my age of magic

Chapter 1287 91. Cost of War
The battlefield in the dense forest is a mess, and the muddy woodland is full of charred corpses of giant spiders. These giant spiders died in various forms.

I saw with my own eyes a giant spider on fire, curled up in a mud puddle in the woods, rolling around, desperately trying to get its body into the mud, thinking that doing so would extinguish the flames on its body , but this giant spider was wrong, until its body was completely cooked, and the carapace on its body was completely turned into carbon ash, the fire oil of those corpses could not be completely extinguished.

These giant spiders scorched black by corpse fire oil in the woodland exude a disgusting stench, and there is a faint foul-smelling green smoke in the dense forest.

Fortunately, the dense forest is very humid. Even if some trees were ignited, the fire could not spread. Most of them burned and extinguished themselves.

There were scorched marks everywhere in the forest, and the indigenous warriors who cleaned up the battlefield looked like coal diggers in the coal yard outside El City. Except for their teeth and eyes, their entire bodies were pitch-black.

Most of the wood thorns erected in the forest have been burned, and the remaining wood thorns were burnt, and some were covered with black and purple spider blood. Occasionally, the flesh of a giant spider strung on the wood thorns could still be seen. The spider legs kept twitching.

The native warriors unloaded the unburnt giant spiders from the wooden thorns, split the giant spider's carapace with an axe, and collected available materials from the giant spiders.

The barbarian slaves searched for the giant crossbow bolts scattered in the forest. These dual-attribute magic crossbow bolts are very expensive, and the price in the market is close to a magic spar, so these magic crossbow bolts can be used repeatedly. save.

They walked all the way from the dense forest to the spider camp, pulled out the giant crossbow bolts stuck on the dead spider warriors, put them into the huge quiver behind them, picked up the weapons used by the spider warriors from the ground and carried them on their shoulders , and then swung the ax to smash the hard skull of the spider warrior, and took out egg-sized magic cores from the purple-black flesh. These magic cores contained precious black magic crystals.

No matter where it is, the cost of war is undoubtedly very expensive. Many lords of the Grimm Empire cannot afford to lose, and sometimes even the failure of a war can bankrupt them.

Only victory can make huge profits in war.

In order to win this battle, I prepared fifty barrels of corpse oil, and distributed ten three-attribute magic crossbow bolts to each barbarian slave. These four thousand giant crossbow bolts alone are worth at least five thousand magic bolts. spar.

For nearly a month, Kalancuo has also been hunting and killing the spider warriors in the spider camp in the east of Green Valley, all of which must be counted as the initial cost investment.

The barbarian slaves brought back some black magic crystals from the battlefield, and some black iron weapons used by the spider warriors, but unfortunately (didn't) capture enough giant spiders, because most of the giant spiders were killed in this battle. The fire burned to death. Fortunately, only a small part of the giant crossbow bolts were damaged, but these damaged giant crossbow bolts can also be taken back to the Xinliu Valley blacksmith for simple repairs.

Most of the giant crossbow bolts were not damaged in the battle, as long as the blood stains on them were cleaned a little, they could be used immediately.

I sat on a collapsed log, and sighed secretly in my heart: Only by winning the battle can I be eligible to get back these giant crossbow bolts on the battlefield. After careful calculation, it seems that the investment in each battle has been increasing recently. Big, this is by no means a good sign. It seems that how to rationally control the cost of war is the most important course for me right now.

The corpse fire oil sprayed by the orc fire-breathing team ignited many trees in the dense forest, causing great damage to the forest. Although the forest was too humid, the fire did not spread, but there were still people left in the dense forest. There are many fires, and the indigenous warriors are trying to put out these fires.

Nearly ten thousand indigenous warriors blocked these giant spiders from the front, so these giant spider wreckages on the battlefield belonged to their trophies.

The joy of victory in the war infects every indigenous warrior. For these indigenous warriors, fighting in the green valley forest is to defend their own homeland. They have no retreat at all. This victory makes every indigenous warrior I have the belief of victory in my heart.

The indigenous girls Puyaka and Koni led the indigenous leader from the battlefield filled with fireworks in the distance. The indigenous leader looked a bit embarrassed, his leather armor was blackened by the fire, and a large area of ​​his hair was burnt. He still had a few shallow wounds, and with a scimitar unique to the Yero natives slung around his waist, he strode forward energetically.

With the victory of this battle, the native leader was in a happy mood. Although there were many things waiting for him to deal with after the battle, he still couldn't wait to come and see me.

The aborigine leader doesn't understand the imperial language, but there are these two aboriginal girls as a bridge for us to communicate, so there is no obstacle for me to communicate with the aboriginal leader.

He first made some statements about the battle with great emotion, saying that all these victories came from the blessing of the forest god, and then he began to tell me how brave the indigenous warriors were, blocking the battle with their own flesh and blood. The charge of tens of thousands of giant spiders... and so on.

Just when I thought that this guy came here specially to show off his outstanding military exploits to me this time, the indigenous leader finally turned to the topic, he untied a dirty leather bag from his waist, the leather bag was dirty Even the indigenous leaders felt a little embarrassed.

He hesitated for a moment, he didn't have the nerve to pass the leather bag to me directly, but asked the servants around him to find a few clean leaves and spread them on the ground, he untied the leather bag and took out the magic core stained with purple and black blood. When it was poured out, a stench came out.

The two indigenous girls standing aside smelled the strange smell and almost vomited it out.

Katerina also frowned slightly, covering her mouth and nose with her hand, then took out a silver water jug ​​from her pocket, unscrewed the lid and poured all the clean water inside on these magic cores, the clean water washed away the stinky blood, the thick Blood flowed into a nearby puddle.

The wide leaves are covered with magic cores. There are more than a hundred of them, and they are basically as big as my fist. Obviously, these magic cores should be found by indigenous warriors from giant spiders. Only the magic cores on giant spiders can will be so big.

In fact, not all giant spiders have magic cores growing in their bodies. Giant spiders that can grow magic cores are only a very small number. searched out.

I asked the indigenous leader: "Are you going to replace all these magic crystals with wheat flour?"

To my surprise, the indigenous leader shook his head repeatedly after hearing what I said, and then asked the servant behind him to take out a giant crossbow and put it in front of him, then the indigenous leader gestured at the giant crossbow and said There was a lot of talk, and in the end, two servants even brought up a bloody spider leg. The indigenous leader grasped a three-meter-long giant crossbow with both hands, as if holding a battle spear, and smashed the hard black spider leg. The beetle pierced through.

In fact, even if Puyaka, an indigenous girl, doesn't translate, I can guess what the indigenous leader wants to say.

Of course, these indigenous warriors are not fools. They saw giant crossbow bolts harvesting the lives of spider warriors like leeks on the battlefield, so they took a fancy to these extremely sharp giant crossbow bolts. For indigenous warriors, they were more than three meters long. The giant crossbow bolt can be used as a spear.

The indigenous leader came to me this time because he wanted to buy some weapons like giant crossbow bolts from me.

I didn't directly refuse, but asked Puyaka to tell the indigenous leader about the value of the giant crossbow bolts. The indigenous leader brought these magic cores and could only buy more than a hundred giant crossbow bolts at best, and these giant crossbow bolts must keep the magic circle in normal operation. If not, the magic spar fragments need to be replaced regularly, which is not only expensive, but also very expensive to use, and the usual maintenance is also very expensive.

The indigenous girl Puyaka talked for a long time, and finally the indigenous leader gave up the idea of ​​replacing all the magic crystals with giant crossbow bolts, and decided to try to buy ten giant crossbow bolts for the best indigenous warriors.

All the remaining magic cores were exchanged for thousands of bags of wheat flour, at least the monthly rations for the nearly [-] indigenous soldiers under his command were settled.

Although Kalancuo and Justus were injured all over, they finally brought back the head of the spider warlord.

The tauren Luka also came back with them, but Luka's condition is slightly better, but the left shoulder armor with the highest defense power of the full-coverage heavy armor was smashed by him. A piece of left shoulder armor, the magic attribute of the suit disappeared directly.

I don't know what kind of battle they went through. The more than a hundred orc warriors who returned from the southern forest with Kalancuo were even more embarrassed. Almost all of them were injured, and several of the orc warriors were not clearly injured. They were carried back by black-scaled warhorses.

After the spider warlord in the spider camp in the east of Green Valley was killed by Kalancuo, Justus and Luka, the battle was considered to have come to a successful conclusion.

Next, Kalanzo and Justus will take the orc warriors and barbarian slaves to make some deployments for the spider camp in the western area of ​​Green Valley Forest.

Senior Dylan has already completed the teleportation central system of the third teleportation ship, and I will start assembling the next teleportation ship soon.

Therefore, in the next month or so, I basically won't be able to relax. Apart from the normal magic courses in the academy, there are still a lot of things waiting for me to do.

The indigenous girl Puyaka is the granddaughter of the elder of the indigenous tribe in the Green Valley Forest. She is proficient in the Grimm Empire language. She has always translated for me and the tribal leader, so I have a particularly deep impression of her.

She has a pair of beautiful big eyes, her nose is straight, her hair is smooth and straight, her skin is different from the bronzed skin of most aborigines, and her color is a porcelain white with jade luster.

She wears a set of wind snake leather armor. The tough soft armor makes her figure look very fit. Aboriginal girls are generally plumper than ordinary girls in the imperial capital. Life in the jungle is far less comfortable than life in the imperial capital.

Another indigenous girl is named Koni. She is a disciple of the great wizard in the indigenous tribe. She can prepare many kinds of tribe-specific herbal concoctions. Although I can't feel the fluctuation of her magical power, I can find her Has the ability to dominate some plants, maybe she has the ability to communicate with some plants.

In short, after getting along with each other for this period of time, I gradually discovered that these two indigenous girls have many advantages, and they are not the kind of useless vases.

This time they returned to the imperial capital with me, I think maybe we should find a school for the two of them so that they can learn the culture of the Green Empire.

……

"Jijia, what have you been up to lately? The only way to find you at the Royal Academy of Magic is in the magic class." Senior Vernon stood on the balcony of the dormitory and waved to me.

His bedroom is on the third floor, not on the same floor as Noah and I.

"Senior Vernon, do you need me?" I lay on the bench and asked Senior Vernon.

Recently, I have been busy drawing the magic rune boards of the fourth teleportation sea ship. Although these rune boards are very complicated, I have done them five times. Many drawing details have been engraved in my heart, so I made them It is also very handy, and the time spent in the astrologer's union is constantly shortening every day, and the days of staying up all night are gone forever.

There is no need for me to keep an eye on the dock side of the dock all the time.

The crew members on the Avenger have transformed into experienced old shipwrights, and they can already independently assemble the metal rune plates of the teleportation ship.

The past few days have been much easier than last month.

Senior Vernon smiled, leaned over the balcony railing with both hands, and said to me: "I heard that you can get some magic herbs there. One of my friends is a magic pharmacist. This guy doesn't know how to mess around. I recently received an order for refining magic potions, but the magic herbs are not fully prepared..."

I squinted my eyes and asked Senior Vernon: "Is there a list of the magic herbs I need? I have some magic herbs in my trading firm, but most of them are kudzu root for refining primary healing potions. "

Senior Vernon didn't expect me to ask him for a list of herbal medicines so readily. He was overjoyed and ran downstairs directly.

Holding a piece of parchment in his hand, he said to me: "There is a list, here, this is it! See how much you can make up here, and I'm going to find a solution for the rest, maybe I can get it from Mentor Abel. Get some out of my herb garden."

"Just need these?" I looked at the names of the elementary magic herbs on the list and confirmed to him.

"Ah..." Senior Vernon was a little dumbfounded, he didn't expect me to ask such a question.

I shook the list in my hand and said to Senior Vernon: "Only these are the only things I should be able to help you with, but these magic herbs must be traded at market prices."

At this time, Noah couldn't help showing his head from the balcony next door, and said to Senior Vernon: "Look, I said that Jijia must have a solution. Sometimes my brother needs magic herbs urgently, and I also ask Jijia to help solve it." .”

(End of this chapter)