Section 531: The Battle of Winter (2)
Ayres has been having a good life lately, in the words of the Tynankees, every day is like a New Year, the battle between humans and chaos on Lord Marin's side is happening every day, as an undead, he should have been the object of hatred for all humans, but just today, when Ayres came again at the call of Lord Marin, in addition to accepting the soul of a champion that Lord Marin had just killed and made a gold cake with a good color, there was also almost 1,800 gold coin income.
It's really very good, this kind of income, if Ayers comes by himself, he will have to invade a certain world with his entire army to be able to harvest, and he has to risk all kinds of dangers, and here, not only does he not have to worry about being hunted down by local legends and gods, he even received an invitation from mortals.
- You say you want to summon me to collect Chaos Souls from other battlefields?
Ayres looked at the human officer in front of him, if he had a cheeky face, then his current expression must be a very exaggerated and stunned face.
Humans would invite him to harvest souls?
It was the first time that Ayres had come across such an outrageous invitation after living for so long, so he looked at Lord Marin and wanted to get help from it.
Your Excellency, can you make a guarantee?
Ayers felt that if Lord Marin could vouch for it, he could trust these humans.
"What, you're still afraid that they won't kill you?" Lord Marin was about to leave with his minions as usual, and he asked with a smile when he heard Ayers' invitation.
Of course Ayrs is very panicked, he has 'lived' for so many years, every time he enters the main plane of mankind, he has been fighting wits and courage with his teammates and human legends and gods, and every time he survives by his cunning and betraying teammates.
This is the first time that a human mortal has invited him to harvest souls, and even the soul of chaos has never happened before.
Ayles, have you ever thought that you will get rich one day?
Ayres asked himself.
Or is there a cold murderous motive behind this invitation that His Excellency Marin doesn't know? They want to kill themselves?
It shouldn't be, he has no grievances with this world in the past, no enmity in recent days, and the two sides don't say that they treat each other with sincerity, at least they don't fight to the death.
Of course, Ayres would not think that all this was with the participation of Lord Marin, if this person wanted to kill him, he would need this, he would just open the door and enter Ayles' house alone, and he could hammer Ayrs and his legion to the point that he could not take care of himself.
"Don't worry, I'll make a guarantee for them, they won't hurt you." After His Excellency Marin finished speaking, he said hello to the human officer, and then said hello to Ayers: "It's really not good, you open a puppet in the afternoon and come over to harvest a wave first, now in this year, starve the cowardly, support the bold, do you want to harvest thousands of gold coins every day without illness or disaster to earn money, or do you want to fight with others for a few hundred gold coins every day." ”
Ayres thought for a moment and nodded—that's right, wealth is in danger.
Okay, no problem, I'll tell them how to summon me.
So Ayres opened a new summoning channel, specifically for these humans, they only need to cast a copper used in their kingdom to a certain coordinate, Ayrs knows that they are summoning themselves, and if the coordinates are indeed given to this area, then he will come.
If any of them went wrong, Ayers swore he would never come, and he would even go to the Lord of Justice to complain.
Yes, to the Lord of Justice! Everyone has clearly signed an agreement, why can human beings break their promises and get fat!
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"Lagerlöf, this bone lich named Ayres is really cunning." When Ayers Waimarin was gone, the Paladins of the Justice Church, who had watched his ceremony, smiled at his old friend.
"Being suspicious is the way to survive, but I don't think he did anything wrong, as an undead bone lich, he was able to go all the way to the position of legend, and he only put in a lot more effort than some of our legends." His old friend Lagerlof Ander smiled, "But Lord Marin is indeed a well-travelled man, and even the undead will be his friend. ”
"Yes, but my lord also knows this guy, it's really surprising to me, but it is said that this man was acquainted with Marin when he was young, and it seems that his character should not be bad, otherwise he would have been purified by my lord a long time ago."
"That's for sure, in my opinion, to be able to face the Lord of Justice without incident, this guy will at least not be far behind, and the reason why I came is also helpless, this is the task of the Mage Tower." Lagerloaf sighed as he glanced at the members of the National Order: "They are different, as if they are facing a great enemy. ”
"No way, that's a legendary lich, I and you may not be able to keep him, those young people must be worried." The Justice Paladin said with a smile.
"I think this Mr. Ayres is more worried about himself, after all, he is familiar with Lord Marin, and His Excellency Marin's whispers can directly summon him, and there is no basis for cooperation and trust in each other between us, so I think it will take at least a few cooperation to make us trust each other." Lagerlof said this, noticing that a messenger was coming, and he glanced at the messenger's contents: "There is a new battle over, not far to the east, almost ten kilometers away, let's go over." ”
After Lagerloaf finished speaking, he opened a teleportation channel, the coordinates were given by Lord Marin, and the shallow passage that can be constructed in subspace through the World Tree is a very safe area, and it will not be intercepted by chaos at all.
Entering the new battlefield, Lagerlof had already seen the Ayers, who had changed his shell, a very standard lich idea.
Lagerlof checked the souls he had harvested, and found that the lich had indeed not broken his oath, and that he had harvested the souls of Chaos that had not yet dissipated, including those of the Believers and members of the Chaos Warband.
Cultists of Chaos aren't human, so if Lord Ayres wants to harvest, Lagerlof won't care—and no one will.
Eventually, the man harvested almost six hundred gold coins, and the result of the harvest made the lich somewhat satisfied.
I did receive the soul, and I confirmed that you are indeed not lying to me, in exchange, tomorrow I will hand over with Lord Marin, and will pay him enough ore, I heard that you and he have a workshop cooperation, I want to congratulate you, the people who work with Lord Marin have never suffered, including me.
With that, he left the scene through the teleportation channel, and lit a fire to the stacked pile of Chaos corpses before leaving.
Dispose of your own corpses, and I'll help you dispose of these chaotic corpses.
After seeing him leave, Lagerloaf smiled: "He really doesn't look like a lich, could it be that the Lord of Justice has influenced him?" ”
"Maybe you're not mistaken, it's the Lord of Justice who influenced him, and his logical judgment doesn't look like a lich, though his behavior is quite similar." The paladin sighed as he glanced at the still burning pile of Chaos corpses: "We still need to observe, even if it's to be worthy of our own subsidies, don't you say, old friend." ”
"Of course, be worthy of your salary, old friend." After reading the new news, Lagerlof opened another channel, and at the same time complained in front of his old friends: "Should I apply to my old tower master for him to give me more subsidies, otherwise I will have to pay for how many spell casting materials in this half a day." ”
"Don't worry, I can vouch for you." The paladin followed him into the teleportation tunnel.
Then he watched as the lich stood behind the still fighting line, flicking a fireball at the Chaos warriors who had just leapt out of the rift in the distance.
"Okay, old friend, looks like we're going to have to work overtime." Lagerloaf sighed and joined the fireblast, and his old friend Mr. Paladin left him a word when he drew his sword and revolver and rushed to the front line.
"Life is not easy, and each and every one of us is a wretched worm working for this big business owner called the world."
Ha, old friend, I didn't know you were also a Northernist.
Lagerlof shook the flames, feeling that this was his biggest gain of the day.
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Marin received the various ores sent to him by Ayres the next day, and Marin sent them to the Northern Workshop, which made the Antoine master craftsman who was a little nervous about the materials breathe a sigh of relief - for him, there was no better gift than this, he specially thanked Marin, and said that with these ores, whether it is repaired or made, it can support a certain amount of time.
On the military side, they praised Ayers for his performance yesterday, this lich harvested at least six thousand gold coins yesterday, slaughtered a champion with his own hands, and had a record of helping the human army repel the Chaos offensive three times, sure enough, money can make ghosts grind, in the face of so many souls, Ayers really made a lot of money, no wonder he gave so many ores and metal ingots today.
Only on the side of the Mage Tower, it is said that yesterday Lord Lagerlof opened the door and chased Ayres all the way, and as a result, the material fee was quoted as an astronomical amount at the end of the day, which made their tower owner angry enough, and in the end, it was the Mage Tower and the churches that made up for His Excellency Lagerlöf's subsidy.
Then the Mage Tower and the church felt that they didn't need to run with Ayres today - because in the morning alone, Ayres had harvested nearly 10,000 gold coins, and two champions had been put into the account, and in the end, he opened the door directly when he heard that there was a battle, and brought his archer troops, six hundred elite skeleton archers armed with rear-loading rifles provided by Marin and Chaos archers to shoot passionately, and finally ended in a great victory for the rib shooters - in the face of arrows, Ayres's troops only lost more than a dozen skeletons, On the other side, at least a thousand shooters were killed, and the entire Chaos Shooter Regiment was wiped out.
The military was going crazy - they had never cooperated with the undead, and they didn't know how to deal with these marksmen in Ayers' hands until Marin vouched for him, and Ayres did help, and the Northern Kingdom military finally affirmed Ayers' achievements, and they acquiesced to the troops that Ayers had called.
In the afternoon, Ayres even pulled over the 20 mortar guns he had bought from Marin and his own skeletal pikemen, watching Ayers' artillery team fire solid cannonballs while the rib pikemen dismantled the Rotten Knights' charge again and again, and the expressions of the military representatives were very brilliant - their big men could not make such an exchange ratio.
Ayres gave Marin a message at the end of the second day, just four words.
Happy to work with.
But isn't it, Marin inquired, this guy harvested almost sixteen thousand soul gold coins in today's one-day battle, killed a rotten knight champion, two walking knight champions, in his words, he knew that fighting chaos was so enjoyable, why did he still have to fight wits and courage with his teammates and human legends.
So early on the morning of the third day, Marin dumped all the ore and ingots into the warehouse that Antoine had said was empty, and his warehouse door was broken twice, so that Antoine had to come and repair the door after tidying up the whole warehouse.
On the fourth day, Ayres even took the initiative to attack, his Bone Cavalry unit rushed a group of Plaguebringer troops who were about to enter the battlefield with Marin's air support, and the Bone Cavalry's cavalry spears were even blessed by Marin, so it was the standard hot knife to cut butter, and about 2,000 Plaguebringers were cleared after three rounds, and a Nurgle champion with a head and face also died in the chaos (it seems that he was trampled to death, Marlin swore that he had not thrown any axes)
By the time Ayres retreated back to the line with his cavalry troops, he had already harvested nearly seven thousand gold coins, and at least five Chaos forces had been devastated by him.
Lord Marin, if you have such an opportunity in the future, please let me sign a cooperation contract with mortals.
Ayres' invitation, of course, Marin accepted and promised to help him match him if he had the opportunity.
By the fifth day, it was snowing heavily and Chaos was not attacking, and Ayrs had nothing to do but run to Marin's workshop to see the novelties he had made.
Ayres had always wanted to redress his troops, and Marin had some misgivings before, but now he didn't, so he very simply offered Ayres about two thousand old Lee rifles, fifty breech-loading guns, and even better spears in a half-buy-half-give-away form - these spears were taken from the military warehouses of the Northern Kingdom, and Marin exchanged them for almost eight thousand spears with the new muskets, and gave them all to Ayers.
Anyway, Ayers's spear troops are standard cannon fodder, belonging to the kind of existence that can go to the battlefield without wearing anything and only holding a spear, and the cold weapon of the spear is the obsolete goods of the northern royal army, and both sides take what they need, so they are naturally happy and happy.
Ayers told Marin that his pikemen would be able to grow to 10,000 that day.
The military told Marin that their new rifle squad could be increased by almost two thousand troops.
Marin felt his chances of winning the battle had increased.
As for Chaos? These damn bastards aren't even human, and they expect Marlin to show mercy to their men?
Let's learn how to die first.