After the Bailin plane entered January, the lord army led by Surdak began to withdraw from the Dark Worm Valley on all fronts, but the accompanying merchant group located outside the Worm Valley did not completely evacuate, and a large number of materials were still transported into the Dark Worm Valley, and before the arrival of spring, the 300,000 aborigines of the southern tribes will continue to migrate to the Worm Valley.

Once spring arrives, the Poison Mist Swamp will completely seal the gates of the Dark Worm Valley, and it will be very difficult to enter the Dark Worm Valley at that time.

Fortunately, the indigenous people of these southern tribes had already arrived at the copper mining settlement in Invercargill Forest, from where they only needed to follow the caravan to the bridgehead camp on the north bank of the Great Rift Valley, and then set off from the bridgehead camp to the cave of the Dark Worm Valley, and split the journey, each section of the road would only take three or four days.

And the caravan also sent some four-wheeled carriages this time to carry the children and the elderly in the aborigines of the southern tribes, this large-scale migration is not an official organization, but the migration efficiency is much higher than the official organization of the migration activities, many aborigines are walking forward without saying a word along the way, even if the farther north the colder, I did not see them complain about a word of bitterness and tiredness.

The merchant group prepared a large amount of dry food.

Along the way, there are porridge sheds that offer free cereal, and a bowl of it will not only fill your stomach, but also ward off the cold.

Great Elder Baijide knew that the reason why these merchants were able to take care of these clansmen so much was because Lord Surdak greeted the merchant groups accompanying the army, but after all, the number of his clansmen who migrated was as high as 300,000, even if they only drank cereal porridge every day, the food consumed every day would be calculated according to the car.

In the past few days, the aborigines of the Dark Worm Valley have begun to drive a group of ghost worker ants to control the mushroom forests in the valley, and many of the fresh ghost mushrooms hidden in the anthill have been collected by the aborigines and quickly sent to the Surdak Lord, it is said that this mushroom is a precious magical herb, and the price has been high in the magic market.

In addition, thirty tribal druids led 30,000 indigenous warriors to join the lord army of Count Surdak.

Elder Whitegid arranged for some aborigines to transform a large number of giant mushrooms around the World Tree into livable mushroom huts, although these huts are still relatively rough at present, but the first tribe aborigines who rushed to the Dark Worm Valley have already moved in, this kind of mushroom huts are very suitable for living, but it takes a lot of thought to transform them into very comfortable, such as partitions on the upper and lower floors, beds, doors and windows, etc.

When the lord army evacuated the mouth of the cave, in order to allow the tribe natives to have the ability to resist the northern peng, Surdak left eighty bed crossbows in the Dark Worm Valley, and these bed crossbows will be moved into the Dark Worm Valley, and the aborigines drove those ghostly worker ants to place eighty bed crossbows on the top of the giant mushroom umbrella.

These Native warriors, who are children of nature, will hunt the Northern Birds with their bed crossbows on this side of the Dark Worm Valley.

To this end, Surdak also spent a huge amount of money to order a hundred sky-shooting crossbows from the imperial capital.

These magic ballasts are lighter than bed crossbows, but they don't have chassis wheel holders, and their bolts are nearly two-thirds smaller than bed crossbow arrows. This kind of sky-shooting crossbow mainly has a pitch frame with a larger adjustment angle, and can easily aim at the Peng bird hovering in the sky, because the crossbow arrow uses a shorter pure iron arrow shaft, and the range to the air is much better than that of the bed crossbow.

It's just that customizing this batch of sky-shooting crossbows still requires merchants to go to the imperial capital with orders and magic crystals, so whether the merchants who go to the imperial capital can rush back before the poisonous mist swamp blocks the Dark Worm Valley is still full of uncertainty.

The lords' army retreated to the bridgehead camp in the Great Rift Valley, and the adventure group finally ended their winter hunting trip.

The large forces of the lord army are heading to the Three Rivers Plain one after another, and after the rivers thaw, the lord army will fight in the area where the Red Ridge Giant Turtle is located.

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Twenty-fifty-eight. In mid-January of the ninth year, Surdak submitted an application to Wilkes City to develop the territory, officially including the Dark Worm Valley into the territorial territory, and promised to give up the poisonous fog swamp and the large lake around the Dark Worm Valley to complete the Grimm Empire's 433 territorial development agreement.

This time, the lord army owned by the lord of Surdak on the White Forest Plane has increased to 100,000 people, which is almost more than the total number of private troops owned by the noble lords of Wilkes City, and most of the fertile land north of the Thorny Mountains of the White Forest Plane belongs to the Lord of Surdak, although Surdak does not have a large grassland, but from the hills and mountains in the south to the Dark Worm Valley in the north, after owning this large piece of land, Surdak has become the first lord of the White Forest Plane.

So after Surdak's application was delivered to Wilkes City, it was immediately placed on the Consulate Florion's desk.

The Archon of Florion happily signed his name and submitted the application to the House of Representatives in Wilkes City, and this time no member of the council was willing to object to the application of the Count of Surdak, so the application was quickly approved in Wilkes City.

Soon, the clerks of the Bureau of Land Management will rush to the Dark Worm Valley to verify the approximate size of the land.

However, in fact, this is already the private property of Count Surdak, and the only thing that makes Selena feel depressed is that the aborigines of these southern tribes have their own beliefs, and no one wants to be a follower of the goddess of the night.

Surdak has only now figured out one thing, in fact, the Grimm Empire's policy towards the tribal natives in the plane is relatively lenient.

The Imperial army had frequent conflicts with the indigenous people, mainly because the local lords entered the city in order to occupy more land, and would exert tyranny on the local tribal aborigines, such as the indigenous herders in the occupied areas in the northern part of the White Forest Plane, and the local noble lords almost always hired them to herd horses at the lowest price, and some even gave them free labor......

Surdak came to Wilkes again because Wilkes held a meeting of all the noble lords.

It was not the first time that Surdak had come to Wilkes City, and the only places he was most familiar with the city were the portal to the North Gate, and the Wilkes City Military Department, and he had never even stayed in Wilkes City.

Surdak took Samira to stay in a hotel called 'Hill' near the military headquarters of Wilkes, this hotel has a very special decoration, it looks like a dwarf, it is said that the whole building is hidden in a large mound, and when you live inside, you will find that each room in it is round, round rooms, round doors and windows, and the beds and wooden tables in the rooms look like simple partitions.

Even the waiters here are forest dwarves from the elven world.

The outside of the hotel is covered in large vines, which still show a hint of greenery even though it is January.

Wilkes City is not cold, walking in the streets of the city in the afternoon, there is a very slow river in the city, the water is not very clear, occasionally you can see some women squatting by the river to wash clothes, some children squatting by the river, fishing with fishing rods in their hands, those fish hiding in the river are lazy, or maybe their bait is very bad, only half a bucket of water in the barrel.

Half-elf archer Samira and gunfire rose Jiali. Decker walked ahead, and the two looked at the shops on the other side of the river, discussing the women's topic in one fell swoop.

Surdak and Gulit walked side by side, the two-headed ogre has grown a lot taller, this time he started a war with the ghost-patterned red ants, and his strength has improved by leaps and bounds It is Gulitham, his height is almost close to four meters, Surdak is a slightly burly man among the people of the Green Empire, but standing next to the two-headed ogre, just to his waist......

A row of protruding bone spurs had grown out of the two-headed ogre's back, and the totemic patterns on its body were becoming more and more intricate.

Andrew and Wolf Knight Tiger are recuperating from their injuries in Dodan Town, and this time they escaped from the Ghost Gate, and it will take at least two or three months to fully recover.

The group of children by the river seemed to be stupefied by his burly figure when they saw the tall two-headed ogre, and they stood on the dock, their mouths wide open, saliva flowing down the corners of their mouths.

A young girl with a stack of toasted bread on her head had just walked onto the bridge and fell into the river in fright at the sight of a two-headed ogre approaching her.

Fortunately, Karrie. Decker was quick with his hands, and before she had fallen into the river, he flew up and pulled the girl up.

"Are you alright?" Jiali. Decker reached out and shook it in front of the girl's eyes.

The girl put down the bread basket on her head, and when she saw that the butter bread was still there, she squeezed out a wry smile and shook her head, and she said a little thanks, but she didn't know how to speak.

"How much does this butter bread cost?" The huge figure crouched in front of the girl, and the eyes of the two heads fell on the butter bread, and one of the heads asked angrily.

"Seven copper ......plates per loaf of bread," replied the girl with a weak heart, and she could not help but be a little worried: what would I do if he reached over and grabbed it?

"I've got it all." The two-headed ogre said without raising his head.

When the girl heard the sound of the urn, she was slightly startled, and two silver glittering silver hammers flew out and landed firmly in the young girl's palm.

Then, the basket above Gu Nian's head suddenly lightened, and a stack of bread was scooped up by a big hand.

She stood at the head of the bridge, watching the people leave, and was speechless for a while.

"Dark, why are we going to the Lords of the White Forest Plane?" Gulit asked Surdak as he stuffed half of the toast to his good brother Brainflower.

"At least come over and get acquainted, after all, everyone is the lord of the Bailin plane, and it is still necessary to meet each other." As Surdak walked along the cobblestone path of the river, the high roof of the House of Representatives was already in view.

This is the administrative center of Wilkes City, and the City Hall, House of Representatives, Guard Battalion, and City Security Brigade are almost all nearby.

This was Surdak's first time attending a council of lords of the White Forest Plane, and he didn't know any of the councilors in the room.

But wherever he goes, there will be lawmakers who come up to greet him warmly, and many will introduce themselves.

The seat at which Surdak sat at this meeting was at the front of the noble lords of the House of Representatives, which fully showed that Surdak, as the great lord with the largest territory in the Bailin plane, was also above all the noble lords.

Surdak said very little during the meeting, except that at the end of the meeting, he proposed to the Speaker of the House that Wilkes City should build an air dock, and in the near future, the copper mines in Invercargill Forest would also build an air dock, and then the magic airship would be able to pass.

The Speaker only said that once Wilkes City built the airport terminal, the agreement signed with the Peng Bird Clan would be completely null and void.

This is not what other noble lords want to see.

The meeting of lords also discussed the prospects for the development of animal husbandry and mining in the White Forest Plane, which is considered the industrial pillar of the White Forest Plane, and Surdak did not participate in this topic because he did not have pastures.

But he owned two mines.

In fact, copper and iron ore from Invercargill Forest have almost monopolized the Wilkes City metal market at low prices in the last six months.

There are some other small lords on the White Forest Plane who have a small amount of mineral deposits, but since the Surdak Copper Mines began to send copper ingots to the outside world, the copper ingots produced by these small mines have no profit at all, and even for each copper ingot smelted, the local lords have to put several copper plates in it.

Therefore, these minor lords hoped that the Surdak lord would increase the price of the copper ingots, but this proposal was rejected by Surdak without hesitation.

If the price of copper ingots is raised, then these copper ingots of his will not be competitive in the city of Bena.

For Surdak's tough attitude, the other minor lords were completely helpless.

After the council of lords in Wilkes, Surdak declined the lavish dinner prepared by the House of Representatives, and that night crossed the portal and returned to the Marquis de Luthor Palace in Bena City.

This time, the Marquis of Luthor knew in advance that he was coming, and prepared a sumptuous dinner at the Marquis's Palace.

Marquis Luthor was also surprised by the results of Surdak's expedition to the White Forest Plane, he expected that he might occupy part of the land of the Three Rivers Plain, but he did not expect Surdak to open his mouth so wide, almost swallowing two-thirds of the land of the Three Rivers Plain in one bite, and then, he had to stuff the remaining third into his mouth before he would give up.

He knew that Surdak would send troops to fight against the ghost-patterned red ants, and thought that he was just to earn some magic crystals and magic materials on the red ants, but he didn't expect that this time he would destroy the entire ant clan in the Dark Worm Valley in one fell swoop.

You must know that the Grand Duke of Newman led the Bednar Legion for a long time before finally announcing the withdrawal of the Bednar Legion from the White Forest Plane.

At first, I was worried about the connection between the ant clan and the Peng birds, but now that I look at it, even if the ghost red ants are destroyed, it seems that those Peng birds have not made any large-scale retaliatory actions......