While various matters in the territory were waiting for the lord to deal with it, Lant was wandering around in the Hindukel Basin, the orc territory west of the Iowa Pass on the westernmost border of the territory.
As the buffer zone between the Orc Plateau and the Galloping Horse Plains, the entire Hindukel Basin is almost surrounded by mountains. The basin plain is also filled with rolling hills and intertwined water networks. This terrain can be said to combine the advantages of mountains and plains. It is not only magical. Plenty and rich in products.
The total area of the basin is less than 1/3 of the Benma Plain, but there are far more minerals and forest lands than the Benma Plain. There is also a large forest to the south, which belongs to the same edge of the central forest of the mainland as the large forest to the west of Galloping Horse Barony, but is blocked by the Iowa Mountains.
When Lant entered the basin, he relied on fire to fly over the forest in the south, and then explored from the south to the north. Although he also knew that there were a lot of lawsuits in his family waiting for him, the lord, to resolve, the issue on the western border was related to the survival of the territory.
Of course, exploring the orc territory also brought a very novel experience to Rant.
For example, the division of forces here is very different from what Lant imagined. The orcs in the basin have two large tribal alliances: Jiaolang and Linmao. All small and medium-sized tribes in the basin maintain an aloof relationship with these two tribes. , in addition to the two major tribes, there are many neutral towns and city-states in the Hindukel Basin.
For example, Abadi, the commercial capital where Rand is currently located, is one of the three largest city-states in the basin and is known as the commercial capital. It is a commercial city-state independent of the Orc Royal Court and the two major tribes of the Linmao and Jiaolang tribes in the basin.
Walking in Abaidi, Lant felt that this place was more prosperous than the commercial district of Dragon Tooth City. Inside the huge circular square was a tent market. There were tents of all kinds of orcs, half-orcs, dwarves and even humans. The products covered magic. Plants, weapons, magic potions, rare monster meat, bone products and even slaves, it can be said that everything in the Royal Capital and Maned Wolf City is available here.
The periphery of the circular square is a circle of fixed shops. The products in these shops are more high-end, rare and expensive, and the quality is more guaranteed.
Wherever there is a flow of passengers, there is a service industry. Hotels, taverns, restaurants, tailors, hospitals, small theaters, circuses, and fortune-telling shops that also serve as skin and flesh businesses. There is always something that can spend all the gold coins in the pockets of customers.
Lant came to this commercial capital just to find out the news about the Orc Royal Court in this bustling city. So I went to the biggest tavern in the city: Camel Dad’s Liquor Shop to try my luck.
This tavern has two floors, 3 floors in the front and 4 floors in the back. There is a huge yard in the middle with a pool, rockery and garden. Lant has never seen such a luxurious tavern in the royal capital.
After asking the bartender, I found out that there are only three floors in front of the real tavern. The first floor is a tavern that sells wine, wine or spirits, the second floor is a high-end bar that sells potion wine, and the third floor is dedicated to Fine wines from all over the world for distinguished guests.
Since he was going deep into the territory of the orcs for reconnaissance, Lant naturally could not come in a humanlike manner. Instead, he disguised himself as the deer man with the largest population, with two horns on his head.
"Guest, our fine wines can only be tasted by tribal leaders or priests. You can give this drink list to your leader." The bartender here is a semi-dwarf, and he is quite polite to Lant.
"Okay, can you get me a soju?" Lant saw his own galloping horse soju on the board behind the bartender and couldn't help but want to order one.
"Of course, but this is only available on the Galloping Horse Plains. It's not cheap. It's 5 silver coins a cup, and your cup is the last one in our family. It costs 1 gold coin." The bartender explained as Lant stared at the soju brand. , "Our pub is the only place in Abaidine that sells Galloping Horse drinks. You can't taste it anywhere else."
The so-called pretense of doubling the price of the last drink, Rand didn't bother to argue, placed a gold coin on the bar, and took the porcelain bottle handed over by the bartender.
Under the witness of the dwarf bartender, Lant looked at the production mark on the bottom of the bottle, which contained the supply destination, production date and batch. No more than 50 ml was poured into the glass. The light yellow soju had an obvious hanging cup. This was a high-concentration version specially made for salt and iron. Lant couldn't figure out why this version of soju could flow into the territory of the orcs.
Before Lant could continue to think about it, the door of the tavern was rudely opened, and a group of cat people surrounded a human girl into the hall.
"Old Hammer, have you ever seen a lone Beast God's Favorite here?" the girl asked the bartender nonchalantly, not shying away from the strange looks in the eyes of the many orcs in the store.
"Honier, you're not looking for the White Wolf Princess too, are you?" The bartender, Old Hammer, smiled. Seeing that the female Knight of Honier didn't respond, his face gradually became serious, "I've never seen it, but I heard They say someone is worshiping a new monster outside the city."
Honir was obviously very interested in this information. Just when he was about to ask further, a pig-headed man said loudly: "Where did this human slave come from? Why didn't your master chain you up? Do you want to follow me?" Go back and be my slave?"
The pig-headed man's words were very rude, full of swear words and filthy words, but what he said was basically the truth. Whether in the commercial capital of Abaidee or in other parts of the basin, although there were many human races, the human race that could be seen They are basically vassals of the orc tribe. When the humans have to enter the city, their orc leader will lead them and even lock them with ropes and chains to show their ownership.
However, the Hornier knight next to Lant was obviously an anomaly. When the pig-headed man made rude remarks, the cat-man next to Hornier clearly threatened the pig-headed man. The master-slave relationship between the female knight and the cat-man was very obvious.
"You go search other places," the girl said, and the few cat people around her exited the tavern. The two tallest ones stayed outside the door, keeping the two doors open.
"Haha, you don't really want to be my slave, do you?" The pig-headed man saw that Honier actually backed away and walked to her unscrupulously, and then saw the female knight's right calf hit him.
"Dang~" There was a crisp sound of metal leggings hitting his skull. The pig-headed man was kicked out of the door. The two cat-man guards closed the door and went to beat him.
"Is there any more soju from Galloping Horse?" Honier ignored everything outside and asked the bartender. The dwarf pointed to the side and landed on Lant, who still looked like a half-deer man.
"The last drink is right here with him." The dwarf bartender pointed at Lant.
Without any hesitation, Lant directly pushed the porcelain bottle to the female knight and said, "My treat."
Not wanting to cause trouble, he drank the remaining wine in the cup. After confirming that it was the latest batch of his own soju, he hurriedly left, leaving only Honier and the bartender Lao Hammer in the store.
(End of chapter)
