The iron mine is a branch of the central mountain range to the east, the highest point is not more than 1000 meters, it is not a high mountain in the inland, most of the area on the mountain is densely vegetated, only the mine cave with red mountain stones is exposed, and some bare mountains can be seen on the mine. Outside the mine camp is a wall more than ten meters high, which is made up of rammed earth and logs.

Rand looked at the hillside opposite the iron mine for a long time, trying to find signs of human activity in the mine with the naked eye, but failed, and the whole camp seemed to be completely still, and there was no one to be seen on either the hill or the earthen wall.

In the evening, Cal Billy, the Terran mage in the Nir Sky, arrives and meets Rand.

"My lord, I know that you want to take down the entire iron mine, I have come to express to you that the human race in the iron mine is willing to fully support you, and once you take the iron mine, we are willing to pledge allegiance to you" As soon as Carl Billy entered Rand's tent, he began to show his loyalty, which surprised Rand a little.

"What I want to know is, what is going on in the iron mine now, how many human races and how many barbarians, and what is the relationship between you and the barbarians?" Rand asked questions about his concerns, and Carl Billy answered as best he could.

"The relationship between the Terrans and the brown bear barbarians in our iron mine is more complicated, the Terrans have two parts, one part was captured by the brown bear earlier, and the second part was sent together a few years ago, at present, the Terran has 3 senior knights, 7 intermediate knights, less than 30 low-level knights, 3 intermediate mages and 12 junior mages including me, and the barbarians have 1 high priest and 4 priests in addition to the cavalry." Karl first counted the main forces in the iron mines, and then told Rand about their relationship with the barbarians.

"As I just said, most of the Terrans in the iron mine were assigned a few years ago, including all the intermediate knights and magicians above the apprenticeship, and since then, the Terrans in the iron mine have been in a semi-autonomous state, consisting of 4 senior knights, 8 intermediate knights, 1 archmage and 4 intermediate mages and 12 junior mages to form a council-like body to manage the entire iron mine." Casually Karl paused and looked into Rant's eyes, "You can also hear it, there is a gap between the number I said earlier about the Terrans and the number I just said will form the Council, and these missing people are the reason why I am here now." ”

In Karl's mouth, the leader of the brown bear suddenly increased in strength in September last year, and suddenly attacked in a conflict between barbarians and terrans in the mine, defeating the joint attack of two high-ranking knights, revealing high-level strength. Then the entire brown bear tribe began to continuously publicize that their leader would be the god of the new barbarians, asking the human and barbarian tribes in the iron mine to pay him tribute to the monsters.

However, the subsequent development was beyond their expectations, and at the end of the year, the leader of the brown bear had a mental abnormality, and the barbarian priests began to ask the Terran mages to perform hypnotic spells for him, and the barbarian tribes even captured some leaders of the surrounding tribes as sacrifices.

"I don't know if you've ever heard of a very primitive way to break through: devouring," Karl looked at him with fear in his eyes, gesturing with his hands, "simply literally devouring, putting the ...... who just died." Swallow it directly, there are not only magical beasts, magic plants, but also all kinds of sacrifices you can think of, and then the brown bear boss is really crazy! ”

By January of this year, the barbarians and terrans in the iron mine had realized the danger of the situation, because once the brown bear leader went crazy, he would indiscriminately attack and devour the creatures around him, and it would subconsciously attack the strongest people nearby, from barbarian cavalry, human intermediate knights, barbarian intermediate priests, to high-level knights to high-level mages, barbarians and terrans were not immune.

"Now the whole camp is in danger, everyone is closed, and the priests and magicians are performing hypnotic magic day and night in the brown bear leader's room.

"You haven't tried to attack him?" Rand asked.

"After the killing of High Mage Berkles, the upper echelons of the Terrans did not dare to take action easily," Carl shook his head, "After all, that monster picks the most powerful one to eat first." ”

After the production in the iron mine came to a complete standstill, Carl Billy, as a representative of the Terrans, began to make frequent contact with the tribes and Terrans outside the mines, hoping to get strong foreign help to deal with the brown bear leader, and finally waited for Neil's army a few months ago. After Neil roughly understood the situation, he also began to provide food and other materials to the mine.

Carl Billy didn't stay long, and after agreeing with Rand to attack, he hurried back to the iron mines, and the Terran higher-ups were still waiting for news from him. And after he left, Rand fell silent along with Tenya, Dugan, and the others.

"I can understand that the temple boss wants to make trouble in the iron mine, but I can't understand that as an institution of the empire, why should the barbarians be devoured by the path, what are they trying to do?" Rand knew that the play in front of him must be the work of the temple leader, but he didn't understand the mystery.

"My lord, the temple is also a complex organization," Dugan smiled, "They are similar in nature to the salt and iron division, but they are more annoying in what they do." ”

"What they do is not what we should care about," Tenya said, "You still have to think about how to eat the iron ore, this is the most important thing, the high-level strength on the opposite side has run away, and you may not be able to deal with it." ”

"Dealing with such a target, a large-scale cavalry charge is of little significance, I'm afraid it will have to be me and him," Rant looked at the magic goblin and said with a smile, "But the good thing is that even if you take action yourself, it is estimated that the people in the iron mine will not care whether the duel is fair or not." The only question is, will that monster want to devour you? ”

"I'm an elemental creature, how can he devour me?" Tenya glanced at her, but she was still very satisfied with Rant's concern, "But according to your plan, I'm afraid the most dangerous person is you." ”

Several people began to work out the battle plan in detail, including how to create momentum, how to fight monsters, and various possibilities such as monsters being killed or difficult to kill. In the most difficult scenario, Rand can't trap the monster, and Tynia can't kill it, so the Knights can only come forward to distract the monster and escort them to the magic furnace room in the iron mine, and use the leyline energy as much as possible to help her break through to the fairy queen.

"Don't have psychological pressure, if you can break through, you can break through, and if you can't break through, let those goblins break through" Rand looked at Tynia and said with a smile, "Don't hesitate because you take care of me"

"Don't worry," Tenya knew that the best option for Rand was to let the two Rock and Earth Elves break through first, but she was still willing to give her priority, so as a thank you, she swore to Yuyue Willy that if she couldn't break through, she would let the Rock and Earth Elves break through and ensure that the new Great Goblin could stay with Rand.

(End of chapter)