V1.Chapter 79

There is a hidden rule in nature.

That is, if you want to gain ownership of a certain territory, you must defend it under the attack of other races. Only then will other races recognize your ownership of this land, otherwise they may attack you again at any time. In other words, that is to say, if the ogres want other races to recognize their ownership of the new territory, they must repel the human attack head-on, and use blood and death to stabilize the rule of this land, otherwise this The battle for territory will continue for quite a long time.

There are many borderless places in the wilderness.

If it is the wandering of a small-scale ethnic group, basically no one cares, but once it is a large-scale ethnic group migration, it will destroy the original balance.

Humans will not allow large-scale ogre tribes near the road, unless they are afraid of being beaten, and take the initiative to avoid this territory, clean up monsters in other areas, and open up another road. Most of the roads between cities are not populated by ethnic groups, because the large ethnic groups that originally occupied the vicinity of the roads have all been cleaned up by human beings generation by generation. This is how the commercial roads were opened up in the wilderness. Wild creatures will remember a lesson of avoiding key points of the road even when migration occurs.

Ogre possession here is a challenge.

They will swear to other races their claim to the land, and there is nothing more forceful than defeating humans.

After all, this is a wilderness, not a cultivated field. If humans fail once, they will basically not endlessly devote themselves to the battle to expel them, because there is no interest in letting them fight. If it is the land that has been cultivated for generations, then the struggle will become endless, and the determination of human beings to protect the cultivated land exceeds that of any race.

This has happened many times.

Fallen Leaves City was established by the half-elves to drive out ogres. They fought to protect this land for hundreds of years, and successively responded to the attacks of ogres, orcs, and mountain dwarves. It was not until all the races in the vicinity could do anything about them, which forced other races to recognize the half-elves' rule over the hundreds of kilometers around the Fallen Leaf City. Only when other races don't dare to provoke you again can you truly own this land, and then you can claim your ownership to other races.

Otherwise, they'll just mock you mercilessly and attack your territory when you're weak or not paying attention.

Those human beings who live in the wilderness, although they have built villages, can only be said to live in the wilderness, but cannot be said to be the masters of this piece of land in the wilderness.

It is impossible to carve out a territory in this world without paving the way with blood.

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Sauron saw the battle flag of the ogre tribe the next afternoon.

In fact, it shouldn't be called a battle flag, it's just something built with a circle of stones, with a wooden pole erected in the middle, with the bones of humanoids stuck on it.

This is a sign.

It means that from here, it is the territory of the ogres, they have the right to hunt in this territory, and other races enter it even if they invade their territory. It was as if Sauron would see a huge stone monument before entering the city of White Horse, with the words of City of White Horse engraved on it, and the emblem of a war horse.

"It really looks like an ogre tribe." Yas's expression was serious.

Only the ethnic groups that make up the tribe will have this kind of enclosure, with some signs to prove their ownership of the land. This is a bit of a gamble against other races, you either have to fight them back, or you have to admit their domination of the territory. This land belongs to them from now on, and they have the right to dispose of you if you enter it. That is to say, in their understanding, the human caravan passing through the territory is the food delivered to the door.

Because this is their territory.

The same is true for dragons before they build their nests. They will leave their own scents in the territory, and other creatures dare not approach them at will.

"Cut it off!"

A person who was obviously an officer of White Horse City shouted in a low voice, although White Horse City did not have the strength to expand into the dangerous wilderness, it could not accept the ogre's behavior of occupying land as king. It doesn't matter if it is in other places, but being near White Horse City is equivalent to touching their inverse scales. To open up the wilderness is not just a matter of strength, but also to have cultivated land and soldiers who can protect civilians. Otherwise, if you expand your territory indiscriminately, you will defeat a wave of enemies, and then the population will decrease due to various reasons.

It took hundreds of years for White Horse City to expand from a territory of dozens of kilometers to hundreds of kilometers now.

Even so, there are still monsters attacking on the edge of White Horse City. There are still gnolls and other creatures in the forests, mountains, lakes, etc. within the territory, and they will attack the established villages from time to time. As long as it is a place where fertile land cannot be cultivated and cultivated, creatures in the wilderness can always multiply. If you kill this group, new ones will be born, and if you expel this group, other things will migrate. It takes at least twenty years for humans to cultivate a qualified warrior, and ordinary civilians have no advantage over monsters.

boom!

The heavy flagpole fell to the ground, and the army of White Horse City continued to advance.

Since the ogre tribes are here to enclose the land, then a large-scale gathering place of the tribe will inevitably be established.

In other words, a fortress.

The ogre tribes are different from the wandering ogre tribes. There are at least hundreds of them. Don't look like they are not many, but they are all first-class warriors. And the ogre tribe has its own heritage, they know how to forge weapons, make leather armor, domesticate beasts, and capture slaves on a large scale. Ogres capture large numbers of kobolds and goblins as their slaves, while mining, forging, serving, and serving as food reserves.

An ogre tribe with a size of 500 people must occupy at least 50 kilometers of land in order to ensure sufficient food.

Because their main food is meat.

All the adventurers and army scouts have been scattered. Large-scale groups will not wander around, and they will definitely establish a gathering place.

It's best to solve them before they are completed, otherwise White Horse City will face a siege battle!

The expressions of all the adventurers became much more serious. The original two-person team expanded to five people. Sauron cooperated with three other adventurers to form a five-person team to explore the plains. Ogres are very dangerous creatures. Their skin is extremely tough, equivalent to ordinary leather armor, and they have thick fat on their bodies. Even strong crossbow shots cannot hurt their internal organs. To deal with ogres, you can't fight head-to-head. It's better for someone to cooperate and fight, first consume their stamina and then find a chance to kill it.

The deeper you go inside, the more traces of ogre activity.

When Sauron and the others saw the trace of the ogre, everything in front of them made their expressions stiff.

It was a camp built halfway up the mountain. Most of it was completed. At the foot of the mountain, tall ogres could be seen cutting down logs. The powerful ogre warriors carried hundreds of pounds of logs up the mountain alone. Then nailed to the ground with the cooperation of the other ogres. This group of ogres were completely cracking rocks. Groups of kobold slaves were cleaning the rocks under their whips, and there were traces of the furnace in the distance, which were kobolds forging weapons for them.

Ogres do not need sophisticated equipment, they only need enough iron weapons, and they will soon become a terrifying threat!

"Look!"

Yas took out the monocular and glanced at it, with an ugly face: "Look at the ogre warriors who are on guard over there."

Sauron looked at it, but his expression was not good, because he saw the ogre warrior wearing armor, holding a mace of one or two hundred pounds in his hand, and heavy armor on his shoulders and chest. The refined human armor looks more like something that some third-rate blacksmiths use iron ore to smelt and cast directly. A shoulder armor weighs 20 to 30 pounds, and ordinary people can't wear it at all, but this point The weight is easy for an ogre.

"This is definitely the work of a two-headed ogre wizard!"

Sauron put down the monocular, and said solemnly, "Ordinary ogres don't have that high intelligence. It's good that they didn't eat those captives. Only ogres who have advanced to become wizards know how to rule and domesticate."

The cottage is more than half finished.

The construction with ogres as labor is very fast. Although the whole cottage looks a bit simple, it is built from thick logs, but it is very solid and full of a primitive and rough atmosphere. On the wall were wooden poles with the corpses of goblins, kobolds, lizards and gnolls stuck in them. Sauron almost saw most of the intelligent creatures in the wilderness. They were captured as slaves in the village, and they worked hard under the cruel rule. A little slower, the ogres grinned and waved their whips. Half-life, and then thrown into a huge cage by other ogres.

There are food reserves in there.

Near the edge, there was also a huge animal cage that seemed to contain something.

There are many ogres!

There are only four or five hundred ogres in front of me. It is conservatively estimated that there are nearly 800 ogres here. This is a large group of ogres, which may have been passed down for hundreds of years, otherwise there would be no ogres. so many quantities. Ogres are an extremely xenophobic race. If it weren't for the ogres born in the tribe, the ogres in other wilderness might become their food.

Some ogres of different tribes are feuds, and they will often kill each other when they meet!

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