Volume 42 Chapter 17 Border Zone

The Eastern Continent has a vast and infinite area. Outside the territory of Taixia, there are also large areas of uninhabited wild land. In those wild places, poisonous substances are rampant and monsters are everywhere. With the rapid increase of Taixia's population, hundreds of years In the past, Taixia's territory has been expanding almost every year, but no matter how Taixia expands, there are large black and gray areas in the north and west of the Taixia map territory, outside those barren states. These maps The gray-black area above represents the uninhabited area that has not yet been opened and explored. ▲

The east and south of Taixia are seas, and therefore, the unexplored black and gray areas on the ground are mainly in the north and west of the map.

There is a saying that before the cataclysm, there was only one continent on this planet, and that was the Kun'ang continent. The occurrence of the cataclysm and the violent geological movement shattered the Kun'ang continent. Those broken small areas are today's sub-continents, and the main body of the Kun'ang Continent that survived after the cataclysm is actually the current Eastern Continent and Western Continent, but the Eastern Continent is The eastern region of Kunang Continent, and the western continent is the western region of Kunang Continent. The two were originally connected on 6, but because there is an unimaginably huge wilderness in the middle of the two continents. In the human zone, between the wilderness and no-man's land of the two continents, there is a black iron world with a larger area, which can be called the forbidden zone of life. Because of the isolation of the black iron world, the eastern and western continents look like two One continent, the main transportation of the two continents, also mainly goes by sea instead of on the mainland.

Before the first jihad, the Black Iron World also had a name called the Realm of the Disaster Region. This place was exactly the place where the Star of God, which caused the cataclysm of this world, fell and disintegrated more than 900 years ago. The place where the star's power is released is the most terrifying. Even now, that continent is still a restricted area that people can't talk about. Even if knights go in, there are very few knights who can come out alive. ◆▲This is the only place on the surface that is more dangerous than those dangerous places in the Diyuan world.

The knight who was lucky enough to enter the realm of the disaster zone and came out alive, when it comes to the realm of the disaster zone, the most common word is horror!

The strange power brought by the Star of God does not seem to diminish with the passage of time. In the wider disaster zone, the danger and horror brought about by the riots of the four elements of earth, water, wind and fire mixed with the strange power of time and space are unimaginable for ordinary people.

There, there is a super ice storm at absolute zero, and a void fire pillar that melts gold. There are fission ground fissures that are constantly changing, and the phantom knights are crushed into powder by one change, there is also a river of breathing water that drowns everything, and various environments full of mutations and poisons, starting from invisible space cracks Formed a deadly trap...

No one wants to go to such a place, not even a knight.

It is for this reason that the original name of that place was the Realm of the Disaster Region.

However, the realm of the disaster area is the place where the Black Iron Age began. For the human race, in a sense, the Black Iron Age is the beginning of a new era for the human race▼ which has a positive meaning, so after the first holy war,

Among all the official expressions of the human race, the Realm of Disaster Region gradually has a neutral and commemorative name, Black Iron World.

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Outside the territory where Taixia has already established a state, in the west and north, there is still a distance of more than 100,000 kilometers to the edge of the Black Iron World that is closest to Taixia. Within this distance, there is still a large area of ​​Taixia in the future. A vast wilderness area that can be exploited.

According to a preliminary survey conducted by the Taixia Dasinong Mansion in the past few years. Now Taixia's territory basically only accounts for about half of the usable land area of ​​the Eastern Continent. This also means that between the border of the disaster area and the current territory of Taixia, there is almost room for a country as large as Taixia.

Therefore, Taixia never worried that the population would explode. There will be no place to live, Taixia officials are always encouraging births...

Therefore, almost every day in Taixia, new cities will appear, and almost every ten years or so, the former barren states on the edge of Taixia's border have accumulated enough population. It will be upgraded to Xiazhou...

Therefore, Taixia will have a policy of "fortressing the frontier", and Taixia's wealthy families will intervene in the border trade, and will continue to harvest the population resources of the subcontinent, and seize the development of Taixia's barren state...

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It's just that although the area that can be used is vast, it is not possible to go to any place. It is tens of thousands of kilometers away from the Taixia Barren State, and many places will basically not be populated for hundreds of years. The medicine diggers who are looking for natural materials and earth treasures in those wastelands, and the powerful beast masters who want to find magic pets, will not easily go deep into the 10,000 kilometers outside the barren state, but they are far away from the black iron world. The places closer to the fringe area are 100,000 kilometers away, and there are even fewer people who can go there. Usually, only the knights or family members of a few wealthy families in Taixia can enter this area. ■

Also because of some mysterious influence brought by the Star of God, there will be many rare high-level mutant monsters in the wilderness of tens of thousands of kilometers near the edge of the black iron world. These mutant high-level monsters have become many The object captured by Taixia's wealthy knights.

The knights of the Black Iron Age were judged by their chakra cultivation. Whether they had a mount or not was not a necessary factor for becoming a knight. This is completely different from the so-called knights before the cataclysm. Some knights feel that they should have a powerful mount to be more attractive, more in line with the identity and tradition of knights, and therefore, high-level, usually mutated monsters above level 13 that can be used as mounts, in some Among the knights and the few prodigal sons of Taixia's wealthy families, there is a great market. ■

Among the billions of mountains in the southern border of Taixia, many monsters above level 13 can also be caught, but if you really want to go to southern border, in addition to dealing with monsters, you also have to deal with the monsters that emerge from the billions of mountains in southern border. Those local natives and strongmen who came here are full of hostility. Those people generally regard the monsters in the hundreds of millions of mountains in southern Xinjiang as their property or spiritual objects, and they are hostile to outsiders who come to hunt monsters in southern borders. It is very difficult. Because of this, Taixia has this need and ability, and many of them will choose to come to the place closest to the Black Iron World to catch monsters.

Since last year's Xuanyuan Hill's Wangri change, Taixia has experienced the disaster of blood men, turmoil in various places, and there are fewer flying boats here to catch monsters, especially in June this year, the chaos of blood men has not yet subsided , the summer grain harvest in Taixia is exhausted, there are food disasters, and the flying boats that come here to catch monsters are even rarer, but just like there are playboys and people who don’t care about world affairs everywhere, in a place as big as Taixia, so many wealthy families, such People, of course, also exist. These people have golden keys in their mouths from birth, what kind of blood people, what food disasters, in the eyes of these people, it seems that they are not things that happened in their own world at all.

It was the beginning of July, and a red flying boat more than one meter long was slowly moving in the sky more than two thousand kilometers away from the Black Iron World.

On the ground, the grass as tall as a person was rolling like waves. Six warriors, all of which had reached level 13, were standing like arrows, and they were quickly shuttling through the lush grass...

These six warriors were all wearing excellent rune leather armor, and each of them was holding various weapons while running. Some warriors had a special heavy machine crossbow in their hands, and some were shields. , and the one with the sword...

In front of these warriors, more than a hundred meters away, there was a two-meter-long, huge and majestic figure with a fiery red mane, also running quickly in the grass.

Running away is a thirteenth-level magical beast wind lion.

In the contest with the six human warriors just now, the thirteenth-level monster wind lion has been injured, so the speed cannot be increased, but even so, the speed of the wind lion at this moment is three times faster than that of ordinary galloping horses Above, passing through the grass, like a red wind.

The wind lion fled all the way, blood splattered all over its legs, and roared angrily from time to time, revealing the desolation and despair of the king of the prairie.

The signal light on the flying boat in the sky is also flashing from time to time, reminding the fighters chasing the wind lion below of the whereabouts of the wind lion and the possible dangers they may encounter.

The fighters chasing the wind lion cooperated tacitly with each other and acted quickly. Under the reminder of the signal light on the flying boat, when the wind lion turned in one direction, before running more than ten kilometers, six fighters who were separately besieged surrounded each other. Only a handful of open fields flanked by shrubs...

"Net..." The leader of the six fighters shouted in a low voice.

At a distance of more than fifty meters, the galloping warrior with the heavy crossbow aimed at the wind lion at the same time, and pulled the trigger at the same time.

The heavy crossbow whizzed out, and when the crossbow shot into the air, the blunt arrow exploded and turned into a net covering the wind lion, blocking the three directions of the wind lion.

"Roar..." The wind lion suddenly sped up, roared angrily, bared its fangs and claws, and rushed from the direction where there was no arrow net.

"shield……"

The two warriors holding the shields seemed to have expected that the wind lion would rush out from this direction. The two warriors rushed forward and used their two shields to ram the wind lion back.

The shield is a rune shield, with its own stun effect. Although the wind lion repelled by the two shields didn't really stun all of a sudden, its movements also slowed down a bit. That's it. , The three big nets shot at the wind lion again.

This time, the wind lion did not have the good luck of the first time, and was caught by two of the three nets at once, and fell to the ground suddenly before he could struggle twice. The soldier who fired twice rushed over and plunged a long, thin black needle into the wind lion's neck at once. It's... (To be continued.)