Chapter 160 In a remote abandoned place, dig and dig!
Every noon, the black fog that fills the edge of the abandoned land will dissipate under the scorching sun.
And this became a key time point for the Antoli people to deploy the shadow manipulator.
Although the shadow manipulator has proven its effectiveness at the foot of the mountains of Antolia, in the final analysis, compared with the black mist that has accumulated over the years in the abandoned land, the black mist that spreads to Antolia is only very small. A small part of it does not fully prove the effectiveness of the Shadow Manipulator.
Therefore, before the official land reclamation, the craftsmen of Antolia were required to follow the Red Cortex collection team that had traveled through the Bergoli Valley and arrange the shadow manipulator south of the mountains in advance.
Fortunately, after practical testing, the effectiveness of the shadow manipulator does not seem to be affected by the concentration of black fog.
Even after the sun sets, the black fog within a five-kilometer radius centered on the shadow manipulator will disappear.
So...
when the warriors of the Lapluk tribe, wearing shiny armor and arrayed in neat battle formations, passed through the narrow Bergori Valley... what
appeared in front of them was something that made them incomparable. A shocking scene.
As the first Antolian army stationed in the southwestern highlands to prepare for war, the soldiers of the Lapruk Army had never seen the operation of the Shadow Manipulator with their own eyes.
And all their knowledge of this creation comes from the oral accounts of other colleagues or superiors.
Therefore, when they passed through the long and narrow valley and set foot on the land south of the mountains for the first time, what appeared before their eyes were dozens of gray-black wind pillars that penetrated straight into the sky.
With the shadow manipulators as the center, the awe-inspiring black mist swirled and gathered around the shadow manipulators, like extremely huge marble pillars, supporting a path for these humans who set foot in the abandoned land. A barrier that blocks the black mist.
At the same time, craftsmen from Antolia were busy around the shadow manipulator, seeming to be transporting some elastic solids that were shaking back and forth.
However...
Shocked, the soldiers of the Lapruk Army immediately formed a battle formation.
The experts in charge of reconnaissance also dispersed towards the surroundings as soon as they passed through the Bergoli Pass in the valley.
There is no other reason. After all, this is the first time that the Antolian people have set foot on the land on the other side of the mountains in an organized and large-scale manner after the magic potion collection team.
No one knows what is on this land, and no one knows what will appear in front of them after the black mist recedes.
It is true that as early as last autumn, many people had already set foot here several times to collect red cordyceps.
But that’s just for picking red cordyceps after all!
Even the scope of activities is only limited to a range of one or two hundred meters around the mountain pass.
But now, dozens of shadow manipulators have provided the Antolians with a range of more than 20 kilometers! !
Not to mention anything else, don’t those plateau hounds that invade Antolia every year of the jackdaw live in this land south of the mountains?
Of course, to be fair, if the layout is based on the maximum range that the shadow manipulator can cover, then the range that can be covered will obviously not be only twenty kilometers.
But the problem is...
Antorians need to have enough fault tolerance!
The Abandoned Land is different from the land north of the mountains. It is covered by black fog all year round. The people responsible for deploying the shadow manipulator must take all possible unexpected situations into consideration.
After all, regardless of whether they are Lapruk warriors or Antolian militiamen, in Leon's eyes, they are the most valuable assets of Antolia and the military support for the Jimena family to gain a foothold.
If a shadow manipulator stops working midway, causing the soldiers to be blinded by the black mist coming from all directions and confusing their minds, then not to mention the losses they will face now, I am afraid that the future development of the abandoned land will also be difficult. It will be delayed because of this.
Among the countless young and strong Lapluk warriors, an old and even somewhat rickety figure stood out.
As an old priest, Fast actually didn't have to come.
But he still made a request to Leon and became the mage accompanying the Lapruk Army.
For no other reason than to see what this land to the south of the mountains, this land that has been shrouded in black mist for nearly a thousand years, looks like.
How should I put it...
Although this was his first time here, a very strange feeling emerged in Fast's heart.
Yes, this is indeed the homeland of the Lapuluk people.
But everything in front of him felt extremely strange to him.
To the west of the mountain pass, large patches of densely packed red cordyceps decorate the flat wilderness with eye-catching bright red.
Although the expedition team from Antolia once described the pungent stench of red cordyceps on vellum, only when you actually set foot here can you understand how terrible the Antolian people endured at that time. The nauseating smell brought the red cordyceps to the other side of the valley.
Farther away, countless fluorescent grasses swayed in the wind.
Their fruits emit a soft and warm white light, swaying gently in the breeze.
The north and south of the mountains are like two worlds.
And just when Fast was amazed by what he saw before his eyes, the scouts who dispersed brought Andrew news from dozens of kilometers away.
"There is a tree to the west!"
"One...?"
Andrew frowned, keenly aware of the unusualness of this quantifier.
"Yes!"
The scouts who hurried back nodded quickly and affirmatively:
"Just in the wilderness to the west!"
"We have never seen such a tall tree."
"I'm afraid it's a full thirty-four meters high. , the withered yellow tree crown almost covered hundreds of square meters of land!"
"Just the bottom trunk alone would require dozens of people to surround it to measure it!"
After a moment of silence...
Andrew finally asked: "Can it be dug out? "?"
He had always known that his lord was full of curiosity about everything in the abandoned land.
And...
since the moon mushroom trees in Antolia can be turned into moon velvet sold all over the kingdom in Leon's hands, then his young lord may not be able to find similar ones in other trees. value.
"It's too big..."
the scout said with some embarrassment.
"But... around that giant tree, there are two or three saplings of the same species!"
"Then dig the saplings back to the Marquis!!"
After hearing this, Andrew said without hesitation.
For a transition, a new race will appear in the next chapter~
(End of this chapter)