Chapter 29 1. The Good Life of Naggaroth
After a week of sailing, the three-masted barque arrived in Karondekar.
Karondekar, the Tower of Despair, also known as the Slave's Gate. The city stands on the edge of the Cold Heart Sea, forever buffeted by strong winds, icy rain, and tsunamis.
What unfolded in front of Darkos was a shocking sight. He used a monocular to see many slaves still twisting on the black wall of the cliff. Dastan Lengyan said that these slaves were disobedient and were tortured by the warlock. Without magic, they will spend the last few hours of their lives in despair, and then become food for the harpy.
Day and night, Karondkar echoes with desperate wails as the city's sorcerers delight in uniting the souls of slaves with their bodies. Trapped between life and death, these hapless souls will wander the streets of Karondekar, delighting the city with wails of agony, tremblings of lamentation and beautiful images, and they too will become the harpies. food.
Can you sleep tonight?
Countless harpies have built their nests on the spiers in the city, and they hover or swoop in the sky. The superstitious Druchi believed that the harpy was a symbol of good luck for the city and that if they left the city, it would fall into the hands of the enemy in less than ninety days. Druchi civilians living in this city usually need to lean on the edge of the road when walking, and they must also be wary of the harpies that may swoop down at any time.
There's a reason why Karondekar is called the Slaver's Gate, as this is where Black Ark usually settles its cargo at the end of its raids. Thousands of all races died while crossing the vast sea to Karonde Kal, suffocated in the bottom of ships or tortured to death for the pleasure of the Black Ark pirates, and these were the lucky ones.
When the slaves were finally unloaded onto the icy docks, their best days were just beginning, because there was nowhere for Kalonde Carr to escape!
On the docks, slaves were brutally driven out and whipped, and those who fell were trampled to death. Some unlucky ones whose chains fell off would be skinned on the spot and thrown into the Cold Sea. These entertainment methods were wildly admired by the onlookers Druchi, who threw stones to trip up the panicked slaves and fanned the flames nearby, hoping to incite the slaves to riot so that they could swarm over and slaughter them.
Those slaves who come to the dark square will be roughly inspected and divided by age and gender. After being weighed and presented to the Witch King Malekith, the slave traders will swarm over and divide these slaves up. These slaves are destined to be at sea. They worked to death in the dark rock of G Grave and the gem gold mines of Grond, worked hard in the dungeons and kitchens of various cities in Naggaroth, or were directly bought and sacrificed to Kane.
The slave trader's mansion area overlooking the city is full of mansions decorated with the bones of dead slaves. These white-gloved men rarely leave the comfort of their mansions, lured only to dark, rain-flooded squares by tidbits of great value. A captured Asur was extremely valuable, and slavers would trade their possessions, or even their own families, to please the nobles behind them.
The city also houses auction houses, where slavers conduct hard bargains to satisfy the greed of captains and Black Ark admirals, ensuring handsome profits.
The admirals can return with satisfaction, but those captains usually don't get the profits they expect, because they know that a large number of Kane's assassins are lurking in the crowd, quietly waiting for the slave traders' commission. The captains decided that it was better to leave Calonde Carr with a small bag of Sovereign than never to leave.
However, everything in this city has nothing to do with Darkus, because the relationship between this city and Krakaronde is not very friendly and there is a competitive relationship, especially in terms of animal taming.
Darkus will not sell goods here. He will cross the Chilling Sea, cross the Dark Light Tower Strait, enter the Sea of Resentment, and return to Krakarond, which is his home.
It’s funny to say that Krakarond’s ships and the Black Ark usually don’t go to Karonde Kar, but the dignitaries of Karonde Kar need to order ships and must go to Krakarond for repairs and maintenance of the Black Ark. Yes, Kalonde Carr could only repair the ship because it rained all year round and there was no ship wood that could be cut.
Darkus continued to look at the city curiously with his telescope.
The Karondekar breakwater is approximately five kilometers long and is made of stone quarried from the towering mountains surrounding the city. The nobles in the city raised huge sums of money to hire a group of dwarf slaves who could carve, and carved the stone at the bottom of the breakwater into the shape of slaves, allowing the sculptures of tense, dying bodies to rise and fall with the icy tide. For thousands of years the breakwater has been known as Nella Wall, the Great Lament. When slaves arrived in the city and saw such lifelike statues, they would utter terrible lamentations, thinking that this would be their future fate.
Nobles never tire of this joke.
"Whose is this black ark?"
Dastan Leng said directly without looking at it: "Master, the Tower of God Blessing the Evil Party of the Fallen Heart Family." "Where's
the smaller one over there?"
" Master, that is the Ultimate Oblivion."
What a great creation!
After the civil war failed, Malekith's plan to use magic to lift the Maelstrom of Ulthuan failed. The magic bounced back to Nagaryth, and then the sky fell apart and the city where the Hellscourge family lived was also exploded. Malekith and his followers used their last magical power to survive the ensuing storm, and used magic to transform these disintegrated cities into black arks that could travel on the sea. Malekith and his followers then fled Nagaryth, heading northwest across the Great Ocean to the desolate land of Naggaroth.
At that time, there were more than twenty black arks, five of which washed up on the coast and became the current city of Druch. The Hellscourge family's Malevolent Temple remained and is still in use today. These huge floating fortresses on the sea vary in size, the longest is five kilometers long, and the smaller ones are two kilometers long.
Capable of carrying tens of thousands of Drukki warriors and slaves, sorcerers and beast trainers summoned leviathans from the depths and built fortifications on the Black Ark. According to Darkus's understanding, the family's Temple of Viciousness has a matching black dragon, war hydra, and abyssal kraken. When necessary, it can also summon sea dragons to help.
The Black Ark is now out of ten. After five thousand years of changes, some were damaged in battles and sunk, some were stranded on the coast, and some were pulled into the mysterious space.
The progress of the Black Ark Manufacturing Factory in Krakalund was extremely slow in Darkus' opinion. It would take eight hundred years to build a two-kilometer-long black ark. The stone used to make the black ark still needs to be obtained from Hagrid Grave. pull over. But other Druchi don't think so. In their opinion, eight hundred years is just one generation.
Darkus suddenly thought of a place where, if possible, Black Ark could be mass-produced in a short time.
(End of chapter)