Chapter 1451: A Sigh (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
As a matter of caution, after destroying the two lichs, the three war fortresses hovered over the sea for a while, even lowering their altitude to the sea, carefully searching for the lich or the dark mage among the debris and debris of the warships that covered the sea.
It wasn't until it was finally confirmed that there were no more lichs that they turned around and walked away triumphantly as victors.
As for the wreckage of the ships floating on the surface of the sea and the sailors who were constantly struggling with the pieces of wood, they pretended not to see it, and the carrier-based aircraft never included the reception of prisoners of war.
Loading a group of enemy prisoners inside a war fortress is obviously not a good thing either.
The mages on the war fortress are in no mood to care about dozens of enemies.
Even if someone was kind-hearted, they only silently prayed to the god of light in their hearts, hoping that the poor sailors would hold on to the planks and hold on until the arrival of the naval patrol
At least the weather was good, it didn't look like there was a storm, and they would probably survive the night in the sea, if there were no sharks in the sea, of course.
It's not that the human soldiers are kind-hearted and compassionate, and the soldiers on the battlefield ignore this, for them, safety comes first.
Rather, it was necessary for the military to capture a few prisoners in order to get a glimpse of what was going on with the Semitic tribes from their mouths.
What's more, it is the Age of Discovery, and slave laborers who understand navigation technology, especially the ability to sail, are also very valuable and belong to high-skilled jobs.
If you get it to the auction floor, you can also sell it for seven or eight hundred gold coins.
With the official establishment of the church on the frozen island by the coalition forces, the reconnaissance area covered the surrounding seas. The transportation and connection between the Semitic continent and the island of Burbenga was completely blocked. Turned Burbanga into an island in the sea.
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The lich Melarence stands on top of the island's cliffs. Against the blazing sun that he hates. Looking at the vast sea from afar, he remained motionless, letting the sea breeze blow his black robe and fly.
At this time, the direction of his gaze was no longer the east of the imaginary human attack, and Melarence had been looking to the west, which was the direction of the Semitic continent and the direction of the supply ships.
But a few hours passed until the sun was setting in the west. Slowly falling under the surface of the sea, the sky is covered with orange clouds, and there is still no movement on the sea, which is calm and mad.
Mellarence couldn't help but let out a long sigh, and said helplessly in his heart: It seems that the supply ship will not come today~!
At this time, he really understood why those cunning, despicable, shameless, and nasty humans blew up all the ships in the harbor in the first place.
Due to the complete destruction of the ships on the island, not even a single sampan remained, and no ships came in for some time. These days, the island of Burbenga has been cut off from the outside world.
Mellarence didn't know what was going on outside. The people on the Semitic continent don't know what is happening to the island of Burbenga at the moment.
Although mages can use mana to teleport some messages, they are still limited by distance and have a certain chance of being lost.
Moreover, as a mage, it is difficult for others to send them to the poor.
Otherwise, Lorraine would not have had to spend a lot of money to build a telegraph network connecting the mainland.
Even powerful lichs can't travel more than a thousand miles to deliver messages. There was also no construction of an expensive, time-consuming teleportation array on the island of Burbanga.
Now the island of Burbanga has completely lost contact with the outside world.
In order to find out what is going on in the outside world and where the damned human coalition is, Cameron also sent several batches of lichs to send them back to deliver the message.
But the vast ocean is not something that a lich can easily cross, and even if the lich does not need food and water, and is not afraid of drowning in the sea, it will take several days to fly thousands of seas.
As a result, no one has returned.
Now everyone on the island seems to be trapped in a big prison. Every day can only be done idle, sitting here in a daze.
Even a long-lived lich can't stand such a boring day.
What's even more terrifying is that now the supplies on the island are getting less and less, and they are about to run out.
Although the lichs don't need much food, there are many dark creatures on the island, gargoyles, ghouls, and undead witches......
Although they are mutated creatures created by dark spells, these living dark creatures are all meant to eat, and they are all carnivores, very picky eaters, eating only fresh raw meat, and eating very large amounts.
What made Mellarence even more troublesome was that in order to win the war, Cameron was afraid that his forces would be weak, and he also mobilized a heavy army, and almost collected all the remaining dark creatures in the hands of the lichs, and those gargoyles alone were tens of thousands.
Although the combat effectiveness of those guys is not weak, at the same time, they are also like rice buckets, and they are very edible.
As he thought, he turned around in frustration and walked down the cliff. Now it's time to feed the bat ghosts again.
He slugged down to the cave at the bottom of the cliff, and found his companion already waiting there.
At this time, they are no longer leading a few cows and carrying chickens as before, but pushing several carts, all of which are chopped into small pieces.
As supplies dwindled on the island, Cameron had to ration the necromantic creatures.
From one pound a day at the beginning, to half a pound a day later, it won't last long.
Seeing this, Mellarence couldn't help but smile bitterly, two days ago, Cameron also consulted him, asking if he could let those gargoyles live if he only gave two taels of meat a day.
Two or two, it's almost the same between the teeth, where can these murderous bat ghosts eat?
If you really only give two taels of meat a day, and don't wait for humans to call, these bat ghosts themselves will be hungry and can't fly.
He greeted the lichs, then pushed the cart into the cave.
Cameron had been here several times. These bat ghosts are also his main troops. Baby. To win the human fleet, count on them.
But then, I don't know if it was because of the reduction in the amount of meat, the guilt in his heart, or if he was really busy, anyway, he never came here again.
But Mellarence couldn't help but come, because he was in his hands all of them.
When Melarence walked into the cave, the bats were already hungry. Hearing the familiar footsteps of the lichs, they immediately screamed and flew up, like a black tornado, flying towards them like a black tornado.
The people of Melarence did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly picked up the pieces of meat from the cart and threw them into the air.
The bat ghosts grabbed the bloody piece of flesh in the air, and then flew to the side, munching and biting it.
After some strong bat ghosts grabbed the meat, they thought that they had little meat in their hands, and immediately flew towards their companions next to them. Then he kept screaming and waving his hands. beat the other party all over the body, and then snatched the piece of meat into his own hand and swallowed it in one bite.
The injured bat ghost then hurriedly stood up, and then flew to the corner and hid.
The bat ghost looks high-end, but it's actually a beast with a simple IQ.
In their world, there is only one law, and that is the law of the jungle.
was robbed by others, and they can only consider themselves unlucky, and no one will stand up for them.
And after being injured, you have to hide as much as possible. If not hidden, the other hungry bat ghosts smell blood, and the bloodthirsty instinct will make them rush over and tear the wounded hapless egg to pieces, then eat it bit by bit.
In the dark corners of the cave, there were already many white bones of bat ghosts, most of them fresh.
Those were all corpses that had been eaten by other bat ghosts, and they were all gnawed clean, and there was not a single shreds of meat left.
Obviously, the bat ghosts who eat these bones also know the preciousness of food.
The Lichs of Merlarence were helpless, but they didn't have enough food to feed the Bats.
Therefore, the cannibalism of the bat ghosts can only be turned a blind eye and pretended not to be seen, as long as there is no large-scale cannibalism.
In the eyes of the Lich, these bat ghosts are nothing more than low-level war consumables.
However, for some time now, due to the lack of food, the bats have been killing each other, and their numbers have decreased by almost a fifth.
The number of other carnivores is about the same, as more people die from predating on each other than they die in battle.
Thinking of this, Mellarence couldn't help but sigh again: If this situation continues, it will not be a few days, not waiting for the humans to kill. The bat ghosts will kill themselves all......
As soon as he thought of this, he suddenly saw the largest and strongest bat ghost glaring at him with blood-red eyes.
There was a strange, murderous look in his eyes, as if Mellarence were a tasty prey in his eyes.
Mellarence couldn't help but shudder: What is this lowly bat ghost going to do?
However, then he was furious, and he was actually frightened by a low-level bat ghost~!
Mellarence stretched out the staff in his hand, pointed at the bat ghost, and shouted angrily: "Magic Light Bullet~!"
Immediately, a gray ball of light flew out of the end of the rod and smashed towards the back of the bat ghost like lightning.
When the bat ghost saw it, he immediately let out a terrible scream, spread its wings and was about to flee. But at this time, the magic light bullet had already smashed heavily on its back, making a 'boom' explosion.
The bat ghost immediately staggered, then screamed, fell from the air, and fell heavily to the ground, his hands and feet twitched, and a trace of blood came out of his ears, nose, and mouth.
The rest of the batghosts who were fighting for food all shrank back, not daring to look at Mellarence and the other lichs.
Melarence snorted coldly, slowly withdrew his staff, and swept his gaze over the bat ghosts one by one.
The bat ghosts timidly lowered their heads and shrunk as small as they could.
Melarence nodded in satisfaction, and then turned and walked out with the group of lichs.
When he reached the entrance of the cave, he immediately heard a screaming and scrambling behind him, and it was clear that the group of bat ghosts were snatching the bad intentions and not yet dead.
Mellarence stood at the entrance of the cave, looking out at the blue sky. Then I couldn't help but sigh again. The mentally retarded manta ghosts are getting mader and crazier because of hunger. And so on. Not only will they start large-scale cannibalism, but they may even lose their minds and target the lich~!
For some reason, he suddenly remembered the situation when he watched the ghost leave on the boat, and he couldn't help but secretly regret a little: maybe he was impulsive, and jumping on the boat was the right choice.
As he thought, he unconsciously came to the top of the cliff again, and then looked to the west again. Hopefully, a miracle will happen when a supply ship will suddenly appear above the surface at some point. It's like a resentful woman on Wangfu Cliff looking forward to her husband who has been away from home for many years: Grandma has a leg, why doesn't the turtle grandson come to pinch it?
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November 26, 836 in the Julian calendar, sunny.
As soon as the day dawned, the Caribbean ports were already busy.
Due to the defeat in the war, a large number of Semitic tribes all lost their lives in the Terran continent, which also led to the loss of a large number of young and middle-aged laborers of the Semitic tribes, and the entire Semitic tribe was in a depression.
In the Caribbean, the people here are full of free spirit, in order to evade military service. tried all kinds of methods, or fled to the sea. Or lurk in the mountains.
This also caused the labor force in the Caribbean to be reduced not too much, and only about 10,000 people of the Fourth Division were captured.
Because of this, in the context of the general depression, Caribbean ports are still as prosperous and lively as ever.
It is precisely because the Caribbean suffered the least damage from the war that its business is better.
In the Lord's Mansion in Caribbean City. Iskander and his wife, the lord of the city, had already gotten up from their beds, washed themselves under the servants' attendants, and sat down at the table.
Compared to two years, the Iskander City Lord's hair has fallen out a lot, and his originally chubby, ruddy face is also a little thinner than before.
But the whole person's spirit still looks quite good.
Three years ago, their daughter ran away with Lorraine, the public enemy of the Semitic race, the peerless thief, the most shameless, the lowliest, and the most obscene human being...... Well, to be precise, I should have been kidnapped by that peerless thief.
But in any case, the Caribbean city lord's family can be regarded as having overseas connections, and there is a risk of fornicating with the enemy and betraying the country.
Therefore, logically speaking, the two of them have to be isolated and examined, or find a place to be locked up for thirty or fifty years.
But the identity of the Lingshan royal family protects them.
At the same time, in the Semitic tribe, their relationship with the various families is also intertwined, so that the undead dare not move lightly.
Moreover, they are royalty with real seals. No one dared to arrest them until they were caught for their true crimes of rebellion.
Otherwise, it will cause a strong backlash from other royal families. In the face of this huge network of relationships, the High Priest himself has no choice.
What's more, since the high priest led hundreds of lichs to besiege and intercept Lorraine, they did not take down the thief. This shows that Fiona was snatched away, and it was also a once-in-a-century event with force majeure.
In this case, no one dares to use any reason to embarrass the two of them.
Besides, the Caribbean is in a safe corner, and the people are cunning and slippery, and they are not in the eyes of many people.
At this time, someone brought refreshments and a stack of ...... A stack of letters.
The lord and lady of the castle glanced at each other, then smiled knowingly, and then put on their reading glasses together and stretched out their hands to the ...... Reaching for the stack of letters.
Those were all letters that Fiona had written to them before.
Every day when the two of them were eating, they would find one and read it carefully. This kind of concern for children of the elderly, young people will rarely understand, only those who have become parents will really understand.
The restaurant was deserted because of the lack of one person.
It's just that, when they read the letter, they watched Fiona tell all kinds of interesting stories in the middle, and between the lines, it was as if the elf-like mischievous, lively, and lovely daughter was still around.
At this moment, the sunlight shines through the window, illuminating the ground in a corner, and it can be vaguely seen that there is a fine dust flying through the pillar of light.
The two old men sat at the edge of the dining table, smiling faintly, and carefully read their daughter's letter word by word.
The loyal old butler stood outside the corner of the wall, and when he saw this warm scene, he suddenly felt a little moist in the corners of his eyes.
The Iskander City Lord raised his head from the letter and went to get a piece of cake next to him, but then saw his appearance and couldn't help laughing: "Wagger, what's wrong with you?"
The old housekeeper hurriedly wiped the corners of his eyes and said, "It's nothing, it's nothing." It's just that the eyes are gray......"
At the same time, I secretly sighed in my heart: It would be nice if Miss was also there. But this sentence cannot be said, otherwise it will also cause the thoughts and sorrows of the city lord and his wife.
It's all the hateful Lorraine, if it weren't for the fact that the dog stole the young lady and even the heart, the city lord's family should still live happily ever after.
He sighed as he turned his head to look out the window at the garden.
The garden at this time is also very different from three years ago, with a huge conservatory made of glass in the middle of the garden.
Although it is already the season of November and February, the flowers in the conservatory are still in full bloom. There are also a few tomato branches in the middle, which are also full of bright red fruits.
Looking at the round fruit, I couldn't help but think of the chubby little fat man, and the same round and chubby little elephant. Those two little ones didn't have a good thing, they stole chickens and dogs all day long, and did evil, but they brought joy to everyone, and they also had a lot of income.
If he could, he would rather not have that money, but let them live here happily too. But that's an impossible thing~!
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but let out another long sigh: Who would have thought that the little fat man would actually be the prince of a powerful empire.
At this moment, he seemed to see something out of the corner of his eye, and he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, then turned his head and looked carefully at the sea.
Through the glass window, you can see a few faint black smoke on the sea in the distance.
The old butler couldn't help but feel a little strange: What was going on? Could it be that a ship caught fire at sea?
Then I saw that the black smoke was getting bigger and bigger, and it became clearer and clearer. Immediately, I saw several black dots leap out of the sea, and then quickly expand in my line of sight.
The old butler couldn't help but hold his breath, it was several huge warships. The battleship was hoisted with a flying eagle battle flag that he had never seen before~!(To be continued......
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