Chapter 450 'Good News'
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Misha County, in front of the long bridge of Abby City
Xia Lian raised the cross in her hand with some difficulty. He knocked the seven or eight mutants who were fighting to the ground to the ground, and took advantage of the few seconds before the next wave of monsters came up to gasp for air. His originally clean and refreshing short flaxen hair was stained with a lot of blood, and the high-rise clothes on his body The priest's robe was almost dyed black, endless sweat slipped from both sides of her cheeks, and a drop fell to the ground along her pointed chin.
The last ray of light at dusk. Still trying to persevere on the horizon, but it is difficult to slow down the pace of night. There is not much visibility left in this land that was originally shrouded in a layer of haze.
At this point, Xia Lian Zhuye, the first saint of the Shuguang Sect, has been here for a full ten hours.
"Goddess above."
The Elf Saint stepped back half a step, leaning on her cross in vain, gritting her teeth and muttering: "Hei Fan, you little bastard is really in trouble. Mom, is this what you call seven to nine hours? Is this what he calls seven to nine hours?"
Her last words were turned to the person behind her. The officer roared out.
The ranger player named 'Aris Wicked' not far away shrank his neck and said with a wry smile: "Well, Your Highness the Saint, what Master Hei Fan said before should be 'at least seven to nine'" hours’ is right.”
"I won't listen! I won't listen, I won't listen!"
Xia Lian used a whip to kick away the two mutants who were staggering to their feet, and rubbed her blood-stained boots on the ground. He asked viciously: "Damn it, did he say how long it will take to get it done at the latest?"
Aris Qide coughed dryly and looked away awkwardly: "Sir Hei Fan said"
“I won’t listen, I won’t listen, I won’t listen!”
“.”
The final result would naturally be that the combined forces were wiped out on the Hodil Mountain Road, and no one could come. Xia Lian knew this very well, even better than the herald. Her current behavior was almost manic. In addition to the fact that he was indeed unsustainable, he was also worried about Yuchen and the others over there, fearing that something terrible would happen to the joint forces before he fell.
[No, you can't think wildly. Even if something happens, they will definitely notify this place to organize the evacuation of civilians as soon as possible, so no news is good news, yes, no news is good news. 】
Xia Lian calmed down her anxious mood and continued to skillfully stop the seemingly endless monsters in front of her. Due to the terrain, Xia Lian, who was blocking the bridge alone, would not face more than thirty monsters at the same time. She is only a mutant, and the corpses of the dead that have been piled high on the bridge have also played a certain delaying role, but this does not mean that she can go there easily. Although Xia Lian cannot use magic, she can still improve her physical fitness and She can crush most high-level professionals in cold weapon combat, but even so, she has been fighting for ten hours continuously, but she is still gradually unable to continue, and her physical and mental state has begun to fall off a cliff.
This is also reasonable. After all, even if Xia Lian likes to fight with others with crosses and bayonets, and fight head-on and violently, she is still just an "amateur" in melee combat. Perhaps the elf's long life will allow her to learn a lot She has combat skills and masters the methods of using various weapons to open people's heads, but in the end she is still a spell caster, which is completely different from those melee professions that rely on heavy swords, battle axes and big hammers.
Even if she has extraordinary strength and physical fitness, even if she can crush a great knight with pure hand-to-hand combat, the position of Her Royal Highness the First Saint is still a spell caster, which means It was always difficult for her to maximize her strength through close combat.
To put it simply, under the same circumstances in terms of strength, physique, speed, etc., it would take Xia Lian five minutes to defeat Cordoba, while those sword masters, knight lords, or killers promoted from thieves would take It takes less than ten seconds.
If we want to be more straightforward, then we can take the player's character panel as an example. If Xia Lian has the same set of basic attributes as an ordinary sword master, then her level in specialization It will never be more than one-tenth of the latter, To put it crudely, it means one-handed weapon specialization, two-handed weapon specialization and other things. To put it more complexly, it means the use of one's own power, the angle of the attack, the control of the pace, etc. Even if the basic attributes are exactly the same, in this aspect There is absolutely no comparability between the two.
Similarly wielding a weapon, Xia Lian can exert 10 points of power to 10 points, and a sword master can exert 10 points of power to 30 or 40 points, while also suppressing consumption to one-tenth of the former. one.
Although both can kill Zhan Wu Zha's mutants in large numbers, the nature of them is completely different.
After ten hours of holding on, if the person blocking this long bridge is a great knight, then he can still retain at least 50% of his strength now.
And Xia Lian was almost unable to lift her arms now
So she had to use some magical abilities to assist herself. Even if she was attacked head-on by the Dark Goddess Delia, she suffered severe backlash. , so that she cannot use divine magic freely, but as the first saint of the Dawn Sect, Xia Lian still has other abilities.
For example, the market price of a bottle of [Pure Magic Essence Mixture] is 35,000 gold coins.
For example, you can buy [Red Obsidian Blood Marrow] at 100ml/50,000 gold coins on the black market.
For example, just taking one [Excellent Jujube Pill] can heal most wounds.
For example, every time the trigger is pulled, the [Holy Confessor Hand Crossbow] will fire three compressed high-explosive light arrows.
For example, the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce only produces 200 boxes of [Stable Bomb Sets] every year, which is rare and does not cause major accidents.
For example, the supreme treasure of the Dawn Sect is the alchemy prop [Ring of Glory III] that requires hundreds of thousands of believers to perform large-scale prayers to obtain it.
As a revered saint, one of the top figures in the entire City of Light, how could Xia Lian not have some of the best stuff? She has been in poverty most of the time. The reason is very simple, because His Highness likes to buy and buy. Regardless of whether he uses it or not, as long as he goes shopping, he must fill up the space bracelets, expansion rings, phase pendants and other storage props before he gives up.
So, it is not without reason that despite losing the power to use magic, he can persist until now. If those mutants before noon were still defeated by Xia Lian's strength, the monsters after that can basically Said she was beaten to death with gold coins.
Money is an undoubted and powerful force. This theory is not only applicable to the real world, but also makes sense in a world of high energy and high magic like the Innocence Continent. As long as there are enough gold coins, everything can become simple and crude. .
Even those who are famously strong are the same. They also need to arm themselves with weapons, equipment, accessories, and supplies, and most people will also prepare a few trump cards for themselves. But there is a price to pay, and money is naturally the most common of the many costs.
Under the premise of the same level of strength, a sword master who has lived in seclusion for many years and only has a broken iron sword will definitely not be able to defeat him. He is carrying a dragon-slaying knife, wearing a paralysis ring, and wearing a full suit plus thirteen pursuits. The sword master in the fourteen divine costumes.
Of course, this situation is usually impossible to happen, because strong people who have reached a certain level of strength will never be too short of money. They have too many ways to make money. In addition to giving money to those who have money, Being a bodyguard is the most LOW thing In addition to other methods, they can also go to various dangerous places to dig up rare materials and sell them, rent a workshop to help people enchant equipment for a fee, find an adventurer guild to get a strength certification and complete a large number of tasks. In short, there are countless ways to do it. A lot of gold coins came into the account.
As a saint, Xia Lian is even more convenient. She doesn’t even have to do anything herself. She can receive a large amount of pocket money from the church every month, and as the core high-level leader of Dawn Sect, As a strong man, many good things are provided by the church for free, so the inventory in hand is naturally not small.
So even if she didn't wear the [Thousand Curses Valkyrie Suit] that she sent for dry cleaning when she came out this time, she wouldn't be able to use those precious props that must be inspired by magic and magic, but there are still many good things available.
For example, from the player's perspective, the [Red Obsidian Blood Marrow] has the effect of 'recovering 80% of health immediately after use, increasing the upper limit of health by 30%, and restoring 1% of physical energy every second for the next minute' ], [Excellent Jujube Pills] that can remove at least 28 negative effects at one time, and [Stable Bomb Set] each with stable power and stable killing radius. These things are the core of Xia Lian's ability to persist until now. reason.
I have to say that this is definitely a huge waste. If nothing else, just using those [stable bombs] that can kill an intermediate professional in seconds to blow up mutants will make them angry. Two dead iron roosters, if it were used by a believer of the Goddess of Wealth, he might have been punished by God by now.
But Xia Lian had no choice. She really couldn't hold on anymore. The backlash of divine power was not just as simple as making her unable to use divine magic. The first saint had been suffering from it all the time during this period. She was carrying a huge load, and except for the first few days in Gudaimi Plain, she had hardly had a good rest. In the morning, she even used some kind of prop with a potential overdraft effect. The combination of various reasons had almost exhausted her energy. Withered. But the other war zone was not much better. There had been no news from the Hodil Mountain Road, which made Xia Lian feel like she was stuck in her throat, so she could only continue to grit her teeth and comfort herself with the words "no news is good news".
"That's right, no news is good news."
She murmured in a low voice again, raised her head and drank the last half of [Red Obsidian Blood Marrow], using the weight of gold with extreme luxury. The treatment potion, which was countless times more expensive, restored a little physical strength, and he once again wielded his cross with great force.
However, at this moment, Aris Bade, who was not far away, suddenly shouted: "Your Highness Xia Lian, there is news from Hodil Mountain Road!!"
"No. News is good news, no news is good news”
“Your Highness Xia Lian, Master Hei Fan has sent a message”
"No news is good news"
"Your Highness Xia Lian??"
"No news is good news."
Xia Lian's consciousness has been in a trance to the point of being somewhat demonic. Beating the mutant, he muttered with dull eyes: "I won't listen, I won't listen, I won't listen."
"The third stage of the Requiem officially ended five minutes ago!"
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Aris clenched his teeth and stamped his feet, directly skipping the reporting process. He looked at the message board and read loudly: "We have a great victory!"
"A great victory?"
Xia Lian was stunned for a moment. , subconsciously flew up and kicked away half of the mutants that bounced from the sky, turned around and asked: "Win? Did they win?!"
"Won!"
< br>Aris nodded with a red face, and said excitedly: "Yes, Your Highness! A total of more than 12,600 mutants have been wiped out, and the combined forces have begun to assemble at the Hodir Pass. Soon Then the final phase of the Requiem Project will begin!”
Xia Lian let out a long sigh and collapsed on the spot as if she had lost all her strength. In the next second, she got up faster than she had fallen and kicked away two mutants who tried to take advantage of her illness to kill her. The person shouted with great enthusiasm: "Awesome! You haven't let me down!"
"Yes, Your Highness."
Arisque De also laughed and said: "We have already won half of the victory."
Xia Lian's eyes that were already a little out of focus have brightened again, and she asked excitedly: "When will the final stage begin? ? When will they come? How soon did Hei Fan say?"
"Uh"
Aristomus suddenly stiffened, hesitated for a while and then asked with a smile: "What, Lord Hei Fan asked me to ask you how long you can hold on?"
Xia Lian was stunned for a moment: "Why? A stick to the law?"
"Wait a moment."
Aris Feude seemed to be in a daze, and then said loudly: "Master Heifan means, if you are not here. How long can you continue to defend here on the premise of dying in battle?"
Xia Lian's face turned ugly at that time. She smashed several mutants away with her cross and then gritted her teeth and said: "Help. I asked him if half-death would be considered 'death without fighting'."
Aris was silent for a moment, and then nodded awkwardly: "Master Hei Fan, please."
"That little bastard!"
Xia Lian cursed menacingly, Then he said with a downcast face: " Two hours, two hours at most, and then let him explain the reason."
Aris Bade nodded, opened the message bar and quickly edited a reply to Mr. Hei Fan
One minute later
Aris raised his head wickedly and said with a livid face: "Our losses were heavy in the third stage. Although all the enemies were wiped out, a total of more than 400 soldiers were killed in the first to third battle sequences. During the final charge, The support sequence went out against orders and sacrificed 200 people, including 30% of the civilians. In the end, only 27 people of the heavy-duty interceptor group responsible for responding to the Holy Knights survived. Kaivos, the great priest of the Plenty Sect, died in the battle, and Furman officiated. He lost his left eye and is still being rescued. The Paladins, who continued four rounds of charges and served as the tip of the spear in the final advance, have lost 30% of their numbers. More than 40 of the 301 surviving knights are still there. In a coma."
Xia Lian's heartbeat suddenly skipped a beat.
"Lord Hei Fan said that everyone needs a little rest, but two hours should be enough."
"No."
Xia Lian interrupted the other party softly. , tightly clenched the cross in his hand.
"Tell him that I was joking just now. We can last at least four more hours here. Tell them not to come here in a hurry. It's still time to get some sleep and play two deceitful cards or something."
< br>Chapter 447: The End
(End of this chapter)