Chapter 560

That afternoon, Jack and imosen rushed to xinyabao. Victor summoned them in the study.

Glancing at the wizard standing straight, Victor leaned against the back of his chair and asked with a light smile, "is the injury on your back OK? Do you want to see the priest for you?"

Imosen was flattered, nodded and bowed, but pulled the wound on his back. The corner of his mouth twitched and said, "it's not a problem, it's not a problem. Cox's whip is not heavy. I've applied ointment and can be cured in a few days. There's no need to bother the priest."

"Just be out of the way, because you'll have to go to the Everglades soon." Victor nodded, took out a map of animal skin from the drawer, spread it on the table, motioned them to get closer, and said, "help me point out the sphere of influence including swamp scouts on the map."

This map is made of whole calf leather. It depicts the proven swamp terrain of alchemists. It covers an area of about 20000 square kilometers. It is close to the west line of skylark mountains. It is a narrow strip 700 kilometers long and 30 kilometers wide.

Alchemist Jack did not hesitate to point out on the hide map, "The swamp scouts are divided into three teams: one regiment stationed in the southern fortress, with a total of more than 500 people and an active area of 600 square kilometers; the second regiment stationed in the central fortress, with a total of more than 600 people and an active area of 700 square kilometers; the three regiments of the northern fortress, with a total of more than 500 people and an active area of 900 square kilometers... This is our forward base, located between the southern fortress and the central fortress, There are 6 dragon lizards, 28 ferocious wolves, 80 secret law warriors, with a sphere of influence of more than 6000 square kilometers. The half dragon tribes trading with us and goblin slaves all live in this area. "

Victor looked back from the map, looked up at imosen and asked, "what are the current number of half dragon tribes and goblin slaves?"

Imosen looked embarrassed and muttered, "my Lord, i... I haven't dealt with half dragons in a year." Seeing Victor's bad face, he quickly remedied and said, "the last time I contacted the half dragon people, their number was close to 4500, the half dragon soldiers were more than 1600, and the goblin slaves were about 7000. They were divided into three groups. The largest group had more than 5000 goblins, and the other two had 600 and 400 goblins respectively, but they were subject to the rule of the half dragon people. Now, I don't know..."

One hundred of imosen didn't want to deal with orcs anymore, which made him feel that he was an alien and lost his identity as the hunting manager of Randall family. But he was more afraid of losing his master's favor and took the initiative to say, "Sir, I can start right away and see what they are now."

Victor didn't answer him, frowned and said, "at first, the half dragon tribe had only more than 1000 members. According to their reproduction speed, there can't be more than 1300 soldiers now. What's the problem?"

"I know that." Before Jack spoke, imosen said, "about two years ago, a group of half dragons who lost a bloody battle fled from the west to the East, and some of them were annexed by our half dragon tribe."

Under normal circumstances, the half dragon people will not take in the same kind unless they have their own totem beast. The tribal territory is very large and the food is abundant.

The half dragon tribe controlled by imosen certainly had no totem beasts, but they occupied a vast swamp with the power of alchemical dragon lizards.

The swamp dragon lizard in nature is a powerful and ferocious creature. Its territory ranges from 500 to 800 square kilometers. They do not serve the nine headed snake lizard. They usually prey on half dragon people and lizard people. The two sides can hardly coexist. Because the swamp dragon lizard has wild intuition, it is difficult for half dragon hunters to kill them. They often take the initiative to avoid the territory of the swamp dragon lizard and try not to provoke each other.

The alchemical dragon lizard has the gift of omnivory, and the plants in the swamp can fill their stomachs. Although the alchemical war mastiff eats meat, their food intake is limited after all, which does not pose competitive pressure on the half dragon people and goblins. Six alchemical dragon lizards and 18 alchemical war mastiffs form three teams to patrol the territory boundary of 6000 square kilometers, providing shelter for the half dragon tribe and goblins slaves.

The Qianjin base, the half dragon tribe and goblin slaves formed a wonderful symbiotic relationship. The alchemical dragon lizard and the alchemical war mastiff protected the territory and expelled powerful and ferocious beasts; the half dragon people mined underwater minerals, hunted hexapod crocodiles, giant beetles and giant shadow spiders, ate animal meat, and handed over leather and shadow spider glands to the Qianjin base in exchange for metal spears and harpoons; goblin slaves were full On the premise of the son, he contributed a lot of Zesheng resources to the forward base, including the seeds of qianqu reed, various herbs and mushrooms, SHELLLESS clams, capybara meat, minerals, etc. but they are attached to the half dragon tribe, rather than directly controlled by the forward base. Once the number of members of the goblin tribe exceeds 5000, the goblin leader will drive some goblins away according to the order of the half dragon Go out. These goblins are not protected by the half dragon people and become the rations of carnivorous beasts. However, the territory patrolled by the alchemical dragon lizard is too large, and the exiled goblins are still providing resources to the half dragon people in exchange for the right to stay in the territory, gradually forming two small groups.

This symbiotic structure is similar to a simple small kingdom. The forward base lives at the top of the Kingdom, controls the territory of the Kingdom, occupies a large number of resources through unequal trade, arms the half dragon tribe, squeezes goblin slaves and controls their number. However, in the eyes of the half dragon people, this is similar to a social relationship of serving totem giants. Six alchemical dragon lizards patrol the territory boundary , acting as a totem beast.

The problem is that the alchemical dragon lizard is not the totem beast of the half dragon people. They have no attraction to the half dragon people.

The half dragon people's self killing around the nine headed snake lizard will always affect many half dragon people's tribes. Each tribe wants to seize the opportunity and desperately approach the territory of the nine headed snake lizard, leading to a larger scale bloody fight - this is the bloody battle of the half dragon people.

The half dragon tribe in Qianjin base obviously smelled the smell of bloody war and became ready to leave the Kingdom built by Victor to fight for their own position.

Victor didn't care. The losers would always fill their positions. But who could have expected that these half dragons knew how to absorb the defeated on the front line of the bloody battle, first expand their strength, and then join the bloody battle of half dragons and lizards.

In fact, the reason is very simple - they live a very comfortable life, reserve a lot of materials, and can afford new members.

If the half dragon tribe pulls away all the losers, the structure of the small kingdom of the forward base will completely collapse, and goblin slaves will become a terrible big trouble.

Victor got up from his chair, put one hand on the map and said angrily: "it seems that the half dragon people's bloody war broke out in the Everglades. The half dragon people tribe we control must want to participate in the war... These stupid bones should be kept in a good territory. Don't run to lick the ass of the Hydra lizard!" He paused and asked, "Jack, if I want to clean up all the goblin slaves in the swamp, do you think it is possible to do so with the power of forward base and swamp scouts?"

The alchemy militia thought a little, shook his head and said, "these goblin slaves have adapted to the swamp environment. The big goblins have wisdom, and the bear goblins have dangerous intuition. We can hit them hard, and there is almost no possibility of completely destroying them."

Victor pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "I agree with you... Then I want to know, if I order the slaughter of goblin slaves, reduce their number, and wait for the new half dragons to attach to us, will the surviving goblins come back?"

Jack replied without hesitation, "they won't come back on their own. We can catch some back, but other goblins will flee in all directions and breed their own groups."

Victor nodded, faced the wizard and said kindly: "Imosen, you've heard that. If the half dragon tribe leaves the territory, no one will control these goblin slaves for us... Goblin slaves have a very bad habit. As long as their number and strength exceed the slave owner, they will enslave each other. The number of dragon lizards I domesticate is too small. Once the half dragon tribe leaves, these goblin slaves must live in a nest. In order to eliminate the potential threat posed by goblins, I have made three plans. First, you go to the half dragon people to talk, try to persuade them to leave 1000 members and continue to control these goblin slaves. If they refuse, I hope you will be the goblin king for a period of time and provoke them to kill each other until the defeated half dragon people fill the vacancy... Neither of these two plans works, then I can only design to concentrate goblin slaves first and then kill them as much as possible. "

With a sad face, imosen pleaded: "Sir, the first scheme will certainly not work... I, I really don't want to be a goblin King... You might as well clean up goblin slaves directly. Anyway, they will spread in the end."

Victor smiled and said: "To tell you the truth, I'm not worried about the spread of goblins in the Everglades at all. Even if their number increases by 20 or 30 times, when the ant tide comes, they will become the first defense barrier of the human horse hills, which can weaken the scale of the ant disaster and buy me more time. I learned this skill from the fish man. So I'd rather disperse them than kill them They. In that case, why not let these goblins continue to collect resources and create wealth for me? "

Imosen was stunned and said, "Sir, you were thinking of this from the beginning?"

Victor nodded and said: "In order to prevent the tide of ants from entering the hills and eating purple sugarcane, the forest people and horses send hundreds of thousands of Centaur soldiers every 15 years to cross the swamp and eliminate the tide of ants at the other end of the swamp. The Zesheng race can hide in the water and never confront the tide of ants. The forest people and horses move westward, and we have become the first line of defense against the disaster of ants."

"We were not strong enough at that time, so I came up with the idea of using goblins as a barrier. Who told them that they couldn't go under the water? They had no way out except hard resistance to ant tide."

At this point, he was silent, shook his head and said with a bitter smile: "I must admit that I did a stupid thing..."

Emerson hurriedly said, "Sir, this is a wonderful idea. How can it be stupid?"

Victor sighed and said in a low voice: "If you know that goblins once enslaved the orcs in the far north, devastated the human country, killed hundreds of thousands of human soldiers, and directly led to the end of the golden age... In fact, the loss of fertile Northern Wilderness in the human country is caused by goblins. And those orcs who enslaved goblins are consciously controlling the number of goblin slaves."

"The golden age? What is the golden age..." imosen murmured blankly.

"We'll talk about this later." Victor waved his hand and said, "in a word, the big goblins are very smart. If they find that they are not the opponent of ant people, they will turn around and attack the human fortifications, but consume our war preparedness materials."

With his right hand on the wizard's shoulder, Victor said in an expectant tone, "imosen, now only you can help me make up for my mistakes... Limit the goblin slaves to this area and don't let them spread out. When the next wave of ant tide comes, the ant people will completely eliminate them."

"Willing to die for adults!" Imosen said in a deep voice, half kneeling on the ground. The Lord's respect made him feel like a vassal again.

Victor personally helped the wizard up from the floor and said with a satisfied smile: "I don't need you. I've lived in the advance base of the Everglades for a long time. You just have to come and meet the earth essence slaves regularly. You usually live in your own manor."

Imosen was overjoyed, rubbed his hands, thanked him and said, "thank you for your consideration."

"Just in case, I allow you to cultivate an alienated creature in the Everglades..."

The wizard's face suddenly turned white. Victor asked in surprise, "what's the matter? Is there a problem? Your injury hasn't healed yet?"

"Sir, please forgive me... If the wisdom guide gets out of control again, I'm afraid I can't live. Moreover... I'm too far away from the alienated creature. I often use the wisdom guide to check its soul state... This wisdom guide will show witchcraft runes. If I'm caught by the church, it's all over." Imosen said tremblingly.

Father Miller is behind you. You're worried... Victor said something, but he couldn't say it. He nodded: "well, I'll transfer another batch of elite to help you... You go down and rest first. You'll live in the castle during this period. When the secret law soldiers come, you and Jack will visit the half dragon leader."

Imosen calmed down and asked cautiously, "Sir, where's my family..."

"I'll send someone to tell your woman that you can't go home for a month because you have the task I arranged."

Still uneasy, Emerson asked, "Sir, you won't let them remarry?"

"Get out!"

Watching imosen leave his study in a panic, Victor turned and asked, "Jack, can the swamp scouts send alchemy militia to the forward base?"

"My Lord, at present, the swamp scouts have 37 alchemical militia and 81 alchemical auxiliary soldiers scattered in the three fortresses. It will take at least two months to transfer them all to the forward base." Answered Jack.

"Forget it... It's no use having so many hands." Victor shook his head, returned to his chair and continued, "I'll go to mercury manor later and transfer all the alchemists in it. Take them and imosen to meet the leader of the half dragon tribe for a while, and then place these people in the forward base."

"As you wish, my Lord."

Victor thought for a moment and asked, "I want to send a team across the swamp into the endless forest to spy on the ant man's nest. How many alchemists do you think this task needs?"

Jack shook his head and said, "Sir, during the bloody battle of the half dragon people, the swamp creatures change. It's best not to send people across the swamp. If you have to go, you can choose to start this year's snow season and arrange 10 alchemical militia, equipped with 5 alchemical war Mastiffs, 2 alchemical dragon lizards and 40 alchemical crows."

The alchemist who carries out the investigation task can't come back when sent out. This configuration is equivalent to smashing 110000 gold sols. He may not hear the sound... Victor touched the corners of his mouth and asked with a dull expression: "how long does the half dragon people's bloody battle generally last?"

"Two to three years."

Victor took a breath, but shook his head and talked to himself.

"Let's see it then..."