"Caravan?" Durag could barely believe his ears, the former Fort of Rock was full of smugglers from various forces, and the mules were whipped under the whips of the Guardians, and their bodies were full of bags of wheat and coarse salt, or undyed coarse cloth and iron pots, walking leisurely along the mountain roads of the Rockland, and then returning to the Dangerous Rock Fort full of the products of the Rockland, the shouts of the Guardians and the careless footsteps of the mules once resounded throughout the Rockland.

The smuggling teams of different forces even opened a merchant in the atrium of the fortress, and the merchants who came to the fort bargained fiercely with the smugglers, and the soldiers of the fortress dissuaded the merchants who had quarrels with a little satisfaction, and took it for granted that the merchants had stuffed a few thick gold coins into their hands, and scolded the merchants who did not hand over their filial piety。

Although it is difficult to grow food, it is not actually barren, and the hardships of the mountain people are actually caused by the exploitation of the orcs, and there are many hazelnuts, fungus, pine nuts, pecans, sika deer antlers, fat and strong wild boar, all kinds of leathers, which are the best-selling goods in the Cormier market, as well as such as ferocious wild boar, emollient oil made of wild frog oil, precious rare wood, cloves growing in rock crevices, cashmere of rock goats, scarce spell materials, and precious and difficult to find matsutake mushrooms。

In recent years, Cormier has become popular with the herbal medicine of the Tukan tribe, the Tukan people put all kinds of herbs, animal bones, and the hair and nails of the sick into the brass incense burner to let the patients breathe the smoke produced, and the pharmacists are dancing and chanting obscure sacrifices.

Although the priest's magic is fast and effective, people have long known that the magic actually relies on stimulating the vitality of the human body to achieve the purpose of healing, and the priest often refuses to treat the elderly and frail, because he does not want to hinder the believer from going to the divine kingdom of the gods, and second, the body that is too weak to withstand the treatment of the divine art.

The idea of human vitality has been put forward by mages for a long time, and priests have also accepted this view, the core is that healing magic is actually consuming the vitality of the human body, so when the nobles are sick, they will seek the help of a physician just like the commoners, or take medicinal soup, or ask a surgeon to bleed and treat the pain, and only when it is ineffective, will they go to the priest.

The herbal medicine of the Tukan people was accepted by the upper class as soon as it appeared, because it did not damage the vitality like divine magic, and the unique treatment methods and expensive expenses that were not inferior to divine magic were very much in line with the status of the nobility.

It is not only the weeds that goats love to eat that grow in the crevices of the rocks, but also a lot of herbs that the Tukan pharmacists need, these weeds that are penniless in the rocks can be sold to the royal capital in exchange for a large amount of money, and every year the various products of the rocks will make all the forces involved in it make a lot of money, many smugglers have established personal relationships with the orc chieftains, mountain chieftains, and jackal heads in the rocks, and the dangerous rock fort is becoming more and more like a commercial town, providing supply transportation and goods transit functions for the Iwadi baron's fiefdom in the rockland。

But with the advent of the orc tide, all the new baronial fiefdoms have fallen, friendly orc chieftains have also begun to use machetes against their former friends, a large number of smuggling teams have also been flooded by the orcs, the current dangerous rock fort is not to mention a caravan, even the supplies sent by nearby villages and towns are intermittent, Durag has begun to take the lead in clearing the wasteland around the castle, preparing to plant some potatoes in the spring of the next year.

Out of the consideration of duty and his own safety, after Durag arrived, he successively sent several reconnaissance teams led by rangers and veterans of the Purple Dragon Legion to reconnoiter the rockland, but many of the baron's castles in the rockland had all fallen, and the reconnaissance team was completely deep behind enemy lines in the rockland, and that time was when Ferin Mokui was catching cannon fodder in the rockland, so several reconnaissance teams suffered heavy losses, and Dulag, who was not a lot of veterans, could not bear this kind of loss, so he stopped the reconnaissance behavior, and just relied on the battle mage squad in the fortress to hastily use magic to detect the vicinity every few days to ensure that there was no large army gathered nearby。

"Where did the caravan come from? How could there be a caravan? Could it be the mountain people of the rocks? Aren't they always under the control of the orcs? I sent out a reconnaissance team that was besieged by the orcs nearby, how did they come here?" Durag thought to himself in disbelief as he let little John help him get on his armor.

Finally put on the ancestral cuirass on a shy stomach, checked the enchanted sword and steel shield on his waist, put the life-saving healing potion in the hidden pocket on his waist, put on the protective ring and defensive necklace, Durag majestically wrapped the robe of the Purple Dragon Legion behind him, and walked quickly towards the wall of the outer fort, a pair of veterans of the Purple Dragon Legion holding a long sword and shield followed behind, Little John's little face turned pale, and he wound Dulag's spare heavy crossbow and hurriedly followed behind.

Coming to the walls of the outer fort, thirty or so recruits had already hidden behind the battlements under the leadership of the sergeant major, preparing their longbows and heavy arrows, the only complete ballista on the arrow tower had also lifted the cover, several new gunners were busy oiling the ballistas, and another of Durag's squires had gone to ask the team of mages who were preparing magic in the inner fort, and a tense atmosphere was permeated throughout the city walls.

Looking at the nervous recruits, Dulag reprimanded a few words, and the veterans behind him began to walk up the city wall to support the panicked recruits, Dulag subconsciously glanced back at the inner fort, and saw that the soldiers of the brigade were assembling, and the officers took out the scattered weapons from the armory in a panic and armed the soldiers, looking at the poor performance of the recruits, Dulag shook his head and walked forward.

The battle mage is not in place yet, but Durag is not going to wait any longer, there must be something wrong with this caravan of unknown origin, in the face of an unknown crisis, Dulag is willing to face it as soon as possible, if this fortress and the dozens of veterans around him can't deal with this crisis, then the hundreds of recruits behind him and the small team of war mages can't either, Dulag walked steadily towards the battlements.

Several veterans who had been prepared behind him took out the tower shield and protected Durag, who put his right hand on the hilt of the sword, and the steel shield in his left hand was also slightly raised, looking down through the tower shield and the battlements.