Chapter 657: In full swing
Victor panicked.
Since the Elemental Tower must be set up in a place where the four elements are balanced, and the place where the elements meet is not necessarily an important city-state of the Alchemy Empire, it may be in the wilderness, deep in the dense forest, or deep in the mountains like the Boulder Mountains. If, once the elemental balance in the area is destroyed, the Alchemy Pagoda will also be invalid.
Out of the needs of war, the ancient alchemists devised an emergency repair method for the alchemy tower.
The rune crystals of the alchemy tower absorb and fuse with each other, repair and upgrade, and finally restore their full prosperity, the premise is that the alchemy tower with the owner absorbs the alchemy tower without the owner. If an alchemy tower already has an owner, let it become ownerless first.
As long as someone meets the conditions for soul splitting, they can become the owner of the alchemy pagoda, and then take the rune crystal to absorb those invalid alchemy pagodas.
Considering the length of time, Victor may not be the first person to activate the Alchemy Tower in 10,000 years, nor will he be the last. He had already fused 2 rune crystals into the No. 7 Alchemy Tower. If one day he falls, Alchemy Tower 7 will become an ownerless alchemy tower again. If a latecomer absorbs the rune crystals of the No. 7 Alchemy Tower, the civilization of the Alchemy Empire will be reborn over time.
However, the contemporaneous owner of the Alchemy Tower is destined to be a natural mortal enemy, just like Victor and Ant-Man, one of them must become a stepping stone for the opponent.
Victor had thought that the alchemy tower deep in the mountains was an ownerless tower, but Ron Paladin told him that the fourteen large stone balls were living creatures and were so powerful that they could stop the manticore.
No one knows better than Victor how powerful top-level alchemy creatures are. Referring to the example of dragon warriors, they can transform into drakemons, possess dragon-like talents, and are proper legendary creatures.
The strongest combat unit in the No. 7 Alchemy Tower is the Alchemy Soldiers, and 3 Alchemy Soldiers can kill an Alchemy Dragon Lizard when they cooperate with each other, but they are still far from the Manticore.
Victor had many thoughts in an instant, for example, the owner of the alchemy tower had died hundreds of years ago, and the guards guarding the alchemy tower were in a special state of sleep, allowing them to save the fire of life, or that the owner of the alchemy tower was hiding in a corner of the human world, completely unaware of the arrival of an uninvited guest, or that Victor had just alarmed him.
The Alchemy Tower requires a lot of resources to be sacrificed to keep it running, and when I go back and send alchemy creatures to detect if there are people mining minerals nearby, I will know if this alchemy tower is alive or dead...... In short, the situation is unclear now, and it is difficult to distinguish between friend and foe, so it is better to leave early...... Victor held the hilt of the sword, looked around the left and right, and said with an indifferent expression:
"Let's wait for Lord Strange at the bottom of the cliff, and if the manticore dares to track him, we'll kill it. ”
Clement and Testiel were also panicking.
Before they came, the ruins were still ruins, and the "stone ball" was just a round ball made of stone, and when Victor touched it, the stone ball actually became a ruin guard. They believe that what distinguishes Victor from the others is the High Elf bloodline. This reminds them of the elven temple and Ravin Wimbledon's inexplicable escape.
The church asked the Golden-Eyed Count to behead the goblin lord, but the goblin lord's shadow hasn't been seen yet, what if Victor opens the elven temple and follows Draven's example?
Draven Wimbledon left the human realm to pursue his elven kindred. The Iron Mountain royal family and the church's top brass are optimistic, counting on Draven to lead the elves to ally with humanity once again to fight against the orc invaders. As a result, after waiting for hundreds of years, nothing happened.
Draven can't turn his back on the laws in his bloodline, and Victor probably can't either.
Since it was the human knights who gave birth to the Sun Elves, the noble bloodline of the Sun Elves must remain in the human realm. This is the bottom line of Sylvia, and it is also the will of the entire knightly class.
Clement nodded and said, "Count Golden-Eyed has a point, let's leave here first, and wait for Deputy Head Strange Testier at the mountain pass below." ”
The Pope and the Count of Golden-Eyed agreed, and the paladins and Caligula of the Inquisition hurriedly packed up their belongings, and the group climbed directly down the cliff and set up camp at the pass that must be passed.
In the evening, Strange Strange, the third tempest paladin of the Testier family, appeared in everyone's eyes with a large bobcat on his back and a rock sheep in tow.
Surprised and delighted to see Pope Clement, Tournans, Trigoval, Ron, and Victor all come to their aid, Strange stepped forward to greet His Highnesses and exchange greetings. Moreover, he soon became cousins with Victor.
Howard informed his cousin of what had happened to the ancient ruins. Strange understood and turned to talk about his experience in the past few days.
At this point, the matter of the remains of the boulder mountain has come to an end for the time being. Victor listened intently to Strange's information.
"The Two-Headed Goblin King's sphere of influence may be even larger than the Sassan Empire, and with my ability, I can't find out the full picture of this orc kingdom. Thankfully, we have a pair of heavenly eyes...... The Inquisition's domesticated owl is so clever that we have been guided by its guidance to discover that there are hundreds of different orc tribes in the land, all of whom are subordinate to the goblin lords whose territory is central, despite their constant strife and warfare. ”
"After a short period of scouting, we discovered that this goblin king was busy patrolling his territory almost all day. It led a large number of ogre bodyguards, gnollian slaves, lizard cavalry, sheep monster infantry and the manticore, as well as all kinds of fierce beasts, to visit the large and small goblin tribes one by one, go there and eat there, and also forcibly recruited the long-tailed lizards and goblins raised by each tribe into his lizard cavalry team. Strange sat down on a rock and said slowly.
Clement nodded and said with a smile: "Goblins are a kind of orcs who are vile and timid by nature, and when their strength swells to a certain extent, they tend to turn against their masters. This goblin lord is well aware of the habits of his kind, and it knows how to squeeze small clans and eliminate potential competitors. ”
"So, how much strength does it have?"
Strange replied, "As far as I've observed, when it patrolled its territory, it had 86 ogre bodyguards in iron armor around it, including 3 raging ogres. In addition, it carries more than 323 sheep monster infantry, 145 gnolloll hunters, and 186 bear-headed goblins. The lizard cavalry, which is composed of goblin slaves, does not seem to be trusted by the goblin king, and is always on the periphery of the team, with more than 300 in total. These goblins control around 800 bear goblins and a varying number of beasts. ”
He paused and emphasized, "It's just the power it brings with it when it patrols its territory. Tens of thousands of orcs were stationed near its tent, mainly sheep-headed monsters, goblins, kobolds, and a few gnollet hunters. ”
"I'm sorry for my reckless actions and messing things up. Strange Testier said ashamedly.
Howard patted his cousin on the shoulder and said with relief, "If it were me, I would have raided the Goblin King while he was patrolling the territory." ”
"Brother Strange, where is the Goblin King now?" Tournans interjected.
The Tempest Paladin looked up and muttered, "My first raid, and it's on its way to patrol its territory. The Void Mithril Arrow I shot was blocked by the Manticore with its body. It took me two days to lure the manticore lion into the distance, and then, guided by the big owl, I made a big circle to catch up with the two-headed goblin king who was on his way back to the camp...... Unfortunately, the second raid, I missed again. ”
"The Goblin King dodged my first Mithril Arrow and hid in the middle of the sheepshead, ogre, and bear goblins. I shot a few orcs, and the manticore chased after me, and I had no choice but to return. ”
"The manticore has been tracking me, but it's not as fast as me. I joined up with my companions and let the priest perform a magic spell to remove the toxins from his body, and then I turned back to lure the manticore away, and let Conlar lead the scout team to move around. ”
Speaking of this, Strange's handsome face showed a look of regret, and continued: "I took advantage of my speed and the big owl's vision to drag the manticore and carry out the third raid...... But the Goblin King had already run back to the tent, and my elemental perception told me that it had taken refuge in the underground tunnels and never showed its head again. As a result, I failed to shoot the Goblin King, and my connection to the Great Owl was exposed. The manticore poisoned the big owl with its gaze, and we lost our heavenly eyes. ”
"Now, the Goblin King is hiding in the cave dug by the kobolds, mobilizing a large number of orc armies to guard the perimeter of the mine. The manticore also stopped tracking me and always hovered around the pit. Even if I shot the goblins and gnolls on the periphery in a row, the manticore would not be indifferent. ”
Clark was surprised and asked, "Can the two-headed goblin dodge your extraordinary marksmanship?"
Strange shook his head and smiled bitterly and explained, "That two-headed goblin is a bear goblin with an extra goblin head on its shoulders. ”
Despite being ferocious orcs and possessing keen mental intuition, bear goblins are not as intelligent as dogs, and their first instinct when in danger is to pounce, and only the mass death of their companions will make them flee in fear. Goblins are very cunning and can be called the wisest orcs.
A bear goblin has an extra goblin head, and it must be ugly and weird, but it is definitely a difficult character.
The Goblin King was able to avoid Strange's first straight shot, but he was killed in the face of Victor's arch-nemesis. The problem now is that the Goblin King is hiding in an underground pit, guarded by an army of orcs and manticores. If it doesn't come out, Victor and the others will have no way to take it by normal means.
Victor glanced at Trigovar, meaning: what other means does the Inquisition have, it's time to use it.
The referee, who had a cold and tough temperament, showed a helpless look, hesitated for a moment, and said, "I'll find a way to transfer some people over." ”
"It's all about time. ”
Grand Master Howard Testier said: "On our side, the longer it drags on, the greater the military pressure on the Eastern Frontier Theater. If the decisive battle between Frederick and Kent and the centaurs comes early, and we do not solve the problem of the main reinforcements of the Great Stone Fortress, the casualties of the Eastern Pioneer Coalition and the Templar army will be heavy, and it may even be impossible to let the main force of the centaurs flee back to the heart of the Sidon Khanate. ”
"We can't wait for reinforcements from the Inquisition, we have to find a way to deal with the Goblin Lord. Grand Master looked around and said, "At the very least, we need to strengthen our presence, attack the vassal tribes of this orc kingdom, sow death and fear, and urge the different orc tribes to migrate to the core territory of the Goblin King, and put pressure on that two-headed goblin." ”
Ron stood up and said with a solemn expression, "This must be the guidance of our lord to us, and I should uphold the glorious will and remove all darkness!"
Decapitating the goblin lord is an almost impossible task, and Tystiel plans to take advantage of the racial contradictions between different orcs to create internal chaos in the goblin kingdom, so that the main army of the Boulder Fortress will send troops to the Sidon Khanate to cut off the back route of the centaur army.
This is indeed a good way, ogres and ogres will meet and hold a bloody battle of the leader, the winner is king, the loser is eaten, if the ogre, the jackal, the sheep's head monster three orc races huddled together, the scene can be imagined.
Clement looked at the silent Earl of Golden-Eyed and asked, "What do you think, Victor?"
Victor nodded and said, "Cousin Howard's proposal hits the nail on the side of the orc kingdom, but it's ...... The Goblin Lord has the Manticore to support it, and the influx of orc tribes into its core territory will certainly cause it problems, but I believe that the Orcs are used to fighting between different races. The Goblin King will just sit idly by and wait until the time is right to turn the vassal tribes into his own slaves. In the future, the Sassan Empire and the Neville Kingdom may have to be neighbors with a veritable orc king. ”
Everyone fell silent, and Testier's approach to solving the problem for the time being, in the long run, was endless.
"Hmm. Turnans broke the silence and said calmly: "I see it that way, too. ”
Clement ignored the bald paladin and asked Victor again, "Do you have any proposals?"
Victor smiled and said, "You can't kill the goblin lord, and it's the same with killing the manticore." ”
"However, the two-headed goblin was frightened by Strange and obviously won't let the manticore get out of its side again," Clarke said. ”
Victor's gaze turned to Strange and said, "Sylvia once told me that adult manticores usually come in pairs to hold their territory. When she entered the northern wilderness alone, powerful monsters fled, but two manticores dared to challenge her head-on. ”
"Sylvia killed the most powerful female, the manticore, seriously wounding the weaker males. However, she thought that the male was no longer alive, and was too lazy to look for its corpse, so she took the female manticore with her fur intact back to the York family and made her skin into a lady's couch. ”
Strange clapped his hands and exclaimed, "The goblin lord's companion must be the manticore lion who escaped from the Queen of Roses. Its fur was covered with a large scar, the mark of the Void Water elemental's continued erosion. Only the Divine Knight can use the Void Water Elemental to wreak havoc on the invulnerable Legendary Creature, the Manticore. ”
Tournans touched his head and said, "The manticore was already dying, and was saved by the two-headed goblin. As a result, the two-headed goblin Bai picked up a manticore bodyguard and became the goblin king. ”
"Clever. Victor gave a thumbs up and smiled.
Tournans was overjoyed, and immediately controlled his facial muscles, put on an indifferent expression, and said: "You have used the wrong word, it is the guidance of my lord, the wisdom of the shepherd." ”
"Praise be to my Lord. The Ron Paladin chanted in a low voice, and Chao Turnans nodded in approval: "Well said, everything is the guidance and test of my lord. ”
Looking at the two similarly bald heads, Victor didn't know what to say.
Howard said in a deep voice: "28 years...... The Queen of Roses killed the Manticore 28 years ago. This two-headed goblin must have been a goblin lord for less than 28 years. As long as we get rid of the manticore, the goblin kingdom will soon be doomed!"
Tournans learned from Clement's calmness, and muttered in his heart: This is what happened.
He looked to the left and right covertly, and saw that most of the people were respectful, only Caligula and Nelson were looking at each other with big eyes, and suddenly felt good, and thought with disdain: Alas, how did I take these two fools as students.
He seemed to have forgotten that he had never taken Caligula as a student, and that Aka had only treated him as a fierce bald head.
Nelson suddenly asked, "My lord, how are we going to lure the manticore out?"
Suddenly, Tournans was in a bad mood again.
Victor didn't know what Turnans, who was in the depths of the city, was thinking, he stood up, unfastened his breastplate, and took out a snow-white, crystalline, flawless bone bead from the small pocket of his inner armor.
"It was a gift from Sylvia. ”
Victor's dark gold eyes showed a hint of warmth, and he held the bone bead and said, "It is made from the tail poison sac of the female manticore." The Manticore's stinger is said to be incredibly powerful and capable of paralyzing dragons and white apes. Its poison sac can suppress legendary-level transcendent toxins...... I took the orb in my mouth, and the manticore's venomous gaze didn't work on me. ”
"The biggest effect of this bone bead right now is to provoke the male manticore. ”
Victor's eyes became deep and cold, and he said:
"When the manticore sees its mate's remains, I hope it will catch up with him...... We're reuniting the souls of this pair of manticores in the Elemental Sea. ”
“...... End the pain in the depths of its soul. This is the mercy of the Most High, and I will carry out the will of my Lord. Ron Paladin said with a reverent expression.
Thousands of miles away, the Eastern Pioneer led the front line, the centaur battalion.
A dozen centaur commanders had a heated argument inside the central tent.
"Alita, Mother Earth loves the pony, I recognize your beauty and Mother Earth sacrificial status, but why did you stop the Redmane Clan from leaving this damn place!"
The Khan of the Redmane tribe had a fiery mane and a fiery temper, and his hissing roar was like a raging flame, threatening to burn the entire tent.
The first to feel the red-maned khan's wrath was Alita.
"Leave all or stay all. This is the revelation that Mother Earth gave me. Alita, who had a beautiful face, said lightly.
"The weak humans did not dare to stop the iron hooves of the centaurs, and they deliberately left a passage for us to leave, but the passage back home was too narrow to allow only 2,000 vigorous centaurs to pass through every day. ”
One of the commanders of the Blue-Eyed tribe looked at Alita's body with a teasing look, but questioned in his mouth: "More than 100,000 centaurs will run wildly together, and they will definitely crash into the jungle of human swords and guns, and many centaurs will be buried in the arms of Mother Earth...... The centaurs are all left, what do we eat? Eat dirt? The soil is responsible for the burial, and no amount of dirt can fill the centaur's belly, and the hungry centaur can't run far. ”
Alita snorted dissatisfiedly and said, "The short-sighted centaur can't run far either..... six tribes, who will go first and who will go last......? Humans are smarter than goblins, cunning than gnolls, braver than ogres, and better at war than centaurs. They set traps for us to waste time and infighting over who goes first and who goes last. ”
"Whoever dares to say that his tribe will go first, we Whitetail and Blackhoof tribes will fight him first!" neighed the female horse, and chirped:
"Say, who's going first, who's going back?"
Alita was so majestic that the centaur captains didn't dare to look her in the eye. However, the opinions of female centaurs have never been taken seriously by centaur males, and despite the fact that Alita is a mother of earth and a rare female thousand-torn, she is a pregnant mare after all.
The eldest Patriarch of the Black Horn asked in a deep voice, "Alita Queglo, the horses carried by the earth are the vanguard of the horses, and the horses are the queen of the horses. Is the Whitetail Clan preparing for the vanguard, or is it the Broken Queen?"
Alita blinked her beautiful eyes, bent her front legs, and said to the older centaur Khan, "Aktar Khan, your wisdom spreads among the horses, and it is you who led the three tribes of the northern camp to the southern camp. Can't you see the trap of humanity, and we can only escape the fate of doom if we act together......"
Patriarch Akta interrupted Alita and asked, "The human knife formation is sharp, the passage left for us is narrow, the centaurs are acting together, are the Whitetail tribes willing to attack the human knife formation?"
The female was so angry that she trampled on her hind hooves, and the commanders knew that they couldn't stay any longer, but no one wanted to attack the human sword formation, or break the back. The trap of the human minions is almost unsolvable, which makes Alita feel powerless.
Polta stood up, stroked his partner's back, paced forward, and a huge momentum filled the entire camp, and said nonchalantly: "You have to learn to surrender...... Blue-eyed, do you want to challenge me?"
Just now, the centaur commander of the Blue-Eyed tribe teased Alita, which made Porta impatient.
Blue-eyed was defined, his nose spurted out two white breaths, his muscles were bulging, and before he could say anything, he saw Porta's whole body turn orange and yellow, and his toned body was like a rock carving, and he took a step forward as if with the power of the whole earth, and raised his fist to hit the chest of the blue-eyed thousand-legg.
Frightened, the blue-eyed raised his stout forelimbs, which had turned yellowish-brown, to block Porta's fist.
With a "boom", the huge and sturdy blue-eyed centaur commander flew out of the central camp tent like a stone projectile fired from a ballista, knocking down a tent.
The centaur warriors outside saw the extraordinary Polta standing proudly, and the centaur commanders were full of horror and fear. They froze for a moment, until Alita hissed loudly, "Porta Queglo is the Great Khan of the Centaurs!"
"Porta, Queglo..... Great Khan?!"
"Porta, Great Khan?"
"Great Khan, Porta!"
"Great Khan, Porta!"
The cries of the centaur warriors spread throughout the camp, from small to large, from weak to strong, from few to many, and finally like a mountain roaring tsunami.
The centaur commanders looked at each other, and finally, led by the Khan of Black Horn, fell to their knees on the ground with their forelimbs and submitted to Porta.
Porta's thick lips outlined a smile and hissed loudly: "Centaurs can eat their stomachs today, and tomorrow at noon, follow me and return home!"
He watched the embarrassed Blue-Eyed Khan get up from the tent, and said, "The Blue-Eyed Clan is broken. ”
Finally able to eat their fill....... centaur warriors cheered loudly, and the eerie laughter reached the ears of the humans.
In the position of the human coalition, Frederick held the hilt of his sword, stared in the direction of the centaur camp for a moment, turned half of his body, and faced the hurried priest of Kent.
"Your Majesty, it's about to begin. Kent laughed heartily and said, "Praise my lord, it is rare to have such an opportunity to deal with so many centaurs at once." ”
Frederick said, "We have waited so long for this day that we are about to lose our patience. ”
Ken nodded and said, "The closer you are to victory, the less you can be careless." He turned to the centaur camp, his eyes dyed white and gold by the holy power, looked carefully, and continued: "130,000 centaurs are a hard bone, and the 120,000 warriors on the opposite side who are responsible for intercepting them are under the most pressure. My opinion is to inform the Duke of Baselius that, when the battle begins, the gap in the northeast corner should also be opened, and the centaur army will break through from the northeast and southeast corners in two directions. The Knights of Radiance, the Templars, and the Knights of the Blood Wolves defeated the centaur tribe in charge of the broken back head-on, driving the centaurs to trample on their companions in front. The main army of the empire will cover from both flanks and strive to annihilate 70,000 centaurs in one fell swoop!"
Emperor Sasang's gaze wandered back and forth in the centaur camp, and he said, "Just fight like this!"
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