Chapter 509 (1/2)
North Central death desert, sandstorm city.
This is the economic center of the whole dead desert, and it is also one of the few cities built on oasis in the whole desert.
Of course, with Orc civilization and social order, they prefer to settle down along the oasis in the form of tribes, including the orc royal court.
The reason why there are such heterogeneous settlements as sandstorm city is entirely due to its unique geographical location.
Sandstorm city It is a city built on a passageway to the underground world. Below it is the jurisdiction of the alliance of dark cities of the underground world.
This is the most convenient way for the whole dead desert to enter the underground world.
It is said that the history of this city can be traced back to the silver age dominated by elves
At that time, the desert of death was still a beautiful forest, and sandstorm city was also a city built by elves. Even after thousands of years, there were still some giant stones and reliefs in the spirit style.
However, as the desert of death changed, the forest became desert, and the elves abandoned it. Later, it was inherited by dwarfs to exploit nearby obsidian and Mithril deposits.
Two thousand years ago, when the mineral resources were exhausted, the dwarfs left. Some of them went underground to become dark dwarfs, and some of them went to the east of the continent to find a new home, and the owners here were replaced by orcs.
To this day.
As the transportation hub between the death desert and the underground world, as well as the main connecting channel between the surface and underground in the southwest of the mainland, sandstorm city has always been the most prosperous place in the whole death desert.
Although the dominator here is orcs, the city also has a large number of underground residents, fugitives of the human world, adventurers and mercenaries, etc
As long as you abide by the rules set by the orcs, outsiders can stay here after paying a certain amount of gold.
As long as you have wealth, you can get whatever you want from the black market merchants, the underground residents and the mercenary leaders who gather here.
This is the heaven of the strong and the hell of the weak.
Therefore, sandstorm city has another nickname - ”city of chaos.”
Sandstorm city is dominated by the third largest Orc tribe, the sandstorm tribe.
This is a large tribe with a population of 100000 and one of the four Orc tribes with a population of 100000 in the whole dead desert.
The sandstorm tribe is very powerful. There are two orcs in the golden rank alone. They also have a behemoth who has also reached the golden level.
In history, sandstorm tribes have become the masters of ORC King court many times, and more than one Orc king has been born.
Only such a powerful tribe can firmly grasp such an important city in its hands.
North of sandstorm City, in an abandoned dwarf mine connecting the underground world.
Residents in rags shuttled here and there.
Most of them are orcs, but there are also some underground residents and even humans.
They are the bottom of the city, also known as the mine scavengers.
Although the mineral resources of sandstorm city have long been exhausted, there are still some lucky people who find some scattered obsidian and even secret silver here, thus making them rich at one stroke.
Zido is a scavenger ORC.
He has lived here for more than ten years. He is very familiar with the mine. He also relies on the Obsidian fragments to raise his family.
Today, as always, he dived into the depths of the mine, following his own experience, looking for possible traces of mineral deposits.
”It seems that the earth moved again yesterday Since last year, there have been more earthquakes in the dead desert. Every time, mineral fragments can be found in the mine cave. This time I must seize the opportunity and go deep into the deepest part of the mine
Murmured Chido.
With his tools on his back, he skillfully dived into the mine pit, and followed his memory and experience, and went straight to the mine hole which he thought was the easiest to dig out the mineral fragments with the earth movement.
However, when he came to the end of his plan, he was slightly stunned.
”What is this?”
He looked at the mine with some curiosity and some fear.
I saw that the original mine cave was covered by a dense golden halo, and the halo continued to flow, shining the dark mine cave extremely bright.
In the center of the halo, there is an illusory milky white mirror, which seems to have ripples like ripples rippling on it.
The mirror is an upright oval shape, flashing a strange light, and at the edge of the mirror, you can see a tear of black cracks, the cracks are constantly changing, a faint breath of destruction
However, compared with the destructive smell from the cracks, qido was more attracted by the mirror.
At the moment when he saw the mirror, he felt an indescribable force coming from his face. The power could not be seen or touched, but it gave people a feeling of incomparable peace and comfort.Zido took a deep breath subconsciously. He seemed to smell a kind of flower like fragrance. For a moment, he was refreshed.
”What is this?”
Chido repeated it curiously again.
The orc's common sense told him that it was definitely some mysterious force that he could not understand.
However, a kind of inspiration that seems to come from the depths of biological instinct tells him that what he sees can't hurt him
He reached out his hand and gently touched the mirror like a light door.
With the moment of his touch, qido only felt a huge energy coming, his head was buzzing, and he didn't know anything
Only vaguely, he seemed to see a vast expanse of forest
Consciousness soon regained, and zido remained in place.
But when he came back to his mind, he found that the whole mine was covered with green grass and flowers, and the vines were still pulling out from the rock wall
The bright light door illuminates everything.
Everything around is magical and beautiful.
However, Chido, who had heard a lot of news from the returning Orc warriors, turned pale.
The sudden appearance of vines
Countless flowers
The light door suddenly appears
This Is it the magic of the legendary elves?!
He sat on the ground, scared out of his wits, and then rolled out of the mine, shouting:
”no! The elves are coming! ”
The voice was bleak.
After months of plunder, the orcs in the middle and north of the desert have long been suffering from elvophobia.
Zido was running fast.
He didn't notice the speed he shouldn't have.
And his body, it seems, has also got some evolution in just touching
More than ten minutes later.
Dozens of armed orcs entered the mine, surrounded by a half Orc in a gorgeous sacrificial robe and painted face.
This is the high priest of the sandstorm tribe, with the power of gold inferior.
He looked at the light door in front of him with a look of disbelief:
”this is The door of space? ”
He hesitated for a moment, and he also reached out to touch the light door. At the moment of touching the light door, he felt that his eyes suddenly turned into a vast expanse of white.
The bare door refused him entry.
But vaguely, he seems to see a great figure
At the same time, countless prayers also faintly came.
That kind of prayer seems to be a very beautiful language, just listening to it gives people a wonderful feeling.
At the same time, this kind of prayer seems to be very far away, as if across countless times, full of vicissitudes and sentimentality.