The 242nd Earth Scepter - The Wolf of the North Wind (I)

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After two days of marching on the avenue, Chen Kai and his caravan finally reached Hugawa. The full-text and ad-free novels are all on Aishang Novel Network biquge.info looking at this city that is even more dilapidated than Hugodi, Chen Kai finally understands why the Hugawa people lose every war between the two Hus. The only main city of the Hugawa city-state has fallen into such a decay, and it is no wonder that there are so many bandits and robbers in the entire Hugawa region.

The dilapidated Hugawa doesn't look like a tripolar city, the crumbling walls are covered with moss, and green weeds grow tenaciously in the crevices between the bricks. At the same time, the city walls are unusually low, and in Chen Kai's opinion, Hugawa's city walls are not even half as high as Hugodi's.

Of course, the Hugawa was not poor in the past, at least until the southern trade route was lost, and the Hugawa was a little more prosperous than Hugodi. Although he did not have as many metal deposits as Hugodi, he had some of the best craftsmen in Hansting. It was only after several wars that Hugawa's trade route was seized by Hugodi, and even the final appeal to the Senate did not take it back again. Thus Hugawa, having lost his trade, inevitably decayed, and almost collapsed.

At the same time, in order to restore the soldiers lost in the war against Hugodi, a large additional tax was added to the poor, which made Hugava the most taxed city-state in the entire Hansting ten years ago. These taxes were not abolished until three years before the player entered the game, and after nearly seven years of high taxes, the entire Hugawa became even more miserable.

If it weren't for the old city lord hanging up and the new city lord being more generous, after becoming a lord, he gave up the seven-year high tax plan and began to make up for the people. It is estimated that Hugawa would become the first Hansting city-state to lead an uprising due to excessive oppression, and it was overthrown by the peasants who turned into robbers and bandits.

However, even though the revolt that was about to explode was defused due to the generosity of the new city lords, Hugawa still suffered a deep blow. If it weren't for the rebellion of the lord of Hugodi, it is estimated that in less than ten years, Hugawa would have changed from a three-pole main city to a fourth-level town due to the shrinking business and the abundance of thieves. Once it becomes a fourth-level town, the hereditary lord of Hugawa will be stripped of his title in an instant, and the vast territory will be divided up by the surrounding city-states.

But now a new goal was set before all the city-state lords, and it was more tempting and fertile than that of the impoverished Hugawa. Almost as soon as the Hugodi lords showed signs of rebellion, the city-state lords, who were more well-informed than the players, began to extend their palms to Hugodi. But in order to avoid suspicion, they can only secretly send their player knights to be the vanguard, which is another reason why players flock to Hugodi.

After all, players who receive the so-called hidden quests issued by the lord have no resistance to the temptation of a large number of bounties and a large number of meritorious deeds and promised noble titles. As a result, a large number of player legions had appeared on the periphery of the entire Hugodi before the surrounding city-states had even started, and they began to divide the spheres of influence of the various city-states.

However, these things have nothing to do with Chen Kai and them, who finally infiltrated Hugawa, the purpose of their infiltration into Hugawa is only to open the teleportation array and buy some supplies by the way. After all, poor Lapra didn't have many valuable supplies for Chen Kai and them to buy, and of course Hugawa didn't have much to buy. The commercial activity of the whole Hugawa was slowly resuming under the watchful eye of the new lord of the city, but the peasants and commoners had little purchasing power with few gold coins on hand. At the same time, the middle and lower aristocracy, which constituted the main body of the middle class, had died in a large number of battles in the war ten years earlier, so that the entire Hugawa aristocracy was left with only a few kittens, and they were all poor and okay.

As for James, the wandering knights had in fact been cleared out of the ranks of the Hugawa nobility long ago, and they would not be recognized by any fiefdom except for the noble coat of arms passed down from their ancestors, which could be recognized by the Senate. Unless they prove their abilities again with their bravery and get knighted again with meritorious deeds, they will always be wandering knights without fiefdoms.

After carefully activating the teleportation point in Hugawa's only luxurious teleportation array, Chen Kai slowly breathed a sigh of relief. At least he didn't have to worry about needing to walk to Hugawa again after he hung up, and of course he hoped he wouldn't hang up, after all, the almost 8o% experience slot accumulation was not so easy to put down.

Pulling on the cloak he was wearing over his body, Chen Kai cautiously walked into the Dawn Temple under the suspicious eyes of the guards guarding the teleportation point. It wasn't until Chen Kai walked into the temple that the eye that shrouded Chen Kai slowly disappeared. As one of the few elite troops in Hugawa, Hugawa's city defense guards are the toughest soldiers Chen Kai has ever seen, and almost all of them are veterans who survived the Lianghu War ten years ago. Every veteran has a strong bloody murderous aura on his body, and the blood-red aura that wraps around those soldiers alone will make Chen Kai, who opened the Eye of the Stars, clench his weapon from time to time, afraid that the other party will suddenly burst out and kill him.

In fact, the most worrying thing for those veterans was whether Chen Kai was a cult follower, after all, not many people in Hugawa liked to wear cloaks. So much so that Chen Kai, who was wearing a cloak, was taken care of by those veterans when he stepped into the teleportation array, for fear that Chen Kai would do something terrible to destroy the teleportation array. It wasn't until Chen Kai entered the Dawn Temple that these nervous veterans breathed a sigh of relief and continued to stick to their posts.

After entering the Temple of Dawn in Hugawa, Chen Kai quickly entered the Hall of Commandments, which was where the priests of the temple conducted their daily affairs. Therefore, when Chen Kai pushed open the door and entered inside, he startled many of the clergy, because through the pitch-black cloak, they actually saw a purple light flashing on their cheeks inside.

An old priest who was a little nervous didn't even think about grabbing his scepter directly, wanting to cast a magic spell on Chen Kai. But in the end, he was stopped by the high priest sitting behind the desk, because his golden eyes did not show any evil aura on Chen Kai's body, but with a strong aura of the Lord of the Morning Sun.

"Senior Star Knight Kaichen? Saint? Laplace greeted the High Priest Andy," Chen Kai, who had taken off his hood and helmet, respectfully greeted the High Priest of the Dawn Temple who was sitting behind his desk, although he knew that it was dangerous to do so, but he couldn't care so much about it in his eagerness to seek help from the Temple. After all, he is now facing the pursuit of thousands of horse thieves in the entire Golden Passage, of course, provided that those horse thieves can find him.

"Welcome to Hugawa with Adorik, I heard you've been wanted by that fat pig from Hugodi lately?" Andy, the archpriest of the Hugawa Temple of Dawn? Ripiris looked at Chen Kai with a smile, although the Grand Priest didn't know why Chen Kai was wanted by the city lord of Hugodi, but he knew that as a Divine Grace Knight of the Temple of Dawn, he would definitely not do those things that hurt the heavens and reason. Because that would cause the knight to fall into depravity, and the divine grace on the guide zhì would be taken back, even if it was the player.

"Doesn't the Grand Priest know all about it?" Chen Kai replied with a smile, he naturally couldn't say that the other party was looking at the earth scepter and wanted him. After all, very few people even inside the Temple of Dawn knew about the matter of the Earth Scepter, let alone the archpriest who had not yet become a bishop.

"Hehe, you little guy" The priest was very helpless when he heard Chen Kai's ambiguous answer, and he also knew that no matter how he asked, Chen Kai would not answer. Therefore, some slick archpriests quickly changed the topic and motioned for Chen Kai to find a seat to sit down.

"That's it! Little one, what are you looking for me? Declare in advance that I can't help you get rid of your wanted warrant, unless that fat pig city lord is overthrown, otherwise you will have to carry this wanted warrant for the rest of your life," Archpriest Andy said to Chen Kai with a smile, and with his gray beard, he looked like an old child.

"Of course, my honor, Your Excellency Archpriest Andy, although I know that this wanted warrant is a shameless framing by the city lord of Hugodi, after all, the other party is a lord recognized by the Empire, so I don't expect the archpriest to help me revoke that wanted warrant. But I would like the High Priest to give me some help in any way he can, for I have heard that the vile Lord of Hugodi has moved those horse thieves to hunt me down on the Golden Trade Route, so I beg you to help me while I am part of the Temple of Dawn. Chen Kai slowly said his request, and then quietly looked at the archpriest who bowed his head and pondered after listening to his words.

Waited for nearly ten minutes, Archpriest Andy? Lipiris exhaled slowly, picked up his head with the crown of the high priest, looked at Chen Kai, shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, I can't do anything about those horse thieves, after all, I can't mobilize Hugawa's garrison to help you clear the horse thieves on the road."

Listening to the words of the archpriest, Chen Kai sighed, he slowly stood up and wanted to say goodbye to the archpriest's luggage, but the other party waved his hand to let him sit down. Obviously, the archpriest's words had not yet been finished, and with a hint of anticipation, Chen Kai sat on the shabby chair again.

"Although I can't mobilize the army to help you, I can help you where I can, I think you still have your temple contribution now, right?" The archpriest asked Chen Kai in an inquiring tone, and after the other party nodded, he slowly breathed a sigh of relief, and then stood up from behind the table and chair. Under Chen Kai's surprised eyes, he walked slowly on the ground with a wooden cane and a limp on one foot, slowly walking towards the temple treasury, while Chen Kai slowly followed behind him under the leadership of two high-ranking priests.

"Miloanaca, open the door" The archpriest said to the two senior priests standing next to Chen Kai, and then Chen Kai saw the two priests slowly take out half a huge key from their bodies and put them together. When the key was put together, it was inserted into the huge lock outside the warehouse door by the two priests, and then a huge metal door was slowly opened in front of Chen Kai's eyes.

"You can trade your temple contribution for what's inside, as long as the contribution is sufficient. Of course, in addition to the contribution, you must exchange some items with gold coins, after all, the temple of Hugawa is not rich, and we must have enough gold coins to take care of the poor people who have lost their land!" The high priest on crutches slowly sat on the stone bench outside the storehouse with the support of one priest, and then asked another priest to lead Chen Kai into the storeroom to select the things he needed.

Of course, Chen Kai's initial excitement after seeing the door of the treasury open immediately turned into disappointment, after all, Hugawa's Dawn Temple was too poor. The huge storeroom was unusually empty, and the shelves that were supposed to hold a large number of weapons were now empty, not even dust or cobwebs.

However, in the spirit of not being able to return empty-handed, Chen Kai still walked into the treasury with the priest, and carefully searched for things that were useful to him inside. Looking at the empty open boxes, although Chen Kai didn't know what the contents looked like, he could understand how many valuable items had been stored in the Hugawa Dawn Temple in the past.

Of course, that was only in the past, and now more than half of the entire treasury is empty, and the most remaining should be the dozen and dozens of holy water. Because of the high-pressure tax rate in the past ten years, few people in Hugawa can afford to buy holy water, and as a result, there are at least more than 100 bottles of high-grade holy water with strong sacred properties in the entire warehouse. At the same time, there were also a lot of holy water with healing effects, for these holy waters, Chen Kai almost didn't think about it, and all of them were put into his backpack, and the senior priest standing behind Chen Kai smiled happily after seeing Chen Kai's movements. After all, holy water can only be paid with gold coins, not temple contributions that cannot be exchanged for money.

After carefully searching the entire warehouse, Chen Kai found a few pieces of equipment that were slightly useful to him, including a long knife with a tearing effect and a set of leather armor with enhanced defense, that is, a spell defense effect. Of course, the most important thing is that he finds a box of thunderbolts, which is a version of the magic of the old-fashioned grenades that have already entered the military museum in reality.

These grenades with 5 points of impact power and 2ooo points of impact power per unit area, which means that the damage per unit area is close to 1ooo points, is what Chen Kai wants the most. At the same time, the number of 5o thunderstorms also guarantees that he can use it for a long time, if you save a little.

However, the price of this kind of thunderstorm is also ridiculously expensive, each of which costs 1ooo gold coins, and it took Chen Kai 5ooo gold coins to get this big box of thunderstorms. In the end, when Chen Kai walked out of the temple, his thousands of temple contributions were still untouched, and the gold coins in his pocket were tens of thousands less.

In the Archpriest Andy? In the farewell of Lipiris next time, Chen Kaifei also fled from the Temple of Dawn in Hugawa. He was afraid that the gold coins in his pocket would be drained by the temple priests who wanted him to donate, so in a short time, Chen Kai ran back to his carriage and hid.

Chen Kai, who hid in the carriage, carefully checked the equipment in his hand, and Chen Kai threw the leather armor directly to Fei Yun. Because this kind of leather armor with low defense is not suitable for him to wear, even if it has three Tier 4 defense spells on it. However, the spell crystals required to activate this spell are not a small number, and they do not last long.

After dealing with the leather armor, Chen Kai immediately took out the long knife from his backpack. This was the only good weapon that Chen Kai found from the temple treasury, and although the sharpness coefficient of the long knife was only 4 points, it could not withstand the tearing effect attached to it. And this tearing effect is not only the spell attached to the weapon, but also the method of making the weapon itself. Therefore, the blade of the entire long knife has a small inverted edge, which is distributed on the narrow blade like a serration.

While this makes the blade less strong, it is terrifyingly lethal. Because every chamfer has at least... The sharpness of this kind of sharpness value is still the first time Chen Kai has seen it, and at the same time, he is also the reason why he quickly did it. Because when the blade cuts the skin and flesh of the monster, those inverted blades will also cause secondary damage, and the larger the area of contact between the long knife and the object, the more secondary damage there will be.

When Chen Kai used the handle of the long knife to cut a bought pig, until the tip of his long knife left the pig's body, the entire pig jumped out of at least ten secondary injuries. These injuries are caused by those inverted blades on the long knife, which can be said to be an extremely terrifying weapon.

Of course, Chen Kai likes this weapon called Tearing Fang very much, although this weapon is too cruel, but his terrifying lethality is what Chen Kai wants most at the moment. Because Chen Kai knew that the situation he was facing next was very dangerous, and the cruelty to the enemy in this dangerous situation was mercy to himself, he was not a saint, just a player who wanted to complete the task. Therefore, Chen Kai, who did not have any burden in his heart, naturally did not have any burden on using a cruel weapon.

Unbeknownst to Chen Kai, however, was that while he was carefully wiping his newfound one-handed weapon in the carriage, a large group of fierce horse thieves in the northern border area of Hugawa were standing on a hill and surveying the trade routes below. The leading thief was covered in a snow-white wolf skin, and the huge wolf head was over the thief's head, and the horse thief's blind eyes were very similar to the scars on the eyes on the wolf's head. The same two oblique scars cut the eye sockets, leaving two miserable white scars.

As long as the merchants who trade on the Golden Trade Road naturally know who the horse thief wearing a scarred wolf skin is, as the biggest horse thief on the entire Southern Gold Trade Road, Ankaharun, the wolf of the north wind, is the most ferocious and cruel horse thief, and there is no one.

His name alone could be used by peasant women in a dozen or so city-states throughout the south to terrorize children, which shows how strong his murderous reputation is. It's just that what everyone doesn't know is that Ankaharun, the wolf of the north wind, has another identity, that is, the second son of the city lord of Hugodi.

Therefore, it is self-evident that Ankaharun would guard the northern border of Hugawa, and he gave up his business in the north to come to this poor country for the sake of Chen Kai. And as a horse thief who has been roaming the north for many years, Ankaharen will not listen to his fat pig father, he has only come here to get the scepter of the earth. As for whether he will give it to his father or keep it for himself after getting the Earth Scepter, then it is up to Ankaharun to think about it, because no one can read his thoughts from the eyes of Ankaharun, the white wolf.

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