"Master Rod, I don't understand old John...... Why did you refuse?"

The candle flame and honey wine that implied the drug were removed, and it was still the same room just now, and there seemed to be an ambiguous smell in the air that had not yet dissipated, but John Watson had a bitter face, but he didn't know what to say. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Both the Humbert family and the Camus family have a lot of influence in Virginia, among which Miss Tang Yalin of the Humbert family is the niece of the Earl of Claes in Virginia Curau, after tonight, the Caster family has offended these nobles severely.

"The matter of the gold mine in the valley cannot be hidden, in the face of such a huge fortune, even if the Nord side grits its teeth and bleeds, I am afraid that they will form a huge coalition to compete for interests, but the Custer clan is difficult to resist, if you marry Miss Tang Yalin and accept Miss Ian Ye as an underground lover, and share the gold mine income with Count Virginia Clais, we are very sure that we will be able to survive this difficulty. "Every word that Old John said was true, and conventionally, a marriage that gave up some of its interests was indeed the best way to solve the difficult situation at hand, but it was not necessarily the most suitable way.

"The Desert Kingdom has been destroyed, and the orc legions have fought all the way through, and the soldiers are directed at the national capital, Rivadine. Zhu Peng's words completely stunned Old John.

Because this is the latest news about the situation on the mainland, with the speed at which the news of the Middle Ages in the West spreads, even if it is fast, it has not yet been transmitted, but it is the first-hand information that Zhu Peng obtained through the Ghost Lantern Conference, and of course it is a troubadour's informant.

"It won't be long before our king will summon all the nobles of Vegia in the name of the monarch to participate in the battle to defend the royal capital, compared to the Silvermoon Orc Front, the Nord alliance is really nothing, in fact, I would like to thank them for giving the Custer family a good reason to postpone the army. While solving the doubts of the loyal old housekeeper, Zhu Peng wrote at the desk.

The quill swiped and he thought a little from time to time to adjust his choice of words and sentences.

This is an explanation and bribe to the king of Vygia Yarogrk, because the Custer family is under siege, temporarily unable to fulfill their aristocratic obligations to go to the Zhivading meat grinder, while asking for understanding, Zhu Peng also promised to send 20% of the net profit from the gold mine. Of course, this is a veritable empty promise.

However, compared to the rumored army of the Castel family that has just suffered a big loss, I am afraid that these two percent of the net profit is more tempting to King Yarogerke, if it is not for the fact that the front line is very tight, I am afraid that this king will transfer some people to assist the intimate Viscount Karst to defend the city.

Of course, the king of Yarogark is not stupid, but dozens of lords of the entire snow country of Vegia, there are not many Docaster families, and there are many less Castel families.

On the contrary, the army was assembled, and the money, food and materials were extremely tight, and Zhu Peng delivered what the sovereign needed most at the most opportune time, and in the heart of King Yarogerke, I am afraid that he was more intimate than most of the nobles who led the army to support.

After all, the reason why the Custer family couldn't come is very valid, and being besieged by the Nord coalition army, even if they can carry it, they may be greatly damaged.

"The army of the Earl of Claes in the city of Kulau is going to defend the royal capital and defend his own city of Kulau, not to mention marrying his niece, even marrying the earl's mother, and at such a critical time, the Earl of Claes will not provide me with reinforcements......"

When Zhu Peng's words came to this point, John Watson fully understood.

The marriage between the nobles, more important than the union of men and women themselves, is the combination of the forces behind the two sides, if this cannot be done, it is undoubtedly extremely stupid for just one or two beauties to make the prosperous Custer family pay the price of marriage.

"What the young master meant, old John understood. It's just that we really don't participate in the battle of Zhivadin......? If Vegia is defeated in the Great War, the entire Snow Nation will be exposed to the Silvermoon Orcs. John Watson would say such words of concern for the country and the people, which surprised Zhu Peng in front of him, he always thought that the national consciousness of the feudal aristocracy was extremely weak.

"No, I just want to see it clearly before I go to the Battle of Zhivadin. I don't know why, the situation in this world always makes me feel uneasy, it seems that someone is standing in the air looking down on us, he has made a big game, but I can't see where this situation is, I can only vaguely feel that when the authorities really launch, I am afraid that we will be powerless to resist. "The poison of the rotting corpses of the coastal generation of Nord Woche flashed in his mind, and everyone from the Haikou to the villagers was actually involved.

The tentacles of the Black Necro Plane have clearly spread, but the real horror is that almost everyone subconsciously ignores its existence, whether it is the spy wizard or the Kalradian human force.

This shows that there is a terrifying figure hiding behind the scenes, controlling the entire necromantic force...... Is that the legendary Lich Esso Milleton from a millennia ago?

There was too little information in his hands, and Zhu Peng himself didn't know it, he just had a sharp instinct like a beast, feeling the sense of oppression coming from the darkness.

Therefore, he pushed the boat to guide the Nord coalition army to come to the siege, on the one hand, he trained to enhance his strength, and on the other hand, he also wanted to see more clearly.

Who is hiding in the shadows and playing with the world in the palm of his hand?

...... Zhivadin is likely to be a big game, and Zhu Peng wants to stand on the sidelines and find a real opponent......

The aristocratic ladies of Nord are more efficient than Zhu Peng imagined.

It didn't take long for the informant buried on the side of Saggos to deliver the news that the army had assembled, or perhaps the allure of the gold veins was too high.

These golden stones radiate the light of temptation, and the heavens and worlds are multiverse, and I don't know how many beings are willing to pay for it with their lives or even sell their souls.

Now that the inevitability of war was determined, preparations had to be made in advance, and after secret talks with Count Wilhelm, the castle of Djerber and the castle of Elbuk began to move the peasants from the subordinate villages into the castle at the same time.

Unable to protect their own people because of the war, he moved them into the castle to ensure the basic livelihood of the people as a lord.

Fortunately, the Custer family is rich now, and if they can keep the gold veins, it is conceivable that they will become even richer in the future, so both Rhodes and Earl William are willing to spend money at this time.

However, even if there is money, it is also a short-term expedient measure to move a large number of peasants from subordinate villages into the castle, because living space and living materials are not something that can be bought simply with money.

The Nord Kingdom is now the only country in the entire Calradia continent that has not been attacked by the Silver Moon Orcs, because it is the farthest away from the Sultan of Salander, one lives in the desert, and the other builds a country around the sea, and under normal circumstances, the civilians of these two countries should not see each other for the rest of their lives.

Therefore, when the Silver Moon Orcs came out of the rolling yellow sand and slaughtered the world, no matter how terrible and terrifying the legend was, the Nords never felt the pain.

Now that the capital of the old enemy Snow Country Virgia is facing the orc front, the first reaction of the Nords is to take advantage of the fire to rob, grab money, land, and people to expand their own strength, which is the right way to do it in troubled times, or the only way the Nords will choose.

In fact, having not experienced an era similar to the Internet information explosion, feudal Western Europe even the brains of the aristocracy were barren, and compared with the human beings of high-level civilizations, they must have this or that deficiency, which is why the traverser can often disturb the world, and the reason why the spy wizard regards most of the human beings as indigenous lives is nothing more than that their own civilization level is higher, and they stand higher than these people, so they look farther.

No matter whether the Nords will call or not, when they will come, strengthening the strength of themselves and their own forces is the main theme of Zhu Peng's daily work.

The tavern in Fort Djerbo lasted half a year, smashed into countless financial resources, and finally built to level five, because of the role of the strategic treasure "Head of Darkness", the actual effect is a seventh-level tavern that has never appeared in the entire Calradian civilization.

Therefore, when a group of undead side horror knights were stationed in the most upscale tavern on the continent, although the matter was unexpected by Zhu Peng, it was reasonable to think about it carefully.

Although they all belong to the negative energy system, they are different from the demonic lives smuggled up from the lower planes, this team of twenty terrifying knights is the undead life revived on the continent of Calradia, and it is also the most cost-effective troop in the undead camp:

Terror Knight: The seventh-level unupgraded class on the undead side, with super offensive and defensive attributes at the same level, and super strong class characteristics, although it is not the top champion class of the eighth, ninth, and tenth levels of the undead, but in fact, this class really supports the backbone of the combat power of the undead side. Even because of its number and the best value for money, many people believe that it is the uncrowned king of the undead side troops.

Trait: Has a chance to unleash a cursed attack that minimizes damage to a certain class in the enemy formation.

In fact, the twenty terrifying knights in front of them can't afford to be the banner of the undead camp's top troops, and the real horror is its enhanced body, the death knight, which is really the most cost-effective class in this world.

However, it makes no difference to Zhu Peng, twenty terror knights came to his hands, and with the field of fighting around Jerbo Fort for two days, with the talent and specialty of his defensive side and the high defense attribute of the terror knight itself, he could soon strengthen twenty seventh-level enhanced death knights equivalent to eighth-level.

The enhanced fifth level is basically equal to the first-order professional in the wizarding world, and the enhanced tenth-level is basically not weaker than the second-order professional in the wizarding world, especially in the battle of the large army, the tenth-level soldiers of the Calradia continent and the second-order professional of the wizarding world go head-to-head, and ninety percent will lose, but once the two sides fight on a large scale, the victory and defeat will probably be halved.

From this, it can be deduced that the value of the twenty terrifying knights in front of Zhu Peng is that compared to the regular troops of the Calradia continent, the twenty knights of the eighth level of death knights defeat the Svadian Hundred Knights on the frontal battlefield, I am afraid that they do not need to pay battle losses.

In the previous battle of the Calradia Valley, the strongest elite Holy Knights (level seven) in Zhu Peng's hands can be said to be wiped out, and there are currently eight wounded soldiers still recuperating, even if they recover, they can no longer complete the cluster charge, the knights have at least twenty units, otherwise they will not be able to form a charging formation.

If you accept the twenty terrifying knights in front of you, the most lacking elite heavy cavalry lineup in Fort Djerbo can be regarded as making up for the short version, the only problem is ...... Navigating both the Human/Demon faction at the same time has put Fort Jerber under a durable Morale -20 decision.

Zhu Peng has just made up for it through his own leadership skills to promote to senior, and now he pulls the undead side to join, and the morale reduction is superimposed on -40 judgment, and the slightest carelessness will make the morale collapse, Zhu Peng doesn't want to have to swing his sword to kill the soldiers who accompanied him all the way when he was in the camp one night.

It is also for this reason that after being promoted from the tavern to the high-level, many powerful alien troops stayed in the luxurious Jeerbo Tavern, but Zhu Peng endured the pain and refused to recruit.

For example, the elves who stayed here some time ago were not those elves in the Silver Moon World, but the ancient elves of this world who rose and fell with the ups and downs of the demon tide and recovered in eternal sleep.

However, Zhu Peng is worthy of being born in Tongzigong, and he insisted on getting it in terms of concentration, and he dragged it until those ancient elves left, and he did not propose recruitment, just because he was afraid of this superimposed morale reduction judgment.

But now when facing the twenty terrifying knights, Zhu Peng, who is a senior strength controller, suddenly wavered, through the essentia perspective and some hidden sources of information, he knew that the eighth-level death knight was simply the super powerful class with the highest cost performance in the undead camp, once he missed it, he was basically in this world mission, and he didn't want to have another chance to recruit.

"Nineteen of my brothers and I have crawled out of the forgotten battlefields of antiquity, and once again gained the power to walk the earth, this time we choose to fight for ourselves...... Human lord, if you are willing to pay us fifty pounds of mercury and twenty thousand dinars, death will no longer be an obstacle to you. In the ancient steel armor and helmet, there was a faint blood-red light, and the ancient language of the terrifying knight in front of him made Zhu Peng extremely difficult to understand, but fortunately, he understood what the other party wanted.

“...... Mama tea, you go and tell John, buy me fifty catties of mercury in the resource market in three days, and you will work hard in the last three days to find the nearest hostile force to Fort Jerbo. Because the value of the other side is really not expensive, Zhu Peng finally chose to include these twenty horror knights under his command.

The price of mercenaries in the tavern will fluctuate, and you may only be able to recruit a few mercenaries of level 3 or 5 for five or six thousand dinars at a disadvantage of the war, and conversely, you can sometimes hire elite warriors at a relatively low price.

It's just that the low-level troops only need the dinar, and the high-level troops begin to ask for resources, the high-level troops of the human camp want dinars or gold or gold + dinars, some time ago in the tavern there was a team of eighth-level soldiers of the human camp senior swordsmen, asking Zhu Peng for gold and a large amount of dinars, at that time Zhu Peng wanted to hire but had dinars in his hands but no gold, and finally could only watch those powerful senior swordsmen leave. The demons want brimstone, the undead want mercury, the elves may ask for wood or gems, and the orc mercenary Zhu Peng has not encountered it for the time being, and he doesn't know what materials they need besides money.

And the twenty terrifying knights in front of Zhu Peng are not much, and they are generally of the kind of good quality and low price compared to their strength and potential, which also contributed to Zhu Peng's determination to hire them.

Although the double morale penalty -40 morale is very terrifying, but Zhu Peng's senior leadership skill level 3, as long as he is always victorious and undefeated, the highest morale can still be pushed to 90 as the peak, the problem is that it will fall relatively quickly, and it needs continuous wars and victories to maintain morale replenishment, and as long as there is a fiasco, the avalanche-like morale may even make the army collapse directly.

However, no matter how strong the death knights are, after all, there are only twenty horsemen, with Zhu Peng's always positive temperament, when they are all killed in battle, the double morale punishment will naturally be canceled, but this is different from the contract between Fort Jerber and the demon side field camp, long-term supply and regular recruitment of Cerberus.

At present, although the level of this group of knights is high and their strength is strong, they are only roots and water without roots after all.

After making arrangements, Zhu Peng did not continue to waste time in the tavern, the Nord coalition forces were oppressed, many affairs needed to be dealt with, and a lot of food needed to be digested.

And at the level of a seventh-level tavern, it is no problem to keep the newly arrived Knights of Terror for seven days, recruit them within three days, and then Zhu Peng will lead them to kill the wild fantasy species or the Sea Warriors in the next four days, striving to strengthen the Knights of Terror into the Knights of Death before the big war, and transform their potential into strength and push them to the peak.

Leaving the luxurious tavern, Zhu Peng walked down the streets of Djerbo Castle.

The huge profits of the trade opened by the water transport combined with the bronze spirit engineering expert Atiman have changed the entire Derbo Fort in half a year.

Civil engineering has almost never stopped, Artiman also needs to use the bronze spirit engineering technique from time to time to speed up the progress, massive wealth and the wisdom of the master engineer, so that the castle of Jerbo is thriving and growing stronger, the original first-class blacksmith shop, first-class market, first-class tavern, second-level prison, second-level barracks, now become a third-level blacksmith shop, fourth-level market, fifth-level tavern, second-level prison, third-level barracks, of which the third-level barracks are upgraded according to the "heavy infantry construction blueprints" given by Leila.

In Zhu Peng's eyes, in the inherent military system of Viacia in Snow Country, only the archer troops are extremely strong, and the cavalry of the other two branch lines can barely be used.

Only the Vigia infantry system, if not the weakest on the mainland, is not much worse, so Zhu Peng simply did not develop the Vigia infantry system, but established a heavy infantry battalion.

The third-level reinforced heavy infantry is unified and sanctified after accumulating a certain number, and the elite fourth-level hoplite, a deformed class of troops that has almost completely lost its mobility, but their value in Zhu Peng's eyes is far higher than that of the Vigian infantry that is difficult to form and weak.