Collectively referring to the vast grasslands as Absera is a lazy practice on the part of the civilized societies of the West Coast and the South. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

For the true Absera, the term can be used to encompass everything, but more often than not, it refers specifically to the steppe regions that are closer to the south and the Soradin region.

There are more than 300 nomads in the steppe, and even they have many deep-rooted cultural, linguistic and even racial differences depending on the region. Absela was only one of the areas where the merchants and mercenaries knew the most, and further west, closer to the orcs, in the intertwined forest, desert and steppe known to the steppe people as "Kursim", more nomads who rarely interacted with the West Coast still lived here.

The grasslands were vast enough to accommodate a large number of people to survive here, with the nomads in the east plundering the southern city-states, the Soladin region and even the dwarves of the mountains, while the west had a lot of dealings with the kingdoms of the Lamanites and the orcs.

In addition, the nomads on the east and west sides also had bloody conflicts with each other, and the forces on the steppe could be roughly divided into four groups, the Absellahs that Henry and his party came into contact with belonged to the eastern branch, and the west coasters and the southern people had the most contact with and knew them the most. There are also two more ancient tribes on the other side of the Neuenstein Desert that are said to have built empires in the past, and the remaining Kursimu to the west are the most populous.

Ethnic groups in the upper, middle and lower reaches of the grassland, such as the Aries clan that came into contact this time, usually have more than 10,000 people, and reaching the level of 40,000 can be among the middle and upper levels, while the truly famous large ethnic groups are usually counted at 100,000 people. An ethnic group that has reached the level of 200,000 people can be called the overlord of one side, you must know that this is not a sedentary people, with a city-state and a large number of villages, and as long as you work hard to build there, the population will slowly increase, even if a large part of them are plundered slaves, and when the 100,000-person level nomads migrate with the seasons, just mobilizing the population at this level without chaos is already an extremely difficult task.

The Aries clan of more than 10,000 people stood in the same area, which was enough to fill a small hill. 100,000 people, then from the halfway point of the mountain, all the dense crowd will be people walking around, just counting and ensuring their food, clothing, shelter and transportation is enough to make the best leaders feel a headache, if there are no suitable talented subordinates, then it is extremely difficult to maintain existence.

The grassland is not the land of the rich settled peoples, and the reason why they are still the way they are today is divided into clans has its own reasons, and it is not uncommon for the descendants of the descendants of a glorious country or region created by a certain capable person in history to fall apart because they are incompetent and unable to maintain it, let alone the grassland with a difficult environment. Under such a premise, it is not an exaggeration to say that the Kursim region, which still has eight large ethnic groups with a population of more than 100,000, is the most formidable force in the entire Absera steppe.

-- The last place where the lost Luo'an royal family was seen was in the western part of the grassland. After spending two weeks in the Aries Clan's territory, Henry and his party received the news that they didn't know whether to say good or bad.

Although there is finally a landing, the direction of the way is that even the Absela people do not want to have too much involvement in the West.

The chaos in the Kulsimu region is even worse than that of Absera, where the defeated Lamani immigrants were ambushed by them, and they should have been bullied by dogs, but the Lamanites are not all vegetarians. The hatred and blood that both sides have endured while absorbing all aspects of each other's cultures is still unforgotten by the Kulsimu and the Western Lamani states - and a series of other complex factors have created the unique political landscape of the Kulsimu region.

The people of Absera simply want to multiply. They plunder to survive during the dry season and graze peacefully during the rainy season. Although described as demons in the mouth of the White Church in the Soladin, they resemble tame domestic dogs compared to the Kursimu.

The Kursims, who were more complex and more powerful, had always wanted to invade the Tambul Mountains and occupy the fertile soil of the southern Lamanite countries, and the orc tribes between them and the Lamanites were determined to stick to their traditions and refuse to help either side, so naturally they became another force in the conflict. This is already complicated enough, coupled with the endless battles between the eight major clans over who has the most right to speak, all kinds of open guns and secret arrows, and the entanglement between multiple forces, if there is still a common point in the general direction of the outside world, I am afraid that this place is not much more chaotic than the kingdoms on the west coast.

But even if it wasn't chaotic to the extreme, most people in the troubled waters of the Kursim region would still want to avoid it if they knew a little about it, and with the long and long road, in fact, when they first heard the news, the leaders of the team almost immediately decided to give up.

The Abu Sera steppes are huge, and the mainland of Rigal, is huge, huge.

Our sage and the lady of Loan set out from Avenella, which is already considered temperate, and although there were some stopovers in between, it took quite a while to come to the south. This is also the premise that they have horses as a means of transportation, and the time spent to get from one area to another in this era when transportation is quite inconvenient is usually based on weeks or months, which is why many large meetings and other things always need to be notified about a month in advance, and in the current situation, if they want to go to Kulsim, considering the natural and man-made disasters that will be encountered along the way, three months may not be enough.

Coupled with the slow movement of the carriage, the supply of materials, and the decline in the morale of the mercenaries as escorts due to the long time outside, this team of fifty or so people was originally expected to only take one or two months, and if they rushed to the west at this moment, they would directly add three months, counting a lot of things such as finding people and negotiating, it would take half a year to say the least, so basically there was no need to mention anything.

Distance and time have become the worst enemies of all, and even our sages frown in front of them, but fortunately, the old and cunning patriarch of the Aries clan has been as reserved as ever, and when he once again reveals that the so-called West is not the real Kulsim, but only the border of the Absera, which the people of the Soladin region often fight, and it will only take three or four days to get there, everyone finally breathes a sigh of relief.

It was only a small clan that was seen carrying some of the scattered Luo'ans as slaves, and the young son of the old patriarch, who might have been shoehorned over, and about twenty warriors of the Aries clan who were guards, the day after receiving the news, the group finally set out from this basin and began to move towards the west again.

Things have finally made a little progress at this point, but it still doesn't change the nature of being a gamble. No one knew if there was the royal family that Henry was looking for among the Luoans, to thank the old patriarch for the delivery of the supplies, and at the same time to sign some deferred trade contracts, and the dozen or so mercenaries hired by the team were more or less aware that the people were coming to buy some random slaves, but since they had a salary to pay, they did not have much complaint.

The twenty or so new members added to the atmosphere of the whole team, the language barrier and the difference in culture and customs, although they acted together, they were all doing their own things, eating and sleeping together, but this matter was more or less a good thing, at least for our Mira.

The youngest son of the patriarch of the Aries clan, the dark-haired steppe nobleman whom Mira now knew to be called Khaled, had openly shown interest in her after that military performance a few days earlier, which was obviously very troublesome to the white-haired girl, who had been born in Avenella, who had paid less attention to these things, but who had always known the fact that women were in a disadvantaged position.

Whether it is a person from Avenella or a person from Sivalier, the so-called pursuit is actually a unilateral request made by the man, in essence, he just wants to make a woman his own property, and the so-called equal intercourse and free love and the like are unprecedented things for women on the West Coast to even think about it. And Mira, who was accustomed to such things and to dealing with such self-righteous men, although in fact only a few times, was able to deal with those fellows calmly, and was a little overwhelmed for a moment when she met a guy like Khalid who played his cards according to common sense and wanted to "make friends" with her according to the habits of the prairie.

On the West Coast and even in the South, men are impressed by strong, autonomous, independent women, but the idea itself exists in male-dominated societies - that woman does what is usually thought to be something that only men can do, and because she does what is considered impossible for "ordinary women", those people will pay a lot of attention to her.

Someone like Henry who treats her as an equal is unique, and the respect that Mira has always felt from the sages for treating her as an individual has always been very useful, and she has become more aware of what makes her teacher special.

However, among the nomads of the Abu Sera steppes, this behavior seems to be very common, and the presence of female warriors is commonplace, even in more important positions such as priesthood and patriarchship. Once again, the Luoan girl felt that her horizons had broadened a lot, and although the other party's attempt to make friends with her in Lamanite, which was not fluent, still made her a little unsure of how to react, but all in all, the days went on like this.

The never-ending breeze on the earth swept in from afar.

The endless field has changed from the golden yellow of Henry and his party when they first arrived to a vibrant turquoise because of the rain, many wild buffalo in the distance play in the shallows formed by the rainy season, falcons in the sky look down on the earth looking for prey like marmots, and clouds float lazily, gliding from one side to the other sky.

Across the field, to the top of the hill, the farther away is still full of life and green. "Look!" the young mercenary from the second generation shouted loudly as he sat on horseback and pointed into the distance, and the group turned their heads to see a large group of large creatures slowly walking with their backs to them in the distance that was about to disappear below the arc of the horizon.

It was the even greater marshal dragon of the grasslands, perhaps the largest of all the creatures that walked on land, except for the rare legendary creature of the dragon. The Lamanites named it "Appletisaurus", which means "Emperor of the Earth", and it lives up to its name. With a total length of more than 60 meters and a weight of more than 100 tons, the large adult Emperor Dragon can ignore almost all predators, including the two wurm genera Wyvern and Earth Dragon, and with their social habits, they can walk like a group of moving hills that no one dares to provoke.

Wandering in the vast deserts and grasslands, far away from the existence of human civilization, these creatures have no natural enemies in the natural world. Elephants and rhinos, which are more common in the grasslands, walk near them like children standing beside giants. The bustling sight of the adult Emperor Dragon walking far away in the other direction with the young individuals who had just been born in the rainy season, just looking at it from such a long distance, could already feel the shaking of the ground.

Just seeing them is enough to make one realize the greatness of life.

"The world...... There's a lot we don't know. Looking at this picture scroll that was not inferior to the storm she had seen before, but it was painted by a living life, the white-haired Luoan girl sighed.

It's exactly what everyone is thinking about right now. (To be continued.) )