"Your station will be set up here for the time being. In 4 hours, we will clean up the nearby undead mutated areas."
Jasimodo found an empty space for everyone outside the tent cluster and said.
"Thank you." Ask said without changing his face, "By the way, can we trade with the Night Watch organization?"
"Normally, we do not open trade to outside mercenaries." Jasimodo refused.
"Since it is 'generally speaking', that means there are exceptions?" Ask said with a smile.
Night watch knight Jasimodo sighed, suddenly pressed his shoulders hard, and said viciously:
"Listen, I know you mercenaries very well. You are like flies that smell blood, always buzzing around the edge of the battlefield, never letting anyone rest."
"When you encounter weak extraordinary creatures, you rush forward like swarms and besiege them; when you encounter powerful and evil undead, you escape faster than anyone else, without any honor or shame that a warrior should have!"
"The reason why we let you in is not because we are willing to accept you, but because we are worried that you will follow us and cause trouble, because you will fail more than succeed, do you understand?!"
"If you are honest enough and follow our night watchmen obediently, I don't mind letting you pick up some remnants of the loot, but this does not mean that I will allow you to do whatever you want."
"My patience is limited. And you never want to see me lose my patience."
He said one last threatening word, pushed Asik forward, turned around and left.
Ask took half a step back, stabilized his body, and then stretched out his right arm to hold down Peggy, who had drawn her sword and was about to charge forward.
"Let me go and let me kill him!" Peggy turned her head, revealing her sharp little fangs.
"Be patient, Peggy." Ask said calmly.
"Ask, aren't you angry?" Mia said angrily next to her. Not only her, but the other girls also looked as if they had been humiliated. At this time, they all stared at Ask to see how he would answer.
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"Don't be angry." Ask said calmly, "If you are angry because of others' contempt, will you still feel complacent about it when others admire you later?"
"We are all adults. We should learn to focus on our own affairs and not let other people's opinions affect our mentality. Do you understand?"
"Understood." Mia said with a look of sudden realization, "So you adults must not be afraid of honor or disgrace. Only a girl like me who is underage and loves to hold grudges can have grievances and revenge, right? I will touch it right away.
In his tent, all his money and clothes were stolen!"
As she said this, she was about to move forward, but Asik held her head down and turned around forcefully.
"I didn't ask you to go make trouble just because you're young." Ask asked, dumbfounded, and said to everyone with a straight face, "Have you finished your practice homework today? Do you still have time to get angry with others?"
"Hey!!!" The girls raised their voices and shouted dissatisfied.
Return to Hearth Island.
"It's really amazing." Sheila stood alone on the edge of the top of the mountain, looking at the stretching woods, rivers and sea below, and couldn't help but say in surprise.
No matter how many times she comes here, she can't help but be amazed by the existence of this demiplane. Who would have thought that this island in the ocean, which is no different from reality, is actually located in an independent plane fragment?
Why did this precious space treasure fall into the hands of the Cang Qing Sword mercenary group?
She sighed slowly and thought about it again.
There is no future as a mercenary. It can be seen from the attitude of the Night Watch towards them today that mercenaries have an ugly image in the entire continent of doing anything to make money.
Even if her true identity is exposed one day, the fact that she once worked as a mercenary will definitely become a stain on her background.
However, she had no other choice, because she was already under house arrest when she was in Constantinople. Not only did the Orthodox Church not support her, but even her subordinates were almost completely purged by Zoe.
If she did not agree to join the Blue Sword, she would probably be immediately abandoned in Constantinople, discovered by the authorities, lose her freedom again, and become the so-called "former queen".
Of course, considering that Constantinople has now fallen, her title should probably be added to: Subjugation.
What is the value of the identity of the former queen who lost her country? The only way out is probably to make good use of this noble body with the blood of the Solomon royal family and regain power through marriage and other means.
Even so, it is still extremely difficult to complete the final important task of restoring the country.
And what Asker said that day did provide her with another possibility: to use the coming demonic tide to quickly improve her own strength.
If you can rise to level 20 or above and become a demigod, then the possibility of restoring your country will be greatly improved.
With the support of the demonic tide, one demigod can almost rival an entire elite army.
When the time comes, will it be much easier for me to return to Siris Province, regain power with strength, and then plan to restore the country?
"You have nothing to lose anyway, Theodora, you have nothing left." She murmured, looking at the end of the sea and sky in the distance.
"Just let me drown in this illusory dream..."
"Sheila!" The clear and melodious voice of the nun came from afar, "The swordsmanship training has begun! Ask asked you to come over quickly!"
"Okay!" Silla responded loudly, took out a mask from her sleeves, and slowly put it on her face.
That is the mask that symbolizes the hero Odyssey in ancient Greek drama.
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In the real plane, in the Night Watch command tent, a remote video conference is taking place.
"The scope of the mutation is centered on the village of Paramos, covering an area of approximately 40 square kilometers."
"Judging from the footage taken by Mercury's Eye, darkness with 0 visibility has appeared in the center of the village. It can be confirmed that it is the canopy of the undead caused by the arrival of the underworld."
"We found a large number of active corpses on the outskirts of the mutation. There are still traces of soil on them. They should have recently emerged from the cemetery outside the village."
"No more advanced undead creatures have been found so far, but it will be hard to say if we go deeper. Further investigation information will be sent back by frontline scouts."
Opposite the screen is the Night Watch headquarters in Florence. After listening to Commander Bryce's report, the headquarters quickly gave a reply:
"I understand, Sir Bryce."
"Please continue to conduct cautious peripheral inspections and do not rush in depth."
"We applied for access to the historical database of the Holy See in Milan and found another possible clue."
"The village of Paramos in the province of Cyris was once a seaport city of the ancient high elves in the First Age. It was called 'Darazo Kasados', which means 'the place of resurrection on the other side' in Elvish language.
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"There is an extraordinary elven organization here called the 'Order of the Other Side'. They devote themselves to studying the extraordinary power of the undead system, hoping to open the entrance to the underworld and the main plane."
"Due to the elven extinction event at the end of the First Age, we are unable to discover more truth from the dusty history. Currently we only know that in the Second Age, this area was under the control of the human Kingdom of Macedonia."
"When Alexander the Great suppressed the rebellion of Siris, the army he led also encountered undead changes here, and was finally suppressed and quelled by Alexander himself."
"At that time, Alexander the Great was already at the pinnacle of the law level, a level 20 destruction warlock. According to records, during the process of suppressing the mutation, he encountered attacks from banshees, wraiths and black knights."
"Therefore, please make full preparations on your side, especially to deal with high-level undead."
Bryce was silent for a moment, nodded and said, "I will ask the night watchman to be careful."
"Keep in touch at all times, Your Excellency Commander. I wish you a safe return." The other person on the screen said the last word before cutting off the communication.
Standing in front of the command table, Commander Bryce folded his arms, silently lost in thought.
The current level of the demon tide will suppress all undead below level 5. With the current strength of the Night Watch Eastern Legion, the original estimate should be able to handle it.
However, according to the bad news given by the headquarters, there are likely to be high-level undead such as banshees, wraiths, and black knights inside.
Even at level 5, the banshee's mental scream and the possession of the vengeful spirit still have great restraint on the power armor knight.
Not to mention the Black Knight. As an undead proficient in martial arts, even if the physical strength is not much different, a Black Knight can kill more than a hundred ghouls of the same level.
This is definitely a tough battle.
Then the original strategic plan will inevitably need to be revised accordingly.
"Raise the emergency level to S3." Bryce finally ordered, speaking into the communicator.
The news that the emergency level had been raised quickly spread throughout the tent cluster, and many knights and priests showed astonished expressions.
The emergency level S3 means that only official night watch knights can participate in the suppression of mutations, and all knight retinues are excluded.
At the same time, it also means that the danger of this undead mutation is beyond imagination, and it has reached a level that can cause a large number of casualties to the knight's followers.
You must know that most of the senior knights of the Night Watch have a military training background of more than three years. An armed stormtrooper team can take down a gangster on the top of a mountain.
Even the knight's retinue was not allowed to participate in the suppression. How dangerous should the undead changes here be?
When the news reached the third team of Morning Star, Knight Commander Jasimodo immediately called an emergency meeting with his men.
The Knights of the Night's Watch are divided into three groups: Holy Sun, Silver Moon, and Morning Star. In this order, their strength decreases, and the proportion of formal knights is also smaller.
Taking the third team of Morning Star as an example, the total number is 20. However, excluding the knight retinue, there are only 7 official night watch knights left.
"Without the support of the retinue, our knight's firepower projection is too weak!" Knight Lorente protested, "What should I do with my minigun? Do I have to carry the ammunition box myself? Without enough ammunition support, the machine gun is
A pile of scrap metal!”
"What about the shield blockade? Who will install it and who will debug it? We are wearing power armor, and our fingers cannot operate the equipment flexibly! Do we have to withdraw from the armor and then build a shield on the battlefield?" Another knight Langley
Also complained.
"This is the commander's order." Knight Commander Jasimodo said helplessly, "If the battle attrition is too large, even if this undead change is suppressed, our Night Watch Eastern Legion will be severely weakened."
"The problem now is that if we don't bring our retinue, we knights will be reduced in number!" Llorente said angrily, "How can a seven-man team protect itself in a change of this level? The commander and
Are all the staff idiots?"
"There are more than 7 people." Jasimodo was silent for a moment and suddenly said, "There is a team of foreign mercenaries, 9 people, who will follow us this time."
"Foreign mercenaries?!" All the night watch knights were shocked.