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Time goes back a few hours ago.

Baron Garcia was very happy to take Master Chen and Master Bruno to the outer wall of the town, and inspected the guards at the head of the wall and the soldiers in the town guard.

The town has a permanent population of just over 3,200 people, excluding the small number of migrants and the farmers who have recently fled from their farms outside to escape the war.

The entire area inside the wall is about the size of two or three large residential areas, but its outer walls are also about 1.4 kilometers long, and thousands of people stand shoulder to shoulder with the town wall outside.

Thankfully, no one who built the castle was a fool.

Therefore, ~ it has become common sense that the architects who built the castle built the noble castle according to the most suitable location of the local area.

Behind the castle on one side of the town, there is a small hill more than 20 meters high, and even more so, a northwest-trending river flows down from the high-altitude snow-capped mountains, then flows through the east side of the castle, and then turns from the north side of the hill to the west, cutting this hilly area in an L-shape.

The defenders of the castle only need to stand on the top of the hill on the north side with a dozen archers to defend that direction, and although the river on the east side is not deep, the average depth in the middle is about seven or eight meters, and the deepest one is even more than ten meters.

Any warrior who could not swim across the river in metal armor was like a living target under the noses of the high-walled bow and arrow guards, and that was tantamount to suicide.

Then the defense problem is easy to think about, they only need to place more than 400 troops on a section of the city wall about 700 meters long, and the four corners of the castle wall have a three-story square pillar type bunker with a spire similar to the Great Wall beacon.

Lu Dawei has spent a lot of effort on the defense of his lair, and the specifications are comparable to the main cities of some old marquisdoms.

The enemy tower at the gate was made one level higher than the fort, and the female wall on it was densely packed with arrows like the firing ports of modern machine-gun forts, and in fact it was the same, as long as a team of archers was stationed, the front and back of the town wall could be 300 meters to the left and right, all of which were shrouded in the threat of death by the strong bow.

If there are a few medium-sized wizards stationed in the garrison, as long as you throw a few expensive strategic spells such as [Poison Cloud Technique] and [Cloud Burning Technique] on the edge of the city wall below, you can immediately kill and injure a large number of minions who rely on simple wooden ladders and bamboo ladders to climb ants to attack the city.

Lord Garcia naturally wanted to recruit such a person.

But.

The middle-level wizards in this world are also very arrogant, much more arrogant than the brick family who likes to look at people with their nostrils in the previous world.

Wizards above the 4th rank are considered to have some status, and even if they accept a lot of money to hire them for a while, they will not really be willing to become the retainers of a small nobleman like the Baron.

And.

Recruiting a mid-level wizard is more expensive than training a hundred heavily armed soldiers, and it is indeed not cost-effective.

But at the critical moment of the battle, a turret wizard standing in the castle with full mana and proficient in shaping spells—enough to fight hundreds of soldiers—was demoralized and fled on the spot.

That's why David Lu tried his best to find a way to leave the two sixth- and seventh-order wizards who passed through his territory to help defend the city, but he never expected that Chen Xuyuan was a violent melee wizard who was completely out of the way and didn't study those large-scale lethal war spells~

He had only learned one cloud technique and one flame blasting technique in the range spells, after all, he was generally enough.

And Master Bruno is an academic wizard, and he doesn't have much actual combat experience, but fortunately, he can also use a few large-scale spells such as [Fireball Technique] and [Acid Mist Technique], but he is more suitable than Master Chen to be a spellcasting battery behind the city defense.

Melee wizards like Chen Xuyuan are not uncommon, in fact, because of the dual cultivation of law and martial arts, there are more methods, and the survivability is also extremely strong, as long as the energy is enough, most of the people in this world will not reject any way to increase their strength.

Even the supreme wizard of Sarn City and the Hamlet wizard who lost his body, on the surface, these high-ranking wizard groups seem to look down on the hand-to-hand combat profession, but they never get in the way of face, and they practice hard to kill the enemy.

Casters of races with extraordinary physiques, such as ogre wizards and giant sacrifices, are naturally more extraordinary when they also cultivate martial arts, and they can also have the same way as those high-level martial artists with amazing physical lethality, and have a way to quickly break through the side of the high-level wizards when they are released, and concentrate all their strength to break the [elastic magic ball] released by them in a short time, a dozen throwing axes, repulsive force field spells that ten thousand arrows can't help but be helpless, and other heavy protective spells to kill them.

Chen Xuyuan's psychology has always been very clear.

Any professional can usually only deal with two or three other similar professionals whose level is one level lower than his own at the same time, after all, two fists are difficult to beat four hands, and any more is to play with his life, which is why he had to jump up and down to fight guerrillas when he dealt with a large number of mercenaries of low rank in Sarn City before.

After all, he was only flesh and blood, and he didn't wear a full-body high-grade spell armor that was up to 10,000 gold, and if he was besieged and attacked, Master Chen might have to capsize in the gutter.

In fact, in dealing with similar professionals, the warrior has a slight advantage over the wizard, and a strong warrior always has a way to exchange small injuries for big injuries, and exchange the enemy's life with the least damage.

Most of the spellcasters of wizards who "attack high and defend low" either plan well and kill the approaching enemies in advance almost unscathed, or they have to gamble their lives with people in front of various thrilling instant death spells and high-lethal spells without sufficient spell armor.

The characteristics of instant death spells are similar to gambling, and the spells that the body itself is exempted from will hardly cause much damage, but once the exemption fails, it will be like some sudden cardiovascular diseases, and they will die suddenly on the spot.

A low-level wizard who uses this kind of spell can still overturn a spellcaster who is higher than him, so no one will take any caster who is lower than him lightly, and there are convenient things like spell scrolls and magic storage tools in this world, and it is normal for rich people to bring a few high-level spell scrolls to defend themselves.

After they wandered around outside, Chen Xuyuan proposed to go to their armory to learn about the storage of materials, after all, the hoarding of war consumables such as arrows determines the defensive factors before the hand-to-hand encounter.

Garcia waved his hand to the guards and used the key to open the large iron lock of the storeroom.

It is a cellar-style "storehouse" located at the bottom of a hill at the foot of the castle, and there is a secret passage in the castle that connects to the concealed cellar at this entrance.