Chapter 149 74.
The Kaochen Plain, the Land of Hope, has no trees or rivers. It is a tall grass prairie in a humid climate? Darkus shook his head. He could no longer remember these test points, but the environment of the Kauchen Plain could completely match the Pampas Plateau of South America.
According to Akadan's perception, there are two spiritual nodes on the Cauchen Plain. One is located near the Time Sentence Tower on the Spine of Sotek, and the other is located near the Fire Swamp.
Darkus did not hesitate and directly decided to go to the spiritual node near the Flame Swamp because it was close to the sunken city of Chapeiuto.
Soon the team began to set off eastward, and the Druchi trainers and skinks now began to ride Couchen's Chocobos and run wildly around the outside of the team. Although this Couchen Chocobo and the extinct giant moa were somewhat different, Similar, but its ferociousness is far beyond what the giant moa can match. Their plumage is usually brown, but males in good condition will develop a new set of green, red and blue feathers, as well as a long tail and crest. The three-meter-tall Couchen Chocobos have thick, powerful hind legs, and their heads are similar to those of parrots. The bite force of their beaks is so amazing that they can easily break a skink's skull. Why do you say that? Because a skink had already tried it with its head, the skink had a very good experience, and it didn't even have time to make a cry. Currently, the skink has reported to the ancient sages.
Darkus is currently very satisfied with this Couchen Chocobo, which has both speed and explosive power. After proper cultivation and training, they can be used as supplementary light cavalry, responsible for patrolling and delivering messages on a daily basis. They can serve as distant harassment in wartime and can rush in when necessary.
"This is it, our land of hope, another beginning of our great cause, let's get to work!" Darkus waved his hand and said plainly.
Looting is still necessary, this is the tradition and habit of Druchi, it cannot be lost! But no Drukki would be stupid enough to transport food or the like to Nagaroth. Usually these are items such as gold, silver, treasures and slaves, but Darkus is here to fill this gap.
In the days that followed, the Druchi, lizardmen and giant beasts in the team were very busy. Some were looking for water sources to collect underground water, some were going to cut down trees in the small jungle on the mangrove coast, and some were going on patrol. Others went to scout the Fire Swamp.
As for issues such as collecting stones to build cities and digging rivers, Darkos did not consider it. The lizard people now no longer have the ability to build another temple city. Besides, it’s hard work! When he comes back, let Slan teleport a black ark and that's it. He didn't really come to be a farmer. He centered on a small black ark of two kilometers and spread to all directions. It's enough for him to use in the early stage, and he will talk to him if he needs it later.
"Isn't this haunted?" Darkus is not idle either. He has to lead the giant beasts to pull wood from the jungle on the mangrove coast. The strange thing is that he can always hear the indistinct screams nearby. Neighing sound. He asked the Druchi and Lizardmen around him, but they all said they didn't hear anything. He also asked the cold lizards and giant beasts, including his advisor, and they also said they didn't hear anything. He came to the jungle on the mangrove coast several times and heard this movement every time. Carlion said that there is a small mountain range to the south, but he went to investigate and found nothing.
According to amateur astrologer Chupa Coco, the spring equinox is approaching. But in the eyes of Darkus, they are all the same. There seems to be no difference between spring, summer, autumn and winter in the Kauchen Plain. It is like this all year round. There are only rainy seasons and dry seasons. The temperature difference between morning and evening is not big, but there is not enough light during the day and it is too sunny.
The skinks that Horatoo came out to see the world played a huge role at this time. This group of hard-working skink farmers commanded the ankylosaurs, and the ankylosaurus built a giant plow when it stopped at Itaza and began to plow the ground. The skink farmers in the back were sowing seeds, nothing more than chili peppers, tobacco leaves, sugar cane, corn, potatoes and cotton. At night, this group of hardworking skink farmers weave cattails and reeds collected in the mangrove coastal jungle to make a straw hat at Darkus' request.
The scene became more and more hallucinatory, and Darkus did not dare to think about the scene of these skinks wearing straw hats and smoking corncobs. He thought about it and suddenly coughed. The tobacco leaves were too strong, and the smell of the smoke was mixed with a faint smell of corn cobs. He had never smoked like this before, and he couldn't stand it for a while. The eyes of several other Druch dignitaries and skinks became brighter and brighter as they smoked. The funniest one was Genevieve. Her eyes did not light up, but smoke came out of her eyes and ears. There are also a few Drukhi who prefer chewing tobacco. They like the feeling of spitting black water out of their mouths and spitting out tobacco leaves after chewing.
"How do you feel?" Darkus asked after coughing.
Several Druchi dignitaries said it was good, and they said everything, but in short it was good.
Darkus nodded with satisfaction, as long as the Druchi people recognized this thing, he didn't say any nonsense like don't smoke too much. He planned to supply pipe tobacco to Druchi dignitaries and lower-level officers, and chewing tobacco to Druchi soldiers and civilians. As for rolling cigarettes, forget about it. He didn't want to do it, and he couldn't get it, so he didn't bother to do it. He was relatively familiar with wine in the medieval world, but he really didn't know about cigarettes. In his impression, only dwarves could smoke, and some imperial guys could also smoke.
There is no such thing as cigarettes in Drukhi society, but it doesn't matter. Darkus has it. He wants to create a culture of pipes, such as corn cobs and meerschaum. Then recreate the classic disc chewing tobacco, make more flavors, form multiple brands, and then print the emblems of various cities and families on the box, perfect!
As for wine, his plan was to make highly distilled wine, that is, brandy, to supply Druch soldiers and civilians. For example, before the war, he would give double portions of brandy to the Dread Spearmen in the first row, and brew some more wine for use. To supply the group of Druchi dignitaries, he also wanted to order some white wine, which he preferred to wine. The sugar cane was then pressed into rum, which was supplied to the Druchi sailors who were wandering at sea.
Of course, technical work such as winemaking cannot be done now, and there are no grapes in the Lustria continent. We still have to find some fellow Bretonnia people to come to the new world to experience life.
Wine culture was extremely popular in the Middle Ages and the Old World. Ale was a drink brewed from wheat, barley, yeast and other mysterious ingredients. It was one of the main drinks in the empire and even the entire Old World. There are also various types of bitter ale, brown ale and pale ale, as well as local specialty white Marienburg, Talabheim special brew and so on. There are also beers brewed with hops, and there are also a wide variety of pale beers, dark beers, red beers, etc.
As for Bretonnian farmers, they can only use the worst quality grains and the worst environment to brew beer. After drinking it, the bard can't think of words to describe how bad it tastes. There are only uncooked centaurs, beasts and no choice Only Bretonnian peasants drink it. Bretonnia is most famous for its wine. Although many of the wines are of good quality, they are expensive and have limited production capacity. The more famous ones are Mannann's Offering and Carcassonne Royal Special, which only have a few bottles of wine a year. However, The one that Darkus borrowed during the trial was not bad either.
Marienburg Blanc learned some techniques from Bretonnian wine masters, giving the malt wine a light fruity aroma. Of course, the Empire's Stirland, Aveland, and Mutland also produce glucose, but compared to the wine of Bretonnia, the taste is still a bit inferior. Even wine is brewed in the land of death in Sylvania, but the taste is not suitable for mortals. Dwarf barley is of fine varieties and can be grown in the mountains. It is often used to make beer and bread. Each long-bearded brewmaster will try to modify the fortress's recipe in order to brew a beer worthy of his own name and win over the long-bearded people. The most famous one is the "Bergmann Beer" produced by the brewing master Joseph Bergmann.
Skaven and orcs also have their own drinks, such as the fungus beer brewed by night goblins. After drinking it, the timid night goblins can turn into fearless madmen and fight in an almost crazy state. In this state Completely insane and paranoid, they can charge directly into the dwarves' iron-crushing formations, or face the Skaven's rifles. The beer of the Skaven is similar to the fungus beer of the night goblins. This stuff brewed from warpstone and the blood of various animals can make any rat head on. It is not a dream for a slave rat to charge a giant beast head-on!
Ogre beer is a foul-smelling, viscous concoction made from equal parts beehive and wasp, poisonous enough to render dwarves bedridden. The centaurs among the beastmen will also get some trampled fermented fruits and honey from nowhere, and follow the instructions of the screaming shaman to turn them into alcohol.
Druchi's wine culture is relatively poor, and it's basically about drinking whatever you can get. There is no place suitable for growing grapes in the frozen north of Nagaros. The sunshine and weather there are not suitable. Only a small amount is grown in the noble plantations of Krakalond. This kind of wine is called "blood wine" in Druchi society. The wine is bright red and smells like coagulated blood, but it is not real blood and has a smell. It had a strong metallic taste. Darkus was lucky enough to drink it once. After a small sip, he couldn't drink it anymore, but he was sure that Genevieve would like to drink this taste.
After the wooden house was built and the plants were planted, the team also began to idle. They stared at nothing all day long. Darkus decided to go to the sunken city of Chapeiuto to have a look, although he might not be able to see anything.
Darkus took Druch, a few lizards, and giant beasts to the beach. Sure enough, he saw nothing as he expected, but he could sense that there were definitely stone slabs and treasures in the sea. According to Carlion's report, nothing could be seen in the air.
"Is black magic so evil?" This was Darkus' direct reaction. Not being able to see it on the sea meant that Chapeiuto sank deeper than expected, at least deeper than the City of Fish Scales and Juitex. , it is estimated that Chapeiuto has already settled on the bottom. Loxia was able to dive with the help of black magic? And can this group of Druch pirates be allowed to fight in such a deep environment? But this has nothing to do with him. He doesn't want to invite those high-level dark sorceresses from the Tower of Destruction, and then fight those sea monsters in the sea. Sorry, he has deep sea phobia, and he doesn't want to be. What Spongebob.
According to Arkadan, Chapeiuto was not sunk during the Great Invasion, but five hundred years after the end of the Great Invasion, in Imperial Calendar -3894, the constellations were rearranged for unknown reasons. On the eve of , a huge earthquake struck the east coast of Lustria. The water recedes, revealing the ocean floor that stretches to the distant horizon, where giant sea beasts that have never seen sunlight since the creation of the world struggled on the steaming mudflats.
As the waters dried up, the Skink Priests declared that the temple city would be abandoned. It fell to the temple guards to lead Chapeiuto's Slann to safety. It took several hours for the Skink attendants to awaken all the Slann and install the mummies of the Slann lords beneath the pyramid. It is said that the Slan lords at the time preferred to ponder the matter, but the temple guards carried Chengyu away from Chapeiuto on their broad shoulders.
When the last demon priest left, a huge wall of water rose, blocking out even the sun. The receding seawater returned in the form of a tsunami hundreds of meters high. The tsunami not only submerged Chapeiuto, but also the lizards and giant beasts who had no time to evacuate. The tsunami even rushed into the jungle, flattening large areas before its power was exhausted. As the water receded back into the ocean, the sea levels finally calmed down, but Chapeiuto disappeared, being swept out to sea along with its thousands of lizardmen and beasts. Unfortunately, the Skink Priest was also drowned that day, choosing to live and die with the city that birthed him.
The sinking of Chapeiuto heralded disaster for the temple city that once served as the link between the continent of Lustria and the Old World South. The continent of Lustria was cut off from the Old World Southland and the Dragon Islands after the sinking of Chapeiuto. Now the lizard people of the Old World Southland and the Dragon Islands can only formulate their own big plans.
The sinking of Chapeiuto also caused great panic among the Slann Lords, introducing something akin to self-doubt into their unknowable mindset. Of course, there's no way the Old Ones intended to kill the Slann Lords of Chapeuto, and if they didn't, did they make some sort of mistake in the grand scheme of things? Maybe the previous adjustment was not performed correctly? Infinitesimal errors in calculations magnified over time, leading to tragic results? Of course, these contents were unknown to Akadan and Darkus, and Lord Mazdamudi did not tell these contents to Darkeus.
At night, an unexpected battle began. Monsters appeared in the sea and attacked Darkus' camp stationed by the sea. However, he mentioned during the day that monsters might come ashore at night. The sea monster's attack was quickly repelled by the well-prepared team. Even before Druchi and the giant beasts entered the scene, they were crushed by the "Umak Guards" lizard-men battle group.
The group of well-nourished lizard warriors in the team now are completely different from before under the training of Gorok. Darkos can feel the word elite from this group of lizard warriors. The current Umak pro What Wei needs is more fighting to settle down.
"You really dare to come here when you throw yourself into the street?" Darkus cursed as he turned over the body of the sea monster lying on the beach while carrying the halberd of the god Quiteli. It is very similar to the fish-headed monster he encountered in Spicazuma, but this is a shark-headed monster. It's really ugly. If he were the Ancient Saint, he would wipe these monsters from the world. He even wanted Alyssa to contact the Black Ark Pioneer of Despair now so that the Slann could lift Chapeiuto and beat up the sea monsters. Soon, he shook his head and gave up. There were so many miscellaneous eyes on the Pioneer of Despair that he was worried.
The next day, the team set off. There was nothing to see except the sea. There are really sharks in the sea, so I don’t have the intention to go out and play.
Darkus was ready to return and go south to see what was screaming.
"An'ai! Ancient Saint, I'm sorry, Ancient Saint is on top! What is that?" Kalien, who was flying in the sky, looked at an object moving like a mountain in the jungle in the north, and exclaimed in stunned silence. Several Druchi trainers and Skink riders also discovered it, and they also let out the same exclamation.
(End of chapter)