Chapter 752 Dragon

Six years later.

In addition to the large number of newly built wooden houses in the canyon, there are also many stone buildings, which means that after the profession of carpenter, the tribe has also added the profession of stonemason.

The originally sparse buildings are connected together and become densely packed. The style of the buildings has also become more complicated. Houses are no longer just required to be convenient to live in, but also require to live comfortably and beautifully.

The functions of buildings have also become more complicated. In addition to living, there are also various functions such as reception, discussion, storage, barracks, sentry, etc.

And outside the canyon.

First, you can see a small wooden building, which is prepared for the caravans and guests from other tribes. Since the Golden Tribe and Helfas formed a caravan, people from other tribes have begun to trade along the mature and safe routes trodden by the two caravans.

The exchanges between tribes are becoming more and more frequent, and the tribe established by Helfas is becoming more and more famous.

Going further out, you can see a lake and dense oil breadfruit farmland. The farmland is endless, and the canals and gullies are crisscrossed.

In addition to this piece of farmland, there is a new farmland on the side.

That's right, Helfas's tribe has an extra piece of farmland.

The weird oil bread tree is the first one that Helfas knows how to reproduce, or the weird one that he copied. Two years ago, when the first piece of oil bread tree farmland was nurtured and reproduced to the limit, Helfas artificially controlled it to break free from the seal, and then interrupted it again when it transformed into a human-faced tree.

Looking further, you can see several checkpoints set up at the entrance of the jungle, and you can also see a solid sentry tower built of stone.

People come and go.

Earth dragon beasts and caravans carrying goods come from time to time.

It has to be said that the place built by Helfas looks like a city.

It's just that it's not just the power of Helfas that makes this city appear, but the expectation of everyone in the Full Moon Land for countless years, and the desire of one person after another.

This expectation and desire attracts more and more people from the Full Moon to come across danger and jungle. The thousand-year-old tribes in the Full Moon Land are promoting the development and progress here.

At this moment, Helfas was inspecting the newly built blacksmith workshop.

He looked different from before, and looked much more mature. At least he had the aura of a leader in his gestures. His clothes were still the same style of Guanshou Shirt, but they were more fitted, the patterns on them looked more complicated, and the fabric was dyed black.

The styles of his pants, belts, and shoes were also more refined and rigorous, which also meant that the tribe's craftsmanship in this area was developing rapidly.

He walked in front, followed by a large group of people.

They were surrounded by people.

The person in charge of the workshop followed behind Helfas cautiously: "Lord Helfas, because the main workshop produces limited iron materials every day, we want to make more ironware here, but we can't do it!"

The blacksmith officer on the side quickly said after hearing this: "I have arranged more people to go mining, and also made new mining tools. Lord Helfas, I promise that in the future..."

Helfas nodded without making any judgment, but just said: "Don't rush to arrange it, I will go to the mine tomorrow to have a look."

The output of black iron is increasing day by day, and the various ironwares made by blacksmiths have become popular in the Land of the Full Moon.

These ironwares are sold to the weaving tribe, the farmer tribe and other places by the caravan, and finally spread to various places in the Land of the Full Moon.

It has become the best-selling item of the tribal caravan established by Helfas, and it is also their most obvious symbol.

At the same time, because of this, Helfas's tribe also has a name in the mouths of outsiders, called the Black Iron Tribe, as if black is the symbol here.

After visiting the blacksmith's workshop, Helfas went to the house that received the caravan.

He looked at the old house and then the new one.

Then, he said to the recorder beside him.

"There will be many people coming to the city-building ceremony, all from various ancient tribes. We must not neglect it and repair some of the old houses."

"Also, the number of people coming at that time may exceed expectations, so we must prepare and vacate some houses for preparation."

The recorder immediately took out a pen and wrote down everything Helfas said, and issued it to the carpenter and other people in charge of this matter.

Seven years have passed since he decided to use this place to welcome the first person to come to this place.

Helfas is going to announce this month that he will build the world's first city.

The time of the ceremony has been set, on the first day after the full moon.

There is no calendar in this era. Although each tribe has some methods of recording dates, most of them use the number of days after the new moon and the full moon to record.

The recorder stopped writing: "Okay, I have written it down completely."

Herfas looked at what the recorder wrote down, which was exactly his abstract recording symbols.

Five or six years ago, Helfas felt that when there were more people, he needed someone to help him deal with various things, at least to be able to record what he said and pass it on, and to do this, this person must understand writing.

He found some smart teenagers from the tribe and taught them how to record and write their own recording symbols. The young man in his twenties finally stood out and became the recording officer of Helfas.

The remaining people were not wasted, and Helfas arranged them to various places where they were needed.

Next, Helfas remembered something again and turned to look at the Demon Hunter captain who was following him.

he asked again.

"What about the conditions on the roads?"

"Is it safe?"

The captain of the witcher immediately stood up and said very seriously.

"Lord Helfas, I can't completely guarantee this. After all, there are still some scary weird things passing by from time to time."

"But I promise that we will send people to patrol every day during this period, and we will always pay attention to any situation."

Although most of the entire Full Moon Forest is still a place that mortals cannot and have never set foot on, the originally extremely dangerous route from the Zhi Tribe to this place has been gradually opened up.

At least, it's not particularly dangerous anymore.

When planning this route, they marked out areas where some extremely scary weird things were entrenched, and then chose to make a detour.

As for some low-level weirdos, a few of them were sealed, and most of them were expelled to other places in the Full Moon Forest, or fled to other places during the battle. Helfas and the Demon Hunters could not It is guaranteed to successfully trap and seal the monsters every time. Even the weakest monsters have their own dangers and unknowns. They may seem harmless but can kill you as long as you are not careful.

However, this clean-up operation that has taken many years also means that as long as there are no strange things passing by on this passage, safety is still guaranteed.

After seven years, they finally achieved some results in fighting against the weirdness.

Although this result is really just a way.

Helfas told the Demon Hunter Captain very seriously: "Everyone, please work hard during this period. This day is a very important day for us."

He looked at the other officials: "You are all the same. During this period, I ask you all to cheer up and do everything well. If you do well, you will be rewarded. If you don't do well, I will ask you to do it well." Someone who does a good job will do it for him.”

Everyone saluted Helfas together: "Yes!"

The city founding ceremony is not just a ceremony. This seemingly symbolic celebration is actually of great significance.

Once successful, the entire Full Moon Land will know that Helfas built the first city in the world.

And all the power, all the hearts and all the desires of the whole Full Moon Land.

They will also gather here.

——

The new meeting hall that will be used to hold the city's founding ceremony has just been completed and is located on the site of the wooden house where Helfas originally lived.

This is a building built entirely of stone. Heavy stones are overlapped one by one to form several steps. More than a dozen pillars form a corridor outside. The two largest pillars stand on both sides in front of the gate. , forming a gatehouse and corridor, and the appearance of strange biphasic demon insects and black marshes can also be seen on the pillars.

The patterns on these pillars were carved by craftsmen, but the power of the sealed object was used to dig out the stones and transport them outside the canyon.

But even for the last distance, it is not easy to build it here.

Helfas can imagine.

When those guests arrive, they will be shocked and surprised to see this meeting hall.

And this is exactly the effect he wants.

Helfas is not here on weekdays. Even for meetings, he does not come here but is at his residence. He only appears here when holding some formal activities that need to be open to the outside world and everyone must participate.

But today he came to the meeting hall and walked around.

I seem to be imagining the grand scene of the city's founding ceremony in my mind.

There was a long table across the hall, and on the wall behind it were paintings of breadbasket fields and farmers working. He sat on a chair and looked outside, feeling a little proud.

My heart, which was always tense, seemed to become a little more at ease.

He took out a bottle and placed it on the table.

"Wine, take a sip!"

He drank a little wine and just looked outside, letting his drunkenness and sleepiness consume him bit by bit.

Just watch the sun disappear at the end of the street, watch the stars come from the sky.

He leaned back in his chair and fell asleep.

But not long after, I saw beads of sweat forming on his forehead, and then he opened his eyes in panic.

Helfas stood up and put his hands on the table, but looked around warily, as if he was guarding against something.

Just like he once wandered alone in the deserted jungle.

He panted and stood up little by little.

He asked someone to prepare water and wipe his face and body.

When wiping his body, you can see the terrible scars on his back, which are deep enough to see the bones, which looks shocking.

This claw almost tore him into a puddle of rotten flesh.

Although the injury had healed long ago, the pain that penetrated into the bone marrow still remained in Helfas's heart. When he thought about it, his back still seemed to hurt and blood seemed to be oozing out.

"Why did you suddenly remember this?"

That's right, Helfas just dreamed about the scene of that day again.

The sharp claws falling from the sky, the cold light that was so sharp that it could tear everything apart, everything was still fresh in my memory.

He dreamed again that he was running for his life in the dark and humid jungle, longing for any ray of light that fell from the gaps in the leaves.

Helfas rested one hand on the edge of the tub, looking at the wound on his back in the moonlight and reflection.

"What the hell is that?"

To this day, Helfas still doesn't know what it was that almost killed him that day.

He had also deliberately paid attention to whether there were similar existences in the Full Moon Forest, but he could not find them. The Full Moon Forest was too big, and they could only encounter part of it.

Although he didn't find it, Helfas was not disappointed, or in other words, he hoped to never encounter that weird thing.

Helfas asked someone to carry the basin down, and walked towards his residence.

At this time, a shadow looked at Helfas in the distance outside.

That gaze penetrated the farmland and lake, and passed through the canyon.

finally.

It fell on the dark-haired man walking on the central avenue of houses.

the next day.

Helfas led the people through the cave tunnel and came to the vicinity of the mine.

Bad news came early in the morning. There was an accident in the mine, and all the people who stayed in the mine to garrison died.

When Helfas came, all he saw were the torn and charred corpses. The entire wooden house where the miners lived and the wooden shed where the utensils and iron ore were placed were overturned by a huge force, and it looked like a mess.

Coupled with the horrific death condition of the corpse, the scene was really terrifying.

Helfas asked as soon as he arrived.

"Everyone is dead?"

"Is anyone alive?"

If there is one alive, at least he can know what happened here.

The witcher captain and the blacksmith immediately approached, and the blacksmith responded.

"No, there is no one alive here."

The blacksmith was scared and a little sad.

"I couldn't find a decent body at all. It was such a miserable death."

The witcher captain observed the surroundings with the coward's lamp: "Lord Helfas, that weirdo has left. It must not be nearby. This should be a weirdo who likes to keep moving his position."

Herfas: "Did you find anything wrong, or anything that matches the weird features we recorded?"

At this time, the blacksmith officer frowned and said a strange thing to Helfas.

"One thing is strange. The black iron tools we made are all gone. Those are tools used for mining."

“Both the old and the new, everything is gone.”

Helfas immediately turned his head: "Is the iron tool missing?"

This is obviously abnormal. If it is an ordinary weird thing, it may not eat people, but how could it take away weapons?

But the movement here is obviously caused by something weird.

Helfas: "Could it be that after the weird invasion, someone came over and took away the iron tools here?"

The blacksmith shook his head: "Then I don't know."

Helfas looked at the Demon Hunter Captain, and he immediately said: "I'll go check it out right away."

Helfas still stayed where he was. He knelt down and looked carefully at the scorched black spots on the mutilated corpses.

"Why doesn't it feel like it's on fire?"

——

In the jungle.

A caravan is marching. There are about dozens of them, as well as twenty or thirty ground dragon beasts and peakback dragon beasts, loaded with various goods from afar.

The leader was a middle-aged dragon man with a big beard, riding on an earth dragon beast and swaying left and right.

The bearded businessman was accompanied by a woman wearing a metal mask. The two seemed to have a special relationship, so the bearded businessman wanted to bring the woman over to participate in the Black Iron Tribe's city founding ceremony.

On the way, the two people were talking and laughing.

The woman was holding a child in her arms, only three or four years old.

Woman: "I heard that Lord Helfas is cultivating a third farmland. It would be great if we could have our own farmland at some time, so that we wouldn't have to worry about food."

The bearded businessman said: "Helfas has been thinking of ways to cultivate more farmland. He is not a stingy person. He has been doing sealing and fighting weird things. He also hopes that everyone can eat food and Better off."

"But the population of the Black Iron Tribe is growing too fast, and they also need food very much."

The bearded businessman thought for a moment and suddenly thought of something.

"But I heard that the farmer tribe's farmland can also be divided into a new farmland. I can talk to the farmer then to see if I can exchange it with something, and then I will see if I can ask Helfas for help."

The woman said: "Then you go and talk about it. If the children can farm their own fields in the future, they won't have to go out and take risks to hunt or become businessmen."

Bearded businessman: "Isn't it good to be a businessman?"

Woman: "It's good, but it doesn't feel reassuring."

In this era, there is no concept of husband and wife. Women in each tribe give birth to children who do not know who their father is, and the children they give birth to live and grow up with their mothers.

Therefore, the relationship between a woman and the bearded businessman can only be regarded as the long-term promised lover of the bearded businessman.

Or something else.

However, this also means that the matriarchal tribal system in the Full Moon Land is suffering from the impact and is slowly undergoing some changes.

The emergence of Helfas, the appearance of demon hunters and seals has further increased the importance of the original hunting team. More and more people have begun to take the initiative to understand the weirdness, avoid the weirdness, and even want to become demon hunter seals.

The emergence of caravans has greatly increased the importance of handicrafts.

The emergence of farmer tribes has also made farmers and planting the future.

Men have gradually replaced the dominant position of women in major production such as hunting, agriculture, animal husbandry and handicrafts, and have become the main economic pillar of the tribe.

Therefore, the combination of couples and families has gradually begun to appear. This is most obvious in the Black Iron Tribe. The model of men and women forming families and living together to raise children has begun to become popular.

As the caravan walked, the distance suddenly opened up.

They saw plains and valleys, as well as herds of velvet dragons, and shepherds waving whips and whistling.

The bearded merchant laughed: "We are at the Weaving Tribe."

Everyone came down together and entered the Weaving Tribe to rest. After resting, they will go to the Black Iron Tribe in the Full Moon Forest tomorrow.

The bearded merchant brought women, children and caravan members into the Weaving Tribe. Everyone in the tribe knew the bearded merchant and greeted him familiarly. They also came to watch him bring goods.

"Are there any new things?"

"I want some cheap pottery bowls, not too good, just durable, exchanged for cloth, do you have them here?"

"Yes, yes, yes, what don't I have here?"

"This time you come back, help me get some black iron pots!"

"You live by the Full Moon Forest, and you still want me to get ironware?"

"Everyone knows your relationship with Lord Helfas. Black ironware is too popular and it is really hard to buy!"

The bearded merchant was very happy after hearing this, but he said.

"Helfas won't care about the trivial matter of who these ironware are sold to, and I can't bother him for an iron pot."

After leaving the noisy entrance of the tribe, the bearded merchant was very happy when he arrived at the temporary residence and resting place.

The woman saw him like this and said to him.

"Others flatter you a few words, and you are so happy."

The bearded merchant: "It's not because they flatter me, it's because I haven't seen Helfas for a long time, and I think of him being so powerful now, and I'm happy for him."

The woman asked him quietly: "Everyone says that Lord Helfas is a god who came down from the sky. Is it true?"

The bearded merchant: "Only Helfas himself knows this, but from the first time I saw him, I knew he would definitely do something shocking, because he has shocking abilities."

"Now he is going to build a city, build the first city."

When the bearded merchant talked about Helfas's city building, his expression was extremely proud.

The woman looked at the weaving tribe, thinking of the changes in the full moon land, and also thinking of her own tribe.

"Yes!"

"Can you imagine that the arrival of one person can change everyone and thousands of unchanged worlds?"

It was her first time to go to the Black Iron Tribe. She couldn't imagine the grand scene there, nor did she know what the legendary city looked like.

"City?"

"What exactly is it like?"

The bearded merchant sat down, looked at the child beside him, and picked up a piece of lean meat from the pottery plate on the table.

"Come on, eat more. After dinner, we will set out to see your uncle Helfas tomorrow."

"There are so many people at this ceremony. It is an unprecedented scene."

The child asked curiously: "Is there any delicious food at the ceremony?"

The bearded merchant laughed: "Of course, there are many delicious foods."

At night, the bearded merchant snored and slept soundly, and it was quiet outside.

It was an extremely luxurious thing to light up the night in this era, so everyone went to rest after dark, and only the sound of wind, leaves shaking, and insects chirping could be heard outside.

Suddenly, a thunder sounded outside.

"Boom!"

The sound seemed to be in his ears, and the bearded merchant was awakened at once.

The woman next to him had already stood up and looked outside, hugging the child at the same time.

"Is it thundering?"

The bearded merchant looked outside, felt amused by the fact that he was frightened, and shook his head and said.

"It's okay."

"It's just thunder, go back to sleep."

However, he had just laid down when screams came from outside.

"Ah!"

"What is that, what is it?"

"Weird."

"Weirds are coming, and the monsters are coming to eat people."

Suddenly, the bearded man's sleepiness disappeared.

Because he heard the word weird.

Generally, the probability of monsters attacking is highest when there are hundreds of people in a group, but it is not impossible when there are fewer people. Many tribes have encountered monsters when there are only two or three hundred people, and it is not uncommon for them to be destroyed in the end.

However, some large tribes also have some means of escape, or even ways to drive away and avoid monsters.

The bearded man immediately turned over and got up, asking the woman and the child to stay in the house and not move.

"Don't panic, I brought some dragon incense!"

"I'll light it quickly and drive the monster away."

The bearded man opened the box and took out something from it, including a flint.

"It's okay, it's okay."

"I'm very experienced in this."

He was talking to the woman and child on the bed like this, not knowing whether to comfort each other or himself.

He rushed out alone and saw darkness outside.

People were coming and going in the darkness, and you couldn't see who was who. You could only see shadows running around in panic, screaming in terror.

"Run out quickly."

"The weirdness is coming, don't get together."

"Hurry up and run. Every one of you can run."

The bearded businessman raised his head and looked in the direction where everyone wanted to escape. He could see the outline of a huge creature in the sky. The creature flapped its wings and made a tooth-wrenching sound.

Even if you can't see its true appearance, its weird body shape and movements already make people tremble in their hearts.

"What's that weird about?"

The bearded businessman thought to himself.

Suddenly, a white light lit up in front of his eyes.

Then the "thunder" he just heard sounded again.

"Boom!"

The thunder was accompanied by a strange roar.

"Uuuuh~"

He saw a bolt of thunder and fire falling from the sky and landing on the earth.

Big Beard watched the houses of the Weaver tribe in the distance turn into a sea of ​​fire, and with the help of the thunder and the sea of ​​fire, he could also clearly see the strange appearance.

It was an extremely large monster with a towering head and gleaming dragon scales, as indestructible as steel.

The horns on the top of its head are sharp, exuding extremely powerful power. Its huge wings spread out like bats and bring up strong winds. Its claws are like made of alloy. You can tell at a glance that it can easily tear apart any object it knows, even metal under its claws. It's as fragile as cloth.

Especially those eyes that look at mortals, they have the cruelty and greed of beasts, but they are very calm.

Quiet cruelty, cold greed.

It reminded him of the piece of fat and lean meat that he had just eaten for dinner. When he watched the butcher butcher slaughtering the beast, the other man was also so calm, and he put a life on his meal while talking and laughing. plate.

Against the backdrop of the sea of ​​fire, he held the dragon incense he once relied on as a means of saving his life and shouted out the weird name in horror.

"dragon!"