Chapter Eighty-Eight: Sharpening the Knife

For this escape, Master Ortega has been planning for several days.

After the Battle of the Defending Territory, all the prisoners of war were imprisoned in a large cave on the second floor of the Red Clay Plateau, and the slaves and vassals were divided into three shifts to guard them; There was no gate at the entrance of the cave, so a thick line was drawn with chalk at the mouth of the cave, and the prisoners who crossed this line weighed the consequences for themselves - some people tried, and their bodies were now dismantled into parts.

Master Ortega and his apprentice were kept alone in a separate cave, with four bear goblin slaves serving them - they were just cramming food into their mouths every time they ate.

Imprisoning a magician is not imprisoning ordinary people, and Fei Lengcui does not have any expertise in this area, so she made a small mistake.

Stuffing a wooden wedge in his mouth and a cross tied up with a cross is absolutely fine for imprisoning the mountain giants, but it is too much to use against magicians who specialize in creating miracles.

In addition to the bear goblin slaves, there are also two panda warriors.

Master Ortega was most frightened by this burly Pier warrior, and the pandas' eyes only needed to glance at him, and he felt a numb in his back, as if he had been pressed against the center of his eyebrows by a prismatic spear, which was a very bad feeling.

The time period when the panda warriors went to the cafeteria every night to eat the big pot of dishes gave Master Ortega an opportunity to take advantage of. The weakness of the past few days has made the bear goblin guards lower their vigilance, these bear goblins are not too hard-working guys, the panda warriors are here, they don't dare to make a mistake, as soon as the panda warriors left, these four lazy bear goblins immediately helped Master Ortega and his apprentice feed dinner, and even the wooden wedge was not stuffed into the mouths of the two of them for the purpose of being lazy, leaning against the wall and squinting and dozing.

After a while, the snoring sounded loudly.

"I want water!" Master Ortega shouted.

The snoring of the bear goblins continued to snort.

"I want to eat!" Master Ortega shouted again.

Snoring, smacking and grinding teeth are the answers.

"Messi!" Master Ortega whispered to the apprentice tied to the side, "Our chance has come!" ”

Messi nodded hard, and in order to help his mentor make sure again, Messi also shouted at the guards several times, and these bear goblin guards collectively turned over and gave the master and apprentice a back of the head.

After finally confirming that the four bear goblin guards had all fallen asleep, Master Ortega quietly recited a small fire-based magic "Illumination Finger Flame" in his heart, which is the lowest level of fire-based magic for rookie apprentices, as the name suggests, a candle-like flame on his finger is used for "illumination".

This small magic requires very little magic power, according to the intermediate magician title of Master Ortega, even if a few ribs are broken, but the magic power has recovered after a few days of meditation, and the magic power has recovered seventy-seven eighty-eight, and the magic of silent hair is as easy as raising the palm to look at the ten fingers, and after silently reciting the incantation, the ten fingers on the master's left and right hands at the same time burst out of a fluffy lantern like a flame.

The magic summoned by the magician himself has the same elemental resonance as himself, and does not burn himself, so Master Ortega is confident and bold to use the "Illuminating Finger Flame" that emerges from his finger to burn the rope that binds his wrist.

Master Ortega's magic apprentice, Messi, is very clever, and when he saw his mentor doing this, he also did the same, and released himself from the restraints, but Messi had not yet reached the level of silently "lighting the finger flame", and after a burst of chanting, in the snoring of the bear goblins, the clever apprentice also completed this little magic.

It is not unreasonable for the Aegean Continent to recognize that humans are the smartest race, and Master Ortega's trick is like the priest of the mercenary who was attacked by the Green Goblin bandits at the beginning used the "Holy Light Healing Technique" as a lighting.

The wrists of the master and apprentice tied to the wooden frame of the cross were quickly freed, and the scorching smell of the flames that the master had feared did not wake up the four bear goblin guards; There was no gate in the cave, and the wind through the hall was very strong, and the smell of burnt quickly drifted away; The four bear goblin slaves were still sleeping so dead, and Elder Haraziliu, Master Ortega, and Messi carefully shook off the rope that had been burned in two, rubbed their wrists, and boiled the rope tied to their feet.

When the master bent over, the pain in his chest after being beaten in the past two days was particularly severe, and the master was in tears.

The rope on his feet had just been boiled, but at this moment there was a rush of footsteps outside, and the master was nervous, and immediately lowered himself and dragged his apprentice, hiding behind the four snoring and earth-shattering bear goblins.

The bear goblin is two blades tall, the torso is strong and burly, and the four bear goblins nested in a heap are used as a cover for the emaciated Ortega master and apprentice, although it is not a very good choice, but in a hurry, the two masters and apprentices really have no other way.

The footsteps didn't come towards the cave, but faded away, much to the relief of Master Ortega, who had already prepared an attack spell to attack.

Unfortunately, this sudden incident had caused the Master to forget something very important - the clumps of flare fingers on his fingers had not been extinguished in a hurry, and one of them had been caught in the clothes of a bear goblin, all of which had been stripped of humans, and were covered with dried wine stains, and the residual alcohol made the garment perfect for arson.

Even if the bear goblin was numb, he immediately woke up.

Master Ortega and the apprentice ran away, not forgetting to smash the attack magic that was ready to strike.

The collective dining room is on the lowest floor, and the cave where Master Ortega is being held is on the second floor.

From the scream of the bear goblin, to Master Ortega and Messi's apprentice running out of the cave and running up to Qianmo, after five breaths, his front and back were already full of people, and the brilliance of the night pearl comparable to Champa made them have nothing to hide.

Two slender figures in pitch-black cloaks floated above their heads in the blink of an eye.

The two sides are at a stalemate.

The slender black cloak is simply Master Ortega's nightmare, he can't forget it even to death, in the battle of the beach, he was subdued by this black cloak figure.

Since the opponent was able to fly in the air, Master Ortega took it for granted that this was a wind mage, why did his fireball hit the opponent to no avail, but the opponent's counterattack made his chest like a sudden hammer knock down? Even if it's a "Storm Hammer", it doesn't have such an exaggerated attack ability, right? I'm an intermediate mage with a magic shield! One will kill me in the face, is the title of the union a magician or a magician? Master Ortega's confused mind.

Last time there was only one, but this time it's even more perverted, and as soon as it appears, it's two.

Master Ortega was so depressed in his heart! The Duchy of Dorote, touched by the light of the suzerain, San Francisco, was nothing more than four court magicians. Unexpectedly, in such a small Beamon territory, there were two wind mages and a water mage!

With a slash on his head, but still a slash, Master Ortega was red-eyed, summoned a magical shield of "flames" for himself and his apprentice, and then one fireball after another fell towards the figures covered by the two pitch-black cloaks.

It has to be said that after the last tragic close-range magic fight with the mermaid, Master Ortega, who suffered a serious humiliation with Master Fran, has made great strides in his magic level, which can be seen from the firing speed of the magic flame ball. Whether it's a mage or a shaman, there will be a bottleneck at each stage, and the higher the level, the more difficult the bottleneck will be.

After all, he studied under the famous teacher St. Chio Magician Stefano, after being captured in the past few days, after a period of quiet thinking, Master Ortega saw the rogue magic attack of the mermaid, and completely subverted his own inherent thinking, only to feel that there was a sudden enlightenment in front of him, and the level had unconsciously jumped a step compared to before he was captured. Master Ortega's title of Senior Magician is definitely in sight.

Messi was also not polite, although the casting speed was not as fast as that of the mentor, but he also began to chant.

It's a pity that Master Ortega and Messi met the "mage killer" fairy dragon, not one, but two.

Still unable to figure out what the reason was, Master Ortega's chest went numb and fell to the ground again, and the "flame surrounding" that swirled around him like a coiling dragon didn't have time to be extinguished.

Fortunately, it was just a small fireball, and the anti-devouring force was not very large, but Master Ortega still combined the new and old injuries together, and he collapsed on the ground and no longer had the strength to get up, panting on the ground, and his mouth was filled with a sweet smell.

Our little Messi hadn't even finished chanting a full fireball summoning term, his mentor had already fallen, and the poor boy was so frightened that he forgot to pronounce the remaining half of the spell.

At this time, Liu Zhenzhen slowly came out of the canteen with a group of people, and the great shaman of Wei'an and the beautiful snake tutor did not follow them up the steps, but stood at the bottom of the high slope, looking at the two figures in black cloaks suspended in the sky with their eyebrows.

Just Daisy and Jorna's ability to immediately teleport outside the dining hall after hearing the bear goblin's call for help had already made the Great Shaman of Wei'an stunned for a while; As soon as he came out, he saw that the escaped magician had been put to the ground, which made Lord Qi Dan feel even more impressed.

Although both women had a strong dragon breath on their bodies, Lord Qi Dan did not have such a rich associative power, and pulled them both to the fairy dragon.

But whoever has had a dewy marriage with Richard has more or less a little dragon breath on his body, and the great shaman of Wei'an naturally classified these two beautiful wind mages who can soar into the sky as one of Richard's harems, anyway, the style of this Pige sacrifice in the Northeast Province is already very famous, and Lord Zidan's clever speculation is not unreasonable.

Of course, the Great Shaman of Wei'an is still very happy, and Pig's sacrifice to Richard is also from the Northeast Temple, and he can be regarded as his protégé lineage, a powerful lineage, which can play a lot of role in consolidating his position in the kingdom in the future.

In the kingdom, only the "Legend of Sacrifice" Lord Mourinho has a magic advisor, and the other sacrifices do not have this ability. When the Grand Shaman of Vian thought of this, he became more and more proud.

Everything is calm as before, and everyone who should eat has gone to eat again.

Only Liu Zhenzhen brought the freedom-hungry Master Ortega and apprentice Messi back to the interrogation cave.

This kind of thing is not strange, most people think that the lord is going to be executed, especially O'Neill took a red stick and burrowed into the cave again, which makes people even more sure of this idea.

Surprisingly, there was never a scream in the interrogation cave, and soon, the lord walked out of the cave with Master Ortega's hand, and asked Elder Andulan to help Master Ortega and his disciples heal their wounds, and personally took two black cloaks, and helped the master and apprentice Messi put them on and have dinner together.

The Lord later announced that Master Ortega and his apprentice Messi would join the Emerald Mages in the future to help resist the Tornado Mercenary Band's invasion.

The addition of a magician, of course, is undesirable for Fei Lengcui; Some are happy and others are sad, and Count Totti quietly expressed his displeasure to the Grand Shaman of Vian.

Keeping this powerful magician here is a huge threat to the Batman identity of the Sherpa family, even if he is imprisoned, how can he be released, and he is also ready to be bribed and entrusted with a heavy responsibility? In the unlikely event that the magician returns to Dorot and passes on the secrets of the Sherpa family, Count Toti will not escape the papal sanctions, even if he is a colt of the San Francisco Empire.

How powerful is the Great Shaman of Wei'an, it is so easy to subdue a magician? Do you want to have it delivered to your door? Lord Qi Dan hummed and talked for a long time, pretending to be crazy and stupid, and laughed over.

Cui Beiqian, the mentor of the beautiful snake, also couldn't understand why a proud magician agreed to work for the enemy who captured him in the blink of an eye? This transformation is too fast, right?

When the beautiful snake tutor secretly asked Liu Zhenzhen how to subdue this fire magician, Lao Liu boasted, saying that this was caused by his personality charm, the tiger's body was shocked, the king's breath was floating everywhere, the magician bowed his head, and the wheel of history rolled forward.

Cui Beiqian was blown into a fog by him, her mind was confused, she felt that this was so familiar, and she went back and thought about it all night, and finally remembered that it turned out to be the usual words in those knight novels.

It wasn't until the next day that he sent away the Great Shaman of Wei'an and the Mentor of the Beautiful Snake, that Liu Zhenzhen told the truth to his own people, I don't know why, after this time, Liu Zhenzhen's previous respect for the Mentor of the Graceful Snake became wary.

This kind of emotion has even imperceptibly influenced Helen, this simple little fox girl, is really too desperate for Liu Zhenzhen.

The magician wasn't actually bought, he just made a deal with Lao Liu.

What Master Ortega wants is freedom, so Liu Zhenzhen will exchange it with him at the price of freedom, on the premise that he will help Fei Lengcui fight this battle, as long as he assists in defending the city, the lord will swear in the name of the Supreme God of War, and will release Master Ortega and apprentice Messi after this battle.

The lord also threw out all the ugly words, this time all the prisoners of war, because of the clear cooperative relationship with the Sherpa family, so it is impossible to redeem them with money, so this chance to win freedom may also be the only chance.

The lord told Ortega very directly that this time the choice was a post ticket with no return, and if the exchange was refused, Ortega would be executed immediately.

Faced with the choice between a path of equal exchange of freedom or death, Master Ortega hesitated.

With just one sentence, Lord Pige broke through the poor magician's last psychological defense.

"Anyway, 90% of the battles of your humans take place between people of the same kind, so what is it that makes it difficult for you to decide? Tornado mercenaries fight for money, why can't you fight for freedom? Put on your cape! I promise, no one will ever know who you are! Lord Pig's poisonous smile was like a ram that smashed the door of the mage Ortega's heart.

Everyone who heard this sentence couldn't help but shudder a little, the Lord of Fei Leng Cui is too good at playing with other people's psychology, in this regard, the fairy dragon is the most touched, at the beginning, she was also settled by this lord's words, his evil eyes, can always detect the weakness of others hidden in the depths of the soul.

For this evaluation, Liu Zhenzhen was speechless.

Even if it is a different world in a different plane, the inherent shortcomings of human nature have not changed. This point is most completely recorded in the "General History of the Aegean Continent", except for the war of gods and demons, the war of land and sea and the three world wars of Hyjal, the history of the Aegean continent is actually a history of the annexation of human countries and human countries, after all races are not their opponents, human beings began to choose their own race as opponents, and endless internal consumption and cannibalism have become the main theme of continental history. Although other intelligent races have more or less such problems, no one can really promote the art of "cannibalism" to the extreme, except for the Munk Beamon, a human being, who can do so perfectly.

How could this not be the case in the world before me? Liu Zhenzhen shook his head with a wry smile, quickly discarded this boring and irrelevant idea, and threw himself into the hot preparations.

On Dolot's side, because the Danze family did not receive the news this time, Marquis Capello sent additional men to closely monitor the every move of the Tornado mercenary group, after all, it is a large mercenary group of tens of thousands of people, once there is a military movement, it will definitely not be able to hide Prime Minister Capello who controls the defense army of Dorot.

Deliberately spread by some people with ulterior motives, the gossip about the destruction of the Sherpa family in the Danube Wilderness was also spread in Dorot, and at the same time, the Sherpa family also secretly sent the bereavement of the two squadrons of heavily armed scythes to the door of the Tornado Mercenary Regiment.

The Danzer family also began to secretly investigate these rumors, although it was very secretive, but it did start to do.

The crystal ball that Marquis Capello had in his hand that recorded the five beauties also spread to the community through special channels, and everything went on as a matter of course.

Count Totti became a herald, and flew back to Dolot twice a day, and in addition to occasionally pretending to be decadent and getting drunk on the streets, he also brought back the latest news from time to time.

On Fei Lengcui's side, after several baptisms of battle, the preparation for battle in the territory has already had a skillful pattern, and everything is being held in an orderly manner.

A week later, the walls around Fei Lengcui are clear, all the bamboo rice has been picked, 400 acres of Buddha belly bamboo forest has obtained a total of about 300,000 pounds of bamboo rice, the average yield per mu has reached 800 pounds, if it is not for the rush of picking, there is a big omission, it is estimated that the yield of 1,000 pounds per mu is not a problem.

The lord did not correct this wasteful behavior, but deliberately connived at this omission, leak a little, scatter bamboo rice, next year is another phoenix tail forest, Xiaoxiang spring rain.

Liu Zhenzhen thinks about it funny, if anyone said that the yield per mu was 1,000 catties in the past, the era of the Great Leap Forward must be too little, and the 80s must have been regarded as an exaggerated style, but now? Unexpectedly, an acre of bamboo forest was more productive than an acre of hybrid rice, but he was soon relieved, after all, no rice plant would grow to seven or eight meters high, and it was full of ears.

In addition to the 3,000 bamboos that were cut down to serve as food for the panda warriors, 1,000 bamboo tubes were filled with water, and the rest were burned into charcoal as cooking materials.

This time the farming work was really complicated, and it was more laborious than a big war.

Due to the imminent war and the urgency of time, the lord mobilized the goblins of Razor Mountain to participate, and a total of 6,000 subordinate people were mobilized, picking, tasseling, and basket weaving were completed simultaneously.

Daisy and the goblins of Razor Mountain were satisfied with the lord's generosity and tried their best to send people to join the war, but Liu Zhenzhen reluctantly accepted the request of two hundred goblin warriors to join the war.

All the captured horses were also escorted to Witherspoon and handed over to the beautiful snake mentor to deal with, and Cui Beiqian sold them in the name of the temple while raising donations, and helped Fei Lengcui raise about 50,000 pounds of jerky and 400 pounds of salt, which were also sent to Jade.

The grain reserves of Fei Lengcui are enough for all the people of Fei Lengcui to eat for more than half a year, and the biggest crisis has been solved.

The next thing to deal with is the human prisoners of war, these human prisoners of war are the killer weapon to restrain the Sherpa family, of course, they must be properly settled, they were all escorted to Pan Shuai's territory "Sydney City", in order to prevent these human prisoners of war from trying to escape or resist, after arriving at Razor Mountain, they were collectively picked off the hamstring of their left foot and the thumb of their right hand, and all the ration ratio was halved.

At that time, Elder Andulan had reminded the lord that among the thousand prisoners of war, there were two or three hundred slave catchers directly under the Sherpa family, and these slave catchers were not those knights with strict ethics, so they should stay and help guard the Emerald together.

"What do such people stay for? Wait until later to hunt Bimon slaves in the Danube? Liu Zhenzhen sideways decided the fate of the disabled people of these slave catchers.

When Count Totti heard the news and hurried to Razor Hill, a group of disabled people glared at him in the dungeon, full of resentment, and the whole account was credited to the Earl.

The old and weak women and children of the Mammoth and Hippopotamus tribes, as well as all the vassals and virgins, were all transferred to Sydney City, where they were fully responsible for the monitoring of the captives along with the goblins of Razor Mountain.

In addition to the oil melon, the planting land of the alder banana and the golden mulberry were all transferred to Sydney City, after the last war, the musk people were not willing to use a "Moradin Fury", so the three hundred copper bullets per person are still very sufficient, the oil melon due to most of the consumption on steelmaking, plus the "death step" battle, was consumed a lot by the lavish fat Luo, there are only five left, after the daily watering of the fountain of life, about five to eight can be harvested every day, after each oil melon is tied to ten "Moradin Fury", Tightly wrapped in blood glue, with a torpedo tail made of bamboo chips on the back, this is the real weapon of Liu Zhenzhen's Newton air cavalry, and it is also the highest military secret of Fei Lengcui.

The real function of the two large bamboo baskets with green branches and green leaves behind the saddle of the Newton cavalry is to carry this kind of double large oil melon, as long as the oil melon seedlings and the fountain of life are there, the Newton air cavalry will always be a bombing air force rather than a combat air force.

Newtonian giant birds are herbivores, and they also eat omnivores in famine years, and during this time they are forced to switch to eating meat, although their strength has increased, but fast flight is still not their strong point, and bombing operations are too suitable for their characteristics.

It's just that the training period of Newton's air cavalry is too short, the team flight is barely enough, and the accuracy is a big problem, Liu Zhenzhen thought of a stupid way, dividing the area with grass and wood ash on the wasteland in front of Fei Lengcui, and repeatedly airdropping stones to simulate training, this stupid method is not something that everyone can master, except for Adu, only a limited number of musk man air cavalry can barely guarantee that the deviation does not exceed four or five hundred yards when dropping bombs at a height of five hundred yards.

Liu Zhenzhen made a few bamboo whistles, tied to the legs and claws of the Newton giant birds of these excellent air cavalry, and waited for the bombs to be dropped from a height of 1,000 yards to 500 yards, and these elite soldiers took the lead in launching an accurate attack.

I don't know if it has any effect, I can only hope that the other party's 10,000 horses are all huddled together, and it is best to form a secret formation to blind Garfield for the air cavalry to catch a dead Maosi.

After the large-scale migration, the warriors of Fei Lengcui left only twenty panda warriors, twenty-two mastiff warriors, twenty-one mammoth cavalry, forty-eight hippopotamus poets, two Templars, forty Newton musk deer air cavalry plus five monks, the main force was a total of one hundred and sixty-one people, plus two hundred and fifteen slave warriors to assist, these tall and strong slaves were also good warriors, but they could only fight with the wind, as for the two hundred goblin warriors, their combat effectiveness was compared to these slaves, It made Liu Zhenzhen feel a little more relieved.

The Templars and Scepter Priests arrived a week later with the canonization order of the Honorary Knight Goode and a Thunder Beast, and although these Templars were relatively low-level Thorn Knights and Iron Knights, although they numbered only sixteen, their combat power should not be underestimated. They and the Emerald Lords come from the same race, the Pigs, all of them are composed of the toughest boar warriors of the Pigs, although the boar warriors are only about one blade eight in height, but they are stocky and muscular, they are the bravest warriors cultivated in the fertile fields of the northeastern province of the Danube, and they are also the only pride of the Pigs compared to other powerful races, but in few numbers, their leader is a Bronze Templar of the Porcupine Clan with hair and beard like steel needles, named Elton.

The Scepter Sacrifice did not come as promised by the Great Shaman of Vian, the Mentor of the Beautiful Snake was selling the spoils of war in Witherspoon, and the two Wolf Priests and one Kangaroo Sacrifice of the Holy Kailu Clan who had planted a fight in Liu Zhenzhen's hands were unable to come here to help the battle because their demon pets had not healed from their injuries.

The six Scepter Priests are four Fawkes and two Pier, and their total number of followers is not half that of the Emerald Lord, each of them has only ten followers, but the ratio is very good, there are powerful meat shield warriors, agile warriors, and archers and witch doctors.

The Scepter Sacrifice is the high-end existence of the Beamon Sacrifice, and the followers are of course the most powerful samurai in the Beamon Warriors, although the beautiful snake mentor can't withdraw, but also brings in a follower to assist in the battle, this follower is actually a very rare Puma cheetah warrior, this kind of wild warrior has always been isolated, and it is the most suitable warrior for the assassin profession among the Beamon orcs.

Liu Zhenzhen felt that this Cui Beiqian mentor was really becoming more and more mysterious, usually looking at her quietly, even coming to Fei Lengcui, not even a maid and servant, but now that she is real, she actually jumped out of a Puma cheetah warrior.

It is also a very interesting thing to communicate with these proud scepter sacrifices, the two short and fleshy Pier priests have just returned from a trip outside, although they claim to be Pier bear people, but Liu Daguan looks at one of them with a black and white furry tail, stupid and stupid, and the other has gray hair and a pair of blurry sleepy eyes full of, no matter how you look at it, it is not as strong as one toe of Wei Heizi.

Liu Zhenzhen was afraid that he didn't have any common sense, so he made a joke, and secretly asked Vieri to find out that the two sacrifices were the Pilla Bear and the Raccoon Man of the Pier tribe.

No way! Liu Zhenzhen really has no other words to describe his mood except for using this word.

The proud Scepter Priests and Templars were only ordered to help the Emerald territory defend itself against the invasion of human raiders, and everyone didn't know how strong the human raiders were, so it was extremely easy.

When the knight of honor's canonization order and the platinum misori armor were delivered to Pan Shuai, their ease vanished in an instant.

The Followers of the Emerald Lords emerged from the caverns, shocking the Staff Priests and the Templars.

The strongest Beamon Mammoth Hercules! Campas! It's actually cavalry! Mammoth hairy giant! Woolly rhinoceros! Earth otter! Cave Bear! The thunderbeast with the giant mallet-shaped horns turned out to be given to them by the temple!

Campas! And Pierre... And the mastiffs... And the House hippopotamus! And the muskman riding the Newton Giant Bird! And also... A strong ogre slave and a bear goblin slave with a scorched emerald brand on their faces! The armor of these slaves is even more beautiful than that of the followers of the Scepter Sacrifice! A hundred bear goblins are actually equipped with three-tiered tower shields, heavy armor, and giant scythes!

Is the Pompeii Empire now overrun by bear goblins? The Templars rolled their eyes at each other.

And five magicians in pitch-black cloaks! This kind of magic fluctuation can't hide the well-informed scepter sacrifice!

The Scepter Priests are stupid, these are the followers of the two War Sacrifices? This is the follower of the twelve chief priests of the kingdom or the high priest in red, right?

The pride of the Templars also disappeared, and the appearance of a silver Templar and a bronze Templar dimmed their ranks, if added a newly canonized Honorary Knight...... What else do we need to do with such power?

Huge doubts suddenly filled the hearts of every scepter sacrificer.

It's heavy.

(To be continued)