Chapter 178: Under the Abyss (8)
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For players in Burkner, most players probably haven't had such a heartbeat in their lives. For them, it is estimated that many people have never seen a natural gemstone with a weight of at least 50 carats, whether it is a sapphire, a ruby or a diamond, and they estimate that at most they can see the natural object full of brilliance in the window of the counter in the store.
But in the game, most players can still touch the natural gems in these games, although they are not very large, but in terms of weight, it is also a very rare good thing in reality. However, none of these gemstones can compare with the sparkling rough gemstones that have just been dug out of the rock, and even if they have not been processed, they still exude an intoxicating luster in the palm of your hand.
Although they look so inconspicuous and ugly, as long as they are brought to the market, even unprocessed rough stones can still be sold for dozens of gold coins, which is the high price of hundreds or thousands of gold coins. If it was a gem with magical power, then those spellcasters, especially secret mages like Wang Xuewen, would cry and shout and wave gold coins to run up to buy it. Because for arcane mages, gems that can attach spells are their greatest reliance on survival.
If they attach a spell to the gem, the gem that was originally purchased at a high price can quickly increase in value several times. Even if the color of that gem looks very poor, and the quality is not even as good as the glass slag, it will become quite valuable when it is added by the arcane mage. However, under this abyss in the wilderness of Berkner Town, when the resurrected Fei Yongjun and the others took the gems they dug up for identification, they were pleasantly surprised to find that nearly one-third of the gems they dug up were gems that could be attached to spells and contained a trace of magic. Even though most of these gems were too small to be attached with a maximum of second- and third-order spells, their value quickly skyrocketed from dozens of gold coins to hundreds of gold coins.
As for why such gems are so expensive, it is because the arcane gems used to make zuò are used for spells, and the spells released are essentially different from ordinary magic scrolls. Spell scrolls are not required to use expensive materials in order to achieve a certain level of magic in a spell. Most of the spells released by the casting scrolls are of greatly castrated power. Because there is so little magic that can be attached to the reels. These gemstones are different. The amount of magic that can be contained in these gems is completely determined by the shape and size of the gem, and a gem that can make a second-order arcane gem can contain even more magic than the maximum amount of mana required to release a second-order gem.
Let's take an analogy! With Xu Fei's nearly 10,000 magic power, if it is used to release a second-order arcane, the power is basically three times greater than that of the spell released by ordinary players after learning the second-order spell. However, Xu Fei's whole body magic power was injected into a second-order secret gem, but there was no way to fill the gem. In this way, a spell released by a second-order arcane gem full of magic power will produce at least four times the power that ordinary players can achieve when casting spells. At the same time, it is eight to nine times the size of an ordinary second-order spell scroll, and the combat power of an arcane mage with such a secret gem hanging all over his body is equivalent to a mobile powder magazine.
Because of this, the price of a well-made, magic-filled arcane gem is several times or even more than ten times that of a spell scroll of the same level. But most of the arcane mages make good arcane gems after that. Either for oneself or for one's own students, there will rarely be an outflow. Therefore, the instantaneous spell equipment circulating in the market is still dominated by spell scrolls, not only because it is cheap, but most importantly, it is easy to choose materials, simple to make, low cost and cost-effective. After all, the arcane gem and the spell scroll have the same chance of failure in making zuò, not that the better the material of the gem, the higher the chance of success in gem making. It's all about luck and technical support.
A mystic mage who is so lucky that his blood-vomiting technique is rotten, even if he is given a top-level gem, he may not be able to make a lowest-level arcane gem. Therefore, the secret gems on the market are basically priceless and difficult to find, of course, the more difficult to find are the gems containing magic that can be used to make zuò secret gems. After all, there will always be some talented arcane mages in the game world, or people with good luck who can make successful arcane gems, and such people are not lacking in materials. After all, gems are very rare treasures in the earth, and even crazy miners like dwarves who drill underground every day have a low chance of being able to mine gem mines. Therefore, the price of large gems in the game has always been high, so when these players heard the news of Fei Yongjun and others, the beating heart in their chests had already begun to pump blood frantically all over their bodies.
All the players who knew the news began to run frantically towards the location of the abyss. Even players from those territories adjacent to Chen Kai's territory began to run over at risk. In the process of continuous transmission of news, those player lords who were close to Chen Kai were almost scarlet-eyed, if it weren't for the demonic creatures that were constantly wandering around and the huge military strength of Burkner Town. It is estimated that these player lords have already begun to ignore the laws of the Hansting Empire and prepare to seize the gem mines in Chen Kai's territory.
But in front of these players who are dazzled by gems is a bottomless abyss, a terrifying place where you can almost absolutely fall into a pulp. So far, the number of players engulfed by this abyss has increased from four at the beginning to more than three hundred now. More than 120 people died when a rope broke alone, and more than 100 people died by pulling each other over the place. The remaining hundred or so people were not devoured by passing lizards. It was to be poisoned by a terrible poison under the abyss.
However, these dead players did not stop the footsteps of those who were dazzled by the gems, and more players rushed to the edge of the abyss, salivating as they watched the camp that Chen Kai gradually erected. Of course, the three of them would not necessarily be able to attack Chen Kai's soldiers, but as the players gathered more and more, danger gradually enveloped the players near the abyss.
Such a large gathering of people is definitely the best target for the demonized creatures that are active in the wild of Berkna Town, and for the former lord of Hugodi who controls the demonic creatures, the lord of Berkna Town who leaves the territory is definitely asking for his own death. In fact, if it weren't for Ankneru's injury, it is estimated that those demonized soldiers would have already appeared in front of Chen Kai, after all, there is no better chance than killing Chen Kai in the wild. After the siege of the night before. The former lord of Hugodi knew very well that it was basically impossible to capture the terrifying town of Burkna, which was so well fortified that it was impossible to sneak up on the demonized soldiers. Therefore, the former lord of Hugodi wanted to kill Chen Kai's living force in the wild, deplete his combat power, and thus weaken the defenses of the entire town of Berkna.
It's a pity that his own strength has been consumed by the players at the moment. Keep in mind that players can be resurrected, while those who have died cannot be resurrected. When Count Hugodi completely fused the demonic blood in his body. After becoming like this, the number of soldiers he could control at hand has been reduced from nearly 100,000 at the beginning to less than 50,000 now. Every day, demonized soldiers die in battles with players, and even if a demonized soldier can kill three or four players, the number of players in Hugodi's territory is more than 100,000. Even if these players die once a day, they can kill at least twenty or thirty thousand demonized soldiers.
Although this is unlikely, after such a long battle, the player can kill thousands of demonized soldiers every month, and the players in Burkner Town alone can kill at least one or two thousand. And that's not counting the number of demonized soldiers and cavalry killed by the aboriginal soldiers. In this case, the sharp reduction in the strength of Count Hugodi is an ironclad thing. At the same time that count's hand
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The number of soldiers in the first place was not 100,000, and the soldiers who survived the demonization were only 50,000 or 60,000. More of the troops were filled with those monsters, and of course now we had to add the wingless demons that he had excavated from the gaps in the Demon World's Tongguò space. The strength in the hands of Count Hugodi has only slightly changed from the original continuous decline to the current steady recovery. It's a pity that after suffering several losses in the hands of Chen Kai in a row, his strength has declined again, especially in the siege battle the night before, because he didn't have time to mobilize the wingless demon to participate in the battle. Baron Ankneru only attacked with demons and demonized soldiers, and was defeated and almost smashed his head by the magic crystal cannon.
Coupled with the loss of troops from the soldiers in the previous field battles, Count Hu Godi found that he had lost at least more than 5,000 demonized soldiers and nearly 2,000 demonized cavalry in Chen Kai's hands, and the number of demons he used as cannon fodder was even more. Because of this, the former ruler of Hugodi's territory, the current demon lord, Count Hugodi, has become extremely resentful of Chen Kai. It's a pity that resentment is resentment, but he didn't dare to leave the underground world in person and come to the surface to trouble Chen Kai. If he really did that, then the next moment the powerhouse from the royal family of the Hansting Empire would completely crush him to death, and there would not even be scum left. It's not even possible to get the news of the temple. will come directly to slay demons and destroy demons, and completely destroy him from the soul to ** together.
Therefore, although he was very angry with Chen Kai in his heart, because the troops at hand were really restrained, there was no way to trouble Chen Kai, so in the end, he could only entrust the heavy task of killing Chen Kai to Baron Kemdahl, who was under his control. But now the baron was busy dealing with the problems of the Northern Noble Alliance, and because of his clumsy appearance in Garros, although he had saved a little bit of his reputation with the heads of two dead demonized cavalrymen afterwards, in the hearts of most of the aboriginal nobles of the North, this Baron Kemdal had already been equated with waste, and even some people called him a sinister and despicable bastard behind his back.
Baron Kemdal, who had long regarded the Northern Noble Alliance as his backyard, now found out. He is no longer able to command any of the noble members of the Northern Alliance, and most of the nobles are now not the former alliance leader, so it can be said that the entire Northern Noble Alliance is now in a situation where the dragons are leaderless. Although nominally they are still united, in reality the entire alliance of nobles is already fragmented, and it is no longer even possible to block the way from other northern realms to southern player territories.
It was in this context that players who received news of the gem veins began to flock to the town of Burkhna from the realms around the Imperial Capital. However, due to the teleportation array not being able to reach directly, most players can only slowly pass through their legs and hurry little by little. With the speed at which they are moving, it is estimated that it will take at least seven or eight days to reach the town of Burkner. During this time. Players who arrive early can definitely send back first-hand messages, and those who follow them are ready to brake or accelerate at any time.
Although Chen Kai knew that Xu Fei had already posted an advertisement, he even knew that a large number of players were pouring towards Burkner Town. But he didn't know the number of these players, the consequences that would already be produced, and the only thing he knew was that he could ask Xu Fei to hire a caravan to mix the purchased food into the army of these players.
Everything seems to be starting to change for the better, and that change is just a day's work. Even Chen Kai's mood began to improve. At least when he looked at the huge purple iron rough stone that began to gradually show its outline at the bottom of the cliff, he couldn't help but want to laugh on his face. Although Chen Kai knew that there must be something better under the abyss, the only thing he could mine at the moment was this huge purple iron rough stone. And even with Xu Fei's device with an additional levitation spell, it would be very difficult to pull it out of the underground world more than three hundred meters down.
After all, Chen Kai couldn't accurately calculate the weight of this rough stone, if the spell device Xu Fei purchased couldn't afford this huge purple iron rough stone at that time, then he would need to use other things. For example, huge pulley sets and thousands of horses to tow.
"! I forgot that to pull that thing out of the abyss, I had to build a drawbridge! Damn it! Chen Kai suddenly patted his head, he patronized and was happy but forgot this most important thing. If there was no drawbridge, even the spell levitation equipment that Xu Fei purchased could successfully make the entire piece of ore float in the air. But something so huge that it needs some ancillary facilities to pull out of the underworld. At the very least, a drawbridge across both sides of the abyss was the most needed, and if Xu Fei's spell device could not bear the weight of the ore, then the drawbridge would need to be built stronger.
In Chen Kai's mind, he instantly turned from excitement to depression, because he found that he had no way to build a suspension bridge that could withstand hundreds of tons. If the floating equipment Xu Fei purchased could not support the huge purple iron rough stone. Then Chen Kai could only stare at the huge piece of ore. After all, if Chen Kai wants to make a suspension bridge, then this suspension bridge must at least span both sides of the abyss of nearly 30 meters, and most importantly, it must be able to lift objects weighing nearly 300 tons. But no one knows if the ore is only 300 tons, or if it is higher or lighter. But even if it was to erect a suspension bridge that could support a weight of about 100 tons, Chen Kai could not complete it, because there was a lack of such technicians in the entire town of Berkner.
"Dick! Can you help me buy a suspension bridge in the imperial capital? Or a crane! Damn, there's not a single crane in the entire town of Burkner~! Chen Kai contacted Xu Fei in the state of going offline, Berkna Town cannot be said to have no cranes, at least a few pulley sets are still available, but how can those pulley sets pull up I don't know how much heavy purple iron ore.
"What drawbridge crane? Where are you going to let me go up and fix this thing? Xu Fei was stunned for a moment when he heard Chen Kai's words. Although there are quite a few mechanics in the game, they are not as developed as they are in reality. However, even in reality, it is very rare to be able to lift hundreds of tons of heavy objects, almost at the level of behemoths. With real-world technology, such a crane is also an expensive thing, but basically there is no crane of such a large weight in the game. Because most things are medium with spells, few mechanical objects are hoisted into such a large amount of things.
"Try to figure it out! I'll build a simple wooden suspension bridge to hold it up! When Chen Kai finished saying this, he began to organize people to erect a wooden suspension bridge above the abyss. Just looking for the two main beams of the abyss that can span nearly thirty meters, Chen Kai emptied the warehouse in Burkner Town. At the same time, in order to strengthen the structure of the main beam, Chen Kai also reinforced the entire wooden beam with metal produced in the town of Berkner. Although Chen Kai's territory lacked mechanics to make large suspension bridges. But there is no shortage of workers, at least the aboriginal blacksmiths are still very qualified.
Thanks to the efforts of these craftsmen, it took less than half a day for the suspension bridge to emerge in the wilderness outside the town of Burkner. However, the wooden bridge has no hoisting structure, just a simple wooden plank bridge spanning the cliff, and it looks quite chicken. At least until he was completely finished, everyone didn't understand Chen Kai's intention to build this wooden bridge.
While Chen Kai mobilized workers to erect the wooden bridge, Wang Lei slowly climbed in the underground abyss, and the surrounding temperature began to appear in a polarized state. On the side close to the cliff face. Wang Lei found that the rocks were very hot, and they might even burn the ropes, but on the other side of the cliff, the temperature was unusually low, so low that people's blood could be frozen instantly. Wang Lei, who was sandwiched between the cliffs on both sides, was hot to death on one side of his body, but frozen to death on the other side. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly pass. Your support is my biggest motivation. )
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