Chapter 5: Out to Sea
The black dragon landed about ten kilometers away from Yuntao City, and everyone jumped off the dragon's back one after another, and the two magicians, Fario and Etasha, were weak and had to work hard to get off the dragon's back.
Ma Ken smiled and said: "Everyone must be tired from the journey in the past few days, so let's recuperate in this city for a day." Recharge your batteries and be prepared, for tomorrow we will be in the treacherous waters of the Reese Sea. Remember, we will meet here at the same time tomorrow. โ
"I think we should rent a ship in this Yuntao City. Dick said.
Etasha blinked her pretty eyes and asked, "What about Weishenme, Your Excellency Marken's black dragon can carry us through the air, so why should we do anything else?"
Dick explained, "The dragon's breath is so obvious that if we rode the dragon through the waters of Rees, it would be a beacon of light for the Sirens there. โ
"Lord Dick is right, leave this matter to me. Marken said with a smile.
The crowd talked for a while, and then they all took their leave, and before leaving, Dick glanced at Zenas's back, the dark mage walking towards Yuntao City. It's not that Dick didn't think about solving this Murgohn's personal disciple on the way, but first, a famous teacher produces a high apprentice, and he is not sure of winning this disciple of the first dark mage in the whole continent, and secondly, this will arouse everyone's suspicions, and Dick is still very interested in exploring this so-called god ruin.
After being inspected by the soldiers at the city gate, Dick and Hawk entered Yuntao City smoothly.
Yuntao City is the largest port city on the eastern coast of the Miro Empire, and in order to deal with the threat of the Kraken Clan, the Miro Empire has stationed more than 300 large warships in the open sea of the city, as well as more than 1,000 small warships.
Being close to the border without having to worry about security makes the city as prosperous as Valques. But unlike the classical elegance of Valks City and the grandeur of the imperial capital of Mirrock, Yuntao City is also full of chaos, where characters from all religions and nine streams gather. This includes unscrupulous smugglers and fugitive criminals. There are high-end bars, restaurants and inns, as well as underground casinos, brothels and slave markets.
After two days of travel, Dick and his wife were tired and sleepy, and as soon as he entered the city, Dick chose a random high-end hotel and opened two rooms for himself and Hawke.
Closing the door to the hotel room, Dick immediately threw himself on the soft large bed, and then asked, "Dimihera, can you see the cultivation of that dark mage named Zenas?"
A thick black mist surged out of Dick's body, condensing into a beautiful woman with black hair and red eyes in mid-air, just looking at her appearance was definitely a quiet and dignified woman, but the blood-red eyes revealed a trace of wild beauty, forming a sharp contrast.
"According to human beings, it is a ninth-level great demon master, and it is only one step away from the Holy Realm. Dimichra spoke.
"How likely are the two of us to defeat him?" Dick asked again.
Dimihera shook her head and said, "About twenty percent, plus that Hawke, there is about thirty percent of the chance." โ
Dick fell silent, and the room fell silent for a moment.
Dimhera suddenly spoke again: "Boy, you have to be careful, you are staring at him, I can feel that he is also quietly watching you, and he has shown murderous intentions. โ
Dick immediately broke out in a cold sweat, he was really careless! As a close confidant of Jax, Murgohn naturally had his own information, Zenas was his personal disciple, and of course he knew his identity, how could he be so careless? He actually imagined himself as a hunter from the beginning, without considering that he was also the prey of others.
"Dimichra, it's really xiexie. Dick wiped a cold sweat and said with palpitations.
"Boy, you don't come. Dimichra pouted cutely.
After a while, Dick asked, "And what about the strength of the rest of the team?
"Well, let me think about it......" Dimihera held her cheek in one hand and made a contemplative gesture: "Except for that Zenas, the strongest is that Macen, the eighth-level dragon knight, and then, well, it's Moscut, the sixth-level dragon knight, and then there's Etasha, the fifth-level archmage, and then there's Hemerson, the fourth-level dragon knight, who was defeated in your hands, and those three berserkers have the worst individual strength, only the level of the third-level dragon knight, but the berserkers have the skill of berserker, and there are three of them, which should not be underestimated." โ
"Dimichra......
"I know, I won't absorb your magic power and fighting spirit these days," before Dick finished speaking, Dimihera said, "But the magic array you bought at the same price can't be carried with you, otherwise the cultivation effect will be better." โ
Dick couldn't help but smile when he heard this: "Don't forget, I'm a space-time mage. As soon as he finished speaking, he leapt out of bed, and the pure and majestic essence magic flowed from his fingertips like mercury, drawing a teleportation magic circle on the floor of the hotel......
The next morning, everyone gathered together again, and everyone who had rested for the whole day was in good spirits.
"I've hired a ship in the city, please come with me." โ
The crowd followed him until they came to the docks of Yuntao City. Although it was only early in the morning, the docks were already very lively, many of the bridges that stretched out on the sea like tree branches were full of boats, and the autumn morning was very cold, but the dock workers were wearing only a thin vest, and they were busy disassembling and loading the ship's goods.
Marken led the group up to the bridge and came to a three-masted galleon, whose captain was sitting on deck smoking a dry cigarette, with a black blindfold in his right eye and a wooden stick on his left calf, only two hands still alive.
"What the hell is wrong with this captain, Lord Marken?" Moscart asked, asking everyone's questions.
"Don't be surprised," Marken explained, "The captain of the Coldstar and all the sailors on board are smugglers and pirates, and these are the only two people who are willing to take people to the territory of the Kraken for money. If it's an ordinary sailor, who has the guts?"
Everyone thought about it and thought it was too.
As he spoke, Marken had already led the group to the front of the ship, "Captain Spark, our men are here and ready to sail!"
Captain Spark glanced at Marken with his remaining left eye and said, "Okay, after entering the Kraken Clan's territory, one hundred gold coins for every nautical mile you advance." โ
"No problem, you can rest assured. As he spoke, Marken jumped aboard the boat, and the rest of the group got on board and stood still.
"All right, boys, let's sail!" said Captain Spark, who at once shouted to the sailors, who raised their sails and pulled their anchors, and the big ship began to sail slowly in the morning breeze.
Seeing that the ship was getting farther and farther away from land, Captain Spark said to the crowd, "Come, let me show you your respective rooms. โ
The border between the Miro Empire and the Theseus Empire.
The 400,000 ironclad lions of the Miro Expeditionary Force joined up with the 100,000 soldiers who had been drawn from the border guards again, and the total army of 520,000 crossed the border between the two countries and launched an invasion on the territory of the Empire of Hughes on a cold morning.
In this war, Miro invested a total of 380,000 infantry, 100,000 cavalry, 40,000 archers, 18 dragon knights, and two holy realm powerhouses, namely the Shadow Sword Saint Ucdes, and the chief magician of the Miro Empire's court, Fario.
"Kill!" more than 500,000 soldiers roared with all their might, and the sound shook the heavens and the earth. Like a torrent of steel, the rolling tide of soldiers carried a thunderous momentum and pounced on the fortified fortress in front of them.
There are also some behemoths mixed in the rolling crowd, which are ladders, siege towers, trebuchets and other siege equipment.
One ladder after another was erected on the city wall, and the soldiers, clad in iron armor, armed with round shields and long knives, scrambled to climb Xiangshang and fought bloodily with the enemy until they died. One after another thousand-pound boulders were lifted high by trebuchets, like meteors, or smashed into the inside of the fortress, setting off waves of blood and flesh, or smashing on the city wall, blasting out hideous cracks. The siege towers were loaded with elite archers, and the arrows were dense like rain, covering the city all over the world.
The battlefield often erupts with colorful magical flames, which are the magicians of both sides and the magic crystal cannons at the head of the fortress showing their power, and under the colorful flames, there is overflowing blood and endless broken corpses.
The sound of charging, fighting, screaming, weapon blocking, rocking, magic cracking, all kinds of sounds are noisy and chaotic.
In less than two hours of fighting, the walls of the fortress were already full of corpses, both those of the Miro Empire and the Shusi Empire, and the blood on the walls had already become rivers. The walls were also bombarded and mutilated, and the soldiers of the Miro Empire no longer needed to rely on ladders to climb the walls, but poured directly into the fortress through the cracks in these walls.
The soldiers of the Empire of Hus did not show weakness, they guarded every street corner and every house inside the fortress, and the soldiers of Miro had to pay a dozen lives for every street they advanced in the city.
Behind Mirรณ's army, on a high slope, there was a tent, in which three men sat and two stood, three of whom were Edward VII, Marshal Lupsas, and the fourth prince, Longer. One of the two people standing was a middle-aged man in black with a pale face and gloomy eyes, and the other was an old magician wearing an earthy yellow magic robe and a pointed magician hat on his head.
At the entrance of the tent, facing the fierce battle, eighteen men dressed as warriors or mages surrounded the tent.
Field Marshal Lupsas frowned and looked at the battlefield in the distance: "The resistance of the Hughes is far more stubborn than expected, and we can't afford to waste too many troops here. โ
The Fourth Prince, Long Er, also said: "The magicians and magic crystal cannons on the other side are the biggest attack output, and we can't let them slaughter our soldiers." โ
Edward VII nodded approvingly, he turned to the middle-aged man in black behind him and said, "Mr. Ukdez, I'm going to trouble you." โ
The shadow-eyed Shadow Sword Saint nodded wordlessly, his figure suddenly disappeared like a ghost, and once again flashed hundreds of meters away, and he pounced on the fortress in the distance at this astonishing speed. Like a solid stone breaking through a wave, none of the Xiusi soldiers along the way could stop his figure, and all of them were cut by a clean sword.
When Ukdez reappeared in the tent, his body was completely red with blood. The cloth boots on his feet still had scarlet minced flesh, and the bloodied sword was slowly unsheathed, and the fortress in the distance never let out a single magic ......
The battle began to take on a one-sided stance, and by noon, all the Hughes soldiers who dared to resist in the fortress had been wiped out, and the rest had either fled to the interior of the Hughes Empire or had been taken prisoner.
The Milo Expeditionary Force won a great victory in the first battle, and conquered the eastern fortress of the Xius Empire without consuming too many troops.
Correspondingly, the Hughes Empire's invasion of the Miro Empire is also in full swing to organize resistance to Liliang, including the dispatch of border troops and the organization of reserve soldiers, and the 600,000 troops led by General Isr have been assembled in the imperial capital of Xiufaste and are ready to go.
The main forces of the two armies collided, and it was on the verge of breaking out!