Commander Adolphus selected two outstanding young swordsmen from the alternative members of the constructed swordsmen to join the soon-to-be-formed patrol team of Surdak, these two constructed swordsmen should also be the objects of Commander Adolphus's care, and the so-called elimination assessment is just an excuse that can make everyone's hearts more balanced.

Although they are young second-turn swordsmen, these two constructed swordsmen are also almost thirty years old.

Another reason why he followed him to Chaos Fortress to replenish the fortress materials was to buy some dark magic powder, supplement the materials that Old Hayman was going to hand in, and get back his set of Esenhard magic pattern construction at will.

As for the one hundred and twenty-seven high-level sacrifices, they have been put into the Demon Sealing Box.

This time to return to the Chaos Fortress is to take a four-wheeled wagon, the old Heman personally drove the carriage along the mountain road all the way to the north, along the way you can also see the traces left by the battle with the demons, some of the traces of the knife and axe are particularly obvious, and even the purple blood that has infiltrated in many places has grown some black moss.

The mountains along the way are very inhospitable, with few forests as far as the eye can see, except for a few sparse shrubs growing on the cols and some sheltered rocky slopes.

Surdak and Andrew followed the elder Heyman to the Chaos Fortress, but the ogre felt that the journey was too hard, so he stayed at the Blue Bridge Fortress with Samira.

Samira had to stay at the counter in the logistics team's room, so she didn't come with her.

Returning to the fortress built on the cliff, Surdak sat in the carriage and looked at the King Kong Gate at the top of the cliff from afar, and his heart was still very shocked, it was a magnificent building that could be called a miracle, and the huge gate was like a skyscraper.

On top of this cliff, there are many wooden and stone buildings built around the gate of Kongo, which form a small city known as the Fortress of Chaos.

The walls here are so high that they look like they are being connected one by one.

There was only one gate in the middle of the wall, which was too narrow, and this gate could only allow two carriages to pass through in parallel.

The armaments on the city walls are very rich, catapults and bed crossbows can be seen almost every ten meters away, and on several raised batteries at the head of the city, there are also rune cannons with pale red magic patterns all over their bodies, these cannons are made of magic black iron, and the surface is carved with magic pattern arrays, these veins are poured with silver.

This is probably the first time Surdak has seen rune artillery, at first Surdak thought that the turret of the Chaos Fortress wall was equipped with a magic cannon, but old Heyman said that this was just a castrated version of the magic cannon, the rune cannon.

The four-wheeled carriage drove into the Chaos Fortress, and Surdak only noticed that there were still some elves, dwarves, and orcs in the fortress.

The last time he had narrowly escaped the death, he had rushed to the fortress in a daze, and he hadn't even noticed it too much.

Old Heyman parked the carriage in front of a building and instructed Surdak to retrieve the Magical Structures that had been sent to the Workshop last time, which had been repaired by Old last time, while he had taken a box of Magic Cores and some others to the Quartermaster at the Fortress Headquarters.

Surdak and Andrew jumped out of the carriage and walked into the bustling-looking magic workshop with a sign given to him by old Heyman.

This magic workshop is semi-official, and is not only responsible for repairing the Demonic Fabrics for the Grimm Empire's twenty-seven fortress builders, but also selling some of them.

When I walked into the hall of the workshop, I saw three magicians standing in front of the reception desk, and in front of each magician were some knights in costumes.

Surdak chose a random magician and waited at the back of the line.

I saw some magic pattern constructions casually placed on the wooden shelves in the hall on the first floor, and it could be seen that they were all magic pattern constructions.

Unexpectedly, a set of hard-to-find magic pattern constructs in the Grimm Empire's magic market was casually placed in the store on this side of the battlefield.

The three magicians were very efficient in handling affairs, and it didn't take long for Surdak's turn, and Surdak walked in only to find that the male magician actually had long pointed ears, but his face was closer to that of a human, and he was actually a half-elf similar to Samira.

It is said that humans with elven blood are more likely to awaken the magic pool in their bodies, and the probability of becoming a mage will be higher.

But in fact, elves and humans rarely intermarry, and most of those few intermarriages are also due to some political reasons, and more half-elves are of low origin, usually born by elven slaves secretly raised by nobles in private.

The half-elf magician smiled kindly at Surdak and asked, "Does this guest have any needs?" ”

Surdak directly took out the sign given by Old and said, "I'm from the Blue Bridge Fortress, and I'm here to get those magic pattern constructs that I sent last time." ”

The magician glanced at the sign, immediately turned around and pulled out an account book from the cabinet in the back, turned to the page of the detailed list belonging to the Blue Bridge Fortress, first checked the number of magic pattern structures with Surdak, and then called a magic assistant and led Surdak to the magic pattern construction storage area.

Walking through the inner hall of the workshop, Surdak saw that many of the mage's test benches were placed directly in the inner hall.

The magicians in the workshop were very busy, and Surdak could even see the magicians sitting in the mountains of things to be repaired.

It is said that after working hard for a few years, you can not only learn the exquisite magic pattern decoration and repair skills, but also save a large amount of magic crystals.

Of course, the magicians who work here generally have no one to fund magic research funds, so they will come here to make a fortune, even if they leave the battlefield in the future, they can live well anywhere in the Grimm Empire with this craft.

As the magic assistant walked into a warehouse with countless magic boxes, the magic assistant took them down according to their numbers, and almost all of them were carefully checked to make sure that the magic patterns inside were correct and belonged to the Blue Bridge Fortress.

Surdak smiled and asked the magic assistant, "Look at how carefully you took it, did you miss it before?" ”

The magic assistant seemed to be very dull, staring down at the magic pattern structures with his head down and his eyes intent, but said lightly, "No." ”

After saying that, the magician reached out and fastened the lid of the magic sealing box, and said to Surdak: "All the magic pattern structures are here, you are checking carefully, once you take these magic sealing boxes out of the workshop, and then find them back and say that the number is insufficient, we will not be responsible for it!" ”

Surdak hurriedly checked it carefully, and then put these magic sealing boxes into his magic pocket.

Seeing that Surdak was so easy to put away a dozen boxes, the magic assistant just glanced at him more.

Then the magic assistant sent Surdak out of the magic workshop, and when he walked to the front hall, Surdak also pointed to the different kinds of magic pattern structures on the wooden shelf, and asked the magic assistant: "How much do these magic pattern structures in your workshop cost?" ”

"Seventy unidentified black crystals."

The magical assistant seemed to be stingy with words, not even wanting to say a word more.

Surdak heard old say that unidentified black magic crystals are basically used to trade here, and now that he thinks about it, this is the fundamental reason that restricts the outflow of magic pattern structures here.

These unidentified black magic crystals represent merit in the Grimm Empire, allowing young nobles to be promoted to knighthoods, which is naturally more precious than magic pattern construction.

Although the Demonic Pattern Construct is relatively difficult to buy in the Grimm Empire, there is always some way to buy it.

Therefore, the nobles naturally did not waste those precious and unidentified black magic crystals on the magic pattern construction......

Leaving the magic workshop, Surdak took Andrew to a magic material shop according to the address introduced by old Heyman, this magic material shop is in a very compact alley, there are many shops, there are as many as five or six magic material shops alone.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw three crucibles with green bubbles, and in addition to herbs on the shelves, there were actually many organs of a certain part of the demonic beast's body, and there were some juices in the bottles and jars that made people feel very disgusting.

Behind the cauldron sat an unkempt old magician, and when Surdak saw that his old face was covered with wrinkles and age spots, and that he was actually blind in one eye, and his hands looked trembling no matter what he was holding, he looked up at Surdak, his eyes full of wariness of strangers.

"Young knight, what is the matter with you?" The old magician said.

Surdak looked around for a moment before saying, "I'd like to buy some dark magic powder from you......"

Only then did the old magician raise his head and ask, "How much do you want?" ”

The other eye is not nothing, but there is a cat's eye gem in the eye socket, and after the eyelids are slightly opened, the cat's eye gem reveals a strange light.

Surdak lowered his head and took out a teacup from his pocket, placed it directly in front of the old magician, and said:

"This cup needs to be filled, one hundred and twenty-seven cups in all."

The old magician took the teacup in his hand and weighed it casually, and then said:

"Thirteen unidentified magic crystals."

Surdak paused and asked the old magician:

"What if it's a gold deal?"

The old magician didn't even look at Surdak, pushed the teacup in his hand to him, his eyes fell on the three cauldrons again, and said coldly:

"I don't trade other currencies here......"

Surdak was not only a little dumbfounded, he didn't expect the old magician to say this, he was about to turn around and walk out, maybe he went to the wrong door, just when he turned around, Surdak also said to the old magician with some reluctance:

"I was introduced by the old Heyman of the Blue Bridge Fortress......"

The coldness in the old magician's eyes suddenly turned into anger, and he lowered his voice and shouted:

"This old guy knows how to get me in trouble!"

Then he added:

"Take out two hundred gold coins, and I can prepare them for you...... You need dark magic powder. ”

"Deal!"

Surdak said briskly.

After saying that, he untied a money bag from his waist, counted out two hundred gold coins from it, and stacked them neatly on the counter.

The old magician glanced at Surdak in surprise, and didn't say anything more, and directly from a tattered pocket on the back shelf, he scooped up a full hundred and twenty-seven cups of dark magic powder for him with the teacup Surdak had taken.

The old magician put the black magic powder into a clay pot, and the mouth of the jar was tightly tied by the old magician with a piece of leather and a rope.

He handed the pot to Surdak and sat back down by the cauldron, not looking at Surdak again.

Surdak walked out of the magic material store with the clay pot in his arms, and the old magician's voice also came to Surdak's ears from inside:

"Any magic materials you need in the future, you can come to me and buy them!"

Surdak stopped and agreed:

"Got it!"

……

Surdak and Andrew came to the agreed place together, and waited for old Heyman to come and meet him.

Just as a group of elven warriors riding unicorns left the gate of the fortress on the side of the Chaos Fortress, they seemed to be a little anxious, and these strong white unicorns almost rushed out of the gate by the bodies of passers-by.

Andrew craned his neck, stared at the silver-white horses with envy, and said to Surdak with a grin:

"Boss, when will you buy us a few of those war horses to ride on......

Surdak put one hand on Andrew's shoulder and said to him, "Let's get another batch of green horses when we get back...... I haven't heard of a single Knights in the Grimm Empire that is unicorn-based. ”

The two crouched in the square closest to the city gate of the Chaos Fortress and chatted.

When Surdak first met Gullitham in the Chaos Fortress, the ogre was standing on a stone platform in front of him.

Surdak was also very envious to look at the distant figures of those white unicorns, when they ran on the mountain, there seemed to be a faint rainbow behind them, very gorgeous......

"It is estimated that even if it is a Silver Moon Elf, it should not be possible for all Elven warriors to have such a mount......" Surdak said to Andrew.

A knight in costume next to him was also looking at the unicorns that were far away, and when he heard Surdak say this, he hurriedly echoed: "That's inevitable, the one who can ride the unicorn must be the royal family of the Silver Moon Elves, which fortress are you from?" ”

"Blue Bridge Fortress......" Andrew said casually.

The knight in costume laughed and said, "I just heard that you encountered a demon army over there, how is the situation?" ”

Surdak secretly bumped into Andrew, stopped the big mouth from talking everywhere, and said casually: "It's okay!" ”

Seeing that Surdak had no intention of talking to him, the Constructed Knight didn't say anything, smiled and turned away.