The king turned to Audi: "You take the dwarves to the city wall first and defend the attack. Don't throw in the gryphon knights!"
Audi made a fist with his right hand and patted the breastplate at the heart position: "Follow your orders."
He turned to the dwarves: "Dear bearded veterans! Follow me!"
Old Louis: "You go your own way! We are familiar with the road to the city wall. After all, we are maintaining the siege engines!!"
The dwarves were about to leave, but the king stopped them: "Wait a minute! Is my dragon saddle finished? Finish it first! It's very important!"
Old Louis: "Don't worry, we finished it at four o'clock this morning. You can use it anytime you want."
Wang nodded: "Okay, let's go."
Bernal came to the king again, got off his horse, and then said to the followers: "Leave the herald, Audi, you can take the rest of the people away. There is no need for guards. This is the strongest team in our city. And the team
It also has the most powerful wanderer in the city."
He glanced at Marika.
"There is no safer place than this," the emperor said firmly.
The third prince saluted again and led the troops away.
Bernal asked: "Now, Master, what do you need me to do?"
The king was unambiguous and pointed directly at the emperor and said: "First of all, I need a secret room that will not be eavesdropped or leaked."
Bernal: "There is such a secret room in my study."
Wang: "Is there a lot of space?"
"It's pretty big."
"Then have someone take the sound-transmitting stones of several generals you trust from your communications headquarters and put them into the secret room. At the same time, let these generals keep only their confidants by their side and be ready to execute orders at any time."
Bernal turned his head: "Did you hear that? Do you want me to repeat it? Go and give the order!"
Several messengers left immediately, leaving only the messenger holding the sound transmission stone who remained where he was.
Bernal: "Then what?"
Wang: "Intelligence, call your most trusted intelligence officer over and make sure he can answer whatever I want to ask."
Bernal: "Look for the voice transmission stone of the leader of the Shadow Thieves. I want to talk to him."
"I'm already here." A person suddenly appeared in the shadows. This person crossed his arms and stared at Marika. The drow was not surprised at all.
The leader of the shadow thieves continued: "Also, I suggest you call the smuggling tycoon Rhett Butler. No matter what you want to do, he should be able to help."
Bernal: "You should have called him, right? Let him come with you."
The leader of the shadow thieves bowed slightly.
Wang: "I can't think of anything else at the moment. Let's go to the secret room first and we will discuss it in the long term."
Like a butler, Bernal made a "please come this way" gesture. There were many passers-by watching this scene, including those loyal messengers.
At this point, you can already imagine how this would be embellished afterwards.
**
By the time everyone arrived at the palace, "smuggling tycoon" Rhett Butler had already arrived, bringing several of his men with him. He hurriedly introduced: "These are my confidants who have been with me for more than twenty years. I am engaged in smuggling. Once
If they leak the secret, my head will fall on the ground."
Rhett Butler said as he scratched his neck.
Bernal looked at him: "Are you the one who stole a lot of tax money from me?"
"Yes, I am the one who stole a lot of tax money from you, but it is not as much as the territorial tax revenue your nobles concealed. In fact, it is more than a fraction. Of course, it is not as good as the military salary your generals withheld, and the same
Not even the leader."
Rhett Butler said and bowed slightly to the emperor.
Bernal snorted, waved his hand and said, "Follow me!"
When he arrived at the door of the secret chamber, the emperor grabbed the sound transmission stone directly from his entourage.
"You don't have to go in." He said to the messenger, "Let my butler hold the sound transmission stone at any time."
After the messengers left, the emperor opened the mechanism in front of everyone, and a wall retracted, revealing a secret passage, and then the magic light source in the passage lit up one after another.
"Please, everyone."
The secret room in the emperor's study is indeed quite large, so big that even three magic light sources cannot illuminate some areas.
But what the king is most indispensable for is the source of magical light.
He took out his dragon-headed staff, and as soon as he let go, the staff floated beside him, becoming a moving light source that followed him.
The entire secret room was immediately illuminated like daylight.
Wang directly swept everything on the largest table in the secret room to the ground: "Map! I want maps of the city and surrounding areas!"
Rhett Butler took out two maps directly from his dimensional bag and spread them on the table.
Wang was happy when he saw the map: "All the orc camps have been marked, that's great."
Rhett Butler: "Not only is it marked, it was just updated at five o'clock this morning."
King: "Where is the position of the Necromancer?"
The leader of the shadow thieves replied: "Skull mark. Each skull mark represents a necromancer team, there may be a six-level one, and a few one-to-three-level ones. By the way, because we caught the tongue, this team is now in a state of panic.
.”
He clicked on the skull symbol in the orc camp in the south of the city.
King: "How do the orcs communicate with each other on both sides of the river? The Long Bridge Fortress has not been breached, right?"
Bernal: "No. There are only soldiers in the fortress, so the food reserves can last for more than a year. There is no need to worry about being breached in a short period of time."
King: "What about the orcs using their wyverns to land in the air?"
"The fortress towers are relatively dense, so it is difficult for the flying dragon to land. Its wings will hit the tower, which may cause the flying dragon to be injured," Bernal continued.
Wang nodded and then observed the map in silence.
Xiaobai was lying on the edge of the table, trying to stretch her neck to see what was drawn on the map - the table was relatively high, and the map from her perspective was completely flat, so it was normal to see clearly.
The dwarf simply gave up looking at the map, found a chair, sat down, and started filling his pipe.
Both elves were standing beside the king, looking at the map.
Elizabeth was placed on the only sofa in the room by Marika. Gotrick stood beside her, holding an ax and staring at the group led by Rhett Butler.
Barbarian is obviously ready to fight at any time.
Rosalie looked at the members of the team and hesitated to speak.
Marika: "What do you want to say, Your Highness."
Rosalie: "Huh? Oh, I want to say...it looks like you have been through this situation many times."
Nini: "I don't have many, just once."
Xiaobai: "I did it twice... uh, three times?"
Dwarf: "I've been through it all, Barbarian and I."
Gotrick: "High!"
Marika didn't say anything. In fact, she and Elizabeth were the original members of the team, but obviously the drow didn't care about this.
The mage didn't care either, he was concentrating on observing the map.
Finally, Wang spoke: "Okay, I have a general idea. The key is the Necromancer. Without the Necromancer to drive the ritual, even if the orcs have set up the nodes, it will be completely useless! We have to hunt them down.
Spirit mage.
"Before that, let me ask, has the Shadow Thief discovered the second lich?"
"No." The leader of the shadow thieves said firmly, "Even the one you killed before arrived not long ago on a corpse dragon. As soon as we got information about it, you were attacked, and then you killed him.
.”
Wang: "So are those necromancers humans? Or skeletal necromancers? The latter is much more troublesome to deal with, and the physical resistance alone is huge."
Shadow Thief Leader: "It's human."
Wang nodded: "Then if we launch a surprise attack, how many can you kill while taking advantage of the chaos?"
The leader immediately replied: "If someone attracts attention, I mean attention like a night attack, we are sure to deal with the necromancers in these places."
He clicked on a few skulls on the map with his hand.
Wang: "I understand, then we have to arrange..."
Suddenly, the sound transmission stone brought by the emperor vibrated.
"It's me." he said.
"Your Majesty, the sound transmission stone you requested has been sent from the communications headquarters." The butler's voice came from the sound transmission stone.
"Okay, I'll open the door and let them in."
After that, the emperor came to the secret room and pressed the switch: "My secret room cannot be opened from the outside when there are people inside. So we are absolutely safe in it. If the city is broken, I will hide my youngest son and daughter in it."
Here, there happens to be a magic item that will be filled with porridge every day."
Wang frowned: "Is it the artifact I was thinking of? That artifact produces thick porridge every day, but only soft monsters will find this porridge delicious."
Emperor: "No, it's not this. It's an artifact called the Famine Giver."
King: "The famine almsgiver was placed in the royal secret room just to save the emperor's youngest son and daughter from the disaster of annihilation? Your behavior cannot be called a benevolent king at all."
Bernal: "I am a tyrant, as you will soon see. But I can protect my people."
At this time, the door was fully opened, and a group of soldiers came in holding the sound transmission stone.
Many people entered the emperor's secret chamber for the first time and looked around with wide eyes.
They were even more surprised when they saw Nini's elf ears - of course, what surprised everyone the most was the dragon-headed scepter floating next to the king.
After a group of people left, Bernal wiped the butler's neck.
The butler nodded.
Wang: "Wait a minute, are you going to kill them all?"
"Yes, for all those involved in moving the sound transmission stone, I will ensure that they cannot tell the secret to the second person. This way no one will know which general we will use."
Everyone was silent.
Wang suddenly said: "It's reasonable. But it's not necessary, because we will notify the generals before the raid. This operation will test the organization of your army."
Bernal: "Master, do you want to make a surprise attack?"
"Yes, only by keeping secrets from ourselves can we keep secrets from the enemy. When we launch an attack, even if we make careful preparations, the orcs will have no time to react. Of course, we will also take actions to deceive the enemy. For example, in the current battle, we will not invest
Gryphon Knight."
Bernal: "Is this bullying the enemy? Have you thought about it since then?"
Wang: "Unfortunately, I don't know if it will be effective, but it's always a good idea to give it a try. Your gryphon knights have already suffered serious losses. I guess even investing in it won't have much effect."
Bernal: "I really can't get up."
"So their mission is to take off to attack the enemy tonight after we launch the attack, using incendiary bottles to bomb horizontally." Wang gestured, "This requires a soldier who is not tired of deceit. The enemy thinks that there will be no attack by the gryphon knights, so he puts the alert in the air.
When we put our strength into the ground battle, the Griffin Knights came again."
Rhett Butler: "Is there a time difference? If not by air, how are you going to launch a ground attack?"
The king looked at him: "I was originally preparing for an aerial attack, so I asked the gryphon knights to conserve their strength and confirm with the dwarves that the dragon saddle has been completed. But you are not here, so I thought, maybe we don't have to do this
trouble."
Rhett Butler was stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter: "Hahahaha! Are people like me, who are meeting for the first time, included in the plan? Yes, we have a smuggling route through the old dwarf mines underground. How do you know?
of?"
Wang: "Because in Langdon Territory, we were once attacked through dwarf underground passages. Then in River Valley Territory, we discovered dwarf ruins underground, very large ones.
"A reasonable guess is that there are dwarf tunnels from the old era in this area. There was a powerful dwarf country here in the Second Age or even earlier."
Rhett Butler: "No, you will be disappointed. We have completely searched the underground. There are no large dwarf underground ruins, only passages. I think this may be the edge of the dwarf-controlled area. After all, look at such a majestic white city wall.
It was erected here, and it was the lair of monsters before Myhrvold's ancestors cleared it."
As he spoke, Rhett Butler took out a new map and spread it on the table: "This is the underground topographic map that our smugglers found out. Your Majesty, can this map be used to offset the taxes we missed?"
Bernal crossed his arms and said: "Of course. If you win this time, I will give you a count."
"Hahaha, I can't go on the bright side. In fact, even the Duke of the Empire admires me very much. They want to rely on me to get some contraband."
Bernard shook his head.
Wang Ze pointed to the underground map: "Where on the ground do these exits correspond?"
"Let me mark them for you." Rhett Butler turned around and took out glasses from the wine cabinet behind him and placed several on the map. "This is the exit. You should be able to see the corresponding relationship, right?"
Wang: "Yeah. I found out that I can directly attack the orcs' base camp. Will they be alert?"
Shadow Thief Leader: "Of course I will be alert. In fact, there are orcs guarding the door. But..."
Wang: "Alchemy explosives. By blowing up the ground, we can create chaos and have an exit for a surprise attack. Just pay attention when setting up the explosives to ensure that the impact of the explosion is ejected in one direction."
Shadow Thief Leader: "We have a skilled alchemist, he..."
"I am a skilled alchemist." Wang interrupted the leader, "I can just prepare potions without pouring magic into them."
Shadow Thief Leader: "But we already have a warehouse of alchemical explosives. Our experts are also good at 'directional blasting'. They once used this method to steal the mint's vault."
Wang: "Okay, let's leave it to the professionals. The remaining problem is to try to create an illusion for the orcs that we will not attack tonight and paralyze them. It is definitely not enough to just not move the gryphon knights."
Wang rubbed his chin and thought.
Marika: "Prom. We can have a celebration dance."
Wang: "It's useless. We told the street about the lich's magic. The other party must know that we are going to attack..."
Suddenly, Wang laughed.
"Yeah, we can just take advantage of this in turn."