In order to please the Dragon King Philumat, the three major forces living in the Kingdom of Dragon have to send people to collect all kinds of beautiful treasures. Whether they are mined by themselves or the fruits of labor of other races, as long as they turn in enough, they can get it. The reward from the Dragon King Palace.
There is a common misunderstanding among the residents of the Disa Alliance that half-elf adventurers are brave and hard-working, making wealth with their own hands, and using swords to resist the invasion of orcs and barbarians. In fact, the ferocious and primitive orc bone collectors are best at extracting natural resources, followed by the barbarian raiders. As for the half-elf adventure group, they prefer to rob the wealth of orcs and barbarians.
The reason is simple. Orcs are naturally excellent at surviving in the wild. They plunge into the depths of the wilderness and cannot find a suitable target even if they want to rob treasures. Although the barbarian fighters are brave and good at fighting, they have to protect their tribal territory and cannot run too far. There is a deep gap between them and other similar barbarians; only the half-elf adventurers have formed a complete semi-military organizational system relying on the training of civilized countries.
There are adventure unions, permanent adventure strongholds, and adventure groups of all sizes. They have a clear division of labor, share intelligence, and can carry out cross-regional mobile cooperation. Adventurers who are well-equipped, proficient in martial arts and tactics, and have logistical support cannot be said to be born for battle, but are always preparing for battle.
How could such a powerful half-elf adventurer not rob the treasures of the orcs and barbarians?
If an adventurer detects information about the Bone Collector gang and they are not sure of defeating the orcs, they will gather more adventure groups to act together.
The orc bone collectors have learned to be smart. When they encounter half-elf adventurers in the wild, they eat them all if they can, and move away quickly if they can't eat them. This lends itself to the Bone Collector's reputation as a ferocious beast, but from an orc's perspective, they are simply trying to survive.
The group of orcs that Vertok met initially followed the Bone Collector's habit of hunting them down. However, they are still different from ordinary bone collector gangs, which can be seen from the treasures they leave behind.
Harker had buried the bodies of the two hobgoblins but had not moved their supplies. Because there were so many supplies, he couldn't handle them all by himself.
A total of eight large baskets woven from old tree vines were piled neatly beside the fire pit. Each large rattan basket is filled with all kinds of things, including amber agate, animal teeth and horns, gold sand ore, and rough jewelry. These unprocessed treasures account for the vast majority of the supplies and should have been mined by the bone collectors' gang. Treasure raw materials.
Their value is difficult to estimate. For example, after being carved by skilled craftsmen, the value of rough jewelry will double immediately. Otherwise, no matter how good the quality of the rough jewelry stone is, it is just a slightly more beautiful stone.
The most dazzling treasure among these treasures is not the yellow natural gold nugget, nor the rough blue diamond the size of a child's fist, but several stalagmite-shaped mithril ores.
Huck specially picked them out and showed them to Wiltok for viewing. He said excitedly and emotionally: "Only bone collectors can find such good things, and the remaining items combined are not as valuable as these three mithril mines. "
Mithril itself is very rare, and it is also the favorite metal of Dragon King Philumat. The mithril mines in Dragon Kingdom were exhausted hundreds of years ago. Disa Alliance's current mithril mainly comes from outside the territory.
Of course, the half-elf adventure group and the barbarian raiding group cannot bear the consequences of having their members reduced by half and go outside the territory to look for mithril. Only goblins would do such a thing. Their two years of extraterritorial activities are worth as much as ten years of hard work by the adventure group. No wonder, the half-elf adventure group and the barbarian raiding group especially like to rob the bone collector gang.
Wiltok played with the mithril mine for a moment and asked, "Huck, are these the things you showed me?"
Although the mithril mine was valuable, it only meant that this group of orcs had just returned from outside the territory and there was nothing special about it.
Huck moved another rattan basket, dumped all the contents on the ground, and said: "Sir, you see, these are the things of the Whistle Regiment. In addition to Annie and Katie's weapons, there is also swordsman Carl's alloy pendant. Sword. We didn't see Karl, he must have been poisoned by the orcs. As for Charlie and Thomas, I didn't find their belongings. The two shield guards either died in the Shadow Forest, or they were separated from Annie and the others."
The big sponsor of the Whistle Adventure Group is a noble from a well-known highland family. The weapons equipped by the Whistle Group are all of high quality. Regardless of their materials and workmanship, they can be collected as treasures by the hobgoblins. Vertok glanced at it, and his attention shifted to the bags of potions scattered on the ground.
"Huh?"
Wiltok picked up a small medicine bag, looked at it carefully for a moment, and said in surprise: "The belladonna powder is processed in this?"
"Belladonna powder? Isn't that a potion used for secret rituals?" Huck said: "Sir, I was shocked when I saw so many medicine bags. I thought this group of orcs had robbed a half-elf doctor. . But what use are these potions to the orcs? They should have been thrown away by the orcs long ago. So, I find this strange."
Wiltok opened a few more medicine bags and found that they contained pharmaceutical products such as Sweet Dream Flower, Snakehead Mushroom, Blue Vanilla, and Barkrian Red Scorpion. They can basically be classified as hallucinogens, and among them are high-successful drugs. Addictive poison.
These pharmaceutical preparations are not unfamiliar to Wiltok. He has seen them many times in Dr. Cole's alchemy workshop. Bags containing medicines are also very common, with moisture-proof deerskin as the inner core and a layer of fine cotton sewn on the outside. The workmanship and specifications meet the professional requirements of pharmacists.
But in terms of value, neither the medicine inside nor the bag containing the medicine is a treasure that can be paid tribute to the Dragon King Palace.
Under normal circumstances, if the orc bone collector seized this batch of potions from the half-elves, they would definitely throw them away.
But that's normal.
This gang of bone collectors is unusual. They even used these potions to enslave two half-elf women, and they were also professionals.
Preparing potions is the specialty of the Disa Alliance, and Wiltok has determined that the potions in front of him were made by the half-elf pharmacist.
It's not that the potions produced by the Disa Alliance are useless to the orcs, it's that they don't use the finished potions at all.
The hobgoblin's medicine is nothing more than collecting some wild flowers and weeds, either eating them raw, applying them externally on wounds, or throwing them into a fire and burning them to ashes before using them. If they were like half-elf pharmacists who first prepared the medicine and then used it, they probably wouldn't be able to do it.
Unless a half-elf apothecary taught them!
The source of this batch of potions must be the Disa Alliance. Judging from their number, the half-elf adventure group will not carry so many pharmaceutical products when traveling in the wild. Combined with the special situation of Annie and Katie being enslaved by the hobgoblins, Wiltok thought of a possibility, "It seems that someone within the Disa Alliance colluded with the goblin kingdom."
Huck looked back at the two female professionals who were tied to the tree and twisting around, and murmured: "Is it possible that the hobgoblin wants to abduct them to a certain force in the alliance, and specifically turns them into idiot?"
"Otherwise? What's the use of the orc bone collectors raising them? They should be eaten by the jackals." Wiltok said with a shrug.
"Those highland nobles are so bad, they actually colluded with the dirty orcs and tortured two good little girls into this state!" Huck said through gritted teeth.
He had no good impression of the noble families in the highlands, and he took it for granted that the highland nobles were colluding with the goblin orcs to do unspeakable evil things to the beautiful young half-elf female professionals in order to satisfy their perverted hobbies.
Wiltok said disapprovingly: "The nobles of Highland City don't have to collude with goblins to get whatever kind of women they want. Those who collude with the Bone Collector gang should belong to underground forces that cannot see the light."
Huck immediately became alarmed and quickly explained: "Sir, I am all lying...I was wrong, please punish me."
Wiltok shook his head and said calmly: "I don't even remember that I am a noble of Highland City, and my guess may not be correct... The hobgoblins can 'read minds', and they can use body language and voice to cross paths. Racial communication only has a poor effect on the wisdom species of civilized countries. Because the minds of half-elves born in civilized countries are complex and changeable, it is difficult for hobgoblins to use 'mind reading' to grasp their true intentions. If the hobgoblins first turn the half-elves into Simple-minded idiots may be able to eliminate communication barriers... It's still unclear what the hobgoblin's true intention is to enslave Annie and Katie. But..."
He paused and then said: "This batch of potions is a clue to the truth. But I'm not interested now."
"Well, it's none of our business." Huck nodded. He would only agree with Wiltok's opinion and think it was a matter of course.
"Oh, by the way. Sir, I also found two very precious treasures." Huck turned around and found two long swords from another rattan basket and handed them to Wiltok as if they were gifts. "I promise, they are It’s a real treasure!”
These two long swords are exquisitely made, three feet and six inches long, with long, narrow and thin blades. Under the afterglow of the setting sun, purple gold sometimes shines, and sometimes silver light flows. Huck held one of the swords, his arm shook up and down, and the bright blade buzzed and trembled, like ripples on the water, layer upon layer, endless, the sharpness seemed to cut the air. open.
Huck casually waved his hand, and during the turning of the sword light, a nearby short tree slowly slipped from the middle of the trunk without any warning. The crown of the tree tilted and fell to the ground, revealing the smooth and flat fracture of the trunk.
"Magic weapon!" Huck, who also works as a blacksmith, said excitedly: "Compared with these two swords, Rhode's adamantine sword and gun are like farm tools made by a country bumpkin blacksmith. I have never seen such a magic sword. I've seen them before, but I can't even recognize their materials. They must be made of fine gold, fine iron, and another ingredient, I don't know... I'm afraid that only Zhu Mingmen's full-time blacksmiths can master the secret forging skills, and only Zhu Mingmen can master them. Only the big shots in the sword are qualified to use it. Sir, you see, there are emblems and cursive characters on the sword, but I don’t recognize these cursive characters. They should be ancient secret texts of famous families... Sir, sir, what’s wrong with you?”
Vertok stared blankly at the long sword in his hand. He saw that the circular emblem on the sword was a bird perched on a thorn strip and singing loudly. It was unclear whether the sun or the moon was in the background. The cursive characters next to the emblem were the ancient alphabet he recognized.
"Sword-bearing maid, Ruth Randall."
Vertok read the text softly, feeling dazed for a while. Broken memories emerged from the depths of his mind, and he murmured: "Sword-wielding maid... Ruth... Ruth Randall? Sword-wielding maid Ruth." ? I seem to remember, this is a fine gold thorium sword, which belongs to the sword-wielding maid Ruth."
"Huh?" Huck was stunned. The alloy sword he regarded as a magic weapon actually belonged to a maid, and Vertok also knew her.
What is the relationship between the sword-wielding maid named Ruth Randall and Vertok?
How did her sword end up in the hands of the Bone Collector gang?
There were too many problems here, and Huck didn't react for a while, so he just looked at Wiltok blankly.
Wiltok's face was particularly gloomy, and he took another long sword from Huck's hand. The specifications and emblems of the two swords are exactly the same, and the words engraved on the sword body indicate that the owner of the sword is another sword-wielding maid named Jesse Randall.
They may be dead, and the adamantine thorium sword has become a trophy for the orc bone collectors!
Wiltok took a deep breath, suppressed his inexplicable and complicated emotions, and said decisively: "It's not safe here. The remaining clawed goblins and ferocious gnolls may come back. Let's leave immediately and bring what we need to bring. Let’s meet up with Max and the others first, and then find a safe place… I need to sleep.”
