Lord of War

I got used to it after I smoked it, and I was drawn hundreds more, so the format is not included~~~

A team walked slowly from the Angroda Mountains to the Viscount Shaof of the former Dabion Kingdom. The speed of the team was not fast, but they did not take a detour, but chose to cross the entire Black Reef Grassland and enter The Black Swan Castle in the northwest corner of Viscount Shaov.

This ancient castle is located in the southwest of the Angloda Mountains. It is built at an altitude of about 500 meters in the mountains. The castle is built on the mountain and has six floors. It was built, and in order to make the foundation of the castle stronger, the hollowed out mountain body was poured with special materials called black pitch and mountain god gray.

The castle above the mountain uses large pieces of black steel rock.

Because the castle was built on the mountain, the fourth floor of the castle is connected to a lake on the Angloda Mountains. This lake is about hundreds of square meters wide. It is said that since a long time ago, a large number of black swans will rest here in this lake every autumn, so this castle is also named Black Swan Castle. It's just that when the war between Asuna and Dabion Kingdom broke out, no black swans came to this castle again.

When Tonis Fortress was being built, Asuna lived in this ancient castle. She actually came to watch the black swan, but it was a pity that she couldn't see it, and Asuna only knew it afterwards. The black swan has not visited here for a long time. The Dabion Kingdom claims that these black swans are the family members of the gods, and Asuna's behavior of launching a war angered the gods, so the black swans will not favor this place.

Of course, Asuna ignored the claims of the defeated, and only responded after being annoyed, "Then in the name of the gods, let's fight another war and see who is the victim of all the battles." God's favor, and who will be abandoned by the gods". In the face of Asuna's arrogant declaration, the whole country of Dabion Kingdom fell into silence in an instant, and never mentioned the Black Swan Castle ever since.

Asuna, on the other hand, never paid any attention to Black Swan Castle, as if the two sides had reached some kind of tacit agreement.

It wasn't until Sean mentioned the castle again that Asuna remembered such a thing. Of course, Asuna would give this castle directly to Sean so readily. In fact, it was not because there was a reason why she could not see the black swan before. The rare castle that can combine fortifications and beauty, Asuna will definitely not give it away so easily.

The procession continued on until it reached the castle.

Back then, Black Swan Castle was one of the five most famous castles in the southern part of the mainland. Now it has been abandoned for many years, the walls of the castle are mottled, the cracks are deep and intertwined, and even many traces of the collapse left by the siege can be vaguely seen. Green plants spread over half of the outer walls of the castle, and weeds were overgrown. These extremely vigorous plants even inserted their roots into the walls, destroying many of the castle's fundamental structures.

Thinking about it, when Asuna lived here for a short time, she never thought about building this castle at all.

But regarding this point, Cecilia and William can understand that after all, Black Swan Castle is not just an ornamental castle, its location also has a certain degree of strategic value. To the east is the Kingdom of Dabion, and to the north is the Fortress of Tonis. If the castle is not completely occupied, using this castle as a base, any army that passes through Shaov's territory will be attacked, or even completely cut off their retreat.

And if Asuna repairs and activates the castle after the war,

Inevitably, more funds will be consumed, and thousands of troops will need to be sent to station in order to defend the castle. This is not a small burden for Asuna. Therefore, it is understandable for Asuna to abandon the castle and let it be completely abandoned. In other words, those who know about it will only feel sorry, and no one will accuse Asuna of doing something wrong.

"Did you already know that this would happen?" When William and Cecilia saw the dilapidated castle, William finally couldn't help asking.

Sean made a huge deal in the trading capital. If he didn't pursue the quality of armaments and supplies, and only equipped the troops with ordinary quality equipment, he could even arm a cavalry force of 3,000 men. Although it is only a light cavalry unit, the value of such an army is definitely higher than that of a steel wing. If William chooses, he will definitely let the steel wing go to farming, and then reconfigure and train a light cavalry unit.

But after seeing the Black Swan Castle, William finally knew why Sean insisted on keeping the money and not using it.

The renovation of a castle and a series of subsequent maintenance functions are a lot of money, especially for a castle like Black Swan Castle. If you want to renovate it to the same scale as before, William feels that these two A million gold coins might not be enough, right?

"The situation is much worse than I imagined." Sean smiled wryly.

Regarding the Black Swan Castle, he had only heard it mentioned in the game at the beginning, and what impressed him the most was that a total of two million Pangea gold coins were invested in the renovation of the entire castle. It is precisely because of this that after Sean sold the Book of Demons, he never dared to spend extravagantly, but he never expected that according to the current situation, the renovation cost of the Black Swan Castle would be absolutely absolute. It is more than this little money.

Of course, this refers to the money needed to completely renovate and complete the Black Swan Castle.

But in Sean's mind, he couldn't put all his money here, because he still had more than 7,000 northern barbarians and more than 1,000 descendants of the White Wing Mercenary Corps to settle. Although Black Swan Castle can accommodate nearly 500 soldiers, it is absolutely impossible for him to put all the surrendered soldiers in this castle. Who knows if there will be any accidents, so this means that he needs to build at least one more stronghold, or directly build a new town, and this means greater expenses.

Two million gold coins, what should I get first?

This multiple choice question is really difficult.

Sean thought with some distress: "Let's go inside the castle and take a look."

After finishing speaking, Sean walked towards the main entrance of the castle.

It was a three-story isolation door that needed to be activated by a wheel: the outermost layer was the most common grid-shaped iron door in castle buildings, the middle was a steel plate hanging door, and the last were two thickened steel plate wooden doors. But now the first two floors of the castle gate have been completely destroyed.

More than two-thirds of the grid-shaped iron gate on the first floor has disappeared. Judging from the fracture, it is obvious that it has been melted away, and the hanging door in the middle has also been smashed out to accommodate three people. Huge piercings running side by side.

Only the last door was still intact, but only the one on the left and the one on the right had collapsed to the ground.

In Asuna's army, there was only one person who could completely melt and destroy these steel plates and steel so easily.

Light of Thunder Simi.

It's not hard to imagine how humiliating and panic it was when the five hundred defenders of the Black Swan Castle were forced to abandon all the fortifications of the castle and directly fight hand-to-hand with Asuna's wolf-like army strong.

"It's really insane." Sean walked through the gate of the castle, glanced at the gate with lingering fear, which was simply useless for a magician with special skills, and secretly made up his mind that the gate of Black Swan Castle would be opened in the future. It must be built with materials that can resist or invalidate magic, even if it is a little expensive.

Then, the whole team filed in from the city gate.

After passing through the gate of the castle, there is a vestibule of about 100 square meters.

It can be seen that the original scenery of this vestibule should also be regarded as a beautiful vestibule. There are two lawns on the left and right sides of the vestibule, but now it is overgrown with weeds, full of dead branches and fallen leaves. There are four sculptures on each of these two lawns, the sculptures are in different shapes, some are holding bows or column swords, and there are even knights with their front hooves off the ground. However, except for two or three of which are still well preserved, the others have long been collapse.

In the middle of the lawn is a black stone road leading directly to the inner castle. In the middle of the stone road is a fountain about three meters high. The fountain is carved with four baby-height statues. They have wings on their backs, and they seem to fly in mid-air and salute something in the middle, but the thing they salute has disappeared, revealing a water pipe under the inner base , and the fountain has dried up.

No matter how you look at it, this is a dilapidated abandoned castle.

Sean pushed open the gate of the inner castle, and then the two gates collapsed in Sean's hands, raising a cloud of dust like a cloud of dust.

The castle hall is also very luxuriously built, with a height of seven meters. In the middle is a huge statue with a height of five meters. It looks mighty and unusual. It's just a pity that the head of this statue was chopped off with a sword, and the incision was very smooth, so Xiao En didn't know who the statue was carved after.

Behind the statue, there is a staircase with double landings. There are stairs on the left and right sides to climb up, and then close together in the middle to form a prominent platform. Behind this platform is a staircase of twenty-three steps, which then extends to the second floor in opposite directions on the left and right sides. This type of staircase is very common in noble mansions.

There should have been many decorations on the first floor of the castle, but now all of these decorations have disappeared, obviously they were looted. But even so, the luxury and scale of this castle is still enough to shock people, especially the northern barbarians and those white wing mercenaries who have never seen anything in the world.

Sean can actually understand the psychological thoughts of these guys. When he saw Utopia for the first time, he was so shocked. Therefore, he did not let these soldiers stay here, but let them move freely, as an expedition, to see if they could find anything usable in this castle

Of course, he didn't have any expectations for this, because Asuna lived in this castle for a while at the beginning, and for her who was poor and poor at that time, the valuable things must have been evacuated long ago.

However, these soldiers don't care about these, what they enjoy is this kind of adventurous psychology similar to exploration.

Soon, all the soldiers ran away, leaving only William, Annuo and Cecilia.

Sean didn't say anything, and went straight to the wall under the platform of the double-deck staircase, then stretched out his hand and pulled the candlestick hanging on the left side of the wall, only to hear a click of the mechanism starting, followed by a roar, which seemed to be Because the agency has not been activated for a long time, it is a little rusty.

Then, in the astonished eyes of everyone, the statue in the middle began to rise slowly.

As the statue rose, countless dusts fell like a gray waterfall. The statue had been raised to a height of two meters before finally stopping. Behind the raised foundation of the statue, a dark hole was exposed, and a step-down ladder appeared here. PS: It's 520 today, I won't say anything, I only have one thing to say to you. ……,I love you! ! (To be continued) [This text is provided by the handsome and unrestrained Yushu Linfenghua from the Qihang update group @勃仕尊尊] If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. )