Chapter 299 Are you here to make fun of me?
The cold wind howled.
Looking at the battle that was coming to an end, Brian lifted his hood, his pale, slightly messy long black hair illuminated by the morning light, giving it a golden halo.
Led by Dragon Vein Warlock Salo, a large group of warriors from Mokou Town followed him. They were all dirty and had dented armors, but they kept laughing.
Bryan came to Hesiah. She had just gotten off the horse. She seemed to be safe and sound, but her armor and coat sleeves were covered in black blood.
"Are you injured?" He asked with a concerned look.
“No.” Hesiah took off his helmet, put it under his arm, shook his long flowing hair, raised his other hand, showed it to him, and said with a smile: “I’m fine. This is all the blood of the rebels, and...my uncle Selant, I personally cut off his head."
"When the war is over, I will send someone to hang his head in the evening. On the tower of Light City, this is a way to commemorate the massacred people." She added with a slight cold look.
"The living prince may be more useful to us." Brian said calmly, but there was no blame in the words, and then he looked at the war man who was holding the prince's head calmly. The mage, and the remains on the ground.
In fact, during this battle, he had already noticed Prince Selant in the crowd.
Not only did he use magic to block all his attempts to escape through teleportation magic, the last fireball he deliberately left behind was also cast by him himself.
The purpose of doing this is to capture the opponent alive.
“You should have told me earlier.” Hesiah complained, “In that case, I might have kept my hand.”
“It’s okay, in fact, the result is the same.” Ryan patted her shoulder and said with a smile: "Compared to the living prince, there is only one corpse left, which is just a bit troublesome."
After saying that, he glanced at the person behind him. The tiefling warlock said to him, "Check and see if you can find any useful information from his body."
Although he never guessed the true identity of this tiefling from beginning to end, he at least knew that the other party was a warlock who had signed a contract with the devil.
Looking at the opponent's city defense troops in Mokou Town, they looked completely honest and responsible. Whether they were assisting him in clearing out the evil forces in the territory or resisting foreign enemies, they performed very well. He had never done anything like this. Study more.
After all, everyone has their own secrets, especially those magicians who have signed a contract with the masters of other worlds, the old rulers or demons, and they are most disgusted by others exploring their secrets.
So, from the time the warlock appeared in his territory until now, Brian doesn't even know his name.
Besides, this is a magician whose strength has reached the level of legend, a master who is good at playing with souls. Some things he does personally are often more efficient than him.
But he didn't expect much from directing the warlock's actions.
The warlock nodded slightly and immediately pointed his ghost staff at the corpse on the ground.
A gray ghost screamed out of the staff and attached to the remains of Prince Selant. After a moment, the warlock waved his staff, and the fearful ghost screamed, As if frightened, he quickly ran away from the body and disappeared into the staff.
"His soul has been manipulated." The magician slowly opened his eyes and said with a hint of helplessness, "So, we can't find any information, even if it's a living person."< br>
“What’s going on?” Looking at Brian’s frown and slightly solemn expression, Hesiah walked up to him and whispered, “I shouldn’t be so impulsive.”
"It's okay." Brian came back to his senses, shook her soft little hand, and smiled at her without caring, "This has nothing to do with you."
"You just want to find it with him. Traces of the devil?" asked the sorceress Caradna, who was standing next to Heseiya, tilting her head.
“That’s right.” Brian didn’t hide anything and nodded slightly.
After speaking, he looked in the direction of Ma Shanbai.
According to the intelligence delivered to him by Myrcella, he learned that there were traces of devils in the rebel army. This made him immediately take the matter seriously and tried to obtain it from Prince Selant. Some messages.
Now it seems that this method is obviously useless.
The devil from Baator Hell's favorite method is to corrupt people's hearts from the top, because the class that controls power will be the most vulnerable to corruption due to their ever-expanding desires.
Prince Selant seems to be a living example.
Only in this way can the devils use the power of these powerful people to plunder a kind of power that is of little use value to most mortals in the material world, but is very valuable to them. Stunning wealth.
There is no doubt that that is the soul!
Whether it is an abyss demon or a devil, the soul is the most precious wealth to them.
For mortal spellcasters, many of the more common ores, gold, jewelry, materials, etc. in the lower planes are very valuable.
But for many creatures in the lower planes, these things are not worth mentioning at all. At most, they are just tools to seduce mortals.
Only the souls of these mortals in the material plane are the most important wealth.
This is an imbalance in the value of the plane, so if they want to seduce a mortal to fall, the devils can always think of enough ways to achieve their goals.
He originally planned to search for the devil's hidden traces from Prince Selant, but unfortunately, he found almost nothing. Even during his deliberate search during this battle, he did not detect the devil's minions.
That's how annoying the devil is.
They are both in the evil camp, but when it comes to conspiracy, the devil can run away from the devil for more than a dozen streets. These guys always like to hide in dark corners and weave conspiracies. Unless there is an unavoidable battle, otherwise they are very Don't take the initiative to stand up and confront the enemy head-on.
In other words, it is almost harder for him to find the devil than to reach the sky.
The battle is over. Except for the soldiers responsible for cleaning the battlefield, everyone is standing in the cold morning light in full formation. Everyone is quietly waiting for the commander to issue new orders.
A chilling chill gradually filled the air.
Feeling Hesiah's gaze on him, Brian looked in the direction of Mashanbai and said calmly, "Get Mashanbai."
In his opinion , from the moment the Merchant Guild of Masanbai opened the city and surrendered to the rebels, it meant that this 'Spice City', the most prosperous port city in the entire kingdom, had decayed.
The traditions, rules, nobles and merchants here have already changed over the course of hundreds of years of rule.
In this case, why not let Hesiah take this city now, and use this opportunity to scare the monkeys, and rectify the disobedient nobles in the entire kingdom.
Originally, he was still having a headache as he wanted to gradually develop Cormyr into a magical kingdom, and how to get rid of those disobedient nobles.
Now, the opportunity has been presented to him.
Soon, the city gate of Mashanbai appeared in front of us.
Originally, the troops they used to block the rebels were all delivered through the teleportation array, and they also specially selected a location not far from Mashanbai, so their marching speed was very fast. It was discovered that before they could react, they had already approached the city gate.
Faced with the sudden appearance of the army, the defenders left behind in Mashanbai were so shocked that their eyes almost popped out of their eyes.
What the hell is going on?
Obviously this morning, their tens of thousands of troops set off from the city gate and marched toward the Susar Imperial Capital. But now, there was a role reversal in an instant, and the enemy army was besieging the city in reverse. .
Especially the purple dragon flag that rustled in the cold wind made them feel collapsed and frightened.
"Break the city gate!"
Brian noticed that Hesiah was giving the order. Her expression looked very cold, and her attitude towards Ma Shanbai was also extremely unkind.
This is understandable.
After all, they are not going there this time to express goodwill to these surrendered merchant guilds and let them defect again.
In his opinion, when you have absolute strength, why should you waste time and saliva arguing with this group of politicians?
The most important thing is that based on the information he obtained, he learned that Mashanbai's merchant guild was actually a loyal believer of Wojin, the goddess of wealth.
This is also understandable.
After all, the alignment is absolutely neutral, the goddess of wealth, and her duties are trade, wealth and currency.
In the nearly one hundred years since the 'Arcane Catastrophe', although natural and man-made disasters have occurred frequently, there are also huge business opportunities.
Disaster is a disaster for ordinary people, but for some groups, it is an opportunity for them to make huge wealth.
For example, for some people who have no lower limits, even if some donations pass through their hands, they may lose several layers of skin, let alone other things.
It was this disaster that shocked the world that caused a large number of merchants and nobles to entrust their wealth to the Temple of Wealth for safekeeping, gradually allowing them to take over the priesthood of merchants.
You must know that in the game, the goddess of wealth originally had weak divine power, but after the turmoil in the Underdark ended, she broke through to medium divine power.
After all, wealth, currency and trade are directly linked to merchants themselves.
If the Merchant Guild is really related to the Temple of Wealth, Brian feels that this may be a good opportunity for the Kingdom of Cormyr to kill pigs and bleed them.
No matter how powerful the church is, it will not be so arrogant as to openly confront a powerful kingdom. Moreover, this is an absolutely neutral god.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!..."
The mechanical puppet army took shocking steps, like a steel city wall, completely ignoring the scattered arrows on the wall and advancing forward.
In Mokou Town now, with the support of the "Golem Manual" technology, the mechanical puppet technology has gradually been perfected. If he has enough money and elemental essence support, Brian can use the new research to create Arcane alloy materials, before the floating city rises into the sky, it has a fully organized golem army.
In his mind, the so-called complete golem army, not to mention other mechanical puppets, the number of mechanical puppets with strength reaching the legendary realm needs to be at least double digits.
Only with this kind of organized armed force can we meet the qualifications of the floating city.
——"Sonic scream!"
The terrifying sound waves erupted by the two Crushers, whose strength reached the legendary level, instantly shook the city gate of Mashanbai with cracks.
This is not a purely physical method, but uses the resonance principle of sound to adjust the frequency of the sound to be equal to the natural vibration frequency of the city gate. With the superposition of energy, it moves it from the inside to the outside. Shake out the cracks.
"Boom!"
A violent impact sounded.
Legendary Breaker is level 22, with all strength above 35 points. Coupled with his size advantage, he is even more violent than the legendary barbarian who turned on the rampage in the battle just now.
Coupled with his strong defense and magic resistance, Brian directly ignored the defenders and spellcasters on the city wall and rushed towards the city gate. This siege method looked better than any siege tower. , catapults and battering rams are too practical.
In an instant, the city gate of Mashanbai collapsed. Immediately afterwards, their elite troops entered in a surprise attack.
Although signs of army gathering could be clearly seen in other directions of the city gate, with this absolute advantage, Brian didn't care at all.
In less than half an hour, the west gate of Mashanbai has been completely occupied. One-fifth of the city has been occupied, taking over the city defenses everywhere.
Part of the reason for this is that the battle mages and purple dragon knights are all elites, as well as Brian's puppet army. Another part of the reason is that the civilians here, as well as the soldiers who have defected but have not sincerely joined, have long expected the army's Arrive, then carry out backstabbing, or organize to cooperate with the action.
It was at this time that bursts of footsteps sounded from the other side of the city, and the few remaining defenders were assembled.
Prince Selant took away most of the people, and the remaining defenders were not as many as the Purple Dragon Knights and War Mage combined.
This is undoubtedly a mantis trying to trick a chariot.
“Array!”
"Get ready to fight!"
As orders were given one after another, the red dragon Agtus, who had been impatient to kill people and set fires, roared angrily and turned into a giant dragon and appeared in the sight of the defenders.
The huge size and fierce face of the dragon, as well as the terrifying power of the dragon, immediately put great pressure on many soldiers, either running away like headless flies, or lying on the ground shivering.
A moment.
A one-sided battle broke out on the entire Mashanbai Avenue, and the defenders were pushed flatly without any resistance.
Brian, Hesiah and others did not directly participate in this battle because he had more important things to do at the moment.
"Regent, Lord Protector."
A battle mage wearing a dark purple cloak appeared in front of them, bowed his head respectfully and said: "What you ordered has been done. Done.”
This is the leader of the battle mage of Mashanbai. After the consul was assassinated and the merchant guild united with the nobles to surrender, he has been hiding in the city with his subordinates, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements.
"Very good." Brian nodded slightly and said to Hesiah beside him, "Next, I will go to the Merchant Guild in person."
The news brought by the war mage leader was to help him find the hiding place of the merchant guild, and his purpose was to uncover the hidden devils among these merchants.
"I'll leave this to you." Before leaving, Brian said to the magician beside him, "I don't want you to make any mistakes."
"Don't worry, sir. ." The weird and hoarse voice of the Warlock was like the devil in hell, "As long as I stay here, I will never let a devil go."
Brian nodded slightly, choosing to believe in the Warlock. ensure.
“You are planning to force the devil out of the city, right?” the sorceress Caradna suddenly asked, with deep curiosity in her beautiful burgundy eyes, and a hint of eagerness to try. .
"That's right." Brian said, "If we don't catch these devils, they will always be a scourge."
"I'll go with you. I have a way to make them show up." The sorceress He slowly took off the staff wrapped in linen behind his back and spoke proactively.
Brian looked hesitant and looked at Hesiah.
"Just ask her to go with you." Hesiah said to him softly, "You don't have to worry about us here."
Brian could only nod in agreement.
In fact, Hesaiah misunderstood him.
Let the sorceress follow him not because he is worried about Hesiah's safety, the real reason is that he is worried about his own safety.
As a time traveler, although the sorceress has few opportunities to appear in the game, Brian, as a player in the Cormyr camp, is relatively familiar with her.
This is a sorceress with wild magic flowing in her body. Wild magic represents raw magical energy, a powerful force that is difficult for mortals to control.
This also means that letting the other party follow you is like carrying a bomb that can explode at any time, and it is the kind of bomb that can be fatal.
Most importantly, this sorceress also possesses a supernatural ability similar to 'wagging her finger'.
This ability allows her to break the seal on the source of magic in her body, and then release one of the magic spells in the entire spell list.
This spell may be a useless trick, or it may be a legendary spell as powerful as "Meteor Falling from the Sky".
In short, this is the ability to read faces.
However, looking at the other party's confident eyes, Brian vaguely felt that taking her with him would really help him find the traces of the devil accurately.
After all, even he himself was not absolutely sure about this matter.
Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated. According to the space beacon locked by the battle mage, he directly opened the portal and disappeared together with the sorceress.
Mashanbai City, a hidden underground secret room.
"What the hell are you doing for food!!!"
A burst of angry roars echoed throughout the airtight and spacious house.
The Growler is a very rich man with glittering gold all over his body.
He was wearing a lot of gold jewelry, an extremely expensive jewelry necklace around his neck, and eight of his ten fingers were wearing various rings of astonishing value.
At this moment, he was roaring at a group of people gathered in the secret room: "What did that idiot Serante do for food? A total of fifty thousand people were wiped out in less than two hours after leaving the city. , I don’t even know where the enemy came from. Fifty thousand people! Even fifty thousand pigs are enough to capture them for a long time!”
“Ximen’s fleet was also damned! All the meteorites were destroyed. Now tell me, what should we do?"
"What else can we do?" A nobleman, sweating in cold sweat, stepped forward and said, "Now We can only surrender, this is the only way to survive.”
"Fuck surrender!"
The shining man picked up a wine glass and threw it to the ground, "We have already surrendered once, and we have given that idiot Serante a large amount of ransom. You will be the regent. Is Wang an idiot? Even if she is an idiot, is the Protector of Mokou Town so easy to fool? "
"If you hadn't instigated the surrender, would this situation have happened now? "
“Analyze to us the benefits we will get after surrendering, isn’t that what you said?” A person hiding in the crowd whispered.
“Surrender is the only way out.”
A thin, unusually calm young man stood up and analyzed the crowd: "It's only a matter of time before Cormyr's army takes over the entire city. We have no choice but to resist and die."
"Yes, if you jump out and surrender at this time, you will indeed not be recognized by them."
He turned around, faced everyone and continued, "But we can ask the people from the Temple of Wealth to guarantee the royal family, and then we can Let the people from the imperial capital come forward, so that we only need to voluntarily pay a large ransom and push out a few unimportant people, which is enough to save our lives. After all, all our money is stored in the Temple of Wealth. Kill us, Prince Regent. Nothing can be obtained. A corpse and a large ransom, I believe they will make a better choice." Hearing this, the golden man looked thoughtful, and others nodded. .
At this moment, with a deafening roar, the door of the secret room was blasted open.
Two figures appeared in everyone's sight. At their feet, there were a group of lively toads, small lizards, centipedes and more than a dozen small animals.
These small animals seem to have been transformed by humans by some powerful magic. They flee in panic.
“No need to go to so much trouble!” Brian trampled to death a small lizard that was trying to escape, and said with an indifferent expression, “It’s easiest to kill people like you directly.”
"Get out of the way and let me deal with them!"
As soon as the clear voice fell, the sorceress next to her raised her staff wrapped in linen, and her whole body suddenly burst into madness. Wild magical energy.
In the shocked eyes of everyone, Caradna's warlock bloodline was activated, and her long golden hair, which was tied into a ponytail, automatically broke free and spread out, like a devil.
The tips of her golden hair also emitted a phantom-like purple luster at a speed visible to the naked eye, spreading to the top of her head and bursting out with dazzling light.
In the end, all the blond hair turned into purple hair, dancing wildly with the magical energy surging from the body.
In the entire spacious secret room, a breeze started blowing at some point, and the space seemed to be shaking gently with the breeze, which made people feel frightened.
Everyone’s sight was occupied by the purple energy emanating from the sorceress Caradna.
It was all purple and nothing could be seen.
"Ah! Ah! Ah!..."
Every merchant or noble, unable to bear the exposure to the purple light, covered his temporarily blind eyes in pain and wailed.
Looking at the sorceress who was standing on the six-pointed star array and holding up her staff as if she was on the verge of explosion, Brian was worried that he would be affected by the energy and subconsciously took two steps back.
“Boom!”
The unknown vibration seemed to come from a distant country and a distant space, and it seemed as if some kind of terrible energy had been opened to vent and was about to gush out.
Feeling this terrifying energy permeating the air, Brian actually noticed the arcane fire in his body, and started to move uneasily.
The moment Brian's vision recovered, he quickly looked over.
As the violent energy dissipated and subsided, he saw in disbelief that the sorceress whose purple light suddenly converged turned into a small creature less than the size of a palm amid the wild magical energy. The white mouse fell to the ground and squeaked in pain.
At this moment, Brian was really shocked.
With a thought, and under the influence of telekinesis, the squeaking white mouse fell into his palm.
“I said, this is how you help me find the devil?”
Brian held the tail of the white mouse and let it hang upside down in the air, ignoring the crazy struggle of its four little legs. She said dumbfounded: "Miss, are you here to make a joke?"
(End of this chapter)