Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Bone Gold Diggers

After dozens of days of trekking, Akasu came to a fringe area of the Bone Clan's territory. This area is called the Black Bone Region in the Bone Clan, and because of the invasion of dark energy, there are very few large Bone Tribes living here. Most of the people living in this Black Bone District are poor Bone Clansmen who have fled, or gold diggers who have rushed to the Black Bone District in groups to pan for gold. These people risk their lives in this dark land in search of a substance called black gold. This metal absorbs a lot of dark energy, changing the original properties of the metal, and it can better exert the power of spells when used to forge weapons, and it is a rare metal for casting high-level staff and armor.

"Grandpa, look, what is this! A piece of black gold with a dog's head. A shabby dressed young man of the Bone Clan touched something from the river, jumped up happily and shouted to a tall and thin old man not far away. The old man was very thin, like a dry bamboo pole, and the bones on his body stood out unnaturally, faintly emitting a cyan light. Obviously, this old man has cultivated the exercises of the Bone Clan, and he is the first time he has entered the Bronze Bone Realm. This kind of person is generally the main force of the tribal generals, and even in some small and medium-sized bone tribes, they can also hold the position of centurion. At this time, the old man was dressed in extremely shabby animal skin robes, like a beggar who had been wandering for a long time.

"Hurry up and put it away, if the other gold diggers see it, I don't know what kind of big trouble it will cause" The old man looked around vigilantly, and asked the young man to quickly put away the black gold that he had found from a dry riverbed. The boy stuck out his tongue at the old man, grimaced, and happily stuffed the black gold of the dog's head into the sheepskin pouch in his arms.

It is a nearly dry riverbed that originates from the distant Mt. Bodhisattva and flows all the way to the Ming River, which rushes into the sea. But for some reason, the water level has been falling for the last 50 years, until now only a small black channel in the center of the river is less than an adult's knee deep. The old man and the boy thought that they had been panning for gold here for a long time and were very familiar with this riverbed, and in the blink of an eye, the old man and the boy found a few pieces of black gold the size of pebbles.

"Ogawa, it's time for us to go back, it's almost night. At night, the dark energy here is too strong, in addition to consuming too much physical strength, it will be bad if you meet a demonic beast," the old man shouted as he looked at the young man who was still reluctant to leave

"Grandpa, it's okay. Most of those demonic beasts lived in the upper reaches of the Ming River, and it was rare to encounter demonic beasts that escaped from the black fog area here. Today I'm lucky, let's look again, if we can find another piece of black gold with a dog's head, it will be enough for my sister to hire a witch doctor. Unmoved, the boy continued to carefully search the bare riverbed.

The old man sighed as he looked at the darkening sky, and when he thought of his granddaughter, who was still sick in the village, he and the boy searched for it quickly.

"We have to leave before three quarters of the hour, the dark energy has been infiltrating more and more recently, and a few days ago, there were already gold diggers who encountered the black monster. The old man said as he searched the riverbed

"Got it, grandpa, I promise to go back to the village with you before three quarters of the unitary hour. The boy said with a grin

While the grandfather and grandson were looking for black gold by the river, a black monster with a single horn on its head that looked like a crocodile slowly swam along the river to the vicinity of the boy.

"Xiao Chuan, be careful, black monster!" said that it was too late, and the old man found the black monster lurking in the river, flew up and stepped on the monster in the river canal.

"Ahh

"Grandpa!" Looking at the old man who was fighting with the black monster, the young man's face was pale and his eyes were full of fear.

"Xiaochuan, run!" The black monster was aroused by the old man's kick, and at this time it continued to attack the old man, seeing that the old man was about to be unable to resist, he hurriedly let the young man escape.

"Run!" A thorny tail of the black monster had already swept over the old man, who was thrown on a boulder like a broken dough bag.

The boy was obviously frightened by the sudden scene, and had forgotten to run, but was just there in a daze.

"Lao Tzu is fighting with you!" The old man saw the black monster rushing towards the young man, biting his tongue, and he didn't know what spell he was reciting in his mouth, and a blood-colored totem emerged from the old man's forehead, and he pounced towards the black monster.

Even if the Bone Clan cultivator of the Bronze Bone Realm was seriously injured, his bone strength still had the ability to break through the mountain. For a while, it was a battle with the Black Monster.

With a whoosh, a dagger appeared out of nowhere and plunged into the black beast's eyebrows.

"I don't know which hero made a move, the old man is polite here" The old man pushed away the black monster pressing on his body, stood up and saluted to a dark place

"The old man doesn't have to be polite, it's just a gesture," a young man dressed as a gold digger walked out of the darkness. The boy dressed as a gold digger was none other than Akasu, who had just arrived near the Little Black River.

Since entering the territory of the Bone Clan, Akasu has found that the entire Bone Clan is much more chaotic than the Bear Clan. It is a mixed state of orcs of many races, and tribes of all sizes fight all year round, robbing all the resources that can survive, food, ore, women, and even clean water. If he still dresses up like before, he will only be treated as a fat sheep sent to the door by various tribes, causing endless trouble out of thin air. Therefore, the day after entering the Bone Clan's territory, Akasu had already bought a complete set of gold digger equipment from the bazaar, dressing himself up as the most common gold digger in the Bone Clan's territory.

The composition of gold diggers is complex, there are adventurers from other tribes who come to the territory of the bone tribe and want to make a fortune, there are also people who can't get along in the bone tribe and try their luck everywhere, and there are even evil people of the bone tribe who violate the clan rules and are driven out of the tribe, but these gold diggers have a common characteristic that they are difficult and poor. In these years, as long as there is a stable income, how can anyone want to wander around and be a gold digger.

Since posing as a gold digger, Akasu has managed to avoid many troubles, and apart from accosting other gold diggers in the tavern and the bustard who runs the skin business, he rarely encounters harassers. It looked like his pocket was cleaner than his face, and his body was not worth three jade shells, so Akasu came all the way to the black bone area.

The reason why the Bone Clan is called the Bone Clan is not because they are an orc race with only bones, but because they practice a spell about bone power. This kind of spell is said to have been left by the white bone bodhisattva who fell here back then, and it can allow orcs to practice all the way to the five realms of iron bones, copper bones, silver bones, gold bones, and jade bones. As for the legendary Divine Bone Realm exercises, it has been lost for countless eras, so no one has ever cultivated it. Many orcs living in the White Bone Mountains can practice bone magic regardless of race, and finally after the races are mixed and fused, the bone clan is the most unique race in the Lost Lands under the name of bone law.

The grandfather and grandson rescued by Akasu are the clansmen of the Bone Clan, although both of them are orcs with horns on their heads, but they are no longer the Yak Clan but the Bone Clan.

"If the hero doesn't mind, come back to the village with us to rest. The dark energy here is too strong after nightfall, in addition to the possibility of encountering the black monsters that appear in the dark, it is also possible to be affected by the dark energy invading the physical body. The old man sincerely invited Akasu to go home with them and hide from the darkness.