The vast grasslands around Wilkes on the White Forest Plane have a very short winter, and the vegetation here is white, like spring all year round.

—Spike Mountains—

It is this lofty mountain that rises from the sky to block the cold wind blowing from the north, which will make the Bailin plane have such a vast grassland.

Once you cross the Thorny Mountains, the temperature drops significantly.

There are large hilly mountains in the eastern part of the northern side of the Thorn Mountains, and when you go to the west of Nantu Town, you will see a large wetland with snow-capped peaks of the Thorny Mountains, which melt in the middle of summer, and the snow-capped mountains and water mountains form a large and vast wetland west of Nantu Town.

The Invercargill Warcraft Forest is home to a large area of boreal trees, and even tall fir firs are common in the forest.

I heard that the dwarves of the hills on the other side of the dwarven kingdom do not like to live in the furnace city built near the crater, and they like to make holes in the fir trees that are hundreds of years old to create a single treehouse......

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According to the Grimm Empire's Nobles' Territorial Development Decree "443 Distribution Decree", if Surdak wants to open up territory in Invercargil's Warcraft Forest, he must divide the territory into 443 according to the ratio of 443, a part of the land will be handed over to the Grimm Empire, part of the land will be handed over to Bena Province, and the remaining 40% of the land will belong to him.

The nobles opened up the land in the unoccupied areas of the plane in order to expand this land in an all-round way.

For example, clearing the area of the surrounding indigenous tribes, hunting the beasts of the forest, sending private troops to keep the territory safe, and even carving out a road to the nearest town and a campsite in the heart of the unoccupied territory.

This campsite is not as simple as it seems, it is more like a supply depot.

This newly developed occupation area, because it is very close to the unexplored area, is the favorite place for many adventure groups and mercenary groups, they enter the unexplored area to hunt, and then take their own harvest to rest on the camp, and then make appropriate supplies, and sometimes sell some things that are inconvenient to carry and do not want to throw away.

If Surdak wants this copper mine, he must occupy a larger area of the Invercargill Warcraft Forest and pay the lands elsewhere to the Grimm Empire and the Province of Bena in order to complete the legal territorial formalities.

What Surdak didn't expect was that the veins here were much larger than he had imagined, and he didn't know what was going on with the open-pit iron mine at the depths......

The copper mine stretches for nearly 100 kilometers and is covered with lush trees, which would be at least a thousand hectares if the area of the vein were to be measured in hectares.

Of course, it is also possible not to occupy this land.

According to the 443 Land Law, as long as this place is not claimed as its own territory, it is not necessary to develop land in other unoccupied areas.

In fact, you can also mine here.

However, other nobles also had the right to exploit mineral deposits in this mountain forest.

And once the other noble lords decided that this land was worth investing a lot of money and wanted to develop it with a lot of money, they couldn't stand up and stop it.

The worst thing is to give up a copper mine for nothing.

As long as it does not become their own territory, other nobles can apply to Bena City to open up or buy territory, and if the application is successful, the land here will be converted into their domain, and they will be driven from here.

Therefore, it is important to get closer to an unoccupied area.

Fortunately, Surdak belongs to the Luthor Legion, and it is relatively easy for the military to make these official applications.

Moreover, Surdak wants to connect this place with the town of Dodan, and this vast forest in the middle needs to be controlled by the Imperial Iron Horseman.

Otherwise, once the surrounding area is occupied by the demonic beasts in the Invercargill forest and surrounded by the demonic beasts, then it will fall into a more passive situation.

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The cavalry battalion and the Thunder Rhino team traveled so slowly along the way, in fact, in addition to searching for the remnants of high-level demonic beasts in the forest along the way, they also opened up a forest road for the Thunder Rhino to walk in parallel.

Now Invercargill Warcraft Forest is like a patch. In the female land, most of the vegetation was gnawed clean by the ghost-patterned red ants, and the monsters were also driven away from the forest.

Everywhere you look, there are only a few leaves left in the treetops, and if these trees are cut down, they can form a mountain road for horses and thunder rhinos to walk, but not yet for vehicles, but for Surdak's army, such a road is enough.

Expansion into a road that could be passed by horse-drawn carriages, that was later.

At night, bonfires were lit in the unbuilt camp, and nearly 1,500 soldiers gathered on the hillside, which was also spectacular.

Andrew and Samira had explored the surrounding area, but there were no large ant colonies in the area, and there was nothing to be afraid of the scattered ghostly red ants.

Many of the wooden frames in the camp have been erected, and as long as they are covered with felt and leather, the temporary shelter is considered successful.

In June, the Invercargill Warcraft Forest has just passed the rainy season, and the trees in the forest will not die as long as the roots are not dug out of the soil, and all kinds of beasts and monsters in the forest are eaten by the ghostly red ants, and the mosquitoes here are flooded in this forest without those small beast natural enemies.

In the evening, mosquitoes poured out all over the place.

They flew back and forth around the campfire, and from time to time there was a pop in the fire, and a mosquito was caught in the fire.

The cavalry erected makeshift huts and enclosed them with felt, as long as it was to ward off the mosquitoes that were everywhere.

When the Thunder Rhino team returned, in addition to carrying some ghostly red ants, there was also some new harvest, and Samira used the 'Heavenly Strike' to hunt an agate beast in the forest.

This feline monster is a bit like a black panther, but it is twice as large as a black panther, and it is an evolved form of a glazed beast, and its whole body is full of streamers like an agate.

The most important thing is that the fur of this agate beast is very well preserved, and this monster is able to survive the beast tide, mainly due to its own natural abilities 'stealth' and 'swiftness', once it hides, even the beastmaster hunter with the 'beast tracking' will find it.

Taking a step back, even if they were found, as long as the Agate Beasts wanted to escape in this complex jungle and mountainous terrain, few people would be able to catch up with them.

The arrow pierced through the back of the agate's skull, leaving almost no other scars.

It's a pity that the life magic pattern on this agate beast's body is not complete, and it can't be peeled off from the agile life magic pattern.

However, this leather is very popular with the upper class of the Grimm Empire, and it sells for ten times its true value in the market......

Onyx belongs to the three agile directions. In the early stage of the Warcraft, this kind of Warcraft leather is better than all the second-level Warcraft leather, as long as there is a professional inscriptionist to draw the 'stealth' magic pattern circle on it, the leather armor made has a concealment effect.

Many of the veteran thieves and assassins in the Thieves' Guild wanted to have a set of tight leather armor made of agate hides.

Top second-class Warcraft leather, such as salamander skin, thorn-tailed crystal lion skin, white rock rhino leather, petrified lizard leather, double-headed snake lizard leather, etc., the market price of these leathers is probably calculated according to the quality and integrity, the top gorgeous thorn-tailed crystal lion leather, a piece of leather is worth about 20-30 magic crystals.

I met a leather master who is good at streamlining and saving, and can barely make tight leather armor and pants.

However, the leather of this agate beast is sold for at least fifty magic crystals in the market, and if it is a complete leather of the ghost pattern queen, it will cost at least one hundred magic crystals.

At the beginning, Lance and his magician friends took the queen ant leather from Surdak, each of them obtained only half of it, and it was divided into two halves after Surdak stripped off the life magic pattern of his head, in order to exchange for such a half of the queen ant leather, Lance and his friends, each of them accumulated 30,000 merits in the garrison camp, and if converted into magic crystals, they could be exchanged for about forty-five.

"When I bring this leather back to Highlandsa, find someone over there to make you a set of light leather armor, and when Lance returns to Highlandsa City, he will help me introduce the inscription master of Highlandsa, and then let him make a set of agility type magic pattern construction, I heard that the best agility to the primary magic pattern construction is 'Demon Serpent's Fang'." Surdak sat in front of the campfire, holding an iron jar boiling hot tea.

"Hmm!" After Samira ascended to the second turn, he became even more silent.

In the light of the fire, her light red eyes became brighter, and with a cyan fruit in her hand, she said to Surdak:

"The agate beast also has four animal teeth, which can be made into animal teeth armor-piercing arrows, and I left it."

Surdak nodded.

Gulitmu, who was already a little impatient on the side, finally couldn't help it, stretched out his finger and poked Samira's shoulder, and asked:

"What about the Onyx? I've heard that this monster meat tastes sour......"

Samira gave Gulitum a blank look and commanded the two native archers beside her, "Bring the skinned agate beast here!" Just give it to him......"

At Samira's command, the two archers brought over a skinned agate and threw it to Gulitham.

The ogre brothers immediately began to discuss cooking, and since the birth of Brainflower, the intelligent ogre made his good brother Gulitham realize that a natural foodie is absolutely inseparable from good cooking.

And when it comes to meat stew, Selena has mastered the most traditional cooking method of Hylanza, and Surdak can make sweet and salty stews, both of which are the flavors that ogres like.

As the Invercargill Forest of Warcraft fell silent in the night, Andrew looked up at the rolling mountains and forests, and asked Surdak:

"How are we going to occupy such a large forest?"

Surdak put down the hot teapot in his hand and said:

"First of all, we must clean up the potential dangers in the forest, and the monsters and red ants must be cleaned up."

In fact, these ghostly red ants only failed to cross the Thorny Mountains, and during these two months, a large number of red ants led by the queen of ants marched along the northern slopes of the Thorny Mountains towards the east and west, and some of them have entered the unexplored territory of the plane.

On the side of the Invercargill Monster Forest, all the leaves on the trees and the small beasts in the forest were devoured by the ant colony.

As a result, there aren't many red ants lingering here at the moment.

Surdak said:

"While the vegetation here has not fully recovered, we need to carve out a wide enough forest road around the veins."

Surdak felt that only by repairing the road would it be easier for the cavalry to patrol the territory.

"In addition, we have to visit the indigenous tribes who live in this area, although they are current, but if we can live with them peacefully, it will be of great benefit to us to manage this forest."

Andrew was holding a stick, with half a scone on the other end, and he reached it to the campfire.

The scorching heat instantly burns the scones.

"Those demonic beasts in the forest, whether they are driven away or hunted, even if they are driven away and killed, there will still be new high-level demonic beasts." Andrew said.

Surdak waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about this, I have prepared a good thing that can effectively scare these demonic beasts, but it is estimated that it needs to be dried a little more......

Andrew took a bite of the crispy baked wheat cake and asked Surdak:

"Boss, this mining farm, do you still want to buy some kobold slaves to mine? Or are you going to transport those kobold slaves from the Badlands here? ”

Surdak thought for a moment before saying, "I don't have such plans for the time being, but I plan to hire some aborigines in the town in advance, and maybe I can recruit some people from the surrounding indigenous tribes." ”

The thunder rhinoceros not far away let out a low roar, giving the mountain a savage taste.

Probably due to the light and roar here, the ghostly red ants scattered around instinctively converged on the camp.

At present, the people on duty at night are the people of the archer battalion, most of them are indigenous and aborigines, and after joining the archer battalion, they found that they can buy a lot of things with the merits they have accumulated in ordinary times.

These young natives were probably poor, they were probably the hardest working people in the camp, and all the young natives had squandered energy.

It's like night duty, which is a sought-after errand in the archer camp.

They used hardwood bows when they were in the tribe, and the arrows on the shafts of hardwood arrows were also of inferior quality, and it was certainly not too easy to shoot through the hard armor of the ghost soldiers.

But now these native archers have been replaced by powerful alloy bows, which are highly lethal to ordinary ghost-patterned soldier ants.

On the outskirts of the camp, the sound of arrows breaking through the air could be heard from time to time.

This tender meat of ghost soldiers is almost a staple food for these natives.

Red ant meat is a magical beast ingredient, and it has the effect of strengthening the physique when eaten regularly, and each young natives have a powerful stomach like an ogre......

Young native archers stood by the armed Thunder Rhinoceros and shot the ghostly soldiers and ants that poured out of the darkness.

Even if two fish slipped through the net once in a while, these young natives pounced on them with great bravery.