"So it was Setsuna… I heard about what happened to your parents. You have my deepest condolences."
After they were invited into the ice-wolf village as guests, the village chief recognized Setsuna's identity.
"In the past, those damned kingdom soldiers only dared to send small squads to poach around here."
"I never thought they would beco this brazen in the past two years."
"If Sword Hero-sama had not intervened this ti, we would likely have followed the sa path as the others."
As he spoke, the ice-wolf tribe's burly chief, Norn, slapped the table. A row of ice-wolf tribesn entered from outside, each carrying a tray.
"The ice-wolf tribe excels at hunting. These are rare materials harvested from monsters along the border. Please accept them, Hero-sama."
Drake had originally intended to refuse, but after sweeping over the items with Appraisal, he discovered that there was actually Flinx Fur among them.
That material could also be obtained by killing Snow Flinxes in Terraria.
However, because Snow Flinxes only spawned in Snow bios and were sowhat difficult to find, Drake had barely encountered any so far.
The item required to summon the Snowfield boss, Deerclops, had to be crafted using this material.
"I only need this monster's fur."
"If you have more, you can exchange all the other materials for this."
With that, Drake would no longer need to dive into a frozen wasteland himself and wait for Snow Flinxes to spawn.
Once he returned today, he would be able to imdiately summon Deerclops and farm it several tis over.
"Snow Flinx fur…? Hero-sama, are you certain this is all you want?"
Norn was sowhat surprised, because Snow Flinx fur was not especially rare.
It was usually only used to make warm clothing and could not be crafted into enchanted armor.
"I have my uses for it."
Drake smiled but did not explain further.
Norn was tactful enough not to press him and imdiately instructed his people to bring out all the Snow Flinx fur they had in storage.
"More than a hundred pieces… that's enough to farm until the sky goes dark."
Looking at the three-digit number of materials in his inventory, Drake was very satisfied.
Crafting one Deer Thing required only three Flinx Fur, five Demonite Ore, and one Lens.
Demonite Ore and Lenses were both extrely easy materials to obtain—at least, for the current Drake.
With his present basic abilities, even if he wore no equipnt and fought with a wooden sword, he could still solo the Eye of Cthulhu.
As for Lenses, they were materials dropped by Demon Eyes at night.
Although Drake had never deliberately fard them, he had accumulated quite a few over ti.
In any case, they did not have many other uses.
After accepting the ice-wolf tribe's thanks, Drake accepted the village chief's invitation and joined the evening banquet.
The ice-wolf demi-humans who had escaped disaster at the hands of the kingdom soldiers released the joy of survival to their hearts' content around the bonfire.
anwhile, under Setsuna's vigilant glare, the young and beautiful ice-wolf girls offered embraces and deep kisses to the Hero who had saved them.
A powerful, young, and handso human Hero, and on top of that, a savior who had rescued them from calamity.
If it had already been ti to sleep, these bold and passionate girls might have slipped directly into Drake's tent and begged for his favor.
After all, that would benefit them as well.
"Master… Setsuna wants it too."
Seeing so many of her fellow tribeswon return in high spirits, Setsuna stood beside him, lightly twisting her legs together, clearly struggling to hold herself back.
"We'll have plenty of ti once we go back."
Drake rubbed Setsuna's head, then casually stroked the ice-wolf girl's furry ears.
Her downy ears felt so good beneath his hand that he always found himself unable to resist stroking them a few extra tis.
"Hehehe… it seems the girls of the tribe greatly admire Hero-sama."
Norn walked over, seemingly with sothing he wished to say.
"After these kingdom soldiers disappear, the Kingdom of Jioral will certainly not let the matter rest. They will definitely send troops to investigate."
"Hero-sama, would you be willing to accept a request to escort our village during its migration?"
Hearing the village chief's words, Setsuna cut in with so surprise.
"Uncle Norn, you want to leave the border?"
"Yes… this place is no longer suitable for us to survive."
The burly ice-wolf man sighed, the weathered look of a warrior filling his face.
"Whether it is the Kingdom of lromarc or the Kingdom of Jioral, both are deeply hostile toward demi-human races like ours."
"And with the slave-hunting squads becoming more rampant lately, our people are being captured in great numbers and sold as slaves…"
"Even if only for the future of the younger generation, I have to make this decision."
Setsuna's ears drooped, as though she felt both sorrow and reluctance.
Once the ice-wolf tribe migrated, even if she wanted to reunite with her people later, she might not be able to find them.
"Which direction do you plan to migrate?"
Drake suddenly spoke.
"There aren't many choices left if you want to move away from both kingdoms, are there?"
"That's right… though we had no choice to begin with."
Norn nodded with a bitter smile.
"I heard that the neutral city of Branica in the south is very accepting of demi-human races. Even demons can live there in harmony. I plan to take my people there and see for myself."
"Branica…"
Drake frowned as certain rather brutal plotlines ca to mind.
"I suggest you choose another place."
"According to the intelligence I've obtained, the Kingdom of Jioral is preparing to make a move against that neutral city."
"What?!"
Upon hearing this news, disbelief surfaced on the ice-wolf chief's face.
"Hero-sama, are you certain that information is true?"
"Unless sothing unexpected happens… after this Wave passes, they will launch their expedition."
"Those damned bastards of Jioral!"
Norn's expression turned grim, and he could only clench his fists powerlessly.
"Are they truly determined to exterminate us demi-humans?!"
Seeing Norn's dejected state, Setsuna felt unable to bear it and gently tugged at Drake's sleeve.
Drake nodded to her, signaling that she did not need to worry.
"For Setsuna's sake, I can give you a choice. A place to belong."
After thinking for a mont, Drake spoke to the village chief.
"I swear here in the na of the Sword Hero."
"If the ice-wolf tribe is willing to submit to , I can form contracts with you and grant you a snowy paradise far from war."
"There, you will have endless food. You will not suffer from disability or illness, nor will you need to fear the threat of death."
When he heard the word "submit," the burly ice-wolf man was initially sowhat angered.
Even if Drake was a Hero, thinking he could make them bow so easily was rather arrogant.
But after hearing the conditions that followed, Norn instantly threw the ice-wolf tribe's pride to the back of his mind.
Endless food? A paradise without illness, injury, or even death? And they would not be dragged into war?
"Sword Hero-sama, is that true?!"
"Setsuna is the first ice-wolf to sign a contract with ."
Drake spoke calmly.
"She has already seen the place I'm talking about with her own eyes."
"Mm. Everything Hero-sama said is true."
Setsuna nodded cooperatively.
"It's a brand-new world. There is no Kingdom of lromarc, and no Kingdom of Jioral. There is only Hero-sama and his subjects."
"Of course, there are also endless monsters to kill."
Drake added one more sentence. Then, as though sothing had occurred to him, he suddenly smiled.
"I'm about to conduct a hunt in the nearby snowfield."
"If you're interested, you can bring your people to watch."
"You can decide whether to form contracts with after that."
After leaving the village, Setsuna could not help asking Drake,
"Master, are you truly willing to accept the ice-wolf tribe into your world?"
"To be precise, it's not the sa world you and I visited."
Drake pointed out the mistake in Setsuna's question.
"Soon, I will create a brand-new Terraria world to distinguish it from the original one."
"The old world will beco my battlefield, where I constantly challenge powerful enemies. The new world, likewise, will require people to develop it."
"Since your people are suffering, why not let them beco the first subjects of the new world?"
"Of course… that is only if they are willing to offer their loyalty."
After defeating Terraria's Wall of Flesh boss, the entire world would undergo trendous changes.
Whether it was the sky, the surface, the underground, or even the Underworld, all of it would be affected.
Therefore, Drake needed to prepare a fallback.
The world expansion slot obtained after defeating the Wall of Flesh would not be used to travel to an existing world.
Instead, he intended to create a brand-new Terraria, as pristine as a newborn infant.
The original world would be left for Drake himself to explore and develop.
As for the new world… he might as well leave it to his contractors to develop on their own.
Once the Holy Emperor's artificial floating island was completed, he could also set aside a region for the Cursed Children.
As for the ice-wolf tribe, they were perfectly suited to living in the Snow bio. The only question was whether they were willing to co.
"If Uncle Norn sees how rich Terraria is, he will definitely beg Master to form contracts with them."
Setsuna had no doubts about that. If anything, she was worried her people might fail to seize this opportunity.
"Master, you said just now that you were going hunting. Are there monsters nearby worth hunting?"
"If there aren't, then I'll just summon one myself."
Drake's figure suddenly vanished. Several minutes later, he teleported back with a completed Deer Thing in his hand.
The item looked like a one-eyed deer-head doll.
[Deer Thing (Blue): Use in a Snow environnt to summon "Deerclops."]
"Let test whether I can summon Terraria bosses in other worlds."
He had already summoned the Queen Bee in the Black Bullet world before.
However, that had been an environnt covered by a Terraria bio.
With the mindset of simply trying it out, Drake used the Deer Thing in his hand.
Inside the one-eyed deer-head doll, black beams of light blood outward, faintly resembling the power of the Shadow Monarch that Drake possessed.
"I almost forgot. This thing has abilities similar to shadows too."
"But since this has appeared, that ans…"
Drake watched as the overflowing shadows continued to expand, excitent appearing on his face.
The next mont, a colossal monster several stories tall silently erged from the rising blizzard.
"So it really can be summoned—Deerclops!"
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