Chapter 316: The Power of the Artifact

The existence of ancient artifacts, that is, the people of the wilderness like Sean and those farmers do not know, since all the lord families with a bit of historical inheritance know their existence.

More precisely, the ordinary Byronic people were well aware of their existence and heard of their legends.

For example, the Sword of Courage of the Royal House of Lancelot, the Oracle Scepter of the Holy See of the Holy Aether, the Guardian Banner of the House of Strach, the Hammer of Thor of the Witches' Secret Society, the Crown of Fortune of the Black Family, and so on.

Legend has it that the eight princes of the Byron Alliance, when they joined the alliance, all had their own ancient artifacts, which was one of the biggest symbols of their rise, and the covenant they signed at that time was also called the Artifact Alliance.

The first clause of the covenant is that you must not wage an all-out war against your allies, especially not to use ancient artifacts on your allies.

Ancient artifacts can only be used against foreign enemies.

The last time the ancient artifact was used, it was half a century ago, and the guardian battle banner of the Strachrich family, the guardian of the entire Byron Alliance, was used, which reversed the precarious situation of the Broken Blood Fortress in one fell swoop and defeated the army of the East Odin Empire.

Time changes a lot of things.

Over time, reality will become history, history will become legends, and legends will become myths.

Ancient artifacts are somewhat similar to this, most of the time they only exist in legends, and it's hard to think of their actual power.

As he delved deeper into the power of magic, Sean became more aware of the real reason why ancient artifacts rarely appeared.

The power of the spells in the entire environment has become thinner, which will make the magic power of these ancient artifacts recover quite slowly.

Of course, the ancient artifact has an energy circuit that self-condenses the power of the spell, and even if no one controls it, the spell energy that still condenses is the best sign.

This kind of energy circuit should be the minimum standard for becoming a high-level enchanted equipment, and it is also the most fundamental factor that can survive and still be used today.

If it weren't for this energy circuit, it would have been like the enchanted equipment that the Eternal Night Leader excavated from the underwater ruins of the Ancient Andis Empire, and would have turned into a pile of scrap metal, let alone used it.

This energy circuit is also the core of the current research of the Eternal Night Army's Magic Research Institute, once mastered this energy circuit, it not only means that they can create more powerful enchanted equipment, but also means that they can build their own energy reaction chamber.

At that time, many things that only exist in Sean's mind will have the possibility of becoming a reality, and the Eternal Night Leader will also open a new door.

Even if the Ancient Artifact has a spell loop that automatically gathers energy, the speed of gathering energy is bound to not be too fast.

The soul beast card in Sean's hand is the most obvious sign, if there is no energy reaction room or artificial charging for it, Sean can use them once a year and a half, which is the limit.

Compared to the energy contained in the soul beast card, the magic energy fluctuations emitted by this golden armor are so huge that it is by no means capable of being charged by human beings.

Unless those Grand Dukes themselves are warlocks and charge themselves, they will never allow other warlocks to charge, after all, if someone else does it for them, they will leave a spell imprint on it and turn it into exclusive equipment, which is called equipment binding, and there is nothing wrong with it.

Of course, it cannot be completely ruled out that these forces have an existence similar to an energy reaction chamber in their hands.

Sean has already corrected his attitude, and would rather overestimate the strength of these grand ducal families than underestimate them, especially when the mystery about this world is being revealed little by little.

Years are their greatest heritage, and who knows how many good things they have accumulated over the years.

However, even if they assume that they also have an existence such as an energy reaction chamber in their hands, the charging speed will not be too fast.

After all, like this energy reaction room in his hands, it was because no one had used it for more than three hundred years that he had accumulated such terrifying magic energy.

If the energy reaction chamber is always in use, it will be used more and consumed more, and it will also be limited by the general environment.

In other words, once an Ancient Artifact consumes too much energy, it will not be able to be used for a long time.

Sean's speculation is close to the truth of the matter.

All kinds of chaotic information flashed in his head, but his movements were not idle at all.

After blowing up the big fish of Grand Duke Buck, Sean didn't care about attacking other targets, and all the black powder cluster bombs were directed at him.

Not only coveted the ancient artifact on his body, but also because of Grand Duke Barker's own value.

The original Manyu military leader is a lesson from the past.

Without the leader of Grand Duke Buck, the Kingsley family will immediately be locked in an internal struggle for power.

Not to mention far away, Akmaiser, the position of marshal of the expeditionary force, I am afraid that he will not be able to sit steadily.

Whichever new Grand Duke takes the throne, he is not worried that half of the military power of the entire military command is in the hands of a person who also has the right to inherit.

But would Akmesser hand over military power so easily? wouldn't he have any idea of the Grand Duke's position?

I'm afraid it's hard to say.

The cup of poisonous wine of rights, once drunk into the stomach, will make people want to stop.

Sean's idea is indeed very beautiful, but the difficulty of execution is not half a star.

Grand Duke Buck doesn't stand there stupidly waiting to die, he is a great knight himself, and he is not slow to run.

What's more, he was also guarding a champion knight Yada, carrying two people, and drilled around the camp for a while.

Before the black powder cluster bomb hit the ground, they jumped more than ten meters, and when it was detonated, they ran even farther.

Even if there were a few detonations, within ten meters of them, it was only a waste of some of the magic power on the golden armor, and it did not cause substantial damage to them.

Because this time it was prepared, the energy shield formed by the golden armor was thicker, and there was no need for a master-level warlock to check and fill in the gaps.

The most important thing for Sean is that the energy shield of the golden armor is not limited to Grand Duke Buck himself, but even the champion knights and control-level warlocks around him have also appeared, although compared to the one on Grand Duke Buck, it is not a little weakened, but they do exist.

When exchanging information with the princess regent, what the other party gave was only the general information of the ancient artifact, not to mention the royal family's ancient artifact Sword of Courage, Sean had no chance to see it at all, even about the true efficacy of the ancient artifact, and he was vague.

After all, this is the core secret of the major families, and the princess regent will not hand it over so easily.

However, after the incident, the Eternal Night Army Leader had specially sent people to spy and collect information in this regard, but most of the information obtained was hearsay and legends.

When legends are no longer just legends, there are really useful things to be gleaned from them.

For example, what makes an ancient artifact famous is not its increase in individual strength, but the magical change it brings to the entire army, and the sword of courage of the royal family of Lancelot can give farmers without much training the courage of elite soldiers.

If the entire Kingsley family army is fully covered with this energy shield and launches a charge, just thinking about it will make Sean's scalp tingle for a while, it will be an army that is not afraid of death, and if it is caught off guard, even the three main legions led by the Eternal Night Army will suffer a big loss.

By the end of the bombardment, Sean had no hope of taking down Grand Duke Buck, or snatching the Golden Armor.

Consuming as much of the Golden Armor's energy as possible had become his only purpose.

Even this goal is not easily achieved.

The magic energy on the ancient artifact, but it is a terrifying existence that can be blessed by the army, and it is used for the defense of several people, and the consumption is not as serious as imagined.

After a round of bombardment, I am afraid that the energy consumed is not even one thousandth.

On the contrary, the whole camp was overturned by the people who were bombed on their backs.

At such times, Archduke Buck could ignore the casualties of ordinary soldiers and drill around to avoid such unheard-of attacks.

It wasn't until the explosion disappeared for half an hour that Grand Duke Buck dared to tentatively stop from that high-speed movement.

Grand Duke Buck's face was gloomy and about to drip, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Can anyone tell me what that attack was going on, how did the enemy attack from the air, and how did they know I was here?"

No wonder he had such doubts, the appearance of Grand Duke Buck here was a completely temporary decision.

The top assassin he sent was almost led by the Eternal Night Army, captured two champion knights, and appeared with equipment suspected of being an ancient artifact.

The more Archduke Buck pondered, the more uneasy he became about the Kingsleys' military operations in the Swamp of Despair.

Who knows if the Eternal Night Warlord has a true ancient artifact in his hands?

After all, most of the ancient artifacts in the hands of the Byron Alliance originated from the ancient Andes Empire, and the Andes people have always been known as the most orthodox remnants of the ancient Andes Empire, and the Andes Mountain where they are located was the ruling core of the ancient Andes Empire.

Maybe you have a hidden treasure in your hands.

For the knowledge and cognition of ancient artifacts, Grand Duke Buck can be far above Sean, and the use of ancient artifacts may not necessarily lead to the final victory of the war, but it definitely has the magical power to turn the local war around.

What could be more important than the future of the Kingsley family in the Swamp of Despair?

If you don't use your own ancient artifact at this time, when will you wait?

After a night of tossing and turning, Grand Duke Buck finally made up his mind to activate the Kingsley family's ancient artifact, the Golden Armor.

Even if it is not activated, it can be transported to the front line, it can be regarded as a major killer feature of the Kingsley family, and when necessary, it can have a decisive effect, and it will not necessarily exhaust all the energy of the golden armor.

As long as you can take down the Swamp of Despair smoothly, even if the energy of the Golden Armor is completely exhausted, it will be worth it.

Grand Duke Buck was a resolute man, and he made a decision on the front foot, and then took a personal guard on the back foot, dressed simply, and then mixed into the material transport team, and even the supreme commander of the Kingsley family's Eastern Army, Akmeiser, did not inform him.

Just like Sean thought before, how could a great killing weapon of the level of an ancient artifact be easily entrusted to others to escort and use?

Firmly in your own hands is the most correct choice.

As for whether he secretly had the intention of inspecting the Eastern Army, only Archduke Barker knew it in his heart.

His trip this time can not be said to be imstrict, but he was still intercepted and killed in the middle of the road, and it was an unbelievable interception, if it weren't for his caution and sensing that there was something strange, he put the golden armor on himself for the first time, and they were now afraid that they would have turned into a pile of minced meat.

Grand Duke Buck was shocked into a cold sweat, not just a matter of personal safety.

If he dies here, his dreams and ambitions will not be in vain.

The Kingsley family's dreams for hundreds of years will also be put to life, and his personal image as Grand Duke Buck will take a 180-degree turn, nailed to the Kingsley family's pillar of shame forever, and whether he can enter the Kingsley family's family tomb is a question.

Various possibilities flashed through the mind of Grand Duke Buck, including suspicion of Akmaiser.

However, he did not expect that this might be just a coincidence, and their previous conservative posture betrayed him.

After all, the material guards exist to protect supplies.

Half of the supply team was burned, and they even held the camp without coming out, so that everyone could notice that there was a problem.

"Those explosives just now should be the legendary alchemy bombs. "Needham is worthy of being a well-informed master-level warlock, and he immediately connected everything with the things in the books, although he was not hit, but it was not far away," those alchemy bombs all fell from the sky, and they should have been thrown in. ”

The latter sentence has little confidence.

Sean has always been throwing from high altitudes, and did not work at low altitudes in order to increase his hit rate.

After all, there is not only a champion knight and a mastery-level warlock below, but also an ancient artifact that he doesn't know the details of.

It was the darkest dawn of the day, and they were in a state of panic to avoid everywhere, and few people really noticed Sean flying in the air, at most, they were shocked to see it, and there was no way to think of it, after all, aerial bombardment, this is something that has never been heard of throughout hundreds of years of history.

But when it comes to trebuchets, Needham himself doesn't quite believe them, not to mention how the enemy silently transported large trebuchets to the outside of their camp.

What trebuchet, like an eye, throws so precisely? Every time and again, it doesn't get ten meters away from them?

And the trajectory is not right, it is not the parabola that a normal trebuchet should have, some seem to go straight, unless the trebuchet is installed on the top of the mountain, but the problem is that their camp is located, surrounded by a flat river, there is no such terrain at all.

Needham couldn't even convince himself, and how could he convince Archduke Buck.

Champion Knight Yada frequently looked at the surrounding night sky, and said with some uncertainty: "I seem to have seen just now that those alchemy bombs were thrown directly from the air?"

"Thrown straight down from the air?" Archduke Buck and Needham looked up at the sky in unison, as if trying to find the embarrassed enemy who had cornered them.

At this time, the sky had already revealed the white of the fish, and there was nothing empty, except for the fire in the camp that had not been completely extinguished, the smoke that had not been fully burned, and the air was filled with the peculiar smell of gunsmoke.

Compared with Needham's speculation, Yada's was even more unreliable, but the three of them believed it a little in their hearts, because they had a similar glimpse just now, but it was too unbelievable to speak.

Until it is certain that the alchemy bomb in the hands of the enemy has been completely consumed and gone.

Grand Duke Buck and the others began to organize manpower to fight fires and treat the wounded soldiers, but from beginning to end, the three of them were gathered together, and the golden armor on Grand Duke Buck did not take off.

Who knows if the other party will suddenly kill back.

Without the Golden Armor, even humanoid monsters like Champion Knights and Master-level Warlocks would not be able to withstand that level of bombardment.

At the same time, the identity of Sir Kleist's party outside was confirmed, and they were let in.

Archduke Buck summoned Sir Kleist as soon as possible, after all, they had just been outside and knew more about the situation outside.

"Your Majesty, why are you here?" said Sir Kleist, who was as surprised as he saw the supreme ruler of the Kingsley family appear before him.

At the same time, I also understood why Archduke Buck gave a special order to Akmeiser to make him the commander of this welcoming team.

Archduke Buck wanted to know about the Kingsley Family Expeditionary Force through himself before meeting Axmesser.

The miserable appearance in the makeshift camp also made Sir Kleist's eyes widen.

Could this be the result of those horrible noises from earlier?

What exactly happened here?

Was it thundered?

Miserable into this virtue.

But last night, when the sky was clear and there was a loud noise, they didn't see half of the thunder and lightning?

Could it be that hordes of champion knights and mastery warlocks have come in?