Chapter Eighty-Five: Burning
The underworld is hierarchical, but there are often incidents on the top.
Without the Castle Lord's Order, once a normal player enters the Castle Lord's Seat, they will be considered disobedient by NPCs.
This is why Gustav's management drove a large number of players under level 10 to act as cannon fodder and storm the Castle Lord's Seat. They distributed the elite teams on the city wall connecting the Mage Tower, the Central Tower, and the Psychic Tower, preparing to wait for Lin Ling and them to kill all the NPCs before rushing into the Central Tower.
Love-Hate Entanglement uses his crossbow to break the rope and lower the heavy fence iron gate, sealing the lower entrance to the central tower.
The durability of the fence gate is as high as hundreds of thousands, and even if Gustav mobilizes the most elite group of mages and warlocks to bomb together, it will take a full half an hour to blow up the gate.
Lin Ling took out two endless water bags from the messenger's backpack and distributed them to Drunken Alcohol and Strawberry Nose. He took out his pen and paper, wrote a note and put it back in the messenger's backpack, and asked Love Hate for the Endless Water Bag, and put his Endless Water Bag and the Love Hate Endless Water Bag into the Courier's backpack and let it be sent to the brewery in the Rhine City to find Goldfinger Jose.
Drunken and strawberry nose pulled out the cork, and a strong aroma of wine suddenly made them understand what Lin Ling wanted to do.
"There's 100 units of cherry spirits in each hydration bag, wait a minute, you guys use it to match me." Lin Ling twitched a few facial muscles, a total of 200 units of cherry spirits, the cost was nearly 30 gold coins, if they were put on the market to sell, even if it was a loose cherry spirit without a bottle, the unit price would be 80 silver coins.
In other words, Lin Ling lost about 160 gold coins because of this. He demanded that the drow who drove them into the Central Tower pay the same price as the undead.
Originally developed as an alchemical elixir, cherry spirits are not like ordinary high-spirits, which only burn the alcohol in them when exposed to fire.
When Cherry Spirits are on fire, it will burst into a cherry-colored red glow and continue to burn, each unit will burn for no less than 8 seconds, during which time it will deal fire damage ranging from 10-20 to surrounding objects per second.
Strawberry Nose and Drunken Wujiu nodded, they also knew the market price of cherry spirits, and knew that Lin Ling was bleeding profusely this time.
"Tell me about the course of action in a moment." Lin Ling took out the map and pointed to a spiraling staircase inside the central tower, "The entrance to this staircase is behind the storage room at the end of the corridor, as long as we find the mechanism, we can go in, love and hate, you go first, go to find the mechanism." ”
"No problem."
Love-hate entanglement slips into stealth, carefully bypassing the drow swordsman in the aisle.
Lin Ling is not worried that the love-hate entanglement will be discovered by NPCs, and NPCs, like people, like people, like to use their own people. The Dungeon Lord and Lizard Knight Greed is a Drow, and most of his guards are also Drow, with only a few necromancers serving as staff members under his command and stationed in the Mage Tower.
"On each floor of the staircase, there will be a platform on which there should be large defensive equipment, don't look at me, this thing can only be used by NPC technicians." Lin Ling pointed to the platforms marked with catapults on the map and said, "Strawberry Nose, you and Drunken Wu rushed to the three-story platform, poured all the wine, pay attention to the wind direction, if the wind direction is not right, you go around the platform half a circle and inform me, I will use the Flame Explosion Technique to ignite those wines." ”
"Understood."
Strawberry Nose knew that Lin Ling chose him and Drunken Wujiu to carry out this action, considering that they were wearing armor with high defense, and each part would inevitably have scale armor with physique attributes, and their health and armor value were the two highest among the five people, and they could withstand attacks.
"Zen master hard work, wait a minute, your task with love and hate is to lead your respective garrison guards to clear the mobs in the tower, no matter what mobs are killed, Strawberry Nose you and the drunken garrison guards are set to take the initiative to attack, put them at the entrance of the stairs, don't let the mobs enter the stairs."
Lin Ling said, slamming his fist on the lord's nest at the top of the Central Tower, and said confidently: "As long as we take the dungeon lord, victory will be ours." ”
"Zero, I found the mechanism." The love-hate entanglement that sneaked into the end of the aisle finally found the mechanism.
"Stay there, and don't let the Drow Warlocks who might be passing by find out." Lin Ling noticed that the assembly post had ended the cooldown, he waited for a few more minutes, and after everyone's assembly post had finished cooling, he issued an order, "Action." ”
The assembly whistle sounded at the same time, and they summoned their respective garrison guards to attack the drow swordsmen in the aisle.
The average level of the Drow Swordsman is the same as that of the Garrison Guard, both of which are level 13. Their encounter can be described as equal.
Strawberrynose leads the charge, helping the garrison guard clear a path.
The love-hate entanglement took the opportunity to activate the mechanism, and the shelves in the storage room slowly lowered to the ground, revealing a narrow portal for one person to pass.
"You go first."
Lin Ling pushed the Zen Master and the drunken Zen Master, and stayed at the back of the team, opening his five fingers at the Drow Evil Swordsman who was following him.
A cold glow burst out in the palm of his hand.
Snowstorm!
Roaring swirling clouds covered the ceiling of the entire aisle, and shattered ice flakes rained down from them, striking the Drow Swordsman, dealing around 140 points of ice damage per second.
Shattered ice slag destroyed the aisles' decorations, and the Drow swordsmen faltered under the blow of the blizzard, falling down every few seconds.
After the guidance of one blizzard ended, Lin Ling did not wait for the cold light to dissipate from his palm, and released a second blizzard.
The second blizzard slain all the drow swordsmen who survived the first blizzard, and the tiles and walls were covered with frost like ice crystals, and occasionally pieces of broken cloth, ruined picture frames, and small half-candles could be seen frozen to the ground, recounting the opulence of the place.
He glanced at the silent walkway and turned to the spiral staircase with satisfaction.
Three teams of garrisons stood side by side at the entrance to the spiral staircase behind him, blocking the entrance and escorting them.
Holding on to the handrail of the spiral staircase, Lin Ling strolled up.
Along the way, there lay the corpses of several stiff drow lurkers. He came to a lookout hole, glanced at the bustling city walls, and the more lively square of the city lord's seat, took out a skinning knife from his backpack, cut through the fabric of a corpse, and threw it off the platform.
The wind, carrying the fabric, drifted towards the crowd.
"Zero, we're starting to pour wine"
Strawberrynose and drunken rush to a higher platform, leaning out and pouring out cherry spirits.
The Zen Master of Watch and Love-Hate Entanglement led 2 teams of garrison guards, running back and forth, clearing out the drow lurkers lurking in the spiral staircase.
The wine was blown away by the wind and poured down like rain on the heads of the dense crowd.
"It's raining?"
A drow thief who had been drenched in cherry liquor looked up in disbelief, the water on him was not as cold as rain, and most importantly, how could it rain underground? Curiously, he stretched out his hand, dipped a few drops of rain into his mouth and tasted it, discerning a hint of a slightly sweet and spicy smell.
As an inhabitant of the Underworld, this drow thief certainly hadn't tasted the cherry spirits, a specialty of the Rhine. His keen eyesight, which was beyond the rest of the profession, made it easy for him to spot Strawberrynose and drunken people leaning out of the three-story platform and pouring out a large bag of water.
"Those bastards have bad brains, right? Dump such a good thing and destroy it. The Drow thief licked his lips and quietly pulled out a container to fill some rain. He's not the only one of Gustav's players to do this, and some of the astute enough players have been able to tell that they're pouring out not water, but a high-alcohol spirit.
But their findings don't change anything.
Lin Ling held the divination orb, he relied on the special structure of the lookout hole to see the scene in the city wall, but the Gustav members on the city wall could not see him.
The crystal ball shone with the brilliance of the explosion, and Lin Ling was like an ant, chattering and gathering on the city wall to keep shouting Zhuoer and the undead, and during the 3.4-second preparation for the fire explosion, he handed out a private chat application to Uncle Ben: "If you know the mirror shadow, tell him that he is doomed." ”
"...... Zero? What are you talking about? Uncle Ben was taken aback by Lin Ling's application for private chat, of course he knew Jingying, who wouldn't know his biggest competitor?
"Thank me, idiot."
Lin Ling spent a sum of money to turn on the video mode and point the camera at the city wall under his feet.
One, or rather, a massive, roaring spherical flaming body burns in the shot, quickly rushing into the crowd in the city walls.
-550!
"You want me to see this?" In Uncle Ben's eyes, Lin Ling's Fire Explosion Technique only caused a somewhat high explosion damage to a Drow Warrior, and if he was replaced by himself, there were probably at least three methods that could cause the same damage, but the explosion generated by the Fire Explosion Technique covered a wide range and quickly blinded Uncle Ben's eyes.
The explosion of the Flame Blaster ignited the cherry liquor that adhered to the members of Gustav's guild, and the crowd continued to burst into a bright luster like cherries.
On the city wall, a fire dragon appeared, and countless Zhuo Er and the undead fled in panic with fire, and their screams reached the sky and into the ears of Lin Ling and Uncle Ben.
"How so, how so?" Although the damage caused by the flames to each Gustav member was negligible, only 10 or 20 points, the scope of coverage was more extensive than Uncle Ben had ever seen.
"Nothing is impossible."
Lin Ling said as he sent out the second formed flame explosion technique, and the flame polymer fell into the west side of the weak city wall, causing another sky-high fire.
Drunken and Strawberrynose quickly emptied the endless water bladders in their hands.
Without further ado, Lin Ling summoned his other animal messenger and delivered two endless water bags filled with cherry spirits to them.
"The last two." Lin Ling said in the team channel that if he hadn't relied on the crossbow to earn 700 gold coins before, he would not have been so extravagant and wasteful in killing him.
Drunken and Strawberry Nose uncorked and continued to pour their drinks underneath.
Drinks spilled on the heads of Gustav's members.
"Fight back, fight back." Some of the more literate undead players under the command of the guild management attempt to use the crossbow to fight back.
But their move is no different from suicide.
The crossbow bolts do very little damage to Drunken and Strawberry Nose.
And their neat queue was undoubtedly as conspicuous as standing out in Lin Ling's eyes, and he aimed at the direction of that team and released the third flame explosion technique.
The Flame Burst roared to the ground, reducing several undead players to ashes.
The rest of the undead players were all covered in fire, and although the damage caused to them by the burning was very weak, their hands and feet still did not listen to their own command, and the strange feeling of the flames licking their skin made one of the undead players unbearable on the spot, unplugged the network cable, and left this land of right and wrong.
"Steady, steady, pastor, find a pastor!" The resurrected mirror shadow looked at the burning city wall with red eyes, the Flame Explosion Technique, and the Flame Explosion Technique, why would a small Flame Explosion Technique cause such a big effect? He didn't understand, and he didn't have time to figure it out.
"Remove them all, from the other end of the wall."
Of course, Mirror Shadow knew that the professional team that should let him be his hole card at this time appeared, but before that, he had to evacuate the low-level cannon fodder gathered on the city wall and provide a wide enough field for the professional team.
But the instructions issued by the mirror were ignored at all.
After all, Gustav's founding time was still short, and Mirror and the guild management he recruited were not yet able to command the guild members.
At the moment of great disaster, everyone is running away, screaming and cursing. His former authority and prestige were all wiped out at this moment.