svetikya Chapter 85 Strange Situation
Chapter 85 Strange Situation
It's really strange!
On this continent, the traces of ferocious beasts are hard to find—the greatest enemy of ordinary people, apart from natural disasters and diseases, is wild beasts.
Of all wild animals, the greatest threat to ordinary people is the wolf pack!
The kings of beasts in the mountains and forests, such as tigers, bears, and leopards, have a very strict concept of territory and will not easily step out of their hunting grounds. Therefore, they do not pose a great threat to ordinary people.
But wolf packs are different.
The wolf pack has a larger number of wolves, so they need more food, and their nature is more greedy.
When food is scarce in the mountains, wolf packs will venture out and include human settlements in their hunting range to prey on lone humans.
For ordinary people, encountering a pack of wolves often means death.
For nobles, their wealth would be greatly affected if their territory were attacked by wolves.
If we ignore the wolf pack and let it grow unchecked, as the number and size of the wolf pack gradually increase, it could even evolve into a wolf plague of hundreds of wolves!
At this point, even ordinary knights become prey for the wolves—and some less powerful nobles have their territories destroyed by the wolf plague.
Only the kingdom's regular army can eradicate the wolf plague after paying a certain price.
This is why even the most reluctant nobles to manage their territories would pay more attention to the mountains and forests within their domains, organizing hunters every year or offering bounties to hunt wolves in the mountains to prevent the formation of wolf packs.
But ironically, a pack of wolves had already formed in the forest right in front of Luo Ang.
It appears to be just a small pack of seven mountain wolves—but this still means that the owner of the forest has no intention of managing it.
This also means that the wolf pack in these mountains will soon grow in size and expand outwards...
"Surely this whole forest isn't unclaimed?"
"Is this unclaimed land?" Luo Ang thought, then shook his head, dismissing the idea.
No man's land—that's impossible.
The nobility's greed for land was deeply ingrained.
Even if it's just a flowing river, they would want to cut it into sections and write their own names on the water and fish in it.
Even in the most desolate and lifeless places, some kingdom or noble will make a claim to them...
Therefore, there is absolutely no unclaimed land on this continent.
Even if it does exist, once someone finds this place, it will no longer be a no-man's land.
Moreover, this mountain range is not a lifeless place—the forests are home to wild animals, and even the trees themselves are a treasure.
Moreover, there are rules governing the nobility.
If a disaster like a wolf attack occurs in a noble's territory, it is very likely to attract the attention of nearby nobles, who will then come to "support" the noble. After this "support" is provided, the nearby nobles will take a portion of the noble's territory as "reward".
Otherwise, when Loon was young, his father wouldn't have insisted on risking losses to kill a wolf pack—if he hadn't, other nobles would have come to kill them.
At that time, a portion of their territory will be taken away by others.
Under such circumstances, it is easy to imagine how "difficult" it would be for a wolf pack to appear.
In fact, Loen has only encountered two wolf packs in this world.
The first is a pack of wolves that expanded from someone else's territory within their family's territory.
The second one is what's right in front of us.
"It just so happens that Teon and the others went to the other side of the forest to scout out the situation. We can check on the forest when they return," Loon thought.
As for the safety of Teon and his men—as long as Teon and his men do not split up, the pack of seven mountain wolves is not enough to pose a threat to the troops protected by the two knights.
"Next, should we go to the top of the mountain to check the other side, or go back to that cliff?" Loen asked, turning around.
While at sea, he thought the mountain range was an arc-shaped mountain range, and that the high cliffs were a section of the mountain range.
But when he looked back after stepping into the forest, he was shocked to discover that the mountain range was not arc-shaped.
Instead, it resembles a trident, with high and gentle mountains on both sides and a low but abrupt mountain in the middle.
—That high cliff is a section of the relatively low mountain that suddenly juts out upwards.
As the Stone Oak sailed along the coastline, Loon had already taken a general look at the situation on the shore.
There are no other mountains behind this mountain range to provide cover.
Therefore, once you reach the dividing line of this mountain range, you can clearly see the situation on the other side of the mountain range.
By then, Loen will have a better understanding of the wolf pack's situation.
"I hope this is a place with an owner," Loen thought to himself.
To be precise, it's not a place with an owner.
Instead, it's a place with a clearly defined owner.
Only if this place has a clear owner can Loon make it his own through a contract.
In this way, you won't encounter situations like "he painstakingly managed the place, and then suddenly someone comes to your door with a contract and starts nagging, or some hostile wizards want to use the ownership of the place to cause trouble for Loen."
"Is there a difference between these two places?" The Crimson Wizard reluctantly shifted her gaze from the forest.
Whether it's the bold and intelligent deer or the chirping birds, it's a landscape completely different from that of the sea.
What they possess is a vibrant vitality completely different from that of the sea.
This stark contrast is incredibly appealing to the Scarlet Wizard.
Even the wolf's howl that startled the deer and flocks of birds had a unique charm in the eyes of the Crimson Wizard.
"Going towards the cliff is like looking back at the past."
"Going to the mountains is to look to the future." Loon waved his hand, giving the Crimson Wizard a few words of encouragement.
"Looking to the future..." The Scarlet Wizard's expression suddenly became dazed.
Compared to her past experiences, the changes she experienced after meeting Luo Ang...
Whether it was the study of magic or the decision to leave the stormy seas...
That was indeed better than her previous plans; it truly deserved to be called the 'future'.
In addition, there were the orchid wizard's instructions...
"Is the future of wizards truly on the continent and not at sea?" the Crimson Wizard murmured to himself, finally making up his mind.
"Let's go check out the mountains first."
"Let me see, what makes this continent capable of bearing the future of so many wizards!" said the Crimson Wizard.
"Great Crimson Wizard, please." Loon smiled and, mimicking old Colin's posture, placed one hand on his chest and stretched the other towards the mountain range.
"The even greater Thunder Wizard, please do so as well." The Crimson Wizard also laughed.
The two then headed up the mountain ridge, one after the other.
However, the order has changed to Scarlet Wizard first, followed by Loon.
Before long, the two had reached the top of the mountain.
The scenery behind the mountains, the vitality of the central continent, was also revealed to the Crimson Wizard.
"This is the Central Continent?" The Crimson Wizard paused, her words sounding somewhat strange.