Chapter 867: Back to the Emerald City
Leave the weakest bright golden crane to escort the queen.
Sean personally led more and more ant soldiers to clean up the entire abandoned city.
In this abandoned city, there is only one Shadow Mastermind, but there is not just one, but as many as nine.
The remaining eight are only used to produce ordinary flying locusts, and they don't even have the ability to hatch shadow mantis in that emergency.
Once attacked, the only thing they can do is to let out a high-pitched hiss and summon the children and grandchildren around them to come and protect them.
Naturally, they became the number one signal transmitter for Sean and them to surround and send reinforcements.
All you need to do is poke them from time to time, just like the Bright Golden Crane did with that locust before, and let them gather all the flying locusts around them, saving them the trouble of chasing them all over the world.
When the value of their encirclement and reinforcement is exhausted, what awaits them is naturally the purification adaptation.
Sean originally planned to turn them into queens as well, increasing the speed of the rioters.
But after seeing the cost of adapting them into a new queen, Sean retreated on the spot, and only then did he deeply realize what a generous gift the goddess Abigail gave him.
Adapting an ant queen requires the power of 1.2 million laws.
Sean's remaining power of the law is just a fraction of what he has left.
But if you think about it, it's normal to have such a consumption.
Adapting the shape and structure of the Bright Golden Crane would have to consume an average of 10,000 law powers.
And the queen ant, it seems that there is only one, but in fact it is a whole race.
One million and two hundred thousand laws to create a whole new race, is it much?
Not much at all.
This 1.2 million, but also because of the original queen of ants as a reference, the consumption given.
In the body of the original queen ant, the power of the law invested by the Abigail plane is definitely much larger than this number, and even consumes a lot of origin substance - research and development expenses, which has always been an expensive investment, but this money is not used by Sean, so it doesn't feel anything.
This doesn't mean that Sean will only have one queen to use in the future.
When Sean was adapting the Queen of Ants, how could he not consider the problem of expanding the rioters.
The queen ant has the ability to make copies of all of its genetic data to give birth to a special ant guard, and when it arrives at a nutrient-rich location, it can take root and transform into a new queen, a trick similar to the way ants live.
Because this is inherited through the normal process of life, it does not involve the adaptation of the laws of the plane, and naturally does not need to pay a lot of law power.
Of course, this kind of racial expansion method is more time-consuming, whether it is the birth of a special ant guard, or the special ant guard taking root and transforming into an ant queen, it takes time and a lot of nutrients.
It will not be like after the transformation of ready-made locusts, the results will be immediate, and it will not take half a day to put into mass production.
No matter how much time is saved, it is impossible to save time worth 1.2 million of the power of the law.
In a short period of time, it is absolutely impossible for Sean to do such a luxurious thing, with the power of this one million and two hundred thousand laws, he can do other more valuable things.
There is no way to adapt it into a new queen, which does not mean that the locust queen has lost other use value.
In addition to being adapted to become the queen ant, the Law of Life Rune also gave Sean another direction of adaptation, the combat type he had previously abandoned.
The price of the transformation of the combat type is very different from that of the reproduction type, and it only costs 12,000.
Even if it is a hundred times different from the breeding type, the highest adaptation price of the Bright Golden Crane is almost the same.
The old rule is to transform one out first, see the actual effect, and then decide whether to start in large quantities.
The results go without saying.
Since obtaining the power of the law, its actual effect has never disappointed Sean, and it has always been a penny, and Tong Su is not deceived.
The upgraded combat form of the Locust Queen is somewhat similar to that of the Shadow Mantis, but it is larger and thinner than the Bright Golden Crane, but its combat effectiveness is not inferior.
The giant mantis fist, which opened the gold and cracked the earth, could force a hole of several centimeters on the trunk of the Abigail World Tree of the Saibi King Kong.
The Giant Mantis Knife, which basically breaks anything, has the same effect as the beak of the Bright Golden Crane, and is capable of materializing twisted nightmares and organizing their energy regeneration.
In the sparring hand, the Bright Golden Crane didn't dare to let the Bright Mantis's mantis knife clamp at all.
Overall, it's worth it.
Sean chopped his hands painfully while comforting himself, this is a necessary investment in the early stage, they are all big killers, and they can fight against those shadow generals and shadow masterminds, and it won't take long to help them recoup their roots.
Whew!Whew!
It's the power of the Little 60,000 Law that is put into it.
Sean has five more Mantis generals under his command, and he has made up a team with the Bright Golden Crane.
After the remaining four locusts, Sean did not touch them, but only killed the Flying Locust Nightmare, and left a large number of flying locusts for them.
This was not done out of kindness, but out of captivity.
Whether it's the Bright Golden Crane or the Bright Praying Mantis, that's what needs to be eaten – in large quantities.
You can't feed them with ant soldiers in the future, right?
It's not just a matter of luxury, Sean's ethics and morals don't allow it, although the other party is essentially an insect, but it's also his own soldier, and he won't allow this to happen unless he has to.
Soon the abandoned city of Abigail called Burton was under Sean's control.
This time, he couldn't pat his ass and walk away like he did with Emerald City.
Now is the time when the original queen sin is vulnerable, and if it is besieged on a large scale by a large number of twisted nightmares, and it is broken here, Sean's plan to explode troops will be ruined.
Even if you go out to wave, you have to wait until the queen ant has a certain ability to protect herself.
Therefore, while Sean launched a full-dimensional reconnaissance of the abandoned city within a radius of 100 miles, he ordered the queen ant to explode a group of worker ants, preparing to transform the abandoned city into a nest to protect the original queen ant.
Sean's rabbit spirit in his bones has never faded, and he has a soft spot for all kinds of infrastructure, even in the Abigail plane on the verge of collapse, it has not changed.
Although he showed a part of it in the Emerald City, it was someone else's city after all, he was just an outsider, and the original lair was completely in charge of him, and the energy invested was naturally different.
But when large-scale construction began, Ant-Man's shortcomings slowly began to be exposed.
As soldiers, they are fully qualified.
They have the near-perfect character of a soldier - not afraid of death, forbidden, never lazy, etc.
But there are some worries about wisdom, especially in terms of creative intelligence.
Let them dig holes, and they're guaranteed to do it very quickly.
But to let them carve the law runes to build the mage tower according to Sean's needs, it would be purely difficult for them.
At best, they have a good ability to learn, and if they can spend a lot of time teaching them, they may be able to master these additional skills.
Sean has so much time there, to nurture them from scratch?
can only find another way to make up for their shortcomings.
Sean's first thought was the Emerald City, especially since it was not far from the other party, no more than one hundred and fifty kilometers in a straight line, and it was also convenient to watch and help each other.
Especially when another and even bigger nightmare nest was discovered thirty kilometers away in a straight line, Sean's sense of urgency was even stronger.
That nightmare lair was more than five times the size of the abandoned city where Sean was entrenched.
In addition to the assembly-line-like mass production of flying nightmares as Sean had seen before, there was also a shadow door opened by the Warped Nightmares that led directly to the Shadow Plane, and a large number of Raw Twisted Nightmares poured in every day, gathering there, and then heading to the battlefield.
That's right.
It's the battlefield.
A siege battle of unprecedented scale and extraordinary.
That nightmare lair is only one of the sources of troops in this siege battle, and there are no less than three nightmare nests in other directions that are only large and small.
As for the object of the siege, it is none other than the main target of Sean's trip, Lunn City, the capital of the Abigail elves.
Not only is Lunn City nearly ten times larger than the Emerald City, but its military power is not comparable to the Emerald City.
In addition to having the city's protective shield as a support, Lunn City also has a strong counterattack force.
Sean peeked from afar, and there were at least ten huge figures outside Lunn City, fighting those twisted nightmares.
Although only from a distance, Sean recognized their identities at a glance.
Because they're so recognizable—dragons that have long since disappeared from Sean's plane.
The scale of this battle is far from being comparable to the one in the Emerald City.
Even in the initial lair, with extraordinary gains, Sean led a few troops and rushed in, it would be difficult to turn the tide of the battle in a short period of time, and it was very likely to be dragged into a long war of attrition.
Although Lunn City is at a disadvantage, those twisted nightmares want to break through the city's protective shield, and they can't do it in a short time.
Sean decided to hold back for a while, taking advantage of the fact that the Twisted Nightmare hadn't discovered it yet, and gave them a hard blow, at least to the extent of uprooting a Nightmare Lair.
After hiding the queen ant and leaving a certain amount of self-protection power, Sean took four bright golden cranes and two bright mantis and rushed to the Emerald City overnight.
"Your Excellency, the Special Envoy has returned. ”
"Hey, it's really the envoy, why did he come back so soon? Could it be that he has already come into contact with Lunn's people, or has he brought bad news?"
"Don't guess, the envoy is back at this time, hurry up and inform the city lord and the high priest!"
"You just need to inform the city lord, Your Excellency the High Priest doesn't need us to rule at all, I believe he is the first to get the news. ”
"Got it!"
Sean's return still caused quite a riot in the Emerald City.
After all, he had been gone for no more than a week, and all the citizens thought that they would not have a chance to see him anytime soon.
This abnormal behavior naturally caused a wave of uneasy speculation.
Compared to when Sean left, Emerald City was even more deserted and empty, and there were basically no citizens on the streets, only a small number of city defense soldiers were still on duty, sticking to their posts.
The soldiers who had gone to inform the lord of Loxani had not yet taken a few steps.
The city lord of Loxani had already hurried over with a few guards, apparently informed by the high priest sitting in the mage tower, and at this time, Sean had just fallen through the protective shield of the city, and the energy clone had landed first.
The city lord of Loxani laughed heartily and said, "Lord Emissary, welcome back, I didn't expect us to meet again so soon, I don't know how the harvest of the past week was?"
"Thanks to the help of the city lord, I have indeed successfully found the Imperial Capital of Lunen, but I ......" Sean stopped when he wanted to speak.
"Just what?" asked the Lord of Loxani anxiously, "Could it be that something has happened to the Lunn Empire?"
"Not really. Sean shook his head and said, "It's just that it's in very bad condition, it's under siege by a lot of nightmares, and it's only a matter of time before the protective shield of the city is breached, in that case, I can't rush to the Imperial Capital of Lun, if it's mistaken for an enemy, it will be bad." ”
"What is the envoy going to do? is there anything we can do to help, just say. "The Lord of Loxani once again made his attitude clear, as well as the position of the Emerald City.
Although he has not been in contact with Sean for a long time, it is enough for him to understand the other party's character.
The other party is not a person who likes to waste time, and returning to the Emerald City at this time must have its own purpose.
Sean didn't talk to the host of Loxani City, and said straight to the point: "This time I went back to Emerald City, I did come to ask for help, although the contact with the Imperial Capital of Len was not smooth, but it was not without any gains, I found a city called Bourton......"
"Bolton, has the envoy found Bolton City, are the people there okay? Its lord, Kinmington, has been my friend for many years, I wonder if he has talked about me......" The Locksani City Lord had an unconcealed excitement in her expression, but when she said the end, her tone became lower and lower, because she found that Sean's expression was not like the excitement of finding a survivor.
"If the envoy brings unfortunate news, it can also be bluntly said that we haven't met any citizens from Boton City in our dreams for at least five years, and many people are speculating that maybe Boton City has long ceased to exist, but many people don't want to face it, after all, we have lost too much over the years, and sometimes we have to deceive ourselves, as long as we don't get the exact news, we will treat them as if they are still alive, surviving in a corner that we can't see!"
"I'm sorry!" Sean didn't know if he had broken the last shred of their thoughts if he had broken the bad news he had brought him.