Chapter 472: Competition among lords, return to the territory
The direwolf closest to him had already impatiently stuck out its head with a bloody mouth, wanting to bite Zong Shen.
It has thick silver-white fur
Zong Shen grabbed the mace and showed an attitude even more ferocious than a direwolf!
He slammed the mace into the direwolf's skull.
It is said that wolves are like tofu kidneys with copper heads and iron bones, and this is indeed true.
Its skull was indeed very hard, but its forehead was still shattered by Zong Shen's blow, and the broken skull fragments pierced its own fur.
Just one blow from Zong Shen caused more than 180 points of damage to the direwolf.
After three smooth attacks, the direwolf lost all hope of life.
The other direwolves also took the opportunity to attack and bite, and one of them bit Zong Shen's shoulder fiercely.
The sharp canine teeth made an obscure friction sound against the dark red armor.
The powerful biting force actually slightly dented the shoulder armor.
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A few pitiful damage values appeared, and these captain-level ice beasts could only cause some damage to Zong Shen.
He was still calm and composed, and the direwolves hanging on his body, measuring 1.78 meters in length, seemed as light as nothing.
He grabbed his throat with one hand and pulled it down forcefully. The sharp teeth were broken due to the tight bite.
Then he smashed the direwolf's head in with his other hand.
His speed was very fast, and in less than a minute, those howling direwolves turned into corpses.
He also gained eight to nine thousand experience points, 625 winter points and 125 extraction points.
After killing these direwolves, Zong Shen quickly walked inside, spent several minutes using a mace to cut through the ice, took out the winter treasure chest, and stored it away.
Then he inserted the mace into the armor buckle, and took out the [Hiking Merchant's Emblem] with a flick of his wrist.
Put the corpses of these direwolves into the storage space that comes with the emblem,
Unlike storage compartments that need to be divided into categories, spatial storage props only need to consider the volume of space occupied by items.
Before awarding this emblem to Howie, it can now be used to load the corpses of these ice beasts.
Waste is a shameful act.
During this period, the surface of Zong Shen's [Power Demon Battle Armor] turned into a dark red viscous substance. After a while of flow, the scratches and teeth marks left by the direwolf were as good as before.
After taking away the treasure chest neatly, Zong Shen walked out of the small iceberg, came to the drilling machine, lifted out Reese Ulysses, and then put the drilling machine into the storage compartment.
He pointed in a direction, and there was the next treasure chest more than 20 kilometers away from here.
With a flash of blue-gray light, the two disappeared from the spot.
Half an hour later, when the nearby lords cut through the ice that sealed the frozen lord's hut and rushed here again, only a small iceberg with a passage drilled out was left.
The three parties gathered here, looking at each other with hatred.
There are only so many treasure chests in an area. On average, one out of six or seven lords can get a treasure chest, which is considered good.
Moreover, the reward of the Winter Treasure Chest is equivalent to the Silver Treasure Chest, which is a temptation that most lords cannot refuse.
Of course, for ordinary lords, digging small icebergs is also not an easy task.
They were still fighting over the treasure chest here yesterday.
Now it seems so funny, they feel like clowns.
Because I don’t know since when, people have been here first.
The three lords faced off for a while, cursing each other and venting their hatred.
In the end, we decided to go back to our respective homes.
The winter treasure chest here has been taken away, so there is no point in leaving it here to fight for life and death.
Most importantly, the super cold water and icy rain in the second half of the night frightened them.
Not everyone can know the weather changes during the challenge period as clearly as Zong Shen.
In the eyes of ordinary lords, traveling during the challenge period is risky, and it will be fatal if extreme weather occurs.
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More than two hours later, the time has reached eleven o'clock in the morning.
Zong Shen and Reese Ulysses have arrived 57 kilometers south of the territory.
During this period of time, their harvest was very average, and the previous one only got four winter treasure chests.
They ran from the south to the southeast, then unknowingly to the southwest, and finally returned to due south again.
The number of winter treasure chests is getting smaller and smaller, and the spacing between them is getting wider and wider.
Even with the blessing of [Basic Flash], the efficiency of obtaining treasure chests has fallen into a bottleneck.
In the process of chasing the treasure chest, Reese consumed a total of more than 2 liters of magic spring water, and also performed frequent meditation recovery.
During this period, they even encountered a dozen lords who were divided into two parties and were fighting on the ice near a small iceberg in the southwest of the territory.
Each lord brought more than ten warriors with him, and the total number was more than two hundred.
It can be called a small battlefield.
Zong Shen had met the leader of one of them before.
It was Medina who established the [Light Chaser Legion].
During Zong Shen's challenge in the crypt, he happened to catch him visiting Jiang Yi's territory, trying to get Jiang Yi to join the "Light Chaser Legion".
Later, he was stopped by Zong Shen. That guy was a flexible person and he surrendered on the spot.
Later, during the regional boss battle, he also led the legion members to Zong Shen's territory. The two even had a pleasant conversation, and he also showed enough respect for Zong Shen.
His [Light Chaser] was created earlier than Zong Shen’s [Guide].
As one of the earliest lords in the region to create a legion, one thing that cannot be denied is that Medina is definitely a character and a leader among ordinary lords.
The scene of the battle was extremely chaotic. Zong Shen just observed the situation from a distance before letting Reese flash away.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The two sides are fighting inextricably, and Zong Shen does not want to wade into troubled waters, nor does he want to interfere with them.
Unknowingly, the competition among the lords in the region began to become fierce.
Group fights with legions as units have begun to appear, competing for resources in the winter challenge.
This kind of violent competition has not affected the [Legion of Guides], because Zong Shen's strength and reputation in the region are the best deterrents.
This creates a pure land, but this does not prevent blood from spreading outside the pure land.
Until regional unification is completed, this chaotic competition will continue.
This is also a consistent behavior of human beings.
Everyone knows that cooperation may lead to win-win results, but unfortunately, people's hearts are hard to abandon. Unless there is strong strength as the core, selfishness will destroy the foundation of cooperation.
This is why the lord system launches the [Legion] function.
There must be a structure like [Legion] among the lords, which is guaranteed by the system.
It will become the cornerstone and bridge for future unity and cooperation among the lords.
Before the time is ripe, he needs to maintain a neutral stance, not participate in the overt feud between the lords, quietly make a fortune, and use his leadership step by step to complete the plan of exploration and development.
Zong Shen happened to be near Dinan Village now, but he did not choose to enter the village, but just observed from the outside.
Because it was not suitable for entering the village, for the lord, the ground was covered with ice more than one meter thick.
These are things that the aboriginal people cannot see. If Zong Shen enters the village in a grand manner, then in front of the aboriginal people's eyes it will be as if he is floating more than one meter high and walking in the air.
It is unrealistic to ask Reese Ulysses to flash in directly, because Reese does not know the characteristics of the iron pillar, and cannot sense his specific location.
The space mage's sensing ability is also limited. In the sensing state, everything is composed of points, lines and surfaces. If you want to travel accurately, you must know the characteristics of the destination.
It was even Zong Shen's first time coming to Dinan Village, and he had never entered the village, let alone Ruisi.
Dinan Village is much larger than Odo Village, but smaller than Citano Village.
Judging from the number of village residents and the size of the village, the permanent population here is at least more than a thousand.
Outside the village, you can see indigenous people moving and working.
Pieces of farmland are distributed in square shapes outside the village.
Further away, there were sheepherders wearing gray hats, holding small wooden sticks tied with red cloth strips to drive the sheep to the pasture outside the village.
From time to time there were ox carts and horse-drawn carriages going in and out of the village, and villagers carrying rattan baskets headed south in twos and threes.
If Zong Shen remembered correctly, to the south is the poisonous fog swamp where the black handsome boys are entrenched.
From his perspective, these villagers are all walking in the ice.
Thick ice does not exist for these indigenous people.
Overall, Dinan Village is a calm and peaceful small village.
It is not as lively as Citano Village, nor is it like Odo Village which has become a ruin on the earth.
In the short term, Citano Village and Dinan Village are both excellent targets for the territory to gain population.
In particular, Dinan Village, which has a weaker sense of existence, is very suitable for carrying out the puppet plan that Zong Shen had previously imagined.
After watching for a while, he took Reese to a nearby grove and asked her to leave a space mark here.
It is now past eleven o'clock in the morning, and there are still thirty or forty minutes before the end of the winter challenge. There are no suitable winter treasure chests nearby.
During this period, the temperature has reached the limit of the challenge period.
The extreme cold of minus 70°C can freeze all water vapor, and the air becomes drier and drier.
When drilling the fourth small iceberg, the alloy drill bit began to become brittle and hard due to the cold temperature.
There are some cracks in the drill body.
The durability is only one third of what it was in its perfect state.
The two days of drilling on the small iceberg, coupled with the influence of climate, have caused huge losses in the durability of the drill bit.
Originally, the physical hardness of these small blue icebergs is no less than that of hard high-density granite. With so many small icebergs opened in succession, the wear and tear of the drill bit is inevitable.
In addition, extreme cold and low temperatures also have a great impact on people.
In the cold state, the body loses a lot of heat and consumes more physical energy than usual.
The heart rate decreases, blood flow slows down, and the body becomes more easily fatigued.
Zong Shen can still persevere, but Reese Ulysses cannot.
Her frail body had already begun to give out cold warning signs and was trembling non-stop.
Although she doesn't care about how her body feels, her body will wither if this continues.
There's no way her soul can survive, after all, she's not a lich with an immortal soul.
So after making the space mark, Zong Shen asked her to open the [Shadow Wormhole], communicate the space mark of the territory, and open the wormhole channel.
Gray, white, and blue light and shadow appear alternately, and the space seems to melt, revealing a black elliptical entrance.
Zong Shen looked at the inside of the entrance and felt that his eyes were deep inside, full of strange depths.
"When a wormhole channel is opened, how many people can be allowed to travel through it at the same time."
Zong Shen did not rush into it, and turned his head to ask Reese behind him who had just put down the long staff.
"Huh...huh..."
"Can... can pass twelve people. If you don't worry about the wormhole collapsing, you can enter more..."
"Under normal circumstances, the shadow wormhole can last for one minute..."
"The more people who enter, the faster they will dissipate."
"With the improvement of space ability, the duration can be extended, phew..."
"Of course, I can also manually close the wormhole in advance..."
Riss Ulysses said breathlessly, accompanying Zong Shen out, having to endure the cold for two or three hours.
No matter how strong her soul is, the reaction in her body is unavoidable.
"What happens if the wormhole collapses?"
"The chaotic overlapping space will tear everything apart..."
"Huh...because the wormhole is equivalent to taking a shortcut..."
Reese's breathing became rapid, and speaking in such an environment was not a small burden.
Zong Shen nodded and immediately stepped into the wormhole passage.
This wormhole is directional, he has confirmed it through the strategy module,
After he entered, Riss Ulysses stepped into it step by step with a long staff.
The dark oval entrance swayed like water ripples, and after the two people entered, it disappeared in just over ten seconds.
At the same time, the exit of an oval wormhole passage suddenly appeared outside the lord's courtyard where the space mark was marked.
Zong Shen and Reese Ulysses walked out slowly.
The wonderful wormhole shuttle allowed Zong Shen to experience the magic of space magic.
Walking through a wormhole passage is like wandering through an endless universe.
On the other side of the world, there is an infinite world hidden.
No wonder Rhys Ulysses is so obsessed with exploring space.
While Zong Shen and the others were away, Vereesa, Luna and the others used some method to break the ice shell outside the gate of the lord's small building.
Standing outside the small courtyard, Zong Shen could see the broken ice piled up on the ground at the door.
Seeing this, he didn't plan to use [Basic Flash] to enter.
It just so happened that Reese was also very tired.
He was seen holding the back collar of Reese Ulysses in one hand, walking quickly on the ice towards the lord's small building.