Chapter 356: The Elemental Capital
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Sunel had been hiding nearby, watching the protracted battle that had erupted between the tigers and the thick black fog, and she remembered very well that twenty days had passed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The seven-colored mandala flowers growing in the valley suffered an unprecedented catastrophe, countless figures hovered above the valley, the outstretched wings covered the sky, and the wind brought up when the wings flapped blew a burst of sand and rocks on the ground, and some of the mandala flowers with weak roots were even directly pulled out of the ground.
The tigers were very smart and no longer rushed directly into the black fog recklessly, but shuttled around the black fog repeatedly, using the wind pressure to disperse the thick fog.
And the black fog seemed to be alive, just dissipated here, and immediately regathered over there, but every time it regathered, the concentration of the fog was lightened by a point.
Gradually, with the tireless efforts of the tigers, the fog became thinner and thinner, and the bottomless hole could already be faintly seen.
A huge white tiger roared angrily, emitting an invisible sound wave, and then all the white tigers seemed to have received an order, and opened their bloody mouths in unison.
Countless sound waves blasted into the entrance of the cave almost at the same time, and the next moment there was a deafening explosion, and the air wave composed of dust rushed into the sky, and several tigers who had no time to dodge were rushed by the air wave, as if they were suddenly hit by a sledgehammer, and actually rolled and flew out.
When the smoke cleared, the big hole was gone, replaced by a huge earth pit, but at the bottom of the pit, a dark hole appeared, as if it were an eye, staring coldly at the tigers.
This time, there was no need for anyone to command, and all the tigers were furious, and at the same time opened their bloody mouths in the direction of the cave entrance, and the air seemed to boil and become distorted wherever the sound waves passed.
The huge shock wave made the ground tremble, and after the two attacks, there was no longer a complete mandala flower in the valley, and countless stumps and broken leaves rushed into the sky with the dust, and from a distance it looked like a huge mushroom cloud.
Shaniel looked at the smoke and dust rising into the sky in front of her, and couldn't help but stop and gasp, what are you kidding? Is this a forbidden spell? For the first time, Seniel's heart felt a sense of powerlessness, and she slowly looked back, her eyes seemed to have crossed the endless forest, and she just went back?
Am I really so useless?" Shaniel asked herself silently, as if she saw a mocking smile, look, you are nothing more than that. However, with that level of attack, even if you go by yourself, I'm afraid you will be sent to death.
While Seniel hesitated, the tigers were hovering and examining their masterpiece with satisfaction, and the pit below had been enlarged a lot, and most importantly, the swarthy hole was gone.
The tigers were overjoyed, whistling up and down the valley, and every now and then a sound wave blew the ground even more uneven, and a few of the already incomplete mandala flowers were shattered.
At this moment, at the bottom of the big pit, the ground where the hole was originally located suddenly squirmed, as if something was arching outward.
A tiger with sharp eyes immediately flew over to see what was going on, but just as it flew closer, several tentacle-like things suddenly broke through the ground, like sharp blades, easily stabbed into the tiger's abdomen, and came out from behind, bringing out a rain of blood!
The tiger didn't even have time to scream before it was dragged into the ground by the tentacles, and at the same time, the sand at the bottom of the pit collapsed, as if someone had placed a funnel underneath.
The tigers couldn't figure out the situation for a while, and they were all stunned.
Little by little, the ground was collapsing, and it wasn't long before a hole with bursts of black mist appeared in front of the tigers.
The huge white tiger raised its head to the sky and let out a roar, suddenly raised its body, and flew above the entrance of the cave, and an almost substantial shock wave came out of its mouth, causing the air to ripple and crash straight into the hole.
A terrible scream came from inside the cave, and several tentacles that were still stained with blood shot out of the cave and stabbed straight into the sky.
The rest of the tigers opened their mouths without hesitation, and the sound waves hit the tentacles like dense raindrops, and in just an instant, those tentacles were blown into minced meat.
There were a series of miserable hissing sounds in the cave, each one higher and higher, and the tigers circled nervously around the mouth of the cave, not daring to let their guard down in the slightest.
A bud-like object the size of a human head suddenly flew out of the hole, and exploded with a 'bang' before the tigers could react, and countless black liquids sputtered in all directions with the explosion.
With such a dense attack, even if the tigers have wings that can soar in the sky, it is useless, there is no way to dodge, and each tiger has been splashed more or less on its body.
Where the black liquid touches, wisps of black smoke will immediately come out of that position, and make a sizzling sound, all the tigers roared in pain, and the polluted place was corroded in a short period of time to expose the white bones, and then immediately, the white bones were polluted into black again, and some tigers could no longer maintain their own balance, and fell obliquely to the ground.
After a few moments, there was no longer a single soaring figure in the sky, and all the tigers were rolling on the ground, and the more serious ones were lying there weakly, dying.
In the screams of the tigers one after another, a strange-shaped thing emerged from the hole, from the appearance it looked like a seven-colored mandala flower that had been magnified many times, the petals were covered with tiny holes, a faint black mist continued to emanate from these holes, and what was even more strange was that it should have been the position of the stamen, but it had a human face, all the facial features, and the flesh looked extremely disgusting.
There were tentacle-like things hanging from the mouth of the human face, and viscous liquid was still dripping from the broken place.
At this time, it happened that a tiger was tormented by pain and kept rolling on the ground, rolling near the entrance of the cave, and the tentacles in the mouth of the human face suddenly stretched out a lot, piercing into the tiger's body, the tiger's huge body suddenly deflated at a speed visible to the naked eye, and at the same time, the black mist emitted from the holes on the petals was also a little thicker.
But the other tigers didn't notice this, and when the pain was extreme, who would care about things that had nothing to do with them.
This is the scene that appeared before Xenil's eyes, the valley was full of white tigers tumbling endlessly, the wings that were supposed to soar in the sky were heavy on the ground, constantly making a tooth-aching cracking sound, but the tigers were unaware, at most they kept making a miserable hiss, as if this would alleviate their pain.
Then Xenil saw the monster, as if strolling around, pulling the tentacles out of the body of one tiger and stabbing it into the body of the next, and all the tigers that it had attacked were shriveled up, as if all the energy had been sucked away.
These were not enough reasons for Shaniel to take the initiative to attack, it was nothing more than a cannibalism between monsters.
The tentacles in the monster's mouth stretched out more than ten meters long, and Xenil noticed that after each tiger was sucked dry, not only did the fog thicken again, but even the tentacles became a little thicker, and the distance they stretched out was getting farther and farther.
Strength by devouring others, this is not the first time Seniel has heard of this kind of example, and it is obvious that this monster in front of her uses this method.
Glancing at the valley, it was full of devastation, and there was not a single complete seven-colored mandala flower in sight. A trace of resentment welled up in Shaniel's heart, and she wanted to get out of the entrance, she had to hold the mandala flower, otherwise, she might be trapped here forever.
The resentment that had been accumulating for a long time erupted at this moment, and Shaniel didn't even think about how terrible it must be to let these many white tigers die.
Bending the bow, setting up an arrow, and shooting furiously, this series of actions is completed in an instant.
It can also be said that when Shaniel found that there was no more complete mandala flower and that she had no possibility of completing the trial, she was ready to shoot this arrow.
The monster's reaction was not very fast, and it only had time to raise its head when Xenil's arrow was about to pierce its body.
With a 'poof', Xenil's arrow shot through the monster's eyes.
It took three days for Han Jin and Yalina to finally walk out of the swampy area thousands of miles away and come to the Hamara Plain, which is famous for its richness, but, unlike what Yalina described, Han Jin could not see the beauty of the Hamara Plain, only the wolf smoke everywhere.
Along the way, Han Jin has encountered countless orc warrior squads, their number is not much, three in a group, five in a group, although it cannot pose any threat to him Han Jin and Yalina, but if it is an attack on ordinary people, a few orc warriors are enough to completely destroy a small village, Han Jin thinks that the orc's tactic of breaking into pieces must bring a lot of losses to the Elemental Capital, but Yalina disagrees, from Yalina's mouth, Han Jin has a further understanding of the Elemental Capital.
Before Grand Duke Solomon established the Elemental Capital, the Hamara Plain was the world of the Orcs, in fact, the cities of Yehliu City, the Beit League and other cities originally belonged to the Orc Federation, but when the elite warriors of the Orc Race were completely annihilated by the Holy See in the Mountain of Immortality, their power was not as good as day by day, their territory gradually shrank, and the Hamara Plain was their last base.
The orcs did not produce, nor did they like to do ordinary work such as blacksmithing, brewing, weaving, etc., and they considered it degrading to the dignity of the warriors, but they also had their own way, which was to accumulate wealth and population through plunder, and then let the slaves work for them. During the unification of the Great Empire, the orcs still had to abide by certain rules, they leased their land to people to cultivate, although this was also a kind of exploitation, but there were laws to follow and reason to follow, and after the collapse of the empire, the orcs were unwilling to follow the rules. It must be admitted that although there are wise men among the orcs, the probability of giving birth to wise men is pitifully small, so most of them are unwilling to control their greed.
To give a very simple example, they gave the land to humans to cultivate, and one acre of land could harvest more than 200 catties of wheat, and the orcs could only get 20% of it, that is, 40 catties of wheat, and the remaining 160 catties of wheat had to be handed over to humans to buy seeds for the next year, replace farm tools, feed their families, etc., at that time, human life was still very good. But the orcs are not satisfied, why should I only ask for 20 percent? I want 80 percent, can't you ask for 20 percent? Anyway, if you don't starve to death, you can continue to work.
The orcs gradually increased the rent, provoking the peasants to revolt, but the orcs were even more angry, and simply used force to turn all the peasants into their slaves.
At that time, the continent had not yet fallen into full-scale chaos, and there were many wise men who came forward to attack the brutality of the orcs and plunder unscrupulously, which was a kind of bandit logic of exceptional acquisition, and any illegal acquisition would cause irreparable and devastating damage to society. But the orcs don't care about this, they continue to do what they should do, live a happy life, but the son grows up, the orcs find that the happy and rich life is leaving them little by little, they have usurped all the resources, but it is not as good as the original son, with the wisdom of the orcs, how can not figure out why, and the only thing they can do is more crazy plunder. Almost every orc has a large amount of gold and silver treasures piled up in their homes, but the standard of living has plummeted, and all the chambers of commerce on the continent regard the Hamara Plain as hell, and no one wants to do business with the orcs, because not only the wealth that belongs to them, but also the safety of their lives is not guaranteed. Their own material production is declining, and they cannot be replenished from the outside world, and the life of the orcs can be imagined. Finally, the magic star Solomon raised his arms and gathered hundreds of thousands of human slaves around him, driving the orcs out of the Hamara plain.
It is precisely because of the long-term intermingling with the orcs and rebelling against the rule of the orcs that the human people living on the Hamara Plain are fierce and brave, and the quality of the strong here is of course far inferior to that of Lone Cliff City, but the base is huge, and they are either loyal to Grand Duke Solomon or return to their hometown to protect their homeland. And the people of the Elemental Capital live a nomadic life, every early spring, they leave the town and rush to the countryside, at this time the Grand Duke Solomon will attack the city of Fato, contain the main force of Fusa, and at the end of autumn, the wheat fields are almost harvested, the farmers will concentrate on the town, take away everything that can be taken away, including all kinds of farm tools, cattle and sheep, etc., Grand Duke Solomon will also withdraw his army, let out the great plain of Hamara, and the orcs can toss as they want.
Facts have proved what Yalina said, Han Jin passed through several small villages, there was nothing in them, it was like a dead village, and then he passed through a large town with strong barriers, and there was a city wall more than ten meters high outside the town, and two mage towers could even be faintly seen inside, if you want to capture such a big town, the orcs can only send the main force, and it is absolutely impossible to rely on those stragglers.
Han Jin just wanted to hurry to the Elemental Capital, and he had no intention of going in to observe and study, so he sped straight outside the town.
In the blink of an eye, another three days passed, when Han Jin and Yalina, who were covered in dust, rushed across a stone bridge, and finally saw a towering city appear in front of them, Yalina let out a long sigh like a dream, and after more than a year of training, she finally went home!
Although what she has seen and experienced in the past year or so is more colorful than the previous ten years combined, home will always be home, and the feeling of home is irreplaceable.
Han Jin slowed down the speed of the unicorn, and when they were about to approach the city gate, they encountered a patrol, and the patrol team did not have much to do, just looked at the intimate young man with curious eyes, and passed by.
Entering the east gate of the Elemental Capital, a majestic momentum came to his face, the straight streets were much wider than the streets of the Holy Crown City, and they looked very neat, Han Jin paid attention to the complexion of the pedestrians on both sides, most of them had a very good complexion, it was worthless to listen to others boast, and they had to see and feel for themselves, and the complexions of the people living at the bottom were enough to prove the vitality of the city, and whether they lived and worked in peace and contentment, and whether they were willing to accept Solomon's rule.
There were too many people, and Arina was naturally embarrassed to continue to lean on Han Jin's arms, jumping off the unicorn, and Han Jin also jumped down, and the two of them walked side by side on the street, in fact, at this moment, Arina couldn't wait to put on her wings and fly back to the person who was so stern and unreasonable, but she missed her so much, but she also wanted Han Jin to be more familiar with the city and identify with the city, so she tried to control herself and slow down.
Han Jin had been observing both sides, and when he heard Arina say that the Elemental Capital had been expanded four times, he was shocked in his heart, because he saw that the layout of the houses and streets on both sides was very reasonable, and there was no trace of expansion, which proved that when Solomon dug the first spade of soil here, he already had a complete idea in his heart, he did not want to build a stronghold to stay, but to build a large city!
No matter how long the road was, it was time to finish, and after half a day's walk, Arina was already tired, and a tall wall appeared in front of her, even higher than the outer wall, and under the gate, more than twenty heavily armed warriors stood there like nails.
Han Jin remembered that when he stepped into the Elemental Capital, no one had come to check on them, but it was heavily guarded, and not a single pedestrian could see it.
"It's here. Arina said softly, and then turned her head to look at Han Jin, who was looking very seriously, or rather, a kind of stare.
(To be continued)