Chapter 858: Demons and Angels
It has been a full 10 days since the day when the eight saint-level powerhouses went to hunt down the Lich King together.
In a small fortress, a group of players are looking at the scattered undead creatures below, and begin to repeat the action they have performed countless times.
In a corner of the fortress's walls, Mina, the unscrupulous profiteers, and Tie Feng were sitting there, watching the morning light in the distance.
"So, the Lich King was beaten by 6 people and didn't die? This guy's life is a little bigger. The unscrupulous profiteer was somewhat surprised when he listened to Mina's experience in its entirety for the first time.
For now, the only people who know that the Lich King was beaten by 8 saint-level powerhouses are Shuinai and Thief Youdao and a few people who are more familiar with him, as for the others, they don't care much about this elusive Lich King.
And on the third day of this incident, Marshal Lyken began to return to the court with his own soldiers to find Howard's bad luck.
Although this move is confusing to many players, it does not prevent them from going to the battlefield to kill people and do missions.
After all, as long as the mission on this battlefield does not disappear for a day, it is naturally impossible for the player's figure to disappear.
It's just that the tasks on this battlefield have also begun to focus on defense, and the tasks of raiding or encircling strongholds like before have disappeared.
However, with most of the supplies and personnel being transferred, many quartermasters on this line of defense began to close their doors one by one.
Without the support of these quartermasters, the player's life here has also begun to decline.
In this battlefield, the most is experience, often as long as the player can work hard, and at the same time the strength is not bad, often can get a lot of experience on this battlefield.
However, this experience must be based on the premise that there is sufficient material supply, otherwise without supply, the loss of medicine and the maintenance of equipment alone will be a headache for most players.
There are 500,000 players on this line of defense, and the daily supply of limited medicines and other supplies provided by the empire for free not only allows players to save a lot of money, but also allows some players with poor equipment to transform themselves and increase their equipment by several levels.
However, all this, since Marshal Lyken took the people away, these quartermasters have disappeared from the player's eyes.
Now they are also beginning to have to solve this problem on their own, but such a large material gap is not so easy to solve.
Not to mention other materials, medicine alone can give many players a headache.
As their level rises, the opponents they face have also improved a lot, and the small doses of medicine in the past basically can't keep up with the development of the times. However, the number of high-level medicines themselves cannot be too large, and players must start with the most basic medicine collection to formulate these medicines.
As we all know, the more high-level the medicine, the more precious the materials used in its formula, and the longer it takes to refine, of course, the rank of the pharmacist profession must also be raised.
However, the unscrupulous profiteers and the people of the two guilds of Tiefeng, who had already learned the news in advance, began to buy a large number of medicines and drug-related things during this period of time.
In order to control this market, Tie Feng vaguely notified several guilds that were closely related to Jiu Dangge.
And after thinking for a while, Mina also sent a message to the Emperor and asked them to step in.
Although the people around him didn't know what these people were thinking, at this time, the happiest players were naturally those who bought medicines, and sold all the medicines in their hands one by one.
Although these guys also have the idea to raise the price of these medicines, none of these crazy buying guilds are stupid. As long as the price exceeds the usual level, it will be abandoned.
For these speculators, these speculators are very familiar with this method of buying low and selling high, and naturally they will not let their interests suffer losses because of this.
This frenzy of acquisitions soon ended, because within a few days, Marshal Lyken took nearly 100,000 emperors and waved south, but did not leave any information for the player.
This made many players unclear about what was going on, and some people felt that these Marshal Laiken's troop transfers were a bit strange, so they also followed all the way south.
However, the vast majority of people chose to stay, and almost all of the larger guilds stayed. For their team, which has tens of thousands of people at every turn, once it is transferred, the cost is so great that even they can't afford to hurt it.
In case this transfer of troops is just to divert the tiger from the mountain and lure the enemy army, then they will not lose much.
In the beginning, most players had some spare medicines in their backpacks, but as time went on, they suddenly found that they had enough medicines in their backpacks, and they began to bottom out.
For a class like a mage, which consumes mana almost every second, without the replenishment of mana, then they are completely useless.
And without the support of the mage's magic and the main attack, most of the team would not be able to get out of the city gate at all, let alone face the tide of undead.
Without medicines, players simply can't go about their daily activities.
At this time, after a unified discussion, several big guilds that had been frantically buying drugs before also began to sell their medicines in batches.
And they are not greedy, and the price of these drugs is only slightly increased by 10%. Although this 10% profit sounds a bit small. But during this period of time, they have bought all the medicines sold in the surrounding area, and even the few pharmacies here have almost been emptied of their warehouses, and there is no way to come up with any more goods in a short time.
The daily consumption of 200,000 players, this gap is so large that it is basically not something that ordinary players or pharmacies can make up. Although many players are also very backbone and refuse to accept such disgusting speculative goods, when they go to great lengths to get medicines from within the empire, they find that this behavior not only saves them a lot of money, but also loses a lot of teleportation costs.
And more players, in order to save trouble, take the goods directly from the unscrupulous profiteers, anyway, for them, they can afford the 10% difference. Although it was a bit painful to be slaughtered for no reason, it was better than suddenly finding that you had no medicine and died in a fight.
At the same time, the unscrupulous profiteers did not stop there, and transferred the pharmacists in their guilds to the front line one by one, and then directly set up camp and directly produced potions.
During this period of time, there is no happier than those life players who take pharmaceuticals as their job. Unified prices and a stable market have made these life players also benefit a lot.
However, the benefits of idle solo players like them cannot be compared to those of these life players with guild backgrounds.
They don't have to worry about the materials, and they don't have to sell them themselves, they can produce them wholeheartedly and create a lot of profits for themselves.
A 10% net profit, perhaps not much value to these guilds.
Let's take the guild of Tiefeng, although they voted nearly 5 million gold coins, but at most they got a net profit of 1 million, but there are a lot of points in it, but there are not many real hands.
However, the only good thing about them is that they have succeeded in copying the price of the drug.
And this is a big business opportunity for large guild organizations with their own production staff. The only thing that makes them unhappy is that they have no way to monopolize this market, and many forces that have already reacted have also begun to enter this drug market.
During this period of time, the most benefited was naturally the unscrupulous profiteer, a pure businessman.
Although the benefits he received from medicine were not too high, the impact of the emperor's departure was not only in medicine, but also in terms of equipment and other materials.
In addition, the guild of unscrupulous profiteers itself is composed of pure life players, and the production capacity it has is simply not comparable to that of other guilds.
Now the guild of unscrupulous profiteers directly controls nearly a quarter of the material supply of this defense line, and the daily income makes him smile all day long.
No one will be disgusted with this additional income, and no one will let go of such a market.
"By the way, Mina, then do you think we should meddle in the affairs of the Holy Empire?" At this time, the unscrupulous profiteer asked Shuinai beside him, and Tie Feng, who was on the side, immediately pricked up his ears.
Ever since Mina knew that the Lich King had been seriously injured and had taken his last breath, but was saved by the Demon Legion, he no longer had any scruples, and instead joined Tie Feng and their guild people.
The current side of the Undead Empire is just as divided as the side of the Human Empire. However, this division was formed under the control of the old mage.
After a period of lurking and close-quartering, Nabi not only raised his strength to the level of the Lich King, but also rescued many strong people who had been persecuted by the Lich King to help.
These strong people are all people who have been framed or suppressed by others before for disobeying the Lich King, and they all know that the Lich King's heart, once the Lich King is allowed to come to his hands, he will not let go of these former "enemies".
For this reason, they can only be persuaded by Nabi, for their own sake and for the future of the undead empire, to take the lead.
The old mage's arrangement made the people of the dark camp unable to start a large-scale war, and every day on this border except for those undead who were refreshed by the system, no NPCs were found to join the battle.
But again, the battlefield missions on the side of the Undead Empire are still there, so the player's figure still often appears on the battlefield.
"Don't pay attention to this lying in the muddy water, there are crocodiles and sharks in this water, be careful of being bitten until there are no bones left." Mina knows that unscrupulous profiteers want to fish in troubled waters, but if they are all big guys like crocodiles and sharks, it is not for players to be able to gnaw.
"It's not that dangerous, is it?" Unscrupulous profiteers are also a little puzzled.
However, it's no wonder that unscrupulous profiteers are ignorant, because now that the Holy Empire has been spread from the mouth of Minai and the thieves, no player knows what the concept of this Holy Empire is, let alone the situation in it.
For this, Minai had to say that Howard's secrecy methods were very good, from the establishment of the City of Holy Light to the establishment of the Holy Empire, all of them were their own people, and outsiders like players, they were useless.
On the contrary, under various pretexts, they are controlled to do the most basic work, and basically no information is revealed.
"Didn't I tell you about the Demon Legion before? The old mage now suspects that the angelic legion belonging to the God of Light has also taken action. If this is really the case, then the current City of Holy Light is one of the most terrifying Longtan Tiger's Den, go and die one by one. ”
"Damn, you're kidding! There's a demon legion, and now there's an angel legion? "The unscrupulous profiteer said so, but he also understood what Mina meant.
If this is the case, then if the Angel Legion is measured by the Demon Legion with an average strength of more than 150 levels, then the current players will really die one by one.
At present, the highest level among the players is Mizuna, but he is only level 138, and this is still the premise that he uses the magic cannon on the battlefield every day to harvest experience.
However, even Mina, in the face of the information of the demon legion that spit out from the old mage's mouth, he had only one way to die.
Because the individual combat effectiveness of the Demon Legion is very strong, not only has the ability to fly and strong physical attack power, but also has a high magical talent. And the Angel Legion, which is as famous as this, naturally cannot be much lower in strength.
"Where there is light, there is darkness, they cannot exist alone, if here, once you encounter those creatures of the demon legion, we recommend leaving directly, and do not make unnecessary sacrifices." Mina looked at Tie Feng and reminded him.
"Then, what does the demon legion look like, a level 180 monster, we can't afford to scout it!" Tie Feng thought of this.
However, Mina could only shake his head, because no player had seen any demon legions, and Mina's source was only known from the old mage.
"All I know is that their bodies are black and red, with bat-like wings, and have a body no less than that of dragons, and as for the rest, I don't know." This is what Mina knew from the old mage.
"Hehe, this seems to be quite recognizable, but I don't understand one thing, why the Lich King has such a powerful army, but he doesn't use it? can injure 6 saint-level powerhouses, and with this combat power, this line of defense has already been resolved. Tie Feng was also a little suspicious in his heart.
Because from the old mage's mouth, he also knew that the 6 saint-level powerhouses sent out this time not only did not complete the task to solve the Lich King, but came back one by one with color, and one of the sages was even more damaged and seriously injured.
"Quantity issues? Probably, this force is not numerous and cannot afford to consume. And as the subordinates of the Dark God, they are probably not something that the Lich King can command, and in addition, coming down from a high-level world like Hell, it seems that they will be affected by this world, and their strength will be weakened somewhat. ”
Although Mina's analysis is reasonable, the reason that really restricts the actions of the demon legion is because their personnel are not available. And in order not to be broken one by one by the powerhouses of this world, they naturally have to act in groups.
"Okay, I don't care about this problem, those of us who do business, as long as we have business to do, it doesn't matter if we are in the company of angels and demons." After the unscrupulous profiteer finished speaking, he patted his ass and got up.
"Alright, we're going to do the mission too." At this time, Mina and Tie Feng also got up, because they had already seen the thief and the dawn pulling an ordinary wooden cart over.
"Then I'll go first, see you next time." The unscrupulous profiteer jumped off the parapet and walked towards the teleportation array without looking back, and then went directly back to the main city nearby.
"Leaving so soon, are you going to scrape some oil?" After watching the unscrupulous profiteer disappear into the teleportation array, the thief also said with some regret.
He was very envious of the space equipment on the unscrupulous profiteers.
"If you want to go, if you don't leave, there won't be enough time." Mina looked at the wooden cart behind the nightmare warhorse of Dawn, although the contents of the cart were covered by gray canvas, but Mina knew that what was placed in it was the Spatial Enhancement Pillar.
Although Marshal Lyken and the others have evacuated, this spatial barrier is still under construction. It's just that the amount of work on this separation zone is too large, and at present, even if they go all out, they will only complete less than one-fifth.
"Then be careful and come back early." Tie Feng watched as the group distributed enough medicines from Shuina's backpack, and didn't keep them any longer.
"Don't worry, unless we run into a demon army, otherwise, we are not afraid of anyone." The thief also said confidently, and at the same time waved the ice and fire dragon in his hand.
As the commander of this fortress, Tie Feng couldn't leave casually, so he could only watch them leave this fortress step by step.
This is the reward for their bravery on the battlefield for their twin dragon guilds, as long as the big guild on this battlefield does not release water and goes all out, they can basically get the temporary management of a fortress.
"By the way, Lao Fan, just now your teacher asked you to complete today's task, go to him, it seems that your reward has eyebrows." The thief who walked out of half a kilometer suddenly said this to Mina.
"Understood." Mina nodded, after so long, the old mage's reward was finally transformed.
Since the old mage got the magic armor of the Demon Armor Yin Soul Dragon, he directly took back the new elemental suit suit on Mina, which made Mina, who had only been wearing it for less than 5 minutes, very puzzled.
However, when he heard that he was going to apply the magic technique of this magic armor to this new elemental suit set, Minai immediately nodded.
It's just that Minai didn't expect that this change would take nearly ten days.