Chapter 36: Return
Unbeknownst to Lei Zhen, as the news spread that Darcy, the leader of the Scarlet Crusaders of the previous generation, had been assassinated near Ice City, the relationship between the Templar camp and the Cemetery camp suddenly became tense, and both sides began to increase troops on the border. Of course, the relationship between the church and the cemetery is already hostile, and although there has been no large-scale war in recent years, the small friction between the two sides has never stopped. The top brass on both sides is holding back a fire, this war between the living and the dead is coming sooner or later, and Darcy's death is just the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
But these have nothing to do with Lei Zhen anymore, seeing that Cold Ice City is in front of him, Lei Zhen's hanging heart finally let go. Although the trip had been increased as soon as possible on the Lei Zhen Road, the speed of the spread of the news was still much beyond his expectations, causing him to be intercepted and chased many times on the way back to Ice City. The most dangerous time turned out to be that Xue Qianhua, the city lord of Binglin City, personally led a team to chase and kill, and brought a whole team of griffons to chase him from the air. If it weren't for a mysterious master who came out halfway, put a group slowdown debuff magic on all the griffins, and then personally entangled Xue Qianhua, Lei Zhen would probably have been captured back to Binglin City at this time.
But even so, Lei Zhen was slashed in the back by Xue Qianhua and suffered a lot of injuries.
The moment Lei Zhen stepped into the gate of Ice City, the long-lost system voice sounded again: "Congratulations to the player Lei Zhen, who successfully killed Darcy, the last generation of the Scarlet Crusader Leader of the Templar camp, and won the favor of the high-ranking leaders of the main battle faction of the cemetery camp. Since Darcy, the leader of the Scarlet Crusaders, is wanted by the Graveyard faction, you gain 1,000 Cemetery Honor points, you gain 10,000 Friendship points from the official Cemetery faction, and you receive a bounty of 50,000 gold coins. Since you kill a fifth-tier Darcy with a strength that is not yet at the first tier, you will receive a 32x bonus bonus. Please go to the Interior Hall of any royal city level in the Graveyard faction to claim the reward. ”
"I'll go, 50,000 gold coins! 32x bonus bonus, that's not 1.6 million gold!! Lei Zhen was so shocked by the system's reward that he couldn't keep his mouth shut. 1,600,000 gold coins is a huge amount of money for him, and he can recruit 20,000 skeleton warriors from the official recruitment alone.
But in fact, 1.6 million gold coins was not as much as Lei Zhen thought. Although it can recruit 20,000 skeleton warriors, the skeleton warriors are only the first-order core troops, and when it comes to the sixth and seventh order troops, which must not ask for hundreds of thousands, and even one of the awesome seventh-order troops will cost more than one million.
"Wait, isn't Darcy a fourth-order? Why does the system follow the fifth order? What is this honor? Lei Zhen scratched his head, "Forget it, I'll ask the teacher later." ”
It turned out that when Darcy was young, his strength reached the peak of the fifth order, and although his strength decreased when he got old, he also had the strength of the early stage of the fifth order, but he had always shown the strength of only the peak of the fourth order. As for the temporary decline in Darcy's strength after the soul left the body, it was not calculated by the system because it was only a temporary state. If you kill an opponent who is below the same level as you and have no bonus bonus, you will get a 2x bonus for killing an opponent one tier higher than you, and if you kill an opponent two tiers higher than you, you will get a 4x bonus, and so on. Lei Zhen killed Darcy of the fifth order with a strength that had not yet reached the first order, so he received a 32 times bonus bonus.
Lei Zhen knew that on the Continent of the Gods, the level of friendliness was divided into five levels: general, friendly, cordial, respectful, and admirable. Favorability below 1,000 points is average, up to 1,000 points for friendliness, 10,000 points for cordiality, 100,000 points for respect, and 1,000,000 points for admiration.
If Lei Zhen gets a 32 times favorability reward, the official camp of the cemetery will directly jump to the esteem level with his favorability, which will be of great benefit to him in recruiting troops, building a city, and so on.
However, Lei Zhen also knew that it was impossible for something like this to cross such a large level to kill the masters of the opposing camp again, and there were too many uncertainties and irreproducibility.
However, these rewards can only be seen at present, because they can only be claimed by reaching the royal city level of the town's internal affairs hearing, and the closest royal city to the ice city, the city of death, is also more than a thousand kilometers away. In this world without airplanes and high-speed rail, the distance of thousands of kilometers may not have gone so far in most people's lives.
Lei Zhen looked at Sals, who had not been seen for a long time, as if it was still yesterday, and the experience of the past few days was like a dream. "Teacher, I'm back!" Lei Zhen subconsciously shouted.
"Good! Good! Good! It's good to come back, it's good if people are okay! Sals has been on the radar since he left, but given the special nature of this mission, he was able to participate in it himself. Although he received a message from Harder halfway, it wasn't until he saw Lei Zhen's safe return with his own eyes that Sals's heart was relieved.
After calming down, Sals asked Lei Zhen about his trip, although he had received information before, he still wanted to hear Lei Zhen tell him again.
Lei Zhen summed up the language and told Sals all the before and after of the trip.
"What a Xue Qianhua! Dare to personally lead the team to hunt you down, when Lao Tzu was crisscrossing the battlefield, he didn't know where to drink milk! How dare you bully my students! "Sals seems to be very dissatisfied with Xue Qianhua's personal pursuit of Lei Zhen." Xiao Zhen, don't worry, see how the teacher avenges you. In less than three months, I will set the Shuai army on the ice city. ”
Hearing that Sals was going to fight in the ice city, Lei Zhen was also very surprised, "Teacher, it's not like that!" I didn't do anything either, just forget about Bing Lincheng, and kill Xue Qianhua directly. ”
Sals looked at Lei Zhen with a smile and a smile, he, a student, really holds grudges. Waving his hand, he said, "Okay, you can leave this matter alone." The upper echelons of the empire have long seen that Binglin City is not pleasing to the eye, and many people will be happy to take this opportunity to take it away. Tell me what else you learned from this trip. ”
"Oh, yes, teacher. Darcy dropped a necklace when he died, the one that carried the blood-colored spirit, look at it. As he spoke, Lei Zhen took out the mission item he had gotten, the Scarlet Crusader's Legacy Necklace.
Hearing this, Sals linked the item in Lei Zhen's hand, observed it carefully for a while, and then said to Lei Zhen: "Xiao Zhen, sometimes I really envy your luck!" ”
Lei Zhen scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "Teacher, isn't this just a mission item, and it's also from the Templar camp, so we shouldn't need it, right?" ”
"Hehe, you can't use it? Don't you know that the most people in our cemetery camp are necromancers? Necromancers aren't just at playing with corpses, they're experts at playing with souls! Sals looked at the necklace in his hand and said contemptuously. The blood-colored soul in this can't be used for you, the teacher has requisitioned it! Sals slowed down and continued, "As for the necklace, cheap you kid, this is an artifact, and I don't have much on me, teacher." ”