneliness, because often you may not be able to see a cluster of hills and ravines when you walk for more than ten days, and the endless plains make people feel broad-minded at the same time, but also inevitably bring the mood called loneliness.

No matter where the steppe caravan comes from, it will generally hire some local steppe people as guides, because in the steppe where there is no way to follow, inexperienced people are very easy to get lost, and they don't know where to go to replenish supplies.

The steppe is still very dangerous.

In addition to the common wolves and beasts, it is not uncommon for the swift beasts to be as fast as the wind, and once they are unlucky enough to be targeted by the powerful monsters that live in groups, it is always difficult for the prey to escape on the plains.

Therefore, in addition to the guide, a mercenary escort is the second most important inevitable configuration.

Of course, there are also people who will choose a team that can become a guide itself and has extraordinary strength, but since the great trade route was opened, most of the people with such abilities in the country of Dora have gone south to make money, and it is difficult to find such a qualified team in the northern part of the originally prosperous grassland.

Autumn is strong.

The northern grassland is cold and windy early, and the flowers and plants are in the season of one year and one wither, yellow and green wrestle, and the further north you go, the greater the advantage of yellow will be, which inevitably makes people feel desolate.

A long procession became the only vivid sight on the barren grassland, and the carriages and horses were compact, and they traveled in a hurry.

At the head of the line were two men, one old and one young.

The old ones were fifty or sixty years old, with half-white hair but strong spirits, and wore leather armor and carried long swords on their backs, like a guard, while the younger ones wore black robes and behaved elegantly like aristocratic merchants.

"Captain Cohen was able to form such a powerful mercenary group at a young age, which is really embarrassing for the old man, the family has been in business for several generations, and he is neither rich nor poor in the country of Doro, but he can't produce a decent successor, and until now I have to run the goods myself, it is really more and more sad," the old man opened his mouth and didn't know that the young and polite one was the guard, but the older one was the merchant.

"You have sighed many times along the way, in fact, I don't think I have done better than your children and grandchildren, I just choose to be different, at the moment, the Dora Kingdom and the Orc Empire are constantly at war, and the opportunities that can be had on the battlefield are not comparable to being a mercenary group," the black-robed young man was none other than Lin Ke, and while he comforted the old man, he faintly looked like a shadow of a mountain in the distance, "Is it the branch of the Doomsday Mountain Range that can be seen in the distance?"

"Sort of, the branches of the Doomsday Mountains also stretch for thousands of miles, and now they can only be some lonely mountains in the outermost part," the old man explained to Lin Ke like a family elder, "The Doomsday Mountains are like a swimming whale across the continent, with a big head and a round belly, a thin tail, and a tail fin at the end, the dwarf country we are going to is in that tail fin, strictly speaking, it is already counted as the territory of the orc empire, but the orcs and dwarves have always been at odds, although they are not divided, they are really like two countries." ”

Lin Ke nodded earnestly.

The old man didn't seem to have had such an experience of educating the younger generations for a long time, and there was a bit of a gushing posture at the beginning, " Speaking of which, the dwarven country is also a great paradise, surrounded by mountains, crossed by rivers, coupled with the intricate underground network world that their ancestors have built in the mountains for generations, it cannot be said that it is solid and not easy to provoke, and at the same time, because of the special geographical location, although it is located farther north than Urg, it does not seem cold, and even in some canyons, it is as warm as spring, tsk, those dwarves will choose the place. ”

"Didn't you say that there was a Beastmaster who waged war against the Dwarven Realm?

"Winning is winning, but not winning much tangible benefit, but making the original relationship rupture and embarrassing," the old man sneered, "Back then, for some reasons I didn't understand, the previous generation of beast kings brazenly launched a war against the dwarves, I don't know how many years of fighting, both sides suffered heavy casualties, although the overall strength of the orcs is much stronger, but there is not only one enemy of the dwarves, and everyone can't afford to lose it after a long time, so the dwarves first surrendered and admitted defeat, and the beast kings of that generation withdrew their troops when they got off the slope. ”

"Listening to the legends of the older generation, in that era, our Northern Four Nations Alliance was very beautiful, all the way to the Orc Empire, the ace army of the Dora Kingdom even went all the way north to fight on the south bank of the Beast God River, and almost could rely on the so-called Ten Famous Cities of the Beast God Castle with the naked eye! The entire Beast Rejection Mountain Range belonged to my Northern Four Nations Alliance, and most of the Beast Rejection Mountain Range belonged to the Dora Country!" the old man's voice was high-pitched, but then he lowered again, " Alas, but after that, the orc empire, which ended the war with the dwarf kingdom, ushered in a powerful beastmaster, who actually took back the lost land little by little, and even squeezed the border between the two countries to a level close to Urg in the past few hundred years, which is really ...... Insulting ancestors......"

"I can't say that, there are many races in the Orc Empire, and some innate war races are not to be underestimated, once all the races are united, no country on this continent dares to be small, and the current great trade route will bring more wealth to the major Tujing countries, and the battlefield between the north and the Orc Empire will also usher in new changes," Lin Ke said.

Sun Buyuan is the enemy of the sect and the enemy is inspected by the feather and the yang

The old man glanced at Ke in surprise, "I didn't expect Captain Cohen to have such insight at a young age, I am also one of the few people in Doro who can bring benefits to the great trade routes, fortunately, the interrupted trade routes have been reopened, otherwise the future of the Four Northern Alliances will be difficult to say." ”

"Let's talk about the dwarves, have you been to that famous dwarven dungeon before?" Lin Ke curious.

"No, that kind of place is like Urg, the capital of my Doro country, how can foreigners be allowed to step into it at will," the old man said sarcastically. The dwarves are a group of drunken and money-hungry and narrow-minded ground rats, even if we have cooperated for so many years, they think all day long about how to extract more wealth from me, especially for us foreigners, every time we have to be confined like prisoners in that small mountain town and are not allowed to leave, fortunately, each transaction does not take much time, otherwise the ghosts will be willing to do business with them. ”

Lin Ke nodded silently, and had a basic understanding of the dwarven kingdom he was going to in his mind.

The dwarves are proficient in smelting, and the forging process is extremely skillful, and the tools and weapons produced by the dwarves are recognized as high-quality goods on the mainland, but they are unwilling to engage in agricultural and animal husbandry production, and the output in the country cannot meet the demand at all.

It's a win-win situation, but in fact, it is the Orc Empire itself that hurts the most......