Lord Highlander

"Put in another..."

Suldak's voice was a little hoarse, his body was covered with the dark brown bodily fluids of ghost-striped red ants, and he was holding a blood-red crescent in his hand. A group of ghost-printed red ants.

The archers shot and killed the ghost-striped worker ants one after another, leaving only the ghost-striped soldier ant that rushed to the front.

The huge body climbed up to the top of the wall, and the whole body was stronger than the buffalo. A pair of giant pincers grew out of the soldier ant's head, which could easily bite off logs with big, thick legs.

The forelegs covered with bone spurs were inserted into the cracks in the stones of the city wall, causing the stones on the city wall to loosen a bit.

Ten heavy armored infantrymen hid behind the wall, holding their breath, waiting for the ghost pattern soldier ant to climb over the wall.

The two infantrymen at the front held large double-edged axes in their hands. The moment the forelimbs of the ghost-striped soldier ants were on the wall, the two axes slashed fiercely at the weak joints of the forelimbs of the ghost-striped red ant, and immediately smashed their forelimbs cut off.

The ghost-patterned soldier ant let out a scream, and stabbed the heavy armored infantry with the giant pincers on its head, thinking about cutting the heavy armored infantry at the waist.

The heavy armored infantry holding a double-edged giant ax dropped the giant axe, rolled backwards, and hid behind the heavy armored infantry holding a tower shield. The giant claws of the ghost-striped soldiers hit the square tower shield, and the four soldiers behind simultaneously used their shoulders When they touched the shield, they were knocked to the ground.

The four heavy armored infantrymen behind them took the opportunity to thrust the spears into the joint between the ghost pattern soldier ant's head and chest cavity, causing it to get stuck on the top of the wall.

Then all the infantry soldiers quickly dodged, and a large amount of acid was sprayed from the mouthparts of the ghost pattern soldier ant.

Samira controlled the bed crossbow and aimed at the ghost-striped red ant and shot a giant bolt. She was less than ten meters away from the ghost-striped red ant. No way to break free.

Armored infantrymen held spears and stabbed the ghost-weave soldier ant's huge head and made it unable to struggle.

Two heavy armored infantry took the opportunity to rush forward, picked up the giant double-edged ax that was thrown on the ground, and took the opportunity to chop off the soldier ant's head...

This is already the sixth ghost pattern soldier ant

Although the strength of this kind of soldier ant is far inferior to other second-level monsters, the inside of the skull is the same as that of second-level monsters. Each soldier ant has a magic core in its skull.

It is not yet known whether the hard shells on the ghost pattern soldier ants are magical materials, after all, those shells are too hard.

Samira took out a foul-smelling magic core from his sticky head, but his face was filled with joy, and he proudly said to Suldak:

"These big guys seem to be very good! Each has a magic core."

Suldak approached the wall, looked at the densely packed ant colony under the city wall, and felt that although the ant colony under the city wall was still crowded together, they seemed to have become orderly. The large ghost pattern soldier ants move.

The corpses of the ghost pattern soldier ants at the foot of the city wall have been completely reduced to ashes, but the fat refined from the bodies of the dead red ants has gathered in the oil tank below the city wall, and a wall of fire is still burning fiercely.

The ghost-striped worker ants did not dare to approach half a step. They could only go around from the side mountain wall. The corpses of ghost-striped worker ants were piled up on both sides of the mountain wall. The fire under the city wall gradually spread to the side of the mountain wall. The corpses here It was not soaked in fire oil, so it couldn't burn, but there was billowing and choking smoke.

There are often some red ants falling on the steep rock face.

"Slow down, let's kill one by one." Suldak said to Samira, looking at the ghost-striped red ants rushing out of the thick smoke.

Suldak ordered the two squadron leaders of the city defense guards to gather the city defense guards equipped with multi-shooter crossbows on the east and west sides of the city wall, mainly shooting the ghost-pattern soldier ants crawling over the rock wall.

"Archers pay attention to the mountains on both sides of the canyon, and be careful not to let the ghost-striped red ants come in." Suldak ordered.

Samira turned over and climbed onto the bed, and excitedly said to the city guard beside him, "Put in another one..."

...

The beast tide came a bit suddenly this time, but it was expected.

Residents in Duodan Town were waiting for the moment when the beast swarm came. They saw thick smoke billowing from the city wall, and the fire outside the city burned all night. They heard that the city was so hot that people could not stand on it, and people used hanging towers all night , Transport buckets of clean water up and pour it directly on the city wall.

Residents in the town were all discussing how many ghost-striped red ants were killed in the fire last night. I heard that the big red ants were picked out and killed individually. Those red ants were piled up behind the north city wall, a group of leather workers The shop boy is peeling the skin.

Because those carapaces are too hard, skinning knives can't cut through them at all. Currently, hand axes are used to split the hard carapaces.

The master craftsman of the leather shop said that this kind of hard armor leather was useless, but it attracted many businessmen in the town to watch there.

However, before the garrison commander, Baron Suldak's consent, no one would dare to take these ghost-striped red ants even if they were all rotten.

The merchants were quietly discussing in private how to buy the hard armor of these ghost-striped soldier ants from Commander Suldak.

They hope that Commander Suldak is as ignorant as that town's leatherworker and disposes of all these carapaces as garbage, and then they can transport these hard carapaces to Wilkes without spending too much money. The city can make a fortune.

But seeing those leather shop guys in the town almost smashing the carapace completely in order to split the hard carapace, it is heartbreaking.

How can this thing be smashed with an axe!

There are also two teams of mercenary members on the city wall, and they have also joined in the hunt for the ghost pattern soldier ants.

That big guy looks like a bull. If there is no bed crossbow that can nail it to the stone wall on the side of the city wall, it will be a lot of trouble to defeat it head-on.

For the members of the mercenary union, at present, only by assisting in the defense on the north city wall can they get a share of hunting Warcraft.

A few days ago, under the mobilization of Suldak, some mercenaries volunteered to defend the city wall. These mercenaries are all locals in Dodan Town. There is no reason to refuse.

Once Dodan can't hold on, the family will be gone.

There were also some mercenaries who couldn't understand Suldak's style of doing things. They didn't want to obey Suldak's orders, and they didn't want to fight desperately on the top of the city, so they chose to give up participating in the defense of the city.

These people hid at home, and occasionally got together, expecting those ghost-striped red ants to teach this eccentric and solitary garrison commander a hard lesson.

Only in this way can he change his face, come to the door in person, and ask them to go to the city wall to help defend.

When they were drinking afternoon tea, they even thought about how to climb the city wall and kill everyone.

But... After a day and night of fierce fighting, the battle situation seems to have stabilized.

Those mercenaries who took the initiative to apply for defense on the city wall happily walked down from the city wall, and everyone gained a lot. After all, these mercenaries are very powerful in personal strength, and almost all of them directly participated in the hunting of ghost-striped red ants. Therefore, the rewards obtained are also very generous.

The harvest of the mercenaries today is about three gold coins.

Moreover, these mercenaries who actively applied for defense assistance will also be given priority when arranging the date of defending the city later.

Those mercenaries who didn't take the initiative to apply for defense assistance at the beginning, but now see the rewards of assistance defense, want to apply for defense assistance at the top of the city, they can only be incorporated into the reserve team and wait for the opportunity.

I don't know how many people are regretting for a while.

...

While the merchants were discussing how to carry out more trade and cooperation with the garrison in Dodan Town, Ms. Selina, the chief logistics officer of the garrison, summoned the merchants in the town and held a meeting in front of the warehouse of the city defense brigade. Distributor Conference.

As soon as Suldak came down from the city wall, he was pulled here by Selina to participate in the dealer meeting.

In front of the warehouse of the city defense brigade, there were more than 30 merchants standing together. They were whispering together and talking about the battle situation on the top of the city wall today. No one expected that the garrison could block the first wave of beast horde so easily. .

Once you enter the battle rhythm, the next thing to do is to stick to it.

And on the first day of persistence, more than 20 ghost pattern soldier ants have been hunted, which is not a small gain given the current market price of monster materials.

Suldak did not expect so many merchants to come to the town during this period of time. He walked to the warehouse gate of the city defense brigade and stared at these merchants on the field.

When everyone saw Suldak, the voices of talking and laughing became much quieter.

Suldak stood at the warehouse door and asked the city guards to push open the warehouse door. The inside was almost full of low-level Warcraft leather, and a large wooden box was full of magic cores.

The merchants whispered...

Everyone knows that the garrisons have hunted a large number of monsters recently, but they did not expect such a large number.

Suldak raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then said:

"I believe that many people present today are very concerned about the results of our garrison on the city wall, and also want to know how many monsters we have hunted before. Most of the results these days are in this warehouse."

"I think there will be more in the follow-up, but almost all of them are magic materials from ghost-patterned soldiers...every day, I think it will continue until the end of the beast tide."

"It is not difficult to obtain these monster materials. Whoever has arrows, kerosene, refined steel ingots, flax threads, feathers, finished arrow shafts, and a series of military supplies can be transported to Dodan Town. The merchants who sell these military supplies can get these magic materials at a price that is 20% lower than the market price."

"Sorry, gold coins and magic crystals are temporarily unavailable for these Warcraft materials in Dodan Town."

Suldak glanced at Selena and said, "I still have to hold a meeting, and you are in charge here."

After speaking, he took several squadron leaders of the cavalry battalion, quickly left the city defense brigade, and returned to the garrison camp.

As soon as Suldak left, the merchants immediately became imposing.

"Where are we going to find military supplies at this time?" A businessman in the crowd shouted loudly.

In addition, a businessman held up the money bag in his hand, shook the money bag in his hand, and protested to Selina: "Gold coins are the trading currency circulated in the Grimm Empire, so bartering like this is a violation of the Grimm Empire's laws." .”

"We do not accept Lord Commander's proposal."

"Yes, we can't accept it anyway!"

The businessmen at the scene expressed that they would not accept such a transaction, and their voices were very neat.

Selena has been standing in front of the warehouse door, silent.

She quietly listened to the protests from the merchants, and asked the warehouse management to lock the warehouse door, and then said:

"Since this is the case, we won't force you. If you come to me next time, you won't get these magic materials at this preferential price, but at a price 10% lower than the market price."

After she finished speaking, she didn't even look at these merchants, and said lightly:

"You guys are thinking about it..."

After speaking, he turned and left.

...

When Selena returned to the military camp, she also had a lot of affairs to deal with. The materials she had recently obtained and the materials shipped by the logistics department had already consumed a lot of materials every day, and all the accounts were very chaotic.

She wanted to sort out these accounts at the front, so she didn't even go to the city wall to take a look.

Several clerks gathered around, constantly reporting some data to Selena.

Selena just sat down at the desk in the wooden house, ready to drink a cup of hot tea and take a breath...

As soon as she reached out to pick up the steaming teacup, she saw the clerk knocking on the door. Selina put down the teacup and looked at the clerk.

The clerk immediately stood up straight and reported to Selina:

"Ms. Selena, a businessman named Hoover wants to talk to you in private..."

Selena said calmly, "Please come in!"

The clerk hurried out.

Not long after, a businessman with a big belly walked in. His expression was a bit wretched, and he wanted to force a smile, but unfortunately he smiled reluctantly.

"Ms. Selena, I want to buy some second-level Warcraft leather. I happen to have some refined steel ingots..."

Selina shook her head and said, "Stainless steel ingots cannot be exchanged for second-level Warcraft leather. If you want this kind of high-grade leather, you have to get fire oil."

"Then what can I get?" Hoover asked, wiping his forehead.

"Elementary monster leather and magic crystals are fine..." Selina said to the merchant Hoover.

Hoover was opposite Selena, put a note on the table, and said with some humility: "Then I want the primary Warcraft leather, which can be traded tonight, but you must keep it a secret for me, I don't want them knowing 'I broke my agreement with them'."

"Understood, the transaction will be in front of the warehouse of the City Defense Brigade before dawn tomorrow morning!" Selina said to Hoover.

Businessman Hoover took off his hat and saluted Selena, revealing his bald and slightly funny head...

As soon as the businessman Hoover left, another businessman came to visit.

They had sworn before that they would never trade with the garrison camp, but they came to them one after another, which made Selena a little overwhelmed.

However, it was the Dodan Town Trading Firm that moved the fastest.

Because they originally stocked some military supplies in the warehouse of their trading firm, but now they are just taking them out for trading. Naturally, they quickly discussed the trading list with Selina.

By the time Selena finished her work, it was completely dark.