Chapter 63: Arriving at Demon Rock City
The caravan went all the way west along the avenue, and I don't know if the news of the adventure team's total annihilation of the aliens spread, or because of other reasons, it has not been attacked by the aliens for a while afterward.
After about three o'clock in the afternoon, the caravan finally came out of the lonely ridge and began to enter a plain again, and all the wagons of the caravan, one by one, rose into the sky in order, and the caravan finally entered the state of flight again.
From this plain, the vegetation on the ground gradually increases. When the caravan flew past a human-built military fortress at about four o'clock in the afternoon, traces of human activity began to appear on the ground.
Soon after, human settlements gradually appeared on the plains, and the smoking villages appeared in front of the caravans, and everyone had entered the area under human control.
Large fields of farmland began to appear, replacing the original weeds and plants, and when you looked down from the sky, you could still see some farmers toiling in the fields.
Since the small river on the left side of the main road has been running side by side with the main road, many of the farmland along the river have artificial canals next to them, and the water in the small river is sent to the depths of the farmland through the canals.
The caravan finally arrived at Magic Rock City at seven o'clock in the evening, and after entering the city, it drove directly into the military camp located in the city, and after the old merchant and the quartermaster handed over, the members of the entire adventure team were invited by the old merchant to go to a tavern owned by the merchant to have dinner.
After dinner, the merchant instructed his servants to take the adventurous party to the hotel to rest, while he led Wen Jiming and his three little tails to his home as guests.
After the ladies were accompanied by the merchant's wife, they all left the living room of the merchant's house and went to another room to chat, and only the elderly merchant and Wen Jiming were left in the living room.
The elderly businessman said after handing Wen Jiming a money bag.
"This is the reward for this time, a total of two hundred and eighty gold talons, you can count them."
Wen Jiming did not refuse, but replied after carefully counting the number of gold coins according to the rules.
"Exactly two hundred and eighty gold coins, thank you."
The old man waved his hand, signaled that he was not welcome, and continued.
"Regarding the fruit business that we talked about on the trip, I drafted a contract, you can look at it, if there are different opinions to raise, I will revise it."
After that, the old man took out two prepared contracts with the same content and handed them to Wen Jiming for review.
Wen Jiming took the contract and looked at it for a few minutes, and felt that there was no problem with the entire contract, and he was too lazy to care about the small details, so he replied directly.
"I think that's fine, let's get rich together, but I need your delivery directly to my territory, where someone will naturally receive and pay for it."
The old businessman was very happy, and expressed his appreciation for Wen Jiming's bold attitude in his heart. So he struck while the iron was hot.
"Then ask Lord Wen to stamp it on it, so that after the contract takes effect, I can start operating."
Wen Jiming opened the seal cover on the middle finger of his right hand and the gold ring, then stamped two contracts with the same content, handed one of them to the old merchant, and kept the rest for himself.
So everyone was happy, and after staying at the old man's house for an hour, Wen Jiming led the three little tails back to the hotel together.
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It was also when Wen Jiming came out of the old man's house, at the edge of distant time and space, on the earth-red planet, in the northeast of the Talama continent. Outside of Imia, the main city of the Imian people, the last siege force under the Old Gods of the day has been wiped out.
The Dark Grand Karcist Santesia stood on top of the tall city walls, looking down at the people below who were busy collecting soul energy, and his heart could not be calm for a long time.
It's been more than a year since Santesia made a deal with the mysterious prince.
The thirteenth layer Demon Monarch was responsible for collecting, and the soul energy of 500,000 intelligent beings had already been collected, and he had only collected 480,000 soul energies so far, which was a full 20,000 away from the requirement.
The main reason for this is that the dark Grand Karcist Santesia did not dare to fight with the army of the ancient gods on the flat ground, but only relied on the tall walls of his main city as a support to defend the city with the enemy, because of the delay in time, the soul energy of many dead enemies dissipated out of thin air, causing a great waste.
For more than a year, the Imiya tribe has withstood dozens of attacks, large and small, most of the races of these ancient gods' subordinates are from the underground world, including the Zerg, cavemen, dark gnomes, ant-people and many other underground races, but since the last two months, the races on the ground have gradually joined the team of the ancient gods to attack the city.
Just like this siege battle this afternoon, the enemy's army is a siege army of the ancient gods with the Ant-Man clan as the main force and the two-headed troll as the reserve, but after all, it still collapsed in front of the powerful and professional defenders of the Imian tribe.
However, despite this, in this year's battle, the Imians still lost nearly 500 middle and high-level professionals of various professions, if it were not for the fact that the Dark Grand Karcist had already ordered all the surrounding clansmen to abandon the land they had lived and cultivated for many years and return to the main city to live, it is estimated that the loss would be even greater.
The Grand Karcist Santesia took one last look, collected all the soul energy, and after the clansmen who were starting to return to the city, he slowly walked under the city wall.
A six-meter-tall knight shrouded in pure black full-body magic armor with only a pair of bright red eyes exposed, riding on his unusually tall, four-hoofed fire-breathing black hell horse, staring at the dark Grand Karcist who was more than four meters tall walking slowly down from the tall city wall.
He was sent by the mysterious prince after signing the contract, and the prince's most fanatical follower, the Thirteenth-Order Dark Knight Engrete Baal. He was followed by fifty high-level dark knights, along with four hundred high-level dark elf dual-wielding magic swordsmen.
When Santesia walked up to his horse, he respectfully gave the dark archkarcist Santesia a knightly salute, and without any emotion, reported to her the news he had just received.
"We just got the secret report of the dark line, the ancient gods have signed a covenant with the ancient elemental spirits in the western part of the continent, the fire element lord, yesterday morning, the fire element lord has sent his two fire element lords in the eastern part of the continent, as well as the 30,000 fire elements of all levels under their command, and the 50,000 army of the subordinate races."
"According to the analysis of the spies in the secret report, this army will arrive in the city in three days, and if we rely on our current defensive configuration and strength, we will not be able to resist this elemental army at all."
"Although the prince himself can directly send a large army to help in the battle, the first is that the time may be too hasty, and the second is that such a blatant action may cause unnecessary trouble."
The Dark Grand Karcist Santesia thought for a moment and looked up to ask Engrit Barr.
"Do you already have good advice, might as well talk about it?"
The Dark Knight replied respectfully.
"Yes, that Kansa City, which is known as the land of the gods, isn't there an association responsible for transporting and collecting soul energy devices to you, as far as I know, their contacts have been in the city all the time, so it is better to ask them to help you, go to the adventure mercenary union, and issue a legendary commissioned mission."
"In this case, the Adventurer Mercenary Guild will recruit and organize an army of adventurers for you, and you only need to spend a million gold talunes to organize an army of thousands of high-level professionals, and use them to deal with the army of the fire elemental."
"The added benefit of this is that your remaining 20,000 soul energy will be resolved in a few days, after all, no matter which side dies, soul energy will be generated. Isn't it? ”
The Dark Grand Karcist smiled and praised heartily.
"It's a subordinate of the devil of hell, this idea is really evil!"
"However, since we are seeking help from other races, we naturally have to follow the rules, so that at least others can't say anything."
Immediately, the Dark Grand Karcist turned his head and commanded the people around him.
"Go find the Human Guild's liaison and ask him to come and see me here."
When his subordinates heard the Grand Karcist's order, they hurriedly ran towards the city.
After a while, an old human man who was less than half the height of the Grand Karcist appeared in front of her.
The human elder asked after saluting the Grand Karcist very respectfully.
"I heard that you are looking for me, I don't know what I can do for you?"
The Dark Grand Karcist looked down at the old man and said.
"I will pay one hundred and fifty thousand gold talons, of which fifty thousand are paid to you, please use that one million gold talons to organize a team of professionals for me in the land of gods, come to my city to help us resist the eighty thousand army of fire elements, in addition to this million gold talon, I will also give all the professionals who participate in the war, each of them five bottles of magic promotion potion."
"My request is that everyone must be here within three days so that they can be ready before the Fire Lord's army arrives, will you accept my commission?"
The old man hurriedly saluted and gave an affirmative answer.
"No problem at all, the association is more than happy to serve you, here do you have any basic requirements for the conditions for the recruitment of the adventurer mercenary guild?"
The Dark Grand Karcist lowered his head and thought for a moment, then said to the old man.
"The more legal professions, the better, the other professions must be high-level professionals, we will be responsible for the consumption of all personnel in the mainland, and we will give pensions to those who die in battle, so what I need is a man who dares to fight, tell the mercenary union, as long as it is a person who comes here, we will use the army to demand, all deserters will be sentenced to death, and those timid adventurers will not come."
The old man bowed again.
"As you wish, my lady."
Looking at the old man's distant back, the dark archkarcist Santesia whispered.
"I hope you don't let me down, this is probably my last chance. Go for it! ”