Chapter 525: Tribute
There is no significant change in the appearance of the storage pocket that lost its owner, but the means used by the Siron sinner to seal it automatically failed at the moment of his death, so Alendor can easily open this storage pocket and find out what is inside, of course, for safety reasons, Alendor did not go directly to look through it, but poured out all the contents of this storage pocket, and as a result, one was directly piled up on the flat ground next to it.
Seeing that Allendo had gained a lot, the people flying in mid-air slowly descended to the ground and stood in front of this hill made of a large amount of material. The number of these things is amazing, but the types are relatively single, adding up to only more than ten varieties, among which the number of Mithril ingots and Warcraft cores is the largest, accounting for more than nine-tenths, and the vast majority of the entire team of more than 20 meters tall is piled up by these two things.
Ryan took a cursory glance, according to his calculations, he was afraid that he could use these Mithril to directly build a sea ship that was not inferior to the Elf Clan's "Growth of All Things", and if he used those magic cores to drive this Mithril battleship to sail on the sea, he could probably go back and forth from Moonlight Goddess Port to Seabreeze City for ten years, so much volume, and the type is really single, I don't want a legendary powerhouse to have a normal collection, so Ryan shook his head and said, "This guy shouldn't have robbed anyone's warehouse, right?"
"Ahem!" Astarott, the hateful demon on the side, couldn't help but cough a few words, I don't know why, after spending some time in Cassano Floating City, this Thor demon actually learned some common human methods from Ryan and them, such as coughing used to resolve embarrassing scenes. After everyone's eyes turned to him, the hater general Astarott said with a wry smile, "That's right, these things are indeed what he stook. ”
"Oh?" Ryan let out a soft interjection, but didn't continue to ask anything, and if Astarlot didn't want to say it, he didn't want to force the other person too much. However, Astarlot did not hesitate, he directly pointed to those Mithril ingots and said: "Look at the patterns on these things, they are special to Kuze, although this guy has been dead for two or three years, there should be no reappearance in the abyss that can take his place." ”
Astarlot continued: "And the most important point is that the type of these things is exactly the type of tribute that Kuze and his Inner Abyss have to pay this time, but the amount is relatively small, only about one-tenth of the required amount. It was customary for these vassals to pay tribute by dividing their items into ten parts, and it was clear that the Ssalonian sinner had grabbed one of them, as the storage pocket also had a special ornament for Kuze. ”
After listening to Astaroth's explanation, Ryan looked at the storage pocket that was left aside by Alendor, and sure enough, he also saw the same ornament as the surface of these Mithril ingots, a blood-dripping eye, which was probably the special emblem of the Tieflin Lord Kuze that Astarlot said. Thinking of this, Ryan couldn't help but ask, "After Kuze died, didn't there be a man in this area to take over?"
"Nope. Astarlot shook his head and said: "After I left your plane that day, I went to the castle where Kuze lived to make a rough arrangement, I divided the amount of the tribute requested this time into several parts, and handed them over to several of Kuze's subordinates, so that they could collect them separately, and when I came back to collect these tributes, I would divide the territory ruled by Kuze to these guys according to the proportion they paid, and then let them fight on their own to decide the next lord." ”
"Don't you just designate a lord?" Ryan asked.
"No, it's not necessary. Astarot explained carefully: "The designated candidate may not be the most suitable, we still believe in the respect of the strong, and only stepping on the corpses of other competitors is the strongest and most suitable candidate." So the bigger the territory they get, the more they will have an advantage in future battles, and with this temptation, I believe they will be able to do their part in just a few years, and add more to get the upper hand. ”
"Is there such a large amount of tribute every time?" Furia couldn't help but interject, she heard Astarot say that these were only a tenth of the amount in front of her, and so much was about to catch up with the elven race's thousands of years of collection, if the Thor Demon had to collect such a large amount of tribute from here every time, it was hard for Freya to imagine that after three or five times, there would be no one alive in this abyss.
"Of course not. Astarlot shook his head and said: "This time the tribute is because the thousand-year war is about to break out, so the amount has been increased several times, in order to make a good reserve of strategic materials, the usual tribute paid once every twenty years or so is only two or three times of these, if he can't complete it as a lord here for such a long time, then he is a waste." ”
"However, with such a large amount, I'm afraid it's only worth a medium-sized Mithril vein, right? Twenty years to hollow out one, this speed is terrifying!" the dwarven king Reynolds couldn't help but speak.
"Hehe, if I'm not mistaken, I'm afraid that most of them are taken from the lower level of vassals, and if there are still less than that, most of them will start a war with the outside world, which should be the reason why Kuze and them invaded Blackstone City. Ryan didn't wait for Astarote to say anything more, and took the initiative to ease the situation for him: "Okay, okay, this is not our hometown, and we are not some righteous gods, just take care of your family and friends, don't worry about the residents here." ”
After saying this, Ryan said to Astarot with a heavy face: "Since you believe that they are the tribute this time, then I'm afraid that there has been some great change in Kuze's castle, right? I wonder if there will be any ...... in the magic array you said about teleporting to the other world."
"It's hard to say. Astarlot replied in an uncertain tone: "I believe you also know that such an important tribute will definitely be placed in the safest place waiting for His Royal Highness the Prince to send someone to pick it up or be delivered by a special person, and now it appears in the hands of a wandering Sharon sinner, although it is possible that there is a problem with Kuze's castle, but it may not be that the strong man who sent someone to escort was killed by this Sallon sinner and snatched it, and the original request for these tributes to be divided into ten parts and escorted separately was based on this consideration." ”
"In that case, then put all these things away, and then we hurried to the castle of Couzze, hoping that all is well there. Ryan nodded. Seeing Ryan say this, the others naturally had no objections, Astarott took out a storage bag from his arms and began to collect the mountain of materials, while Victor and the others used this time to take a break, during which Herrisna was interested in finding some worthwhile materials from the thousands of monster corpses, but in the end she reluctantly found that they had almost turned into flesh and blood fragments, and there was no other use except for fertilizer.
Soon, the hateful demon who had completed everything was back on the road, and Victor continued to unleash a "group flight technique" to save everyone the hardship of traveling, and also blessed everyone with a defensive barrier to avoid being eroded by the cold wind due to high-speed flight in the air. With such a good means of traveling, it only took Ryan and them half a month to go deep into the core area of Lord Kuze, and at the beginning, the Lord of the Tieflin people, Kuze rushed to the teleportation circle with his subordinates to prepare to invade the Eslar Continent, and it took at least more than two months on the road.
――――――*――――――*―――――― looking at the castle with smoke rising in the distance, Ryan had an ominous premonition that the sky in the abyss of the earth would always be dark, but now it was much brighter because of the castle in the distance that was burning with fire, although this light would flicker with the jump of the fire. In fact, they don't need to see this burning castle with their own eyes, they already had a premonition a few days ago, because after stepping into the core area of the abyss, they were greeted by a large number of corpses and ruins, and usually there is only one thing that will cause such an end to a prosperous area, and that is - war.
"Very good, very good!" said the hateful demon general Astarott almost gritted his teeth, and it was okay to lose face in front of Ryan and them, anyway, Kuze had fallen into their hands, so what if they added some additions? But Kuze, or the territory of Kuze, the former lord of the Tiflins, was invaded, and the other party had almost all of the population plundered and turned the most prosperous area of the area into ruins, which was what Astarlot hated the most.
Since he has never seen a living mouth along the way, Astarlot does not know who invaded and destroyed these prosperous areas of the Inner Abyss, and the opponent is tantamount to directly abolishing the dominance of the Thor Demon Clan in the Deep Abyss, without a stable population and a fixed territory, the influence of the Thor Demon on the Netherworld will gradually weaken, and he will eventually be driven out of this plane, this result is definitely not in the interests of the Thor Demon.
"Boyardinath, it must be Boyardinath!" said the Haters as he looked at the burning Kuze Castle and gritted his teeth. To destroy this place so cleanly, at least hundreds of thousands of troops will be mobilized, and I believe that in this plane, whether it is a dark elf or a vassal of the Rakshasa demon, it is impossible to have this courage, only Boya Dinas, her identity is special, and she is a strong person in the field, if she gives the order to fight and personally sits in charge, it can not only deter other guys who try to take advantage of the fire, but also make the entire war process extremely smoothly completed. ”