"As expected, is this small Sophia Church the royal palace of the orcs?" Erica looked at the palace in front of her and couldn't help but sigh: "It's even more gorgeous than when seen from a distance, with those shiny things on the door.

Could it be a gem?”

"Yes, they are gems." Diana also looked at the colorful gems on the palace gate in front of her that were the size of a human head and said: "This was indeed a palace once. Do you remember the orc royal family I mentioned before?

He who built the city of Zaura, this place is his residence.”

"Tsk, tsk, tsk... It's really luxurious to have such a large gem inlaid on the door... If these gems were taken back to the earth, I would probably be able to buy an aircraft carrier." Erica marveled for a long time before looking away from the door.

The pile of oversized gems was removed, but just after she calmed down and followed everyone into the palace, Erica was once again surprised by the scenery inside the gate and said: "Ah? The walls inside...

…Is it a gold brick?”

"It's just gold-plated. There aren't many gold reserves on the Fang Coast." After finishing speaking, Diana looked at the other decorations on the golden corridor in front of her, and then locked her eyes on the flowers in the flower pots on both sides of the corridor.

Said: "Oh, it is growing very well. It seems that they are taking good care of it."

"Oh..." Erica followed Diana's gaze and stared at the unfamiliar flowers for a long time. After all, she couldn't immediately understand what Diana just said. It wasn't until Diana and the others followed Azmat that they walked in.

After entering the palace, Erica chased after her in panic and asked: "Wait a minute! Did you just mean that if the gold reserves here are enough, these orcs will use the gold to build the palace?"

"Of course." It was Azmat who answered Erica's question. He stopped and looked back at Erica and said, "When I first saw this palace, my reaction was similar to yours. After all, according to our

According to common sense, this is indeed a bit exaggerated. But the fact is that in the concept of the orcs

, although gold is relatively precious, it is not a scarce resource. You must know that there is considerable gold reserves in the orcs' hometown of Klyuse Highlands. It is said that the orcs' royal city was almost all made of gold bricks.

So this should be regarded as a custom of the orcs, not a liking for luxury."

"Kryuse? It's a name given by the Greeks. But..." Erica followed the scene described by Azmat and tried to imagine: "The Golden City... I really want to see it..."

"It's a pity that you can't see it anymore." Azmat said regretfully: "The royal city has been demolished by the invaders a long time ago."

"Invaders?" Erica thought about the history of the orcs and said awkwardly: "So that's it...a golden city can indeed inspire human greed...after all, the Aztecs back then..."

Erica had no choice but to shut up before she finished speaking. After all, this topic was not that pleasant. The three fellow Earthlings who could understand what they just meant almost all had the same embarrassed expressions. Only Aurora, the main one, "

"When people are in the land", they were puzzled and did not understand the meaning of this sentence.

"You are right. The reason why the Orc Kingdom was invaded by humans back then was not just for the land..." Azmat Niutou looked at the golden corridor and said: "But things went against expectations. This group of humans captured the royal city.

After that, they just demolished the royal city, and they could only stare at the gold on the Chryse Highlands."

"Why?" Erica asked subconsciously.

"That's not an ordinary gold mine." Diana continued: "It's a very complicated vein. Even if it is dug out with current human technology, it cannot be refined. By the way, when I think of this, I suddenly get confused.

The mine in Drachm Village seems to be somewhat similar to the Chryse Plateau..."

"Oh...I see." After hearing what Diana said, Erica nodded in understanding. After all, she had also gone to see the strange mine in the village, even though Erica didn't know much about geography.

Even Rika could feel the various fantastic manifestations in this mine.

"Drahim? Where?" Azmat asked.

"The newly established small village near Sleeping Lake..." Diana quickly stopped mid-sentence, and then responded vaguely: "Let's go in quickly. I think Savannah has been waiting for a long time, right?"

Azmat didn't ask any questions, and led a group of people through the house to a guest room lit with some kind of incense, where they met Savannah, the patriarch of Zaura.

Speaking of which, Diana mentioned that Savannah, Zaura’s female team leader, was Azmat’s wife, and Erica had seen many orc women’s faces on the road before, but when she saw

Even though he was the leader of the Savannah clan, he was still stunned by the other party's appearance.

In terms of appearance, Savannah looks similar to other orc women, except that she looks a little less wild and becomes slightly more delicate. She even looks a little cunning like a fox in terms of appearance and facial features. But these

That's not the point. What really surprised Erica was Savannah's height...or rather size.

The female leader, who claims to have led the Zaula tribe for more than ten years, is only about 1.2 meters tall, and she does not want to be simply short, but overall she seems to be a child similar to Ruby.

Appearance.

It would be fine if we just said that she is the leader of the tribe, but the problem is that this female leader who looks like an underage girl is actually the wife of Azmat, who is more than two meters tall next to her, and the two of them are married.

It has been several years, and there is even a child who is just three years old. And this girl-like female team leader is currently sitting on a seat covered with thick blankets and talking with another person who looks like a girl.

The same young human girl was talking to each other, but at the moment when Erica felt that she had come at the wrong time, the matriarch who originally felt peaceful and gentle suddenly stood up and opened her arms in the direction of everyone with an expectant look on her face.

arms.

At this moment, Azmat walked over with a smile and hugged Savannah. Although this scene looked like a warm father and daughter at first glance, in fact, these two people were real people.

They were a couple. But it was because of Savannah’s size as his wife that Erica couldn’t think of a proper relationship between them. She even had the urge to “call the police” at one point.

In order not to hinder this loving couple from showing off here, everyone ignored the two couples who seemed to be immersed in each other's world, and then took their seats under the reception of a few good-looking orc maids. But these

It seems that the maids have not yet figured out the identities of Erica and her group, because they arranged Diana and Aurora near the patriarch's seat, while Erica and others were arranged further away like followers.

The guests were entertained casually near the next seat.

Diana seemed a little dissatisfied with this, but just when she was about to correct the mistakes of the maids, she was stopped by Erica. Anyway, Erica didn't know the female team leader, so she didn't need to be treated as a distinguished guest. As for

The communication with the female team leader can be left to Diana and the others. I only need to take a short rest and then take Ruby and Thrannier to the port.

Go out to sea and do your own business.

Before setting off, Erica received a mission from Severna, and she asked Elena to bring some fancy mission scrolls personally sent by the servants of the gods in a very formal manner. As for the content of the mission, it is quite detailed.

Simple, but after Elena's various instructions, Erica felt that this mission would not be too easy. At least in terms of mission requirements, the names of Erica, Ruby and Thrannier were formulated.

The words explain the difficulty very straightforwardly.

After all, except for Erica, the other two guys are not mortals. Even if they are both immature, it is said that together they are basically not much different from a high-level slave god. In other words, Severna

Personally naming the two little guys to follow you is to give yourself the greatest security guarantee, because besides Elena

In addition to issuing tasks to herself, she also specially gave the two little guys a separate "permission". Erica was a little confused at the beginning when she heard this so-called "permission", but the last sentence said "

In critical moments, you can exert all your power without restriction." This sentence still sounds very ear-piercing.

Erica's mission is to go to the sea to an island that sounds very strange. The island has no name and is not particularly far from the coast. However, it is a dangerous area that almost no one can approach because there are people living on the island.

There are quite a number of fish-men monsters.

Murlocs and mermaids are not the same thing. As a typical example of mermaids, Marlene is almost equivalent to the "mermaids" in Earth's legends. Murlocs, on the other hand, have nothing to do with mermaids. They are complete monsters.

Group. And it is not difficult to see their type and habits from the name. Murlocs are a group of fish-shaped humanoid monsters adapted to living in water.

In fact, the murlocs in this world have almost the same population base and distribution range as the goblins, and the main habitat of the murlocs is actually not the sea but the swamp. Not to mention the distance, in fact in Selida

There is a large swamp in the eastern part of the forest, and it is said that there is a group of about twenty fishmen there.

Although they are monsters, the threat of murlocs in the monster group should be very low, basically similar to small things like kobolds. Most of the murloc groups have a very primitive civilization and are quite beast-like.

Intelligence, but some of them are like Goblins, which have slightly better progress than primitive civilization, but at best they are not as intelligent as other civilized monsters.

But having said that, fishmen can be said to be the most threatening monster type like goblins. There is no other reason. Although these monsters are not worth mentioning individually, when they are in groups, it is another matter.

, and these monsters also have quite strong reproductive capabilities, so as long as they have a stable living environment and sufficient food,

, then as long as you give them some time, they will become the most threatening monster disaster. After all, for monsters, monsters with certain organizational capabilities but relatively primitive intelligence and civilization are the most dangerous, because once they have a certain

If there is a large amount of food and there is a lack of food, then plundering other races will naturally be an inevitable choice.

It is said that there is a quite large wetland in the Aaron Kingdom in the west, where a very serious disaster of fishmen robbing the city occurred decades ago. This group of beasts has no human moral ethics, except for livestock and food.

In addition, humans themselves are actually their food, which they do better than goblins. At least in terms of quantity, the number of human-eating goblins is relatively small. After all, the staple food of the goblin race is not

It's not meat, but certain types of fruits they cultivate themselves. There are even some more civilized and rarer goblin groups who don't even touch meat.

Compared with goblins, murlocs are naturally more crazy. Not only do they eat everything when they are killed, they will not even let go of their own kind. In terms of barbarism, they can almost be found in the current monster civilization.

They are considered to be at the bottom of the pile, just a little bit smarter than pure beast-type monsters.

Previously, after Avora learned that Erica was going to perform an unknown mission on an island where the fish people gathered, she naturally added a lot of relevant knowledge about the fish people to her, from the habits of most of the fish people and the

The ecology and even some of the simple text symbols of the fishmen and the meanings of decorations such as totems have not been drawn down. If time was not urgent, she might even go to the east to catch all the twenty or so fishmen living in seclusion.

Erica demonstrates things like dissection.

However, Aurora's tutoring for Erica did help a lot, but in fact Erica had some information that she couldn't tell Aurora. This was something Elena specifically asked because this mission was secret.

Action, it is said that it may involve some sensitive inside information that is not allowed for mortals to be involved.

Although Erica was a little dissatisfied with this, she quickly accepted it, but she still muttered a complaint like "Severna doesn't treat me as a human being" when Elena left, but the result was unknown.

Why did he call Elena to cover her mouth and laugh foolishly?

The mission content mentioned that these murlocs do not seem to be ordinary murloc monsters, and may have transcended the category of monsters. Erica's purpose is to go there to investigate the behind-the-scenes of a certain secret hidden under the island.

It is a secret magical thing. In short, the target is not accurate, but it is particularly dangerous. So if Erica feels that something is wrong, she will quickly call the Holy Guard to come for support. Of course, the Holy Guard cannot do it.

If so, Hex or Desmo will personally come forward to deal with the trouble.

To be honest, Erica felt that if this kind of thing was too dangerous for mortals to be involved, then what was the point of letting herself go? She might as well just let Hex deal with the island just like he was dealing with the Envar ruins.

Is it okay to just "block it" soon? Why let a fragile human like myself go there and take such great risks to investigate.

Complaints are complaints, but the task is still done. After all, the reward for the task looks very attractive.

The ship used for this trip was naturally an unusual ship, but a very advanced technological product that Erica took away from that rather sci-fi hangar. After all, that hangar came from a quite advanced alien civilization.

It is a creation, so in addition to the earth vehicles placed inside, it is also natural that some of the advanced machinery of the hangar are included, whether they are flying in the sky or swimming in the water, and there is even a lack of space fighters that can soar in space.

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To be continued...