Emperor of Arcane

Boom!

Huge rolling stones fell one after another.

More and more slave warriors rushed up on the blood-stained road, and were crushed by the falling boulders.

Even so, the slave warriors, who never felt intimidated or frightened, still ignored casualties and sacrifices and charged forward with all their strength.

Mighty long-range attacks flew from behind the falling gravel like heavy rain.

The slave warriors who rushed up together soon fell under the cover of intensive long-range attacks.

The extremely powerful long-range attack prevents slave warriors from getting closer than 300 meters to the camp.

Watching the charging slave warriors fall to the ground one after another, Azshara's city walls were flashing with fire and spells, giving the drow watching the battle a complicated expression.

After counting the specific losses, a dozen drow commanders with livid faces muttered quite unhappily:

"With such good long-range weapons and equipment, why not take them out earlier?"

"Even if we can't support us, we are still willing to pay for it!"

"They definitely wanted to make more money, so they deliberately allowed us to suffer casualties so that the weapons and equipment in their hands would have higher value."

"That's right, Azshara must be taught a lesson and asked to hand over enough long-range weapons and equipment!"

"Not just long-range weapons, I heard that Azshara also has a considerable number of enchanted equipment and magic props..."

"..."

In the discussion of more than a dozen drow commanders, Azshara has become the culprit for their failure.

They are ready to join forces and let Azshara give an explanation.

The drow commanders, who were not suffering serious losses around them, looked at each other calmly after hearing their discussions and strategies.

Their strength is still there, and their early combat missions have been completed.

They are not like these drow commanders whose power has been damaged, looking for a suitable target to devour in one gulp and immediately replenish their strength and strength.

Of course, they are very "curious" about the strength of Mother Thera and the various materials produced in Azshara City.

If these guys succeed, they will be happy to step in and share a piece of the cake.

If these idiots fail, they will immediately change the direction of their attack and swallow these already damaged drow troops, and at the same time befriend Mother Sera.

No matter what they do, they will not lose.

Liya, who had already organized a second line of defense, didn't pay much attention to the exchanges and discussions between the drow commanders.

She silently watched the battle in the distance, with a little emotion and expectation in her eyes.

Although she occasionally learned about the development and current situation of the Gulf Territory, Ke Liya never expected that the Gulf Territory would be so bold and even conquer Sera.

The growth shown by Sera also made Liya very interested.

They could obviously retreat now, but they insisted on holding on to their position, acting completely unlike the drow.

But if they do this, the other drow elves will not be moved at all. Instead, they will think that they are fools.

"Perhaps, the Gulf Territory will still secretly surprise people like before."

With this thought in her heart, Liya looked at the drow commanders who were about to make a move and felt that the word "death" was already written on their faces.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The boulder hit the huge steel puppet. It did not defeat it like other slave warriors. Instead, it was broken into several pieces and scattered aside in the violent collision.

This rusty steel puppet walked resolutely towards the hillside with its heavy six-legged mechanical legs.

The slave warriors followed closely behind the steel puppet, using it as a cover and advancing step by step.

Several fireballs flew in succession, but exploded in front of the steel puppet.

A tough and strong energy barrier was revealed after the fire dissipated.

Continuous crossbow arrows flew in with a "whoosh" and struck the steel puppet's joints fiercely.

Click!

Bang!

The armor-piercing crossbow was rarely broken into two pieces, and the location where the steel puppet was hit was also severely knocked out with a deep gap.

The huge steel puppet, faced with this fierce impact, paused for a moment as it moved forward.

Dozens of heavy crossbow arrows flew over again, shooting intensively at the steel puppet's leg joints.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

A huge steel shield stood in the middle of the two, blocking the deadly crossbow arrows.

The heavy crossbow arrow with extremely strong penetrating power was inserted into the steel shield fiercely, and finally penetrated into the thick shield.

Even so, the thick steel shield still withstood the impact of the heavy crossbow, allowing the steel puppet to continue moving forward.

Just when Gartel was about to use the dragon-hunting crossbow, Sera stopped his movement and said in a calm tone:

"Keep them within 200 meters."

"Psychic protection device activated!"

"Automatic shooting mechanical tower activated!"

"Prepare the catapult!"

Sera is very aware of the importance of this combat mission, which is not only related to the various war machines newly produced and manufactured in the Gulf Territory, but also related to her future "development".

Sera does not value her own development, but will not refuse the responsibilities and obligations she should bear.

She watched the enemy army getting closer and closer, and saw three more steel puppets rushing towards the Azshara camp below, and issued a combat order:

"Catapults fire!"

Clear orders were passed into the phalanx of catapults.

Bi Gao, who had been waiting for a long time, controlled the exoskeleton armor, knocked the launch buckle of the catapult, and shouted in a high-pitched and excited voice:

"Aim for the signal beacon and release it!!"

The dazzling red flare hit the steel puppet's back accurately.

The huge steel puppet thought the attack was coming, and immediately raised its shield with heavy crossbow arrows.

Bang!

Red signal smoke filled the air, emitting a bright light.

The enemy has been marked!

All the excited faces showed joyful expressions, and they started the catapult happily.

Click! Click! Click!

The huge counterweight suddenly fell, and the narrow slinging arm was violently thrown forward.

A variety of magical lights appeared on the side of the demonized ironwood that exuded silvery light.

The dark brown metal iron ball roared and hit the steel puppet below.

The steel puppet continued to hold up his shield, completely unaware of the slave warriors behind him who were covered in red smoke.

Bang!

More than 10 metal balls smashed into the red smoke, and dozens of slave warriors who could not dodge were instantly smashed into balls of flesh by the huge impact.

After receiving a violent impact, the pitch-black metal ball suddenly cracked, and terrifying fire spread in all directions.

The broken pieces of metal, driven by the heat wave of flames, turned into deadly weapons, flying manically in all directions.

The surrounding slave warriors received fatal blows, their bodies torn apart by flying shrapnel, and a large piece fell in an instant.

The remaining slave warriors were also pushed to both sides by the terrifying flame shock wave and fell to the ground scattered.

They struggled to get up, but soon fell down weakly.

The terrifying impact had shattered their internal organs and taken away their lives.

In the blink of an eye, there was only one lonely steel puppet left in the attacking team.

Observing the high effectiveness of the weapon, he burst into laughter.

He clenched his fists excitedly, quickly recorded various data with a recorder, and said to the goblins under his command:

"Good job, guys!"

"Explosion is art!"

The attack was blocked, but the slave warriors still did not flinch. They trampled on the corpses of their companions, followed the other three steel puppets, and continued to stride forward.

After taking a look at the slower-moving steel puppet, Sera, who had already been prepared, did not take the lead in attacking it, but turned her head to look at both sides.

Azshara Camp is located on a steep hillside, connected to a solid wall at the back and steep hillsides on both sides.

Apart from the fact that there is no way out, this is an excellent defensive position.

For ordinary attackers, steep hillsides fifty or sixty meters wide on the left and right sides are definitely not a good attack option.

But for slave warriors, they have no choice!

The fast-moving Jackal slave warriors rushed forward in a swarm.

Occasionally, a gray figure flashed among them, and was focused on by the Catachan warriors.

Although there were new ranged weapons at their disposal, Catachan's transformation warriors chose to occupy favorable terrain and wait for the slave warriors to attack.

The gap in combat power between them is too huge.

The sporadic slave warriors could barely survive a round in front of Catachan's transformed warriors.

They finally rushed up the steep slope, and before they even had time to launch an attack, they were cut in half by the ghost swords swung by Catachan's transformation warriors.

Just when the ordinary gnoll slave warrior was chopped down by the Catachan warrior, the dagger coated with deadly poison silently pierced the Catachan warrior's back.

Unexpectedly, the Catachan warrior seemed to have eyes on his back, following the force of the sword slashing the slave warrior, he turned sideways lightly.

Whoops!

The fatal dagger pierced the air.

The Catachan warrior calmly shook his fist into the empty air.

Bang!

A soft body was smashed out and slammed against the hillside.

Click!

The sound of bones breaking is clear and beautiful.

Looking at the drow slave warrior who was struggling to stand up, the Catachan warrior strode over and rushed over.

It was stuck in the stall before she could react, and a hand knife struck her neck.

Bang!

The dagger stabbed upward fell softly.

The drow slave warrior's body went limp, and he was grabbed by the Catachan warrior and thrown backwards.

The drow slave warriors were like rags, rolling in the air and falling into a large net bag.

The adventurers rushed over and tied up the drow slave warrior as quickly as possible. Looking at the hideous wounds on her body, they all cast shocked glances at the Catachan warrior.

What a cruel attack!

Everyone likes it!

The reason is simple. The more ruthless the Catachan warriors are, the less pressure they have to capture and detain them.

For adventurers, working with Catachan warriors is simply not a pleasant experience.

These powerful warriors have at least high-level peak strength.

Not to mention the sophisticated enchanted equipment unified by the Gulf Territory, they also have extremely rich combat experience.

Many enemies that adventurers are completely unaware of will be easily discovered by Catachan warriors, and then killed or defeated lightly.

In the eyes of Catachan warriors, most battles are destined to end before they even begin.

As for the capture of these drow slave warriors, it was because the Gulf Territory issued such a special mission.

Compared with other slave warriors who are large in number and have relatively low qualifications, they require a lot of effort to train.

Drow slave warriors have a higher "value".

This value refers to the malleability of these drow slave warriors and their ability to assess situations and provide many convenient values ​​to Grandmother Thra.

Since we want to expand our territory in the underground world, the presence of drow is indispensable.

Boom!

When the huge steel puppet approached within 200 meters of the city wall.

The magic artillery on the city wall began to roar wantonly.

They spit out balls of raging flames, providing devastating kinetic energy for extremely destructive projectiles.

The extremely defensive energy shield shattered in a violent wave.

The steel puppet that kept charging forward immediately fell into a situation where it was passively being beaten.

Ball after ball of fierce fire hit its body fiercely, making dents one after another.

Even the steel puppet with extremely strong defense was defeated by a series of artillery attacks.

The first thing to be destroyed was its mechanical equipment and relatively fragile joints, which were destroyed in the violent collision of steel.

When the first three limbs were all destroyed, the unbalanced steel puppet suddenly fell down.

At this moment, three other steel puppets rushed over in a mighty manner.

Facing this extraordinary top-level construct, Gulf Collar showed enough respect.

Hundreds of magic artillery fire were at full fire, and the roaring roar echoed in the valley.

Watching the army of slave warriors getting closer and closer, the drow commanders who were having a great discussion stared in disbelief at the hillside where the fierce battle was taking place in the distance.

Azshara is still holding on!

Mother Sera is still fighting!

Even the invincible slave army seemed to have bypassed the location of Azshara's camp and continued to kill in the direction of Suramar City.

Looking at the blazing battlefield, looking at the fallen steel puppets one after another, Liya, who was speeding up the mobilization of the steel golems, involuntarily exhaled a long breath.

Although she didn't know the plans of Sera and the Gulf Territory, she was very grateful for their "contribution".

Not only did it withstand multiple rounds of attacks from the slave warriors, firmly attracting their attention, but it also played many trump cards of the mind flayer army.

Whether it's drow slave warriors who are quickly captured and controlled.

These are the steel puppets with amazing physiques and powerful defenses in front of them.

Originally, the sudden battle would bring huge trouble to the drow defense line.

Now, the mind flayer army has revealed its trump card in advance, and she can also make targeted arrangements based on its combat effectiveness and combat situation.

The only thing that shocked Liya was that the most troublesome "mind control" for the drow elves when facing the mind flayer army did not seem to be effective on Sera and the soldiers of the Gulf Territory.

Liya absolutely did not believe that everyone sent by the Gulf Territory could achieve the level of immunity to the Mind Flayer's mind control.

This also means that the Gulf Territory has a way to deal with the mind control of the mind flayers.

Compared with the various weapons and various combat soldiers displayed in the Gulf Territory.

For the drow who are threatened by the mind flayer empire.

This method of combating mind control is the most valuable asset.

After all, they also control slaves to fight, and the drow will always be at a disadvantage when facing the mind flayers.

"Is that some kind of ability? What kind of aura? Or a special potion?"

"Or is it related to a further deity?"

While Liya was thinking hard, the surrounding drow commanders had begun to become nervous.

Although they have replenished their troops, rearranged their defense lines, and received support from Suramar's army.

But when they faced the tide of slave warriors, they were no longer as relaxed and comfortable as before.

An unspeakable and terrible pressure gave them the urge to run away.

But the feeling of gaze coming from behind made every drow commander have to work hard to arrange the defense line.

With the existence of the war supervising team, most drow commanders will be obedient until they encounter a fatal crisis.

When it comes to life and death, the drow commanders will survive at all costs.

Accompanied by the somewhat nervous drow scouts, they drew their bows and fired arrows at the slave warriors who began to attack the steep slope.

Various long-range attacks and spells also began to burst out together.

The battle began to become increasingly fierce, and the drow gradually forgot about Azshara's camp in the distance, which they still remembered.

They started fighting here, but the battle over Azshara's camp began to come to an end.

Following the sixth steel puppet, its legs were broken off by fierce artillery fire, and it fell weakly on the gentle slope.

It has been unable to move and has lost the ability to continue attacking and fighting.

The mind flayer army had completely given up and began to ignore the existence of Azshara's camp.

The slave warriors who were about to charge forward decisively turned around and left.

Even if the slave warriors are worthless, they can be thrown out at will to consume the enemy's cannon fodder.

The mind flayer army is not willing to waste them on Azshara's camp, which is like a hedgehog with no way to eat.

More importantly, the Mind Flayer hiding in the dark also discovered the problem that Liya was thinking about just now.

Their invincible "mind control" has lost its effect here in Azshara Camp.

Regardless of whether they are aimed at more determined adventurers.

Or maybe facing those very familiar gray dwarves.

He still looks like an insignificant goblin.

"Mind control" seems to have no effect on them.

Not to mention, turning them into his own slaves and driving them around at will, creating chaos in Azshara's camp's defense lines.

The mind flayers don't know what method Azshara's camp used to prevent them from exerting their powerful abilities.

But they deeply understand the importance of this war now.

They must attack Suramar City as soon as possible!

As long as this goal is achieved, nearly 30 nearby drow cities will become fish on the chopping block.

The entire rich area controlled by the drow will also be loosely opened to them.

Let them enter it and plunder and develop freely.

Unless the drow, who regard wealth as their lives and are extremely greedy, are willing to abandon their homes and escape to other drow cities, becoming their slaves or a meal of mermaids.

Unfortunately, most drow cannot do this.

It is precisely because of this that the mind flayer army behaves so unscrupulously.

For thousands of years, the mind flayers, who have been secretly accumulating power, have conducted very thorough research on the drow.

They know it very well, for the greedy, selfish and scattered drow.

As long as the attack that destroys everything does not come to them.

They will not choose to escape, or work together to resist.

Maybe the drow would happily stab other drow in the back while they were fighting hard.

It is precisely because of this that the Azshara camp, which is such a small combat target, can be temporarily abandoned.

After achieving their combat objectives.

They can organize a larger slave army, and then crush this tenacious and ruthless Azshara camp.

As for letting it go?

That is impossible!

The mind flayer army is also very "curious".

What method did Azshara's camp use to exempt mind control from taking effect?

If only this method could be replicated.

Then they will destroy it at all costs, and adjust the configuration of combat troops and combat plans in a timely manner.

If this method does not allow for replication.

Then they must also nip future threats in the bud.

Even for the entire Mind Flayer Empire.

The forward army they sent out was just a pioneering team composed of scouts and cannon fodder composed of losers in the competition.

But for them, this war means everything.

They want to use this opportunity to complete a deadly counterattack and comeback.

Realizing that the mind flayer army had temporarily given up the attack, Sera, who had remained calm, finally let go of her worries.

She watched the mind flayer army move away from them, and waved to the excited and cheering soldiers.

Everyone quickly became quiet, and under her command, quickly began to clean the battlefield.

"All corpses must be burned. This is the most basic requirement for fighting in the underground world..."

"Why is there such a request? Will there be any mutations in the corpse?"

"The corpse will not mutate, but there are some things that can control and affect the corpse, so that's not necessarily the case."

"Ah? Isn't this the same as Scarlet Moon?"

"There are such terrifying existences in the underground world. Why have I never heard of them?"

"Alas, you don't know this. You still remember the last time we came to the underground world to fight. At that time, we had a head-on confrontation with the drow army."

"The commanding ability of the drow army is very poor, just like what they are doing now, and even the ability to organize defense is very average."

"Indeed, traps are not laid, trenches are not dug, and long-range weapons are still using bows and arrows."

"Even if they are all sharpshooters, how many arrows can they shoot in one battle?"

"When searching for corpses, be sure to collect all the loot, so as not to be burned by fire later, and everyone's loot will not be that much."

"Hey, how much can everyone earn from this battle?"

"I don't know about this. When the time comes, you will know by looking at the magic watch. Every piece of loot harvested will be counted and recorded accordingly."

"Is our battle over? We haven't had enough yet!"

"Don't be anxious, let's eat what already belongs to us first, and then think about other benefits..."

"..."

Trixis listened to the exchanges and banter among the adventurers from the Gulf Territory, and vaguely felt something was wrong.

She carefully observed the soldiers on the city wall, paying special attention to the drow hiding in the dark and wearing cloaks.

She could tell at a glance that these drow were taller, more powerful, more powerful, and more threatening than all the drow she had ever seen.

However, Trixis did not see the familiar cruelty, greed and distortion in these drow.

"The spoils of war belong to everyone? Doesn't it belong to the mistress?"

"That's not right! How can a slave have wealth?"

"The drow are actually indifferent to wealth and battlefields? Is what I saw an illusion?"

"A slave with wealth, a slave without shackles and shackles, is he really still a slave?"

"Where did Azshara get so many supplies? It can't all be sent here using the teleportation array, right? That would be too extravagant!"

Cui Xisi, who was in a state of confusion, never thought that her random guesses would lead to the truth of the matter.

The many materials here, except those carried by soldiers and adventurers and prepared in storage equipment, the rest are transported from the teleportation array.

It takes just arranging an ultra-long-distance large-scale teleportation array and operating the teleportation array at full capacity.

That’s as high as 8 million gold coins!

However, even though the expenditure was extremely huge, the Gulf Territory did not hesitate to push forward, and also increased the intensity of the transmission.

More and more combatants and combat supplies were transported to the excavated underground space.

Silver Ya, who was busy at a fast pace, carefully looked through the extremely complicated map of underground passages, and continued to direct the work of the dragon-born kobolds who controlled the magic excavator.

Behind them, the adventurer was fast asleep.

Before they accepted the teleportation, they had just completed a fierce battle with the ghost monster.

Although they don't know where this area is, the generous rewards and hush money are enough to keep them from thinking about any problems.

The soldiers following them were reinforcing and militarizing the excavated channels as quickly as possible.

Not only does it need to be excavated to be more spacious, it can accommodate more supplies and golem trains to pass through.

At the same time, they also need to build fortresses and strongholds that can be used for defensive operations to prevent battles that may occur here.

The golem train and tracks are being assembled and laid. This underground space, which is not hidden, will become another large-scale underground stronghold in the Gulf Territory.

The reason why Sera and the Gulf Territory chose this place was discussed and considered for a long time.

There are three main reasons.

The first reason: close to Suramar.

Suramar is quite powerful and is rich in various magic props, rare metals, and magic materials.

The drow elves living here are not only very wealthy, but also have a relatively "moderate" style and demeanor.

They will not kill slaves for no reason, just to please themselves and relax.

Even the most worthless kobold slave can survive here tenaciously and with difficulty.

Maybe he will die in the dark corner of a certain mine in the future, or become food for dangerous magical creatures.

However, they usually live longer, as long as they still have benefits to discover.

Although for some "experimental subjects", this statement is unfair.

But for other crazy drow elves, the drow elves here are already the most "worthy" of communication and contact.

The second reason: there will be frequent battles here.

Yes, the huge and dangerous Suramar Valley is rich in mineral and magic resources.

The place where the drow and the mind flayers fought was only an insignificant part of the Suramar Valley.

In order to seize these resources.

There will be battles between drow.

There will be battles between the drow and the barbarian tribes.

Drow also fight dangerous magical creatures.

Adventurers in the Gulf Territory like to participate in "battles".

Not only can you win and win trophies, but you can also improve your strength and digest the combat knowledge and skills you have learned.

Of course, this process is naturally dangerous, but compared with the extremely generous rewards.

The risks that exist here are acceptable to everyone.

The third reason: This will become the main battlefield in the future.

It won't be long before the mind flayer empire will invade the territory with its army and engage in a head-to-head battle with the awakened drow.

They plan to use this method to decide who can rule the underground world.

what is interesting is.

Although the scale of this battle is huge, the intensity is not as high as imagined, and it will last for a very long period of time.

Matthew has been thinking that the battle between the Mind Flayer Empire and the Drow was too deliberate and weird.

The competition for mutual interests between the two sides will indeed lead to the emergence of war.

However, the two sides have been fighting for several years, but they are still willing to continue to invest their strength in the fierce battle, which makes Matthew a little "unable to understand".

What are they planning?

Do you think your population is too large?

Or are there any unavoidable reasons?

Matthew believes it’s the latter…

But this doesn't hinder it. He used information about wars that would occur in the future to make arrangements in advance.

If Sera's plan can succeed and successfully establish trade links with the major cities of the drow, it will be a matter of course for her to appear in this battle.

Maybe at that time, Sera can not only do business with drow, but also do business with mind flayers...

Only by selling weapons and ammunition to both warring parties can you make more money!

As for now, digging out these channels also has the advantage of being able to be used in time.

Click! Click! Click!

The metal drill bit rotating at high speed drilled a large hole in the hard rock and slowly tore open the ground.

Tyrell stuck his head out, looked at the warehouse where supplies were scattered all over the floor, and shouted to everyone quite excitedly:

"Haha, we are finding the supplies left by the drow elves and slave warriors."

The excited Drizzt immediately got out and released the silent barrier. He looked at the ruined huge warehouse with distress and couldn't help but sigh:

"Oh, it's still too late!"

Viconia smiled, and while scanning the surroundings warily, she grabbed a handful of shiny gold coins and said expectantly:

"Next time, when they haven't retreated, we can send you."

Unable to help coughing, Drizzt pretended that nothing had happened, waved his hand to the big guy who came out and said:

"Guys, move this place quickly, don't leave a single board or a grain of food..."

Making money is the way to go!

Cui Xisi, who finally came out, looked at the busy guy, her head was buzzing.

"Azshara is so rich. Is this how she got it?"

"The whole army of mind flayers are just working for Azshara?"

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