Chapter 355: Departure from the mine, the aftermath is not over yet
After the demonic state was strengthened, apart from the changes in his skills, it did not have any impact on Zong Shen's own attributes.
The movement of swallowing the demon soul just now also alarmed everyone in the territory.
Especially the newly joined farmers and soldiers looked at the lord's small building not far away in surprise.
However, the senior citizens in the territory are already accustomed to this.
It is not a secret in the territory that Zong Shen controls the power of demons.
In fact, most of the forces in this world are more afraid of the power of demons.
There is no right or wrong with power itself, it just depends on how the person who has the power uses it.
Those demon hunters corrupt half of their souls into demons and use demonic power to hunt demons.
However, there are also many forces in this world who regard anyone who has the power of demons as an evil and terrifying existence, and they will hunt down and kill anyone they meet.
Such as the Temple of Holy Light, Church of Light, Knights of the Cross Star, Demon Slayer Association...
Wait for such forces, Holy Light Priests and Holy Light Deacons actually belong to the Holy Light Temple.
Therefore, in the territory, if we really want to talk about resistance, only Aisia has some aversion to the power of demons.
However, this kind of disgust only comes from a concept that she has been educated and instilled since childhood, and cannot surpass loyalty and Zong Shen's own status in her heart.
It's like a person who doesn't like eating durian finds a partner who likes eating durian. It's uncomfortable, but it's still acceptable.
After Zong Shen devoured the Demon Soul, he could be considered as completing a small goal that he had been thinking about before.
Because of the previous fight, his room was already in a mess.
Especially his big bed, it almost collapsed.
This kind of furniture is all included with the upgrade of the lord's mansion and does not have any attributes or bonuses.
Let the dwarf uncle fix it when the time comes.
Other than that, there was nothing else in the room. Zong Shen looked back and left the room.
After walking out of the lord's small building, he came to the territory's storage box and started preparing the things he might need.
This trip to Bangcheng was Zong Shen's first time preparing to contact an aboriginal city above the village level.
A city with a population of hundreds of thousands or even millions is almost as big as a county-level city.
Judging from the population size, the wealth and opportunities in the city are definitely far greater than those in the villages.
This time he directly withdrew 50,000 dinars and prepared to take them with him.
If you want to deal with aboriginal forces, you can't do it without money. You can't just rob like you would in the wilderness.
There is nothing else to prepare. There are no specialties in Zong Shen's territory. There is only one [Moon God Spring] which is considered a rare item, and he has already collected all of it.
After getting ready, he went to the homemade ice cellar to get some dry food to take with him, and then walked out of the lord's courtyard.
All the people he named were gathered outside the lord's courtyard at this moment.
Including heroic talents such as Vereesa, Howie, and Luna.
There are also Dutra with more than 200 kobolds, a squad of Immortal Lancers and three-headed crypt demons.
Zong Shen looked at the number of kobolds and took out four loader mechas.
Let Howie, Vereesa, and Dutra drive one respectively, and then selected a kobold prophet who seemed to be smarter. After a little training, he let him be responsible for driving the remaining one.
Driving the loader mecha is very simple, and the kobolds themselves are slightly shorter than the goblins, and the size of the cab is more friendly to them than humans.
The four loader mechas carried 285 kobolds, three crypt demons, those large unhatched eggs, and some messy luggage, which seemed a bit crowded.
But there is nothing we can do, so let's make do with it first. There are six loader mechas in total, Zong Shen has left two in the territory, and Mariel and the others can call them at any time.
He carries the remaining four in the storage compartment with him, and will have to leave one in the mine for a while.
In this way, the mine can form a one-stop service of collection, refining and transportation.
Dutra has a communication crystal on his body, and the kobold itself has a certain degree of combat effectiveness. Coupled with the terrain in the mine where the three crypt demons rely, it is enough to withstand the attacks of several or even a dozen lords.
At that time, just use the communication crystal to ask for help from the territory, and the reinforcements will arrive in more than an hour.
But even so, Zong Shen also wanted to make some defensive arrangements in the mine.
Especially writing articles inside the mine. After all, this is considered illegal occupation. The mine is still an unclaimed land after all.
Before the next round of challenges officially begins, the lords must resume external exploration. Maybe there will be a lord who can find the entrance to the mine blindly and blindly.
The group of lords is a restless third-party force. Zong Shen himself is also a member of the lords, and he has no doubts about the ability of the lords to scrape the land.
This place is thirty or forty kilometers away from the mine, and if we want to expand our territory there, it's probably already the year of the monkey and the moon of the horse.
It seems that I have to collect some permanent illusion magic circles recently to artificially cover the entrance of the mine, so that peace can be maintained for at least a period of time.
While the kobolds were chattering towards the cargo hold of the loader mecha, Zong Shen was thinking about how to protect the mine.
After more than ten minutes, all the kobolds finally got on the loader mecha.
Zong Shen looked up and saw that behind each loader mecha were densely packed with kobolds.
One of the loader mechas also had three crypt demons sitting on them. Their huge size took up a lot of space. In order to save space, there were five or six kobolds sitting on the abdominal pouches behind them and on their shoulders.
It seems both funny and embarrassing, considering that these cave-dwelling kobolds are part of the Crypt Demon's recipe.
Now, because of Zong Shen, they are together and coexisting peacefully in an extremely abnormal way.
Zong Shen couldn't help laughing as he saw the expressions of disgust on the faces of those crypt demons.
But those kobolds are naturally talkative, sitting on their backs and chirping non-stop, looking very excited.
After everything was prepared, Zong Shen called Mariel and told her to start planning and relocating the territory today.
First move the defensive buildings to ensure that there will be no defense gaps in several directions, and then move functional buildings such as [Blacksmith Shop], [Tailor Shop], [Magic Palace], and [Residence Hall].
Most of the soldiers will be left in the territory, and they will patrol the surrounding areas in small teams to ensure that relocation and construction can proceed safely.
After giving the final explanation, Zong Shen brought Bajie over, and with a thought, a golden navigation arrow appeared in front of him, guiding him on the path to the mine.
Zong Shen rode Bajie at the front, and Luna followed him on the Sentinel Black Panther.
Behind him are four loader mechas loaded with kobolds.
At the end is a small team of fourth-level immortal lancers.
The entire team's momentum was not small, and they marched towards the mine in a mighty manner.
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At the same time, at the Boneyard to the north of Odo Village.
Outside the excavation site of the Calamity Raven Church, the remaining crusade army and the support army from Bangcheng have surrounded the place.
The collapsed underground well has not been completely dug out, which means that the three saint elders and the remaining eight jackdaw and halberd warriors are still underground.
There were only a group of heretic giant knights, a group of disaster mages, and six half-dead raven puppets on the ground.
Among them was Wang Xuan. These raven puppets were extremely inactive. Half of their bodies were buried in the soil and seemed to have lost their power.
After a night of cleanup and rest, there are still less than 400 troops left in the crusade.
However, Bosbon's reinforcements have arrived, and together with the surviving Blue Owl cavalry, there are six to seven hundred people.
"Surrender, this is the territory of the kingdom."
"Stop resisting needlessly."
Kunir spurred his horse forward and said loudly.
After resting and cleaning, the blood stains on his armor were gone.
But the signs of damage were still obvious, including a split mark left by a halberd, which almost tore his armor apart.
The two groups of church warriors looked at each other in shock upon hearing this. Now all three saint elders were buried in the ruins.
The front line of Odo Village was completely destroyed, and the saint was missing.
Without their commander, they naturally lost their belief in resistance and fighting spirit.
In this case, they could only choose to surrender, put down their weapons, and raised their hands in a gesture of surrender.
The heretical giant knight dismounted, gently touched the horse's head, and then raised his hand.
No one said a word, they just made silent gestures of surrender.
Kunir had no objection to this, he knew that this was the last dignity of these heretical warriors.
With a wave of his hand, the reinforcements from the city behind him took out hemp ropes and tied up all the prisoners.
At the same time, the six raven puppets, which had lost their power and were like dead sculptures, were all tied up.
Those guys from the Rentax Mage Association should be very interested in these puppets made of human bodies.
Beside Kunir was a young man also riding a war horse.
He has brown curly hair, a fair face, and is not very handsome, but he looks somewhat elegant.
The war horse under his crotch is shorter than the dragon scale war horse, because his war horse is just a slightly stronger prairie horse covered with light armor, including his own equipment.
At least compared to the Dragonborn Knights, it seems a lot cruder.
This young man's name was Harold Chebman, who was the commander of Bosbon's reinforcements.
He is also the son of Baron Bezos Chebman.
After all these church warriors were captured, Kunir turned his head and looked at Harold.
"Harold, are you sure that Bospan's reinforcements do not include a fat man leading the Immortal Lancers?"
"His name is Quite, he is about 1.73 meters tall, and he is about 30 years old."
"That little fat guy yesterday was carrying your father's title card."
"I have verified that title card and it is indeed genuine."
Kunir said slowly, with deep doubts in his tone.
The young man named Harold shook his head solemnly.
"Uncle Quinnier, I have confirmed it with my adjutant."
"There are no Immortal Lancers active in all of Bosbon."
"There is no officer named Quite among Bosbon's officers."
"And my father's title card was always on his person, and it was like this until I went off to war."
Harold truthfully told Quinnier what he had discovered.
After hearing his words, Kunil just nodded slightly and turned his head back.
He was becoming more and more confused, even though Quite didn't do anything extraordinary.
But upon closer inspection, he seemed to be motivating himself to launch a full-scale attack.
So after the war started, he disappeared.
But what about the motive?
Everything should have a motive, right?
There will inevitably be a battle between him and the Calamity Raven Church when he leads the crusade.
What benefits can the other party get from it?
Quinnier was puzzled by this.
However, after Odo Village was breached, a mysterious force did appear, frantically plundering the villagers of Odo Village and the remaining supplies in the village.
This mysterious force has a large number of people and a very chaotic lineup. It seems that it is an illegal armed force that came out of nowhere.
At that time, Kunir led the surviving dragonborn cavalry in pursuit, and the remaining crusade troops and reinforcements from the city in Odo Village also had friction with the mysterious forces.
After killing hundreds of warriors from this mysterious force, when cleaning the battlefield afterwards, I discovered that they were indeed all miscellaneous troops, with soldiers ranging from first to third levels, and many of them were simply trained armed farmers.
Soldiers of this level are often classified as the first level.
The most suspicious thing is that this mysterious force has a large number of wolf cavalry.
These are the characteristic arms of the Wild Wolf Tribe, an ancient tribe that has disappeared for seven or eight thousand years.
The Wild Wolf tribe lived in an area near this area before the founding of Avalon.
Their tribe has a giant wolf totem and can tame prairie wolves.
The wolf cavalry and giant wolf knights under his command are very powerful, and they are active on the grassland as rangers.
Quenier wasn't sure whether Quite was related to the mysterious force last night.
He suddenly remembered something again, turned his head again and said to Hadro.
"Hadro, I came along the way and discovered a strange phenomenon."
Hearing Kunir's words, Hadro made a gesture of listening.
"I noticed a lot of small settlements popping up along the way."
"The number of these settlements is a little unusual."
"I have discovered hundreds of them along the way without any special search."
"Due to the urgent military situation, we did not check whether these settlements had state permits."
"But this phenomenon is definitely abnormal."
"So many unauthorized settlements will never be allowed in the kingdom."
"When I go back this time, I will inform the Marquis of this situation."
"You also go back and inform your father to prepare for a screening of the jurisdiction!"