Chapter 222: The Ominous Movement of Death (4)

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As the name suggests, the town of North Lake is located on the north side of the lake, which is considered a very rare large lake in the whole of Hugodi. In fact, the lake, known as Cervanto's Roem, is even larger than the entire town of Chen Kai's Berkner. It's just that it's a long, narrow lake, not a round lake, but even then the lake is a kilometer wide at its narrowest point.

Therefore, for the town of North Lake, this large lake is a natural barrier, and at the same time, North Lake Town is one of the few ancient towns in the entire Hugodi territory that has existed since before the time of the Count of Hugodi. The city defense system was very well developed, at least the town existed long before Lord Arzari took office.

Of course, although Arzari became the lord of the city, as a lord, he really did not have the ability to give a town close to the sixth order his name. So the town of North Lake is still the town of North Lake, not called the town of Arza or the town of Arzari.

For the residents of Beihu Town, there are about two skills they rely on for their livelihood: the first is fishing, and the second is farming. Of course, fishermen and farmers are only the main means of livelihood for the low-level residents, but in fact there are many handicrafts and manufacturing industries in North Lake, such as shipbuilding, which is very rare in Hugodi. Of course, even if the large lake of Cervanto Luomo is very large, it is impossible to accommodate too many fishing boats, so the shipbuilding industry in Beihu Town is not developed, and it is only necessary to build a few fishing boats a few meters long.

However, for the residents of Beihu Town, their biggest advantage is that they can take a boat to the lake in case of danger. Of course, this is definitely a reluctant move, because although the lake of Cervanto is large, it is not particularly safe. Water is often the most dangerous place in the game world, even in freshwater lakes, and aquatic monsters are far more ferocious and even larger than those on the ground.

In fact, the name of the lake comes from other than the first lord. The most important thing is that there was once a huge aquatic beast in this large lake. A giant freshwater octopus with a body length of more than ten meters. The Cervanto drop-in octopus was once a specialty of the town of North Lakes. This freshwater octopus has firm muscles and very Q-elastic flesh, which was once the most important specialty of Beihu Town. However, when a certain Cervanto octopus mutated, this specialty disappeared, because no one wanted to provoke a giant octopus with a body length of more than 10 meters.

Although the octopus was eventually cut down by the heroic adventurers. It even produced a legendary-level weapon, the Thorn of Cervanto Moran. Even if the so-called legendary weapon is not necessarily a holy weapon, it is boasted of being miraculous just because it contains many legends. However, the weapon with the title of Legendary Weapon is at least a purple-level weapon, and this Cervanto Moran Thorn is actually more than just a Holy Creation weapon, at least from the fact that it was once the weapon of the god of the sea, Saravan, it can be seen that this weapon is also a holy weapon. Even if the god of the sea has long fallen, I don't know how many years. However, there is still a temple to the god of the sea in Beihu Town, and even the legendary weapon is still sunk in the great lake of Cervanto Luomo.

However, whether or not the artifact was dormant in the Great Lake, it could not change the tragedy that had befallen the town of Northlake, even though Lord Arzari was a very competent lord. At least when many players did not have any evidence to prove the appearance of the Drow Elf, he still believed the players, and sent players to ask Chen Kai for help at the beginning, becoming the first aboriginal nobleman to ask Chen Kai, the player lord, for help. You must know that even because of the matter of Kai Modal, the aboriginal nobles of the entire Hugodi have not necessarily changed their attitude towards Chen Kai, the player baron.

At the same time, those who reported to Arzari were glad that they were not arrested as rumor-mongering rioters, considering that they had little evidence of the Drow attack. Because the player who is killed can't enter the game at all, and there are really few players who want to escape from the Drow Elf Shadow Slayer.

As a result, many players are not sure that Lord Arzari will not treat them as if they were insane, but in the end, the timid Lord Arzari seems to have suddenly come to his senses, and not only ordered the gates to be closed as fast as he could. He even directly sent several strong people in the lord's mansion to hunt down the drow elven shadow killers who entered the city. Before these shadow killers could wreak havoc, they were surrounded by the soldiers of Beihu who rushed over like hungry wolves.

In fact, in the land of Hugodi, except for Chen Kai's soldiers. There are also some people who are also very combative, that is, the militia in a relatively old town like Beihu Town that has not been strangled by the Imperial Legions. When Count Hugodi rebelled, the militia of Beihu Town did not join the rebellion, in fact, it was not that they were not coerced, but that their combat effectiveness was not favored by the earl. But there was at least one thing that the Count of Hugodi did not dare to ignore, and that was that the militia of all the old towns was once perhaps or at least soldiers, but they had only been turned into militia after they had retired from the army.

In terms of combat effectiveness alone, these former veterans were even stronger than the Iron Cavalry of Count Hugodi, but they were a little older or physically disabled. But even so, there are some powerful beings among these militias, and even some of them are stronger than the Eighth Order. The combat power of hundreds of militia can definitely suppress these drow elven shadow killers who rushed into Beihu Town, not to mention that Lord Arzari also sent several high-ranking subordinates he recruited, and even sent out a large knight from his family who was sent to help him. As a half-step saint-level great knight-level being, he is definitely the most powerful combat power in this place in Beihu Town.

Of course, the strong man in Beihu Town is not only the great knight, because Beihu Town can be waterway and other territories in the north, of course, these territories are not the territories in Hugodi's territory but another territory in the north. The metal ore in the Hugodi Territory can be easily transported through the waterway transfer of North Lake Town, so North Lake Town is an important source of metal minerals for a lord in the north, and that lord is also the backstage behind Lord Arzari.

If it weren't for that lord's support, how could a lord like Arzari become a lord of a baronial town like Northlake. It's a pity that the so-called distant water can't save the near fire, no matter how much the lord of the north supports Arzari. It is also impossible to station an entire army in the town of North Lake. The only thing that can be done is to shoot more mercenaries. But at this time. These mercenaries came in handy, and thanks to their existence, Lord Alzari was able to easily wipe out the Drow Elven Shadow Slayer who had entered Northlake.

It's a pity that for Beihu Town, even with these mercenaries, the strength is still insufficient, because the total number of stores that can fight in the entire Beihu Town is not more than two thousand. Of course, it refers to those who can fight against the Drow Elves and the Blackhorned Minotaur level. There are still a lot of ordinary soldiers in Beihu Town, but the number of these ordinary soldiers is not very large. Because the town of North Lake is not a city with a large population, in a place like Hugodi, the real big city is still the town of Kelda, which was once the Viscount of Kemdahl, which is almost a city close to a fifth-order town, and is more advanced than the town of Burkner. Unfortunately, with the confirmation of Viscount Kemdal to Count Hugodi. As a result, the town of Kelda is now in a state without lieges. The loss of the lord will naturally lead the residents to flee in large numbers, and the originally extremely prosperous city of Kailda is now almost empty. At least the town of Burkner accepted at least 5,000 residents of Kelda, and even nearly 1,000 soldiers of Kelda.

As the younger brother of the former Viscount Kemdahl, Arzari was very active in accepting the inheritance left by Viscount Kemdahl, and at least 1,000 of the more than 3,000 city guards went to his command in addition to the 1,000 that were taken away by Chen Kai. He even secretly bought off the acting sheriff of Kelda City, and bought back some magic crystal cannons and city defense equipment in the city. Therefore, in terms of garrison weapons, Lord Arzari is not lacking, but he still feels that he is not safe enough, so he sent a rescue letter to Chen Kai. It's a pity that Chen Kai has no way to help this first aboriginal nobleman who asked for help from him, so as to establish his prestige throughout Hugodi. Because he's dealing with all sorts of things himself.

Although the overall strength of Burkner Town is the strongest in the entire Hugodi Territory, Chen Kai and they still have shortcomings. This shortcoming is that Chen Kai is not a hereditary nobleman, and there is no way to divide his subordinates, so he cannot recruit a large number of aboriginal powerhouses to work for him. Even if he has money, he can't endlessly hire players as thugs, and no matter how many players there are against Drow Elf Shadow Slayer, it is also a delivery. The most important thing is that the number of drow elven shadow killers who have touched into the town of Berkena is very large, and their strength is far stronger than those drow elves who are fighting in Iron Riding Town or Dusk Town at the moment. Chen Kai didn't know if he was targeted by a certain boss among the Drow Elves, and when he walked out of the Lord's Mansion with a stay of people, he was faced with the assassination of more than a dozen Drow Elf Shadow Slayers. Those soldiers who fell to the ground in an instant lost their lives without even seeing each other's faces, if it weren't for a strong man like Drake and them, maybe Chen Kai would really hang up once.

In such a situation, let alone let Chen Kai send reinforcements, he even hoped that his troops could run to save him quickly. Unfortunately, at this juncture, his army was hunting down the Drow Elven Shadow Slayer in the town, unaware that his lord had been attacked. Therefore, it is almost impossible for Lord Arzari to want reinforcements, because Chen Kai cannot protect himself at the moment.

Of course, compared to Chen Kai's own insecurity, Lord Arzari, who had just cleared out the shadow killers in the city, found that a greater threat appeared in front of him. More than 3,000 Blackhorned Minotaurs and nearly 2,000 Drow Elves appeared outside the city of Northlake, and for Arzari he didn't understand why these Drow Elves were targeting him, an army of 5,000 could almost crush his soldiers. What shocked him the most was that he actually saw two robed spellcasters flying in the air, okay! The caster who can use the flying spell is definitely a very high-level being, and on the ground, such casters have a unified pronoun, that is, the archmage. Any archmage is a very powerful being, and when the caster reaches the archmage level, he is completely out of the ranks of normal combat professionals, because for the caster, the archmage level is synonymous with the nuclear bomb. Just like what Chen Kai encountered in the underground world, a furious archmage could unleash an extremely terrifying forbidden spell that instantly covered a range of hundreds of meters, and in the face of such a nuclear bomb-level existence, an ordinary melee holy rank could not fight at all. Therefore, after the caster reaches the Holy Rank, even the lowest Holy Rank will be honored as the Archmage, because in the eyes of ordinary people, the Archmage is synonymous with the Sacred Mage.

Only those who have reached the Legendary level or close to the Legendary Great Lord level Saint Rank powerhouse are qualified to confront an archmage head-on, and even Cheng DΓΉ, who can ignore the opponent's attack and attack against high-level spells. But legendary-level warriors are very rare, and as for the great lord-level holy domain powerhouses, there are even fewer of them, and those who can actually be locked up as a lord or a great lord after their title are extremely perverted. Basically, you can hit a hundred at a time at the same level. and even a few levels of fierce people who singled out a dozen fierce people. Even after they advanced to the Holy Domain, they could single-handedly challenge certain demon lords in terms of physical combat power. Thus obtaining the title suffix of Lord. Generally speaking, the people who can be crowned with a certain lord are people whose hands are stained with the blood of countless demons or the blood of the strong, for example, the earl of Adolic Town, where Chen Kai was born, he has the title of lord, this lord is not just because he is the city lord of Adolik, but more importantly, his incomparably strong combat power.

There are no lord-level powerhouses in North Lake Town, but Lord Arzari has a combat power that is almost inversely proportional to his waistline. Lord Arzari, who had a beer belly, needed help even to climb onto his horse. Needless to say, how high the combat power is, he can't even stuff himself into a piece of armor, and can only tie those two steel plates to his body as protective equipment. So when he saw two archmages flying in the sky at the top of the city, the whole person almost didn't get planted under the city wall. Thankfully, his retinue reacted and dragged him back in time, and then protected him from the walls before the drow mage's fireball swept over.

In Al Zari the Lord left the city walls in less than a minute. The timid lord crawled back again, for he knew that if he had escaped, the soldiers would not have fought hard at all. Although Lord Arzari was very timid, at this time when his own life was at stake, even if he was almost afraid of peeing his pants, he insisted on staying at the head of the city to supervise the battle, watching the soldiers roll out the magic crystal cannon and attack the drow elven mage in the distance.

Crystalline light tore through the night sky, making people think that they were not participating in a battle in the magical world, but a real cosmic war. It wasn't the glow of the magic crystal cannon that tore through the night sky, but the laser cannon mounted on the ship in reality.

But for Lord Arzari, he still felt that the magic crystal cannon was not dense enough, and the beam power was not strong enough, if it wasn't so, why didn't the two drow elf archmages in the sky fall, but quickly rose into the air and joined the battle. When the first fireball crossed a distance of nearly a kilometer and landed on the city, the battle for Beihu Town officially broke out. At that moment, the thousands of players who stayed in Northlake received a mandatory task issued by the system to defend the town.

Of course, for these players, they are happy to join the battle even if there is no mandatory task in the system. Lord Arzari was timid but generous, at least when it came time to save his life. He gave a reward of fifty gold coins to each player who participated in the battle, and the reward for killing a blackhorned minotaur was as high as five hundred gold coins, even for ordinary mortality. In order to save his life, Lord Arzari almost took out all his family funds, but unfortunately, no amount of money could change the dilemma of insufficient troops in North Lake Town.

Don't look at the total number of troops in Beihu Town, which adds up to more than fifteen thousand, but when the overwhelming monsters behind the drow elves appeared, everyone felt that there were fewer soldiers on the city wall. Although the total number of residents in Beihu Town is close to 80,000, not all of them are suitable to participate in the fighting, and some even choose to flee to the water as soon as they hear the alarm bells. Soon there were a large number of fishing boats on the large lake of Cervanto, and almost everywhere they could climb the people, there were people crawling with packages on their backs.

It is precisely because of these fleeing residents that the morale of the soldiers is not very high at the beginning of the battle in the entire Beihu Town, coupled with the sudden appearance of black pressure and a monster, the phenomenon of desertion immediately appeared on the city wall. At this moment, Lord Arzari, who had been cowering, suddenly stood up, drew the long sword at his waist, and slashed a soldier who tried to escape.

"Don't escape! Reinforcements are coming soon! Baron Berkner is on his way, do you want to make the gentlemen of Northlake laugh at? Lord Arzari's voice was not loud, but I don't know if it was because he was too intimidating with a bloodstained weapon or because of the effect of his words, the phenomenon of running away suddenly stopped. The soldiers, though not immediately turned into battle, stood still, as if waiting for Lord Artsari to stand on the wall first.

Faced with such a situation, no matter how afraid Lord Arzari was, he could only rush to the city wall and personally manipulate a bed crossbow to fire crossbow arrows. An arm-thick crossbow bolt shot out of the bed crossbow and instantly plunged into the Blackhorned Minotaur's camp. I don't know if it's shit luck, Lord Arzari's attack actually directly exploded the head of a minotaur squad leader, and the bloody arrow pierced through the opponent's eye socket and then came out of the skull. (To be continued.) )