The traces left after the battle on the north city wall are still vivid. The blood stains in the gaps between the rocks cannot be cleaned, leaving the city wall with a dark brown color.
There was a faint sour smell permeating the city walls. The city guards were obviously used to this smell, but several magicians still couldn't help but cover their mouths and noses.
A ghost-striped soldier ant was broken off and left in a stone crevice. A shabby flag was hung on it by the city defense and was fluttering in the wind.
A total of thirty-six crossbows were arranged on the city wall of more than 300 meters. This density made these young magicians secretly stunned.
The area below the city wall is even more devastated. The land within 300 meters outside the entire north city wall looks like it has been plowed repeatedly for more than ten times. All the ground is full of potholes, and the underground coating has been dug out. There is no visible trace.
vegetation.
Only the stumps and broken legs of some ghost-striped worker ants are buried in the soil, and occasionally some hard tentacles can be found in the soil.
Now almost all the indigenous children in Dodan Town have a short dagger made of ghost-striped worker ant tentacles. They polish the bone daggers very sharply.
Under the city wall, there are some ranch employees cleaning up the ashes and bones of red ants.
The desolate scene after the war still made the young magicians feel the cruelty of the beast tide.
"We all said that we would temporarily join your cavalry battalion, and I am telling you this seriously. We don't want to come to the Bailin plane, just take a walk and then return to Helensa." Lance
Said to Surdak excitedly.
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Walking down the steps of the city wall, under the city wall are two pits where the corpses of ghost-marked soldier ants are soaked. The acid rot inside has turned into a thick and turbid green, and the smell wafting out is like a faint poisonous mist, which lingers on the ground.
The sky above the pit is still solid.
I saw four leatherworkers who looked like butchers in the work shed nearby. They were holding sharp axes and brutally chopped off the heads of ghost-marked soldier ants. The corpses were dragged away by two aborigines wearing masks and thrown directly into the shed.
In the pool of the pit, a female magician covered her mouth and nose with a silk handkerchief, and asked curiously: "Are these the hard armor of ghost-patterned soldier ants?"
Surdak nodded and introduced: "Yes, all the hunted ghost-striped soldier ants will be thrown into this pool and soaked for two days. After their hard skin is softened with acid, they will be picked up and further rinsed.
After cutting the leather in the middle, flattening it with wooden boards, shaping it, and drying it, you will get a hard leather that is as hard as a flat plate."
A female magician came over and asked Surdak: "So... that queen ant is their king. If we want to hunt the queen, we may have to face a large number of ghost-marked soldier ants?"
Surdak smelled a faint scent of tulip perfume on her body. Standing under the gentle slope where thousands of ghost-patterned soldier ant leathers were drying, the scene was absolutely spectacular.
"Indeed."
Surdak looked around and saw that the grassland near the river had been temporarily requisitioned by the garrison. Since cleaning the armor of ghost-patterned soldier ants seriously pollutes the river water, the location for cleaning the armor was chosen downstream of the river. This is a place where many
The southwest corner of Dan Town is not far from the north city wall.
Then Surdak added: "I don't know if everyone has experience hunting Warcraft in the wild...but hunting Warcraft can be very difficult."
The female magician wore a set of exquisite magic robes, had red lips and white teeth, and had a very delicate appearance.
Many female magicians are good at potions, and they have various means to make themselves look more beautiful.
The female magician asked: "Can you tell us how to redeem rewards on your merit list? We have to know how much merit we have to accumulate before we can redeem a piece of high-grade leather from the queen ant!"
"Of course, everyone, please come with me..."
After Surdak finished speaking, he led these young magicians through the large drying area and walked back to the military camp.
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When passing by the edge of the slums of the town, he saw various kinds of dried animal meat hanging outside these dilapidated wooden houses. Every house had dried a lot of it. Surdak explained to the magicians: "These are all dried in a month."
There was too much meat from the first-level monsters we hunted before, and they were all made into air-dried bacon, which is available in every household in the town. At that time, we also harvested a lot of leather from low-level monsters."
Lance and Surdak walked forward side by side. Looking at these dried monster meats, they suddenly had an idea and said, "I know this. You sent a lot of them home. The villager named Luke even approached me about this. Let's ask him."
I will introduce him to the leatherworking master... Do you still have this kind of first-level Warcraft leather here?"
Surdak nodded and replied: "Well, there are still a lot of them in the warehouse. Recently, we have been actively contacting the local business groups and have established a trading partnership. These backlogs of low-level Warcraft leathers will soon be disposed of.
Free up the warehouse to store more valuable supplies."
The original purpose of storing these low-grade Warcraft leathers was mainly to provide them in batches to the leather firm of the Gophero family, a specially reserved batch of leather.
But now there are so many soldier ant hard armors stored here, these supplies are simply piled up like a mountain.
"Actually, we draw some low-level magic scrolls that are just in use. If there is any demand for low-level magic scrolls in your military camp, we can draw a batch of them." Lance rubbed his hands and asked Surdak: "That is,
Say you supply low-level Warcraft leather, and we will customize magic scrolls according to your requirements."
For the time being, Surdak's knowledge of magic scrolls is limited to life-like magic scrolls such as 'water gathering' and 'fire gathering'.
His cavalry battalion has now been replaced with metal rune plates. As long as a fragment of magic crystal is embedded on the gold and gemstone base, it can be used for at least more than a month and can be used repeatedly.
Suldak said to Lance: "We need magic scrolls that can be opened and used on the battlefield without being triggered by spells. If you can make such scrolls, you can make more."
Lance leaned close to Surdak and said affectionately: "With our current ability, we can only store some simple elementary magic. I will use your elementary magic beast leathers and sell the scrolls to you cheaply, so that we can all
No loss at all.”
"In addition, I want to explain in advance...this type of scroll is not very safe and must be kept properly. Moreover, all magic scrolls, even if they are stored in the magic sealing box, have a certain timeliness. Once they expire, many scrolls will not be good.
Used it." Lance reminded Suldak.
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Everyone discussed the magic scroll all the way, and soon arrived at the entrance of the canteen of the military camp.
It seemed that the two female magicians came to the military camp for the first time. They were very curious about the soldiers living in the military camp. They saw a group of cavalry lining up to take a bath on the bathing wall of the camp, so they blushed and did not dare to look around.
Male hormones are exuding everywhere here, especially the cavalry on the training ground holding knight's spears and charging at the dummies, which attracted the attention of the two female magicians.
They covered their mouths reservedly with a magic book, and their bright eyes kept blinking.
In front of the bulletin board at the entrance of the canteen, there are many soldiers gathered here. Everyone is thinking about what kind of rewards their achievements can be exchanged for on the merit exchange list.
Shortly after Samira announced that she would give up redeeming the 'Elementary Power Magic Pattern Structure', Andrew also made it clear that he would not redeem this set of Magic Pattern Structure.
All first-level veterans in the cavalry battalion of Surdak's direct line have been implanted with the 'Strength and Endurance' magic pattern. Not to mention that their merit values have been reset to zero. Many veterans still owe some merit to Surdak, and they are all ineligible to compete for this set of power.
Magic pattern structure.
Now the most competitive person has become Captain Adams, but his accumulated merit points do not have a clear advantage.
In addition to Adams, several squadron captains in the reinforcements have accumulated a lot of merit points and are also strong competitors to Adams.
"No way... you actually came up with a set of elementary power magic patterns as a reward for the person with the highest merit. Let me see if you can exchange your 100,000 merit points for a magic pattern structure. If you can't exchange for this set,
For the magic pattern structure, you can also choose to get a thousand gold coins... This is really a big deal!" When Lance saw that the top of the merit exchange list was a magic pattern structure, he looked at Surda in disbelief.
gram.
Surdak stood beside him and smiled without saying a word.
Another young male magician stood in front of the merit list, pointed at Samira's name and said loudly: "Lance, come and take a look here. What's even worse is that someone in the cavalry camp has already accumulated 120,000 merits.
It’s worth...this merit point was artificially crossed out...then what did he exchange for?"
Lance turned his eyes and asked doubtfully: "Yes, Dak, I also want to know what he exchanged for it?"
"Actually, it's just a sharp bow." Surdak answered truthfully.
Originally, Lance wanted to ask what kind of sharp bow could be better than the magic pattern construct, so he heard the sweet-looking female magician ask:
"So how much merit does it take to exchange for a queen ant's high-grade leather?"
Surdak smiled implicitly and said:
"It requires 30,000 merits. This type of leather is not listed above because the soldiers in the cavalry battalion do not need this type of high-grade leather. It is too soft and is not suitable for making heavy-duty magic pattern structures."
Lance looked at the merit list in front of him and found that the top ten on the list had almost reached 30,000 merit points. He calculated that it would only take about a month to exchange for a queen ant magic skin.
The sweet-looking female magician continued to ask: "So... Baron Suldak, what I want to know is... how do we obtain merit?"
She deliberately lengthened her intonation so that she could use her nasal sound to make her voice more magnetic.
Surdak pointed to the notes under the merit list and explained to everyone: "Killing an ordinary worker ant is worth one point of merit, killing a ghost-striped soldier ant is worth fifty points of merit, and killing a giant ghost-striped soldier ant is worth 50 points of merit.
Five hundred points of merit. Killing a ghost-striped male ant will get 500 points of merit. Killing a queen ant will get 5,000 points of merit. In addition, this merit list is from about a week ago. The new round of merit list has not yet been released.
There is no statistics.”
The sweet-looking female magician covered her mouth and asked in surprise: "Does that mean we need to hunt six ant queens in order to exchange for a high-grade leather of the ant queen?"
"To be precise, the merit gained from killing six ghost-striped ant queens should only be exchanged for half of the queen's magic skin." Suldak said.
The surrounding area suddenly became quiet, and several young magicians stopped talking.
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"Why don't we hunt the ant queen ourselves? I think this kind of thing is a bit unreliable no matter how you say it. If you ask me, the few of us can just pool the money to hire a few mercenaries or adventure groups, and everyone can go directly
Looking for traces of the queen ant is better than hiding in the cavalry camp!" A voice came out from behind several magicians. The speaker was the outsider who had been pursuing the female magician all the way. Everyone called him Hanji.
S.
According to Lance's introduction, they met this colleague in Bena City.
He is a magician registered with the Magic Guild of Bena City. He seldom speaks. He just follows the female magician named Galena and is courteous to her along the way.
"Of course, if you plan to do this, I have no objection." Surdak said magnanimously: "There happens to be a mercenary union in Duodan Town, where you can hire a mercenary team."
Hangis glanced at Suldak with great disdain and became a little excited. He strode up to the female magician and said in an impassioned tone: "Gelena, why don't we hire a few trustworthy troops in Dodan Town?"
Mercenary group, I brought a sum of magic crystals with me when I went out this time, there will definitely be no problem in paying their remuneration."
"Hangis, stop talking. You are going to the hired mercenary group. Then go by yourself. Don't drag me with you. I want to be with my friends." The female magician shouted dissatisfiedly, her face becoming pale.
A little red, obviously very angry.
Hangis has a thin face and a high nose bridge. When he talks, he likes to blow his big nostrils at people: "How do you want to do this? He is exploiting your interests. We are magicians and aristocrats. He has no right to do this."
Do……"
He was very provocative when he said these words. Two young magicians were obviously moved by Hangis's words, including the sweet-looking female magician who kept asking Surdak questions.
She stood next to Galena and whispered softly: "I think what Hangis said is right."
Suldak and Lance never spoke again, but stood quietly next to the merit exchange list, listening to Magician Hangis's impassioned speech.
Galena looked at Lance with some embarrassment, standing there with her lips pursed and not speaking.
"Fellow magicians, no matter what you choose, Lance will take you to Duodan Town to practice. I will show my friendship as a landlord no matter what, and I will invite you to taste the local specialties." Suldak said.
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"I don't think it's necessary, Baron Suldak, I'm going to leave now...Thank you for your hospitality, goodbye!" After Hangis finished speaking, he turned around gracefully and looked at Galena...