Arcane Journey

Chapter 147 Emerald Leisure Court
Hedge Village within the territory of Mokou Town is located on the edge of a dense forest closest to the Horn of Storm Mountain Range.

The economic foundation here is based on the logging industry. Although it was stopped by the druids from the Emerald Garden, the priests of the Mother Earth Church have enough experience in the cultivation and protection of forests. After a series of discussions on logging and After negotiations to clear the fields, the two sides tentatively reached a settlement.

As long as you stand on the bank of the hedge village, you can see the forest where the druids live.

There is no danger in the forest, the plants are wild and lush, and every ray of sunlight seeping through the branches and leaves of the tall trees will be immediately absorbed by the young trees and plants.

Although beneath their foliage, the dead branches and decaying trunks, and the dying remains of the oldest trees, there is an oppressive and ominous silence, there is none here.

Quite the contrary, the druid-ruled forest thrives.

Insects buzzed and fluttered, lizards rustled underfoot, beetles shone iridescently, thousands of spiders crawled through dewy webs, woodpeckers pecked at tree trunks, grouse twittered.

The sun was warm, and the forest was hot.

The five druids who live in seclusion here to protect the forest are sitting around a marble table, comfortably playing Rafat, a strategy card game.

"Hearts!"

"Spades!"

"Fuck! Old deer, look what you've done, you empty-headed idiot! Are you fucking blind? Why isn't the card called Hearts? What the fuck is it called Spades? You think I'm called Hearts because you're screaming Play?"

A burly tauren druid spewed out two balls of white steam from its huge bull nose, and cursed: "Fuck! You're a lung, I really want to use my bull's horns to enlighten you!"

"You stupid bullhead, shut up! I have four spades in my hand, the biggest is a Jack, I just want to be safe!" An old druid with an antler helmet on his head looked at the card in his hand. cards, said impatiently.

"Four spades, yes, yes! When you count the cards with your head down, you should count your own second child too! Use your brains, old deer." The tauren druid said persistently:
"We're not praying in a temple! We're playing cards! Remember, a fool can beat a wise man as long as he gets good cards and doesn't make a big mistake. Call, bear."

"Cube." A burly druid in a furry fur cloak played immediately.

"Hey, Cube Slam!" Drew, who was called 'Old Deer' by the tauren, smiled.

"Hehe, the king lent diamonds, but lost his crown, and finally escaped from the kingdom naked. Watch me double my spades!" The young druid in a crow feather cloak smiled and threw a card.

"Barrel!" The old Druid frowned, and threw out a card.

"Wake up, old deer. Someone already called twice! What the hell do you want to call?" the tauren druid cursed again.

"Haha, watch my Cube Grand Slam!"

"No more. Hey! What's the matter now? No one dares to add more? Are you scared, guys? You play your cards first, bear." The tauren grinned and said to the young druid in the crow feather cloak :
"Little crow, if you dare to wink at the bear again, I will slap your handsome face so hard that you won't be able to open your eyes until next winter."

"J!"

"Q!"

"K, press on! Get rid of your Q! Haha, I didn't expect that, I still have a heart, waiting for this time! J, Q, and one more..." The tauren showed a look of beating, excitedly shouting:
"There is another trump card! The trump card is not played well, and the game is one-sided. Then there is the diamond! How is it, little crow? Did it hit your sore spot?"

"Look at your virtue, rogue bull head. Bah! If you dare to yell again, I will teach you a lesson with a stick..." The young druid called 'Little Crow' gave the tauren a disgusted look, Others also nodded in agreement.

at this time.

A beautiful nightingale landed on the shoulder of a half-elf woman who kept a distance from the four of them.

Nightingale combed her feathers with her beak, and then circled above her head, making a clear and pleasant song.

"Everyone, we seem to be in trouble."

The beautiful half-elf waved his hand lightly, and Nightingale disappeared into the depths of the forest, and then said to everyone, "There are about 500 gnolls and orcs rushing towards us."

When the druids heard this, they stopped what they were doing and looked over.

The tauren druid, who was about to win, saw that everyone was not playing their cards, so he became anxious all of a sudden, and urged him unwillingly, "Bear, quickly play your cards, it's your turn!"

The 'Bear' Druid glared at the tauren, ignored his request, closed the card, put it on the table, and looked at the half-elf, "What's the specific situation?"

"Maybe it has something to do with the battle in Mokou Town." The half-elf woman said, "These humanoid creatures ran towards several small villages in Mokou Town as if they were dying."

"If something goes wrong, there must be something strange."

The old Druid put down his cards and frowned, "They are most likely provoked by Bane followers of the Zhentarim. If this continues, Mokou Town may be in chaos for a while."

"You don't care about them, as long as they don't provoke us."

The tauren druid continued impatiently, "Besides, the civilians in Mokou Town who have been released from slavery have already started to open up a large area of ​​land here. If we don't stop it, I see, our forest will be destroyed soon." It was demolished. Hurry up, play the cards and play the cards!"

However, no one paid any attention to him. The young druid threw back his crow feather cloak and said with a smile, "Although our main goal is to protect nature, this does not mean that we will become direct enemies of the development of civilized races." I think we should work together with the people of Mokou Town to promote the prosperity and health of the natural world, rather than using violence to prevent the development of human beings."

He looked around the woodland and said again: "As long as they don't cut down indiscriminately, we can completely allow loggers to work in the forest areas with low-quality trees that need to be eliminated."

"You are fascinated by that chick Karina." The 'Bear' Druid had a look of displeasure on his expression, and said seriously:

"Our principles at Emerald Gardens are: to preserve the original state of nature, to control human expansion, to recognize that forests are not the only ones in nature, to agree that magic should not be used for large-scale destruction, to warn against the misuse of magic to prevent unexpected side effects."

"The little crow was fooled by the Earth Goddess." The tauren laughed.

"I'm not joking with you." The young Druid glanced at the tauren unhappily, and said seriously:
"What they said is not wrong. Besides, I went to Mokou Town with Canary, and I also secretly observed this lord from the Kingdom of Cormyr. I think it is very necessary to find a lord worthy of our cooperation. .After all, it is impossible to govern the gradually changing Enook Desert with only our manpower, and we must rely on the group power from the civilized race."

"Aren't you talking too far?" The old druid wearing antlers interrupted their topic, "What we are discussing now is."

"That's right, our problem now is that it's time to play the cards, hurry up, I've lost for so many days in a row, and I'm about to win!" The tauren picked up his cards and hurriedly urged: "Play the cards and play the cards!" Card!"

"Gnolls and orcs are coming soon, and they must be driven away in advance. This is not where they should come."

The 'Bear' Druid looked into the depths of the jungle, "It will be troublesome if these mindless things burn our forest down."

"Afraid of a fart!"

The tauren said unwillingly, "Don't worry, trust me, they don't have the guts. If they dare to set fire in the forest, I will eat this table on the spot. Play the cards quickly, and we won't chase them away after the cards are played." Late."

As soon as the voice fell, a violent explosion sounded, and a raging fire ignited in the forest, and the gunpowder smoke shot straight into the sky.

Seeing this situation, the expressions of the druids changed, and the cards they picked up were put back again.

"Hahaha" Looking at the burning direction of the fire, the tauren gloated and said, "Little crow, hurry up and put out the fire, or your hut will be burned soon."

"Damn!" Before he finished speaking, his face suddenly changed, and he cursed: "These bastards actually set my house on fire."

After speaking, he threw away the cards in his hand, and prepared to rush to put out the fire.

"Hey, wait a minute!" The young druid called 'Little Crow' stopped the anxious tauren and said with a half-smile:

"Did you forget one thing, just now who said that if they dare to set fire in the forest, they will eat the table on the spot, eat the table first, and then I will let you go."

The other druids also looked at the tauren with meaningful eyes, as if saying: If you don't eat this table, you will never leave.

The half-elf druid did not participate in the farce. She spread her arms, turned into a falcon, and disappeared in the direction of the burning fire.

"..."

Sensing everyone's unfriendly gazes, the Tauren faltered. He took a deep breath, lay down on the ground, and transformed into a body covered with a dark golden carapace at a speed visible to the naked eye, which looked like a hybrid of a centaur and an ant.

Formy Gold Ants of Mechanic Realm!
When the three druids saw the change of the tauren, their eyes suddenly became very strange.

Immediately afterwards, the adamantine ant opened its giant jaws that were sharp like sawtooth, and the marble table in front of it was eaten up like a jelly bean.

"Let's go, Siss, kill these sons of bitches, Siss dared to burn our forest."

The tauren druid who turned into an adamantine ant rubbed his giant jaws that shone with metallic luster, and rushed towards the gnolls and orcs at an extremely fast speed.

In just a moment, the clear sky was quickly covered by dark clouds.

Crackling and jumping lightning bolts kept falling into the crowd of gnolls and orcs who just rushed to the edge of the forest and didn't know what happened.

In an instant, there were screams one after another.

(End of this chapter)