Golden Plains.
The sky is gray, the fields are vast, the wind is blowing and the grass is low, but there are no cattle and sheep.
This is a fertile prairie. Unfortunately, the number of orcs is too small, and the prairie is too big. Most of the orcs don't know how to develop and utilize this precious land, so the orcs are basically living bitterly.
Link came to negotiate an alliance with the Beast King this time. Although the two parties had friendship in the past, as leaders, friendship can only be used to reminisce about the past. Such a major event as the alliance between the two races does not talk about friendship, this matter only talks about benefits.
If the two parties want to successfully form an alliance, Link naturally needs to know and grasp the fundamental interests of the other party, so when he arrived in the Golden Plains, he did not go all the way to the current orc royal court Gron Hongdu, but disguised himself as an ordinary businessman , all the way through various orc towns, observing their living conditions.
At this time, the clearer the understanding of the orcs, the more bargaining chips they will use to negotiate.
After walking alone like this for a day, Link met a human caravan on the road. Everyone was human, and Link looked alone. After a few good words, he got mixed up with this caravan.
Along the way, Link watched while walking, and chatted with these traveling merchants by the way, which actually added a lot of insight to the residents of the middle and lower worlds of Ferroman.
On this day, seeing that the sky was getting late, there happened to be a small stream ahead, and the caravan leader called everyone to camp by the stream to rest.
There are more than 300 people in this caravan, gathered more than a dozen large and small teams, the largest of which is called Hongtu Trading Company, which specializes in selling various spices to orcs, such as garlic, dragon grass, meat herbs, etc. More than 20 carriages were installed.
Its number accounts for half of the entire team, and the rest are small caravans, with five or six people, a team of a dozen people, or a team of more than a dozen people, and many of them are traveling alone like Link. merchant.
When people gather together, they are more powerful and safe, so although the small caravan basically does not hire mercenaries, the red earth trading company does not refuse everyone to go with them.
The grass on the prairie can generally grow as high as an adult's chest, and the vegetation near the river can exceed the head of an ordinary person. If there is no fixed commercial road, this place is basically impassable.
The team walked along the business road to the stream, and the merchants stopped their carriages. Some of them took the saddle rope off their horses, and took the horses to the stream to drink water and feed grass. Some began to light a bonfire to prepare dinner. The mercenaries wandered around on guard, and the entire caravan became very busy.
Link also found a place to sit down. It was inconvenient for him to expose his space equipment, so he carried a package on his back. At this time, he unwrapped the package, took out a dry scone, and gnawed on it silently, thinking in his heart Follow the itinerary.
This is still at the edge of the Golden Great Plain, and there is still more than a thousand kilometers away from the orc king's court Gron Hongdu. At the speed of this caravan, it is estimated that it will take more than a month to reach the ground, and it will pass about ten miles on the way. Several orc towns.
One month is a long time, but if you want to truly understand the orc tribe and come up with an alliance condition that the orc king can't refuse, this time must be spent.
Moreover, Link's time is not completely spent on this. For example, while he is eating scones, there are clear lights and shadows flashing in his vision. This is the magic book he is carrying. The game system is displayed.
In this way, in the eyes of others, he is in a trance, but in fact, he spends most of his time studying magic, and only a small part of his time is spent observing the social customs of orcs.
Just as he was engrossed in watching, he suddenly heard footsteps in his ears. Someone came over with light footsteps. It was a young girl. Link immediately thought of her name: Sally.
As soon as this thought flashed across his mind, a crisp voice sounded beside his ear: "Brother Link, you must be thirsty. Come and drink some water."
Link did not hide his name. In fact, since he became the lord of Field, few people called him by his name. People in Norton Kingdom called him Master, people in the territory called him Lord, and people in other places called him Field Lord, or Lord Moraine. Those who really called his name were basically people close to him.
In addition, the name Link is very common in Ferroman, and many people shouted it, so he naturally didn't need to cover it up.
After hearing the shout, he turned his eyes and saw a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl walking towards him with a bowl of hot water. The water was a little hot, it was freshly boiled stream water, so she walked very slowly. careful.
This girl is the daughter of the leader of a small caravan. She has an ordinary appearance and a lot of freckles on her cheeks. Because of traveling all year round, her skin color is a little darker. But because of this, she looks energetic and her cheeks are flushed. Yes, his eyes are very bright, his figure is vigorous, his personality is dashing, he is wearing a set of simple and neat leather armor, and he seems to have infinite energy all day long, jumping around in the caravan.
No matter where she goes, there will be laughter and laughter.
Link stood up and took the water bowl in the girl's hand, and said with a smile, "Thank you."
Sally's eyes became brighter, and she smiled into a crescent moon. She sat down beside Link: "Brother Link, you are always in a daze by yourself, is there something on your mind?"
Link was about to answer when he suddenly felt a not-so-friendly gaze on him. He turned his head and looked over, but it was Sally's father. He was a well-known magic material purchaser named Aurang. He doesn't like his daughter getting too close to Link, but his father's restraint on his daughter is obviously very limited.
Link squatted on the water bowl and gestured to Orang to express his thanks, then smiled and said to the girl beside him: "Sally, your father should have told you that a lone traveling businessman with a sword like me is a dangerous person. Don't get too close to me, okay?"
Link carried the Song of the Bright Moon on his waist. Of course, the sword had not been unsheathed. Judging from its appearance, it was just an ordinary steel sword.
Sally didn't take it seriously: "Well, that's what he said, but he's just a stubborn old man, so I don't care. Brother Link, you dare to walk alone on the plain with a sword. Your swordsmanship must be very good?"
"Yes." Link smiled.
"Then can you teach me?" Sally finally showed her purpose, she wanted to learn martial arts.
Link laughed, the girl's careful thinking, he understood it the first time she met, her eyes would light up when she saw every warrior with a sword, and her eyes would often fall on the mercenaries hired by the Red Earth Chamber of Commerce, but Those mercenaries had killed people before, and they were full of blood. She was like a timid fawn. She only dared to peek, but she didn't dare to get close. Now that she saw Link, he looked completely harmless. She It hit his mind.
"Of course I have no problem with this, but your father may disagree, and you have to ask for his consent first."
It was just a few swordsmanship. It was hard work for Sally to bring him clean water every day these days. After finishing speaking, he drank the warm water in the bowl in one gulp, handed the bowl to Sally, and said with a smile: "Go ask Your father. Remember, it is useless for you to speak, it must be your father who tells me. "
Sally was dumbfounded: "Ah? This is too difficult. My father will definitely not agree to it. Can you change it?"
Link raised a finger and shook it: "No, this is not negotiable. Compared with practicing swordsmanship, this is just a small difficulty."
"Okay, I'll think of a way." Sally went excitedly and sadly.
Link was not bothered, so he continued to read the magic book. He was reading for a few minutes, but suddenly there was a shrill scream from the area where the stream was located in front of him.
Immediately afterwards, Link saw a mercenary running back from the stream frantically. His face was covered in blood, and an eyeball had fallen out of its socket, dangling on his face. Running wildly, holding his face and screaming, after running for more than ten steps, he staggered and fell to the ground, Xu was vented in his heart, he couldn't get up, and the screaming was much weaker, just Lying on the ground panting heavily.
His fellow mercenaries had already surrounded him to check the situation, and several mercenaries ran towards the stream with their swords in hand. After a while, there were shouts of fighting by the stream.
While everyone in the caravan was waiting anxiously, the mercenaries came back with many scars on their bodies. The one who walked in the front was the leader of the mercenaries. Link remembered that his name was Milo, and he was a top level 4 fighter. Is a very good a civilian fighter.
At this time, he was holding a strange black head in his hand.
Link looked carefully, and saw that the head was roughly in the shape of a human... No, it should be in the shape of an orc. The strange thing is that the skin on the head is dark green, and the blood dripping from it is also dark green, dripping on the ground Afterwards, the weeds on the ground seemed unchanged, but Link could feel the vitality of the weeds slowly disappearing.
This blood is poisonous, and it is an unnoticed chronic toxin, and it also faintly exudes an indescribable aura.
Link felt that he was a little familiar with this breath, a bit like... a natural toxin, but when he felt it carefully, it seemed plausible. In short, he had never seen such power.
Link also noticed that the orc's eyes were pure black with no whites, and there were many gray scars on the skin of his face, which looked like burnt scars.
"Is there such an orc?" Link was a little strange, even in the previous game, he had never seen such a weird thing.
Suddenly news came from the field of vision.
Trigger Mission: Strange Orc
Task content: A strange orc appeared in the golden plain, which seemed to be aggressive. Find out the reason why these orcs appeared.
Task reward: 50 free points.
The reward was a little small, but it was better than nothing, Link chose to accept it.
While everyone in the caravan was watching the weird orc's head, he quietly walked towards the stream by himself. He had to observe this orc carefully.