The northern part of the Omoor Empire was mostly hilly and mountainous, and the climate here was harsh and the environment was treacherous, which was not suitable for large-scale urban settlements.

It is precisely because of this that the population and economic center of gravity of the Omoor Empire are generally biased towards the east and south, and as for the west, it is not much better, which is a large Gobi.

In the territory of the Duchy of Zelot, the current Grand Duke has a worried face.

The Duchy of Zelot is a small principality located in the northern part of the Omoor Empire, adjacent to the Omoor Empire, with no significant resources in the country, and only the export of a rare earth favored by magicians as its main livelihood.

Every commoner in this kingdom is a valuable asset to the Grand Duke, not that the Grand Duke cares much about his people, but that the Duchy of Zelot is too few people.

The land is scarce and sparsely populated, which is the most appropriate way to evaluate the Duchy of Zelot.

Successive Grand Dukes of Zelot can be called diligent rulers, including the present one.

Wiping the sweat stains on his face with a silk handkerchief imported from the Southern Omoor Empire, Grand Duke Zelot moved his short and fat body and asked the herald in front of him, "Is there any news from the Laren Forest?

"The latest news is that there are still strong battle fluctuations in the Laren Forest, and as for the adult who went in yesterday, he should still be fighting the stone haze storm bear. The herald's expression was also a little anxious.

"Send two more teams of knights to take a look, and if there is new information, it must be transmitted as soon as possible!" said Archduke Zelot hurriedly.

"Yes!" the herald immediately went outside to deliver the news.

Watching the herald run out of the hall, Grand Duke Zelot slumped in his chair.

"Your Majesty, you've been too tired these days. One of Grand Duke Zelot's favorite concubines appeared in the palace and stepped forward.

The appearance of this good-looking concubine was very relieved to our Grand Duke Zelot, and he tried not to think about the troubles of Laren Forest.

"Tired is tired, the point is to hope that the knight from the empire can solve that trouble once and for all. Grand Duke Zelot said with a worried face.

"It's a pity that General Warren isn't in Zelot, otherwise the Violent Bear would have been killed long ago. "This concubine is not a vase, she is from a famous family, and she knows a lot of things.

"Alas, General Warren was taken away by the Knights' Hall on a mission, and it is estimated that it will be a year or two before he returns. The Grand Duke said.

General Warren is Zelot's top powerhouse, a knight at the peak of the first level, and Zelot's biggest deterrent to the outside world.

It is also said that Zelot is too weak, covering an area only the size of a province in Faustin, and there is only one first-level powerhouse cultivated in the principality.

As soon as this first-class powerhouse left Zelot, the troubles and difficulties that followed made our Grand Duke Zelot plummet from a fat man of more than 400 catties to about 300 catties now.

The concubine said that the Grand Duke of Zelot was too tired, and it was not half a lie.

can make a first-class knight leave the country for several years to carry out tasks, Grand Duke Zelot is not a fool who doesn't know anything, and nine times out of ten he is sent by the knight's hall to carry out tasks in the heteroplane.

In two successive plane wars, the knights of all levels in the Knight Hall suffered heavy losses, and after more than ten years of cultivation and replenishment, they only eased up a little.

There are not many first-level peak knights in the knight hall, and these knights have been given a lot of rights and positions in the current knight hall.

"Let's hope General Warren will come back soon. The fat duke muttered.

"Your Majesty, I heard that a first-class knight from the Knight Hall came yesterday?" the concubine asked.

"Well, it's the knight who came to help us deal with that stone haze bear. The Grand Duke nodded.

"That's great. The concubine smiled, "As soon as that stone mist storm bear is resolved, this year's rare earth tribute will be completed." ”

"I hope so. The fat duke sighed.

The Laren Forest is not the main source of rare earths in the Kingdom of Zelot, but there are three key rare earth mines on the nearby Laren High Slope, and four-sevenths of the Principality's rare earths are mined from those heavy mines every year.

Due to the rampant bear haze in the Laren Forest, the rare earth mine on the high slope of Laren has not started construction for two months, which is also the biggest problem that the Grand Duke of Zelot is facing now.

"I don't know where this storm bear came from! Damn!" said Grand Duke Zelot, slashing his fist and gritting his teeth.

About seventy kilometers away in the Laren Forest, Locke was clutching his bloody left chest, staring coldly at a deep pit in front of him.

Underneath the pit, a bear-like monster with gray rock barbs on its back and red eyes roared in pain.

The grizzly bear's condition is much worse than Locke's, not to mention that its shoulder blade was directly torn, and even one of its hind limbs was broken by Locke, so it could only lie on the ground and be ruthless.

Judging from the performance of this bear demonic beast, as well as the fact that there is no clarity in its eyes, only bloodthirsty nature, this stone mist storm bear obviously has the strength of a quasi-level demonic beast, or even surpasses the quasi-level demonic beast, but it does not have the matching intelligence, what is the situation.

Not going to make any more extraneous branches, Locke was about to go down and kill the stone haze bear.

Life is threatened, and the unique survival instinct of all living creatures makes the Stone Haze Storm Bear regain its calm for a moment, without begging for life, nor trying to escape, the Stone Haze Storm Bear actually stabbed his head into the ground at a critical moment!

Locke didn't believe that the Stone Haze Storm Bear was holding his head and begging for mercy, and seeing the Stone Haze Storm Bear acting like this, Locke scolded, "Come again?!

An unrivaled fierce edge shot out, flying straight towards the neck of the Stone Haze Storm Bear.

"Bell!" In the sound of metallic sounds, the stone stimulus on the back of the stone haze storm bear flew rapidly, from the original length of about three meters, until it grew to five meters before stopping, and the width of the stone thorn also increased significantly.

This stone spike is made of unknown composition, and it really blocked Locke's full force.

"Roar!!" After blocking this blow, the stone mist storm bear was also uncomfortable, pulled his head out from under the ground in pain, and roared in the sky.

Looking at it again this time, the last shred of reason left in the stone haze storm's eyes had completely dissipated, and in the red angry eyes, only tyranny and killing remained.

A little bit of metal debris fell from the corner of his mouth, and the Stone Haze Storm Bear seemed to have eaten something underground.

"Hmph, the end of the strong crossbow! I want to see how long you can last?" Locke said lightly, but in actual action, he did not take it lightly, and while fighting with the violent bear, he also called out the scorpion dragon Fei Mo in the space flute by the way.

The condition of the scorpion dragon Fei Mo at this time was also a little miserable, not to mention that a third of the scale armor on his body was shattered, and there were two palm prints on his back waist.

At first glance, he saw this misty bear again, and with the rogue posture of the scorpion dragon Fei Mo when he was in the Santa Forest, he couldn't help but shrink back half a step.

It cooperated with Locke to fight with this storm bear yesterday, and it destroyed one of the hind limbs of the storm bear, and it also suffered two old punches from the storm bear, which can be called a defeat for both sides.

"Don't be afraid, it's dying, it's going to kill it this time!" Locke cheered up Fermo.

Speaking of which, Locke was also aggrieved, thinking that it was a simple killing mission, how could he have thought that the opponent was so difficult.

If it weren't for the fact that the life level of the violent bear was indeed still hovering at the quasi-level, in terms of its staying power and attack strength alone, Locke felt that there was no problem in judging it at the level of a first-order demonic beast.

In fact, there are indeed some demonic beasts in this world, which are obviously less than the first level of life, but they are even more tricky than ordinary first-level demonic beasts.

Locke was unfortunate enough to have him run into such a one today.

After another half day of hard fighting, Locke and Fermo joined hands to finally knock the misty bear down again before nightfall.

Two-thirds of the scale armor on Fei Mo's body was shattered, and corrosive dark red blood flowed everywhere on his body, dripping to the ground, destroying many turf branches in a 'silky' sound.

Taking Fei Mo back to the space flute, Locke rushed forward to cut off the head of the Stone Haze Storm Bear for the sake of safety, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The lithified skin of the Stone Haze Storm Bear was so high that Locke scrapped three Darkiron heavy swords and chopped them off before he could trim off the Storm Bear's head.

"I'm going to have to change my gear quickly. Locke gasped.

Dealing with this quasi-level violent bear with abnormal combat power, Locke has a big loss, that is, the equipment is too poor.

His armor is obtained casually, and it is okay for high-level squires and quasi-knights to use it, but he is a little inadequate as a first-class knight. The weapons are even more important, and those scrapped swords are all cheap items that Locke bought from the Knights' Palace.

After the battle, Locke did not leave the place immediately, but flew towards the pit where Storm Bear had been before.

This storm bear gives Locke a strange feeling, and it has the characteristic that it will not leave the forest, or rather, it will not leave the pit too far.

As we got closer to the pit, a feeling of discomfort came.

Sensing the fluctuations in the spiritual power of any creature nearby, Locke boldly walked over to investigate.

The closer they got to the pit, the more intense the uncomfortable feeling became, and a layer of shield quietly formed, which was a unique fighting shield for first-class knights.

When the shield was formed, Locke felt a little better, as if something was blocked by the Douqi shield.

Lying on the edge of the pit and looking down, some bright yellow metal blocks appeared in the dark cavern.

"Damn, this is a rare earth mine?" Locke scolded.

The Duchy of Zelot, how can there be more than 100,000 people in a principality, all of them live on the export of rare earths, which is not an exaggeration, but it is really enough for them to live just by selling rare earths.

And the objects they sell are the magicians who are known for their wealth.

Locke finally knew why there was such a strange feeling, rare earths are not real earth, but a collective term for many precious metals.

This type of precious metal is different from metals such as gold and silver, they are rarer than gold and silver, and correspondingly more expensive than ordinary gold and silver.

Rare earths have one thing in common, that is, they are highly radioactive, and magicians like to call these metals 'radiant stones'. ’

The reason why Locke feels uncomfortable is that it is caused by the radiation of rare earths, which can affect a first-class knight, and the rare earth reserves below can be imagined!