The battle on the Fire Crystal Plane has become much smoother since the arrival of the two interstellar mercenaries, especially the abnormal performance of these two interstellar mercenaries has satisfied several high-level officials of the Western Three Islands.

"That Zerg queen wants to increase the hiring fee, just add a little to her, and I'll take Jos's place. Inside the magic tower, looking at Locke, who came to report on the war, Michelle said with a smile.

Now that the battle situation in the Fire Crystal Plane is becoming clearer and clearer, and nearly three-quarters of the territory has fallen into the hands of knights and magicians, it is no wonder that Michelle is so happy.

"Increasing the cost of hiring is a small matter, but from what I've observed, those Del people and Zerg are not honest. Locke replied.

The 'dishonesty' shown by the Del people and the Zerg is mainly reflected in the concealment of loot.

The fire crystal plane is a low-level plane with unusually rich mineral resource reserves, and the energy ore of other attributes is not mentioned for the time being, and the yield of a single fire attribute energy ore exceeds the output of the general low-level plane.

It was also during this xenoplane conquest that the Del and Zerg, as mercenaries, often hid a part of the energy ore obtained by the indigenous groups of the fire crystal plane, which actually violated some of the terms of the employment contract they had signed in advance.

"It's just a little bit of energy ore, they can give it to them if they want, anyway, the big head is always on our side. Michelle said with relief.

Locke's aunt is of average strength, but she is unusually generous, and it is also with this kind of good old personality that she has gained the friendship of many magicians in the Holy Tower.

This time, a total of 2,000 magicians were brought in from the Holy Tower, and one in five of them were attracted by Michelle's charisma.

Michelle's generous attitude also directly affected Locke's thoughts about these mercenaries, and he originally complained about the Del people and the Zerg enriching themselves in terms of loot, but then he thought about it, these mercenaries are also a group of poor people.

In order to order some insignificant energy crystals, he risked his life to fight with them on the fire crystal plane, and judging from the strength shown by the Del people and the Zerg and the execution of obeying orders, Locke's five tons of energy crystals were not in vain.

The overall battle situation of the Fire Crystal Plane is advancing from north to south, and most of the indigenous creatures are currently gathering near the Blue Flame Swamp where the Flame Shark King is seated to resist to the death.

The resistance forces in other regions have been shattered by the onslaught of the powerful knights and mage armies again and again.

Those who can resist the army of knights and magicians, except for the Yanyu clan, which is slightly stronger in race, the other indigenous creatures are not the enemy of the Western Three Islands troops at all.

In this way, another half a year has passed.

This half year is a half year of hard resistance to invasion by the natives of the Fire Crystal Plane, and it is also half a year of great progress for the knights and magicians of the three islands in the West.

The forces of the Yanyu clan in the southwest and southeast have all been uprooted by the knight army in the past six months, and the Blue Flame Swamp, which has been firmly locked by the combined magic array of nearly a thousand magicians, cannot even send the slightest support force.

A lot has happened in the past six months, for example, the bronze man Agus in a battle that occurred in the crater, with his own strength to forcibly kill a demigod-level natives of the fire crystal plane, but the price he suffered was also amazing, the volcanic eruption dragged by the demigod-level natives before their deaths was enough for Argus to take a bath in the lava.

Although Argus was not badly affected in the end, he was burned by the fire elemental, and it would take at least two months for him to recover from his injuries.

Another thing is that the Western Three Islands forces, represented by Jos, once again hired a group of low-level Zerg cannon fodder from the Zerg.

30,000 low-level Zerg can't withstand the consumption of invading a low-level plane, as early as a few months ago, the number of casualties of low-level Zerg has been close to the red line, in order to smoothly progress and end the plane war, Jos had to hire 20,000 low-level Zerg from the Zerg's Blade Queen and Queen again.

This time, several tons of fire attribute energy ore were paid to the Zerg.

The three islands in the West have not gained much in the fire crystal plane in the past two years, except for some of the rewards and pensions used as knights and magician troops, the rest of the energy ore is basically handed over to the two mercenaries as a mercenary fee.

Of course, this kind of cost will gradually decrease or even disappear with the success of the Fire Crystal Plane falling into the hands of the Western Three Islands, and after the natives of the Fire Crystal Plane are completely subordinated to the rule of the fourth-level magician Joss and the fourth-level knight Odyssey, it will be a real benefit.

Every year, the Fire Crystal Plane will supply a sufficient amount of energy ore, and Jos, as the suppressor of the plane, only needs to stay in the Western Three Islands and wait to collect the money.

The money of knights and magicians is not so easy to earn, you can see one or two by looking at the tens of thousands of insect corpses left by the Zerg, if it weren't for the production of low-level Zerg that only needs enough resources to get it, Queen Teresa and Blade Queen Kerrigan would not have agreed to the re-employment of the fourth-level magician Jos.

In comparison, the Del people are much more conservative, after the loss of more than half of the two hundred cruisers and the death toll of the three thousand clansmen exceeds one thousand, no matter how Locke increases the price, the leader of the Del people Basad is stunned and refuses to send his clansmen to the battlefield of the Fire Crystal Plane again.

In the opinion of Basard, the leader of the Del people, they have already made enough money in this mercenary mission, and it will be more harmful than beneficial for the Del people to throw their people into this whirlpool of war.

After all, every warrior in their clan has undergone rigorous training and long-term training before becoming a qualified battle armor pilot, not low-level cannon fodder like the Zerg, only need to be bred by the worm mother to be able to pull on the battlefield.

It was indeed a pity that the Del people were unwilling to increase their troops, but with the sufficient cannon fodder provided by the Zerg, the fire crystal plane still fell into the hands of the two fourth-level powerhouses of the three western islands step by step as expected.

This is the first round of the plane war launched after Jos was promoted to level four, and it is also the first large-scale cooperation between the fourth-level knight Odyssey and the newly promoted fourth-level magician Jos.

"Tomorrow, Uncle Jos will join forces with the fourth-level knight Odyssey to encircle and suppress the Flame Burst Fishman King in the Blue Flame Swamp, and Belen's light and heavy cavalry regiments will also attack, so you'd better not stay too far away from me and Ashar, and call me in time when you are in danger." Inside the tent, Locke admonished a few of his own women.

Raffi and Leah kept nodding their heads like chickens pecking rice, and what made Locke a little uneasy were the two girls, Angelina and Christine, the former boasted that he was about to be promoted to the second level, and some of his strength was inflated, and the latter was a character who was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, and he needed Locke to take care of it several times more.