535.Chapter 533: 532 Development Team Plans Goatman Copy Folder

Chapter 533 532.Development Group Plan – Goatman Copy Folder Created

Six days later, the pioneering group’s outpost vanguard had finally gotten out of the filthy swamp, and Old Qin and his team members, who were already on the verge of turning into savages, stormed out of the swamp on their hunting colts stepping into a new area that they had never set foot in before.

This speed was a day faster than planned, probably because the quests shared by Lady Water made the members of the Pioneer Corps yearn for it.

The battle at Wolf’s Castle had created a legend, making the student party feel like “Transylvanian heroes”, and wherever the six of them went during the Holy Blood Festival, they were cheered by the public and even kissed by girls, plus the real benefits made the other players very enthusiastic.

They thought it would be a while before such a large event would trigger again, but they didn’t expect Mrs. Adele to give them a surprise.

Another stronghold quest, and this time it was a defense quest that didn’t require a raid copy, and only needed to hold out until the end of the war.

Even though the Silver Moon Mission has already locked the deed of the reward, they have also promised that after the establishment of the “Silver Moon City” stronghold, all players who have participated in this event will be able to enjoy a lot of privileges in it, and the “rich woman” Little Reed also gave a very high salary for this mission. The pay for this mission is extremely high.

It was as if she had mobilized her money to hire all the players who were willing to help.

In the past few days, Mrs. Water, the five village chiefs and Fort Riptide had reached an agreement that the richest players would fully support the Silver Moon Regiment’s stronghold war, and even included potions and scrolls as well as some equipment.

This trip down the earnings is absolutely amazing, especially for those who are from the “old players” to “elite players” transition group, as long as to seize this opportunity, a wave of takeoff, and make a name for themselves is not a problem.

And those who also have the ambition of the small group of players also intend to take advantage of this opportunity to “observe and observe”, until they encountered a similar opportunity in the future will have enough experience.

“Wow! I never thought that the Dark Mountain Range was actually this kind of terrain? This is too shocking, isn’t it?”

Groundnut Burn, who was riding on the saddle, was worthy of being an art student, his emotions were just rich and plentiful.

After getting out of the dark and nasty swamp, returning to the vast sunny land was pleasurable and exciting, and more importantly, the “new map” that appeared in front of their eyes was completely different from Transylvania in terms of terrain and landscape alone.

The earth-red barren rift valley stretched all the way from the eyes of several outpost players to the end of the line of sight, and those bare mounds and the hidden mountains in the distance all represented a barren land with a harsh environment in front of them.

No wonder this place was called “Barren Mountain” on the map, this description was extremely accurate.

Gusts of scorching wind blew the tumbleweeds on the ground and brought up smoke and dust, and even formed a small dust tornado in front of Groundhog Burning’s eyes, creating more desolation and vicissitudes for this almost grassless place, and it had a kind of western cowboy movie style.

A few art students got together to take a picture of the new map with the Operational Treasure Pearl.

These art students are always good at parsing out the aesthetic value from the ordinary scenery, for example, at this moment, Groundnut Roast and Tofu Milk are arguing about the “aesthetic style” of this new map, they think that it must have been remodeled from the desolate areas in reality.

Gourd Burner even lists a few possible locations based on the extension of the terrain, but is unable to convince his roommate that they both have their own views on the new map.

As for Old Qin
Old Qin wasn’t an artist, he was realistic, and would have already started gathering intelligence information on the neighborhood of Desolate Mountain.

“The temperature here is at least fifteen degrees higher than Transylvania, it’s already deep winter over there, but the temperature over here is about the same as subtropical.

It seems that the existence of the Filthy Swamp completely divides the climates of the two places, preventing the scorching gales here from affecting the more suitable climate in the middle of the continent, and I’m guessing that the ecosystems here are very different from Transylvania as well.

The vampires are probably going to suffer old age fighting here.”

Old Qin recorded his findings while circling around, their location was a highland that extended forward into a huge canyon with a drop of dozens of meters, if they wanted to truly enter the barren mountain they would have to pass through this crooked canyon and then climb the highland in order to continue forward.

Beside Old Qin, Old Baldwin, who had entered the Dark Mountain Range to fight the Jackals, explained to Old Qin with a touch of nostalgia in an undead raspy voice:
“Your view is accurate, if you use Transylvania’s experience to try to survive in the Barren Mountains that’s basically the same as looking for death, most of the outer regions of the Dark Mountain Range are so barren that the conditions for survival here are very harsh, and this harsh environment creates the more brutal and ferocious habits of the local creatures.

You guys need to be more careful when you move around here.

Because of the lack of water, the local creatures tend to have very sharp senses in order to find water, and there have always been goat people around this Baphomet Canyon, and in my time there were rumors that the goat people were hiding dark lairs underneath the canyons and highlands.

It has even been said that there are goatmen’s dungeon cities hidden beneath this earth.”

“What are goat people?”

Groundhog Burn came over and asked, and the necromancer gave him a look and said:
“A kind of half-orc, like a goat walking upright, so it is called by this name, but you don’t really look at them as goats, even the jackals won’t actively mess with the goatmen, if not for the small number of these guys, they would have long become a hegemon of the Dark Mountain Range.

They have their own set of language system and twisted degenerate civilization heritage, outsiders are difficult to learn that kind of obscure words and symbols, even the best explorers for the goat people’s understanding is also extremely limited.

These guys live a barbaric life and will attack any outsider who enters their territory.

Unlike the jackals who specialize in melee combat, the goatmen are not only sturdy and flexible, but also quite adept at shadow spells, and they are full of brutal nocturnal assassins, as well as their own set of fancy curse spells.

There are whispers that the original heritage of cultists such as the Trickster came from the fall of the goatmen, but no one is sure of the truth of this rumor.

But there’s no need to worry too much about them.

Goatmen have a strong sense of territory, but they don’t voluntarily wander away from their territory, so as long as you bypass the grottoes and certain strange places where goatmen are entrenched as you move forward you can avoid conflicts with them.”

The old necromancer deserved to be knowledgeable, it explained the characteristics of the goatmen in three or two sentences before pointing to the barren canyons and highlands ahead and said:
“This area is the most famous territory of the goatmen, according to the phonetic translation, we called this place ‘Baffent Canyon’ in our time, and there are so many tribes of goatmen here that it’s like stars in the sky.

We should speed up to cross this area, and after reaching the barren mountain ahead we can stop worrying about the threat of the goatmen.”

“Blanch, Lady Water is still planning to make this place a merchant road.”

Pickle rubbed his eyes somewhat helplessly and said:
“According to Old Luo, if she wants to open up a merchant road not only does she have to deal with the trouble of the swamp, but she also has to get rid of the goat people around this canyon before she can do so. Otherwise, the merchant caravan will be kidnapped away a few unlucky people while walking, who can stand that?”

“Well, the goat people may be savage but they can communicate.”

The necromancer shook his head:
“Others can’t learn their language, but they can learn other languages, these barbarians are very cunning, but having intelligence means they can negotiate.

In our time, whenever the threat of the Black Plague was too large, there would even be goatmen who took the initiative to cooperate with the scouts we sent out, and they didn’t want the jackals to be too powerful to affect their territory.

I’ve also heard in the swamps that in years past Transylvanian smugglers had a very safe path to pass through undisturbed by simply bringing the goatmen some ‘offerings’.”

“Well, so it’s fallen intelligent creatures.”

A few students’ eyes lit up as they realized that there was likely grease to be had in this.

In this real game world, it was impossible for beasts to drop equipment, as beasts wouldn’t craft weapons and armor, only dropping various materials.

But the fact that these goatmen had learned to take over the mountain for the business of robbing roads meant that they must have good things in their hands that could be dropped, and this Baffent Canyon was so big that it must be hiding a copy that the development team had gotten good at!
Maybe it can be the same as the Silver Moon Group to support the Hogg Chief, in the goat people here to copy a wave of “the establishment of the Lord of the country won countless” old Weijia classic errand it.

“Let’s go, go back and report back, let the Pioneer Corps accelerate through the swamp.”

Old Qin didn’t think so much.

He was focused on the current mission and had to solve the trouble in the Dark Valley before he could have time to engage in anything else, but after they left, a bizarre silhouette suddenly flashed out from the top of the originally empty and barren canyon.

The latter lay on his back in the shadows of the rocks, staring at the intruders retreating back into the swamp with those strange pupils of his eyes.

Its furry head with coiled horns shook a bit, and it took out its animal skin to make a few more marks then raised its head to look at the sky.

It could see Revernor flying high on his wings, and the vulture’s form gave the creature a lousy look before it quietly disappeared into the cavern hidden behind the rocky outcrop.

Adele’s memories of escaping from the Barren Mountains to the Filthy Swamp as a child were fuzzy, and she couldn’t remember how she, Bella, and Berenice had gotten through Baffent Canyon, but Berenice, who had followed Adele here first, had warned her that she must be wary of goatmen looters, and so the spectral baroness spilled out the fighters under her command to serve as outposts.

However, until this pioneering group spent a day and a night passing through the narrow Baphomet Valley near the Barren Mountains, none of the legendary goatmen jumped out to loot, instead a group of sickle-clawed monsters hidden in the mountain rocks jumped out and almost ate Yuan, who was acting as a scout, alive. Luckily, Orchid reacted quickly and pulled him out of the sickle-claw monster’s gutter trap, and then those vicious monsters that looked just like big praying mantises were easily disposed of by the players who swarmed around them.

After discussing the situation, they agreed that the strength of the monsters here was indeed a bit higher than that of Transylvania’s local area, but it wasn’t too much to deal with, so it seemed that this was the “leveling area” that the development team had left for the new players.

However, according to old Baldwin’s words, the area they are currently in is only the bordering area between the Filthy Swamp and the Dark Mountain Range, and can’t be considered as the area of the Dark Mountain Range, and they haven’t entered the “Black Flame Mountain Pass” yet.

The Knights of the Blood League’s Barren Mountain defense line was located there, about two hundred kilometers away from the Filthy Swamp.

However, the Pioneering Corps had no intention of moving on today, they had already reached their destination after crossing the Baphomet Canyon.

The Valley of Shadows was hidden amongst several bare and barren peaks in the nearby terrain, and while the others were camping, the entirety of Brother Woo Meow’s Big Bird Regiment had already taken off on Wind Wyverns for reconnaissance under the command of Lady Adele.

She’d long since forgotten how to access the roads in the mountains, and it had been more than thirty years since Lady Berenice had left the area, so it was hard to say that the Phantom Half-Elves still maintained the same patrol routes they’d had before from time to time.

Soon there was good news from Brother Woo Meow’s side, they had found a passageway hidden between the rocks of the mountains, at the end of which was a very hidden cave, and from here they should be able to get close to the Valley of the Spectral Shadows by going up the mountain.

“Auntie Bernice, you stay in the camp to assist everyone in setting up camp and defending, I’ll first take a trip up the mountain to check out the situation.”

Mrs. Adele’s execution was superb, and she acted immediately after receiving the return.

Lady Berenice did not retort in the face of the order, she knew why Adele was leaving her here.

The Shadow Elves were evil and meatless, but desecrating the dead was still a terrible sin in their tradition, and the half-elves had inherited some of the Shadow Elf customs, and a gesture like Bernice’s was by no means a model of smooth communication with them.

Therefore, even if Mrs. Bernice desperately wanted to see her daughter again, she had to stay here and wait for news.

Adele also didn’t bring too many people there, just let little Vikrama, Pomegranate and Lumina follow her along, they can fly, and Lumina’s half-elven identity might be able to win the favor of the people in the valley.

Guided by the flashbangs shot by the old song, the four ladies quickly approached the cave hidden halfway up the mountain, and Adele seemed to recall this place from long ago memories as well, as she stroked the wet rock at the entrance of the cave while speaking to the wary trio behind her:

“This is an outpost . It should be guarded, so put down your weapons.”

“What if they attack?”

The small Vikramana, carrying a large gun, said warily:

“I thought you said they weren’t friendly?”

“It’s true about treating outsiders, but as far as I can remember my people are very united, so if you’re ‘one of us’ you don’t have to worry about being attacked here.”

Adele spoke softly.

Then flipping her assassin’s hood up to reveal her face, she put her hands up and stepped into the not so large cavern before her.

The three sisters hesitated for a moment and followed suit, before Garnet waved her hand towards the sky in a gesture, signaling Qu, who was hovering high in the sky, to prepare for a supportive evacuation.

They walked through the dimly lit cavern, but the darkness couldn’t obscure the four’s vision, especially since the vampires’ perception in the darkness allowed Adele to quickly lock on to the location of the sentinel who was hiding up ahead.

She stopped, took a deep breath, and called out in the language of the Shadow Elves:

“I am Adele Bella Bernice! The only daughter of ‘Freehand’ Mona, I was forced to leave twenty-five years ago, and now I am back! Who is the current leader in the Valley of the Shadow? May I speak with her?”

No one responded, which was bad news.

But no one attacked either, which was good news for the moment.

The four waited patiently for a response from the darkness until several minutes later, when a slim figure jumped down from her hiding place, deftly flipping through the air and landing safely on the ground again, wielding a viper-like longbow and looking warily at the people in front of her.

After a moment, she replied:
“Adele, I remember you! Lady Berenice and Mr. Bella escorted you out of the chaos all those years ago, we all thought you were dead, and now it seems that Avalon has sheltered you.

Wait there, the message has been sent back to the valley and the chief’s orders will arrive soon.

You should remember her as well, it’s Lisa, your teenage heel is now our young alpha as well as reserve head priest.”

“Head Priestess?”

Adele’s body shook for a moment when she heard the position, she then questioned sternly:

“You guys have reverted back to believing in Ms. Spider? Dammit! You fallen ones! Are you all going back to the Eternal Rift to pledge your allegiance to the House of Megawa? Bastards! You have betrayed this valley, you have failed your fathers!
I should have taken my clan and exterminated you before you fell completely.”

The huntress of darkness was mortified in the face of Adele’s scolding, but she quickly replied with a sigh:

“You’ve been away from us for too long, Adele, fate has changed you as well as us, don’t you know that yet? The Mejva family that everyone has always hated . It’s gone. Now this valley, too, is the last place those Shadow Elves will ever be.

They’re just like us, they’re all poor people who have lost their homes now.”

“?”
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“Pfft.”

The sharp staff-sword penetrated through the bristling flesh, causing the hideous thing to fall into a pool of blood, and Murphy under the lone cold moon sheathed his sword as he frowned at the slain goat-man before him.

Higher up in the night, Revernor was spreading his wings, looking down on the full extent of Baffent’s Canyon below.

Murphy didn’t move with his own players, he was six days late in arranging his affairs to depart from Scarlet Fortress, but Murphy flew fast enough to arrive near the Barren Mountains almost around the same time as his own pioneering group.

He came on this trip to have a conversation with the second lord of the Blood Alliance Clan and to see the situation of Barren Mountain with his own eyes, but he didn’t intend to intervene in the matter of the Valley of the Darkness, that was Adele’s job, and he was sure that Adele would be able to accomplish it successfully.

Murphy’s attention was focused on the goatman clan’s crypt, which he had just slaughtered, and the foolish little players thought they were lucky not to have been attacked by goatmen, but in fact, the attackers had just been preparing to loot when they ran headlong into the sword of the vampire governor, who had “just happened to be passing by”.

“The writing on these guys.”

Murphy crouched down in the pool of blood and looked at the engravings on the walls of the deepest part of the filthy crypt.

He’d seen these writings before.

In those confusing images of Eden, in the curator’s room in the swampy sanctuary, he’d seen something similar, and he could confirm that it was the same writing, only strangely altered over long periods of time.

Murphy reckoned that the goatmen themselves might not even be able to understand the writing anymore, and that they used the symbols as part of their rituals.

And the writing was truly magical, it carried a certain specificity that could resonate with psychic energy.

“The goatmen are no doubt from the Eden Zone as well, and they’re worse off than the vampires; they’ve even forgotten their own civilization.”

Murphy stroked the engravings that were smeared with animal blood as he whispered:

“Legend has it that there is a huge dungeon of goatmen underneath Baffent Canyon, well . No doubt the development team and the dog planners have a job to do again.”

(End of chapter)