Arcane Journey

Chapter 235 How to Lose the Flying Dragon Riding the Face?
As a lord, Brian first appeared on land outside Mokou Town.

He rubbed his temples a little tiredly, looked around, and walked towards Hedge Village.

In fact, in terms of territory construction, to be honest, he is also a half-bottled person.

Fortunately, he has received nine years of compulsory education, and he still knows a little bit about terrain planning. Usually, he comes up with a big plan and hands it to his subordinates to fill in the detailed guidelines, and then he fills in the details, and the territory is completed. Construction planning.

As for cumbersome matters such as supplies, labor, defense forces, and harassment by monsters, he never asked, and his subordinates never bothered him.

This shows how good his vision is, he couldn't help thinking narcissistically.

But on the way to the demiplane, after being reminded by the female lord of Araby, he knew that some things had to be handled by himself.

Otherwise, when the territory is lost, it will be too late to regret it.

Thinking of this, he immediately recalled all the enemies he was about to face in his mind.

First of all, the most threatening, without a doubt, is naturally the City of Shadows in the Ennook Desert.

However, ever since he secretly reached a tacit agreement with the Prince of Shadows, Brenners, he has understood that the City of Shadows seems powerful, but the threat to him is not enough to be fatal.

Because he can use many forces to fight together.

The second faction is the Dragon Worship Cult in the Sunset Mountain Range.

He is fully aware of the recent actions of the Dragon Cult, as well as the great plan of Tiamat after the five-color dragon to return to the main material world.

So he knew very well that as long as he survived a wave of attacks from the Dragon Worshiping Cult Dragon Madness, this threat would disappear forever.

Then came his worst enemy: the orcs from the Stormhorn Mountains.

A Kingdom of Cormyr, which has been able to establish a country for more than a thousand years, has never eliminated the enemies and threats from the beginning to the end. Naturally, he dare not promise that he will be able to solve it.

It's not that the orc tribes in the Horn of the Storm Mountain Range are so powerful, it's mainly due to the complex topography of the mountain range and the strong reproductive ability of the orcs, making them as difficult to eradicate as weeds blown by the spring breeze.

Every few decades, the Kingdom of Cormyr has to face the invasion of orcs due to overpopulation.

From the mouth of the female lord Myrcella, they just caught up with the strength of the orc tribes after more than ten years of cultivation.

This is just one of the enemies that gives Brian a headache. The other enemy is the lizardman from the swamp in the far sea.

As the High King melted the glaciers, causing a devastating change in the climate of most areas on the edge of the Ennook Desert, the barren land of the Rocky Wasteland was blessed with lush grass, a pleasant climate, and abundant rainfall.

At the same time, to the west of the rocky wasteland, the adjacent open sea swamp is also benefiting from it, expanding towards this side at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In fact, in the face of the expansion of the open sea swamp and the threat of the lizardmen, Brian has many ways to deal with it.

However, to stop them, he has to face the ancient ruins deep in the swamp.

As a traveler, he naturally knew what the ruins represented.

In the depths of the far sea swamp hides the ruins of a glass palace left by an ancient elven civilization, but unlike other civilizations such as the three creator civilizations and the ruins of Netheril, this ruin has self-knowledge and is honestly and thoroughly asleep. Then the strength is gradually worn away by the years.

Brian was very impressed with what the evil hidden in the deep sea swamp represented, and at the same time, he couldn't help but secretly cursed the elven civilization that had been established in the far sea swamp area.

There is no doubt that this ancient elf kingdom was played to death by himself.

At this moment, the sudden sound of galloping horseshoes interrupted Brian's deep thinking, and he immediately realized that the person he had been waiting for for a long time had arrived.

He turned around and looked in the direction of the voice.

With the clear and rhythmic sound of horse bells, a figure riding a black horse galloped towards him.

The rider was wearing a dark green cloak, and when he saw him, he immediately raised his gloved hands, pushed back the hood of the cloak, and smiled in greeting.

The mysterious rider got off his horse, walked to Brian's side, took off his gloves, stretched out his white right hand, smiled coquettishly, and said happily, "Brian, long time no see, you are finally willing to run out of the wizard tower."

"It's been a long time, Miss Karina." Brian smiled and reached out to shake her symbolically.

This person is the Patriarch of the Mother Earth Church, a pastor whose strength has reached the fourth-level model.

The reason why I appeared here was mainly because I was invited by him to help him solve a problem together.

However, when Brian stretched out his hand to shake it, the beautiful pastor avoided it meaningfully.

"Is this the way the lord of Mokou Town treats guests?" Karina flicked her long hair lightly, her movements seemed gentle, but they also appeared presumptuous.

"I've been looking forward to meeting you, Brian." She smiled and said, "Seeing you again, you can't imagine how happy I am at the moment, so can't you give me a little special treatment?"

She blinked her beautiful black eyes provocatively at Brian, and stretched out the back of her hand, which was as clean as jade.

If Brian didn't understand what the pastor lady wanted to express at this moment, then he would have lived so long in vain.

He bowed politely and kissed the back of Karena's upraised hand.

Apparently, the priestess also liked this kind of hand kiss, which was shared by many witches, which, to put it mildly, allowed them to enjoy the same treatment as princesses.

However, in Brian's view, Karina's true identity is probably not as simple as a priest. She is likely to come from a noble family in Suzal City.

After kissing the back of her hand, he could clearly see that the joy of this lady pastor was beyond words, and she deliberately flicked the dark green cloak she was wearing so that her curvy figure could be seen at a glance.

There is no doubt that this is a beautiful human female, with black and shiny hair that falls on her shoulders like a waterfall, and is particularly eye-catching against her dark green cloak.

Although her face is pale, her facial features are perfect like a foreign beauty, with a bit of blood from an ancient oriental country.

In the past, he would definitely be attracted by the beauty of this beautiful lady pastor, but now he can't even bring up the slightest interest in many affairs of the territory.

"Remember what we talked about last time?" Karina waved her hand, dispersed the mount she had summoned, and walked side by side with Brian.

"Of course I know." Brian replied, "The purpose of looking for you this time is for this matter."

He planned to open a tunnel between Mokou Town and Arabe City, the shortest distance, which is the Horn of Storm Mountain Range.

Then set up a system similar to the railway network, and then make a construction train, so that the efficiency that originally took more than 20 days to arrive became about two days.

In this way, Mokou Town, and even the entire Ennook Desert in the future, can be driven by this.

"I still say what I said last time." Karina pursed her lips and smiled, "I promised to help you with this favor, but what kind of thank you method do you think is the most satisfying to me."

"How do I know this?" Brian said bravely, "If you can support me and work with me to deal with those druids who are catching fish, how about I owe you a favor?"

In fact, he had long understood the feelings of the pastor lady for him, but in the final analysis, the number of times the two met was not even more than one finger.

Therefore, as a man with rich experience in the field of love, he thought that the other party was only a novelty for a while, and when the novelty passed, there would be no so-called bullshit emotion, so naturally he didn't bother to pay attention to it.

"No problem." Karina nodded readily, "I agree."

After reaching a tacit understanding, the two walked through the dense forest and came to the valley where the Rocky Badlands, the Stormhorn Mountains and the Far Sea Swamp meet.

Already under the arrangement of Brian, construction has started here. A total of more than 1000 workers are scattered around, either building walls or moving stones. Everyone is busy sweating profusely, but there is no complaint or burnout.

The pass of the valley road has already been framed. The gray stone wall is more than 20 meters high. The wall bricks were brought back by the stone giants of Stone Whisperer Hegram and polished by magic-like abilities or dwarf craftsmen.

Brian and Karina stood together on the pass that had just been built, looking around, their faces were full of satisfaction.

"What do you think of this position?" He asked the pastor beside him.

"Very good." Karina nodded: "The south is the lowest area of ​​the Horn of Storm Mountains, the west is only separated from the open sea swamp by a forest, and the northeast leads directly to Hedge Village and Mokou Town. As long as you build a fort here, There is no need to worry about the army of orcs and lizardmen invading the territory of Mokou Town on a large scale."

"That's true." Brian said, "And as long as the Stormhorn Mountain Range is opened up from here, we can directly reach Araby City."

He thought for a while, and then said: "I also decided to keep most of the forests in Mokou Town's territory, except for the edge of the marsh in the far sea and the forest at the foot of the Horn of Storms, and turn it into fertile land for the development of agriculture. "

"Deforestation on a large scale." Miss Priest looked at Brian in surprise, "The druids in Emerald Garden will fight you desperately."

"Then let them come anyway," Brian said nonchalantly.

"My lord, it's like a dream, you came here in person." At this time, a mountain dwarf dressed as an engineer ran over panting, "I'm going to prepare for you..."

"Don't bother, I'm just looking casually." Brian raised his hand to interrupt the dwarf's words, "Go ahead and do your work, don't worry about us."

This is the leader of the dwarves responsible for building this fortress.

When he took down Mokou Town, he arranged for Graal to send people to the Sunset Mountains to recruit a group of homeless mountain dwarves to help build the town.

After seeing them rushing to Mokou Town with more than 500 ethnic groups, Brian personally met them, and without hesitation, divided them into an autonomous region in the territory of Mokou Town and settled down.

This may seem like drawing a pie on paper, but the actual effect is very obvious.

After checking the construction progress of the fortress, Brian was about to take Karina to the grove where the druids lived. Unexpectedly, a large shadow suddenly cast on the ground, as if there was some huge creature in the sky.

Soon there were garrison soldiers stationed here pointing to the sky and screaming.

I saw a group of pterosaurs flying in the clouds, and on the back of each pterosaur stood a strong orc in black leather armor.

The group of orcs tightened the reins around the pterosaur's head, observing the situation on the ground.

"The Pterodactyl Knight of the Dragon Clan." Brian instantly recognized the enemy's identity.

Apparently, the orcs in the Horn of the Storm Mountain Range have already started targeting Mokou Town.

These dozen orc scouts flew around the fortress, and suddenly turned around and flew deep into the mountains.

"Want to leave?" Brian sneered, signaling the pastor next to him not to make a move.

Immediately afterwards, amidst the exclamation of everyone, more than a dozen bolts of lightning transformed from psionic energy suddenly descended in the sky, hitting all the orc scouts, like dumpling, without even screaming, one after another One by one fell down.

Although the group of orc scouts were killed by him, Brian knew that this was probably just the beginning.

Since the dragon-training clan of the orc tribes dared to send such a flying scout team, there must be many targeted arrangements in the future.

Thinking of this, he immediately thought of several ways to deal with the flying scouts.

The two of them didn't waste any more time, and immediately quickened their pace to the grove where the druids lived in the Emerald Garden.

"Welcome the mage lord of Mokou Town." Before he and Karina entered the woods, five druids in strange clothes came out to welcome them.

Obviously, they have already detected their arrival through natural magic.

Brian looked at the druids one by one.

In addition to the more conspicuous tauren druids, the other four druids are the human "Earth Bear" in bear skin, the wood elf "Stag Envoy" with antlers on his head, and the "Stag Envoy" in a crow feather cloak. Human 'Crow's Eye', and the only good-looking female half-elf 'Canary'.

"The purpose of my coming here, I think you should understand." Brian said coldly.

He has never liked this group of druids who were fishing for fish, and now he is trying to prevent the development of his territory.

If he hadn't been concerned about the power of Emerald Garden, he would have driven them to the Enook Desert to plant trees.

"I don't know what your Excellency is here for." The young druid wearing a crow feather cloak smiled politely at Brian and asked.

"It's very simple." Brian said bluntly:
"I plan to reclaim fertile land in my own territory, and penetrate the lowest point of the Horn of the Storm Mountain Range to build a road leading to Araby City."

As soon as these words came out, the druids all frowned, apparently not approving of his actions.

"I object! Nature never turns away from those who love it."

The burly and majestic Earth Bear spoke first, "So, if someone wants to destroy nature, they must meet the wrath of nature."

"After decades of hard work, we managed to successfully manage the barren and rocky wasteland, and we will never allow it to be destroyed by humans a second time. Our mission is to maintain the natural balance here." He added at the end.

"Decades of hard work?" Karina narrowed her long and narrow eyes, and said with a smile:
"You really dare to take the credit for yourself. As far as I know, isn't it because of climate change that it has become like this? What does it have to do with you druids who are fishing and playing cards?"

"Exactly!" The Tauren Druid quickly answered, "This stinky and shameless bear, you are not ashamed to say such things."

The Earth Violent Bear glared at the Tauren angrily, "Shut up!"

The tauren made an exaggerated grimace, put his arm on the opponent's shoulder in a familiar way, put his weight on one foot, beat the ground rhythmically with the other foot, and said with a grin: "Haha, did you see that? He's in a hurry, he's really in a hurry!"

The Earth Violent Bear held back the anger in his heart, and slammed the tauren's arm off his shoulder.

"We can understand the mood of the lord." The half-elf druid with a good face came out and said in a soft voice:
"We are not the debaters of the nobles of the kingdom, nor the land reclamation lords who fight endlessly. We are just the guardians of nature. Nature is balanced, wild beasts and monsters are part of nature, and civilized settlements are also part of nature. What we need to do is to find A new balance between civilization and nature."

"That's right, Canary is right, and I think so too." The young druid wearing a crow feather cloak said quickly:
"The changes that have taken place since His Excellency Brian ruled Mokou Town are obvious. Although the smoke and fire of civilization has more or less brought damage to nature, it has also brought in fresh blood. I think we can cooperate with each other Yes, for example, we arrange apprentices to go to their territory, while guiding them to follow the path of natural balance, it is also convenient for us to spread the belief in nature, recruit more natural guardians, and govern the Ennook Desert together."

"That's right." Brian glanced at 'Crow's Eye' and 'Canary', his eyes softened a lot, "The balance between nature and civilization is the cooperation between us."

"The development of Mokou Town has disrupted the balance of nature, I admit that." He went on to say:
"But you have to understand that whether it's human beings, animals or plants, they are all part of nature. If the dense forest, or the whole world, doesn't have any smell of civilized fireworks, then is your so-called natural balance really balanced?"

In fact, he originally didn't want to talk nonsense with this group of people, but when he saw two people who were easy to talk to, he gradually became more patient.

"You should be able to feel the expansion of the distant sea swamp." Karina continued:
"It is obvious why it keeps expanding. It is because of the suitable climate and abundant precipitation, so the dense forest does not necessarily represent the balance of nature. Only the nature suitable for civilized living is the balanced nature. .”

"Miss Karina, do you mean to allow them to destroy wantonly? In my opinion, nature must not be mixed with human feelings. If anyone dares to resist it, he must bear the wrath of nature. Whoever obeys it, Who can bear its grace, nature must be above all else, protect the original appearance of nature, and control the expansion of civilization."

The stag messenger said indifferently, "This is the duty of our Emerald Court."

"That's right, don't think I don't know, your demand for nature is endless, it takes ten years for a tree to grow, but you can cut down hundreds of big trees in a day, in all developed civilizations, we I only saw endless destruction." The Violent Earth Bear answered, looking at Crow's Eye and Canary with dissatisfied eyes.

"In order to build the fortress, how many rocks they mined and how many big trees they cut down are all visible to the naked eye. Nature never betrays those who love it. Therefore, if someone wants to destroy nature, they must meet the wrath of nature. If you continue to be stubborn , don’t blame us for dispatching hunters to let you feel the wrath of nature!”

"You shouldn't have said that." Crow's Eye quickly comforted him:

"Violence can't solve any problems. It can only bring destruction and disaster. Even a victorious war can't avoid endless pain. There are not only forests and lakes in nature. Civilization is a part of nature... "

"No!"

Brian raised his hand to interrupt the young druid's words, and glanced at the earth storm bear and the stag messenger, "I think this bear-like druid is right, violence can actually solve many problems .”

"Now I will give you two choices." He said in a flat tone, "First, leave here, I will establish a settlement for you in the area closest to the desert in the territory, and fully assist you in governing the Enook Desert. Are you If you want to maintain the balance of nature, then go to control the desert, hide here all day fishing and playing cards, can you really maintain the balance?"

Crow's Eye and Canary exchanged glances, and both nodded emotionally.

"Then what's the second condition?" The tauren asked curiously with his head stretched out, his bull's eyes wide open.

"The second condition is very simple." Brian said flatly, "That is to beat you until you are convinced!"

"Don't forget, the place where you live is my territory." He then added, "I have the power to drive you out!"

"It's just too arrogant!"

The tauren druid stood up, and the resonant voice shook the leaves:
"It's up to you? Do you still want to beat us to death? Hahaha... Let me tell you, if you don't beat us to the ground today, this bear will really be born of a fucking bear. Come on! Am I afraid of you?"

Seeing the tauren's naked provocation, the expressions of the other four druids changed, and they secretly scolded each other for what they could do at this moment.

So, they all subconsciously distanced themselves from him and let him face the lord of Mokou Town alone.

At this moment, a louder roar sounded, and the clear sky was suddenly covered by a huge shadow.

The druids looked up at the sky subconsciously, and suddenly found a plump red dragon suspended in mid-air with wide dragon wings spread out.

"Who said to beat him until he was convinced, stand up for me!" the red dragon roared: "Let me, Argotus, meet you!"

A gust of wind blew up, exuding scorching heat, forcing everyone to retreat again and again.

The domineering figure of the red dragon Argotus descended in front of everyone, his eyes gleamed with lava-colored light, thick smoke billowed from his fang-covered mouth, and hot flames brewed.

"Damn, the flying dragon rides on your face." The arrogant tauren exclaimed, and quickly hid behind the other druids in fright.

Karina, who was standing opposite, suppressed her smile and secretly gave the tauren actor a thumbs up.

"Lord Brian."

The young druid named Crow's Eye glanced at his companions in embarrassment, stepped forward bravely, and said with a smile, "We agree to your first condition."

"That's right, what were you doing earlier?"

The tauren winked at Karina triumphantly, and quickly continued, "Obviously, guarding the grove is nothing compared to managing the Ennook desert. Just look at you, and you'll know it all day long." If you are lazy in playing cards, if you don’t play with me, I should find something for you to do.”

Under the watchful eyes of the red dragon, the Earth Violent Bear and the Buck Messenger didn't say a word, they acquiesced to Crow's Eye's proposal.

Brian and the pastor beside him smiled at each other, and at the invitation of the druid, they went to the depths of the woods to discuss cooperation.

After all, after solving the matter here, he can safely build a line of defense against the orcs and lizardmen to meet the coming disaster.

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(End of this chapter)