Chapter 1003: New Means of Transportation
Eating and sleeping and fighting trolls is a joke that Saljan heard from the barrage.
However, it has to be said that given the population and distribution of trolls, it is almost impossible for any species that lives in Azeroth not to clash with trolls.
Excluding the Dark Empire domesticated by the Old Gods, the Ancient Troll Empire was the first mortal civilization ever in Azeroth.
After a great war with the Empire, the devastated Troll Empire gradually fell into decline, and the three tribes that were originally subordinate to the suzerain's lord Zandalar each had their own plans and established their own states across Azeroth.
The Gulabash Empire, founded by jungle trolls, is entrenched in the southern part of Ancient Kalimdor, occupying the Jungle of Tanaris and the Valley of Thorns as its base.
After the formation of the Gulabash Empire, the jungle trolls of Tanaris lived a relatively peaceful life, but it wasn't long before their nightmare came to their door.
Zandalara, the suzerain of all the trolls, suddenly asks the jungle trolls of Tanaris to join Zandalra's allies in the battle against Ordam, the Moorkoren Empire, and capture the Forge of Origin.
The expedition set off by the Demon Ancient Monarch Thor ended in failure.
The strength of the combined forces of the Moorkons and Zandalar is indeed very strong, and the Thorvilles and Anubisas, who were ordered to guard the Origin Furnace, are no opponents.
Including Thor himself, who usurped the power of Laiden, the combined forces of the Mokkons and Zandalar were swept away by the vast energy unleashed by the Origin Crucible.
The Forge of Origin's domineering ability to reshape the environment has not only caused a large area of desertification in the once leafy city of Uldem, but even the jungles of Silisus and Tanaris, which are relatively close, have been severely affected.
Only the greenhouse of life, Angolo Crater, protected by the power of the Titan Guardians, survived.
After the explosion of the Well of Eternity, the continent of Ancient Kalimdor was divided, and Tanaris and Valley of Thorns were divided into the continent of Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdom, respectively, and the Empire of Gulabash was split in two.
Since the capital of the Gulabash Empire, Zurghrab, is located in the Valley of Thorns, and it is only natural that the jungle trolls who have been divided into the Eastern Continent continue to worship the Gulabash clan with Zurgrab as the administrative center.
The other part of the jungle trolls who were forced to stay in Tanaris could only survive on their own in Kalimdor, and gradually evolved into sandfury trolls adapted to the desert under the transformation of the environment.
What Salaan and the others encountered was only a routine attack by the Sandfury Trolls, and there was no clan general with a name or surname to lead them.
With the intention of moving their bodies, Sarjan and his party easily helped Garkison's goblins and mercenaries repel the invading sandfury trolls like tigers into a flock.
The mayor of the town who manages Garkison is a high-ranking cadre of the Hot Sands Consortium, and he knows Duke Quel'Salas Deepshadow, who has reached a cooperation agreement with the consortium.
Sarren didn't want to deal with these goblins who were thinking about how to squeeze oil out of your pockets all day long, and in the face of the green-skinned shorty's smiling flattery, he quickly got out of the way on the grounds that he still had something important to do.
With a large number of goblins waving enthusiastically, Sarian and his party headed north into the glittering plains where the track had been built, and experienced the thrill of racing on the endless saline terrain.
One thing to say, because the design concept is still relatively primitive and lacks enough shock-absorbing parts, fuel vehicles in this era are not comfortable to sit at all.
After the speed was raised above 60, Salian had a bad feeling that the car could fall apart at any moment.
Finally maintaining a safe speed to drive the car back to the starting point, which only had no horn to sound, Sarean did not want to experience it a second time.
But if you think about it, this thing was made by a goblin, and it was a success if it didn't explode into a ball of fireworks on the way.
Goblin technology, shocking, this sentence is not just a simple ridicule, with their engineering products must be ready to withstand the explosion at any time.
Although Salian was not satisfied with the cars made by the goblins, it has to be said that their design ideas were in the right direction, but they lacked polish in the details.
Under the arrangement of Sarren, the Deep Shadow family took over the open-pit oil field in Angolo Crater many years ago, and in the subsequent cooperative exploration with the hot sand consortium, more oil buried in the ground was found around the open-pit oil field.
Therefore, there is no shortage of oil in Quel'Thalas, but because the fuel will cause a certain amount of pollution to the environment, the High Elves do not like this chemical fuel, and prefer to use the clean arcane energy provided by the sunwell.
That's right, clean.
With the widespread popularity of Akandol, the last of the dangers of long-term absorption of arcane magic that could have caused addiction have been eliminated, and the energy of the Sunwell has become a genuine source of clean energy.
However, the coverage of the Sun Well is limited after all, and even Prince Kael'thas can only carry some well water from the Sun Well with him when he went to Dalaran to study, so that he can replenish his magic at any time.
When ordinary people leave the Yongge Forest, they are not eligible to go to the Sun Well to get water.
If only active within the Eternal Song Forest, the people of the High Elves can use clean energy vehicles powered entirely by arcane energy.
But if you want to drive a long way out of Quel'Thalas, you will inevitably use the chemical fuel of petroleum.
As he left the Plains of Glitter and headed west into the Thousand Needles Forest, Sarjan first told Gianna, who had an insatiable thirst for knowledge, about the history of the development of the Sandfury Trolls and the causes and consequences of the upheaval in the world.
While Gianna struggled to take notes, Salaan discussed the idea of modifying the goblin vehicle with Stella Gossa and Onexia.
Onexia is a "gamer" who is proficient in all kinds of entertainment, and she has shown a lot of interest in previous test drives.
Knowing that Sallian wanted to modify the goblin vehicle that was not very good at this stage, Onexia immediately became interested.
Saljan was only responsible for providing ideas, and it was up to Stella Gossa to figure out how to refine the technical issues related to the arcane, and the enthusiastic Onexia also made some useful suggestions.
After discussions between the trio, the first version of the Quel'Salas car was tentatively finalized.
In order to allow users to switch energy supply methods at any time as needed, Onexia proposed to install two energy systems at the same time, i.e. gasoline and arcane energy can be used.
Onexia only needed to move her mouth, but Stellagossa smiled wryly and slapped her forehead.
"It's not impossible to realize your idea, but installing two energy systems at the same time will have a significant impact on the weight of the vehicle and increase the manufacturing cost in disguise."
"Sarean's original intention was to make the vehicle affordable to all High Elves, and we wanted to keep the cost of manufacturing as low as possible."
Onexia shrugged her shoulders and said, "That's no way, let's build two different production lines, one for the two versions of the car to produce the fuel drive and the arcane drive, so that buyers can choose to buy according to their needs." ”
"There's one more question." Sarren tapped his finger on his forehead and said, "At this stage, the new energy source of oil has not yet become widespread in Azeroth, and it will be very difficult for vehicles to refuel when they go out. ”
"This matter requires Kael'thas to come forward personally to discuss the introduction of fuel and vehicle exports with the leaders of various countries."
"Let's focus on the Arcane-driven version of the car first, at least to meet the needs of the domestic people for short-distance travel."
Even in the magical kingdom of Quel'Thalas, not everyone can afford to use portals.
Ordinary people still spend most of their time going out by traditional means of transportation such as mounts and horse-drawn carriages.
Although the chocobo used by Quel'Thalas is not slow, it is still far from the arcane energy vehicle that Sarian expected to design, and the comfort is not the same.
According to the idea of the barrage, cars that absorb free arcane energy can achieve continuously variable speed like the new energy vehicles in their world, without the need to install transmission gears like gasoline cars.
Once the Arcane Energy Vehicle is fully designed, the Cabinet Ministers will have to quickly follow up and design a new set of traffic laws for this new vehicle, which will involve a lot of problems.
As the name suggests, this barren area that cannot be cultivated has a large number of towering strange rocks, and almost no intelligent beings would choose this kind of ghost place to live.
But...... There are exceptions to everything.
"Peng!"
Saléan threw a boulder he had picked up from the ground and smashed a centaur into the air as it tried to get in the way.
Galak centaurs, who were once one of the five centaur clans that lived in Masanche (the Bleak Lands).
Due to their defeat in the civil war with other centaur clans for territory, the Galak clan had no choice but to relocate to the Thousand Needles Stone Forest, a place where birds don't.
There is a saying that it is not that enemies do not get together.
The Minotaur had formed an unquenchable enmity with the centaurs during their settlement in Masanche, and the two tribes were undying enemies with no possibility of reconciliation.
Under the scourge of the Earth Princess Seladus and her large number of centaur heirs, the once lush vegetation of Masanse is withering away and no longer suitable for the Minotaurs.
A few years ago, with the help of Sarjan, the Minotaur Chief Kane Bloodhoof decided to leave his ancient hometown of Masanche and carve out a new home in the Megolei steppes next door.
Before leaving, the Minotaur gave the invincible centaur a heavy blow, which can be regarded as revenge for the evil spirit of being used by them to use their mobility to fly kites for so many years.
After the death of many chiefs, the devastated centaur remained honest for a long time, and stayed in the desolate land where the land was becoming increasingly barren to lick his wounds, not daring to follow the minotaur migration party as rampantly as before.
After settling in the Mogaolei Steppe, in order to open up a route to Nanhai Harbor, the Terror Totem Clan led by Magatha Terror Totem volunteered to open up outposts in the Thousand Needles Stone Forest, which were Black Cloud Peak and Stormy Wind Hill.
As the so-called enemies are very red when they meet, the already grumpy terror totem minotaur has no accident with the lone Galak centaur clan.
No sooner had he repelled the marauding centaurs than Sarjan heard a desolate trumpet, followed by a group of dark-skinned minotaurs accelerating from behind the rocks.
"Huh?"
The leader of the black bull man was originally ready for battle with a hideous face, but at this moment, he looked at the battlefield where the battle had already ended, scratched his head stupidly, and looked at Sarren and his party, who were not even sweating.
"You ...... Who is it? Did you kill these centaurs? ”