Chapter 10: The Island of Anstein, the Golden Route
Hanhai and blue sky, the big ship is moving.
Danny, dressed in brand-new heavy armor, stood at the bow of the ship, as a landlubber, it was actually stupid and stupid to be fully armed on the rocking ship, if he lost his footing and jumped, he would definitely sink to the bottom as quickly as a big piece of iron, and he would not be saved.
But Danny still caressed his shiny armor and kept smirking, and he was extremely satisfied that he was immediately given a gift of full-body armor after following the new boss, a set of full-body steel armor in the Middle Ages was definitely not a bargain, and it could be said to be the most expensive item except for enchanted equipment.
At this moment, Zhu Peng was sealing his hands in the cabin, immersed in the deepest meditation, and with the gradual improvement of this physical and spiritual cultivation, he could finally dive into the deepest and deeper inner world.
In fact, if he wanted to, Zhu Peng could have relied on the spiritual power cultivation of the second-order peak at this time to directly impact and become a third-order necromancer, but he didn't do that.
Although it is relatively common to become a third-order necromancer in this world and then advance to the Legendary Sanctuary, in the Immortal Continent, the world divides the professional ranks into: first, second, and third-order, and then the Sanctuary, demigod, and god-level.
From the perspective of the wizarding world system, the so-called sanctuary of this world is actually a legend, which is the third-order elite version, but it is only recognized by this world as the fourth-order.
In the wizarding world, elites with profound backgrounds can directly become legendary powerhouses when they are promoted from the top of the second order to the third order, but in this world, such things are rare, and they almost do not exist in the public perception, and such rumors can only be faintly heard in the mouths of high-level powerhouses.
Zhu Peng was not interested in breaking through to the third order and then accumulating savings to break through to the Sacred Realm again, which would consume his precious time and potential, but his current cultivation was based on the Zuo Dao Method, even if his soul essence was incomparably strong, it was best to accumulate and sort out the slightest trouble in the near future.
In the regenerated inner world, nearly ninety-five percent of the space was occupied by a chaotic light flame, and there was an amber-like seal in the center of the flame, which was a huge body with a human upper body and a dragon on its lower body, and wings on its back.
In the Misty Ancestor World, Zhu Peng, in order to break through the transcendental, resisted the Heavenly Tribulation with his physical body, and both sides died together, and the dimensional will of the Misty Ancestor World was destroyed to form Zhu Peng's promotion to the transcendent auxiliary soul, but Zhu Peng's Flood Ancient Witch True Body and the Four Swords of the World Destruction were all blown to ashes.
(...... It doesn't matter, I've been promoted to the Transcendental, transforming the Flames of Chaos into my transcendent magic. The Flame of Chaos can burn everything and generate everything, as long as my soul essence remains, my body can be destroyed ten thousand times to create rebirth, but in this way, if you want to flip the Abyss Demon Card, it will take too much energy. In the inner world of his heart, in front of the true body of the Flood Ancient Witch who seemed to cover the sky and the sun, Zhu Peng, who was dressed in white and covered with a skull mask at this moment, was as small as an ant.
However, now it is necessary to use the power of this ant to keep looking for food, keep accumulating, and then reshape the body of the Ancient Witch of the Flood Desolation, the Four Swords of Annihilation, and turn the Abyss Demon Card back up, so that Zhu Peng can return to the wizard main world.
Fortunately, there are passively accumulated fate cards that can provide some help, and the power of fate can be transformed into a variety of powers, one of which is to supplement the abyss demon card, although at this moment in this situation is somewhat a drop in the bucket, but for the current Zhu Peng, it is really a mosquito leg is also a piece of meat, and he does not dare to use the power of fate to pay for anything else.
To a certain extent, the power of fate represents the sky (Gaia's will), the Abyss Demon Card represents the earth (the gift of the endless abyss), and the victory oath represents people (their own competitive spirit), and the three of them seem to Zhu Peng to mean the three talents of heaven, earth and man.
(There is no point in dwelling on the strength of the past, what I really need now is to focus on myself, and only when I become stronger and have the ability to obtain food can I become stronger.) The palm that retracted the void press gradually clenched it, and the next moment Zhu Peng's hands stretched, and the body of the skeleton masked man in white robe disappeared into the inner world, leaving only the true body of the half-human, half-dragon desolate ancient witch sealed by the flame of chaos.
Contrary to the real world, the cabin swayed and creaked constantly, but there was really nothing to complain about the medieval sea voyage, the oil lamp was not lit, Zhu Peng hated the smell it emitted, and the cold necromantic bone fire floated in the void, diffusing the cold light, except for the cabin to look a little like a cemetery, there was really nothing else to complain about.
At this moment, there was a soft knock on the wooden door.
"Come in. ”
Walked to the side of the chair and flipped up a book while reading and said this just by listening to the knock on the door Zhu Peng knew who was coming, for an old monster like him, this is no longer a skill, but a natural instinct.
The wooden door was pushed open, as it had been renovated before the necromancer moved in, so it didn't make any strange noise.
The bearded captain came in, with a flattering smile on his face, in fact, he was a third-order sea thief, and the crew of this era was a bandit when it was weak, and it was a people when it was strong, and there were not many good people who were willing to be sailors. But the captain also seemed to be deeply aware of the future and terrible future of the young necromancer in front of him, and he had been carefully flattering and serving along the way, bent on forming a good fate.
"Your Excellency Victor, it's nightfall, and I've left you two of the best girls to serve you?" said the bearded captain, pulling open the door, and letting two somewhat timid and weak women enter, looking at the ghostly fire wafting all over the room, one of the timid ones had a tendency to roll his eyes.
Different from the great voyage of the Middle Ages on the earth, the ships of this world were carried with female slaves or ship prostitutes, and women were not allowed on the ships during the medieval voyages, because there was not enough force to suppress the riots of the sailors united, but this world is different, the captain is often a third-order powerhouse, and the strength is strong enough to cover it, and the prostitutes on the ship have become an important means for the captain to control his subordinates.
Of course, the prostitutes on the boat are often shared by dozens of people, or even simply consumables, and Zhu Peng, who has always been a picky eater, of course, can't have any impulse towards such a girl.
"I'm not interested, step down. Zhu Peng waved his hand and asked them to retreat, and it could be seen that the two girls breathed a sigh of relief, and the fear of the powerful, terrifying, and terrifying necromancer made them not even have the courage to raise their heads and look at Zhu Peng. It is conceivable that as the two girls return to the crew, one terrifying legend after another about the necromancer will spawn countless more.
After graduating from the Imperial Military Academy in St. Tancienburg, Zhu Peng hired his defeated heavy swordsman Danny and twenty-five veterans to return to his hometown.
Danny has more than just the combat power of a third-order warrior, as a graduate of St. Tandom Academy, he also has considerable clerical ability, with his presence and those twenty-five veterans, Zhu Peng can directly get rid of many things in the management of the fiefdom.
In addition to buying armor for him, Zhu Peng also promised Danny a blank check, as long as he worked wholeheartedly for himself, he would at least give him a knight status in the family in the future. In Danny's opinion, the words of Daxiu Victor, the strongest graduate of this year, still have some credibility, especially since he has personally lost at his hands.
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Old Victor clutched his cane and walked down the streets of the town in an obviously old dress, his lips pursed tightly and his head tilted, trying to maintain the dignity and grandeur of the nobles without being angry.
However, the residents of this town already know what is going on with the Victor family, especially after the old Victor sold the only two remaining possessions of the family, the gold pocket watch and the old carriage, a few years ago, and even the beggars on the street knew that the Victor family had fallen.
The only one who insisted on not wanting to admit it was actually only the old Victor himself, that is, he was not a commoner and not a nobleman, which not only made Daxiu Victor troubled in the academy, but also made Victor's family in a very embarrassing position in the town.
In fact, if it weren't for the people in the town, the second son of the Victor family went to study at the St. Tenniburg Academy, this rotten family might have collapsed long ago, the eldest son of the old Victor died of illness, and the second son Daxiu was his spiritual pillar at this time, but the distant study made the communication between the two sides very inconvenient, not to mention that he often came back to support the old Victor, and even a letter a year was difficult for the former Daxiu to bear
In this day and age, travel and postage are not cheap.
Walking through the streets that made me feel a little humiliated, although no one said anything, but just the gaze of those civilians made old Victor feel humiliated, the eldest lady and the second lady of the family had already arranged dinner, the second son had been studying abroad for twelve years, the second lady was married in the process, and the background was not very good, but she needed old Victor as the secretary of the mayor, old Victor coveted her beauty and money, although this woman had a daughter, old Victor married her, and treated her daughter as if she had ...... Like his eldest daughter Sha'er, he has no status.
Two years later, the second lady gave birth to a young son for the elder Victor, and her status in the family rose sharply, although it was of little use.
"Daxiu, is there a letter coming back?" asked old Victor with turnip soup over bread, a question he had to ask every once in a while, even though Daxiu hadn't delivered a letter home for more than two years, or had lost it halfway through, or had simply felt overwhelmed by the financial pressures of the academy.
It was at this time that there was a dense, dull thunderous sound of horses' hooves trampling outside the door, which gradually died down as it approached, which surprised old Victor a little, and that his house was already an old house in the city, and that there would be something that would stop the horses...... Hunting down fugitives?
The sound of heavy footsteps came gradually, followed by a knock on the door, a scene that stunned everyone in the room.
"Grunt" and swallowed deeply, old Victor wondered if he had failed to do fake accounts and embezzle money in the town, but such a thing would not be to the point of sending cavalry to catch it, right?
I wanted to stand up, but I found that my legs were a little bigger, and the others were also a little scared, and the young son of old Victor at the table cried because of the heavy atmosphere, and the eldest lady and the second lady of old Victor were also pale, but the two girls at the table were a little calmer.
Lisa reluctantly stood up and walked over to open the door to the room, a thin wooden door would not have been able to stop them if it was really a cavalry team.
Illya, the younger sister who is not related by blood, also stood up and followed Sister Lisa to give her courage, it seems that because she is also not treated well by her father, so the two girls get along very well, and the moment she pushes the door open, Lisa's whole body froze.
This scene in the eyes of old Victor in the back instantly reminded him of countless very terrifying pictures, such as his daughter being stabbed to death with a sword, the cold blade penetrated her slender body, the red blood flowed, and life passed.
"You bastards let go of my daughter, I made a fake account and embezzled Daniel's old bastard's money, and it has nothing to do with my daughter!"
Because he couldn't find where his home was, or Zhu Peng didn't know it at all, so Zhu Peng went to Danny to bring up the fat mayor who was only one word different from his name, the identity of a necromancer, a real noble baron, such a dual identity is enough for the mayor of this town to kneel and lick all the way...... But the sudden outburst of old Victor made the scene suddenly very embarrassing, Danny behind Zhu Peng held the hilt of his long sword and put it down, held the hilt of his long sword and put it down, and some couldn't decide whether to kill the fat or not.
The atmosphere, for a while, was as if there were many black crows croaking and flying in the air.
"Father, you are really, what are you shouting about corruption and false accounts? I can only give Mayor Daniel an amnesia now, and tell him that the old man has fallen from his horse and has temporary amnesia. "The amnesia spell directly acts on the human spirit, not to mention the professional, even the effect on ordinary people is also very poor, many ordinary people can deflation strong mental stimulation a kind of breaking through the effect of the legendary caster's amnesia, because the spell that acts on the human spirit is the water without a source, the wood without roots, as long as it is washed repeatedly, it can be broken after all.
But Mayor Daniel, a person who obviously doesn't know how to reflect and has weak mental power, is also full of difficulties to break through Zhu Peng's forgetting technique, Zhu Peng is just looking for words, after all, he knows too little information, and even Daxiu Victor himself has not been back for twelve years, and the time for him to hand over to Zhu Peng is too short.
Holding the coins given by their son, the two women and two girls were so excited that they arranged a large table of wine and food, because this home was too small, so Zhu Peng asked Danny to take the veterans back to the hotel for the time being, although the environment at home was not as good as the hotel in many aspects.
Boiled beef soup, fresh pork, and grilled lamb chops. Then there is fresh cheese and pies, and finally some vegetables and fruits, this is already an extremely hearty meal for this family, old Victor tried his best to restrain himself, but still ate a lot, his face was swollen red, old Victor knew very well that with the return of his second son's studies, the revival of the Victor family finally had hope, to put it more realistically, at least he and his family would never have to worry about the rest of their lives.
"The Imperial Military Department gave me five territories, two of which are quite wealthy town territories, if you choose one of those two territories directly, the family can directly live the life of a small nobleman, from this point of view, the military department is really bleeding, a rare relief. ”
"But I didn't choose those two territories, I chose here, Anstein Island, although there is only one barren small fishing village at present, and the island opposite is the territory of the Orc Empire's Centaur clan, but I have carefully studied it, the Orc Empire has had a good relationship with our country over the years, and there should be no major war in at least two hundred years, even if a big war breaks out, the army is the main force of the Orc Empire, and Anstann Island will not bear the brunt of some impact at most. During dinner, Zhu Peng took out a very rough map and pointed out and sketched it in front of Old Victor.
In his concept, he established the base camp of the Victor clan on the island of Anstein, attacked the orc islands with relatively weak border awareness, especially the sea border line awareness, and then echoed with the important city of the undead empire on the mainland, Winnie City, and immediately built a golden route like swiping money.
The island forces near the mainland, there are too many advantages, just like Great Britain and Dongying in the earth era, when the mainland power is weak, they can attack, when the mainland power is strong, it is retreat and defendable, the continent's long coastline is almost impossible to completely blockade, so there are attack points everywhere, but there are only a few good harbors and suitable landing points on the island side, so the difficulty of defense is very low.
Such a top-down geographical advantage is also an important advantage of the rise of Great Britain and Dongying, but there is always a bottleneck ceiling in the comprehensive potential and total strength of island countries, and for a noble family, such a defect is not a defect at all.
On the contrary, if you choose the two wealthy town fiefdoms instead of Anstann Island, there is no room to expand the power of the family at all, and the various noble forces in the inland towns of the Undead Empire are intertwined, even if you are promoted to a holy mage, at most you will let your family share a piece of the pie, and if you want to eat and eat as much as you want, you will only be attacked by the crowd.
Of course, Zhu Peng also has the idea of developing marine resources and brushing money for himself, in this high magic world, the resources produced by civilians are concentrated for the strong and aristocratic classes, because of the almost absolute power gap, the resources allocated to civilians are very small, and the land resources of a planet only occupy about 30% of the plane resources, and often even less, if the marine resources can be properly developed, even if only a small part is developed, it will be a huge blessing for the civilians.
Of course, for the Victor family, who are entrenched on the island of Anstann, this will mean a rolling gold coin.
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Through the top ten competition of the academy, Zhu Peng swiped a lot of money, starting with a few hundred gold coins for killing demons, and it doubled several times when he defeated Kenna, and more than a dozen times when he defeated Nicholas Long, and finally there were more than 20,000 gold coins in his hand, and the weight even reached more than 100 kilograms.
At home, Zhu Peng gave the old Victor two choices, either to leave a sum of money for his family to live comfortably in the town, or to go to the fiefdom with the whole family, although it is not very good to live there now, and it may not be as comfortable as living in the town, but it is the actual fiefdom of the family, the foundation of the future of the Victor family, and the sooner you get there, you can develop it one step earlier.
Old Victor's decision was very decisive, he directly decided that the whole family went to Anstan Island, in order to take care of his daughter Zhu Peng bought a carriage, and his two sisters, who had never been far away in the town since childhood, looked out from the carriage.
Although Zhu Peng is a mage, he also rides a horse and even puts a sword within reach on one side, in fact, if he is not worried about being too shocking, Zhu Peng even wants to put chain armor on the mage's robe, even if he is not wearing leather armor, he does not practice the body, even if he is always ready to attack with white bones, Zhu Peng is also very unaccustomed.
In this era, the struggle between humans and nature continues, and the security conditions in the territory of the undead empire are already good, but bandits are still rampant in the mountains and wilderness, of course, the biggest threat is not they who can still communicate, but the wild beasts that roar in the shade of the trees.
Ogre, known as Blue Fat by the people of the rivers and lakes, is directly a strong third-order combat power after becoming an adult, and the mutant and elite body are Sanctuary creatures, and the strongest and terrifying two-headed ogre leader has dual spell-casting ability, and his combat power can even rival that of a dragon, and his land combat power is still better than that of a dragon when fully armed.
Due to the prevalence of necromancy in the undead empire, the awareness of human rights is relatively weak, and the criminals and death row prisoners in prisons often become experiments, not to mention the dissection materials, and the enemy prisoners of war cannot escape similar treatment, and the minced meat left over from the experiment is also a waste, so many high-level necromancers have the habit of raising ogres, and the ogre's powerful stomachs and a very wide list of recipes make them often quite good garbage cans, and they can also be pulled out as combat power in emergencies.
In the narrow space, the ogre with heavy steel plate armor holding a steel mace is really a murder weapon in the world, and the dragon that can't fly or can't fly will really be hammered to death head-on, even if it's a hard-rigid, Beamon giant beast is also five or five.
And this kind of creature that controls the brain by the stomach and intestines,It will have a good impression of people who feed it for a long time.,As long as you're not hungry, you won't attack.,Even willing to obey orders.,The blue fat who has successfully eaten is a rather cute and cute creature.,Especially obedient to management.,Before the abyss invaded, many high-level necromancers were willing to raise one.。
Because the trend of domesticating ogres has passed, so there are more blue fat people running in the mountains and fields, Zhu Peng and his team of twenty-six subordinates and a family happened to encounter a caravan that was robbed by the ogre community, and the most difficult thing about ogres is that as long as there is enough food, they are willing to live in groups...... The caravan mercenaries had no room to fight back in front of the five-headed ogre wielding a large tree pole, and they cleverly grabbed a horse and ran away, while those who fought faithfully to the death were directly slapped with a big stick and vomited their internal organs.
"Senior Victor, can we help?"
Danny said this because he knew that ogres were not aggressive after they had eaten, and that the people in the caravan were already dead, and that it was possible for a procession to pass through safely, and if so, no one wanted to fight the five-headed ogre.
“...... I don't really want to fight, but I don't think it's up to us to choose. What Danny said was just common sense from the textbook, but at this moment, the five ogres in front of him had already killed the red eyes, and some of them were still injured, and they probably wouldn't stop until they killed all the humanoids in their field of vision.
(I was careless, I didn't think anything would happen in the empire, so I didn't send scouts.) )
"Danny, stay here to protect my family. Leaving a sentence, Zhu Peng drew his sword like a soaring goshawk and pounced on the caravan that was being slaughtered, in fact, if Danny and the veterans were brought over, the battle would definitely be ended faster, but there would inevitably be casualties on the side, and now although the caravan casualties will be further advanced, at least the Victor family is absolutely safe.
(Five-headed ogres, that means there is a small community of ogres around here, I heard that this creature has an amazing reproductive ability, kill them all and catch some small blue chubby and bring them back to raise.) The undead empire is no longer popular to raise ogres, a large part of the reason is the invasion of the abyss, the demonization of this kind of thing is spreading like an infectious disease, and the demonized ogre's combat power is amazing, and the six relatives do not recognize it, and resist the control of spells, when there are too many necromancers who are killed and eaten by their own ogre hammer, of course, no one wants to raise it, raise a dog to chase and bite the owner every day, is there really anyone willing to raise a dog?
However, Zhu Peng is a demon real body, even if the ogre is demonized, he has dual control over it, so he has no scruples about raising it.
The white bone armament spread on his body with the magic power, and he slashed with the oblique sword, and under the perfect oblique moon-shaped sword trajectory, a killing ogre was instantly beheaded, and the fat head didn't seem to believe it when it flew in the blood, how could his extremely strong body become so unbearable and powerless in an instant!
In fact, this is normal, the exoskeleton white bone armament is covered and blessed with magic power, Zhu Peng's basic quality has reached at least the third order, riding and charging plus horsepower, with Zhu Peng's Sword Saint cultivation, it is normal to instantly kill a blue fat head under a surprise attack.
Under the tremendous force of the reaction, the horse riding the horse rose up and raised its head and neighed.
One of Zhu Peng's palms pressed forward, the gorgeous and classical ruby ring on his left hand flashed with light, and the next moment a dragon scale blood skeleton with two fangs and heavy hammers appeared, and under the control of Zhu Peng's will, this blood skeleton began to face an ogre who was entangled by the caravan.
Zhu Peng's tactic is to exchange the lives of ordinary people in the caravan for the killing efficiency of the relatively superior forces, the skeleton revival spell is activated, and more than 20 freshly baked skeleton soldiers are separated from the corpses in an instant and surrounded by those ogres, of course, their combat effectiveness is far weaker than Zhu Peng's state of only summoning five, but if it is just to delay the time entanglement, it is completely enough.
Because of Zhu Peng's appearance, the caravans, who had been killed to the point of crying and crying for their mother, began to rise up, and some of them even came to Zhu Peng's side, wanting to seek Zhu Peng's refuge.
Pulling the reins suddenly, Zhu Peng bypassed and avoided them, was surrounded by them, and then let the ogre rush over to hit the fixed target?
Just like a drowning person will cling to the rescuer, maybe it's their survival instinct, but you can't get used to everything, otherwise you will be dragged down by him and drowned.
Some helpers couldn't catch up with Zhu Peng, and saw the carriage and cavalry from a distance, and they actually went on the road in the direction of Victor's house, whether it was with the intention of leading the water to the east, or a simple instinctive reaction, which made Zhu Peng frown violently, and then he shot a crossbow with a backhand and shot directly at a merchant who was running in the front.
With him as a demonstration, the twenty-five veterans who had already taken out their crossbows didn't need to wait for Danny's hesitation at all, Qi Qi's round of shooting directly stopped those merchants, these twenty-five veterans were carefully selected by Zhu Peng, with calluses on their hands and gray eyes, each of them had killed at least twenty or more people on the battlefield, otherwise Zhu Peng would not have spent a lot of money to hire them and then equip them with war horses and weapons, this will be the first family cavalry team of the Victor family, with these twenty-five people, pirates under two hundred, Pirates don't have to worry about it at all.
Compared to these old killers, Danny's strength may be stronger, but his heart still lacks sharpening. Of course, if it was an old oilman like Victor's father who made fake accounts every day, Zhu Peng might not be willing to hire him.
Lisa and Eliya in the carriage originally poked their heads out, looking at their brother's heroic posture of riding a horse and wielding a sword with admiration, Lisa was better, after all, it was her brother, and Eliya, who was not related by blood, was already like a peach blossom at this moment.
However, the next scene where Zhu Peng did not hesitate to order the killing, but this admiration and admiration was like pouring cold water on it, and the two girls retracted the carriage in shock, but the old Victor, who was riding a horse and beating his back, looked satisfied.
In Old Victor, coldness, ruthlessness, and ruthlessness are the basic qualities of becoming a great lord. This perception cannot be considered wrong in this era.