Chapter 16 The Fate of Knights
Watching his henchmen leave in a hurry, Neres said, "Richard, don't blame me for being troublesome. But if you're a constructor, you have to make a name for yourself. Frequent press conferences are the best way to go. In the future, if the conditions are ripe, it is best to hold regular construction press conferences in Faust. However, you'll have to wait until you're able to make a fourth-order build before you can get the honor of holding regular build conferences. Even Luneau doesn't have the qualifications right now. ”
Richard nodded, and began to think seriously about what kind of build designs he could put up for auction. His ideas on the design of the structure are often imaginative, but they can be closely integrated with the goal, so the design of non-standard structure, even if it is a first-order structure, is very distinctive. Inspired by Nereus, he had a deeper understanding of the construction market, and although the pieces were not enough to be used as the theme of the conference on their own, they were enough to enrich the content of the conference.
While Richard was thinking, Priest Nolan hurriedly walked over and informed them that the plane passage had been stabilized and that they could now teleport to the plane.
Based on the experience of the previous time, Richard first sent a team of heavy infantry armed with tower shields into the portal this time, and then arranged for followers and others to enter the portal in batches.
Green Forest Plane.
Dragon Mage Lina was leaning back on the couch, lazily looking out the window, occasionally touching a fruit from the silver basin in front of her and stuffing it into her mouth. The fruit was crisp and delicious, but Lina felt tasteless when she bit into it. There is only one kind of fruit that can be eaten here, and even if it tastes good, you will get bored of eating it every day.
The room was dimly lit, like the sky outside the window. A large cloud of moisture rushed into the room from the window, and it was almost thick and turned into a thick fog, and it was unspeakably uncomfortable on the body. Lina felt that no part of her body was dry, and her underwear had become sticky. The Magic Climate Regulator is too extravagant for the current state of the plane, and even if it is installed, it will not have enough energy to operate.
In fact, for the Great Magus, the harsh natural environment does not pose much trouble to the body, but it still affects the mood very much.
She sighed and stared blankly out the window.
The sky outside the window was a misty blue-gray, and it was impossible to see where the clouds were, only clumps of clammy and cold mist falling from the sky. Looking at the past, there were clumps of green everywhere, only the difference between light and dark, it seemed that there was no other color in this plane, and even the haze of the sky was faintly gray-green.
Green is supposed to represent vitality, but in this world where green is everywhere, it is suffocating.
Lina moved her body slightly, but she felt that the tide was so wet that she felt like she was about to grow mushrooms.
In the corner of her field of vision, the mist suddenly surged rapidly, and a long sharp arrow pierced through the fog like lightning and shot at her neck!
Lina snapped her fingers lazily, and a hemispherical transparent shield appeared in front of the arrow. The feathered arrow pierced through the shield like a wave, slowing down by three points in an instant. A serpentine ring on Lina's index finger shot out a bolt of lightning and struck the feathered arrow, shattering the magical power attached to the arrow in one fell swoop. The feathered arrow eventually struggled and staggered into the window, only to be gently removed by Lina.
It is a nearly two-meter-long arrow made of turquoise wood with a light green feather attached to its tail. The body of the arrow is wrapped around a thin vine that is the source of the arrow's magic. The arrow, on the other hand, is made from the teeth of some creature, and the tip of the tip is hollow, giving off a bitter almond smell from the inside.
The poison filled in this arrow is very powerful, it can poison an elephant in a minute, and even if Lina is poisoned, it will be very troublesome. It's just that if you want to poison her, you have to be able to hit her with magic arrows. The arrow was shot from 800 meters away, and Lina was sitting in the magic tower at the moment, and it was impossible to hit the target.
If it weren't for the energy savings, the tower wasn't always activated, otherwise the arrow wouldn't have been able to enter through the window intact even if Lina sat there without even moving a finger.
Lina just looked at it and threw the arrow into the corner. These attacks come two or three times a day, and even if they know that they will not be effective, they will not give up, and the resilience of the natives and their hatred for the invaders can be seen in this.
At the beginning, Lina would immediately chase down the attackers with all her might, and she did kill several Green Forest Elf archers. But then the native archers learned to be wise, and as soon as they shot an arrow, they didn't care about the outcome, turned around and ran away with all their might. In the vast forest, a few hundred meters apart, it was difficult for Lina to catch up with the fleeing native archers.
So a few days later, Lina didn't bother to chase after her, and just returned with a burst fireball with a super long range. A fireball without tracking can't blow up an archer at all, and it's a big deal to use the super magic effect against an archer, so the dragon mage just wants to vent his evil spirit. After a few more days, she didn't even have the strength to throw the fireball, so she simply picked up the arrow.
The natives are attacking all the time. The dragon mage has a way to deal with cold arrows, but it doesn't mean that people in the city can also deal with cold arrows. Nowadays, people have to wear armor and shields even when they go out, and they are always careful.
The walls had lost their usefulness for a great extent, as the forest that surrounded the city grew so fast that the canopy was even higher than the walls. Lina has cleaned it up many times with fire magic, but each time it can only buy a few days of peace. In this damn environment, the effectiveness of fire magic is greatly reduced.
The natives' skill in bowing and arrows even allowed them to shoot arrows into the city in a parabola, and then activate the natural magic attached to the arrows, allowing the arrows to automatically find and track living targets.
No matter how much you take precautions, there will still be people dying in attacks every day, sometimes one at a time, or six or seven at most. However, there were less than 10,000 men left in this outpost after the change of ownership, rebellion, and counterinsurgency. Including less than 2,000 warriors and thousands of civilians, some of whom were the families of the warriors, and the other part was the various occupations required for the most basic operation of the city, which basically continued from the period of Schumpeter's rule. Finally, there are the captured indigenous slaves.
In a month, nearly 100 people were killed by the attack, which is enough to cause panic for a city of this size. If it weren't for Lina's absolute force to deter her, perhaps there would have been a flight in the city.
Of course, they did not flee to the forest, for everyone knew that the natives were extremely hostile to outsiders, and that the only thing that fell into their hands was a painful death. The most important thing for the people trapped in the lonely city is to teleport through the Guò plane and escape back to Norland.
There are also some magic crystals in the city, which can be used by about a hundred people to return to Norland. Without these crystal reserves, the warriors might have lost their minds and devoted themselves to it. But with reserves, it makes everyone's hearts float. The mid-level officers feared that they would not get a chance, while the lower-level soldiers knew that they would not be able to return to Norland at all, so they slowly developed resentment and even hatred towards those who might have a chance to be on the list to return.
This kind of change in people's hearts, even Lina is powerless to grasp.
If it weren't for the fact that the people in the dangerous city were still waiting for assistance from the main plane, they might have been in turmoil because of these magic crystal reserves. Many of the soldiers left behind had experienced the previous counterinsurgency, and they still had enough reverence for the Akmund family.
This is the third time she has sent a letter asking for help back. Lina knew that Akmund was in a period of extreme weakness at the moment, and Richard was still too young and lacked strength of his own. His ability to step up at a critical moment and support the whole of Akmund is already eye-catching, and there really shouldn't be anything more to expect. She just didn't want to make this decision to abandon the plane by herself, originally the knight's fate was to bury her bones in the plane battlefield, she was not afraid, but Gordon had not returned.
Lina also knew that whether it was Asiris, Semir or a fighter, they were not much better off than her. When Gordon went on an expedition to the Rogi plane, all they were left with was the power to keep the situation going for a short time. Originally, Gordon's plan was to sweep away the Mensa forces in the Luoqi plane with the power of thunder, and to fight quickly. Unexpectedly, an accident happened at this time.
In fact, even if Richard came to support, Lina would not have too many expectations. The last time he regained lost ground, Richard showed extraordinary conducting skills. However, now that the city is surrounded by forests, in such a complex environment, the role of command ability is limited by the maximum, and absolute combat power is still required. Last time, Richard only brought quicksand, and Agamemnon and Neres were in the nature of helping. In fact, this just shows Richard's embarrassment, he simply can't come up with more manpower to help the Green Forest Plane.
Lina put her hand on the crystal platform in front of her and sensed the state of the dimensional portal. Yiqiē was calm, which made her breathe a sigh of relief. Now Lina is not expecting reinforcements from Norland, but is worried that her subordinates will riot and seize the portal. Now the people who defend the portal are her most confidant warriors, but even Lina is not sure how long the current situation can last.
However, at this moment, there was a sudden strong fluctuation in the direction of the plane portal! Lina immediately stood up, surprised and delighted, this is a sign that someone is preparing to pass through the plane portal, could it be that Richard is really coming?
Lina couldn't wait to descend the stairs and flew straight out of the window of the magic tower, in the direction of the dimensional portal.
While in the air, Lina's figure suddenly froze, and she looked up at the sky, looking surprised. Just now, a strange feeling suddenly passed through her heart, as if the rules of operation of this plane had changed slightly. This is a change in fundamental principles, and it should be in the realm of the speed of time.
Divine grace!?Lina could barely believe how she felt. If someone in Norland used divine grace to affect the Green Forest Plane, it means that the scale of this operation will not be small. Her first instinct was the Schumpeter family!