5. Foothold Chapter 203 Layton Harbor - Chapter 204 Sea Beast Siege

The three airships flew smoothly in the air at ordinary speed, and the estimated time to reach the capital of East County was fifteen hours later.

Leighton Harbor, the capital of the Eastern County, is the largest city in the southeast region of the Kingdom of Celt, and it is about a thousand kilometers away from the royal capital Kosovo, similar to the distance between Beijing and Shanghai in the previous life, and the straight-line distance between her and Dalaran is about hundreds of kilometers farther than from Dalaran to the royal capital, so it takes five or six hours to fly smoothly with the airship.

At the beginning of the airship's departure, Donald accompanied the countess on the deck to enjoy the scenery for a while, and when she was a little tired, she returned to the cabin to rest, and then she had the time to study the power she had gained from the míyòu demon.

The first is the huge magic power of the míyòu demon, absorbing the power of the míyòu demon, who is naturally good at casting spells, so that the upper limit of his magic power has doubled at once, and the strength of the mana is almost comparable to that of the archmage of the golden early stage.

Secondly, the True Perception in the Demon's innate ability is automatically superimposed on the Demon Hunter's Demon Hunter's Demon Hunting Eye ability, which is equivalent to an additional innate spell ability that can be cast without consuming mana.

You must know that True Perception is a sixth-level spell, and it is the most difficult prophecy school spell in the ancient Arcane faction to learn, which can see through the dark effects formed by ordinary darkness and magic, and can also detect spell effects such as magic secret doors, hazy spells, and displacements.

Illusions and Transfiguration spells cannot escape the scrutiny of true knowledge. You can also see the scenery of the outer realm, the void plane, and even the astral plane, of course, the caster himself has the ability to survive in that dangerous environment.

The only drawback is that the field of vision of the True Perception Technique is not too far, generally about one hundred and twenty steps is already the limit, and it cannot be attached to other Detection Spells, but these shortcomings cannot hide the powerful detection effect of the True Knowledge.

Just the fact that he only knows the magic is worth the risk that Donald took to hunt the míyòu demon, you must know that the price paid for a constant sixth-level spell is very huge, and the caster below the gold will permanently drop by one cast level, and the mental power will be reduced by half, and it will take at least half a year to recover.

Permanently unable to cast the constant spell and so on. If the constant is a golden archmage, although the cost will be reduced, but it will also take a year to be unable to cast this spell, and at the same time fall into a period of weak magic, this period is extremely dangerous for the golden archmage, once the enemy knows, then it will inevitably find ways to kill him.

This is also the reason why powerful mages rarely use constant spells easily.

It's a pity that the magic-like abilities of the Míyòu Demon are given by the will of the Abyss, and the Chaos Hammer, Sleepiness Technique, Disarming Magic, Mirror Shadow Technique, Anti-Gravity Technique, Advanced Teleportation Technique, Evil Shadow Strike and other spells that Donald is more optimistic about cannot be obtained by the bloodline power of the Míyòu Demon.

Fortunately, these spells also have the same or similar existence in mage spells, and they can be learned step by step in the future. But in the end, it is not as easy as mastering it directly.

All of this was just to Donald's satisfaction, but the most surprising thing for Donald was that he had been able to cast the Decree of Heaven once a day: Shock, and the monthly Wishing Technique, two of the most powerful natural abilities of the Míyòu Demon.

Although these two innate spells have weakened on their own compared to the original míyòu demon, the law: shock has been reduced from the original seven times a day to once a day, and the wishing technique has also changed from a nine-level wishing technique to a seventh-level limited wishing technique.

However, it does not affect the effect of these two abilities. These two abilities are not even possessed by the powerful dragons at the top of the food chain in the Overworld.

The former is one of the most powerful spell systems of the Enchanted School, and it can be better mastered by mastering powerful spells such as Command: Shock, which is lower than it: Blindness, and advanced Order: Death.

The limited wishing technique is even more complicated, with the rules of multiple factions such as language, change, and enchantment, similar to the exchange of the Book of Truth, you can form what you want by paying energy and matter, of course, the higher the value of the thing, the greater the cost.

The advanced direction of the wishing spell and the law spell is the great prophecy and the great law spell, both of which are the ultimate spells that can only be cast by the power of the true god, and the same as the advanced great cleavage of the cleavage, in addition to the true god, it is estimated that only the great arcanist lord and the powerful believers who have been given the power by the true god can cast it.

And these ultimate spell abilities are not all true gods can be cast, if you can't comprehend the truth, even the most powerful high-ranking gods can't grasp it, on the contrary, after comprehending the truth, even the demigods with the lowest level of divine power can also cast it.

Donald also came to this realization after understanding the knowledge he had acquired from the god he had fused with and the information he had in the Book of Truth. Otherwise, you won't know if you get the treasure!

More than a dozen hours passed in a flash, and he was discussing the situation in Leighton Harbor with Jesse and Augusta in the cabin, when he heard a report from the crew of the airship outside.

"Your Lord!"

Donald said casually, "What's the matter?"

This group of crew members was trained by the Ansel family, and ten civilian youths were selected in the territory to train human pilots. It's also troublesome to always summon goblin pilots, compared to ordinary minion creatures that have a time limit, and Donald doesn't plan to permanently summon goblins to come out. Therefore, it is inevitable to train some human pilots, anyway, the goblin airship is relatively simple to operate, and the slightly difficult thing is to master the wind direction and accurate flight path during flight.

These require a certain level of experience to perfect.

However, it is relatively easy to get from Kita-gun to Higashi-gun, as long as you fly downstream along the Izumo River, and you don't need to be familiar with the route at all.

"Layton Harbor has arrived, may I ask if you have landed?"

Hearing this, Donald walked out of the cabin and looked ahead, and sure enough, he saw a very prosperous city standing only a little smaller than the royal capital Kosovo, and beyond the city, there was a blue sea and blue sky, and from a height of thousands of meters, you could just see the white sand beach and the overall shape of a bay.

"What a good port. Donald complimented, and as he slowly descended to a height of hundreds of meters above the ground, he realized that something was wrong with Layton Harbor.

"What's going on?"

They had departed yesterday evening, and it should have been six or seven o'clock in the morning when they arrived at Leighton Harbor, which should be the time of day when the day began to be busy, especially in a bustling port like Layton Harbor, even if the inhabitants of the city were late in the morning, the workers and sailors of the port would not be lazy.

But now he looked from above in the direction of Layton Harbor, and found that the harbor area was silent, and there was no figure to be seen, but the fortifications of the city were crowded, but there was no trace of anyone outside the city.

Donald ordered the pilot to descend and then shouted into the cabin, "Augusta!"

The young new commercial executive stepped out of the cabin.

"Your Excellency, you called me?"

Donald asked, pointing in the direction of Layton Harbor.

"You've been to Layton Harbor to see if it's normal?"

The first city of Khart that Augusta arrived at by Gardred was the port of Leighton, so Donald told him to come and see it.

As soon as he saw the situation in Layton Harbour, which was not far away, Augusta knew that the situation there must not be normal, but he could not say what was going on.

He was followed by Augusta's best friend, the young man of the Kota family.

After arriving in Dalaran, Frege, who wanted to become a big hero, was attracted to the adventurer's guild, and after officially registering, he plunged into the quest. With his strength comparable to the early stage of silver, he really allowed him to complete many tasks that ordinary adventurers did not dare to take, and became the one with the fastest growth in the level and points of the adventurer's guild.

Seeing the situation in the city below, this honest young swordsman couldn't help frowning and said, "This is?"

"Did you find anything?" Facing Donald's inquiry, Frege said with some uncertainty: "Once when I went to Sauron with my grandfather, I encountered a sea beast attacking a human port, at that time, the port was under martial law, there were no ships at all, and the fishermen in the surrounding villages and towns also abandoned their homes and fled inland to avoid trouble, that scene is very similar here in Genlayton Harbor now!"

"Sea beasts?"

Donald was puzzled. He has never been to the coastal area since coming into this world, and he has had very little contact with the sea.

After Frege's explanation, he learned that the sea beast was the monster in the sea.

The ocean of this world is the same as the geographical environment of the previous life, the ocean is larger than the land area, but the difference is that the main world is not a planet like the earth, but a huge world floating in the void, which is more similar to the round heaven in the ancient legend of the previous life.

With an area as vast as the ocean, countless aquatic demonic beasts must have been bred, and the number is far from being comparable to that of creatures on land.

It is said that there are also kingdoms built by intelligent creatures such as fishmen and krakens in the depths of the sea, but not many people have seen them.

In the coastal area southeast of Sauron, because of the harsh environment of the Storm Sea, the sea beasts there are also more ferocious, so the sea beasts often gather to attack human ships and coastal fishermen.

There are even high-level demonic beasts that already have a certain amount of wisdom, and other low-level sea beasts are intelligently attacking the port cities of humans!

However, the Falling Star Sea on this side of the Northland Celt Kingdom is relatively calm, but it is rare to hear of sea beasts attacking humans.

"My lord, whether it was attacked by sea beasts or not, something has obviously happened to Leighton Harbor, are we still going as planned?"

Hearing Augusta's somewhat worried question, Donald thought for a while and said: "Of course, the same Celtic territory, Leighton Harbor is in trouble, and I can't turn a blind eye, and we still have airships to travel, even if we really encounter a crisis of powerlessness to resist in the end, we can retreat by air! Maybe this is our chance!"

Hearing Donald say this, the others were relieved, and then Donald ordered the three airships to land slowly towards Leighton Harbor.

Chapter 204 Sea Beast Siege At this time, Layton Harbor was under full martial law, and the soldiers on the city wall immediately noticed the approaching flying objects in the sky.

The commander of the Layton Harbor garrison, who received the soldier's report, immediately walked up to the top of the city and looked at the three airships. With his eyesight, he could already see signs of human activity on the strange flying object.

So the commander of the garrison immediately ordered: "Don't attack the crossbow arrows first, wait until I find out the identity of the other party!"

He is also a smart person, so he naturally knows that sea beasts flying demonic beasts are generally natural enemies, basically there will be no flying creatures, and they will not come from the land direction in the rear, so it is likely that they will come from humans from other territories.

Soon the airship had already reached the top of the city of Leighton Harbor, and the commander below shouted with all his might: "Who is it? This is the Leighton Harbor garrison, Leighton Harbor has entered the martial law stage, please declare your identity, otherwise we will attack!"

Donald nodded on the airship, and Uther walked up to the deck and said, "We are a mission from North County, Lord Baron Melina is visiting Layton Harbor, please sort out a quick clearing for the alchemy airship to land!"

Uther had now reached the realm of the Silver High Rank, and his voice contained the power of sword qi, although he did not shout loudly, it was enough for the soldiers on the city wall below to hear clearly.

The commander of the garrison below was also a silver powerhouse, and when he saw the person who came so easily, he transmitted the voice to his ears, and he couldn't help but be surprised by the strength of the person who came.

At least he's a silver powerhouse, and he's stronger than himself.

"Baron Melina?"

The commander of the garrison was very familiar with it, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it for a while, when the subordinates next to him came to him and said something, and the commander suddenly said, and then said in surprise: "But the lord of Dalaran, the hero of the kingdom, Master Merlinna, hurry up! Let them vacate the garrison playground!"

The latter sentence is directed to the subordinates around him.

Layton Harbor is in a tense time, and having a powerful mage join at this time will definitely increase their strength, and they will be more confident in dealing with this crisis. Moreover, it is said that there are four silver mages in the lord's territory of Dalaran, as long as one can come, then it is enough to support the royal capital to come to the aid and survive this crisis.

So how could the commander of the garrison not be surprised?

When Dalaran's three alchemical airships landed on the playground of the Layton Harbor garrison camp, the Lord of Layton Harbor, the current head of the Layton family, the commander of the garrison, and other high-ranking nobles in the city came to greet them.

"Welcome to Layton Harbor, Your Excellency Baron Melina!"

The contemporary Earl of Layton was a man of about thirty years of age, with a straight face and two beards on his mouth, which made him look very personable and mature.

"Lord Layton!"

Donald's side also greeted the other party according to his status.

Although they were very interested in the flying tools that Donald and the others were riding, they didn't get to the bottom of it, they just asked a few curious questions, and Donald only briefly introduced the functions of some alchemy airships, saying that they were flying devices driven by alchemy technology.

The nobles present were all interested in getting such a high-speed and comfortable airship, but after asking Donald about the cost of such an airship, most of them were all silent, and at the same time, they were greatly envious of the wealth of the mage.

Considering that there are more things, the price may not be too ruthless, Donald's offer to these East County nobles is not as high as he said to the Thorne family and others, but each ship is also as high as 50,000 gold soles, which is enough to make the average small and medium-sized nobles speechless.

Only a few people who can accept or see the advantages of this alchemy airship have the intention of buying, but now is not a good time to communicate.

After briefly meeting and talking with each other for a while, the people of Layton Harbor, led by the Earl of Leighton, welcomed Donald and the others to the city lord's mansion.

After taking their seats in the halls of the City Lord's Palace, the dashing Earl of Layton asked Donald what they were coming from.

"We are planning to set up a chamber of commerce, set up a commodity sales point in Leighton Harbor, and transport Dalaran's production to Layton Harbor, and we also need to find a few partners in Layton Harbor, so we will come here to discuss...

Everyone present at Leighton Harbor was overjoyed when they heard this, Dalaran's production is now almost all over the country in Jilt, even on the mainland, it is also the most sought-after and hot commodity, and several chambers of commerce that have tasted the sweetness have made a lot of money in Gardley, and after returning to the voyage, all the forces in Leighton Harbor will be stupid.

If it weren't for the wrong time now, they would have planned to hold a surprise banquet when they got the news.

Seeing that the Earl of Layton said with three points of sorrow on his face: "Your Excellency wants to start trade with Layton Harbor, and we naturally welcome it very much, but now that we are facing a trouble in Layton Harbor, I am afraid that we have no heart to discuss commercial issues for the time being!"

"Oh, what is the difficulty of the Earl, if I can help, I will not stand idly by!"

Earl Leighton was overjoyed when he heard this, and said with a smile: "With the help of His Excellency the Baron and your subordinates, I am much more relieved, at least I am sure to support the royal capital to help!"

"Is it serious?"

As soon as Donald asked, all the people on the Layton Harbor side couldn't help but feel heavy.

"Dissatisfied with His Excellency the Baron, this time the threat of sea beasts is probably not small, if the royal capital does not come to help in time, maybe Leighton Harbor is in danger of breaking the city!"

"Sure enough, it was a sea beast attack, and Frege's kid méng is right!" Donald said to himself.

The situation of the sea beast attack was only discovered the day before, so the news has not yet had time to penetrate to the northern county, but the royal capital has already learned about the situation and is preparing to send reinforcements.

According to the Earl of Leighton, the cause of the incident was an island outside of Leighton Harbour.

The location of that archipelago is about 100 miles northeast of Leighton Harbor, the area is vast, and the location is very good, just at the U-shaped end of Luoxing Bay, but it has always been occupied by those murderous fishmen, otherwise it is also a good island territory.

The fish-people who occupy it are called sharp-toothed fishmen, and their number is about five thousand, and they are a relatively powerful branch of the fish-man race. Although their intelligence is not very high, they are far stronger and taller than ordinary fishmen, and the combat power of adult sharp-toothed fishmen is comparable to that of black iron, and there are also a lot of fishmen with bronze strength, so the army of Layton Harbor has not been able to wipe out this group of fishmen.

If it was just like this, these sharp-toothed fish-people would have been wiped out by the human powerhouses a long time ago, don't look at the strength of the fish-people of the sharp-toothed tribe, it is only for ordinary armies, for the strong people of the silver class, as long as three or five join forces, the entire sharp-toothed fish-man tribe can be bulldozed.

But about a few decades ago, the Sharptooth Fish-People tribe who had newly migrated to the Fish-Man Islands were not as powerful as they are now, but they didn't know where to find a powerful golden beast to protect them.

Among the sea monsters, those above the Golden Holy Beast level are called Ocean Lords, because they are qualified to occupy a large area of the sea, and the domain is their hunting ground, and all creatures lower than it are its food.

This sea lord is the lord of the shallow sea area of Falling Star Bay, where Leighton Harbor is located, and powerful sea lords generally live in the deep sea, and only the lowest golden sea beasts will choose to inhabit the coastal areas.

With the protection of the sea lord, these fish-people seem to have divided the fish-man islands, and the sea area within a radius of dozens of miles is divided... They belong to them, and once a human ship gets close to it, it will be attacked underwater by the fish-men, and eventually the ship will be destroyed and killed.

However, these sharp-toothed fish people may also know the truth of overreach, so they never leave their territory close to the coast, and only operate in the sea area around the island for dozens of miles and deeper.

So the two sides of Leighton Harbor and the Fish-Man Islands were at peace with each other for decades, until some time ago, a merchant ship from Gardret hunted a silver-level sea beast near Leighton Harbor, but it caused big trouble.

On the third day, a powerful fish-man who knew the human language led the team to Leighton Harbor, saying that the humans had killed the Sea Lord's child, and that they would have three days to hand over all the murderers, or else they would be buried in Layton Harbor with all human blood.

At this moment, the entire Layton Harbor high-level people were shocked, and the people on the merchant ship who came to the merchant ship were complicated, and there were even merchants from Sauron as far away, and they left Layton Harbor on the same day to return home, so how could they hand over the murderer?

You must know that the other party is a sea lord of the Golden Holy Beast level, and his strength in the sea environment is far stronger than that of the Golden Holy Beast on land. And the strongest in Layton Harbor is only a silver powerhouse, usually such a strength is enough, but when you encounter a gold-level opponent, you have to ask the royal family for help!

Moreover, the sea lord is naturally capable of driving sea beasts, how many sea beasts are there? The shallow sea area around Luoxing Bay alone can at least accommodate hundreds of thousands of sea beasts to live.

Once the other party drives a large number of sea beasts to attack the city, then if this sea lord cannot be solved in time, even the golden powerhouse alone will not be able to deal with such a sea beast. Layton Harbor is bound to suffer an unprecedented catastrophe.

Donald, who had figured out these situations, didn't worry much, so he saw him smile and said, "If it's just a sea beast attacking the city, you shouldn't be too worried, Lord Earl, I have some confidence that I can support the arrival of reinforcements from the royal capital!"

The Earl of Layton exclaimed with a look of surprise: "Really?" Then he slapped the table and said with a smile: "I have forgotten the profession of His Excellency the Baron! Thank you for your help, whatever supplies you need, as long as I have in Layton Harbor, I will definitely provide them for you!"

The summoner is a well-known master of group battles, and this one in front of him is the most powerful summoner in the kingdom, so he must be able to summon a lot of creatures to help lower than the army of sea beasts.

Donald smiled lightly: "As long as there are some magic cores, the Earl doesn't have to worry too much, but whenever there is an alien invasion of human territory, the royal families will not let each other go, and they will definitely send a strong person to stop it, as long as we survive the first batch of sea beasts!" Count Layton was confident for a while, and took Donald's hand and thanked him again and again.

As the head of this generation of the Leighton family, he is not outstanding in ability, and he does not have the talent to become a strong professional, but he is very good at business and city management, but it is inevitable that he is more than a little more secure and not enterprising.

If nothing else, relying on the family business for many years is enough for him to maintain the family territory, and even grow some more, and then pass it on to his next generation.

But the sudden appearance of this sea lord and the powerful threat of sea beasts attacking the city couldn't help but make him feel anxious, and there was no way to think about it.

The mages and swordsmen enshrined in the family are all silver-level, and the most powerful swordsman is only a silver-peak powerhouse, and there is basically no chance of winning against the golden sea beast, unless the other party is stupid enough to fight deep on land, then there will be a few chances.

This time, Baron Melinna, the rumored powerful mage, arrived, and there was at least one silver powerhouse with him, which allowed him to capture the backbone, hoping that this powerful summoner could play a role, lest the inheritance of the Layton family for hundreds of years be destroyed in his own hands. !。