Chapter 39 Quarry
Zhang Yang was eager to create the Iron Wall Battle Pattern, but there was actually a more important reason, which was that he wanted to take Wu Yuan to start the Hero Trial.
But the hero trial can be very dangerous. In order to prevent yourself from dying in it, more life-saving methods are necessary.
For example, a better quality spear of confinement, an armor and shield enchanted with the Iron Wall spell, or enough mana. This kind of magical power is what Zhang Yang always yearns for.
"Village chief, good news, we have discovered a stone mine."
Just as Zhang Yang was standing in front of the Wood Demon Tower, preparing to start refining the demon blood again, a soldier ran back excitedly to report.
"What? In which direction and how far away?"
He was so excited that he didn't care about refining the demon blood. The stone mine was very important. It was necessary to build a real castle and city walls, not the fortress made of mud and huge trees that was used now.
"Reporting to the village chief, in the southeast direction, about 16 or 17 miles away, in a valley, there are traces of mining. Captain Wu Yuan asked me to come back and report because he speculated that this might have been mined by the big-horned deer."
Hearing this, Zhang Yang immediately understood, and a simple topographic map quickly emerged in his mind.
Ten days ago, he first appeared in the forest about five kilometers south of the village. Then he turned northwest about two kilometers and encountered the Spider Lord. He spent a night there and encountered the Earth-walking Wood Monster.
The direction that the ground-walking wood monster comes from is northwest or due north.
They fought fiercely with the ground-walking wood demon and finally killed it about three kilometers southwest of the village, then encountered a deer demon there, and finally fled all the way here to build a village.
And now, the quarry of the Deer Demon Village has been discovered six or seven kilometers southeast of the village. Does that mean that the Deer Demon Village is actually located in the east, southeast, or south of this quarry?
Could the gnoll village also be within this range of no more than fifty kilometers? "I have to go and see for myself. This is a serious matter. Although the deer demon village has long been looted by the gnolls, there might be something to be gained."
Thinking of this, Zhang Yang immediately transferred four archer captains and four shield soldier captains, and also gave additional instructions to Qin Yidao, asking him to lead the remaining 15 archer captains to defend the fortress.
Outside the fortress, Zhang Yang instructed Liang Duantui, the leader of the felling team, who was also accompanied by several shield soldier captains.
In addition, there are more than a dozen captain-level soldiers in the training ground and residential areas. With such a force, there is nothing to worry about unless they encounter strong enemies like the deer monster or the werewolf village chief.
Afterwards, Zhang Yang led nine soldiers and ran all the way. At this time, they didn't have to worry about encountering any monsters. Firstly, many of the monsters nearby had been cleared out long ago. Secondly, it seemed that a strong village had been built, and many lone monsters didn't dare to approach.
Of course, this is not absolute. For example, Zhang Yang saw a level 4 black panther appear on the tall treetops more than once on the road, and then turned around and ran after seeing them, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
"If all the monsters in this forest are deserters who survived after the village-building order binders failed or were wiped out, or the descendants of these deserters, then this matter will be interesting."
More than half an hour later, Zhang Yang and his party successfully arrived at the valley. The vegetation here was surprisingly sparse. On one side was a stone mountain, and on the other side was a dirt mountain. The so-called quarry was built on the stone mountain. Traces of excavation could be clearly seen, as well as dozens of huge stones one meter square. These were all excavated but not transported back in time.
Following these excavation traces, you can see a simple road extending out of the valley.
"Village Chief."
Wu Yuan came forward, looking very excited. "I just led some people to explore the road out of the valley. After leaving the valley and heading south for three or four miles, around a hill, there is a large piece of cleared flat land, three miles wide from east to west and ten miles long from north to south. The village of the bighorn deer is there. Because the view from that place is too wide, I didn't dare to take the risk to go there."
"As for this quarry, I have also investigated it carefully. I think the miners here should be mountain monsters, although we still don't know how the giant deer controls these mountain monsters. In addition, based on the traces here, we have determined that before yesterday, these mountain monsters who mined the stones should have been there, but then they all left. There are no signs of fighting here either."
"So I would venture to guess that they were all recruited by that gnoll."
After listening to Wu Yuan's analysis, Zhang Yang nodded and said, "Let's go and see the legacy left by the deer demon."
Following the valley to the south, there was indeed a trampled road. Judging from the traces, it was at least a year old.
Ten minutes later, after going around a small hill, the road ahead opened up and saw a large open space.
It is very flat, probably about ten square kilometers in area, but this open space was obviously opened up by humans, because you can still see traces of recently felled trees at the edge of the forest.
In the center of this plain, the first thing you see is a strange castle that has not yet been completed. This castle is completely different from human castles.
The latter castles were built for defense and better defence, so they were quite solid and had tall walls.
But the deer demon's castle is different. It has three tall towers in the middle and is surrounded by radiating stone walls, about a dozen of them. If you look from the sky, ignoring the three tall towers, it looks like a pattern of light emitted by the sun.
There is absolutely no defensive performance.
However, considering the physique of the giant elk and their single combat method, this design seems to be fine. Without any obstacles, the heavily armored elk cavalry can rush out like a tide, especially on such a large plain. Whoever comes will die!
Zhang Yang observed carefully for a few minutes, then rubbed his teeth. From a human perspective, this village of giant deer made him feel very insecure.
He didn't even have the thought of going over to take a look.
"Wu Yuan, what do you think?"
"Reporting to the village chief, this place is a dangerous place for military strategists." Wu Yuan shook his head and was very cautious.
"Then retreat!"
Zhang Yang was also decisive, but just as they turned to leave, a rumbling sound suddenly came from the woods a few miles away, like an earthquake. Looking back, everyone was terrified.
I saw two or three hundred heavily-armored deerstan cavalrymen rushing out from the dense woods like a tide, with smoke and dust billowing, which was extremely terrifying.
“Run!”
Zhang Yang shouted, feeling fortunate that he had suppressed his curiosity. If he had suddenly encountered these heavily-armored deer-horned cavalry on a flat and empty ground, not to mention the dozens of men he had, even hundreds of captain-level soldiers would have been forced to kneel.
Can’t afford to offend, can’t afford to offend! The hundreds of heavily-armored antler cavalrymen rumbled all the way to the edge of the forest, then stopped chasing, only shouting with great pride.
They are not stupid. Once they enter the forest, it is hard to say who will be the one to catch whom.
"It seems that the gnoll village chief didn't get much benefit here. The death of the deer demon was quite miserable. Such a huge foundation, due to a moment of carelessness, has now become a den of wild monsters. We should learn from the past!"
Zhang Yang couldn't help but alert himself.
(End of this chapter)
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