April 20, 14525 in the Astral Calendar.

The Cult of Winter Frost launched an all-out attack on White Ice City, and Lady Winter Frost descended and led the three divine envoys to fight against the two councilors stationed in White Ice City.

The two sides fought in the Longyan Mountain Range, more than 300 kilometers outside the White Ice City.

In the end, two of the three divine envoys were killed, and the Winter Frost Lady fell.

One of the current members of the Dawn Council, Meng Hong, the head of the Meng family, died in battle.

Yi Nan, who is also one of the current members of the Dawn Council, and the deputy head of the Silver Light Legion, was seriously injured and fled.

On the same day, one of the five great envoys under the seat of Lady Winterfrost, the Polar Ice Giant Yannick, led an army to break through the White Ice City, block the spatial coordinates, and start a fierce battle with the defenders.

In just half a day, the defending army was crushed, and the White Ice City completely fell.

The Free Wizards suffered heavy casualties and fled to Red Maple City.

Also on the same day, the Turin army, led by the two dukes of Snow Wolf and Blue Ice, began to advance against Red Maple City.

The Great War is imminent!

Red Maple City.

There are few pedestrians on the street, and occasionally people pass by, all of them are in a hurry, and their expressions are solemn.

Phew!

From time to time, bands of giant eagle knights swept by and flew out of the city.

The entire Red Maple City was filled with a solemn atmosphere.

Pei Ze walked on the street, looking at the surrounding scenes, and a touch of emotion flashed in his eyes.

Since the fall of White Ice City seven days ago, the Turin army overwhelmed the territory and the troops descended on Red Maple City, the entire war fortress has become what it is now.

In order to escape the war, many free wizards have left the dimensional battlefield.

The free wizards who remained did not dare to go out on missions anymore, and they all cowered in the city.

Pei Ze is naturally no exception.

Now the wilderness outside the city is like a beast's mouth devouring flesh and blood, and if you are not careful, you will be eaten to the bones, except for a very few stunned young people who are bold and not afraid of death, few people dare to risk being besieged and killed by the Turin army.

Now the battlefield is already the stage of the army.

While thinking about it, Pei Ze had already come to a stone house.

Before he could knock on the door, the door opened automatically.

Pei Ze pushed the door and entered, and saw Yin Xue standing in front of the entrance, looking at him with a smile.

"Senpai." Pei Ze looked her up and down a few times, and said with a smile, "I'm relieved to see that you are recovering well." ”

A touch of tenderness flashed in Yin Xue's eyes, and she said softly: "I have heard Yin Guang say it, this time it is thanks to your help that I can recover so quickly." ”

"Don't say polite words, hasn't Senior Sister helped me many times before?" Pei Ze waved his hand and said.

Yin Xue pursed her lips and smiled, and pulled Pei Ze to the living room to sit down.

After taking his seat, Pei Ze was not polite, and asked directly: "Senior sister, have you heard about the fall of White Ice City?" ”

For such a big thing, almost no one in the entire Red Maple City didn't know about it, and Yin Xue was naturally no exception.

She understood what Pei Ze really wanted to ask, groaned, and said slowly: "According to the information from the family, the Meng family has suffered a very heavy loss this time, the top of the family has almost been wiped out, and the backbone combat power has also been killed by more than eighty percent, and they have not been able to get the Silver Frost Disaster Wolf, after this incident, most of the Meng family will be completely declined." ”

Yin Xue sighed.

As one of the five major wizard families in Dawn City, the Meng family is in full power, and the head of the family, Meng Hong, is the top five members of the Dawn Council.

Who would have thought that just one battle, the entire Meng family's wizard combat power would be almost wiped out, which directly led to the defeat of the family.

And after this incident, it is unlikely that the Meng family will want to restore its previous glory in the future.

The huge profits vacated by the defeat of a wizarding family are enough to make many people jealous, and they will never give the original owner a chance to get this benefit back.

Not to mention the elemental faction, even the Pei family and the Yan family of the same faction would never want to see such a thing happen.

"One wrong step is the abyss."

Pei Ze also sighed a little.

The Meng family gambled on the fate of the entire family, in order to get the Silver Frost Plague Wolf.

It's a pity that they still lost.

It can only be said that the times are not good.

"But the sacrifice of the Meng family is not useless."

Yin Xue stretched out her hand and swiped across the coffee table, and there were suddenly two cups of steaming black tea on the table.

She took a sip of her cup before continuing:

"Although the Winter Frost Sect destroyed the White Ice City, it also paid a huge price, the Winter Frost Lady's clone fell, and the ontology will inevitably suffer a lot of backlash, and I am afraid that it will not be able to make a move for a long time in the future."

"And the five great envoys under her seat, one of them died at the hands of Councilor Ji Zhang before, and now two have fallen, and only two are left, and the power is not as strong as before."

"Don't look at it now, only Red Maple City is left to face the Winter Frost Sect army alone, but in fact, the enemy's strength is also greatly damaged, even if a big war really breaks out, we don't have to worry about losing."

"What we should really worry about is the Winter Frost Sect, they have exhausted the strength of the whole country, and Red Maple City can still get a steady stream of support from Dawn City and Red Lotus City, if it drags on, when more resources and troops enter Red Maple City, the balance of victory and defeat will only gradually tilt in our favor."

Pei Ze shook his head.

It's good to have a friend from a wizarding family, who can know a lot of information that ordinary wizards can't know.

"So, Senior Sister plans to stay in Red Maple City?"

Yin Xue bowed slightly: "I am a member of the witch hunting army, and it is my duty to fight the people of Turine, and I will definitely stay." ”

Speaking of this, she paused slightly, looked at Pei Ze, and asked hesitantly, "What about you?" What are you going to do? ”

Pei Ze groaned.

As early as when the Turin army was overwhelmed, Red Maple City had already issued a war order, calling on all free wizards to participate in the war and kill the people of Turin.

In return, freelance wizards who participate in the war receive the same treatment as military wizards - the same merit calculation and, more importantly, the same exchange of resources.

In other words, many rare resources that were originally only allowed to be exchanged by military wizards and not open to the public can be exchanged by free wizards as long as they participate in the war.

As soon as this article came out, it really attracted many free wizards.

To be honest, Pei Ze is actually a little excited.

At his spiritual energy level, whether it was the Resonance Elixir or the Holy Spirit Sprout, the effect on his spiritual growth was not as good as before.

And it is foreseeable that after being promoted to a second-level wizard, the effect will inevitably be further weakened.

At that time, his spiritual growth rate will probably fall into a very slow state.

- Despite the mystical method of visualization, his mental power has grown at a rate far faster than that of most wizards.

Of course, it is very simple to change this situation, and it is necessary to exchange more resources to improve mental power.

However, now that the road to go out on a mission has been blocked, the only way to continue to earn merit points is to respond to the war and participate in the war.

In addition, the exchange has a limited variety of resources, and if you want to get resources that are more effective than the Holy Spirit Buds and Resonance Elixirs, the only way to do this is to respond to the War Order.

No matter what you think, as long as you want to continue to improve your strength rapidly, you must participate in the next war.

Pei Ze didn't hesitate for too long, he had already thought about this question many times.

"I am ready to respond to the war order." Pei Ze said in a deep voice.

Yin Xue frowned slightly, she had actually guessed Pei Ze's answer a long time ago.

But when she heard this, she still couldn't help but persuade her: "Senior brother, in fact, you don't need to take this risk, with your talent and qualifications, you can quickly advance to the second-level wizard step by step." ”

Pei Ze shook his head.

Advancing to a second-level wizard was no longer a problem for him.

As soon as he had the resources, he had already prepared, and in two months at most, he would be able to successfully advance to the rank of second-level wizard.

What he cared about was the road ahead.

Indeed, with the omniscient eye, if he cultivates peacefully, he will be able to advance to the third-level wizard sooner or later, or even to a higher realm.

But without sufficient resources, the time it takes to achieve this goal will inevitably increase by hundreds, if not thousands.

The more you try to climb up the wizard's path, the more resources you need.

Without the support of a lot of resources, he relied on the omniscient eye to become an ordinary genius at most, and don't expect to make such a leap and bounds during this time.

Pei Ze didn't want to do that.

Or rather, I don't want to be so cringe-intimidating.

The path to truth and power is already difficult, and it is impossible for a person to climb to the top in this life without a firm will to overcome obstacles.

If he misses a rare opportunity because of the pursuit of stability, he will probably regret it in retrospect when his strength progress is slow in the future.

Taking a step back, the battlefield is certainly dangerous, but he is desperately trying to improve his strength and accumulate many back hands and hole cards, not precisely to cope with this situation.

Even if he was in danger, he believed he had a way out.

Of course, there is no need to say these words to Yin Xue.

Pei Ze just said calmly: "This is a rare opportunity, I don't want to miss it." ”

Seeing Pei Ze's firm expression in his eyes, Yin Xue was stunned, and didn't say anything after all.

This junior brother has always been very assertive, and once she decides something, she can't convince it.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little stagnant, Pei Ze decisively changed the topic.

"I heard that the Divine Body Golem of Blue Water City has been transferred here?"

Yin Xue nodded and said, "That's right, it was already transported into the city three days ago, and with the Divine Body Golem, we have one more chance of winning this war." ”

The two then talked about the war.

It wasn't until half an hour later that Pei Ze got up and left and walked towards his residence.

During this time, he successively completed the improvement of the first batch of three-ring spells.

The metal combination of the Silver Star Evolution Fourth-Order Witchcraft has also been calculated.

The new metal mix is unsurprisingly new with a number of rare magical metals.

A standard amount of metal combination can cost more than 16,000 magic stone coins.

In order for Silver Star to evolve into a fourth-order witchcraft, it must absorb at least thirty standard metal combinations.

That's about 500,000 magic stone coins.

To be honest, when he came up with this price, Pei Ze was very surprised.

However, in fact, a fourth-order witchcraft was worth at least one million magic stone coins.

And most of the time, there is no price in the market, and no amount of magic stone coins can be bought.

And even if the silver star counts the previous consumption, it only needs less than 600,000 magic stone coins to evolve into a fourth-order witch weapon.

The key is that it is still the top of its class.

In this way, 500,000 magic stone coins are actually very cost-effective.

"That being said, I don't have that many magic stone coins now."

Although Pei Ze still had nearly 20,000 merit points in his hand, he was going to use them to buy the engraved alchemy nicks.

"It's better to wait until the alchemy marks are finished and there are remaining merit points before buying the metal combination."

"Next, wait for the alchemy notch improvement to be completed."

Time flies.

Outside Red Maple City, in the endless wilderness, the army of the Turines and the defenders of Red Maple City have been facing each other for more than a month.

During this period, friction continued, and small-scale wars broke out frequently, but the real major war never broke out.

However, this does not mean that the situation has eased.

According to the Eagle Knights' investigations, more and more Turin troops are arriving one after another, merging into the main formation of the army.

The strength of the enemy is increasing by the hour.

Red Maple City is not far behind.

The teleportation array in the city almost didn't stop, it continued to operate every day, and a large number of people and resources were constantly teleported into Red Maple City.

Both sides are now frantically accumulating forces in preparation for the big war.

Once both sides have completed their pre-battle preparations, or one of them has taken the lead and brazenly attacked, a great war like never before will break out.

In this case, the atmosphere in Red Maple City became more and more tense.

Walking down the street, looking at the closed shops on both sides, Gu Rin deeply felt the sense of urgency that the big war was coming.

Anneway on the side looked as calm as ever, and even looked at the surrounding scenery with interest.

The terrain of White Ice City is gentle, and the layout of the city is relatively ordinary, unlike the rolling mountains where the main body of the city is built like Red Maple City, which has a natural natural meaning.

"The people who designed this war castle have a lot of taste." Anivia bowed slightly.

Gu Rin rolled his eyes, thinking about when it was time to complain, and caring about the designer's taste.

However, thinking that the vampire next to him had probably lived for tens of thousands of years and had never seen any scenes, he immediately swallowed the words back into his stomach and turned to ask about other things.

"Anivia, do you really want to stay in Red Maple City?"

"Of course."

"Why? Didn't you say you didn't want to meddle in the war? ”

"That's true, but just because I'm not involved in the war doesn't mean I can't do anything else."

Anivia glanced at Gu Rin, there seemed to be a flash of red in her eyes, and a charming smile appeared on her delicate face.

It's just that the past is different, and this time the smile is faintly bewitching.

"Have you forgotten that I'm an undead creature?"

Gu Rin's expression froze.

Indeed, I almost forgot that vampires belong to the undead race, and the battlefield full of death is no less than the Holy Land for them.

Seeing that Gu Rin was silent, Aniwei smiled, and changed her words: "Didn't you say that you were going to find Pei Ze?" Do you know where he lives? ”

Gu Rin came back to his senses, shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't know, but a big celebrity like him, just ask someone casually." ”

Gu Rin looked around, his gaze quickly locked onto a large horseman, and strode over.

"Excuse me, you."

However, after seeing the man's turned face clearly, Gu Rin's words stopped abruptly.

What a familiar face!

Gu Rin quickly recalled that this person was not one of the knights who was on the same team as Pei Ze when he encircled and suppressed the cult, and his name seemed to be Peng Yan.

(End of chapter)