When the expeditionary force was carrying out the preliminary construction on the northern plateau, the headquarters welcomed two special "guests";

These are two huge monster wolves with a body length of more than 6 meters, a shoulder height of more than 3.2 meters, and a chest width of 1.3 meters.

This time, it was in response to the "visit" that he had previously said with Fang.

After the wolf kings came silently with the wolves and were frightened away by the state of the cave wolves, the two waited in the forest near the coastline until a long enough time had passed.

Nesta, along with Azhara and Rough Fang, received them and led the wolf king to visit the cave wolves who were unconscious in their prison.

When they saw the embarrassed prisoner appearance of the cave wolf, the wolf king and his wife had mixed feelings.

In their hearts, there was both the joy of relief and the sadness of seeing their fellow people imprisoned.

But after all, it is I who asks to visit, and I can't play for this at this time;

Anyway, this is also in the other party's base camp...

~~

Both sides, as well as the forces they represent, actually have deep fears of each other.

For the wolves, they knew that trolls were a race of exaggerated potential when they moved to settle in the Black Forest.

Therefore, in the previous hundreds of years, they had always implemented a policy of reducing the number of trolls in the primordial tribes;

Whenever a certain troll tribe is found to be on the rise, such as a population of more than 3,000, etc., the wolves will not hesitate to launch an attack and completely destroy that tribe.

This policy continued until the cave wolf was accidentally injured.

Originally, with the cave wolves sleeping, after lacking decisive power, the wolves planned to completely wipe out all the troll tribes to avoid accidents in the future.

But in the process of destroying the troll tribes west of the Black River, they found that their casualties were too heavy;

At the same time, the demonic beasts of the mountains also took advantage of the fact that the real wolf king had not appeared for a long time, and from time to time they dared to go down the mountain to invade and intrude, distracting some of the wolves.

Moreover, not long after that, the condition of the True Wolf King was somehow exposed to the demonic beasts of the mountains;

After learning that the old enemy (who pasted himself gold) was seriously injured and fell asleep, the demonic beasts in the mountains directly chose to enter the territory of the wolves on a large scale.

This situation made the wolf leaders of the border region, who were not as strong as they are now, and even had not yet fully subdued the public, that is, the wolf kings today, temporarily gave up the encirclement and suppression of the eastern part of Heihe.

For a long time after that, they were concentrating on the two most urgent matters of recovering the wolves internally and driving out the demonic beasts externally, and they had no time to look east for the time being.

By the time they became strong and drove the beast into the forest again, it was not far from the rise of the teeth.....

When I recuperated for a while and looked back to the east, I found that in the place close to the east bank of the Black River, there was a monster called "Tooth" that suddenly rose silently;

Not only did it rise to the point of being uncontrollable in a short period of time, but it even counterattacked the western part of the Black River, using four bases and many small settlements built over the years as a fulcrum, cutting off nearly one-third of the Black Forest on the west bank at once.

That's not all, the sleeping cave wolves were also defeated and captured by the fangs with unclear means, and were miserably locked in a thick prison.

Today, there is a large area of land west of the Black River, which has fallen into the hands of trolls;

And the elite of the scattered wolf pack also suffered heavy losses in the previous war, and even some of the wolf packs, for some reason, directly chose to surrender, and even if they didn't go in person, the wolf king, they couldn't take it back smoothly.

Fortunately, most of the casualties and surrenders were not the direct vassals of the 12 wolf kings, and the trolls did not occupy their territory, which was not very important to the wolf kings;

[In view of the general environment,

Coupled with the fear of the unknown means of defeating the cave wolves in the teeth, the wolf kings chose to hibernate for the time being.

They plan to take advantage of the fact that the trolls have not yet moved, and surround and suppress the demonic beasts on the mountains, so as not to find an opportunity for the two sides to secretly unite......

~~

And the tooth side is also full of fear of wolves.

First of all, advanced witch doctors such as Nesta can actually feel that their own one-on-one is most likely not the opponent of the Wolf King.

Moreover, there are more than one or two wolf kings like this, and there are more than a dozen of them in their lair....

Secondly, although the trolls have a strong racial base, in the face of the wolf pack's wolf sea tactics, casualties are something that must be considered.

In particular, Nesta has also seen the war between the wolves and the monsters, and the army composed of all the monster wolves, although most of them are low-level wind wolves and giant wind wolves, but the number is really too much.....

Once it develops into a full-scale war with them, the consequences will be truly unimaginable.

Whether it is in terms of quantity or quality, your own high-end combat power does not have an advantage at this time, and it can even be said that it is at a relative disadvantage;

Even if you don't consider the victory or defeat of high-end combat power, the backbone will undoubtedly suffer heavy losses under the military momentum of the opponent's ants biting the elephant.

Therefore, victory can only be a pyrrhic victory.

And for the troll race, their not very fast reproduction means that there is almost no difference between a crushing victory and a big defeat.

Finally, the Troll Tribe is now in a period of rapid development.

Whether it is the basic quality of the people, the combat power, or the war potential of the tribe, it is growing rapidly almost every day.

It would be foolish to go to war with a large force at this time, after all, wolves are not as weak as the hornhoofed species.

So, on the whole, now is far from the time to turn the other cheek......

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In this way, when both sides are afraid of each other, everyone is very rational and does not dwell too much on sensitive issues;

For example, the feud, the naturalized wolf to which the teeth belong, the disappearance of the distant traveler, etc., will turn their faces when they say it, and everyone has chosen to avoid it tacitly.

But then again, after avoiding these issues, there is really nothing for the two sides to talk about.....

As a result, the "method of captivity" that the Wolf King wanted to explore was firmly covered by Nesta, and not a single trace was revealed;

And the information that the Yabu side wanted to know about the strength of the wolf king, the size of the wolf pack, the mountains and monsters, etc., had almost no gains.

In the end, in a dry laugh of "hahaha", both parties "enjoyed themselves", and after making some useless promises like scratching their boots, the wolf king and his wife left.

Crossing along the Heihe Bridge to the other side, the Wolf King glanced at the giant bridge behind him, as well as the majestic city and giant trees in the distance, and cursed hatefully "cunning", and then under the comfort of the Wolf King, he embarked on the road back to the territory.

The couple hadn't been back for a while, hoping that their territory hadn't been ravaged by the "poachers" in the mountains.....

And on this side of the river, Nesta actually has a deep headache, these guys can't be defined as "beasts", especially these wolf kings, and lord wolves, all of them are cunning and tight.....

If it weren't for the physical limitations, Nesta had no doubt that the first civilization in the Black Forest would have belonged to these wolf packs.

"Damn.... Sooner or later, they'll have to be cleaned up." In desperation, he could only be ruthless behind his back for the time being.

"Alright, don't worry.... Or I'll be ..... tonight."

"Hey~ Then I'll charge some interest first.... Sooner or later, they're going to turn them all into dogs!"

"Dogs? What's that?" Aishara gave her husband a blank look, then asked suspiciously.

"I want to change the naturalized wolves

They're dogs, and they're not related to their previous kind!"

"Hmph~ Is it interesting to lie to yourself? A wolf is a wolf, what's the use of changing a name."

Azhara said disdainfully, and then was picked up by the "angry" Nesta and left....

"Collect interest first! I'm going to fight the she-wolf king today!"

"Haha, yes, yes~"

~~~~~

Soon after, the fanged witch doctor, who had been lost from the tribe for a long time, finally returned.

From the outside, the fangs have not changed much, but the clothes on their bodies are a little tattered;

All he had left was a small leather pants that were still intact, as if he had returned to the uncivilized era of more than fifty years ago.

Greet, hug, and express nostalgia~

After hastily packing himself, Fangs finally began to tell the Speaker about his trip and the information he brought back in Nesta's office.

After leaving the Wolf King's territory, Fangs took a trip to the mountains to the northwest at the behest of Nesta;

The black-toothed beast that had come to the tribe and had been by Azhara's side until now had been tricked back from the mountains.

After that, Fangs explored the mountains for more than half a year, saw many powerful lone ranger monsters, or clashed or communicated, and finally gained a lot.

"The demonic beasts in the mountains are somewhat uneven in terms of combat power, the strong ones are quite strong, and the weak ones are quite weak, but they are generally inferior to the wolves in terms of intelligence;"

"There are also many contradictions between different races, and even between the same Warcraft races;"

"A considerable number of demonic beasts like the black blade-toothed beasts that stand at the top of the food chain will recklessly treat the rest of the demonic beasts as food."

"Generally speaking, it is a plate of loose sand, so except for the time when the cave wolves have just fallen into a deep sleep, they have briefly suppressed the wolves, and the rest of the time is almost always being beaten by the wolves."

"My main contact this time is the black blade-toothed beast, intelligent, but arrogant, disdainful of the rest of the demon ** stream, and even with their compatriots, and is considered one of the most notorious predator races in the mountains."

"Proud? When I see that Xiao Hei is sticking to Azhara, he is not arrogant at all, right?"

Nesta asked, confused, and then continued to add, as if remembering something,

"But it seems to only want to be close to Azhara, and the rest of the trolls, including me, have not been able to gain its trust..... It's just a little bit better for the rough-toothed witch doctor."

"Sticking to Azara? I didn't expect that.... At that time, although I was close to it, it was not to the level of "stickiness", but it could only cooperate with the hunt, and it seemed to be using me more as a tool.....

"It's weird.... Forget it, let's not mention this for now, is there anything else to gain?"

"Yes, I brought back seven black bladetooth cubs."

As he spoke, Fangs opened a basket on one side, and the faint sound inside it was actually heard by Nesta, but he didn't have time to ask, but he didn't expect it to be a monster cub.

"Are you going to make friends or to abduct you? What about their mothers? It can't be Blackie, right?"

"Why, the wolves seem to have carried out a large-scale encirclement." Fangs explained as he handed the basket to Nesta,

"I've found the remains of twelve black blade-toothed beasts in different areas. Look at the traces... It should have been at least ten lord wolves who touched their territory with their subordinates and killed them separately."

"However, these guys seem to have a way of hiding their nests under the noses of the wolves, and that's what allowed the little ones to survive, and they were found in several of the dens."

After taking the basket, Nesta looked down and saw seven pure black, soft and cute "kittens" making a threatening sound of "xia".

Nesta lifted them up one by one and observed

, found that three males and four females were generally very strong.

"Twelve killed? The level of this kind of Warcraft is not low, right.... There's a lot of it in the mountains?"

"The grade is not clear, our sample is incomplete after all, and there is no way to make a clear classification, but the number is really not much. They need the sustenance of large hunting grounds to fill their bellies; Moreover, it is extremely reluctant to approach other predators, and its distribution is relatively scattered."

"According to my estimates, there are probably only about thirty of the mountains facing a wolf king's territory, and these twelve are almost half of the upper reaches of a wolf king's territory."

"This... It's dangerous."

"Indeed, so I had an idea..."

"Tell me?"

"Can we put them in our hunting grounds? Anyway, our demand for prey is already low."

"Yes, they are also very good at innate spells, but the problem is... Would you like to come? This creature that is accustomed to living alone..."

Nesta asked in a deep voice, this matter had actually been mentioned in the letter brought by Xiao Hei before, but he had not thought of a suitable means for a long time.

"And we don't want a bunch of arrogant uncles who use us as tools to shovel, but people who can fight side by side with the soldiers.... Not a pet, at least a partner."

"It's not that complicated, adult guys can't become partners, can't they start with these little things?" Fangs pointed to the little guy in the basket and said, "I've always known about the situation in the tribe, isn't your appendage of elven research already realizing the "manufacturing" of demonic beast embryos in batches, starting with fertilized eggs?"

"As long as we can kidnap these guys back, we don't care if they can become partners? Is it okay to take eggs and sperm directly and culture them from scratch? And these guys who have already reached adulthood will be the master for more than a hundred years, and when they have enough population base, the black blade-toothed beast can completely become the characteristic output of the teeth."

"Uh.... It's a fitting approach..."

"Huh? Later, we can add some material to the embryo culture stage, and find a way to see if we can skip the domestication stage, so that our little guy can have a combat partner who grows together from the embryonic stage."

"Good fellow.... If you want to be ruthless, it has to be your fanged witch doctor..."

Nesta's eyes lit up when he heard this "evil" idea, and he felt that it was really too much for him to eat.

"Haha, looking at your greedy appearance now, you know that our Speaker is similar in this regard~"

"Where, where, it has to be you~"

"You're kind to each other."

After laughing, Nesta continued to say to Fang,

"If the black blade-toothed beast can really become a newborn's 'companion', then it is indeed the most suitable..... Regardless of the size and combat style, there are three or four types of spell abilities such as "Stealth", "Extreme Speed", and "Fangs and Sharp Teeth", which can be a powerful addition to the battle..... It's just that the lifespan seems to be a little shorter."

"Lifespan? Have you figured it out?"

"Yes, I secretly took some cells from all over Xiao Hei's body, and I roughly estimated from their metabolic speed, and the ultimate lifespan of the flesh is less than 180 years, and it would be good to live for 150 years in the wild.... However, this is only the situation before the advancement."

"So short-lived? ... I regret it a little, if I really become a companion, then wouldn't the little ones have to bury their partners who grew up together since they were halfway through life? Not to mention that once the elven transformation is completed, the ghost knows how long the future compatriots will live..."

"That's not entirely the case, the advanced demonic beasts cultivated through the giant tree can actually circumvent this problem to a certain extent."

"For example, the Wind Wolf has a longer lifespan than the Wind Wolf, and if the Black Bladetooth Beast has room for advancement, it will surely extend its lifespan by a part."

"But it's still not as long as we are, right?"

"That's true, and there is another extension problem that has to be considered, that is, the production capacity of the giant tree is bound to be limited, and once the first stage of the elven embryo is successful, it will definitely be used for the cultivation of our own race, and there may not be too many places for the demonic beast embryo.... Unless a better solution is thought of."

"As for longevity... To put it cruelly, being a "companion" is actually just a combat pet, as long as it can play a certain role in protecting the cubs and assisting in the initial battle, it is already good."

"As for after that... If you die, you will die, and it is not a good thing to let the younger generations experience a parting of life and death."

"Tut-tut.... The little ones are going to hate us—" said the fanged witch doctor, stroking the little one in Nesta's hand.

"No, they can finally experience the feeling of "total trust", can they? And, who knows what will happen in the future? Maybe the production capacity of giant trees will suddenly increase? Maybe they'll be able to advance more than once? Just like the captured lord wolf."

"Even further, if they can be promoted to the level of the wolf king, it is estimated that their lifespan will not be shorter than that of the current trolls."

"Think about it, when the time comes, ordinary Warcraft can be used as cannon fodder, and in various battlefields that require a lot of combat power, such as siege warfare, to replace the soldiers to charge into battle and avoid the death of their compatriots; And the higher, longer-lived high-level blade-toothed beasts, high-level wolves, or other magical beasts can be companions..."

"As long as the giant tree has enough capacity, none of this is a problem.... If we need to."

"Tsk, I'm originally a Warcraft faction, are you trying to convince me? You should go and talk to them about this, let the tribe tilt more resources into the research of Warcraft, don't be annoyed with this tree and that tree all day long. There are quite a few casualties in the war in the north like this, and if what you just said is feasible, maybe it can be avoided in the future? So, we should study more Warcraft."

"You already know? Indeed, something went wrong with the recruiting side and they went on the battlefield; The Far Wanderer troops also went alone... These two times caused us some unnecessary losses, and although we achieved good results, they still outweighed the losses."

"It's really unconscious guys, they have to be punished, punished severely, especially Cui Wenli and Zolni, and that fool from Daba."

"It's already being prepared, as well as the adaptation of the Far Traveler, the changes to the Standing Elite and the Militia, we have some new ideas, you remember to check it out later."

"Yes... By the way, you just said that the production capacity of the giant tree will be increased, and you already have an idea?"

"I can't say what I think, but there are some guesses.... Remember the volcanic groups in the south? Judging from the energy reaction, the cave wolf is suffering from the fire system, and the source may be there."

"So you think we can catch a high-level demonic beast of the same level as that guy in the volcano group? And then lock up and "build" the new mother tree?"

"Well, what do you think of this idea?"

「.... It feels feasible, Volcano is also equivalent to our home field, I hope it will be easier to deal with some... Don't be as troublesome as a cave wolf. So, when are you going to act?"

"Don't worry, the seriously injured cave wolves are so difficult to deal with, and the volcano is not necessarily strong, even if our fire resistance is high, we have to be cautious."

"That's right, understand it before you act."

"Yes, and on the other hand, the witch doctors have a lot of things on their hands right now, and on the other side of the volcanoes, at least we have to wait until the first stage of the elven embryo is completed, and see what the results are."

"It's okay.... Then I'll rest for two days and then go back to the mountains to trick the big cats I "knew" this time; The wolves' movements are a bit big, and if they are killed directly, there will be nowhere to find such excellent cultivation materials in the future..."

"You're going in person? Some are wasted... If you stay in the tribe, you can play a greater role."

"That's not good, who is going if I don't go? You? Definitely not, you are our backbone. Thick teeth don't work, he has more to do in the study of elves than I can.... other

Little ones.... I can't protect myself if I go, so I'll come."

「… Let Aishara go, judging by Hei's reaction, she should be more suitable than you, and she doesn't have any research on hand for the time being."

"Uh..... It's fine, as long as you are willing to do it."

"What nonsense, everyone is fighting for the tribe, and no one is special! If you can go, she should be able to go too."

"Haha, okay, you go talk to her first, and then I'll draw her a map and give her a few tokens."

"Okay, then you go and rest first, and then go back and pick up the spell research quickly."

"Okay, I'll take the little ones first, and the "companion partner" I just mentioned is actually very much thinking about hand research when I'm on the road."

"Tsk.... After talking for a long time, don't you want to go?"

"Of course, who wouldn't want to stay in the headquarters and do research?"

~~~~~

During the night, Nesta and Azhara finished their work at the institute and returned to the treehouse together.

After a brief meal and washing, and lying down on the bed, Nesta talked about what he had discussed with Fangs this morning, including "combat partners", "abduction", and so on.

But before he could say the request, "Let's go," Aishara took the initiative,

"Let me go this time, right? Judging by Blackie's reaction, I may have been more efficient at completing my tasks."

Although Nesta is reluctant, everyone is contributing to the tribe, and there is no reason to put a more suitable choice because of personal feelings;

So, he nodded his head in agreement, and said honestly,

"I didn't think about this when I talked to Fangs in the morning.... But he skipped you when he gave an example, and it seems that he didn't subconsciously think about letting my wife go into danger.... It's not a good sign, so I recommended you on the spot."

"Okay~ It turns out that you want me to go far away!"

The joke accompanied the battle, and when the two lights had passed after the end of the battle, the husband and wife, one tall and one short, were lying on the bed with each other, looking at the stars and lights in the night overhead, and talking to each other.

"You're getting taller again?"

"Well, it took a while to get used to shrinking to about 2.7 meters, and then my body started to grow again... I don't know how tall it will be."

"That's fine..."

After adapting to her current size, Nesta also felt that 2.7 meters was too short, and she was worried for a while;

However, since Aishara can grow back after adapting, then I guess it will be no problem by then?

Thinking like this, he was relieved.....

"The expeditionary force is coming back, right?" Suddenly, his wife asked.

"Yes, the fleet will be there in three days."

"Was this a good harvest? I didn't pay much attention to it before."

"There's not much to get my hands on right now, most of the knowledge is stored in that ancestral altar, and I'm not going to let the hornhoe come into contact with those things again, so it may take a while to study slowly."

"As far as you have a lot of ghost ideas, a good tribe not only has knowledge that is not its own, but has also been forcibly divided into three..."

"Haha! Besides, maybe it will split into 17 or even more in the future."

"Tsk, it's bad luck that the hornhoe species chose to migrate here..... However, don't so many clans have a little bit of knowledge? Can't everything be on the altar, right? Their minds aren't empty, at least they should remember part of it, right?"

"Well, we've actually got the special output of each clan's foundation.... winemaking, metallurgy, prospecting, and the general situation in the Northland, etc.";

"It's just that deeper and more detailed knowledge is missing for the time being, such as their weapon enchantment techniques, more detailed information about the Northlands, and the combination of warriors and magical powers."

"Also, the most critical and important method of making the Ancestral Spirit can only be obtained after cracking the altar."

"Ancestral Spirits.... Have you asked for the basics?"

"How could it be impossible not to inquire, the higher-ups of the Seventeen Clans know some of their origins.... They say that the source of this technology, at least in the Northlands, is the "Union of Chiefs of Lyin" from the western part of the Northlands."