Chapter 681 670. Homesickness
The Shinjuku camp of the Pustout Mountain Sulfur Mine is located on a volcanic rock platform not far from the magma waterfall. Not only are some slave labor sheds built here, but all the materials that Suldak cannot take away from the desert are piled up here, among which the pasture for feeding horses occupies a large part of the area.
Because there is a river of lava not far from here, magma splashes happen from time to time. These haystacks are arranged very scattered to prevent the haystacks from being connected together after being ignited.
In the sulfur mine camp, there are still many blood-stained leather armors that were directly pulled off from sand bandits.
Because there were too many leather armors seized, Suldak transported them all back to the sulfur mine.
There are about 50 kobolds in the camp who are carefully cleaning these leather armors. They need to soak these leather armors in the pool to wash off the blood on them. The washed leather armors will harden and return to alkali after drying. Applying some horse oil evenly on it will effectively soften the leather armor.
As for how to repair the leather armor, some suggestions are needed from the leather craftsmen in High Lansa City.
The food stored by sand pirates is not mainly wheat and chestnut rice. They also stock up a lot of beans, dried vegetables, dried meat, and cheese.
Most of the food in their hands was snatched back from the pastures or mountains around the desert, so there are various types of food, and they have everything. The sand robbers are not picky, as long as they are edible, they will search for everything.
Now concentrated on Suldak, there are many things he has never seen before. If Luke hadn't said that these dried vegetable stews were extremely delicious, Suldak would have almost thrown these dried vegetables into the haystack.
Luke led the kobold slaves, and it took nearly half a month to build a concrete road between Pagros Mountain and Bump Mountain.
Later, a lumber field was opened in the pine forest at the foot of the southern foot of the Paglos Mountains. The kobold slaves cut down some wood in the lumber field, and transported it back to the pustule mountain in a four-wheeled carriage. Requisition, but these four-wheeled carriages are pushed and pulled by human power, and they are also used.
Everything is missing here, but there is no shortage of kobolds.
On the cliff of the magma waterfall, use these wood to build a 'Z'-shaped climbing ladder. This climbing ladder has turned 13 turns from the bottom to the top.
The wooden frame was built along the vertical mountain of the rock wall, and immediately became the only way for kobold slaves to climb to the upper reaches of the lava river.
Suldak came out of the void gate, just in time to see a group of kobold slaves carrying sulfur ore, slowly walking down the ladder, a long line of kobolds climbing up and down the wooden stairs, looking like the lava The reserves of sulfur mines in the upper reaches of the river are very good, and those sulfur mines in the upper reaches are also easy to mine, otherwise there would never be such kobold slaves moving ore every day.
Now Luke started to lead a group of kobold slaves again, and began to build a concrete road from here to the central pass of the Great Rift Valley. The last time Suldak saw him was a week ago.
Aphrodite was lying on a flat volcanic rock, covered with a layer of soft fur, with a bottle of wine next to it, holding a magic book and reading it intently. It seemed that she had a good life here. Very comfortable.
Suldak walked over and sat opposite Aphrodite, with a lazy and tired look on her beautiful brows. In the recent period, Aphrodite has used the summoning magic circle many times, That's why Suldak moved such a huge amount of supplies to the sulfur mine camp.
"Didn't you say you wanted to take a look in the lava mine with me last time?" Suldak was going to feed the red dragon Iser and teach him rune No. 33, which was the last rune. Wen, when the red dragon Iser has learned all the thirty-three runes, he will learn the simple language of runes.
A few times ago, when Suldak entered the lava mine, he was in a hurry. He didn't have time to show Aphrodite the red dragon chamber. Now that the war is over, Suldak thinks he can take Aphrodite Rudy went to visit the secret room.
He was really looking forward to what kind of expression Aphrodite would have when she saw Iser.
Aphrodite raised her delicate eyebrows, and said indifferently: "What's so interesting, could it be that there are other secrets in that lava cave besides red crystals and salamanders?"
Hearing what she said, I knew that I must have been to a lava mine recently, and I also discovered a group of salamanders deep in the mine.
"Don't you know if you go in and walk around?" Suldak smiled and said to Aphrodite.
Aphrodite put down the magic book in her hand, sat up from the rock, looked at Suldak curiously, and asked after hesitation: "You didn't come here this time at night, and you didn't rush to carry supplies... Could it be that this trip to the desert is over?"
"Yes." Suldak nodded and admitted.
Aphrodite's eyes lit up, her brows stretched, and she said excitedly, "So I don't have to stay here all the time?"
Suldak hesitated for a moment, and said to Aphrodite: "Oh, you have to hold on for another two days. If you want to leave here, you have to come back here instead. Are you tired of living here? Come back as soon as possible." In a week, I'll be back from the desert."
Aphrodite was wearing a long black dress. She sat on the stone slab with her arms around her knees. She turned her head to look at the magma waterfall not far away and the winding lava river at the foot of the mountain, but she didn't show any impatience. Sulda Ke knew that she was a succubus yearning for freedom and liked the outside world. If he hadn't wanted to lead the team into the desert, he probably wouldn't have let her stay here.
Aphrodite shook her head at Suldak, and she habitually shook her shoulders vigorously... This is probably a habit she developed when she had meat wings. A little stiff, I really want to shake my wings and stretch my muscles and bones.
Then Aphrodite withdrew her gaze and said on Suldak's face, "Fortunately, the environment here is similar to the flame hell. The sky is covered with gray dark clouds, and there are volcanoes and lava everywhere. If there were no kobold slaves , I’m afraid this is an inaccessible place of death! Compared to the Flame Hell, there are no meteorites or fissions, so it’s much safer than that.”
Seeing Suldak's embarrassed face, Aphrodite showed a rare look of nostalgia, and said to Suldak: "If I say that I am a little homesick, will you believe me?"
As she spoke, she stood up from the volcanic rock, raised her finger and pointed to the halfway up the pustule mountain, and introduced to Surdak:
"My house is on the mountainside on the north **** of a volcano, where our succubi clan built a small town with volcanic rocks. Although the volcano is always erupting uninterruptedly, almost all the magma erupted from the crater flows to the south of the mountain. , and formed a magma lake over there, there are many fire monsters living in that lake, the hunters in our town mainly hunt the low-level monsters in that magma lake."
"Every time volcanic ash falls from the sky, it's like a heavy snowfall in a barren place, except that the snow is gray, just like the volcanic ash here, except that the volcanic ash is hot, and it will burn the body when it falls feel."
Suldak raised his hand, and received a fluttering drop of volcanic ash. The volcanic ash touched Suldak's palm and instantly collapsed into very fine ash.
I can't feel the burning sensation that Aphrodite mentioned in the palm of my hand. It seems that the volcanic ash here is still very different from the volcanic ash in the flaming hell.
Seeing Suldak's stupid look, Aphrodite smiled and said, "Meteorites fall from the sky every month near our town, so everyone often needs to repair their houses, and occasionally the mountains under their feet will crack. The land here is very barren, and only some drought-resistant yemeiluo can be planted. The succubus clan always has more boys and girls, and each family is very large. My father has twenty-three wives and nearly two hundred concubines. My mother She is one of the concubines, she has lived her whole life cautiously, without any freedom at all, and it seems that she has never left that volcano in her whole life."
Suldak was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the men of the succubus clan lived like emperors. Can't help asking: "Is there such a disparity in the ratio of men and women in the Succubus family?"
Aphrodite explained: "The disparity in the ratio of men to women is due to our traditions. The road to adulthood for every male of the Succubus family is extremely difficult. Many people will die on that road of practice. Only the most powerful luck Only the best warriors can come out of purgatory. Only the best male succubus has the right to choose a mate, and he has the absolute right to choose. As long as the female succubus who is favored by these succubus warriors, there is no rejection Power. The elders of the succubus clan believe that only the descendants of these warriors can give birth to more powerful succubus."
Suldak asked a little bit dumbfounded: "What kind of strength will the succubus walk out of purgatory be?"
"If calculated by the level of monsters, they can almost reach the level of monsters at the peak of the fourth level. If calculated by the combat power of the imperial people, each of them is a second-rank powerhouse." Aphrodite said.
"That's why you want to go out for a walk?" Suldak asked.
Aphrodite shook her head slightly, and said: "All succubi want to leave hell, but I chose a completely different path, and I'm the luckiest one among those succubi."
She sat down again, facing the slowly flowing river of lava, with a look of infinite nostalgia on her face, and said with emotion: "I have been out for so long, and I have never felt anything. After coming here, I saw the gray clouds in the sky. And rivers of lava all over the mountains, only to realize that I, too, would be homesick.”
"You don't want to leave here and return to the flame hell?" Suldak asked a little dumbfounded.
Aphrodite rolled her eyes at Suldak like she was looking at an idiot, reached out and patted her shoulder blade, and said depressingly: "These wings have been cut off, how can I go back, besides If you go back to hell, you also need to connect to the channel, and it doesn’t mean that you can go back if you go back!”
Although Suldak had no expression on his face, he was relieved in his heart.
…
At the entrance of the lava mine, Aphrodite asked the kobold slaves to build a very unique stone house with volcanic rocks. The roof was built with a wooden tripod, and there was even a roof made of planks, just inside the entrance of the mine.
Because the wind from the lava mine is blown out of the cave, there is no volcanic ash flying in at the entrance of the cave.
Aphrodite did not follow Suldak into the lava mine, but chose to continue reading outside.
When Suldak rushed to the secret room of the treasure, the red dragon Iser was already waiting impatiently in the secret room. Seeing Suldak hurried in, he opened his mouth wide at Suldak, neck The lower part of the dragon belly let out a dull roar: "Suldak, I'm hungry..."
This is the most commonly used sentence among the daily expressions that Iser learned.
With this loud roar, Suldak felt a hurricane blowing head-on, and Iser sprayed his face with smokey saliva, feeling that this guy might have just eaten some monster meat, and the flesh and blood residue was still between his teeth …
"How are you doing recently? What's new?" Suldak walked to Iser's side and greeted him cordially.
There are many things that Red Dragon Iser can't say, but it doesn't mean he doesn't understand.
"I ate a big bird..." The red dragon Iser seemed a little proud. Every time he was proud, he would raise his chin high, and his head almost touched the roof of the treasure chamber.
"This bird is very powerful?" Suldak said as he walked to the dragon egg to get the magic crystal inside.
Iser could only nod his head continuously. It can't describe the big bird in Imperial language yet, and just said very simply: "...it's very big!"
By making a series of low growls, it seemed that he was describing the big bird to Suldak, but unfortunately Suldak couldn't understand Iser's language.
After a brief exchange, Iser still let Surdak understand that the bird he ate can fly very high, even above all clouds, and the most important thing is that the bird can actually control lightning , a bird that is good at manipulating lightning and has a huge body. In Suldak's impression, only Thunderbird has such strength.
‘Boom’
The red dragon Iser put his head on the high platform of the secret room, staring at Suldak curiously with a pair of eyes.
Suldak grabbed a magic crystal and said to the red dragon Iser: "I guess what you ate may be a thunderbird. It is said that each thunderbird has three feathers that inherit the power of thunder and lightning. You won't eat it too, will you?"
Iser shook his head in confusion.
"I might have to learn the language of runes today. I'll start with the simple ones, but I haven't figured them out yet, so I need to explore a little bit!" Suldak said frankly.
Suldak shook the magic crystal in his hand again and said: "These may be real dragon language magic, but when you learn, you must restrain yourself and don't destroy this place!"
Iser's head moved closer, his eyes widened, staring at Suldak...
(end of this chapter)