After learning that Surdak had come to inspect the iron mines, the chiefs of the indigenous tribes in the Invercargill Forest quickly rushed here, and many of them wanted to meet with Surdak for a private chat.

Nowadays, the iron mines absorb a large number of young people from the indigenous tribes, and the dispute over the work in the mines can no longer be regarded as the main conflict between the tribes.

But with Surdak's lords' army fighting on the Plains of the Three Rivers, almost the entire Plains of the Trois-Rivières being included in the territory, the glorious achievements of the lords' army once again gave the chiefs of these indigenous tribes some other ideas.

The empire's universal conscription system, the indigenous tribes are now considered the subjects of Surdak's territory, so Surdak has the right to recruit troops from these indigenous tribes.

In fact, Surdak's current garrison in the White Forest Plane, except for his 500 cavalry from the barren part of the city of Hylanza, the rest of the nearly 2,000 warriors were almost all recruited from the indigenous tribes and local natives.

This lord's army belongs to the army on the Gamp plane, but the chiefs of the indigenous tribes don't care about that, they actually take the initiative to ask Surdak: You see that so many young people in the tribe are not doing military service now, you, Lord Invercargill, should expand the private army again.

Surdak pondered for two nights before gathering the tribal chiefs who had come from all over the world.

said that it was impossible for him to empty all the young warriors in the tribe at once, and now that the two mines were also employing people, the iron mines would still need a large number of miners. Invercargill Forest did follow the Imperial recruitment system, but it was limited to young tribes under the age of twenty, and of course not all of these young people were to join the army, but to join the army in batches over a period of four years.

Although the universal recruitment system of the Grimm Empire is the duty and responsibility of all male citizens, a series of rewards and punishments and living allowances are implemented in the army of Surdak, that is, in the lord army of Surdak, young indigenous warriors will also enjoy the army's living allowance when they serve four years of military service, and there are some rewards if they participate in the war.

Just like the indigenous warriors currently in the camp in Dodan Town, the first group of warriors to join the army will be retired in two years, and they will bring home a full set of heavy armor, heavy swords, and iris shields from the army, which will greatly improve the tribe's combat power.

If you can accumulate enough merit points in the army, you can exchange them not only for gold, but also for precious magic weapons.

In fact, these garrison camps in Dodan Town and the Great Rift Valley Bridgehead Camp have already been implemented, and now Surdak is only extending this part of the welfare benefits to the whole army, which is the biggest reason why the tribal chiefs are so active in encouraging the young people of the tribe to serve in the military.

There are not many ways for the weapons and armor that are under the control of the Imperial Military Department to flow into the indigenous tribes, especially the sophisticated Imperial Army's standard weaponry.

Surdak originally just wanted to inspect the iron mine and stay in the iron mine for two days before visiting the copper mine, but due to the arrival of the tribal chiefs, the trip to the copper mine had to be cancelled after seven or eight days of delay.

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When winter begins in the northern occupation zone of the White Forest Plane, the grasslands are desolate, and all the towns spend the winter, and all the townspeople stay at home and sit by the fireplace.

However, the town of Dodan became very lively at this time, and a large number of caravans had to rent temporary warehouses in the town of Dodan.

Due to the frequent attacks on caravans in the wild, the caravans are basically traveling collectively, and often the caravans will have one or more adventure groups or mercenary groups in the caravans, so as to ensure that the Peng birds can have the power to counterattack when they attack.

This indirectly led to the reluctance of the caravan to take other remote trade routes, and they all gathered in the town of Dodan.

The towns of Tunan and Prantos, which originally belonged to the pass of the Thorn Mountains, are not far from the town of Dodan.

In order to avoid not being able to rent warehouses in Duodan Town, many merchant groups usually use these towns as strongholds, but this year it is because of Pengniao's relationship that they have given up this dangerous practice.

So this winter, those buildings in the town of Dodan ...... Almost even the kennel was rented out by merchants.

At present, even in the edge of the town, it is not allowed to build residences at will, and all residential and commercial buildings are under the management of the town hall.

In the winter, when all construction in the town has stopped, Selena has finally become more idle, so she leaves the town's affairs to Lady Luna, and then takes Signa with her and follows the Thunder Rhino caravan of the merchants of Malacombe through the Dodan Gorge and into the Invercargill Forest.

Originally, it was planned to meet Surdak in the copper mine, but Surdak was delayed in the iron mine temporarily, so Selena had to take Signa to continue to ride the Thunder Rhino north, and when she saw Surdak in the iron mine, the first snowflakes had just fallen in the gray sky.

……

Surdak strode out of the cabin and gave Signa a big hug.

Signa had grown a lot, she was almost as tall as Surdak's chest, she had a dark brown braid, and she already had Selena's appearance between her eyebrows, but those eyes were brighter than Selena, she wore a fur cloak, and the cold north wind mixed with crystal snowflakes always drilled into people's necks, and Signa's little nose was red from the cold.

"Hey, Duck! You've been on the White Forest Plane for so long, and you haven't come to see us in Dodan Town, and you want us to come here to see you in the snow......" Signa complained to Surdak.

Surdak smiled and tried to put his hands under Signa's armpits and lift her up high.

Unexpectedly, Signa struggled to jump away and shouted at Surdak, "Please...... Don't treat me like a child anymore, Nika can help you in the barracks, and Thea can help you, but in your eyes, how can I grow up? ”

I watched Surdak lovingly reach out and touch her head, whispering next to her ear.

The person in charge of the mine who was accompanying him immediately knew that the beautiful little girl in front of him should be the princess Invercargill who lived in the town of Dodan.

After calming down Signa's emotions, Surdak hugged Selena, who was standing quietly on the side.

She was dressed in black priestly robes, and her beautiful eyes looked around without waves, making people feel a kind of divine majesty very clearly when they looked at it.

Selena pressed her face to Surdak's stubble-bearing face, and the two parted.

This time, she rushed from Dodan Town, not just for the sake of the bed, after becoming the High Priest of the Temple of the Two Goddesses, the level of power she gained from the Goddess of the Night had also increased by one level, so she rushed here to participate in the battle this time.

Malacombe's Thunder Rhino Caravan brought a large amount of supplies, some of which were to be left in the iron mines, and some of which were armaments, to be transported to the bridgehead camp.

Selena rushed to the iron mine day and night, but she couldn't rest in the mine cabin for a night.

Because the first snow had already fallen in Invercargill's Forest, Surdak climbed directly onto the platform on the back of the Thunder Rhino and lived in Selena's cabin

The Thunder Rhino Business Group did not stop for a moment and slowly forced, these Thunder Rhinos had huge cloth pockets on the sides of their mouths, and they ate almost all the way, constantly ingesting nutrients to offset the huge energy loss of the body......

……

Selena looked out of the window with her eyes out of focus, at this moment her mind was completely empty, she could clearly feel that there was another dominant person in her body, but she could still feel all the sensations in her body very clearly, but she lost control of her body,

Fortunately, she had long been accustomed to the powerful spiritual power descending on her body, like galloping on the vast grass, and finally stopped exhausted.

She looked through the glass window at the snowflakes in the sky and watched ......

Then she slowly closed her eyes, savoring each strong beat of her heart.

"I thought you'd wait another two years......"

Selena sat up around the sheets, leaned over and poured Surdak a cup of lemon tea, then leaned against the wall of the cabin, leaning her head against the window frame and looking out.

Her back was as soft as ivory, and her long hair fell down.

Her straight nose, slightly upturned lips, and pointed chin made her look beautiful, and her eyes fell on Signa, who was building a snowman earnestly, outside the window, with a soft smile on her face.

"Well, the city construction of Ruyt City needs a lot of money, and after thinking about it, I have to bite the bullet and fight the idea of these ghost-patterned red ants......"

After saying that, Surdak smiled.

He placed the teacup on the bedside table, and continued: "Besides, I don't want their population to continue to expand, I guess the one in the Dark Worm Valley is probably also aware of the danger outside, and may not maintain the beast tide once a decade, if she continues to grow the number of her tribe every day, she should have accumulated a lot of troops by now, for the safety of Invercargill Forest, this war is imminent." ”

Selena stood up from the side of the bed, and regardless of how cold the north wind with snowflakes was outside the window, she directly pushed open the window, and leaned out the upper body of the bare round shoulders out of the window.

"It's hard to believe that it's yours to think about it, and your territory is about to extend beyond the Thorny Mountains, including the plains to the east, so now, ...... Naturally, the source of danger in the north must be removed. ”

Selena squinted into the distance, shuddered uncontrollably, and said to Surdak.

Then she couldn't help but think in her heart: Who would have thought that leaving the barren land of Highlandsa City, there would be such a vast world in the outer dimensional world......

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