Age of Empires From Scratch

  Chapter 30 There must be something strange in this village

  David's original archery skills can only be considered qualified, and of course it is good enough for hunting. Even if he can practice rapid fire, he can only be regarded as a good young hunter.

   Leaving aside the elite archers of Fort Iron Tree, they are not at the same level even compared to experienced old hunters like Addis, let alone Laura, who can use a hunting bow to destroy the Brotherhood of the Sun.

But ever since he acquired the talent for archery, David's strength in bow and arrow has been continuously improving—he has personally experienced what it means to be crushed by talent. The results of several years of hard training by himself are not as great as the improvement made by casual practice after getting the talent. .

Today's David, after picking up the bow and arrow, seems to have an instinctive feeling in his body, telling him how to hit the target better, and when he is fully focused, the target will become like a slow motion state, even if the opponent is at high speed While moving, there is no way to escape his aim lock.

What's more, his trump card is far more than excellent archery. Even if the orc didn't die under David's arrow and managed to rush to Maloney, David could stop and kill that guy. After all, he The biggest killing move is the holy light spell, especially the lethality of the holy fire is very powerful, it is David's current killer.

This time he didn't have the chance to show the holy fire. After shooting the orc, Hackett, who saw this scene from a distance, felt relieved. Eliminate these nasty enemies.

   Adjust the direction again and rush towards the few people in the melee. Several elite fighters cooperated skillfully and already had the upper hand. Hackett's joining was the last straw that crushed the enemy.

   Unfortunately, they couldn't wipe out all these guys. Under the cover of his partners and giant wolves, an 'orc' climbed onto a giant wolf and ran away towards the east.

At the end of the battle, four enemies riding giant wolves died three times and one escaped, and their mounts also died three times and one escaped. However, there were no casualties on the human side, only two soldiers were injured—this made David very amazed .

When the cavalry of the two sides confronted each other, the four warriors except Hackett were all knocked off their horses with weapons. They were not seriously injured under the impact, and they were even able to defeat the orcs who were a circle stronger than themselves on the flat ground... The physical fitness of these fighters was much stronger than David thought.

  Watching several soldiers help each other to check their physical injuries, making sure that no one was fatally injured, and putting on the armor after simple treatment of the injuries, David once again marveled at the physical fitness of the next few soldiers.

He was looking at several soldiers here, while Knight Hackett was pleading guilty to Maloney because his wrong judgment almost put Lord Maloney-Mansfield in danger. As the captain of the guard for this operation, His performance was completely substandard.

   "Forget it, after all, it's an enemy I don't know much about."

  Maloney Mansfield may be very dissatisfied in his heart, and slammed Hackett as the captain of the guard for being incompetent. But on the surface, he won't say anything, especially at this time - even if Hackett's performance is not good this time, he can only let Hackett be in charge of guarding for the next time.

In this case, it is not beneficial for me to spout Hackett, so even if he is dissatisfied, he will not show it, and even a few words of comfort, hoping that Hackett will forget this mistake, and in the next time Show your true strength.

"In the days to come, I will definitely not let you down." Knight Hackett almost swore, and he was really going to work hard to fight for the next period of time. The bad impression created is erased.

  Maroni comforted Hackett, and several warriors began to clean the battlefield—checking the corpses of several enemies and the giant wolf as a mount.

"This is the Northern Giant Wolf." Adis, who pretended to be a transparent person all the time and tried not to attract attention, still couldn't control the professional habits he had developed over the years. After a few glances, he saw the types of these mounts: "This kind of giant wolf is usually the leader of the wolf pack. It has a larger size than ordinary gray wolves, strong strength and endurance, and a decent running speed, but I have never seen anyone using this kind of giant wolf as a mount. "

  David took another look at this giant northern wolf. He remembered that the pure white giant wolf he had seen in the troll village earlier seemed to be this species.

   "Is this kind of northern giant wolf common around Iron Tree Fort?"

"When I was young, I could still see it around Iron Tree Castle from time to time. I haven't seen this kind of northern giant wolf these years. It should go further north... that is, this area!" Adis realized that he was now At that time, he was on the plain north of Iron Tree Fort, so he temporarily changed his words: "This kind of giant wolf is not afraid of severe cold. In this severe cold area, it may be more suitable as a mount than ordinary horses."

   Not to mention that this kind of giant wolf also has good fighting power. They have just seen how these giant wolves cooperate with their masters to fight.

   Originally, Addis just chatted with David casually, but he didn't expect to attract several people including Maloney in just a few words.

Especially when it comes to "the northern giant wolf is especially suitable as a mount in the severe cold environment of the north", the two subordinates of Maloney started to record again, and Maloney even asked David: "Winter Village Are there any giant wolves like this around?"

"It should be... I saw the corpse of this kind of giant wolf when I was exterminating giant monsters with my companions in the village." At the same time, he also began to wonder if he could catch a few northern giant wolves and train them into mounts ? It seems pretty cool to think of riding a giant wolf back and forth on the northern snowfield.

   Soon David was pulled back from fantasy to reality. After cleaning up the battlefield and simply burying the corpses of several orcs and giant wolves, the team set off again.

   Maloney, who was on the road again, decided not to camp tonight to rest, and traveled all night to arrive at Cold Winter Village as soon as possible.

"David, you should be very worried about your village, right?" Maloney estimated in his heart that the distance from Cold Winter Village should not be too far away. Why not speed up and try to get to Cold Winter Village today, even if it is Arrive at night.

  Maloney made this decision mainly because he thought that the group of "orcs" appeared from the north, and suspected that these guys had discovered and even attacked Cold Winter Village.

  Although nothing was found from these people, this possibility cannot be ruled out. Of course, it is also possible that another team of orcs has already occupied Cold Winter Village, and this team of cavalry went back to report.

  Maloney is thinking, what should be done if Winter Village is captured or completely destroyed?

   "Do you want to 'fund' David to rebuild the Winter Village?"

  From Maloney’s point of view, David may be the illegitimate son of a certain noble family, and the elders in the family take good care of the illegitimate son, so David was arranged to join the development team, allowing him to obtain a piece of territory of his own by legal and reasonable means.

  At the same time, there should be more than one family behind David, and that's why Laura Crawford appeared here. Otherwise, he really couldn't figure out the reason for a young lady of noble origin to appear in such a remote place.

  Of course, these are just his guesses, maybe he guessed wrong? Although Maloney feels that his judgment is 90% correct, even if there is a deviation, it will not deviate too much.

  So regardless of these factors, is David worth the 'investment'?

   Carefully calculated the various resources available in Xiarindong Village: Potatoes, a new crop with a short maturity period and high yield. It can be served as a side dish or as a main course.

This is the main specialty product of Rindong Village. Before the value of potatoes is widely recognized, no farmer will easily choose an unfamiliar crop to replace the original crop. The place where potatoes are mainly grown.

  The Northern Giant Wolf? A mount with good combat effectiveness and more adapted to the northern climate? He didn't think it was impossible to train the northern giant wolf into a mount. Since those ugly giants could do it, why couldn't they?

   But the question is how much is this stuff worth? Can it be cultivated in large quantities? If the quantity is small, it can only be regarded as a novelty without much practical value.

   What else? Maybe it's just David himself?

   Now comes the important point, what benefits can you or your family get? Maloney fell into deeper thoughts.

  Before they knew it, they had arrived at Cold Winter Village.

   "My lord, Rinwinter Village is ahead."

  After rushing at full speed, they arrived at Lindong Village earlier than expected. At this time, the sun had not completely set. Against the backdrop of the setting sun, Lindong Village looked unusually quiet.

   "This..." Maloney looked at the quiet village. Could it be that all the people in the village were killed? How else could it be so quiet? And you can't even see a person?

   Turning his head and looking at David, David immediately explained: "There are not many people in Lindong Village now, and there are only two people left in the village."

  While David was speaking, a strong man came out of the cabin. He seemed to have noticed them in the distance, standing on the edge of the village and looking over here.

  Although he was far away, everyone present could clearly see that this man had a very strong physique, even stronger than Hackett and his elite fighters.

"Who is this…"

   "This is Tirion Fordring." David thought for a while, and added: "It's the lumberjack in the village."

He is not talking nonsense. Since Tirion Fordring chose to settle in Rinwinter Village, the most work he has done is to cut down trees. The wood used in these wooden houses in Rinwinter Village is all Tirion Fordring. Go to the forest in the north and chop down one by one, and fight back to Winter Village.

   "Tirion... Fordring?" Maloney couldn't control his expression when he heard David's introduction, his face was full of weirdness: "Then what about the other one?"

   "Mark Watney...the only farmer in the village."

   "..."

  (end of this chapter)