Crescent Town's territory is just that, 35 kilometers long and wide.

Less than 20 minutes after receiving the military intelligence, Rosen landed in the sky above the Crescent Fortress in a newly built plane.

Because the cost of construction was greatly reduced, and the land was very barren, the crescent fortress was built on a very large site, with a length and width of more than a kilometer.

And because Lawson became an independent golden baron, the 1,000-man guard limit did not exist.

In fact, as long as Lawson has enough money, he can raise as much as he wants.

He is not short of money now, he is short of security.

Therefore, 2,000 more people were recruited, bringing the size of 3,000 to form a new rifle army to deal with the threat of the ice dwarves.

In the center of the training square.

As soon as he landed and left the cabin, Legion Commander Hamia immediately waved his hand at a group of elite soldiers beside him.

"Fence off the ritual and keep watch at all times. No one is allowed to come within 50 meters of anyone, except for the lord. ”

Rosen walked straight to the command barracks, and the captains and deputy corps commanders led by Hamia and Watson followed him.

Anglo was not there.

Because he is a southerner, he has a good water nature.

Rosen sent him to take 500 elite fighters who could swim and all the best things to rush to the Flying Fish Islands in advance.

They were accompanied by the third apprentices, Avinia and Mage Lydia, to avoid accidents on the way.

After all, it is a new territory that the people are strong enough to receive, and it is certainly not enough to rely on simple canonization documents.

On the way, Lawson asked, "How many ice dwarves are coming?" ”

Hamia had already inquired clearly: "There are 100,000 people, a mixed army of samurai and civilians, of which there are only 10,000 regular samurai. ”

Rosen's eyebrows jumped slightly when he heard this: "100,000~ This is the one who can fight." ”

There are 1.3 million ice dwarves in the land of frost, and there are 100,000 at once, which means that all the ice dwarves with some strength have arrived.

It also shows that the shortage of food is really lacking to a certain extent, and if it does not succeed in grabbing a wave, I am afraid that there will be a tragedy of cannibalism in the clan.

No, it's definitely already there.

Hamia continued: "We just grabbed a Beastmaster captive from the tunnels and asked for some news. ”

"He said that the leader this time is a great warrior named Asak, and he has brought at least 400 Beastmaster wizards under his command, and told us to surrender quickly."

At this time, the group had already arrived at the command barracks.

Rosen naturally sat on the main seat, while the legion commander and deputy legion commander sat on either side of him, and the staff, clerks and other clerical positions stood on one side, ready to serve the lord at any time.

"Bring the Beastmaster captive, I'll ask for myself."

"Yes, my lord."

Soon, an unlucky man was escorted up by two elite mid-rank samurai wearing thick steel leather armor and carrying repeating rifles.

Hamia introduced: "This is the giant rat beast king, who specializes in digging holes. His giant rat, bigger than a calf, has been shot by us. ”

Rosen carefully looked at the kneeling ice dwarf below, and saw that he was only wearing a pair of pants that covered his knees, but he had no clothes or shoes, showing a skinny figure, much thinner than the ice dwarf he saw last time.

But although he is thin, his backbone is still there.

Although he was forced to kneel on the ground, his upper body was straight, and when he saw Rosen, his eyes also showed a strong hatred.

Rosen was curious: "It's obvious that you have invaded my territory, why do you hate me?" Isn't it supposed that I hate you? ”

The Giant Rat Beastmaster roared in a jerky lingua franca, "Because you are mean! ”

"Where is the meanness?"

"Because you don't dare to fight with our warriors, but hide behind high walls! Not to mention digging the high walls, even the earth has been polluted by your evil spells! ”

He dug holes all the way, desperately digging all the way to a depth of thirty meters underground, and it was still solidified by petrification, which made people feel deep despair.

Rosen knew this, because he told him to do it.

With the Divine Iron Core, the mana was greatly depreciated, so Hal took the Architectural Mage and the Divine Iron Core, and found a way to petrify the entire mountain and the 50-meter-deep base.

Now when they saw the appearance of the ice dwarf, everyone laughed.

Several of the legion commanders looked at the Ice Dwarf's Giant Rat Beastmaster with the eyes of a clown.

Hamiya scoffed, "You can do the same, and no one stops you from doing it?" ”

The ice dwarf gritted his teeth and did not speak, but the despair in his eyes could not be concealed.

I thought that if I launched an army of 100,000 to go south, I would be able to grab a large amount of grain and go back.

To do this, they spent months preparing everything, fighting everything, rushing south, crossing the dangerous snow-capped mountains.

But I didn't expect that at this last moment, I would encounter a cliff wall higher than the highest cliff in the world!

It's like feces and pee on the mouth, and as a result, the asshole is nailed in by a human being, not to mention how uncomfortable it is.

Seeing such a giant rat beast king, Rosen knew that the ice dwarf army did not have the ability to break through the cliff wall, and if it could not be breached, then there would be no threat to Crescent Town.

After thinking about it, Rosen made his decision.

"We Crescent are peace-loving towns, and we are not afraid of fighting, but fighting is the last way we choose."

"I want to speak to your leader, Asak, so I'll let you go back and report it."

"If he doesn't want to communicate, you can tell Asak, and say that I am the mage who threw the giant beast on the Moonlight battlefield, and the mage who once fought against the evil god in the mine with the white wolf beast king Tenanx."

"If he wants to fight, I'll fight to the end! But if he wants to solve the problem in another way, I'd welcome it. ”

After saying this, he saw a trace of surprise on the face of the giant rat beast king: "Ah, it's you!" ”

"You know me?"

"I've heard about you"

The hatred on the Giant Rat Beast King's face faded a lot: "You are a strong man worthy of respect, I will bring the original words to the leader." ”

Rosen waved his hand: "Let's go, go up the cliff wall." ”

Soon, the group was escorted by about 300 elite soldiers with submachine guns on their backs, and came to the top of the cliff wall.

This cliff wall is really high, not to mention standing on the top of the mountain, it is still 80 meters high, 50 meters wide, and the foundation is deeply rooted in the mountain, just looking at it makes people feel desperate.

Not to mention mortals, the Ice Emperor was speechless when he saw it.

Standing on such a high place, I took my binoculars and looked at the valley in the distance, and I saw that in the valley about 3 miles away, there were dense ice dwarf warriors stationed.

A little counting shows that the number may be less than 100,000, but it is not far off.

Lawson kept a long-lasting dandelion on the giant rat beastmaster: "Jump, you will be able to float back to the barracks in ten minutes." ”

The Giant Rat and Beast King climbed up to the battlements, leaped forward, and floated towards the valley with his body whirring.

On the city wall, Lawson glanced at the thirty large petrified steel cannons placed around him, and after a little calculation, he knew that if he fired the cannon on the top of the mountain, the high-level power rune cannonballs could easily fall on the ice dwarf camp, which was enough to cause astonishing damage to them.

He said, "Later, if the negotiation is unfavorable, we will fire a few shots near the camp, so that these dwarf miners can see how good we are." ”

If you can't be scared anymore, you can fly an airplane and use a cannon to plow the opponent's camp.

"Yes, my lord."

With a wave of Hamill's hand, the artillerymen began to adjust the muzzles.

After waiting for more than half an hour, a group of ice dwarves rushed to the valley.

The group of ice dwarves consisted of about thirty people, all wearing clothes and trousers, but they were all barefoot, and they had no hats, let alone cloaks.

This group of people is also relatively tall, and they all have mounts, either giant bears or white wolves.

The one at the front, but riding a group of strange horses with horns, and wearing exquisite iron armor, should be the general of the ice dwarves.

Soon, the ice dwarves were running wild, eventually stopping in a clearing 200 meters away.

An ice dwarf riding on a big white wolf ran forward a little further, stopped more than a hundred meters away, and shouted at the city wall.

"Master Lawson~ How did you become a lord?"

It was none other than the White Wolf Beastmaster Tenanx, who had fought side by side.

Rosen used the voice of the group soul and laughed loudly: "Our great lord saw my talent and thought that I could be a lord, so I became a lord~"

After speaking, he added: "And it is the lord of the gods, and the territory has set up a god-given stone."

Tenanx did see the tall pillar of light in the distance, and his heart shook violently, and he shouted, "You built this wall?" ”

"To be precise, it was cultivated by a group of Terran mages who are like-minded with me. How's that, isn't it tall? ”

"Terrifyingly tall indeed."

Tenanx let out a long sigh and turned back to the tall dwarf in the animal skin cloak.

"Leader, he is the Evil God Killer, the Giant Beast Butcher, and the genius mage of the Terran Race, Lawson, is a very difficult character."

The tall dwarf's name is Asak, the Great Samurai, the temporary supreme commander of the Ice Dwarf Legion this time.

Why temporary?

Because he was elected by the tribes, when the fighting was over, his identity was gone, somewhat similar to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

He nodded in understanding, took a step forward, and shouted at Lawson in a jerky lingua franca.

"Lord of the Southerners, we didn't mean to rob you this time, it's because we have suffered a disaster and have nothing to eat!"

"As long as you can give us a batch of food, we will go back immediately!"

Rosen immediately responded: "Then if I don't give it!" ”

Asak raised his hand and pointed to the ice dwarf camp behind him: "The city wall you built is indeed thick, but our 100,000 army presses up and attacks with all our might, and we can always break through!" ”

"Once we break through this wall, will you be able to stop us?"

Rosen laughed: "Don't panic, let's take a look at the good things I prepared for you first!" ”

As he spoke, he waved his hand to the artilleryman next to him: "Fire five cannons in a row near the camp, with each cannon 10 meters apart, and use high-level fire burst shells." ”

"Yes, lord!"

As soon as the order was laid, the artillerymen borrowed sights, quickly adjusted the muzzles, and then stuffed high-end fire shells.

"Fire!"

The commander of the artillery corps shouted loudly.

'Peng Peng Peng Peng ~~'

Five dull tremors appeared one after another, and a black shadow with a diameter of ten centimeters could be vaguely seen flying out of the muzzle of the cannon, flying at high speed towards the ice dwarf camp in the distance.

About three seconds later, five huge flames with a diameter of more than ten meters instantly rose from the ridge near the camp.

After five or six seconds, there was an earth-shattering loud noise, and even the ground was trembling faintly.

It was the Five High-Rank Fire Spells that exploded the fireball!

The ice dwarves under the city walls didn't know what was going on at first, but when they saw the flames coming out of the camp behind them, their gray-blue faces suddenly lost their blue meaning and turned gray.

Lawson laughed and said: "I have prepared tens of thousands of pieces for this thing~ not only can I fight 10 miles away, but also where to fight, it is useless for you to hide behind the mountain!" ”

In fact, 50 pieces were prepared, because this thing is expensive and expensive, and it is very difficult to manufacture, and the cost of one is as high as 1000 crowns.

But the two armies are facing each other, and the heart is the best.

Asak shouted unwillingly, "Can you still break through the mountain?" ”

Rosen waved his hand to the artillery commander.

A dozen seconds later, there was a 'bang', and the shell drew a parabola in the sky, crossed the ridge and exploded behind the mountain.

"See, my good thing will still turn around!"

The blue on Asak's face turned earthy.

He took a deep breath, and his tone softened.

"Baron, we really need food, no matter what, we'd rather die in battle than starve to death without food!"

Rosen spoke his mind.

"I can give you as much food as you want."

"But we must exchange ores for ~ Black Iron, Mithril, Thorium, Resonance Crystals, or various specialties of the Land of Frost, as long as we are useful, we can exchange them!"

As soon as these words came out, the look of despair on the ice dwarf's face faded a lot, and then they got together to discuss it.

Tenanx said, "Chief, why don't we change it?" ”

The other Giant Bear Beast King immediately shouted in disapproval.

"For what? He's scaring us, and in my opinion, we can't be intimidated by them, we still have to fight! ”

"Yes, we must let these despicable southern soft-footed people know that we are awesome!"

"Chief, the Ice Emperor has told us that the Softfoot people of the South are very despicable, and they will definitely mix the grain they trade with vile poison!"

"But there is such a high, thick wall to block it, how can you fight?"

There was an idea from the Beastmaster.

"Of course we can't fight head-on, but we can use the Soul Curse Technique against that lord. As long as he is cursed to death, the other party will definitely be chaotic. ”

As soon as Tenanx heard this, he exploded and roared: "Hodder, the other party is a god lord, and there is a god stone in the territory, not only is it useless for you to do this, but it will also attract the golden god punishment!" ”

"How could it be useless? It was useful last time. ”

Tenanx laughed angrily: "Last time it was a sneak attack!" We're attacking head-on this time, can it be the same? ”

"If you really want to attract divine punishment, will you live alone on the ground? Definitely the big guys will bear it together! ”

"I think you're just afraid of death!"

"I'm not afraid of death, I'm afraid of meaningless death!"

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Asak raised his hand to signal silence: "Things are completely out of control, pray to the Ice Emperor and seek his guidance." ”

So, a group of ice dwarf beastmasters began to pray to the gods.

A few minutes later, the beastmasters opened their eyes one after another, and their opinions were unified.

Tenanx said, "God agreed to the deal. ”

The new problem came immediately.

The beast king said: "We didn't bring so much ore, and we went back and forth so far, how can we trade?" ”

Tenanx said, "Chief, why don't you ask the lord on the other side?" ”

Asak nodded, turning and yelling at the walls.

"Lord, we agree to the deal. But we didn't bring any ore, but we couldn't stand the hunger, so you had to give us food first. ”

Lawson's heart was relieved, and he immediately laughed: "It doesn't matter if you don't bring ore, use the iron weapon in your hand to exchange it with us!" ”

"I won't bully you, just at the price of our highlands, an iron knife of 4 dira for 150 dira potatoes!"

The ice dwarves looked at each other as they listened.

How can there be a reason to exchange weapons for food, if the exchange is finished, the other side turns his face and denies it, and there is no weapon at hand, isn't it given in vain?

But then again, the price is really good.

Their ice dwarves are very good at mining, and there are more than a dozen huge iron-rich mines being mined in the land of frost, and there is so much iron that almost everyone has several iron knives at home.

4 Dilla's iron knife can only be exchanged for 10 dira of grain in the land of frost, but here it can be exchanged for 150 dira potatoes.

The difference is fifteen times, which is very exciting.

The beast king said, "Or, let's change it?" ”

The other beastmaster said, "Don't worry. I've heard that southerners are all about bargaining when they do business, and we have to do the same. ”

"Yes, yes, you have to shout high."

The leader Asaac naturally wanted to make more money, but he was afraid that the price would be high, and the deal would collapse, and when the time came, he would apologize with a shy face, and even the current price would be gone.

So he asked, "Ladies and gentlemen, how much do you think is appropriate?" ”

Tenanx immediately said, "I think I can shout 200." ”

"200 is less, at least 250?"

"Isn't 250 too high?"

“220？”

"240, right? If you can't do it, you can bargain again. ”

So, Asak shouted: "4 Dila iron knives, 240 Dila potatoes!" ”

Rosen burst into laughter, knowing that it was done.

He replied loudly.

"I know that you have suffered a great disaster and that eating has become a problem, and I feel very sympathetic."

"In this way, this year's transaction will be calculated according to 4 dira iron for 250 dira food, so as to help you alleviate the disaster. But next year, I can only press 150, otherwise I will lose a lot of money! ”

When the ice dwarves heard this, their faces suddenly softened

"Hmm~ This baron is not bad."

"I said he was good, but you just didn't listen to me."

"Don't say it too soon, the devil knows if he will lie?"

When the leader Askak heard this, he was also very grateful.

"Then thank you Baron, let's go back and prepare the iron sword."

Rosen was also pleased.

"Okay, I'll go back and prepare food. But remember, no matter how many iron knives you bring here, I will have enough food for you! ”

"In fact, I prepared 100 million dila of food!"

In fact, there are far from that much, but this thing is not just for him to shout, shouting high is good to bluff people.

Sure enough, the ignorant ice dwarves on the other side were shocked when they heard this, and even the leader Asak could hardly remain calm.

A group of hillbillies looked at each other.

"How can there be so many? Deceptive, right? ”

"I think it's possible. Because if it weren't for the fact that he was well fed and supported, he would not have had the spare strength to build such a high wall. ”

"Southerners, how can they be so rich?"

"I've heard that there are too many people in the Golden Land to count, and if each person pulls a soak of urine into the North Sea, he can melt all the ice floes floating in the sea."

"Hey, you say that southerners are so rich, will they pull out the with gold?"

"It can't be, right?"

In the midst of a bunch of fragments, the impression of the invincible wealth of the Golden Land was deeply imprinted in the minds of the hillbilly ice dwarves.

(End of chapter)