423 Battle of Auraon-1
"The Royal Family of Adele should also get the news, it is estimated that the Royal Legion will be dispatched soon, what we have to do now is to resist the attack of the monsters before the reinforcements arrive!"
Lin Linling analyzed: "If you guess correctly, this will be the first large-scale campaign mission of "Endless", as long as we participate in this mission, we will theoretically be rewarded, but if we want to get better rewards, I am afraid that we will have to get a high enough beheading score in this large-scale campaign mission." β
"Decapitation points?" Wutong was curious: "What is that?" β
"The Enforcer Knights, Mercenary Guild, and Adventure Guild stationed in Oraon New City, jointly issued a temporary defensive mission, which is the so-called 'decapitation feat', as long as a monster is killed, it will be recorded."
Lin Linling flashed a badge on her left arm composed of arcane dotted lines, which is similar to the [Eye of Witch Binding] and the recording spells used by the Adventure Guild and the Mercenary Guild, as a sign to distinguish between friend and foe when temporarily recruiting militia, and it also has the function of "battlefield recorder", the player has killed several monsters, the type and rank information of monsters, etc.
Wutong only then found that he didn't know when there was such a thing on his left arm, it seems that there is a range of range recognition mages released by the high-level mages of the Enforcer Knights or the Mercenary Guild, as long as they enter the combat area, they will naturally automatically obtain the logo to avoid being accidentally injured by friendly soldiers.
As soon as Wutong heard this, he was interested, and the players who stayed in Fairhaven City were probably coming, Xiao San, Lorenna, Lingyue Frost and Snow, etc., they should also be coming quickly, in this way, relying on the group advantage, they can indeed get a greater advantage in this battle.
All the forces of the Secret Shadow Company within the Principality of Adele have been placed under Lin Linling's management, and under her transfer, they have either rushed to Auraon New City or are coming.
This sudden large-scale campaign mission, I believe that once released, it will be for the whole player class, as long as they are not fools, no one will give up such a large-scale mission, and the players who are currently staying in Auraon New City do not know whether it should be considered unlucky or lucky, unfortunately, they will be dumpled by monsters if they are not careful, fortunately, they don't have to rush from Fairhaven or surrounding cities to participate in the mission, and they can get some more "decapitation exploits".
"I estimate that the troops stationed in several border towns and war fortresses around are also being transferred, and as soon as they arrive, it is estimated that the mission of this campaign will officially begin, and the task of our players is to keep the new city of Auraon from being breached before the official start of the campaign."
Lin Linling took out a map of the Principality of Ander, pointed to the several border military towns on it and said: "However, [Fort Vanguard] and [Vigilant Fortress] are both located on the southern border of the Principality of Ander, and it is estimated that they will not be able to catch up, while the two major armies of the two major military towns on the eastern border near the capital Fairhaven City [Fort Wagga] and [Fortress of Valor] can rush to the new city of Auraon within three days."
Wutong looked at the map and shook his head: "Don't count on it, it's impossible for the Royal Family of Adele to transfer the troops from the border military town to suppress this monster turmoil." β
Lin Linling was stunned: "Why?" β
Wutong remembered the aristocratic conversations he overheard at the banquet of the Cannis family, and thought about it for a while: "Recently, the border of the Principality of Ander is not very stable, and the relationship with several surrounding countries is not too harmonious, especially with the theocratic kingdom of the Principality of Ander, the most tense relationship with the theocratic kingdom of Celene, and if it is not good, it will start a war, so the [Heroic Fortress] guarding the eastern border, all the troops need to stay at the border to prevent accidents." β
He pointed to the northeast of the Principality of Andel: "Although the north of Adele is a high-risk and dangerous place, and it is blocked by the Star Mountain Range, Kannas, who is across the Inheritance Strait from the Principality of Ander, is gathering a large army on the opposite side of the strait, and the [Fort Wagga] legion responsible for guarding the northeast does not even dare to move. β
"Therefore, the only thing to count on is the military cantonment corps deployed along the [Venanne River] on the western border of the Duchy of Andar, but recently a large number of wild beasts and mysterious beasts in the [Eludon Field] are frequently crossing the Venana River to invade the territory of Andair."
Wutong spread his hands: "Na~ The number of monsters that these military cantonment corps have to deal with is not less than that of Auraon New City, and they are facing terrible creatures that run out of the [Eludon Field], the largest area of the entire Kovarare Continent, the [Qiyun Forest], these little monsters in Auraon New City are not even flies to them, how can they come to help?" β
"Huh!? No way? Is the Principality of Adele so worried about internal troubles now? Where did you know all this information? β
Lin Linling was dumbfounded with the map: "You should have seen it when you flew over just now, the creatures in the entire Will Forest have rioted, although the number of players is large, but the problem is that the number of monsters is several times more than that of players, plus the level of monsters is generally higher than that of players, and there are high-level monsters of the 2nd and 3rd orders, without the help of NPCs, they can't be stopped at all?" Finished! Our main industries are all invested in Oraon New Town, if we can't stop it, our investment will be all wasted."
The beautiful professional play supervisor began to break out in a cold sweat, and even dew-like sweat was oozing from the tip of her upturned nose, she was responsible for all the affairs of the Secret Shadow company in the Principality of Adele, and if something went wrong, she couldn't afford it!
The current development of "Secret Shadow International Entertainment Co., Ltd." is extremely rapid, and the development plan designated by the housekeeper uncle Cheng Yubin is simply like gambling on his life, leaving no reserve funds at all to invest, in order to make the "Secret Shadow" company's stall to the largest in the shortest possible time, so as to lay the most solid and stable foundation for the "Secret Shadow" company, so that in order to be able to compete with it in the future when the chaebol fights for hegemony, which is also "Secret Shadow" The only chance for this empty-handed leather bag company to fight in the tide of the virtual economy, once something goes wrong, it is not a matter of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of gold coins!
"It shouldn't be that serious, and the loss is estimated to be unavoidable, but I estimate that the Duchy of Adele can't sit idly by and watch the destruction of Auraon New City, otherwise, it won't be us players who will suffer economic losses at that time!" If you think about it this way, the only mobile troops that Royal Adele can mobilize are "Royal Griffon Knights" or "Royal Dragon Eagle Knights"
Wutong, who didn't know anything about his company, also scratched his head and said: "Not far from the border, and located in the north, Fairhaven City, which has the responsibility of guarding the country, also needs strong military protection, so I estimate that the Royal Dragon Eagle Knights will be left behind to protect the royal family, and the Royal Griffin Knights will be sent to Oraon New City to sit down, but the number of griffon knights in the Royal Griffin Knights is very small, and it is impossible to protect the entire Oraon New Town, which has expanded by thousands of times. At most, it's the area around the Auraon Buddo Temple, which guards the core area."
Before Wutong's words were finished, Lin Linling breathed a sigh of relief, patted her towering chest and said in shock: "That's good!" That's good! Because we started the earliest in the development of Aoraon, so our main industries are all concentrated in the core area, as long as the main industries are not damaged, there is no big problem, although there is some investment in the surrounding expansion and development area, but it has not been built, and it is impossible for monsters to dig up the land. β
His eyes were involuntarily attracted by the turbulent waves of the beautiful royal sister, and Wutong smiled and comforted: "Don't worry, although this large-scale battle mission is based on the core consciousness god's "Cause and Effect. The Law of Demand" was triggered, but it is impossible for the core consciousness god to arrange a disaster that destroys the surname when the player is unable to resist, so I estimate that "The Battle of Auraon" is at most the fuse of the core consciousness god in order to promote the game process and let "Endless" enter the official game plot, and it is impossible to be completely destroyed. β
Looking at the surrounding ants like a tide of players and the roar of beasts from the forest, Wutong sweated again, and felt that his words were too full and said: "Well, that's the case in theory, but if we players don't do anything, we can't rule out the possibility of a spoof by the core consciousness god, it's forcing players to work hard." Therefore, it is very likely that the new city of Aoraon is a 'practice campaign' arranged by the core consciousness god, and the players of the Principality of Adele, the main tasks for a period of time in the future are estimated to be here, this is a long-term battle, and it will not end in a short time. β
Lin Linling's beautiful eyes widened, and the crystal shone brightly: "In other words, this is a disaster, but it is an opportunity for us players?" β
"To be precise, it's an opportunity for our Secret Shadow!"
Wutong nodded very affirmatively, their "Secret Shadow" has been in the lead since the beginning of the inauguration mission, and even the "Auraon Development" was promoted by their "Inaugural Tour", and because of the early seizure of the opportunity, "Inaugural Tour" and "Secret Law Shop" obtained a large amount of gold coin funds in the Fairhaven Scraping Campaign, and they were ruthless, if anyone can take the biggest advantage in this disaster mission, even those large international chaebols cannot be more than their capital!
Don't forget, at present, on the virtual trading platform, the exchange price of gold coins and real coins is still maintained at about 1:10, considering the amount of game currency output of players in the current game, it is impossible to say that there is no chaebol behind the crazy gold absorption, and it is simply impossible to use it for investment and construction in the game! The price of gold has long since fallen to 1:1 or even lower.
But "Secret Shadow", because of the variable of Sycamore, the foundation in the game is too rich, and the wind direction is accurate, once it is really as Wutong said that "The Battle of Auraon" is a long-term battle, then the industry they invested in the town of Auraon in advance can help them suck back all the investment funds in a short period of time!
Come to think of it, having mastered the output of a large number of spellcaster professions in the Venane Academy, coupled with the super-quality potion production team led by Wutong, in such a fierce battle, isn't it crazy?
Lin Linling gasped and looked at Wutong: "That"
Wutong shrugged his shoulders: "What should I do, Sister Zero, you can do it yourself, don't worry about me." β
Lin Linling nodded, turned around and quickly ran back to the position of the "Secret Shadow" guild to command, and Wutong found that the patriarchs of the "Secret Shadow" guild, the "Shadow Mercenary Group" in charge of Tian Yuanfenghua and the "Shadow Patrol Adventure Group" in charge of Half Smoke, had already participated in the battle.
Even the former head of the "Islands Chamber of Commerce", the current head of the "Secret Shadow Chamber of Commerce", the platinum priest of the Church of Workin, Lean Pig, has also transferred all the main forces under his command to the new city of Aoraon, and is fully responsible for the economic affairs of the "Secret Shadow" in the Duchy of Adele, which shows how much Uncle Butler has invested here.
It's a pity that most of the company's personnel have been scattered to various countries because of random teleportation, and even the uncle is in other countries, otherwise, it is not impossible for the Secret Shadow Company to occupy the player market economy of the Principality of Adele.
What makes Wutong more depressed is that everyone is busy with heel spanking, and there is no time to pay attention to him, the **oss behind the scenes, usually idyllic flowers, half a cigarette, lean pigs, they can't even say a few words to him when they are assigned by the housekeeper's uncle, they are busy crazy every day, and they don't know what they are busy with.
As soon as Lin Linling left, Wutong didn't know what he was doing, everyone was screaming crazy with red eyes, and a large group of people and horses were rumbling around, and there was a state of war in all directions.
However, the players have relatively no formal military training, at most they gather together to fight in their respective forces, and even the vast majority of casual players don't know what they want to do at all, running around with large groups of people in a daze, indiscriminately attacking monsters trying to break through the defensive circle.
The smaller number of Enforcer Knights and Guard Corps is simply unable to defend the entire Auraon New City, so they can only be dispersed and temporarily serve as combat commanders, and many scattered players who are running around in a daze are pulled by the irascible soldiers, organized into their own teams, and take them to defend a certain section of the temporary fence of Auraon New City, although it is still a mess, after all, it is unlikely that the arrogant players will completely obey the orders of the NPCs like soldiers, but at least after the organization, They finally knew what they were supposed to do.
Sycamore was looking around with interest, when suddenly a law enforcement knight on a war horse roared and yelled at the Sycamore who was standing there: "Mage standing there! And those elves and warriors! Are you watching an opera? Or are you going to wait for the monsters to rush in for the party? Come here! You have been temporarily drafted into the militia, come with me at once! β
Wutong was stunned for a moment, and found that the rank of this Enforcer Knight was not low, a third-order Enforcer Knight was rare, it seemed to be the Captain of the Enforcer Knight who was stationed in the new city of Aoraon, and his personal badge was engraved on the chest of the silver-white silver-plated breastplate.
Wutong's heart moved, this middle-level knight was obviously a member of a certain noble family of Andele, otherwise, even if he was only a beginner-level mage, the other party would not dare to shout at him so loudly, obviously treating him as an ordinary traveling mage.
(Ma Note: Players who have not obtained the nationality and place of residence of their location are considered outsiders by default in the eyes of the aborigines, and are called "trialists" by the aborigines before taking office, and after taking office, they are regarded as mercenaries, adventurers, traveling mages, and traveling priests according to their professions.) Sycamore didn't intend to take out his noble badge from his pocket to convince the other party to treat him better, but just glanced back at Sarath and Aglaya behind him. Mecansut, Bussomis. Glesia, I saw them follow behind Sycamore with expressionless faces, as if they were two lifeless puppets, only Saras, who had returned to the main material plane (referring to the KovalΓ© Continent), jumped up and down behind Sycamore very excitedly, because she was always looking around curiously, so she used to pull the corner of Sycamore's cloak with her small hand to prevent losing Sycamore or herself.
Wutong, who felt that his escort strength was a little weaker, shrugged his shoulders, took three girls who looked like elves but were not actually elves, followed by the middle-level knights who were roaring and gathering people, and ran towards the defensive line.
But this time, because it was Salam who dragged him to fly over first, there were only three eye-catching "elf" girls left around, but there was no accompanying companion of any defensive profession, Sarath should be regarded as a wanderer profession, and Aglaya and Busomis, he didn't know the detailed career tendencies of these two contract creatures for the time being, which made him feel very insecure.
"Alas~"
Wutong sighed involuntarily, the mage profession is really too sad, in this chaotic battlefield, without the protection of the melee profession, it is no different from the little fat sheep sent to the big bad wolf.
Fortunately, the middle-level knight did not use him, a beginner-level mage, as cannon fodder to fill in the defensive line, because he found that the middle-level knight rode a war horse in the new city of Auraon and gathered all the spellcaster professions, and his subordinates also gathered some players and natives of the spellcaster profession from all over the place, and led them to the most fierce defensive line.
It is said that the battle is the most intense, because after the establishment of the new city of Auraon, a part of the surrounding forest was cut down, and in addition to the original forest road leading to Fairhaven City in the east, a forest road to the southwest [Wilshire] was opened, which led to the appearance of an empty flat land in the originally dense forest.
Because it is convenient for sprinting and fighting, the monsters that poured out of the forest involuntarily gathered in this direction, causing great defensive pressure, and the battle situation was also the most fierce on the defensive line, so it can be said that this is the most front-line position of the "Battle of Auraon".
Therefore, in addition to summoning a large number of clergy to assist the bloody melee profession on the front line, the Enforcer Knights, who were in charge of the battle command, had to gather spellcasters to enhance the attack.
Perhaps seeing that Sarath and Aglaya and Busomys were followers of Sycamore, the mid-level knights did not order them to go elsewhere to participate in the battle, but allowed them to accompany them to protect the mage Sycamore.
Actually, it's normal for a mage to have a few followers around him, so you can't let a mage rush to the front line shirtless, right? That's inhumane! Although the front line is mostly composed of melee classes, as long as the fighters do not die, it is impossible for the monsters to rush directly to the casters.
By the time Sycamore and the gathered caster class arrived in front of the Wilshire Forest Road, it had been beaten insane, and the corpses of players, aborigines, and monsters had been laid in a thick layer on the flat ground where the trees had been cut down!
To Wutong's surprise, the "Shadow Patrol Adventure Group" led by half a cigarette was actually placed here, perhaps because of the lack of long-range attacks, all the players of his ranger profession were temporarily transferred to shooters, in addition to professional archers, rangers can be regarded as half of the ranged professions, because before the transfer, most of the players who are inclined to the ranger profession are called hunters, and bows and arrows are one of their attack specialties.
As soon as they were brought to the front line, the number of spellcasters was quickly arranged, and they were distributed to various attack positions, and around them, all of them were players of the ranger profession, firstly, everyone was acting as a ranged attack, and secondly, the rangers who were temporarily transferred were also good in melee combat, and could be responsible for protecting the caster from a monster that broke through the defensive line of the melee profession in front of them and harmed the fragile mages.
The middle-level knight of the Enforcer who was in charge of leading the Sycamore and them over, after arranging the Sycamore and them in an attack position, threw three longbows at the three of them while yelling at the Sycamore: "I don't care what faction mage you are, anyway, you throw all the spells you know for me!" Before he could finish speaking, he rode away.
Wutong Khan, looked at the Salas, who got the military standard longbow next to him, the middle-level knight obviously regarded them as real elves, too, as long as they were elves, like the forest rangers, even if they were not archers, they could be used as half archers.
"Hehe, don't be surprised, this guy is already running crazy, just like that, he's been running back and forth eight hundred times"
One of the ranger players next to Sycamore "smacked" a few times, shot out a few feather arrows in his hand, and smiled at him in a friendly way.
(To be continued)