At dawn, the barren grass on the banks of the South River in the town of Takkale was bent down by a gust of morning wind.

A group of black mages flew in the sky, and they flew along the river bank for a while, and without finding anything unusual on the riverbank, they turned around and flew south.

These black mages flew extremely nimble in the sky on the magic handlebars, and the mage's robes made a loud noise in the wind, and they wanted to return to the black flag waving in the wind.

After the dark mages had gone away, Surdak and his party poked their heads out of the grass and watched the black mages go away.

"Luckily, we hid in time, these dark mages came so quickly."

Gulitham straightened up, walked from the grass to the side of the road, and said to Surdak not far away.

His boots and trousers were covered with thorn nuts in the grass, a fruit the size of a date and covered with hidden thorns, and the kernels in them were so bitter that he could have diarrhea if he ate too much, and he plucked them from his trouser legs with his big thick hands.

Samira jumped down from a mango tree on the side of the road, which still had fist-sized green fruits hanging from it, but they were not yet edible.

When he found the mango tree, the ogre tried it, and the sourness made him not speak much for half a day.

"What are we going to do? Still going to Bansk? ”

Samira asked, looking at Surdak.

Surdak opened the map, thinking that the bearded man and the townspeople were heading to Bansk, and that the team would cause them some unnecessary trouble if they went there, he looked at the city of Mukuso again and found the town of Hatangada on the map.

According to the sorcerer Avid, the town of Hatangada is also the largest town in the Gampo plane after Mukuso.

"Let's see, maybe it's a good idea to return to Hatangada, there won't be dark mages everywhere."

Surdak said in a relaxed tone.

"Okay, let's go to Hatangada Town, maybe I can buy the magic materials I need there......"

Wizard Arvid immediately raised his hand in approval.

"Don't worry about the magic materials, as long as you make a list, I'll figure out the rest!"

Surdak said to Avid.

The magician apparently did not think that Surdak had this ability, and said somewhat perfunctorily:

"I'll give ......you the detailed list when I'm going to sort it out."

……

Summers in the Dry Cloth Plane are not hot, and Surdak believes that the main reason is that there is no sun overhead, so there is no need to hide yourself in the shade.

The Ganbu plane is a small plane, the terrain is high in the north and low in the south, and all the rivers flow in a meandering south.

Heading north along the river, out of the outskirts of the town of Takkale, and coming to a road leading to the north, I saw many of the townspeople fleeing from the town of Takkale, and on the road there was a long queue towards the town of Hatangada.

Townspeople can still sit in horse-drawn carriages if possible.

However, there were not many carriages on the road, and most of the people sitting on them were old people and young children.

A lot of people were covered in vegetables, they didn't take much from Takale, and some even had some injuries on their bodies.

Due to the size of the two-headed ogre's target, Surdak and his party did not take this path, and they continued to walk north along the cobblestone river beach by the river, and finally chose a remote mountain road.

According to the map, the road perfectly bypasses the Grovet Mountains, passing through about a dozen small towns along the way before reaching the city of Mucuso.

On the Dry Cloth plane, only Mukuso is defined as a city, and only a few villages and towns can be established elsewhere in the plane.

The scale of buildings like the towns of Hatangada, Takkale, and Bansk looks more like a small city, but on the surface of the Ganbu plane, it is called a town.

The main reason is that Lord MacDonnell is an earl, and he can rule a city with the maximum authority.

However, the MacDonnell family is the de facto ruler of the Gampo Plane, so this is also the only central city that makes the Gampo Plane, and the rest of the city is full of villages and towns, and the size and population gap between towns is huge, there are towns with a population of hundreds of thousands, and there are also small towns with a population of a few thousand.

The road Surdak chooses to take passes through more than a dozen small towns.

The mountain road is a bit rough, but the scenery is not bad, and there are not many pedestrians along the way.

Just between the mountains and the green, a small town is tucked away on a hillside to the south.

There is a river next to the town, and almost all the streams in the nearby mountains converge into this river, and you can see small wheat fields and some waterwheels standing on the river's sides.

Grove Ridge is located northwest of the town, and only a rough outline can be seen.

Almost all the houses in the town were built on a gentle slope, and at the bottom of the valley was a large road that allowed four carriages to run in parallel, and there were no walls to defend against foreign invasions, except for two wooden watchtowers at the intersection of the town, on which stood a few militiamen with longbows.

When I walked to the bottom of the watchtower, I saw a stone tablet on the side of the road that read 'Tanley Town', and on the back there was the origin and history of this town.

Surdak and his party walked into the town under the indifferent gaze of the guard tower.

The townspeople are not very friendly to outsiders, and they don't see anyone smiling at them on the street, only wary and wary eyes.

There are hardly any homeless people in this town, except that the houses are a little dilapidated, although some traces of repair can be seen.

There was only one shopping street and one inn in the town, and Surdak had little choice but to stay in this hotel.

It's a rustic inn with a local character, with a large yard and rooms in detached wooden huts, built on the hillside behind the inn, and looks like it should be the size of ten rooms.

The room rate is cheap and breakfast and dinner are also provided, which can be waived if you don't want to eat.

A group of local young people squatted under a tree opposite the hotel to play cards, and they saw Surdak and his party enter the hotel, and all eyes were on the two-headed ogre, a big man who could not be ignored wherever he went.

It was only when Surdak and his party came out of the hotel that they were looking for a restaurant to eat in the town that the young men saw the two women in the group.

Samira was slender and well-proportioned, with a light gait, and her legs were round and slender wrapped in red leather armor, and although she wore a hood, so that people could not see her face, the young men stared at Samira's slender waist and long legs, and their saliva was almost about to flow out.

Thea has a graceful figure, a soft waist, and the strong habit of twisting the waist of the Cana Sea Clan, even if she has legs, she has not been able to change it, and the rhythm of the waist swing is easy to make people think about it.

A local young man put down the cards in his hand, wiped his hand on his chest twice, walked up boldly, stood in front of the group and asked, "You are from the outside adventure group?" Need a guide? I've grown up in town since I was a kid and know it well! ”

"No, you don't!"

Surdak said calmly.

As he spoke, he touched the hilt of the sword with one hand, the young man's face changed slightly, and he hurriedly took two steps back, spread his hands in front of his chest and said, "I have no malice, if I don't need a guide, then forget it!" ”

Seeing Surdak and his party leave, other young people dared to come up.

……

The restaurants in town aren't very good either, except for a boob. Aside from the noodle pocket-like cook, there was only one indifferent hostess, and there weren't many foods to choose from in the restaurant, the main meal was a local grilled fish, and the catfish swimming in the muddy water in the wooden basin at the door made Surdak really have no appetite.

Fortunately, Samira found a fruit stall and butcher shop in the town, the fruit stall was a roadside stall, and there were some round green and red mangoes, and Samira picked some mangoes and bought them.

As for the butcher's shop, it was a bit miserable, and from a distance it looked like a thatched hut standing on the side of the road, surrounded by some wooden planks, but fortunately there was a roof.

However, on the bloody meat case, there were large mice with burnt gray hair on one side, the skin seemed to have been scraped by a knife, and it looked black, and the belly of each big mouse was bulging, and the long tail had a big knot on it, which could be hung on the hook on the meat case casually.

In addition to the rats, there were two dried chickens and rabbits hanging in front of the meat table, two ox legs hanging from hooks, one of which had been cut in half by a knife, a bone-in beef rib spread on the table, and some flies flew around the fresh meat.

The two-headed ogre reached out and picked up a gray mouse with a round belly, and said to Surdak with a smile: "This thing is delicious, the bones are soft when cooked, and the more you chew it, the more fragrant it becomes......"

Samira and Thea, both with ugly faces, stood far away.

Surdak scratched his head and said to the ogre, "Why don't we roast a beef leg and eat it casually, ...... this thing?" ”

Gulitam is definitely an ogre who is willing to listen to other people's opinions, and when he heard Surdak say this, the good brother Brain Flower also hurriedly agreed: "Well, I think this beef leg must be very good to eat directly roasted......"

So under the surprised gaze of the butcher stall owner, Surdak directly bought the whole beef leg for fifteen silver coins.

……

Back at the inn, Surdak, after consulting the innkeeper's permission, lit a bonfire in the courtyard and roasted the whole leg.

Lying on a wicker chair in the courtyard, the Evid Magician looked at the two-headed ogre who was trying to turn the roast leg over, and sighed: "If the other lords knew that all they needed to impress you was to eat some roast beef every day, I guess someone would be willing to give you a ranch......"

The ogre, crouching next to the campfire, was trying to use a knife to cut a piece of meat on an uncooked beef leg and taste it.

Hearing the magician Arvid say this, Gulit immediately asked a little strangely, "Why are you sending me ranch?" ”

The good brother Brainflower put his ear to Gulitham and said, "What Avid means is that you can raise cattle as you like when the time comes!" ”

Gulit shook his head and immediately said: "I like to eat beef, but it doesn't mean that I like to raise cattle, I have raised yellow sheep in Wall Village, you must not know how troublesome it is to worry about the yellow sheep running away every day, and you have to count the sheep every morning and evening." ”

Brain Flower immediately swallowed her saliva and said, "Gulitham, I think the yellow sheep is better than beef......"

"Of course!" Gulitham nodded, and said with emotion: "Speaking of you, you haven't eaten those sheep I raised, and when we have the opportunity to go back to Wall Village, I will invite you to drink mutton soup, and the mutton soup cooked by Selena is the most delicious broth." ”

The two-headed ogre chatted and chatted, and then turned on his own chat mode.

The two brothers sat in front of the campfire, slicing half-cooked beef shanks and chatting to themselves.

A simple roast beef leg takes at least a few hours from roasting to eating, but for the ogre brothers, when they can finish it depends on how sharp the cleaver in their hands is......

……

The smell of barbecue wafted outside from the yard, attracting a group of town children.

They didn't come closer, but leaned against the fence outside the hotel, and looked curiously into the courtyard.

When the group of children saw the ogre, the timid children immediately ran back, and only some of the brave ones refused to go......

The clothes worn by the children were almost always sewn from the cheapest coarse linen, which was almost always used to sew bags in Bena, and the clothes made of clothes would feel slightly itchy when worn on the body, and the fabrics used to sew the clothes were more delicate.

When Surdak came out of the house, he cut some pieces of meat from the corbels, skewered them on wicker branches, put the skewers back on the fire and cooked them, sprinkled some salt, got up and went to the wall, and gave one to each child.

The children were afraid to take it at first, but the tallest boy tried to take one, and the other children quickly snatched all the skewers from Surdak's hand, and they began to devour them by the wall.

"Can anyone tell me where this is?" Surdak asked the children.

"Thanley!" The child closest to him said, "Don't you see the stone monument at the entrance of the town?" ”

"How long have you been here?" Putting him looking very smart, Surdak took the opportunity to ask him.

The boy blinked his eyes as if he had thought seriously for a moment before saying, "I've lived here since I was born." ”

Surdak asked curiously, "Then what do your parents do?" Orions, farmers, tanners, lumberjacks, ......? ”

I'm afraid that he won't be able to say it, so he will tell the possible occupations one by one.

The boy replied, "My father is a farmer, and my family has a wheat field on the other side of the river." With that, he pointed to the wheat field outside the town by the river

"My family is also ......," said several other children, who also have a wheat field at home.

One of the children pointed to the outermost child and said, "Only his family is different, his father is a butcher, and the beef leg you eat is bought from his family." ”

Following the direction of the child's finger, Surdak saw a shy child holding a meat skewer, and looked at Surdak in panic, his expression a little cramped, and his face was at a loss.

"Do you have any troops here?" Surdak asked.

The boy bit off a large piece of meat, ate it with relish, and replied cheerfully, "Yes, the lord's army comes twice a year to collect taxes. ”

"Is there an army in this nearby mountain?"

The child was slightly stunned, the meat skewer in his hand trembled imperceptibly, his eyes looked away and said, "I don't know, do you know?" ”

"I don't know."

"I haven't heard of ......"

The other children said immediately, but in much quieter voices.