Chapter 534: The Lord's Promise
In the end, Antinoya still did not end the persuasion of the former coachman, that is, the old man Matthews, and still left resolutely.
This also cast a looming shadow on Zhao Xu's heart.
He realized that the abilities he had acquired seemed to be powerful, but in fact, he had not yet reached true invincibility in front of the truly powerful.
Even now, if he wants to reach the "Bottomless Abyss" or "Bato Hell", he has no spells that can be used.
Therefore, after Zhao Xu also participated in the highest authority in the town in the next two days, that is, the "joint meeting", he continued to stay on top of the wooden tower, flipping through a series of books on the principles of spells, and constantly thinking about the secrets of the five rings.
Through the last public security patrol, cooperate with those crooks who should cooperate with Zhao Xu's actions.
Zhao Xu, who only has the name of the lord and no "personnel power", tore a hole in the power pyramid of the town for the first time and turned the entire security team into the Zhao family's army.
It also makes people who want to go through the door start to warm up and visit this station from time to time.
Originally, there were a lot of people who wanted to watch the excitement, and they were all ready to see the jokes of Zhao Xu, who had no talent at all.
After all, players can't be online 24 hours a day, and sometimes they are busy, and even an hour a day is not guaranteed.
Before the National University Examination Month, the entire Arthur was empty of a lot of players, and it is still vivid.
It's just that Zhao Xu may be unfamiliar with other departments, but he can be said to know everything about the security team that has been crawling and rolling since he crossed over.
He knows who is suppressed, who has contradictions with whom, and who has not been able to get ahead.
So when he re-ruled the sheriff and gave him a fresh list.
The security work of the entire Falling Star Town did not even make a splash, and it was smoothly excessive.
also let Zhao Xu continue to focus his daily focus on improving his strength.
For mages, each ring corresponds to a floor, and the mages are like being blindfolded, and they have to rely on their own strength to grope their way up the stairs in the dark.
Some people are lucky enough to find the corresponding staircase.
If you're unlucky, you might have to fumble through most of the floors before you find the entrance to it.
And Zhao Xu is the lucky one who took the elevator at the beginning and went straight to the fourth floor.
It's just that now, he is afraid that he will continue to mix like this, and when he reaches the larger floor above, his eyes will be even darker.
Therefore, he was more cautious about the principles of these spells, and thought about them bit by bit.
Suddenly, a rapid sound of gongs and drums sounded from the watchtower at the city gate.
That rhythm gave Zhao Xu, who had read the code table, an insight that it meant that there were dead people, and there might be a lot of them.
Zhao Xu stood up from the wooden tower abruptly and looked towards the city gate, only to see that a beacon fire had already burned there.
This is a signal of the city-breaking level.
Realizing that the situation was not trivial, Zhao Xu directly stuffed the spell book in his hand towards the backpack, and the whole person jumped down directly over the tower, and by the way, he activated the "Feather Falling Technique", allowing him to land smoothly.
Let the surrounding construction personnel look dumbfounded.
"Vivien, you're watching here, Cyrus, you and I are going to see what's going on." Zhao Xu shouted directly.
Then he performed the three-ring spell of the Phantom Pony.
A large, half-real horse-like creature appeared beneath him in an instant, and the four horse's hooves were disembodied like smoke.
Zhao Xu pulled the reins of the horse, and the Phantom Pony also activated the "flying" ability brought by the level 14 caster, which was 8 times faster than that of humans, and galloped away as before.
And the white dragon Cyrus, since he cooperated with Zhao Xu to install it once in Falling Star Town, he has made the town spread the legend that the lord can control the dragon.
After all, compared to the young dragons who are still alive in the countryside, the white dragon Cerus, who has lived to the prime of life, can be regarded as having the ability of "dragon power", which can be regarded as the edge of the "dragon".
Spells can throw terrible spells, and the town's higher-ups will only feel that way.
But when Zhao Xu was able to subdue a giant dragon, it meant more.
Even the magic pet that a mage should have, everyone has never seen it here in Zhao Xu.
Let everyone wonder about the possibility of the white dragon.
Many people reconsidered their relationship with Zhao Xu on the spot, which also allowed his personnel reform to advance smoothly.
Zhao Xu, who was satisfied with this effect, did not hesitate to give Bailong "wages", so that Cyrus could work more energetically.
After a while, Zhao Xu and Cyrus rushed to the gate of the city, only to see a militiaman wearing simple cloth armor crying.
Zhao Xu immediately remembered what was going on.
The recent snow and ice have receded and are slowly melting, and early spring farming is just around the corner.
Therefore, after the new magistrate of the town Lu Qi asked him for instructions yesterday, he organized the outstanding young men of the town to come out and train before the spring planting, which can be regarded as their labor tax.
In other words, these militias, which are not included in the establishment of the security forces, organize training twice a year before spring plowing and after the autumn harvest to maintain their basic combat effectiveness.
They are Arthur's version of the "reserves".
Naturally, these people are not needed for daily town security, city defense, and mining security.
They are ordinary farmers and craftsmen, but when it comes to a crisis and needs to defend the town, they are the last "new force" when Winter City fails to help in time.
And the militia training process is also a talent selection.
In the previous life, the black dragon attacked Falling Star Town, in addition to destroying Zhao Xu's family, it also consumed the militia regiment temporarily formed in the town, and no less than 100 families held funerals in that month.
At this time, looking at this militia boy with a somewhat scorched face and a sloppy body, Zhao Xu immediately realized that something was wrong.
Something happened, but he was the only one.
At this time, many big names in the town have arrived one after another.
"What's going on?" The mayor of the town asked urgently, and his grandson had also joined the militia this time.
However, this militia boy, who had just been drawn closer to the team today, couldn't help but become more nervous when he saw these big men who usually came to his house, and his blacksmith father would take out the most valuable food in the house to entertain him, and he couldn't help but become more nervous in his heart, and cried on the spot.
"What are you crying about? What do you ask? The treasurer with the goatee was even more annoyed, how could his daughter have only recently married the mayor's son, how could he have wanted to make such a fuss.
It's just that his questioning is indeed exchanged for a louder cry.
Thinking of the urgency of time, and even the blacksmith who arrived saw the angry eyes of these big men, he almost raised the hammer in his hand and beat his own son.
Only the young man's mother, who was wrapped in a thick animal skin to avoid burns from the fire, hugged her child and wanted to comfort him, but she couldn't stop this emotion for a while.
"Peace of mind!"
After Zhao Xu shook his head, he waved the staff around him and cast this two-ring spell.
With him as the center of the circle in an instant, everyone within a full six meters felt a stable and peaceful force, and the restless emotions in their hearts slowly calmed down.
Whether it was the thought of wanting to ask, or the voice of the teenager crying, it weakened a little.
"Is this the magnificence of magic? It's so magical. ”
"It's worthy of the lord, no, it should be said that it will be the lord."
"I've never felt so relaxed and comfortable." Those who were emotional even closed their eyes, as if they were feeling.
For this kind of rainbow fart, Zhao Xu's ears are also automatically filtered by most of them.
The spell of peace of mind was originally used to suppress the "emotional" driven state, such as canceling the blessing technique, the poet's singing, and the barbarian rage effect.
Inner peace is an added effect.
At this moment, the young man also began to cry and said: "Today, Chief Lu Qi took us and said that we would first go to the field to train and check our physical fitness and team cooperation, and we were on the way to the Tiger Gorge. ”
As he spoke, the young man showed a frightened gaze and choked up, "Then a group of monsters suddenly appeared, so terrifying, they are a bit like dragons, fanning their wings, but they have three heads, and they can also spew out all kinds of mysterious energy, poisonous gas, lightning, and flames. ”
"Chief Luqi and the six or seven coaches who were protecting us passed out at once, and then the monsters took my companions away, and I was caught in the pit arranged by Chief Luqi for execution, and I escaped by falling into the pit."
"Three heads?" Suddenly, the faces of several high-ranking people in the town turned pale.
"Chimera, challenge the level 7 monster." Zhao Xu explained.
"What can I do?" The parents of a missing militiaman who rushed to hear the news wailed.
Zhao Xu recognized that the other party was a clerk from the Government Affairs Department, but he didn't expect to place his child in the militia team.
It seems that everyone is sure that he will next go on a massive purge of the entire town's power structure.
And there must be someone to fill the position, and then he will naturally be very likely to choose from the militia system managed by his descendants.
Naturally, these more well-informed families also exerted their strength early.
This is also the helplessness of the magistrate who is alone in charge.
Because no matter how they change their staff, they will find that as long as they are promoted locally, the people who come up will have all kinds of roundabout kinship.
However, Zhao Xu, who has the backing of the Earth Traveler in the future, naturally doesn't care about this.
It's just that as the leader of the entire security system, he didn't expect that Lu Qi, the sheriff he had only been promoted for two days, would be attacked and disappeared.
Even in this group of missing militias, those who can be included in the list have some backgrounds.
If they all died, it would be enough to shake Falling Star Town, and it would directly affect his prestige.
It's the equivalent of a slap in the face.
"Your lord, you want to save my child." Immediately, the clerk on the mayor's side ran over, bowed to him and pleaded, "My wife is looking forward to seeing that kid get married, so she breathes a sigh of relief, if something happens to him, our whole family will definitely be broken." ”
"Yes, my lord, please." The other mother, who was standing farther away, even knelt down directly in front of him.
Zhao Xu also hurriedly signaled his subordinates to help him up.
It has to be said that with the integration of the entire security force, basically the security force has become his direct subordinate, and he can order at the slightest word, without having to make a detour, and can only achieve it by making demands to the sheriff.
Because, he is the "final boss" who controls the future of these people.
"How did you run so far on the first day?" Zhao Xu asked.
At this time, Khaki, who was standing aside and was in charge of the clerical work of the security team, said embarrassedly: "Because Deputy Chief Qingqiu suggested that we adopt their 'ice-breaking journey' in the earth world and use unity and cooperation to eliminate everyone's strangeness, we arranged a training first. ”
"I didn't expect that at this short distance, a powerful monster like the Chimera would suddenly appear." As he spoke, his face became tangled, one of the militiamen was also his nephew, and he didn't know how to face his sister at this time.
Zhao Xu also looked embarrassed, Lin Qingqiu was his descendant in his previous life, and he was also a powerful warrior.
Originally, the other party's upgrade speed was quite fast, but the five resurrection stones were unfortunately used up a few months before the crossing, and in the end they could only start a new number, so after the crossing, although the level was almost the same as Zhao Xu, because the relationship behind him was not strong enough, he still succumbed to him.
In this life, Zhao Xu knew that the other party's character was reliable, so he gave him the position of deputy sheriff, but he didn't expect something to happen.
"What about him?" Zhao Xu asked.
"Chief Qingqiu has gone out to look for it." The clerk replied.
Zhao Xu also nodded, daring to go alone to find a group of Chimera with a single challenge level of 7, his courage is indeed commendable, and if something really happens, he can also save the other party.
However, since Zhao Xu appeared, basically everyone has been looking at him, waiting for him to come up with an idea.
Power and responsibility correspond, he can call a group of little brothers, and naturally when something happens, these little brothers have to look at his face.
"Khaki, you first pick a group of brothers who are quick to react, smart, and have tracking experience, and go to Tiger Gorge first."
"Lord, these Chimeras can fly, I'm afraid it's hard to find them." "Not to mention me, we haven't heard of any Chimera lairs nearby." ”
Hearing this, everyone also woke up in their hearts, and more or less realized that the militia boys who were taken away were more than lucky.
Creatures that fly away leave no traceable traces on the ground at all.
It's like killing people in the snow, but there are no footprints, nowhere to be found.
"I'm not asking them to go to the Chimera, but to see if there is anything like this young man, who is lucky enough to hide without dying."
After hearing this, a mother cried bitterly, "My lord, what about our children?"
It's your child, not ours.
Zhao Xu silently corrected inwardly.
"Don't worry, I'll go to find the Chimera's lair myself." Zhao Xu said.
And the clerk Khaki was worried that Zhao Xu was doing useless work, and said entangledly, "My lord, there has been no record of the appearance of Chimera in the town before. ”
He had been looking at the archives since he took over yesterday, so he knew it all too well.
However, Zhao Xu shook his head, "Do you think why they want to take these militiamen away, or do they want to keep them alive?" ”
Asked Khaki shook his head.
"It's because there is a nest, so you have to take it back and feed it as a ration." Zhao Xu explained.
As soon as these words came out, the parents of several militia teenagers burst into tears on the spot.
"Don't cry, I'll bring them back."
Zhao Xu said and tugged on the reins of the Phantom Pony, "As long as you live, there will be no one less." ”
"It's a lord's promise."