"Is this it?" Narant was a little stunned when he heard about Rumba's size.
Wasn't it said that some kind of material that the yellow elf can swallow is very rare?
Aren’t magic crystals very scarce?
Why did I get one just after so little effort in coming to the land of death?
"Honorable Sir, it is true, although I was not sure before whether the essence of the earth can make the elves mutate and produce magic crystals."
"But now I am completely sure, because when I was following my father to buy magic crystals, I saw such a golden elf. It was the magic crystal mine that it opened!"
Lombard immediately affirmed and explained in detail the reasons for his conclusion.
"In addition, I have indeed heard that such an energy group is very difficult to find, because to build such an altar requires a lot of energy and materials from dark creatures."
"My dear sir, you are able to obtain it so easily this time. It should be because you have received a gift from the gods."
"Okay, Lumba, you performed well today. Later, my lord, I will ask Lilia to reward you with a bottle of magic wine!" Nalant was in a good mood and re-accommodated the elf who had become a rich man.
Jade box, and promised a reward to Lumba.
"Thank you for the gift, my lord!" Lumba, the goblin drunkard, immediately beamed with joy.
Immediately, Nalant led everyone directly out of the castle basement.
Now this altar is completely useless, so it will be useless if it remains.
When they returned to the ground, a group of subordinates had already settled down in the vestibule.
However, for the sake of safety, Nalant ordered the Storm Knights and Wolf Knights to alternately cover the goblins and start planting sacred thorns around the town.
Although it was around the previous town, all the dark creatures that followed Nalant's team this day have been eliminated.
But this is a place of death, and the dark creatures are simply inexhaustible to kill, so more and more dark creatures will continue to gather towards their inhabited areas.
However, such stragglers basically pose no threat to Nalant's team as long as they don't encounter powerful characters.
In this way, Nalant simply ate the delicious barbecue in peace and prepared to rest.
The reason why you can still eat barbecue in this dead place with sparse vegetation, which is like an oasis in the desert.
That's because Nalant has an army of magicians.
Not to mention, the fire spell released by this magician cooks food very quickly.
In fact, even without the magician's fire technique, Nalant's storage space actually stores a lot of torches and wood.
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Anyway, with the increase in magic power, his current storage space has been developed to a full twelve square meters.
In this way, spending one or two square meters to store fire-resistant torches and wood is not a problem at all.
Of course, if either of these two methods were spread, any noble would probably be shocked.
Let’s talk about the magician first. Such a noble existence has actually become the source of flame for your barbecue.
As for storage space, other people have such space objects, which are not used carefully.
After all, the size of the space is very limited, and the things you want to put in it will never be too small.
In this way, if it is only used to hold torches and wood, Nalant will definitely be spat on.
…
While Nalant was eating the fragrant and hot barbecue, the other alliance teams were not so relaxed.
Many teams are still fighting fiercely.
For example, the alliance of small principalities such as the Principality of Haibei and the Principality of Lot are the closest to Nalant, just over a hundred kilometers away.
A group of nobles from the principality looked at the two gargoyles in front of them, gnashing their teeth.
"Asshole, this gargoyle is definitely the dark creature I hate the most!"
"Yes, I managed to kill him with great difficulty, but in just over a minute, he was resurrected with full health!"
"There is no other way, keep fighting! This is just a small Viscount Castle. I really don't know if we will encounter more powerful dark creatures in the future!"
"It's hard to say. This year's expedition not only encountered strange and active attacks by dark creatures in the isolation zone, but even after entering the land of death, there were many times more dark creatures on the edge than in previous years."
"Yes, what are these dark creatures doing? In the past, we would have to go deep into the Land of Death for at least several days to encounter such gargoyles!"
"Well, the magicians of the Holy Academy have just said that their magic power can only support knocking down these two gargoyles two more times, so don't hide them later, and use all your strength to attack!"
"good!"
Immediately, a group of principality representatives began to wait for the newly resurrected gargoyle to be knocked down, while helping their subordinates to deal with the green-striped spiders to reduce the burden on the team.
The route they were assigned was different from Nalant's, and the number of dark creatures they encountered was several times greater.
There are a total of 40,000 to 50,000 dark creatures.
Of course, by the same token, their number is greater than that of Nalant.
In this way, being targeted by so many dark creatures is not any more difficult than Nalant.
And just a moment later, a shout suddenly came from Haibei and the Lott Alliance team.
This was when the magicians from the Sacred Magic Academy who were assigned to lead their joint team began to cast spells again.
As the leading high-level magician gave orders, the remaining twenty or so magicians of varying strengths began to cast spells.
Whoosh whoosh!
A moment later, more than twenty fireballs rose into the sky, and there was also a pyrotechnic fireball mixed in.
"Haha, beat that damn gargoyle to death!"
"Yeah, kill the gargoyles. Although these magicians of the Holy Academy of Magic usually look aloof and annoying, but when faced with an even more disgusting existence like the gargoyles, I feel that these magicians of the Holy Academy of Magic are still
It’s bearable!”
"Hush, you guy, be careful if they listen to you. If you don't help us deal with the dark creatures, it will be a disaster!"
"But having said that, more than twenty magicians firing fireballs is really spectacular!"
"Yeah, it's really spectacular!"
All the principality representatives looked up and watched the more than twenty fireballs rising into the sky, and couldn't help but sigh.
However, they didn't know that if such a sigh were known to Nalant, he would definitely laugh out loud at the roasted meat he just swallowed.
At this time, there were only more than 20 magicians, which was considered spectacular, but my master, more than a hundred fireballs flew together, and it started to become an earth-shattering movement.
Fortunately, Nalant is not here.
Almost three or four minutes later, under the vigorous bombardment of a group of magicians, a gargoyle was bombarded again and fell to the ground.
"Everyone, attack with all your strength!"
Immediately, the representatives of the principalities did not dare to neglect, and immediately started to kill the gargoyle that had just fallen to the ground.
This gargoyle has not turned into a stone statue at this moment, so its fighting power is still strong.
Just like what Nalant had encountered before, the gargoyle began to run rampant on the ground.
There are still a large number of representatives of the nobles, and their strength has reached the level of the Earth Knights.
After several minutes of fierce fighting, the gargoyle was finally crippled and turned into a stone statue.
After the gargoyle turned into a stone statue, these principality representatives became even more diligent.
After all, the gargoyle had been injured before, so there was no need to be too impatient.
But it's different now.
If the stone statue of the gargoyle is not smashed into pieces within three minutes, then when they are about to face it, they will be resurrected with full health.
"Go to hell!"
"Thunder Sword Slash!"
"Hot Sword!"
Dang Dang Dang!
Immediately, a group of representatives of the principalities swarmed forward, using all their fighting energy to attack the gargoyle statue.
The strength of the representatives of these principalities is not much stronger than that of Nalant now.
So the damage of each slash is actually similar to Nalant's previous appearance.
Fortunately, they are more powerful in numbers.
And this time the greetings were all directed to one place, so the effect was actually quite good, and the clanging sound never stopped.
Wow!
And just over two minutes later, when it was about to reach three minutes, a crashing sound was finally heard from the statue.
This time, along with a group of slaves representing the principality, the gargoyle was finally taken away.
"Haha, this annoying guy was finally killed!"
"Yeah, it's really not easy!"
"Yes, you are the first team among all the principality teams to kill the gargoyles!"
"It's really possible. After all, we have cooperated so many times and have the experience of killing gargoyles twice in the past. As for other principality teams, it seems that many principalities have not encountered gargoyles yet!"
"That's right, even if our results today are not as good as those of the empire teams, we are still far ahead of the principality teams!"
Representatives from the Principality of Haibei, the Principality of Lot and other principalities expressed their joy.
"By the way, I wonder if Baron Nalant will encounter a gargoyle this time."
"It's very possible. After all, we encountered two here. This has never happened in the past."
"Well, I hope we don't encounter Baron Nalant. He is quite a good person. If we encounter him, his team may defeat other ordinary dark creatures, but they will definitely not be able to deal with this gargoyle."
"Yes, even if Baron Nalant can knock down the gargoyle, if he can't break the gargoyle statue, then this gargoyle will be invincible to his team!"
"Okay, the second gargoyle has also been knocked down, let's do it quickly!"
Just when everyone was discussing whether Nalant had encountered a gargoyle or even whether he could kill the gargoyle.
The second gargoyle was also knocked down.
Immediately, a group of noble representatives regained their thoughts and began to work hard to deal with the second gargoyle.
About ten minutes later, the second gargoyle was finally eliminated.
"Haha, we are in sight of victory tonight!"
"Victory is in sight. Killing two gargoyles so quickly. Such an honor is enough for us to spread the word after we return!"
"Yeah, haha, I'm so excited just thinking about it!"
With both gargoyles being eliminated, this actually means that the principality team of the Seashell Principality has won the battle.
And this is also the case, time has passed for more than half an hour.
Half an hour later, all the dark creatures on the battlefield were killed.
"Let's go to the castle ahead to check!"
Immediately, a group of duchy representatives led their subordinates towards the small town ahead and the Viscount Castle.
And then, what happened when Nalant entered the castle happened again.
In order to ensure the true safety of the castle, the representatives of the principality naturally sent many subordinates to conduct a carpet search.
And soon, they were notified by their subordinates that they had discovered a strange place in the basement of the castle.
When a group of principality representatives cautiously arrived at the basement, they were immediately stunned by the scene in front of them.
"Oh my god, by the gods, this is...the essence of the earth and time!"
"Yes, it's really the spirit of the earth. We are so lucky, aren't we? In the past, the spirit of the earth only had a certain probability of appearing in the castle of a marquis or a duke!"
"Yes, why do earth spirits appear in such a Viscount's castle this time? Has the dark creature's head gone bad?"
"Whatever, we should be happy to meet the earth spirit in such a viscount's castle, right? This represents the magic crystal! As long as it is sold to the Goblins, we can get hundreds of thousands of it every year.
Where are the gold coins!”
"Besides, two gargoyles have appeared in the Viscount's castle, so it's not too strange for this earth spirit to appear!"
"Haha, everyone is right. This earth essence belongs to several of our principalities. I will release the elf first. Then everyone will just give me the gold coins of the elf!"
With that said, the representatives of the Principality of Seashell, the Principality of Lot and other principalities happily let the yellow elf devour the earth essence in the basement.
In fact, what they don't know is that they are not the only ones who have obtained this earth essence.
Including Nalant and all other principality teams, as long as they captured the occupied noble castle, they obtained the essence of the earth.
Moreover, in addition to harvesting the earth spirits, they also encountered more or less earth spirits, such as the teams of the six empires, and some extreme cases even encountered more than ten gargoyles.
And this situation is obviously very different from what they encountered during previous expeditions.
However, no one was in contact with each other at the moment, so they all felt that their experience was an exception and did not take it to heart. Instead, they felt lucky because they had obtained the essence of the earth, which was difficult to obtain in the past.
…
The next morning, Narant got up early.
When he got up, a group of subordinates had already distributed the sacred thorns around the town at intervals of tens of meters.
The sacred thorns are so magical that even if no one is guarding them, dark creatures will not actively attack.
In this way, the sacred thorns do not need to worry about being destroyed after planting.
Of course, the sacred thorns are not foolproof once they are planted. Otherwise, if the human race wants to drive away the dark creatures, it would be so troublesome. All they have to do is send death squads to cultivate the sacred thorns everywhere.
Although this sacred thorn will not be attacked and destroyed by dark creatures, it is a plant after all, so it needs to be fertilized and watered.
Especially water, if it is not watered for a month or two, the sacred thorn will automatically wither.
In this way, every time the alliance team goes on an expedition, they need to clean up the surrounding dark creatures as much as possible. This is also so that they can send people to take care of the sacred thorns in the future.