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 origin of the name of this lake, in addition to the earliest lord, the most important thing is that there was a huge aquatic monster that once appeared in this large lake, a giant freshwater octopus with a body length of more than ten meters. The Cervanto drop-down octopus used to be a specialty of North Lake Town, and this freshwater octopus has firm muscles and very elastic flesh. It 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 brave adventurers, and even produced a legendary 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 fallen for an unknown number of years, there is still a temple of the god of the sea in Beihu Town. Even the legendary weapon sank in the great lake of Cervanto.
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 cannot enter the game at all. And if you want to escape under the pursuit of the Drow Elf Shadow Slayer, there are really few players who can do it so far.
Therefore, it is difficult for many players to be sure that Lord Arzari will not treat them as a psychopath, but in the end, the timid Lord Arzari seems to have suddenly opened his mind, not only ordered the city gate to be closed as quickly as possible, but even directly sent several strong men in the lord's mansion to hunt down the drow elf 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 addition to Chen Kai's soldiers in the land of Hugodi, there are also some people who are also very strong in combat, that is, the militia in a town like Beihu Town, which has a relatively long history and has not been strangled by the emperor's ** regiment. 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 Hugordi did not dare to ignore. That is, the militia of all the old towns was once perhaps or at least soldiers, but they became militias after retiring 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 powerhouse of Beihu Town is not only the great knight, because Beihu Town can connect with other territories in the north by water. Of course, these are not the realms of the Hugodi realms, but another of them in the north. It is transferred by the waterway of Beihu Town. The metal ore in the Hugodi Territory can be easily transported, so the town of North Lake 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 impossible to station an entire army in Beihu Town, the only thing to do is to shoot more mercenaries. But at this time, these mercenaries came in handy. Thanks to their existence, Lord Alzari was able to easily exterminate 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, referring to those who can fight against the Drow elves and the black-horned 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, the town of Kelda is now in a state of no lord. The loss of the lord will naturally lead the inhabitants to flee in large numbers. The once extremely prosperous city of Kelda 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. So in terms of garrison weapons, Lord Arzari is not lacking. But he still felt that he was not safe enough, so he sent a rescue letter to Chen Kai. It's a pity that Chen Kai can't help this first aboriginal nobleman who asked for help from him, so as to establish his prestige throughout Hugodi, because he himself is anxious to deal with various things.
Although the overall strength of Burkner Town is the strongest in the entire Hugodi Territory, Chen Kai and they still have shortcomings, and 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 being targeted by a certain boss in the Drow Elves. When he walked out of the Lord's Mansion with his men in mind, he was confronted with the assassination of a dozen drow elven 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 it was unclear to Arzari why these Drow Elves were targeting him. An army of five thousand could almost crush his soldiers. What shocked him the most was that he saw two robed spellcasters flying in the air. All right! The caster who can use the flying spell is definitely a very high-level being, and on the ground, such a caster has a unified pronoun, that is, ** master. Any ** division is a very powerful storage zài. When the caster reaches the ** division level, he is completely out of the ranks of normal combat professionals, because for the caster is only a ** division level mage, that is synonymous with nuclear bombs. Just like what Chen Kai encountered in the underground world, a furious ** master can release an extremely terrifying forbidden spell that instantly covers a range of hundreds of meters, and in the face of such a nuclear bomb-level storage zài ordinary melee holy rank can not fight at all. Therefore, after the caster reaches the holy level, even the lowest holy level will be honored as the ** master, because in the eyes of ordinary people, the ** master is synonymous with the holy domain mage.
Only a Great Lord-level saint-rank powerhouse who has reached the legendary level or close to the legendary level is qualified to confront a ** master head-on, and even Cheng Dù, 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 people, in fact, the people who can be locked up as lords or big lords after their own titles are extremely perverted beings, basically they are all fierce people of the same level who can fight a hundred at a time, and even more than a dozen at the same level. Even after they advance to the Sanctuary, they can single-handedly challenge certain demon lords in terms of physical combat power, so as to obtain the title suffix of lord. Generally speaking, the people who can be crowned as such and such a 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, has the title of lord, this lord is not only because he is the city lord of Adolik, but more importantly, his incomparably strong combat effectiveness.
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 has a beer belly, needs to be helped to climb onto his horse, and it goes without saying how high his 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 ** divisions flying in the sky at the head 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.
Less than a minute after Lord Arzari left the wall, the timid lord climbed back again. Because he knew that if he escaped, those 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 was not powerful enough. If this was not the case, why did the two Drow Elf ** divisions in the sky not fall, but quickly rose into the air to join the battle. When the first fireball crossed a distance of nearly a kilometer and landed on the city, the battle in Beihu Town officially broke out, and the thousands of players who stayed in Beihu Town received the mandatory task issued by the system to defend the town at that moment.
Of course, for these players, they are happy to join the battle even if there is no systematic mandatory mission, although Lord Arzari is timid, but he is still very generous, at least when it comes to saving his own 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 walls. 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. I don't know if it's because the way he looks like he's holding a bloodstained weapon is too scary, or if it's 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 scared Lord Arzari was, he could only rush to the city wall and personally operate 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.