Chapter 331: Death of a man facing the sky, a magical mechanical falcon
Through the background introduction of [King Arthur's Ring of Dominance], combined with his understanding of aboriginal forces during this period, Zong Shen has discovered some unusual situations.
There are some issues that go beyond the indigenous forces themselves.
This world seems to be in a semi-stagnant state after the dimensional war more than 10,000 years ago.
After such a long period of development, the three major technological directions of rune technology, alchemy engineering, and magic energy technology have not made much progress, but they are more sophisticated than they were more than 10,000 years ago.
In essence, there is not much progress, but there has been some progress in the refinement of the application.
Secondly, in the thousands of years after the Dimensional War, human kingdoms were established one after another, and they have remained in a relatively stable state until today.
Although small frictions continue, a full-scale war at the kingdom level has not happened for hundreds of years.
It is as if an invisible hand is intervening in these indigenous kingdoms, stabilizing the entire system and the world, allowing them to recuperate and accumulate wealth and resources.
It was as if it was responding to the arrival of the lords and had been preparing for tens of thousands of years in advance.
This is what makes Zong Shen extremely frightened when he thinks about it.
The aboriginal kingdom is powerful, but it is like a doll played by unimaginable beings.
However, Zong Shen was not qualified to worry about the aborigines.
Compared with the aboriginal people, the lords were not much better. They were brutally descended directly and entered this different world without any warning or explanation.
Speaking of which, the lords are just like the aboriginal forces. They are just under the control of each other, but the missions and tasks assigned to them are different.
No one wants their fate to be controlled by unknown existences. When Zong Shen guessed this, he couldn't help but feel despair and decadence in his heart.
He didn't know how to break away from this mysterious and powerful existence, like a trapped ant that couldn't find a way to escape.
Sometimes knowing too much is not necessarily a good thing. It can make you forget the path you are on and be troubled by inappropriate questions.
When a person's realm and strength are not up to the level of solving problems, he will only feel powerless when facing these problems.
At this moment, a golden subtitle slowly appeared, and the strategy module noticed his emotional changes and resurrected some functions from dormancy.
(Don’t think wildly, and don’t be intimidated by yourself. The truth is by no means as simple as what you see. Work hard to develop and become the most powerful lord in the world. In the future, you will have the opportunity to touch the highest secrets)
The golden subtitles shone golden light in front of Zong Shen's eyes, just like the rising sun in the east.
This time, the prompt subtitles flashed in front of his eyes for more than ten seconds before slowly dissipating.
"You're right, just do it and it's over."
"Who cares now? In the future, if a person dies, he will look up to the sky, and he will not die for tens of millions of years!"
Zong Shen looked at the subtitles and gradually regained his composure. All those inappropriate worries about the future were swept away. He didn't care about his future at the moment. Who could care about his uncle's future?
"Pooh!"
Zong Shen spat on the ground, as if he was showing contempt for some supreme existence, and it was also a kind of fearlessness for the future.
Mentality can collapse as soon as it collapses, and it can heal as soon as it's okay, but in the end, as long as the person is alive, it's just a matter of scaring yourself.
After he checked the skill details of the title skill and [King Arthur's Ring of Dominance], more than twenty minutes had passed, and it was already four o'clock in the afternoon.
It will be almost dark in another two or three hours, but the dark clouds above our heads have never dispersed. Instead, they have become thicker and thicker over the course of a day.
According to the announcement at the end of the final challenge, the specific details of the next round of challenges will not be announced until noon the day after tomorrow, and the challenge itself will not start until the day after tomorrow.
According to a seven-day challenge cycle, this challenge actually lasts four days.
Everyone can know the news one day in advance and make preparations.
Zong Shen can now imagine that when the challenge details come out in two days, all kinds of cold-warming supplies will definitely be snapped up by the lords frantically.
The day before and the day after the challenge starts will be the peak of the panic buying wave. By then, Zong Shen can definitely make a fortune by relying on the cold-warming supplies he has on hand.
Just after the crypt challenge ended, all the surviving lords had more or less some savings on hand, and everyone was able to resume collecting and exploring in the past two days.
Zong Shen can take advantage of this opportunity to earn some wealth through normal market trade methods. After all, in the future, the development of Zong Shen's territory will still require a lot of resources.
As long as he makes money fast enough, the bottleneck of development will not catch up with him.
Zong Shen led the team and hid behind the grove, thinking wildly while looking at Odo Village in the distance from time to time. The bombardment never stopped from beginning to end.
Zong Shen's current direction is exactly opposite to the position where the crusade army launched its offensive. There is nothing visible from him. He can only see the purple explosion halo on some domes. That's because the trebuchet landed at the right spot.
On top of the dome.
Seeing that dozens of minutes had passed, the dome had not been broken yet, which made Zong Shen a little impatient.
He took out the [Magic Mechanical Falcon] that he had exchanged for points, charged it with magic energy, and then let it fly. The matching projection bead in his hand began to project the image of the mechanical falcon.
This thing belongs to magic technology, and the projection is not very clear, but it is passable from a high-altitude perspective.
Zong Shen grabbed the projection bead and used his mind to control the falcon to fly to an altitude of more than a thousand meters, and then flew towards Odo Village, trying not to reveal any clues.
This height basically exceeds the warning range of ordinary shooters, and also exceeds the detection range of the True Eye of ordinary detection towers.
There was a detection tower in the territory Zong Shen attacked, so he also had some experience in how to counter-reconnaissance.
From the perspective of a thousand meters altitude, Odo Village is like a black basin. To the west of Odo Village, the crusade army has built a temporary position there and is covering it with continuous bombardment by siege equipment.
The Black Barrier Shield of Odo Village.
Because Odo Village was isolated by the raven dome, it was impossible to peek into the internal situation, so Zong Shen could only focus his observation on the Giant City Crusade Army.
From an overhead projection perspective of a thousand meters, the soldiers of the crusade were only as big as a grain of rice, and only the cavalry and siege equipment looked more eye-catching.
Behind the temporary position, Zong Shen roughly estimated the number of troops in the expedition, and it was definitely not less than 700 people.
The cavalry team was divided into two parts, one part was slightly smaller, and the other part was slightly larger. Because the viewing angle was too far and the projection was blurry, Zong Shen couldn't tell which part was supported later.
, which part belongs to the Knights of the Kingdom.
So he decided to observe closely. He first carefully controlled the [Magic Mechanical Falcon] to fly away from the sky above Odo Village, and flew directly to the west of Odo Village one or two kilometers away, and then gradually lowered the flight altitude of the falcon.
It dropped to a height of 100 meters, which is about thirty stories high, and then stopped.
There are twelve huge ground beasts below. These ground beasts have thick limbs and are more than ten or twenty meters long from head to tail. Behind them, they are dragging giant trailers that are also more than ten meters long, some like
It's like a large trailer pulling a heavy cargo container on Earth.
The rear trailer has eight sets of forward wheels and two sets of universal wheels at the front end. The entire trailer is stuck on the tail of the ground beast's rear body with a metal cage as thick as an arm.
The back of the earth beast is covered with raised horny plates like a crocodile, and it also has a huge tail on the same plane as the body, with a bony tail hammer at the end.
This thing can seat fifty or sixty people in one car, and can also carry some baggage and cargo. At full speed, it is as fast as an ordinary prairie horse, only slightly inferior to the dragon-scale horses of the Knights, and considering the terrain on the road.
The bumps, the ground beast's rest, and the overall marching speed are pretty good.
The Dragonborn Knights only arrived seven or eight hours earlier than the Earth Beast convoy.
Zong Shen naturally didn't know these details. He was just interested in the way the kingdom's power traveled long distances.
After circling in the sky above the Earthwalker convoy, the mechanical falcon began to approach the temporary position of the Giant City Crusade Army from behind.
The view from a hundred meters altitude is much clearer than that from a thousand meters altitude.
Next to this temporary position, there is also a small forest. The terrain in front of the position has been changed by the earth mage. The ground has been raised with thorns and stone walls to build some simple defenses.
Zong Shen was not sure whether detection methods were deployed here, so he could only carefully control the [Magic Mechanical Falcon] to fall into the woods nearby and get into the canopy of a big tree at the edge.
The mechanical falcon stood on a branch, peering through the gaps in the canopy at the crusade's position.
Suddenly, half a black wing flashed across the edge of the projected view, as if something was beside the mechanical falcon, so Zong Shen controlled the falcon to turn its head.
I saw a black raven standing next to the mechanical falcon, also looking at the mechanical falcon.
A real bird and a fake bird, just standing on the same treetop with big eyes and small eyes.
The black raven twisted its head intelligently, looked at the wings and body of its mechanical falcon, then pecked the mechanical falcon's head and flew away.
It landed on another treetop not far away and continued to peek at the crusade army's position from the gaps in the treetops, looking extremely disdainful of the mechanical falcon.
"Is this raven a spirit?"
"Why do I feel like it's looking down on me through the projection?"
Zong Shen withdrew his gaze and thought with some doubts. He couldn't help but suspect that this raven might be a scout sent by the Calamity Raven Church.
Fortunately, the two are not in conflict with each other. You don't recognize me and I don't recognize you. Everyone has his own opinion.
In Odo Village, Raven Saint Safuri, who was sitting cross-legged at the top of the Raven Tower, suddenly opened her eyes. Her eyes were dark, and she seemed to have no focus or clear sight, but she suddenly grinned.
"Interesting, really interesting."
"Erica, how long can the Raven Dome last?"
She asked, at which time a deaconess standing behind her bowed slightly.
While looking at the dome above, he reported truthfully.
"According to the intensity of this attack, the dome will be breached in about two hours."
"The rate of charge recovery cannot keep up with their rate of destruction."
"This is on the premise that they have not launched a full-scale attack."
Raven Saint Safuri nodded when she heard this, her eyes never recovered.
"I understand. Please wake me up after you clear the ruins of the Boneyard."
"What we have to do now is to delay the time and notify the apostles and the deacons in other villages to recharge their batteries and prepare for the battle."
"In addition, instruct the soldiers to keep an eye on the workers and check the several prepared blood pools arranged in the village."
"Use those laborers to supplement when necessary."
Safuri said slowly, and after speaking, she closed her eyes again and entered that mysterious state.
"Okay, Lady Saint."
The deaconess bowed slightly. Although Safuri couldn't see it, she didn't dare to slack off in etiquette.
At this time, only a few hundred of the tens of thousands of ravens that originally hovered over Odo Village were left.
In the four directions of the village, several small pools several meters square were dug out artificially. The pools were full of smelly raven blood, exuding a faint blood-red fluorescence.
On the ground next to these blood pools, there are formations connecting them together.
These formations are connected by mithril pillars as thick as arms and engraved with rune patterns.
There are also some nodes made of advanced magic stone and some such as raven bones, advanced frost runes, elementary and intermediate frost gems and some gem powders as casting auxiliary materials.
A few hundred meters away from the Raven Tower, half of Odo Village is within the range of the formation.
The deaconess named Erica stretched out her hand to summon a raven, leaned close to its head and recited in a low voice, and then let it fly, allowing the raven to deliver the message.
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Outside Odo Village, next to the temporary position of the crusade army, Zong Shen was controlling the mechanical falcon and staring at it secretly. He had already taken a rough look at the composition of the crusade army.
Especially when the Dragonborn Knights appeared in Falcon's perspective, he was so greedy that his mouth watered.
Not to mention there is an entire squadron here, a total of ten teams of dragonborn rangers, and these ranger shooters are basically all girls.
Not only are they all tall, but they also have cold eyes and a cold temperament.
Sagittarius's vision is very sharp, which gives them a cool temperament and adds a bit of charm.
If Zong Shen had such a squadron of ranger girls, I'm afraid the hot spring pools in the territory would not be enough!