Erica took Chris on the way back. Before leaving, Erica deliberately tested Chris's pulse, briefly confirmed that her body and spirit were fine, and then looked at her.

Smith & Wesson M&P9 pistol worn on the inside of the jacket.

After all, the previous P226 was not suitable for a little girl like Chris, so Erica bought this Smith & Wesson compact pistol for her as a new self-defense weapon before departure. Of course, this is actually

As for pistols, Erica herself also had other recommendations, such as several pocket pistols from Sig Sauer or the small pistols of the Walter series, but at the time Igor had no stock in stock, so she could only use this one.

Let's make do first.

"What are you worried about?" Chris couldn't help but asked after Erica finished checking.

"Let's see if you are missing arms or legs, or... you were drugged or something." Erica said jokingly: "After all, they are a group of pirates, and I don't agree with leaving you alone there. As a result,

you……"

"It's okay." Chris patted her chest happily and said, "I'm naturally prepared to protect myself, and it's not necessarily that unsafe over there. To put it bluntly, those scimitar pirates

They escaped from the Pirate Fjord, and they are as panicky as a bereaved dog. If this offends me, then I am afraid there will no longer be a place for them in this sea area. In addition, the reason why they are looking for

Naturally, he intends to take refuge with me, so he will not embarrass me."

"Relying on you?" Erica asked in surprise: "Aren't you not involved in politics? How can you still give them political asylum?"

"What are you thinking about? People don't like political asylum or anything like that. The main thing is to find a place to stay and rest." Chris said very proudly: "Don't forget, Lan in the south of the principality.

Landing is my territory. That Captain Molly anonymously bought a piece of land in Langdon Harbor a long time ago. With this alone, her vitality is considered to be under my control. And now most of the territory in the south is also

I took over temporarily, so they are lucky to have found the right person."

"Then you are really amazing." Erica praised Chris a few words in a proud tone like coaxing a child, and then summoned another ox cart passing by.

At the same time, the banquet at the palace in the city has ended. Overall, this banquet specially for Diana and Aurora was a good time for the guests and the host. Of course, people like Erica and the others left early.

Basically, it has been forgotten.

Except for a few people, Somedale is also one of them.

After the banquet, he planned to finish the business first, negotiate with Savannah and get the compensation, and then look for an opportunity to ask Azmat about Erica. After all, because of the lack of money, Somdel has been

He was worried about the origin and whereabouts of Erica who had "high-end spices" on her body, but before he could take the initiative to find Savannah, Azmat took him to a conference room in the palace.

The people present here are all important figures in the Zaula tribe, and there are even liaison personnel from the Sova and Blackhoof tribes here. Of course, Diana and Aurora are also there. Obviously, this meeting will not

It's a small matter, and there's almost no need to use your brains to guess. Everyone knows it well. After all, not long ago, a group of jackals rushed into the port outside the city to show off their power. In addition, Azmat asked Azmat to do it before.

Adding together the Jackal information sent back by Jike, the new threat of Jackal is indeed worthy of careful discussion by the central defenders.

According to the existing information, the problem of jackals in Pirate Fjord does not seem to be so confusing, especially after Molly provided more internal information, the cause and effect of the whole matter has a clearer understanding.

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First of all, there are two general understandings of the origin of this group of so-called sharp-toothed gnolls. They come from an unknown hilly area east of the fjord. It is the nominal territory of the Kingdom of Iles, but due to the terrain and ecology there, etc.

Due to this relationship, there are almost no herdsmen, so that place naturally became one of the largest monster settlements on the eastern grasslands. However, according to some ancient records, the monster groups living there are very complex and scattered.

Of course, gnolls are the largest race in terms of the number of monsters there, followed by kobolds or a small number of grassland trolls. In addition, other common monsters such as goblins also exist there, but the number is relatively small.

Far less numerous than the previous three and not as threatening as these three.

When Zaura's ancestors came to the Fang Coast, many scouts went to the surrounding areas to really investigate the local environment and ecology, so there were many records of things in the hilly area east of Pirate Fjord. But now

Now after the Savannah chief took out these records and compared them again, he found that there seemed to be a big gap between the gnolls and the sharp-toothed gnolls in these records.

First of all, although there are many jackals in the record, they do not agree. Although the jackals there also live in groups, they are very divided. Large and small groups are no longer in that area, and they are not civilized.

The level is relatively primitive. However, Azmat gave an answer to this matter, that is, behind this group of jackals, a deity suspected to be the God of the Wilderness appeared to help them.

Although this matter has not been confirmed by evidence, with this factor, it can be explained clearly why the group of primitive jackals suddenly became civilized to the present level in just a few decades. However, this matter has made it more serious.

To put aside everyone's doubts, after all, there are many gods of wilderness in the eastern prairie, but the problem is that if these gods are still alive now, they should be lingering in the Holy Land of Numas in the north of the prairie. How?

Will he suddenly cross the entire grassland and come to this unexplored southwest corner to teach the monster jackals?

According to legend, the gods of the wilderness here on the grassland are different from the gods in other places. They are natural gods entrusted by the Supreme God to look after humans. And as early as a hundred years ago, humans on the grassland gradually revived civilization.

From that moment on, these gods entered the place of Numas and implemented self-imposed confinement, because that is where they were born, so they will naturally return there after completing their mission. As for what happens next, it is not something that mere mortals can know.

In short, since then people have believed that those gods should have passed away.

Both Azmat and Diana paid special attention to this matter. After all, this kind of thing seemed to have touched their professional nerves. The god who was defaulted by the Jackal leader Abbas, whether he was the God of the Wilderness or not,

It deserves the attention of the chosen ones, but not because this god helped the monster group. After all, the God of the Wilderness who was born in the monster group is not so rare, but a god who was born in the monster group and also helped the original monsters to civilize.

The gods are obviously not normal.

The monsters in the world are more or less created with a certain purpose, so the reason why most of them are so barbaric is Severna's deliberate behavior. It's not that monsters are not allowed to be civilized.

, but if the monsters want to civilize and give birth to their own civilization, it requires some special prerequisites and a long time of hard work before it can appear. And now there is an unknown god who suddenly gives the jackals who are monsters

It civilized civilization and allowed them to expand outward, so no matter how Diana and Azmat envisioned it, they felt that there was something wrong with this god.

The sudden birth of the sharp-toothed jackal civilization would naturally not be a good thing for other races living in the surrounding area, especially the pirates over the Pirate Fjord who were the first to be affected. The birth of the sharp-toothed pirate group

This is the best example, and the series of things this Jackal pirate group did after entering the Pirate Fjord naturally had a very obvious purpose.

First of all, the sharp-toothed jackals did not directly attack the fjord. Instead, they swaggered into the island city of Zanara from the main entrance in the name of a pirate group. After settling in, they also stayed low-key for a while, and even

During this period, various means were used to win over and collude with some small forces in the city. After the Sharp Tooth Pirates had some foundations, they suddenly began to cause friction with the internally unstable Scarlet Scimitar Pirates.

These things are not very elaborate, but for a group of jackals who seem to have just stepped out of the "primitive civilization", it is obviously too easy. The conspiracy calculations of all things are very accurate, and even the enemy's internal judgment seems to be

It went extremely smoothly. If the jackals hadn't placed spies inside the scimitar, they wouldn't have convinced everyone if they killed him.

In addition, the information provided by Molly shows that in addition to vigorously engaging in frictions with the scimitar pirates in the city, the jackals also purchase supplies from various merchants through some channels, and also purchase supplies from a certain slave merchant.

While buying a large number of slaves shipped from other places.

At the beginning of the period, most people thought that gnolls bought slaves for food. After all, gnolls themselves are famous for being one of the man-eating monsters. But then Azmat told everyone the key point of this piece of information.

, that is, these slaves are not what everyone thinks, but a group of serfs and worker slaves with full-time jobs, and there are also craftsmen with professional knowledge among them. Of course, smelting and forging are naturally the focus.

Let’s not talk about anything else, but the amount of efforts made by the jackals during this period of time has already made the orcs unable to sit still. Nearly a thousand professional slaves are not there just for free. Not to mention that they can accommodate these slaves.

How big the workplace is, but the production volume of these slaves is really disturbing. And the most important point is that the sharp-toothed gnolls are still not satisfied, and are still buying slaves on a large scale, and even started to do so semi-openly.

Various human trades are being carried out in Zanera City, and it is obvious that their demand is far beyond everyone's imagination. And Diana also estimated from the average production of these slaves that the wolf man's lair should also have Zhaumo.

What made Savannah and the other orcs even more uneasy was that the reproductive ability of the gnolls was several times more powerful than that of the orcs.

This piece of information and inference really frightened many of the orcs present, and then Azmat even explained the gnoll galley that broke into the port before, because according to Molly, that ship

But the Jackals built it themselves, and with Somdale's affirmation, they also confirmed how terrifying the combat effectiveness of that ship was.

Furthermore, there is also the news that Molly's father, the leader of the Scarlet Scimitar Pirates, Molette, died after a duel with Abbas. This incident is almost a severe blow to the die-hards who were still hesitant before.

.After all, although they know how terrifying this group of sharp-toothed gnolls are, they are still hesitant to pay attention to a group of gnoll monsters that are not yet capable of directly threatening the safety of the Fang Coast.

But after Azmat revealed the civil strife on the side of the Scarlet Scimitar, it became obvious that the Sharp-toothed Jackals would not be the number one force in the fjord from now on, but would be one of the most influential forces.

. If the resources in the fjord can no longer meet their needs in the future, then it is natural to coerce other small pirates to rush out of the fjord and plunder the surrounding areas again.

I wonder if the scimitar pirates had the same purpose in leading the defeated pirates in the fjord to rush to the Fang Coast and trigger that war. Even after so many years, all the pirates on the Fang Coast

The pain caused by that war has not been forgotten in the hearts of the adult orcs of the orc tribe. Even if they are the nominal victors, this kind of victory also comes at a price.

Now, after the Scimitar Pirates lost their influence in the fjord due to civil strife, a new leader, or "leader candidate" has appeared in the Pirate Fjord. In short, with the current influence of the Sharptooth Pirates in Zanera

It seems that it is just around the corner that they will become the novice leaders in the fjord. However, Molly has stated in the intelligence that the jackals should not go back to fight for the nominal pirate throne, but are more likely to support the puppets and come forward while themselves.

Lurking behind him to act as the actual talker. But no matter what, this "new leader" is more cruel and greedy than the Scimitar Pirates. Therefore, if the Sharptooth Jackal becomes the new leader of Pirate Fjord, then the next war will no longer be possible.

The question is not what will happen, but when it will happen.

Now all the orcs here have a clearer understanding of the sharp-toothed gnolls, including their potential threats. The sharp-toothed gnolls seem to be no longer a potential threat, but a real threat.

The Fang Coast, or in other words, all places in the southern coastal area, poses a substantial threat. But everyone is still very sensible and has not been frightened by the Jackals at the moment.

The Gnolls will naturally have a purpose when they expand from the Pirate Fjord in the future, but for some reason everyone can guess from the results of the test they sent a ship to today that the Fang Coast is a potential target, but the problem is that they

Why did you choose Fang Coast?

In fact, the coastal area on the east side of the Pirate Fjord is not that barren. Although it is not as fertile as the Fang Coast, it can still support tens of thousands of humans and other races. And according to the geographical location, the east side of the fjord is

The coastal areas are also very close to their home hilly areas. Many places can be directly invaded by land. Why bother to go far away to attack the Fang Coast on the west side of the fjord?

No one could answer this question, and in the end, it was just Aurora who managed to give an explanation that sounded reasonable.

Land, the purpose of the Jackals is to covet the fertile land of the Fang Coast, which is rich in products. It is likely that they have the intention to expand new safe territory. After all, judging from the ancient map records, there are many mountains to the east of the hills.

There are a considerable number of Iles cities. Although they are a so-called "nomadic" nation, they still build large cities to provide some big forces with a comfortable life, and generally these places are often heavily guarded, and there are even

Maybe after a city is invaded, it will trigger heavy troops from other places to encircle and suppress it. Therefore, in terms of battle losses, it seems that the orcs are more "easy to bully".

Although the orcs are more brave than humans, their numbers are limited after all. The total number of orcs on the Fang Coast is only about 210,000 including the old, weak, women and children, but the entire population of the Kingdom of Iles is more than 3 million. Even if

The population of the adjacent hilly areas divided by spheres of influence is around 300,000, and almost all the people are soldiers. If the invasion threatens the local dignitaries, they may be able to recruit allies to join the war, and they may be able to raise 500,000. Who is better?

A weak glance will tell you.

Although all the orcs, including Azmat, are dissatisfied with Aurora's remarks, this seems to be the reality. The orcs on the Fang Coast seem to be the most bullied group in this area.

And because the "isolationism" of the orcs is prevalent, in addition to maintaining relations with other surrounding races, they are obviously too indifferent to the most powerful human countries in the region. Therefore, at this juncture, the orcs on the Fang Coast

It is true that there are no allies to win over.
To be continued...