Chapter 336 Prelude to Danger

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"Lord Andoha! I've found out that the Scout Legion has sent a reconnaissance team of thirty-six Traveler Thieves to find out where the Demon Legion is going! Earlier today, though, about seven Traveler thieves escaped from the Temple of Hades, presumably attacked by demons on the road! When Zhao Tiezhu and the others walked into the blacksmith shop, an aboriginal soldier with a lewd smile flashed behind Andoha who had just left, and he was telling all the news he knew about Andoha. The full-text and ad-free novels are all biquge.info on Aishang Novel Network

"That's it! Do you think we need to remind Commander Merry of the Scout Regiment, and ask him to send more people to protect those little scouts! After all, the power of demons is not something that low-level thieves can compete with, and with the help of more people, it is estimated that the task will be easier, don't you say? Andoha touched his smooth chin and smiled at the soldiers next to him, as if a venomous snake was spitting out its black tongue.

"You're so right! These little thieves who can't even fully grasp their own strength must need a few helpers, and I think those few warriors who walked in just now are very good! As soon as the soldier finished speaking, he saw Andoha gently pat him on the shoulder, gave him an encouraging smile, and walked away slowly. Seeing that beautiful smile, the soldier walked towards the place where the scout camp was located, as if his bones had been lightened by three pounds.

At this time, Zhao Tiezhu, who was asking Habil about the price of weapon upgrades and materials in the blacksmith shop, suddenly felt a cold wind blowing behind them, and the cold feeling made them feel cold hairs on their backs even if they were on the edge of the hot iron furnace. Several people looked behind them suspiciously, until the old dwarf Habil, who was bargaining with Su Xinghe, trembled in fright. After all, there were too many dead soldiers in the fortress, especially when the Hades Temple was established, the ghosts that loomed in mid-air made the old dwarf's nerves fragile.

"Hey, hey! Do you see anything unclean? The old dwarf Habil looked at Zhao Tiezhu suspiciously, this person is very afraid of death when he is old. Don't look at the old dwarf looks strong, but he is already more than six hundred years old, and it can be said that his dwarf life is about to enter his old age, so even if he knows more about souls, he will feel very scared.

"Nope! It's just that I suddenly feel a little cold! Su Xinghe naturally knew that the old dwarf was notoriously afraid of death and ghosts, otherwise he wouldn't have lived until now. You must know that most of the dwarven blacksmiths rushed to the city with weapons at the height of the battle, and only Habil was alone in the blacksmith shop with his head in his arms. If it weren't for the fact that Habir was the dwarven master blacksmith in the entire fortress, and that he was a non-combatant, it is estimated that his timid personality alone would have been enough for the Legion higher-ups to drive him back.

Of course, even if Habil can be driven back, the upper echelons of the legion will not drive this baby bump away, and now the entire Zela Fortress is short of people, especially the blacksmith who forgs weapons. Although there are a large number of player apprentices to act as subordinates, there are still not enough people, after all, the player's craft is okay at most, but three out of ten nails are crooked. There was a lack of iron in the most important fortresses, and there was even less high-grade ore. The huge warehouse that could have been used to expand the fortress's city defense system is now empty and can run mice, so the quartermaster's most task every day is to collect materials, as long as it is ore in addition to stones, he also collects all kinds of medicinal herbs and furs, and this has become the most important source of experience for players in the fortress.

It is also a lack of necessary materials, the price of Habil's weapon upgrades here has begun to become a price a day, if that material is collected more today, there will be more outflow from the quartermaster, and the price here of Habil will naturally be slightly reduced, but the higher the grade of the weapon, the more precious the upgrade materials are needed, and the cherished materials are the least in the fortress, basically using a little less. Therefore, the price of advanced weapon upgrades has never been reduced, but it has become more and more expensive.

"Old Habir! Can the price be lowered? Su Xinghe looked at the gray-bearded Habil with a bitter face, and now he was worried not about his lack of military merits, but about the lack of gold coins. Although Chen Kai put most of the gold coins in Chen Yi's place, Su Xinghe and the others didn't plan to spend too much money to strengthen a few blue-quality weapons, because it would be too cost-effective.

"No! Recently, the stock of chrome gold has been getting smaller and smaller, and according to the weight and quality of your weapons, if you want to make them sharp without destroying the solidity of your weapons, you can only forge them with chrome gold and purple iron. At the current price, I can't lower the price anymore, even if you exchange it for double the merit! Habil didn't agree to Su Xinghe's request, because there was really no way to agree, and now that the ore and metal were extremely tight, it was impossible to exchange merit for merit.

"There's really no way?" Su Xinghe asked without giving up, to be honest, he really didn't want to use too many gold coins. Ever since he found that his body had begun to recover, his personality began to gradually become cheerful, and at the same time, he began to plan for his future, so he began to save money. After the ratio of gold coins to huàn in the game began to be fixed, Su Xinghe's assets began to slowly return from negative to positive, and now he can save more than 1,000 gold coins in addition to paying Chen Kai a rent every month, and this is not counting the public funds provided by Chen Kai in the game. In line with the idea of settling accounts with his own brothers, Su Xinghe never wanted to owe Chen Kai too much, so he tried not to use the gold coins provided by Chen Kai, and only when he had to use them would he take the initiative to take them, but if he had the gold coins, he would immediately fill them back.

So if Chen Kai and their entire team are a company, then Su Xinghe should be the one who owes the company the least, even if it is the most expensive to spend money, Su Wan owes Chen Kai a lot of debt, because she raised a very expensive little flying dragon. As for the money owed the most, it is not a few mages, but Chen Kai's sister Chen Yi, in addition to buying various clothes in the game, she also collected a large number of useful and useless accessories, and when she was short of money, she looked for Chen Kai to be regarded as the first loser in the entire team.

However, this time, in order to be able to complete the trial, Su Xinghe bit and used the gold coin reserve given by Chen Kai and paid the weapon enhancement fee of 10,000 gold coins. The dark blue greatsword was taken by the dwarf Habil, and the blade and blade were strengthened with a special metal. When the flames slowly converged, a giant sword with a light purple blade returned to Su Xinghe's hand.

"Sharpness has been strengthened to 6.7! It's not very high, but it should be enough! Su Xinghe frowned, although the sharpness value of the weapon did not reach the entire value of 7, but the sharpness value of 6.7 was also a pretty good attribute, and the sharpness value was already very cost-effective compared to the gold coins he paid. In Su Xinghe, Zhao Tiezhu and they all handed over their strengthened equipment to Habil one by one, and then gave a large amount of gold coins by the way.

It's just that when it was Zhao Tiezhu's turn to strengthen, Zhao Tiezhu was depressed, because he needed to pay twice as many gold coins and merits as others, and the reason was that his shield consumed more materials.

"Isn't it! Old Habil, you see that my shield area is not very large, no matter how you look at it, it is almost the same as Lao Su's giant sword! Why does he only need 10,000 and I want 20,000! Zhao Tiezhu looked depressedly at Habil, who was holding his shield and preparing to collect money, the power of the dwarf was undoubtedly revealed at this moment, even the heavy shield that Zhao Tiezhu needed a little effort to lift was pinched in his hand very easily by the dwarf, and shook it with two fingers.

"That's it! Big man, head down, you know old man, I'm not tall and I stand up straight and talk! Well, that's what it sounds like! Habil happily patted Zhao Tiezhu's shoulder, his huge strength almost slapped Zhao Tiezhu's whole person to the ground, and Habil, who looked at Zhao Tiezhu's appearance, smiled even more happily. No dwarf would not feel uncomfortable with a tall man making a fool of himself or herself, after all, being short by nature is what makes them the most depressed.

"Don't look at your shield about the same size as his, but it costs a lot more materials than others! There's no way that the standard products of the temple will cut corners, and this originally quite good thing is just like this! If you want to strengthen it, you can only spend more money, otherwise it is better not to spend this money on the strengthened things! The dwarf Habir pinched his shield and said to Zhao Tiezhu, and at the same time pointed out a few weak points on his shield, the seemingly strong shield still had several very fragile corners, and he could pinch his fingerprints with just a few pinchs. Although this is the result of the terrifying power on the fingers of the dwarven master blacksmith on the one hand, on the other hand, it is not the reason why the texture of those places is not hard enough.

“… All right! Zhao Tiezhu looked at the finger prints that were pinched out, not to mention how depressed he was, this is also a shield in a complete set of blue equipment, I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen. In order to survive better, this shield money must be obtained, because Zhao Tiezhu found that when using the Earth Shield, the difference between the effect of a good shield and a bad shield is very large. Especially when this shield is the standard weapon of the Earth Temple, it has a vague amplification effect on the effect of this god-like skill.

When Zhao Tiezhu got his new shield, he felt very valuable for the gold coins he paid, not to mention the increased defensive ability, the shield hidden hardness value alone reached 7.2, and the quality of the shield also changed from a high-grade blue quality to a pseudo-holy artifact that exuded a purple brilliance.

"Stuff is good stuff! But it's too expensive! Zhao Tiezhu looked at his shriveled purse and increased debts, as well as the military merit value that had returned to zero again, and sighed helplessly, but his hand holding the shield never let go at all. According to him, he was not holding a shield, it was a gold brick! However, it seems that gold bricks are not very valuable in the game, and Xu Fei and they used a lot of gold bricks to make a zuò magic circle.

"Come on! Don't get cheap and sell well, your shield has almost swept up all our remaining military achievements, if it's still bad, I write the word Su upside down, but then again, aren't those people the thieves who Fei Yun said were on a mission with him? How did you get here? Su Xinghe looked at Zhao Tiezhu's shield with envy, although it was just a pseudo-saint artifact, but no matter how it was said, it was also a little bit of a side with the purple weapon. However, his face was a little strange when he saw several thieves in front of their tent, especially the one who was in the lead, which was the thief with the code name Storm Razor mentioned by Fei Yun in the private chat.

"Dude! Have you offended someone, how can you be so unlucky! Razor looked at Su Xinghe very apologetically, after all, anyone who had such an unlucky mandatory task would be in a bad mood. But there are also advantages, at least they don't have to go to the demons to fight alone, but instead to fight with the demons. However, this seemingly death-defying mission still attracted a lot of players who were stuck on the trial mission, and as a result, when the Razors set off again, the number of people in the entire team changed from a dozen to more than fifty, close to the size of half a team.

"Guess?" Su Xinghe looked at the razor with a hideous face, in fact, he didn't have to guess to know that it must have been done by that bastard in Andoha. However, he did Su Xinghe a great favor to them, after all, compared to fighting demons alone, the task of protecting the thieves to the depths of the wilderness is simpler, and the more people there are, the easier it is to do, so when there are more than fifty players doing this task together, everyone has a very strong confidence in completing the trial task. Because none of the entire team were mediocre hands, all of them were fifth-order professionals, but they were all weapon users, and only four of them were Templars who could unleash healing magic.

"You don't have to guess to know that it must be the poisonous snake in Andoha!" Zhao Tiezhu angrily tapped the shield, and then with a bang, a demon hound that sprang out of the side flew out with a shield slap and flew out. At that moment, the players who didn't look down on Zhao Tiezhu and their team had plans to re-evaluate the strength of a few people, because the power carried by Zhao Tiezhu's shield as an earth knight was too terrifying, and it directly smashed the demon hound's face bones and bleed.

You must know that although the demon hound has a dog character, its attributes are biased towards the wolf, the so-called copper head and iron tail tofu waist, the wolf's head is very hard, and the demon hound's head is even harder by the wolf's head. But this hard head was directly hit by Zhao Tiezhu's seemingly understated blow and horizontal slap and made his face bones bleed, which can no longer be achieved only with skills, it definitely requires complete suppression of strength to do it.

"This strength is terrifying!" Razor and the Demon Hound naturally knew the strength of these black-skinned dogs, if it weren't for this, he wouldn't have been bitten back to the fortress by the two dogs, so he had a deeper understanding of Zhao Tiezhu's combat effectiveness. It was definitely not a fifth-order player doing trial tasks, but a master who had truly mastered fifth-order attributes. All players have a very vague idea of the physical attributes after the fifth order, that is, how big the gap is between the completion of the trial task and the completion of the trial task. After seeing Zhao Tiezhu's amazing slap, Razor had a very intuitive feeling of this gap in his heart.

"Whoa!" When Razor and the others were amazed by Zhao Tiezhu's terrifying power, Su Wan's dragon spear had already shot in an instant, a very unpretentious straight stab, but it was just a spear head with chains. The tip of the spear emitting white light instantly slashed through the space of more than five meters, directly piercing the roaring hound on the ground, and then slowly dragged back to the team.

"That's dead!" Before the razor could recover from Zhao Tiezhu's stunning blow to his shield, he found that the demon hound had turned into a dead corpse on the ground, and the speed at which he killed the enemy was even more powerful than Fei Yun who was holding that terrifying bone knife. Especially the tip of the spear that flew out, and Razor asked himself that he would never be able to catch this attack without preparation.

"Looks like we're in trouble!" Su Xinghe looked up into the distance, where a huge four-legged demonic beast was rushing towards here, and the terrifying size alone made people unable to raise any thoughts of resistance because it was too big. Just looking at it from a few hundred meters away, it felt that the distance from its head to its feet was at least five meters or more, and a monster of this size was not at all something that players could fight against at this stage.

"Withdraw! Damn, how could you meet this guy here, this Demon Behemoth is at least a ninth-order monster! "The moment Razor saw that huge creature, his eyes were about to pop out of his sockets, in the wilderness outside the fortress of Zela, there is a monster in the area of more than thirty kilometers of demon distribution, you must not touch it, that is the demon Behemoth. Its terrifying height of six meters and its body length of nine meters have created its terrifying body suppression ability, and at the same time, its strength of at least the ninth order has caused all players who see it to be instantly sent back to the fortress.

"Run!" The moment everyone saw the target, they simply hated their parents for giving birth to a pair of legs for themselves, even if they summoned a war horse to gallop, they felt that the speed was not fast enough, and the huge and terrifying creature behind it was like a tank, and it was like a tank and rushed towards Zhao Tiezhu and his party. The terrifying speed was not at all proportional to its massive body, and everyone had the feeling that they were about to be chased and trampled.

"Roar" With the earth-shattering roar of the Demon Biss Behemoth, the alluvial fan formed by the huge sound wave roared towards Zhao Tiezhu who was rushing forward, and the terrifying sound made them feel their ears roar with their helmets. The lower body of the war horse began to soften under this terrifying sound, and several players riding intermediate war horses could barely control their war horses and let it soften down.

"Big brother! Run! I'll feed you good fodder when you go back, and I'll give you wheat if you want to eat wheat, and beans if you want to eat beans, so please run quickly!" A player prayed to the war horse under him, praying that it would burst out to its maximum speed, but the horses began to float under the pressure of this terrifying monster, and they couldn't speed up at all, and it was a very fortunate thing to be able to run.

Unfortunately, no matter how much he urged the horse, he still couldn't raise it, but because his whipping became slower, and the terrifying beast behind him became closer. The terrifying aura made people almost feel suffocated, and the unlucky war horses could no longer support it, and directly chose to foam at the mouth and fall unconscious, and then were forcibly retracted by the system in an instant.

"Damn! Lao Tzu is unwilling! This unlucky player became the first victim of this mission, and before he could contact the previous group of thieves, he was directly swallowed by the terrifying demon Beth Behemoth, and he disappeared in an instant before he could even scream.

Eating a sacrifice, the Derbis Behemoth didn't stop there, it kept speeding up, trying to catch up with the group running wildly ahead, but it was not a species that was good at long-distance running. After running wildly for a few minutes, it had to stop, roared a few times frantically at Zhao Tiezhu who was far away, and then slowly left. In these few minutes, Zhao Tiezhu and his group of fifty-eight people managed to escape fifty-four, and four unlucky guys became dry bones in each other's stomachs.