Above the mage!

Chapter 238: Port and Beast Tide

After changing his mind towards Gaode, he suddenly realized that the Frost Soul was not the only path to take.

There is another direction that is also possible:
Soul of the forest.

He came to the North to plant trees, and almost forgot his original profession.

In addition to ice element energy, wood element is also a route.

Both have their pros and cons.

The advantage of the Frost Soul is that it can be cultivated now, and it is obviously easier to obtain ice element energy in the North.

The disadvantage is the possible competition for resources and homogeneity of capabilities.

Overlapping abilities means that the general environment of the North, including humans and earth creatures, have most abilities that are based on the ice element.

Similarly, resistance is generally towards the ice element. For example, the fur of the snow wolf is extremely resistant to ice element spells.

In such an environment, Frost Soul seems a bit too common, while Forest Soul is a "different one" and will have a more outstanding performance.

Resource competition actually refers to competition with Amap itself.

The upgrade of his Mandela Magic Eye also requires the absorption of ice elemental power.

Resources are always limited, so Gaode will face a problem: should the limited resources be used to upgrade the Mandela Eye or the Soul of the Wild?

You can't have both, but both are very important to him.

If you take the Forest Soul route, you can avoid these two drawbacks.

However, compared with the Frost Soul route that can be opened now, it is more or less a "pie in the sky" idea.

After all, up to now, he has not even seen a suitable planting site, let alone planted trees.

After thinking carefully for a long time, Gaode finally preferred the "Forest Soul" route.

After all, producing it for your own use sounds more reliable.

Awakening Month, 3rd, the seventh day that Gode arrived at the Snover clan camp.

After a week of study, he was already able to use Ace language to communicate with people from the North in daily life.

The rest is just a process of practice and familiarity.

This made Lana feel a little embarrassed - because this teaching was too easy, and the reward given by Gode was too generous.

"How many times have you migrated with the Snover tribe?" That evening, after finishing today's Ace language teaching, Goder asked casually.

Lana thought for a moment, counted carefully on her fingers and said, "Our tribe usually migrates twice a year. Sometimes it's only once, and sometimes it's four times a year. I think we've migrated about thirty times."

More than thirty times, Gao De thought for a while and asked again: "Is the location of each migration new?"

"That's not it." Lana shook her head and explained:

"Our tribe has four or five fixed pastures. Whenever the grass in a pasture is running low on food for the reindeer, the tribe will send scouts to other pastures to check on the grass recovery situation."

"Then, based on the exploration results, which pasture has the best grass growth will be determined as the next migration site."

"Unless we encounter some special circumstances and all our pastures are not suitable as migration sites, the tribe will look for new migration sites."

Very reasonable.

In fact, the migration pattern of all nomadic peoples should be this "rotational grazing" model, following a set of established routes summarized based on years of experience, migrating between relatively fixed places.

In addition to better utilizing natural resources, fixed migration routes also helped them connect and trade with other tribes.

Four or five pastures. Gao De thought about it and realized that the area enclosed would not be particularly large.

After all, for such a large tribe, it would be unrealistic to migrate too far.

"During the migration process, have you ever seen any place with flat terrain and convenient geographical location, but no tribe has ever been stationed there?" Gao De asked casually without holding out any hope.

Lana's answer was in line with expectations. She thought about it carefully, then shook her head decisively and said, "No."

But before Goder could say anything, Lana paused, hesitated, and said, "But."

"But what?" Gao De's eyes suddenly brightened when he saw that there seemed to be a turn for the better.

"I don't know why you're looking for a place like this, but according to the conditions you've proposed, there seem to be many places on the coastline that meet your requirements." She said after a moment's hesitation.

To be honest, if it wasn't because this "money" was so easy to make, she would have felt really bad and would never have said these things.

"When my father was still alive, he was a scout for the tribe, exploring nomadic lands for the tribe. So he traveled to many places and knew a lot about the North."

"He once told me that there is only one port on our northern coastline, the Wolf Port built by the Vikings."

"With the Viking Wolf Port, the Vikings could take wolf ships south to plunder and plunder the resources of foreigners when the port thawed in the summer."

"So, the Vikings' lives can be said to be extremely comfortable, unlike us who have to run around for food all day long."

"In fact, there are many places suitable for building ports along our northern coastline, not just the Viking Wolf Port."

"There are three main reasons why there is only one Viking Wolf Port so far."

"One reason is that we live a nomadic lifestyle and rarely stay in one place for a long time, and the coastline is not suitable for grazing."

Nomadic people and port, these two nouns are inherently contradictory and difficult to connect together.

"Secondly, we don't have the technology to build a ship. At the same time, with limited food, we can't spare a large number of people to build a port."

For the people of the North, they spend most of the day running for food.

Building a port is undoubtedly a huge project that is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Who will provide food for such a long period of "off-duty" work?
This is a very real problem.

"Finally, whether building a port or constructing ships, a large amount of high-quality wood is needed, and it is difficult to find these things on the snowy plains."

The northern border, also known as the permafrost tundra, has vegetation limited to mosses, lichens, and occasional low shrubs.

Not to mention high-quality wood, even large trees are almost invisible.

The North is isolated from the outside world, and it is almost impossible to obtain these resources from the outside world.

Therefore, the necessary material conditions for building a port cannot be met here.

"The Vikings were able to build the port because there was a special tree called the Norse cedar growing in their territory."

"This is the only large tree found in the North that can grow, and it is also a top-quality shipbuilding material."

"But it only appears and grows in Viking territory, and its production is extremely limited, so the Viking Wolf Port became the only port in the North."

At this point, Lana couldn't help but sigh.
Then, she glanced at Gao De and said, "You are a foreigner. The outside world is not as barren as our northern border. There are many ports."

"So, you should know that places suitable for building ports generally require a large amount of flat land, sufficiently stable geology, and a good geographical location. This should meet your requirements."

"Also, the coastline is not suitable for nomadic migration, so most of the coastal areas are sparsely populated and no tribes have ever stationed there."

Lana told everything she knew in one breath, but Goder's eyes lit up again and again as she spoke.

In addition to the fact that the coastal area just met his requirements and was an ideal place to plant trees, as Lana said, Gao De also discovered a point that he had previously overlooked:

Trees are a scarce resource in the North.

And he has the potential to continuously produce this scarce resource.

In addition to being used as fuel, wood's more important use is in "industry".

We can even go a step further and build a second port in the north besides the Viking Wolf Port.
What is the most important raw material for shipbuilding and establishing ports?
It's wood.

What is he going to do?
Plant trees!

The two are naturally compatible. Although having wood does not mean that a port and a large number of ships can be built, after all, there are still technical and manpower difficulties to overcome.

But at least once the basic conditions are met, the things that follow will no longer be castles in the air and can be planned slowly.

Almost instantly, Gaode decided on the location for planting trees:

An ideal port location on the northern coastline.

Plant trees first, then get rich.

"Are we far from the coastline?" Gao De asked again.

"I don't know," Lana shook her head, and then said, "It should be very far away. No one in the tribe has ever seen the sea."

It is inconvenient after all to not have a map.

When he thought of this, Gao De started to have a headache again.

But there's no point in having a headache.

He was a foreigner and only a first-ring wizard, and he really couldn't think of any way to make the Snover clan willing to trade the map with him.

If it really doesn't work, just go find it yourself. Anyway, I know the general direction. Gao De thought to himself.

Don't go into a dead end.

Having a map would certainly be more convenient and save time, but if you really can't get a map, it doesn't mean you can't get anything done.

As various thoughts raced through his mind, Gao De reached out to take a sip of water from the warm water cup placed next to the fire pit, but he was stunned for a moment.

The water in the cup flows automatically without wind.

Tiny ripples spread out in the small cup of water.

What's happening here?
Gao De didn't react at first and was a little confused.

However, the frequency of ripples in the water cup is accelerating.

The next moment, tiny drops of water jumped out.

Gao De's heart skipped a beat, as if he had thought of something.

He stood up suddenly, lifted the animal skin curtain of the tent, and looked into the distance.

The next moment, a circle of deep blue fluorescence appeared in Gaode's left pupil.

Mandela's Eye.

At this time, more than two hours had passed since dark.

The sky on the snowfield darkens very quickly, with almost no dusk, so it can already be considered night.

However, Gode had already adapted to the extremely high ability of seeing in the dark in Saint Sean Prison. Combined with the enhanced vision of Mandela's Magic Eye, he easily saw a blurry but huge figure through the night.

The figure leaped up and landed on the snow hill. It was not clear in the night, but the pair of golden pupils were extremely conspicuous.

Then, behind the figure standing proudly on the snow hill, one black shadow after another appeared.

These shadows were much smaller, but there were too many of them, and they were still increasing in number.

These dark shadows have blue eyes that twinkle like stars in the night sky, but they are not beautiful. Just one look at them makes people feel cold all over and their scalp tingles.

这 是
Snow Wolf!

It only took Gao De a moment to realize the other party's identity.

Packs of snow wolves.

Just a glance was enough for him to determine that the number of snow wolves in this pack definitely exceeded a thousand, or even more.

Such a large number of snow wolves can no longer be simply called a snow wolf attack, but should be called
Beast tide!

As soon as this term popped up in Gaode's mind, his scalp couldn't help but feel numb.

next moment.

The largest figure standing on the snow hill, the so-called alpha wolf, raised his head high and howled at the moon in the sky.

Ouch! ! !

The rest of the snow wolves also howled.

The howling of wolves rose one after another, exploding like thunder in the dark night.

After the wolves howled at the moon, dark shadows leaped up from the snow hills toward the camp of the Snover clan.

They were running wildly and roaring, and the black shadows like a tide directly covered the snow hills.

In those blue wolf eyes, there was hunger and ferocity.

After seeing this scene, Gao De was sure that these hungry snow wolves would eat all the living people.

This was a horrifying and shocking scene.

Gao De withdrew his gaze.

Lana in the tent had turned pale.

She does not have the ability to see in the dark and the Mandela Eye like God.

But the sound of the wolves' howling still reached her ears clearly. As a native of the North, she naturally knew what this meant.

Beast tide.

Even though the Snover clan was not a small tribe like the Duoer border tribe, facing the beast tide, they would not be easily destroyed, but they would definitely suffer heavy losses.

"How could it be so sudden? The tribe's scouting personnel didn't discover it in advance," Lana murmured in despair.

It is impossible for a medium-sized tribe like the Snover clan, with a population of over ten thousand, to have no sense of crisis at all.

They have special personnel responsible for scouting the surrounding situation, and once a herd of beasts is discovered, they will immediately notify the tribe so that the tribe can prepare to resist the attack as soon as possible.

But this time, they did not receive any warning before the beast tide hit.

woo~~~
woo~~~
The sound of horns made of rhinoceros horns has begun to sound in the Snover camp.

Gao De's expression became serious.

"Hurry up and pack up some luggage, and get ready to run away." He turned to Lana and reminded her.

"The hunters and ice wizards in our tribe will repel the beast tide." Lana said subconsciously.

"No, they probably can't do it this time," said Godard.

Because in Gaode's sight, there are still black shadows constantly emerging from the snow hill.

A rough estimate puts this number at nearly two thousand, and it is not over yet, but still increasing.

But Gaode no longer had the heart to wait and see.

The scale of this beast tide far exceeded Lana's imagination.

At this moment, the most important thing is to run away as soon as possible.

At the same time, Gaode had already picked up his package.

To be honest, apart from "Breath of the Wild", he didn't have anything else that he couldn't throw away, so he packed up quickly.

(End of this chapter)