Chapter 548 The Gulf Territory Becomes Stronger with Each Fight (8000)

At first, it was a flame with a tail flame.

The dazzling and moving halo embellished it with extreme beauty.

Then, it got closer and closer, like a hideous and twisted red eye.

Its gaze was so terrifying, as if it was a hand hanging from the sky, surrounding the entire earth.

Such a shocking picture once made many players re-understand this world.

This is the King Killer Star!

Every few decades or hundreds of years, it will approach a comet on the material plane.

Now, Matthew and Yaya are silently watching its arrival.

The shock that rushed straight into the heart was getting bigger and bigger in front of Matthew's eyes.

"Fuck!"

Matthew only had time to curse, and whispers that were difficult to describe in words kept ringing in his ears.

Those voices seemed to be there and not there, sometimes loud, sometimes low, sometimes noisy, and sometimes soft.

Intricate, constantly intertwined, forming a chaotic sound that made people dizzy.

Matthew frowned, vaguely feeling an inexplicable irritation slowly emerging in his heart.

"So direct?"

Matthew looked at the attribute panel, and there was no data displayed.

Until a while later.

The extremely subtle data was slowly refreshed.

"Ding, suffering from rational shock, will and wisdom are being judged..."

"Judgment passed..."

Although the judgment has passed, it did not make Matthew feel good.

The ubiquitous whisper continued to ring in his ears.

"Rational shock?"

"Thinking attack weapon? What is the carrier?"

Matthew silently thought about this noisy and chaotic voice.

The blood-red sky added a lot of color at this moment.

However, this did not make people feel fortunate and happy, but instead there was an unspeakable panic and horror.

The King Killer Star, which has caused hundreds of thousands or even millions of people to be displaced before it has completely arrived, will show its full power.

Matthew remembered very clearly that in the next three months.

The "Dragon Madness Disaster" caused by the "Dragon Madness Mystic Lock"

It will intensify until it affects the entire material plane.

The kingdoms and forces that underestimated this "Dragon Madness Disaster" will suffer a huge impact and shock.

"Ah! They are so noisy!"

Yaya's crisp complaint came, she stared at the huge blood-red eye in the sky, snorted softly and said:

"One day, I will tear down this ghost thing!"

For Yaya's "complaint", Matthew just smiled indifferently, making sure that the little guy's condition was not affected too much, exhaled slightly and said:

"Just seize this opportunity, then study it carefully. How to resist the influence of the Dragon Madness Mystic Lock."

Nodding quickly, Yaya, with a pouting mouth, opened the thick spell book very straightforwardly.

This is a gift prepared for her by the Great Arcanist of Kno Norman.

"Let's start with the energy shield first..."

"Yeah..."

Matthew and Yaya began to study the Dragon Madness Mystic Lock on their own bodies.

Of course, this is just their clone.

Without absolute certainty, Matthew will never take risks.

In the Gulf Territory Operations Conference Room.

Angela, who received the safety information from Matthew, couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

Soon, Angela informed everyone of the news, and everyone immediately put their minds at ease and devoted themselves to the defense of the Gulf Territory.

December 28.

Gulf Territory.

Sunny.

The edge of the misty swamp.

A long train quietly stopped in the center of the stronghold.

In the carriages full of goods, the soldiers were constantly busy.

"Quick! Quick! Quick! Take all those things down!"

A large number of supplies were piled on the containers.

Only after they were moved down could the containers be directly replaced.

The burly golem, under the control of the staff, slowly lifted the huge container and put it down at the unloading site on the side.

The container that was emptied last time was loaded with many kinds of goods. After writing marks and lists, it was sent to the train.

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

The long whistle of the train gradually faded away as it continued to accelerate away.

The soldiers carried the larger enchanted crossbows and placed them on the wall.

The storage room inside the wall was already filled with a lot of supplies.

Behind the wall, there was a higher wall.

After the last example of "earthquake" destroying the city wall.

All the city defenses in the Bay Territory were built with two or more wall lines.

More retreat routes mean more tactics.

Lyon was listening to the intelligence discovered by the adventurers.

Arrangements and preparations were being made for the upcoming dragon blood creatures.

Trenches were being dug outside, and guards were standing on the watchtowers.

Hundreds of soldiers were busy and nervous.

"There are too many dragon-blood creatures in other territories, and we can only rely on cities and towns for defense."

"Unable to break through the city, they are approaching us under the attraction of some invisible force."

"Preliminary estimates show that the first wave of dragon-blood creatures will arrive in two hours."

"Their number is around 20,000 to 25,000, about half of them are gnolls, 5,000 lizardmen, 5,000 various dragon beasts, and about 3,000 dragon descendants..."

"As the outermost cordon of defense, we must be the first to engage the enemy and record the enemy's strength and combat effectiveness."

Chris rubbed his eyebrows, a little tiredness appearing on his face.

In order to obtain this information, he personally led the team for five days, during which he was also chased by extraordinary dragon-blooded creatures.

If he hadn't been equipped well enough and persisted until his teammates arrived, he might have died.

However, he was not without gains.

Task rewards of tens of thousands of gold coins and 8,000 merit points.

After killing the extraordinary dragon-blooded creature, he was also assigned a piece of extraordinary magic equipment.

To make up for his somewhat hurt heart, the smiling Chris spent a lot of gold coins and achievements to give himself an emergency training.

With Yaya's help, Chris trained in a number of specialized skills in the best condition and with the best results.

His strength has been greatly improved, his professional level has been raised to level 10, and he will seek to embark on the path of a high-level professional.

Leon, who looked calm, carefully analyzed the situation on the map and did not show too much worry because of the large number of enemies.

There were three strongholds that faced the first wave of dragon-blooded creature attacks, and a total of one brigade of troops were stationed there.

It has the advantage of defense, the help of intelligence, and abundant supplies.

Lyon is confident that he will persevere and win the battle.

You know, not everyone is qualified to get this first attack task.

Yes, Bay Territory hasn't always been thinking about defense.

In addition to the defensive soldiers, the adventurers gathered around the stronghold were also gearing up.

For them, when fighting occurs in the Gulf Territory, it is the time for them to "wine and eat meat."

Not only can you reap the rewards of the "Assist in Defense" mission in the Gulf Territory, but you can also get trophies from hunting enemies.

They were hiding in a temporary base 2 kilometers away.

There are also many supplies piled here, but they are all prepared by the adventurers themselves.

They are also ready to have a big fight.

Most of the elite adventurers were giving very careful guidance to the young adventurers who did not have much experience fighting dragon-blooded creatures.

"These guys are like wild beasts, don't think they will be afraid..."

"The most important thing is to kill with one strike, but you must attack twice..."

"If you can't crush them with strength, then cooperate with your teammates honestly and chop and attack their joints..."

"Don't be brave. Saving your life and not getting hurt is the most important thing..."

"Remember to follow the signals..."

The adventurers who can accept battlefield missions have basically reached the peak of the mid-level, and their contribution value has basically exceeded 2,000. They are the backbone of the adventurers in the Gulf Territory.

They are all at a critical juncture, eager to gain more achievements and gold coins.

Get more magic supplies from the Gulf Territory and learn advanced expertise and skills.

Thereby breaking through the shackles of mid-level professionals and becoming a high-level professional whose strength and identity will be greatly improved.

Of course, battlefield missions also mean danger, and no one can guarantee that they will survive.

However, the vast majority of adventurers are happy to follow the path given by the Gulf Territory.

Because the Gulf Territory is the only territory willing to let them "grow".

That's right, most territories are not happy to have too many adventurers in the territory, or they are very powerful.

They usually set some vague restrictions, or simply increase the difficulty of inheritance.

The strength is weaker and easier to control.

Less quantity and easy to handle.

The roars one after another gradually came from the distance.

The galloping cavalry was the first to enter the defender's sight.

Along the way, they were slowing down the dragon-blooded creatures and shooting some threatening elite units.

Leon watched a large group of dragon blood creatures coming in, nodded to the Bronzebeard next to him and said:

"See how powerful they are!"

The excited Bronzebeard lit the fuse without hesitation, and a "sizzling" sound penetrated into the dark and shiny barrel.

Bang!

The roar of the cannon, accompanied by a jet of fire, spread across the wall.

Leon saw the dark round cannonball fly out, draw a wonderful arc in the air, and fall into the lizardman army.

Snap!

Click!

The iron ball containing powerful power crushed the unresponsive lizard warrior into pieces.

Then, like crazy, the catapults raced towards the rear, tearing apart all the lizardfolk warriors in their path.

From a distance, the cannonball looked like it had crushed a bloody path in the center of the dragon-blooded creature.

Killed more than 10 lizard warriors at one time.

The damage caused by the shells made Bronzebeard frown. He couldn't help scratching his head and said helplessly:

"The impact of the iron ball alone can only kill more than 10 people at a time. It will lose its lethality due to exhaustion."

As he said this, Bronzebeard immediately got busy.

He first opened the back of the cannon, cleaned out the residue of the alchemical gunpowder, and poured in the measured amount of light yellow alchemical gunpowder again.

He put the jet black iron ball into it and reloaded the cannon.

The whole process lasted 30 seconds, and the attack interval seemed a bit slow to Leon.

However, the range of this dwarf artillery made Leon very satisfied.

Followed by another loud "roar".

The shell flew about 500 meters and landed in the lizardman army.

The lethality was almost the same, and Bronzebeard adjusted the simplicity of shooting again, which made Lyon quite satisfied.

Although the enchanted crossbow of the Gulf Lord is good, lethality is also very strong, and the shooting speed is also very fast, it also has a weakness.

That is the short shooting distance.

While ensuring sufficient lethality, it can only shoot about 300 meters at most.

If it is farther, the crossbow arrows will start to drift.

Considering the shooting interval, it is not as cost-effective as accurate shooting of about 300 meters.

And this dwarf artillery developed by Bronzebeard, even if there are still many places to be improved, has shown a range of about 700 to 800 meters.

If the number is large enough, it can help the Gulf Lord to conduct 2 to 3 more rounds of shooting.

If it is a large-scale battle of tens of thousands of troops, continuous artillery suppression can cause greater lethality and pressure to the enemy's army.

Most of the thoughts in Lyon's mind are related to war.

In the past year or so, in addition to improving personal strength.

Lyon spent most of his time improving his ability to lead troops in battle.

He was keenly aware that this weapon would have great potential in the future if it could continue to develop.

Boom!

The roar of artillery fire again made Lyon gather his thoughts and shouted in a cold voice:

"Set up the crossbow... and fire!!"

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The overwhelming crossbow arrows fell towards the lizardmen rushing over.

The rotating arrows easily tore through their green skin, penetrated their bodies, and nailed them to the ground.

The enchanted crossbows, which were constantly transformed and improved in the Bay Territory, have gradually become perfect and turned into a very efficient killing machine.

Thousands of crossbows fired in just one round, causing at least 300 lizardmen to be killed or injured.

Lyon could see that these dragon blood creatures had basically completely lost their minds and rushed over despite the crossbows.

It won't pose much of a threat!

After imagining the overall battle situation in his mind, Lyon soon felt relieved.

He had already begun to calculate how to use these dragon-blood creatures to train more soldiers.

In fact, just as Leon thought, the humanoid dragon-blood creatures, which looked like beasts, could not do anything to the eight-meter-high wall.

What they could do was very limited, and they were mostly passively beaten under the wall.

Even if there were a lot of them, they soon became corpses under the unpressured attack of the soldiers of the Bay.

Half an hour later.

Leon took a look at the piled up and burned corpses, and rechecked the crossbow reserves.

Confirming that there were more than 300,000, he immediately relaxed.

The lethality of crossbows is the most "appropriate" to deal with humanoid creatures.

The first wave of attacks was easily resolved, which gave the soldiers considerable confidence.

While they were resting, they were discussing the situation of the next wave of enemies.

Soon, the patrol cavalry in the distance sent a signal.

The soldiers immediately took up their posts and prepared for battle.

Bronzebeard stood on the wall and looked into the distance.

A large group of jackals with obvious changes in their appearance rushed over with a howl.

They changed their upright walking posture and turned into beasts on all fours again.

Their body size expanded by nearly one-fold, and gray-brown scales could be vaguely seen all over their bodies.

Their heads became more ferocious, their mouths stretched out, and they grew ferocious and twisted fangs.

Their claws also underwent obvious mutations, becoming larger and more twisted.

The sharp claws could easily scratch the soil and dig out big holes one after another.

"I really see the undead, how can there be so many dragon-blooded gnolls..."

Swallowing his saliva subconsciously, Bronzebeard recalled the scene where the Bay Lord sent all the gnolls and dog-headed men to the Catachan demiplane exhibition, and said with great relief:

"Fortunately, fortunately, the Lord is really far-sighted!"

Lyon, who had long been accustomed to it, looked at those dragon-transformed gnolls with amazing momentum, and continued without hesitation:

"Don't worry about it, keep firing artillery to see how its maximum lethality is."

Bronzebeard, who reacted, immediately started to get busy.

As a ball of raging fire exploded, the rotating shell flew out and hit a charging dragon-transformed gnoll.

Crack!

The gnoll, whose body shape had changed significantly, still couldn't withstand the power of the steel impact.

Its body was twisted and deformed, and it flew backwards and died on the spot.

The castrated shells showed irregular jumps and hit the unlucky guys behind.

"We killed 6 dragon-transformed gnolls, but the effect was not satisfactory. After the next step of improvement, it should perform better."

Bronzebeard carefully took notes, thinking about how to improve the artillery while recording the defensive capabilities of the dragon-transformed gnolls.

In addition to testing the power of the artillery, he also had the task of testing the enemy's defensive capabilities.

"Compared to the lizardmen, the dragon-transformed gnolls are much stronger."

"Unfortunately, they have completely lost their minds and become beasts that only know how to kill."

Lyon, who has a very flexible mind, has already thought of how to use the obedient dragon-transformed gnolls.

However, facing these more ferocious monsters, the defense pressure of the stronghold has not increased much.

Although they are strong in combat, it is difficult for them to climb up the city wall to launch an attack.

However, compared with the stubbornness of the lizardmen, the dragonized gnolls seem to have different offensive wisdom.

They paid the price of thousands of dragonized gnolls being shot and killed, and killed them under the wall.

When they found that they could not climb up the city wall, they did not stand there and take the beating like the lizardmen, but tried to go around the back of the wall to launch an attack.

The idea is good, but the reality is cruel.

The powerful lethality of the enchanted crossbow can kill them with two or three arrows within a range of 300 meters.

The adventurers who saw this scene from afar could not help but marvel:

"The Gulf Territory is so rich that a small stronghold has to build such a high and strong wall."

"The walls of other lords are only slightly higher than the castles of the lords, which are basically about five or six meters, unlike the Gulf Territory..."

"Isn't it effective now? I thought the battle would be very fierce, but I didn't expect these dragon blood creatures to die..."

"This is a small castle. Isn't it courting death to besiege a castle?"

"That's right, but they are almost dead. It will be our turn soon, right?"

"No, these dragon blood monsters look smarter. They have escaped. Get ready for battle!"

"Go and take a good position. Don't look!"

"What are you still standing there for? Get ready to fight!"

"..."

The quick-witted adventurers immediately shouted excitedly.

While they were busy, the soldiers on the wall had stopped shooting at the fleeing dragon-like jackals.

In a short time, no more supplies will be delivered, so they must use crossbows sparingly.

In the discipline and command training day after day, the soldiers of the Gulf Territory have been able to obey orders completely.

There are not many dragon-transformed jackals that escaped, only about seven or eight hundred.

There are more than 1,000 adventurers ambushing behind, enough to eat them.

Lyon just ordered to clean up the battlefield.

A communication spell interrupted his arrangement.

"What? A super-level ground dragon is coming with other dragon beasts?"

This sudden news caught Lyon off guard.

However, he quickly calmed down, first asked the other two strongholds about the battle situation, confirmed that everything was under control, and then said with relief:

"Let it come, just in time to give everyone some bonuses!"

If you can kill a super-dragon.

Not to mention the bounty reward of the Gulf Territory, the super-dragon itself is worth more than hundreds of thousands of gold coins.

It is enough for every soldier in the entire brigade to receive a very generous bonus.

As if hearing Leon's call, a large number of dragon beasts of various appearances rushed towards the stronghold.

The leading dragon blood creature was a huge ground dragon.

It was somewhat similar to the swamp giant crocodile, but its legs were thicker, stronger and more flexible.

The thick yellow scales were emitting a dazzling luster.

The Dragon Madness Lock was not only very dangerous, but also had extremely terrible side effects.

That was to put all the affected dragon blood creatures in the most aggressive combat stage.

The ground dragon, which was usually quite docile, was like a lion with its hair blown up at this time, opening its mouth constantly, roaring and spewing out bursts of light yellow breath.

Seeing the red bloodshot in its eyes from a distance, Leon, who was very familiar with cleaning up dragon blood creatures, immediately began to make arrangements without hesitation:

"Prepare the dragon hunting crossbow, aim at the head, and kill with one shot!"

After being strengthened many times, the powerful lethality and destructive power displayed by the dragon hunting crossbow have begun to deserve this name.

Penetrating dragon scales with a defense power of less than 10 within 500 meters is enough to threaten most extraordinary dragons.

Of course, the shooting speed of the dragon hunting crossbow is very average, and there are usually only 1 to 2 shooting opportunities.

It can only deal with relatively bloated and stupid dragons.

It is undoubtedly a foolish dream to expect the dragon hunting crossbow to be able to hunt flying dragons.

Of course, the dragon hunting crossbow is absolutely enough for defense.

Even if the speed of the dragon hunting crossbow to move and aim is far less than the speed of the flying dragon turning in the air, it can't stop them from actively crashing into the crossbow arrows!

To be more precise!

Only these dragons affected by the dragon madness chain can be easily shot by the dragon hunting crossbow...

"Roar...!"

The deafening roar did not cause much deterrence to the defending soldiers.

Looking at the scene of a large group of dragon beasts swarming in, Leon calmly issued an active shooting order.

These dragon beasts have stronger attack power, larger size and strength.

However, they were completely unable to shake the 5-meter-thick city wall.

Moreover, when the city wall was being built, forbidden magic materials that resisted the influence of spells were specially added.

To destroy it, you can only use absolute physical force!

Lyon stared at the approaching ground dragon and did not immediately issue a shooting order.

He must seize the opportunity and kill it with one shot!

"Roar...!"

The ground dragon, who only had killing and hunting in his mind, roared wildly and immediately emitted a dazzling yellow light.

Driven by those yellow lights.

Pieces of soil gradually wrapped up the ground dragon's limbs from the limbs upwards.

Then, the mud gradually hardened until it faintly revealed the luster of elemental patterns.

A set of armor wrapped in loess formed all over its body.

This is the unique bloodline ability of the earth dragon - earth element armor!

Not only can it provide the earth dragon with 120 extra health points, but it can also reduce more than 20% of physical damage.

For this, the earth dragon also paid a price.

The speed, which was not fast to begin with, became even slower.

If it were on a field battlefield, encountering an enemy like the earth dragon that could not be beaten, I am afraid that the entire defense line would be destroyed in an instant.

However, facing this slowly walking earth dragon, Lyon very patiently suppressed the desire to attack and silently waited for it to approach.

Instead, Bronzebeard continued to conduct shooting experiments, igniting the artillery again and again.

Let the black metal shells whistle and fly out, hitting the dragon blood creature heavily.

In this process, Lyon discovered an advantage of the artillery.

When facing heavy and highly armored units like dragon beasts, the shells fired by artillery are more lethal and destructive than crossbow arrows.

After all, most dragon beasts have rough skin and thick flesh.

Even if the slender crossbow arrows can tear through their armor.

But they cannot penetrate their solid muscles and hard bones.

The shells are different.

The damage caused by the roaring shells is more of the impact force carried by themselves.

As long as they hit the dragon beasts, the huge impact force can still break some of the dragon beasts' scales and muscle armor.

Of course, when they hit some dragon beasts that can manipulate metal, the destructive power caused is very general.

The average challenge level of dragon beasts is as high as 11+.

It is not the newborn artillery made by Bronzebeard that can stop it.

Even so, Lyon is still very optimistic about the artillery.

He can't wait to issue the latest bounty task of researching artillery in the research institute.

Bronzebeard even assured with a smile:

"No problem, it is not difficult to manufacture artillery."

"As long as there is better metal for the barrel, better alchemical gunpowder as fuel, and more lethal shells to fire, their power can be greatly improved..."

Lyon did not believe Bronzebeard's words. He highly praised the code of conduct promoted by the Gulf Territory.

"Practice is the only criterion for testing truth."

No matter how good it is to say, it is better to do it well.

Facing these dragon beasts that are getting closer and closer, in order to prevent them from causing too much damage to the city wall, Lyon issued another order:

"Fire fierce oil."

Military formation (city wall), crossbow, fierce oil.

The three axes of the Gulf Territory's combat.

Simple, but really effective.

When a wall of fire rises from the trench.

Even dragon creatures that have degenerated to the shape of beasts are afraid to stop.

They just have no wisdom, but it is almost impossible to resist the instinct of survival.

The ground dragon that was walking up slowly was very dissatisfied with their behavior of stopping.

The remaining thoughts did not make the ground dragon as pure as a beast.

Facing the whispers that kept emerging in his mind, the ground dragon instinctively chose to obey.

It came to the front of the city wall with the blazing flames.

The ground dragon was 3.5 meters tall and 10 meters long. The 8-meter-high city wall seemed unable to stop it from climbing.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Several sounds of dragon hunting crossbows were instantly heard on the city wall.

The ground dragon that was still majestic just now was now lying on the ground struggling and wailing.

The crossbow arrows as thick as arms had deeply penetrated the body of the ground dragon.

The bloodletting grooves kept bleeding.

The earth element armor that looked very majestic was tattered and crumbling in the blink of an eye.

Leon had no mercy on the screaming monster and ordered to continue shooting and kill it directly.

Two more rounds of crossbow arrows flew out, and the bloody head of the ground dragon finally flew out with a satisfactory result.

This extraordinary ground dragon, which had not launched any attack, died quietly.

It died so naturally!

It was like being delivered to the door!

Seeing that the biggest threat had been eliminated and the remaining dragon beasts were afraid to move forward, Leon decisively issued the order to "encircle and annihilate".

Killing these valuable dragon beasts, the crisis of the stronghold can basically be resolved.

The adventurers who had just killed hundreds of dragon-transformed jackals and were not full at all.

After hearing the news, they immediately responded with "agree to cooperate".

In their view, this was the defender of the stronghold, inviting them to eat meat together!

Although there was a certain risk, no adventurer was stupid enough to refuse.

At the same time, in order to completely swallow this large piece of "fat meat".

Without hesitation, Leon ordered the catapults in the back to throw out nearly 1/3 of the stored fire oil.

As the fire ignited, almost all the dragon beasts were trapped in the circle of flames.

Five dragon hunting crossbows took turns to fire, giving priority to killing those dragon beasts that were large and tried to break through the wall of flames.

Others replaced the enchanted crossbows and aimed at the heads of the dragon blood creatures and fired accurately.

Bronzebeard also had a lot of fun fighting and obtained a lot of valuable first-hand information.

An hour later.

The entire battlefield returned to peace.

All the bodies of the dragon blood creatures were transported to the processing plant in the Bay Territory through the teleportation array.

After they were purified, their whole bodies would be perfectly utilized.

They were made into various dragon blood weapons and equipment, or dragon blood potions, and became the nutrients for the growth of the professionals in the Bay Territory.

At the other end of the teleportation array, various weapons and equipment that had been modified according to the needs were also transported in time.

The adventurers and soldiers who replaced their weapons and equipment have completed the strength improvement.

They are ready to leave the base and take the initiative to meet the incoming dragon blood creatures!

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