While all kinds of things in the territory were waiting for the lord to deal with, Rand was wandering around the Orc territory west of the Iowa Pass on the westernmost border of the territory, in the Hindukr Basin.

As a buffer zone between the Orc Plateau and the Galloping Horse Plain, the entire Hindukr Basin is almost surrounded by mountains, and the basin plain is also hilly and intertwined with water networks, such a terrain can be said to combine the advantages of mountains and plains, not only rich in magic, but also rich in products.

The total area of the basin is less than 1/3 of the Running Horse Plain, but both mineral and forest land are far more than the Running Horse Plain. There is also a large forest to the south, which is on the edge of the central forest of the continent with the large forest west of the Barony of Galloping Horse, but is blocked by the Iowa Mountains.

When the Rand enters the basin, it flies over the forest to the south by means of fire, and then explores north from the south. Although he also knows that there are a bunch of lawsuits waiting for his lord to solve, the problem of the western border is related to the survival of the territory.

Of course, exploring in the orc territory also brought a very novel experience to Rand.

For example, the division of power here is very different from what Rand imagined, and the orcs in the basin have two large tribal alliances: the scorched wolf and the forest cat, and all the small and medium-sized tribes in the basin maintain a close relationship with these two tribes, except for the two major tribes, there are many neutral towns and city-states in the Hindukr basin.

For example, Abaidi, the commercial capital where the Rand is now located, is one of the three largest city-states in the basin and is known as the commercial capital. It is a commercial city-state independent of the orc royal court and the two major tribes of forest cats and scorched wolves in the basin.

Walking in Abedine, Rand feels that this is more prosperous than the business district of Dragon's Tooth City, the huge circular square is a tent market, all kinds of orcs, half-orcs, dwarves and even human tents, goods cover magic plants, weapons, potions, rare monster meat, bone products and even slaves, it can be said that the royal capital and Maned Wolf City have, all of them here.

On the periphery of the circular plaza is a fixed circle of shops, which are more high-end, rare, expensive, and of more assured quality.

Hotels, taverns, restaurants, tailors, hospitals, small theatres, circuses, and fortune tellers that doubled as a leather and meat business always had one to spend all the gold in their customers' pockets.

Rand came to this commercial capital to find out about the orc court in this busy city. So I tried my luck at the biggest tavern in town: Camel Papa's Liquor Shop.

The tavern has two floors, 3 floors in the front and 4 floors in the back, with a large courtyard in the middle with a pool, rockery and garden. Rand had never seen such a luxurious tavern in the royal capital.

After asking the bartender, I found out that the only real tavern is the first three floors, the first floor is a tavern that sells wine, wine or spirits, the second floor is a high-end bar that sells potions, and the third floor is dedicated to the guests of all over the world.

Since it was an in-depth reconnaissance into the territory of the orc race, Rand naturally couldn't come in a human-like manner, but disguised as a deer with the largest population, with two horns on his head.

"This guest, we have a good wine here, only the tribal chiefs or priests can taste it, you can give this drink list to your chief" The bartender here is a half-dwarf, and he speaks politely to Rand.

"Okay, can you get me some soju?" Rand saw his own galloping horse shochu on the board behind the bartender and couldn't help but want to order one.

"Of course, but this is only available on the Galloping Horse Plains, it's not cheap, 5 silver coins a cup, and your cup is the last cup in our house, it takes 1 gold coin" The bartender saw Rand staring at the shochu brand, and explained, "Our tavern is the only place in the whole of Abedine that sells galloping horse drinks, and you can't taste it in another place." ”

Under the guise of doubling the price of the last cup, Rand disdained to argue, and placed a gold coin on the bar, taking the porcelain bottle handed by the bartender.

Witnessed by the dwarven bartender, Rand looked at the production mark at the bottom of the bottle, which showed the supply whereabouts, production date, and batch, and poured out no more than 50 ml into the glass, the pale yellow soju had obvious hanging glasses, this was a high-concentration version for the salt and iron division, and Rand couldn't figure out why this version of the soju could flow to the orcs' territory.

Before Rand could think further, the door to the tavern was rudely slammed open, and a group of cat-people entered the hall surrounded by a Terran girl.

"Old hammer, have you ever seen a lone beast god here?" The girl asked the bartender casually, not shying away from the strange eyes of the many orcs in the store.

"Honey, you wouldn't be looking for that white wolf princess too, would you?" The bartender Old Hammer smiled, seeing that the Honey female knight did not react, his face gradually became serious, "It's true that I haven't seen it, but I heard that there are people outside the city who are worshipping new magical beasts." ”

Honey was obviously very interested in this information, and just as he wanted to ask further, a pig-headed man on the side said loudly, "Where did this Terran slave come from?" Why didn't your master chain you? Do you want to go back with me and be my slave? ”

The pig-headed man's words were very rude, full of swear words and filthy words, but what he said was basically the truth, whether it was in the commercial capital of Abaidi, or in other parts of the basin, although there were many human races, but the human races that could be seen were basically vassals of the orc tribe, and when the human race had to enter the city, their orc leaders would lead them, and even lock them with ropes and chains, indicating ownership.

However, the Honey knight next to Rand is obviously an outlier, when the pig-headed man spoke disrespectfully, the cat people around Honey obviously deterred the pig-headed man, and the master-slave relationship between the female knight and the cat man was very significant.

"Go and search the rest of the place," said the girl, and several of the cat people around her exited the tavern, and the two eldest, the eldest, remained outside the gate, leaving the two gates open.

"Hehe, you don't really want to be my slave, do you?" The pig-headed man saw that Honey actually retreated left and right, walked up to her unscrupulously, and then saw the female knight's right calf smashed in front of him.

"Bell~" The crisp sound of metal leggings hitting the skull, the pig-headed man was kicked directly out of the gate, and the two cat-man guards closed the door and went to beat him.

"And the shochu of the galloping horse?" Honey paid no attention to anything outside and asked the bartender, only to see the dwarf point to the side and land on Rand, who was still half-deer.

"The last drink, here he is," the dwarf bartender pointed at Rand.

Without any hesitation, Rand directly pushed the porcelain vase to the female knight and said "I'm in for a treat".

Not wanting to cause trouble, he drank the remnants of the wine in the cup, and after confirming that it was his latest batch of soju, he left in a hurry, leaving only Honey and the bartender Old Hammer in the store.

(End of chapter)