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Chapter 353: Preparing for War

In the center of Burgundy, on the fifth floor of the replica of the Tower of Thunder, was Edward's exclusive training ground.

At this moment, the Psychic Warlock was standing in the middle of the wide stone hall.

In front of him were two monstrous beasts.

In appearance, this thing looked a little like a praying mantis, but it was unusually large, tall enough for a person, with blood-red eyes, covered with black carapace, spraying a faint sulfur smell, and a pair of narrow and sharp bony forelimbs, with a scythe-like glittering black and dull luster, which was especially terrifying.

It's the Purgatory Mantis, a creature powerful enough to confront a full-fledged knight.

In the corner of the hall, Anna Sue was pushing the door open, just in surprise at the tense scene that made her nervous.

Between the next breaths, the blades on the forelimbs of the two huge monster insects were as sharp as the sawtooth scimitars, and just like that, they drew a series of afterimage lightning in the air, sweeping towards the black figure, so fast and powerful that the female staff who was standing still dozens of feet away also felt the cold wind blowing on her face, and she had to hold her breath, squint her eyes, and even cover her face with her hands to barely watch.

In nature, the insect population has the greatest strength, and the power of the purgatory mantis is even more of the best, their special body structure is obviously easier to amplify their strength than muscles, and it is difficult for nature to allow such an amazing creature to survive, so only in the endless abyss, under the nourishment of the chaotic magic of the lower realm, it is possible for a demon insect like this to grow to such a huge Cheng dù.

And the forelimbs of these two giant insects more than one person tall can almost cut a human wearing chain mail in two with a single blow, and the blade is full of saw-like fine teeth, even if it touches a little, it is enough to make the flesh and blood lose a lot of blood, and their population can survive in the chaotic bottomless abyss, where countless demons are raging, relying on this ferocious and terrifying killing. After tens of millions of years of evolution, they have completely turned into a demon worm suitable for slaughter, it is a murder weapon, there is no intelligence, only bloodthirsty and warlike instincts.

Only now, the slaughter is not possible.

The two praying mantis had done their best to turn back and forth in an instant, weaving fine waves, but the figure was flipped up and down, flickering left and right, like a small boat in a huge mile, carrying heavy loads and floating, but it did not fall, predicting the trajectory of each blade, avoiding it lightly, going to danger like a disaster, without any hindrance.

Crazy, real crazy.

The female staff retreated to the corner, her eyes widened, and she held down her beating heart, trembling slightly by this extraordinarily wild stimulation, and in surprise, she couldn't help cursing her master in her heart,

Sixty breaths have passed.

The Purgatory Mantis let out a sharp howl in the sky, angry that they couldn't cut through the flesh, but unfortunately the energy of the demonic web's distortion had been exhausted, so they could only stare at the unscathed black-robed figure, allowing their bodies to gradually disappear into thin air.

"Something?"

The Psychic Warlock turned, breathing a little heavily, but within three breaths, his heartbeat was already normal.

In fact, just one or two days ago, Edward didn't have the courage to try to do such training, after all, once these summons were released, it was difficult to control them, and it was impossible to determine what kind of movements it could make, and now, these things seemed to be no problem, as long as a boost technique, Edward could get almost the same speed as them, with the all-round visual experience given to him by the mental forehead, coupled with the precise control of the body by self-hypnosis, it was not difficult to dodge this kind of Cheng Dù's swing。

It's just that the effect is not as good as expected......

The Purgatory Mantis, though powerful, only fights on instinct, they have no brains, and simple ganglia obviously can't make it know what a tactic or a trap is, only its fighting instincts. And the combat instinct, while it has an effective means of attack, cannot make it have tactics.

It is completely incomparable, the blade of the Blazing Sky Divine Servant.

They won't even change the direction of attack halfway, and with this kind of training, it is indeed a bit insufficient to get the effect of competing with a swordsman. What's even more a pity is that Claudia's swordsmanship focuses too much on strength, and the adaptive training of skills is also insufficient.

Well, in memory, the ancients summarized the eight methods of the knife: sweeping, splitting, pinching, cutting, sweeping, nai, chopping, and sudden, in fact, most of the short weapon tricks are inseparable from these styles, and the so-called swordsmanship and knife method are just slashing and stabbing to put it bluntly, so it enhances their reaction ability, which should be at least useful.

The thought came to an end, and Edward set his eyes on his staff.

"Your Excellency the City Lord, the caravan heading to the underground has set off, because it is a fixed route, it is expected to be able to turn around within ten days, and it is expected that the resources such as spider silk and metal exchanged and returned should be enough to meet the use, but the consumption of food has bottomed out recently. I think you need to think of another way, just buying food can't fill this bottomless pit.

"How much stock is left?" Edward raised his hand and rubbed his aching brow.

"There were supposed to be 30,000 bushels left, which would last about three months, but lately they weren't enough. The female staff member replied. As he wished, he saw the 'little madman' with a headache, so the corners of his mouth couldn't help curling.

The Psychic Warlock had noticed the joy in her heart, of course, but he had no interest in debunking it.

Grain, metal, wood, and stone, even on the planet where Edward lived, were the most common strategic resources, and were themselves stockpiled for war. Therefore, the present procurement has to face another problem, because for well-known reasons, the war in the north has only passed, and the war in the south is about to break out, and the sky of Tuminis can be said to be cloudy at the moment.

The consequence of the war was that grain became more stable as an equivalent than precious metals, in other words, the price of grain had risen on a massive scale, and now even the main points of production of the Tuminis that were transported by the Guò River were already busy - the noses of the merchants were always the most sensitive, and there was no organization or business association to supervise them in this plane, and these profiteers could not slow down a little out of pity, they would only take advantage of the opportunity to raise prices.

Therefore, the prospects for grain procurement are not bleak.

And most importantly, the population of Edward's territory is still rising.

Nowadays, some of the outcasts in the surrounding areas have begun to get word of it, and there is a nearby city called Burgundy, where if you work honestly, you can get a place to live, and fragrant white bread.

What is the concept of a house and white bread? This is the temptation of the devil for those poor people who are half-starved and clothed all the year round! You must know that many of them, even if they make cattle and horses for the lord, in the end they can only get a straw hut to live in, and they can eat those black bread mixed with sand and sawdust to fill their stomachs, and it is already happiness for them.

So in addition to those zìyóu people who were about to survive, the hunters and half-robbers who were messing around some aristocratic territories began to gather in this city, and even yesterday, a small mercenary group simply came to seek mercenary.

Of course, the main increase in population comes from the half-elves. After the first batch of a few thousand half-elves, the second and third groups of men also began to flow into Burgundy with the caravans of the Rino Billi family. In a world that hosts them everywhere, a place where they can live is no different from heaven, and according to legend, Burgundy has now become a legendary holy place for half-elves, and in ten days, nearly 3,000 people have arrived with the caravan. The already inadequate allocation of premises has experienced another storm.

In fact, if it was just for these people to solve the station, Edward actually didn't care at all.

It is a trivial matter to build twice as many wooden buildings in the land in the layer, and it has to be said that the ability of the earth element creatures to shape things such as soil and rocks is really terrifying, and the underground waterway projects of those dwarves in the memory of the Baroque Night Rain are also huge and smacking, and the result of the addition of the two is that the underground passages of Burgundy City now extend in all directions, and the underground tunnels within three or five miles of depth are connected, almost close to a labyrinth, and solving the drainage problem of a city with a population of more than 20,000 is simply overkill。

So Edward simply cut a part of it, and with a little modification, it became a pretty good underground gathering place, used to house those Drow who came here occasionally, as well as those Minotaur slaves who were exchanged from the dark region, it was just very suitable, in fact, if it weren't for the fact that the Drow were extremely deceitful creatures and didn't trust anyone, Edward could even have received hundreds of them into this dungeon and kept them as a standing army.

But that's just talk.

If you keep those hundreds of drows like this, these guys who believe in assassination don't need to work and build, and it won't take long for them to kill themselves, and now that Rose's edict is gradually spreading to every corner of the dark region, a large number of drow are ready to move and start looking for a way to the ground. So after thinking about it, Edward only connected an underground passage between the city under construction and Burgundy, and strictly forbade the inhabitants of the city to wander in the forest to the west, and let them solve the rest of the matter.

But no matter how powerful the earth elemental creatures are, they can't get food out of the ground, and the mouths of the lovely Dehua are getting more and more-

Let's say those minotaurs.

The minotaur is a natural warrior, a bodybuilder who is more than eight feet tall and has knotted muscles that far surpass that of humans, and with a team behind him, it is enough for a group of noble sons and daughters with ordinary human warriors to be jealous wherever they go...... And the power of this monster makes them second only to those giants in terms of popularity, and a dozen minotaurs can clear a wooded area in a day, including digging up tree roots and leveling the land......

But this majesty is not without a price) The guys had at least thirty pounds of food for three meals a day, and it was completely unscientific and completely contrary to the characteristics of the herbivore's head.

Mostly meat!

What is the concept of slaughtering at least four pigs a day? You must know that meat is not a commodity that can be purchased in batches like grain, there is actually no mature breeding industry in this world, and pigs are slaughtered in seven or eight months, which is simply a myth, not to mention that no one is willing to engage in this kind of work, and now the pig farms in the city are all built by Edward's organization, there is no feed, the population is not good, although the meat is delicate, but after a month, those little piglets are still piglets, not more than a year, so don't think about slaughtering.

Of course, the Minotaurs are cold, and even the dead can eat without spitting out their bones - in the Dark Regions, most of the food used to feed them is the corpses of the enemy and the hapless captives, but if Edward dares to do so in the city, it will take less than two days for the holy knights of the major temples to gather and run against the Adversary.

Ah, as for the food of those giants, I don't want to go into it at all.

"Your Excellency, even if the price of food is raised to one gold coin and seven silver coins and one bushel, it is already difficult to collect, and now the cost of food in the city alone in a month will exceed three thousand gold coins, although the price of the first batch of stone carvings we earn is much higher than this amount, but the salary paid to the stonemasons will greatly shrink the income, and it is ...... now."

The staff lady dutifully began to narrate the situation and express her words earnestly, but unfortunately the young lord was only absent-minded.

As for food, there is a solution now, which is the teleportation array.

Once this thing is built, it only needs to consume some of the spell energy prepared by the mage every day on the short-distance teleportation, and as long as it doesn't go too far, Edward can at least buy and sell food within a few hundred miles, and it can be done almost in a day.

However, we should not be too optimistic, after all, the commercial trade in this world is not so zìyóu, especially for military supplies such as grain.

Of course, Edward didn't care much about this - it was just a matter of spending more, and the problems that could be solved with money were not problems.

I got a lot of assets in the Empire, and I also had a lot of savings in the battles after that, although there may not be a high-level mage who is rich now, but it is much stronger than the average mage, of course, most of them are priceless things, such as dozens of scrolls of various types, more than a dozen various magic weapons, and metal ingots of pure gold and mythril. Just those dragon brand parts were enough to make his fortune break 100,000...... Platinum Coins.

It's just that those scrolls and magic items can't be exchanged for money, and at this stage, he has too many enemies to deal with, and his strength is not too much.

So, do you want to knock a pen out of that Thomas guy? Or, let James Jr. figure it out?

Thinking of a more reliable solution, he waved his hand to stop the report of the staff lady, took out a stack of things from the space bag, and shook it open.

Anna Sue was stunned.

She noticed that what the other party handed her was a pair of leather armor, simple in shape, similar to clothing, but the gray leather she had only seen once, soft and light, but faintly exuding a strange feeling

"Dragonskin?"

Dragonskin armor has always been the highest level of equipment, and its protection is almost as good as a piece of armor mixed with pure gold, and it is far softer and closer than that kind of armor. And some key parts of this soft armor are also lined with fine silver wires, although there is no magic luster shining on it, but that gentle silver light belongs to Mithril.

"Try it out, it's a reward for your work for a while. He said, but the power of mind control had already unfolded the leather armor and put it on her.

The leather armor is extremely delicately designed, there is no buckle, but it covers her chest and abdomen all the way to her slender waist, the size is just right, and it is only after putting it on the body, the staff lady notices that this thing fits the body so closely, and there is no gap to outline her curves perfectly, although Anna Sui's body is slender, it cannot be compared with the amazing scale of Dahny, as a thing designed by Edward, it naturally has a plump and upright effect, and a summer long dress on the staff lady is light and delicate, and her chest is restrained by this armor, but it looks more and more upright。 attracted the man's gaze to stay there a little longer.

"Huh, you...... You!"

Anna Sui, who didn't have time to think about it, was only stunned for a moment, and had already noticed his 'ill-intentioned' gaze, and the look that seemed to be smiling was extremely hateful, so she blushed and gritted her teeth. He threw a stack of reports overhead, stomped his foot and walked out of the door.

With a twist of mind control in the air, collecting all the scattered papers, Edward smiled, ripped open a glimmer of any door, and the next moment, it had appeared in the city square.

"Turn left, turn right! Turn left, turn right! Turn back! Turn back! Step in unison—go!"

A team of peasant soldiers is meticulously circling in the slogan, practicing for two days, these guys from civilian backgrounds can be regarded as presentable, the training given by the city lord is relatively simple, nothing more than running ten miles every day with full armor, and then holding a big knife to chop, this kind of training can not produce any results for a while, it can only be regarded as a foundation, temporary cramming.

It's just that the half-elf mercenaries noticed Blayhawk's intention before, which made the whole Burgundy a little noisy, and now two or three days have passed, but His Royal Highness the Duke seems to have lost his way back, and there is no movement, not to mention attacking the city and plundering the land, not even a deserter who accidentally ran to the front of Burgundy, and the second group of potential elven mercenaries who pay attention to the movement around at any time have no return, which is somewhat weird.

However, as soon as Edward turned his gaze, he noticed the small figure in the shadow of the corner not far away.