Chapter 390: The Messengers
The wind blew slightly, blowing the half-knee-high grass on the prairie into waves. [ Burn. Text.] γLeaf*γγ*γ
The weather was slightly cold and a little humid, and it still felt cold. The winter of the prairie has passed, the ice and snow have melted, and the grass on the prairie, after a winter of lurking, has begun to grow wildly. The wild beasts of the steppe, after a long and sad winter, began to move wildly, and from time to time you could see countless wild beasts large and small. As for the Warcraft, there are not many Warcraft on the grassland, they are very rare, and they are also out to hunt at the moment.
The Berian steppe, a long and narrow steppe of unimaginably large area, is wide in the east-west direction and narrow in the north-south direction. The Berian steppe is located in the north of the continent, and many people on the mainland do not call it by its real name, or even know its real name, and it is generally called the Far North steppe.
The southern part of the Arctic Grassland, bordering the Territory of Warcraft, is a long marginal area, because there are no mountains to block it, so many Warcraft and beasts of the Territory of Warcraft often flow from the Territory of Warcraft to the grassland.
In the northern part of the Arctic grassland, there is a large endless ice field, frozen all year round, inaccessible, only a small number of ice monsters and beasts adapted to the ice field environment survive.
The Far North steppe is bordered by the Kaoya Empire to the east and the Odoli Empire to the west, but the incomparably long distance from east to west makes it difficult for the two empires to travel between the two empires. If you want to travel from the Odoli Empire to the Kaoya Empire, there are two routes, one is through the many kingdoms and principalities in the south of the continent, and the other is through the far northern steppes. Both of these paths are extremely far away, and they will take a long time, but if you go from the imperial capital of the Ottoli Empire. To get to the imperial capital of the Kaoya Empire, the road to the far northern steppe is shorter and takes less time, but even so, it will take a month.
Although the name of the Far North grassland is called grassland, not all of them are overgrown with grass, and the grassland area only occupies about seventy or eighty percent of the entire Far North grassland. [ Burn. Text.] The rest of the area is made up of mountains, canyons, lakes, and grassless wastelands. γLeaf*γγ*γ
There are very few people living in the grasslands, and the real land is sparsely populated. The area is huge, almost half the size of the Otoli Empire, but the total population. It is estimated that the population is not as large as that of a principality in the southern part of the continent. There is no country in the Far North steppe, and people live in a tribal way, and countless tribes, large and small, are scattered in various parts of the Far North steppe. Small tribes can be as small as hundreds or even dozens of people, and large tribes can be as large as tens of thousands of people.
Each tribe basically survives, rarely depends on each other, and even individual tribes do not interact with people. There is friendship between many tribes. There will be wars between hostile and even contradictory tribes, and the relationship is intricate and no simpler than the relationship between countries.
Most tribes have one thing in common, though. That is, they are very welcome to caravans from afar, because the arrival of caravans brings many items to the tribe that are not available on the grassland, and the unique fur and other materials on the grassland are the favorite items of the merchants, so every time the caravan comes to the tribe. will make a happy deal with the people of the tribe.
The items unique to the steppe, once they go to the Ottoli Empire, will increase in price dozens or even hundreds of times at once. The huge profits led many caravans to the far northern steppes to trade with the tribes of the steppes. Caravans going to the grasslands encounter many more dangers than other places, robbers and magical beasts, and all kinds of harsh environments, resulting in only some large caravans having the ability to go to the Far North grasslands. In general, these caravans are in the hundreds or even hundreds.
The neighing of horses sounded, and a very large team moved forward at a very gentle pace.
This team is very strange and different from ordinary caravans. Ordinary caravans don't have so many people, because if there are too many people, the profits earned will be less distributed to everyone, which is very uneconomical. [ Burn. Text.] In addition, ordinary caravans were dominated by carriages loaded with goods, and as many carriages as possible were rushed. []
This team is different, the number of people reaches 100 people, although there are many carriages full of goods in the team, but the number of these carriages is only half, and the remaining half of the carriages are all carriages that can sit on people, and they are also the kind of large carriages that can be used for living.
What's even more incredible is that there is a team of more than 300 knights in the team, which is unique among ordinary caravans, ordinary caravans generally only have a small number of knights, and they can't wait for everyone to use them to drive carriages. This team of knights is uniformly dressed and armored, with a strict expression on their faces, all of them have a look of vigilance, and all the horses of the knight team are scattered, and the whole team is closely protected from the front and back.
You don't have to think about it, looking at the knights' very uniform and serious posture, you can know that this group of knights is a soldier in the army, and they are the elite of the soldiers.
It was clear that this was no ordinary caravan, as evidenced by the flag with the royal insignia of the Ottoli Empire hanging from the carriage at the front of the procession. This is a team of emissaries representing the Odoli Empire and going to the Kaoya Empire.
The messenger team consisted of two parts, one part walked in front of the procession, and it was all a carriage with a wide carriage, which was the carriage on behalf of the envoy of the Ottoli Empire and some related personnel. There was also a part that walked at the back of the procession, full of wagons full of goods, caravans that followed the messengers to the Kaoya Empire.
And in the middle of the messenger and the caravan, there was a carriage with a smaller carriage. The carriage is ordinary, the area is not large compared to the carriage in front, and it is pulled by two horses, which is much worse than the luxurious carriage used by the messenger in front and the carriage pulled by four horses. But compared to the caravan carriages that were eager to fill the carriages and even the seats of the people were extremely cramped, they were much better.
The carriage was driven by a large man in his twenties dressed in a swordsman's costume, unlike other coachmen who wore coachmen's clothes on their carriages. The big man looked ahead, but his eyes were dumbfounded, as if he was thinking about something, and the carriage he was driving followed the team slowly but not slowly, and there was no need for the big man to bother to drive the car.
With a "squeak", the door of the carriage opened, and a girl in her early twenties emerged from the carriage, and then jumped to the seat next to the big man and sat down.
"Ryan, you go into the carriage to rest, and I'll catch the rest of the journey today." The girl reached out and grabbed the reins from the big man's hand and whispered.
"Okay, Katisha, thank you." The big man smiled and handed the reins to the girl, but then instead of going into the carriage right away, he sat still and began to talk to the girl.
These two are Ryan and Katisha, who traveled with the emissaries to the Kaoya Empire.
A few days ago, after some deep thought, Ryan decided to go to the Kaoya Empire and go to Kemp. Oseidon's family goes to find a way to resolve the conflict of vindictive magic.
From the Odoli Empire, located in the western part of the continent, to the Kaoya Empire, located in the eastern part of the continent, almost the entire continent is crossed. If it weren't for the fact that there was no other way, Ryan wouldn't want to go this far. Originally, Ryan planned to go by himself, but when he said goodbye to the Three Kings Murfin, he learned that there happened to be a team of emissaries representing the Odoli Empire to go to the Kaoya Empire. Later, with the help of the Three Kings Murphy, Ryan joined the envoy team and went together.
The relationship between the Odoli Empire and the Kaoya Empire was average, not friendly or hostile, and the two empires were too far apart and were destined to have a dull relationship. However, as the two major empires of the continent, there are still some exchanges between the two empires, in addition to the fact that there are many caravans among the people, crossing most of the continent and conducting dangerous but lucrative trade, the official also conducts some exchanges occasionally, but the frequency is not high, only once every few years. This time, Ryan just caught up with the opportunity for the Odoley Empire to send an envoy to the Kaoya Empire, and joining the envoy team to go with him would bring great convenience to Ryan.
Ryan's identity in the Odoley Empire is a student, and there is nothing to worry about, and there is nothing that cannot be put down, of course, all this is based on the premise that Katisha goes together. Ryan has already established a relationship with Katiesa, so he is reluctant to leave Katisha in the Odoli Empire and go to the Kaoya Empire alone. If Ryan went alone, and the time spent in the Kaoya Empire, he would not be able to see Katisha again for at least a few years, which was unacceptable to both Ryan and Katisha.
However, the thought of asking Katisha to give up the place where she had lived for many years and follow her on a journey full of dangers and unknowns, Ryan felt a little selfish and a little sorry for Katisha. He hesitated for a long time before he asked Katisha to follow him to the Kaoya Empire.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Ryan spoke, Katisha immediately agreed, without even the slightest hesitation. This made Ryan happy, but also felt that he had a great responsibility in the future. Because once Katisha agrees to Ryan, it means that Katisha's life will follow Ryan, and Ryan will also take care of Katisha's generation. Neither of them said it explicitly, but both of them knew the meaning, and they acquiesced if they didn't say it explicitly.
After this day, Ryan's relationship with Katisha went further, except that the middle layer of paper was not punctured.
Then the two of them made some preparations and began to say goodbye to all the friends they knew. The friends were surprised by Ryan's decision, but after listening to Ryan's explanation that he had to go to find a solution to the conflict of vindictive power, they all supported Ryan's decision and wished Ryan success.
After several days of waiting, Ryan and Katisha join the Emissary as part of the Emissary and Caravan, embarking on a long and dangerous journey. (This site: Your support is my biggest motivation. )