Chapter 251: The Trade Winds from the North (4)

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In less than a day, the Iron Cavalry and the Zodiac Alliance, which had been very prosperous in Hugodi, collapsed. 【】Naturally, it is impossible for a lord who has lost his territory to be rewarded with a territory again, and even if two guilds can regain these two cities, it will be difficult to be crowned a lord again. In fact, the two guilds that have been disabled are now unable to regain their territory, in fact, most of the players of the two guilds are still in a daze, and even when they come out of the resurrection point, their first reaction is to pull out their weapons from their waists and prepare to rush to the city again.

But when they saw the place of their resurrection, the weapon in their hands fell to the ground with a clatter. Because they know that their resurrection is meaningless, and some players have even died a second time. But they still didn't see the news that the town was holding on, but got the sad end in front of them.

Losing the battle this time is tantamount to losing all the income of the entire guild after entering the game, even if it is a large guild such as the Iron Rider and the Zodiac Alliance, which still have guild branches and territories in other regions, it will not be able to slow down at all for a while. What made Feng Buyun and Qi Shaohuang most angry was estimated to be Li Xiangrong's stab in the back, if it weren't for the fact that most of the people were scattered in various towns and cities at this moment to resurrect, maybe Feng Buyun and Qi Shaohuang would directly take weapons to find Li Xiangrong after all the members were resurrected.

But they also know that Xianghu Town at this moment is definitely well guarded, and the player may be okay to defend the city, but when it comes to attacking the city, it will definitely not work. Not to mention their current state, if they run to attack Xianghu Town, they will send death and experience to send money by the way. Therefore, no matter how angry Feng Buyun and Qi Shaohuang were in their hearts, they had to endure their anger.

In fact, even if they didn't want to endure it, they had to endure it, because both Feng Buyun and Qi Shaohuang were wandering in the resurrection corridor at the moment. As the guild leaders, they are the last to die in battle, and there are still a large number of players to protect them before they die. It's a pity that no matter how well they are protected, they still burp in the end, and under the crazy attacks of the drow elves and minotaurs, no matter how many players are also delivering food. However, the more ruthless ones were the madmen of the Zodiac Alliance, who buried nearly thirty tons of gunpowder under the Lord's Mansion. The moment when these gunpowders were finally ignited. Directly turned half of the lord's mansion into dust.

Although the explosive power of 30 tons** is at most the explosive power of 5 tons of TNT**, and the gunpowder must be ignited at the same time in an instant to achieve this power. In real life, it would take a lot of detonators to complete such a detonation, but there is no such thing as a detonator in the game. However, although there are no detonators in the game, there is magic. After the ordinary flame magic array was connected in series, it became the basis of the huge magic array in the town of the Zodiac Alliance, and the effect of the 1,700 flame magic array in an instant was better than arranging hundreds or thousands of detonators. At the same time, the black powder made by these madmen of the Zodiac League added a lot of magic crystal powder as a deflagration agent, and these magic crystal powder basically cannot produce an explosive effect in normal times, but when the temperature becomes very high in an instant, the power generated is enough to instantly increase the explosive effect of black powder by more than doubling.

If this is all there is to it, then the power of the explosion will not be able to wipe out half of the entire Zodiac Alliance Lord's Mansion in an instant, and other players will not call the Zodiac Alliance crazy. Because they have added magic crystal powder to black powder. It is also stirred with Flame Oil and sprinkled with a large amount of other in-game explosive substances. The final effect of these substances is the black powder that does not have a very good explosion effect in reality, and then after such a treatment with almost no scientific certification, it becomes not much worse than TNT. Thirty tons of black powder eventually produced the same power as thirty tons of TNT, and even a lot more.

The effect of this explosion was amazing, even more terrifying than the lethality of the Zodiac League's players fighting five disappearances. In addition to directly reimbursing the brains of the Zodiac Alliance, including Qi Shaohuang, nearly a hundred elites were instantly reimbursed, and the number of about 500 people in Zhuoer and the Blackhorned Minotaur was also compensated. This part of the Minotaur and Zhuo'er died almost instantly like Qi Shaohuang and them. I didn't even have time to make a call. Of course, not all the Drow and Minotaur in the Lord's Mansion have hung up, at least the three Holy Order powerhouses who are responsible for attacking the Zodiac Alliance towns have survived, and in fact, there are four Holy Orders that have attacked the Lord's Mansion, and one unlucky Drow Elf Sanctuary is very unfortunate to be in the center of the explosion. Even if he was extremely powerful, he still didn't have time to escape in the face of an explosion of gunpowder with a power comparable to thirty tons of TNT. Although the force of the explosion was not directly blasted to dust by him at the beginning, the impact caused by it shattered his defenses in an instant, and finally made him lose the ability to escape.

However, it was precisely because of this explosion of the Zodiac Alliance that Feng Buyun, who was originally going to do such a scene in Iron Horse Town, was deflated. Because of the loss of a holy rank, Zhuo Er suddenly shrank his head when attacking, and Feng Buyun, who originally wanted to burn the jade with the other party, was finally killed by Zhuo'er's ** master with a spell. The explosive gunpowder was eventually ignited, though. However, under the washing of a large amount of water elements, only a few small places were blasted.

Of course, in the end, the name of the madman was only crowned on the head of Qi Shaohuang of the Zodiac League, who made Qi Shaohuang lucky to detonate successfully, causing a very terrible explosion. Although the player is unaware that one of Drow's Holy Orders died in the explosion, the horrific effect of the explosion has also established the reputation of the Zodiac Alliance as the leader of the game's terrorists among the players. While it's not uncommon for players to use flames as human bombs in combat, the amount of flames that come together to create such a horrific explosion, and most importantly, the cost of using gunpowder in this way is not high. The cost of black powder in the game is very low, especially if the player is very close to a neighbor like the Black Dwarf who has lava underground, making it easy to get something like Brimstone. The only trouble is saltpeter, and there are many saltpeter mines in Hugodi. Even if the grade is not very high, there is no problem with making black powder. In fact, Chen Kai's town of Berkna has at least nearly 100 tons of black powder hidden. And after this move of the Zodiac Alliance, he directly used the black powder with a simple formula to further process it again using the Zodiac Alliance's practice.

As the Drow begin to clean up the mess of the two towns. Little did they know that in a few days there had been a legion of terrorists in those towns in the south. Although the Drow did not break their bones when they captured Iron Cavalry and Zodiac Town, they were also injured. So they all need to recuperate, and by the time the drow has finished recuperating and raising their butcher knives again, the players in the south have finished working on new gunpowder weapons.

The so-called new gunpowder weapons are actually not complicated, but the old gunpowder barrel has become a new magic explosion barrel with a magic array added. Of course, the detonation conditions on the outside are changed, and the gunpowder inside is naturally changed. The original ordinary black powder has become the current special gunpowder, and in addition to the fierce fire oil, a large amount of explosive magic powder that can release energy in an instant is added. Of course, the cost of a powder keg, which originally cost at most fifty gold coins and a hundred kilograms, instantly increased tenfold, reaching at least five hundred gold coins per magic explosion barrel, and the amount of gunpowder was reduced from the original one hundred kilograms to less than thirty kilograms. The effect of the reduction in the amount of gunpowder is that the gunpowder that was originally stored can be used to configure more magic explosion barrels, of course, only Berkner Town has mastered the magic explosion barrel technology at present, because it is Xu Fei and other spellcasters who open the magic explosion barrel.

In fact, in addition to changing the name, the so-called magic explosion barrel is actually the most primitive gunpowder explosion barrel, except for the change from a wooden barrel to a wooden barrel covered with iron sheets, the biggest change is that the explosive contact device has changed from the original lead to a built-in spell crystal detonation. In fact, the biggest reason for the price cost of the entire magic explosion barrel of nearly five hundred gold coins is this spell crystal, even if this spell crystal is attached to the lowest-level small fireball, the cost is as high as three hundred gold coins. Spell Crystal Touch Explosion is actually quite simple. That is to first fix it with glue to one end of the built-in metal barrel. When the Magic Explosion Barrel smashed to the ground, the spell crystal was detonated due to the impact, and then naturally detonated the powdered powder outside the small metal barrel. At the same time, in order to prevent the powder keg from falling apart directly when it hits the ground, the bread outside the barrel is covered with iron sheets. However, even if they are wrapped in iron sheets, it is difficult for these magic explosion barrels not to be smashed when they land, and the final detonation effect is not good. Therefore, the best place for these magic barrels to land is to smash on the body of living organisms. As long as you hit the bodies of those minotaurs, with a layer of soft flesh as a buffer, then a complete explosion becomes a real thing.

However, it is important to know that it is the catapult that shoots the Monster Barrel, and with the hit level of the Catapult, it is no less difficult to smash the Magic Barrel into the body of those drow or minotaurs in the dark than it is to shoot birds with a cannon. Even if it were the elaborate slings of the dwarves on the ground at the head of the town of Burkner, the accurate head would not be so good. In the end, these magic barrels can only be used in the same way as sleepers, that is, they are thrown directly from the city wall. However, the power of the Demon Explosion Barrel is still good, at least better than using 100 kilograms of gunpowder to finally explode even a Demon Wolf without killing it.

After all, although the power of the powder keg is not small if it is detonated instantly, unless it is detonated with a magic array, it is impossible to completely detonate nearly 100 kilograms of gunpowder in an instant with a lead. Of course, the original flame barrel detonated with a magic array was basically the first generation of the magic explosion barrel, and now it is the second generation, and it is only in the case of large-scale mining in the gem abyss. Chen Kai and they only have the financial resources and materials to make the Zuò Demon Explosion Bucket. Otherwise, it would be difficult for them to prepare all the spell crystals Chen Kai alone, even the lowest-level fire element spell crystals that could be attached to the fireball technique. If it's a dozen or twenty, then there's no problem in buying it from the market, but if it's hundreds or thousands of spell crystals, then buying them with money is simply a deadly thing. In fact, the nearly 3,000 magic explosion barrels in the current warehouse in Burkner Town were all prepared with that power after the gem abyss was mined, and if it was to buy those spell crystals with money, the price of buying spell gems alone would be enough to make Chen Kai bankrupt. Of course, the magic explosion barrels in Chen Kai's warehouse are all the third generation changed from the second generation of magic explosion barrels, and the so-called second generation is naturally a powder keg detonated by spell crystals. If it weren't for this modification, no matter how much overtime the players in Burkner Town worked, they wouldn't have been able to create more than 3,000 Magic Explosion Barrels in two days.

However, no matter how fast the modification is, the actual combat ability of the three generations of the Magic Explosion Barrel is still enough. Because even the magic explosion barrel wrapped in iron is too far from the real aerial bomb. In particular, the stability of the spell crystal is really enough. Even if they were carrying Chen Kai, they were worried that the magic explosion bucket would explode.

Fortunately, Xu Fei assured Chen Kai that these spell crystals would never explode without a violent collision, and of course, it was fortunate that the drow elves who had touched into Burkner Town did not open this warehouse. Otherwise, the explosion would have reduced a tenth of the city to rubble. After all, at that time, there were more than 2,000 second-generation magic explosion barrels piled up in the warehouse, and there were nearly 100 tons of gunpowder, and all the gunpowder added up to more than 300 tons. If these gunpowders were put on fire by those Zhuoers, it would definitely be enough for Chen Kai to drink a pot. Luckily, the Drow who attacked the warehouse at the time had the gem warehouse as their first target. Then after grabbing the Abyss Star, he chose to run away directly, otherwise, the losses suffered by Burkna Town might not only be half destroyed by Chen Kai's lord's mansion.

However, even though there were nearly 3,000 magical world bombs stored in the warehouse, Chen Kai still felt that the town's defense force was too weak. Unfortunately, at this time, he didn't have many cards to draw, and the cards in Drow's hand were constantly increasing. The occupation of the two towns not only gave Drow a large amount of land, but also a larger amount of food. Even if the towns belonging to the Zodiac Alliance and the Iron Riders had already moved away from the aborigines before the battle, they had no way to transfer the food. The food left in the city was originally intended for the player, which was prepared at three times the cost of the aborigines. Originally, the food prepared by 10,000 aborigines was only a few hundred tons, and if it was three times, it would be more than 1,000 tons. This time, the two towns provided nearly 3,000 tons of food to the drow for free. Even if it is not as good as the grain found in Beihu Town, it is enough for the servants and cattle heads of Zhuo to share it.

If it weren't for the need for Drow's troops to recuperate, the minotaurs also needed to rest and recruit new men from the underworld, it is estimated that on the third day after the Iron Rider Town was overturned, the Minotaurs would have attacked on their own and rushed towards the surrounding towns.

However, even in a state of recuperation, the Minotaurs were not at ease, except for sending some of them to transport food to the old den of the underground world. More often than not, they wandered around with the weapons that the drow had matched. Constant harassment and attacks on the surrounding cities, whether it is the player's town or the village of the native lord, even the town of the Baron Huberdine is within the range of these minotaurs. These restless minotaurs even crossed a distance of nearly 100 kilometers and appeared on the edge of the territory of Burkna Town, almost scaring Guan Yu to death when patrolling with the newly trained black-armored cavalry. You must know that the number of minotaurs who appeared can be more than three thousand, and the black-armored cavalry brought by Guan Yu is less than five hundred, and half of them are Xinding.

If Guan Yu hadn't fled immediately when he saw that the situation was wrong, it was estimated that the five hundred cavalry would have swallowed those bull-headed men directly. Of course, in the end, these minotaurs fled under the pressure of nearly 6,000 cavalry, but they didn't know that at least half of the so-called 5,000 cavalry were players. And the other half also has a third of the recruits' eggs. If the bull-headed people knew, it was estimated that these so-called cavalry who came in a hurry would be swallowed by their counter-charge.

Although he scared away these minotaurs, Chen Kai knew very well that Hu Gedi's situation had begun to deteriorate. When those minotaurs summon more people with their food, it may turn into a terrible disaster. According to Alyssa, this is very likely, because the Minotaur in the Underworld is so short of food, and having enough food to survive this time is very important for every Minotaur tribe. However, due to the complexity of the roads in the underground world, the distance between each Minotaur tribe is at least three or four days, or even a month or two away. Therefore, the number of minotaurs who arrived in a short period of time was not too large, and this is the reason why it took nearly a month for these minotaurs to appear in Hugodi.

Even if these minotaurs carry food back to the underworld to summon new people. It is estimated that the world will not see a new minotaur come to the ground without ten days and a half months. Therefore, Chen Kai has at least some time to breathe. But everyone knows that the arrival of the next wave of minotaurs will be the most difficult time to pass. At this time, those aboriginal nobles who could find a way began to ask their families for help, but even if their family power was huge, it was impossible to shake the determination of the Emperor of the Hansting Empire in a short period of time, and sent troops from the imperial capital to clean up these minotaurs. The only possibility is that these families themselves send their own private armies. Enter Hugordi to help these nobles defend.

However, it is a felony for a private army to leave the territory without permission, and it will cause these noble families to be punished by the royal family of the Hansting Empire. Therefore, the strength that can get the support of the family will definitely not be too much, and it will not be a private army in the formation, and it will only be a mercenary led by a few masters.