Chapter Twenty-Three, Wolf's Den Lake, Beast Tide, and the Crusade Army
Outside the tent, the autumn rain was pouring down, and the next rain was non-stop.
The panda couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the drizzle that was faintly connected into a rain curtain.
Autumn in the steppe is like this, every now and then a drizzle comes. In contrast, it is more amiable in the summer, which often rains heavily.
After all, you'll be able to travel after the rain.
He flipped through the map and compared it with the system map to determine the current location of the raiding party.
At present, they are located about two hundred kilometers north of Mulandana. There is a lake in front of it, and the grassland on one side of the lake and the forest on the other side are very wonderful.
This lake has a long, awkward-sounding name in the local language, and the panda has heard the guide say it several times, but he still can't remember it, but he knows that the name translates according to the meaning, which is "wolf's den".
As the name suggests, this lake is a den for wild wolves.
In the grassland, wolves and falcons are the easiest to turn into monsters. One is enough in number, and the other is long enough - the vast majority of demonic beasts are transformed from ordinary beasts. This world is full of magic, as long as you live long enough and absorb enough magic, even a rabbit can become a monster.
...... Of course, it is not easy for a rabbit to live to that age.
In contrast, intelligent beings suffer from living in groups, a group of people living together, barely moving their nests, where can so many people share the magic of their residence! Not to mention that intelligent beings often raise livestock, which is also a competition for magic power from them. Therefore, even if they live to be fifty or sixty years old, ordinary people are always just ordinary people, and at most they can have a little premonition of bad luck, and it is impossible to produce more abilities.
For this reason, people who want to pursue extraordinary power often choose to leave the crowd and live in the wilderness; those who have the conditions choose to live in the nodes of the leylines and draw magic from the leylines; some people choose to believe in gods or monsters and get power from the objects of their faith; of course, there are also some people who have embarked on the path of "supernatural self-sufficiency and no external seeking", focusing on tapping their own potential and not thinking about what to draw from the outside world.
There may not be any high or low between these paths, and each path has its own powerhouse, but for the beasts, it is clear that there is only one way to draw magic.
Wolf's Den Lake is the node of a leyline, and the concentration of magic here is much higher than that of the surrounding grassland, but it is not stable, very chaotic, and not conducive to absorption and cultivation at all.
But for the beast, it's not so much about it. They only need to gain power, and as for whether this power is stable and unstable, whether it will bring side effects, they don't think about it at all.
Live, live long, to be able to think about those things. These problems are too much for those who can't even guarantee their own safety.
As for the reason why they still can't survive after absorbing magic power and evolving from beasts to monsters, then ask the soldiers of Mulandana.
Every year or two, the soldiers of Mulandana would come to the Wolf's Den and sweep the area. They killed as many beasts as they could, sparing not a single one. Especially those who have evolved into Warcraft, they are even more nirvana.
There are several leyline nodes near Mulandana, among which the Wolf's Den Lake is the most suitable for animal reproduction, and the number of demonic beasts is the largest. Ordinary adventurers can't take advantage of it here, and only when the army presses the realm can they clean up those pests like a grate.
As for the other nodes, because the number of beasts is small and the number of monsters is relatively small, just leave it to the adventurers to clean up.
The rain poured down for two days before it finally stopped. As soon as the rain stopped, the raiding party immediately hit the road and hurried towards the Wolf's Den Lake.
It's not a comfortable thing to be away from home, so it's only right to get things done early and go home early.
This time, the weather was beautiful, and they did not encounter any strong wind and rain along the way, and they successfully arrived at Wolf's Den Lake.
Before reaching the lake, the panda saw the forest on the other side of the lake from a distance, and the panda clearly felt the magic of the chaos around him. These magic powers are chaotic, as if countless turbulent currents are stirring each other, and when you are in it, you feel like you are standing in the water, and you are forced by the pressure of the water to even breathe.
Jaime hadn't presided over a raid on Wolf's Den Lake before, but there were many knights who had participated in such battles, and he knew what to do with a little advice.
The first is to set up camp and establish a solid camp. Then, using a special incense that can lure the monsters, lure the nearby monsters over, and kill them as much as possible based on the camp. After killing these demonic beasts that take the initiative to attack, they will send an elite team to search for fish that have slipped through the net everywhere and kill them all.
Year after year, the knights and soldiers of the Murandana Patrol Division repeated these battles to maintain peace in the neighborhood.
Every year, people die in the crusade, and there are also people who make meritorious achievements and make a name for themselves in the crusade.
This is the millstone of flesh and blood, and it is also the trial of heroes.
When the distance was closer, the panda looked at the quiet lake from a distance, and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
Over the years, has the blood shed by the monsters and crusaders enough to fill the entire Wolf's Den Lake?
Is it also related to the fact that the magic around Wolf's Den Lake is so chaotic that it has something to do with the brutal battles that take place on a regular basis?
He didn't know.
However, he knows what to do now.
People always have a position, even if they are kind and kind, they will not consider things from the standpoint of those demonic beasts that have absorbed the magic of chaos and become a little crazy.
...... Such a wonderful Virgin will never be supported by anyone in this world.
Panda is a traverser, theoretically he does not belong to any race in this world, but he is an intelligent creature, and his position is inherently on the side of intelligent creatures.
There is obviously an irreconcilable contradiction between those crazy demonic beasts and intelligent creatures like them.
It is said that when Mulandana was not yet established, every ten or eight years, the grasslands in this area would be swept by the tide of demonic beasts. The large number of demonic beasts surging out of the Wolf's Den Lake will destroy all the towns and villages they can encounter, whether they are humans or orcs, there is no difference in front of them.
Later, where Mulandana was established, he fought them fiercely a few times, and after paying a heavy price, he finally repelled the beast tide. Soon after, Mulandana established a crusading army system to regularly exterminate the demonic beasts around the Wolf's Den Lake to prevent the beast tide from reappearing.
Humans, orcs, and other races support the crusade system. In the past few days, the orc warriors who have received the news have come one after another, temporarily joining the crusading army, fighting to prevent the beast tide.
The panda turned around, just in time to see a group of more than twenty werewolves roaring on horses, the one led by him looked a little familiar, and if you looked closely, it was the Iron Mane Tall Tree of the Tall Tree Tribe.