Chapter 45: The Northern Grasslands

Charobin's Principality of Akda borders on Sacharia, separated by the Karnak Mountains that extend from the Warcraft Mountains, and the northern grasslands belong to the Principality of Akda, and those nomads who originally lived in the northern grasslands have been forcibly confiscated by the principality, and there are also many strong men in the hills and villages near the grasslands who have entered the army, but these civilians who have not cultivated will not have much combat power at all.

Of course, they will not play the role of cannon fodder in the war, and the thirteen principalities of Charobine are still in a slavery system due to the perennial war, and those war slaves have become the best cannon fodder. Perhaps the foot of Karnak Mountain, beyond the reach of the Zacharian archers and magicians, was already filled with these poor slaves who served as meat shields, whose lives never received mercy from any of the commanders, and even the soldiers of the civilian population looked down on them......

The northern grassland of Charobine is a flat land, this grassland is not very wide, a green one, it seems very empty, the only special thing is the ruins of the ancient city that spread over hundreds of kilometers.

The ruins of the ancient city can be said to be a very special civilization, perhaps thousands of years old, these half-collapsed and weather-eroded buildings are made of some ancient stones, because thousands of years ago there were no spar buildings like the current era.

War between Charobine and Sachariah is about to break out, and the place known as the Northern Grasslands is actually in the western part of Charobin and the Demonic Beast Mountains, and the Northern Territory is the name of the Duchy of Akda.

The northern steppes are now left with only a few women and children, and without adult men hunting on the grasslands, life as nomads is even more difficult, and women have to ride their husbands' old horses, and take their own sharpened bows and arrows to hunt in places frequented by wild beasts.

However, since a large number of magicians arrived at the ruins of the ancient city, the beasts of the grassland have somehow decreased, and these women had to go in the direction near the outer perimeter of the Monster Mountain Range, where the beasts would be more frequent.

Of course, it is also quite dangerous to go in that direction, because no one can guarantee that the Warcraft that has been idle will not come to this grassland to forage, and the Warcraft will always be a nightmare for these nomads, even if there are old horses, it is difficult for them to escape the pursuit of Warcraft.

Fikroth is a small tribe in the northern grasslands, and there are no surprises that the men of this tribe have been brought to the battlefield, and their women have been organized to hunt in this grassland near the Warcraft Mountains, and they have a total of ten women, ranging from forty to twenty years old, these women who live on the grasslands are not as weak as most Charobin women, and some even look stronger and more powerful than men.

"Santola, I don't think we should go any further, there are ten kilometers to the outer edge of the Demon Beast Mountain Range. A timid woman said. This woman was a woman from a hilly village, and after marrying into the steppe, she followed her husband to live a life on the steppe, but only a few years later, the war between the two empires broke out, and she did not enjoy a long period of stability at all.

"I hunted a wolf today, how can this wolf meat be enough for so many of us, continue to move forward, don't hit a big prey, I can't go back today, I was robbed of so much food by those bastards last time......" The leader is a woman who is stronger than a man, and she is also in her thirties, she is the wife of the tribal chief, and she will take over the affairs of the tribe after the men leave.

"Ellie, don't go so far, control that skinny horse, hey, let your little girl not get involved in this, and it won't be long before you do some picking in the tribe......" Santora said with a hint of reproach, glancing at the woman.

The woman smiled ugly and retreated to the back of the group, this woman was fair-skinned, and although she looked much better than these nomadic women, it showed that she was not fit for this kind of hunting, and her posture was weak, and she might not even be able to draw her bow, and her knife was unstable.

"Looks like there's a dead man!" Ellie, as she walked behind, glancing into the ruins of the ancient city, when she suddenly saw a pair of bloody feet exposed, and her little face turned pale with start.

"What is there to fear from the dead, go and see. Santola was bold enough to take the lead on his old horse to the back of the ruins.

"It's a man, he seems to be quite young...... It can't be a deserter, is it?" said another nomadic woman, who had been lying here for an unknown amount of time, covered in blood and in tattered clothes.

Santora hesitated for a while, but still jumped off the horse, flipped the man over, and after finding that he was still breathing, he frowned and said: "The person is not dead, it may be a slave who escaped, and it should be a good labor force to bring it back to the tribe." ”

Ellie shares a horse with another nomadic woman, and Ellie's original horse is used to carry the mortally injured slave.

The women then went on their way, but until the sun was about to set they did not reach any prey, and they had to return to the tribe.

Today they had nothing to gain, except for a steppe wolf, the only slave left, and Santora put the slave in Ellie's grassland tent and told her, "You take care of this half-dead man, and if you survive, you will work as a laborer for your family." ”

Ellie's family consisted of only four people, an elderly mother, a ten-year-old brother, and a twenty-five-year-old brother who had already gone to the battlefield. It can be said that their family does not have any labor force now, so she has to go hunting with Santola, otherwise their family has no source at all.

Santora was also a good man, and if the slave could recover his health, he would have some source of livelihood, after all, men could do a lot of work and earn money to exchange food and groceries in the town.

"Sister, who is this person?" asked Ellie's brother Abin, with some curiosity.

Ellie lowered the servant to the ground, and there was no bed in their big tent, so they laid a plank on the grass and put on a strip of animal fur.

"Abin, you go get some herbs. Ellie didn't know who he was, but she didn't want this man to die, and the man seemed to be quite strong, and their family would only get better if he was cured.

After asking her brother to get the herbs ready, Ellie broke them up and applied them little by little to the slave's body, and suddenly he found the slave with two very beautiful rings on his fingers, and stood up with some surprise.

These two rings are indeed very beautiful, Ellie has seen a noble boy in the town with a ring that is not as good as this one, especially the dark red ring, this luster is simply fascinating.

Ellie hesitated to take the two rings, which were probably very expensive, but she was a little timid, and the slave would be very angry if she woke up and found that the rings were missing.

Ellie finally didn't have the idea of the two rings, and found that the man's face was still bloody, so she brought a basin of water and carefully cleaned his face.

"Ahh

Ellie's face was a little red, her little hands were trembling slightly as she untied the tattered clothes of this slave, she was an unmarried woman, this was the first time she had touched a man's body, maybe it was nothing for a bold nomadic woman, but when she saw the handsome face of this slave, her mentality changed.

Ellie had already untied the garments, but then she almost cried out in surprise again, because the slave was also wearing a very ornate soft armor, which was completely black, made of scales, and clinged to him, gorgeous and delicate, revealing a coveted luster, Ellie couldn't help but touch it with her hand, but there was an unusually cold feeling in her hand, which made her immediately retract her hand.

"Sister, what are you doing?" asked little Abin as he walked into the tent and looked at his sister's strange behavior.

"Oh, oh, it's nothing, Ibbe, you come and apply herbs to the wound on his leg, don't move the stuff on him, understand?" said Ellie, a little flustered.

"Okay. Abin nodded obediently and took the herbs from his sister's hand.

......

The man who was taken away by the nomadic woman was naturally Gaia, and after being controlled by that terrifying aura, Gaia could not use the power of the divine object, and in the end, he had to gather the elements frantically and tear apart the space.

Gaia was ready to flee when she was taken to the stake, and that was a one-way teleportation. Although the forbidden land of the gods has drifted away from the Eden Continent, the space of the ruins of the ancient city of the grassland is still broken within a year, and as long as he bears the tearing power of this space that breaks into the dimensional space, he can be teleported to this place where there are spatial cracks from time to time.

This teleportation crossed an imperial section, and in the dimensional space, Gaia also endured a huge tearing force, and his body was almost shattered, and he didn't know how long he had been wandering in the dimensional space, in short, he fainted in pain, and vaguely felt himself fall to the ground, and then completely lost consciousness......

Gaia woke up with a heavy head, and in a daze he saw a woman shaking in front of him, and when he was fully conscious, the woman was stuffing something into his mouth with a tube.

Ellie had been taking care of the slave for three days, and for three days he had been making food into a paste and pouring it into the man's mouth, and when she lowered her head, she was talking to her brother as she poured the food into the tube with a bowl, and when she turned around, she suddenly saw that the man had opened his eyes, and his eyes fell on her face!

Ellie shuddered and was stunned for a moment before she smiled palely and said, "Are you awake?"

"Where is this?" Gaia knew that he would be teleported to the place where the God's Forbidden Land was, but he didn't know where it was.

"The northern steppes of the Principality of Akda. Ellie replied.

Gaia breathed a sigh of relief, if it was in the Duchy of Akda, it wouldn't take long to return to Zachariah.

Gaia certainly couldn't leave Sacharia like that, and Selene was about to be married to the Tolan Empire, and he couldn't forgive himself if he didn't rescue her.

As he was talking, there was a sudden noise outside the tent, and the child's crying and the woman's screaming became chaotic.

"What's going on?" asked Gaia, who had already checked his body in general and that the injuries were not serious, and that Ellie's treatment had allowed him to recover a lot in the past three days.

"Either the robbers or the soldiers come to requisition the men, and these two groups are actually the same!" Ellie, clenching her fists, said as if she had thought of something, and hurriedly said to Gaia, "Hide, if it's a soldier, you'll be in the army too." ”

Gaia nodded, and by this time he had sensed through the elements that the soldiers on horseback had rushed into the tribe, and two men were walking towards it.

Ellie was even more anxious, judging from the sound of heavy boots stepping on the grass, these people must have come to recruit from the army, and the tent was so big that it was impossible to hide.

The curtain of the tent was opened, and two black heads poked in, and when they saw the weak Ellie, their eyes lit up a little, and one of them said in a strange tone, "There are still men in the house?"

Ellie was stunned, the man was obviously behind her, why did this soldier still ask like this, so she turned her head, but was surprised to find that the slave behind her was gone!

Ellie turned back in disbelief, shook her head at the two soldiers, and deliberately gave them the little jerky left in the house, saying, "My brother has joined the army, and he is in the Karnak war zone. ”

The two cunning soldiers took the jerky, looked away from Ellie with a somewhat greedy gaze, and said in a somewhat playful tone, "It's lonely to be alone at home, isn't it?"

Ellie's face turned pale, of course she knew what the two soldiers were thinking, Delai's soldiers had always been misbehaving, Ellie had also heard about the women of several tribes being bullied by these soldiers, so she subconsciously took a few steps back, and said a little angrily to the two soldiers: "Get the food and leave here!"

How could the two soldiers listen to Ellie's words, and one of the older soldiers said obscenely, "You are standing guard outside the door, and it will be your turn to stay." ”

Ellie's younger brother ran outside to play, and the old mother was not in the tent, at this time Ellie was the only one in the tent, and these two low-quality soldiers seemed to have not tasted a woman for a long time, and they were arguing at the door about who came first and who was last, Ellie wanted to escape, but there was only one exit from the tent......