Chapter 164: Echoes in the Wilderness (1)
There are people on the top who are easy to be an official, and there is no doubt about this truth, whether it is the aristocratic world in the game or the real world. Although this truth belongs to the theory of the same unspoken rules, many players are very clear about this one.
Unfortunately, even if you know this, most players cannot find a backer for themselves in the game. After all, compared with outsiders like players, most indigenous nobles trust those local residents who are aware of the truth. In addition, the players' immortality, some things are difficult to hand over to the players, such as killing people to silence the people in charge of silence. When encountering players, it is basically impossible to complete, because no matter how the player kills, he will not die completely.
However, Chen Kai's backer is quite tough no matter how you look at it. Although his so-called backers may not be completely responsible, at least they can help Chen Kai block many things. For example, in the matter of raising private troops, Chen Kai is not a fundamental aristocrat. His rise is a nouveau riche in the words of many indigenous aristocrats. Although Chen Kai's title and military achievements are all made by one sword and one shot, if he adds his identity as a traveler, many indigenous aristocrats feel delicious and dissatisfied.
Whether it is Baron Kemal Dal or other Aboriginal nobles, they slandered Chen Kai on the surface and in private, because they felt that if they had the ability to die and had the bloodline of the Titan Half Giant, they could do better than Chen Kai. Of course, not only the Aboriginal will yy, but also the players will do the same. Unfortunately, these can only exist in their minds.
However, when Chen Kai left Berkner Town with nearly 5,000 troops, most players couldn't help but have the same thoughts again. Compared with the player's troops, the indigenous troops' prohibition discipline and neat equipment showed enviousness, and they would also even envy the master of this unit, the lord Chen Kai.
As for Chen Kai who almost had to spend all the money in his pocket in order to maintain such a force, most players would not know and would not know. The so-called glamorous storefront is basically Chen Kai's current state. Even if there are less than two million gold coins left in his pocket, Chen Kai is also the well-deserved richest among players in the eyes of others. Even if Chen Kai has no penny in his pocket. With a huge town like Berkner Town, no one would believe that he has no money.
In fact, some idle and painful players have calculated Chen Kai's wealth. The value of armor on the more than 5,000 infantry alone is more than 3 million gold coins. Although the equipment value of each soldier is only 600 gold coins, the premise is that you can buy these equipment at this price. You should know that many of Chen Kai's equipment are purchased from the warehouse in Hugodi's old city, and some things that can't be bought with gold coins. The black armor cavalry armor worn by the more than 3,000 cavalry is enough to equip ten infantry, and for players, they are willing to take out three thousand or even five thousand gold coins to buy such a set of armor. In this way, Chen Kai's cavalry's equipment alone is worth more than 9 million gold coins, and those war horses are even more difficult to calculate.
But even though Chen Kai's overall net worth is increasing, one thing cannot be changed. That is, his wallet is shriveling. At the current speed of his wallet being shriveled, if Chen Kai cannot open up the Altinis trade route within two months, his pocket will be clean. So both Chen Kai himself and Xu Fei were very anxious. This time, in order to push the monsters outside the wild, Xu Fei even brought out the special magic device that he had prepared for a long time.
The arcane piercing cannon he created in the Redstone Fortress was never used due to the magic power consumption. Even if he used the magic array to assist, it could not change the taboo needs of the spell. The consequences of use were completely at the cost of Xu Fei being sucked into a human and his body was completely sacrificed to ashes. The side effects were also extremely terrible. He had no way to fight in the past half a month, which was like a worm. In order to change this situation, in addition to using the reduced castration version of the piercing cannon, Xu Fei has also been studying how to use the magic array to increase the possibility of spell release. Under his research, a creative magic array was born, of course, this is not Xu Fei's own wisdom. It also concentrated the wisdom of nearly 10,000 players, especially nearly 1,000 amazon players.
"Three-dimensional Sacrifice Array Experimental Type 1" This is what Chen Kai saw that Xu Fei spent nearly 300,000 gold coins, plus five pounds of Mithril silver that could not be used to calculate the price. At the first glance after seeing this thing, Chen Kai thought that Xu Fei spent more than 300,000 gold coins to make a cage, or a test bench.
But then he discovered that this thing should be a very evil instrument, because his function was to completely transfer the sacrifice effect that Xu Fei had endured to others. As for the target of the transfer, the four little demons bound under the platform where Xu Fei stood. These guys captured in the battle will become test subjects. If the experiment fails, not only Xu Fei will die himself. It is estimated that the four little demons may not be able to survive.
Of course, in addition to Xu Fei, the spell casters participating in the experiment also had many players staying in Berkner Town and the host of the Berkner Town Mage Agreement. This old mage was very interested in the three-dimensional sacrifice magic circle made by Xu Fei. As for using the little demon as a substitute for the caster, he did not feel any disgusted with it, nor did he think it was too evil. There is no absolute distinction between good and evil for mages. Some of them were just the concept of exploring the truth. If Xu Fei's magic circle succeeded, then for the spell casters of the Hansting Empire or the military mages of the Hansting Court, they recorded many taboo spells that would be unblocked. Because many of these spells were released at the cost of the spell caster themselves. If the power of the magic circle could be used to transfer this sacrifice ability, the attack ability of the mage group would become even more terrifying.
Because advanced mages will no longer worry that using taboo spells will endanger their lives. For mages, the lives of other species are not within their considerations. Of course, it is not that none of the mages have tried to use other methods to release taboo spells, but most of them ended in failure. In Xu Fei's research, this old mage also provided a lot of information on this aspect, plus the information collected by the players themselves, and finally made this so-called test bench.
"Second! Is your thing reliable?" Chen Kai stood behind Xu Fei and asked. Chen Kai only called Xu Fei the second when he was very serious. After all, the name Xu Fei himself doesn't like it very much. No one wants to be associated with something of a specific meaning.
"It should be reliable!" Xu Fei was actually quite guilty when he heard Chen Kai's question. Because he didn't think this thing would be reliable in his heart. You should know that even the most amazing arcane artists sometimes have to abide by certain spell rules, or the spell rules of the entire game world. No matter what kind of power, they follow the principle of equivalent exchange, and to obtain a more terrifying spell casting effect, you need to pay the right price, and this price can sometimes not be replaced by other people's things.
The reason why Xu Fei was not confident was that among the various materials provided by the old mage, the failed spell casters focused on the explanation of the passage. "Equivalent exchange is the only truth that this universe and the world can never change!" In order to practice this sentence, these advanced spell casters proved him at the cost of their lives, and Xu Fei's current behavior is actually equivalent to challenging the authenticity of this sentence, that is, challenging the truth. So when he proposed the concept of this magic circle, the old mage told him that he was playing with fire. However, the existence of the player itself is a challenge to certain truths in the game world, so Xu Fei wanted to prove that his idea was correct. If he succeeded, it would not only be his success but also the success of all the players who supported him.
Of course, Xu Fei would not use this thing easily. After all, if he only uses ordinary monsters as a target. If the spell released is not successful, it would be unprofitable to pay a heavy price to only get the death of a low-level monster. So Chen Kai and his team's attack target were high-level monsters encountered in this flat-push battle, and they soon encountered one.
Although players can compete with Aboriginal soldiers of the same level in terms of combat power, they will even be slightly more than that. However, when fighting in a large group, the weakness of players' respective battles will lead to their inability to concentrate their combat power. At the same time, in order to compete for the dropped equipment, they will sometimes pull each other back. In this way, the player's combat power can be at most 70%, and the main body of the battle in a large group is never individual soldiers, but the power of the entire legion. In a group battle, the strength of the soldiers will be amplified, and the advantages and disadvantages of the players and Aboriginal soldiers will be obvious under this situation of increase and decrease.
So most of the time, the player lord hopes that he has a unit composed of pure indigenous people. Unfortunately, indigenous people are not necessarily willing to join the army under the players. If it weren't for the transfer order, the soldiers in Chen Kai would probably not have become his militia at all. As for the soldiers expanded later, if they were not led by the militia, they would not have the current unit without the initial militia.
Of course, although the Aboriginal soldiers in Chen Kai's army are the backbone, they still need a large number of players to cooperate. If they rely solely on the combat effectiveness of the Aboriginal soldiers, Chen Kai could not achieve the goal of flat pushing, and perhaps the one who was flattened would be his troops.
Although there are basically no such large-scale gathering of demonized creatures in the wilderness outside Berkner. Facing the butcher knife that Chen Kai waved, those demonized rats and wolfs, and other creatures, except for escaping, the only ending is to become the stinking corpses on the ground waiting to be cleaned. The corpses of these demonized creatures are very dirty. If they are not cleaned in time, the flesh and blood of the ** and flesh mixed into the soil, it will pollute at least half a hectare of land. These lands cannot be cultivated, and even the plants grown will become distorted. The fields outside Hugodi's old city have proved with facts how vicious the flesh and blood of these demonized creatures are, so Chen Kai strictly stipulated in the lord decree that players must clean up the bodies of all demonized creatures that they killed.
Of course, for players, the bodies of demonized creatures are things containing wealth, and they will not discard them at will. Although their flesh cannot be eaten, they can be used to process them into spell materials. At least a dozen magic items in witchcraft need to be nourished with magical flesh and blood. Some players who specialize in black witchcraft even use the flesh and blood of these demonized creatures to make flesh puppets, or simply use them to feed demonized creatures for domestication. So Chen Kai is basically not worried that no one will collect the corpses on the ground. Even if he does not issue a decree, players will actively collect these things under the driving force of gold coins. In fact, Chen Kai himself sometimes has to help Zhao Tiezhu's young wife He Liwen collect the flesh and blood of monsters to feed some demonized plants she planted in the back garden of the lord's mansion.
These weird-looking plants have very special medicinal value. Now most of the supply of therapeutic potions in the entire Berkner Town requires some parts of these plants as materials. At the same time, He Liwen's pharmacy shop has also become the largest tax source in the entire Berkner Town, and of course Chen Kai and others are the largest source of income. Although He Liwen's pharmacy is sometimes very unreliable, in the absence of medical treatment and medicine, most players have to choose to use the potions she produces. If the efficacy is not enough, then increase the amount. If the efficacy is too enough, then congratulations on winning the prize, because most of the pharmacies with sufficient efficacy will have some uncomfortable side effects.
At some point, the little witch's potion is just like a lottery in the eyes of players in Berkner Town. Once they are unlucky, they can only spread their anger on the blockade of the aboriginal nobles in the north, and the group of profiteers who have added many times the price of smuggled drugs. No matter how strong the side effects of He Liwen's potion have, at least her medicine has not been taken to death, and the efficacy is still good. Among the players who followed Chen Kai to conduct a large-scale clearance this time, a large number of them brought special materials to the healing potion in their pockets.
Of course, Chen Kai would not let those players know that the potion he drank was mixed with some special medicinal materials that were poured out with the flesh and blood of the demonized creatures. Because even he himself was unwilling to take this kind of potion that smelled strange after knowing the news. Although many of the potions made by He Liwen were high-quality, at least Xu Fei had a magic burning potion that he would use later. The only effect of this potion is to increase the effect of the magic recovery potion, just like adding a scoop of fuel to the fire to complete the effect of the potion that was originally slowly recovered in a short time. Although it will be accompanied by side effects such as nausea and vomiting. It may even lead to a short-term decrease in intelligence, but for the quick recovery of the caster's magic, the effect of the potion is absolutely great.
Unfortunately, the materials of this potion are also the most rare and terrifying. Fortunately, Xu Fei didn't know the materials needed to configure this potion, otherwise he would never be able to drink the bottle of small red potion on his waist.
"The moon is dark and the wind is high! It's a good time to kill people!" Guan Yu rode his little red horse slowly by Chen Kai's side. His old red rabbit had completely disappeared, let alone the body was not even found a rabbit hair. In the end, he could only find a small red horse with spots on his forehead as a mount in Chen Kai's stable, but what made Chen Kai depressed was that this guy rode his horse away but didn't give him money. You should know that this little red horse is also a high-level mount with blood provenance. Even if it's not as fast as the Andean war horse, it's still a thousand-mile horse that sells at least three or four thousand gold coins. The Qianjin horse basically refers to Guan Yu's butt. Therefore, every time he sees Guan Yu riding his little red horse, Chen Kai has the urge to pay the other party.
"Kill a person! Now we are killing monsters. I don't want to meet any so-called people at night!" Chen Kai said angrily. Because most of the demonized creatures appear at night, Chen Kai had to choose to fight on nights with severe eyesight restrictions. He was already very dissatisfied with this. It would be even worse if he met a large number of demonized soldiers at night. Even if the moonlight is good, it would not change the dimness of vision. Although Chen Kai brought Chen Yi, a permanent light bulb, this time, even if Chen Yi's light bulb is bright, it is not as good as the sun.
"Lord! A group of demonized wild boars appeared in front of him!" At this moment, a scout reported a news to Chen Kai. Because Drake's body had not fully recovered, Chen Kai had to ask Guan Yu to temporarily bring those black-armored cavalry for Drake. So after the scout's report was completed, Guan Yu directly whistled, and before Chen Kai could react, he rushed towards the demonized wild boars with a cavalry of a thousand-person team.
"Damn it!" "Snatch monsters!" "Leave some meat, Brother Guan!" For a moment, the players behind began to scream because they were all familiar with Guan Yu's routine. Basically, when Guan Yu raised his sword, there must be monsters in front of him, and at this time there was monster that represented experience and gold coins. Unfortunately, our Brother Guan ignored these sounds. He even ignored Chen Kai's shouts and rushed directly to the front of the group of demonized wild boars, and slashed down with one knife.
When Chen Kai led the team to feel it, nearly a hundred demonized wild boars were all turned into corpses lying on the ground, and nearly 10,000 teams could only wipe their butts and collect their bodies. At the same time, Guan Yu's children's shoes had already led their troops toward another target again, and Chen Kai and others could only eat dust from behind. For this reason, Chen Kai could only jump but had no choice but to do so.
Chapter completed!